Year: 2019

—“My claim is that a minority can’t simply declare certain questions off the table of democratic deliberation, and try to enforce that declaration with threats. I support a legal right to own a gun in self-defense. But the recognition of that right poses real risks to others’ safety. I think I’m obliged to persuade my…

—“In my latest at  @nytopinion, I argue that the truculent response to  @BetoORourke’s mandatory assault weapon buyback proposal betrays a disturbing hostility to democracy on the right. Why an Assault Weapons Ban Hits Such a Nerve With Many Conservatives. The premise of Trumpist populism is that the political preferences of a shrinking minority of citizens…

—“Then please explain [ insert absurd moronic, sophomoric, pseudoscientific, ahistorical, or supernatural claim here ].”—- An Idiot Please explain how you possess sufficient knowledge to make any such judgement. Please explain why anything I would say would alter your conviction. Please explain why I would feed your desire for attention and false self confidence. And…

Finish Course on Law and Promote. Start Courses on War, and Promote (agitate) Revise Constitution, including “White Law” , and “Escalation Clauses” (work) Videos on each section of the constitution with John (agitate) Start Promoting and Expanding Member Mailing List with each video. Podcasts on the conduct of a revolution with list etc. (agitate) Go…

Well, judicial independence is in turn dependent upon which theory of jurisprudence, which interpretation of the constitution under it, the limits to Rights, legislation, regulation, findings (judicial discretion), which limits to interpretation of texts used. Fix 1st things 1st. If we use reciprocity (tort, trespass), strict, textual, operational construction of rights from it, strict, textual…

Those who seek to destroy sovereignty, rule of law by reciprocity, the intergenerational family as the purpose of policy, the compromise between the genders and classes, the markets in association, cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, polities, nations. Reductively, “Parasites.” “You” 😉

—“Scientific racism, a thread: In March, a journal published a paper defending the “theory” that Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychology, multiculturalism, Marxism and left-wing political movements in general are best understood in terms of “Jewish group evolutionary strategy.” — Simon Whitten @Simon_Whitten It’s true Simon. Sorry. You can trace Aristotelian thought, you can trace Jewish thought.…

Let’s put this in scientific prose: Conservatism is a genetic disposition evidenced in cognition, emotion, and action, of higher disgust response, higher preference for hierarchy (division of responsibility and labor), higher loyalty response. The fact that churcy christians use religion, moral christians use moralizing, educated moral christians use history, and educated moral, scientific christians use…

—“I have been fighting for reproductive rights for over 40 years, yet some forced birthers still appear to think that their justifications (exclusively religiously based) are so persuasive they will magically change my mind. Save your emails people, I’ve heard ’em all.”—Jane Caro @JaneCaro An excellent example of Pilpul (Sophism). So, you want to restore…

I think the demarcation between truth(decidability) and choice (preference) is complete. Philosophy now only tells us choice, while law (reciprocity), science(consistency correspondence, and coherence), and mathematics(measurement) provide decidability regardless of choice. The top of the epistemic pyramid is not philosophy(rationalism) but testimony, law, science, mathematics, and the logic faculty in a consistent coherent ontology. While…

—“This essay reminds me of the debate between charliekirk11 and Tucker Carlson about consecutives focussing on growth/free markets at the expense of things like affordable family formation.”— @Biorealism Just to serve as resident nerd for a moment, the reason? Conservative intellectuals failed (like the church) to develop a ratio-scientific set of arguments to modernize their moral…

—“Your little AR-15 isn’t going to do shit to protect you from the government — who has tanks and nuclear weapons. That is a pathetic fantasy.”—Matt Rogers @Politidope Matt. What will happen to urban centers without electricity, cash machines, cash, rail, and truck transport in the depth of winter or heat of summer? What happened…

I don’t think I did a good enough job in the long interview with John Mark when I discussed the overuse of college education producing inflationary costs throughout the economy, and like minimum wage laws creating permanent class differences for no good reason other than ability to absorb losses (costs). Most education is junk.

AI will probably lie a lot, because so many games require that, but it’s not unrealistic to think it will lie less to itself. …  Humans are trapped at a cognitive level that depends upon buying into their own bullshit. … They’re generally so bad at lying they have to become deception zombies. – Nick…

John sent me seventeen questions, only about nine of them that I thought I needed to respond to prior to the interview.  I just shared these notes because some of you find them useful. Please enjoy the video.  -Curt

One of the first insights that struck me when I came across your work was your insight about the 3 different instinctive group strategies, where individuals tend to fall into one of the 3, what you call the tripartite division of cognitive labor – in other words, there are 3 types of people politically, 3…

Now that we have a much better picture in our head of what a better system could look like, tell us about the constitution you’re writing – how does it build on the original constitution, what does it add or clarify, make more thorough – tell us about it. Let’s do a little course correction…

So is it accurate to say that full-franchise democracy is a disaster, we need to limit who gets to vote, and at the same time people can have representation, but those representatives need to be negotiating with each other within the bounds of reciprocity, not violating reciprocity? Anything you would change or add to that…

Now, gov’t can also have another function which is to have a system where different groups of people can negotiate on commons. (I may take a minute to explain the difference between via-negativa & via-positiva, & briefly define “commons”.) The key is to enable representatives of the people to negotiate on commons without violating reciprocity.…

it’s more accurate to say better govt vs worse govt. (I came from a libertarian mindset where I said “smaller gov’t is always better”, but you helped me see that’s not always true.) E.g. a 3rd-world country doesn’t pay its judges much & thus they are very susceptible to bribes; paying judges well is expensive…

So what we see is that it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s reciprocity vs parasitism. Law’s job is to suppress all forms of parasitism and thus enforce natural law of reciprocity. In my other vids on Propertarianism I’ve explained the basics of how we can write/design our rule of law to do that better than…

RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real…

Just to clarify, it’s our LAW, not our GOVERNMENT that creates anglodom’s excellence:  the exclusivity of Tort, meaning ‘Trespass’ – the natural law of reciprocity – that libertarians pretend under Non-Aggression is some innovation on their part,rather than a sophism to entice useful idiots into a moral and arbitrary definition of trespass rather than an…

Over what period of time are morphological differences discernable in the genetic record? You are only distinguishable as you for about the past six generations, at which point you aren’t distinguishable any longer from the mass of the regional population at that time. One of the criticisms I get from right wing and population geneticists,…

The fundamental problems are of course, That we are wealthy enough to create our own government suitable to our preferences, and we want to. Heterogeneity is a bad thing, that the west has been under an organized attack by the global left and domestic christian and and jews desperate to restore a monopoly and priesthood…