FACEBOOK ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BAN – In a debate over violence in The Better Angels of Our Nature by Pinker, I posted this comment by a follower that says we need ALL SORTS of institutions to prevent violence so man doesn’t need ‘training’. #Facebookwatch IDEOLOGICAL CENSORSHIP https://t.co/HNCI22kL02
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-25 16:31:48 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1033391503022981120
You know, just went through the chapter by chapter summaries of Capital looking for something and it’s actually difficult for me to understand how anyone could ever put any stock in this… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=283772635552967&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-22 01:53:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1032083190981292037
You know, just went through the chapter by chapter summaries of Capital looking for something and it’s actually difficult for me to understand how anyone could ever put any stock in this nonsense whatsoever – if they had ever run a business of any scale. I take away the same thing I did when I was 19: the problem is calculating the unknown and taking risks to achieve it in a world where competition continually forces out all possibilities of profit. When Marx was writing the problem was not innovation but mass production of consumer goods. But once the Low Hanging Fruit has been exploited, then the problem becomes one of organizing people to take risks on uncertain returns, by providing an allocation of rewards necessary to organize people given those risks.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-21 21:52:00 UTC
The progress of our understanding from optimism and ignorance to pessimism and certainty.
|Evolution| Social Democracy -> Classical liberalism -> Libertarianism -> Anarcho Capitalism -> Neo-Reaction -> Propertarianism -> Fascism The problem with Propertarianism for other groups is that it’s law not literature, and as law it is unforgiving (intolerant) of falsehood, pretenses of knowledge or goodness whereas almost every other method of argument makes use of pretenses of truth, knowledge, and good in order to achieve an end that does NOT require truth, knowledge, and reciprocity. Why? Because we rally around (politically and socially) discounts that are obtained by use of falsehoods, pretenses, and irreciprocity. So the question is always and everywhere, why one would pursue one’s ends (power) by means of discounting using falsehood, pretense, and irreciprocity (fraud), rather than pursue them honestly and restitutionally (restitution) by violence, or honestly and predatorily (predation) by violence – other than (a) one has no chance of achieving other by coercion or violence. In other words, why pursue a failure other than to avoid action in pursuit of a success? All we ask in propertarianism is to impose reciprocity by violence as a means of restitution.
The progress of our understanding from optimism and ignorance to pessimism and certainty.
|Evolution| Social Democracy -> Classical liberalism -> Libertarianism -> Anarcho Capitalism -> Neo-Reaction -> Propertarianism -> Fascism The problem with Propertarianism for other groups is that it’s law not literature, and as law it is unforgiving (intolerant) of falsehood, pretenses of knowledge or goodness whereas almost every other method of argument makes use of pretenses of truth, knowledge, and good in order to achieve an end that does NOT require truth, knowledge, and reciprocity. Why? Because we rally around (politically and socially) discounts that are obtained by use of falsehoods, pretenses, and irreciprocity. So the question is always and everywhere, why one would pursue one’s ends (power) by means of discounting using falsehood, pretense, and irreciprocity (fraud), rather than pursue them honestly and restitutionally (restitution) by violence, or honestly and predatorily (predation) by violence – other than (a) one has no chance of achieving other by coercion or violence. In other words, why pursue a failure other than to avoid action in pursuit of a success? All we ask in propertarianism is to impose reciprocity by violence as a means of restitution.
