Training the Human Species

How much training does a human being need? Mankind comes hosted with ample instinctive behaviors. Personality characteristics are mostly inborn. Certain personality characteristics mostly guarantee certain behaviors. In those respects no training is needed.

Suppose you want to train a group to serve you and be happy in doing so. To do that additional training is needed. The persons you are training must have an incentive to serve you and put their own interests aside in the process. Suppose you are a billionaire and would profit from a regime change in a foreign country. How do you convince the youth to join a war and kill and die on foreign soil? How do you condition Grannie not to complain when she is cheated out of the rightful earnings on her savings as it is funneled to the big banks instead? These things are not hard.

All through school government is treated as benevolent. So trust there is already established. The active notion is that government is fair, benevolent and has solutions. Americans come preconditioned to be of use to folks in power. Regardless additional training is often needed. How do we do it?

Have you ever trained a dog? The procedure for training humans exactly parallels the procedure for training a dog. First, a dog already identifies with the desires and wishes of the pack to which it belongs. Humans do also and instinctively exalt the species. Training is for specific behaviors. It works the same way with people. The universe’s resources as we are exposed to them are distributed in keeping with a system of dominance and subservience.

To teach a dog to come or to fetch, treats are used. The dog adapts, and discovers it is better off submitting to the owner. Its chances of survival are enhanced by bending to the owners will. A human will not submit if offered a dog biscuit. There are treats humans do respond to. One treat that works very well with humans is offering the perception of an elevation of tribal position. This is why leaders bestow honor after honor to all who serve in the nations military. There is very little a human will not do to get the kind attention of brethren. Sex is a highly useful motivator. Offer a human a meaningful treat and you will get the action you are looking for. Just, like with animals, training is more effective when treats are offered intermittently.

United State citizens might very well be the most well trained population in the history of the world. In one way or the other, from the top of society on down, Americans have all traded freedom for comfort and reassurance. The art of go along to get along has been mastered. This is a timely Curbside Jimmy tune. The scene shifts from a regular swamp to the big swamp in Washington D.C

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About Fantasy Free Economics

James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.