Man is the measure
Oct 19, 2019, 6:43 PM I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man. —“Man is the System of Weights and Measures for all things Human”— But the first man to say it: —“Man is the measure of all things.”— Protagoras
I Don”t Do Hate and Don”t Need To
Oct 19, 2019, 7:12 PM I don’t, we don’t, need to ‘hate’ anyone under rule of law of reciprocity, truthful and reciprocal speech to the public in matters public, and voluntary association and disassociation by any means at all. The left can’t succeed without lying for ir-reciprocity, and sowing discord between genders, classes, and identities,…
Economic Influences on Today’s Art World
Oct 21, 2019, 2:44 PM 1) spaces are now general purpose rather than designed for function. This makes them less amenable to artistic treatment because they have to be ‘resold’. 2) Postwar materials (steel, glass, and panel products) are not amenable to organic arts, and it’s organic arts that constitute the majority of the western…
“Q: How Is Your Concept of Reciprocity Different from The Common-Law Concept of Contract?”
Oct 21, 2019, 5:21 PM —“… … One Law to Rule Them All … One Law to Find Them … One Law to Bring Them All … And into Reciprocity Bind Them. … The Natural Law of Reciprocity: Heroism, Excellence, … Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Testimonial Truth, Jury, Markets … in Everything, and the Transcendence of Man…
Um. I Think You’re Confused About Property and Commons and The Evolution of Each
Oct 21, 2019, 8:54 PM How food, forests, and people are connected, in 10 charts grist.org —“Commons are for high-input, savage hunter-gatherers. Deconstruction of the commons via recognition of private property is the first step to civilisation.”— Jonathan Besler Um. Well, not quite the argument you’re making. European Hunter gatherers either did not produce fixed…
Setting Expectations on “the Book”
Oct 22, 2019, 11:13 AM I have multiple books at different stages of completion: 1) Essays selected by Michael and Alessandro, 2) Sovereignty which is the reformation of libertarianism, that I pulled out of the main book to shorten it, and 3) Whatever I end up calling the main book – I keep changing the…
“Nothing Else Really Defines Alternatives with Actionable Solutions.”
Oct 22, 2019, 11:22 AM (worth repeating) —“Millenials and Gen Z are mad that we have no community, society, fair ratio of marriageable women, reason to invest at all. Most of us would trade what we have now for communism, anarchy or any number of flawed systems. Philosophically speaking, fight club or the joker are…
What ‘traditional’ Means, What to Say Instead, and How to Restore Reciprocity Between Genders.
Oct 22, 2019, 12:26 PM Advice to Libertarian(ideology), Constitutional (rule of law), Right(normative tradition), and Religious(theological tradition): Avoid “Traditional” as it’s indefensible. (FWIW; it means ’empirically successful in pre technological history because of the division of labor necessary under intergenerational agrarianism.’) Better argument is “Biological gender roles constitute the optimum Nash equilibrium under which all…
The Market Demand for Services Provided by Religion
Oct 22, 2019, 1:09 PM The market demand for personal mindfulness (Spiritualism) whether empathic-femining (theological), moral-masculine(rational), or analytic-masculine(scientific) exists, and all three demands exist for most of us. The question is, given how the various religions solved mindfulness (Stoicism-epicureanism, buddhism, hinduism, abrahamism) which produces agency (stoicism), which produces optimism (hinduism), which produces withdrawal from reality…
For Hindustanis: No More Nonsense. “You Wasn’t Kangs.”
Oct 22, 2019, 4:43 PM FOR HINDUSTANIS: NO MORE NONSENSE. “YOU WAS’T KANGS.” (uncomfortable Truth Warning) HISTORY OF THE IE CIVILIZATIONS: The European, Caucasian, Iranic, and Indian Peoples. Look. The IE expansion occurred in Ukraine and Russian north of the black sea out of what appears to have been a competition between proto-european and proto-iranic…
Christianity Was Never a Perfect Fit for Us
Oct 23, 2019, 3:13 PM —“Protestantism happened because christianity was never a perfect fit for us. The normal evolution of our civilization was disrupted when we encountered civilizations more developed. We had writing and metallurgy, but our stories and myths hadn’t become a codified law and spiritual system. It’s time for us to do this;…
Just Ignore the F-King Crazies
Oct 23, 2019, 3:25 PM I don’t try to understand whacky behavior. I limit myself to understanding whacky arguments that poison the well so to speak. Some people are circumstantially crazy as a release valve – and we can usually understand those people quickly and let them pass. But there is no explanation for, and…
Quotes from Google Achipelago
Oct 23, 2019, 5:48 PM by Daniel Johns p71 – That is, the Google Archipelago is a commercial assemblage that acts increasingly like a state. p 73 – …”dangerous” – that is anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin. p 89 – Much has been made of Google’s historical ties to the U.S. intelligence community…
Argumentum Ad Theologicum
Oct 23, 2019, 6:20 PM (yes it’s possible. it’s just almost impossible) We all defend our investments. it’s irrational to think we won’t defend our investments. As long as that’s what we’re doing, it’s not ir-reciprocal. In my understanding, theology is just one of the grammars. it’s both conflationary, and fictionalist, using the supernatural fictionalism,…
Why Do Anglo Governments Last so Long?
