Year: 2017

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    —“Some people are satisfied with having “truth” bestowed upon them by another individual, institution, or superstition. Other people, themselves concerned with truth are not satisfied when it is bestowed upon them. They will try to falsify everything until only what is true remains.”— Adam Walker

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    (diary) broke my brain today. I cannot afford to take the time to dive even deeper into the topology of meaning. And even if I do, I think that is a completely different project. As far as I know, I will not make a meaningful improvement upon operational grammar by getting down into the geometry…

  • For Newbs

    —“You always go in hard and soften up. It is fascinating to watch.”— Andy Curzon Andy has been a partner in my investigations for years now. And while I wasn’t going to call this out, I think its important for newbies to understand why I am such a relentless critic of some of…

  • The Ship Of Theseus

    The question (riddle) is designed to confuse the difference between a necessary truth and a useful reference. In human language identity = differentiation (five senses), ownership (property), substitutability (restitution), scarcity( countability), possibility, permissibility. If one uses the word “is” in a philosophical question you know you’re the victim of deception. If one proposes a question…

  • Most Influential Living Philosopher?

    Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. ;) Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence Successful Technical Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s also hard to argue that they weren’t wasting their time. Because Babbage-Cantor-Goedel-Turing produced superior methods and…

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    Daniel Gurpide 1. We should be aware that we are living in an interregnum (postmodernity), a period of waiting during which destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world (the end of history), or to promote a historical regeneration. (CD: Agreed) 2. Is…

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    (Just explained to someone that america isn’t great at all and never has been and he was horrified. The only good thing we did was contain communism. If we contain islamism we will have finished the european project in the modern era as rome failed the european project in the ancient world: dragging mankind out…

  • Aristocratic Capitalism Vs Ghetto Capitalism

    If you advocate reciprocity under rule of law you MUST end up with moral capitalism. If you advocate capitalism in and of itself you will end up with immoral capitalism. The greatest trick the devil every played was convincing us he didn’t exist? The greatest trick in antiquity was convincing us that gods…

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    Curt Doolittle’s answer: Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. 😉 [code ]Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence[/code] Successful Technical Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s …

  • Who Is The Most Influential Living Philosopher?

    Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. 😉 Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence Successful Technical Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s also hard to argue that they weren’t wasting their time. Because Babbage-Cantor-Goedel-Turing produced superior methods and answers. Failed TechnicalThe…

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    Gossip > Critique > Propaganda

  • Nationalism

    by Daniel Gurpide 1. I think that ‘nationalism’ has to be clarified and put into historical perspective so as to become a really empowering technology. (CD: ok) 2. My priors so that you understand where I come from: I have relatives in Spain, France, Norway and the UK; I studied in…

  • The Choices

    a) Rule (conflict resolution), b) Government(commons production), c) Market(Consumption production) 1 – Rule of Law vs Discretionary Rule 2 – Production of commons by a spectrum of discretion: individual, oligarchical, syndicalist, democratic. 3 – Distribution of control of property between rulers and citizens. 4 – Distribution of proceeds…

  • There ISN’T A Definition Of Fascism (Really)

    THERE ISN”T A DEFINITION OF FASCISM (REALLY) Fascism doesn’t actually have a definition. Look it up. What it’s reducible to is the application of total war (national organization for military and political conflict) to economics (national organization for economic and political conflict). The Nazis even took it all the way to aesthetics. (Which was…

  • You Can’t Get Around Reciprocity. Politics Is Solved.

    I mean, you can’t get around reciprocity as the measure of morality. You can’t get around property in toto as the test and limit of reciprocity. You can’t get around natural law of reciprocity as the means of dispute resolution. You can’t get around markets under natural law of reciprocity. You can’t get around the…

  • What Does “Market Fascism” Mean?

    WHAT DOES “MARKET FASCISM” MEAN? It means nothing other than the prohibition on any alternative to voluntary and reciprocal orders, because even advocacy of an alternative is to engage in conspiracy to commit theft. Militia > Sovereignty > Rule of Law > Markets In Everything

  • Western Man Does Not Ask The Capitalism Vs Socialism Question: It”s A Cosmopolitan Dichotomy.

    WESTERN MAN DOES NOT ASK THE CAPITALISM VS SOCIALISM QUESTION: IT”S A COSMOPOLITAN DICHOTOMY. The question of capitalism vs socialism is not a western question – It’s a Cosmopolitan Question. Westerners have always been homogenous and therefore could afford to be communitarian but we have done so by tripartism: classes. The agrarian…

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    MARKETS ARE MADE BY INCREMENTAL SUPPRESSION OF PARASITISM.

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    Fascism was an attempt to solve both the cancer of communism by intentions, and the cancer of capitalism by externality.

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    “Market Fascism” Provides the only sovereignty. Rule of Natural Law of Reciprocity, Judiciary, Militia, Monarchy. Everyone else just rides on the market, and that market pays for all of the above.

  • Shock And Confrontation Awareness

    by William L. Benge I’m not sure I would describe myself as one of the brightest. Having said that, I still was able to grasp at every point how **Curt is using shock value as a vehicle for confrontation.*** Of course, I came to the table with an appreciation for these…

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    —“True Enough” gets ya survival and some successes. “Truth” gets ya transcendence.”— Nick Heywood

  • Are You Sure That’s A Philosophy?

    What most people call a ‘philosophy’ is just a personal marketing statement of the criteria necessary for their voluntary cooperation: “here is my ideal social contract”. The problem is, that if their voluntary cooperation were desirable they would not need a philosophy as such. Champagne taste and swill pocketbook.

  • Overloading Works. Period.

    —“I know of people who DO know what [Marxian] dialectics means. They have elaborated a dialectical method in the form of an “algorithmic heuristic”, based upon an axiomatized ‘mathematics of dialectics’, which is both a ‘contra-Boolean algebra’ of dialectical logic, and a “non-standard model” of “Natural” Numbers arithmetic.”— Miguel Deton It’s called ‘Pilpul’. (Look…

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    |ACTION| Actionable > Senseable > Experienceable > Reasonable > Imaginable. |TIME| always did < did < currently doing > will do > always does. || Unique > Countable > Bunchable > Uncountable > Irrelevant.