Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Quantum Neural Nets - Branes - Self-Organizing Automata...,
By CNu at September 27, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Breakaway Civilization , Childhood's End , Exponential Upside , high strangeness , hope , Left Behind , Noo/Nano/Geno/Thermo , Possibilities , unintended consequences
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Endgame is a US with the Military Effectively in Charge
By CNu at September 19, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Breakaway Civilization , Childhood's End , civil war , Collapse Crime , Dystopian Now , Left Behind , Living Memory , predatory militarism , warsocialism , What Now?
Friday, September 15, 2017
Vikram Pandit Says 1.8 Million Bank Employees Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go...,
By CNu at September 15, 2017 0 comments
Labels: AI , banksterism , Childhood's End , Collapse Casualties , contraction , disintermediation , doesn't end well , profitability
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Will We Vanish From the Record Like the Watchers Did?
By CNu at September 12, 2017 0 comments
Labels: ancient , Childhood's End , Great Filters , high strangeness , History's Mysteries , Left Behind , scientific mystery
Saturday, August 05, 2017
Useless to Speak of Corruption When Police-Military-Oligarchs Are All Corrupt
By CNu at August 05, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , Collapse Crime , Dystopian Now , Left Behind , reality casualties
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Theft of Palestine Taking Mimetic Cover in Janet Mock's Messy Draws...?
By CNu at August 01, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Cathedral , Childhood's End , cognitive infiltration , deceiver , Degenerate , Gender , identity politics , necropolitics , not a good look
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Children Internalize The Darndest Things...,
By CNu at July 29, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , assimilate , Childhood's End , cognitive infiltration , cultural darwinism , Dystopian Now , niggerization , What IT DO Shawty...
Signalling Back At These Untermensch
By CNu at July 29, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Childhood's End , civil war , Peak Negro , quorum sensing? , What Now?
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Huge CIA Operation Reported in US Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years
By CNu at July 27, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Childhood's End , cognitive infiltration , domestic terrorism , Living Memory , necropolitics , psychopathocracy , Race and Ethnicity , unspeakable
Friday, July 21, 2017
Dictatorship of Celebrity: Manager, Coach, Director, Psychiatrist, Cheerleader, Manipulator [and] Guide
By CNu at July 21, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Childhood's End , cognitive infiltration , History's Mysteries , Living Memory , necropolitics , niggerization , Peak Negro , Race and Ethnicity
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Weapons Systems and Political Stability
Early in the work we are given an analysis of several dichotomies in military development: (1) amateur versus specialized weapons, the former of which could encourage the rise of democracy; (2) missile versus shock weapons, the former of which were preferred by Asiatic peoples 2000 a.c. to A.D. 1400, while Indo-European stocks tended to use shock weapons in that period; (3) the relative advantage of offensive or defensive tactics, a field in which oscillations have repeatedly taken place.
These variations are then discussed in the long sweep of human development from prehistory down to about A.D. 1500. The bulk of the text is devoted to Greek and Roman history for the period after what Quigley calls the "great divide" in Western Civilization that occurred about 600 b.c., but there is ample space for Chinese and nomadic history. The book is far more widely based than the brief bibliography suggests and is often provocatively independent in its judgments. Quigley does hop back and forth between Greece and Rome and mixes events of several centuries in one paragraph; the reader needs to be already well at home in ancient and also medieval history.
One would wish to speak well of a work with such earnest intent, on which the author spent the last twelve years of his life, but the study must be faulted on many levels. Straightforward errors may be excused as trivial. More serious on the factual side are Quigley's view that Indo-European peoples everywhere shared a fundamentally common ideology -- the search for immortality through public renown -- and his overemphasis on naval power; he also has the strange misconception that ancient historians nowadays do not often consider slavery as vital in Greek development.
The major structural flaw, however, is on a higher level, that of the organization of the whole work: for Quigley does not really carry out his intention. His surveys of changes in weapons systems are thoughtful and valuable. but for the reader they become muddled and ineffective amid the detailed narrative and descriptive treatments of political history over many centuries. Nor does the author provide clear judgments about the relations of the two factors in his tale. One looks, for instance, for a sharp analysis of the rise of Rome in light of its significant changes in weapons systems; instead, there is a lengthy discussion of the Roman constitution and other aspects that swell the bulk but do not bear on the topic.
In the end, moreover, is H. J. Hogan correct in his foreword to the book when he asserts that "society's decisions regarding its weapons systems have been decisive in shaping human social, economic, and political decisions," or is the reverse as likely to be correct? Quigley thought that the Greeks could become democratic because they used amateur weapons; but if Athens did have a democratic constitution for two centuries, it was for very different reasons, and almost all Greek states remained conservatively oligarchic in structure. Elsewhere Quigley is more careful not to explain the complexities of history simply by adducing one factor; among many examples, one may cite his treatment of the Middle Ages (p. 813), in which the role of weapons systems is noted but far more weight is assigned to the concept of providential deity (or, in the case of the Latin West, the failure of this ideology to gain command).
Recently Douglas C. North has observed in an interesting study, Structure and Change in European History, "While there is an immense literature on military technology itself, it has seldom seen explored in terms of its implications for political structure" (p. 25). Quigley tried. but lost his way in details. Specialists may find profit in some of his comments; for the average American citizen the task still remains an open one. Full text of Weapon Systems and Political Stability
By CNu at June 22, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , clampdown , institutional deconstruction , Naked Emperor , What IT DO Shawty...
Monday, June 19, 2017
Sport Death Coming to an End at MIT's Senior House...,
By CNu at June 19, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , complications , cultural darwinism , edumackation , The Straight and Narrow
Monday, June 05, 2017
The Rise of Nationalist Populism
By CNu at June 05, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Cathedral , Childhood's End , reality casualties
Monday, December 26, 2016
Автономия, разнообразие, Общество
By CNu at December 26, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Childhood's End , doesn't end well , FAIL , Great Filters , musical chairs
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Why Are the Parasite 1%'s Terrified of the Producer 1%'s?
By CNu at December 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , Hanson's Peak Capitalism , The Great Game , What Now?
Sunday, December 04, 2016
The Moon and the Ghetto
By CNu at December 04, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Cathedral , Childhood's End , doesn't end well , identity politics
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Don't Cry Yet My Sweets, We're Only At Step 3.
The above loop was repeated countless thousands of times during the millions of years that we were evolving[9]. This behavior is inherent in the architecture of our minds — is entrained in our biological material — and will be repeated until we go extinct. Carrying capacity will decline[10] with each future iteration of the overshoot loop, and this will cause human numbers to decline until they reach levels not seen since the Pleistocene.
By CNu at November 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , Collapse Casualties , doesn't end well , Dystopian Now , ethology , What Now?
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