NERD QUIETUDE
Sitting in the darkness
The laptop screen
A streetlight through the window.
Feet up. Tea. A couple of pears.
A smokey Gouda. Whiskey.
The sound of people walking by on the street.
Bug bashing is best done as a nocturnal activity.
It’s heavenly: Peaceful. Relaxed. Patient.
Sort of like an exploration game that you play at your own pace.
Life rocks.
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 19:15:00 UTC
PLATONISM sigh. There’s no ‘there’, ‘there’. Don’t confuse forecasting and remembering with existing. Existence is action in time, and the use of memory to experience the change. The rest of it’s just entertainment.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 16:33:00 UTC
Thought you would like this piece.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 13:41:00 UTC
Um…. We’re libertarians.
It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries.
It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power.
It’s hard being the only rational person standing. 🙂
People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 13:26:00 UTC
INFINITY IS OBSCURANT LANGUAGE. 🙂
Cantor is a fraud.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 10:10:00 UTC
IRONIC HUMOR
(funny)
Criticizing the use of obscurant language while using obscurant language to insult the other party.
I shouldn’t lower myself to doing this sh_t, but sometimes I cant help myself, because it’s just too much fun. It’s like teasing a cat with a laser. They can’t control themselves….. Endlessly entertaining. The victims of postmodern education. .
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BY: Curt Doolittle
@ MICHAEL
The purpose of Postmodern speech is to change the meaning and value of terms in order to create a secular religion of totalitarian humanism.
That you don’t grok this a statement about you, not a statement about the assertion.
It’s not like it’s uncommon knowledge.
BY: Michael
I find a religion of humanism to be a problematic construct.
BY: Curt Doolittle
That is not a criticism. 🙂 And you are not a measurement. 🙂 Only your arguments are.
But, then lets look at Denial? The impossibility of material equality? The impossibility of political diversity? The impossibility of equality of ability? Or, my favorite: the evidence that the peer review process is nearly ineffective, and that the requirement for a book length treatment written in operational language appears to be the only empirical test of ideas? How about my favorite: The denial that mathematical platonism is an obscurant means of preserving verbal shortcuts and numerous errors?
Knowledge of facts in a domain, and mastery of a specific discipline can compensate for a lack of intelligence. However, mastery of the art of thought, and the identification of true, utilitarian, and false statements appears to be a matter for experts in that field.
The most important denial is this: the Dunning Kreuger curve. The inability for the incompetent to judge their own ability. 🙂
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Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 10:09:00 UTC
http://judithcurry.com/2013/11/11/denial/THE ‘DENIAL’ LABEL AS POSTMODERN VOCABULARY
(today’s ‘must read’)
–The extension of the “denier” tag to group after group is a development that should alarm all liberal-minded people. One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment—the liberation of historical and scientific enquiry from dogma—is quietly being reversed. – Edward Skidelsky
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 09:47:00 UTC
http://blog.jim.com/politics/the-dark-enlightenment-critique-of-libertarianism.htmlDONT THROW OUT THE LIBERTARIAN BABY WITH THE PROGRESSIVE BATHWATER
LIBERTARIAN != ROTHBARDIAN ANARCHO CAPITALIST. Classical liberals are also ‘libertarians’. Rothbardians via the Mises institute adopted the tactics of the marxists, but this time, using the internet – so they’re ‘everywhere’. Anarcho capitalism was structured like the marxist IDEOLOGY. It is a MORAL, not scientific argument, for ideological rather than political purposes.
The anarcho capitalist program DID give us:
a) the incentives of a bureaucracy are worse than the incentives of a monarchy.
b) the critique that democracy was simply a slow road to communism,
c) propertarian ethics that make all moral codes commensurable and
d) the use of competing insurance companies to replace monopoly bureaucracy.
e) the sufficiency of the common law, and the necessity for it.
f) the state as the cause of ‘evil corporations’.
g) the required prohibition on law-making, and the constraint of government to contract negotiation between groups.
What it did not give us is:
a) means of investments in commons (government)
b) means of preventing free riding, fraud by omission, theft via externality, privatization of gains and socialization of losses.
c) a means of accommodating the collectivism of women in their effort to restore the sex economy in favor of the productive economy (but that’s too long a discussion.)
Thankfully others have given us:
a) lottocratic representation
b) direct democracy
And hopefully I’m trying to fix that. I think I have. But I’m not sure.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 07:24:00 UTC
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303843104579171822197679270THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘CUDDLES’ 🙂
(cute)
I never met a hug I didn’t like….
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 07:15:00 UTC
QUESTION:
Why don’t we call ‘liberty’ what it is? “ARISTOCRACY”
“Western Aristocratic, Egalitarian, Propertarianism”
Those who CREATE the institution of property, earn the RIGHT of property.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 06:49:00 UTC