Q&A: “What’s Your ‘Official’ Opinion on Trump?”
‘OFFICIAL’ OPINION ON TRUMP: AGREE WITH CRITICISMS? —“Do these opinions of trump resonate with any opinion at the Propertarian Institute?”— No. because I know from close personal experience what kind of shitty assholes the financial capitalist class is, what kind of shitty assholes the legal capitalist class is, how shitty and corrupt the regulatory politicians…
Understanding Accounting and Finance? Get Back To Lender Beware.
Mar 01, 2017 2:40pm UNDERSTANDING ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE I’ve been told all my life by some asshole or other that I don’t understand accounting or finance. And I always found that humorous. I took the same classes as everyone else. I just learned something very different from them: most of it is used to lie…
The Foundations of Mathematics Are Simple. (really)
The foundations of mathematics are so simple. Seriously. The fact that they even phrase the question as such is hysterical. The reason mathematics is so powerful a tool is precisely because its foundations are so trivial. Like discourse on property in ethics and law it is a word game because no one establishes sufficient limits…
Via Negativa (Evolutionary Argument) in Historial Explanation
by James Augustus My central argument is that Europe benefited by having an evolutionary environment that allowed for a high frequency of cultural, institutional and intellectual iterations, and that truth, sovereignty and natural law produce an existential advantage, so that what survived is what we call Western Civilization and its peoples. It is easy to…
Deflationary Language in Ethics
Mar 01, 2017 6:51pm James Augustus I suspect one of the factors contributing to deflationary language in ethics, law and science is that we needed a rational, empirical means of decidability in matters concerning rule, organization and extra-familial cooperation. (Note that legal realism, contractualism and truth telling (science and it’s precursors) coincided with conquest and…
Natural Law, Sovereignty, and the Restoration
Mar 02, 2017 9:42am NATURAL LAW, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE RESTORATION NATURAL LAW Testimonialism: Epistemology and Truth (Testimony), and Propertarianism: Ethics and Natural Law (Cooperation), and Natural Common Law (a grammar), provide the means of producing contracts (Constitutions), that are ‘scientific’ – which in testimonialism means ‘truthful’, and not open to creative interpretation by the judiciary.…
Poverty and Lack of Agency
YOUR POVERTY AND YOUR LACK OF AGENCY You’re poor because you lack Agency sure. But you know, even if we remove obstructive institutions, and even if we create institutions to invest in overcoming your initial circumstance, we are still stuck with the fact that we cannot change YOU, and that YOU can lack Agency for…
Western Civilization and “Skin in The Game”
Your narrative is exceptional – as wisdom. But wisdom cannot be converted into law unless in a formal, deflationary argument. The west differs from the east. We never conflated law with other fields. And the skin of the loan IN put = the warranty OUT put. High trust civilization (the west) could use warranty rather…
Sovereignty vs Servility
SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS SERVILITY One can hire an administrator of contracts. If that’s what you mean by ‘governor’ then that kind of “government” is something I am comfortable with. But I won’t give up my Sovereignty (My “rights as an anglo saxon”) in the choice of contracts I will prefer to pay for; which choices of…
The Past Superstition vs Present Pseudoscience. (Fictionalisms)
….I think the problem is that the past was honest but justified it supernaturally, because the promise of reward was after death. Whereas the present is dishonest and justified pseudo-scientifically and promised if we can reach a socialist utopia or some variation thereof. The medieval order was hierarchical and honest. The only false promise was…
Terror, Progress, and Islam
Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of altering policy. Sovereignty requires one’s government control non-state actors. Democracy requires one’s people control one’s government such that it controls non-state actors, such that it does not break the westphalian peace, nor the postwar peace. Justice visited upon the muslims to contain them just…
Definitions: Philosophy, Truth, Methods of Argument (Worth Repeating)
PHILOSOPHY The search for internally consistent means of decidability within a domain or context. TRUTH (PROPER) The most parsimonious most universal method of decidability regardless of context. SOME FORMS OF ARGUMENT Analogy – a justification by shared constant relations. Reason – a criticized and justified argument from experience. Rational – an internally consistent, non contradictory…
Definitions: Oath, Common Law, Testify, and Salic Law for Good Measure
Mar 04, 2017 11:15am OATH (n.) Old English að “oath, judicial swearing, solemn appeal to deity in witness of truth or a promise,” from Proto-Germanic *aithaz (source also of Old Norse eiðr, Swedish ed, Old Saxon, Old Frisian eth, Middle Dutch eet, Dutch eed, German eid, Gothic aiþs “oath”), from PIE *oi-to- “an oath” (source…
Natural Law Doesn’t Justify Aristocracy – It Justifies Markets – It Is Just That Natural Law Is Only Possible Under Aristocracy
btw: (important) I advocate natural law because it forces reciprocity, and by reciprocity forces markets in everything. The only thing the underclasses have to trade is self control, and particularly reproductive self control. The outcome of that self control turns out to be eugenic – which is a benefit by externality. The reason I advocate…
I Justify Markets – In Everything.
