tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post7204492847714074999..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: More on PikettyDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-36779228942715282192014-05-13T12:47:16.301-04:002014-05-13T12:47:16.301-04:00"Australasia" - very erudite professor, ..."Australasia" - very erudite professor, but do your readers know which two countries are referenced?<br />Perhaps, I under estimate them.wmmbbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02460859618464223462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-69476807297627690852014-05-11T19:03:29.381-04:002014-05-11T19:03:29.381-04:00Edit.
On point 2, I think I botched the explanati...Edit.<br /><br />On point 2, I think I botched the explanation. <br /><br />High Intrinsic values allow you to function politically (hence, the lamentations for Authority in your blog) while High Extrinsic values destroy your capacity for politics (hence, the emergjavascript:void(0)ence of the 60's consensus.)<br /><br />Intrinsic and Extrinsic values operate on a scale; like PH balance. (So when I said, when Intrinsic values "drop," I meant it as PH level dropping.)<br /><br />Finally. Extremely low Intrinsic values create highly alturistic people, but also allow for extreme levels of violence.<br /><br />Extremely high Extrinsic values creates extreme selfishness, and in ability to function in day to day life. <br /><br />Generally, the sweet spot is like 5-10 on the NPI scale, where as anything above 20 ruins the person's ability to function.<br /><br />Finally, one of the things that the Economics discipline "hid" from the world was that Coercion is essential to trigger altruism in humans.<br /><br />If you had an economic "game" and a dictator who oversaw the game, altruism increased to around 90%. <br /><br />Remove the dictator, altruism drops to 20%. <br /><br />Make what you will of that too....Mourned_Causehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12595092895428289344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-84884756221905870892014-05-11T12:37:06.519-04:002014-05-11T12:37:06.519-04:003. The reason why we haven't created an altern...3. The reason why we haven't created an alternative to Capitalism is because, to be frank, without an Authority, even if we knew of a solution, would it really matter to begin with? 4. Expect Liberty and Freedom to die in the same way we had forgotten Virtue and Roman Freedom. I may be one of the few people on the planet who could tell you Roman Ideology, but only because I threw myself at it by studying Roman Politics and by the sheer chance someone queued me to Tacitus and Cato. (Deep understanding of Cato was essential.)<br /><br />Goes like: "We must suffer, to make ourselves stronger (virtue), and let go of things we never survive, so that we can be Free from them. (freedom)."<br /><br />With a philosophy like that, no wonder they conquered nearly the whole known world<br /><br />But...good luck getting poli sci Grade student to even show INTEREST in such a thing, let alone understand that. He has the mind to, but the maturity of a child, so he won't. <br /><br />Nevertheless, I think the work of the Enlightenment will be reconstructed in something similar in function, but different in content. <br /><br />5. Climate Change will "reshuffle" the geopolitical deck...but not in ways we may understand. Furthermore, the two countries in the best position, Canada and Russia, are significantly too inept to defend themselves when the sh-t hits the fan. Canada and Australia I particularly worry about, because their total lack of adversity in life has literally made them conquest bait. <br /><br />6. To be honest, this is a normal cycle in history; nuclear war wasn't though. I keep that in mind when I dwell on this. <br /><br />Whatever that is worth, thank you for writing your blog. It brought piece to my mind; along with <br /><br />Slavoj Zizek<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vO2_OjeUA<br /><br />The Last Psychiatrist.<br />http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/<br />Mourned_Causehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12595092895428289344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-77858149266788272742014-05-11T12:36:35.903-04:002014-05-11T12:36:35.903-04:00Professor Kaiser,
One of the reasons why you are ...Professor Kaiser,<br /><br />One of the reasons why you are my authority figures is because you have access to knowledge which contains insight to the future because its rhyems from the past.<br /><br />Forgive...my passion; I'm the one whose going to have to swim in this crap. <br /><br />I have some extremely useful observations to share, if you wish further.<br /><br />1. Remember Vandalia, and how they held off Islam? Or how the Gothland spurned Christianity? Or how the Huns controlled Europe for the past thousand years. <br /><br />Nope. All of the Ethnic groups that brought down the Roman Empire went extinct too, due to general ineptness once the pillaging stopped.<br /><br />If you follow the emergence of the French, Spanish, and Italian cultures, you will find that they are neatly based on bastardized Latin translations of the Bible. <br /><br />Ideology seems to make Ethnicity, rather then the other way around. (Come on, haven't you read Harry Turtledove)<br /><br />How that turns out in the information age, I am clueless, to be honest.<br /><br />But to be really frank, a place like Detroit, LA, or the Deep South won't survive against an outside ideological force dedicated to "Convert or Die." <br /><br />2. How did this happen? Honestly. Not for any profound reason.<br /><br />Successive generations of extremely high extrinsic values are inept at politics, which leads to societal breakdown, followed by their genocide.<br /><br />*Warning. Prepare for whiplash*<br /><br />http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/liberals-arent-like-the-rest-or-so-they-think.html<br /><br />http://www.frequency.com/video/anarchist-conference-devolves-into-chaos/167893572/-/5-13141610<br /><br />So how does it happen that you have a group of highly similar people breakdown to Anarchy at an Anarchist convention...pardon the pun. <br /><br />I am a Communication scholar, and a person's capacity to deal with uncertainty is related to their level of intrinsic values; for instance, when your intrinsic values drop to an extreme, you start to develop PTSD or standard "Freud stuff." <br /><br />http://apocalypsecometh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/A.png<br /><br />However, if they are very high, you become a Narcissist, and a different kind of Sociopath. <br /><br />As a result, everything you hate about your generation, is actually at a much greater proportion in my generation...<br /><br />...its a run away death spiral, where it goes up to where Civilization breaks down, and then only a small fraction of Authoritarian people manage to survive, by "culling" the herd. (Remember, the Qin Dynasty was originally a small military family.) <br /><br />How do you get a confidence death trap? Decadence.<br /><br />http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php<br /><br />You and I know this, (especially since you were the one who taught me.) However, we didn't have any philosophers explain this phenomenon, and Calhoun wasn't very bright in abstract thinking, so we were "caught off guard" when the things hit the fan. <br /><br />Again. This is horrible. But again.<br /><br />1. The rats developed Narcissism<br />2. The rats stopped reproducing<br />3. The rats stopped taking care of their young.<br />4. The male rats feminized, and then became a "second feminine gender."<br /><br />http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--R3VwOu5Y--/18z96mv2l6ofhjpg.jpg (Collectively, this men have had more sex then probably the "prime" Kennedys.) <br /><br />Again. The theory is very abstract, but data can be produced with validity when it is tested by doing alternate maze compositions.<br />Mourned_Causehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12595092895428289344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-76268927417572136082014-05-11T11:45:59.683-04:002014-05-11T11:45:59.683-04:00A small point....
US per capita income is closer ...A small point....<br /><br />US per capita income is closer to $28,300 (2012) than $52,000. You're confusing average compensation with per capita. Non workers are, obviously, included in the per capita.JEFFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11521957628777797467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-47774430893352072732014-05-10T22:24:16.192-04:002014-05-10T22:24:16.192-04:00Professor:
Wonderful summary of this part.
