Leon Haller has asked a question on Graham’s latest thread which perfectly expresses the plaint of the mournful right-liberal white American.  He asks: why can’t we have again what we once had: political orders which secure individual rights to life, liberty and property, but recognize that the liberal order must be racially bounded?

Meanwhile, James has posed the question of America’s historical meaning - or, at least, Iowa’s.  But I thought I would venture elsewhere to throw a light on Leon’s question, and raise the possibility (going on probability) of differentials in the populations of North America and Europe, both in the sense of deep, formative cultural influence and trait selection.  For it seems to me that it might not be so easy to speak of America and Americans in terms of Europe and Europeans.  It is akin to a question which, as a descendent of groups who, almost in their entirety, left their own soil along the north German sea coast and sailed for the east coast of Britain, I have often pondered: what does a mass migration mean for the ones who undertake and survive it, and how does such an absolute human statement colour the generations which follow?  In the English and lowland Scottish case, of course, the question is unanswerable.  Almost all the parent Germanic populations of the north German coast migrated as their lands became uninhabitable, and once in Britain interbred with the native British.  But in the case of white America we can get closer to some sort of conclusion.

The first peopling of the New World drew the full measure of the personal and collective resources of the English Dissenters who gave themselves to it.  As an act of religious nonconformism it was staggering in its commitment.  As an act of the human spirit it was one of luminous beauty and courage.  By my reading - a psychological reading - the heart of white American exceptionalism in the European context, usually considered to be the political goods of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, still lies there, inviolate in its purity.

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What does Money mean as a philosophical event? What is the place of Money in philosophical discourse? Here is one possible suggestion.

Robin Hanson: Extraordinary Society of Emulated Minds from Singularity Institute on FORA.tv

Hanson’s main assumption in this presentation is that true “Artificial Intelligence” won’t be artificial at all: It will come from improvements in full-brain scanning technology combined with improvements in computer technology that will lead to a very detailed model of a scanned individual’s brain to not only be stored in digital form, but used as the model for a computer simulation of the processes of that particular individual’s brain.*  The money comes in because such simulated brains can be put to economically valuable tasks that, at some point in the curve of increasing cost performance of computation, really can replace the mutilated beings we call “humans” that have become “parts” of “something larger than themselves”.  Such “parts” can be replaced by cheaper parts.

From that plausible technical assumption, very mundane economic arguments point down a path that Hanson then ruthlessly, if breathlessly, explores.

*Such a neurophysiological simulation has nothing to do with the history of “symbolist” artificial intelligence research, nor any other approach, including the more realistic “connectionist” simulations of intelligence that depend on designing artificial neural networks that are then trained.

What does America mean as a philosophical event? What is the place of America in philosophical discourse? Here is one possible suggestion.

What?  Enhancing agriculture—the foundation of civilization—is a shining beacon of nihilism?

See the explanation below the fold.

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Just a quick note to offer my compliments to a Whittaker Task Force that went into action over the last three days at The Washington Post.

Jonathan Capeheart, a black journalist writing for the WP, said he “couldn’t resist clicking” on a link to the Whittaker group’s White House petition to “stop white genocide”.  The petition - one of three on this subject, apparently - is posted at the We The People site.

The petition has twenty more days to achieve its supposed goal of 25,000 signatories.  The present number of signatories is 630.  So, plainly, this is a publicity effort, and Capeheart’s unwitting help is no doubt greatly appreciated.  The interesting thing for me, though, is to see in an American setting the exact same moral and intellectual ownership of the discourse that one observes routinely at the DT.  Since political correctness and anti-racism are so dominant in the Establishment, and have been so ruthlessly and effectively applied to bludgeon the white instinct for racial survival, one would expect a generality of the non-activist public to express shock and distaste at the sight of white people fighting back.  But there is none of that on the WP thread.  Two or three anti-racist activists made attempts to belittle the pro-white advocates, but the quality of their argument was quite wretched.  One even complained of bullying, which is exactly what these creatures have done for the last two decades or more.

Good job, guys.

The US’s top military academy, West Point, has a Combatting Terrorism Center directed by one Arie Perliger, PhD:

Dr. Perliger’s most recent think tank white paper, drawing on data from the SPLC and ADL, is “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right” which contains this gem of statistical inference on page 98:

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Below the fold is a graphic depiction of what would have happened if Romney had attempted to appeal to white voters and lost minority voters vs appealing to minority voters as is the current direction set by the GOP “leadership” in response to Romney’s loss to Obama.

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While it is certainly true that Obama’s second term was destined to be fraught with “gangsta sh*t”, hence a multi-frontal assault on the traditional American nation, a conversation with a Ron Paul supporter helped clarify the current structure of this assault.  To wit: 

Since the leadership of the GOP has given up all pretense of being a political party and is cashing out to the likes of the Western Growers Association and similar cheap-labor consumers (in other words, the GOP is not “the stupid party” because it isn’t a even political party) the Democrats are the only remaining political party in the US.  This means the Democrats have a grace period between now and the time the erstwhile GOP grassroots realizes they don’t have any political representation—a grace period during which the Democrats must deliver the coup de grâce to the traditional American nation:  A nation of settlers—not of immigrants.

Obviously, the way to do this is quickly to make happen to the entire US what has already happened to California:  flood it with racially aggressive Hispanics (and anyone else they can quickly load onto 747s to immigrate to the US), since they know these immigrants vote as racial blocs hence vote Democrat—the true party of racism (whites are the least prone to racial bloc voting of all racial groups making the erstwhile GOP the true party of anti-racism).  If the erstwhile GOP grassroots weren’t distracted by something more urgently threatening, they might get all up in “arms” about “comprehensive immigration reform” and either delay it long enough to form a new political party that accurately represented the interests of the US as a nation of settlers, or be alerted to their utter disenfranchisement as their “leaders” passed “comprehensive immigration reform” anyway.  Either of these circumstances would be totally unacceptable to the treasonous de facto US government since both could result in the traditional American nation of settlers acting to protect their interests.

Since, the phony “GOP leadership” can get behind opposition to gun control without substantial impact on the rate at which they cash out, the Democrats can push for gun control and have a huge media circus, diverting attention from the fact that the government is now in a full-scale invasion of the territory of the US and its people.

By the time the “GOP leadership” and the erstwhile GOP grassroots emerge “victorious” in this battle over gun control, the potential demise of the US at the hands of immigration treason will have been realized.

Transitional stages to a moral order conducive to White interests

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