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…
Truth, science, philosophy, law, aesthetics are identical
[T]RUTH GOODNESS(MORAL) AND BEAUTY = SCIENCE Testimony: Identity (Categorically consistent) Internally (Logically) consistent Externally Correspondent (Empirically Consistent) Existentially Possible Parsimonious (fully accounted, parsimonious, limits) Moral (productive, fully informed, warrantied voluntary transfers) Beautiful (craft, aesthetic, moral, resources) That would mean that truth, science, philosophy, law, aesthetics were identical. THE GRAND SEQUENCE Truth, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Liberty,…
Jay Dyer: Responding to the Schizotypal Fringe
RESPONSE TO THE SCHIZOTYPAL LUNATIC FRINGE I always respond to attacks when I find out about them. I just wish some of them were worth responding to. (the nietzcheans have provided the only meaningful criticism to date). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbBXZGPS58 NOTES ON AUDIO 1) It is irrelevant how many people listen, it’s only relevant who listens. There…
Q&A: Curt, Why Is There White Trash?
[W]HY IS THERE WHITE TRASH? —Curt: Can you explain the whole white trash phenomenon? How can a country so wealthy and full of opportunities have white trash? I anticipate that your answer is likely to be “it’s all IQ” or something along these lines, but aren’t there opportunities for dumb people as well?—- “All happy…
Attack on Profit Seeking using Virtue Signalling by an Ex Prostitute
[A]TTACK ON PROFIT SEEKING USING VIRTUE SIGNALING BY AN EX PROSTITUTE(choice quotes for your rhetorical armory) a) Author’s article is nothing but an act of personal promotion for drumming up business by yet another western example of pretentious virtue signaling. It is another kind of whoring. But in the end whoring none the less. The…
The Next Grand Narrative of Man May Be The Long Sought Social Science
[T]he Next Grand Narrative? 1) The evolution of all disciplines has been away from myth to reason to calculation: a set of operations. (Webber). 2) I think that the output narrative produced by this age will look far more like social science than philosophy. 3) I think that just as previous revolutions in the the…
We Must Rule
[T]o decide requires decidability. We decide because we know how to.To rule is to decide. We rule, because we know how to rule. To lead and to rule are very different things.Many can lead because the problems and opportunities vary.Few can rule because decidability is does not vary.Some Lead by preference, we Rule by truth.We…
Sticky: No Racism Please. Aristocracy, Liberty, Prosperity are Universals
Please don’t bring that stuff here. I work against fraud and deception in all matters political. And yes, truths are truths, but criticisms are not solutions, they’re excuses for not looking in the mirror at the person responsible for the current state of things. Act. Solve Problems. Don’t complain.