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What Is The Significance Of Jean Baudrillardâ´s For A Critique Of The Political Economy Of The Sign?
As an activist philosopher engaged in restoring modernism I see Baudrillard’s work as one of the death rattles of postmodernism. But that does not mean that it is not possible to restate some of his ideas in ratio-scientific terms. And that is, that as we grow in prosperity, our patterns of consumption changes from survival,…
Choice Words on Cooperation
—“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most…
Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.
[A] couple of thoughts for you: GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. PRODUCTION Capitalism isn’t a form of government. It’s often inarticulately referred to as an…
Critique vs Criticism
[C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique). – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).– Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit. Moralizing…
Useful, Useless, and Harmful…
—“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Source: Curt Doolittle
Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination
[T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle
Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories
[P]riceless —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance.…
Retrospect. Babbage Could Have Saved Us A Century?
[W]ell, I in retrospect I understand why no one else solved the problem of the Wilsonian synthesis: the merger of science and philosophy. Why no one else came up with testimonialism, propertarianism, and operational criticism. Also in retrospect, I am fairly certain that had Babbage’s machine been built and worked, that the synthesis would have…
Obverse and Reverse
Obverse / Reverse. ——————————— Silver Rule / Golden Rule. Act to Obtain / Act to Defend Non-Parasitism / Property Freedom to / Freedom From Obligation / Right Source: Curt Doolittle
Aristocratic Libertarianism vs Ghetto Libertinism
[Y]ou know, you can put a sign over your head and call yourself a libertarian: an advocate for a condition of liberty, but that doesn’t make you a libertarian. Any more than calling someone an Austrian Economist in the Cosmopolitan wing makes you an Austrian Economist in the German Wing. What makes you an Austrian…
I’m In This Fight For All of Humanity
[I]’M IN THIS FIGHT, NOT JUST FOR MY TRIBE, BUT FOR ALL OF HUMANITY I don’t really care about race. I acknowledge our differences, and I write about our differences as a small number of differences in cognitive distributions. But race and racism doesn’t help me or anyone else solve any material problem. I know…
I Love Everybody. So Go Hang Some Politician 🙂
[I] Love everybody. I’m a Christian. That’s what it means to be Christian. It’s one thing to deny the differences in our distributions. It’s one thing deny we vote in blocks. One thing to want to limit sacrifices to kin. But it’s something altogether different to fucking hate people. This is why I get frustrated…
Civic Evolution
(important idea) (very interesting) [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions: 1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)3) ————->BANK(adds production)?Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?) I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union. But what if your credit union also offered education? Individual + Family +…
Chain of Education
[I]n a family, ***REGARDLESS OF SIZE*** if everyone takes care of educating the rank below them, then the entire group will prosper. It doesn’t work the other way though. ie: democracy is a bad thing. Source: Curt Doolittle
The Free Market is a Fiat Construct, Produced by Organized Violence
[T]he free market itself is a fiat construct. Just as property rights are a fiat construct. Morality, Property, and Free Markets require forcible imposition. The condition of primitive man is one of overlapping rents. Paternalism, Non-kin-Morality, Property and Trade were institutional innovations all of which required the organized application of violence to construct. Neither violence…
ECONOMICS OF CONCURRENCY
[C]oncurrency – e.g. multitasking – is hard, we all know that. In the following post I analyze the economics of concurrency, using the example of a layered conversation with two members, and many concurrent threads occurring in overlapping time intervals. (If you would think it a fun exercise, write up a comment about another topic…
What is the Minimum Basis for the Law Necessary for Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom?
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) (from 2014) THE PROBLEM IS LAW NOT BELIEF [I]t’s true that aggression is immoral, and it’s true that for people to rationally cooperate aggression must be illegal. But this is a deceptively incomplete statement, because we all intuit that aggression is a bad thing, but we almost all differ in what one can…
Universal Grammars of Action and Experience
[I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication. I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any…
Man Creates Truth
[M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking, and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not…
Can The Truth Be A Commons?
(Interesting) —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”— [L]et me state this clearly: “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.” 1) How does truth telling exist? The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and…