Wouldn't it be sufficient to keep them isolated in their reservation?
You'd never be able to keep it. It would only be a matter of time before they invaded and started massacring everyone and stealing anything they could touch. It's not a power vacuum, it's that power has concentrated and they don't build anything, so they have to expand until they reach a limit... and at that limit they implode. It's what the Assyrians, Greeks, French, Germans, all did. It's the nature of all militaristic warring empires. It's more like a Power Ponzi Scheme.
This is why it is an attack to not let a Leftist do something when they are the aggressor. Containment is an act of aggression on a system where perpetual expansion is an imperative for survival.
As such, you won't be able to hold out for long, because they will throw absolutely fucking everything at you to take your shit. They don't even know how to do anything else, so it never occurs to them that they could build something.
I don't understand. Isn't stability about the ability to maintain present balances? What makes it stable to you?
Decentralized stability is still stability. The vast swings of centralized power rising and collapsing when a king or chieftan dies, and the violent infighting that breaks out from it is the unstable part of a highly centralized order. This is normal in all highly centrally ordered systems. Some shock takes place, the system can't adapt, and the system fucking dies.
A decentralized system promotes stability by allowing adaptation to shock. There is no "rise and fall of empires", there is no "boom-and-bust cycle of business".The cyclical collapse system is an element of a centralized order. A decentralized order allows for any number of shocks to pepper the system, and for parts of the system to change and alter as needed in response to those shocks.
Almost all natural systems are decentralized orderly systems because there is no mechanism to manage them. An empty field does not "die" without significant environmental change (like a major drought). Your lawn "dies" because you have a very difficult to maintain monoculture of grass that requires precise watering, soil, and temperatures. But, in the empty field, a blade of grass may be eaten by an animal, attacked by a vine, crowded out by a weed, or dominated by a slightly more successful grass. The individual instability allows for the most efficient possible exploitation of light, soil, and water, given the plants available, because it is an emergent order. As such, the field can't die as a system, it just remains a field (until trees take over and eventually it becomes a Forrest in 100 years).
The decentralized system promotes system-wide stability by allowing instability among the individuals. It creates an efficient use of limited resources. The centralized system provides a very specific kind of exploitation by creating a stability for one and only one party; while making the system that individual creates inherently unstable. The larger the centralized system is, the less efficient it becomes, the less responsive it is to shocks, and the more likely it is to collapse.
As such, you won't be able to hold out for long, because they will throw absolutely fucking everything at you to take your shit. They don't even know how to do anything else, so it never occurs to them that they could build something.
Hmm. I can't really argue against what you say, but I feel backed into a corner here. Tell me, what place can these leftists hold in society? They want positions of power, but I don't think they can be trusted with power unless you can somehow keep them focused on foreign enemies. Leftists would do great in the CIA, probably, but I'd rather disband them (and stop harassing foreign powers altogether). I don't know if I could trust them to even work as executioners, because they might botch the process for a thrill.
I prefer to believe that every type of person can be put to use in some way. And I don't think you would advocate for them all to be rounded up and "dealt with". Ideally, society would somehow discourage leftist mentality, but we have a long road there (if it's even possible) - so until then, how to manage this volatile "resource"?
The larger the centralized system is, the less efficient it becomes, the less responsive it is to shocks, and the more likely it is to collapse.
I do agree, but I thought even your liberal libertarianism was somewhat decentralized? Wasn't that one of the foundations for libertarianism, getting away from our current excessively centralized government? Or was the point that it's a middle ground between the extremes?
Tell me, what place can these leftists hold in society?
Nowhere. Leftism is anti-human and anti-human freedom. Should we continue to exist in a society that respects freedom, they have no place. They are the war-mongering raiders and violent hordes of past eras, with none of the tolerance of the Mongols, or the competency of Mycenae or Normans.
It must be the goal of of a Liberal civilization to strip down centralized power to the point where Leftism struggles to survive beyond their local personal fiefdoms as hall monitors, con men, and serial killers.
I prefer to believe that every type of person can be put to use in some way.
You're wrong. Some people have no place. There is no place in society for infant rapists and puppy fuckers. Similarly, there is no place for a power-monger that hunts people for power.
