luxfelix
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Are topic posts recoverable?
I've been updating a post with community suggestions since July, but recently the topic itself no longer appears:
https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/40952-capital-theory-20-work-in-progress/
Maybe I broke something with too many edits?
It's not so bad if it turns out that it can't be recovered (I can just start again from the remaining posts), it would just save some time.
Update: It's fixed now!
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Yes, that might be how it comes about. I'm not sure what you mean by businesses and families being conducted in this way. Was that meant internally?
From the demesnes/estates held by individuals and families (such as winter cabins, beach houses, and family farms) as well as the collective property of companies (factories, retail outlets, etc.) which form enclaves/exclaves for all their holdings, I imagine a map so segmented as to resemble a complicated rendering of multicolored stippling representing private ownership of every part of the world; then, layered atop this map, a projection indicating DRO/community/company coverage (insurance, utilities, dispute resolution, etc.). To complicate things further, a map showing who owned what would likely change frequently (not a bad thing per se).
(Border-gore example: http://hillfighter.deviantart.com/art/Holy-Roman-Empire-156783662)
As to how they work internally, the possibilities are near-infinite!
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Thanks for posting, I didn't know this kind of thing had a name yet.
I can see how there could be businesses or individual/family estates conducted in this manner. I posted the following in another thread:
http://image.cdn.ispot.tv/ad/72hX/verizon-lg-g2-reality-check-large-9.jpg
Would you say this matches Panarchism?
The other threads:
https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/42560-conquering-anarchist-countries/
https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/42672-new-hampshires-free-state-project/
Elements of Panarchism remind me of feudalism (mainly the border-goring of the map); and the private ownership of everything would be preferable, no?
As for what government would allow this to happen within their borders... can they stop it from happening? Or, how many bankrupt countries would be willing to sell land (releasing control/sovereignty/title over it completely) to maintain some of their power; this has happened before, no?
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Well, there is a problem with the method, in that one is trying to forestall state control by controlling a state. How many people are going to risk their livelihood for that?
That makes sense, like trying to join the KKK and turn it into the NAACP... (by trying to control the state with a state.)
Would it work if they gave up trying to influence any state in particular toward libertarianism, and instead be prepared to periodically migrate to wherever is already (comparatively) the freest (while practicing peaceful parenting, etc.) like liberty gypsies or something?
(maybe an even less attractive option?) That way states will need to compete... for... (already second-guessing...) immigrants?I dunno, if a liberty-minded, peaceful parenting, and prosperous local community is in demand, then maybe there is a market solution here: an industry dedicated to purchasing land completely from a state (no government fealty whatsoever), selling the parcels (also in their entirety), and servicing/sub-contracting to the community there a la carte?
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I live in NH, and haven't seen where the FSP had much or any impact. If anything, there has been a much faster growth of liberals. A lot of democrats from Mass have moved here to get away from the high taxes ... and then vote for people who raise taxes. Maybe the FSP folks in office have stemmed the tide a little bit, but they're fighting a losing battle.
Oh, well there ya go...
(that's a shame...)Could this project work somewhere else I wonder, or is the method itself flawed?
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New Hampshire has fourteen miles of Atlantic coastline. That was a big consideration. The idea is that if they seceeded from the union, they could continue trade with other countries.
That's right; it was a response to EndTheUsurpation when compared with Wyoming.
From what I could gather in the video, they put a lot of thought into the choice (geography is destiny?), and it's paying dividends for them now.
The part about the state's size really stood out to me as well, since when you look around the globe, those small states that lack the capacity and/or the bad character to domineer the citizens living therein prove more prosperous; even if it's not a stateless society, these places like New Hampshire will, I imagine, have the means to withstand government collapse and start with a substantial economic advantage.
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But New Hampshire isn't landlocked?
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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.
Thank you, but I didn't come up with it.
(In this thread that would be GRosado.)
That could very well be the case, and I've seen some descriptions of Human Capital including what's listed here as the last four archetypes. AustinJames had a similar confusion about the difference between Societal and Cultural Capital; though I did try to present an example of their distinction from one another, if it turns out to be false/unhelpful, it wouldn't be so bad to do away with a direct analog to the seven-hued color wheel.
Though I disagree with creating another category for Coercive or Political Capital, I think I see a good point in your suggestion in that each capital archetype can be used in a moral (+), immoral (-), or amoral (@) manner, for example:
[] [/Red] : (+) Nursing (-) Murder (@) Birth
[] [/Orange] : (+) Trade (-) Fraud (@) Numismatics
[] [/Yellow] : (+) Emancipation (-) Slavery (@) Innovation
[] [/Green] : (+) Mediation (-) Calumny (@) Networking
[] [/blue] : (+) Verisimilitude (-) Gas-Lighting (@) Presentation
[] [/indigo] : (+) Forewarning (-) Espionage (@) Education
[] [/Violet] : (+) Parenting (-) Sophistry (@) Ambition
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I hope I'm not too far off the mark here, but it sounds like you started a game of Jumanji...
So, we recognize that it is a game, a fiction, but now the game will play on even if you don't, and to your peril do you decide to refuse to play.
("In the jungle you must wait, 'til the dice read five or eight.")Similar to the magic circles of divorce courts, it's easier to recommend avoiding the institutions altogether than recommending what to do once you've passed that threshold.
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I recently read an article comparing contemporary environmental-disaster movies like "Noah", "2012", etc. to the first commandment on the Georgia Guide Stones whereupon it states, "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature." (and that the "cult of Gaia"/environmentalism has the same dark conclusion...
