Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“The most effective form of propaganda is the truth. The difference between propaganda and information is that propaganda has a persuasive political purpose.”—John Mattison
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 17:42:54 UTC
GOOD PROPAGANDA MUST BE TRUE
via Cole Williams
—“… Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that the people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run. A good propaganda will always come along that serves a good cause. But propaganda is still necessary if a good cause is to succeed. A good idea does not win simply because it is good. It must be presented properly if it is to win. The combination makes for the best propaganda. Such propaganda is successful without being obnoxious. It depends on its nature, not its methods. It works without being noticed. Its goals are inherent in its nature. Since it is almost invisible, it is effective and powerful. A good cause will lose to a bad one if it depends only on its rightness, while the other side uses the methods of influencing the masses. We are, for example, firmly convinced that we fought the war for a good cause, but that was not enough. The world should also have known and seen that our cause was good. However, we lacked the effective means of mass propaganda to make that clear to the world. Marxism certainly did not fight for great ideals. Despite that, in November 1918 it overcame Kaiser, Reich, and the army because it was superior in the art of mass propaganda…” – Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 16:04:00 UTC
Adam. How many people know you well enough to understand your journey over the past twenty years? I mean. I’ve known you since maybe… 2010 at most? No one can accuse you ever of having a fixed perspective, or not experimenting with what life has to offer. I mean. damn. You’ve sort of explored it all. And that’s what makes your observations so interesting.
(To Adam’s friends: I love this man, and he has a depth of character that I’m envious of.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 15:11:00 UTC
—“Propaganda is a tool of the state, the church, the academy, and their dependents. Men of means have no time or need for it.”—Gene Siedlecki
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 13:55:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017407040749047809
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“Propaganda is a tool of the state, the church, the academy, and their dependents. Men of means have no time or need for it.”—Gene Siedlecki
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 13:54:57 UTC
—“Propaganda can lead or mislead. Propaganda distributing the truth is moral, propaganda distributing falsehood is immoral. Propaganda is a tool not an end.”— John Mattison
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 13:48:00 UTC
—“The most effective form of propaganda is the truth. The difference between propaganda and information is that propaganda has a persuasive political purpose.”—John Mattison
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 13:42:00 UTC
1) I framed the problem as whether you can testify. You cannot. Since you cannot testify, you are in fact fictionalizing (adding information that does not exist).
2) I framed the criteria for decidability as (a) parsimony (b) constant relations between existence, perception, cognition, and action, (c) motive, (d) absence of fictionalism.
3) I can testify to my proposition that all these phenomenon either to exist or can exist, without anything other than an energetic substance seeking an impossible equilibrium. (a pattern which we see throughout the natural world).
4) Your proposition is that fictionalism is different from lying – which it cannot be: you are fabricating information that is not there. The information is either present in reality or you are fabricating it.
Note: —“To fabricate information means to assert correspondence between objects which do not correspond; and possibly to suppress the full accounting which proves evident said non-correspondence”— George Hobbs
5) non-temporality (non-time), self organization via entropy, and inter-universe sinusoidal equilibration (the ‘bubble’ universe), requires nothing other than itself. There is no meaning of time outside of such a bubble.
6) We treat all fictionalist arguments as error, and in particular anthropomorphism as an error, because in history we have found *all* instances of that pattern of argument to be error.
7) In summary, there is no difference between your fabrication of a fiction to support your fantasy of comforting anthropomorphism, and the bank robber who tells a story that god told him to do so, and the counterfeiter who says he did nothing wrong.
8) Ergo, you are arguing as if we are discussing a theory when I am arguing that you are engaged in deception (fraud). In other words, you are creating a fictionalism in order to justify a personal psychological, political, or material want (or fear).
9) I *cannot* come to any other conclusion simply because I cannot testify to the untestifiable; cannot fictionalize to compensate; and have before me a rather simple answer that explains the universe, and all that results from it’s entropic transformation.
10) Aristotle was wrong about a great many things. Adults don’t fall back two millennia in order to desperately cherry pick an argument. They work with the totality of information such that they cannot.
11) Propertarianism (my work) cannot be applied by people lacking the agency to serve as judges of truth(speech) and reciprocity(action). The weak need their falsehoods. And they are unfit for rule by rule of law.
12) There are any number of people who have found that they lack the agency to function as judges and prosecutors of truth (speech) and reciprocity(action), and who can compete in markets in everything (natural aristocracy).
13) But their choice is always and everywhere without exception – lack of agency. ie: they are still animals. And as animals must be ruled by those who possess it. (aristocracy).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 09:29:00 UTC
—“Begin with your own family”—Lycurgus of Sparta Um. No it doesn’t work in family. It doesn’t work in business. and it doesn’t work in a polity either. Militia, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. via Andrew Clayton
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Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 23:15:00 UTC