The Church Failed To Reform And The Sciences Didn’t Have Time To Complete Their Evolutionary Program
I mean, another way to look at the 20th century is that in response to Darwin, Maxwell, Spencer, (a) the church failed to reform in response by stating that god and natural and physical laws were the same expression of his divinity, and (b) our intellectual class failed to synthesize operationalism as a means of…
Paraphrasing by Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown June 28 · HERE IS A PARAPHRASE OF WHAT HE SAYS: “Natural law is truth compatible. And universally beneficial. Natural law, truth and truth telling, being demonstrably the best means to tribal = national transcendence under the most suitable nationalist leadership, rulership, or government possible. BUT only when coupled with effective, sustainable underclass…
The Pseudosciences
Empirically speaking, we already overspend on Grad and PhD students. We overspend on most sciences (because they’re psuedosciences) and underspend on those that matter (physics, material science, chemistry, biological chemistry, genetics, archaeology) Virtually all other programs (psychology, social sciences, political sciences), and certainly all pseudosciences (the humanities) are a waste of money. Even in those…
Yes, Lying Is A Strategy For The Left – But Not The Right.
—The proof is in the Left’s success.— Lying is a successful strategy. Marxist pseudoscience was a successful strategy. Kantian pseudorationalism was a successful strategy. Acquinian Christian synthesis was a successful strategy. Christianity was a successful strategy. Jewish synthesis of Egyptian and Babylonian monotheism was a successful strategy. If you succeed by lying, have you in…
Curt: Who Are Your Influences?
—“Every philosopher can point out influences of which he may call his teachers or derive his ideas from. Nietzsche for instance read Schopenhauer, Epicurus, Plato, and Heraclitus among his other influences. So let us hear yours. How many people have you read, and who do you derive your thoughts from? (Btw, wikipedia level understanding does…
Ten Thoughts on Money
Q&A: –“Curt, have you written much on money?”– I’ve written a bit , here and there, mostly on: 1) the fact that fiat money is equal to shares in the state/economy, not notes or money. Moreover, I’ve tried to impress upon people that colloquial money (various mediums of exchange in sufficient volume to produce market…
Spanish Rule?
Q&A: —“I’ve been interested in the case of Spain for some time, as my ancestors are primarily Spanish. And I wanted to understand the reasons for the rise of the Spanish and if they had any philosophical contributions to the western World. If you saw no reason to comment on the Spanish, I don’t wish…
More On Spain
I have learned this mostly from my friends in south america. And we now have the genetic data, testing data, and economic data to confirm it. But the problem facing south america is that there are just toooooo many people at the bottom for the people at the top to provide sufficient incentives to the…
Russian Philosophy (From Routledge)
—” ‘Russian Idea’ – … the most distinctive feature of Russian philosophy – can be explained in terms of Russian history. The Mongol yoke from the twelfth to the fourteenth century cut Russia off from Byzantium (from which it had received Christianity) and from Europe: it had no part in the ferment of the…
No, Capitalism Isn’t Enough
–“trust isn’t necessary just capitalism”— Diego Anonymous Diego, Let me correct you a bit – largely by providing you with more precise language. Capitalism – private production of goods and services by the universal distribution of private property rights – has always existed to some degree – it must for trade to exist. But, cooperation…
Russian Philosophy Encounters German Idealism
Intellectuals matter, because intellectuals teach. And a lot of intellectuals teaching the same thing, transforms generations. —” in 1836 of Chaadaev’s ‘Philosophical Letter’, which posed Russia’s relationship to the West as a central philosophical problem, maintaining that Russia’s historical separation from the culture of Western Christianity precluded its participation in the movement of history…
He Was Wrong: War Is Not An Extension Of Politics
Clausewitz was pretty much wrong about everything. War is not an extension of politics. Politics is a means by which we limit war. It is not politics that is the basis of human interaction, but the ever present rational choice between war, conflict, boycott, cooperation, insurance, and kin-sacrifice. Political organizations exist to defend the…
Time To Teach Elites They Are Nothing Without Their People
