Translating Nietzsche Into Propertarian Language
“Nietzche: Man is a tortured being trapped between god and beast” Doolittle: Man is a purely rational actor having to constantly choose between the short personal gratification at the expense of others and long term gratification through cooperation with others. With the optimum solution for both short and long term is to achieve personal perfection…
Democracy’s Monopoly Commons vs Rule of Law’s Market Commons
The value of democracy in the selection of commons decreases with the size of the population voting. Why? because the size of the population increases
The Criminality of Rothbardian Ethics
Moreover, the this is why libertarians were wrong in privatization. The difference between a commons and private goods, is that owners can consume private goods, and others cannot, whereas no-one can consume commons whether one was a contributor or not. Instead the market (locality) itself benefits from the *externalities* produced by the construction of the…
The Fallacy of Libertarian ‘Principles’.
( recorded here ) This is such a great question. And I can answer it from several or all points of view. First: any argument to principle is not argument to causality and can be generally interpreted as an attempt at deceit by the use of half truths in order to cause the individual to…
Man Is Merely Rational
Man is rational. He engages in predation when it suits him, parasitism when it is possible, cooperation when it is preferable, and flight when it is necessary. Thankfully, through organizing our efforts into myth, ritual, habit, norm, and law, we can raise the cost of predation and parasitism high enough so that man chooses cooperation…
Domestication by Family Unit
—“It was precisely this domestication of men and women into family units that propelled Europeans forward. That the Germans were more monogamously disciplined than the Celts is why they went on to be the source of Northern European success, more so than the Irish. The eugenic footprint can be seen even to this day.”— Josh…
Moscow’s Indirect Education Of Europeans
Moscow’s conquest of south-eastern ukraine broke not only the postwar consensus on borders, but the peace of Westphalia that made states accountable for the factions inside their borders. To some degree this may help Europeans, and westerners, understand that their definition of war includes the assumption that wars are conducted by states against states rather…
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