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Posts Explaining American Postwar Foreign Policy
September 5th, 2018 5:54 PM POSTS EXPLAINING AMERICAN POSTWAR FOREIGN POLICY (and one on what trump is trying to do) 1 – WHAT IS THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE USA? propertarianism.com/2017/03/13/what-is-the-foreign-policy-of-the-united-states-of-america-in-the-western-hemisphere/ 2 – WHY THE AMERICAN FASCINATION WITH EXPORTING DEMOCRACY? propertarianism.com/2016/09/19/qa-why-the-usa-fascination-with-exporting-democracy/ 3 – IS THE USA A ROGUE STATE? propertarianism.com/2016/01/19/is-the-united-states-a-rogue-state/ 4 – TERROR, PROGRESS, AND…
The Poverty of Philosophy
September 5th, 2018 1:14 PM THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY [T]heology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its falsehoods. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies. The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the…
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September 5th, 2018 11:55 AM QUESTION: —“Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after reading your recent posts. Is Sovereignty only achieved through combing agency and reciprocity (I think I’ve seen you say this somewhere)? In which case, thinking about this in terms of individualism vs collectivism: -Groups of people…
Age-Dependent Narratives
September 5th, 2018 10:18 AM AVOID GETTING STUCK IN AGE-DEPENDENT NARRATIVES [A]esop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Arthurian Legends, Homer, the greek myths, are all not only helpful but possibly necessary. We mature from those to novels, then to biographies, then histories, then maybe economic histories, and then into the sciences. But some of us PEAK in…
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September 5th, 2018 10:09 AM —“Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating up the special ed kid”– Joe Redtree
Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right
September 5th, 2018 9:47 AM NIETZSCHE, RAND, MARX, AND THE ADOLESCENT RIGHT There are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view…
Nietzsche vs Doolittle
September 5th, 2018 9:47 AM NIETZSCHE VS DOOLITTLE : Critique vs Science. Value vs Truth. Inspiration vs Institutions. I need to address this issue again for the little boys in the audience. What I take from Nietzsche is his attack on supernaturalism, and submission, and his attempt to restore classicism – which is also what…
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September 5th, 2018 8:49 AM [W]e rarely act until we must, and when we must it is merely more expensive than having acted when we could. Hence the problem of democracy: acting only when we must on that which we can, and acting when we can on that which we must not.
Degrees Creating a Serf Class
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:48:34 GMT —“Issuing guaranteed loans that can never be discharged to the cognitively deficient, mass producing baristas with $100k degrees, has effectively created a serf class out of what could have been productive lower middle-middle class workers with apprenticeships and vocational preparation. If that’s not moral hazard I’m not sure what…
Told Ya. There Is No Alternative
September 4th, 2018 10:43 PM [W]e need 300 new plants (there are 104 @20%) and a new grid. We can be petroleum independent. Without exhaustion. —“The authors of a new MIT study say that unless nuclear energy is meaningfully incorporated into the global mix of low-carbon energy technologies, the challenge of climate change will be…
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Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition and computational efficiency; reciprocity and natural law; and markets in everything, to a eugenic high trust polity – function together as a continuous and consistent hierarchy of optimum decidability from sense perception to collective human action.
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by Nick Dahlheim The whole concept of inter-generational guilt is INSANE and not derivable by law, cooperation, reciprocity… The fact is, human history is filled with violence, terror, slavery / serfdom, war, genocide…these are the norms… The reality: —” 1) conquest and genocide has been dominant for all of human history, and the most influential…
Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
Some of you might have seen my video on Moral Specialization and the Reproductive Division of Cognitive Labor, that addresses how the genders and classes express their reproductive strategies as differences in moral bias (meaning, demand). … and at the other end of the spectrum, on the civilizational scale, please see my video on the…
The Middle Must Rule, and This Is How
by John Mark To state the obvious, the top and bottom united against the middle, is exactly what we’re seeing now. —“Those who possess the goods of life in moderation are best suited to use reason”— Or, as I’d put it, middle class people are capable enough to not need to steal (like the bottom)…
Religions
Shintoism is a natural religion. Classicism was a reformation of indo-europeanism. Stoicism-Epicureanism is a reformation of classicalism. Buddhism is a reformation of Hinduism. Hinduism an evolution of indo-iranianism. Just as zoroastrianism was a reformation of indo-iranianism. Christianity is a heresy of Judaism, and Islam is a heresy of Christianity. All three rely upon the same…
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—“All of Abrahamism is a desert death cult; a cancer of the mind. Its followers birthed it in the desert & it always returns its follows to a desert.”—Blake Brandon
The Master and His Emissary – “a Metaphor”
Andy Curzon, (all), —“McGilchrist makes it clear he is content for his thesis to be seen as a metaphor (see opposite). And in that case it is emphatically a metaphor which works. It underpins, validates, explains a whole slew of intuitions about general practice and life which I have felt and tried to express in…
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Abrahamism is an alternative universe, yet the laws of nature there are not physics as much as they are gender studies. —Ahmed Reda
Agency: Yes Some People Are More ‘Human’ and Less ‘Animal’ than Others
—“By that you mean some people are not human( morality or physiology)?”— Natty Kanya Just as children do not have the self-control of adults, many adults lack the self control of others. While we may learn self control of our bodies. We may learn self control of our emotions. We may NOT learn self control…
The Problem with “logic”
Hierarchy of Constant Relations 1 – identity: tests of intra-reference constant relations 2 – logic: tests of inter-reference constant relations. 3 – mathematics: operations on positional relations, which by definition remain constant. 4 – construction: operational construction (arithmetic) 5 – deduction: deduction from a construction. (geometry/algebra) 6 – elimination (subtraction): deduction by falsification of all…