You’re Demonstrably Incapable of Self-Rule if Your People are Running to the West
YOU’RE DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE OF SELF RULE IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING TO THE WEST. [E]ither fix your problem at home, hire us to fix it for you (it’s quite easy if you’re honest to fix a society). And if you do neither, out of defense, we must start a new program of colonization and modernization…
Patriarchy: Your Mission is to Create A Market for Commons
(important piece) (challenge of the patriarchy) [Y]our Charter. The demands of your revolution : 1) All cults (religions) require ceremony. They create enfranchisement. Mythology and ritual produce ownership. The more costly to the participants the mythology and ritual, the longer the group will persist, and the more impervious it is to competition. (This rule is…
A Hierarchy of Argumentative Structures
(useful) (learning propertarianism) [T]he next ten arguments you make, try to determine which form of argument the person is relying upon. (Not with me. I have enough to do. Test your cunning elsewhere.) If you do this a few times you will begin to intuit it in every argument. 1) EXPRESSIVE (emotional): a type of…
A Hierarchy of Argumentative Truth
(very useful) (learning propertarianism) [S]o, just take the next ten arguments that you run into (not by me, I have enough work to do, demonstrate your cunning elsewhere) try to categorize which level of truth the individual is relying upon to make his or her arguments. Once you do this a few times it will…
Racism, Loading and Framing
[G]ad,I was going to point out that it is possible to conduct racist statements through loading and framing for the purpose of rallying or shaming. The problem is that the kind of people who make empirical statements (us), tend not to make morally loaded and framed statements. Since those of our political persuasion do not,…
The Media as Drug Dealer
[I]t doesn’t make financial sense to operate a newspaper. The FT generates 35M of profit per year on over 500M in revenues. That’s what, 7%? The reason to own a newspaper is influence: gossip. Now the financial times is, like the Journal, a financial rather than political newspaper. So by definition it’s an empirical and…
Conceptual Laundry: Twitter.
Philosophy, to be true, must be critical. There are no answers in philosophy itself. It’s conceptual laundry detergent. Philosophy consists either of telling us how to speak truthfully, or it is just a means of loading, framing and overloading The greatest lies in history have been produced philosophically: monotheism, marxism, freudianism, postmodernism. Philosophy has done…
All Truth Is Negative In Government Too
[T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion…
The Costs of Truth
[T]RUTH, HONESTY, COSTS, JUSTIFICATION, CRITICISM COSTS OF TRUTH Hierarchy of Truths by internality to externality of costs.: 1) True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) True enough for me to feel good about myself. 3) True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) True enough for me to not cause…
Property Rights and Obligations
[P]ROPERTARIANISM’S PROPERTY, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND OBLIGATIONS CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY 0) Non-Property (Bring under total control) ….CONTROL: Total Control ….PURPOSE: Create Property ….YES: Constituo, Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, Abusus. 1) POSSESSION 2) CONSENSUAL POSSESSION 3) NORMATIVE POSSESSION INSTITUTIONAL POSSESSION – “PROPERTY” 1) Â Personal (Private) Property (limited control) ….PURPOSE: Acquisition Inventory and Consumption ….YES: Transitus, Usus, Fructus,…
Human History as Tribes not Governments
[S] tatists and Priests love to teach the history of governments to give them legitimacy. But just as mathematics ought to be taught as a sequence of historical problems humans had to overcome, and we would understand it very easily, if we taught human history as the evolution of how our tribes evolved and expanded…
First Principles of Propertarian Ethics: Non-Parasitism and Therefore Rational Cooperation
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) [P]ropertarian Ethics: -1 â Time is limited and the only infinite scarcity 0 â Man is a costly form of life in an unpredictable universe. 1 â Man must acquire resources to live within this unpredictable universe. 2 â Man must act to acquire and inventory resources: 3 â Man must defend…
Contractual Commons: Law is Discovered, Contracts and Exchanges are Made.
[W]e can produce a market for un-consumable commons using a government just as we produce a market for consumable private goods. But that law and commons are two different things. But there is no reason whatsoever, that knowing how to construct the common law, government should be capable of producing law. It cannot. Law is discovered, contracts and…
Public Economics of Marriage
[M]arriage is, first and foremost, a contract between two parties, husband and wife. And this contract is originally set up to last for all eternity â till death do them part. As such, two married people (Family, in the following) form an economic union with responsibilities deriving from the contract, if so specified explicitly, or…
Refreshing Memories: Charts.
We Have A Simple Choice
[T]ruth, Trade and Liberty (Propertarianism) âvsâ [L]ies, Takings, and Authority (Socialism) (Choose wisely.)
What Is Critical Rationalism?
[C]ritical Rationalism is an epistemology developed for scientific inquiry. It is the inverse of justificationary rationalism. ASSERTIONS: 1) That justificationism tells us us nothing about truth content (you can support something as much as you want but that does not make it true.) 2) That the means of creating an hypothesis are irrelevant. Instead, if…
How Can I Reform Critical Rationalists?
(important question) [I]s it hopeless? In other words, I think I understand the (libertarian) cognitive bias that draws people to critical rationalism. But that bias is in favor of stimulation junkies – novelty and the signaling value of superior intellect. 1) Now, first, how do I show that it’s one thing to acknowledge the necessity of…
Paul Krugman: Slow Roasting the West in Keynesian Ovens
(trigger warning)(run with this meme) [P]aul; It’s not that you’re wrong. It’s that you’re a liar. You lie by telling half truths and then loading, framing and overloading them with moral falsehoods. You advocate institutional lying: the Keynesian economics of distorting the information system we use to cooperate so that we consume rather than accumulate…
Reflections on our Progress
(reflection) (important) (possible change in strategy) [L]ook at the past two years of posts by Eli Harman and Michael Philip, and look at the change in their sentence structure, length, and chain of causal relations. I’m very conscious of these things. So I see it. Johannes is a bit of a character, but at least…
The Anglo-Saxon Subversion of French Elites
[T]he combination of âAnglo-Saxonâ economics (accepting the dynamism of open markets) and of âAnglo-Saxonâ politics (governments as seriously responsibleâBritish versionâor accountableâWashington versionâto their voters) is doubly subversive to the French eliteâs entire modus operandi. The âAnglo-Saxonsâ provide an identity to define oneself against and, in the case of the US, a counterpoint to seek to…
I’m Prosecuting You. It’s not a Debate.
[W]e aren’t debating, or discoursing. We can’t debate or discourse until we’re not lying. Until we’re not lying we’re in conflict. So I am prosecuting your ideas to ensure you’re not lying. Only after you’re no longer lying, can we say that we are negotiating an exchange. But if we start from your premise of…
Reality?
[R]eality Bites. You can ignore reality but you canât ignore the consequences of ignoring reality â Ayn Rand via Emil Suric
Aristocracy For Everyone: How Many Races and Tribes? Â
Useful Post (PDF): Science on racial differences QUESTION: “THE ARISTOCRATIC MODEL: IF WE CONSTRUCTED NATURAL ARISTOCRACY FOR EVERY MAJOR TRIBEâŚHOW SUCCESSFULLY COULD WE PARENT OUR TRIBES ABOVE THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 106?” Answer: “We need a lot more countries.” Kinship: Race: Collection of Tribes: Collection of Clans: Collection of Families. * = significant genetic distance…
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–“We don’t agree that…”– [W]ell saying we don’t agree is to use a rhetorical fallacy. Statements are true, false, or incomplete, whether we agree with one another or not. 1) There exist no laws of science itself. There exist, and we have evolved, procedures that we use to eliminate error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit…