What Are Some Things The Us Can Learn From Other Cultures?
Individualism in law is different from individualism in policy. Law must of necessity apply to the individual. Policy of necessity must apply to the family. We have abandoned the family as the central unit of production. And we have abandoned the family. And we are paying the consequences of it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-the-US-can-learn-from-other-cultures
Evolving High Trust AND Nepotistic Culture is Not Possible. Constructing It *IS*.
[S]o, how does one construct a high trust NEPOTISTIC, inbred culture, instead of a high trust Non-nepotistic, outbred culture? Well, that’s very simple. Because organically evolving an institution is very different from intentionally implementing an institution. As such, the rule of law, under propertarian property rights of property-en-toto, forces institutional development of high trust, while…
How They Killed Us the First Time, Is How They Kill Us The Second
Justinian closed the Stoic schools, to make people easier to manipulate, and lies more effective means by which to govern.Stoicism is an aristocratic personal religion.Polytheism is a public religion of social rituals.Monotheism is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against humanity.Just as economic monopoly is a political crime, a moral crime, and…
The Emerging Intellectual Consensus (Fragility)
– Nassim Taleb (anti-fragility)– Ricardo Duchesne (uniqueness of western man)– Kevin Macdonald (group evolutionary strategies)– Curt Doolittle (Truth, Trust, Law, and Institutions)– Stephen Hicks (Postmodernism) (Reluctantly Associated I’m sure)– Nial Ferguson (Economics) (Possibly Reluctantly Associated)– Martin van Creveld (The Culture of Warfare)– Emmanuel Todd (The Evolution of Western Morality and Identity)– Jayman (genetics)– HBD Chick…
Responsibility
—“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—
How Can I Become A Libertarian?
Liber-TINES are under ideological pressure. And their movement is an abject failure. Liber-TARIANS (Classical Liberals) are at least if not more so fervent as they were in the past. You cannot ‘become’ a political bias. It’s very likely a genetic preference that reflects your reproductive strategy. What you can “become” is an advocate of of…
How Do You Make Programmers Work 60-80 Hours Per Week?
The answer, as a political economist, is this: Why are you trying to obtain a discount on the cost of software development by obtaining two employees worth of work from one employee? I mean, that’s the honest question? If instead, you ask, “why do some programmers like to work 80 hours a week, and others…
How Did The Stereotype Of An Asian Originate?
No one likes the truth, but the evidence is, that stereotypes are often, if not nearly always true, and reflect exaggerations of observed behavior common to a group. However, like racism, attributing to the individual, observations of the class, is illogical. We evolved this behavior because it necessary for our survival in many ways. So…
Religions and Demand for the State
Think of it this way: without morality, one cannot construct commons.
The Purpose of Being Well Read No Matter What Your IQ.
[T]he data is pretty good you know. You don’t have to be a genius. You just have to be well read. Being well read means reading the right books, not just any books – but the right books at your level of experience. Now, the more causally accurate the argument, the less allegorical and more operationally…
Against Lester’s Verbalism – With Lee Waaks.
