Religion Compatible With Natural Law is Not ‘False’
[W]e cannot claim a religion is false if it is compatible and not in conflict with natural law. We can claim it is literature: myth. And that the literature contains truths so far as those truths consist of statements reducible to natural law. To require literature be compatible with physical law is unnecessary in so…
Have we made a catastrophic mistake with our democratic monopoly?
[H]ave we made a catastrophic mistake? Why have we forced all into individualism instead of separated the individualistic from the collectivist? Why must we have either a communist or capitalist order? Must we have a monopoly social democratic order? If we arose under a mix of martial, burgher, and church orders, then why was that…
Men Will Follow Rational Incentives – Women Not So.
(by Eli Harman) [V]oting either directs violence, or it is a substitute for violence. But the actual violence, supplied to carry the vote into effect, will be supplied by men. And the potential violence, which may prevent the vote being carried into effect, will be *not supplied* by men. Therefore, women are utterly superfluous to…
We Must Rule
[W]e must rule. We must restore our tradition of rule. We must rule not because we are right, or best, but because everyone else is demonstrably worse. We must rule because without our rule, humanity has no example to draw from that is not the cancer of the Muslims or the Chinese or the chaos…
Ukraine. An Unpleasant Verdict on Her Future
[I] have been speaking or presenting to Ukrainians a lot of late, and I’ve come to understand that the damage done by Russia to her people and these people, to the Chinese by law, policy, and influence, to the Indians by education and influence, to the west by imitation, and maybe to all mankind by…
Non-Descriptive, Non-Operational Definitions, Are One Of The Reasons for the Failure of Libertarianism
[N]on-descriptive definitions are part of the reason for the failure of libertarianism. With descriptive definitions rather than vague obscurantist “principles” the philosophical vacuousness of the movement is readily exposed. The reason these debates still occur, and the reason this article is just one of thousands of similar pretentions is the fact that the NAP is…
The Disciplines
COMPARISONSArithmetic: Pure number/ scale,time,space independenceMusic: The “Experience” of Numbers Accounting: Corresponding Units (commensurability)Algebra: Operations and States (symbolic manipulations)Geometry: stationary spacePhysics/Astronomy: movement in space and time Calculus : Relative changeStatistics: Similarities in different DistributionsEconomics: Similarities of distributions in Equilibrium PHYSICSPhysics of the observable.EcologyBiologyChemistryGeneticsPhysics-of-the-unobservable TESTIMONYVocabulary: SymbolsGrammar: OperationsLogic: Internal ConsistencyRhetoric: Persuasion(Transfer)Testimony: (due diligence)Prosecution: (criticism)Jurying (Judging): (decidability) ARGUMENTExpressive: (pre-rational)Sentimental (intuitionistic)Moral (Normative) Reasonable (sympathetically testable)Historical (analogical)Rational (justificationary):Empirical …
Prosecution(Judging) is the Objective of the Curriculum.
[T]hanks for an interesting question by Megan Cyloneight today, I was able to understand that I had to add ‘prosecution’ to the curriculum, in order to change the student of western civilization from a christian servant to an aristocratic judge. 0) The matters of europa (ancient literature): Fairy Tales, Myths, Histories.1) Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Testimony,…
Quotes
—Fantasizing about desirable end points demonstrates one’s ignorance. Knowledge consists of knowing existentially possible operations, and how to arrange those operations to produce the desired outcome.— —IQ Maters, but so do impulsive, frustrated, solipsistic, narcissistic, and schizotypal personalities. Reality angers, denial comforts them.— —It’s frustrated. solipsistic, narcissistic, or schizotypal people who desperately fight to deny…
Truth, science, philosophy, law, aesthetics are identical
[T]RUTH GOODNESS(MORAL) AND BEAUTY = SCIENCE Testimony: Identity (Categorically consistent) Internally (Logically) consistent Externally Correspondent (Empirically Consistent) Existentially Possible Parsimonious (fully accounted, parsimonious, limits) Moral (productive, fully informed, warrantied voluntary transfers) Beautiful (craft, aesthetic, moral, resources) That would mean that truth, science, philosophy, law, aesthetics were identical. THE GRAND SEQUENCE Truth, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Liberty,…
Jay Dyer: Responding to the Schizotypal Fringe
RESPONSE TO THE SCHIZOTYPAL LUNATIC FRINGE I always respond to attacks when I find out about them. I just wish some of them were worth responding to. (the nietzcheans have provided the only meaningful criticism to date). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbBXZGPS58 NOTES ON AUDIO 1) It is irrelevant how many people listen, it’s only relevant who listens. There…
Q&A: Curt, Why Is There White Trash?
