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Defending Murray : Even Scott Sumner is the Victim of Selective Temporal ‘Mathiness’.
RE: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/06/charles_murray_5.html [S]cott, Murray, like most conservatives, is studying, and conveying observations about our change in NORMATIVE capital, not income or consumption. Deviation from northern european traditional norms is a luxury good ( the absolute nuclear family, delayed marriage, delayed reproduction, high investment parenting, the manorial/protestant work ethic, hight trust from homogeneity, truth-telling/testimony ). RELATING YOUR…
The Institutions of Nomocracy (Rule of Law)
[I]nstitutions:The People : A partnership of reciprocal insurance including every living soul in the polity.The Militia : Defense and Emergency ServicesThe Military : Defense, Strategy, Offense.The Judiciary : The Common Organic Law The Houses of the Commons : Production of CommonsThe Treasury (The corporation that manages shares of stock as money)The Academy : EducationThe Monarchy…
Libertarian: Aristocratic Egalitarian Nomocratic Classical Liberal
[A]RISTOCRATIC (rule by best) EGALITARIAN (open to all) NOMOCRACTIC (rule of law) CLASSICAL LIBERAL (divisions into houses representing classes ) AND THEREFORE LIBERTARIAN (an advocate for institutional liberty.. My point in writing this is that I’m not a ‘white nationalist’. I’m a universal nationalist. A higher-tribalist. An advocate for truth, science, and nomocracy; for the…
Propertarianism for New Friends: One Bite at a Time.
[L]ibertarianism is an intellectual, empirical and analytic movement, and conservatism is a sentimental, moral, and analogistic movement. The difference in the language of the movements has partly to do with the production cycles that conservatives (human capital and norms) and libertarians (economic production) each emphasize. We use arguments that reflect the temporal bias of our…
Site Update
[I]‘ve finally finished rebuilding the site, repairing all the damage caused by our ISP’s SAN crash last December. The business has taken all my time over the past five months, so I couldn’t get to it earlier. DONE– The main menu is working again. Meaning we’ve restored access to the videos, reading lists and contact…
Is Propertarianism Utilitarian?
(worth repeating) ( h/t: Kyle Trotta ) [I]s Propertarianism Utilitarian? First, Propertarianism consists of multiple concepts: (a) Testimonial Truth. (b) Testimonialism: The unification of morality, philosophy, law and science under testimonial truth. (c) Propertarian Ethics and Politics: a universal language of ethics and politics. (d) Testimonial Classical Liberalism: the means of constructing institutions that produce…
Current Western Institutional Trends explained
[P]rivatization of commons in Western Europe and North America since the 1980s is but a reaction to a rapidly growing heterogeneous society; and a move by those who have*, to prohibit those who can’t**, from fraudulently obtaining rents. Similarly, creating compliance processes is making what used to be unnecessary to formulate and to structure, and…
The Testimonial Civilization is the New End of History (Sorry Francis)
Butch Longhorn at The Propertarian Forum “Gets It Right” Huntington vs Fukuyama
Ethics Isn’t Complicated
“Why don’t I kill you?” [I]t’s actually a profound statement. Rather than asking how we act under the assumption of cooperation, we ask under what conditions do we rationally choose to cooperate?
Bryan Caplan Goes All “Critique” on Trolls
Caplan’s a good guy. But using Psychological Critique to criticize Trolls is so painfully ironic that I cant bear it. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/06/the_psychology_3.html —————- [B]rian, Or we could just adopt the strategy of analyzing incentives, and continue the longstanding criticism of psychology as a pseudoscience. And that all use of psychological criticism is merely ‘Critique’ (Gossip for…
Yes. We *Can* Demand People Warranty Their Statements for Truthfulness.
CURT—“Why can’t we demand that people warranty the truthfulness of their statements?”— RICHARD—“because truth is determined, if at all, by debate and testing, and what cannot be stated while untested is unlikely to receive the scrutiny needed to determine its truth or falsity.”— [T]his is not true. TRUTHFULNESS, in all walks of life, not only…
Propertarianism Completes The Wilsonian Synthesis.
[P]hilosophy, Science, Morality, Law, Politics and Aesthetics are all unified. (I didn’t have such grand ambitions really. I just wanted to create a rational language of politics. )
Scientific and Libertarian vs Mythical and Authoritarian: The Burden of Thought.
(religious trigger warning) [K]ant understood the central value of the west was truth speaking. But Kant was still a Christian – arguing in unscientific language of morality. He was not able to make the leap from truth to jury, law, science and economics. We face the same problem with Today’s Christians. Traditionalists often hold proper…
The End of History: It’s The Truthful Civilization, Not Democracy. (Sorry Francis)
(profundity of the day)(read it)(propertarianism provides the wilsonian synthesis) [I]f I am correct, and that the reason for western rapidity of innovation, economic velocity, and intellectual progress, is the prevalence of truth telling in all walks of life; and that truth telling begets truth-thinking; and that truth-thinking leads to multitudinous goods – faster than all…
Due Diligence Necessary For the Warranty of Truthfulness
[D]ue Diligence necessary for Warranty that our Testimony is Truthful. 1) Have we achieved identity? Is it categorically consistent? 2) Is it internally consistent? Is it logical? Can we construct a proof(test) of internal consistency? 3) Is it externally correspondent, and sufficiently parsimonious? Can we construct a proof (test) of external correspondence. 4) Is it…
The Cost of Eliminating Pseudoscience in Economics
(Please tolerate the long post. Some ideas are not reducible to pithy wit.) (1000 words) (important piece) RE: https://growthecon.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/more-on-mathiness/ [I]f a statement in economics cannot be reduced to a sequence of subjectively testable rational operations, then it cannot be true – it is not existentially possible. If a statement in economics can be reduce to…
The Movement Against Pseudoscience Continues
[T]heories of perception not fact. —“We suggest that most theories about political effects of inequality need to be either abandoned or reframed as theories about the effects of perceived inequality”— h/t bryan caplan http://www.nber.org/papers/w21174.pdf Source: (1) Curt Doolittle
Definitions: Truth, Truthfulness, and Honesty
[D]EFINITIONS OF TRUTH. TAUTOLOGICAL TRUTH: That testimony you give when you promising the equality of two statements using different terms: A circular definition, a statement of equality or a statement of identity. ANALYTIC TRUTH: The testimony you give promising the internal consistency of one or more statements used in the construction of a proof in an axiomatic(declarative)…
Running with Hayekian Scissors
PRIVILEGE (DISCOUNTS ON OPPORTUNITY COSTS) AS INFORMATION —Hayek’s point about distributed knowledge applies to more than just economic issues. It also applies to social issues.—- RE: http://ow.ly/Ln3uF [W]hile, as I’ve written before, I agree with the general argument that women sense some things and men others (and progressives, libertarians and conservatives different things as well)…
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