by Bill Anderson —-“A small group of people gather together and then invent debts that the rest of some population owes them, then goes about publicizing and collecting those invented debts.”— J R Fibonacci Hunn I think you’re addressing a couple of issues in your larger post: the money system and taxation. Let me address taxation in the quote above. Taxation is an attempt to resolve the free rider problem in group defense. If a group does not defend its territory and resources (including its pool of breeding females) then it will be conquered. This defense and its related expenses is unavoidable. Who pays these costs? Given the choice, many males will choose to avoid paying the costs of defense (understandably having an incentive to avoid the pain and death of war). But the result of allowing some men to free ride on the backs of those providing very dangerous defense services, is that the group may be unable to defend itself and will be conquered. Thus, the fighting males and those with the longest time horizons will bar free riding, by requiring all males to pay for the defense of the group. These required payments for group defense are the origin of taxation, and are unavoidable. Your other point has to do with abuses of the money system (and taxation), which you rightly intuit as parasitism. Every generation must secure its own freedoms, and the price is violence. A people who are unwilling to defend their interests with violence will be conquered, either from without or within.
Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response
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Arrogance, Enemies, and Cult Accusations Are Just Success Markers
@ Bernard Mitochondrie(… “you are a legend in some” … ) The more enemies a man has the more substantive his threat to them. Friends tell us little. Enemies tell us a great deal. The fact that people must counter-signal to defend their malinvestments from my arguments is simply evidence of their malinvestments, and nothing more. I attacked the libertards and ancaps as a means of marketing. Not because I wanted to change their malinvestments. But because I wanted to deny them the signals from those malinvestments. A cult of the law is a compliment for continuing western civilizations central competitive value. I can’t ask for higher praise or greater success. I’m arrogant so that I can (a) draw in and defeat pretentious sophists like you (which I did today), and (b) becasue it causes people to use emotion and more readily expose their incentives and mistakes, and (c) to counter the signal value of sophomoric arguments (like I’m doing to you), so that the male attempt to seek dominance signals at my expense is frustrated. In person, anyone who has met me will tell you I’m patient, kind, helpful, humorous (except in the face of intellectual dishonesty). I mean, you shot your wad and you’ve shown you’ve got nothing but sophisms, false premises and confusions. And worse, that you don’t understand at all what i”m talking about by asserting that I engage in justificationism rather than survival (falsificationism). I mean, in that sense you’re kinda ‘dumb’ because even the newbs tend to get that part figured out. Your vocabulary and structure of argument suggest you have intellectual capacity, but your values suggest you have low sexual social economic and political market value, and are trying to compensate by a means that does not seem to be working at any scale whatsoever.May 18, 2018 8:16pm -
Arrogance, Enemies, and Cult Accusations Are Just Success Markers
@ Bernard Mitochondrie(… “you are a legend in some” … ) The more enemies a man has the more substantive his threat to them. Friends tell us little. Enemies tell us a great deal. The fact that people must counter-signal to defend their malinvestments from my arguments is simply evidence of their malinvestments, and nothing more. I attacked the libertards and ancaps as a means of marketing. Not because I wanted to change their malinvestments. But because I wanted to deny them the signals from those malinvestments. A cult of the law is a compliment for continuing western civilizations central competitive value. I can’t ask for higher praise or greater success. I’m arrogant so that I can (a) draw in and defeat pretentious sophists like you (which I did today), and (b) becasue it causes people to use emotion and more readily expose their incentives and mistakes, and (c) to counter the signal value of sophomoric arguments (like I’m doing to you), so that the male attempt to seek dominance signals at my expense is frustrated. In person, anyone who has met me will tell you I’m patient, kind, helpful, humorous (except in the face of intellectual dishonesty). I mean, you shot your wad and you’ve shown you’ve got nothing but sophisms, false premises and confusions. And worse, that you don’t understand at all what i”m talking about by asserting that I engage in justificationism rather than survival (falsificationism). I mean, in that sense you’re kinda ‘dumb’ because even the newbs tend to get that part figured out. Your vocabulary and structure of argument suggest you have intellectual capacity, but your values suggest you have low sexual social economic and political market value, and are trying to compensate by a means that does not seem to be working at any scale whatsoever.May 18, 2018 8:16pm -
re: commensurability —“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to whic
re: commensurability
—“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to which grammar one uses (low investment, short time horizon etc etc)”— Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 22:28:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996880097536815105
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re: commensurability —“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to whic
re: commensurability
—“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to which grammar one uses (low investment, short time horizon etc etc)”— Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 18:28:00 UTC
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Libertarianism Survives/exists by Miscategorizing Relations.
by Luke Weinhagen The way it hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically, libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not suppress any parasitism of the commons(cooperation) as this would self destruct the ideology. Libertarianism self destructed for me once I recognized this categorization error. (via Brandon Hayes)
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Libertarianism Survives/exists by Miscategorizing Relations.
by Luke Weinhagen The way it hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically, libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not suppress any parasitism of the commons(cooperation) as this would self destruct the ideology. Libertarianism self destructed for me once I recognized this categorization error. (via Brandon Hayes)
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http://www.businessinsider.com/salary-personality-men-2018-5
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 18:01:00 UTC
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Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): An affront to common sense: Liberals are more
Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):
An affront to common sense: Liberals are more likely to attribute human characteristics to genetic causes than conservatives. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/696860 https://t.co/taA1VQirhr
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 15:19:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996409645576093696
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7) Thanks for the great tweet (as always your feed rocks.) 😉
7) Thanks for the great tweet (as always your feed rocks.) 😉
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 13:36:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996383923998519297
Reply addressees: @DegenRolf
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996383722000801792
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@DegenRolf 5) Produces extraordinary precision by the intersection just a few variables.
6) It’s dehumanizing to some degree, but it’s so obvious its painful.Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/996383722000801792
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@curtdoolittle
@DegenRolf 5) Produces extraordinary precision by the intersection just a few variables.
6) It’s dehumanizing to some degree, but it’s so obvious its painful.Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/996383722000801792