Form: Critique

  • UNREADABLE DOOLITTLE” —“or the aggressively-unreadable Doolittle.”—- You kno

    http://selfadoration.com/for-luke-williams-heres-a-complimentary-grenade-to-lob-into-your-non-agression-principle-debate/8123″AGGRESSIVELY UNREADABLE DOOLITTLE”

    http://selfadoration.com/for-luke-williams-heres-a-complimentary-grenade-to-lob-into-your-non-agression-principle-debate/8123

    —“or the aggressively-unreadable Doolittle.”—-

    You know, I want to say ‘ouch’ but, I have to just own it. lol.

    On the other hand have you read Hegel? Wittgenstein? Heidegger?

    Philosophy is a technical specialty like any niche technical discipline. The difference is that we are often trying to reorder existing human conceptual categories, properties, and relations. Rewiring the mind so to speak.

    I am far better than I was even four years ago. And I will get better still. But in the end, a philosopher writes for experts, experts write for the heavily interested, and the heavily interested write for the popular, and the popular simplify for the simple. This is how innovation in thought is distributed.

    I am not the first person to say that our job is to bring people up to the new level of comprehension not dumb it down for the existing level where its lacking. Else darwin would have vanished by now. Even still – most people still think evolution has a direction. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I am doing something very special. And very important. And I know that doing it in public is a risk. But it turns out lots of people like to see the product being made so to speak, and it also turns out that it helps me a great deal to get their comment and criticism.

    I want to make it impossible for politicians and public intellectuals to lie without repercussion. To do that I have to show how to tell the truth. From there how to put the technique for truth telling into law, and a constitution. If we make it just as difficult to deceive, lie cheat, free ride and privatize as we have made it difficult to steal physical property, then liberty will result from it. Because all those things that prohibit liberty are matters of theft of one kind or another. So instead of advocating liberty as a way of producing liberty, I’m trying to outlaw everything else so that only liberty remains.

    It is this inversion of the philosophy of liberty that takes a while to get your head around. Just as incremental suppression of parasitism by the constant evolution of the common law leaves only the market available for survival, I want to make the incremental suppression of parasitism in the public discourse and law leaving only truth candidates that survive. If we succeed at this goal, and if we convert from monopoly rule democracy to a market for the production of commons between the classes, then we will have constructed a condition of liberty – and a condition of liberty that persists.

    Anyway. I really do apologize that my work is indigestible. It really does take a pretty sophisticated individual to grok it. But they do. And we move onward. Slowly.

    Affections

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-12 15:40:00 UTC

  • CAPTAIN DIMWIT OF THE GOOD SHIP SCHIZOTYPIA AUTISTICA OUT OF THE PORT OF COWARDI

    CAPTAIN DIMWIT OF THE GOOD SHIP SCHIZOTYPIA AUTISTICA OUT OF THE PORT OF COWARDICE

    (exasperation) (Sebastian Ortiz) (stomping an ass-clown) (the final word on libertines)

    Now this a_s-clown is a constant embarrassment and I find it frustrating to defend myself against a_s-clowns, but you know, the world has a_s-clowns that are heavily invested in fallacies, and have challenges with philosophy just like children have challenges with power tools – they hurt themselves and others.

    So I will help keep the informational commons free of pollution by playing pool cleaner to this child’s verbal incontinence. And hopefully this refutation will provide a diaper against future cognitive fecal leakage.

    —-“Doolittle is a tribal legal positivist … a National Socialist.”—-

    Actually I thought I was ‘being’ a scientist using philosophy as familiar argumentative structure, with which to construct a natural (necessary) law basis of existentially possible liberty.

    After ‘being’ a scientist I’m a libertarian in the sense that I wish to construct an existentially possible condition of liberty.

    Those are two different ambitions: possible libertarian political order vs possible libertine individual action.

    A libertine acts without regard to normative morals – he imposes costs on established norms. A libertarian distinguishes between objectively moral norms (truths) and non-objective moral norms (manners), and never violates objectively moral norms (truth), and only violates objectively immoral non-objective moral norms (manners).

    (( A common example would be that if a host asks that we pray before a meal, the atheist bows his heads and silently goes along with the ritual with respect and without criticism or complaint. Yet he would never make the same request of his guests. The current version being the removal of shoes in the home in western societies for ritual reasons rather than because our prada shoes which have seen nothing but carpet between home, car, and host.))

