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I fly coach if I’m paying for it and if my performance won’t suffer, and business or first class if I’m stressed and my performance will suffer, or if I’m working and want to circumvent the lines.  I don’t fly it to feel privileged.  Generally speaking, if you want to avoid the unwashed masses, stick…

[C]RITICISM AS JUSTIFICATION 1 – We justify moral action ( dependence upon norm ) 2 – We justify legal contract ( explicit reference to law) 3- We are skeptical of perception and cognition. (Honesty of witness) 4 – We criticize truth propositions (theory) Because in each case we test for different properties all of which…

[W]e have overwhelming data, in all walks of life, that shows that ‘beta’ women and ‘beta’ males fear standards (other’s behavior) that they cannot themselves adhere to, and that are existential reminders of the inferiority of their social standing. The technique that they use to vent their self loathing is gossip. Or what we call…

[W]hy They Don’t Care About You.1) Search engines are more effective than friends lists. 2) And you don’t write in Arabic. 3) And you aren’t writing across borders. 4) They have better things to do. I’ve been both a justice department employee, and on the C list in the past, and that hasn’t stopped the…

(from elsewhere) —“What’s your current opinion of Jeffrey Tucker?”—Johannesson [T]ucker is a decent fellow seeking income by popularizing libertinism. As a writer he is articulate. As a marketer of ideas he is quite good. As an editor he is even better. As a theorist he is as weak as the rest. As an entrepreneur he…

—“Curt Doolittle and Chris Cathcart — I am not sure I get your point that [Mises] will never get credit … he already does!”—Peter Boettke [W]ell, we all agree that he gets credit for stating that socialism was impossible. The question is whether he did so using justification from axiom, or by analysis of available…

[I] love him but he was wrong. He conflates definitions with demonstrated behavior and this is an example of why he was ostracized for his dogmatic verbalisms. His method of investigation, which he calls Austrian but is arguably Ukrainian instead, is reducible to the study of the means of improving the institutions that facilitate the…

[T]he primary reason that women and minorities are put into power because they lack the ability to alter the status quo through the construction of stress-bearing loyalties. Boards hire them as weak placeholders – a strategy of delay an wait. The assignment of a woman to a leadership position in a troubled company is an…

[W]e no longer need politicians and representatives, and no longer need democratic assent to pass something, and to divide a budget equally, and to vote with money where it is required. In fact, all politicians do is to create hazards. So given that distance no longer impacts ability to cooperate and communicate in real time;…

—“The speaking volume in the United States for most conversations is very loud, which in many other countries would be considered rude. … Also, business people in the United States use very direct language and tight time management when communicating and running meetings, which people from many other countries might find off-putting.” –Raj Patel ON…

[J]ust an insight into one of the many ways authoritarian cosmopolitan pseudoscience of psychology has damaged our world view: introversion is the result of deep thinking, and ‘neuroticism’ (worry) is the result of deep thinking. Both of which are criticized rather than rewarded. Everyone else is just ‘noise’ without the deep thinkers. My work on…

[J]ust an insight into one of the many ways authoritarian cosmopolitan pseudoscience of psychology has damaged our world view: introversion is the result of deep thinking, and ‘neuroticism’ (worry) is the result of deep thinking. Both of which are criticized rather than rewarded. Everyone else is just ‘noise’ without the deep thinkers. My work on…

(from elsewhere)(via stephen hicks) [O]nly two regrets I have in life. First was not choosing a degree in philosophy despite my fascination with it – although my study of art and art history has framed my personality and life. I can attest personally that the study of certain philosophy dramatically improves your ability in the…

[T]he terms “Wise” and “Wisdom” have largely gone out of fashion. First, because they mix the observation that one is knowledgeable with the compliment for it, and we have grown to favor more sterile, scientific, terms when giving intellectual compliments. So we say “that was smart” not “that was wise”. An old adage claims that…

[C]OMPARISONS: 1) Ashkenazi Separatist Pseudoscientific (belief) Libertinism vs European Universalist Empirical (Legal) Libertarianism. 2) Ashkenazi Neo Conservatism (Make the world safe for separatists) vs Anglo Burkeian Conservatism ( Parent the world into prosperity). 3) Ashkenazi (Pseudo-scientific/Pseudo-moral) Communism vs Anglo-German (pseudo-scientific/Pseudo-moral) Secular Humanism. METHODS: 1) Anglo American (critical) Empirical (Law). 2) German (justificationary) Rationalism (Philosophy). 3)…

[W]estern Man is moral man, and moral men need: 1 – A Moral Justification for the application of Violence to institute change. (They are being lied to, and stolen from, and conquered systematically, and I explain how, why, and how to stop it.) (Ideologies require promise of actionable results within the current lifetime.) 2 –…

[T]HE PURPOSE OF PRIVATIZATION? (important evolutionary hierarchy) 1) To prohibit consumption (create a commons – the ongoing production of a good or service). 2) To increase cooperation by reducing opportunity for conflict. 3) To eliminate rents and fictions on use of such resources in production. 4) To create efficient organizational use of these resources through…