Category: Thoughts

Stephan ( and all of us ) are moving to the right for the simple reason that the libertarian assertion that the nature of man is identical to the libertarian personality and our moral bias merely yearning to be free, is as false as is the progressive assertion that the nature of humans is altruistic…

***Liberty is the condition produced by the disciplined identification and enforcement of natural, judge-discovered, common law that evolves to prevent and resolve conflict and consequent retaliation spirals, so that we may maintain the disproportionate value of cooperating on production, despite the constant incentive to engage in murder, violence, harm, damage, theft, fraud, fraud by omission,…

WHY? DO WE TEACH RELIGION? COST AND ERROR. – Myth must only be envisioned and accepted. – Philosophy must be reasoned and understood to be envisioned and accepted. – Science must be measured, reasoned, and understood, to be envisioned and accepted. 1) Myths are easier to teach than measurement, calculation and reason. 2) Myths are…

You possess Liberty when you rule – else you have but permission. The purpose of rule is to prevent others from ruling – so that you possess Liberty in fact not permission. But this condition can only survive if you have numbers sufficient to deny competitors the ability to rule. But to work together in…

ALEXANDER In the 3500 year old battle between the aristocracy(how we live) and the dictatorship(how most of the world lives) he was the first great general to defeat the first great threat to our civilization (our aristocratic civilization): the Persian Empire, and as a consequence the totalitarianism of the river civilizations, making the world safe…

ARE EMOTIONS RATIONAL? AND WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SO SUCCESSFUL IN DECEIT. AND WHY I AM AN ANTI-PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHER (read this: very very very important synthesis) (A) as far as I know all emotions reflect a reaction to a change in state of some form of inventory ( property ). ( b) as far as I…

THE WORD “SOVEREIGNTY” AS USED BY THE CLASSES – Sovereignty : Aristocracy – Organizing the Polity. – Liberty: Burghers – Organizing the Economy. – Freedom: Laborers – Transforming resources – “Positive Freedom”): Consumption: women, children, and the underclasses

(read for some good useful arguments) Women were ineffective at leaving ‘extraordinary’ marks on history for a number of obvious reasons: 1 – Strength, athleticism, bravery, loyalty, and cunning provided marginal differences in groups that made possible disruptions in society. Consensus does not produce change, but regularity. 2 – All progress is achieved through either…

Let me repeat that so that it doesn’t get lost: we tell stories of great achievement because it is the only possible way of conveying heroism: desirable action at the extremes. We teach the valuable exceptions that produce the valuable rewards for high risk. We do not tell people stories of regularities that are in…

(worth repeating) —“Curt! Write a book on this!.”— lol…. WTF do you think I am doing? 🙂 I don’t write this  ***  for my own entertainment. 🙂 Anyway, this is the general thesis of the book: The Law of Nature. We invented sovereignty, and from that we developed western civilization as an extension. As we…

Programming is as important an innovation in thought as is empiricism. Because while empiricism is but correspondent and logic is a but question of sets, programming is operational (existential). I think the act of creating databases is about as close to philosophizing as you can come, but it involves the same problem as logic: as…

ENDING THE POLLUTION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (important) (I figured out how to talk about suggestion) The pollution of philosophy with the verb “to be”: creating nonsense problems because our minds do not seem able to avoid the confusion created between experience and existence when we say “is” or “are”. So…

ENDING THE POLLUTION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (important) (I figured out how to talk about suggestion) The pollution of philosophy with the verb “to be”: creating nonsense problems because our minds do not seem able to avoid the confusion created between experience and existence when we say “is” or “are”. So…

I may not like the fact that being male makes me expendable. But I must live with the reality of the division of reproductive labor. On the other hand, I am perfectly happy, if not thrilled, to set the terms by which my expendability may be exercised. I am willing to kill and die for…

Logic is written as is legislation. Testimonialism is written as natural law. This is the origin of the conflict: legislation and mathematics, rather than natural law and physics. What does that mean? That law is written as a command. That logical statements are written as promises. The physical statements are written as hypotheses.

  [T]he cycle of history in genes, polities, economies, and knowledge is the same: A new opportunity to exploit is discovered by those capable of exploiting it. The innovators profit from the cooperation of followers. The followers and those who profit expand in a hierarchy or school until one of the following occurs: 1 –…

[W]hy don’t we just rename each branch of econ operationally instead of geographically: 1 – Austrian: Economic Social Science. 2 – And then follow with Chicago: Economic Rule of Law. 3 – And follow finally with Saltwater: Economic Discretionary Spending. There is plenty of reason there is such conflict between schools over method when the…

  Law is expensive. Religion is cheap. Naval rule is cheap. Army rule is expensive. Aristocratic rule is cheap. Republican rule is expensive. Began with aristocratic Rule(personal service) Ended with Republican rule (bureaucracy) Rome began with a naval empire defending sea trade. Ended with a landed empire, defending territorial trade. Began with Expensive law(Truth), Ended…

[W]e make the mistake that norms are in fact moral when they may in fact not be. We call norms moral just like we call legislation law. But norms may or may not be decidably moral and legislation and regulation may or may not be decidably law. So positive normative moral pretenses, and negative objective…

[Y]es, one can attempt to order the human world by constructing power to suit one’s imagination. Or you can deny the ordering of the world by power, so that only nature limits our construction of the world, not we. In my opinion, from the simple proposition that faster calculation will defeat slower calculation, and certainly…

[I]mmorality = impediment to cooperation and incentive to retaliation and its consequence to the voluntary organization reproduction, of production of goods, services, commons, dispute resolution, and defense – vs it’s opposite. That which we defend (property) = that which we have expended our resources in order to obtain by homesteading, transformation(production), or productive, fully informed,…

(apologies to the author but I must keep these ‘finds’ in my database. The internet is not dependable enough.) By Lee Jussim [T]HE LONGSTANDING AND LOGICALLY INCOHERENT EMPHASIS ON STEREOTYPE INACCURACY Psychological perspectives once defined stereotypes as inaccurate, casting them as rigid (Lippmann, 1922/1991), rationalizations of prejudice (Jost & Banaji, 1994; La Piere, 1936), out…

By Eli Harman (IMPORTANT POST) [T]he following is my condensed restatement of Jason Cogwell’s theory of confirmation bias as a collective cognition strategy. There are a great many instances where making a generalization could be useful, helpful, or necessary. But most people aren’t in posession of enough information to make rigorous and defensible generalizations very…

[P]orque nosotros somos compatibles, y necesitamos el uno del otro. Alguno de nosotros trabajamos, otros trabajamos en gerencia, algunos calculamos y diseñamos, algunos de nosotros organizamos, y algunos otros decidimos qué organizar, calcular, diseñar, administrar y sobre que cosas trabajar. Es cuando nosotros determinamos de forma exitosa un método por el cual cada uno de…