The Three Characters of Honest Debate
Each of these characters represents one of the three axes of coercion. Put yourself in the center of a triangle with each of them at a corner, and try to achieve a consensus. This is the easiest way to understand the problem of political cooperation. Coercion isn’t possible, only exchange. GHENGIS KHAN — THOMAS JEFFERSON…
Definitions: Decentralization
Q&A: –“Curt, is decentralisation a misnomer?”— GREAT QUESTION: Yes. Decentralization merely refers to redistribution of labor to additional locations without necessarily affecting the methods of decidability and degree of homogeneity. Whereas devolution, disempowerment, and secession are accurate terms since we restore the market and our ability to use it to calculate.
A Correction of “Truth, Goodness, And Beauty”
THE ORIGINAL WASN”T QUITE RIGHT Sovereignty, Truth, Excellence, and Beauty. The original truth, goodness, and beauty betrayed an unfortunate lack of understanding. ……S E….+…..B ……T
The Climate Change Question is a Deception to Distract from the Real Problem: Populations and Energy.
—“Curt: What are your views on anthropogenic climate change?”— The question is not whether the climate is changing (it always does), and not whether we are contributing to it (it seems like we might be), but whether our contributions are meaningful (causing a marginal difference), or whether they are merely noise amidst the normal solar…
It’s Not ‘Bourgeoise To Build An Economy’ You Idiots.
Warriors are cheap because testosterone is cheap. Warfare is expensive. High Art – Monuments, culture, arts – are the result of conquest. So stop wasting my time. Ok? Culture is the result of wealth made possible by the organized application of violence to construct means of production that provide superior technological and logistical advantage. So…
No. Science Is A Moral Discipline Within Natural Law: The Means By Which We Warrant The Truthfulness Of Our Statements.
(Ethelbert, Jesus, and Kant say the same thing) The languages of science(testimony), physical science, propertarianism (social science), natural law (science of dispute resolution), accounting, finance, and economics, (measurement of production), function as the universal language of truth-telling. The discipline of science asks us to warranty that we have performed due diligence on our statements. We…
Tweets
We always, like children, test one another.Sometimes we find the limits.Unfortunately, the limit in politics is the restoration of violence. But be very careful what you do with that violence. Because men are very aware that the proxy is revokable, and we can return to violence. Politics is a proxy for violence between men. A…
Deconflating Religion
—“Are you using religion and monotheism synonymously now?”—William Butchman I”m trying to de-conflate: 1) Narrative: historical, mythical, supernatural 2) Metaphysical Judgments: (in many forms) 3) Group Evolutionary Strategy: (in many forms) 4) Rules: (in many forms) 5) Ritual: (mindfulness in its forms) 6) Festival:(in their many forms) In other words, conflation and truth from…
Is The Cost Of Entry Into A Religion Acceptance of Falsehoods?
There is a difference between a cost of entry into a religion and the content of the falsehoods in the religion. Many cults do not ask us to pay physical costs, but to deny reality as the cost of entry. In fact, is that not the entire premise of the monotheistic religions? The price of…
The Model Is Information – For All Thought.
There is no steady state. the rules are not stateful, but adaptive. There is no ‘done’. genes and culture and norms and institutions all store past information that we can express when needed. It’s not that we are machines that adapt to a fixed set. but that we store a broad range of possibilities…
War and Motherhood are Unsubstitutable Goods
If you claim you are unique, and your life unique, and therefore of value out of uniqueness, then defense is not substitutable. Period. That’s the end of the free riding on defense, disaster, emergency services. You either fight, restore, and react, or you are a free rider. The problem herein is that women cannot fight…
Religion Is Explicable By Scientific Analysis.
Sorry. Just Is. No Magic Necessary. No Superstition Necessary. No Lies Necessary. 1) myth=history/heroes, 2) ritual=plays/stoicism 3) festivals=sports/holidays/feasts That the ancients used primitive concepts in all walks of life where we no longer do is simply an artifact of the process of accumulating particular rather than analogistic knowledge. What makes people feel spiritual is literally…
Is Male Bonding The Source Of Civilization?
(hmmm… well, lets do a propertarian analysis of that question) —“How do you feel about mannerbunds?”—Harrison Baker Well you know, I tend to stay away from silly terminology and instead make operationally testable statements. men evolved to work in groups of brothers to herd women, hold territory, and kill competitors and take their stuff. this…
Definitions: Domestication vs Infantilization
DOMESTICATION: The use of institutions to delay and reduce sexual maturity through intergenerational selection. (the reduction of impulsivity – largely through the reduction of testosterone and estrogen.) –vs– INFANTILIZATION: The use of information to delay and reduce cognitive ability – largely through the distribution of disinformation. Today’s youth have been infantilized, and too many are…
Intellectual History In A Nutshell
0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law) 2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism,…
Why Is Religion – Meaning Myth And Ritual – Necessary?
—“Why are mythology and ritual necessary?”—Doug Decidability, opportunity costs and transaction costs. —“??????”—Doug We coordinate our actions a little bit by clear deliberate choices. But mostly we cooperate by many thousands of tie-breakers that we default to loose theories of the ‘good’: narratives. In other words, religions provide means by which, in those many thousands of choices,…
THE NEW NARRATIVE
0) The End of the conquest of the continent 1) The only value of scale is war at the cost of innovation 2) Self-determination and innovation 3) Devolution or secession or ghettos, or civil war. 4) Preservation of federal insurer of last resort 5) Defense of the informational commons from falsehood and fraud.
You Want Me To Say Something Both Offensive And True?
You want me to say something offensive? Ok. How’s this: what’s a greater crime? The holocaust (the forcible deportation to of a gypsies, jews, and other non-conformists) or the inventions of the infantilizing lies of the Abrahamic religions and Cosmopolitan pseudoscience? (Boaz, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Adorno+Co, Rothbard/Rand, Straussian Neo-Conservatism, Feminism, Postmodernism, and “Political Correctness”?)…
What To Do About The Infantilized Generation?
So what do we do with a generation that has no productive market value, was intentionally infantilized, and has nothing to offer but virtue signalling by giving away via the political process what they did nothing to obtain?
Religion = Infantilization, Truth=Transcendence
***MYTH, RITUAL, NATURAL LAW: MATURATION VS RELIGION, RITUAL, SUPERNATURAL LAW: INFANTILIZATION ***THE PURPOSE OF MYTH AND RITUAL IS THE COORDINATION OF DECIDABILITY*** ***THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION IS INFANTILIZATION***
Definitions of Relations
EMPLOYEE Responsible for own provision of room and board and care from the product of one’s wages. FARMER Holds sufficient land and labor to produce goods not only for consumption but for sale in the market, as personal property. PEASANT Holds a small plot of land farmed by the family, for family consumption, as family…
Democracy, Population Density, and Commons
As a general rule, roughly doubling population density gains a 15% increase in both all goods and all bads. Why? Because the opportunity cost decreases. That should be pretty obvious. But now, let’s take a look at what happens to Commons: normative, institutional, and physical. They get cheaper. But they also get less valuable. Becuase…
An Propertarian Interpretation Of The Timeline Of Philosophy
Myths That Are Realities: Donald Trump vs CATO and Don Boudreaux
Trump Was Right: Productivity versus Employment & Status