—“Leninism’s development of the totally expropriating state was profoundly atavistic. So atavistic that, the Soviet Union managed to pass through ibn Khaldun’s state cycle in a single life time. “— Michael Phillip
–“Lenin famously claimed that communism was socialism + electricity. Actually, it was an attempted return to the origins of the state + electricity. But bargaining states had let loose technological dynamism on the world, and mere expropriation was no longer the cutting edge in organising societies. The gap between Leninist pretension and economic reality became de-stabilisingly obvious. So, we have collapsed Leninist regimes or societies with notionally Leninist ruling regimes ruling very not-totalitarian societies or, in the case of North Korea, a regime that has embraced its atavism. History is how the present was created, but only provides understanding if we accurately grasp that history.”— Michael Phillip
Ibn Khaldun’s State Cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun
(I might recommend Carroll Quigley instead)
Atavistism : “The tendency to revert to Ancestral type”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism
Author: Curt Doolittle
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Leninism’s Atavism
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Leninism’s Atavism
—“Leninism’s development of the totally expropriating state was profoundly atavistic. So atavistic that, the Soviet Union managed to pass through ibn Khaldun’s state cycle in a single life time. “— Michael Phillip –“Lenin famously claimed that communism was socialism + electricity. Actually, it was an attempted return to the origins of the state + electricity. But bargaining states had let loose technological dynamism on the world, and mere expropriation was no longer the cutting edge in organising societies. The gap between Leninist pretension and economic reality became de-stabilisingly obvious. So, we have collapsed Leninist regimes or societies with notionally Leninist ruling regimes ruling very not-totalitarian societies or, in the case of North Korea, a regime that has embraced its atavism. History is how the present was created, but only provides understanding if we accurately grasp that history.”— Michael Phillip
Ibn Khaldun’s State Cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun
(I might recommend Carroll Quigley instead)
Atavistism : “The tendency to revert to Ancestral type”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism -
The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂
[satire]
Guest Post by Johannes Meixner
[T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:
***The High Trust Society.***
As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.
Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.
Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.
On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.
Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.
Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.
Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.
Beware.
They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.
(I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)Johannes Meixner
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The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂
[satire]
Guest Post by Johannes Meixner
[T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:
***The High Trust Society.***
As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.
Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.
Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.
On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.
Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.
Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.
Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.
Beware.
They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.
(I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)Johannes Meixner
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Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now
[I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.
I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.
I appreciate all your efforts and patience.
But I think it was worth it.
Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.
But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.
Cheers.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
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Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now
[I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.
I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.
I appreciate all your efforts and patience.
But I think it was worth it.
Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.
But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.
Cheers.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev Ukraine. -
(watching horror movies, at night, alone, in the dark. still works even at my ag
(watching horror movies, at night, alone, in the dark. still works even at my age.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 18:09:00 UTC
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POSTING YOUR WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM.COM A lot of people’s work is hitting the b
POSTING YOUR WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM.COM
A lot of people’s work is hitting the bar, so I’ve started posting to Propertarianism.com those pieces here that add value, using the tag line ‘Guest post by…”.
So far that’s Eli Harman Michael Philip (whose every utterance is panned gold), James Santagata , William L. Benge and Johannes Meixner.
– Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 17:39:00 UTC
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William L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty m
William L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it.
I think if you watch Dennett’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see the future : we act more like a set of hives than individually rational actors proposed by the greeks and the enlightenment.
And when you grasp that, you will perhaps see the importance of both speaking the truth, the virtue of contracts, and the importance of prices, rather than unlimited free speech, the dream of reason, – and just about all that we have done during the democratic era under the fallacy of the rationally capable rational actor.
Hive mind exists.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 17:07:00 UTC
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“CHILDHOOD’S END: I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett
“CHILDHOOD’S END:
I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett’s talk. It’s classicl Dennett: entertainment. But what we fail to see is that he’s working in the ancient paradigm of states and language rather than changes in state – the problem with philosophy writ large.
It’s helpful that we can easily be tricked – that undermines our confidence. But it tells us little other how to play skeptical parlor games.
By comparison Jeff Hawkins’ talks are algorithmic explanations of experience as on going changes in state for the purpose of forecasting the future so that we may act upon it.
If I stated that understanding Hawkins, my work, and Haidt is pretty much the current state of knowledge I think that would be correct.
Paradigms and the languages that reference them MATTER.
I think I need to record a talk tying the three bodies of work together.
And I think I will call it “childhood’s end”.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 17:01:00 UTC