Month: June 2015

  • Q&A: “Is The Soul Property?”

    Q&A: “Curt, What do you say about soul? And its relation to property?” – Mahmoud B. [Y]our indisputable Property is that which you act to obtain without forcing involuntary transfers upon others. Meaning: without {violence,theft, fraud, suggestion, obscurantism, omission, indirection (externality), free riding, socializing losses and privatizing commons, conspiracy, conversion, immigration, war, conquest, and genocide.}…

  • Fear of Outsiders: Against Psychologism

    1) Fear of outsiders is not ‘a thing’ but a universal human reaction. Or at least it is outside of northern europeans. It is not an irrational fear. It is a rational fear. That is why humans bear the intuition. It is an instance of the disgust response. 2) The Fear of Catholics and Jews…

  • Will We See A Post-Religious Future?

    [G]iven that we see a decline in religiosity. 1) ON ARATIONAL VS RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL ETHICS – Rationalism (rational ethics) increases as IQ increases – Religiosity (arational ethics) increases as IQ decreases. – Impulsivity and crime increase as IQ decreases. – There is a positive correlation between non-criminality and religion as IQ decreases. (The whole…

  • It’s Either Rights of Association or Slavery

    [F]reedom requires: 1 – Right of Entrance / Exit. 2 – Right of Association / Disassociation. 3 – Right of Trade / Boycott If you cannot exit, determine, association and disassociation, choose whom to trade and whom to boycott, then you are a slave. Period.

  • Islam vs Protestant (Germanicized) Christianity

    [I]slam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It mereley means it is more competitive. 1) hatred is proscribed / hatred is prohibited 2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited 3) lies are permissible / lies are…

  • The First Principles of Propertarian Ethics

    [M]an. 1 – Man must acquire resources.2 – Man must act to acquire resources.3 – Man must act cooperatively to disproportionately improve acquisition of resources.4 – Man must act to preserve and extend cooperation to preserve the disproportionate rewards of acquisition through cooperation.5 – Man acts to preserve and extend cooperation by the suppression of…

  • The Church Amplified Western Civilization. It Did Not Create It.

    [T]he Church federalized the Aristocracy into The Christian Monarchies. And the Church amplified our hunter-gatherer lack of aggression. But that is very different from saying that the Church created western civilization. The Church was an amplifier, not a creator. The Church did good – but it has done both damage and good. And the enlightenment…

  • Aristocratic Egalitarianism

    [T]o say that European Aristocracy is Egalitarian is somewhat of a tautology.  An aristocracy requires numbers, and has an interest in creating large numbers in a hierarchy of aristocratic peers.  So aristocracy is egalitarian – open to meritocratic entry.

  • Sorry: Propertarianism is an Amoral and Objective Language – And That Can Be Emotionally Unsatisfying.

    [I] know that you want to feel emotionally vindicated, and that you want to vent your frustrations when conducting an argument, but the fact of the matter is Propertarianism and Testimonialism are constructed amorally (( amoral adjective “not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.” )) so that all moral…

  • Inequality is a Good

    [I]nequality is a good. In evolves man. Invention is a good. In increases our ability to consume. If we were all equal, we would have nothing to trade. And we would be poor. As are extant people who are in practice equal. To create an economy to sustain man we must create equality constantly. To…

  • Definition of Class: Reproductive Value

    (profound) (complete decidability) (objective morality)  [S]ocial class refers a rough division of humans into a distribution by their reproductive value. There is a competition between the classes, as there is a competition between all living organisms – and there must be for evolution continue and the species to persist. The competition between the classes is…

  • Blood For The Tree Of Liberty

    [I]f you don’t feed the tree of liberty frequently, then you must infrequently feed it a lot. Thus endeth the lesson. (Aristocratic Egalitarianism.)

  • Mankind, Civilization, Culture, Society, Family, Individual

    [B]een trying to work on constructing Propertarian definitions for these terms. Ran across this gem, that is very, very close. —“Civilization is fundamentally a cultural infrastructure of information and knowledge that serves survival and continuity. What distinguishes a civilization from a culture is that this infrastructure, having reached a critical level of complexity, becomes autonomous…

  • What You Do With “Smart” Matters A Lot

    [Y]ou can invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very narrow concepts, or invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very broad concepts. There are THREE reasons why we produce many very smart people in narrow niches, and very few very smart people in broad concepts. 1) First, the…

  • Testimonialism (Completed Critical Rationalism)

