Direct Economic (Empirical) Democracy
DIRECT ECONOMIC (EMPIRICAL) DEMOCRACY When we say democracy we could be referring to the use of votes for very different purposes. We could be using them to select representatives. We could be using them to choose preferred commons. We could be using them to select preferred behavior. We could be using them to punish impermissible behavior.…
The Reporter’s Primary Trick
REPORTER’S PRIMARY TRICK Force someone to reduce a complex set of ideas to a sound bite, then develop a straw man criticism of the sound bit that will attract attention by violating the moral intuitions of as many people as possible. Remember, the press is always lying. They are all the product of the Culture…
Yes, Fascism is an Exceptional Extension of Total War
YES FASCISM IS AN EXCEPTIONAL TOOL OF WAR (read this or remain stupid) —“Curt, would you still say fascism possesses a useful albeit temporary function?”—Robert Harris Scott Hayes Fascism has an EXCEPTIONAL short term function. It is a means of marshaling every resource in a nation for war on all fronts: military, trade, economic, financial,…
I Am Not A Populist. Truth and Preference are Independent from one another
I AM NOT A POPULIST I don’t place any weight in ‘popular’ anything. I am not a supporter of democracy whatsoever, unless we mean empirical (economic) democracy. Opinion without warranty (skin in the game) is just self reporting of virtue signals, not demonstrated preference – which always differs substantially. I only care if…
Western Civilization Made Whole
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MADE WHOLE The Cult of Non-Submission The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Sovereign Men Consisting of: …. Acquisitionary Psychology …. …. Testimonial Truth and Epistemology, …. …. …. Propertarian Ethics and Sociology …. …. …. …. The Politics of Markets In Everything, and …. …. …. …. …. The Aesthetics of…
Dear Miseducated World: Logic is at Least Ternary – not Binary
DEAR MISEDUCATED WORLD: Logic is at least ternary, not binary. (Meaning three states, not two) …………… FALSE…….TRUE……..UNDECIDABLE FALSE…..FALSE…….FALSE……UNDECIDABLE TRUE……FALES…….TRUE……..UNDECIDABLE UNDEC…FALSE…….UNDEC…..UNDECIDABLE MATHEMATICS In mathematics, which for millennia was unfortunately the gold standard of logic, we use the word true when we mean either “balanced” (retaining constant relations), or we mean “proven” (possible to demonstrate), because in…
Natural Law, and the Grammar of Operational Language
NATURAL LAW AND THE GRAMMAR OF OPERATIONALISM (propertarianism core)(important) Operationalism like any legal language, or programming language, is grammatically burdensome. It requires you to take your sentence structure to the next level of abstraction and exit the passive voice entirely, as well as all use of the verb to-be. So, as a language, it requires…
Status of “The Book”: Natural Law
ON THE ‘BOOK’ OR BOOKS OF NATURAL LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) Anne (All), You know, I can actually write a short book, “The Law of Nature”, with help from a few others in this group of ours. Although I still need a little help from the “Occultists” etc to color it a bit. Even a few months…
Not Since Slavery…. The White Middle And Working Classes Enslaved
Not since slavery have we seen people work so hard to justify the taking of the productivity of others – (rough quote of thomas sowell)
The Middle and Working Classes Are The Targets of Predation
THE MIDDLE CLASS IS THE TARGET OF PREDATION ****”I see my chief concern from simply living in a world full of relative upper class scoundrels, educated imbeciles and underclass zombies, and a middle and working class that appears to consist of the only moral people extant in western society – and they are the ones…
The Error Of The Ancients: War is Fine But Economics Beneath Them
THE ERROR OF THE ANCIENTS: TALKING BIZ WAS “OH, SO, BOURGEOISE” Aside from the conquest of the west by byzantine mysticism, the central problem of western philosophy was thinking and ruling classes avoidance of the centrality of economics. We get philosophy to circumvent the traditional law. And we get science to circumvent the traditional church.…
How do you approach learning logic, as a ternary “science”?
–“Hi, Curt! Reading your latest piece on Facebook starting as “DEAR MISEDUCATED WORLD”. Interesting piece. I wanted to learn math on my own to accompany my job in life sciences, but was always taken away from the simplistic nature of perspective. I wonder, how do you approach learning logic, the ternary “science” as you suggest?…
Where does a Newbie Start?
—” If I were a total newb what book/books should I start with?”—Ziggy Propertarianism (Natural Law) is a painfully precise language for the amoral comparison between the various categories, values, methods of ‘knowing’, methods of communicating, and means of decidability social orders, as well as making inferior superior, moral and immoral, and true and false…
Aristocracy as Agency: and The Vertical And Horizontal Class Structures
ARISTOCRACY AS AGENCY, AND THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CLASS STRUCTURES. Eli Harman makes a very important point, that I should, and we all should consider, when we refer to western man: that when constructing a class of Western man that we call ‘aristocracy’, which is a ‘class’ regardless of social and economic class, are we…
The Definition and Use of ‘-ISMs’
IMPORTANT OPERATIONAL DEFINITION: “ISM” What do we mean when we use “-ism’s”? ism ?iz?m/ noun informal “a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, that provides categories, values, epistemological methods, and means of decidability in a domain of preferences: typically a political ideology, philosophy, institutional framework, economic model, or an artistic movement. isms separate the categories that…
The Spectrum of Agency
MUST-READ: ON SPECTRUM OF AGENCY DEMONSTRATED BY USE OF TESTIMONY BY BILL JOSLIN —-“Thoughts that might be worth exploring -> Qualification to acquire membership in a class based on demonstrated agency affords commensurability in assessing worthiness. Demonstrate the degree one lives by their own agency dictates which class they belong (vertically) regardless of horizontal class…
The Curse of Puritanism
THE CURSE OF PURITANISM The french and catholic side of my family, which is fairly large, seems to have done fairly well leading upper working and lower middle class lives, with a sprinkling of professionals across the full spectrum. I wasn’t thrilled around them as a kid because the culture gap between my (unconscious) aristocratic…
The Final Word on Rand and Objectivism
Q&A: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RAND AND OBJECTIVISM, AND HOW DOES SHE COMPARE TO PROPERTARIANISM (final word on the matter so to speak) —“Dear Doolittle: What are your thoughts on Ayn Rand and objectivism. What are the similarities between objectivism and propertarianism? What are the differences?Forgive me if you’ve already covered this, I’ve only…
The Copy and Paste Argument Against Libertarianism
THE COPY AND PASTE ARGUMENT AGAINST LIBERTARIANISM — Libertarianism has good ideas — And arsenic has good uses as well. Libertarianism has good ideas in so far as i) it attempts (correctly) to produce an amoral analytic political philosophy by reducing all rights to property rights in the anglo contractualist (anglo-saxon) tradition. And ii) because…
Truth, Law of Information, Natural Law of Cooperation, Physical Law of the Universe
How Many Human Races Are In The World?
Most anthropologists recognize that there are four major race classifications in the world, which include caucasian, mongoloid or asian, negroid or black and australoid. The race classification was created by Carleston S. Coon in 1962. The four major races can then be further subdivided into 30 subgroups. https://www.quora.com/How-many-human-races-are-in-the-world
¡Ser egoista es bueno!
Este post no versa en su entereza sobre la obra de (((Ayn Rand))) que lleva por título “La virtud del egoísmo” sino que busca darle la vuelta a algunos puntos que ella construye, también busca atacar las mentiras de (((Von Mises))) Para muchos de los que acuden a mi blog, desde amigos y colegas, pasando…
Q: “How Do I Learn Philosophy”
(really good piece) [Q]: “CURT, HOW DO I LEARN PHILOSOPHY?” A: WELL THAT REQUIRES DEFINING PHILOSOPHY AND CHOOSING WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN FROM IT. QUESTION —“Hey curt, since… Source: Q: “How Do I Learn Philosophy”
¿Es la democracia el problema?
El problema no es la democracia (entendida como la elección para el liderazgo), el problema recae en una combinación de factores. EL GOBIERNO DISCRECIONAL, en donde los líderes pueden legislar, girar instrucciones y dar órdenes al público que se los permita- Es por ello que existe el imperio de le ley, bajo un conjunto de…
What Kinds Of Job Opportunities Are Available For People With A Phd In Political Economy?
Just as the American and British Economies experienced purges of middle management built up between the period 1920–1980 because of the influence of ‘managerialism’ (socialism), the entire world is about to go through a set of severe employment contractions between now and at least 2025. 1 – political management – on a vast scale.2 –…