Confidence in Ignorance
CONFIDENCE IN THEIR IGNORANCE (you see this kind of stupidity from the left and their followers, the muslims) —If socialism is the next stage of human society, why bother fighting for it?— Socialism is impossible. It cannot be the next stage of human society. So the question is not meaningful. –But look at this quote:…
Philosophers Must Ply A Trade
( [I]’m a technologist just like Da Vinci was a siege engine designer, Plato administrator of a school, Bacon a Lawyer, Descartes a Soldier, Montaigne a bureaucrat, and Spinoza a lens grinder. A man must have a trade if he is not to become a parasite. Most men practice both vocations and avocations. For some…
American Fools and Russian Fools. We Need To Fix Each Other.
[A]merica is a well intentioned fool. And Russia is a paranoid fool. They are both fools. The solution for the northern hemisphere is to unite anglo law, german engineering, and Russian resources and to diminish the role of america in european affairs. Russians must have an external enemy or the will be forced to confront…
A Priesthood.
A ‘priesthood’ of Judges of the natural law. A King For the defense of the realm. An Army for the Production of Territory Nobility For the Production of Commons. Burghers for the Production of Consumption. Families for the Production of Generations Teachers for the various crafts. Entertainers for relief, and Artists for aspiration. Scientists and…
The British Lead In Serfdom
[B]RITAIN AS A SOURCE OF IDEOLOGICAL CONTAGION —“When I wrote my “state of exception as new paradigm of government” back in 2010/11 I was extremely dissatisfied with it and felt that I was doing conspiracy theory. In fa t, it was one of the charges was thrown way when I defended my thesis. Now, it…
The West Failed in 1900
[W]e had almost everything right prior to 1900. We could have survived Darwin’s repudiation of God. But our thinkers failed to solve the problem of pseudoscience and verbalism as a replacement for divine mysticism. We can solve that now with Truthfulness and defense of the informational commons. We can create a strictly constructed law and…
Good Philosophers Matter
GOOD PHILOSOPHERS MATTER [S]o, as evidence of the importance of philosophers – at least the scientific kind – the failure of the western culture in the 20th century was due to the failure of the western thinkers to solve the problem of truthfulness that would have ended the combination of democracy and pseudoscience in the…
Suggestion both Informs and Deceives
WE ARE BOTH INFORMED AND DECEIVED BY SUGGESTION [W]e should not be surprised, if experience is transferred by the process of using names of properties by means of suggestion, that those who would master deception would do so by the same process of suggestion. Meaning, that one can seek to inform or to deceive by…
Democracy is a Luxury Good that’s the Product of Rule of Law.
[T]he luxury of democratic redistribution is the product of the prosperity that results from the long term application of rule of law, common law, natural law, and eugenic reproduction. Man is naturally parasitic and societies without rule of law, common law, natural law, and eugenic reproduction operate at the maximum corruption possible both at the…
The Rifle Did It. Just As The Spear.
[T]he moment the professional warrior could be countered by the rifleman the domestication of the aristocracy was doomed, because it was the soldier protecting his leaders instead of the leaders protecting their workers. This mirrors the evolution of the spear which allowed the alpha to be controlled, reproduction to be distributed, and women to use…
It Doesn’t Matter Who Rules – Only That We Deny People Rule.
[W]e always get it backwards. It doesn’t matter who rules. Only that we deny people the ability to rule. We deny them through rule of law. A king is but a judge of last resort. A government but an insurer of last resort. A parliament but a market for the production of commons: a market…
Modern Military Thought is Not Helpful In Revolutionary War
[A] friend brings up an important topic and that is that revolutionaries and soldiers, and revolution and combined arms warfare have little to do with each other. You already hold the territory Your objective is not to concentrate forces but to act randomly. Your cost of territorial possession is zero. Your timetable is long. Your…
Render Unto Caesar …
God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science
What is the Next Order? (Bad News for All)
[W]HAT IS THE NEXT ORDER? 0 – Hunter Gatherer led to moral order (Inclusion / exclusion ) Memories. 1 – Farming led to Religious Order (access to larger cooperative-moral groups – ‘knowledge’/ left behind ) Writing. 2 – Trade led to Legal Order ( restitution / punishment / complex-diverse production) Accounting. 3 – Industry led…
Clarifying my Criticism of Nietzsche
Josh asks me to defend this statement: —“he cannot escape the Christianity and moralism he works so hard to overcome”— Refers to his method of argument, and method only. How does one separate the western methods of argument: literary(parable), mythical(allegorical), religious(authoritarian/naturalistic), historical(allegorical), philosophical(internally consistent), scientific(empirical) and testimonial(totally objective)? If you organize western works of intellectual…
Violence is the Resource from Which Institutions of Property are Constructed.
