THE FIRST QUESTIONS OF SENTIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, POLITICS: BUYING OPTIONS (

THE FIRST QUESTIONS OF SENTIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, POLITICS: BUYING OPTIONS

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—“I agree with Camus that suicide is the pre-eminent philosophical question. On a macro scale, the question is whether or not you realize the paradox of the unproductive needing the productive, the productive not needing the unproductive, yet the unproductive seeking the demise of the productive, and ultimately themselves. The left has chosen suicide. For both themselves, and us, if we allow it.”—Ryan Montague

Excellent way of positioning it. I need to play with this a bit. Because I’ve used the first two, and talked about the third, but not taken your jump and merged it with Camus’.

THE FIRST QUESTION OF SENTIENCE

why and how do we think? – we select the option that produces the most options, meaning the largest number of associations. And at each moment we repeat. then we remember our option buying as planning. so we save memory. and we can repeat the process.

THE FIRST QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY

why do I not commit suicide? – we are buying more options on reproduction, and that of our kin.

THE FIRST QUESTION OF ETHICS

why do we not kill you and take your stuff? – we are buying more options on survival from the discounts of cooperation.

THE FIRST QUESTION OF POLITICS

Why do we let the parasitic reproduce? – they are buying options on survival in some form with greater numbers, and we are buying discounts on current expenditures of effort. And in turn buying more options.

Religion and philosophy start with an optimistic bias out of the in-group assumption of the benefits of cooperation. But that optimistic benefit of cooperation is in service of the unforgiving process of reproduction and evolution.

Evolution (Kinship) isn’t an optimistic bias. It’s as physical an accounting system as is entropy in physics.

Curt Doolittle,

The Philosophy of Aristocracy,

The Propertarian Institute.