The 3 by 3 Rule — Part One

Content:
Part One — Formal Scheme
Part Two — Historical Examples
Part Three — Where are we now?

Part One — Formal Scheme
Growth:
First G(eneration) – The Warrior – Liberator
Second G. – The Lawgiver – Justice
Third G. – The Builder – Infrastracture
Glory:
Fourth G. – The Warrior – Enslaver
Fifth G. – The Lawgiver – Injustice
Sixth G. – The Builder – Luxary
Decline:
Seventh [...]

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Abolish Mixed-Gender Schools NOW

The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: “Why are our kids so messed up?” “Why didn’t these students try to stop the crime?” “What’s happening in our schools?”
—Ask the [...]

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Will the Real Gold Standard Please Stand Up

The use of gold and silver coin has no inherent weakness. It is the concept of legal tender that is flawed and unjust. By fixing the rate of exchange between gold and silver, and declaring what constituted legal tender, the powers that be seriously intervened within what was supposed to be a free market. Any [...]

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Free Healthcare Causes Economic Ruin

Let us assume that the US will implement healthcare reform that provides adequate care to those without insurance and those who are underinsured, what would be the consequences of such a move?
For the sake of argument I will assume that any reform is actually affordable. Increased healthcare will result in the following:
1. Longer lifespan: This will [...]

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Here is my Handle Here is my Spout

Will the future bring deflation or inflation? Some have reasoned that since there was deflation during the thirties and as we are going into a similar situation then we should expect deflation. The events since last year has certainly confirmed their predictions.
The fact is life is never that easy and such simplistic—typically English empirical—analysis based [...]

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O Squalid Old World

The following was quoted in the Wikipedia article Brave New World:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared [...]

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Re-Introduction of the Gold Standard

In High Treason in Zimbabwe I suggested the introduction of a gold coin, which I called the Zimbi, to solve the hyperinflation of Zimbabwe:
The zimbi would have turned the monetary system of Zimbabwe from the weakest on Earth to the only one based on gold, thus ensuring that Zimbabwe becomes the world’s only country with [...]

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The World WILL end in 2012

Not as shown in hack director Roland Emmerich’s forthcoming film 2012:

But in a much more serious and historically consistent way. The Mexica people predicted their own demise in the beginning of the sixteenth century, this came true not through brimstone and floods but through an alien invasion that rocked society and [...]

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Four Graphs

The first shows the decline of treasuries held by the Federal Reserve Banks, while their credit has doubled:

This has a serious implication on the soundness of the dollar. The second graph shows the dependence of the US on imported goods and services:

That would is not a problem by itself, but taken in conjunction with the [...]

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The Difference between Past and Future Labour

In ancient times people had to perform labour to extract from nature the substances they needed to survive, thus direct labour resulted in direct satisfaction.
Later barter developed where people would perform labour and extract from nature more than they needed, afterwards they would exchange their surplus with a different substance extracted by someone else. Thus [...]

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Sudden Collapse Foreshadowed by Mega Temples

In The Fable of the Cannoneer and the Observer I wrote the following:
The social phenomenon of the high priests building ever bigger pyramids at great social expense with no social benefit at all is a worrying phenomenon to those who study history, such a phenomenon usually appear just before everyone ‘decides’ to abandon the cities [...]

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Imperial Cultural Death

In this post I would like to make a long citation from an essay that has its own Wikipedia page! The essay is about operating systems, but the quote is from a section about culture:
“A huge, rich, nuclear-tipped culture that propagates its core values through media steepage seems like a bad idea. There is an [...]

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Reason-able Talk from Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe’s Monetary Policy I wrote the following:
The public in the west has completely accepted the neo-colonial narrative that blacks (and other non-Europeans) are unable to govern themselves, that not only they must adopt western ideologies but also westerners should supervise them. The most corrupt political administrations, currently under investigation, unashamedly talk about ‘teaching’ Africa [...]

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Gender Separate Schools Make the Front-page

In How to Reform Schools and Educate People I wrote the following:
Separation of girls and boys is the number one priority of secondary education, without this initial condition whatever system is implemented is doomed to failure. Secondary education was always separate, not only in space but also in style and subject. Only recently has the [...]

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Mischief on the Zambeze

The latest news from Zimbabwe:
“Zimbabwe badly needs Western donors and foreign investors to rescue its economy but external help will depend on the creation of a democratic government and reforms such as reversing plans for nationalization.
Economists said if the Washington-based IMF really was looking at a package, it would be designed to force a switch [...]

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