NO DEBATE: WALTER BLOCK AND THE ROTHBARDIANS CHICKEN OUT The Rothbardian Circle

NO DEBATE: WALTER BLOCK AND THE ROTHBARDIANS CHICKEN OUT

The Rothbardian Circle withdrew their invitation to debate Walter Block.

I was surprised Block would accept it. I was surprised dedicated Rothbardians wouldn’t be terrified by it. So I wasn’t surprised that within 24 hours they chickened out.

Now first, I would have owned the argument. The reason being that I know all of Walter’s arguments and I know his technique of using suggestion by incremental reasonableness. And I have extraordinary practice at falsifying Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe, while preserving each of their insights.

But it’s disappointing because it is possible to save the jewish ancap program from the dustbin of intellectual history, if it is possible to switch from having to falsify their program, to demonstrating that despite each generation’s failures, they incrementally produced insights such that by my generation the solution that Mises had intuited but could not solve, could be articulated. So that we solved social science in four generations.

Now, I can’t, science can’t, and western civilization can’t, tolerate preserving any of mises, rothbard, and hoppe at all unless we can move away from the possibility of an anarchic (Separatist or Borderland) polity, or the claim that economics isn’t scientific like all other sciences, or that the NAP/ISV is sufficient, or that argumentation applies only under extant civil order and law, or that scarcity is perceptible rather than cost being perceptible. Or that the a priori describes an ideal rather than a real distribution. Or any of the other dozen fallacies that the rothbardians propagate to the educated but not terribly intelligent.

So what rothbardians are doing today, is simply demonstrating the cognitive bias of throwing good time, effort, thought, and money after bad (Sunk Cost Fallacy) – just as do the marxists and neocons.

And by doing so killing their heroes for all time.