TODAY’S INSIGHTS Just when you think you are done you hop in the shower and have

TODAY’S INSIGHTS

Just when you think you are done you hop in the shower and have two insights.

1) add hazard: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange free of hazard and free of externality by the same criteria.

2) My friend Josh has helped me understand that after Propertarianism and testimonialism, that all of philosophy is now a science – other than aesthetics, which is preference. And that this is the fallacy of the continentals: conflating aesthetic preferences with metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics.

This, along with the understanding that the nazi movement was an aesthetic one helps me see what as an American I could not: the dominance of aesthetics in European thought. And the use of aesthetics as authoritarian persuasion. Which is enough of a topic that I must go research it.

Because it’s profound.

Beauty as cultural mandate.

Brilliant.