My l...Professor:<br /><br />Wonderful summary of this part. <br /><br />My library has not yet gotten a copy.<br /><br />Re this part of his thesis:<br />"Capital is accumulated more rapidly when economic growth is slow, and thus, it is in the interests of capitalists to keep it slow...", <br /><br />I have my doubts, and see also my comment on my site. I think that if other parameters were chosen than a more or less globalized one, a very different conclusion might be reached. <br /><br />While one can see, for example, that the mortgage backed security debacle inured, relatively, to the benefit of banks, they also lost capital in the endeavor as well.<br /><br />The world Wars may be the best example, but this profoundly shifted relative political and economic power, almost over night, to the United States, almost by accident.<br /><br />Many thanks for this series of efforts.<br /><br />all the best,Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-87148812726568198752014-05-10T12:18:46.467-04:002014-05-10T12:18:46.467-04:00Thank you all. Mr. Young, I opened the Rand report...Thank you all. Mr. Young, I opened the Rand report and it does look very interesting. But you are anticipating my comments: it is horrifying that it took two world wars to create a relatively just society. The example of Rome may be quite relevant here--their major achievements collapsed pretty quickly but they did have a long-term legacy.<br />David Kaiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-31738312414802247202014-05-10T03:57:55.448-04:002014-05-10T03:57:55.448-04:00Dear Mr Kaiser,
thank you very much for this thor...Dear Mr Kaiser,<br /><br />thank you very much for this thorough and critical review of such an important book. I'm lucky to live in Europe, where I can make a living working three days a week and enjoying all kinds of social benefits, such as universal health care, unemployment benefits, holidays, fine infrastructure, hospitals, education, public transportation, housing and on and on. Life is good here. Still, it will get relatively worse, as we are all under the spell of economics a la Friedman. What an impact that man had! Germany is already quite bad, having abandoned the minimum wage, people working two or three jobs to get by. These same people let themselves be distracted into voting for stupid one-issue or populist parties that claim to have the magic wand that will make their lives perfect in a single stroke. Too bad. I look very much forward to your upcoming posts, as I said, I see no solutions, only trouble ahead. Your remarks about entitlements reminded me once again of the situation in France before the French Revolution. I really wouldn't want to go that way. Anyhow, I'm off for a 700 km ride to my girlfriend in Germany. What a life! Thank you again.PJ Catshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14792450374711478295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-53644108875032990982014-05-10T03:21:28.789-04:002014-05-10T03:21:28.789-04:00I just read coincidentally an article, unfortunate...I just read coincidentally an article, unfortunately in German, which states that The oligarchs took over in Russia, paying no taxes or wages during the Yeltsin years, living off the fat built up by the society in soviet times. This resulted in a collapse as the state had no income and in 1998 Russia defaulted. "Mr. Nobody", Putin was put in place as a compromise candidate who promised to assert "dictatorship of law" to stop the fight between billionaires who had taken all the money in privatization. Putin enforced taxes, payment of wages, arrested or forced out criminals. This stopped a new revolution. In the Ukraine the country kept going down the same old path and has now had a revolution but the Oligarchs have financed one side which one the revolution (and purged moderate forces from Maidan- socialist types) and are imposing IMF rule and taking over all the governorships and getting into presidency and getting fascist military to control the people. <br /><br />http://www.russland.ru/poroschenko-timoschenko-und-co-anmerkungen-zu-einem-bemerkenswerten-programm/?print=print<br /><br />(Google Translate perhaps fro article if you cannot read German)<br /><br />My conclusions from article and Pikety are this:<br /><br />This is the old Banana republic latin american/African concept leading to extreme poverty and several super rich with foreign bank accounts. America is going in the direction of Ukraine. Russia and hopefully EU and Japan will not go this way. The terms of the bailout of Greece and other southern EU countries leaves doubt on this however. The Eastern Ukrainians don't want fascist murderers and oligarchs ruling them and are revolting. Putin promises rule of law regarding wage payment, taxation of rich and ethnicity(no pogroms- multiethnic and multireligion state). <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03288487311129532045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-70610880517488962022014-05-09T23:19:36.236-04:002014-05-09T23:19:36.236-04:00I am looking forward to your intrepretation to com...I am looking forward to your intrepretation to come....<br /><br />...but dear god, remember that the ONE HUNDRED MILLION HUMAN SOULS DIED TO BRING YOU THE POST-WAR ECONOMY...<br /><br />Literally. Only when human civilization was given the choice of Uncle Joe, did the regimes finally agree to fix themselves.<br /><br />In another timeline, we could have all been living under Communism had FDR failed to reform the US. <br /><br />You've read my arguments before; more importantly they have total basis in the period we live in, while the "Non-violent" era has created the failed states of India and Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Egypt. <br /><br />No more "serious people" stuff. Any kind of political knowledge that was based after Woodstock is long useless. <br /><br />You want to know what this game turns to...<br /><br />http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2006/R201.pdf<br /><br />Rand already figured out in 1953. <br /><br />For instance, was the Red Scare also the period of high levels of Trade Unionism? <br /><br />Because the GI generation knew that Trade Unionism was the ultimate anti-communist measure. <br /><br />Don't believe me, read this declassified document. You'll be glad to just grab the bull by the horn on this one. Mourned_Causehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12595092895428289344noreply@blogger.com