Libertarianism Survives/exists by Miscategorizing Relations.
by Luke Weinhagen The way it hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically, libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not…
Men Need To Speak To Men
Men really need to speak to other men, without women in the room for the same reason women like to speak to women without men in the room. There are market value vulnerabilities that build trust between men but women abuse, and visa versa.
The Purpose of Public Debate?
If your goal is to improve an idiot – it’s hopeless. if your goal is to reduce the spread of idiocy – it’s not hopeless but nearly. If your goal is to improve your ability to communicate your ideas, argue your ideas, and argue against ignorance, error, bias and deceit – then that’s something else.…
The Value of The Classes
There is a very great difference between transforming the state of the physical world by physical coercion (labor), and transforming the choices and organization of people using incentives (layers of entrepreneurship and management). The physical world can’t choose between options. Man can choose between options unless he is in fact a slave – thereby lacking…
Your Choice of Personal Philosophy Is Limited by Others Choice of Political Philosophy
Dear idiots. You don’t get to choose a personal philosophy that isn’t bound by a political philosophy agreed to by others – and still survive competition in that polity. Just as groups don’t get to choose a political philosophy that can’t survive the market for territories. It doesn’t matter what you alone think or want.…
We Can’t Get out Of It. People at The Bottom Will Increase Drag
The OECD also highlights a decoupling between productivity growth and higher real average wages in many countries, resulting in continued declines in labour’s share of national income. In turn, the Compendium shows that the contribution of labour utilisation (hours worked per capita) to GDP growth has risen markedly in a number of countries, notably in…
New World Order: The First Step Was to Kill the Kings
New World Order = Rule by Merchants. by Bill Anderson The first step was to kill all the kings. Completed via WWII. The king is the Father of the Nation, biologically related to his subjects, the embodiment of the genetic self-interest of a nation. The moderns are very careful to propagandize monarchy as evil and…
—“Curt, on Ireland’s Referendum. Your Position on Abortion?”—
Well, you know, I would have said something very different before I worked on natural law, because my intuitions are pretty libertarian. But now that I have, I’m against abortion, pro birth control, pro enforced birth control, and pro sterilization. And I would rather see punishment of girls who get pregnant, and the boys that…
Density Income and Taxation
Once you start thinking the equilibrium between density and the discount on opportunity, versus sparsity, and the premium on the commons, you understand that value judgements of the urban vs suburban, vs rural people. The lower density the more responsibility for commons and the more costly are opportunities. Whereas the higher density the lower responsibility…
Of Course They Are Germans
—“The Royal family is a bunch of Germans you brought over just before WW1. Also if you knew what European royal ancestry looked like you wouldn’t brag with it. Imo your royal family is lucky to have chins”—Rohan Mostert Um, of course they are germans. That’s a good thing. Celts have a soft streak in…
Who Would Be Interesting to Debate?
—“Who out there is not only equipped but coming from an angle which you yourself would find most rewarding to debate?”— Nicholas Arthur Catton Well, conversationally, I’d like to talk with Zizek just because the two of us are similar in some ways but at opposite ends of the structural spectrum. I’d like to talk…
(((They))) Are All Cognitively Female
Once you understand (((they))) are all cognitively female, everything else they do makes perfect sense. Really. Like I said, the competitive differences between human groups are reducible to a very small number of traits that express gender differences during development. Our free will is limited by these differences. We know not what we do. We…
Let’s Get This Labor Thing Straight.
Let’s get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitalism we can create a consumer out of the laborer which organizes the very fractional contribution of labor into large groups producing many complex parts, and the complex part provides the value. The profit on the price is required to organize others…
The brains of more intelligent individuals are interconnected to a lesser extent.
https://t.co/h5eBggGVpt Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): —“The brains of more intelligent individuals are interconnected to a lesser extent, having less dendrites at command in the cerebral cortex. https://t.co/h5eBggGVpt https://t.co/jmuvEm9TiA “— 1) I suspect it’s just the physics of the neural economy: breadth neural searches are cheaper and faster with lower returns on recursion than depth searches…
We Are Men, and Learning from Truth to Power Is Heroic
—“CURT, I’M SORRY I SAID…”— Guess what. You didn’t offend me. I understand what it is to be a man, and you are being a man. You are trying to speak truth to power so to speak (not that I have much power). And this is what men do, what and cowards do not do.…
—“Curt, Do you advocate XYZ?”—
I provide a RANGE of solutions for different people (which is my job) and an OPTIMUM solution for OUR people. So it is sometimes confusing to readers which I’m talking about. In other words while there is a perfect government, under normal conditions we must provide sufficient flexibility so that we can celebrate windfalls and…
The Incentive to Produce Quality Goods, Services, and Information
by Steve Pender In a village/polity populated entirely by family/loved ones, there is lower incentive to produce low quality goods, since the only people using them would be allies/family, and their use of those goods diminishes the survival of the polity. Voluntarily producing lower quality goods and profiting more due to higher markup opportunities would…
Peterson and Such: They Do Their Best.
—“Curt, Is Peterson still….”— In the choice of grammars between: Aristotelian Scientist (description), Stoic Self Authoring (education and training), Platonist Philosopher (literature), and Abrahamic Theologian (Religion), Peterson cherry picks from each for support, but is narrative (what he argues with) is pure platonism (literature). My hope was that he would favor the scientific and stoic,…
The Meaning of Existence
(worth reading) —“Ivar Diederik “Math does not appear in what we study.” Actually it does. There are several theorems that were first developed theoretically, and only years later were discovered or proven to exist in nature. James Clerk Maxwell predicted things about electro-magnetism which physicist Heinrich Hertz later proved to be true. Quantum electrodynamics (QED)…
The Grammars
—“Hey Curt ! I have been following you for some times. I just saw your youtube intro to propertarianism. When you talk about operational grammars, are you talking about isolating the rules of each domain of human knowledge and find a common ground between them ?”— A Friend Wow, that is one of the smartest…
Duty vs Obligation
—“In the series: “…what we may not do: violate truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, markets…” I’ve noticed a new term in the series: DUTY. Why?”— Daniel Gurpide Thanks for Asking: Contracts: Rights (positiva) vs Obligations (negativa). Commons: Reciprocity(positiva) vs Duty (negativa)
The Criteria for a Philosopher
Technically speaking to be considered a philosopher in history you need to compose, write, and publish, a system of thought. A minor philosophy addresses a topic or problem. A logician is a different thing altogether.
Reading Habits
—“What’s your reading schedule look like? Do you take a structured approach or just wander about at random? Are you still reading a lot these days?”– A Friend Um… I go through all the economics, hbd, archeological, blogs every day, and if a paper or article looks interesting, or if a book is recommended I…
—“You Are Wrong About Gods”–
I’m not wrong about gods at all. The only question is whether it’s possible for not-quite-humans to function without an imaginary pack leader acting as a unit of measurement. I mean, women demonstrate NAXALT, and men demonstrate INTENTIONALITY, and by both demonstrations we can identify the not-yet-human, not yet possessing agency, and therefore not yet…
The Intellectually Honest Skeptic Asks, the Intellectually Dishonest Overconfident Demands.
(I wish more people would simply ask questions, rather than try to debate me – very, very few people can participate in non-trivial debate – but then I don’t want to suppress, and instead I want to celebrate, the male desire to learn through competition. The problem with learning through competition is understanding that you’re…