SUBJECTIVITY VS OBJECTIVITY I’ll try to answer this question as correctly and completely as I can. **Subjectivity** refers to any change in state that is reducible to a difference in state that we can experience directly with our senses and faculties if we possess necessary experience. Subjectively experienced: – yes, I like vanilla more than chocolate. (demonstrable, not testable) – yes, I can see/feel/hear that change. (testable) – yes, I can feel it is cold in here. (reportable not testable) – yes, I can agree that statement is true. (reportable) – yes, that seems reasonable if I were in that circumstance. (reportable) – no, that’s not believable. (reportable). **Objectivity** refers to any change in state that is reducible to a difference in state that can be directly perceived or instrumentally perceived, and whether those instruments are physical or logical. Objectively experienced: – that volume will hold more or less water than this volume, (despite our perceptions) – I took longer for this than for that (despite our perceptions) – this is moving at the same velocity as that (despite our perceptions) – the car caused the accident (despite our perceptions) – the world is less violent today (despite our perceptions) – that seems what a reasonable person would think (false, despite our perceptions). **Neither** Subjectively or Objectively Experienceable – or knowable: – Just about everything at very great or very small scales of time, space, velocity, size, and number. – Another person’s (or creature’s) experiences and intuitions. – ‘the Good’ (despite everyone’s intuition to the contrary). **SCIENCE AND THE WEST** The purpose of the scientific method is to demand that we perform due diligence against our natural limitations, whether they are biological, emotional, social, or intellectual. And it is the competition between the free association that our minds evolved to do so well, the clarity of our thoughts that we evolved through language and then reason, and the scientific method that we use to constrain our thoughts and observations, and measurements such that they are as free of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit as they possibly can be. The west never engaged in totalitarianism or conflation of other societies and we retained competition in all walks of life including the epistemological, such that only that which survives the best from competition might remain a truth, or a good. This competition is what made the west evolve faster than the rest in the bronze, iron, and steel ages. But we still wish we could escape that competition in all walks of life – despite it being the reason that we and the rest of the world, have been dragged out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, violence, and disease because of it. What we intuit is often not a good thing. Cheers
Form: Definition
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Definitions: Subjectivity vs Objectivity
SUBJECTIVITY VS OBJECTIVITY I’ll try to answer this question as correctly and completely as I can. **Subjectivity** refers to any change in state that is reducible to a difference in state that we can experience directly with our senses and faculties if we possess necessary experience. Subjectively experienced: – yes, I like vanilla more than chocolate. (demonstrable, not testable) – yes, I can see/feel/hear that change. (testable) – yes, I can feel it is cold in here. (reportable not testable) – yes, I can agree that statement is true. (reportable) – yes, that seems reasonable if I were in that circumstance. (reportable) – no, that’s not believable. (reportable). **Objectivity** refers to any change in state that is reducible to a difference in state that can be directly perceived or instrumentally perceived, and whether those instruments are physical or logical. Objectively experienced: – that volume will hold more or less water than this volume, (despite our perceptions) – I took longer for this than for that (despite our perceptions) – this is moving at the same velocity as that (despite our perceptions) – the car caused the accident (despite our perceptions) – the world is less violent today (despite our perceptions) – that seems what a reasonable person would think (false, despite our perceptions). **Neither** Subjectively or Objectively Experienceable – or knowable: – Just about everything at very great or very small scales of time, space, velocity, size, and number. – Another person’s (or creature’s) experiences and intuitions. – ‘the Good’ (despite everyone’s intuition to the contrary). **SCIENCE AND THE WEST** The purpose of the scientific method is to demand that we perform due diligence against our natural limitations, whether they are biological, emotional, social, or intellectual. And it is the competition between the free association that our minds evolved to do so well, the clarity of our thoughts that we evolved through language and then reason, and the scientific method that we use to constrain our thoughts and observations, and measurements such that they are as free of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit as they possibly can be. The west never engaged in totalitarianism or conflation of other societies and we retained competition in all walks of life including the epistemological, such that only that which survives the best from competition might remain a truth, or a good. This competition is what made the west evolve faster than the rest in the bronze, iron, and steel ages. But we still wish we could escape that competition in all walks of life – despite it being the reason that we and the rest of the world, have been dragged out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, violence, and disease because of it. What we intuit is often not a good thing. Cheers
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The Law of Conservation of Costs
by John Dow Much like thermodynamics – where energy cannot be created or destroyed merely transformed – in economics, cost cannot be created or destroyed, merely transferred. The Government offsets limited liability with the cost it bares to establish the sovereignty with which it can limit liability. Without a Sovereign Insurer, businesses which impose damages on other parties would likely face retaliation unless they compensate for their damages. The Sovereign supresses this retaliation with superior force, yet it spares the party upon whom damages have been imposed the cost of retaliation by also insuring them against these damages, albeit within limits. Violence is just another form of labour, and a costly one at that. Just as labour has a price, so does violence. If you don’t like it, take up arms and revolt against the Government, if you can afford it.
