Form: Critique

  • Notes on Sean Gabb’s “new” Book: Radical Coup.

    Reading Sean Gabb’s new book. “Radical Coup: A Case for Reaction” (SUMMARY: Sean writes a typically british apologetic series of essays trying to find a graceful way of making british libertarians into conservatives. It’s ok. But I have some insights to add that are … less apologetic and more direct and critical.) It’s not a new book. Not sure what’s new yet. More a collection of essays. Ok. I see… (I’m thinking Hoppe’s forward includes a dig aimed at me. 😉 Sorry Hans but I eat Kantians like beer hall’s go through peanuts – leaving the remnants likewise as shells on the floor.) Impression…. Seems like Sean is trying to help the effeminate brits man up. So far consensus is that in the Anglosophere, only the Canadians are more feminine than the British. Everyone seems to think it has to be the states, and then spread from there. —“My biggest error, I believe, was to put too much emphasis on ideas”— Well I would say it’s endemic….. 1) the avoidance of violence – shall I say ‘cowardice?’ 2) the fantasy that people can be converted. 3) the fantasy that market solutions are in the common interest rather than a demand of different elites, who then buy off the rest with dividends. —“The Need for a Joint Libertarian and Conservative Response. The present order of things is an emergency that neither libertarians nor conservatives have any hope of facing separately….”— Well, this is where I think you’re wrong. It’s not bourgeoise civilization, but aristocratic civilization: markets in everything are the only possible solution to aristocratic sovereignty. The fact that the bourgeoise wanted to join the aristocracy or replace them is simply a shift in elites and the size of the population of the elites, with the same solution: sovereignty and reciprocity leaving only markets in everything. Bourgeoise Society would imply a novelty. But it was just a set of convenient lies (equality). Likewise I don’t see it as a joint libertarian and conservative response, what I see is the end of the jewish libertinism program and a restoration of the constitutionalist (contractualism) program. I mean, it’s great that we solved social science between Rothbard, Hoppe, and myself, but that’s just a technical improvement in ancient common law by the production of a semantics and grammar that explains our ancient rule of sovereignty. —“I want a restoration”— Well, depends on what that vision is. We can’t un-invent. We can only impose new inventions that provide greater competitive ability than previous eras. So the question isn’t restoration, it’s defeat and construction. But construction of what? —“”— Note, I’ve read much of this before… —“how it was lost”– Well, it was lost by fighting a pair of unnecessary wars in which Germany was in the right, and thereby hollowing out Europe of it’s ancient cultural origins. Doing so collapsed the empire. And the people did not immediately replace a global imperial government with a local national one. As such Britain as much as France, drove marxist imperialism just as hard as the soviets. The problem was not gutting the government OR working with the USA to restore the British empire. One or the other. But in typical British fashion, just as the french lost their civilization at the loss of the monarchy, just as the Spanish civilization died at their loss of empire, and British lost theirs – and became as useless as the french and Spanish. Between 1830 and 1914 the British broke from germanic civilization and became Diasporics in every possible sense. —“ideological weakness”— Actually It’s classical liberal dishonesty combined with malincentives of global empire. There is no possibility of an aristocracy of everyone, nor are we in any way equal. That was just a ruse to sieze power from the landed aristocracy the same way the marxists/socialist/postmodernists have used similar arguments to undermine America – via women’s inclusion in the voting booth. The lie of the bourgeoise society – the theft of aristocratic civilization by classical liberal (middle class) ruse, the way it’s been stolen by the radical (underclass/academic) ruse by claiming oppression. That lie is what begins it all. There is no such thing as bourgeoise civlization other than the tents of diasporic trade route travelers and pirates, hawking goods in bazaars without liability of warranty. Aristocracy = Sovereignty. Aristocratic Egalitarians: those who will carry the burden of reciprocal insurance (sovereignty and reciprocity) may join the aristocracy. –“A New Legitimizing Ideology “– Jezuz… didn’t we already get to the point of accepting that words don’t matter? Power matters. Power is obtained by violence. Laws are imposed. One can either impose natural law (reciprocity) or unnatural law(arbitrary logic). If you weren’t perpetuating the lie, and just went to sovereignty and reciprocity which produces nothing but property, then you would have your answer. It’s really simple. —“need…”– Listen, people revolt when (a) there are enough excess(unsatisfied) young men, (b) the status quo is no longer tolerable (c) there is some factor that is discreet enough to rally against, (d) they have something to revolt in favor of, (e) they have some idea of the sequence of actions to bring it about, and (f) a vision of the consequences that is better than the status quo. Talk is cheap. Actions are not. Plans are not. Because both actions and plans are testable. —” let’s assume we can seize power.”