The Grand Sequence
THE GRAND SEQUENCE Oath, Truth, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Liberty, Aristocracy, Beauty OATH: THE FULLY ARTICULATED OATH I shall not lie, cheat, steal, cause others to bear unwanted cost, or the commons to suffer loss, nor shall I tolerate those who do, nor leave them unpunished by censure, restitution, imprisonment, banishment, or death. TRUTH: TESTIMONY Identity…
Because I Don’t Trust You
THINK ABOUT THIS SERIES OF POLITICAL QUESTIONS 1) Why don’t I fight with you? 2) Why don’t I steal from you? 3) Why don’t I trade with you? 4) Why don’t I finance with you? 5) Why don’t I (exchange-or-create norms) with you? 6) Why don’t I create laws (government) with you? 7) Why don’t…
You Cannot Trust What You Cannot Measure – That’s not Trust, but Faith
Apr 17, 2017 12:29pm You cannot trust what you cannot measure. If you cannot measure it you are acting not on trust but on faith. And faith is not a way to govern, but a way to hide the extraction of rents before the opportunity is lost.
Becker’s Use of Marginalism in Violence and Revolution
BECKER’S USE OF MARGINALISM IN VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTION (predatory gains are linear, losses to prey are exponential) —“…a simple calculation that predatory interest groups and their taxpaying victims make: what return on my investment can I get by lobbying government? Becker’s insight is that the gains to predators are linear, but the losses to prey…
The Total Cost of Revolution? It’s the difference between the Cost of Not Revolting.
You are a prisoner of your frames. If you don’t start any political question with violence and predation and construct from the bottom up, you are engaging in one of many forms of wishful thinking and deceit. Curt Doolittle updated his status. The total cost of revolution is unknowable. The total cost of the loss…
Another Useful Idiot – Rothbardian Flavor
ANOTHER USEFUL ROTHBARDIAN IDIOT —“> asserts that there can never be a social order based on private property norms > engages in argumentation, thereby demonstrating a preference for and participation in a libertarian social order based on private property norms You wrote 10 paragraphs of performative contradiction, but at least you felt cool doing it.”—-Jared…
Rothbardians Excel At Demonstrating The Evolution of Lying
Apr 18, 2017 9:32am ROTHBARDIANS ARE EXCEPTIONAL AT DEMONSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF LYING I love destroying Rothbardians. It’s…. it’s such a great way of showing the way that Pilpul > Scriptural Justification > Hermeneutics > Legal Rationalism > and Lying by Rationalism > Lying by Pseudoscience, has evolved from the origins of scriptural monotheism until…
The Origins of Ratio-Deceptionism – And the Roman Counter via Stoicism and Law
THE ORIGINS OF RATIO-DECEPTIONISM – AND ROMAN COUNTER VIA LAW Both the Jews and the Greeks discovered Ratio-Deceptionism. The greeks were treated the same way we treat the Jews today (as skillful liars). But the Romans, from whom we inherit our laws, and our government, actively ridiculed the greeks, used them as we use jews…
First Questions of Personal, Ethical, Political Philosophy?
—” Does “why shouldn’t I kill myself?” Qualifies as political question? Or polarity is internal here?”—Mea Culba 1) PERSONAL Q: First question of philosophy why do I not commit suicide? A: possibility for acquisition and influence (power) 2) ETHICAL Q: First question of ethics: why do I not kill you and take your things? A:…
Argument vs Argumentation Ethics
LETS LOOK AT ARGUMENT VS ARGUMENTATION ETHICS. Argument: the use of statement to construct an hypothesis and eliminate error, for the purpose of persuasion in order to choose between interpersonal avoidance, cooperation, parasitism, or violence, or personal inaction, action, or delay. Argumentation: the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action,…
The Evil of Comforting Lies
THE EVIL OF COMFORTING LIES I have a thing: I like calculations. I like calculative technologies. I like them because they require specialists. And because they require specialists we get fewer idiots claiming they know what they’re talking about. why isn’t public speech in politics regulated as highly as a series seven license for example?…
Consent?