There are places for the useful idiots, if that's what you mean. And yeah, those are just gullible people who have learned helplessness. They can be taught the values of responsibility.
The predators can not.
I do agree, but I thought even your liberal libertarianism was somewhat decentralized? Wasn't that one of the foundations for libertarianism, getting away from our current excessively centralized government? Or was the point that it's a middle ground between the extremes?
Liberal Republicanism, or Minarchist Militarism.
My statement remains true as a general rule for systems. The larger a system is, the more complex it gets at an exponential level, the more centralized it becomes, the less responsive it becomes, until the system fundamentally collapses.
My point behind Republicanism is that it keeps the direct oversight of central governments low, by making decentralized control a priority, and their influence significant. They aren't central powers, so they can't take the initiative to apply top-down plans, but they actually respond to shocks well in a decentralized manner.
You're wrong. Some people have no place. There is no place in society for infant rapists and puppy fuckers. Similarly, there is no place for a power-monger that hunts people for power.
Been thinking about this some. My first inclination is to suggest blood sports, but the first step of that is basically to enslave or imprison them, which is basically rounding them up. All my other solutions revoke their rights as citizens, so I guess you're right - though maybe a society with a built in slave class...no, I think I've heard that story.
I'm realizing that there needs to be better tools for discerning whether a person is irredeemable, but that'd kind of solve itself if we could go back to having community in real life or some trait of high trust. This would let a "bottom-up" solution occur, whereas a "top-down" solution would be making all systems of power resistant to people that lust after power.
Though personally, I'm eager to be able to identify them more efficiently. If I could accurately identify all the ones I come across, perhaps I could find one that I can stomach researching. I personally can't stand not understanding how other people think, and the whole thing with how they don't hold principles like normal people makes it hard for me to imagine.
When it comes to predators (the irredeemable), you build the legal system to basically catch up to them anyway. Only very clever sociopaths and psychopaths actually succeed. Most destroy every social group they exist in or even cultivate. Their predator drive is inevitably self-destructive, so (as an institution) all you have to do is wait for them to cause enough chaos to justify pulling them out of the population.
Frankly, this is true for basically any kind of human predator. Their predilections keep them on the run basically forever until they get smart and stop (usually this is due to age, violent crime basically ceases past the age of 40), or they get caught up being predated upon by other predators, or they end up in the hands of the state.
Though personally, I'm eager to be able to identify them more efficiently. If I could accurately identify all the ones I come across, perhaps I could find one that I can stomach researching.
This is actually where social pressures come into play the most. We live in a society where we can share vast amounts of information, so social stigma still has an effect; but there is a significantly missing aspect of social violence.
Now, I'm not trying to emphasize social violence as a good thing, but there needs to be some of it. Perhaps this is a bit too masculine of a punishment mechanism, but as I've said before, I'd be happy to just ride a tazer for 5 seconds instead of paying a $500 fine for speeding. A small amount of social violence in response to proper social taboos actually works very well to reduce the extreme over-confidence of most modern day bullies. A hard slap in the face is frankly needed for most of the bullies who just think they can get away with shit.
You DO NOT want to form a violent honor culture where someone can kill you for disrespecting them, but I feel that in some places, particularly the middle class, we've lost any tolerance of violence altogether.
For genuine predators and hunters of people, I'd still say that honest-to-god mandated CCW-ing would resolve some of their predator drives. This is what basically happens to these hunters. They get cocky, bite off more than they can chew, and they are not prepared for the severity of the consequence of victimizing someone of an unknown potential. For a predator, you have to maximize and anonymize the threat against them.
In insurgency tactics, I call this "The Battle of Algeris Scenario". What the Insurgents in Algeria used to do is walk up with a loaded revolver behind a French solider shoot them, and then immediately drop the gun as if they hadn't noticed. The scene was so chaotic that most bystanders wouldn't know what happened. There was no good or practical response that the French could mount to this. Anyone could be a threat of absolutely maximum force. It makes you extremely cautious and paranoid, which are both highly exploitable.
For predators, unknowable number of defenders of unknowable skill and unknowable armament is the worst case scenario. This is why I've previously harped on creating a militia system. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless.
