MORE “TESTIMONIALISM FIRST” By Joel Davis —“It seems like to Curt, he develope

MORE “TESTIMONIALISM FIRST”

By Joel Davis

—“It seems like to Curt, he developed Testimonialism as a means to making his vision of society work. So he teaches his vision of society and then uses Testimonialism as his defense.

However what seemed to attract Bill (and myself) to Curt’s ideas was the fact that he has developed the most comprehensive bullshit identification system we have come across. The vision of society Curt has was a logical extension of applying it and Propertarianism gives us so much but it’s just another “-ism” without Testimonialism.

So there’s two strategies. Use Propertarianism as the carrot we dangle to attract people to Testimonialism, or use Testimonialism as a carrot we dangle to attract people to THE TRUTH.

I personally found the second method the most potent.

I think there is also a third strategy that is even more capable of attracting people to the philosophy and to extend the metaphor that would be the carrot of aesthetics.

The truth does not seem something we find ourselves motivated towards in and of itself. The truth seems more like a means to informing and therefore empowering our pursuit of willed consequences.

These consequences we want seem to correspond to our notion of aesthetics. All the things I want I am enamored by.

The only reason I seem to give a shit about the truth and testimonialism is because I see their utility.

Inspiring this realisation in others is surely the awakening of the soverign in man? And that’s what you’re (we’re) trying to do right?”—