— Well these are hand waving answers but they’re not wrong. —” constitution “— The lords are better than the senate in every way. The constitution must be written and strictly. —” race “— Sorry. Nationalism promotes good behavior and diversity bad. —” revolution “— this is wishful thinking not a plan. Constitution, plan of transition, attack the infrastructure, create urban disorder, drive the military to coup. force government to settlement. —” conservatism “— Conservatives were stuck with a moral, religious, traditional set of arguments without themselves understanding why our civilization had ‘sped faster than the rest’. Worse, they bought into the lie just as libertarians bought into the lie of an aristocracy (sovereignty) of everyone. THE NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT. The alt right uses ridicule, but by and large the new right differs from the old right in that we now have DATA and we have it from a century of failures with the falsehoods of classical liberalism, and the falsehoods of marxist-postmodernism. My work is just going back to our roots: impose the law with violence and incrementally suppress all transgressions of it. Men will naturally insure kin, so create nation states, or at least small local polities in the Swiss model with federal governments providing only reciprocal decidability over inter-state conflicts, and acting as insurer of last resort. –“…..”— Libertarians (libertines) and ancaps are statistically irrelevant. Predisposed to tongue wagging and not to violence necessary to impose rule of law. So the issue here is that libertinism (rothbardianism, ancapism) is dead. And that classical liberalism is largely dead. And that all that can be learned from the failures of the past 350 years, is that markets-in-everything mean that we should have given additional houses to additional classes as they became participatory, and preserved the houses as a market for commons between the classes, and likewise prohibited the production of law (legislation), only contract between the classes under usual contractual terms. We had the perfect government with the Scandianvian and germanic monarchies under sovereignty (rule of law of reciprocity, universal standing, and universal applicability), with the monarch as the judge of last resort, and able to dispense with bureaucracies or the government at a whim. THIS MEANS LIBERTARIANISM IN ALL FORMS WAS ALWAYS A LIE…… Both anglo (classical liberal) and jewish (libertine) were both lies. There is only one law and only one means of imposing it: the organized violence of enough men that the state cannot withstand their revolt. THE MARKET IS A CONSEQUENCE OF SOVEREIGNTY, RECIPROCITY, TRUTH, DUTY, AND THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY COMMON OF THE COMMON (Tort) LAW. We create a market by creating sovereignty. we expand the market by incremental suppression of impositions of costs upon the investments made by others. We create private, corporate, and common assets. And we suppress impositions against them. The central problem of sovereignty is reduction of the lower classes that cannot survive in the CURRENT market order. In other words, we must genetically improve our distributions as we improve our productivity. —“…The Libertarian Failure … (2016) “… I think I answered that in the paragraphs above. —“… islam … mass immigration “— Agreed —” … islam …”– Sorry but any religion whose law supersedes sovereignty, reciprocity, truth and duty (which includes all three abrahamic religions, but especially judaism/poly-ethicalism, and islam/sharia law) is incompatible with western civilization. Period. The empirical result of Judaism, christianity, and islam is the dark ages. The empirically observable result of paganism and rule of law is prosperity. No apologetics. This is just how it is. Lies are lies. Conflicts are conflicts. Poly-ethicalism and contrary law and intentional ignorance is incompatible with truth and reciprocity and rule of law. in other words, our means of decidability and therefore cooperation are incompatible and always have been. Hence our velocity and their velocity. Hence the velocity of jews and muslims once under aristotelianism (science) – and their stagnation under abrahamism. —“… open borders …”– Yes well, like most libertarian tropes that one failed the empirical test. —” Politicized Justice “— yes, well agreed. Although lets answer the question of how to produce rule of law a little more clearly. —” limited liability “— Limited liability is an extension of the function of insurer of last resort to investments, so that individuals can take risks limited to the invested capital unless they engage in fraud. The problem with corporations is that the state has usurped our ability to sue them for impositions of costs on the various commons. This is a simple fix to rule of law. —“….”— IN GENERAL: all of this ruminating is, like all libertarian nonsense, only necessary because the science of law (reciprocity) would invalidate the rothbardian tropes in libertarianism. And invalidate the favorite nonsense of classical liberalism. Hayek was right: all that matters is the law. What he failed to do is produce a formal logic of law. Just as mises failed to produce a formal logic of economics. Just as Rothbard failed to produce a formal logic of ethics. The reason being that we must discard our belief that sovereignty, reciprocity, monarchies, houses, and an independent jury cannot be improved upon. The uncomfortable truth is that either the militia owns the state, the military owns the state, or the bureaucracy owns the state, or the church(academy) owns the state. Or the financial sector owns the state. The only equality of intersets in that list is the MILITIA. Western civilization begins and ends with the militia. This is how you distinguish between a conservative and a libertarian. Those who fight, and those who preach. —“… proposed synthesis … “— Agreed on welfare state. Disagree on demonstrated payment of costs of enfranchisement. —“… national interest … “— There is no national interest without a nation. A nation consists of a tribe of people of not dissimilar language, myths, rituals, traditions, and laws. If there are competing interests on any of those things you have a bureaucratic empire, not a nation-state. Those are my notes. 4:38 pm, sat June 16, 2018.

  • NOTES ON SEAN GABB’S “NEW” BOOK: RADICAL COUP. Reading Sean Gabb’s new book. “Ra

    NOTES ON SEAN GABB’S “NEW” BOOK: RADICAL COUP.

    Reading Sean Gabb’s new book.

    “Radical Coup: A Case for Reaction”

    (SUMMARY: Sean writes a typically british apologetic series of essays trying to find a graceful way of making british libertarians into conservatives. It’s ok. But I have some insights to add that are … less apologetic and more direct and critical.)

    It’s not a new book. Not sure what’s new yet. More a collection of essays. Ok. I see…

    (I’m thinking Hoppe’s forward includes a dig aimed at me. 😉 Sorry Hans but I eat Kantians like beer hall’s go through peanuts – leaving the remnants likewise as shells on the floor.)

    Impression…. Seems like Sean is trying to help the effeminate brits man up. So far consensus is that in the Anglosophere, only the Canadians are more feminine than the British. Everyone seems to think it has to be the states, and then spread from there.

    —“My biggest error, I believe, was to put too much

    emphasis on ideas”—

    Well I would say it’s endemic…..

    1) the avoidance of violence – shall I say ‘cowardice?’

    2) the fantasy that people can be converted.

    3) the fantasy that market solutions are in the common interest rather than a demand of different elites, who then buy off the rest with dividends.

    —“The Need for a Joint Libertarian and

    Conservative Response. The present order of things is an emergency that neither libertarians nor conservatives have any hope of facing separately….”—

    Well, this is where I think you’re wrong. It’s not bourgeoise civilization, but aristocratic civilization: markets in everything are the only possible solution to aristocratic sovereignty. The fact that the bourgeoise wanted to join the aristocracy or replace them is simply a shift in elites and the size of the population of the elites, with the same solution: sovereignty and reciprocity leaving only markets in everything.

    Bourgeoise Society would imply a novelty. But it was just a set of convenient lies (equality).

    Likewise I don’t see it as a joint libertarian and conservative response, what I see is the end of the jewish libertinism program and a restoration of the constitutionalist (contractualism) program. I mean, it’s great that we solved social science between Rothbard, Hoppe, and myself, but that’s just a technical improvement in ancient common law by the production of a semantics and grammar that explains our ancient rule of sovereignty.

    —“I want a restoration”—

    Well, depends on what that vision is. We can’t un-invent. We can only impose new inventions that provide greater competitive ability than previous eras. So the question isn’t restoration, it’s defeat and construction. But construction of what?

    —“”—

    Note, I’ve read much of this before…

    —“how it was lost”–

    Well, it was lost by fighting a pair of unnecessary wars in which Germany was in the right, and thereby hollowing out Europe of it’s ancient cultural origins. Doing so collapsed the empire. And the people did not immediately replace a global imperial government with a local national one. As such Britain as much as France, drove marxist imperialism just as hard as the soviets.

    The problem was not gutting the government OR working with the USA to restore the British empire. One or the other. But in typical British fashion, just as the french lost their civilization at the loss of the monarchy, just as the Spanish civilization died at their loss of empire, and British lost theirs – and became as useless as the french and Spanish.

    Between 1830 and 1914 the British broke from germanic civilization and became Diasporics in every possible sense.

    —“ideological weakness”—

    Actually It’s classical liberal dishonesty combined with malincentives of global empire. There is no possibility of an aristocracy of everyone, nor are we in any way equal. That was just a ruse to sieze power from the landed aristocracy the same way the marxists/socialist/postmodernists have used similar arguments to undermine America – via women’s inclusion in the voting booth. The lie of the bourgeoise society – the theft of aristocratic civilization by classical liberal (middle class) ruse, the way it’s been stolen by the radical (underclass/academic) ruse by claiming oppression.

    That lie is what begins it all. There is no such thing as bourgeoise civlization other than the tents of diasporic trade route travelers and pirates, hawking goods in bazaars without liability of warranty.

    Aristocracy = Sovereignty. Aristocratic Egalitarians: those who will carry the burden of reciprocal insurance (sovereignty and reciprocity) may join the aristocracy.

    –“A New Legitimizing Ideology “–

    Jezuz… didn’t we already get to the point of accepting that words don’t matter? Power matters. Power is obtained by violence. Laws are imposed. One can either impose natural law (reciprocity) or unnatural law(arbitrary logic).

    If you weren’t perpetuating the lie, and just went to sovereignty and reciprocity which produces nothing but property, then you would have your answer. It’s really simple.

    —“need…”–

    Listen, people revolt when (a) there are enough excess(unsatisfied) young men, (b) the status quo is no longer tolerable (c) there is some factor that is discreet enough to rally against, (d) they have something to revolt in favor of, (e) they have some idea of the sequence of actions to bring it about, and (f) a vision of the consequences that is better than the status quo.

    Talk is cheap. Actions are not. Plans are not. Because both actions and plans are testable.

    —” let’s assume we can seize power.”—

    Well these are hand waving answers but they’re not wrong.

    —” constitution “—

    The lords are better than the senate in every way. The constitution must be written and strictly.

    —” race “—

    Sorry. Nationalism promotes good behavior and diversity bad.

    —” revolution “—

    this is wishful thinking not a plan. Constitution, plan of transition, attack the infrastructure, create urban disorder, drive the military to coup. force government to settlement.

    —” conservatism “—

    Conservatives were stuck with a moral, religious, traditional set of arguments without themselves understanding why our civilization had ‘sped faster than the rest’. Worse, they bought into the lie just as libertarians bought into the lie of an aristocracy (sovereignty) of everyone.

    THE NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT. The alt right uses ridicule, but by and large the new right differs from the old right in that we now have DATA and we have it from a century of failures with the falsehoods of classical liberalism, and the falsehoods of marxist-postmodernism.

    My work is just going back to our roots: impose the law with violence and incrementally suppress all transgressions of it. Men will naturally insure kin, so create nation states, or at least small local polities in the Swiss model with federal governments providing only reciprocal decidability over inter-state conflicts, and acting as insurer of last resort.

    –“…..”—

    Libertarians (libertines) and ancaps are statistically irrelevant. Predisposed to tongue wagging and not to violence necessary to impose rule of law. So the issue here is that libertinism (rothbardianism, ancapism) is dead. And that classical liberalism is largely dead. And that all that can be learned from the failures of the past 350 years, is that markets-in-everything mean that we should have given additional houses to additional classes as they became participatory, and preserved the houses as a market for commons between the classes, and likewise prohibited the production of law (legislation), only contract between the classes under usual contractual terms.

    We had the perfect government with the Scandianvian and germanic monarchies under sovereignty (rule of law of reciprocity, universal standing, and universal applicability), with the monarch as the judge of last resort, and able to dispense with bureaucracies or the government at a whim.

    THIS MEANS LIBERTARIANISM IN ALL FORMS WAS ALWAYS A LIE…… Both anglo (classical liberal) and jewish (libertine) were both lies. There is only one law and only one means of imposing it: the organized violence of enough men that the state cannot withstand their revolt.

    THE MARKET IS A CONSEQUENCE OF SOVEREIGNTY, RECIPROCITY, TRUTH, DUTY, AND THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY COMMON OF THE COMMON (Tort) LAW.

    We create a market by creating sovereignty. we expand the market by incremental suppression of impositions of costs upon the investments made by others. We create private, corporate, and common assets. And we suppress impositions against them. The central problem of sovereignty is reduction of the lower classes that cannot survive in the CURRENT market order. In other words, we must genetically improve our distributions as we improve our productivity.

    —“…The Libertarian Failure … (2016) “…

    I think I answered that in the paragraphs above.

    —“… islam … mass immigration “—

    Agreed

    —” … islam …”–

    Sorry but any religion whose law supersedes sovereignty, reciprocity, truth and duty (which includes all three abrahamic religions, but especially judaism/poly-ethicalism, and islam/sharia law) is incompatible with western civilization. Period. The empirical result of Judaism, christianity, and islam is the dark ages. The empirically observable result of paganism and rule of law is prosperity.

    No apologetics. This is just how it is. Lies are lies. Conflicts are conflicts. Poly-ethicalism and contrary law and intentional ignorance is incompatible with truth and reciprocity and rule of law.

    in other words, our means of decidability and therefore cooperation are incompatible and always have been. Hence our velocity and their velocity. Hence the velocity of jews and muslims once under aristotelianism (science) – and their stagnation under abrahamism.

    —“… open borders …”–

    Yes well, like most libertarian tropes that one failed the empirical test.

    —” Politicized Justice “—

    yes, well agreed. Although lets answer the question of how to produce rule of law a little more clearly.

    —” limited liability “—

    Limited liability is an extension of the function of insurer of last resort to investments, so that individuals can take risks limited to the invested capital unless they engage in fraud. The problem with corporations is that the state has usurped our ability to sue them for impositions of costs on the various commons. This is a simple fix to rule of law.

    —“….”—

    IN GENERAL: all of this ruminating is, like all libertarian nonsense, only necessary because the science of law (reciprocity) would invalidate the rothbardian tropes in libertarianism. And invalidate the favorite nonsense of classical liberalism.

    Hayek was right: all that matters is the law. What he failed to do is produce a formal logic of law. Just as mises failed to produce a formal logic of economics. Just as Rothbard failed to produce a formal logic of ethics. The reason being that we must discard our belief that sovereignty, reciprocity, monarchies, houses, and an independent jury cannot be improved upon. The uncomfortable truth is that either the militia owns the state, the military owns the state, or the bureaucracy owns the state, or the church(academy) owns the state. Or the financial sector owns the state. The only equality of intersets in that list is the MILITIA.

    Western civilization begins and ends with the militia. This is how you distinguish between a conservative and a libertarian. Those who fight, and those who preach.

    —“… proposed synthesis … “—

    Agreed on welfare state. Disagree on demonstrated payment of costs of enfranchisement.

