No Place for the Ineffable?
–“So the ineffable has no place?”–Ramsey I find ineffability to be an exceptional excuse fo preserving obscurantism and deceit. There is nothing inexplicable. There are things we merely are too ignorant to explain. As far as I know any human experience is conveyable by one means or another. The causal explanation of that experience is…
Individual Man The Animal, Warrior Man The Human.
Men. You are disposable to women, and disposable to politicians, and disposable to intellectuals. The only brothers you have, to whom you are not disposable are brothers in arms, the sergeants, captains, and generals who depend upon you. And the generations of warriors before you, and those that may yet follow you if you do…
Only Autists, Narcissists, And The Anti Social Can Be Fooled By Rothbardianism.
It’s actually pretty obvious that the only person who could think like a rothbardian libertarian is an autistic or narcissist that has only limited understanding of himself, and no understanding of others, and near total buy-in of the Marxist view of history claiming man was oppressed. When the opposite is true: man was forcibly domesticated…
What’s Missing From The Ten Commandments?
@curtdoolittle —“We could live only by 10 commandments refined.”– The 10 commandments did not tell us how to speak the truth, only that we should not lie, steal, kill. That is its failing. That the commandments (truths) were delivered to us by lies, does not help us either. Natural law says the same, but truthfully.…
The Ony Authority Is Totality Of Consequence
***There is no authority but totality of consequence*** Forever ignorant, forever ill-informed, forever limited by reason, we have increasingly general rules to rely upon when we must make the dozens if not hundreds of decisions we make daily. To make those decisions, we rely upon those methods of decision making we call manners, ethics,…
The Revolution is Here
Metaphysics of Correspondence with Action – Realism, Naturalism, Complete Scientific Realism (Testimonial Realism), Defeating the Red Queen. Testimonial Truth – Complete Warranty of Due Diligence Propertarianism – Ethics of Property in Toto: non-imposition of costs. Nomocracy – Rule of Law, Universal Standing, Universal Application Market Government – Post Monopoly Production of Commons, Market for Production,…
Even Testimonialism Will Not Herald The End Of History
In lower trust countries people justify their various forms of lying just as we high trust people justify the externalities caused by our combination of linguistic conveniences, methodological habits, variations in morality and ethics, and of course political correctness That does not mean that just as we live considerably better than all these lower trust…
Truth is a Subtractive Process. It’s Opportunity that’s Additive.
TRUTH IS SUBTRACTIVE (CRITICAL) NOT ADDITIVE (JUSTIFICATIONARY) We evolved as pot-makers and clay sculptors: constructing what we can with our hands. But the universe beyond our touch is discovered by the hammer and chisel, steadily carving the masterpiece of truth from the stone. Truth is subtractive. What remains after we pull away error, bias, wishful…
Market Production of Commons?
–“I’m confused about the market production of commons”– I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the…
Why Study Philosophy? Well. Don’t.
October 3 at 9:24am · If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of philosophy is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of…
The Intellectual Catastrophe Of Specialization And The Cure For It In Education
Outside of the top 5% in all disciplines: – Physicists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand their own subject, or because they lack the philosophical training to know the difference between general rules of the discipline (dogma) and the epistemological necessity that these general rules provide a shortcut for. – Economists are often…
Sovereignty Not Liberty
Libertarians desire liberty. Aristocracy desires sovereignty. Sovereignty requires rule. Reciprocal sovereignty requires rule of natural law. Liberty results from sovereignty, natural law, and enfranchisement into both. Liberty and Freedom are beggarly terms for sovereignty unearned.
Why Are So Many Scientists Bashing Philosophers?
