[I]’m just an intellectual arms manufacturer. I give a lot of product demos. But if you want a revolution, you need to learn to use those weapons and go to war with them. 😉
Form: Aphorism
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I’m Just An Intellectual Arms Dealer…
[I]’m just an intellectual arms manufacturer. I give a lot of product demos. But if you want a revolution, you need to learn to use those weapons and go to war with them. 😉
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Love Reduces Transaction Costs
[L]OVE REDUCES COSTS –“Love reduces transaction costs, just as truth reduces transaction costs, just as law reduces transaction costs. Love is an economically rewarding investment.”— That’s the secret to western christendom.
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Love Reduces Transaction Costs
[L]OVE REDUCES COSTS –“Love reduces transaction costs, just as truth reduces transaction costs, just as law reduces transaction costs. Love is an economically rewarding investment.”— That’s the secret to western christendom.
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Individual Law, Family Policy, National Defense
[T]he individual must be the subject of law; the family the subject of policy; and the nation the subject of the military. Misapplication of individualism is the origin of western suicide. An economy merely produces consumption. A family produces reproduction. Our purpose is either reproductive and perpetual or consumptive and temporary.
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Individual Law, Family Policy, National Defense
[T]he individual must be the subject of law; the family the subject of policy; and the nation the subject of the military. Misapplication of individualism is the origin of western suicide. An economy merely produces consumption. A family produces reproduction. Our purpose is either reproductive and perpetual or consumptive and temporary.
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Those Who Fear Truth – (Are Taking Discounts)
[T]he truth may be an advantage, neutral, or disadvantage for you. But if the truth is a disadvantage, that does not mean that we need to lie to preserve that advantage. Instead, we need to determine what we have to trade to restore it. But there are two reasons that we cannot conduct a trade to restore an advantage: (a) the institutions make trade impossible (as does democracy), or (b) you seek avoiding the payment of the cost of the exchange to obtain the advantage. THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES
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Those Who Fear Truth – (Are Taking Discounts)
[T]he truth may be an advantage, neutral, or disadvantage for you. But if the truth is a disadvantage, that does not mean that we need to lie to preserve that advantage. Instead, we need to determine what we have to trade to restore it. But there are two reasons that we cannot conduct a trade to restore an advantage: (a) the institutions make trade impossible (as does democracy), or (b) you seek avoiding the payment of the cost of the exchange to obtain the advantage. THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES
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The Value of Truth Increases with the Scale of the Consequences
[T]he more parsimonious the statement of correspondence the more truth content and decidability. (This is a very loaded sentence.)As scale increases or decreases, and as consequence increases, and as the number of people affected increase, then the value of truth increases.Conversely, loose general rules expressed allegorically or in parable of one king or another are equally useful for individual action.For these reasons we increasingly favor increases in precision (parsimony) as the division of labor and scale of polity have increased.Because our collective actions are of greater consequences to those external to the decision.That is the explanation for the value of different systems of thought.Wisdom can be found many places but truth that survives falsification or criticism is a different thing altogether.In matters of money or life and death I think most moral men prefer to be adjudicated by truth. -
The Value of Truth Increases with the Scale of the Consequences
[T]he more parsimonious the statement of correspondence the more truth content and decidability. (This is a very loaded sentence.)As scale increases or decreases, and as consequence increases, and as the number of people affected increase, then the value of truth increases.Conversely, loose general rules expressed allegorically or in parable of one king or another are equally useful for individual action.For these reasons we increasingly favor increases in precision (parsimony) as the division of labor and scale of polity have increased.Because our collective actions are of greater consequences to those external to the decision.That is the explanation for the value of different systems of thought.Wisdom can be found many places but truth that survives falsification or criticism is a different thing altogether.In matters of money or life and death I think most moral men prefer to be adjudicated by truth.