I mean, if you’re going to write science, law, and literature, then do so. But when you conflate them into pseudoscience, philosophy, and theology, you’re just selling snake oil in the language of deceit.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-16 18:45:26 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030163641000185857
I mean, if you’re going to write science, law, and literature, then do so. But when you conflate them into pseudoscience, philosophy, and theology, you’re just selling snake oil in the language of deceit.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-16 14:45:00 UTC
—“Abrahamic religions completely are the opposite of Marxism and feminism. The Bible and Koran repeatedly condemn everything to do with those. I don’t get this Nordic pagan hardon business. “— Mike Samuels Follow me longer. I don’t have time this morning to construct your understanding. Here are a few tips: Nothing to do with nordic paganism. Everything to do with falsehood and deceit. Falsehoods of Supernaturalism-Occult, Pseudoscience, and Pseudo-rationalism. Pseudo-rationalism of Pilpul and Critique. PIlpul (justification, excuse making) and Critique (disapproval, gossip, rallying, shaming, and ridicule). Both of which are Female methods of argument, and express the female group evolutionary strategy. Same technique and objective: undermine alphas. Generation 1: Judaism > Christianity > Islam (Supernaturalism) -> Fall of Empires, Invasion, and Dark Ages Generation 2: Boasianism, Marxism, Freudianism (pseudoscience) > Postmodernism > Feminism (pseudo-rationalism) -> Fall of Empires …. Invasion.
—-”Is Marxism the opiate of the envious?”—-
1. Marxism (Boasianism, Marxism, Freudianism, Frankfurt School) consists of a **pseudoscientific** revolt against aristocratic european civilization’s sovereignty, reason, markets, and meritocracy, and is merely a restatement of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic **supernatural** REVOLT against the great aristocratic civilizations of the ancient world – this time with a false promise of prosperity in search for power, just as in the ancient world, a false promise of life after death or paradise in search for power.
2. Postmodernism is a **pseudo-rational** restatement of the Marxist (Boasian, Marxist, Freudian, Frankfurt School) REVOLT against reason markets, meritocracy and eugenics that result from that merit. This time abandoning both the supernatural, the pseudoscientific, and merely engaging in gossip, rallying, shaming, ridicule, disapproval, in the pursuit of power to resist meritocracy (eugenics)
3. So whether Semitic Abrahamic **Supernatural** Religion, Marxist **pseudoscientific** reformation of abrahamic religion, or Postmodern pseudo-rational justification is used, the same argumentative **sophisms **of **justificationary Pilpul**, and **critical Critique **are used to circumvent reason, appeal to intuition.
4. Why? We are, because of our genetics, and the intuitions that result from our genetics, of differing interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. This market value is generally categorized as ‘class’. We do, because of genetics, physically possess physical brain and physical chemical intuitions that reflect our class and our genders. And just as the female reproductive strategy (herds) evolved to persist her genes regardless of the merit of her offspring, and men evolved to persist their genes (packs) by the merit of himself and his male kin, classes evolved to express either the feminine dysgenic or male eugenic group strategies. Our differences in moral intuitions are the result of these axis: gender cognitive bias, and class cognitive bias, and the degree of group neoteny that evolved in our relative geographies.
5. So to some degree just as religion is an opiate of the lower classes, philosophy provides an opiate of the middle classes, and pseudoscience the upper middle classes – the upper classes need no opiate other than the rewards of their market position (desirability). Why? we want hope or promise of raising our interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. Because after all – that is what drives reproduction, and what drives all our behavior.
6. The underclasses are not oppressed. They are just six times as bad for the polity as every good person is good for it. Markets cannot lie. They contain lottery effects. And the lottery effect provides us with the incentives (hope) just as religion, philosophy, and pseudoscience provide us with hope. Hope that we will obtain the benefits of being of higher market value than we are. In other words: status rules us.
7. The duration of a Democracy is determined by the time it takes to redistribute, and spend down a windfall, from war, conquest, technical innovation, or accident of nature. We are rapidly running out of the industrial (petroleum) windfall, just as Athens ran out of it’s silver mine.
8. A mixed economy ruled by an authoritarian, an oligarchy, or a ‘party’ – differing only in scale – is the only survivable, with fascism necessary in war, and the luxury of social democracy possible under windfalls.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-10 10:57:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Steven Pinker: You know, saying violence has decreased is a pointless truism. People who are subject to tax and consumer interest predation; immigration of working classes in a period of technical reformation; and gradual culturecide and genocide, are not the victims of direct violence. The human batteries in The Matrix, like the frog in boiling water simply do not know they’re victims.
Source date (UTC): 2018-08-03 16:51:38 UTC