You don't have to necessarily go actively looking for predators, if everyone is capable of dealing with the predator the moment they appear, and even is short-term collectives.
This is why you create social institutions for communities. They provide a mechanism to support anti-predatory social pressures on a community when a predatory threat emerges. The social group can react quickly against a threat, and return to normal when the threat has passed. This can be done through many mechanisms, dissemination of information, direct intervention to prevent conflict, informal arbitration, or even collective defense.
It is also why Leftists seek to utterly destroy or subvert these institutions wherever they may be, and why you must keep them as decentralized as possible.
You'd never be able to keep it. It would only be a matter of time before they invaded and started massacring everyone and stealing anything they could touch. It's not a power vacuum, it's that power has concentrated and they don't build anything, so they have to expand until they reach a limit... and at that limit they implode. It's what the Assyrians, Greeks, French, Germans, all did. It's the nature of all militaristic warring empires. It's more like a Power Ponzi Scheme.
This is why it is an attack to not let a Leftist do something when they are the aggressor. Containment is an act of aggression on a system where perpetual expansion is an imperative for survival.
As such, you won't be able to hold out for long, because they will throw absolutely fucking everything at you to take your shit. They don't even know how to do anything else, so it never occurs to them that they could build something.
Decentralized stability is still stability. The vast swings of centralized power rising and collapsing when a king or chieftan dies, and the violent infighting that breaks out from it is the unstable part of a highly centralized order. This is normal in all highly centrally ordered systems. Some shock takes place, the system can't adapt, and the system fucking dies.
A decentralized system promotes stability by allowing adaptation to shock. There is no "rise and fall of empires", there is no "boom-and-bust cycle of business".The cyclical collapse system is an element of a centralized order. A decentralized order allows for any number of shocks to pepper the system, and for parts of the system to change and alter as needed in response to those shocks.
Almost all natural systems are decentralized orderly systems because there is no mechanism to manage them. An empty field does not "die" without significant environmental change (like a major drought). Your lawn "dies" because you have a very difficult to maintain monoculture of grass that requires precise watering, soil, and temperatures. But, in the empty field, a blade of grass may be eaten by an animal, attacked by a vine, crowded out by a weed, or dominated by a slightly more successful grass. The individual instability allows for the most efficient possible exploitation of light, soil, and water, given the plants available, because it is an emergent order. As such, the field can't die as a system, it just remains a field (until trees take over and eventually it becomes a Forrest in 100 years).
The decentralized system promotes system-wide stability by allowing instability among the individuals. It creates an efficient use of limited resources. The centralized system provides a very specific kind of exploitation by creating a stability for one and only one party; while making the system that individual creates inherently unstable. The larger the centralized system is, the less efficient it becomes, the less responsive it is to shocks, and the more likely it is to collapse.
Hmm. I can't really argue against what you say, but I feel backed into a corner here. Tell me, what place can these leftists hold in society? They want positions of power, but I don't think they can be trusted with power unless you can somehow keep them focused on foreign enemies. Leftists would do great in the CIA, probably, but I'd rather disband them (and stop harassing foreign powers altogether). I don't know if I could trust them to even work as executioners, because they might botch the process for a thrill.
I prefer to believe that every type of person can be put to use in some way. And I don't think you would advocate for them all to be rounded up and "dealt with". Ideally, society would somehow discourage leftist mentality, but we have a long road there (if it's even possible) - so until then, how to manage this volatile "resource"?
I do agree, but I thought even your liberal libertarianism was somewhat decentralized? Wasn't that one of the foundations for libertarianism, getting away from our current excessively centralized government? Or was the point that it's a middle ground between the extremes?
Nowhere. Leftism is anti-human and anti-human freedom. Should we continue to exist in a society that respects freedom, they have no place. They are the war-mongering raiders and violent hordes of past eras, with none of the tolerance of the Mongols, or the competency of Mycenae or Normans.
It must be the goal of of a Liberal civilization to strip down centralized power to the point where Leftism struggles to survive beyond their local personal fiefdoms as hall monitors, con men, and serial killers.
You're wrong. Some people have no place. There is no place in society for infant rapists and puppy fuckers. Similarly, there is no place for a power-monger that hunts people for power.
