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d northeastern india for many years which probably explains why he harbors no noble savage delusions as i ve been reading the book i ve been reminded that human migration need not happen over thousands of miles and it need not involve people of wildly different ancestries to yet give rise to conflict americans should be thankful that the redneck migrations of the dust bowl and great depression didn t give rise to anything worse than well the grapes of wrath much migration in southern tibet according to baker was instigated by the chinese reinforcing their control over the region though it may shock some westerners conflict over tibetan sovereignty long predates richard gere one of the migratory events described by baker was caused by zhao erfeng s punitive expedition into the kham region of tibet in 1905 an expedition designed to implement a process of sinification at the behest of the qing government wikipedia doesn t mention any bloodshed just destruction of property but the ethnic khampa tibetans must have heard rumors of killings because many fled for their lives at the approach of the qing commander baker confirms that similar sinifications did indeed involve small scale genocide at a place called showa chinese forces decapitated all but two queens and a fourteen year old princess where did these khampa migrants go good buddhists with nothing to lose they went in search of paradise baker narrates one hundred khampas in flight from mounting chinese oppression had journeyed to a remote valley where they built a temple karmoling from timber and bamboo and set up a base from which to search for chime yangsang ne the paradisiacal sanctuary described in padmasambhava s prophecies the texts described a secret path through dense forests and enumerated many dangers such as tigers leopards and venomous snakes that seekers would face en route but they failed to indicate what would turn out to be the pilgrims greatest obstacle the hostile tribes that confounded their every effort to journey further up the valley in short the chinese pressed the khampa retreated and their retreat was headed off by local ethnic tribes this in miniature is the story of much human migration in the region an outside power moves in and old residents exit right into territory held by some other group conflict ensues indeed isn t this the story of all human migration everywhere terrestrially bound humans who exit in space never find a clean getaway baker continues two thousand more tibetans set out from eastern tibet to join the remote colony of pilgrims many starved when the valleys proved unable to support such large numbers the tibetan settlers who stayed were increasingly harassed by the chulikata mishmis as quarrels escalated the tribesmen began burning the tibetans crops and houses setting traps along jungle paths and shooting at them with poisoned arrows to be fair baker notes that other mishmi tribes had better relations with resettled tibetans but conflict was the general rule writing in 1905 about the region and its array of ethnic groups and tensions a british explorer named frederick bailey stated that for many many years the southern border between the poba territory and that of the independent abors and lopas remained undefined and as is usual with these people the frontier villages remained in a perpetual state of war perpetual war in shangri la wherever you find humans you will find human migration and wherever you find human migration even on a small scale you will find conflict and violence on singularities and stopping them february 3 2017 uncategorized leave a comment in his review of eichmann in jerusalem scott alexander articulates what deep down is probably my own political ideology i thank g d for the annoying obstructionists for the nitpickers for the devil s advocates for the people who hear something that s obviously true and strain to come up with an absurd thought experiment where it might not be for the reflexive contrarians for the people who always vote third party for the people who urge you to sign petitions on whitehouse gov because then the president has to respond for the people who have two hundred guns in their basement just in case for the people who say well actually all the time for the mayors of sanctuary cities and the clerks who refuse to perform gay weddings for the people who think being banned on twitter is a violation of their human rights and for the people who swear eternal hostility to other people on the same side who agree with them on 99 of everything on the spectrum from totally ungovernable to vulnerable to nazism i think that we ve erred in the right direction in other words the yin and yang of american politics though much derided is yet necessary and important we should ultimately be thankful for those with whom we disagree because they are the ones saving us from the nightmares we mistake for utopias any ideology taken to its extreme without checks and balances ends in its own singularity neither a right singularity nor a left singularity to use the traditional axis is a pretty thing what unites maoist china or khmer rouge cambodia with nazi germany or imperial japan is runaway ideology an ideology wholly institutionalized and not vulnerable to an opposing ideological vector ultimately it doesn t matter if it s ethnic nationalism or racial egalitarianism driving the vehicle if it doesn t have any breaks it s going to crash and burn and leave behind lots of mutilated bodies the great thing about the west s republicanism small r and parliamentarianism is that they create entropy among competing ideological vectors when working properly they make it very difficult for any one worldview to force itself on the others you get a bunch of commies in the senate well too bad they re blocked by a bunch of redneck nationalists in the house people like to complain about obstructionism and congressional inaction but these are good things checks and balances they re not about ensuring that change is slow as much as ensuring that the change you prefer will never get too far without being checked by the change i prefer and back and forth and back and forth that s what makes american republicanism when it works so great it s a giant singularity stopper will it create strife and acrimony and wailing and gnashing of teeth absolutely but at least it won t allow any one ideology to control the vehicle for too long lest it crash headlong into its own ideals after decades of globalism with its strange coupling of endless war and endless expansion of rights america s political machine has kicked back into gear and put economic nationalism at the helm for a little while it won t last but at least the trumpenreich will put the breaks on the leftist singularity that had begun to take shape e g professors tweeting ironically about genociding the privileged after 4 8 years of trump and bannon however it will be time once again to let the bleeding heart lefties do some of the driving of course we must be realistic about the demographic particularity of the west s singularity stopping political structures they were forged in the peculiar fires of european history and there is no reason to think they can be adopted willy nilly by peoples who have not had secular flexibility forced into their genealogies some seem to take to it quite well india japan others less so iraq no political structure is