it is a bit hard to replace your normatively acquired moral intuitions with formal logic of cooperation. But you can do it. And when you do, the world of man is a clear to you as the physical world is to the mathematician and physicist.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 14:38:00 UTC
SO LIBERALISM WAS NOT, AND IS NOT, DEMOCRACY?
(clarifying post)
QUESTION: “Liberalism is not democracy. Is that a true-enough statement to make?”
ANSWER: I think that liberalism was not so much one man one vote, but one vote one family. And that liberalism was structured with multiple houses so that different classes could conduct trades in a market. We call that market government. But it’s still just a system of exchanges wherein each party retains his potential for the use of violence.
So liberalism was a an evolution of enfranchising more people into that system, but without understanding of what that system did. And then that system was abused – I think primarily by the entrance of women into the voting system once they became active in the work force.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 13:08:00 UTC
INTUITION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE THE WHITE LIE
Once our minds could evolve self awareness, our bodies had to evolve a means of persuading us to do that which we would not willingly do if we rationally conceived it.
The idea that rational insight into nature is beneficial is only half true. Once aware of death look what we do about it. But if we were cognizant of our position in the hierarchy, or any other number of truths, we would not so easily fulfill nature’s demands upon us to reproduce.
of course our intuitions lie to us.
Its necessary.
Just as it’s necessary to tell children nice white lies so they remain optimistic.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 13:02:00 UTC
STARVE THE CATHEDRAL
The Cathedral is, without question, a religion – so we must separate church and state. Right? Easy. Imagine what happens to universities if they must be paid out of future earnings by graduates, just as income taxes are paid out of future earnings by graduates?
Starve the beast.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 07:27:00 UTC
THOUGHTS: ON TEACHING PROPERTARIANISM.
(currently editing)
SPEAKING THE TRUTH
1) Conceptual comparisons by: unique instances, ideal types, golden means(spectra), multi-axis (supply-demand), multi-axis-intertemporal(incentive models),
2) The hierarchy of arguments and how to identify each: emotional reaction, moral reaction, rational argument, historical analogy, empirical analogy, scientific-experimental analogy, economic-empirical analogy, operational description.
3) The Points of view: Imaginary, Experiential, Rational, Observational, Operational.
4) Testimonial truth – what it means to speak truthfully (morally-scientifically)
5) The logical instruments: identity, naming and numbering, relations (mathematics), logic, causality(physics), exchange (cooperation)
6) the requirements for speaking truthfully: Internal consistency(logic), external correspondence (correlation),existential possibility(operations)
7) The application of the requirements to the spectrum of logics.
8) The explanation of the errors of mysticism, mythology, narrative, rationalism, pseudoscience and scientism and how to avoid them.
This I can do. It’s the hardest part. But this I can do.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 06:55:00 UTC
OBAMA-VOTER PUNCH-IN-THE-FACE
I mean, the whole random violence thing is pretty popular these days. So, why don’t we just start a trend of punching obama voters in the face? I mean, over here in the east, it’s pretty obvious that this guy is the worst thing to happen to the world since the previous professor ideologically imposed the versailles treaty.
The academy is a house of religion and has no place in world affairs.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 06:19:00 UTC
ON INTERVENTION
(reposted from fb/paleolibertarian)
If we wish to extend property rights to others we must always intervene, else when we need intervention ourselves, no one is likewise obligated to intervene on our behalf.
No man is an island. Britain, North America, and Australia temporarily can act as islands due to luck of geography, and the diasporic peoples can always run to hide in another ‘tent’. But as a general rule – a theory of human action, we cannot take exceptions and under the pretense of rules.
The question is not whether we intervene, but whether our intervention increases property rights, and whether those we assist in obtaining property rights enter into a contract for mutual defense of property rights.
There exist no other circumstances under which property rights can be brought into existence by human action, other than by contractual exchange. and there exist no opportunities to bring them into existence other than offers of intervention. Because offers of intervention constitute offers of reciprocal contract.
Aristocracy expanded to the lower classes by adopting the price of entry: reciprocal defense of property. And that is the only means by which liberty has ever, and shall ever, be obtained.
Liberty cannot be had at a discount. One pays for it, or one seeks to obtain it by fraud. Period.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
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Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 05:16:00 UTC
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/10/01/the-zombie-apocalypse-has-arrived/?utm_content=buffer656e8&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=BufferZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AS UTOPIAN DREAM
—“For movie audiences, the mainstream, the 99%, catastrophes aren’t something to dread; they are something to look forward to. They are a catharsis, a conceptual clearing of the deck. They are the implosion of the banking towers at the end of Fight Club, they are the destruction of the White House in Independence Day, they are the wholesale destruction of the entire global map in 2012.”–
I have a better idea: Revolution, voluntary association, and voluntary disassociation.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 03:15:00 UTC
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2014/11/nothing-has-changed-and-thats-problem.htmlCharles Hugh smith on the institutionalizations of risk.
Now to some degree the primary purpose of a government is now insurer of last resort.
But since this insurance is incalculable it is merely a vehicle for transfers.
The privatization of commons and the socialization of losses.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 10:41:00 UTC
http://www.moreright.net/response-to-david-brins-neo-reactionaries-drop-all-pretense-end-democracy-and-bring-back-lords-article-december-2014/Neo Reactionaries Drop All Pretense
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 09:42:00 UTC