Q: “What is Your Position on Slavery?”
Well, I suppose I have to be impolitic here and just go with the truth. But let me prevaricate a little bit and remind all that my job is to make amoral (non moral, non-introspective) arguments. So I am not going to satisfy your moral intuition’s needs for confirmation in this essay. SLAVERY? [C]ooperation between…
Science And Philosophy: 2500 Years Of Intellectual History Condensed Into 125 Words.
[T]he discipline we call philosophy and the discipline we call science consist of a set of methods (processes) which philosophical science, the social sciences, and the physical sciences, use to launder existential impossibility, limitlessness, error, bias, imaginary content, wishful thinking, deception, and (objective) immorality (in the domain of the social sciences) from our testimony (speech).…
Art is Criticizable. And Like Morality, It’s Objectively Better or Worse
(worth repeating) [A]s for art theory it’s pretty simple stuff. You can read every significant tome on it in a month. (I am honestly not sure that Rand’s book isn’t one of the best really, in retrospect. And I don’t think much of rand as other than the children’s book version of philosophy for newbs.)…
The Meaning of “Incremental Suppression”
(organic common law as a means of incrementally suppressing free riding). [T]he logic of the Incremental Suppression of Free Riding via the evolution of the Common Law. 1) Humans acquire at cost and defend what they have acquired at cost. 2) Cooperation is disproportionately more productive than predation. 3) Cooperation is only preferable to predation…
A Hierarchy of Truths
(worth repeating) [A] hierarchy of Truths: True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship True enough for me to feel good about myself. True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion…
Truth is a Very Expensive Norm – That’s Why No One Else Does It.
(guaranteed to make people angry)(sketch) [H]IERARCHY OF TRUTHFUL CULTURES -TRUTHFUL-GERMANIC EUROPE (non-ideological)ANGLO/AMERICAN (ideological optimism)INDIA (utopian idealism and justification) -DECEPTIVE-JEWISH (circumstantial truth, dual ethics, framing and overloading: pseudoscience and pseudorationalism and informational asymmetry)CHINA (creative lying, obscurantism, and delaying, lying as buying time, avoiding conflict, accumulating strength.) -DECEITFUL-RUSSIA (outright lying and cheating, non-contractual, lying as strength,)ISLAM/ARAB (denial…
Truth: Why is Propertarianism Different?
[B]ecause while a number of other philosophers have come to the conclusion that all we must do is tell the truth, no other philosopher has told you how you can tell the truth: by speaking truthfully: by providing the warranty that you have performed due diligence on any speech that you place into the informational…
Moral Objectivity or Relativity?
[M]orality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations upon objective morality. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command). The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy. The law and…
Lending Then Repossessing Your Violence
[I] was born with a wealth of violence. I lend that violence to the state to use on my behalf collective gain. However, should the state no longer work in my interests, or should any man break my contract for cooperation, I reserve my right to withdraw my deposit of violence and use it to both…
Position on Marriage? It’s a Contract.
[M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract. My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward…
Have We Passed Peak Human?
PEAK HUMAN? [O]MG. What if we have passed ‘peak human’ already? What if it is not possible to improve upon late hunter-gatherer genetics, and that urbanization has produced increasingly aggressive, less intelligent, more impulsive peoples? What if inbreeding, low IQ, higher aggression, and higher reproduction are a superior evolutionary strategy? Source: Curt Doolittle
Suicidal Tendencies
[C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die. Source: (2) Curt Doolittle
Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?
[W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust. 1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas…
Explained: The Christian Idea
[T]he Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation. By attributing status to the extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate the possibility…
Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?
BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“ The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so…
The Law Evolves as Science Evolves: By Reaction
[A]ll progress in truth, like all progress in law, is a reaction to progress in imagination, error, bias, deception and propaganda. The reason we could not suppress the left, is because we did not yet understand Truth. Now that we understand Truth, we can criticize, suppress and punish the left as the liars and thieves…
Five Axis of Intertemporal Production
(from elsewhere) [T]here are five necessary axis of inter-temporal production: 1) The individual, the family, and the church (the production of generations) 2) The partnership, the corporation, the bank, the treasury. (The production of goods and services. 3) The local government, state government, and the federal government. (the production of commons) 4) The judiciary (the…
Tolerance as Conspicuous Consumption
[S]orry, but there are a whole lot of very bad people in this world. And a goodly part of our time is spent so that we never have to interact with, meet, see, or be aware of them. All human life is not precious. Some humans are merely a drain on us. But others are…
Propertarianism’s Family Tree
Revolution Requires Only That We Abandon All Hope
[A]ll hope that an aristocratic civilization is desirable for other than the middle class. And that the classical liberal experiment, and the enlightenment vision of equality and universal aristocracy, failed. Free your mind. Abandon the rational fallacy as we abandoned mysticism. Abandon hope for democracy: it’s suitable only for northern European families with thousands of…
John Adams on The Central Proposition of Christianity
—“The fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies.”—John Adams [J]esus ‘is’ love is pretty much all there is to it. And the purpose is to break tribal bonds: to extend familial trust to everyone (as a means of…
Bias: Is / Must / Should / Can
[I]t’s really this simple, isn’t it? CAN: progressive (short) [consumption] [development of offspring] SHOULD: libertarian (med) [production] [competition of production] MUST: conservative (long) [saving] [competition of the tribe] IS: science. (Timeless) [existence] [stock of knowledge] Source: (1) Curt Doolittle
Corporations were, like Limited Monopolies (IP), and like Letters of Marque, Limited Duration Contracts in the Public Interest
[A] Month of Quotes on Corporatism by Tom Reeves —“…how corporations came about — they were all one-off, special purpose and limited-duration monopolies created in the public interest, not charters that the government let you file that were just like limited partnership agreements.”— Tom Reeves The same is true for Intellectual property (which we need…
Answering Charles Murray on Legalizing Blackmail
RE: http://www.aei.org/publication/charles-murray-asks-why-should-blackmail-be-a-crime-walter-block-makes-the-case-for-legalizing-blackmail/ [W]alter Block starts with the rhetorical position that property is a natural right rather than the result of a necessary contractual exchange of rights, agreed to in order to construct property rights that are adjudicable, in order to prevent retaliation for impositions of costs upon one another, by providing a means of restitution and…
Q: How Do You Reconcile The Ideal of Property Rights, and Observable Reality: Corporatism, and Cronyism?
—“Question for Curt: How does property rights fit into mixed economies, corporatism and cronyism? If a corporation has property rights is that for eternity? Who decides?”— Beauregard. Beauregard, [I]’m going to try to guess at what “fit in” means. I think you mean, “How do we reconcile the apparent conflicts between the logical ideal of…