To Peter Boettke on Hayek And Mises’ Failures
Peter, [I] have spent years on this question and I am fairly certain now that Mises’ work, like Bridgman’s was an unsuccessful attempt at developing operationalism. Both Mises and Popper can best be understood as cosmopolitan intellectuals bringing their pseudoscientific allegorical culture to their work, just as Kant brought continental duty and authority to his…
To Peter Boettke on Hayek And Mises' Failures
Peter, [I] have spent years on this question and I am fairly certain now that Mises’ work, like Bridgman’s was an unsuccessful attempt at developing operationalism. Both Mises and Popper can best be understood as cosmopolitan intellectuals bringing their pseudoscientific allegorical culture to their work, just as Kant brought continental duty and authority to his…
What Can The Indian Government Do To Protect The Rights Of Indian Laborers In Foreign Countries Especially In The Middle East? Why Has It Not Taken Any Action Till Now?
Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers. One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in. That is a phrase of modern mysticism. The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or…
What Current Prominent Americans Best Exemplify The Term “chickenhawk”?
Please dont ask us to answer stupid questions. https://www.quora.com/What-current-prominent-Americans-best-exemplify-the-term-chickenhawk
“Curt, What Is Your Stance On IP?”
QUESTION: “Hello Curt. What’s your stance on IP especially taking Kinsella’s arguments into account?” (Derogatory reference to Kinsella’s personality edited out. – Ed.) ANSWER: [I]n the abstract I agree with the principle that easily accessible licenses for limited monopolies are not beneficial for consumers. However, that rational argument may or may not mean much in…
"Curt, What Is Your Stance On IP?"
QUESTION: “Hello Curt. What’s your stance on IP especially taking Kinsella’s arguments into account?” (Derogatory reference to Kinsella’s personality edited out. – Ed.) ANSWER: [I]n the abstract I agree with the principle that easily accessible licenses for limited monopolies are not beneficial for consumers. However, that rational argument may or may not mean much in…
Science Vs Belief – Institutions Of Law Vs Religions And Cults
[Y]eah…. I don’t make “should” or “belief” arguments. Sorry. If you wanna make people believe something, start a religion or cult like Rothbard did. If you want to create a stateless, private or anarchic polity, then you have to eliminate rational demand for the services provided by the state. To do that requires a high…
It All Begins With Warfare
THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK: IT ALL BEGINS WITH WAR [I] really want the history of economics to hold the social science’s intellectual high ground. But the fact of the matter is, that after consuming most of intellectual history, in hundreds of books, the most important book on social science that I have ever read remains…
Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions
THE PURPOSE OF AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT IS TO SUPPRESS RETRIBUTION FOR ANTI-SOCIAL, UNETHICAL AND IMMORAL ACTIONS. (and it’s genocidal) [T]he purpose of an investigatory police, is to concentrate knowledge of troublesome individuals and groups into the hands of specialists. So that crime can be investigated and reduced if not eliminated, by the suppression of, control…
Why Aren’t Educations Warrantied?
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to…
Why Aren't Educations Warrantied?
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to…
"We Must Develop Political Institutions For The People We Have, Not Those We Wish We Had"
REFORMULATION OF “WE MUST DEVELOP POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE WE HAVE, NOT THOSE WE WISH WE HAD” “Observation of individual men would never have led to the formulation of the static conceptions upon which the democratic edifice is founded, such as justice, equality, fraternity, order. These are based not on the traits of living…
“We Must Develop Political Institutions For The People We Have, Not Those We Wish We Had”
REFORMULATION OF “WE MUST DEVELOP POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE WE HAVE, NOT THOSE WE WISH WE HAD” “Observation of individual men would never have led to the formulation of the static conceptions upon which the democratic edifice is founded, such as justice, equality, fraternity, order. These are based not on the traits of living…
Should A College Education Be Offered To All People Or To A Certain Group Of People Only?
“Should” is an interesting question.“College Education” is a loose term.“Offered” is a questionable term.The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20%…
Mises’ Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Mises' Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Reforming Rothbard: The Rothbardian Fallacies
(intellectual arms dealing) (retaking the brand of liberty from the lunatic fringe) [R]othbardians are relying upon and spreading numerous fallacies: (a) the fallacy of the NAP/IVP as the moral and legal basis for an anarchic polity, (b) the fallacy of aggression rather than the necessity of trust, (c) and the fallacies of the origin of…
Poetic Expression Is Art – And Expensive
–“Not quite sure what you are trying to win and all the big words obscure things so that it all seems a fog to me. I like your poems so much more that are plain and simple but say so much…”– Kerry Kerry, there are things that I can easily express as experiences, and things…
Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship
[I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is…
Different Disciplines Ordered by Their Content
(interesting) 1) Imagination 2) Language 3) Logic 4) Economics (ethics/cooperation) 5) Physics (science) 6) Engineering 7) Computer science 8) Mathematics
Choices: Conflict, Boycott, and Cooperation
[W]e can fail to agree, and conflict with one another. We can agree to boycott (avoid) one another. Or we can agree to cooperate with one another. In any rational exchange for cooperation and trust, we require the positive assertion of the requirement of production, and the negative assertion of the prohibition on free riding.…
Worth Repeating
**If you can’t state it operationally, then it’s merely an analogy. Analogies are informative, but they are not truth propositions.**
Against Justified True Belief – Toward Ethical Speech Instead
[J]ustified true belief is not an important question – it is purely utilitarian. Your belief is not an ethical question. Your testimony is however, an ethical question. . You may believe whatever you have knowledge of use of. But you may not testify that you know that which you cannot construct in operational language.
The Difference In Underclass Communication Due To Science
[O]ver my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the…
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[T]he more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And northern europeans simply suppressed more free riding than any other people. What we resent is that physical effort is more costly to the individual than intellectual effort, and that intellectual effort is much more productive and scarce than physical effort. Andy Curzon…