Year: 2016

[D]oes The Market Produce Truth Telling? Every polity possesses a market order – it must. Very few polities produce truth telling – truth telling is extremely expensive. Its expensive because its an investment in a commons (norm). And that investment is easily open to privatization (cheating). Ergo, groups demonstrate the minimum truth possible necessary to…

“[I]f we possess a reserve currency, and maintain the military means of defending it and our trade routes, then we can capture the premium on trafficking contracts, exchanges, and their negotiations currently captured by the British/American financial and trade route system – and by doing so may cause a drastic reduction in the USA’s ability…

[I]t’s turning into a weekly effort but it’s time once again to reiterate my position on biases. I don’t do racism. I definitely do classism and eugenics – but not racism. I definitely do truth and and morality and therefore culturism. People, cultures and civilizations are objectively superior and inferior to one another. Degrees of…

[P]rogressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And when they came they prefer deceit. Lying is necessary to frame kleptocracy as virtuous, theft as moral and dysgenia as good.

(h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of…

[Y]ou get your own house of government, not because I want to rule you, or we want to rule you, but because I want and we want to prevent you from ruling us. You may rule yourselves as you see fit. You may exchange with us as we both agree. But you may not rule…

[I]t is time for the Papacy, and the Church to right their greatest wrong: the betrayal of and destruction of the poor knights of the temple; and to restore their Order, with the duty of the protection of Christians. If the church does not do so, it is no longer the religion of europa, no…

(important post) —How is eugenics a mode of thought not comparable to race? Especially given the social and economic divides amongst ethnicities?— Savannah [B]ecause eugenics is the study of individuals using the properties of individuals while race applies properties of a class to all individuals represented or not by those properties. 1 – One can…

[I]n the west we have three tribes wherein men seem to keep their hair: The Welsh, the Lombards, and one in southern Russia that I can’t name – something in the Georgian region. Now, hair loss in men is caused by complex and asynchronous factors related to testosterone – lower testosterone earlier balding, higher testosterone…

[A]RGUMENTATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR STUDENTS OF DEBATE 1 – “Anecdotal evidence is a contradiction in terms. One either has sufficient data to eliminate more parsimonious alternatives, wishful thinking, and error, or one is engaged in justification of a prior, with or without your knowledge and understanding of it.” 2 – “Outliers do not distributions make. The…

[T]he Author’s criticisms stand (mostly), if we restate them as “increases in productivity and decreases in prices are beneficial only so long as the externalities are not more costly than the price discounting”. I think all of us are now aware that the big box reseller movement was as disastrous as he suggests. I think…

[I]’m working through Kripke again because I know it’s a half truth and I can’t quite put my finger on what’s missing. I know what is wrong with analytic philosophy (sets): their construction destroys information, causation, and operational construction, and therefore existential possibility. I know what’s right with information analysis: marginal difference (cause of change…

[A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No)…

[H]UMOR OR SARCASM OR TRUTH? All my posts referencing Rothbard’s Ghetto Ethics. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/?s=ghetto+ethics

[I]gnorance isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t know that subject”.) Lack of understanding isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t understand”.) Difficulty in learning isn’t a criticism. (Instead say “this is hard, so I don’t understand.”) Falsification of meaning isn’t falsification of a central argument is a criticism. (instead say “I don’t think the…