CAUTION TO NEW FRIENDS (quarterly repost) Please keep in mind what I do. OK? I w

CAUTION TO NEW FRIENDS

(quarterly repost)

Please keep in mind what I do. OK? I write political philosophy. Aristocratic (Conservative) Libertarian philosophy. I use Facebook as an historical sketch pad, where I try ideas out until I get them into compact and digestible form.

There are all sorts of benefits to doing this. Not the least of which is that other people get to see how the sausage is made so to speak. But also because the act of speaking in public produces very different work from speaking in private.

There is a difference between agreeing with solutions I might suggest, and criticisms that I levy. The solutions are theories. The criticisms are not. They are as close to scientific as it is possible to construct with the knowledge at our disposal.

So it is not important that you agree with any solution that I, or anyone else, comes up with. But it is important that you not assume that we can have our cake and eat it too. The empirical content of the enlightenment was true. The political content of the enlightenment has proven not to be.

Thanks for your love and friendship.