    —“… national interest … “—

    There is no national interest without a nation. A nation consists of a tribe of people of not dissimilar language, myths, rituals, traditions, and laws.

    If there are competing interests on any of those things you have a bureaucratic empire, not a nation-state.

    Those are my notes.

    4:38 pm, sat June 16, 2018.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-16 16:41:00 UTC

  • Sophisms: Will to Power and Non Aggression

    The will to power and the non aggression principle, are both incomplete sentences for a reason: to sound profound without actually being profound. The will to power of or over what? Non aggression against what? Unless you answer those questions both propositions are just sophisms. They require substitution on the part of the individual. And as such tell us nothing other than whatever it is we already presume. AGENCY, SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONOMY, …. with what resources?

  • Sophisms: Will to Power and Non Aggression

    The will to power and the non aggression principle, are both incomplete sentences for a reason: to sound profound without actually being profound. The will to power of or over what? Non aggression against what? Unless you answer those questions both propositions are just sophisms. They require substitution on the part of the individual. And as such tell us nothing other than whatever it is we already presume. AGENCY, SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONOMY, …. with what resources?

  • SOPHISMS: WILL TO POWER AND NON AGGRESSION The will to power and the non aggress

    SOPHISMS: WILL TO POWER AND NON AGGRESSION

    The will to power and the non aggression principle, are both incomplete sentences for a reason: to sound profound without actually being profound. The will to power of or over what? Non aggression against what? Unless you answer those questions both propositions are just sophisms. They require substitution on the part of the individual. And as such tell us nothing other than whatever it is we already presume.

    AGENCY, SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONOMY, …. with what resources?


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-13 11:49:00 UTC

  • IT’S OK TO BE MEN OF INACTION, AS LONG AS YOU STAY OUT OF THE WAY –“Lobertarian

    IT’S OK TO BE MEN OF INACTION, AS LONG AS YOU STAY OUT OF THE WAY

    –“Lobertarianism is lolberism cloaked in big brain individualism. It’s ok to be men of inaction as long as it doesn’t directly affect you, and if it does, retaliation cannot affect anyone else. It’s an outspoken version of pacifism.”—David Parker


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-12 09:54:00 UTC

  • NEVER EVER GIVE TO THE RED CROSS – EVER. (Always Give only to the Salvation Army

    NEVER EVER GIVE TO THE RED CROSS – EVER.

    (Always Give only to the Salvation Army or the United Way.)

    Note that there are NO UNCORRUPT police and fire charities. NONE.

    OTHER 50 MOST CORRUPT CHARITIES IN AMERICA

    1. Kids Wish Network — Donations: $127.8 million / Solicitor Profits: $109.8 million

    2. Cancer Fund of America — Donations: $98.0 million / Solicitor Profits: $80.4 million

    3. Children’s Wish Foundation International — Donations: $96.8 million / Solicitor Profits $63.6 million

    4. American Breast Cancer Foundation — Donations: $80.8 million / Solicitor Profits:$59.8 million

    5. Firefighters Charitable Foundation — Donations: $63.8 million / Solicitor Profits: $54.7 million

    6. Breast Cancer Relief Foundation — Donations: $63.9 million / Solicitor Profits: $44.8 million

    7. International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO — Donations: $57.2 million / Solicitor Profits: $41.4 million

    8. National Veterans Service Fund — Donations: $70.2 million / Solicitor Profits: $36.9 million

    9. American Association of State Troopers — Donations: $45.0 million / Solicitor Profits: $36.0 million

    10. Children’s Cancer Fund of America — Donations: $37.5 million / Solicitor Profits: $29.2 million

    11. Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation — Donations: $34.7 million / Solicitor Profits: $27.6 million