    To construct a condition of liberty requires a voluntarily constructed order – meaning contractual. I cannot think of an alternative means of constructing voluntary order other than contractual, given that the term contract refers to a vast spectrum from casual nod of agreement to elaborate body of law.

    And contractual agreements need (a) a means of decidability, (b) a method of dispute resolution, (c) incentives to enter into the contract that survive competition from alternate incentives, and (d) incentives to adhere to the contract that survives competition from alternate incentives.

    And to construct a polity of any scale one needs those same (a,b,c,d).

    So given that humans are rational and act in their rational self interest given the intelligence, knowledge, and experience at their disposal, the choice to join and remain in any given political order wherein the possibility of entrance and exit exists, requires we provide incentives to attract and maintain a citizenry. In other words we must construct an economically viable contractual order in which the person can exercise the greatest **existentially possible** liberty, that is sufficiently competitive with competing orders that people prefer to remain within our order versus defect to another.

    This is the problem. Its a game problem. Just as pairing off in marriage isn’t the best theoretical solution for anyone, it’s the best existentially possible solution for everyone. Just as we desire different degrees of limited constraint on our actions does not mean that we can construct the best theoretical solution for any one of us, only the best existentially possible solution for all of us given the human beings and environment at our disposal.

    THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONDITION OF LIBERTY

    As such we face the following problems in constructing a condition of liberty:

    1) the production of prohibited commons is a competitive advantage (the town square, keeping bums off the streets, policing.) No matter if produced by monopoly(corporate), private(aristocratic), or volunteer(civic) means – all of which are open to free riding.

    2) the production of fixed capital commons – a dam or bridge – is a competitive advantage. No matter if produced by monopoly(corporate), private(aristocratic), or volunteer(civic) means.

    3) the production of productive commons is a competitive advantage, and all states that subsidize major industries out-compete those that do not, producing asymmetric returns.

    4) the higher suppression of parasitism the lower the transaction and opportunity costs, the higher the trust, the higher the economic velocity, the more incentive to remain in the polity. Conversely, the lower the suppression of parasitism the higher the transaction and opportunity costs, the lower the trust, and the lower the economic velocity, and the lower incentive to remain in the polity.

    5) The higher the parasitism, the lower the trust, the lower the economic velocity, the greater the incentive to expand parasitism and the greater demand for a state to suppress opportunity for parasitism, parasitism itself, and limit retaliation.

    6) The lower the trust the higher demand for the state the larger the state that is necessary, the greater the cost of diversion to the state to pay for suppression of opportunity for parasitism, parasitism it self, and to limit retaliation for acts of parasitism.

    7) the lower the suppression of parasitism, the more parasites one hosts, the more externalities produced, the more threat one poses to neighboring polities, the more likely neighboring polities will intervene against you.

    Ergo one can only produce a condition of liberty under a high trust society. A high trust society requires elimination of demand for the state by the provision of sufficient means of conflict resolution that all conflicts can be resolved by procedural means. This is why we are dependent upon a single law of non-imposition of costs against property en toto, so that with each innovation in parasitism the law can evolve to suppress it, leaving only homesteading of opportunities and the consequent productive, fully informed, warrantied voluntary transfer of property en toto free of externality, as our only means of survival.

    THE PROBLEM OF NORMS

    Norms evolved without this knowledge. So there exist objectively moral norms, objectively immoral norms, normative signals (rituals and manners), and mere habits of individuals that have no impact one way or the other.

    In other words, while laws are necessary for discounting the cost of organizing production, reproduction, and dispute resolution, not all normative rules of action need be codified in law for later reference, because not all necessarily lead to conflict. Violations of manners can usually be managed by opportunity boycott simply by prohibiting people from environments for their behavior.

    Furthermore, some norms can be policed by gossip (reputation). although given the size of our polities, gossip has declined in usefulness.

    So in this case all norms can be competed against either through association, through ostracization, or through conflcit resolution in courts. But in no case can objectively immoral norms persist unless people choose not to resist them by association, ostracization and conflict resolution.

