Why Are All Books On Cosmopolitan Libertinism Introductory? (They Must Be)
[T]here is a reason that all works on libertarianism are introductions and so very few are advanced, as are works in economics, capital, public choice, democracy, social democracy, marxism and even neo-conservatism. We really have what, Hayek on classical liberal law, and Garrison and Reissman in classical economics? But advanced works on libertarianism don’t exist…
Our Mistaken Emphasis on Government Rather than Juridical Defense From It.
[W]e are always ruled. We are often governed. The law is the minimum rule. We can never escape law and commons and hold territory. We spend far too much ink on how to insure good rule, government, rulers, and governors. And we cannot make a good ruler or governor. We spend too little ink on…
Loyalty: Forgoing Opportunities.
[L]OYALTY: Not seizing opportunities that impose costs upon the capital structure (genetic, normative, physical, institutional, territorial) that you and others have been contributing to. The limit of opportunity. (The family, tribe, and nation) James: Can “loyalty” also be the assumption or even shouldering of risks or costs, without a clear or immediate return? Curt Doolittle:…
Contra NRx’s Techno Commericalism
[W]hile technology (a)decreases the cost of relationship acquisition, (b)decreases the cost of property registries, (c) decreases the cost of and often need for, escrow services (financial transaction costs), (d) reduces the need for regulation, (e) decreases the cost of geographic and temporal constraints, technology does NOT change the fundamental problem of cooperation: the incremental suppression…
Love Reduces Transaction Costs
[L]OVE REDUCES COSTS –“Love reduces transaction costs, just as truth reduces transaction costs, just as law reduces transaction costs. Love is an economically rewarding investment.”— That’s the secret to western christendom.
Individual Law, Family Policy, National Defense
[T]he individual must be the subject of law; the family the subject of policy; and the nation the subject of the military. Misapplication of individualism is the origin of western suicide. An economy merely produces consumption. A family produces reproduction. Our purpose is either reproductive and perpetual or consumptive and temporary.
Tweak to Positioning the Enligthenents
[C]onversation on positioning with Don the other night. This is how I came away with a minor tweak to the positioning. Cosmopolitan Ashkenazi, Low Trust, Un-landed, Authoritarian, Anarcho Capitalism vs Aristocratic, Anglo, High Trust, Landed, Legal, Anarcho Capitalism vs Martial, Germanic, High Trust, Landed, Hierarchical, Tribal/Familial Capitalism. As far as I can tell the germans were…
Aristocratic vs Cosmopolitan Ancapism.
ARISTOCRATIC ANARCHO CAPITALISM VS COSMOPOLITAN ANARCHO CAPITALISM (from elsewhere) [B]oth Aristocratic (British, Critical, and Legal), and Cosmopolitan (Ashkenazi, Justificationary, and Moral) Anarchism, advance the open market. They are opposite methods of expressing the same argument:scientific prohibition and justificationary advocacy. Both evolved as ethno-centric evolutionary strategies: agrarian islanders evolving into seafaring traders, and diasporic pastoralists into…
Those Who Fear Truth – (Are Taking Discounts)
[T]he truth may be an advantage, neutral, or disadvantage for you. But if the truth is a disadvantage, that does not mean that we need to lie to preserve that advantage. Instead, we need to determine what we have to trade to restore it. But there are two reasons that we cannot conduct a trade…
Alt-Right, Reactionary, or Radical?
[M]y “thing” is truth. Propertarianism solves the problem of cooperation in morally heterogeneous societies by the construction of a market for commons just as we constructed a market for goods and services: but incrementally suppressing parasitism in the production of commons (government) just as we incrementally suppressed parasitism in the production of goods and services…
The ‘Aggressiveness’ of NRx Advocates?
[T]he NRx movement evolved as a criticism of political correctness, dishonesty, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience, and lying in politics. The current alt-right has evolved into the practice of activism against political correctness, dishonesty, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience, and lying. In their ethos you are practicing political correctness (lying) not science or truth. If we all practice pragmatism we are…
The Rothbardian Fallacy of Race
–“race is a lousy proxy for violence”– [T]his is empirically false in every walk of life. The reason being that the different tribes within each race have been asymmetrically successful in genetic pacification, with westerners the most successful, followed by the Japanese and Chinese. So empirically race IS an empirical signal of criminality. (Hence “The…
The Fallacy of Rothbardian Optimistic Consequences: Another Hack of Pathological Altruism
—“The entire basis of Anarcho-capitalism is that reputation networks will convey information “— [T]hat fallacy is a hack of pathological altruism. It is neither logically no empirically true. The reason being that production and consumption decrease rapidly due to the increased transaction costs with the necessity of reputation (knowledge) in a market that exists precisely…
Shaming is Only Effective as Long as Men Care.
