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- Stark Truth Podcast: Neuro-Tribalism
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- An Alt-Centrist Look At UBI
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- Neuro-Tribalism
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- My Response to Ginsburg’s Fall
- The Changing of Power
- Stopping the Race to the Bottom
- There’s No Real Freedom Without Authority
- Seattle Airplane Suicide Is A Barometer of Culture
- Attack on Titan and Modernity
- Rob Stark’s Journey to Vapor Island, A Review
- Podcast: Pragmatic Dissidence With Robert Stark
- Human “Stupidity” Comes From Conflict of Interest
- There’s No Power Without “Downward Distribution”
- My Parser Computer Game
- To Stand Within or Without the Circle of Life
- The Shape of Water: Del Toro’s Final Descent into PC
- How Does the US Empire End?
- Podcast With Rob Stark About Alt-Centrism, Current Events
- My New Alt-Dissident Fantasy Fiction
- The Dance of Cooperation and Defection
- Suburban Populism Beats Rural Traditionalism In Mass Identity Politics
- Dissident Success Requires Cities
- The Cryptocurrency Explosion
- Sexual Harassment Hysteria Seriously Undermines the Establishment
- The 21st Century Leans Toward Aristocracy
- The Augustus Principle
- Lebanon Predicts the Future USA
- Scarcity of Social Capital Sustains Institutions
- The Class Divide in the Alt Right
- Unraveling Civil War Moral Hysteria
- The Scarcity of Social Capital in Western Societies
- “Average Is Over” Is A Destructive Mindset
- Catalonia and Sovereignty
- Fourth Generation Sovereignty
- The Problems of Secession and Dissolution
- Worshiping White Women Is A Losing Strategy For the Dissident Right
- Podcast with Rob Stark: Status Mechanics and Alt-Right Aesthetics
- All Focus on 2018 Midterms
- Alt-Lite and the Weakening of the Merchant Caste
- The Alt-Sphere Should Embrace Culture and Aesthetics
- The Social Cosmology
- High School And Status in America
- The Mechanics of Status
- Observations Leading Up To Bannon Resignation
- On Alt-Sphere Reactions to Charlottesville
- Charlottesville Will Help Alt-Dissidents
- Macro-Sexenomics: Female Beauty Dysgenics In Modern Society
- The Macro-Sexenomics of Female Beauty
- Interview With Rob Stark About the Alt-Center
- The Factions of Alt-Dissidents
- Korezaan, A Regular Commenter, Gets His Own Interview
- Alt-Right Drift Towards “Leftist” Policies
- Thoughts On Replacing Traditional Marriage In A Post-Scarcity Society
- How We Get to an Alt-Center
- Interview with Stark Truth Radio About Post Scarcity Economics
- Defining the Alt-Center: Neo-Tribalism
- Combining The Alt-Right and the Alt-Left
- Female Power and the Vote
- Career Women and Dysgenics
- Preventing Dysgenics in a Society With Basic Guaranteed Living
- NEETs, Lumpenproles, and the Leisure Economy
- The Leisure Economy
- Urban Land Management In A Post Scarcity Economy
- Much US Dysfunction Comes From Post-Scarcity Denial
- State Capitalism in the Internet Age
- Some Form of State Capitalism Is the Future
- On A Basic Guaranteed Living
- On A Post Labor Scarcity Economy
- Reviving Hammurabi’s Code: Different Laws For Different Castes
- White Undertow: The Cause of SWPL Hate?
- The SWPL Paradox: Why Rule By High IQ Fails Miserably
- Syrian Strike, North Korea: A Formative Moment For the Alt-Sphere
- Why the Attack on Syria?
- There’s No Such Thing As “Free Markets”
- Extreme Individualism Is Why Whites Don’t Run Hollywood
- Most Wealth is Wasted in Modern Society
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- Biohistory: Decline and Fall of the West
- Caesar: A Biography, Meier
- Collapse, Diamond
- Debt: The First 5000 Years, Graeber (Founded Alt-Left?)
- Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, Cunliffe
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Weatherford
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Herman
- Kagan's 'Peloponnesian War'
- Kissinger's 'Diplomacy'
- Paul Fussell's 'Class' (Founded the Alt-Center?)
- Plagues and Peoples, McNeill
- The Beak of the Finch, Weiner
- The Black Swan, Taleb
- The Culture Code, Rapaille
- The Outsider, Wilson
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- The Story of Philosophy, Durant
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- The Tipping Point, Gladwell
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Not bad, but usually something on the lower level has to constantly sustain vacuum against equilibrium for something on the upper level to be able to relax and be lazy. In equilibrium we are dead, and you eat every day to sustain yourself against that equilibrium. Molecular biology is full of this. Every cell of a napping lion with a full stomach is constantly working pumping ions across the membrane to maintain the gradients that will allow the lion to jump up at a moment’s notice. Enzyme complexes involved in DNA copying and protein synthesis expend huge amounts of energy ‘spinning the wheels’ to ensure high fidelity, and the proteins synthesized at such cost are constantly torn down and recycled to maintain a pool of reasonably undegraded copies. A lot of mRNA is constantly synthesized only to be immediately destroyed, in order that some regulatory mechanisms evolved a billion years ago can function. (It’s not simple inefficiency, either: given the rather crude chemical tools available to it our biology actually does pretty well.) And so on. So this sort of depends on your point of view. To give a couple of obnoxious examples, a socialist would say that a lord’s serfs labor to sustain his leisure against the Malthusian equilibrium, and Chinese migrant peasants labor to sustain American rednecks zonking on meth and opioids.
All this is not to say that your conclusion in the penultimate paragraph is wrong. Arguably, one function of setting aside one day of the week for leisure was to prevent this ‘constantly struggling to stay alive’ indicator from ringing too insistently.
Brilliant response, are you a scientist?
Both this article and your comment reinforce my view that most proles are (metaphorically) part animal & part dumb machine.
According to the laws of thermodynamics, an open system like our planet favors order & emergent systems since molecules need to find more efficient way to vent/expel excess heat.
The sun’s entropy increase while “ours” decrease.
One must remember that many phenomenon cannot exploit “low quality” high entropy forms of energy like heat! Chemical energy, electricity, even visible light, these are all low entropy forms of energy much less abundant than infrared-radiation & heat.
Consider that most machines that run on temperature gradients/differences (delta T) are horribly inefficient or function only at very high temperatures. Since entropy = energy divided by temperature, this makes sense.
If both of you & Giovanni want to know more about emergent systems, consider the study of the old science of Cybernetics.
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Both of us are being rather superficial on the science part of this post, this disturbs me. Candide III SEEMS to know his SCIENCE!
Because of this, I’ve opened a discussion on Reddit’s AskPhysics to receive some “peer-review”, this is important because we must not turn this place into a circle-jerk like Return of Kings.
I saw where you posted from site referrals. They were pretty highly critical! I can see there’s a gap between the verbal and spatial/logic here. I understood entropy to mean something like “disorder” when in fact it’s a concept more readily described by equations.
This has motivated me to at least get a basic grasp of some of the science.
I can see now why the word “complexity” would bother people who understand thermodynamics. Perhaps they would have been more satisfied had I used the word “improbable?” Yet I’m not sure that would have communicated the idea.
Perhaps we consider “order” or “complexity” here as just a low entropy, highly unlikely configuration.
The problems with those posts is that they just gave their definition of entropy while I asked a review of my statement (I was mistaken for the author by the way).
Nevertheless Reddit is surely better than yahoo answer with randomly posted wikipedia copy/paste!
Hey guys, I’m on my way back after spending the New Year with some friends. Thanks for the detailed responses. I understand that living things exist in defiance of equilibrium but the best, in recognition of that fact are minimalist and adaptable, I think. I don’t know much about the science but get that objects seem to prefer staying still and once forced into movement tend to meet with friction that returns them to a motionless state. So a car or plane defies the laws of the universe yet respects them by being designed with aerodynamic profiles. The peacock’s tail, stock market bubble, or bloated government contractor seems to me about as as “aerodynamic” as a cinderblock and that is where the fault lies.
