Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂

    [satire]

    Guest Post by Johannes Meixner

    [T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    (I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)

    Johannes Meixner

  • “CHILDHOOD’S END: I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett

    “CHILDHOOD’S END:

    I think it’s Skye Stewart who pointed us all to Daniel Dennett’s talk. It’s classicl Dennett: entertainment. But what we fail to see is that he’s working in the ancient paradigm of states and language rather than changes in state – the problem with philosophy writ large.

    It’s helpful that we can easily be tricked – that undermines our confidence. But it tells us little other how to play skeptical parlor games.

    By comparison Jeff Hawkins’ talks are algorithmic explanations of experience as on going changes in state for the purpose of forecasting the future so that we may act upon it.

    If I stated that understanding Hawkins, my work, and Haidt is pretty much the current state of knowledge I think that would be correct.

    Paradigms and the languages that reference them MATTER.

    I think I need to record a talk tying the three bodies of work together.

    And I think I will call it “childhood’s end”.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 17:01:00 UTC

  • THE COWARDICE AND INCOMPETENCE OF LIBERTINES (cross post) (example argument for

    THE COWARDICE AND INCOMPETENCE OF LIBERTINES

    (cross post) (example argument for use by others)

    James, Xander:

    Gossip: Ridicule, Rallying and Shaming: refuge of schoolgirls and libertines. Gossip is, after all, one of the three possible modes of human coercion. It is just the most dishonest. Force is honest. Exchange is honest. But gossip is not.

    Either construct an argument or admit that you cannot. That is what honest men do.

    But no. You see, Libertinism is merely a restatement of ghetto separatism – a feel good cult of incompetence for Pussy-tarians. Libertines. Free-riders on liberty created by the actions of others – the reason the liberty movement has failed.

    See? I even ridicule better than you do.

    So, do you want to stick to adult conversation, or are you going to jump up and down in your pink dress trying to rally real men to fight for you?

    Because that is the evolutionary origin of rallying and shaming.

    But it’s a hollow threat – libertines have no real men to call upon.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 04:01:00 UTC

  • ART OF PLAYFULNESS yep. It works. Although I also use it to create distance

    https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/the-art-of-playfulness/THE ART OF PLAYFULNESS

    yep. It works.

    Although I also use it to create distance.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 22:14:00 UTC

  • A Challenge – Only Hoppe Can Debate Me

    —“First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you then you win.”—

    [O]nly a dishonest man would recommend people not read something, rather than attack the central argument of the author. But then, dishonesty is central to the ghetto ethic, is it not?

    If you do not understand the central arguments, that is one thing, but ignorance or incompetence is not a criticism of me, it is a statement about your judgement of the mirror.

    So READ this list. Read Hoppe’s Aristocracy, Monarchy, Democracy. Read Mencius – both of these works are criticisms not solutions. These answers are: Organized violence, property-en-toto, property rights by reciprocal insurance, the symmetry of morality and property rights, and the rule of organic evolutionary law, operationally stated and calculatively constrained, praxeology resurrected as operationalism, and science as the struggle to evolve the means of speaking the truth. Watch my videos. And follow me in Propertarianism, as I drag liberty back into aristocracy and out of the medieval ghetto – kicking and screaming against the objection of a generation of failed libertines using the techniques of the marxists, to create a cult of ideology, rather than an operational institutional framework for the restoration of liberty by demonstrable actions.

    THE SHORT LIST: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom
    Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism
    Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying
    Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
    Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy

    A THEORY
    The only person who can compete with the argument that I make is hoppe – just as he did with his new essay – by adopting my positions: the source of liberty is violence, and the only source of liberty the law, and that argumentation is a legal constraint not a functional one. And that only by operationalism – constructing decisions by incentives and available information – is human action rationally and scientifically explicable. 

    Cheers 

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • A Challenge – Only Hoppe Can Debate Me

    —“First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you then you win.”—

    [O]nly a dishonest man would recommend people not read something, rather than attack the central argument of the author. But then, dishonesty is central to the ghetto ethic, is it not?

    If you do not understand the central arguments, that is one thing, but ignorance or incompetence is not a criticism of me, it is a statement about your judgement of the mirror.

    So READ this list. Read Hoppe’s Aristocracy, Monarchy, Democracy. Read Mencius – both of these works are criticisms not solutions. These answers are: Organized violence, property-en-toto, property rights by reciprocal insurance, the symmetry of morality and property rights, and the rule of organic evolutionary law, operationally stated and calculatively constrained, praxeology resurrected as operationalism, and science as the struggle to evolve the means of speaking the truth. Watch my videos. And follow me in Propertarianism, as I drag liberty back into aristocracy and out of the medieval ghetto – kicking and screaming against the objection of a generation of failed libertines using the techniques of the marxists, to create a cult of ideology, rather than an operational institutional framework for the restoration of liberty by demonstrable actions.

    THE SHORT LIST: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom
    Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism
    Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying
    Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
    Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy

    A THEORY
    The only person who can compete with the argument that I make is hoppe – just as he did with his new essay – by adopting my positions: the source of liberty is violence, and the only source of liberty the law, and that argumentation is a legal constraint not a functional one. And that only by operationalism – constructing decisions by incentives and available information – is human action rationally and scientifically explicable. 

