PROPERTARIANISM AS IMPROVEMENT ON THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT Hayek’s: new era of mys

PROPERTARIANISM AS IMPROVEMENT ON THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

Hayek’s: new era of mysticism (in science).

Mencius’s: age of propaganda (in politics).

Doolittle’s: age of pseudoscience (in philosophy)

Truthfully: the age of deceit.

From Mencius (Curtis Yarivn)

—“The basic premise of [The Dark Enlightenment] is that all the competing 20th-century systems of government, including the Western democracies which came out on top and which rule us to this day, are best classified as Orwellian. They maintain their legitimacy by shaping public opinion. They shape public opinion by sculpting the information presented to the public. As part of that public, you peruse the world through a lens poured by your government. ….

Thus the red pill: any stimulus or stimulant, pharmaceutical or literary, that fundamentally compromises said system of deception. That sounds very medical, but let’s be clear: you are not taking our pill as a public service. At least with our present crude packaging, the remedy is not accessible to any politically significant percentage of citizens. Rather, you are dosing up because you’d rather be high. Despite the agony of ingestion, it’s just too much fun to see your old reality from the outside. This, rather than “society,” is why you will return to UR again and again.”—

HOWEVER: WE HAVE A CURE

The thing is, that we cure this ‘age of deceit’ through (a) operationalis (operational language and e-prime, (b) truth telling and warranty of truth telling, (c) making the informational commons into defensible property. Or more positively, outlawing lying in the commons.

If we did that the entire edifice of lies would collapse in a decade.