(religion) ust because your ancestors valued a particular comforting lie or falsehood is not a reason to perpetuate the lie or falsehood. We are comfortable now with suppressing lies …
lot of work on revolutions is just regurgitation of the American and french, both of which tell us little. And most is meaningless today. For some background I would recommend …
(important piece on the form and content of philosophy) Testimony vs Literature Truth vs Experience Criticism vs Free Association Survival vs Creativity Deflationary vs Conflationary Clarify vs Obscure Persuasion vs …
hen you switch from the conduct of pedagogy to science, justification to criticism, opportunity searching to error reduction, you see that philosophy has unjustifiably self congratulated itself quite a bit …
CIENCE REPLACES PHILOSOPHY Existence (need for action) Aesthetics (the sciences of experiences / experience / spirituality) Testimony (the sciences of truth telling / knowledge / psychology) Law (the sciences …
reat progress on this problem of literature and deception that I have been struggling with for years. I have these periods where I think I am not making progress, and …
hy do we love myth, religion, literature, philosophy, so dearly and pursue history, science, and the various grammars (logics) of calculation with such reluctance? The method of communication is experiential …
ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for …
love Hoppe as an involuntary mentor and human being. But I had to reform (kill off) rothbardian libertarianism if I wanted to reunite conservatism (aristocracy) and liberty (anglo libertarianism) A …
here is only one ultimate parsimony available to man. That ultimate parsimony consists of the true names of all that exists in the universe. Truth is the name we use …
(Having an angry moment over “the big lies”.) efore the hebrew bible there were myths. But the invention of that history was the invention of lying. Its the invention of …
eople follow incentives given the information at their disposal. The problem for all people when faced with sensory instrumentation insufficient to provide them with decidability in maters of complexity …
(by Eli Harman) dvanced civilization, with production and division of labor, is necessarily founded on property, which is a masculine innovation, the more private, the more masculine. Property is that …
They’re wrong. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-say-that-former-eastern-block-countries-had-a-state-capitalist-system-and-not-a-socialist-one
That it’s natural. That all human groups act in the interests of their kin. That people vote racially. They work in racial groups. They live in racial groups. They mate …
