GOODNESS IS A PAYMENT FOR THE COMMONS
—Confucius said: ‘Make few false statements and do little you may regret, then all will be well.’ That was the civil service of Confucius’ time.—
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-21 08:01:00 UTC
Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity
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GOODNESS IS A PAYMENT FOR THE COMMONS —Confucius said: ‘Make few false stateme
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TRUTH: WHY IS PROPERTARIANISM DIFFERENT? Because while a number of other philoso
TRUTH: WHY IS PROPERTARIANISM DIFFERENT?
Because while a number of other philosophers have come to the conclusion that all we must do is tell the truth, no other philosopher has told you how you can tell the truth: by speaking truthfully: by providing the warranty that you have performed due diligence on any speech that you place into the informational and normative commons. And by describing precisely how you can perform that due diligence.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-20 07:00:00 UTC
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Moral Objectivity or Relativity?
[M]orality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations upon objective morality. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command).
The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy. The law and morality are identical in content. Group Strategy and Group Contract are merely utilitarian. Cooperation evolved after individual survival. For cooperation to be rational it must be mutually beneficial. For it to be mutually beneficial it must be (in the aggregate) non-parasitic. We raise our children, demonstrate kin selection with kin, and we cooperate with non-kin, and we compete with those with whom we do not cooperate. So: Productive Fully informed. Warrantied. Voluntary Transfer Free of Negative Externality of the same criteria equals beneficial cooperation. Morality is an absolute. Norms are merely tactics. Legislation is not necessarily lawful. Norms are not necessarily moral. As such, we can measure whether some cultures are more moral than others, by measuring the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding) that is suppressed by law and norm. So not only is morality absolute, but the relative moral content of different cultures is absolute. That this difference determines economic velocity, and economic velocity affords us greater morality (if we choose it) is the more interesting area of inquiry. Cheers Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine -
Moral Objectivity or Relativity?
[M]orality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations upon objective morality. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command).
The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy. The law and morality are identical in content. Group Strategy and Group Contract are merely utilitarian. Cooperation evolved after individual survival. For cooperation to be rational it must be mutually beneficial. For it to be mutually beneficial it must be (in the aggregate) non-parasitic. We raise our children, demonstrate kin selection with kin, and we cooperate with non-kin, and we compete with those with whom we do not cooperate. So: Productive Fully informed. Warrantied. Voluntary Transfer Free of Negative Externality of the same criteria equals beneficial cooperation. Morality is an absolute. Norms are merely tactics. Legislation is not necessarily lawful. Norms are not necessarily moral. As such, we can measure whether some cultures are more moral than others, by measuring the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding) that is suppressed by law and norm. So not only is morality absolute, but the relative moral content of different cultures is absolute. That this difference determines economic velocity, and economic velocity affords us greater morality (if we choose it) is the more interesting area of inquiry. Cheers Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine -
Outlaw religions with dual ethics – Its fraud. Outlaw religions with laws – it’s
Outlaw religions with dual ethics – Its fraud.
Outlaw religions with laws – it’s fraud.
There is but one negative law: imposition of costs.
There is but one positive law: love.
Any other doctrine is one of warfare: power, not religion: cooperation.
The prohibition on the establishment of a religion is not the same as the extirpation of fraud.
Truth is enough.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 04:35:00 UTC
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MORAL RELATIVITY OR OBJECTIVITY? In the presence of necessary operations we are
MORAL RELATIVITY OR OBJECTIVITY?
In the presence of necessary operations we are left with moral absolutism, and normative deviation from morality.
Morality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command).
The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy.
The law and morality are identical in content. Group Strategy and Group Contract are merely utilitarian.
Cooperation evolved after individual survival. For cooperation to be rational it must be mutually beneficial. For it to be mutually beneficial it must be (in the aggregate) non-parasitic.
We raise our children, demonstrate kin selection with kin, and we cooperate with non-kin, and we compete with those with whom we do not cooperate.
So:
Productive
Fully informed.
Warrantied.
Voluntary Transfer
Free of Negative Externality of the same criteria
equals
beneficial cooperation.
Morality is an absolute. Norms are merely tactics.
Legislation is not necessarily lawful. Norms are not necessarily moral.
As such, we can measure whether some cultures are more moral than others, by measuring the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding) that is suppressed by law and norm.
So not only is morality absolute, but the relative moral content of different cultures is absolute.
That this difference determines economic velocity, and economic velocity affords us greater morality (if we choose it) is the more interesting area of inquiry.
