How Can Human Rights Be Taken Away?
Rather foolish question. The question is how do we create them in the first place. Human rights consist in a list of things we seek to create. We are not all that good at creating them. And I think the question is still open whether we should create them, or whether people should earn them…
Is Human Rights A Cultural Thing That Simply Does Not Apply To Cultures That Do Not Support Them? Why Or Why Not?
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE LOGICALLY AND EMPIRICALLY NECESSARY FOR VOLUNTARY COOPERATION. YET VOLUNTARY COOPERATION IS NOT POSSIBLE IN ALL CULTURES.(trigger warning: uncomfortable truths) (a) We tend to conflate consumer capitalism and democracy but they have nothing to do with one another other than that they require extraordinary restraint in the behavior of the population. So when…
On Gossip and Shunning
by Vivek Upadhyay GOSSIP Gossip is a non-correspondent, warranty-free means of enhancing personal status through deploying and extrapolating upon selective information about the person being gossiped about. Through use of loaded statements, jokes, rash impressionistic judgments, etc. in a shared consensus often exhibiting “shared information bias” despite the demonstrable costs of this error, gossipers seek…
The Oath
“[I] shall not lie, cheat, steal, impose costs upon others or the commons, nor shall I let go unpunished those who do.”
To William Kristol
TWEETS TO WILLIAM KRISTOL Possessing Courage is not the same as possessing solutions. Conservatism and universal equal enfranchisement are incompatible. Sentiments do not arguments make. Beliefs not policy make. Moralizing not philosophy make. Counter-signaling is but weakness. Conservatism is counter to the strategy of the mass. Why? It is personally costly, meritocratic, deterministically eugenic. And…
To The Weekly Standard
@weeklystandard Not that we want to limit your revenue streams, or expect you to abandon them, but we are the ?#?NewRight?. You failed. Sorry. @weeklystandard If it means we have to take you down rather than reform you, it’s not going to be difficult. Truth Is Enough. You’re done. @weeklystandard Trump is just the embodiment…
How Do You Price Normative Decline?
HOW DO YOU PRICE NORMATIVE DECLINE? [H]elpful conversation about Ukrainian people with my friend ????? ????????? yesterday. She was able to help me understand how Russian rule turned the Ukrainian people immoral, and how far they must come before they can change. Because now, like Russia, people are taught how to take advantage not how…
Three Levels of Influence (Power)
[O]ne can make use of the three axis of coercion as: 1) Influence – informing others in their interests2) Coercion – coercing others to follow your interests3) Power – organized coercion of others for your or collective interests
Commons via Externality of Teaching Sacredness
[S]acred rituals (church/temple in particular) reward us with the pack response (spirituality/elation) and inclusive signals in exchange for learning the skill of suppression of our impulses. The most aggressive and demanding ritual is that of islam’s multitude of demands and daily repetitions, the most intellectually demanding judaism, the least demanding and most disorganized christianity, the…
Algo útil para decirle a jóvenes libertarios y conservadores
Texto original de Curt Doolittle disponible en http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/04/24/something-useful-to-say-to-young-libertarians-and-conservatives/ Traducido al castellano por Alberto R. Zambrano U. [Y]o creo que, si yo pudiera decirle algo útil a jóvenes libertarios y a hombres y mujeres conservadores sería que los logros satisfactorios y el dinero son cada vez más difíciles de encontrar juntos. Aun peor, no puedes buscar asegurar…
Basta de libros repletos de mentiras
[B]asta de libros repletos de mentiras. Las Vedas fueron inventadas para controlar La Avesta fue inventada para dividir El Talmud fue inventado para engañar La Biblia fue inventada para esclavizar. El Corán fue inventado para conquistar. El Capital fue inventado para robar. La Teoría General fue inventada para empobrecer. La verdad fue inventada para liberarnos…
La solución
Texto original de Curt Doolittle Traducido al castellano por Alberto R. Zambrano U. Post original disponible en http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/04/24/the-answer/ (religión) [S]ólo porque tus ancestros valoraron en su momento una mentira o falsedad que les pareció reconfortante no es razón suficiente para perpetuar dicha mentira o falsedad. Nosotros estamos cómodos con suprimir las mentiras con ciencias físicas donde…
Moral
Amoral (no cooperativo) Objetivamente moral (necesario para la formación de una política cooperativa) Normativamente moral (adaptaciones para estructuras de reproducción, producción y bienes) Asumiendo que una norma moral pueda ser moral, si no amoral o inmoral. Moral contractual ( adaptaciones para estructuras de reproducción / producción / bienes) Asumiendo que un contrato moral puede ser…
Why Does Racism Against Asians Go Ignored, Unpunished, And Unacknowledged In The United States?
Why is Racism against whites tolerated in Asia? https://www.quora.com/Why-does-racism-against-Asians-go-ignored-unpunished-and-unacknowledged-in-the-United-States