The Universalist State As A Religion
[L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them.…
Why Refer To Rotbardian and Misesian Libertarianism as Pseudoscience?
–“…why equate pseudoscience with hermeneutics, given hermeneutics is about textual interpretation? I didn’t follow that link.”– Davin Eastley [P]recisely because the origin of pseudo science is religion. The origin of textual interpretation is religion. The purpose of interpretation is ‘to find something new here’. Jewish predisposition for, and frequent authorship of pseudoscience, is the result…
The Four Propertarian Frameworks and Their Uses
(in order) (political particularism) (natural aristocracy) (profound) 1) Analytic/Ratio-Empirical (Propertarian/NeoReactionary) – the people of empire – Anglo American Protestantism. 2) Continental/Rational-Historical (Hoppeian) – the landed and encircled people – German Protestantism. 3) Psychological/Religio-Moral (Classical Liberal/BHL) – The homogenous island seafaring traders – Anglo/Scottish Protestantism 4) Cosmopolitan/Pseudo-Scientific (Rothbard and Mises) – The urban ghetto. A state…
Is Social Security A Ponzi Scheme?
Contrary to rhetoric it is, indeed, a ponzi scheme, which is defined as early entrants are paid by later entrants under the assumption that there will always be enough new entrants to pay for each person exiting. It’s not insurance because Insurance works by a lot of people giving a little bit of money to…
Which Situation Is More Likely To Lead To Progressive Outcomes: A Republican Party That Continues To Support Extreme Candidates & Positions, Or One That Is More Mainstream And Thus Successful, But Also Open To Compromise?
In about 1980, those of us on the conservative side, understood that progressive state would ‘win’ by de-homogenizing society into factions rather than unifying society, and then buying votes by doing it. We also understood that it is economically impossible to construct the democratic socialists state – meaning control over the results of production. They…
Voting Morally, Even If Against Your Economic Interest, Is Voting Rationally
(minor criticism of the myth of the rational voter) [P]eople do vote rationally. Its rational to vote morally even at high personal cost. I dont have time to refute the part Kaplan got wrong. But it should be obvious that he got it wrong. [callout]The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism…
Yes We Need A New Mathematical Revolution On The Scale Of Calculus : The Unit Of Commensurability In That Mathematics, Is Property, And Its Grammar Is Morality
The mathematical order of big data? Property. 1) Humans (life) is acquisitive. 2) Humans seek to acquire a limited number of categories of things. from experiences (feelings), to information, affection, mates, associates, and all manner of material things. 3) Human seek to avoid losses – more so than to acquire. especially life, children, kin, and…
Justifying Parasitism: Walter Block's Advocacy Of Ghetto Ethics
[T]urns out he’s mostly wrong. Only chance of future funding streams, is to abandon parasitic ethics. Rothbard’s critique of the state is priceless, and his history is almost as good. But his choice to try to base liberty on the ethics of the ghetto, rather than the ethics of the aristocratic egalitarian polity did the…
Justifying Parasitism: Walter Block’s Advocacy Of Ghetto Ethics
[T]urns out he’s mostly wrong. Only chance of future funding streams, is to abandon parasitic ethics. Rothbard’s critique of the state is priceless, and his history is almost as good. But his choice to try to base liberty on the ethics of the ghetto, rather than the ethics of the aristocratic egalitarian polity did the…
Crusoe Economics As The Non-Logic Of The Ghetto
[I] suppose I can’t say this enough,[callout]Crusoe ethics aren’t ethical at all. They’re another form of obscurantist fraud that white people seem to just soak up like every other form of pseudoscience: Marxism, Socialism, Freudianism, Feminism, Cantor’s infinities, and Postmodernism.[/callout] but Crusoe economics is useful for the analysis of economics between states, but is entirely…
Definition: "Ghetto Ethics"
[G]hetto Ethics: quite literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’…
Definition: “Ghetto Ethics”
[G]hetto Ethics: quite literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’…
Doolittle's Arguments Wrapped Up In A Bow?
