REGULATORY CAPTURE (THE RESULT) Regulatory capture is a corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulatory agency is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political interests of a minor constituency, such as a particular geographic area, industry, profession, or ideological group. When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called “captured agencies.” Regulatory capture is the result of “rent-seeking” and political failure; client politics “occurs when most or all of the benefits of a program go to some single, reasonably small interest (e.g., industry, profession, or locality) but most or all of the costs will be borne by a large number of people (for example, all taxpayers).” RENT SEEKING (THE PRIVATE SECTOR) Rent-seeking in public choice theory, as well as in economics, involves seeking to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth-creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline. Attempts at capture of regulatory agencies to gain a coercive monopoly can result in advantages for the rent seeker in a market while imposing disadvantages on their incorrupt competitors. This is one of many possible forms of rent-seeking behavior. CORRUPTION (THE POLITICAL SECTOR) Corruption is dishonesty or criminal activity undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit, or, abuse of entrusted power for one’s private gain. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most commonplace in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states and mafia states. Corruption can occur on different scales. Corruption ranges from small favors between a small number of people (petty corruption), to corruption that affects the government on a large scale (grand corruption), and corruption that is so prevalent that it is part of the everyday structure of society, including corruption as one of the symptoms of organized crime. Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degree and proportion. Individual nations each allocate domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and crime. Strategies to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption.
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Definitions: Regulatory Capture and Rent-Seeking and Corruption
REGULATORY CAPTURE (THE RESULT) Regulatory capture is a corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulatory agency is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political interests of a minor constituency, such as a particular geographic area, industry, profession, or ideological group. When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called “captured agencies.” Regulatory capture is the result of “rent-seeking” and political failure; client politics “occurs when most or all of the benefits of a program go to some single, reasonably small interest (e.g., industry, profession, or locality) but most or all of the costs will be borne by a large number of people (for example, all taxpayers).” RENT SEEKING (THE PRIVATE SECTOR) Rent-seeking in public choice theory, as well as in economics, involves seeking to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth-creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline. Attempts at capture of regulatory agencies to gain a coercive monopoly can result in advantages for the rent seeker in a market while imposing disadvantages on their incorrupt competitors. This is one of many possible forms of rent-seeking behavior. CORRUPTION (THE POLITICAL SECTOR) Corruption is dishonesty or criminal activity undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit, or, abuse of entrusted power for one’s private gain. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most commonplace in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states and mafia states. Corruption can occur on different scales. Corruption ranges from small favors between a small number of people (petty corruption), to corruption that affects the government on a large scale (grand corruption), and corruption that is so prevalent that it is part of the everyday structure of society, including corruption as one of the symptoms of organized crime. Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degree and proportion. Individual nations each allocate domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and crime. Strategies to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption.
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Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism)
Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism) https://t.co/yX4kzyYlng
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Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism)
Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism) https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/31/disambiguation-falsification-aversarialism/
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Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism)
DISAMBIGUATION: FALSIFICATION Falsification: systematic attempt to determine falsehood. 1. Unfalsifiable = not possible to falsify 2. Falsifiable = possible to falsify 3. Falsify = present: try to make falsified 4. Falsify = future: may succeed in falsifying 5. Falsified = successfully falsified. So yes, 3/4 are confusing. Ideas are produced by Free Association Explanation, is Produced by Justification Due Diligence is produced by falsificationism Truthfulness is produced by adversarialism
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Disambiguation: Falsification (Aversarialism)
DISAMBIGUATION: FALSIFICATION Falsification: systematic attempt to determine falsehood. 1. Unfalsifiable = not possible to falsify 2. Falsifiable = possible to falsify 3. Falsify = present: try to make falsified 4. Falsify = future: may succeed in falsifying 5. Falsified = successfully falsified. So yes, 3/4 are confusing. Ideas are produced by Free Association Explanation, is Produced by Justification Due Diligence is produced by falsificationism Truthfulness is produced by adversarialism
