(FB 1545397804 Timestamp) MORE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST FRAUD —“It does not claim that “reality” is socially constructed, that would be ridiculous. It claims that the means by which we conceive of reality is socially constructed, which seems pretty obvious really.”—- Twitterite This is an artful conflation of terms of ‘reality’ (action), and ‘model’. Evidence is very clear that people distinguish between reality and model. The violence in video games being the most current example, or the greco roman distinction between religious myth and reality. So even the the phrase ‘reality is socially constructed’ is an attempted fraud. The model we use to determine action in reality is and must be produced as a market good like any other, and is limited to the supply and demand of that market – like any other. However… …. the narratives and VALUES we use to NEGOTIATE actions in reality are constructed within that market given the references and referents available. In other words, WE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCT LIES, we SCIENTIFICALLY DISCOVER TRUTHS. And those that work by truth compete best. What surprises me is that it’s not obvious that there is a difference between reality and action and cost and imagination and speech, and not bearing a cost – and that those of us who have achieved in life in the markets for force and commerce, and those who achieve in life … … in the market for fraud, are readily distinguished by whether we use the languages of truth, science, economics, and law, or the language of utility, theology, philosophy, and morality. The fact that you (anyone who subscribes to neo-abrahamism) are speaking about the pseudoscientific origins of such a thing,rather than the GOALS TO ACHIEVE WITH IT, is merely another alt-right nerd-variation on memes. Yeah. Meme’s are fun. Yeah. Sophism is fun. Yes you’re witty. But in the end you’re just poisoning the same well we eventually drink from. Words and priests are cheap, unwarrantied, and without cost. artists, soldiers, craftsmen, engineers, lawyers, accountants, executives, and financiers ACT to produce an end for which they pay the cost. Social construction refers to our ability to create narratives like priests do that cost us nothing, but force costs on the people, by the process of creating moral hazard, by the process of diversion from truth. period. You aren’t philosophers or scientists, but sophists using the ancient technique of deceit by priests with the pretension of special knowledge that doesn’t exist,to fool by complex language and suggestion those who are suckers -and the first sucker is always the man in the mirror.
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(FB 1545396786 Timestamp) GENERATIVE GRAMMAR SOPHISTS ARE NEO ABRAHAMISTS (((yes))) 1) Generative Grammar refers to the theory that we are born with an innate capacity for producing speech, according to some rules or patterns, and that all languages evolve from this innate ability. (Ai would say serialization of information into streams of … 2) … continuously disambiguating symbols (phonemes) is a limit of neural economy – particularly short term memory. Opponents to generative grammar don’t use AI examples, they use studies out outliers and their answer reflects the AI: that it is simply a product of …. 3) … the limits of sense perception (Homunculus), and the limits of information processing ability – particularly integration. 4) Generative Anthropology refers to the theory that the history of human culture is a genetic or “generative” development stemming from the development of language rather than language assists in the distribution of processing power calculation and falsifiability, and that … 5) … all social language is merely an act of negotiating cooperation, fraud, and deceit in the furtherance of dividing labor, processing power, calculation, and FALSIFIABILITY OR UNFALSIFIABILITY. In other words, that language assists in the negotiating distributed … 6) … computation, valuation, and action (or prohibiting, computation, valuation, and action) is not something open to dispute. Nor is the great leap forward provided by the singularity of development of language in the division of sense, perception, memory, and cognition. 7) The technical debate is over whether there is an innate facility for language or it is simply a function of increased neural capacity and density given our rather rare capacity for complex movement whether limbs, fingers, lips, throat, or even control over our breathing. 8) However, this has nothing to do with and is merely an EXCUSE for Gans’ writing and the scope of the GA writing available, and the GA Blog for example, consists of little more than the ‘astrology and numerology of speech’ and simply a revision of the sophism of abrahamic and .. 10) … platonic, speech. While we find mythological speech in hinduism, and we find idealism in Sinic philosophy and religion, and we find pseudoscientific speech in buddhism, and Legal speech in Aristotelianism – if not all european folk language – we do not find them … 11) … conflated into argument until semitic abrahamic speech, and the incorporation of semitic abrahamic speech into western discourse under the christian theologian attempts to reconcile european truth and semitic lie. Wisdom was not Argument employed as ‘truth’- just wisdom. 