[M]en require an incentive to care about women and society. If women fail to provide men with that incentive under relative liberty, men will cease suppressing their desires for the benefit of women and society. If women fail to provide men with that incentive under relative illiberty, then they will force women into submissive roles.…
The Educational Use of Literature
[D]amn. Great article. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/why-college-kids-are-avoiding-the-study-of-literature/ Other points I thought of while reading it: (a) another (failed) twentieth century attempt at ‘scientizing’ an art to increase the status of it’s professors. There are indeed basic rules to the craft of writing. But that in the end result, fiction is a parable: it gives us experiences of hypotheses…
Racism: Race, Class, Culture, Signals, Politics, and Genetic Pacification
RACISM: RACE, CLASS, CULTURE, SIGNALS, POLITICS, GENETIC PACIFICATION (a) people act as racial blocks to obtain power over other people – this is in their interests. (b) minorities largely are irrelevant as long as they cannot obtain political power – ie: democracy – and live within their ‘quarters’ (neighborhoods); (c) the origin of friction is…
More on “Peak Human”
[Y]es, I’ve been doing a bit of research and it’s starting to come together. Whig history bites again. Falsification wins again. The problem a polity faces is culling defects consistently and selecting for the amplification of existing traits, not the accumulation of beneficial mutations. In retrospect it is really obvious. We have passed peak human.
Libertarianism is Reducible to Nomocratic Prohibition on Parasitism for the Purpose of Preserving the Rewards of Cooperation
LIBERTARIANISM IS REDUCIBLE TO PROPERTY RIGHTS…OR ISNT IT? http://angrybearblog.com/2015/08/libertarianism-simplified-the-three-proper-powers-of-government.html [R]ule of Law (universal application, universal standing), Common Law (organic), Property en Toto (right to seek restitution for any imposition upon anything constructed by the bearing of costs: that which is obtained by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality of the same criteria. The…
The Value of Truth Increases with the Scale of the Consequences
[T]he more parsimonious the statement of correspondence the more truth content and decidability. (This is a very loaded sentence.) As scale increases or decreases, and as consequence increases, and as the number of people affected increase, then the value of truth increases. Conversely, loose general rules expressed allegorically or in parable of one…
Thinking. Trust, and Russia.
[D]espite my criticism of Russian politics and culture since the invasion of Ukraine for purely dishonest reasons, I tend to have deep affection for Russian people, even when I think they are absurd, superstitious and crazy. Because I love that they are brave. Americans are brave by and large *outside of the millennial generation*. Some…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Opportunity Costs
[A]ll costs are opportunity costs. What is the difference in cost between one set of possibilities and another set of possibilities. Unfortunately human cognitive bias cannot easily make these judgements because we have dense information about the present, and sparse information about the alternatives. Plus we are loss averse, and skeptical of one another. The…
The Aristocracy Game.
[T]HE ARISTOCRACY GAME. We don’t play truth or dare. We play truth or DIE.
Why Rule? Truth.
[E]urope ended at the Sahara. Now Africa ends at the Alps. Soon it will end at the North sea. It doesn’t take great wisdom to see that the Arab Conquest of north Africa was as great a tragedy as the Arab Conquest of byzantium, and the Arab conquest of Persia. It doesn’t take great wisdom…
Dear Russians: Trust
[T]he only way to institutionally manufacture widespread trust is an incorruptible independent judiciary, the common organic law, property rights to property-en-toto, public registries of property ownership, universal standing in matters of the commons, and the most severe prosecution of perjury. The world will trust you only when you can trust yourselves. UNTIL YOU HAVE TRUST,…
We Need A Name For Propertarian “Politics”.
[T]HE UNIFICATION OF MORALITY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND LAW 1) Testimonialism (Epistemology), 2) Propertarianism(Ethics), and; 3) Strict-Construction Dissent Liberalism: the multi-house market for the production of commons(Politics). (I am trying to figure out a name for propertarian and testimonial Politics)