1 – Philosophy has not kept up with developments: in particular, the universe is saying pretty consistently “I am simple”. 2 – But it is much, much, more than this. It’s that: …… While undergraduate, graduate, and PhD physics programs improves the general understanding of the body politic, undergraduate, and graduate, and a very substantial…
The Divine, Supernatural, Moral, And Scientific
—“Is the universe open for free actions or divine interventions or other special divine actions? Are there reasons for the impossibility claims?”— We have not yet eliminated the possibility. We certainly cannot seem to construct any test of such things. All tests we run that would require human control of outcomes have failed – spectacularly.…
Adding Depth To Taleb’s Insight That Minority Rule Is Superior To Majority.
(Shhh. Its all in the incentives.) Nassim, (edited for clarity) I’ll fortify your thought experiment a bit. To the best of my knowledge the general argument that reflects the evidence is this: 1) The slower the rotation of elites, the more consistent the policies, the least ‘virtue signaling expenditure’, the least waste, and the least…
Aristocracy vs Oligarchy is Simple…
Aristocracy Socializes Gains Into the Commons, and Oligarchy Privatizes Gains Out of The Commons. An Aristocracy increases the capital in the commons and an Oligarchy exploits it. That’s the difference. SIMPLE: ARISTOCRACY +COMMONS, OLIGARCHY -COMMONS
There Is Only One ‘Philosophy’ If We Speak The Truth. The Rest Is Ignorance, Error, Bias And Lies
(very important for anyone interested in philosophy) *(How should we teach Philosophy? Let me tell you.)* One can teach philosophy as historical LITERATURE(Errors, Lies and Failures). Or one can teach philosophy as the evolution of TRUTH TELLING (science). If you want to teach the history of TRUTH then you teach western philosophy – at least…
Are All Set-Arguments Deceptions?
(thought) I’m getting the feeling that all set based argument is just lying. I mean we can TEACH by transferring properties via sets. But you know, you gotta criticize that nonsense once you turn the lightbulb on, oyu gotta look around the room a bit and make sure you see what you think you see.…
Emotions: They’re Just “Treats And Scoldings” For Being A Good Labrador Retrievers On Behalf Of Our Genes.
All our emotions are explicable as rewards or punishments for the discovery of, pursuit of, obtaining of, hoarding of, consumption of, resources of every conceivable kind. That’s it. The universe is a simple place with simple rules of operation. Man is a simple creature with simple rules of operation. We seek to acquire, preserve, and…
AI’s Will Be More Moral Than Humans Unless We Choose Not To Make Them So.
Humans have the ability to choose rationally whether to cooperate, avoid, parasite, or prey upon others. Machines do not need to have this choice. Humans create three organizations in order to make it difficult to prey upon one another. WE would do the same for AI’s. 1) (OSTRACIZATION) Religion, Myth, Tradition, Norm, 2) (BOYCOTT) Finance,…
What Made The West Advance Faster Than The Rest?
The Universal, Reciprocal, Insurance, of Sovereignty To All Who Will Take the Oath. “I will fight for your sovereignty if you will fight for mine.” Brothers in arms first. Family Second. Our People Third. That’s why the west is best. Trust let us evolve faster than the rest. Trust creates economic velocity, technical velocity, and…
You’re White And You’re The Bad Guy? Rule or Be Ruled. It’s Not Complicated.
(by Eli Harman) If you’re a f__king white male, you are the bad guy, the cause of all the world’s problems, the personification of historic evil. That’s the role that has been prepared for you and assigned to you. You don’t get to decline the role. The standard of evil has been updated to including…
Business Terminology
BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY, SCALE. ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control. ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a…
Why Study Philosophy? There Isn’t Much There. It’s in History, Science, Economy.
If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of the SEP is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of useless thing: bottle caps,…
Maybe Some People Catch On. But Others Don’t: Unity By Trade.
(important) I have to continue to crush the Rothbardian fallacy just like I have to continue to crush the neocon fallacy, and the postmodern fallacy. The socialist fallacy has been crushed. And we are in the process of crushing the Keynesian fallacy and the democratic fallacy. But to unite libertarians both artisanal, bourgeoisie and…