12) so the question is, why is it that the anglos and scandinavians retain western truth, germans resist restoring it to german, french have abandoned it at least in parisian education, and the jews and muslims have done everything in their intellectual and cultural power… 13) … to preserve sophism, despite the fact that jews contributed nothing to history other than sophisms, and that muslims have destroyed (culturally and genetically) every great people of the ancient world. And the reason is very simple: INTROSPECTION, SOPHISM, … 14) … and CONFIRMATION and DECEIT are cheaper than investigation, falsification, and action in the real world. In other words, why lie EXCEPT to entice people into moral hazard? The answer is simple: there isn’t any reason except competence at coercion and deceit. Why Josh and Tom have trouble understanding this rather obvious dichotomy between truth/error/lies is INCENTIVE, is evidence of their justification of desirable, convenient, or utilitarian lying. End Abrahamic Supernaturalism, Sophism and Pseudoscience forever: NO MORE LIES. It’s one thing to use violence or shame against fraud and deceit, and quite another to use violence or deceit as a means of criticizing truth. Science is the universal language of truth,and operations its grammar of measurement. To restore the west,truth is enough. No More Lies. It’s bad enough we have left wing liars taking advantage of women and the underclass, but it’s hard to understand why there are those of you who want to take advantage of lost, underachieving young man and throw them in the degenerative maelstrom with the women and fools. —@TrueDilTom: Curt I see how you could think that given Chomskyâs âGenerative Grammarâ, but theyre different things. GA sees neuro-structural explanations of culture as having little room for non-instinctive abstraction to account for the arbitrariness of language. There is no science envy.”— Um. What science? There isn’t any science behind GA. It’s just Gans, who is a career postmodernist, doing exactly what I said he is. THERE ISN’T ANY SCIENCE. The structure of language is determined by analogies to experience (the homunculus) and the recursive depth of memory. There is nothing to understand. GA is just postmodern Social Construction of Reality with Chomsky added to convert a sophism into a pseudoscience. Josh has intellectual penis envy, which is why he pisses on others and pursues nonsense rather than producing intellectual works. The fact that we forecast a combination of real world and imaginary (fictional) models is simply our ability (or inability to resist) conflation of the imagined and the real. People need frames to calculate action. They can have a mixture of false, analogistic, and true frames.
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(FB 1545321894 Timestamp) ORGANIZED TRUTH SUPPRESSION HERE ON FB It appears that Andrew Taylor (who I don’t know) and Claire Khaw – an asian-brit, of questionable mental ability and unquestionable mental instability, who is an apologist for authoritarian religion – particularly islam – are attempting to get me (us) shadow banned by inviting muslim fanatics to our pages, and creating multiple sock accounts, and then having them report us. This is why we are so careful with filtering friend requests and follows. We had the same problem with another woman who shall remain nameless. Anyway, that’s why some of you are seeing shadow ban activity. I don’t quite have my arms around the FB algorithm yet but it does seem to require numbers.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545397804 Timestamp) MORE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST FRAUD —“It does not claim that “reality” is socially constructed, that would be ridiculous. It claims that the means by which we conceive of reality is socially constructed, which seems pretty obvious really.”—- Twitterite This is an artful conflation of terms of ‘reality’ (action), and ‘model’. Evidence is very clear that people distinguish between reality and model. The violence in video games being the most current example, or the greco roman distinction between religious myth and reality. So even the the phrase ‘reality is socially constructed’ is an attempted fraud. The model we use to determine action in reality is and must be produced as a market good like any other, and is limited to the supply and demand of that market – like any other. However… …. the narratives and VALUES we use to NEGOTIATE actions in reality are constructed within that market given the references and referents available. In other words, WE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCT LIES, we SCIENTIFICALLY DISCOVER TRUTHS. And those that work by truth compete best. What surprises me is that it’s not obvious that there is a difference between reality and action and cost and imagination and speech, and not bearing a cost – and that those of us who have achieved in life in the markets for force and commerce, and those who achieve in life … … in the market for fraud, are readily distinguished by whether we use the languages of truth, science, economics, and law, or the language of utility, theology, philosophy, and morality. The fact that you (anyone who subscribes to neo-abrahamism) are speaking about the pseudoscientific origins of such a thing,rather than the GOALS TO ACHIEVE WITH IT, is merely another alt-right nerd-variation on memes. Yeah. Meme’s are fun. Yeah. Sophism is fun. Yes you’re witty. But in the end you’re just poisoning the same well we eventually drink from. Words and priests are cheap, unwarrantied, and without cost. artists, soldiers, craftsmen, engineers, lawyers, accountants, executives, and financiers ACT to produce an end for which they pay the cost. Social construction refers to our ability to create narratives like priests do that cost us nothing, but force costs on the people, by the process of creating moral hazard, by the process of diversion from truth. period. You aren’t philosophers or scientists, but sophists using the ancient technique of deceit by priests with the pretension of special knowledge that doesn’t exist,to fool by complex language and suggestion those who are suckers -and the first sucker is always the man in the mirror.