Walter Block’s Libertine Immorality
[H]ere in Ukraine, speculators buy up appointments to apply for visas, and then sell them for 1000UAH (about $50, in a country where people make $200 a month and raise children on it.) Now, according to libertarianism this is moral, ethical, and non-aggression. According to propertarianism (and human nature) this is not a productive, fully…
Definitions: Religion, Ideology, Philosophy, Law. Science
Religion, Ideology, Philosophy, Law. Science A religion consists of a set of myths and rules the purpose of which is to resist outsiders, and to set limits on behavior or to be treated as an outsider and deprived of opportunity and insurance of the in-group. Hence most religions evolve with the weak, who have no…
Quotes
If you eliminate the possibility of political action then the civic society and the market are the only means of achieving one’s ends. – Markets in everything. Natural law: nonparasitic cooperation requires productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer limited externalities of the same criteria. I think the descriptive model is that of king as first…
In The Long Run A Property Regime Matters
(By Adam Voight) [I]n the short term, you have an impasse between property regimes. But in the long term, different property regimes compete for how well they cultivate the potential of what they already have. Those who make better use of their resources outcompete those who do not. This does not depend on declaring genocide,…
Systems of Thought…
—“Curt Doolittle’s ‘propertarian’ ideology is the culmination of hyper rationalist Anglo-American libertarian attempts at reconciling White racial interests with a nominalistic and deracinated worldview. It’s only appealing to sperg dinks and it will fail”—Anonymous RESPONSE [T]his is a great conversation to have. I welcome the criticism. I understand your interpretation. You’re wrong. but I understand…
Compare American and Russian falsehoods.
[D]OMESTICATION 1) The american revolution was an attempt to escape paying for the french and indian war that nearly bankrupted the crown. VS the Russian myth of the nazis was an excuse to conquer more territory, and Russian occupation of eastern Europe set them back a century of development. The germans would have advanced eastern…
Liberty Facilitates Love of Others
-I] love people. I love pretty much anyone who is nice to me. Humans are awesome. Even the bad ones plagued with good intentions are mostly just delusional. Sure there are bad people. But in general I love human beings. Especially when they can’t do anything to me despite their ignorance and good intentions. Liberty…
Of Course It’s Possible and Profitable
[I]f Hadrian can build a wall to keep out the Scots there is no reason that Trump cannot build a wall to keep our the Mexicans. If Obama can push through worldwide regulation of bank accounts for tax evasion, Trump can push through national regulation of wire transfers to Mexico, or even shut down the…
Noose, Pike and Pyre
The Public and Specialists
[B]ecause specialized knowledge is often counter-intuitive, professionals in a discipline overestimate their understanding. This is why economists can only give opinions on very narrow specializations within their craft. Because of the inescapable effect of anchoring, specialists rapidly decline in predictive ability over random surveys of the general population on matters of public behavior. The general…
Confidence in Ignorance
CONFIDENCE IN THEIR IGNORANCE (you see this kind of stupidity from the left and their followers, the muslims) —If socialism is the next stage of human society, why bother fighting for it?— Socialism is impossible. It cannot be the next stage of human society. So the question is not meaningful. –But look at this quote:…
Philosophers Must Ply A Trade
( [I]’m a technologist just like Da Vinci was a siege engine designer, Plato administrator of a school, Bacon a Lawyer, Descartes a Soldier, Montaigne a bureaucrat, and Spinoza a lens grinder. A man must have a trade if he is not to become a parasite. Most men practice both vocations and avocations. For some…
A Priesthood.
A ‘priesthood’ of Judges of the natural law. A King For the defense of the realm. An Army for the Production of Territory Nobility For the Production of Commons. Burghers for the Production of Consumption. Families for the Production of Generations Teachers for the various crafts. Entertainers for relief, and Artists for aspiration. Scientists and…
The British Lead In Serfdom
[B]RITAIN AS A SOURCE OF IDEOLOGICAL CONTAGION —“When I wrote my “state of exception as new paradigm of government” back in 2010/11 I was extremely dissatisfied with it and felt that I was doing conspiracy theory. In fa t, it was one of the charges was thrown way when I defended my thesis. Now, it…
The West Failed in 1900
[W]e had almost everything right prior to 1900. We could have survived Darwin’s repudiation of God. But our thinkers failed to solve the problem of pseudoscience and verbalism as a replacement for divine mysticism. We can solve that now with Truthfulness and defense of the informational commons. We can create a strictly constructed law and…
Good Philosophers Matter
GOOD PHILOSOPHERS MATTER [S]o, as evidence of the importance of philosophers – at least the scientific kind – the failure of the western culture in the 20th century was due to the failure of the western thinkers to solve the problem of truthfulness that would have ended the combination of democracy and pseudoscience in the…
Suggestion both Informs and Deceives
WE ARE BOTH INFORMED AND DECEIVED BY SUGGESTION [W]e should not be surprised, if experience is transferred by the process of using names of properties by means of suggestion, that those who would master deception would do so by the same process of suggestion. Meaning, that one can seek to inform or to deceive by…
Democracy is a Luxury Good that’s the Product of Rule of Law.
[T]he luxury of democratic redistribution is the product of the prosperity that results from the long term application of rule of law, common law, natural law, and eugenic reproduction. Man is naturally parasitic and societies without rule of law, common law, natural law, and eugenic reproduction operate at the maximum corruption possible both at the…
The Rifle Did It. Just As The Spear.
[T]he moment the professional warrior could be countered by the rifleman the domestication of the aristocracy was doomed, because it was the soldier protecting his leaders instead of the leaders protecting their workers. This mirrors the evolution of the spear which allowed the alpha to be controlled, reproduction to be distributed, and women to use…
It Doesn’t Matter Who Rules – Only That We Deny People Rule.
[W]e always get it backwards. It doesn’t matter who rules. Only that we deny people the ability to rule. We deny them through rule of law. A king is but a judge of last resort. A government but an insurer of last resort. A parliament but a market for the production of commons: a market…
Modern Military Thought is Not Helpful In Revolutionary War
[A] friend brings up an important topic and that is that revolutionaries and soldiers, and revolution and combined arms warfare have little to do with each other. You already hold the territory Your objective is not to concentrate forces but to act randomly. Your cost of territorial possession is zero. Your timetable is long. Your…
Render Unto Caesar …
God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science
What is the Next Order? (Bad News for All)
[W]HAT IS THE NEXT ORDER? 0 – Hunter Gatherer led to moral order (Inclusion / exclusion ) Memories. 1 – Farming led to Religious Order (access to larger cooperative-moral groups – ‘knowledge’/ left behind ) Writing. 2 – Trade led to Legal Order ( restitution / punishment / complex-diverse production) Accounting. 3 – Industry led…
Clarifying my Criticism of Nietzsche
Josh asks me to defend this statement: —“he cannot escape the Christianity and moralism he works so hard to overcome”— Refers to his method of argument, and method only. How does one separate the western methods of argument: literary(parable), mythical(allegorical), religious(authoritarian/naturalistic), historical(allegorical), philosophical(internally consistent), scientific(empirical) and testimonial(totally objective)? If you organize western works of intellectual…
Violence is the Resource from Which Institutions of Property are Constructed.
**[W]e must use violence to create the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. If we do not possess sufficient violence then we cannot maintain the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. Therefore the only institutions of property that can exist are the institutions of property we can construct and maintain by…