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"We Must Develop Political Institutions For The People We Have, Not Those We Wish We Had"
REFORMULATION OF “WE MUST DEVELOP POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE WE HAVE, NOT THOSE WE WISH WE HAD” “Observation of individual men would never have led to the formulation of the static conceptions upon which the democratic edifice is founded, such as justice, equality, fraternity, order. These are based not on the traits of living…
“We Must Develop Political Institutions For The People We Have, Not Those We Wish We Had”
REFORMULATION OF “WE MUST DEVELOP POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE WE HAVE, NOT THOSE WE WISH WE HAD” “Observation of individual men would never have led to the formulation of the static conceptions upon which the democratic edifice is founded, such as justice, equality, fraternity, order. These are based not on the traits of living…
Should A College Education Be Offered To All People Or To A Certain Group Of People Only?
“Should” is an interesting question.“College Education” is a loose term.“Offered” is a questionable term.The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20%…
Mises' Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Mises’ Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Reforming Rothbard: The Rothbardian Fallacies
(intellectual arms dealing) (retaking the brand of liberty from the lunatic fringe) [R]othbardians are relying upon and spreading numerous fallacies: (a) the fallacy of the NAP/IVP as the moral and legal basis for an anarchic polity, (b) the fallacy of aggression rather than the necessity of trust, (c) and the fallacies of the origin of…
Poetic Expression Is Art – And Expensive
–“Not quite sure what you are trying to win and all the big words obscure things so that it all seems a fog to me. I like your poems so much more that are plain and simple but say so much…”– Kerry Kerry, there are things that I can easily express as experiences, and things…
Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship
[I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is…
Different Disciplines Ordered by Their Content
(interesting) 1) Imagination 2) Language 3) Logic 4) Economics (ethics/cooperation) 5) Physics (science) 6) Engineering 7) Computer science 8) Mathematics
Choices: Conflict, Boycott, and Cooperation
[W]e can fail to agree, and conflict with one another. We can agree to boycott (avoid) one another. Or we can agree to cooperate with one another. In any rational exchange for cooperation and trust, we require the positive assertion of the requirement of production, and the negative assertion of the prohibition on free riding.…
Worth Repeating
**If you can’t state it operationally, then it’s merely an analogy. Analogies are informative, but they are not truth propositions.**
Against Justified True Belief – Toward Ethical Speech Instead
[J]ustified true belief is not an important question – it is purely utilitarian. Your belief is not an ethical question. Your testimony is however, an ethical question. . You may believe whatever you have knowledge of use of. But you may not testify that you know that which you cannot construct in operational language.
The Difference In Underclass Communication Due To Science
[O]ver my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the…
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[T]he more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And northern europeans simply suppressed more free riding than any other people. What we resent is that physical effort is more costly to the individual than intellectual effort, and that intellectual effort is much more productive and scarce than physical effort. Andy Curzon…
Operationalism Under Propertarianism Renders Postmodernist, Critique, and Kantian Arguments Impossible
Deceptions LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of arguments Applications THE COSMOPOLITAN TECHNIQUE: CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with…
Requirements for Voluntary Cooperation
(worth repeating) [W]e are only ‘voluntarily cooperating’ if we have a choice to cooperate or not. We use the term ‘cooperate’, originating with human voluntary cooperation, and by analogy apply it to other creatures who simulate voluntary cooperation. But, how many of those creatures voluntarily cooperate, and how many of them only appear to, and…
Result of Interaction
RESULTS: THE FORMS OF INTERACTION – FROM WAR TO PRODUCTION TO SUICIDE 1) WAR: Both parties prey upon each other in mutual destruction (consumption) 2) PREDATION: In which on party preys upon the other for the purpose of destruction (consumption) 3) PARASITISM: In which one party benefits at another’s expense 4) COMMENSALISM: In which one…
Liberty is Like Truth….
Liberty is like truth : there is infinitely more of it than you have, no matter how much you have at present. Liberty is not a state. It’s a pursuit. (Critical Rationalism may not be perfect but it will cure a lot of intellectual ills.)
Contra: Response to Tom Woods and Chris Cantwell on Aggression
CONTRA TOM WOODS AND CHRIS CANTWELL ON AGGRESSION (Note: I love the pejorative term ’emotional hypochondriac’. I’ll have to use that.) CRITICISM 1 To say that aggression is precise is not the same as saying it’s sufficient. (It’s not). To say that harm is imprecise is not the same as saying it’s false. All these…
For Tom Woods: On Thick and Thin
Tom, Great of you to weigh in on this topic. You’ve also provided Rothbardians with an ‘out’ that I didn’t think of. That the NAP is fullness of libertarianism but not the fullness of life. I’d thought that the only ‘out’ was that rothbardian libertarianism was sufficient for the moral interaction of states, but insufficient…