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 07:43:00 UTC
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Propertarianism for New Friends: One Bite at a Time.
[L]ibertarianism is an intellectual, empirical and analytic movement, and conservatism is a sentimental, moral, and analogistic movement.
The difference in the language of the movements has partly to do with the production cycles that conservatives (human capital and norms) and libertarians (economic production) each emphasize. We use arguments that reflect the temporal bias of our political and reproductive preferences.
Which is why I argue that political exchanges between conservatives(warriors/long term risk abatement), libertarians(investors/medium term production), and progressives (mothers/short-term consumption) are necessary in order to make use of the perceptive and cognitive differences of the division of inter-temporal knowledge and labor. Each of us is temporally spectrum biased (and in the case of progressives: spectrum blind.)
Propertarianism suggests that innovation in anglo classical liberal institutions and law are necessary under total enfranchisement – both as a means of dividing power(negative), AND to make use of all available information (positive).
There is no reason that we cannot create a market for commons just as we create a market for private consumption in goods and services. There is no reason except the existing monopoly government that the socialists put into place as a means of destroying our division of inter-temporal knowledge and labor.
So, that is the central hypothesis I work from: that while we only NEED rule of law, under the one principle of non-imposition of costs, articulated in law as positive property rights, managed by an independent judiciary, decided by a jury of one’s peers – that we also prefer and possibly need, the production of commons.
And that while we are universally governed by rule law, and only law, that we can construct markets for the production of commons. And that the ‘legislature’ then is eliminated from all of politics. No law can be created, only discovered. And that the government need only concern itself with governance of the production and maintenance of commons.
This is, I believe, the next evolution of classical liberalism, and the means of eliminating majority tyranny, and perhaps all tyranny.
Anarchy is not the answer, and we were merely useful idiots for libertine anarchists as we were for neo-conservatives, socialists and communists..
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
Well it means you have something to fight for, instead of something just to fight against.
It means that propertarianism is the first intellectual, analytic, scientific, fully rational means of arguing our ancient, unique, high trust / rapid growth model of civilization.
It also means though, that I tend to see sentimental expression and moralizing as a regressive and damaging means of expressing our preferences. In other words, it might feel good to express your sentiments, but it doesn’t change anything except your emotional state.
So I ask you to try to learn Propertarianism by following me and Eli Harman (Eli is much easier to understand). And I ask you to be patient because it will take one year or more to swallow the “Very, Very, Very, Big Red Pill” that is Propertarianism, one bite at a time.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine.SUGGESTED TO FOLLOW OR FRIEND:
Curt Doolittle (Ukraine) – Propertarianism and Institutions.
Eli Harman (Alaska) – (How do I position Eli? Poet? New-Nietzche?)
Michael Phillip (NZ) – Philosophy of Science (Michael is a critic of unscientific thought)
Skye Stewart (Maine) – Skye pans for gold in the intellectual stream.
My site: www.propertarianism.com – I sketch work here on Facebook and post the better pieces to the site a few times a month.
The Propertarian Forum propertarianforum.wordpress.com
HBD_Chick’s blog on marriage patterns.
Any Alt-Right
Any Neo-Reaction.
Any Red Pill.
Any of the top 100 econ blogs.EDITORS/CRITICS
Roman Skaskiw (My ‘Boss’ – What I should and should not be doing at any given moment)
Ayelam Valentine Agaliba (UK / Ghana) – Critical Rationalism / African Politics (Philosophy advisor to whom I am forever grateful)
Karl Brooks (has recently begun correcting for argumentative clarity and seems to ‘grok it’ all.)
Johannes Meixner (Grammar, sentence and sense editor)
Don Finnegan (my other boss, soul mate, who inspired me to take my work public)
And the dozens of others I haven’t mentioned but who help me every day. (You know who you are. smile emoticon )READING LIST
I try to keep a current ‘short list’. It’s the first section at the top of the page:
http://www.propertarianism.com/reading-list/BLOGS ETC
I read pretty much every single economist’s blog every day, every paper at SSRN that’s relevant. And some books – although I usually limit myself to empirical works in the social sciences.Source: Curt Doolittle – FOR MY NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS: “ONE BITE AT A…
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If one has to lie to compete then one has demonstrated genetic inferiority insuf
If one has to lie to compete then one has demonstrated genetic inferiority insufficient to justify both cooperation and existence.
The consequences of that statement are profound
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-11 07:55:00 UTC