An important new book by J. C. Lester, defending his own robust and ground breaking form of libertarianism – without foundations – in a critical rationalist manner: Explaining Libertarianism: Some Philosophical Arguments [S]igh, Except his ‘groundbreaking’ argument, deducing subjective value from the colloquial use of the term ‘liberty’, is a meaningless verbalism; and worse, his abuse…
Rule of Law Is Sacred to Western Man
–“our prophet is sacred to us”– [R]ule of law is more sacred than our lives. Rule of law requires we speak, and understand the truth, not myth. The reason for the velocity of western advancement in all fields is that we tell the truth whether it hurts or not, whether it offends or not –…
Mises: “Human Operationalism”, Not “Human Action”
[H]e was that close. I have more important things to do with my life, but if I had the time I could rewrite his tome Human Action as Human Operationalism, and instantly reform the debate from one between science and pseudoscience in which he has been outcast, to one that unified all fields, and restored…
Morality is a Problem of Cost, Not Scarcity
[S]carcity and Property exist prior to cooperation. However, scarcity is an analytic concept. Humans think in terms of cost, not scarcity. Because scarcity requires knowledge we cannot possess other than through prices/costs. So we cannot know something is scarce any more than we can know something is analytically true. We can only know that it…
You Are Welcome To Your Privilege
—“White privilege isn’t just for white people. It’s a privilege to live in a world with us in it.”— Eli Harman —“We tell the truth, seek the truth, trust one another, are worthy of trust, rely on property rights, the jury, the militia, and individual responsibility – all so that the rest of the world…
I Don’t Support Ron Paul Either
(A Call To Classical Liberalism) [R]on Paul committed political suicide, in an act of profound moral cowardice, joining the Mises Institute in their decades of ideological suicide, by using the hardship of real people as an excuse to produce propaganda against the monopoly bureaucratic state – a fight in which the Ukrainians themselves are more…
Sorry That My Work On Truth Isn’t All That Interesting To You. 🙂
(the importance of the work) [I] realize that I have spent a lot of time over the past twelve months on Truth. And that this appears (falsely) to be a rat-hole, that is not as interesting as attacking the argumentative follies of the political extremes. But I am working at an institutional solution to the…
If You Can Name A Thing You Can Kill A Thing
[T]here is an ancient myth that has more than a grain of truth to it: if you can name a demon you can kill, control of dispel it. We all have true names. Meaning if we are fully understood we lose the power of deception. I am hot on the trail of a conceptual demon…
The 80/20 Rule of Western Genius
[T]he Left’s Hatred of Dead White European Male (DWEM) Genius —“Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray (2003) makes clear that world-historical, genius level accomplishment is – or rather, was – numerically and proportionately a Dead White-European Male (DWEM) thing.”— Yes but I am pretty sure that I have stated WHY it was a DWEM thing: TRUTH.…
2014 As Evidence Of Insurrection Under Complex Modern States
[F]or those who have asked me about how difficult it is to create a revolution, it should be obvious from the evidence of 2014, just how easy it is to bring the state and the economy to its knees by the simple act of individual aggression against state enforcers. But one must have something for…
Deception: The Test of Aggression Instead of The Test of an Imposition of Costs
—“Depending upon one’s conception of rights and what they logically entail or are incompatible with, it’s not difficult to see, for example, that the corpus of the libertarian program, in logical terms cannot countenance “add-ons” in so far as they are obligations that legitimate the use of force. The shortest, most concise illustration of how…
Improving On The Main Message – It’s Getting Easier
(reposted from elsewhere) [T]he scientific method consists of a set of moral rules on what scientists must consider truthful testimony. Otherwise no ‘method’ exists. The scope of these moral rules has evolved during the twentieth century in ways that I think very few people, scientists included, understand. (I will go into this a bit later…
On Matt Breunig’s Criticism of Hoppe
Regarding: Matt Breunig’s HHH, Libertarian Theoretical Historian? [M]att. Better criticism than is usually thrown at him. I think most of his justification can be seen as nonsense. I also think that at this point his primary contributions are: (a) the difference in incentives between the private german micro states and the corporate bureaucratic states. Fukuyama…
More Examples of Arguing With Well Intentioned But Misguided Folk
–Still not a peep about: “Even though it is perfectly true and perfectly logical that humans are subjective beings there are some who cannot fathom a scientific subjective methodology.”– Bruce Koerber [T]he question is not whether we can practice a subjective methodology. Nor is it honest to use psychologism as a criticism when the question…
An Example of Confusing Positivism and Empiricism
—“Empirical science requires controlled experiments. In economics no such experiments are possible. Even in physics the study of a lone particle does not give us enough information to predict its movement in a many-particle environment, which is basically indeterminate.”– Shivank [I]ntelligent response, thanks. But common errors. You are confusing Empiricism with Positivism (which is a…