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545321894 Timestamp) ORGANIZED TRUTH SUPPRESSION HERE ON FB It appears that Andrew Taylor (who I don’t know) and Claire Khaw – an asian-brit, of questionable mental ability and unquestionable mental instability, who is an apologist for authoritarian religion – particularly islam – are attempting to get me (us) shadow banned by inviting muslim fanatics to our pages, and creating multiple sock accounts, and then having them report us. This is why we are so careful with filtering friend requests and follows. We had the same problem with another woman who shall remain nameless. Anyway, that’s why some of you are seeing shadow ban activity. I don’t quite have my arms around the FB algorithm yet but it does seem to require numbers.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546008938 Timestamp) DOOLITTLE VS HUNTINGTON – MINOR DIFFERENCE WITH MAJOR CONSEQUENCES —âThe underlying problem for the West is not Islamic Fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority ol°their power. The problem for Islam is not CIA orthc US. Department of defense. It is the West, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining, power imposes on them the obligation to impose that culture throughout the world. These are the basic ingredients that fuel conï¬ict between Islam and the West.”— Huntington. DOOLITTLE’S EXPANSION OF HUNTINGTON: My position is that it is not just the west against islam (since islam is the only civilization hostile to modernity remaining), but that it is Western Aryanism: Truth, Sovereignty, Agency, and Eugenics and the Male Pack Strategy of Nation States, against Semitic Abrahamism: Deceit, Submission, and Dysgenics, and the female herd strategy of empires of ignorance. In other words, it is against the Abrahamic Method, and it’s instantiations in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and Marxism (jewish), postmodernism (christian), Feminism (secular), and Islamism (islamic), forms The evidence is what it is. Nothing can change it. HUNTINGTON VS DOOLITTLE It’s not just culture and belief, but the survival and transcendence of mankind rather than it’s continuous devolution and destruction that occurs wherever islam, judaism spread. Huntington was arguing in the cold war model of political and military strategy. I’m arguing against extinction of mankind, by the extinction of truth, reason, science, and sovereignty. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are technologies not of rebellion but of undermining, conquest, consumption, and destruction through devolution and consumption. Islame consumed each civilization. It is cancer.
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(FB 1546348761 Timestamp) (From Twitter: putting an end to Nassim Taleb’s insight, edited a bit for clarity) WARNING: this is part of an ongoing debate on twitter between Molyneux and Taleb on intelligence and it is a controversial topic for Facebook. Unfortunately, this is a debate that must occur because is of profound importance for humanity – our values are not always survivable. Hence I’m sharing only with ‘Friends’. Nassim (all), IQ describes a curve. East and west are superior for having culled underclass reproduction, while center have failed to cull underclass reproduction. So, to reverse your statement: “I can understand loving one’s people, and apologizing for one’s people, but denying the science is quite sinister.” Other ‘peoples’ are ‘inferior’ (meaning poorer) socially, economically, politically, and militarily because of Pareto problem created by the size of their lower classes in relation to their upper classes. Hence continuous middle eastern failure under underclass religion and rule. Despite the wealth of possessing the optimum trade routes, the middle east was unable to fix this problem. Stephan is Correct. IQ (meaning, the relative size of genetic classes as measured by rate of learning), is the MOST important factor in group wealth. PERIOD. This is because trust and trustworthiness increase in concert with cognitive ability. Nassim: Your ‘admiration’ for a certain class of individuals is unscientific as well: they and their behavior are why no large corporations, and only smaller (inefficient) organizations. Our ‘clerical’ education and society, is why we HAVE large (efficient) corporations. In other words YOU ARE DESPERATELY WRONG. Relative wealth = demographics. Nassim, so if you hadn’t taken up this particular issue it wouldn’t have made me pay attention to, and understood, the catastrophic error in your conflation of individual speculators and the political orders in which wealth potential of such people is possible. YOU ARE WRONG. Nassim: The west, despite