Defending Molyneux Again
Context: Molyneux’s claim that he’s most influential philosopher working today. Is Molyneux Influential among philosophers, Intellectuals, Politicians – or among common people? Some of us work in R&D (like Research Academics), and some in Education (like Teaching Academics). Stefan is by far the most popular Teacher reaching the most people – by far. By that…
The Rules of Consciousness
THE RULES OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHEREAS 1. Our attention rotates in a competition between sensation(observation and construction by prediction and reward identification), imagination (possibility by association), holding attention on a goal (possibility by continuous opportunity seizure), and releasing predicted actions (in pursuit of the goal). WHEREAS 2. We rotate between sensation (observation and construction by prediction),…
The Industrialization of Agency.
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AGENCY. Agency. Truth and Oath Duty and Commons Excellence and Heroism Sovereignty and Reciprocity The Natural Law, Judge and Jury Markets in – association – cooperation – production – reproduction – commons – polities – war. The Eugenic Civilization.
No. Don’t Conflate Arousal and Consciousness
Gak. No. Confusing Arousal with Consciousness is like confusing the light switch with the light. Just ’cause we can turn off the switch doesn’t tell us how the light is created. We can interfere with any number of parts (Colostrum) and shut down experience. That doesn’t tell us anything. The question is, how does that…
Western Tripartism Made Quadripartism
ARISTOCRACY: WESTERN TRIPARTISM MADE QUADRIPARTISM “THOSE WHO FIGHT” (Military, Judiciary, Sheriffs) Those Who Enforce The Natural Law “THOSE WHO PRAY” (Academy) Those Who Teach The Natural and Physical Laws “THOSE WHO ORGANIZE” (Middle Class) Those Who Organize Those Who Labor Under the Natural and Physical laws “THOSE WHO LABOR” (Lower middle, Working, Laboring) Those Who…
Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence
[T]he purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but 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 demands instead of status competition. And while…
Can We Create A New Federalist Papers?
TO: John Mark 1) I have the ‘last 30 day’ plan ready. It’s going to blow people away. But we can’t do it until next spring at the earliest. Just letting you know that it’s going to surprise people, it will bring in the people to act, and that combined with ‘hitting the road’ is…
The Constitution of Political Conspiracies
THE CONSTITUTION OF POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES —“The purpose of policy is to destroy the family?”— A Twitter Critic [I] think you, like most victims of 20th C pseudoscience attribute greater agency to our intentions, and stated intent over external consequence. Conspiracies of common cognitive bias, common interest are endemic even if common intent isn’t – outside…
Demand for the Pleasing Delusion
by Daniel Gurpide [I ]previously posted that –“Plato’s philosophy was for ‘the intellectuals’; the ethics of Plato are tied to his whole system of knowledge, including politics. The doctrines of Epicurus appealed chiefly to the middle classes, the bourgeoisie; the ethics of Epicurus are separated from politics and joined only with physics (and Aristotle). The…
On baiting into moral hazards
—“Can anyone elaborate on the baiting into moral hazards via pilpul please? Is that to use philosophy and morality as an argument as opposed to utility, reciprocity based on empirical?”— 0) A woman implies access to friendship, affection, or sex, which she will never deliver. 1) I promise you life after death if you obey…
Economic Advice and The Public
ECONOMIC ADVICE AND THE PUBLIC [E]conomics has been a cudgel for justifying a moral bias, not a science to which we must conform our moral intuitions. Libertarians are largely advocating free riding on the commons just as much as socialist advocate free riding upon the private sector. No economic proposition is decidable by either libertarian…
The Golden Rule Explained
THE GOLDEN RULE EXPLAINED by Luke Weinhagen [T]hose of us living in high trust societies recognize the importance of The Golden Rule. We understand its value and the benefits we derive from it. It is one of the first formal lessons in social interaction we teach our children. But when you stop there at the…
The Hierarchy Of Western Rules
Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have done unto you Via Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule. Do not unto others as you would not have done unto you. Via Empathia : …….The Copper Rule Do not unto others as they would not have done unto them. Via Logica: ……….The…
Everyone But Us
EVERYONE BUT US by @BlackSheepBrouhaha —“Curt Doolittle is doing better work than Libertarians or Nazis making a coherent ideology which takes this into account. Property is something you defend with your life. If you share that responsibility with others, that’s common property. If you share it with everyone, that’s a nation. It is the frontier…
Humans Swim in a Sea of Testimony
TESTIMONY by Bill Joslin [H]umans swim in a sea of testimony. Any information we gather beyond local and immediate scale has been gained through the testimony of others. Because this is akin to the air we breathe we often overlook the drastic impact that testimony plays in nearly all of our decisions, choices, and actions.…
Unite The Right
SUPERNATURAL, MORAL, RATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC —“Unite the right by natural law. We don’t have to agree on where the law comes from, just on what it is.”—Martin Št?pán The result is the same, only the why differs.