Did you have fun? My brother went to Paris on New Year Eve, and he will return on Thursday, luckily he reports no terrorist attacks.
Bloated governments are the result of excessive Taylorism! I am currently reading again Erich Fromm’s The Heart of Man, he is one of the few authors who describes the HOMO MECHANICUS & “those who love death”. These are the kind of technocrats who wants our society fashioned after insects’ hives.
Yeah, it was a great trip. Old friends, lots of champagne.
I thought Taylorism was about efficiency. Isn’t Taylor the guy who started timing assembly lines with a stopwatch and tinkering with processes?
Sadly, homo mechanicus was the end result of an enlightenment that never evolved, just doubled its way down a slippery slope.
Liberalists & capitalists view society as a huge factory, they’re very open about it.
This site makes good argument about the Taylorism unraveling to the extreme http://prorev.com/technocrat.htm
I love the concept of the homo mechanicus & the “lover of death” because it describes 3/4 of my normal behavior!
I am the kind of man that regularly stare for half an hour to spinning gears, clicking relays & hissing pneumatics! (while listening to the Hammerite theme from Thief 3).
A few weeks ago I ordered a book that should arrive soon, about early soviet literature, it is rife with young men staring at bolts and loving locomotives more than women!
“Brilliant response, are you a scientist?”
Yes, what white guys need more of, techies.
Of course, all problems can be solved with technology!
Whitey on the moon!
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I applaud your early botanical proficiency, you discovered how the concept of Will to Power applies in the natural world!
“My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (–its will to power:) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement (“union”) with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on–”
Quote by Friederich Nietzsche
Wow, objectivism sounds like just a reformulation of this. I remember almost this exact analogy being made in Atlas Shrugged and Anthem.
I saw an old interview of Ayn Rand where she discussed the role of rationality in the theory of Objectivism. I have to say that I was impressed since she made some good points: in the real world a single person can be rational but large groups of people are almost always very dumb & exhibiting sheep-like behavior.
I think that most people don’t realize that they are living in a capitalistic death-cult, no wonder these burn-outs are succumbing to depression & stress.
I am writing part 2 of my old Nihilism Free Living article.
Will to Power is out, Dominance Hierarchy is in.
What happens on a molecular level doesn’t mean the same thing happens to indivduals or societies anyway. It doesn’t take courage or cowardise for a cell to divide or pump out ions. Cells don’t have to figure out what group loyalty is and why it’s necessary. Men aren’t lumps of protoplasm that can be exchanged for other lumps. Well, you can view life like that but I wouldn’t recommend it.
The brain’s consciousness is ultimately slaved to what the genes dictate! It is needed by the genes to solves problems so the genes can propagate themselves!
Why most people on this blog are introvert, introspective, loners? Simple: our genes + epigenetic interactions made us so! That’s the ultimate irony, our genes predispose us to question and resist the influence of our genes & base instincts.
Free will may exist but it is far weaker than we presume.
Have you seen Jordon Peterson videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY7a1RXMbHI
Very interesting. The lesbians and trannies are trying to get him fired because he refuses to use gender neutral pronouns in his classes. LOL.
Holy Shit this Peterson guy is awesome & he wrote real subtitles for his video, not those youtube’s auto-caption crap.
What you wrote about those SJWs is disturbing & Orwellian, are they THAT batshit insane?
Don’t they know there is no such thing as bad publicity! This guy should seek Trump’s patronage somehow.
This ^. The only reason we have any capability whether sharp teeth, fast reflexes, or the ability to plan ahead is because it helped our ancestors survive and reproduce. Every one of us is heir to an unbroken chain of success. The winners write the history books…and the species itself. Across history, there’s billions of losers at life no one will ever hear about.
Interesting reflections about the futility of the current corporate environment.
You might like this lengthy essay on the topic from the Amerika blog:
http://www.amerika.org/politics/why-jobs-take-your-soul-and-how-conservatives-can-fix-them/
Great blog by the way. Lots of interesting stuff. I sympathize a lot with your NEET-friendly stance.