John K

#Bleedpurple KSU Alumni, Royals fan, occasional Dad tweets, bourbon and craft beer officianado

[John K @Kahnope]

@bgarren77 Don't let them change you Brady!

[🌾🌾🌾Patrick W.🌾🌾🌾 @WildcatPADub]

If you drank here in college..... diarrhea lettuce ain't gonna get you #EMAW

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.

"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those journals is trustworthy anymore."

"The BMJ, The Lancet, all of those editors have come out and said, we have a huge problem. We can't replicate this research and we actually don't even know who did the research."

"Everywhere we've looked for corruption, we've found it."

Emily Kaplan, co-founder of the Broken Science Initiative.

@broken_science

[K-State Athletics @kstatesports]

Chiefs Kingdom resides in the Sunflower State 🌻

Welcome to Kansas, @Chiefs

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

We’re gonna live in the woods like libertarians.

[K-State Football @KStateFB]

A message from @CK_KleinCollin

[K-State Football @KStateFB]

Got our guy.

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

Picking up Puka Nacua in dynasty

[Conor Riley @CoachCRiles]

The #SunflowerShowdown is upon us and I am so excited for @KStateFB and @CoachKli to go get another big win!
#OurState
#KHCO

[John K @Kahnope]

@Bet_Labs Let's get it!

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Warren Buffett's late investing partner, Charlie Munger, once said, "Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome." This is one of the most important sentences in English.

It also explains why government can't solve most problems, why it can't work for us either.

Anytime you have a problem, you have an incentive. The incentive is to fix it or otherwise get away from it. That's what it means for it to be a problem, by definition.

Nobody has more incentive than you do to solve your problem. The government has almost zero incentive to solve your problem.

This isn't because government is broken or corrupt or whatever. It's much more deeply structural to government itself. It is because you are first person to your problem, and the government is third person to your problem -- unless, of course, your problem is a problem for the government (and then, watch out).

You don't just have an incentive to solve your problem, though.
You have an incentive to solve it well.
You have an incentive to solve it fast.
You have an incentive to solve it cheaply.
You have an incentive to solve it with what you already have if you can.
You also have an incentive to solve it in a way that can scale to other people who have the same problem who can then purchase your solution from you.

"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."

The government has none of these incentives.

These incentives have effects. When you solve your own problems:
The incentive to solve it well is an incentive to quality.
The incentive to solve it fast is an incentive to efficiency.
The incentive to solve it cheaply is an incentive to economy.
The incentive to solve it with what you already have is an incentive to ingenuity.
The incentive to solve it in a scalable, salable way is an incentive to enterprise, entrepreneurship, and surplus, thus to abundance, wealth, and prosperity. It also multiplies at least some of the aforementioned incentives.

"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."

The government, again, has none of these incentives.

The government, as a detached third party, has no incentive to quality, no incentive to efficiency, no realistic incentive to economy, no incentive to ingenuity, and no incentive to enterprise or surplus. It simply doesn't have them. All it has is incentives to follow (or break) policies it has set for itself that simulate these virtuous outcomes, often badly, frequently shot-through with corruption.

Another fact is that government is run by people. Government may not have any of these incentives, but the people working within government do have incentives. They have the incentive to private profit through public resources. That means they have an intrinsic incentive to corruption that the best of them must constantly work to resist or repel, but that incentive never leaves.

"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."

This is why the idea of seizing control of the government to make it work for us is a huge mistake. We cannot do that because it cannot be done. You and yours care about your problems, and people can be hired or paid to care about your problems where you lack solutions, but the government doesn't care about your problems.

It isn't that the government might be good or bad that matters. It's that the government's incentive structures do not point in the right directions almost anywhere.

This isn't to say the government is useless. It isn't. It has a role to play, which is a duty it is to fulfill in exchange for the power to govern the affairs of men.

The government has a role in securing and protecting its citizens, keeping the peace, maintaining order, and securing the intrinsic, inalienable rights of citizens against all third parties, including itself, along with all attendant necessities and obligations. We outsource those duties and responsibilities to the government primarily to centralize final conflict resolution (force, or violence) in a single place and to handle the specific affairs of state.

Government should have and feel an incentive to do those things well, not just out of oath and patriotism but because any failure in this regard should result in the government as it is presently constituted being taken away from the scoundrels who don't fulfill their end of the bargain when we consent to their power over us.

If the government isn't able to fulfill that basic duty, among all possible explanations, we can be certain that its incentives to do so are confused, muddied, buried, or secondary to other incentives that have become stronger. These can and will include incentives to rule, incentives to corruption, and incentives through accountability being confused, broken, or unclear. "A house divided against itself," it has been said, "cannot stand."

"If you show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome."

The place where government power therefore needs to be exercised is in the domain of accountability for crimes against their citizens and their rights. Unfortunately, individuals within the government are deeply complicit in these corruptions and crimes and therefore lack the proper incentives to achieve it.

Otherwise, in other domains, the role of government must be shrunken, not grown, not wielded. A "Stakeholder Economy," for instance, is a government-managed economy that has corruptible and misaligned incentive structures that will ultimately fail. It isn't for lack of the right people or clarity and purity of the driving ideology that it fails but because the underlying incentives are incorrect, misaligned, and guaranteed to be corrupt.