[W]HY IS THERE WHITE TRASH? —Curt: Can you explain the whole white trash phenomenon? How can a country so wealthy and full of opportunities have white trash? I anticipate that your answer is likely to be “it’s all IQ” or something along these lines, but aren’t there opportunities for dumb people as well?—- “All happy…
Attack on Profit Seeking using Virtue Signalling by an Ex Prostitute
[A]TTACK ON PROFIT SEEKING USING VIRTUE SIGNALING BY AN EX PROSTITUTE(choice quotes for your rhetorical armory) a) Author’s article is nothing but an act of personal promotion for drumming up business by yet another western example of pretentious virtue signaling. It is another kind of whoring. But in the end whoring none the less. The…
The Next Grand Narrative of Man May Be The Long Sought Social Science
[T]he Next Grand Narrative? 1) The evolution of all disciplines has been away from myth to reason to calculation: a set of operations. (Webber). 2) I think that the output narrative produced by this age will look far more like social science than philosophy. 3) I think that just as previous revolutions in the the…
We Must Rule
[T]o decide requires decidability. We decide because we know how to.To rule is to decide. We rule, because we know how to rule. To lead and to rule are very different things.Many can lead because the problems and opportunities vary.Few can rule because decidability is does not vary.Some Lead by preference, we Rule by truth.We…
Sticky: No Racism Please. Aristocracy, Liberty, Prosperity are Universals
Please don’t bring that stuff here. I work against fraud and deception in all matters political. And yes, truths are truths, but criticisms are not solutions, they’re excuses for not looking in the mirror at the person responsible for the current state of things. Act. Solve Problems. Don’t complain.
The Costs of The Seen vs The Unseen
[T]HE COST OF THE SEEN VS THE UNSEEN (what is the cost of lying) What is the cost of requiring due diligence of truthfulness in speech in the commons? That is a silly question. What is the cost of not requiring due diligence of truthfulness in speech in the commons? What is the cost of…
Non Triviality of Revolutionary Ideas
[O]ld Ideas need a reference. A word. New Ideas an extension by analogy. A few sentences. Novel ideas a chain of reasoning. A few paragraphs or pages. Revolutionary ideas, a framework. A few chapters or a book. It’s non trivial.
Terrorists Fight by Drama. Revolutionaries Fight by Attrition
[H]OW TO START A REVOLUTION —I have been following your movement for a while now and I was wondering if you could give a soon-to-be revolutionary some advice on how to start up. thank you for your time.”— 1) Visualization is very close to doing. Visualize. Plan. Rehearse. Do. 2) One can visualize…
Still Stuck with the Success of the German Literary over the Anglo Analytic
[I] am still stuck with the problem : 1) THE THREE CITIES a) The anglos had the right language mode (science), the right political model (rule of law common law), the right commons model (market for commons) but the wrong theory of man (equality),. b) the germans had the wrong language model (literary rationalism), a…
Reason Magazine’s Straw Man Attack on Trump Illustrates The Poverty Of Libertinism
[R]eason’s Straw Men : RE: http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/06/the-alt-right-is-wrong-trump-is-an-enemy –“Some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters believe he is the only candidate who will defend Western culture from its enemies both foreign (illegal immigrants, Muslims) and domestic (cultural relativists, campus leftists).”— No, we believe he is the only candidate that will transform the administration from an ideological to…
The Problem Is Paying for the Initial Stages
[T]he longer I work on the necessity of a judicial priesthood, the longer I study the Templars(bankers), the Inquisition(judges), the closer I come to the model I’m looking for. The problem is always paying for the initial stages. The first phase must produce sufficient confiscation that the men can be fed and armed. Yet wholesale…
I Am Almost Guaranteed to Offend You At Some Point
[G]UARANTEED OFFENDER I am guaranteed to offend almost everyone. Why? Because to the last, just like all other people, you start with some axiomatic principle that you hold dear, but which is false. We are all rational actors. Saints and sinners all. The question is not how we have been in the past, but what…
The Best Curriculum is Not Ron Paul’s. It’s Pacifist Judeo-Christian – not Aristocratic.
[T]HE BEST CURRICULUM? —“Curt, would you recommend Ron Paul’s Mises-based homeschool curriculum as the best option out there for parents?”— Megan Cyloneight “Best” I don’t know. Ron Paul’s curriculum is pacifist. It produces good middle class universalist judeo-christians. Good subjects. People who can easily be conquered. To create aristocracy I would add to it: 1)…
The West vs East in a Nutshell: Innovate vs Stagnate. Prohibit vs Prescribe.
[T]here is a vast difference between a Western culture that merely prohibits ‘bads’, and Eastern cultures that proscribe ‘goods’. That this difference is also the difference between science and mysticism may be lost on all but the few. That which may be good is anything that is not bad. That which may be true is…