Author: Curt Doolittle

TRUTHFUL VS MEANINGFUL AND THE SOLUTION TO POLITICS OF THE WEST

Plenty of meaningfully true things can be said “Untruthfully”. (Unscientifically.)

But that’s not the point.

It’s that very few untrue things can be said “Truthfully”. ( By Truthfully, I mean, scientifically, and including Propertarianism’s operationalism and morality).

Philosophers, Scholars, intellectuals, pundits, journalists, reporters, and the common man, all emphasize the truth content of their utterances, but not the means by which they make those utterances.

Science the language of truthful speech. Or rather, the language of truthful speech is science.

And that is because truthfulness requires we warranty our communications against imagination, error, bias and deceit.

Science evolves our knowledge because of truthfulness.

And while truth content may be found in many places, the problem the listener has, is that it is costly and error prone to separate potential truth content, from imagination, error, bias and deception.

And worse, individuals load, frame, and overload us to bypass our ability to defend against imagination, error, bias and deception.

So we must give individuals a counter-incentive, against imagination, error, bias, and deception, to speak truthfully – by raising the cost of speaking untruthfully.

By punishing untruthful speech. Not untrue speech but untruthful speech.

So why can’t law, government, politics and public speech evolve because of truthfulness as well?

It can.

*The informational commons*

Distribute shares in the informational commons. Privatize everything. Create universal standing.

Propertarianism.

The attack on the west has been conducted by sophisticated lying: repetition, pseudoscience, rationalism, and postmodernism, the same way it was conducted by sophisticated lying the first time: christianity.

Why should we tolerate people who lie? Why do we forgo violence, and cooperate, if we are to be lied to? Isn’t it irrational to cooperate with someone unless they are both non-violent, non-theiving, non-conspiratorial and truthful?

We don’t need to tolerate liars, or cooperate with liars. And it’s harmful – its a violation of the rational incentives to cooperate, and by cooperating abandoning violence.

We can abandon cooperation for all those who speak untruthfully, and return to violence.

If someone speaks untruthfully, they abandon all implicit and explicit agreements to cooperate. And having broken that contract, you, we – all of us – are no longer bound to refrain from violence.

So, unbound from our agreement to refrain from violence, let us use our wealth of violence.

Speak truthfully or die.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev