“ALL INVOLUNTARY TRANSFERS ARE A LOST OPPORTUNITY FOR PRODUCTIVE EXCHANGE”
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-26 16:19:00 UTC
Form: Aphorism
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ARISTOCRACY : TO LOVE THE FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD Heroism. To fight on behalf
ARISTOCRACY : TO LOVE THE FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Heroism. To fight on behalf of your people. To revel in it. To actively LOOK for chances to fight on behalf of your people. To swagger. To tempt. To incite.
And to take no glory for yourself.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 16:15:00 UTC
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OBSCURANT DEFINITIONS OF TRUTH AS PETTY THEFT Sigh. The battle over the definiti
OBSCURANT DEFINITIONS OF TRUTH AS PETTY THEFT
Sigh. The battle over the definition of truth is like the battle over the definition of justice: each discipline trying to legitimize it’s claims at the expense of other disciplines.
How did philosophers get away with this nonsense?
I mean, seriously.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-22 07:08:00 UTC
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CAPITALISM: WHAT YOU CAN DO AND PEOPLE NEED YOU TO DO. Capitalism (via the prici
CAPITALISM: WHAT YOU CAN DO AND PEOPLE NEED YOU TO DO.
Capitalism (via the pricing system) merely informs us of what we CAN do to serve the needs of others. It says nothing about the needs of others, or whether one likes to perform those duties.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-20 13:11:00 UTC
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Justificationary arguments simply serve to direct your opponent to your greatest
Justificationary arguments simply serve to direct your opponent to your greatest point of weakness.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-19 12:25:00 UTC
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When they guy pumping your gas asks you how what stocks he should invest in, it’
When they guy pumping your gas asks you how what stocks he should invest in, it’s time to cash out of the market.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-15 08:03:00 UTC
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It’s all well and good when you’re improving arguments that confirm people’s bia
It’s all well and good when you’re improving arguments that confirm people’s biases. Then you’re ‘smart’. Because you agree with them.
But come along and sacrifice a sacred cow on the alter of truth, and that’s not feeding the confirmation bias, and supplying those comforting endorphins.
ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIBERTY THAT IS POSSIBLE.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-15 07:34:00 UTC
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If you’re either in the middle or the bottom quintiles, you can criticize your t
If you’re either in the middle or the bottom quintiles, you can criticize your tribe’s elites when you’re in the majority, in order to increase your ‘take’.
But if you’re not in the majority, your tribal elites cannot get you material perks, opportunity perks, or status perks.
If you abandon your tribal elites, then you will be at the mercy of other tribe’s elites.
One should not confuse the charity that your elites grant to subordinate groups in the assumption that other groups will grant you charity.
There isn’t any evidence of that.
Instead your elites gain power and status by giving away what is not theirs.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-15 07:00:00 UTC
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The hard part of philosophy, at least for me, is not so much understanding a giv
The hard part of philosophy, at least for me, is not so much understanding a given problem, as it is understanding what others do not understand.
I don’t attribute this to any particular genius, but rather the natural byproduct of an autistic bias for correspondence with reality, as a natural defense against the variation in human interpretations, because of the framing provided by language.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-13 06:57:00 UTC
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Jesus vs Aristotle Marx vs Smith Freud’s vs Nietzsche. Cantor vs Poincaré. ??? v
Jesus vs Aristotle
Marx vs Smith
Freud’s vs Nietzsche.
Cantor vs Poincaré.
??? vs Turing (there is no answer to turing)
Do you see a pattern?
I do.
A desperate attempt to retain the dream state.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-13 06:39:00 UTC