Form: Argument

  • Positive Freedoms Cannot Exist

    Positive freedoms cannot exist because they force others to bear your costs against their will. Only negative freedoms are equally extensible to all because they ask us NOT to do something. Rights are merely positive expressions of the right to sue for restitution. So it is ‘Freedom FROM’ false, criminal, unethical, and immoral display, word, and deed. In other words, the only moral rule equally extensible to all is RECIPROCITY (exchange). So while the moral person wants freedom of all speech under the assumption others only err, or are victims of their ability and ignorance, the reality is that the industrialization of lying by pseudoscience, pseudo-rationalism, and propaganda in the 20th century has caused damage only equalled by the Abrahamic Dark Age. Westerners have produced the only existing high trust civilization, but this left the west uniquely vulnerable to the cheap production of propaganda. Lies are cheap/Truth Expensive. And the many who lied by propaganda, pseudoscience, and pseudo-rationalism, as a means of destroying that high trust civilization could do so because it is simply too expensive to correct a desirable falsehood and too cheap to perpetuate it. Thankfully, between archeology, cognitive science, genetics, the results of the world experiment with different forms of government, and the world experiments with different forms of economics, the entire propaganda program of the early and mid 20th century had been ended.
  • POSITIVE FREEDOMS CANNOT EXIST Positive freedoms cannot exist because they force

    POSITIVE FREEDOMS CANNOT EXIST

    Positive freedoms cannot exist because they force others to bear your costs against their will. Only negative freedoms are equally extensible to all because they ask us NOT to do something. Rights are merely positive expressions of the right to sue for restitution.

    So it is ‘Freedom FROM’ false, criminal, unethical, and immoral display, word, and deed. In other words, the only moral rule equally extensible to all is RECIPROCITY (exchange).

    So while the moral person wants freedom of all speech under the assumption others only err, or are victims of their ability and ignorance, the reality is that the industrialization of lying by pseudoscience, pseudo-rationalism, and propaganda in the 20th century has caused damage only equalled by the Abrahamic Dark Age. Westerners have produced the only existing high trust civilization, but this left the west uniquely vulnerable to the cheap production of propaganda. Lies are cheap/Truth Expensive.

    And the many who lied by propaganda, pseudoscience, and pseudo-rationalism, as a means of destroying that high trust civilization could do so because it is simply too expensive to correct a desirable falsehood and too cheap to perpetuate it.

    Thankfully, between archeology, cognitive science, genetics, the results of the world experiment with different forms of government, and the world experiments with different forms of economics, the entire propaganda program of the early and mid 20th century had been ended.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 10:03:00 UTC

  • Positive Freedoms Cannot Exist

    Positive freedoms cannot exist because they force others to bear your costs against their will. Only negative freedoms are equally extensible to all because they ask us NOT to do something. Rights are merely positive expressions of the right to sue for restitution. So it is ‘Freedom FROM’ false, criminal, unethical, and immoral display, word, and deed. In other words, the only moral rule equally extensible to all is RECIPROCITY (exchange). So while the moral person wants freedom of all speech under the assumption others only err, or are victims of their ability and ignorance, the reality is that the industrialization of lying by pseudoscience, pseudo-rationalism, and propaganda in the 20th century has caused damage only equalled by the Abrahamic Dark Age. Westerners have produced the only existing high trust civilization, but this left the west uniquely vulnerable to the cheap production of propaganda. Lies are cheap/Truth Expensive. And the many who lied by propaganda, pseudoscience, and pseudo-rationalism, as a means of destroying that high trust civilization could do so because it is simply too expensive to correct a desirable falsehood and too cheap to perpetuate it. Thankfully, between archeology, cognitive science, genetics, the results of the world experiment with different forms of government, and the world experiments with different forms of economics, the entire propaganda program of the early and mid 20th century had been ended.
  • but then it is status that drives affinity for leftism: the frustration with low

    but then it is status that drives affinity for leftism: the frustration with low social, sexual, economic, and political market value under market meritocracy.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 08:01:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/974918665190674432

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  • the reason marx was wrong was that the principal beneficiaries of consumer capit

    the reason marx was wrong was that the principal beneficiaries of consumer capitalism were consumers (labor). capitalism has been the great leveller of consumption. the only difference between the classes is the purchase of signal goods (really).


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 07:59:20 UTC

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  • It has always and always will be and it was menger, pareto, durkheim, and hayek

    It has always and always will be and it was menger, pareto, durkheim, and hayek that explained why – and why it cannot be otherwise: knowledge, incentives, and the use of incentives to organize experimentation, production, distribution, and trade. value is created by organizing


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 07:53:32 UTC

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  • 8 – And that is a problem for the left. All the evidence supports the right. Whi

    8 – And that is a problem for the left. All the evidence supports the right. Which is why the left status quo is under threat of extinction, and we are living in a cold civil war very nearly turning hot. – Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 07:35:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/974912109573234688

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  • Anything important that can be said about economics or law, can only be said abo

    Anything important that can be said about economics or law, can only be said about externalities. The only way to restore libertarianism to the discipline of the natural law of reciprocity in the anglo saxon tradition, is to return commons and externalities to the discourse.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 00:22:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/974803164519124993

    Reply addressees: @BobMurphyEcon @FriedrichHayek

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    @BobMurphyEcon @FriedrichHayek You are rarely wrong. In fact, in the entire discipline you are pretty much the only person rarely wrong.But the fact that you don’t take the argument through the conclusion, simply perpetuates everything that has led anarchism to a dead end. Only Commons Produce Private Property

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    @BobMurphyEcon @FriedrichHayek You are rarely wrong. In fact, in the entire discipline you are pretty much the only person rarely wrong.But the fact that you don’t take the argument through the conclusion, simply perpetuates everything that has led anarchism to a dead end. Only Commons Produce Private Property

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  • 8 – Just as we have discovered in science, all truth is determined by exhaustive

    8 – Just as we have discovered in science, all truth is determined by exhaustive attempts at falsification. The same is true in social orders. Exhaustively falsify lying, cheating, theft, and violence by any and all means, and all incentives and institutions develop in response.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 00:17:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/974801962905620481

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    @FriedrichHayek

    I’m rather shocked at how many fundamental mistakes @BobMurphyEcon makes in this article on Hayek, knowledge, Mises, and calculation. Stunned actually. https://t.co/rn3JZED9pi

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  • There is a vast difference between freedom to ridicule, shame, gossip, obscure,

    There is a vast difference between freedom to ridicule, shame, gossip, obscure, load, frame, overload, suggest, fictionalize, deceive, lie, and defraud, promote free riding, parasitism, predation – and speaking with reciprocity (morally), and truthfully.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-16 21:52:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/974765328734523392