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The Law of Conservation of Costs
by John Dow Much like thermodynamics – where energy cannot be created or destroyed merely transformed – in economics, cost cannot be created or destroyed, merely transferred. The Government offsets limited liability with the cost it bares to establish the sovereignty with which it can limit liability. Without a Sovereign Insurer, businesses which impose damages on other parties would likely face retaliation unless they compensate for their damages. The Sovereign supresses this retaliation with superior force, yet it spares the party upon whom damages have been imposed the cost of retaliation by also insuring them against these damages, albeit within limits. Violence is just another form of labour, and a costly one at that. Just as labour has a price, so does violence. If you don’t like it, take up arms and revolt against the Government, if you can afford it.
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Common Shareholders Are Not Demonstrably Owners
COMMON SHAREHOLDERS ARE NOT OWNERS OF ORGANIZATIONS Ownership: control. Ownership (control) of WHAT? Ownership denies others use, consumption, transfer, and fruits. So what ownership do shares actually convey? RESIDUAL FRUITS. Shareholdership in practice provides a limited ownership to residual capital.
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Common Shareholders Are Not Demonstrably Owners
COMMON SHAREHOLDERS ARE NOT OWNERS OF ORGANIZATIONS Ownership: control. Ownership (control) of WHAT? Ownership denies others use, consumption, transfer, and fruits. So what ownership do shares actually convey? RESIDUAL FRUITS. Shareholdership in practice provides a limited ownership to residual capital.
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Series: Definitions: Economic Schools
ECONOMIC SCHOOLS IN ONE LESSON (from elsewhere) Can I put the seed of an idea in your head? AUSTRIAN (German – Science) Austrian School: the search for economics of social science (natural law), and the means of improving institutions of cooperation without interference in the information system of the economy. Assumes the civilizational, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles, if interfered with, will produce greater subsequent harm than good. (CONSERVATIVE/ACHIEVED MASCULINE evolutionary strategy – eugenic – long term time preference ) CHICAGO (Anglo American – Rule of Law) Chicago School: the search for economics under rule of law limited to predictable, rule based, interference in the information system of the economy, as a means of insuring against unnecessary asymmetries of information. Assumes civilization, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles will benefit from removal of unnecessary resistance. (LIBERTARIAN/ASCENDANT MASCULINE evolutionary strategy – balanced – medium term time preference ) SALTWATER (Jewish – Discretion ) Saltwater School: the search for economics of discretionary rule, the abandonment of rule of law, and the abandonment of institutional improvements to cooperation in search for the maximization of consumption. Assumes civilizational, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles are both less important than current consumption, and that the benefits of current consumption will (like borrowing against interest), outweigh the later consequences (similar to how the non neutrality of money is simply absorbed inconsequentially in niche effects. )(PROGRESSIVE/FEMININE evolutionary strategy – dysgenic – short term time preference.)
