The Reason Most People Are Confused Is Simply a Failure to Speak in Operational Grammar,
RECIPROCITY 1) Acting Reciprocally is necessary for cooperation to survive in any life form (or post-life for that matter). All life forms that do not practice reciprocity must go extinct, because consumption (use of resources) is not calculable. TRAINING 2) Tit for tat, and exhaustive tit for tat, are strategies to train for preserving reciprocity.…
Technically Speaking, It’s Pilpul I Have a Problem with
Um, technically speaking it’s Pilpul I have a problem with regardless of whether it’s in religion, philosophy, traditional law, argumentative rationalism (Pseudo-rationalism), pseudoscience, propaganda, or any other form of falsehood prose. The reason is that I understand that all deceptions are created by the same technique(s). And that just as the greeks invented reason on…
While We Can Cheat a Little Here and There, the Logic of Economics Is Pretty Obvious.
1) Every definition of capitalism vs socialism that I know of, and as far as I know, the very definition of the terms, is that of ownership. So as we say ‘word games’ are just that, and nothing more. 2) interest is necessary for the purpose of intertemporal measurement of theories of production distribution and…
The Difference Between Debate, Negotiation, and Prosecution
SERIES: Intelligible > imaginable(believable) > reasonable > rational > justificationary > logical > calculable > tautological. 1) On can rely on intuitionism and start with reason in order to construct calculation, or one can start with logic explain calculation (transformation of inputs into outputs), and devolve calculation into increasingly incommensurable (deflated, inflated, conflated, fictionalized)…
One Cannot Be Philosophically Literate without Knowledge of Economics for One Reason: Man’s Amoralism.
The empirical revolution, and its counter-revolution “the enlightenment”: the international attempt to restate local custom in local categories, relations, operations and values, other than deflationary empirical prose – because otherwise the extant order would not withstand such scrutiny. But that counter-revolution came from the most backwardly governed country in europe by a man of profoundly…
The Military Industrial Complex Is a Good Thing.
—“What’s wrong with the military industrial complex?”—Steve Pender (rhetorical question) Nothing. At it’s very worst it is: (a) the optimum research and development investment, and (b) the optimum means of economic redistribution, (c) the optimum means of producing male investment in the social order, (d) the optimum means of producing male prosociality. (Besides we…
The Origins of Numbers
(And the two part key) To create a record that represented “two sheep”, they selected two round clay tokens each having a + sign baked into it. Each token represented one sheep. Representing a hundred sheep with a hundred tokens would be impractical, so they invented different clay tokens to represent different numbers of each…
Archaic Numbers > Cuneiform > Roman Numerals
ARCHAIC NUMBERS > CUNEIFORM > ROMAN NUMERALS Conversion of archaic numbers to cuneiform The round stylus was gradually replaced by a reed stylus that had been used to press wedge shaped cuneiform signs in clay. To represent numbers that previously had been pressed with a round stylus, these cuneiform number signs were pressed in a…
The Answer to Christianity: Choosing Godhood as Our Own
. There is good Christianity and bad. There are good christians and bad. This [set of statements] is very good christianity, and I’m not going to criticize good Christians – at least unless good Christians (a) violate natural law (unlikely), or (b) seek to use faith in argument rather than faith in self confirmation (too…
A Note for Revolutionaries on Ammo
—“Basic combat load is 7, 30 round magazines. It has been for a very long time. “— But when you state it as “200 rounds” people get a better idea of how few rounds that is. And Americans still too frequently run down on ammunition in a defensive firefight. —“Ignoring the basic correct answer is…
The Ambitions of Cattle
—“Curt, what are your thoughts on metamodernism?”— No matter how you slice it, activists on the left are nothing more than human cattle seeking the monopoly of a cattle herd, the indifference (equality) of cattle in a herd, and the safety of cattle in the herd, in order to obtain a sense of ‘not…
It All Begins with The Militia
by Igor Rogov (brilliant) The “English” success is more easily attributable to one or two social inventions of Saxons – the free man on his own land, also known as churl and an armed militia or fyrd, which were quite distinct from greek or early roman examples because they persisted as something very essential and…
The Study Of History Creates Depth Of Understanding