    12. Youth Development Fund — Donations: $29.7 million / Solicitor Profits: $24.5 million

    13. Committee For Missing Children — Donations: $26.9 million / Solicitor Profits: $23.8 million

    14. Association for Firefighters and Paramedics — Donations:$23.2 million / Solicitor Profits: $20.8 million

    15. Project Cure (Bradenton, Fla.) — Donations:$51.5 million / Solicitor Profits: $20.4 million

    16. National Caregiving Foundation—Donations: $22.3 million/Solicitor Profits: $18.1 million

    17. Operation Lookout National Center for Missing Youth — Donations: $19.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $16.1 million

    18. United States Deputy Sheriffs’ Association — Donations: $23.1 million/Solicitor Profits: $15.9 million

    19. Vietnow National Headquarters — Donations: $18.1 million / Solicitor Profits: $15.9 million

    20. Police Protective Fund — Donations: $34.9 million / Solicitor Profits: $14.8 million

    21. National Cancer Coalition — Donations $41.5 million / Solicitor Profits: $14.0 million

    22. Woman To Woman Breast Cancer Foundation — Donations: $14.5 million / Solicitor Profits: $13.7 million

    23. American Foundation For Disabled Children — Donations: $16.4 million / Solicitor Profits: $13.4 million

    24. The Veterans Fund — Donations: $15.7 million / Solicitor Profits: $12.9 million

    25. Heart Support of America — Donations: $33 million / Solicitor Profits: $11.0 million

    26. Veterans Assistance Foundation — Donations: $12.2 million / Solicitor Profits: $11.0 million

    27. Children’s Charity Fund — Donations: $14.3 million / Solicitor Profits: $10.5 million

    28. Wishing Well Foundation USA — Donations: $12.4 million / Solicitor Profits: $9.8 million

    29. Defeat Diabetes Foundation — Donations: $13.8 million / Solicitor Profits: $8.3 million

    30. Disabled Police Officers of America Inc. — Donations: $10.3 million / Solicitor Profits: $8.1 million

    31. National Police Defense Foundation — Donations: $9.9 million / Solicitor Profits: $7.8 million

    32. American Association of the Deaf & Blind — Donations: $10.3 million / Solicitor Profits: $7.8 million

    33. Reserve Police Officers Association — Donations: $8.7 million / Solicitor Profits: $7.7 million

    34. Optimal Medical Foundation — Donations: $7.9 million / Solicitor Profits: $7.6 million

    35. Disabled Police and Sheriffs Foundation — Donations: $9.0 million / Solicitor Profits:$7.6 million

    36. Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center — Donations:$8.2 million / Solicitor Profits: $6.9 million

    37. Children’s Leukemia Research Association — Donations: $9.8 million / Solicitor Profits: $6.8 million

    38. United Breast Cancer Foundation — Donations: $11.6 million / Solicitor Profits: $6.6 million

    39. Shiloh International Ministries—Donations: $8.0 million/Solicitor Profits:$6.2 million

    40. Circle of Friends For American Veterans—Donations: $7.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $5.7 million

    41. Find the Children—Donations: $7.6 million/ Solicitor Profits: $5.0 million

    42. Survivors and Victims Empowered—Donations: $7.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.8 million

    43. Firefighters Assistance Fund—Donations: $5.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.6 million

    44. Caring for Our Children Foundation—Donations:$4.7 million /Solicitor Profits: $4.1 million

    45. National Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition—Donations: $4.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.0 million

    46. American Foundation for Children With Aids—Donations:$5.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $3.0 million

    47. Our American Veterans—Donations:$2.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $2.3 million

    48. Roger Wyburn-Mason & Jack M. Blount Foundation For Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease—Donations: $8.4 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.8 million