(by Eli Harman ) Elites are naturally less racist, less ethnocentric, more cosmopolitan, than the lower classes. Elites can interact with *other* elites as peers. They don’t have to squabble over pieces of pie because they can make pie. But the lower classes are justifiably racist, nationalistic, xenophobic, because they are in direct competition over…
The Origins of the Left’s Effeminate R-Selection Bias
I think what is abhorrent to leftists is that business and productivity are innately competitive and consist of attempting to outwit other tribes of males for market territory. This is antithetical to the r-selection instincts of females and their effeminate offspring and the sexually inverted ((( tribes ))). In their world they cannot compete and…
The Rational Risk Pursuit And Aversion Of Genders
(By Eli Harman) —” While there certainly can be exceptions, in general, women are going to be more risk averse and men more risk tolerant. That’s a sensible risk management strategy. If a man fails, (in contrast to a woman) the individual consequences may be severe, but the consequences to the group are less severe,…
Forms Of Argument in Retrospect
Forms of argument evolve just like mathematics did: adding layers of precision Myth (narrative analogy) Religion (Internally consistent myth) Reason ( possibility ) Rationalism. ( justificationism ) Analytic rationalism. ( Consistency ) Existential criticism ( Operationalism) You see. In hindsight it’s obvious. It wasn’t though 😉
The West’s Other Promethian Fire
THE WEST’S OTHER FIRE: THE FIRE OF THE MIND: “TRUTH” Prometheus may have stolen fire. But we gave mankind the Fire of The Mind: Truth. And from the Fire of the Mind, we gave mankind debate, reason, rationalism, science, physics, medicine, and testimonialism. We gave him testimony, the jury, natural law, the common law, the…
You Create Liberty without Permission
YOU CREATE LIBERTY WITHOUT PERMISSION You can beg for Liberty and at best receive permission. Or you can create Liberty without permission. Liberty is produced always and only by a small minority through organized violence preventing any other alternative rule
Our Ascent Crushes Our Vanity
Copernican Revolution made us understand we were not the center of the universe. Darwinian revolution made us realize that we are a glorious accident. The exploration of greater and lesser space made us realize the universe is quite hostile to us. The Propertarian revolution has made me understand that our consciousness is a puppet for…
Did The Marxist/socialist-libertarian-neocons Give Us The Incentive To Finally Overcome Our Humility?
From one perspective, the Marxist-Socialists and the Ashkenazi Pseudoscientific Enlightenment combined with protestant feminists (less attractive women), catholics (the lower classes), blacks (the underclasses) created a successful series of revolts against the productive classes (military, legal, financial, entrepreneurial, agrarian), by co-opting media(selling consumer goods to all of their constituents), education (indoctrinating generations into the false…
A Future for the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute would survive if and only if it transforms from advocacy of the pseudoscientific Ashkenazi enlightenment of Boaz, Marx, Cantor, Frankfurt, and Keynes, Mises and Rothbard, to the Scientific enlightenment of Hayek, Popper, Einstein, Darwin, Spencer, Pareto, Durkheim, and myself. It is one thing to say “all these men failed, and each brought…
The Best Way To Cull The Bottom Appears To Be To Leave Them Behind And Move Away
—“East Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) obtain the highest mean IQ at 105. Europeans follow with an IQ of 100. Some ways below these are the Inuit or Eskimos (IQ 91), South East Asians (IQ 87), Native American Indians (IQ 87), Pacific Islanders (IQ 85), and South Asians and North Africans (IQ 84). Well below…
Sequence
Those who fight Those who judge Those who choose (risk) Those who discover (research) Those who organize ( manage ) Those who produce Those who reproduce Those who care Those who are unable Those who are criminal Those who betray.
The First Property Of Production Is Time. And Money Is Its Commensurable Store.
In the past ten years I have not been able to defeat the theory that money literally stores time ( saved by or spent in production ) and that our claim that it is a store of value is a mistaken subjective perception given the utility in accounting rather than an objective description of its causality.…
Devolve the Empire
My political agenda is to devolve the empire, to constrain any federal government to defense, insurer or last resort, and interstate property conflict, and to liberate as many states to experiment in as many ways possible, creating lots of opportunity for ‘people at the top’. Let a thousand nations bloom.