Propertarianism vs Neo-Reaction
(draft)[I] tend to see Propertarianism as Post-Neo-Reactionary. Although, it may be more accurate to position NRx as a rationalist program in the continental and moral traditional, and Propertarianism as an analytic program in the anglo scientific tradition – but both making the same criticism: the evolution of the cathedral, the failure of the enlightenment program,…
Libertine “Self Ownership” is Suitable for Children’s Stories
[U]nfortunately you ‘aren’t’ anything other than a bag of mostly water, and rights only exist when they have been created by an act of promise or contract. As such you may DEMAND, or WANT to be treated as the owner of your body, and therefore are seeking CUSTOMERS for your offer, and those customers will…
Legal Prohibitions on Free Riding Must Expand With Minimum Friction
[E]ntrepreneurs innovate. Property is necessary for calculation and incentives. Trust is necessary for economic velocity (rates). As complexity expands so does the means of free riding and theft, so legal prohibitions must expand in criminal, ethical, moral, conspiratorial coverage at a marginally indifferent rate from the complexity of associations in order to maintain trust and…
A Quarterly Reminder – Fair Warning.
[F]or new friends and followers, please understand what I do here and on FB. It is my sketch pad. I work in public like a village blacksmith where you can peer into the forge and see the experimental work being done – good and bad. Propertarianism is a very special thing and you can learn…
Who Will Contain American Barbarism? Not Quite: American Stupidity Maybe.
[Q]UESTION: If we contain Russian barbarism, then who will contain American barbarism? ANSWER: Well that is not an honest statement right? It posits a false moral equivalency rather than the truth that each party is half-right. Moreover, it is easier to correct the half-right anglo island dweller political ideology, but very difficult to correct half-right…
It’s All So That We Can Act As Specialists – Not As Equals
(worth repeating) –“The whole anglo philosophical and political fantasy of equality has been a disaster for mankind. We must be equal in property rights and equal under the law, but that’s so that we may coordinate our actions as specialists, and succeed as specialists – not so that we can act as equals.”–
Economy: Family Business and State Are Just Matters of Scale
(h/t Andy Curzon )(edited and revised) [I]f we look at Austrian business cycle theory as merely an instance of the cycle of ‘flocking and schooling’ that follows any kind of change in knowledge that as a consequence produces an opportunity, then the century of pseudoscience was just another business process by which to exploit a…
It’s A False Moral Equivalence: Comparing Russian and American Political Interference
(reposted from original site) [P]at. I rarely disagree with you, but regarding Russia, you posit a moral equivalency where none exists. Here is why: The USA’s *Demonstrated* postwar policy operates by the following criteria: 1) BORDERS – states who don’t respect borders can lead to world wars. 2) HUMAN RIGHTS – states who don’t respect…
Bring Back the Guillotine – For the Cathedral
[I] couldn’t care less about social justice and equality. I despise the terms and the feelings that inspire them.But when a young man who is willing and able to work, and work hard, to feed his family cannot find work, and the only reason that he cannot is low trust, no credit, and low economic…
When Did They Start Teaching Us To Lie?
Question: One thing I wonder is: How many generations ago did we sell out and start lying to our children, until the lie was forgotten? – Molly [I]t started fairly early. But it is largely a product of the strategic application of the Ten Planks. But, in addition world circumstances helped a great deal: Education…
How To Present Mises and Rand in the Context of the 20th Century?
[I] would present it (as I do) as a last ditch desperate attempt to reach the enlightenment utopia embodied in both cosmopolitan middle class universalism, and anglo puritanical middle class universalism. But that both movements were failures and had to be, because universalism and equality are merely utilitarian merchant philosophies of self interest made possible…
Only Landed People Create Monuments and Art
UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM [C]alifornia. A very desirable geography. The best other than France. In both cases the geography is a natural resource exploitable by the state. As I said to Ron Manners: natural resources make you a slave because States must defend them. Diasporic peoples avoid these high costs at the expense of permanent insecurity. The golden mean…
Exorcising Guilt Over Cultural Criticism
[Y]ou know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a…
Language Evolved To Negotiate – It Wasn’t Suitable for Truth Telling (Science)
(Profound) [I]f language evolved for us to negotiate with, then it’s no wonder that it is so unsuitable for use as an internal language to understand truth with – to think with. Language wasn’t invented to lie with. But it was invented to negotiate with.
Propertarianism Doesn’t Require Cunning – Just Effort and Honesty
[P]ropertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning. Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t. Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive…
Freedom is Wasted On Those Seeking Consumption
Guest Post by Anonymous –“The founding fathers knew that freedom is wasted on those who are not pursuing virtue. They envisioned America, not as a hedonist utopia, but as a place where one was free to pursue a virtuous life. The French, on the other hand, began their revolution as a revolution our modern progressives would love to implement now: they executed all the priests and…
Eli: Women’s Sufferage
Guest Post by Eli Harman [M]en and women are different, with different priorities, values, motivations, interests, and reproductive strategies (on average.) The family is a compromise between male and female reproductive strategies. It isn’t what either men or women would choose if they had their druthers. (Men would build harems and women would be promiscuous…
We Took The Family For Granted
[W]e spend all this time, text and talk on the individual, women, government and economy. But we took the structure of reproduction for granted. We compete, using 1) the structure of group competition, 2) the structure of reproduction, 3) structure of pedagogy, 4) structure of production, and 5) structure of commons. Liberalism has been nothing…
My “Bosses” in the Evolution of Propertarianism
(humor) [Y]ou know, it’s funny, but Propertarianism is no longer a solo effort. I have a manager, an editor, and multiple advisors, helpful critics, and in some cases, people who are better than I am at USING propertarianism. And it feels a little bit like I’m an engineer on a project trying to create infrastructure.…
Criticism: Tech As Belief In New Gods
[T]he only energy technology that we are going to use and depend upon is nuclear, helped by water, and as a minor contributor – solar, because it’s the only source of energy strategically tolerable to depend upon. And while teenage boys like to fantasize about star trek technology, adult men only spend vast amounts of…
North Sea Truth vs Levantine Critique
(profound)(group evolutionary strategies)(macro-sociology) [O]nce you grasp that Cosmopolitan (Marxist-Socialist, Libertine, Neoconservative) Critique is an attempt at exclusionary authoritarianism – a modern restatement of the technique applied in Jewish argument and law – it becomes fairly obvious why the combination of (a) desire for obscurant arguments to be true, (b) emotional and intellectual investment in the…
An Example Refuting Hoppe: The “Right to Value”
Regarding: http://kinsella.liberty.me/…/hoppe-on-property-rights-in-p…/ [A]ll property must represent value to its owner or the statement ‘own’ has little sense. –“a common mistaken belief is that one has a property right in the value, as opposed to the physical integrity of, one’s property.”– Correctly stated: Others cannot promise you that the value of any property will remain constant.…
Looking Into The Future: Doolittle, Haidt, Hawkins, Dennett
[W]illiam L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it. I think if you watch Hawkin’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see…
Adults and Institutions, Children and Beliefs
[C]hildren talk of beliefs. Adults talk of institutions. Children talk of “Want and Belief” Adults of “Expectations and Habits”. The mind plans with what it has available. We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations. People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.As far as I…
Self-Criticism and Self-Reformation – Not Racism or Anti-Semitism
[I] am critical of every one of the enlightenment groups for their stupidity. So I am not interested in racism or anti-semitism so much as self-improvement. I argue only against the accidental application of jewish in-group ethics and argument structure as pseudoscience in an era where our western extant means of logic and argument at…