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Series: Definitions: Economic Schools
ECONOMIC SCHOOLS IN ONE LESSON (from elsewhere) Can I put the seed of an idea in your head? AUSTRIAN (German – Science) Austrian School: the search for economics of social science (natural law), and the means of improving institutions of cooperation without interference in the information system of the economy. Assumes the civilizational, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles, if interfered with, will produce greater subsequent harm than good. (CONSERVATIVE/ACHIEVED MASCULINE evolutionary strategy – eugenic – long term time preference ) CHICAGO (Anglo American – Rule of Law) Chicago School: the search for economics under rule of law limited to predictable, rule based, interference in the information system of the economy, as a means of insuring against unnecessary asymmetries of information. Assumes civilization, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles will benefit from removal of unnecessary resistance. (LIBERTARIAN/ASCENDANT MASCULINE evolutionary strategy – balanced – medium term time preference ) SALTWATER (Jewish – Discretion ) Saltwater School: the search for economics of discretionary rule, the abandonment of rule of law, and the abandonment of institutional improvements to cooperation in search for the maximization of consumption. Assumes civilizational, generational, business, vocational, pedagogical, and fashion cycles are both less important than current consumption, and that the benefits of current consumption will (like borrowing against interest), outweigh the later consequences (similar to how the non neutrality of money is simply absorbed inconsequentially in niche effects. )(PROGRESSIVE/FEMININE evolutionary strategy – dysgenic – short term time preference.)
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Once You Grasp the Term Propertarian, You Will Eventually Find Propertarianism.
YOU GET AN A+. (from elsewhere) Propertarian = the reduction of social science, group evolutionary strategy, morality, politics, law, ethics, and cognition, to statements of the voluntary or involuntary transfer of property between consenting individuals. Next you will grasp that the scope of property Rothbard claims (physical intersubjective) lacking rule of law, and Hoppe’s use of rule of law, limited to the intersubjectively verifiable), cannot provide the incentives necessary to produce a sustainable voluntary polity capable of surviving competition against other polities. Once you have made that distinction you can come join Propertarianism: 1) Acquisitionism (psychology) 2) Testimonialism (epistemology) 3) Propertarianism (ethics and morality) 4) Evolutionary Strategy (Sociology) 5) Market Government (Politics) (“Market Fascism for the insiders – meaning only markets”) 6) Group Evolutionary Strategy (avoidance, competition, conflict, war) 7) Aesthetics of Transcendence (obtaining Sovereignty through Agency) 8) Natural Law: the logic, grammar, and rhetoric of all of the above. The normal path of maturity appears to be Libertarian > Anarcho Capitalist > Dark Enlightenment > Propertarianism. This spectrum describes hope (Libertarianisn), separatism (anarcho capitalism), hopelessness (dark enlightenment), taking responsibility (Sovereignty: Propertarianism : Natural Law of Sovereign Men.) Its a lot harder than memorizing a few simple phrases common in libertarianism, or mastering a few arguments as in Anarcho Capitalism. But if it was easy it wouldn’t have taken us so long to write a formal grammar of Natural Law. We’re waiting for you. Or at least, those who can make the journey. -Cheers
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Once You Grasp the Term Propertarian, You Will Eventually Find Propertarianism.
YOU GET AN A+. (from elsewhere) Propertarian = the reduction of social science, group evolutionary strategy, morality, politics, law, ethics, and cognition, to statements of the voluntary or involuntary transfer of property between consenting individuals. Next you will grasp that the scope of property Rothbard claims (physical intersubjective) lacking rule of law, and Hoppe’s use of rule of law, limited to the intersubjectively verifiable), cannot provide the incentives necessary to produce a sustainable voluntary polity capable of surviving competition against other polities. Once you have made that distinction you can come join Propertarianism: 1) Acquisitionism (psychology) 2) Testimonialism (epistemology) 3) Propertarianism (ethics and morality) 4) Evolutionary Strategy (Sociology) 5) Market Government (Politics) (“Market Fascism for the insiders – meaning only markets”) 6) Group Evolutionary Strategy (avoidance, competition, conflict, war) 7) Aesthetics of Transcendence (obtaining Sovereignty through Agency) 8) Natural Law: the logic, grammar, and rhetoric of all of the above. The normal path of maturity appears to be Libertarian > Anarcho Capitalist > Dark Enlightenment > Propertarianism. This spectrum describes hope (Libertarianisn), separatism (anarcho capitalism), hopelessness (dark enlightenment), taking responsibility (Sovereignty: Propertarianism : Natural Law of Sovereign Men.) Its a lot harder than memorizing a few simple phrases common in libertarianism, or mastering a few arguments as in Anarcho Capitalism. But if it was easy it wouldn’t have taken us so long to write a formal grammar of Natural Law. We’re waiting for you. Or at least, those who can make the journey. -Cheers