There are places for the useful idiots, if that's what you mean. And yeah, those are just gullible people who have learned helplessness. They can be taught the values of responsibility.
The predators can not.
Liberal Republicanism, or Minarchist Militarism.
My statement remains true as a general rule for systems. The larger a system is, the more complex it gets at an exponential level, the more centralized it becomes, the less responsive it becomes, until the system fundamentally collapses.
My point behind Republicanism is that it keeps the direct oversight of central governments low, by making decentralized control a priority, and their influence significant. They aren't central powers, so they can't take the initiative to apply top-down plans, but they actually respond to shocks well in a decentralized manner.
Been thinking about this some. My first inclination is to suggest blood sports, but the first step of that is basically to enslave or imprison them, which is basically rounding them up. All my other solutions revoke their rights as citizens, so I guess you're right - though maybe a society with a built in slave class...no, I think I've heard that story.
I'm realizing that there needs to be better tools for discerning whether a person is irredeemable, but that'd kind of solve itself if we could go back to having community in real life or some trait of high trust. This would let a "bottom-up" solution occur, whereas a "top-down" solution would be making all systems of power resistant to people that lust after power.
Though personally, I'm eager to be able to identify them more efficiently. If I could accurately identify all the ones I come across, perhaps I could find one that I can stomach researching. I personally can't stand not understanding how other people think, and the whole thing with how they don't hold principles like normal people makes it hard for me to imagine.
When it comes to predators (the irredeemable), you build the legal system to basically catch up to them anyway. Only very clever sociopaths and psychopaths actually succeed. Most destroy every social group they exist in or even cultivate. Their predator drive is inevitably self-destructive, so (as an institution) all you have to do is wait for them to cause enough chaos to justify pulling them out of the population.
Frankly, this is true for basically any kind of human predator. Their predilections keep them on the run basically forever until they get smart and stop (usually this is due to age, violent crime basically ceases past the age of 40), or they get caught up being predated upon by other predators, or they end up in the hands of the state.
This is actually where social pressures come into play the most. We live in a society where we can share vast amounts of information, so social stigma still has an effect; but there is a significantly missing aspect of social violence.
Now, I'm not trying to emphasize social violence as a good thing, but there needs to be some of it. Perhaps this is a bit too masculine of a punishment mechanism, but as I've said before, I'd be happy to just ride a tazer for 5 seconds instead of paying a $500 fine for speeding. A small amount of social violence in response to proper social taboos actually works very well to reduce the extreme over-confidence of most modern day bullies. A hard slap in the face is frankly needed for most of the bullies who just think they can get away with shit.
You DO NOT want to form a violent honor culture where someone can kill you for disrespecting them, but I feel that in some places, particularly the middle class, we've lost any tolerance of violence altogether.
For genuine predators and hunters of people, I'd still say that honest-to-god mandated CCW-ing would resolve some of their predator drives. This is what basically happens to these hunters. They get cocky, bite off more than they can chew, and they are not prepared for the severity of the consequence of victimizing someone of an unknown potential. For a predator, you have to maximize and anonymize the threat against them.
In insurgency tactics, I call this "The Battle of Algeris Scenario". What the Insurgents in Algeria used to do is walk up with a loaded revolver behind a French solider shoot them, and then immediately drop the gun as if they hadn't noticed. The scene was so chaotic that most bystanders wouldn't know what happened. There was no good or practical response that the French could mount to this. Anyone could be a threat of absolutely maximum force. It makes you extremely cautious and paranoid, which are both highly exploitable.
For predators, unknowable number of defenders of unknowable skill and unknowable armament is the worst case scenario. This is why I've previously harped on creating a militia system. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless.
You don't have to necessarily go actively looking for predators, if everyone is capable of dealing with the predator the moment they appear, and even is short-term collectives.
This is why you create social institutions for communities. They provide a mechanism to support anti-predatory social pressures on a community when a predatory threat emerges. The social group can react quickly against a threat, and return to normal when the threat has passed. This can be done through many mechanisms, dissemination of information, direct intervention to prevent conflict, informal arbitration, or even collective defense.
It is also why Leftists seek to utterly destroy or subvert these institutions wherever they may be, and why you must keep them as decentralized as possible.