    Cheers 

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • More Mises Institute Reaction to Propertarianism 😉

    I don’t remember who in the thread above wondered aloud whether something Curt Doolittle wrote was a joke or not. This is generally a problem with reading what Curt Doolittle writes. It is one of the reasons I recommend not trying to read him. He has been captured by a mania for categorization, and the schema of categorization which he has constructed is largely unintelligible to anyone else. It might be that by reading him with close attention, one could, over time, learn to make sense of his writings. I myself have no interest in pursuing that strategy and am happily willing to do without whatever benefits might be attendant on such a strategy.  –  Jeff Riggenbach

    Or Jeff Riggenbach – is it that the categorization I rely upon is scientific rather than rationalist, externally correspondent instead of justificationary, and that it successfully discredits the impossible, objectively immoral, and now failed, rothbardian program upon which your organization’s income depends? 

    I have taken on a scale of work that few have dared or tried to by reforming hoppe’s cosmopolitan and kantian rationalism into the language of contemporary science. We have sufficient science now to do it.

    I have done this to save liberty from the lunatic fringe: rothbardian ghetto morality, rothbardian and misesisan pseudoscience, blockian immorality, rockewellian conspiracy theory, the pervasive adoption of marxist critique (which you demonstrate above), and hoppe’s misguided foray into habermasian justification.

    I am quite confident that no living philosopher can defeat the set of arguments I have put forth – even at their current level of maturity. And that is not a threat that I make without confidence that science has taught us that it is the language by which we speak truthfully, and german and cosmopolitan rationalism, a language by which we have constructed better and more effective lies of more murderous harm than any since the invention of scriptural religion.

    So, you have a choice: Abandon immoral, marxian, pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational, cult nonsense that harms our pursuit of liberty on a daily basis, by casting and demonstrating libertarians and those who desire liberty as the lunatic fringe and liberty as a minority proposition of fools, libertines and outcasts.

    Only the socially dysfunctional, socially marginalized and autistic spectrum public has adopted the rothbardian approach. And the era has peaked and your funding is collapsing. 

    And that is a good thing. You can, like all intellectual movements, reform, or you can perish. You can either abandon the cosmopolitans and germans and join the scientific world, or remain a cult language of rebellion against modernity.

    The Anglo enlightenment contained errors. The german enlightenment contained elaborate justifications by elaborate verbalisms. But the Cosmopolitan enlightenment was the most destructive force that man has faced since Abraham spun Zoroaster into monotheism as warfare.

    So welcome to the revolution. 

    Join it or be ended by it. I don’t, we don’t, beg for approval, we seek defeat.

    Liberty in our lifetime.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • More Mises Institute Reaction to Propertarianism 😉

    I don’t remember who in the thread above wondered aloud whether something Curt Doolittle wrote was a joke or not. This is generally a problem with reading what Curt Doolittle writes. It is one of the reasons I recommend not trying to read him. He has been captured by a mania for categorization, and the schema of categorization which he has constructed is largely unintelligible to anyone else. It might be that by reading him with close attention, one could, over time, learn to make sense of his writings. I myself have no interest in pursuing that strategy and am happily willing to do without whatever benefits might be attendant on such a strategy.  –  Jeff Riggenbach

    Or Jeff Riggenbach – is it that the categorization I rely upon is scientific rather than rationalist, externally correspondent instead of justificationary, and that it successfully discredits the impossible, objectively immoral, and now failed, rothbardian program upon which your organization’s income depends? 

    I have taken on a scale of work that few have dared or tried to by reforming hoppe’s cosmopolitan and kantian rationalism into the language of contemporary science. We have sufficient science now to do it.

    I have done this to save liberty from the lunatic fringe: rothbardian ghetto morality, rothbardian and misesisan pseudoscience, blockian immorality, rockewellian conspiracy theory, the pervasive adoption of marxist critique (which you demonstrate above), and hoppe’s misguided foray into habermasian justification.

    I am quite confident that no living philosopher can defeat the set of arguments I have put forth – even at their current level of maturity. And that is not a threat that I make without confidence that science has taught us that it is the language by which we speak truthfully, and german and cosmopolitan rationalism, a language by which we have constructed better and more effective lies of more murderous harm than any since the invention of scriptural religion.

    So, you have a choice: Abandon immoral, marxian, pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational, cult nonsense that harms our pursuit of liberty on a daily basis, by casting and demonstrating libertarians and those who desire liberty as the lunatic fringe and liberty as a minority proposition of fools, libertines and outcasts.

    Only the socially dysfunctional, socially marginalized and autistic spectrum public has adopted the rothbardian approach. And the era has peaked and your funding is collapsing. 

    And that is a good thing. You can, like all intellectual movements, reform, or you can perish. You can either abandon the cosmopolitans and germans and join the scientific world, or remain a cult language of rebellion against modernity.

    The Anglo enlightenment contained errors. The german enlightenment contained elaborate justifications by elaborate verbalisms. But the Cosmopolitan enlightenment was the most destructive force that man has faced since Abraham spun Zoroaster into monotheism as warfare.

    So welcome to the revolution. 

    Join it or be ended by it. I don’t, we don’t, beg for approval, we seek defeat.

    Liberty in our lifetime.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

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