"If you show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome."

[John K @Kahnope]

@Bet_Labs Let's have it!

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I've been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have to try again because I watched my great friend get murdered over it today.

We have a choice: catharsis or civilization.

There's no other choice for us. We can have a civilization, where people are civilized enough to live, work, and trade with one another in a productive way, a safe way, a trustworthy enough way, or we can abandon it for the pursuit of letting the negative emotions of the past years, decade, or decades consume us.

There's no other choice.

If we choose catharsis, we let our emotions, our Pathos, get the better of us. We turn to our anger and look to give it more justifications. We turn to our frustration and seek an orgiastic release through whatever deeds vents it. We turn to our oppression, our rage, our despair, our fear, and we let it flow through us until the Pathos pours out and covers the land in what will eventually be fire and blood.

Catharsis is tempting, and stepping into it will be libidinous, orgiastic, elevating, and divine, until we realize that it's the feast of demons upon everything we could have built and everything we could have passed on to our children and our posterity.

Civilization is harder. It's bitter, in fact, in comparison to catharsis. It means swallowing hard and taking all those negative emotions and sublimating them into something productive, something that builds rather than makes us feel better. Civilization feels like injustice, in fact, even though it is the only basis for justice outside of Heaven and Hell, if they exist.

If we choose civilization, we're allowed to be mad, but we must temper our anger into right action that builds something to leave a better world, which will dissolve it, of course. We're also allowed to be frustrated, but we must sublimate our frustration into the dedicated search for real and lasting solutions to our problems in a civilization worth living in and passing to our children. We are not allowed to despair, though, and we cannot persist in fear. We must have faith that swallowing and metabolizing all of our negativity to turn it into a flourishing society is possible and worth it, and faith will drive out fear and is the mortal enemy of despair.

Civilization is not available on the wide path. It is the narrow path, at least so far as worldly life goes. Veer too far to one side or the other, or even for too long a moment forget your purpose or principles, and you lose the path, lose civilization, and lose everything worth having.

Without civilization, though, we will find ourselves in a terror beyond our comprehension. Maybe it will be like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described it in the wake of the terrible English Civil War, when civilization was nearly thrown aside. Violent, solitary or tribal, nasty, brutish, short, a wicked and selfish war of all against all. It looks like the favelas of Brazil.

Maybe we'll end up conquered, fighting among ourselves while our enemies feast on our folly. Maybe we'll end up holding it together, for a little while anyway, under a tyrant who can, for a time, make it all stop and demand order. Maybe we all just end up learning Mandarin and get along mastering the ins and outs of social credit existence.

Civilization is worth fighting for, and catharsis is the kind of momentary pleasure followed by pain that every virtue stands in opposition to. In a civilization we, and each of our children after us, can live as individuals, free to pursue our dreams in sufficient safety and opportunity to generate abundance. Catharsis will be a groupish disaster with all the allure and hangover of a drunken mosh pit.

Again, I'm not expressing myself the way I see this issue in my mind. It's such an important message that I just can't get right, no matter how I try.

What I will say is that, for any differences in the particulars my great friend Charlie Kirk and I have had, Charlie Kirk stood for, lived for, and acted to his dying breath for civilization. He was far too temperate and wise, even at 31, for catharsis.

How can I be sure?

Under strange circumstances once, I found myself out on a skiing boat on a lake with Charlie Kirk. Music was playing, we were having a good time enjoying the morning. Charlie, with his standard grin, bare chest in the sun, laughed a little and explained himself, "I had fun once, guys, and I hated it."

Then he made our host change the music from something fun and hip to... classical. And we ran up and down the lake alongside all the other party boats listening to Bach, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, not having fun even once and loving it. Charlie Kirk lived for civilization, and nothing remotely like catharsis would have been near his mind, heart, or soul, even in its darkest, most frustrated moments.

Charlie wanted to win, but he wanted to win so that we can move away from evil and move away from cathartic, orgiastic destruction and toward civilizational order, where his family and children could grow up as strong, proud Americans.

That's how I know that Charlie understood the choice I still cannot articulate. We have two options, and only two. They are catharsis and civilization.

Charlie Kirk lived that we would have civilization. May Charlie Kirk not have died such that we spiral into catharsis and evil.

[John K @Kahnope]

@DanMyersCards This is the way

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃: Chelsea have become the FIRST club in the history of football to win ALL the major trophies:

• Premier League
• FA Cup
• EFL Cup
• Champions League
• Europa League
• Conference League
• Club World Cup

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Did you catch this part?

Elon said “I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.”

Over $100 BILLION is being sent every year to people in America with no Social Security number

This may be the biggest money laundering scandal since Ukraine, ActBlue, and all the other globalist scams

This is why Democrats are freaking out - their DC gravy train was just exposed

[John K @Kahnope]

@KSU_MASH @Chiefs Greatest reverse jinx I've ever pulled off

[John K @Kahnope]

@KSU_MASH @Chiefs Disappointment

[John K @Kahnope]

@KSU_MASH @Chiefs Told you

[John K @Kahnope]

@KSU_MASH @Chiefs This still holds true. They will be who we know they are.