beginning with Aryanism (sovereignty and tort law), and Aristotelianism (empiricism), SURVIVED the first wave of Semiticism (Abrahamism) because of genetic reserves. Every other civilization that has tolerated Semiticism has been destroyed by the continuous expansion of the underclasses.We are in the process of not-surviving the second wave of Semiticism. Nassim: So I just unfortunately realized that your FatTony et all, sensibility is just Semitic hatred of high trust peoples who produce their extraordinary wealth by the production of COMMONS. And this insight, if widely understood will destroy your reputation even further. You think that our high-trust people, are ‘suckers’ when it is precisely that social order and those values that allow us to produce the commons that make high returns possible, while those historical peoples you (out of racial bias) favor, were NEVER ABLE TO, because of ‘petty profiting’ that you favor.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546302111 Timestamp) GETTING TIRED OF LITTLE BOYS WITH COMIC BOOK IDEAS RIDING ON THE COATTAILS If anything is to be said, in furtherance of some set of ideas, it must be said about the totality of the market of ideas, not just me and mine. Or it is, as is obviously the case, in this case, just an attempt at drawing attention from that which is successful to that and those who are unsuccessful. Little boys have little boy dreams, of little boy complexity. Men raise, armies, organize logistics, and write laws, and build institutions, because men understand organization at scale – because they have built organizations at scale. Little boys likewise play ‘climb on to the coattails’ of better men. Because they have no experience with constructing ideas, organizations, or solving problems more complicated than those in comic books. Proclamations are not arguments. If it is necessary for me to invest time in further humiliation pretenders, I’m loathe to waste my time at it, but happy to do good service. But these feeble attempts at getting attention with sophisms are embarrassing. And frankly I consider responding beneath me. Since anyone stupid enough to be so fooled is not someone that is helpful to an intellectual movement, nor safe enough to allow to carry arms. Please stop wasting my time with coat-tailing. -Curt Doolittle — VIA ANONYMOUS — (1) Militia “sovereignty” and rule by law are myths. Someone must always rule, someone must decide on the exception. Pushing Middle sovereignty is just continuing the same liberal hysteria against authority, which has led to the HLvM as the logical result. The HLvM won’t stop until we either acquire language better able to validate sovereign authority or war and collapse our tribal structures down low enough where we are able to make such validations, which would represent a massive civilizational regression, all while not possessing those linguistic innovations we would need to scale back up. (2) In evaluating reciprocity, the dimensional tests of identity are not actually how humans evaluate a moral context. Human language is not a closed, declarative system, as much as Curt needs it to be. We wouldn’t even have self-consciousness if language was a closed system, recursive as he still will claim it to be. Curt is a computer scientist trying to force a computer paradigm on to humans, and he ironically hasn’t done the due diligence he speaks so much about by widely studying philosophy of language. Chomsky himself wouldn’t support the simple Shannon-Weaver model of language that Curt’s operationalism relies on, and the field of linguistics has gone so much further than Chomsky by now, into cognition and intentionality, not “signals” and identical “operations” (how computers “communicate,” except that they’re not even self-conscious agents, so it’s a projected metaphor by an anti-philosopher). I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it, again: what is good in Propertarianism (pragmatist legal theory, i.e. unloading claims into processable ‘chunks’) is unoriginalâjurists have naturally known and done such things since the very beginning. The problem would then lie in why our elites have incentives for a HLvM, and the solution to that isn’t doubling-down on why the elites have incentives for a HLvM (hysteria against pre-declarative authority). What is bad in Propertarianism is loosely ‘original’, but in the sense that it’s the latest iteration of the disease of scientistic liberalism. So, we’re left with what you concluded the show with: who watches the watchers, what are the mechanisms of moral accountability? Is it authoritarianismâ’absolutism’? Is it rule by lawâ’nomocracy’? Well, we’d have to drill down on theory of language to answer that question (the short answer is that, yes, there must always be a leader of any size groupâsomeone must always be leading discourse and shaping linguistic frames, but also that there is a moral feedback loop; it’s just not ultimately validated through declarative science), and I think once you do that you’ll see how empty Propertarianism comes up, but it’s okay, because there are plenty enough intelligent people who’ve come before you through his system and have been doing work exploring and filling in gaps that he refused to. I don’t mean that reassurance patronizingly. There are many reasons, trivial and dire, moral and practical, why these naive, young men shouldn’t get led astray with a half-baked, anti-human system.
