We Are Compatible Not Equal
Jan 13, 2020, 5:21 PM In the division of sensory, perceptual, cognitive, preferential, labor, men and women are compatible, not equal. We are not equal in any meaningful way, because ‘meaningful’ means ‘exceptional’. Stop thinking of people as ideals (that’s a monotheistic evil cancer of the mind) and think of us as extended families with…
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Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties becasue of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due distrespect or even punishment if we do not…
Yes Men Love Women with Masculine Cog Bias.. But
Jan 13, 2020, 6:11 PM Humans require agency. A masculine cognitive bias favors agency. I am not sure the world would populate very successfully with exclusively male-minded females. My present understanding is that women evolved to carry a very heavy emotional cognitive load necessary for rearing multiple children. Agency appears to develop in women as…
P-Constitution and “Capitalism”
Jan 14, 2020, 11:13 AM —“so is ok for a person who has made a lot of money to loan it out to people who need money for a fee? That is capitalism baby.”— ^Non logical. Investment in production vs rent seeking on consumption. Every half truth in libertarianism obscures a greater lie. The function…
Questions on Voting Under Propertarian Constitution
Jan 14, 2020, 12:19 PM by John Mark Curt, 3 questions/clarifications: QUESTION 1. Do I understand correctly that each state can choose who gets to vote (depending on what system they choose from the options presented) BUT only citizens can vote – and because the bar for citizenship is so high, most people will not…
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—“Millennials today are 19th century Russian serfs, in a gig economy – they don’t own anything, or have any kids … because the public is intentionally economically ignorant … they’ve destroyed the middle class.”— Steve Bannon (today)
Your Basic Lesson on Money (currency) and 99% of Everything You Ever Need to Know
Jan 15, 2020, 1:04 PM —“Could you please explain what you mean by “the problem of hard currency”?”—Niklas Wagner 0) Money Proper means Commodity Money (a commodity used for monetary purposes in exchange. It must be light and of limited volume, and indexed (with a measurement), and either scarce by it’s limited existence in the…
On Fiat Currency and Bank Bail-Outs
Jan 15, 2020, 1:25 PM —“Thank you! I guess I have to unlearn the libertarian notion that fiat currencies are always some kind of fraud or manipulation game. Would there be bailouts for banks under the propertarian government?”— Niklas Wagner Great question. 1) Fiat currencies are an exception innovation in monetary technology as is digital…
Are Consumers Sovereign?
Jan 15, 2020, 3:06 PM No. Because with large corporations we need via-negativa in courts to be able to correct bad behavior. And the state (politicians) are too easily (and frequently) bought. Furthermore they are too economically illiterate to comprehend the choices, and left-economists too dominant as consultants. (Obama only asked left wing jewish economists:…
The Problem with Efficient Markets
Jan 15, 2020, 3:10 PM Agricultural goods, construction, and housing are efficient. Is that a good thing? Food other than meat is almost free. Why shouldn’t we drive up the cost of agricultural goods, construction, and ‘materials production’ (steel etc) and housing as the returns we can produce? In other words, at what point are…
Why Economists Fail to Propose Successful Solutions
Jan 15, 2020, 3:23 PM Most economists propose nonsense solutions that mean more taxes without changing the structure of the economy. My proposition is pretty simple and has profound consequences. Stop all lying, baiting into hazard, free riding and parasitism upon the people, and capture those proceeds in the production of PHYSICAL commons. THAT IS…
The 20 Th Century Economies in Context – and How to Fix Them with Propertarianism
Jan 15, 2020, 3:42 PM You know, they called what we do today “Jewish economics” in the pre-war period because it favored investors at the expense of the middle classes (which in those days just meant ‘families’). Keynes was reading MARX, and just removed all references from his book (the general theory) before publishing. Keynes…
