Josh F

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Right, I'm sure we could find a bunch of examples. Even as far back as Rome, the Christians were rioting and looting because they were severely abused by the state, yet overtime Rome became Christian.

There have been some authors who tackle the subject, but its largely ignored in the popular version of the end of the Vietnam War. I think it works like this: if the violence threatens the state's power then it reacts. So for example, if I, right now, began as an individual to riot and loot in this small and quiet town I live in, I don't think it would threaten the state's ability to enforce law and nothing would come of it. However, if 10% of this town began looting and 20% began protesting, they'd be threatened. If a soldier kills himself to avoid combat, or deserts like that guy in Afghanistan recently, it doesn't threaten the state. If they killing officers, it does. So it isn't just violence, but violence which disrupts the state's authority.

I think its interesting to ponder. I once read it took the British hundreds of years to conquer Scotland and Ireland because the people had a decentralized authority, even though they had a small population. Whereas the British were able to conquer India far quicker.

Oh if Hell was true too I'd be screwed, cause he'd see right through my pretending to worship him to avoid hell thing. hahaha

There is no doubt that is for PR. As for it coming faster, its a bit impossible to say that without public outcry the change would have happened at all. Would the Civil Rights movement have peacefully ended Jim Crow without the violent protesters? MLK didn't seem to think so, nor did many other people in the movement. Did protests end the Vietnam war as some baby boomers like to think, or was it because the soldiers were refusing the fight and fragging their officers? Additionally, this measure is proof positive of police abuses, considering reports of abuse drop significantly when cops are forced to wear cameras. This doesn't proof Wilson was abusing his power, but it does prove that the rioters and protestors are justified in their assessment that the police are abusive.

Police abuses, in the case of Ferguson and Los Angeles. There are those lunatics who go crazy after sporting events, that I'll never understand. Also I don't know if looters 'seek to remedy' anything, I doubt that the individuals actors are particularly principled. Its just an outburst of rage in response to something, throughout a city. Its clearly in response to police abuses, though. And as the article suggests, it might result in some very positive changes if 50,000 more police are going to be strapped with a body camera. Statistics show that when cops have cameras, police abuses drop significantly.

Like I said, I might have blurred it with Men's Rights Groups, which do lobby I mean many of those groups have expressed goals of changing custody laws and divorce laws, which would require lobbying to be successful. Compared to the massive, entrenched, feminist lobby's like NOW it isn't even close, you're right.

I thought about the "the police stand by and allow looting" arguments. As I explained, I'm from LA, and they said similar things regarding the Rodney King Riots. I don't really have an explanation, or know if its true, and if it is true what the reasoning is... but I'll keep that argument on tap. I think one reason might be that the police are severely undermanned, 20 potentially armed looters would make for an extreme shootout. Another is that there are often innocents around. And lastly, that more police violence would only prompt further looting in the aggregate. But I don't really know. Regarding your later point, absolutely. I've heard people say that government abuse only extends as far as people will tolerate. Yes, very fair. "Looting is an effective way to accomplish political change." Yeah, its analogous to the old wisdom of dealing with a bully.

Well, firstly the Whiskey Rebellion was after the Boston Tea Party. Secondly, the Whiskey Taxes were repealed by Jefferson after the rebellion was squashed. Federalists also changed. They no longer challenged the freedom of assembly and the right to petition. Similarly, the government is trying to stop looting in Ferguson and does and will prosecute the looters, but the above article demonstrates that the government also knows it needs to make some concessions. Looting, far more than peaceful protests, procures change. I don't understand what this has to do with my post? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't get the impression you read what I wrote. EDIT: ahh I just realized I think you misread the title as Peaceful Parenting and not Peaceful Protests.

Occupy Wallstreet and the Tea Party have resulted in no positive reformation to either wallstreet or the federal reserve. However, in light of Ferguson, Barack Obama is calling for a $263 million spending package to reform police departments across the country and ensure 50,000 more officers wear body cameras. The History of looting in the United States is heavily correlated with positive reformation. Martin Luther King himself wrote a letter from prison, explaining that his ability to negotiate the end of Jim Crow and segregation was because of the looming and present threat of the violent wing of black protests. The initiation of America itself began with an act of looting, called the Boston Tea Party, in which the private property of British exporters was destroyed by a group of colonists dressed as natives. This is not a moral argument, certainly, but a pragmatic one. Nonetheless, a well deserved addendum to the discussion of looting. I grew up in Los Angeles, and after the Rodney King riots Los Angeles underwent epic changes. The neighborhoods that Dr. Dre raps about are no longer than violent ghettos he depicted. Other police departments like Rampart were revealed for their corruption. Laws and training were put into place to reduce police racism. So, the question isn't is looting moral or immoral. The question for debate here is: does looting work?

