Education: We Do It Wrong.
[W]e do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar, rhetoric, logic, moral law, contract). 3) History(technical,organizational,economic,artistic). 4) Arithmetic( arithmetic, checkbooks, accounting, credit and interest, banking), 5) Mathematics(algebra, trigonometry, statistics, calculus), 6) Economics (micro-economics, institutions of cooperation, macro-economics). 7) Physics(physics, chemistry, biology). Note the absence of politics and indoctrination. Get a job as young…
Elegant New Weapon in the Anti-Krugman Wars
—“The real difference between Chicago and MIT macro is Chicago’s commitment to rules over discretion. Milton Friedman’s endorsement of a constant 3% increase in the money supply was meant to minimize the chance of hyperinflation and to make running the Fed a boring job such that investors had clear expectations of how Policy would be…
Q&A: Curt I Don’t Understand Your Criticism of Mises
QUESTION —“I’ve seen you criticize Mises and I’m not sure I’ve fully understood your critique. Would it be fair to compare your criticism to modern science’s correction of the Greeks? I’m referring to the definition of modern science as inductive reasoning based on observation (empiricism) in contrast to the Greeks’ deduction based on self-evident truth.…
Thoughts on RamzPaul’s Guide to the Dark Enlightenment
[R]AMZPAUL’S POINTS (See Video: https://gloria.tv/media/7TcJehsj2GJ_ 1) The term Counter-Enlightenment was taken already. But the Dark Enlightenment is a counter-enlightenment movement. The Dark Enlightenment. (I disagree with conflating the dark ages and the middle ages. Western civic society is largely the result of the late middle ages, not dark ages.) 2) The Cathedral includes the Academy,…
The Destroyers of Truth and Trust
—“That’s where the Politically Correct -shaming comes in. Making sure those that are not susceptible to lies are still brought under control by fear of social ostracism, loss of loved ones, deprivation of income and so on. The [progressives] are bastards, make even acknowledging the truth very expensive. “— James Santagata [T]hey destroy truth to…
The Purpose of the Technologies of Truth and Falsehood.
[T]he purpose of that technology that we call ‘Truth’ is largely one of persuasion. The purpose of that technology we call ‘falsehood’ is largely the prevention of persuasion by imaginary, erroneous, biased, wishful, or deceitful means. In any scale beyond the directly perceivable – meaning beyond no more than 150 people – we cannot rely…
The Battle We Face Today: Non-Parasitic Production of Commons
(important piece) [I] know I’m not the first person to say this, but it’s pretty clear that Russia is not only the ultimate expression of postmodernism (lying), but that it evolved to this state by reforming jewish strategy, philosophy, and law: destroy the trust of the outsiders in order to create demand for authority and…
Apriori and Rational vs Empirical and Operational
—“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba
The Limits of Intelligence and the Challenge of Error
(life’s wisdom) [A]t some point, it seems that greater intelligence is less influential than lack of wishful thinking, lack of accumulated error, accumulating knowledge, the time you invest in problem-solving, and choosing a narrow field of inquiry. We believe true things, but largely we believe partly true things, some what true things and false things.…
The Purpose of Aristocracy: Parenting Man
ARISTOCRACY (PATRIARCHY) IS A CRITICAL RESPONSIBILTY: WE SET LIMITS. WE DON’T ENGAGE IN ADVOCACY. WE PRODUCE THE FIRST COMMONS: THE REQUIREMENT FOR PRODUCTIVE COOPERATION. [O]ur function is to incrementally but consistently evolve our people (and prevent their devolution) by preventing parasitism, and forcing productive cooperation. We force the development of markets for good and services…
You’re Demonstrably Incapable of Self-Rule if Your People are Running to the West
YOU’RE DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE OF SELF RULE IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING TO THE WEST. [E]ither fix your problem at home, hire us to fix it for you (it’s quite easy if you’re honest to fix a society). And if you do neither, out of defense, we must start a new program of colonization and modernization…
Patriarchy: Your Mission is to Create A Market for Commons
(important piece) (challenge of the patriarchy) [Y]our Charter. The demands of your revolution : 1) All cults (religions) require ceremony. They create enfranchisement. Mythology and ritual produce ownership. The more costly to the participants the mythology and ritual, the longer the group will persist, and the more impervious it is to competition. (This rule is…
A Hierarchy of Argumentative Structures
(useful) (learning propertarianism) [T]he next ten arguments you make, try to determine which form of argument the person is relying upon. (Not with me. I have enough to do. Test your cunning elsewhere.) If you do this a few times you will begin to intuit it in every argument. 1) EXPRESSIVE (emotional): a type of…
Racism, Loading and Framing
[G]ad,I was going to point out that it is possible to conduct racist statements through loading and framing for the purpose of rallying or shaming. The problem is that the kind of people who make empirical statements (us), tend not to make morally loaded and framed statements. Since those of our political persuasion do not,…
The Media as Drug Dealer
[I]t doesn’t make financial sense to operate a newspaper. The FT generates 35M of profit per year on over 500M in revenues. That’s what, 7%? The reason to own a newspaper is influence: gossip. Now the financial times is, like the Journal, a financial rather than political newspaper. So by definition it’s an empirical and…
Conceptual Laundry: Twitter.
Philosophy, to be true, must be critical. There are no answers in philosophy itself. It’s conceptual laundry detergent. Philosophy consists either of telling us how to speak truthfully, or it is just a means of loading, framing and overloading The greatest lies in history have been produced philosophically: monotheism, marxism, freudianism, postmodernism. Philosophy has done…
All Truth Is Negative In Government Too
[T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion…
Human History as Tribes not Governments
[S] tatists and Priests love to teach the history of governments to give them legitimacy. But just as mathematics ought to be taught as a sequence of historical problems humans had to overcome, and we would understand it very easily, if we taught human history as the evolution of how our tribes evolved and expanded…
First Principles of Propertarian Ethics: Non-Parasitism and Therefore Rational Cooperation
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) [P]ropertarian Ethics: -1 — Time is limited and the only infinite scarcity 0 — Man is a costly form of life in an unpredictable universe. 1 – Man must acquire resources to live within this unpredictable universe. 2 – Man must act to acquire and inventory resources: 3 — Man must defend…
Contractual Commons: Law is Discovered, Contracts and Exchanges are Made.
[W]e can produce a market for un-consumable commons using a government just as we produce a market for consumable private goods. But that law and commons are two different things. But there is no reason whatsoever, that knowing how to construct the common law, government should be capable of producing law. It cannot. Law is discovered, contracts and…
Public Economics of Marriage
[M]arriage is, first and foremost, a contract between two parties, husband and wife. And this contract is originally set up to last for all eternity — till death do them part. As such, two married people (Family, in the following) form an economic union with responsibilities deriving from the contract, if so specified explicitly, or…
Refreshing Memories: Charts.
We Have A Simple Choice
[T]ruth, Trade and Liberty (Propertarianism) –vs– [L]ies, Takings, and Authority (Socialism) (Choose wisely.)
What Is Critical Rationalism?
[C]ritical Rationalism is an epistemology developed for scientific inquiry. It is the inverse of justificationary rationalism. ASSERTIONS: 1) That justificationism tells us us nothing about truth content (you can support something as much as you want but that does not make it true.) 2) That the means of creating an hypothesis are irrelevant. Instead, if…
How Can I Reform Critical Rationalists?
(important question) [I]s it hopeless? In other words, I think I understand the (libertarian) cognitive bias that draws people to critical rationalism. But that bias is in favor of stimulation junkies – novelty and the signaling value of superior intellect. 1) Now, first, how do I show that it’s one thing to acknowledge the necessity of…