MAJORITY RULE IS AN ARTIFACT OF PRODUCTIVE SCARCITY
The only reason to have majority rule is because there is so little excess productive capacity. If we have such high productive capacity, why does a majority need to agree upon the use of it?
A government of exchanges rather than takings: Propertarianism.
( Think about that one a bit. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 07:45:00 UTC
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDEPENDENT AND ACADEMIC BLOGGERS
AND A NOTE ON PRAXEOLOGY
Um. It’s not complicated:
1) Academics make more complex errors in logic. Independents tend to not possess sufficient scope of knowledge to render the opinions that they do. So they make more simplistic errors out of ignorance. Most logical errors I find in academic work are due to methodological constraints within a narrow discipline that erroneously attribute causation within that paradigm.
2) Academic errors are most often driven by accepted political beliefs. Popper and Kuhn’s warning about paradigmiatic traps is a greater problem in economic science than it is in the physical sciences. Independent writers tend to vary more from the accepted paradigm. Thats why they’re interesting. The current problem with academic work is its nearly exclusive reliance on aggregates, and the fact that aggregates reinforce the goals of totalitarian state action.
3) Academics are more likely to rely upon multiple sources of empirical data, and unfortunately, independents are not. Independents are more likely driven by the desire of something to be true, and to rely upon confirmation biases. Although, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. It’s a natural process of research and development.
WHY PRAXEOLOGY?
Praxeology protects against necessary errors of information loss in any process of aggregation. Aggregation exposes limits to praxeological analysis.
There are plenty of people working with collections of data. There are too few praxeologists working on the interpretation of data. That is because analysis of aggregates hides involuntary transfers, and praxeological analysis exposes involuntary transfers. As such, Praxeology is a libertarian, and Aggregates a totalitarian methodology.
That’s why there are fewer praxeologists. In academica, it’s against the status quo.
WHAT WOULD ACADEMIC RESEARCH LOOK LIKE WITHOUT THE MAJORITY RULE STATE?
If the ‘government’ were constructed to allow exchanges, not majority rule, then academics would search for beneficial exchanges between groups rather than optimums that are always for the benefit of one group at the expense of another.
In other words, solutions proposing an optimum are always “BAD” . Because they deprive us of that which could be mutually beneficial means even if we have independent ends.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 05:49:00 UTC
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/gun-control-as-castration/
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 05:16:00 UTC
NEW YEARS PARTY RULE NUMBER ONE.
Do not accept shots of vodka from a table of innocent looking Ukrainians. Side effects are immediate and long lasting. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-01 09:17:00 UTC
DIVERSITY IS A “BAD”
We have known for some time now that diversity produces negative consequences.
Those consequences are most visible in the reluctance by individuals to contribute to the commons: taxes, redistribution, and even maintenance of common areas. And of course both the willingness and ability to enforce morals and norms.
In the west we have lost the battle for the sacrifice that is necessary for the nuclear family. Our immigrants are accelerating that abandonment and returning maintaining their inbreeding, extended family traditions if paternalistic, and serial marriage if maternalistic. We have lost our anglo saxon rights to freedom along with our constitution. We have lost our obligation to charity and devotion to the commons in the form if voluntary organizations that provided both the moral impetative and institutional framework for our previous civil society. We have lost our right to juridical defense for all regulatory and much legislative law. We have lost the primacy of our common and natural laws. And we have lost our religion and mythology. As well as our unique western identity. In economic terms, we have lost most of the social capital that makes the high trust society possible.
There is some debate that over the medium term the economic benefit of immigration may mask those negative consequences.
But why does diversity create bads?
Because diversity creates a competition of norms and signals. And humans stop paying for norms when their payments are stolen by those with competing norms and signals.
What does that mean?
Traditions and norms matter. They matter because they are prescriptions for an order, or portfolio of types of property. It is not so much that people will forget certain norms and the knowledge that they contain. But that they will refuse to pay for the commons that we call norms, if they find them either bad investments or more commonly A TAX THAT THEY PAY, but which OTHERS CHEAT AND THEREFORE ESCAPE PAYING.
Norms are paid when they are observed. They bear a cost. Every single time. Morals bear a cost. A high one. Every time they are observed.
We humans abhor cheating. And competing sets of norms, especially those that demand less discipline, are licenses to cheat and steal.
Humans will not reward cheaters. In fact they will redouble their efforts to punish them. And in the case of norms, they will fail to pay for the commons. At least they will fail to pay when the value of signaling conformity drops.
And this leads us to the other bit of research: that the purpose of progressive promotion of diversity is just signaling that is available cheaply with little effort.
In other words: the desire for diversity is status seeking.
So some of us signal by our production. Some of us by consumption. And liberals by giving away other people’s money.
Which I find fascinating.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-30 17:18:00 UTC
CHEAP UPGRADES TO FIRST CLASS.
Priceless (so to speak). 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-30 16:34:00 UTC
CITIZENSHIP: A BANK, AN INSURANCE COMPANY AND A LAWYER.
Why do we need to be the property of a government?
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-30 13:04:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 10:39:00 UTC
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/racism-by-political-party.htmlRACISM IS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED BY POLITICAL PARTY
(Why? Its not complicated. )
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 08:55:00 UTC
GUNS ARE SACRED?
We can observe from the polling data, that guns have clearly attained status of sacred in a majority of the population.
Data may describe relative differences in the violence of cultures. But it also describes the increase in violence that occurs when guns are confiscated or outlawed.
Guns have become sacred. The purpose of weapons is to overthrow a government.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 07:54:00 UTC