Honor Among Men Has No Color
Honor among men has no color. It may be true that at present, the probability varies with color. But no man is incapable of Honor It’s a matter of will, effort, and discipline. Strong men stand at the wall of war, invasion, and conversion. Strong men stand at the wall of violence, theft and fraud.…
Evolution Of A Condition Of Liberty: The Struggle From Discretionary To Non Discretionary To Market Rule.
(important piece) (consolidates concepts) Western Man struggles against discretionary (arbitrary) rule, in an effort to construct a condition of non-discretionary rule: Rule of Law. Rule of Law is imposed upon men by the organized use of violence to prohibit discretionary rule. Natural Law (property) provides Perfect Decidability to Rule of law, eliminating the need for…
Eccentricity is a Requirement
(of course I’m ‘eccentric’. anyone who sacrifices heavily for an intellectual pursuit is odd. it’s not normal to obsess on any topic. So all of us are a bit peculiar. we aren’t models to imitate, we’re resources to learn from. equality is a cancerous idea. specialization creates value we all share – not just in…
Ancapism Cannot Survive Market Competition
***”anarchism lacks institutions for construction of decidable law, and the production of commons necessary for the continuous development of suppression of parasitism and continuous development of competitive commons. It’s an ethic for disasporic people who free ride upon nation states, but it cannot serve as the institutional basis of a voluntary polity because one cannot…
Markets: Designed, Constructed, Or Evolved?
It’s that men did in fact create markets by forcible suppression of alternatives (parasitism) in all walks of life. Now this is different from ‘designed’. The market arises as a consequence of this suppression. So we ‘liberate’ the market as well as man, from parasitism. we construct liberty and market by the same means: suppression…
A Subjective To Objective Translation Worth Repeating
—Humans are adapted to want traditional forms of governance. They want law. They want to be ruled by legitimate, worthy, and trusted authority. They want a leader who commands the force of the nation to represent them to the outside world.”— Adolphus Völkermord Yes … and we want them because we want low opportunity costs…
Critical Rationalism And Justificationism: Just The Beginning
July 13 · The critical rationalists are vocal about the ever present effects of ever present justificationism. yet they do not take this into behavior, manners, ethics, morals, politics, and economics to the same degree that they do to verbal argument, statistics, and physical sciences. The world is built subtractively: we seek to make things…
Anglo Civilization: Wishful Thinking
(wishful thinking) Maybe the brits will get smart, make use of the royalty asset, and make a play to re-lead the anglosphere, of UK, CA, USA, AUS, NZ, GIB…. You know? Reform the UN? Take some leadership away from the USA? USA 320M, UK 65M, CA 40M, AUS 23M, NZ 4.5M That’s 450M people. That’s…
The Living American Generations
THE LIVING AMERICAN GENERATIONS ****The Depression Era**** “The Fearful Generation” Born: 1912-1921 Coming of Age: 1930-1939 Age in 2004: 83 to 92 Current Population: 11-12 million (and declining rapidly) Depression era individuals tend to be conservative, compulsive savers, maintain low debt and use more secure financial products like CDs versus stocks. These individuals tend to…
Types of Promise(Warranty)
Unless one starts with a definition of truth these are fairly meaningless words. More desperate attempts to apply axiomatic or theoretic rules to loaded, framed, colloquial speech without the awareness that colloquial speech evolved to tolerate laziness, obscure ignorance, convey moral promise, and as such is neither axiomatic or theoretic but merely “meaningful”: conveying associations…
Why Do Central Banks Use Intermediaries?
IMPORTANT: WHY DO CENTRAL BANKS USE INTERMEDIARIES? —“Question: why do central banks continue to do stimulus through intermediaries like banks when they can wire the money directly to consumers? Eg. by issuing them with prepaid cards to spend?”— Ayelam I am not an econometrician but I suspect I’ll hold my own against any living econometric…
Exchanging Opportunity for Parasitism for Opportunity for Homesteading.