)Another way to refer to it is as a restoration of Catholic guilt...
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Some of the choices that can be made by an individual when it comes to constructing appearance will not tell you anything concise if you do not know some basic psychology and don't interact to gain information about the person.
There are "simulations" you can do using basic psychology to create very plausible generalizations without interacting. For example, a tattoo is almost always taken for the purpose of adding to one's shallow social capital, in some way. It is therefore reasonable to assume that any individual with a tattoo is socially integrated in society. If an individual is socially integrated in our current western society, the individual is unlikely to host any "red-pill" knowledge or point of views. The same applies to overweight individuals. Being overweight and wanting to stay alive is somewhat of a contradiction. The individual is most likely not aware of this consciously. Being overweight is therefore usually a sign of lack of knowledge and awareness, which again is fueled by society, which again makes it much less plausible that the individual has any "red-pill" knowledge or awareness. The individual is also highly unlikely to be mentally healthy per clinical western standards.
And that is as much as you need to get into it (qualitatively), as social conformity is a huge deal when it comes to why people behave and live like they do. As Stefan put it a few shows ago, people are basically "inanimate objects" when it comes to behavior, as they have no self knowledge or intellectual path to review their actions. They go with the herd and their emotions. You say X and you get Y, always. All we need is to gain critical mass in number of people having self knowledge, and society will socially come to a dead stop when looking at its own animalistic functioning.
If only we had a mirror large enough...
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I suppose you could also look at it this way:
By paying for education, you've turned something of very-little-to-no value into skills that increase your own value; likewise, if you use fiat currencies to purchase gold/silver/bitcoins/other businesses/means of production/real estate/etc., you'll have value stored (to an extent) outside of the fiat system.
(Do as the rich do, no?)
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A relevant series about currency/money/economic systems:
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I imagine it would look more like coverage maps within state borders, until their eventual abolishment:
http://image.cdn.ispot.tv/ad/72hX/verizon-lg-g2-reality-check-large-9.jpg
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Though we have five senses, most of the information we collect about the world around us is done with our eyes. If a visual representation of a person is present when we first encounter them, it's part of our evaluation of them whether we like it or not.
A person's appearance is nigh on meaningless though. Sure if a person is freshly bathed and clean-cut, you could assume that they want to land well for others. However, you cannot determine by sight alone whether or not that's being considerate of others or manipulating others to lower their defenses so they don't see what a rotten person you are. Barrack Obama for example is quite the dapper gentleman if appearance was all we had to go by.
I'm glad you pointed this out, because I feel I can add the following:
There is something called the McGurk Effect whereby contradicting sensory input between our visual and auditory senses will result in deference to the eye:
(Maybe this is because light is faster than sound and therefore a higher priority for survival should one need to act fast?)
Compound this with the emotional influences of rhythm and pitch (as sometimes exaggerated in cinema with music to express how the audience should feel where a logical explanation would most likely reveal the cognitive dissonance/contradiction of the message being communicated visually), and Obama's speech can more easily bypass the conscious mind.
Color psychology (and costume) comes into play as well, as certain combinations can increase your chances of success in a specific endeavor.
(If I remember correctly, blue, especially a deep blue/indigo, is supposed to be a great color for giving and receiving information.)
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Discrimination is a mind being efficient. Absent additional information, the individual makes an assumption. For example, if I take my car to three female mechanics, and it ends up leaking oil after each visit, I will have reason to assume that men are better mechanics (if a visit to a male mechanic results in no leak.) It doesn't make my discriminatory behavior entirely accurate; but, perhaps, statistically I'm better off. Racism, sexism, and every other form of discrimination are often, but not always, rooted in empiricism. No one should be made to feel bad about utilizing their grey matter and operating off of data that, while not 100%, gives the actor a better chance at achieving his ends than if he were to simply block out the characteristics of another.
I think I agree?
It's a kind of pattern recognition, no?
I remember a line from Up In the Air where George Clooney moves to an airport checkpoint line with Asians and says it's because they are more efficient (and therefore the line will move faster).
I know I do agree, however, about not making people feel bad for the way their mind works.
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Relevant video:
I found the distinction between prejudice and discrimination (made at 3:10) noteworthy, and perhaps an indicator of one's intelligence and ability to use empirical evidence to prove or disprove the hypothesis presented by the automatic-mind (if time permits etc.).
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When I read the topic title, I thought you were referring to knowing your history, as in one's family history/tree/origins, and whether that was important.
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I can help the endeavor through sound design.
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There is a very practical experiment you can make.
Try to get out more than 1000$ in cash and you have to tell the bank 24h in advance so they "prepare" the cash...
Likewise, don't deposit large sums or you'll be red-flagged by the banks and IRS...
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The problem is that that can probably be said about previous anarchist societies too, and they didn't last
I would then argue (though it is admittedly a bit of a stretch) that previous anarchist societies did last and do thrive into today in the form of the elite memberships currently controlling the mechanisms of statecraft; they by no means embody the ethos of philosophical examination (otherwise they wouldn't be using governments like exclusive access ladder-hatches), but unto themselves they confer sovereignty (if predominately along the lines of jus sanguinis).
(I'm reminded of the Charlie Chaplin quote at the end of The Great Dictator where he states that they free themselves by enslaving the world.)
New Hampshire's Free State Project
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That's the most appealing part for me.
(Whether the community is in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Singapore, Monaco, or Panama, that social capital among ethically like-minded individuals will fertilize liberty's growth.)