Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Robyn, The red pill

    Robyn,

    The red pill.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:54:00 UTC

  • THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PS

    THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:52:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC

  • YOU NIAL FERGUSON. ( Or should we call you St George? ) Krugman: a dishonest man

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/07/14/is-paul-krugman-leaving-princeton-in-quiet-disgrace/?fb_action_ids=10152560886224106&fb_action_types=news.publishesTHANK YOU NIAL FERGUSON. ( Or should we call you St George? )

    Krugman: a dishonest man who we should never take seriously.

    “Where I come from … we do not fear bullies. We despise them. And we do so because we understand that what motivates their bullying is a deep sense of insecurity. Unfortunately for Krugtron the Invincible, his ultimate nightmare has just become a reality. By applying the methods of the historian – by quoting and contextualizing his own published words – I believe I have now made him what he richly deserves to be: a figure of fun, whose predictions (and proscriptions) no one should ever again take seriously.” – Nial Ferguson.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 10:04:00 UTC

  • What do you think of this? Is the whole thing not a silly language game? Page 6-

    What do you think of this?

    Is the whole thing not a silly language game?

    Page 6-23:

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  • ROTHBARDIANS CAN CLAIM THEY ARE ANARCHISTS AND LIBERTINES, BUT NOT LIBERTARIANS,

    ROTHBARDIANS CAN CLAIM THEY ARE ANARCHISTS AND LIBERTINES, BUT NOT LIBERTARIANS, OR ETHICAL AND MORAL MEN.

    Anarchist is true, libertine is true, libertarian is false, moral man is false.

    There is no liberty in rothbardian libertinism. No means of obtaining it nor means of holding it.

    Rothbard would have us return to the ethics of the nomadic pastoralists an their endemic warfare. We all bring our cultural heritage with us. As such we can look at the results of pastoral heritage. If we acted as Rothbards’ ghetto inhabitants, or Rothbards’ pastoralists, or Rothbard’s wandering merchants, we would be treated like them: landless, despised, ostracized, and frequently decimated. We cannot construct absurdly utopian social systems on absurdly unsuccessful social systems. The western militia led by professional warriors of equal status, is a unique social system.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 01:44:00 UTC

  • Sean Gabb , if you took the moral loading out of this and put it into NPOV, it’d

    http://www.seangabb.co.uk/?q=node%2F773Damn Sean Gabb , if you took the moral loading out of this and put it into NPOV, it’d be even better. I’m going to borrow huge chunks of it (citation of course), but it’s just about right. Right voice and everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 08:29:00 UTC

  • If I am correct, then dialectical materialism is (as Kant earlier suggested of d

    If I am correct, then dialectical materialism is (as Kant earlier suggested of dialectic), merely a deceptive obscurantism.

    But it serves as confirmation of cosmopolitan low trust ethics: fidelity (search for consent); and unlike aristocratic (empirical) ethics, it has nothing to do with the discovery of truth.

    In the European anglo empirical model, we seek the truth and commit fidelity to it. In the cosmopolitan model we seek consent and fidelity regardless if truth.

    Warriors can die. Traders merely bear losses.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 03:41:00 UTC

  • are philosophers stupid about politics?

    http://www.stephenhicks.org/#article/26345Why are philosophers stupid about politics?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 01:02:00 UTC