**[W]e must use violence to create the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. If we do not possess sufficient violence then we cannot maintain the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. Therefore the only institutions of property that can exist are the institutions of property we can construct and maintain by…
Religion Compatible With Natural Law is Not ‘False’
[W]e cannot claim a religion is false if it is compatible and not in conflict with natural law. We can claim it is literature: myth. And that the literature contains truths so far as those truths consist of statements reducible to natural law. To require literature be compatible with physical law is unnecessary in so…
Have we made a catastrophic mistake with our democratic monopoly?
[H]ave we made a catastrophic mistake? Why have we forced all into individualism instead of separated the individualistic from the collectivist? Why must we have either a communist or capitalist order? Must we have a monopoly social democratic order? If we arose under a mix of martial, burgher, and church orders, then why was that…
Men Will Follow Rational Incentives – Women Not So.
(by Eli Harman) [V]oting either directs violence, or it is a substitute for violence. But the actual violence, supplied to carry the vote into effect, will be supplied by men. And the potential violence, which may prevent the vote being carried into effect, will be *not supplied* by men. Therefore, women are utterly superfluous to…
We Must Rule
[W]e must rule. We must restore our tradition of rule. We must rule not because we are right, or best, but because everyone else is demonstrably worse. We must rule because without our rule, humanity has no example to draw from that is not the cancer of the Muslims or the Chinese or the chaos…
Ukraine. An Unpleasant Verdict on Her Future
[I] have been speaking or presenting to Ukrainians a lot of late, and I’ve come to understand that the damage done by Russia to her people and these people, to the Chinese by law, policy, and influence, to the Indians by education and influence, to the west by imitation, and maybe to all mankind by…
Non-Descriptive, Non-Operational Definitions, Are One Of The Reasons for the Failure of Libertarianism
[N]on-descriptive definitions are part of the reason for the failure of libertarianism. With descriptive definitions rather than vague obscurantist “principles” the philosophical vacuousness of the movement is readily exposed. The reason these debates still occur, and the reason this article is just one of thousands of similar pretentions is the fact that the NAP is…
The Disciplines
COMPARISONSArithmetic: Pure number/ scale,time,space independenceMusic: The “Experience” of Numbers Accounting: Corresponding Units (commensurability)Algebra: Operations and States (symbolic manipulations)Geometry: stationary spacePhysics/Astronomy: movement in space and time Calculus : Relative changeStatistics: Similarities in different DistributionsEconomics: Similarities of distributions in Equilibrium PHYSICSPhysics of the observable.EcologyBiologyChemistryGeneticsPhysics-of-the-unobservable TESTIMONYVocabulary: SymbolsGrammar: OperationsLogic: Internal ConsistencyRhetoric: Persuasion(Transfer)Testimony: (due diligence)Prosecution: (criticism)Jurying (Judging): (decidability) ARGUMENTExpressive: (pre-rational)Sentimental (intuitionistic)Moral (Normative) Reasonable (sympathetically testable)Historical (analogical)Rational (justificationary):Empirical …
Prosecution(Judging) is the Objective of the Curriculum.
[T]hanks for an interesting question by Megan Cyloneight today, I was able to understand that I had to add ‘prosecution’ to the curriculum, in order to change the student of western civilization from a christian servant to an aristocratic judge. 0) The matters of europa (ancient literature): Fairy Tales, Myths, Histories.1) Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Testimony,…
Quotes
—Fantasizing about desirable end points demonstrates one’s ignorance. Knowledge consists of knowing existentially possible operations, and how to arrange those operations to produce the desired outcome.— —IQ Maters, but so do impulsive, frustrated, solipsistic, narcissistic, and schizotypal personalities. Reality angers, denial comforts them.— —It’s frustrated. solipsistic, narcissistic, or schizotypal people who desperately fight to deny…