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Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?
GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt…
What Is Capitalism’s Fundamental Flaw?
CAPITALISM DOESN’T HAVE A FLAW – IT’S INSUFFICIENT It’s a necessary tool for cooperating in a vast division of labor. Humans are not all that meritocratic by nature, and don’t like lotteries. And capitalism is a necessary, meritocratic, lottery. It isn’t just. It isn’t fair. It’s just necessary. So how do you take what’s necessary…
How Does Coca-cola Pass National Food Agencies If They Don’t Reveal The Ingredients?
The ingredients are actually known, and available on the internet. Water, sugar, salt, and eight or nine oils in very small quantities. The countries that ban it do it to reject cultural influence, not because of ingredients. In Coca Cola, the caffeine (unless something has changed) still comes from the Kola nut itself. And the…
A Defense and Criticism of The Class Philosophy We Call ‘Libertarianism’
[A]ll philosophy is class philosophy. All philosophies give precedence to one class or another. Libertarianism is a class philosophy as well. A CLASS PHILOSOPHY (a) Just as socialism suggests that all are better off if we give primacy to the objective of equality, and political power to the lower classes; (b) just as postmodernism suggests…
Why Is Communism Considered Evil By Some People?
GREAT QUESTION. ILL TRY TO DO IT JUSTICE Because Karl Marx made a catastrophic error in basing his system of thought on the Labor Theory of Value, and amplified that with a complete failure to understand the necessity of prices and incentives as information systems – a combination that invalidated everything else he concluded from…
How Do Keynesians View Austrian Economics?
GREAT QUESTION. I WILL TRY TO DO IT JUSTICE. BUT I HAVE TO GO BEYOND THE SCOPE OF YOUR QUESTION TO DO THAT. For you to consider yourself an Austrian in ECONOMIC theory, the minimum requirement is to subscribe to 1) the subjective theory of value, 2) the austrian theory of the business cycle and…
What Is The Definition Of Religion?
Starting with the minimal to the maximal:Level 1) Myth and Ritual Level 2) Myth, Ritual, and PromiseLevel 3) Myth, Ritual, Promise, FalsehoodLevel 4) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, DogmaLevel 5) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal InstitutionLevel 6) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political InfluenceLevel 7) Myth, Ritual, Promise, Falsehood, Dogma, Formal Institution, Political…
Propertarian Analysis Is The Analysis Of Spectra, Not Of Nouns – We Did Learn Something From Supply vs Demand Curves. 🙂
(From FB) Curt, what is your opinion about the relation between knowledge and information? Francesco, I am very skeptical of these definitions. For example, 1) Deduction, Induction and Abduction all describe the process of deduction but with decreasingly available information. 2) Knowledge, Information, Data, and Phenomena, likewise describe only our decreasing confidence in any theory’s…
The Problem Of Competence – The Value Of Critical Rationalism : Skeptical Empiricism, Or What We Call ‘Science’.
[T]hose who try to master fields usually end up with the Socratic opinion that ‘I don’t know anything (for certain)’. We have simply collected large sets of examples that we know do not work. But this knowledge informs us. If we cannot know much of anything, then why would we create a political system that…
The Rate Of Technological Change Determines The Value Of Different Models Of The State
[T]he totalitarian system, whether it’s the military or the communist system, is very useful for doing very simple things: fighting wars, imposing education, imposing some system of property rights, and building infrastructure. These are processes of execution, not of invention, research and development in consumer goods. But the totalitarian system cannot improve affairs when there…
What Is Post-modernism?
POSTMODERNISM IS AN ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT TOTALITARIANISM DESPITE THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE BY PROMOTING A NEW SECULAR RELIGION THROUGH REPETITION OF DESIRABLE BUT FALSE AND IRRATIONAL STATEMENTS AND REJECTING REALISM, SCIENCE AND HISTORY – THE PROMISE OF EQUALITY AS THE EQUIVALENT TO THE PROMISE OF LIFE AFTER DEATH. Postmodernism is a…
What Books Should Be Banned For Being Offensive To Women?
What books should be banned for being offensive to males? 🙂 Troll question. But the consistency of the responses to the question is encouraging. https://www.quora.com/What-books-should-be-banned-for-being-offensive-to-women
Legal Equality is Necessary, Economic Equality is Unattainable, and Genetic Equality is Undesirable – Your Genes Matter
(Legal Equality is Necessary, Economic Equality is Unattainable, and Genetic Equality is Undesirable – Your Genes Matter) A friend posted an interestingly common white lament, that provides an excellent jumping off point for criticizing postmodern values. Lee: I am in the top 1% economic class of the world. This is due purely to an accident…
Diedre McCloskey’s Close On The European Miracle – Just Close
She’s close. McCloskey’s close. It’s actually, that MORAL ARGUMENTS by public intellectuals, changed the in-group instinctual bias AGAINST competition, from an immoral and unethical practice to a moral and ethical virtue because it became clear that despite our instincts, and despite the immorality of competition, it produces a virtuous cycle. THis change in moral codes,…
Necessity vs Preference In Political and Ethical Theory
[I]t is all well and good to attempt to construct political and ethical philosophy as the family becomes the village, the tribe becomes the city with a division of labor, and the people become the nation with an anonymous market. It is necessary to do so. But preferences must compete with necessities. We may prefer…
Notes From Hoppe’s Essay: “What Must Be Done”
SUMMARY: INCREMENTALLY PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING. [G]reat analysis. Not sure how strong the solution is. (It isn’t strong at all) I don’t like to criticize the master of our movement. He should have had one of us edit it (Roman Saskiw) because there are too many small problems with it. I don’t like mixing analytical rigour and…
Logic, Praxeology And Science: Dependency And Demarcation. Reforming Libertarianism By Incorporating Scientific Argument Rather Than Relying On The Purely Rational
LOGIC, PRAXEOLOGY AND SCIENCE: DEPENDENCY AND DEMARCATION. REFORMING LIBERTARIANISM BY INCORPORATING SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT RATHER THAN RELYING ON THE PURELY RATIONAL [T]hose three terms, Logic, Praxeology, and Science describe a spectrum. But what is the point of demarcation between each? Which of these domains is capable of testing which category of problems, and what constraints does…
The Pareto Principle In Everything
1% of people cause everything, and that 1% own 20% of everything 19% of people control everything and own 60% of everything by taking cues from the 1%. 80% of people are labor or consumers who own 20% and are directed by by the 19%. It’s not just america. It’s everywhere. It has to be…
The Difference Between Legal Equality and Civil Inequality
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEGAL EQUALITY AND CIVIL INEQUALITY: PROFILING AND 27-1 RATIOS Print Lies are lies, even if they are comforting lies. Falsehoods are falsehoods even if they are comforting falsehoods. In my work, I have to deal with facts, if I want to find new solutions to the failings of western social democracy. I…
Why Do We Live In Nation States?
Because Nation-States are constructed of genetically related, extended families and extended tribes, with shared language, culture, mythology, rituals, values, status signals, where competition for political power is ‘in the family’ and will not disrupt the existing order. Humans are notoriously antagonized by redistributions outside of their value-status system, and by disruptions to the existing order. …