    THE PROBLEM OF COMMONS

    This is a problem of democracy not a problem of law. We produce private property and exclude people from them. We can produce limited commons and exclude people from them. we can produce unlimited commons and exclude people from them. conversely we can grant a series of rights to commons including Transitus (transit), Usus (use), Fructus (the fruits of it) while still prohibiting Abusus (privatization or consumption) or Mancipio(Transfer). So should you not wish to pay for some commons you may abstain from the use of it.

    COOPERATION

    Cooperation is disproportionately rewarding. Even cooperation in mutual defense. Even cooperation in boycott rather than cooperation or conflcit is superior to non-cooperation.

    No man is an island. If you are unworthy of cooperation then to not ask the world to change for you, but change so that you are worthy of cooperation. Most of the time the individual possesses self assessed worth or value greater than the empirical evidence of that value in cooperation with others. If that is the case the one can choose not to cooperate, but that means others will not pay the cost of his non-cooperation.

    LIBERTY

    Liberty is not obtained by individual choice alone, but by mutual insurance that we will not impose costs upon that which has been obtained by others by means of homesteading of opportunities, and the consequent productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer free of imposition of cost upon that which others have obtained by the same means.

    Liberty is produced only when we use the organized application of violence to deny humans survival by any means other than that which fosters cooperation.

    There are no free rides. Everyone fights. No one quits. If you quit, then you live by someone elseโ€™s permission, not by liberty.

    LIBERTINISM

    You ‘libertines’ are not arguing for libertarianism (a condition of liberty) but for libertinism: where if you respect life and property you may escape payment for all other commons whether physical, normative, or institutional.

    The problem is people crush libertines in all civilizations. Libertine is the masculine version of the female hyper-consumer who votes for all sorts of normative rents that cause all sorts of internal consequences.

    ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINISM

    Ashkenazi separatism (jewish group separatism)

    and

    Rothbardian libertinism (individual separatism)

    These are both attempts to obtain the benefits of costly liberty without paying for them.

    This is why you are a free rider. If you want to create a world without commons using only the NAP/IVP, then you can create a commune which is what the libertine fallacy requires. But since it will forever remain economically backward, and since it will have no commons with which to construct multiples. Ans since it cannot compete for members other than those who care more about escaping payment for the commons than they do possessing the returns on the commons, then it will be like all ‘libertine’ communities. Ether parasitic like the jewish and gypsy, or on the fringe of survival like the always-failing libertarian ‘communes’ that spring up with regularity and die even faster.

    You see it’s just science. People will only stay in a cult if they have paid high cost. They will only form a polity and hold to it if they have paid a high cost. And a polity can only form if there is a marginally superior benefit to its membership than not.

    As we see from so called ‘libertarians’ who are really mere libertines, they prefer to live parasitically on the majority commons while seeking to escape payment for those commons and it is almost always because the individual is not obtaining sufficient status signal rewards from that commons. and the reason he does not is that he does not contribute enough to that commons to receive a return on it from others who might wish to cooperate with him.

    So just accept you’re describing libertinism and that rothbardian did to libertarianism what socialists did to liberalism and appropriated the term for their use when it means quite the opposite.

    Otherwise you’re just a free-riding liar and a fraud. And we should prosecute you as a free-rider, liar and a fraud. Punish you for free riding, lying, and fraud. And forcibly remove you from any libertarian polity because you are a free rider, liar and a fraud. A thief by deceitful means.

    Liar, thief. Fraud. Free rider.

    Hopefully I have cleansed the commons somewhat from the mess you have made.

    Liar, Thief, Fraud.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    (Don’t bring a “pussy-tarian” libertine to a gunfight.)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 07:38:00 UTC

  • I am sorry but who greenlighted “Pan”? “Abominable Bride”? The Steve Jobs script

    I am sorry but who greenlighted “Pan”? “Abominable Bride”?

    The Steve Jobs script? The Man from Uncle Reboot? The Terminator 2 Script? Oh. And my favorite face palm of the year: Tomorrowland?

    I am sorry but (a) characters, (b) their experiences, and not (c) your woo woo.

    And I am sorry but if you haven’t got storyboards ala-hitchock and it isn’t fucking obvious, then you don’t do it. It’s just wishful thinking or gambling. Or really, it’s a bunch of losers free riding on money so that they can get enough credentials to work on something that isn’t total shit – or at least have fun and get laid during the shoot.

    Illustrated novels and comic books work well because they’re storyboards already.

    One of the ways to not get (fucked) is to take the best ten storyboard sequences you can find and put them on your wall (this works with all art not just film). This way anything you look at that isn’t great will look like shit.

    The other way is to spend more on experienced actors than on sets and destinations.

    I’m just bitching. But you know, it’s like air pollution sometimes. You choke on the bad art.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 13:29:00 UTC

  • LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY” ( ) (posted on site in comments

    http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/OPEN LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

    ( http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/ )

    (posted on site in comments section given no link to messaging)

    ===

    Wondering if you’d be willing to do a chat.

    We both started working on similar problems at about the same time. And have come to similar conclusions although not identical through different methods.

    I know that the difference in our work comes down to the difference between aggregates and consumption under the assumption of common good on your end, and truthfulness, morality, and rational cooperation under the assumption of not doing ‘bad’ on mine.

    And perhaps nothing more than the difference between dysgenic and eugenic reproduction as the translation of the criteria we both call that “assumption” of common good or ‘doing bad’.

    With that understanding (if we can achieve it) I feel you are better informed than I am on the consequences of MMT and inflation on prices, credit, debt and possibly information.

    Now I am not an MMT supporter but it is the only referrer I know that has enough meaning to provide a starting point.

    And while I agree that the K/NK movements describe cause and consequence. I do not think it constitutes a full accounting of consequence, and as such is insufficient. Nor do I find agreement with discretionary action rather than rule of law in matters of influencing the economy by policy means. Any more than I find agreement with discretion in rule of law in the practice of law, or policy.

    The problem we (both) face in this subject matter is that there are very few people with broad enough knowledge of the various movements to converse with. Particularly the relatively serious failure of the 20th century thinkers to solve the problem of social science (the Wilsonian Synthesis) and its consequence.

    It would help me a great deal if we could talk through this set of ideas. I would be hopeful it would be equally helpful to you as well.

    Thanks

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 06:54:00 UTC

  • Beowulf and the Shield Lands. Couldn’t make it thru the first 20 minutes without

    Beowulf and the Shield Lands. Couldn’t make it thru the first 20 minutes without political correctness, multi-culturalism, and effeminacy of males, general lack of intelligence, and absurd decor making me so nauseated I had to stop. Couldn’t take it any longer.

    Watch the new Frankenstein series instead. Or the Last Kingdom. That’s how it’s done.

    Once again: smart people write smart things, and stupid people write stupid things and moral people write moral things and immoral people write immoral things.

    It should be obvious then that stupid immoral people would write stupid immoral things.

    And do.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 09:18:00 UTC

  • TIME TO ABANDON RATIONALIST TOYS AND LEARN SCIENCE LIKE THE BIG BOYS. Jeff Tucke

    TIME TO ABANDON RATIONALIST TOYS AND LEARN SCIENCE LIKE THE BIG BOYS.

    Jeff Tucker is a good man but like Phillip argues as a justificationalist and a rationalist and not a scientist.

    I am not so concerned about defeating the arguments of moral men no matter how foolishly they are constructed.

    That their central premise is belief consisting of shoulds, and therefore our religion stated without reference to divinity is failure by demonstration of construction alone.

    While as a scientist the central premise is necessity consisting of articulated law, and identical in construction to all sciences by contrast is success by construction alone.

    That the thinkers of the twentieth century could not transition from justificationary moral rationalism to critical and necessary and scientific argument is the reason for the persistence of these rothbardian nonsense arguments consisting of little more than the Talmud’s separatism restated in the terminology of Anglo rationalism.

    I think I have reformed moral philosophy forever by providing what the twentieth century thinkers failed to.

    But just as Marxism persists because of its self referencing non correspondent justificationary literary form and overinvestment by advocates, rothbardianism likewise is a self referencing, non correspondent, justificationary literary, construction easy to access without substantial knowledge and subject to overinvestment by advocates.

    I mean I don’t expect Hoppe to abandon the fallacies of argumentation, the deductivity of aprioristic observation, the insufficiency of inter subjectivity, the irrationality of his community construction either since his self worth and status are predicated on these falsehoods rather than his insights into incentives that result from his constructions under the logic of property rights – which are flawless and correct Rothbard in many cases.