Demarcation
[I] think the demarcation between truth(decidability) and choice (preference) is complete. Philosophy only tells us choice now, while law (reciprocity), science(consistency correspondence, and coherence), and mathematics(measurement) provide decidability regardless of choice. The top of the pyramid is not philosophy but testimony, law, science, mathematics, and the logic faculty in a consistent coherent ontology. While philosophy…
Perceivable Dimensions
Again. Dimensions. Logic = Constant relations of sense perceptions. Identity =(NAMES) – Internally consistent, not inconsistent, sets of properties – Constant Relations between collections of properties. Sets = (LANGUAGE) – Internally consistent (constant, consistent relations), Relations, , .) – Constant relations between collections of references Science = (OBSERVATIONS) – Empirical, externally correspondent, correlative – Constant…
Propertarian Facebook Presence
curt doolittle ideas page https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle.ideas/ propertarian institute page (Run by the Team) https://www.facebook.com/thepropertarianinstitute/ Propertarianism (Placeholder profile) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=106056240758511 propertarianism page (Placeholder Page) https://www.facebook.com/propertarian/ propertarianism group (closed group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/483295865781822/ christianity and propertarianism https://www.facebook.com/groups/PropXianity/ scientific praxeology page (misesian reformation) https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/ curt doolittle’s Incremental suppression services page https://www.facebook.com/IncrementalSuppressionServices/ propertarian meme depositorium https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=230026437866938 Acquisitionism, Testimonialism, and Propertarianism https://www.facebook.com/groups/1949250555310159/ National Anarcho-Capitalism/Propertarianism…
Anything other than RECIPROCITY isn’t internally consistent
VALUE JUDGEMENTS ARE OPINIONS by Alain Dwight September 21 at 8:34 PM [T]o a large extent terms like good and evil or ethical and unethical are opinions. The catch is that if morality and ethics is defined by anything other than RECIPROCITY it is no longer internally consistent (no high trust commons, no agency, no…
It’s Empirical: Morality = Reciprocity
MORALITY = RECIPROCITY You don’t understand. it’s empirical. scientific. It doesn’t matter what you i or anyone else opines. [Y]ou are welcome to falsify: (a) goods and bads refer to caloric income or loss, existential or projected (b) morality refers to reciprocity. (c) it’s a necessity of the physical universe. (d) the human biological reward…
Definition: Tzar (Tsar)
Tsar (/z??r, s??r/ or /ts??r/; Old Church Slavonic: ???? [usually written thus with a title] or ???, ????), also spelled csar, or tzar or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe, originally Bulgarian monarchs from 10th century onwards. As a system of government in…
Definition: Mindfulness
“CURT, PLEASE DEFINE MINDFULNESS?” —“What do you mean when you use the word “mindfulness”?”— Andrew Cordeaux @AndrewCordeaux 1) I mean the physical, cognitive and emotional discipline to control the subject of attention on the present intent, insulated from distractions whether personal, environmental, or interpersonal. 2) But with preference for the stoic method (self authoring, virtues…
“in-group vs out-group to morality?”
—“Can you relate in-group vs out-group to morality = reciprocity ?”—Scott Claremont Morality = Rules of cooperation INGROUP VS OUTGROUP 1. Ingroup, 2. outgroup … a. outgroup trade, … b. outgroup boycott, … c. outgroup competitor, … d. outgroup parasite … e. outgroup predator Ingroup by definition = cooperation (moral) Ingroup always requires reciprocity. Ingroup…
—“What Is Your Opinion of Monarchy”—
—“WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF MONARCHY”— [M]onarchy (which is a purely christian european order, in which kings are crowned by the church, as an insurer of their fitness), has been limited by traditional (indo european then germanic law) of individual sovereignty, interpersonal reciprocity, truthful testimony, promise, and contract. Russian Tzars had dictatorial power, European monarchs…