For me, personally, even if God himself came to earth and proved beyond a reasonable doubt his existence, I still wouldn't worship the entity.

ah okay perhaps I incorrectly blurred MGTOW with the MRM and Men's Rights Groups.

Your definition of Capital is pretty interesting. I'm mulling it over. I'm wondering if there are means to an end which wouldn't qualify as capital. Also spiritual capital is more often called Human Capital, I don't know if that distinction is necessary. Why is work ethic human capital but empathy is spiritual capital? Knowledge is human capital, but mastery is spiritual capital? Seems like one category instead of two, imo. I would consider another category for Capital as Coercive Capital or Political Capital. In this category would be things like carbon credits or national debt, artificial capital constructs created through state violence. This kind of stuff is really big in "green" circles, who seek to assign by force value to things which otherwise have no value like a coal company planting some trees in a forrest.

It is not a prenuptual agreement. It is a contract not bound by law, but by code. Its a replacement for lawful nuptuals, not an addendum. So what I mean is that instead of getting married by the government, a couple can use this technology to create a binding contractual arrangement based on their own personal (idiosyncratic) needs. They can set their friends are arbitrators, and delineate how at least some assets are divided, the conditions for divorce, etc. MGTOW is quite political, as it includes groups like A Voice for Men and others. Not unlike feminism, its public face is often blogs and videos and all that debating and making philosophical arguments. However, the goal of many of these groups includes activism, lobbying, changing laws, etc. While its message is better, imo, than feminism its structure is similar. http://www.avoiceformen.com, check out the section called Activism for just a small set of examples. Personally, I signed up for a few different groups and channels and all that. I tried to get into it, but its not for me for these reasons. Though I will say, I did start a topic in a large facebook group for MRMs about not using the state but finding alternatives within the market to combat injustices towards men and I got a great response from a lot of the other people. We talked about projects like setting up scientific contests similar to things like SpaceX to promote the male pill, which was received pretty well though none of the people I talked to, including me, really had the expertise to do something like that. So it isn't hopeless, I think this criticism is in time and I'm not the only one making it.

Yeah it almost falls into that chicken and egg scenario sometimes, especially the degree to which an inventor creates something with the intention of disrupting a current system, but even this can backfire. I'm not certain of the history, but I was told Eli Witney invented the cotton gin with the goal of reducing slavery, when in fact it made cotton so cheap it became more popular and actually had the opposite effect. I don't think theft is a response to scarcity, but likely a producer of it... at least more often than not. I think that things like peaceful parenting were a byproduct of post-industrialism and can only spread around the world when the economic conditions don't necessitate violent parenting. Maybe slavery was ended in the west because we had technology like steam engines and suddenly could afford the moral option.

Yeah I have a friend who is a Catholic Priest, he says the same thing.... its almost as if pedophiles are smart enough to work around children.

My biggest criticism is that it contains a bunch of political actors, seeking to engage in politics. I highly recommend to MGTOW people they check out this excellent video about Mist, a browser for the crypto-platform coming out shortly called Etherium. It shows how one can quickly set up personal, irrevocable, private contracts between couples without the state. For me, I'm always most interested in technological achievements which circumvent politics than engaging with politics.

Outside the United States, people are dying because of restrictions and regulations on consumption. Voluntarily reducing your consumption doesn't bother me in the least, I've been consuming far less energy myself the last 3 years. Setting up a multi billion dollar incentive for scientists to "hide the decline" etc, is dangerous to truth. In general, government funded science has been nothing but disastrous. From scientific racism to weapons of war to governments recruiting and using the best and brightest, there is a huge need for a separation of government and science.

