(personal)(music)
I am sorry. I know it’s an American thing. But i just love blues and blues rock. Gimme’ a little punk or grunge (soft-loud-soft) in there and I’m good. Make it hard an dark and it’s heaven. Take it operatic (Tool) it’s spiritual. When you sing blues it isn’t technical. It’s spiritual. You feel it, and either you make the audience feel it too, or you fail at it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-28 09:15:00 UTC
(Still under the weather a bit but I can at least do research this morning without forgetting what I”m reading halfway through a sentence – or even that I’m reading a sentence. lol)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-26 03:23:00 UTC
(Slowly returning to the land of the living after brief visit to flu-land. Very happy about the excitement in the secession community right now. Hoping and Praying that the local tragedy produces positive externalities.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 15:12:00 UTC
(Day 3: I shouldn’t be hallucinating; or active dreaming, and losing my balance, I don’t think. Can’t be good. Today’s grand mission: orange juice.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 00:37:00 UTC
(Been down with the flu for a couple of days. Haven’t been his sick in years.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-20 18:26:00 UTC
VICTORY!!!! WHOOT.
(personal) (philosophy) (innovation)
I figured it out!!!! (It pays to keep at a problem until you solve it.)
As the author of (many) shareholder agreements, and participant in (many) lawsuits I have always been troubled by the structure of law. I’ve always intuited the problem. But it never quite got to the answer.
I knew the golden rule and the silver rule contained a hint at that answer but I couldn’t quite figure out why. Until now.
Last year I worked on the problem of platonism. I knew the answer was in mathematical philosophy. I just had to master it.
This year I’m working on formal logic. What are the grammar, syntax, rules, and method for the formal logic of cooperation (ethics and politics)?
By about 2010, living in Ottawa, I was able to understand, loosely, the human cognitive problems in converting an intuitive and normative discourse rhetoric of ethics, into a formal and calculative logic of ethics.
I outlined the propertarian method of analysis. But there was this enormous hole in it. It was descriptive alone. How does one construct ETHICAL law as theory? Meaning, how does one construct law while prohibiting in voluntary transfer? And how does one construct a process by which the ethical rules cannot be violated by ‘linguistic means’.
Since all law is theory, but the costs of those theories are very high, how do you construct law as theory open to revision without corruption? The scientific method emerged from science, but the method of science is applicable to all human epistemology, not just science. So the scientific method is just ‘the method of constructing theories both logically and ethically’.
The common law and conservatism are both ‘scientific’ in the sense that their theories are open to constant revision by evidence. But as we have seen from the american constitution, that the constitution was too poorly constructed to resist attacks.
So how do we construct a constitution (theory of law) that is subject to the same constraints as ‘the method’ that we call the scientific method?
The truth is that the founders did include a process: the modification of the constitution by procedural means. But the differences between the interests of the states was so great that it exceeded the respect for the constitution.
The Louisiana purchase made those differences in tolerable since it would have meant the conquest of one society by the other (the south would have conquered the north via political process) the north retaliated with war – over territory.
Then upon immigration of large numbers of catholics and jews from lower trust societies, and the inclusion of women into the voting pool as equal to heads of absolute nuclear households and businesses, the constitution was broken – first by the introduction of the fed and credit money, then by the depression that resulted from the combination.
So the existing law was not well enough articulated such that it was not open to ‘hermeneutic interpretation’, and outright assault.
How does one construct ethical theories in formal logic of cooperation?
How does one construct law from formal ethical logic of cooperation?
It’s fascinating. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-18 07:17:00 UTC
Productive day and I haven’t even pushed the ‘submit’ button on three other essays, one of which I’m really thrilled with. Some days are good days, and some are not.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 15:29:00 UTC
(I graduated high school when they were trying to get people out of the military. But I really wanted to get into it. My father was in military intelligence and he just loved it so much he still dreamed about it when he was in his fifties. I’m really jealous of those men who served. … I don’t really regret much in life. Thats one thing I regret. Probably wouldn’t have let me in anyway. My asthma was light but bad enough then that I just couldn’t have made it. I have found that most of the men I really respect have served in the military. It’s an ethical thing. There is nothing like it. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 10:57:00 UTC
BANKING IN UKRAINE
Ok, so I pretty much can’t get cash here. We managed to get a little earlier this week. But the banks don’t have cash.. And they have gone from working with any other foreign bank for a fee, only helping their own customers. More that 20% of bank deposits have now been drawn down. And the currency has gone from 8.1 to 11.x per dollar this week.
We cannot continue to do business here if we cannot move money in and out of the country.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-28 11:37:00 UTC
In my drunkenness, i hope it is permissible to say that as a man who has cheated death three times, i cherish every friend i have, every single day.
Each day is a gift from the gods. And my friends are more precious to me than air.
But then i am a sentimental little twerp. 😉
Looking death in the face more than once changes you forever. You no longer fear it. You fear only not accomplishing that which defeats death. 😉
And defeating death is a revenge without peer.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-27 16:20:00 UTC