    49. Firefighters Burn Fund—Donations: $2.0 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.7 million

    50. Hope Cancer Fund—Donations: $1.9 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.6 million


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 09:45:00 UTC

  • On “mathiness” in Physics

    ON “MATHINESS” IN PHYSICS ‘Mathiness’ is a f–cking pseudoscientific plague. And people wonder why Hayek called the 20th century an age of mysticism, and I call it the age of pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathiness MATHINESS = SCIENTISM = PSEUDOSCIENCE = “LITERATURE” I think the pejorative “Scientism” refers to pseudosciences (overreach in particular), just as “Mathiness” Refers to pseudoscience (“Overreach”). FROM THE ARTICLE —“Physicists today “write a lot of papers, build a lot of [theoretical] models, hold a lot of conferences, cite each other — you have all the trappings of science,” he says. “But for me, physics is all about making successful predictions. And that’s been lacking.””— —“Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can’t explain what was not observed. And they’re not even good at that.”— THE ANSWER FROM ECONOMICS As far as I know the problem is (a) we have far too many unproductive academics paid to write papers rather than spending money on experiments. And (b) the low hanging fruit has been captured and we may not be able to (yet) capture and use enough energy to perform necessary experiments. SCIENCE IS THE DISCIPLINE OF TESTIMONY AND TESTIMONY REQUIRES OBSERVATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS REQUIRE TESTS Tests can be “PRE-dictive” if the production of the data is controlled, or “DE-scriptive” if the production of the data is uncontrolled. But if we don’t have an observation, and a system of measurement then we don’t have science.

  • On “mathiness” in Physics

    ON “MATHINESS” IN PHYSICS ‘Mathiness’ is a f–cking pseudoscientific plague. And people wonder why Hayek called the 20th century an age of mysticism, and I call it the age of pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathiness MATHINESS = SCIENTISM = PSEUDOSCIENCE = “LITERATURE” I think the pejorative “Scientism” refers to pseudosciences (overreach in particular), just as “Mathiness” Refers to pseudoscience (“Overreach”). FROM THE ARTICLE —“Physicists today “write a lot of papers, build a lot of [theoretical] models, hold a lot of conferences, cite each other — you have all the trappings of science,” he says. “But for me, physics is all about making successful predictions. And that’s been lacking.””— —“Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can’t explain what was not observed. And they’re not even good at that.”— THE ANSWER FROM ECONOMICS As far as I know the problem is (a) we have far too many unproductive academics paid to write papers rather than spending money on experiments. And (b) the low hanging fruit has been captured and we may not be able to (yet) capture and use enough energy to perform necessary experiments. SCIENCE IS THE DISCIPLINE OF TESTIMONY AND TESTIMONY REQUIRES OBSERVATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS REQUIRE TESTS Tests can be “PRE-dictive” if the production of the data is controlled, or “DE-scriptive” if the production of the data is uncontrolled. But if we don’t have an observation, and a system of measurement then we don’t have science.

  • ON “MATHINESS” IN PHYSICS ‘Mathiness’ is a f–cking pseudoscientific plague. And

    ON “MATHINESS” IN PHYSICS

    ‘Mathiness’ is a f–cking pseudoscientific plague.

    And people wonder why Hayek called the 20th century an age of mysticism, and I call it the age of pseudoscience.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathiness

    MATHINESS = SCIENTISM = PSEUDOSCIENCE = “LITERATURE”

    I think the pejorative “Scientism” refers to pseudosciences (overreach in particular), just as “Mathiness” Refers to pseudoscience (“Overreach”).

    FROM THE ARTICLE

    —“Physicists today “write a lot of papers, build a lot of [theoretical] models, hold a lot of conferences, cite each other — you have all the trappings of science,” he says. “But for me, physics is all about making successful predictions. And that’s been lacking.””—

    —“Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can’t explain what was not observed. And they’re not even good at that.”—

    THE ANSWER FROM ECONOMICS

    As far as I know the problem is (a) we have far too many unproductive academics paid to write papers rather than spending money on experiments. And (b) the low hanging fruit has been captured and we may not be able to (yet) capture and use enough energy to perform necessary experiments.

    SCIENCE IS THE DISCIPLINE OF TESTIMONY AND TESTIMONY REQUIRES OBSERVATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS REQUIRE TESTS

    Tests can be “PRE-dictive” if the production of the data is controlled, or “DE-scriptive” if the production of the data is uncontrolled.

    But if we don’t have an observation, and a system of measurement then we don’t have science.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-03 08:43:00 UTC