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The Definition of Abrahamism
Nov 5, 2019, 11:00 PM Abrahamism (noun) The use of false promise, baiting into moral hazard, advanced by “Pilpul” consisting of the heaping of undue praise, sophism, supernaturalism, and pseudoscience, and defended by “Critique”, consisting of straw-manning, disapproval, moralizing, shaming, ridicule, rallying, gossiping, and reputation destruction – thereby advancing a falsehood on one hand, and attacking the person rather than argument on the other. FULL In our Glossary of Natural Law “Abrahamism” refers to the argumentative technique of using Pilpul (via-positiva), and Critique (via-negativa) to construct sophisms (the argumentative equivalent of numerology and astrology) via use of loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, the Fictionalisms, appeals to reasonableness, and false promise, to create hazards. All three Abrahamic Religions, Kantian philosophy, Marxist argument, and Postmodern thought all make use of this technique of argument, often stated as “Dialectic” but operationally consisting of Pilpul vs Critique. COMMON TACTICS 1) Restatement of Myth as History 2) Projection of Traditional Wisdom as Authoritarian Law 3) Dependence upon Supernaturalism (“Magic”, “Miracle”) 4) Monopoly (exclusivity) and threat of loss for non compliance. 5) False Promise of Impossible(supernatural, natural) Reward for Compliance. 6) Use of Pilpul and Critique In Defense of the falsehoods. 7) Castes of Priests with status, power, and economic incentives to perpetuate the falsehoods. 8) Secret Knowledge, or Prohibition on Competing Knowledge, or Denial of contradictory knowledge. 9) Oath to a falsehood. Payment of Ritualistic costs to the falsehood. Payment of ‘donations’ (fees) to the priesthood. FULL ANALYSIS Mankind’s Enemy’s Strategy Civilizational Destruction from Within; Instigating Construction of Internal Spirals Capital Destruction; Baiting into Hazard (certain risk); Those who are ignorant or lack agency; By use of False Promise (circumvention of reality); Under the persuasion by Sophism (pilpul); Justified by Critique (lie, criticism, straw-manning) Under the cover of Moral Pretense (lie); Under the cover of Plausible Deniability (lie); For the purpose of profiting (by harm) From the consumption of accumulated capital (undermining): … truth, reason, delay of gratification, manners, ethics, morals, traditions, cooperation between classes, organization of the classes, By not specializing in, … The production of innovation in goods services information, both private and common … Warrantied By Specialization in fields permitting Export of Risk And Absent Warranty … Gossip for Undermining (Entertainment, Media, News, Opinion) … Informational Destruction (Academy) … Government (Facilitation of Conflict) … Legislation (Undermining by, Facilitation of Conflict, Facilitating Dissolution of norms, traditions, manners, ethics morals, Parasitism, Capital exhaustion) … Rent-Seeking (special interests) … Corruption (influence) … Undermining the law (specialization in undermining the constitution via the courts) … Law (specialization in coercion) … Finance (Parasitism and entrapment) … Tax and accounting (evasion) … Marketing and Advertising (scams and undermining) … Sales Scams … Commercial Trade in Scams physical, service, and informational … Black Market Goods, services, and Information. … Check Cashing … Loan Sharking … Gambling … Pornography … Prostitution … Drug Dealing Thereby; … creating conflict, … destroying trust, … generating demand for restitution … generating demand for authority, An authority that recursively issues another iteration of … false promise, … baiting into hazard Causing a Continuous Conflict Spiral And Tragedy of the Commons (Conflict for consumption) until all accumulated assets: … genetic, … cultural, … normative, … artistic, … economic, … institutional and … political; have been consumed; by the conflict between classes and interests and by the expansion of the underclasses; whose numbers, invasion, reproduction, consumption, agitation, had been previously limited by; … productivity, property, market, law, and natural aristocracy; … And the surplus proceeds from production devoted to the production of commons; … Providing the asymmetric returns on those commons.
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The Definition of Abrahamism
Nov 5, 2019, 11:00 PM Abrahamism (noun) The use of false promise, baiting into moral hazard, advanced by “Pilpul” consisting of the heaping of undue praise, sophism, supernaturalism, and pseudoscience, and defended by “Critique”, consisting of straw-manning, disapproval, moralizing, shaming, ridicule, rallying, gossiping, and reputation destruction – thereby advancing a falsehood on one hand, and attacking the person rather than argument on the other. FULL In our Glossary of Natural Law “Abrahamism” refers to the argumentative technique of using Pilpul (via-positiva), and Critique (via-negativa) to construct sophisms (the argumentative equivalent of numerology and astrology) via use of loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, the Fictionalisms, appeals to reasonableness, and false promise, to create hazards. All three Abrahamic Religions, Kantian philosophy, Marxist argument, and Postmodern thought all make use of this technique of argument, often stated as “Dialectic” but operationally consisting of Pilpul vs Critique. COMMON TACTICS 1) Restatement of Myth as History 2) Projection of Traditional Wisdom as Authoritarian Law 3) Dependence upon Supernaturalism (“Magic”, “Miracle”) 4) Monopoly (exclusivity) and threat of loss for non compliance. 5) False Promise of Impossible(supernatural, natural) Reward for Compliance. 