Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

UNSOLICITED OPINION – THE PETERSON HARRIS DEBATE

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Quick impromptu video for the Peterson Harris Debate.

SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT

SECTION I

1 – For the most ancient of reasons, the West alone relies on Sovereignty as its organizing principle (decidability of last resort).

2 – Choosing Sovereignty requires natural law (reciprocity) to resolve disputes (via negativa).

3 – And conversely choosing Sovereignty requires markets in everything to organize cooperation. (via positiva) (association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production commons, production of polities, production of group evolutionary strategies)

4 – Markets allow for cooperation on means despite different ends, given different abilities, different resources, and different specializations.

SECTION II

5 – Philosophies allow for decidability within a domain.

6 – Truth allows for decidability regardless of domain.

7 – Deflationary truth allows for truthful arguments regardless of domain.

8 – Deflationary truthful arguments can be warrantied for due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion and deceit. As well as a demand for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange free of negative externality. it is extremely difficult for false argument to survive due diligence against all dimensions of the human ability to reason.

9 – The challenge of our time is the industrialization of lying in the pseudoscientific era.

10 – The solution to the industrialization of lying is the demand for warranty of due diligence in market, law, economics, and politics.

11 – The returns on the suppression of the industrialization of lying by operationalism will be greater than the returns on the returns on the suppression of mysticism by empiricism.

SECTION III

12 – Peterson’s conflation in the literary (Platonic) tradition is anti western and unnecessary. It is the competition between conflationary narrative analogy, and deflationary operational criticism that assists us in identifying truth candidates. All civilizations that practice conflation stagnate. Literature is sufficient for the loading and framing and experiential without resorting to truth claims.

13 – Harris cherrypicks in the pseudoscientific tradition, fails to account for changes in state of the full scope of capital, and the lost opportunities for productive voluntary exchange. (This will take some explaining.) Most frequently he gives parasitic action a pass if he agrees with it.

(One or two years ago Harris issued a challenge as to whether morality could be scientifically expressed. I lacked the time (or inclination) to do so, but it can be (easily and thoroughly and irrefutably). And it is just as dehumanizing as the work of Darwin and Copernicus.)

CLOSING

Western civilization is dependent upon a return to fully calculable institutions and in particular deflationary, performative, promissory truth.

NOTES:

Followers know that I have a rigorous definition of what constitutes scientific and therefore truthful speech. My use of the term ‘pseudoscience’ refers to the addition of or subtraction of information that must be complete in order to render decidability. To perform due diligence of truthfulness requires:

1 – categorical consistency – Identity – non conflation

2 – logical consistency – internal consistency, non contradiction.

3 – empirical consistency – external correspondence – falsification

4 – existential consistency – operational language – consistency.

5 – reciprocity-consistency – moral reciprocity of property in toto.

6 – scope consistency – full accounting and specified limits.

These questions are easily testable in a court of law. Any article or contract may be written in these terms.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine