Thousands of TWEETS, Posts, Articles, Pages, chapters, Notes, Diagrams, drafts, sketches and Quotes from 2009 to present
Who deserves to live isn’t important. It’s anyone who doesn’t deserve not to…..
THE ETERNAL QUESTION? (natural law on deserving) —“how do you know who deserves to live and die?”— It is very easy to determine who needs to die. We have done it for millennia. The only question is that since we have shifted our principle means of predation from from murder, to theft, to fraud, to…
On “Hitting Each Other” (Family)
Humans hit each other. I have had to teach every woman in every relationship not to hit me. Women conduct more domestic violence than men.Women are responsible for more verbal abuse than men. Women are responsible for more child abuse than men. The difference is that they aren’t dangerous – and men are. So, while…
There has never been a civilization more fragile, and a government so weak.
You see, they swarm through an urban area, shoot out the transformers or short the wires with chain, turn on then break the hydrants eliminating water pressure, start interior fires in every building they pass. Hammer open the cash machines, load up on food from the markets, and entrap and decimate first responders, and then…
The Best Revolutions Are Those that Are Resolved out Of Fear of Fighting, Not Those that Are Fought.
The best way to prevent a violent revolution is to submit an equitable proposal for the resolution of conflicts, and to create the absolute certainty that the status quo will end violently otherwise. The best revolutions are those that are resolved out of fear of fighting, not those that are fought.
Existence
—“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and the existence of its referent. We clearly know of the referrer (concept) we call ‘unicorn’, and might someday be able to bring some approximation of a unicorn into existence as a referent. The referent of the referrer ‘unicorn’ is not real, meaning it does not…
The Weak Use Tools of The Weak
THE WEAK USE TOOLS OF THE WEAK The problem with mythology, conflation and fictionalism is that like numerology astrology and scriptural interpretation, you can find any meaning you look for. Just as any opponent can do the same. As such it is just the wittiest liar that wins the tactical argument and the most utilitarian…
Definition: Agency
DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations…
Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”
via Steve Pender “The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be…
The Cost of Social Optimism
by Steve Pender Extending someone the privilege of assuming them to be trustworthy is costly (risk of theft, personal harm). Not extending the privilege of trust is also costly (extra security costs, loss of trade). Granting trust to one person but not another hinges on choosing which costs you want to pay at that time.…
The Etymology of Agency
Yes, agency, like truth, or infinity, or perfection, or godhood, or moving half-way across the couch, or half-way across zeno’s line, describes an infinitely logarithmic curve. I always take my terms, whenever possible from the existing sciences, and ‘correct’ (redefine) the term. In social science, one’s social, economic, and political agency is limited by ‘structure’…
Diversity Creates Isolation
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america-300639747.html
Positive Money
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/ POSITIVE MONEY (“Helicopter Money”) Direct Redistribution of Liquidity to Consumers (Citizens). I’ve been talking about this forever, and written it into the new constitution. But there is a small group in europe that’s put together a web site and initiative. The EU is much more complicated than the states. And they are … overly…
The Semantics of Agency
(a) when I define a thing, in my arguments, a thing means what I define it to mean, and nothing else. In this case the limit of my definition of agency is omniscience, “omniexperience”, “omnigrammar”, and omnipotence, in thought, emotion, word, and deed. (b) I chose the term agency as I generally do, to extend…
Why Direct Redistribution of Liquidity vs Tax Breaks, Monetary Policy(interest) or Fiscal Policy(spending)
Timeliness. In a shock, tax breaks, lowering interest rates, and fiscal policy are extremely slow, and it certainly appears from the data, largely ineffectual compared to simply distributing cash to every citizen to do with as he may. During the 2008 Crisis only me and Galbraith were talking about it (and I am nobody). Later…
“curt, What Is Your Position on The Origin of Life in The Universe?”
—“Where are you on the ‘origins’ questions, life and the universe? Do you think it matters if we are here by chance or by design?”—Matt Lawlor As far as I know we are nothing but a consequence of emergent complexity as life is the only known means of defeating entropy – with cooperation a multiplier,…
The Law Is the Only Master of Sovereign Men
—“One-against-one, the Spartans are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all the world. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever…
Economic Intuitionism (or Scientific Praxeology)
“Reforming Mises, and the Jewish (Ukrainian) Wing of Austrian Economics.” A RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAXEOLOGY AS ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH RATIO-EMPIRICAL SCIENCE I. PURPOSE: 1) To restore credibility to Austrian Economics by transforming it from Rationalist and pseudoscientific, to consistent with all scientific and logical disciplines. 2) To quash rationalist and pseudoscientific fallacies that have discredited…
The Janissary System and Europe
by Emil Prelic The Janissary System It (JS) was the literal theft of Balkan children, overwhelmingly Serbs, who were then turned into elite Islamist terrorists of their day (except they were more like cops due to the Sharia element of the Ottoman Empire) and sent back to murder, rape, pillage, and torture their literal brothers…
The History of the Sophism of Pilpul
THE HISTORY OF PILPUL Pilpul is the Talmudic term used to describe a rhetorical process that the Sages used to formulate their legal decisions. The word is used as a verb: one engages in the process of pilpul in order to formulate a legal point. It marks the process of understanding legal ideas, texts, and…
The IE Peoples and Their Religions
As far as I know the IE peoples separated into european and indo-iranian branches, and my understanding via Armstrong is that it was because the eastern peoples ‘left’ (created a diaspora) because they could not compete against the west but they could compete south and east. As far as I know (from the record) The…