Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RAND AND OBJECTIVISM?” —“I would love to find out yo

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/02/20/the-final-word-on-rand-and-objectivism/”Q&A: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RAND AND OBJECTIVISM?”

    —“I would love to find out your thoughts on Objectivism? Have you written about it in the past?”—A Friend

    if you are a young male and you do not read rand’s novels you are missing out. Rand is a doorway to philosophy for those who must enter it by means of fictional narrative. And in that function she does well. But it is a children’s book – so to speak- level of discourse on philosophy, just as philosophy proper is a young adult’s discourse on law, science, and history.

    Young men are ambitious but weak and lacking resources and alliances. Rand provides a literary philosophy for the ambitious but weak who lack alliances and resources. However, the strong are strong because of numbers, and rand like all semites cannot seem to envision or comprehend the commons that numbers can produce.

    And the commons is the means by which the west defeated the rest: we can produce them. Almost no one else can.

    So, read her novels when young, and move on. Only silly people are attracted to Objectivism. If you understand Rothbard, then hoppe, the me (or jump right to propertarianism) you will see the evolution of Rand’s childishness and jewish lower class philosophy, through Hoppe’s german middle class philosophy, to my anglo aristocratic class philosophy. And then realize that they were weak and making excuses. I describe defacto how the west outraced the rest.

    Use violence to Rule and possess sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and subsidy, or choose not to, and be ruled by those who deprive you of sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and subsidy.

    Aristocracy: the organized use of violence to produce sovereignty by denying all others any alternative.

    in other words: natural law.

    SELFISHNESS IS A PLAY ON WORDS

    https://propertarianism.com/2011/04/14/ayn-rands-selfishness-is-a-play-on-words-in-order-to-hook-your-attention/

    FINAL WORD ON RAND AND OBJECTIVISM

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/02/20/the-final-word-on-rand-and-objectivism/

    HOW TO LEARN PHILOSOPHY (the science of choice)

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/08/07/q-how-do-i-learn-philosophy/


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 17:20:00 UTC

  • NOT AN EBOOK BUT PRETTY CLOSE: —“Curt: Do you have an e book out yet?”— The

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/PROPERTARIANISM: NOT AN EBOOK BUT PRETTY CLOSE:

    —“Curt: Do you have an e book out yet?”—

    The idea of an ebook kind of bothers me. I don’t know why I would do that. But if you want the equivalent it’s up on the site.

    That is current thru last fall. At present I’m still working on synthesis ( making it all a little easier to understand), and on completing the work on the formal logic, so that isn’t all in there. But most of the major concepts are in there already.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 14:24:00 UTC

  • THE SOURCE IS LAW. ITS JUST NOT INSPIRATIONAL —“Do you enjoy Taleb?”—Zachary

    THE SOURCE IS LAW. ITS JUST NOT INSPIRATIONAL

    —“Do you enjoy Taleb?”—Zachary Davidson

    Enjoy??? No. Empathize with. Sure. Understand that he is trying to solve the same problem, Yes.

    (He’s one of the four horsemen of the reformation: peterson, haidt, doolittle, taleb.)

    Taleb is an interesting mix of quantitative and literary, and he clearly understands the problems of idealism and realism, and he is readable because of his idealism, but he doesn’t seem to grok, or can’t imagine, the relationship between the record of the common law of torts and the problem he is trying to solve.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:08:00 UTC

  • PURITANISM: A SIGNAL BEAST THAT CANNOT BE SATED —“Puritans are religious fanat

    PURITANISM: A SIGNAL BEAST THAT CANNOT BE SATED

    —“Puritans are religious fanatics that only feed on ignoble utopianism. Throughout history they’ve adopted many causes, none noble. It began with their radicalization in England, and throughout history took on new manifestations once hitting New World shores like collectivism, anti-monarchsm, millenialism, radical abolitionism, universal suffrage, prohibitionism, democratic crusades, etc etc… a beast that cannot be satiated. “—Aaron Kahland


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 04:27:00 UTC

  • Some Quotes

    Explaining the Church of TED to a college student:  “It’s Oprah for the over-educated classes”. —“Women are hypergamous… Government is the biggest resource and thus the handsomest.”—Anne Tripp   —“Any pretense of humanity having diverged from its most reliable and durable political system (monarchy) is just another load of bullshit virtue signaling. Our kings elect our presidents. We’re just the upscale peasants that think we had a say in the matter.”— Emil Prelic —“Universalism – Proof that “some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them”–Julian le Roux —“There is no greater decadence than virtue signalling against those less fortunate than you.”—Julian le Roux —“As I understand it Curt focuses on building a grammar from the ground up, as it were. Operational grammar staves off assumptions about the ends and emphasises inquiry into the means.”— Nicholas Arthur Catton (I’m glad smart people follow me ’cause I can’t say some of this stuff as smartly as they do.

  • Some Quotes

    Explaining the Church of TED to a college student:  “It’s Oprah for the over-educated classes”. —“Women are hypergamous… Government is the biggest resource and thus the handsomest.”—Anne Tripp   —“Any pretense of humanity having diverged from its most reliable and durable political system (monarchy) is just another load of bullshit virtue signaling. Our kings elect our presidents. We’re just the upscale peasants that think we had a say in the matter.”— Emil Prelic —“Universalism – Proof that “some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them”–Julian le Roux —“There is no greater decadence than virtue signalling against those less fortunate than you.”—Julian le Roux —“As I understand it Curt focuses on building a grammar from the ground up, as it were. Operational grammar staves off assumptions about the ends and emphasises inquiry into the means.”— Nicholas Arthur Catton (I’m glad smart people follow me ’cause I can’t say some of this stuff as smartly as they do.