[W]ell, I can’t quite do that without a whole book. But I think some people are beginning to understand the whole package I’ve put together, and why I’m criticizing feminism, postmodernism, ghetto libertarianism, left libertarianism, and even to some degree, conservatism: because the moral codes of all these groups advocate are predicated on assumptions…
Doolittle’s Arguments Wrapped Up In A Bow?
[W]ell, I can’t quite do that without a whole book. But I think some people are beginning to understand the whole package I’ve put together, and why I’m criticizing feminism, postmodernism, ghetto libertarianism, left libertarianism, and even to some degree, conservatism: because the moral codes of all these groups advocate are predicated on assumptions…
Well Mr Fuller. You'Re Wrong. Its That We Don't Need A Job In *Production*- But We Do Need A Job. Everyone Does.
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.…
Well Mr Fuller. You’Re Wrong. Its That We Don’t Need A Job In *Production*- But We Do Need A Job. Everyone Does.
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.…
The Aristocratic Ethic Of Voluntary Exchange. (BHL Part 2)
(Draft: I have almost got this worked out. Not quite. But almost) If you believe that voluntary exchange is the test of moral action, then it’s only logical that you follow that reasoning through to its logical consequence: that property rights are obtained by exchanging them with one another; and that in order to exchange…
The Bleeding Heart Libertarians, Calculability, The Solution To Direct Redistribution (Part 1)
Positioning Libertarian Ethics By Philosophical School 1) CLASSICAL “PSYCHOLOGICAL” (Smith,Hume,Locke,Burke)(BHL’s) 2) GHETTO COSMOPOLITAN (Rothbard), 3) CONTINENTAL RATIONAL (Hoppe), 4) ANGLO ANALYTIC (Doolitte), I keep intuitively wanting to classify the Bleeding Heart Libertarians led by Matt Zwolinski as right-continental rationals, but it’s pretty clear if you go through the past two years of articles on BHL,…
The Fiction Of The Morality Of Ghetto Property Rights
Lets get this straight OK? If you agree to not engage in murder, violence, destruction, theft, and fraud, it’s because you’re afraid of not doing so. It’s not because you’re a good person. It’s because you can so easily be caught. If you agree not to engage in omission, obscurantism, impediment, then you’re doing…
Equality And Inequality In Propertarianism
We may be unequally valuable to one another in the marketplace. That’s just an empirically obvious fact. We may be unequally capable of mastering and applying skills, interpreting current events, planning successfully for the future, and adhering to those plans. We may be unequally desirable as family members, friends, mates and associates. That too is…
Rothbard's Ethical Ghetto
Rothbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating on the backs of others. Rothbard’s…
Rothbard’s Ethical Ghetto
Rothbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating on the backs of others. Rothbard’s…
Knowledge: Knowlege of Construction vs Knowledge of Use
[J]oel Mokyr did a wonderful job in Gifts of Athena, but he has the strange Jewish predilection for conflating verbalisms with existence. He refers to “Knowledge of how” and “knowledge of what”. But these are verbal categories only. They aren’t causal categories. I use the terms “Knowledge of Construction” and “Knowledge of Use” (how). While…
The Ethical Spectrum: Criminal, Unethical, Immoral, Conspiritorial
The spectrum describes means by which we act parasitically rather than productively. In a perfect world we only act productively with all parasitism eliminated. (No perfect world is possible I suppose, but it helps illustrate the point.) Human history from from our consanguineous communal (Bonobo-like) pre-history to our current state as individualist, single-parent, autonomous…
Does Voluntary Segregation Answer Parasitism?
To the extent that Rothbard has made statements supporting voluntary segregation, it seems there’s no conflict between the two of you. His city state might be a little more tolerant or bazaar ethics than yours, but beyond that, I don’t get the conflict. Perhaps you’re not here addressing his acceptance of voluntary segregation and are instead…