Eli Apologizes for American Yankees
[I] want to formally apologize to the world for the part America has played in pushing women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, egalitarianism, democracy, and all the other hallmarks of progressivism. We didn’t kill enough Yankees. That’s a mistake I hope we can someday rectify. But in the meantime, I’m deeply and sincerely sorry. We’ve…
The Problem Isn’t Democracy Per Se, But the Combination of Democracy and Women
COOPERATION MATTERS. Not just cooperation between members of the PRODUCTIVE economy, but between members of the REPRODUCTIVE economy: men and women. We have to cooperate. Not parasite. OTHER WISE COOPERATION IS NOT PREFERABLE TO PREDATION. And under predation, men will win. —“Democracy has brought us both the death of Socrates and the election of Hitler. It…
Genetic Bias Toward Philosophical Systems
[R]OMAN ON THE GENETIC USE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR STATUS SEEKING —If I understand correctly, your novelty is arguing that ideas are the structure and genes are man’s accommodation of them. You can say ideas (civilization) and genes inform each other. Perhaps the influence of ideas is underestimated. I don’t think it’s correct to say that…
Institutions not Genetics. Epigenetic or Otherwise.
[E]pigenetics is interesting but it doesn’t help me with institutions. As far as I can tell, we don’t need to ‘persuade’ anyone of anything. We just need to outlaw the entire spectrum of lying in addition to fraud theft violence and murder and to create universal standing in matters of the commons, and natural incentives…
Michael Philip on Malthus (Smart)
[F]rom Michael Philip I view Malthus as a tempered social revisionist who knocked down myths, thought in terms of social science mechanisms (he had both supply and demand and Keynesian macro in surprisingly sophisticated forms, not to mention an early form of Darwin’s theory of evolution), and was painfully aware of the importance of contingent…
Taleb is On Board with Tribalism
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Why GREECE, GREXIT, and “EUROPE” are an unnatural proto-Nazi “Aryan” construction — or why putting Teutons and Greeks together isn’t the smartest (and most stable) idea. Nor is it natural. The least *unnatural* union for Greece is some sort of *loose* Mediterranean League of City States (and another minor Balkan connection). But again,…
Religions Come In Many Forms
[T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we…
Names (truth) vs Analogies (deceits)
[A] sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operations. An experience or an observation or an imagination of cause and effect is an analogy. Names may or may not convey meaning. THey may or may not convey loadings which we, as moral creatures, feel are terribly important. But operations are…
No More Slavery, Conquest, and Colonization
[S]o if we cannot parasite upon others, and control their reproduction (slavery) then why can others parasite upon us and limit our reproduction (through redistribution and taxation)? If we cannot colonise others, then why can others colonise us? Forcible Redistribution Is Slavery. Forced immigration is colonisation. Statism is Slavery. Nationalism. Meritocratic immigration. Source: Curt Doolittle
End Libertinism: Prosecute Liars
THE PROSECUTION CONTINUES. —-“Kurt, whenever I hear someone say the laws of science prove X, I know that they do not know the history of science. Science never speaks for all time and it never has. I am saying that the use of history as if it were an experiment of science is fallacious. So…
Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional
(important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because…
Are We Too Primitive a Breed or Race to Compete?
[S]maller brains, greater aggression and greater reproduction defeat larger brains and lower aggression and lower reproduction? Is this a permanent equilibrium? Or is this one of those processes that is deterministic, and that eventually all the calm, smart people are outbred and conquered by the aggressive impulsive dumb people? You know, he was wrong about…
Libertines are Infected, But We Have the Cure: Propertarianism
[D]ear Cosmopolitan Libertines: You’re Infected. Infected with a virus of the mind. When you hear the word commons, you’ve been misled by the artificial limits to the category of property established by the principle of ‘intersubjectively verifiable property’: material things. Yes, material things may be scarce. But cooperation is more scarce. And cooperation is always…
Bronze Age Europe – Where We Come From
RECOMMENDED BRONZE AGE EUROPEAN HISTORY BOOKS JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe Source: Curt Doolittle
Propertarianism is Radical not Reactionary
Josh Jeppson said something smart last night: that Propertarianism isn’t conservative (reactionary) but innovative. That’s true. But then, how do I position it? —“You don’t want to go back to something (maybe some things but not all), so you’re not a reactionary, you don’t want to conserve what we have so you aren’t a conservative,…
Mainstream Econ is the Study of Deception
[M]ainstream Economics is not a practiced as a science of cooperation man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation by reducing transaction costs and uncertainties but how to force consumption for the purpose of increasing employment. Of course the simplest method of achieving the same result is to stop…
What Is A Unique Characteristic Of Capitalism As An Economic System?
The voluntary organization of production. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-a-unique-characteristic-of-capitalism-as-an-economic-system
What Is The Significance Of Jean Baudrillardâ´s For A Critique Of The Political Economy Of The Sign?
As an activist philosopher engaged in restoring modernism I see Baudrillard’s work as one of the death rattles of postmodernism. But that does not mean that it is not possible to restate some of his ideas in ratio-scientific terms. And that is, that as we grow in prosperity, our patterns of consumption changes from survival,…
Choice Words on Cooperation
—“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most…
Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.
[A] couple of thoughts for you: GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. PRODUCTION Capitalism isn’t a form of government. It’s often inarticulately referred to as an…
Critique vs Criticism
[C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique). – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).– Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit. Moralizing…
Useful, Useless, and Harmful…
—“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Source: Curt Doolittle
Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination
[T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle
Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories
[P]riceless —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance.…
Retrospect. Babbage Could Have Saved Us A Century?
[W]ell, I in retrospect I understand why no one else solved the problem of the Wilsonian synthesis: the merger of science and philosophy. Why no one else came up with testimonialism, propertarianism, and operational criticism. Also in retrospect, I am fairly certain that had Babbage’s machine been built and worked, that the synthesis would have…