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Jan 15, 2020, 5:01 PM —“Jack Sandusky What’s your take on what just happened at the Kremlin?”— Putin is (as we should also) removing a clause from the constitution that puts international law above the russian constitution. We have the same vulnerability in our constitution in that it is possible for a treaty to override…
No, Nothing Is Evenly Distributed – Ever
Jan 16, 2020, 3:55 PM No, talent is not evenly distributed – just the opposite. No, intelligence is not evenly distributed – just the opposite. No, personality traits are not evenly distributed – just the opposite. Because you are, everyone you know is, and everyone past resent and future, is 80% the product of genes,…
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Jan 16, 2020, 9:41 PM —“NAXANED [not all X are not evenly distributed], bigot!”—-James Santagata
That’s Not Rule of Law, and One Man Is Not a Movement
Jan 17, 2020, 9:01 AM —“Trump is a cancer, but it’s totally operable cancer. Remove him under the Constitution and uphold the rule of law. Serve a purpose bigger than yourselves.”— Some Twitter Idiot You’re wrong of course: a useful idiot for purveyors of the Alinsky method of personalizing political movements. Trump is just a…
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Jan 17, 2020, 9:46 AM “Thou shalt not lie – That is what P boils down to.” —James Dmitro Makienko
The Ten Commandments vs European Traditional Law Demonstrate the Abrahamic Method of Deceit.
Jan 17, 2020, 10:25 AM Notice that the ten commandments say one may not steal. It does not say one may not free-ride, externalize costs, or steal. But european traditional law is complete not ‘convenient’: it says one may not free ride, externalize, or steal. Notice that the ten commandments say one may not bear…
Three Questions on Rule of Law – and Governing
Jan 17, 2020, 2:06 PM by Caleb Mimnaugh —” Rule of law rather than rule by man… man, even the aesthetics of those words are beautiful. 3 clarifications – if you have the time. 1. Do you think the authorising/legitimising process of rulers (e.g an election, the divine right of kings) is an unnecessary function…
MEN…
Jan 17, 2020, 2:07 PM Don’t be the idiot in the meeting ‘reminding’ others of the obvious risks – it means you’re a coward and think in cowardly terms, and offer advice as pretense of courage. Instead, be the person looking for, seizing, and assisting on the seizure of opportunities to exploit. We need brave…
Relationships Are Just Another Organization that Adapt to Circumstances
Jan 17, 2020, 2:23 PM —“Curt: I’m reading the book Sex at Dawn of your library. So which is our natural form of mating: monogamy or polygamy? What type of mating we ( europeans) should aspire?”— AFAIK, pairing off via serial monogamy with discreet cheating that doesn’t insult the other party is the sort of…
The Value Neutral Expression of The Female and Male Brains
Jan 18, 2020, 8:06 AM We can just as easily categorize the female brain and the male brain instead as breadth(experience, children)-first vs depth(time, environment)-first. When the paradigm you use is the high cost of brains, and high returns on brains, neural economy; division of reproductive, productive, and cognitive labor; economics of (returns on) cooperation;…
Pagans Had Monogamy and Rules to Enforce It Before Abrahamism Came Along
Jan 18, 2020, 8:20 AM MONOGAMY by Erik Lukovsky Pagans had monogamy and rules to enforce it before Abrahamism came along Monotheism popularized those rules All people have polygamous and monogamous inclinations(genes), usually one more so than the other Monogamy existed(and still can exist) as a form of exchange, in which women offer sexual access…
We Win When They Fire The First Shot
Jan 18, 2020, 10:00 AM You know what I learned in Ukraine that applies? The minute they fire on you they lose – and the whole american empire and it’s entire world ‘brand’ and influence collapses. You want them to fire on you. You just want to minimize losses even if you generate heroes whose…
“Fed” like “Supremacist” and “Racist” is a Compliment.
Jan 18, 2020, 3:30 PM –“Hey Curt Doolittle funny thing, now I hear John Mark is a Fed. Are y’all going to get matching Gray jumpers and cats?”–A Friend I dunno, the whole James bond villain thing fits me just fine, because I love the chaos, but I think john would be more like something…