The lack of depth of even the most ambitious lay thinkers never ceases to amaze me. I expect compartmentalizational ignorance from members of the academy, but the laity has no such excuse to specialize. I hear IQ this and that from people the time, and as far as I can tell, endless curiosity, extreme suspicion…
Let Me Help You. (Trump)
Trump knows how to play brinkmanship, and he is fully aware that everyone at the table understands that the bloodiest civil war in human history is hanging over Washington’s head. He cannot lose. The only way to win is to leave him alone and ignore him. Everything else just makes him more powerful, further reinforces…
Wage vs Income: Told Ya So
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-26/seattle-s-painful-lesson-on-the-road-to-a-15-minimum-wage 1) For every 1 percent increase in their hourly wage, low-wage workers saw a 3 percent reduction in the number of hours worked. As a result, they lost about $125 in earnings a month, clawing back the entire gain from the earlier hike and more. 2) THE EFFECT IS NON LINEAR AND ACCELERATES RAPIDLY
—“WHAT WERE YOU LIKE AT 20?”—
When I was 20? I don’t know if I can answer truthfully I was in college, I had a hot girlfriend I was crazy about, had good friends, was doing ok art, had not much money but enough, and was otherwise pretty happy as far as I know. I had the same sensibilities. but…
They Were the Most Naive Generation, Not the Best.
Try having that conversation with people who suffered through the unnecessary pains of world war two: Actually, it was a catastrophe. the Germans were right. They were trying to save the world from communism. And all you naive, ignorant, self righteous morons did nothing with your sacrifice except make the world safe for communism and…
It Is Very Hard Not to Specialize – for Now
At our stage of development when we are at an in-between stage, and very nearly at the limit of our ability to construct tools (experiments) by which to conduct observations (measurements), yet unable to discover the pattern of relations that describe the next levels of complexity (the structure of the universe on one end…
Sorry, but Boomer > [Jones] > Gen X > [gen Y] > Millennial.
by Steven Kolpek Gen Y is the bridge generation. That’s me, Zuckerberg, Phelps, Gadot and such. We’re the ones who grew up with the oil wars, waco, and school shootings, the birth of the internet, the launch of ISS, and the berlin wall. Did you have a Nintendo? Gameboy? Tomagotchi? Pikachu? Playstation? Was the movie…
Americans Are Always Wrong – Great War Version
by Eric Blankenburg America should have never gotten involved in the Great War. Without American involvement the war would have ended with a new balance of power like previous European wars. There wouldn’t have been an absolute surrender, reparations imposed by the French, and the German hyperinflation, all of which created the Nazis. There is…
Ancestor Worship Is only Useless if You only Have Sh-T Ancestors.
Ancestor worship is only useless if you only have sh-t ancestors. Indo europeans of every branch have an awesome collection of ancestors to choose from in every single tradition both historical and mythological. I mean it’s an absurdly vast portfolio. There is a reason the sh-tholes don’t practice ancestor worship, we did, china does in…
The Pros And Cons Of Dating An INTP 😉
The Pros and Cons of Dating Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type OMG THIS IS SO PAINFULLY TRUE LOL Pros of Dating an INTP: Thoughtful and deliberate. Talking to them for five minutes is like taking a drug that makes you see everything differently and experience reality in a fun new way. Said drug cannot be overdosed…
How Russians Got Yanukovych out Of Ukraine
(I thought he was on the presidential plane I was tracking to Dubai. But apparently the plane was loaded with money, gold, and valuables – as a distraction. He had a private helicopter pad in the city center. ) “Yanukovych used Russia’s aircraft to flee from Ukraine” (today) The man tells court Yanukovych and his…
We Win Either Way
You don’t understand. The reason to spend so much time on the philosophy, the law, the new constitution, its applications, the arguments, training others to conduct those arguments, is to prevent them from lying about our intentions and demands. There is nothing more profoundly moral than voluntary reciprocity. And if they use force to suppress…
The Coming “unpleasantness” (revolts)
—“Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polarization, how likely is it in America that the country will enter an era of large-scale sectarian violence at some point in this century?”— A Friend by Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine I’ve stated since 2006 that we would have a violent revolution between…