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By Eli Harman The allegation is often made (by libertarian anarchists) that what states do is fundamentally incalculable, but that it is always negative sum. In other words, we cannot know the absolute value of any state or state policy, but we can be certain about its sign. Voluntary trades in the marketplace – as…

No matter how hard 100 men work independently they can never achieve what that can cooperatively. And if they fight instead then the difference in assets between conflict and cooperation produces a measurement of the value of cooperation. Or to fall back on Adam smith. A division of labor between ten is not ten times…

Cooperation is rational in that it can be vastly preferable to non-cooperation or conflict. But it also requires altruism because most preferable of all is to defect while OTHERS cooperate with you. And foregoing that temptation (on behalf of others, more than yourself) is a price that one must pay in order to cooperate. Cooperation…

***Modernity limits the accumulation of damage to our cells, but it increases intellectual and emotional stresses dramatically. Neurons have taken the damage in the information era, that physical stresses have in prior eras.**** The Anglo world is as ‘crazy’ as the medieval. The difference is that the current ‘crazy’ is even worse for us than…

Epistemology  Promise  Narrative  Information is the model  History of allegorical models  Supply demand is the model. 

It isn’t. It’s judged by the dominance of it’s race in failures of education, crime, civic behavior, business achievement, intellectual achievement, and artistic and literary achievement. The east asians and western europeans have aggressively killed off their lower classes through winters, starvation, enslavment, hanging, beheading, war, and a very severe justice system for thousands of…

For at least the past fifty years, the general opinion has been, and our strategic schools teach, that nuclear weapons are political not military in nature. It is relatively impossible to use them. 1) Because if one does use them, one is open for becoming the victims of their use. 2) Politically, it would render…

You know, the hero’s journey is an epistemic one. Prior state of ignorance, Encountering Episode of Change, Testing the new Information, integrating it, and applying it, so that one is more powerful at the end than he was in the beginning.

A ‘church’, allows us to join a family that may be better than ours. And if not, to obtain recognition and incentive to retain ours, if it is better than others. The Production of Generations: Fitness and Training (fighting)(sports) Education in work ethic and money. Education in the raising of family (reproduction). Education in the…

LIBERTY VS SOVEREIGNTY Liberty evolved as ‘permission’. Sovereignty evolved as ‘ability’. Aristocracy seeks Sovereignty. The Bourgeoise seeks Liberty. The Craftsman seeks ‘Freedom‘. The Proletarian seeks Parasitism. (consumption) Thus Endeth The Lesson.

ONE HOUR LECTURES ON BASIC PROPERTARIAN CONCEPTS I’m trying to make one every day or two. There are not that many basic concepts. I can think of the easy one: property in toto. That logically follows from my last one on Morality. We have videos on: 1 – division of perception, 2 – morality: objective…

REPRODUCTIVE CLASSES Elite – Extremely desirable Upper – Desirable throughout life. Middle – Desirable through fertility, Upper Lower – Desirable during peak fertility. Lower – Desirable only as ‘settling’ (last resort) Lowest – Undesirable

AMORAL PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS: 1 – I do understand ‘domestication as defensive measure’ 2 – I do understand ‘profiting from domestication’ – an industry. 3 – I do understand that human domestication has produced the same goods for humanity that the domestication of animals and plants and ‘physics’ have provided. 4 – I do understand ‘transcendence’…

Sep 02, 2016 10:59pm As far as I know: 1) In the past 30k and certainly in the past 10K years, the driving force in selection has not been mutation, but ‘group domestication’. There are environmental selection pressures ( dairy, wheat, disease resistance) sure. But the primary difference has been, just like domesticated animals, domestication…

(non-commons libertarians are parasites) End Rothbardian LIbertinism, Marxist Socialism, Straussian Neoconservatism. LIBERTINISM: PARASITISM ON HOST COMMONS (LATE 20th CENTURY LIBERTARIANISM) anrcho libertarian: eastern-european-russian-jewish libertine. ethics of borderland, bazaar, and ghetto. Non-consequentialist ethics. (parasitic) ARISTOCRACY: SOVEREIGNTY (CONSERVATISM) classical liberal libertarian: anglo-germanic liberty. market reproduction (family), market production(economy), market commons (multi-house-govt), market justice (rule of law). Ethics…

I — OBJECTIVE OF DIFFERENT SCHOOLS — The different economic schools pursue different ends: a) Austrian: Social Science : reduction of frictions. Emphasis on institutions of cooperation. (“Paleo-Libertarianism / Natural Law”) b) Freshwater: Rule of Law: Non-interference with planning, but insurance against informational asymmetries, at the expense of consumption. Emphasis on ‘balance’. (“Classical Liberalism /…