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Brian Caplan is Wrong on Immigration – Like Most Libertarians
[T]here is nothing new about that though. (And Walter Block is wrong well.) Although I agree with Caplan’s work on education and voting, his position on immigration is ideological, not empirical or rational, and it is decidedly not ethically sound. The only test of any ethical statement is whether all transfers caused by any act,…
Property Is Not Created by a Choice, Or by a Belief. But by Action. That Action is The Application of Organized Violence.
[O]nly humans can act. 1) Any description of a political concept, that is not articulated as action, is an attempt to obscure those actions. THis is the meaning of praxeology. It makes the involuntary transfers visible. If you cannot describe rights in praxeological terms, it’s because you are either unable to articulate thema s action,…
An Example of Using Propertarianism to Defend Conservatism
[C]onservatives speak in emotionally loaded, allegorical, (and therefore archaic) language. That does not mean that the content of their beliefs or allegories is irrational, only that it is arational. But it does mean that they can’t articulate their ideas rationally. And worse, it means that their arguments, and their way of life are perpetually vulnerable…
Kinsella’s Criticism of Locke, and My Explanation of Locke’s Reasonable Mistake, and What To Do About It.
[T]hanks to Stephan Kinsella for giving me the opportunity to explain why Locke accidentally created the Labor theory of value. (From a FB post) I’m starting to think one of the costliest intellectual mistakes of all human history was Locke’s ridiculous idea that we own the fruits of our labor (or that we own our…
Liberty Isn’t Inherent. It’s unnatural. We create it with Organized Violence.
Liberty isnt’ ‘inherent’. Liberty is created by force and held by force. And no people without an armed militia to do so has even had liberty. Property is ‘inherent’ in the sense that it’s necessary, and that the mind is organized to make use of it. But liberty, which is the universal prohibition on the…
Propertarian Definition: REVOLUTION
1) SOCIETY: A society is an organization. It is an organization of people by norms, using exclusion from, and inclusion in, opportunities to gain adherence to norms. 2) GOVERNMENT: A government is an organization. it is an organization of people who make decisions over the use of property using a bureaucracy that operates by rules,…
A Propertarian Definition of Ruthless
“ruth·less /?ro?oTHl?s/ Adjective Having or showing no pity or compassion for others. feeling or showing no mercy; Synonyms merciless – pitiless – unmerciful – remorseless Propertarian translation: disregard for externalities. Different from ‘cruel’ which is to intentionally cause externalities.”
The Self Deception Of The Enlightenment View Of Man
The so called enlightenment is a mental self deception for the purpose of obtaining signals at a discount and nothing more. The enlightenment view of man was a myth invented to justify the taking if power from the landed nobility. It was that aristocracy that created western excellencies that made us unique in the world,…
On Rent Seeking
RENT SEEKING In public choice theory as well as in economics, rent-seeking means seeking to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Simple Version: “Corruption from outside the government inside of inside the government.” NOUN 1. the fact or practice of manipulating public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing…
Welcome A New Member To The Dark Enlightenment.
To Ethan Walters: Re: http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/ [W]elcome to the Uncomfortable Enlightenment (or the Dark Enlightenment). History, Economics and Anthropology have addressed this issue for decades: RICHARD DUCHESENE: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization MARIjA GIMBUTAS: (Everything she has written) SAMUEL HUNTINGTON: Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. KAREN ARMSTRONG: The Great Transformation (Or See the reading…
Heidegger Is An Intellectual Date Rapist. 😉
COMMENT ON HEIDEGGER You are teaching me about these nutty people, and it’s…. it’s awful. Its, well….. it’s like talking to a woman that’s trying to get you to engage with her emotionally so that she can manipulate you with those emotions. Like Huck Finn trying to gut us to a paint the fence. Just…
On The Word “Articulate”
One is articulate if one speaks articulately. Most definitions say ‘speaks clearly’. However, the term “clearly” itself is subjectively inarticulate. To speak articulately is to express concepts as a unified set of causal relations. The problem with any unified set of causal relations is that the set of causal relations a) must be expressed as…
Answered: Why Can’t Many Libertarians Articulate Libertarianism?
WHY ARE MOST SELF DESCRIBED LIBERTARIANS UNABLE TO ARTICULATELY DESCRIBE LIBERTARIANISM? There is a reason that the term ‘libertarian’ often cannot be explained by advocates, and it’s the reason social democrats cannot explain marxist theory (which is extremely elaborate.) Libertarianism can refer to: 1) A sentiment (the preference for liberty above all other moral ambitions).…
Defending Libertarianism Wherever I Need To – Today’s Edition
From Politicus USA “Real Liberal Politics” http://www.politicususa.com/seriously-libertarians-wtf.html WHY CAN’T LIBERTARIANS EXPLAIN THEIR IDEOLOGY? There is a reason that the term ‘libertarian’ cannot be explained, the same way social democrats cannot explain marxist theory (which is extremely elaborate. Like leftism, Libertarianism can refer to a sentiment (the preference for liberty above all other moral ambitions). It…
What Is The Most Effective Yet Efficient Way To Get Rich?
Read “millionaire mind” and “millionaire next door”. Statistically speaking: run a small business. Sell it to a larger business. Create balance sheet wealth. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-effective-yet-efficient-way-to-get-rich-2
What Are Some Good Examples Of Intellectual Honesty?
Intellectual Honesty means, in practice, that in any argumentative or persuasive discourse, when given an incentive for deception, either of yourself and/or others, that you avoid such deception at all times. Or more simply, arguing to win, or to avoid blame, rather than arguing in pursuit of objective truth. And objective truth means, that among…
A Definition Of HBD Human Bio Diversity (At The Request Of HBD Chick.)
DEFINITION OF HBD: THAT RESEARCH PROGRAM WE CALL “HUMAN BIO DIVERSITY” HUMAN BIO-DIVERSITY: “The study of heritable human genetic differences and the variation in distribution of those differences within human populations that show affinity for one another. And where those affinities express themselves as political, social, familial, and personal institutions, behaviors, abilities and preferences. And…
The Complete Definition Of Property: An Excerpt from Propertarianism
[P]ropertarianism differs from Libertarianism by: 1) First, Propertarianism argues that the principle of involuntary transfer – a prohibition on not only fraud theft and violence — but also involuntary transfer in all its forms, including “cheating”, or privatization of the commons, is the boundary that determines ethical use of property, because it is how humans…
Mathematics vs Cinema As Tools For Explaining The Universe
?”Cinema can still explain the whole world. Mathematicians think it’s math. I believe it’s cinema.” – Jean-Luc Godard Mathematics can explain only what we cannot sense. That is why we have mathematics: to compensate for our limited ability to perceive the universe. However, human concepts must at some point be reduced to those stimuli which…
Illustrating The Meaning Of Liberty From A False Dichotomy 🙂
A Facebook friend asked this question. “What is your definition of liberty? Penniless in a free world, or wealthy in a corrupt one. Those are the choices that I give you. Without deviating from those two choices, what is your response? I dont understand the question yet…. First reply to your definition on liberty. Then…