I justify markets in everything. Markets in everything requires natural law, and natural law requires aristocracy. Aristocracy like violence is neither good nor bad. It is the ends that aristocracy and violence are put to that determine good or bad. As such, advocacy of markets (reciprocity/cooperation/non-aggression) merely requires aristocracy as a cost (Input). I remain…
The People Who Lie and Defraud
The author forgot that they were also (a) the developers of the pseudosciences ( Frankfurt/aesthetics and history, freud/psychology, boaz/anthropology, marx/sociology/economics, mises/economics, cantor/mathematical-platonism, (b) the conquest of the university by pseudoscience (all of the above), (c) as well as the organized attack on our constitution (Natural Law) by the selective prosecution of cases designed to incrementally…
Ending Cultural Marxism and the Industrialization of Lying is Easy.
We end copyright, we require truthful speech, we extend liability to sponsors of speech, and we end cultural marxism and the industrialization of lying. In just one generation.
Knowing What You’re Talking About.
We use law (common law of torts) to decide matters of conflict. That is the total function of the law. (Yes, that’s just the fact of it) The practice of law evolved to standardize punishments in order to reduce retaliation cycles between groups that had evolved different punishments (yes, that’s just a fact of it)z…
Whose Side Are You On?
I am on my side. I am on my kin’s side I am on my extended kin’s side I am on my civilization’s side. Truth happens to be the weapon of choice in this battle, because it lets us build commons and compete via commons against those that cannot compete via commons. And because it…
The Operational Name of Infinity Is “Limit Supplied by Contextual Application” Because of Scale Independence.
Defenders of infinity are simply saying that mathematical platonism is a useful mental shortcut to provide decidability for you in the absence of understanding, the way religion is a useful mental shortcut for decidability for others in the absence of understanding. Authority (decidability) in platonic mathematics and authority (decidability) in religion are provided by…
Who Else Teaches Sovereignty? No One.
Look: our ancestors organized the west to produce agency because agency is required for fellow sovereigns. If you look at every other culture and civilization, what is it that those groups attempt to produce? Does islam teach agency? Does Confucianism? Does judaism? Does buddhism?
Libertarians are Beggars for Liberty
Libertarians are beggars for liberty. I’ve stopped using the term liberty. I’m not a beggar, or a free rider. I understand now that the only method of obtaining liberty is permission, and the only means of obtaining the equivalent without permission is sovereignty; and that sovereignty in fact can only be brought into existence by…
This Is the Final Word on Hoppeian Ancapism
A List of Hans Hermann Hoppe’s Errors https://naturallawinstitute.com/2015/07/31/a-list-of-hans-hermann-hoppes-errors/ As far as I know, this is the final word on Hoppe. And unless or until he answers these objections (he won’t because he cant) we must separate Hoppe’s CONCLUSIONS from his JUSTIFICATIONS. In other words, once we reduce all social science to reciprocity and the voluntary…
On (My) Writing Style
(on writing style)(via pm)(with a friend) As the guys tell me, I tend to write for a cognitive elite, and it seems that it takes about a 130 IQ to understand it. Our strategy group for the past five years has been for me to work out all the fine details then hope the guys…
Our Era in the Context of the Enlightenments: the Restoration of Europa From Semitic and Iranian Influence (deceits).
The enlightenment succeeded in the physical sciences, but not in the social sciences, and we can see the german, french, russian, jewish, chinese reactions as social counter-enlightenments. What seems to have been under development in the 1800’s in Germany was the second scientific enlightenment (which benefitted the USA mostly), and the second attempt at social…