—- VIA MEGAN USUI Megan K. Usui —- Are you saying the Curt does not think there should be a ruler for a city and nation state in addition to the law? The ruler should follow the law in most cases but everyone knows about war and other extreme cases? — ???? via unknown — Oh, he has been known to talk about constitutional monarchy, but it’s the same anti-absolutism, for humoring ‘constitutionally limited’ (he also seems to think absolutism implies completely arbitrary, out-of-nowhere dictates, which is what a tyrant does, not a leader). When we can finally get past a naive view of language, absolutism (and everyday experiences inside human groups) makes complete sense. It opens up other areas of inquiry more helpful to resolving modern politics. Of course, I’m not going to be going around, trying to ideologically convince people of ‘absolutism’, like it’s some kind of historical aesthetic. We should use the discourse of the day and seek to be harmonizing the culture. Sometimes, self-defense will be necessary, but it’s a serious problem if a system only has threats of violence and bribery as motivations. A system with no way of speaking of the sacred is going to be left with only commerce and violenceâvery modern, very confused.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546348761 Timestamp) (From Twitter: putting an end to Nassim Taleb’s insight, edited a bit for clarity) WARNING: this is part of an ongoing debate on twitter between Molyneux and Taleb on intelligence and it is a controversial topic for Facebook. Unfortunately, this is a debate that must occur because is of profound importance for humanity – our values are not always survivable. Hence I’m sharing only with ‘Friends’. Nassim (all), IQ describes a curve. East and west are superior for having culled underclass reproduction, while center have failed to cull underclass reproduction. So, to reverse your statement: “I can understand loving one’s people, and apologizing for one’s people, but denying the science is quite sinister.” Other ‘peoples’ are ‘inferior’ (meaning poorer) socially, economically, politically, and militarily because of Pareto problem created by the size of their lower classes in relation to their upper classes. Hence continuous middle eastern failure under underclass religion and rule. Despite the wealth of possessing the optimum trade routes, the middle east was unable to fix this problem. Stephan is Correct. IQ (meaning, the relative size of genetic classes as measured by rate of learning), is the MOST important factor in group wealth. PERIOD. This is because trust and trustworthiness increase in concert with cognitive ability. Nassim: Your ‘admiration’ for a certain class of individuals is unscientific as well: they and their behavior are why no large corporations, and only smaller (inefficient) organizations. Our ‘clerical’ education and society, is why we HAVE large (efficient) corporations. In other words YOU ARE DESPERATELY WRONG. Relative wealth = demographics. Nassim, so if you hadn’t taken up this particular issue it wouldn’t have made me pay attention to, and understood, the catastrophic error in your conflation of individual speculators and the political orders in which wealth potential of such people is possible. YOU ARE WRONG. Nassim: The west, despite beginning with Aryanism (sovereignty and tort law), and Aristotelianism (empiricism), SURVIVED the first wave of Semiticism (Abrahamism) because of genetic reserves. Every other civilization that has tolerated Semiticism has been destroyed by the continuous expansion of the underclasses.We are in the process of not-surviving the second wave of Semiticism. Nassim: So I just unfortunately realized that your FatTony et all, sensibility is just Semitic hatred of high trust peoples who produce their extraordinary wealth by the production of COMMONS. And this insight, if widely understood will destroy your reputation even further. You think that our high-trust people, are ‘suckers’ when it is precisely that social order and those values that allow us to produce the commons that make high returns possible, while those historical peoples you (out of racial bias) favor, were NEVER ABLE TO, because of ‘petty profiting’ that you favor.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546302111 Timestamp) GETTING TIRED OF LITTLE BOYS WITH COMIC BOOK IDEAS RIDING ON THE COATTAILS If anything is to be said, in furtherance of some set of ideas, it must be said about the totality of the market of ideas, not just me and mine. Or it is, as is obviously the case, in this case, just an attempt at drawing attention from that which is successful to that and those who are unsuccessful. Little boys have little boy dreams, of little boy complexity. Men raise, armies, organize logistics, and write laws, and build institutions, because men understand organization at scale – because they have built organizations at scale. Little boys likewise play ‘climb on to the coattails’ of better men. Because they