NOTES FROM THIS MORNING’S REVIEW OF CURRENT STATE 5-Literature 4-Religion 3-Phil

NOTES FROM THIS MORNING’S REVIEW OF CURRENT STATE

5-Literature

4-Religion

3-Philosophy (Moral Entrepreneurs)

2-Intellectual History

1-History

0-Law

1-Science

—Curt

Tautology(necessary),

Proof(possible),

Rational(potential),

Literature(meaningful) —Curt

We are all relying upon narratives that provide decidability for the purpose of pursuing allies in the achievement of a condition, not truth. We only rely upon a truthful narrative when it assists us attracting allies in the achievement of a condition. –Curt

Shinto when we’re born,

Confucian when we’re adolescent,

Christian when we’re married,

Buddhist when we die. — Japanese Saying

Rationality – in that one consents to be persuaded – is a social virtue not a human faculty. Reason is a human faculty. Rationality is a moral virtue – a property of cooperation. — Rorty restated by Doolittle

“It’s not a surprise that religion, democracy, and science, are in conflict: power.”–Rorty

“Another sense of philosophy describes how various ideas fit together.” — Rorty. Well, I would say that philosophy consists of logic (necessity), criticism (science), integration(rationality), advocacy(moral literature), and imagining (fantasy literature). And that religion conflates advocacy, imagining, and Law (force). –Curt

“if we take care of education and democratic freedom then truth will take care of itself”–Dewey. Well, it turns out that Dewey/Rorty are wrong. Just the opposite. – Curt

Judaism is, like American pragmatism, a feminine philosophy, in that consequences to the commons are irrelevant. All that matters is the consequences to those collectively extant in the moment. — Curt

Rorty makes the progressive error of the steady-state. We always fight the red queen. We have lost that under the temporary prosperity of industrialism. But the red queen has shifted just as crime has shifted. We compete against economies and resources and institutions, not against farming and territory and demographics. — Curt

What objectively right vs objectively better = Survival of your gene pool. It is objectively right, and objectively better. — Curt

Innovative < —————- > Defensive

…. …. …. Communism (universalism) (impossible)

…. …. Socialism (competitively impossible)

…. Social Democracy (possible as long as competitive)

Market Government (Trade) …. Anarchism (impossible)

….Classical-Liberalism, (

…. ….Christian Monarchism

…. …. ….Fascism (particularism)

Communism

…. (lower class – short term – consumption – r-selection )

…. (mandatory consumption)

…. (reproductive offense – distribution of assets )

Market Government

…. (middle class – medium term – production)

…. (mandatory exchagne)

…. (productive offense – market eschange of assets)

Fascism

…. (upper class – long term – preservation – K-selection)

…. (mandatory production/contribution)

…. (organizational offense – concentration of assets)

We alter between these strategies as our prosperity allows.

—Curt

The west is deconflationary. we do not confuse methods of arguments, disciplines that make use of them, institutions that provide and manage them. We maintain a competition, and circumvent a monopoly.

LIMITS: Law, legal jurisdiction – secular jurisdiction – a discovered science of dispute resolution.

UTILITY: Trade – practical jurisdiction – a learned craft of pragmatism.

IDEALS: Matters spiritual – are literary – and an imagined art of aspiration.

Islam and Judaism are ‘simpler’ methods than western. simpler than Chinese. And suitable for a people less intelligent

—Curt

–“The collapse of the ottoman empire (Turks) allows the primitives (Salafis) to determine the authoritarian voice of Islam. Had the Turkish sultan maintained control of Islam, then it is possible that Islam would have reformed and the primitivism might have been suppressed as it was in other civilizations.”— Roger Scruton.

“There is nothing that a democratic polity is accountable to but itself.”—Rorty But this is false. This says that the majority underclass under majoritarian monopoly rule is unaccountable to the consequences they force upon the middle and upper classes, and the genetic, territorial, normative, institutional, informational, and monumental capital of the civilization.—Curt Doolittle

—“Truth isn’t correspondence with reality. Truth is just whatever it takes for people to obtain what they want.”–Rorty He is saying nothing matters. My question is why others have any reason or justification for not committing violence against those that oppose our preferences and interests. –Curt

—“Conservatives are people who are aware of the fact that they’ve inherited something good, and want to conserve what is good. It’s much easier to destroy things than create them. It’s much easier to criticize existing things that are imperfect, than to construct things are better.”—Roger Scruton