If you want to just have a conversation with yourself, I don't care, but don't strawman me and think you've discovered some eureka moment. I said the opposite of all of this, so this is an awfully weak tactic to alter my own precisely expressed opinions to their opposite using some third rate spin job like this was day time TV. I said I support voluntary relationships, and people disassociating from other people. I employ this tactic in my own life. Then I said I don't support a philosophy which excludes black, obese, transgendered, or tattoo'd people. So you spun what I said in some semantic attempt to try and "catch me" but you're only exposing yourself here as a manipulator. I can't engage in this kind of frustrating manipulation, so I'm not going to engage you any further.

The Venezuelan people have a vocal and bold pro-market revolution going on in their country against Maduro that I hope manages to wrestle away some power. Maduro is the joke of S America, like George Bush, he is a bumbling fool who makes ignorant comments and is the frequent target of satyrical cartoons. Venezuela at one time, prior to socialism, was a rapidly growing economy with some very talented and hard working people. Their system was controlled by an aristocratic oligarchy, and in a popular attempt to dismantle and end one form of corruption, they ignorantly stumbled onto a corruption that is much more dangerous. The country has had several massive protests, one in which they actually captured Chavez himself. Maduro has an army of ignorant and racist poor people, and motorcycle mercenaries who became the strong arm of their system and are now powerful biking gangs which rob and kidnap wealthy people. The biggest movement against Maduro is coming from the students, imagine, the students are the ones who are against socialism for a change. Yes, they are all fleeing at an exceedingly fast rate. I've met many reformed socialists who were sucked in by the psychopathic charm and brilliance of Chavez and have since become disillusioned and far more appreciative of free economies. I have a buddy who was catering lunches to businesses, and it became so impossible to do his job that he would buy and prepare the food in the morning, but by lunch time he didn't know how much to charge for the food, the cost and prices were in such extreme decline. A combinations of coups, military dictatorships, natural disasters and narco-trafficers have just ripped Honduras apart over a long period of time. Firstly, they do in Florida, this is a big topic there. Secondly, I think not unlike with Iraq and many other countries, there is a long standing history of corrupt support of violent and despotic people in Venezuela. Chavez, not unlike Mao, was also the darling of lefty Americans.

Well, I had a marxist teacher explain it to me this way. Eskimos (Innuit) have some 40 words for different snow, but nothing about the stock market in their language. This is because language is part of the superstructure, which includes anything from culture to language, etc. They are piled upon the Base, which is the economic relationships. Ancient Egyptian language and culture and art is based around their economic realities as a Master-Slave economy. Pyramids, for example, are their most famous architecture and its only built for the rulers and by the slaves. On the other hand, our largest buildings in any city center are our banks. But architecture in our culture isn't limited there, as we have famous home designers for the upper-middle class all the way to interesting eco-pods and such for low income housing. Similarly, our morality is structured on top of an economic base. We replaced slavery with electricity, unlike the Romans for example, whose labor saving devices were other humans. Who needs a faucet in the kitchen when your slaves fetch the water for you. Working conditions have made it possible for women to work and for children to not have to work. So in this line of thinking, and forget Marxism for a bit, but perhaps abundance of goods and opportunities through a free market is what will propel people into peaceful parenting, and for that matter what has already begun to make peaceful parenting possible.

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Well my goal is not you in particular, I'm unfazed as to the choices you make or the people with whom you personally associate. My intention is to inject some new philosophical thinking here, thinking which is not entirely aesthetic. I am taken in by arguments as to the influence of normative culture in which anything outside of vanilla incurs unnecessary consequences. It isn't impossible to be obese, transgendered, black or tattoo'd and to be a virtuous human. I'm not interested in a philosophical message which a) ignores or disassociates from those people or b) seeks to encourage adherence to "normal" behavior. If you can see that Stefan Molyneux being black, transgendered, or an over weight tattoo'd woman would not diminish his virtue than why would it do the same to others? Those qualities are not inherently representative of an incapacity for virtue, even if they do correspond significantly with non-virtuous behavior. Should someone be careful of who they associate with? Yes, absolutely, I am a huge advocate for voluntary relationships. If for you personally, that means a small group of people without tattoos and normal gender roles, fine for you I have no personal problems with that. My goal isn't who MMX spends time with, but who this philosophical message helps.

Sure. Though, have you read Lloyd DeMause's Origins of War, its in the book store on this site. I think he makes an interesting point, not one unsimilar from Marx, which is that culture and morals and everything else are a byproduct of the economic realities we exist in. Industrialism ended infanticide, for example. I think that a liberated economy will produce more moral and cultural improvements.