THE COMMON LAW (PROPERTY RIGHTS AND POLYCENTRIC EVOLUTION) ARE A SOLUTION TO POLITICAL ILLS THAT IS AWE INSPIRING.
Elegant: the common law will let us destroy socialism. It’s sort of like the universal solvent: water. It dissolves theft and deception regardless of form, as long as property rights (a protocol) exist to permit it to do its work.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-27 01:50:00 UTC
Sometimes I wish I could tell people what they want to hear, but that’s immoral. You get away with that only once. So just tell people the truth.
Love you man. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 08:08:00 UTC
The critic criticizes, the creator makes.
OMG. That’s it. ENVY AND CONTROL
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 05:16:00 UTC
—“The condition of prosperity is determined by the velocity of exchange which is determined by trust which is determined by truth.”—-
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 10:30:00 UTC
OPERATIONALISM IS A TEST OF TRUTH TELLING, NOT OF THE TRUTH OF THE THEORY. 😉
(possibly the latter bit is profound)
From my notes….
–“An operational definition is produced by defining a process of operationalization and recording the results of operating that process; in order to define a variable, term, or object in terms of a set of tests needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity or quality. Operational definitions define changes in state as those operations necessary to change state; define unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them; and ensures that the definition of each observable and unobservable entity has been uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. Just as the operational naming of numbers via positional numbering gives a unique name to every number, this process of operationalization gives a unique name to an extant entity consisting of the definition for that step, rather than consisting of an analogy that approximates it in some form or other. Operationalism is a process of granting unique names.”–
This ensures that we are discussing names of extant entities rather than allegories, functions, experiences, or imaginary projections.
Operationalism is not a truth test, it is a test of truth telling.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 08:35:00 UTC
(riffing off Eli)
We don’t care about equality as much as truth, and the left doesn’t care about truth as much as equality. In truth they don’t care about equality. They care about power. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 08:17:00 UTC
FREEDOM, LIKE PROPERTY, IS CREATED BY VIOLENCE TO DENY OTHERS FROM POWER
—“It is one thing to use violence to obtain power. It is quite another thing to use violence to deny anyone and everyone power.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 05:15:00 UTC
[T]here are always malevolent people in the world. They simply lack the means of acting. Raising an army is actually quite hard. But we dont need to raise armies any longer. We celebrated the benefits of literacy. But we celebrated literacy among our culture of truth telling. We did not account for the misuse of literacy, the misuse of printing, the misuse of education, the misuse of radio, television, and film to construct elaborate lies. The most important was, to justify lying. The abuse of information systems whether it be the pricing system, or the education system, or the media, has been just as damaging as any war or plague – perhaps more so. We have survived the thirty years war. The world war. But we did not survive I suspect, a century and a half of lying (pseudoscience).
[T]here are always malevolent people in the world. They simply lack the means of acting. Raising an army is actually quite hard. But we dont need to raise armies any longer. We celebrated the benefits of literacy. But we celebrated literacy among our culture of truth telling. We did not account for the misuse of literacy, the misuse of printing, the misuse of education, the misuse of radio, television, and film to construct elaborate lies. The most important was, to justify lying. The abuse of information systems whether it be the pricing system, or the education system, or the media, has been just as damaging as any war or plague – perhaps more so. We have survived the thirty years war. The world war. But we did not survive I suspect, a century and a half of lying (pseudoscience).
Its next time already.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 05:17:00 UTC