have no experience with constructing ideas, organizations, or solving problems more complicated than those in comic books. Proclamations are not arguments. If it is necessary for me to invest time in further humiliation pretenders, I’m loathe to waste my time at it, but happy to do good service. But these feeble attempts at getting attention with sophisms are embarrassing. And frankly I consider responding beneath me. Since anyone stupid enough to be so fooled is not someone that is helpful to an intellectual movement, nor safe enough to allow to carry arms. Please stop wasting my time with coat-tailing. -Curt Doolittle — VIA ANONYMOUS — (1) Militia “sovereignty” and rule by law are myths. Someone must always rule, someone must decide on the exception. Pushing Middle sovereignty is just continuing the same liberal hysteria against authority, which has led to the HLvM as the logical result. The HLvM won’t stop until we either acquire language better able to validate sovereign authority or war and collapse our tribal structures down low enough where we are able to make such validations, which would represent a massive civilizational regression, all while not possessing those linguistic innovations we would need to scale back up. (2) In evaluating reciprocity, the dimensional tests of identity are not actually how humans evaluate a moral context. Human language is not a closed, declarative system, as much as Curt needs it to be. We wouldn’t even have self-consciousness if language was a closed system, recursive as he still will claim it to be. Curt is a computer scientist trying to force a computer paradigm on to humans, and he ironically hasn’t done the due diligence he speaks so much about by widely studying philosophy of language. Chomsky himself wouldn’t support the simple Shannon-Weaver model of language that Curt’s operationalism relies on, and the field of linguistics has gone so much further than Chomsky by now, into cognition and intentionality, not “signals” and identical “operations” (how computers “communicate,” except that they’re not even self-conscious agents, so it’s a projected metaphor by an anti-philosopher). I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it, again: what is good in Propertarianism (pragmatist legal theory, i.e. unloading claims into processable ‘chunks’) is unoriginalâjurists have naturally known and done such things since the very beginning. The problem would then lie in why our elites have incentives for a HLvM, and the solution to that isn’t doubling-down on why the elites have incentives for a HLvM (hysteria against pre-declarative authority). What is bad in Propertarianism is loosely ‘original’, but in the sense that it’s the latest iteration of the disease of scientistic liberalism. So, we’re left with what you concluded the show with: who watches the watchers, what are the mechanisms of moral accountability? Is it authoritarianismâ’absolutism’? Is it rule by lawâ’nomocracy’? Well, we’d have to drill down on theory of language to answer that question (the short answer is that, yes, there must always be a leader of any size groupâsomeone must always be leading discourse and shaping linguistic frames, but also that there is a moral feedback loop; it’s just not ultimately validated through declarative science), and I think once you do that you’ll see how empty Propertarianism comes up, but it’s okay, because there are plenty enough intelligent people who’ve come before you through his system and have been doing work exploring and filling in gaps that he refused to. I don’t mean that reassurance patronizingly. There are many reasons, trivial and dire, moral and practical, why these naive, young men shouldn’t get led astray with a half-baked, anti-human system.
—- VIA MEGAN USUI Megan K. Usui —- Are you saying the Curt does not think there should be a ruler for a city and nation state in addition to the law? The ruler should follow the law in most cases but everyone knows about war and other extreme cases? — ???? via unknown — Oh, he has been known to talk about constitutional monarchy, but it’s the same anti-absolutism, for humoring ‘constitutionally limited’ (he also seems to think absolutism implies completely arbitrary, out-of-nowhere dictates, which is what a tyrant does, not a leader). When we can finally get past a naive view of language, absolutism (and everyday experiences inside human groups) makes complete sense. It opens up other areas of inquiry more helpful to resolving modern politics. Of course, I’m not going to be going around, trying to ideologically convince people of ‘absolutism’, like it’s some kind of historical aesthetic. We should use the discourse of the day and seek to be harmonizing the culture. Sometimes, self-defense will be necessary, but it’s a serious problem if a system only has threats of violence and bribery as motivations. A system with no way of speaking of the sacred is going to be left with only commerce and violenceâvery modern, very confused.