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Curt Doolittle’s answer: Every person who does evil, does not do so because he thinks he is evil, but because his actions are warranted – either via punishment, retribution, restitution, profit, or some version of ‘getting his or her fair share’ (which is the justification we make for most of ou…
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WHEN I SAY ‘NO COUNTRY HAS EVER BEEN SO FRAGILE, AND NO GOVERNMENT SO DESPISED AND REVOLUTION IS TRIVIAL’ — this is the reason why. Three hours of electricity. two days of water, three days of food. In the LA Riots …..
Minimum Requirements For Libertarian Identity
—“And you call yourself libertarian. Lol”— So you mean, you don’t understand semantics, grammar, consistency, correspondence, coherence, parsimony and falsifiability? The only requirement for a libertarian identity is sovereignty, and therefore reciprocity, and therefore reciprocal insurance of sovereignty and reciprocity. Ergo, there is no condition under which untruthful speech does not violate…
—“But What Did Rothbard Innovate?”—
—“BUT WHAT DID ROTHBARD INNOVATE?”— 1 – (Respectfully) I always think that’s a rather ridiculous question since of empiricism (Aristotle), Self Improvement(Zeno), Moral Literature (Plato), and Rational Mythology (Augustine), it’s easy to state that all of philosophy is merely footnotes stated in current vocabulary. 2 – My reading of rothbard, particularly “for a…
—“RE: BUT A PLANNER CANNOT KNOW WHICH RAILROAD IS ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT TO BUILD”—
—“RE: BUT A PLANNER CANNOT KNOW WHICH RAILROAD IS ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT TO BUILD”— (Responding only because some well intentioned fool ‘liked’ your reply) That’s false. Because all differences in economic productivity are reducible to time. Calculation is possible. The problem is competition that determines price, not the method by which price is…
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Curt Doolittle’s answer: Russians (and Putin) were restoring their influence and status in the world. Prior to 2013, Putin was the most respected politician in the world, an idol of the american right, and on the cover of magazines as a hero. The problem was, that when the Ukrainian Maidan Revol…
Positive Freedoms Cannot Exist
Positive freedoms cannot exist because they force others to bear your costs against their will. Only negative freedoms are equally extensible to all because they ask us NOT to do something. Rights are merely positive expressions of the right to sue for restitution. So it is ‘Freedom FROM’ false, criminal, unethical, and immoral display,…
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Hayek started with a theory of cognition and revolutionized thought. Peterson started in psychology with libertarian sentiments. I started in Artificial intelligence. I dont know hicks’ original line of thought but he has been libertarian. i wouldnt call taleb libertarian, but possibly a sovereigntarian but he came to his conclusions using computer models also. we…
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but then it is status that drives affinity for leftism: the frustration with low social, sexual, economic, and political market value under market meritocracy. the reason marx was wrong was that the principal beneficiaries of consumer capitalism were consumers (labor). capitalism has been the great leveller of consumption. the only difference between the classes…
Peterson’s Ideas In The Context Of Intellectual History
1 – I go slumming on all sides of the debate, and fans of correspondence with any of the three dimensions of the coercive compass are equally convinced their intuitions are supported by experience, reason, and science. 2 – The fact that the current reaction to the status quo is not yet part of…
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1) Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks, 2) Maps Of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson, 3) Psychology And Alchemy by C.G. Jung, 4) Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, 5) The Sword And The Shield by Cristopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, 6) New Lies For Old by Anatoliy Golitsyn, 7) Disinformation by Lt Gen Ion…
Why Are Medical School Acceptance Rates Significantly Higher For African Americans And Latinos Than For Whites And Asians With The Same Gpa/mcat Scores?
Anti-white (Male) bias, and the dominance of academic postmodern virtue signaling. Really, that’s the only reason. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Medical-School-acceptance-rates-significantly-higher-for-African-Americans-and-Latinos-than-for-whites-and-Asians-with-the-same-GPA-MCAT-scores
Why Do You Think The West Should “rediscover” Russia?
Russians (and Putin) were restoring their influence and status in the world. Prior to 2013, Putin was the most respected politician in the world, an idol of the american right, and on the cover of magazines as a hero. The problem was, that when the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution occurred, and protests spread to St Petersburg…
If An Iq Test Was Embedded Within A Popular And Highly-addictive Video Game, Would The Players Develop The Ability To Score Extremely Well On Iq Tests?
No. All tests are renormalized regularly to compensate for adaptive effects and therefore to preserve the distribution. It is a very precise science. https://www.quora.com/If-an-IQ-test-was-embedded-within-a-popular-and-highly-addictive-video-game-would-the-players-develop-the-ability-to-score-extremely-well-on-IQ-tests
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There is a vast difference between freedom to ridicule, shame, gossip, obscure, load, frame, overload, suggest, fictionalize, deceive, lie, and defraud, promote free riding, parasitism, predation – and speaking with reciprocity (morally), and truthfully.
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The difference is that both those who manage to read them and those who do not attribute equal value to your opinions. Men do not give weight to the words of those lacking responsibility over their minds,emotions, and bodies. Men possess agency and mere domesticated animals don’t
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If you had an argument you’d make one other than demonstrate your ignorance of intellectual history, by schoolgirl disapproval, shaming, gossip and rallying. You’re demonstrated evidence of the veracity of his arguments. Those who cannot argue the facts gossip rally and shame.
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If I make statements that are consistent, correspondent, coherent, reciprocal, and fully accounted, then why must I say something NEW in order to say something TRUE? Each generation restates wisdom literature in generational prose. Hence persistence of paradigms over generations.
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http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/social-impact-bow-and-arrow-prehistoric-america-009759
Worth Repeating
Anything important that can be said about economics or law, can only be said about externalities. The only way to restore libertarianism to the discipline of the natural law of reciprocity in the anglo saxon tradition, is to return commons and externalities to the discourse. !!!!Only Commons Produce Private Property!!!!
Hayek Vs Mises (Responding To Bob Murphy)
1- Mises always and everywhere only addresses commodities (cherry picking) and never addresses the rest of the capital stack which makes commodity trade possible – particularly tacit knowledge capital (all paradigms). Hayek’s Serfdom includes ALL capital. 2 – Of calculation and incentive, incentive, norms, traditions, and institutions, have been demonstrably superior to calculation in…
Pope?
Too liberal? He’s looked at the numbers and the church is and always has been a business – and he’s following the incentives: the church is only going to survive in room temperature IQ communities. Foolish because it’s not that we don’t want the church. We just want our own.
The Frequency Of Disasters
The causal relation between disasters and frequency is population density to lower the cost of infrastructure so that taxes can be directed to the bureaucracy’s payroll and pensions (really, thats the reason).
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—“We suffer under Universal-Suffrage Authoritarianism.”— Steve Pender
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( I quote the church all the time, but I translate the work of the scholastics into secular prose)