6) Use of Pilpul and Critique In Defense of the falsehoods. 7) Castes of Priests with status, power, and economic incentives to perpetuate the falsehoods. 8) Secret Knowledge, or Prohibition on Competing Knowledge, or Denial of contradictory knowledge. 9) Oath to a falsehood. Payment of Ritualistic costs to the falsehood. Payment of ‘donations’ (fees) to the priesthood. FULL ANALYSIS Mankind’s Enemy’s Strategy Civilizational Destruction from Within; Instigating Construction of Internal Spirals Capital Destruction; Baiting into Hazard (certain risk); Those who are ignorant or lack agency; By use of False Promise (circumvention of reality); Under the persuasion by Sophism (pilpul); Justified by Critique (lie, criticism, straw-manning) Under the cover of Moral Pretense (lie); Under the cover of Plausible Deniability (lie); For the purpose of profiting (by harm) From the consumption of accumulated capital (undermining): … truth, reason, delay of gratification, manners, ethics, morals, traditions, cooperation between classes, organization of the classes, By not specializing in, … The production of innovation in goods services information, both private and common … Warrantied By Specialization in fields permitting Export of Risk And Absent Warranty … Gossip for Undermining (Entertainment, Media, News, Opinion) … Informational Destruction (Academy) … Government (Facilitation of Conflict) … Legislation (Undermining by, Facilitation of Conflict, Facilitating Dissolution of norms, traditions, manners, ethics morals, Parasitism, Capital exhaustion) … Rent-Seeking (special interests) … Corruption (influence) … Undermining the law (specialization in undermining the constitution via the courts) … Law (specialization in coercion) … Finance (Parasitism and entrapment) … Tax and accounting (evasion) … Marketing and Advertising (scams and undermining) … Sales Scams … Commercial Trade in Scams physical, service, and informational … Black Market Goods, services, and Information. … Check Cashing … Loan Sharking … Gambling … Pornography … Prostitution … Drug Dealing Thereby; … creating conflict, … destroying trust, … generating demand for restitution … generating demand for authority, An authority that recursively issues another iteration of … false promise, … baiting into hazard Causing a Continuous Conflict Spiral And Tragedy of the Commons (Conflict for consumption) until all accumulated assets: … genetic, … cultural, … normative, … artistic, … economic, … institutional and … political; have been consumed; by the conflict between classes and interests and by the expansion of the underclasses; whose numbers, invasion, reproduction, consumption, agitation, had been previously limited by; … productivity, property, market, law, and natural aristocracy; … And the surplus proceeds from production devoted to the production of commons; … Providing the asymmetric returns on those commons.
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Thing(Thang, Ding): Jury > Assembly > Senate > Legislature
Nov 6, 2019, 6:57 AM Thing (assembly) – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
THING(THANG,DING): JURY > ASSEMBLY > SENATE > LEGISLATURE
A thing was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by law-speakers. The word appears in Old Norse, Old English, and modern Icelandic as þing, in Middle English (as in modern English), Old Saxon, Old Dutch, and Old Frisian as thing, in German as Ding, and in modern Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Faroese, Gutnish, and Norn as ting, all from a reconstructed Proto-Germanic neuter *þingą; the word is the same as the more common English word thing, both having at their heart the basic meaning of “an assemblage, a coming together of parts”—in the one case, an “assembly” or “meeting”, in the other, an “entity”, “object”, or “thing”. The meeting-place of a thing was called a “thingstead” (Old English þingstede) or “thingstow” (Old English þingstōw). The Anglo-Saxon folkmoot (Old English folcgemōt, “folk meeting”; Middle English folkesmōt; modern Norwegian folkemøte) was analogous, the forerunner to the witenagemōt and a precursor of the modern Parliament of the United Kingdom. Today the term lives on in the English term hustings, in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions of Nordic countries and, in the Manx form tyn, as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man.
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Thing(Thang, Ding): Jury > Assembly > Senate > Legislature
Nov 6, 2019, 6:57 AM Thing (assembly) – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
THING(THANG,DING): JURY > ASSEMBLY > SENATE > LEGISLATURE
A thing was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by law-speakers. The word appears in Old Norse, Old English, and modern Icelandic as þing, in Middle English (as in modern English), Old Saxon, Old Dutch, and Old Frisian as thing, in German as Ding, and in modern Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Faroese, Gutnish, and Norn as ting, all from a reconstructed Proto-Germanic neuter *þingą; the word is the same as the more common English word thing, both having at their heart the basic meaning of “an assemblage, a coming together of parts”—in the one case, an “assembly” or “meeting”, in the other, an “entity”, “object”, or “thing”. The meeting-place of a thing was called a “thingstead” (Old English þingstede) or “thingstow” (Old English þingstōw). The Anglo-Saxon folkmoot (Old English folcgemōt, “folk meeting”; Middle English folkesmōt; modern Norwegian folkemøte) was analogous, the forerunner to the witenagemōt and a precursor of the modern Parliament of the United Kingdom. Today the term lives on in the English term hustings, in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions of Nordic countries and, in the Manx form tyn, as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man.