Proximity decreases opportunity costs. We can also argue that as a consequence of reduced opportunity costs we can create opportunities otherwise impossible. And as a consequence, we compete to discover and homestead those opportunities. We make this density possibly by the high cost of forgoing opportunities for imposing costs. Thereby preserving cooperation despite an equal…
No Place for the Ineffable?
–“So the ineffable has no place?”–Ramsey I find ineffability to be an exceptional excuse fo preserving obscurantism and deceit. There is nothing inexplicable. There are things we merely are too ignorant to explain. As far as I know any human experience is conveyable by one means or another. The causal explanation of that experience is…
Individual Man The Animal, Warrior Man The Human.
Men. You are disposable to women, and disposable to politicians, and disposable to intellectuals. The only brothers you have, to whom you are not disposable are brothers in arms, the sergeants, captains, and generals who depend upon you. And the generations of warriors before you, and those that may yet follow you if you do…
Only Autists, Narcissists, And The Anti Social Can Be Fooled By Rothbardianism.
It’s actually pretty obvious that the only person who could think like a rothbardian libertarian is an autistic or narcissist that has only limited understanding of himself, and no understanding of others, and near total buy-in of the Marxist view of history claiming man was oppressed. When the opposite is true: man was forcibly domesticated…
What’s Missing From The Ten Commandments?
@curtdoolittle —“We could live only by 10 commandments refined.”– The 10 commandments did not tell us how to speak the truth, only that we should not lie, steal, kill. That is its failing. That the commandments (truths) were delivered to us by lies, does not help us either. Natural law says the same, but truthfully.…
The Ony Authority Is Totality Of Consequence
***There is no authority but totality of consequence*** Forever ignorant, forever ill-informed, forever limited by reason, we have increasingly general rules to rely upon when we must make the dozens if not hundreds of decisions we make daily. To make those decisions, we rely upon those methods of decision making we call manners, ethics,…
The Revolution is Here
Metaphysics of Correspondence with Action – Realism, Naturalism, Complete Scientific Realism (Testimonial Realism), Defeating the Red Queen. Testimonial Truth – Complete Warranty of Due Diligence Propertarianism – Ethics of Property in Toto: non-imposition of costs. Nomocracy – Rule of Law, Universal Standing, Universal Application Market Government – Post Monopoly Production of Commons, Market for Production,…
Even Testimonialism Will Not Herald The End Of History
In lower trust countries people justify their various forms of lying just as we high trust people justify the externalities caused by our combination of linguistic conveniences, methodological habits, variations in morality and ethics, and of course political correctness That does not mean that just as we live considerably better than all these lower trust…
Truth is a Subtractive Process. It’s Opportunity that’s Additive.
TRUTH IS SUBTRACTIVE (CRITICAL) NOT ADDITIVE (JUSTIFICATIONARY) We evolved as pot-makers and clay sculptors: constructing what we can with our hands. But the universe beyond our touch is discovered by the hammer and chisel, steadily carving the masterpiece of truth from the stone. Truth is subtractive. What remains after we pull away error, bias, wishful…
Market Production of Commons?
–“I’m confused about the market production of commons”– I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the…
Business Terminology, Scale.
ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control. ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a business organization consisting…
Why Study Philosophy? Well. Don’t.
October 3 at 9:24am · If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of philosophy is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of…
The Intellectual Catastrophe Of Specialization And The Cure For It In Education
Outside of the top 5% in all disciplines: – Physicists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand their own subject, or because they lack the philosophical training to know the difference between general rules of the discipline (dogma) and the epistemological necessity that these general rules provide a shortcut for. – Economists are often…
Sovereignty Not Liberty
Libertarians desire liberty. Aristocracy desires sovereignty. Sovereignty requires rule. Reciprocal sovereignty requires rule of natural law. Liberty results from sovereignty, natural law, and enfranchisement into both. Liberty and Freedom are beggarly terms for sovereignty unearned.