    (second draft) (full cycle) (still needs third section) [W]e both perceive, and remember stimuli, and construct and remember relations from that stimuli, and construct and remember layers upon layers of those relations. The acts of planning, calculating, hypothesizing, searching, freely-associating, daydreaming, dreaming, and subconscious association attempt to imagine relations between the entire spectrum of memories…

  • Information Systems for the Persistence of Man

    SYSTEMS G-GENES, 0-PROPERTY, 1-INTUITION, 2-REASON, 3-COOPERATION(REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, COGNITION, KNOWLEDGE, LABOR) (profound) (worth repeating) [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to…

  • Saturate The Environment with Truthfulness and People Will Act Truthfully

    (By: Curt Doolittle, Johannes Meixner and Andy Curzon) [W]e learn actions by doing. But we learn metaphysics by observation: our most effective learning-by-doing comes from recognizing patterns and habits of others in the environment. Things we take for granted as static, rather than open to our modification. So I tend to see something like programming…

  • A Short Course on Propertarianism’s Testimonial Truth

    (promoted to post) (very good outline) [T]he Truth – as in the most parsimonious description we can possibly make – we cannot know, even if we speak it. Truthfulness on the other hand, we can know. LIMITS: TRUTHFUL ENOUGH FOR THE CONSEQUENCES http://www.propertarianism.com/…/…/21/a-hierarchy-of-truths/ DEFINITIONS OF TRUTHFULNESS http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/ DUE DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR THE WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS http://www.propertarianism.com/…/due-diligence-necessary-f…/…

  • Laws Prohibit Involuntary Transfer. Contracts Exchange Rights. 

    [I]n writing a new constitution, we can easily deprive the government(producers of commons) and the judiciary(adjudication of law) of the ability to make law. The only laws that can possibly exist are those that prohibit a means of free riding (parasitism/imposing costs). And those laws must be found (discovered), theorized. Conversely, all positive rights can…

  • Writing: Use of Proper Case

    [L]ook. If Popper can use Italics, then I can use Case. (Yet another thing Germans do right.). Proper casing of names of terms cues the reader. Using headlines, callouts, paragraph headlines and then bold on keywords has become common in print because it assists in helping the user scan the text, and to skip what…

  • Propertarian Arguments are Categorically Proofs.  (And a note on painful births 🙂 )

    [A] proof is a test of internal consistency. A proof is not a truth proposition. It is merely a statement of existential possibility: that by (a)the given axioms, or (b)the possible operations, and (c) the tests of subjective incentive at each opportunity for choice, that the given argument is possible. Testimonialism and Propertarianism extend Critical…

  • Q&A: Why Do People Hold Increasingly Radical Positions?

    [W]hy do people increase radicalism when confronted with the failure of their ideology? Because they do not hold positions rationally, but to justify their intuitions, and their intuitions exist to advance their reproductive strategies (signals). And so they will fight to defend those signals at all costs, consistently escalating to the point of violence if…

  • Q&A: Curt. Where Does Pathological Altruism Come From?

    “Where does a memeplex based upon pathological altruism come from? And better yet, how to stop it?”—Ed Herzog [R]eally great question.  And it’s not that hard to deconstruct into reproductive intuitions.  We use contributory commons more than any other group on earth. So, it comes from: (1) Indo-European Heroism;  (Uniqueness of the west) (2) Status…

  • Q&A: Does your methodology work backwards from a presumption? (Sigh. Critique is Everywhere.)

    A Question From Benjamin Uraminski Curt, your underlying methodology seems to work backward from a presupposed solution, similar to an algebra problem. In this instance, it having already been decided upon that everything is inherently sexual so that the missing variables which reinforce the preconceived notion appear obvious to one who holds those beliefs. I…

  • Interviews

    Red Ice Radio (Sweden) 1: Hour 1 – Propertarianism and The Philosophy of Truth Tellinghttp://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/06/RIR-150629.php 2: Hour 2 – How to ‘Get Out Of This Mess’ (Members Only)http://www.redicemembers.com/secure/radio/program.php?id=1001 The Right Stuff 1: The Daily Shoah 22: “A Propertarian Brunch”http://therightstuff.biz/2015/03/02/the-daily-shoah-episode-22-a-propertarian-brunch/ 2: The Daily Shoah 35: “Doolittle Does It Again”http://therightstuff.biz/2015/06/02/the-daily-shoah-episode-35-doolittle-doesitagain/ Counter-Currents Radio 6/26/15 “Interview with Curt Doolittle” …