portable across populations why would we want it to be that would defeat the core principle of singularity stopping i like republicanism but that doesn t mean we should force the entire world into a republican structure as the neocons would like to do we must also be realistic about the tenuous nature of the west s singularity stopping structures there is no guarantee that these structures won t be overturned or done away with by some future generation already cases against democracy are becoming more commonplace and written by prominent thinkers but of course these are cases against republics because that s what america is thank god we re not actually a democracy which is rule by mob and majority faction so the existence in perpetuity of these singularity stopping structures is by no means guaranteed various disruptions could lead to the erosion of american republicanism which in turn could send the country hurtling toward destruction of either a left wing or right wing nature apologies to jim and spandrell who have done the most to forward the idea of political singularity california dreamin december 19 2016 uncategorized leave a comment meine heimat is poised to implement the most draconian climate change measures ever enacted in the united states two senate bills require the state to cut various emissions to below their 1990 levels a skeptical l a times writes californians are likely to pay more for gasoline electricity food and new homes and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer the ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedented scale but were approved in sacramento without a study of possible economic repercussions nor apparently were the regulations approved in consultation with the industries they will affect most the agriculture sector is already fleeing the state and with ideas like this more of that industry will continue to flee at a heated meeting in june dairy officials pleaded with the air resources board that they already reduced methane emissions air board scientist ryan mccarthy suggested that new technology could help and the discussion turned to an experimental system from argentina that would capture gas in a backpack on each cow through a hose inserted into their digestive system all of our jaws hit the floor recalled raudabaugh it is an outlandish scheme of course neither the l a times nor anyone in sacramento has named the most obvious source of increasing emissions in the golden state people california s population has skyrocketed from 10 million in 1950 to almost 40 million today growth has slowed but is still on an upward trajectory with ca adding several million people every few years the majority of these california dreamers come from places third world shit holes or rural midwestern shit holes that had previously limited their capacity to do what they plan to do as new californians drive consume drive some more then consume some more ca s emissions will not be cut to 1990s levels without draconian restrictions on industry or draconian restrictions on migration and fertility draconian restrictions on the california lifestyle will not be tolerated by californians especially not the new ones note that the skeptical times article was written by an armenian and although i suspect governor moonbeam secretly would like to implement some anti dysgenic population control measures that aint happening this side of the zombie apocalypse so that leaves draconian restrictions on industry in a state famous for draconian restrictions on industry how many regulations will it take to break the back of the golden bear minority rule december 13 2016 uncategorized leave a comment shadi hamid argues that the deplorable rhetoric against white trump voters is counterproductive and perhaps dangerous progressives fail to comprehend his ecumenical streak but it s easy to explain being a sunni muslim he knows what a majority backlash can look like when a vengeful minority is on the ascendant sunnis comprise 80 of the world s muslims and they are the majority in much of the middle east only iraq and iran are majority shiite the west s strategy has long been to neutralize sect supremacy by putting the minority sect in charge of muslim nations sunnis or kurds in iraq alawites in syria and so on it s curious that the left doesn t champion assad s regime since it s the perfect example of a secular minority government sunnis are the minority in iraq but they re not the minority in the region and certainly not globally so one can see how sunnis being ruled by non sunnis in iraq is a shitty situation for them nationally iraqi sunnis are a dominated minority from a regional or global perspective however they re also a dominated majority being both a dominated majority and a dominated minority can t be good for the psyche in syria sunnis comprise 75 of the population and are ruled by secularizing alawites who comprise 13 of the population here sunnis are clearly a dominated majority sunni jihadism and isis can thus be understood to some extent as a majority backlash against minority ascendancy and rule the backlash was always bubbling beneath the surface in syria but it began in earnest with the placement of non sunnis into power in post invasion iraq king adbdullah ii of jordan understood this from the very beginning here s his infamous shia crescent interview from 2004 if pro iran parties or politicians dominate the new iraqi government he said a new crescent of dominant shiite movements or governments stretching from iran into iraq syria and lebanon could emerge alter the traditional balance of power between the two main islamic sects and pose new challenges to u s interests and allies abdullah a prominent sunni leader said the creation of a new shiite crescent would particularly destabilize gulf countries with shiite populations even saudi arabia is not immune from this it would be a major problem and then that would propel the possibility of a shiite sunni conflict even more as you re taking it out of the borders of iraq the king said the middle east is often discussed as king abdullah discusses it above in terms of sunni versus shiite muslims with syncretic sects caught in the crossfire however sunnis far outnumber shiites so the recent middle east conflagration is better understood as a case of majority backlash sunnis were sick and tired of being told what to do by minorities who continued to concentrate their power shadi hamid recognizes the american parallel rightly he recognizes the potential hornet s nest the left is stirring every time it gleefully sounds the death knell of the white christian american in all likelihood they won t go quietly into that good night if the left continues to treat domestic politics as a zero sum game between whites and everyone else majorities aren t generally fans of minority rule as the middle east has violently proven old world shit december 3 2016 uncategorized 2 comments immigration generates a variety of negative and positive effects many of which are negative or positive depending on one s position as host nation or migrant in my view one of the most negative effects of immigration is the tendency of immigrants to bring with them to the new world the political strife of the old world here is shadi hamid a sunni retweeting a taiwanese american on her mixed emotions regarding trump s apparent recognition of taiwanese sovereignty this is a good illustration of the problem for th...