Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

DOOLITTLE ON NIETZSCHE’s HERD

(from reddit)

QUESTION

—I’ve read a little of Doolittle(but not much), but I’m very perplexed how it isn’t the herd described according to Nietzsche? Or is this a way of directing the herd to be productive?—

ANSWER

(Nietzsche is justifiably rebelling against norms, particularly the church, and various other traditional bits that inhibit innovation and suppress achieving our ultimate potential. He is not himself attempting to define the basis for law sufficiently that resolution of disputes is possible regardless of norm. He offers a criticism and an aspiration. I am though. I offer a solution in the form of institutions.

This is a very complex topic. Nietzsche writes as a german continental. While for some people this kind of loaded and framed argument helps with understanding via empathic reaction, and it’s somewhat poetic, it is very hard to turn it into scientific and therefore contemporary language. Conversely, I’m writing largely in operational language meaning anglo scientific language, and it’s very tedious and doesn’t have any emotional breadcrumbs, precisely so that I don’t load and frame it the way he does. And I don’t because that loading and framing is why the germans and the cosmopolitans failed to solve the problem of social science, and conversely, that kind of loading and framing is how the neocons, socialists, rothbard and mises, and the postmodernists that followed them created the worlds second great deceit after monotheism: pseudo-rational and pseudo-scientific loading, framing and overloading as a means of using suggestion to appeal to our pathological altruism. The lie worked for Abraham and Zoroaster, it worked for plato, Peter and Paul, it worked for Kant, Freud, Marx, Boaz, Cantor, Mises, and Rothbard, Rorty.. So how do I prevent another era of even more sophisticated lies with which to attack the vulnerability of the west: our high trust and pathological altruism? I do it by defining the method by which we apply science to moral questions. Hence testimonialism and Propertarianism. Science does not tell us what is true, it tells us only what survives tests of falsehood. Propertarianism and testimonialism do not tell us what is true, they tell us only what survives tests of moral falsehood.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine (L’viv Ukraine)