Oct 23, 2019, 6:25 PM It’s just much easier to reform a contract (constitution) that is adjudicated by an independent judiciary, than it is to reform a dictatorship, oligarchy, bureaucracy, or theocracy that lacks an independent judiciary and constitutional means of decision making given a division of powers, and fundamental rights especially to property. Most…
While There Are Many Good Social and Personal Consequences of The Religion, Christianity Failed Us Politically
I love christian manners: “god bless you” et all. I am equally happy with ‘the gods’ instead of ‘god’, and equally unhappy and hostile to the other semitic gods. I love christian ethics. and I love christian behavior. And I love the church experience. And i love it’s role in birth, adulthood, marriage, care-taking, suffering,…
More Fun with Christians
—“Darwin doesn’t even agree with macro evolution. DNA, the eye, Cambrian explosion all disprove any macro evolution not to mention that species actually show just as much entropy as positive gains over time just look at how many useless dogs exist today. To pretend things get better and more organized over time is simply false.”—Charles…
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Oct 24, 2019, 9:23 AM If your God has brought you here, then there are two obvious questions. First, what good is that god. Second, it seems unlikely it is more god than demon. Jehova was a demon, not a god.
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Oct 24, 2019, 9:24 AM Aristotle was a Hero. Jesus was a Saint. But Jehovah and Allah are demons at best. Only a demon would claim a monopoly.
Witch Trials. Why?
Oct 24, 2019, 9:41 AM AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the inquisition, then the reformation, as a means of creating examples by suppressing newly enabled social dissent under the decline of the influence of the church and the personalization of the religious experience by disintermediation from the priesthood. There isn’t…
It’s Because Bad Religions Lie and Lag, Good Religions Use Truth and Lead
Oct 24, 2019, 10:33 AM —“All religions are made up bullshit to control people”—Joanna Hmmm… Let’s look at this: PERSONAL DEMAND . Demand for personal mindfulness . . Demand for interpersonal mindfulness . . . Demand for social mindfulness . . . . Demand for political mindfulness POLITICAL DEMAND .. organization (control, conflict suppression) ..…
“figuratively” Is Good Enough for Now
Oct 24, 2019, 10:44 PM (humor) If you are an intellectual, activist, or evangelist, anywhere along the centrist, libertarian, constitutionalist, conservative, christian, or even fascist spectrum and you aren’t following me, then you’re missing out on the only people who have a constitutional solution to NOW. —“Fascist lol those were diametrically opposed to everything you…
Which of Your Cognitive Markets Are You Serving?
Oct 25, 2019, 9:48 AM The verb to be circumvents existence, which is what you are trying to circumvent testifying for, just as Heidegger was trying to circumvent and reverse the verb and noun – because both of you are tying to make speech conform to experience rather than speech test experience – which is…
The Most Important Lesson from The Church Experience
Oct 25, 2019, 10:02 AM The most important lesson I’ve observed, and perhaps the most important, is that sitting still in church, and the social pressure of sitting still in church, no matter how hard it is, teaches us the meaning of ‘sacred’ which is ‘we have no rights of self fulfillment’. I think it…
See the Stupid Sh-t I Have to Put up With?
Oct 25, 2019, 10:29 AM The world is full of these idiots. —“Curt Doolittle You wrote <<The only thing entropy depends upon is a difference in charge>> As soon as you admit entropy depends on anything, you have already disproven the statement you are trying unsuccessfully to defend – viz. “Entropy is the prime mover.”…