    These are good people doing the best that they can with the rationalist tools at their disposal, but they are hardly intellectual competitors.

    Iron Age argumentative weaponry in an era of crucible steel and explosives.

    Eras:

    1-Religion. Mysticism.

    2-Law. Rationalism.

    3-Credit. Pseudo scientism

    4-Digital Reputation. Science.

    Welcome to the new age. It is time for priests, rationalists, and philosophers, like children to give up their toys.

    Liberty is the product of the organised use of violence to suppress parasitism in all its forms, so that we may voluntarily produce commons of which liberty is the first.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-02 03:47:00 UTC

  • TARRANTINO’s HATEFUL EIGHT AND THE HIERARCHY OF FILM SCRIPTS Plot: “Clue”, but w

    TARRANTINO’s HATEFUL EIGHT AND THE HIERARCHY OF FILM SCRIPTS

    Plot: “Clue”, but with comic book levels of violence, and Mythic rather than realistic characters.

    He’s excellent at use of the articulate inner voice – cunning things we wish we could say, but never would. He puts yoda in our underclasses to give them voice – whereas otherwise they would be uninteresting. Just as we love to see middle class people in lower class roles, he gives us articulate near-poets from the upper classes in lower class roles. And he does it with skilled actors.

    There are many virtues of using mythic characters rather than close-up technique of the james-dean/marlon-brando and american method actors. I’m certainly a fan of myth. Possibly because its easier to understand. Possibly because I don’t have to suspend disbelief because I’m aware it’s a stage play from which I can satisfy moral need.

    HIERARCHY OF FILM SCRIPTS (THE GOLDEN MEAN IN FILM)

    Free Association – detached from order and meaning – Film school stuff etc.

    Fantasy – detached from reality – detaches us from reality – daydreaming.

    Myth – moral engagement

    Drama – emotional engagement and entertainment

    Illustration – what passes for literary illustration of the human condition.

    Documentary – what passes for unbiased reporting – awareness

    Raw Footage – Security camera video.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-26 02:34:00 UTC

  • Psychologizing: The Great Pseudoscientific Deceit

    [O]nce you learn propertarianism’s basic principles: acquisition, property en toto, inventory, transaction cost, opportunity cost, cooperation, suppression of free riding, reproductive strategy and group evolutionary strategy, and all speech as negotiation for acquisition, you replace totalitarian Freudian psychology and cosmopolitan sociology with universal amoral, unloaded, rational incentives. And when you do that you see all psychologism get as a vast language of deception and manipulation for encouraging parasitism and consumption. Humanity like all other creatures exists in the physical universe, and has evolved the means of estimating the future and acting to change it, capturing the difference for his benefit. The only ‘shame’ is theft. The only oath, not to steal.

  • Psychologizing: The Great Pseudoscientific Deceit

    [O]nce you learn propertarianism’s basic principles: acquisition, property en toto, inventory, transaction cost, opportunity cost, cooperation, suppression of free riding, reproductive strategy and group evolutionary strategy, and all speech as negotiation for acquisition, you replace totalitarian Freudian psychology and cosmopolitan sociology with universal amoral, unloaded, rational incentives. And when you do that you see all psychologism get as a vast language of deception and manipulation for encouraging parasitism and consumption. Humanity like all other creatures exists in the physical universe, and has evolved the means of estimating the future and acting to change it, capturing the difference for his benefit. The only ‘shame’ is theft. The only oath, not to steal.

  • DEAR HOLLYWOOD (my casting gripe) Please stop casting lower middle class and upp

    DEAR HOLLYWOOD

    (my casting gripe)

    Please stop casting lower middle class and upper proletarian actors in upper middle class and upper class professional and intellectual roles.

    Please stop writing dramatic sequences between professionals that would only be spoken by blue collar and white collar clerical workers. I mean, go watch and Aaron Sorkin movie if you have to. But you know, impulsivity and emotionalism decline rapidly with competence.

    I mean, it’s embarrassing – and it eliminates any possibility of suspension of disbelief.

    You get one ‘gimme’ in any bit of literature. If you put together say, a sci fi movie, then you need the characters to work. If you put together a contemporary drama the ‘gimme’ can be the characters.

    But seriously. I mean, these things are expensive.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 15:03:00 UTC