  • Um. Ukrainian Nazis? Please Don’t Signal Your Virtues Around Serious People.

    Apr 10, 2017 11:11am UKRAINIAN NAZIS? OMFG. ACTUALLY COMPARE THE BRITS TO THE NAZIS AND WHO WAS WORSE FOR OUR CIVILIZATION? —“I heard there were Nazi Sympathizers in the Ukrainian military. Is that true?”— omg. Listen. what kind of privilege do you have to live under to virtue signal on that scale? You’d have to be be entirely incognizant of the desperation of a people who live under pervasive corruption, russian paid-for corruption, an oligarchy (libertarians desire a return to) that is basically nothing more than organized crime syndicate, that pays for the government to keep the people in poverty. So here is how I (and others in ukraine) would translate your question: “What kind of ignorant, privileged, overweight, unfit, tv-watching, spoiled, effeminate idiot cares about the symbolism young men adopt in order to give themselves courage when fighting vast pervasive corruption foreign, domestic, public, and private in order to save their families and friends from Next time you hear that from someone punch him, or slap her, in the face, and tell them to visit a ukrainian village or apartment block where fellow white people who are devoutly christian and far more moral than any brit has the pretense to be, live on $80 a month, because russians want to expand eastward toward europe again, and the people who were entrenched by the russians in the political system, and then entrenched further by the oligarchs (gangsters) want to protect their profits. You tell me who is the more moral man? The one who seeks out costumes of fear and power over vastly superior numbers in order to gain courage so that he can take his ife into his own hands on behalf of his people, or the pathetic virtue signal spiral of western privileged do-nothings who destroy their civilization through such posturing? Who do you lionize? What political power does it seek? What self confidence does it give you? Howe do you lie to yourself that your life has meaning other than conspicuous consumption? ANd worse, conspicuous consumption of virtue signals – little lies we tell ourselves to say we are anything other than excess burden on the carrying capacity of the planet. These people are fighting for their families, friends, future, and nascent nation. I’ll tell you who. It’s obvious. And that’s the end of the story. Virtue signaling makes me sick. And angry. And for that matter, what the hell is wrong with Nazi anything any more, what century are you (they) living in? They dress nice. They cared for their people. And they were loved by their citizenry. And if it weren’t for the brits and Americans we would never have had the first world war, the nazis or the cold war, or the iron curtain, or the rise of islam. So if you wanna know who the shitty tyrants in this world are it wasn’t the nazies trying to save their people, it was the brits and americans who destroyed european civilization out of imperial greed.

  • Um. Ukrainian Nazis? Please Don’t Signal Your Virtues Around Serious People.

    Apr 10, 2017 11:11am UKRAINIAN NAZIS? OMFG. ACTUALLY COMPARE THE BRITS TO THE NAZIS AND WHO WAS WORSE FOR OUR CIVILIZATION? —“I heard there were Nazi Sympathizers in the Ukrainian military. Is that true?”— omg. Listen. what kind of privilege do you have to live under to virtue signal on that scale? You’d have to be be entirely incognizant of the desperation of a people who live under pervasive corruption, russian paid-for corruption, an oligarchy (libertarians desire a return to) that is basically nothing more than organized crime syndicate, that pays for the government to keep the people in poverty. So here is how I (and others in ukraine) would translate your question: “What kind of ignorant, privileged, overweight, unfit, tv-watching, spoiled, effeminate idiot cares about the symbolism young men adopt in order to give themselves courage when fighting vast pervasive corruption foreign, domestic, public, and private in order to save their families and friends from Next time you hear that from someone punch him, or slap her, in the face, and tell them to visit a ukrainian village or apartment block where fellow white people who are devoutly christian and far more moral than any brit has the pretense to be, live on $80 a month, because russians want to expand eastward toward europe again, and the people who were entrenched by the russians in the political system, and then entrenched further by the oligarchs (gangsters) want to protect their profits. You tell me who is the more moral man? The one who seeks out costumes of fear and power over vastly superior numbers in order to gain courage so that he can take his ife into his own hands on behalf of his people, or the pathetic virtue signal spiral of western privileged do-nothings who destroy their civilization through such posturing? Who do you lionize? What political power does it seek? What self confidence does it give you? Howe do you lie to yourself that your life has meaning other than conspicuous consumption? ANd worse, conspicuous consumption of virtue signals – little lies we tell ourselves to say we are anything other than excess burden on the carrying capacity of the planet. These people are fighting for their families, friends, future, and nascent nation. I’ll tell you who. It’s obvious. And that’s the end of the story. Virtue signaling makes me sick. And angry. And for that matter, what the hell is wrong with Nazi anything any more, what century are you (they) living in? They dress nice. They cared for their people. And they were loved by their citizenry. And if it weren’t for the brits and Americans we would never have had the first world war, the nazis or the cold war, or the iron curtain, or the rise of islam. So if you wanna know who the shitty tyrants in this world are it wasn’t the nazies trying to save their people, it was the brits and americans who destroyed european civilization out of imperial greed.

  • Quote of the Year.

    —“Our generation will sacrifice ourselves for our posterity, rather than sacrifice our posterity for ourselves.”—Karl Grohe Hang the boomers.  Noose Pike and Pyre.  We will make the french, bolsheviks, and the brown shirts look like school girls.

  • Quote of the Year.

    —“Our generation will sacrifice ourselves for our posterity, rather than sacrifice our posterity for ourselves.”—Karl Grohe Hang the boomers.  Noose Pike and Pyre.  We will make the french, bolsheviks, and the brown shirts look like school girls.