CONSENT? We can’t hold people to specific implicit consent because we can’t really state that they understood what they were doing. What we tend to do is hold people account for continuous implicit consent because they can’t say they didn’t understand. this is how the law works today. You can demonstrate your consent by benefiting…
The Evolution of Martial Truth and Religious Lies
THE EVOLUTION OF TRUTH “Reporting” (evidence) …. Oath of Warriors …. …. Oath to Tribe (Passage) …. …. …. Oath before jury and judge …. …. …. …. Oath before senate and thang …. …. …. …. …. Records,Accounts, Contracts, Law, Architecture …. …. …. …. …. …. Greek Math, Reason and philosophy …. ….…
Truth and Lies
TRUTH AND LIES All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and absence of suggestion by consequence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. All Lying is very simple: Conflation, and Partial Accounting, and Suggestion. No truth, a little truth, not enough truth to require a combination of self substitution and…
Imagine a Very Different World
Apr 18, 2017 11:29am IMAGINE A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD…. Imagine how much smarter you would be, the entire population would be, if the same increase in intelligence made possible by physical science was made possible by operational science? In other words, imaging how much smarter people were after literacy. (about a full standard deviation) Imagine…
What Lesson Do Our Women Teach Us?
WHAT LESSON DO OUR WOMEN TEACH US? We live In a world where we have worked hard to ensure that women were no longer stolen for sex, offspring, and labor. A world where women were no longer stolen for slaves, prostitution, and labor. A world where women were no longer sold for sex, labor, and…
The Post-Love Civilization?
THE POST-LOVE CIVILIZATION? Under agrarianism, the marriage bond was an extension of the existing family and family relations, the want of children, the need to share labor in a household, and if possible, the need to survive, and sometimes if not often – erotic attraction. The ‘family’ was much closer to a ‘tribe’ or ‘clan’…
Gender Opportunity Costs
—“As opportunity costs for women to enter in monogamous relations rises, men must pay more premium for exclusivity of monogamic relations in a world where there is mens value of labor in massive deflation and women’s reproductive labor on inflation. And that premium is payed with power because, women don’t need any more comfort.”–Matej Lovri?
Economics of Abandoning Reason
—“I am unwilling and/or unable to pay the cognitive cost of acquiring and producing a rational means of decidability, whereby I enumerate the existentially possible options available to me, the corresponding cost and yield (and therefor profit) of acting acting upon those options, and whereby I identify any externality (cost) that I may impose on…
Fiat Money? It’s A Necessity Not A Preference
Apr 19, 2017 8:15am FIAT MONEY? It’s not that it’s a good thing. It’s that you can’t compete without it. Nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, nitrocellulose, gunpowder, are not ‘a good thing’ in any sense like copper, bronze, iron, and steel are good things. But once extant one must master them or be mastered by them.…
Racialism?
—“CURT: DO YOU BELIEVE IN/SUPPORT RACIALISM?— (choice quotes here) (I view this, and all racial questions, as stupid but here is my answer.) I don’t know what that means. I advocate truth is more competitively advantageous than falsehood. In the case of race, people everywhere at all times demonstrate kin selection (except at the margins).…
Full Accounting of Political Orders
FULL ACCOUNTING OF POLITICAL ORDERS (read it and weep) ***Democracy and diversity restored levantine and semitic tribal conflict to european high trust homogenous societies. In creating a high trust competitive polity with a high standard of living, it appears that constructing a kinship order rather than a corporate order, is superior during the majority of…
The American Generations For Ignorant Alt-Righters
THE AMERICAN GENERATIONS FOR IGNORANT ALT-RIGHTERS THE DEPRESSION ERA 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 feel…
Deep States
DEEP STATES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM Asking forgiveness for analytic exposition in advance….. THE HIERARCHY OF MODELS: 1) Michels-ian View (Evolutionary): Deep state – a deterministic and necessary consequence of all human orders, because of the value and need for synthesis of information and provision of decidability necessary to concentrate forces of coercion…
The Information Content of Violence
by Eli Harman It’s an article of faith among many libertarians that violence, and particularly aggressive violence, is necessarily negative sum. Prices contain information and markets broker them (in a subjective utility maximising way.) Violence only short circuits that, disrupts markets, destroy price signals, and makes everyone worse off. But this is not correct. In…