Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • IT’S SIMPLE: READ CARLYLE (MORAL), READ DOOLITTLE (SCIENTIFIC). I can’t read a C

    IT’S SIMPLE: READ CARLYLE (MORAL), READ DOOLITTLE (SCIENTIFIC).

    I can’t read a Carlyle – or any other of the conservatives for that matter. I become too frustrated trying to translate their language into something scientific or analytic to work with. But some people need meaning: stepping stones. And Carlyle provides stepping stones. Hayek’s two essays on economics as information, and his Constitution of Liberty are good stepping stones.

    You know, Mencius was intuitively right. He just couldn’t provide a solution because he didn’t, as Carlyle didn’t, as Hayek didn’t, as Hegel didn’t, as all of the historians didn’t, understand the secret of western velocity: truth, commons, and the total suppression of parasitism by institutional means.

    Propertarianism repairs truth, science, philosophy, ethics and morality, law and politics, and erases and reconstitutes both psychology and social science.

    How do I make it into a course now? Can I do that? I am not sure I am good enough. I can finish the book. But can I make a course of it? Or do I need someone else to do that at some later point in time


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-15 09:17:00 UTC

  • Question: Do we know what illness Hayek said interfered with his ‘faculties’ and

    Question: Do we know what illness Hayek said interfered with his ‘faculties’ and caused him to fear they might not return? And during what time period was he referring to? Thanks in advance.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-15 03:49:00 UTC

  • Well, I have to read it, but from the summary it looks like we’re on the same pa

    Well, I have to read it, but from the summary it looks like we’re on the same page, yes. Thank you for this find!!!!


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 09:40:34 UTC

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  • “legitimate” is nonsense word. But: “Merchant-centric demographic policy is absu

    “legitimate” is nonsense word. But: “Merchant-centric demographic policy is absurd.” is a gem. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 09:03:13 UTC

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  • Funny, but a witticism not a criticism. Conservatism is scientific in process an

    Funny, but a witticism not a criticism. Conservatism is scientific in process and allegorical in language. I want to fix it


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 07:19:32 UTC

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  • I’m going to try to answer you on fb and my site because I can’t construct a cha

    I’m going to try to answer you on fb and my site because I can’t construct a chain of causal relations with 140 chars. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 07:18:16 UTC

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  • CHOMSKY’S METAPHYSICAL FALLACY (Interesting post on understanding Chomsky via an

    CHOMSKY’S METAPHYSICAL FALLACY

    (Interesting post on understanding Chomsky via anglo vs jewish metaphysical assumptions)

    You know, at least Chomsky, unlike most lefties is well read. Or, rather, he’s well enough read that he at least makes partially rational arguments. But once you understand that his underlying metaphysical desire (or maybe assumption) is a cooperative world in which we are all shepherds of goats, sheep, merchandise, and information (information, myth, gossip, lies), roaming a desert, steppe, or ocean, paying no costs of landholding, and in particular no normative costs of landholding – instead of landholding farmers and capital producers that must constantly pay the high costs and normative costs of land holding – you see right through every single statement he makes as just another poor dimwitted fool indoctrinated into the nonsense metaphysics of religious ‘belief’. I mean, Jewish and Muslim cults are fascinating because they place a tragic and false conformity on their peoples: in the case of jews they are both conquered, diasporic, persecuted, because they do not grasp the central tenet of their faith: that they could not hold judea because they failed to transform from slaves, shepherds, and traders to land holders – because their ethic lacks the mandate that they pay the high cost of norms. They do not live in a world where the steppe, desert, sea, air, or even information system is ‘un owned’. So not only is their faith predicated on a lie (mysticism) but it is predicated on a suicidal falsehood: that they can parasitically exist off land holders who will eventually persecute them for their parasitism, and that they accumulate wealth merely by circumventing those real and normative costs, and indoctrinate themselves into land- holding. instead, they maintain group cohesion by threat of ostracization from internal insurance and advocacy, and the wealth effect of parasitic free riding on land-holders and land holder ethics.

    Well, now lets flip it around and see what errors we Anglos engage in – because it’s not dissimilar, just from the opposite end of the spectrum of land-holding vs migratory labor: an island fortress people, defended like Crete’s Mycenaean civilization by an accomplished navy. Or america, like Rome, entirely dependent for its culture on Athens(Britain) and Sparta(german), exhausting itself with conquest in pursuit of commercial wealth. Anglos live under the illusion that the aristocracy of everyone is either possible or desirable, despite the fact that the reason that the island of Britain developed a near-aristocracy of everyone, was through thousands of years of genetic pacification of the underclasses – leaving only the martial middle and working class, and the rotating upper middle classes alive (as is true throughout most of the hanjal/hanseatic civilization we fail to distinguish from its Mediterranean cousin. But which aside from being christian differs vastly in myths and norms. And then again, that Hanjal/Hansa civilization varies less from its Celtic civilization that was destroyed by the roman conquest of Europe(“Celtica”.)

    Now, look at how desperate the academy and state are to seek status by perpetuating the neo-puritan mythos…

    I mean, government is a ‘bad’ because it allows twisted people the power to do twisted things, for reasons that they don’t understand, but are always reducible to status seeking self interest.

    The Age of Political Empowerment (the Enlightenment era) has been every bit a catastrophe in politics, as the age of technology (the enlightenment) has been a success.

    We cannot revert to the past, we can only complete the transition and remove the folly of will from the state.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 07:48:00 UTC

  • We have been thinking about the problem incorrectly

    We have been thinking about the problem incorrectly.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-09 09:33:02 UTC

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    @mdavilamartinez I’ve thought of something I call “post-libertarianism”, something that can incorporate guys from Hoppe to Aristotle

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  • In other words, I’m not special, just ahead of the curve a bit

    In other words, I’m not special, just ahead of the curve a bit.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-09 09:32:37 UTC

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    @mdavilamartinez I’ve thought of something I call “post-libertarianism”, something that can incorporate guys from Hoppe to Aristotle

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  • Anyway. Thanks for the good comments. -Curt

    Anyway. Thanks for the good comments. -Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-09 07:52:21 UTC

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