Obverse and Reverse
Obverse / Reverse. ——————————— Silver Rule / Golden Rule. Act to Obtain / Act to Defend Non-Parasitism / Property Freedom to / Freedom From Obligation / Right Source: Curt Doolittle
Aristocratic Libertarianism vs Ghetto Libertinism
[Y]ou know, you can put a sign over your head and call yourself a libertarian: an advocate for a condition of liberty, but that doesn’t make you a libertarian. Any more than calling someone an Austrian Economist in the Cosmopolitan wing makes you an Austrian Economist in the German Wing. What makes you an Austrian…
I’m In This Fight For All of Humanity
[I]’M IN THIS FIGHT, NOT JUST FOR MY TRIBE, BUT FOR ALL OF HUMANITY I don’t really care about race. I acknowledge our differences, and I write about our differences as a small number of differences in cognitive distributions. But race and racism doesn’t help me or anyone else solve any material problem. I know…
I Love Everybody. So Go Hang Some Politician 🙂
[I] Love everybody. I’m a Christian. That’s what it means to be Christian. It’s one thing to deny the differences in our distributions. It’s one thing deny we vote in blocks. One thing to want to limit sacrifices to kin. But it’s something altogether different to fucking hate people. This is why I get frustrated…
Civic Evolution
(important idea) (very interesting) [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions: 1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)3) ————->BANK(adds production)?Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?) I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union. But what if your credit union also offered education? Individual + Family +…
Chain of Education
[I]n a family, ***REGARDLESS OF SIZE*** if everyone takes care of educating the rank below them, then the entire group will prosper. It doesn’t work the other way though. ie: democracy is a bad thing. Source: Curt Doolittle
The Free Market is a Fiat Construct, Produced by Organized Violence
[T]he free market itself is a fiat construct. Just as property rights are a fiat construct. Morality, Property, and Free Markets require forcible imposition. The condition of primitive man is one of overlapping rents. Paternalism, Non-kin-Morality, Property and Trade were institutional innovations all of which required the organized application of violence to construct. Neither violence…
ECONOMICS OF CONCURRENCY
[C]oncurrency – e.g. multitasking – is hard, we all know that. In the following post I analyze the economics of concurrency, using the example of a layered conversation with two members, and many concurrent threads occurring in overlapping time intervals. (If you would think it a fun exercise, write up a comment about another topic…
What is the Minimum Basis for the Law Necessary for Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom?
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) (from 2014) THE PROBLEM IS LAW NOT BELIEF [I]t’s true that aggression is immoral, and it’s true that for people to rationally cooperate aggression must be illegal. But this is a deceptively incomplete statement, because we all intuit that aggression is a bad thing, but we almost all differ in what one can…
Universal Grammars of Action and Experience
[I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication. I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any…
Man Creates Truth
[M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking, and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not…
Can The Truth Be A Commons?
(Interesting) —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”— [L]et me state this clearly: “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.” 1) How does truth telling exist? The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and…
Language, Like Genes and Traditions….
[T]he Good, the useless and the bad. —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Curt Source: Curt Doolittle
Operationalism is a Means of Falsification
[A] criticism from Bruce, on my failure to make clear that Operationalism is a means of conducting a test of falsification. –“This monotheistic passion for reduction to operations seems to lead to cul-de-sacs.”— Bruce Caithness Bruce, 1) Operationalism is an attempt at falsification. Just as in math, if we can construct a statement through operations…
Q&A: “Is The Soul Property?”
Q&A: “Curt, What do you say about soul? And its relation to property?” – Mahmoud B. [Y]our indisputable Property is that which you act to obtain without forcing involuntary transfers upon others. Meaning: without {violence,theft, fraud, suggestion, obscurantism, omission, indirection (externality), free riding, socializing losses and privatizing commons, conspiracy, conversion, immigration, war, conquest, and genocide.}…
Fear of Outsiders: Against Psychologism
1) Fear of outsiders is not ‘a thing’ but a universal human reaction. Or at least it is outside of northern europeans. It is not an irrational fear. It is a rational fear. That is why humans bear the intuition. It is an instance of the disgust response. 2) The Fear of Catholics and Jews…
Will We See A Post-Religious Future?
[G]iven that we see a decline in religiosity. 1) ON ARATIONAL VS RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL ETHICS – Rationalism (rational ethics) increases as IQ increases – Religiosity (arational ethics) increases as IQ decreases. – Impulsivity and crime increase as IQ decreases. – There is a positive correlation between non-criminality and religion as IQ decreases. (The whole…
It’s Either Rights of Association or Slavery
[F]reedom requires: 1 – Right of Entrance / Exit. 2 – Right of Association / Disassociation. 3 – Right of Trade / Boycott If you cannot exit, determine, association and disassociation, choose whom to trade and whom to boycott, then you are a slave. Period.
Islam vs Protestant (Germanicized) Christianity
[I]slam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It mereley means it is more competitive. 1) hatred is proscribed / hatred is prohibited 2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited 3) lies are permissible / lies are…
The First Principles of Propertarian Ethics
[M]an. 1 – Man must acquire resources.2 – Man must act to acquire resources.3 – Man must act cooperatively to disproportionately improve acquisition of resources.4 – Man must act to preserve and extend cooperation to preserve the disproportionate rewards of acquisition through cooperation.5 – Man acts to preserve and extend cooperation by the suppression of…
The Church Amplified Western Civilization. It Did Not Create It.
[T]he Church federalized the Aristocracy into The Christian Monarchies. And the Church amplified our hunter-gatherer lack of aggression. But that is very different from saying that the Church created western civilization. The Church was an amplifier, not a creator. The Church did good – but it has done both damage and good. And the enlightenment…
Aristocratic Egalitarianism
[T]o say that European Aristocracy is Egalitarian is somewhat of a tautology. An aristocracy requires numbers, and has an interest in creating large numbers in a hierarchy of aristocratic peers. So aristocracy is egalitarian – open to meritocratic entry.
Sorry: Propertarianism is an Amoral and Objective Language – And That Can Be Emotionally Unsatisfying.
[I] know that you want to feel emotionally vindicated, and that you want to vent your frustrations when conducting an argument, but the fact of the matter is Propertarianism and Testimonialism are constructed amorally (( amoral adjective “not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.” )) so that all moral…
Inequality is a Good
[I]nequality is a good. In evolves man. Invention is a good. In increases our ability to consume. If we were all equal, we would have nothing to trade. And we would be poor. As are extant people who are in practice equal. To create an economy to sustain man we must create equality constantly. To…
Blood For The Tree Of Liberty
[I]f you don’t feed the tree of liberty frequently, then you must infrequently feed it a lot. Thus endeth the lesson. (Aristocratic Egalitarianism.)