[A]esop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Arthurian Legends, Homer, the greek myths, are all not only helpful but possibly necessary. We mature from those to novels, then to biographies, then histories, then maybe economic histories, and then into the sciences. But some of us PEAK in life at some particular point and freeze – we all know high school kids who are still living in that world where peer-pressure was the only form of education that worked on them. And some of us continuously mature until very old age, precisely because peer pressure does not force us into conformity but into advancement. So I view nietzsche as a necessary critique for those that are not able to judge without sentimental and emotional associations. The human differs from the animal in distance from impulse and emotion. The adult differs from the child in further increase in distance. The sage differs from the adult in further distance. The point is to make use of STAGE SPECIFIC INFORMATION while not getting STUCK in childish pubescent, young adult stage – and continue to mature.
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Avoid Getting Stuck in Age-Dependent Narratives
[A]esop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Arthurian Legends, Homer, the greek myths, are all not only helpful but possibly necessary. We mature from those to novels, then to biographies, then histories, then maybe economic histories, and then into the sciences. But some of us PEAK in life at some particular point and freeze – we all know high school kids who are still living in that world where peer-pressure was the only form of education that worked on them. And some of us continuously mature until very old age, precisely because peer pressure does not force us into conformity but into advancement. So I view nietzsche as a necessary critique for those that are not able to judge without sentimental and emotional associations. The human differs from the animal in distance from impulse and emotion. The adult differs from the child in further increase in distance. The sage differs from the adult in further distance. The point is to make use of STAGE SPECIFIC INFORMATION while not getting STUCK in childish pubescent, young adult stage – and continue to mature.
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Agency Is Necessary for Sovereignty: Our Next Great Enterprise
Agency is necessary for sovereignty otherwise one cannot self insure. If you cannot self insure then others must insure you out of self defense. If others must insure you then you are dependent upon them as a child upon a parent. You are not sovereign agent, and cannot reciprocally insure those with agency – and you especially cannot insure them against yourself. Western civilization specialized in the continuous production of agency. We emphasize sovereignty. But sovereignty is something we grant one another through reciprocity. Agency over the self exists or it doesn’t – independent of others. Stoicism attempts to produce agency. All other religions do not – they produce avoidance or escapism – with shintoism the closest peer looking backward rather than forward, and the original Buddhism the closest ambition – mindfulness but not agency. And Buddhism does not maintain the western charter demanding heroism, and speaking truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competence) hierarchy. If you master Propertarianism (natural law) you will have intellectual agency – all human experience is then explicable in operational terms, and the world coherent and comprehensible. If you master stoicism (self authoring) then you will develop intuitionistic and emotional agency. If you maintain diet and physical fitness – particularly team sports – you will develop physical agency. If you exchange sovereignty with others who do the same, then you will be sovereign. Rome had almost completed the development of a new religion when the Abrahamists worked diligently to undermine the great aristocratic civilizations. The lesson of Constantine is never let anyone other than a member of a noble family that has retained noble status in marriage hold office – ever. The lesson of the Abrahamic revolt against civilization, is that we must suppress all forms of supernaturalism, sophisms (pseudo-ratioalism), and pseudosciences. And the only way to do that is the use of the LAW: the organized use of force to suppress imposition of costs upon the private and common, existential and informational, by using the courts as a market for truth, thereby empowering all people to suppress falsehoods. Which leads us to our charter: —“Europeans do not know how to live unless they are engaged in some great enterprise. When this is lacking, they grow petty and feeble and their souls disintegrate.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish PhilosopherThis is our next great enterprise. To rid humanity of the abrahamic falsehoods whether they be supernatural, sophistry, or pseudoscience. We have incrementally suppressed the evil in mankind by forcible domestication of genes and behavior in the ancient world and in the modern. The revolt against us in the ancient world brought about a dark age – we were far too tolerant. The abrahamic revolt against us in the modern world using collectivist pseudoscience and postmodern sophism, and the systematic use of pilpul and critique in the reputation destruction of our great civilization – a civilization that has dragged humanity out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature. This revolt against civilization, has not yet been stopped – we have been too tolerant. The most intolerant wins. We must rule by our law, out of self defense, and drag mankind kicking and screaming once again into transcendence of the gods we may yet be, in a universe hostile to all but gods. Transcendence by Agency, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Markets in Everything: the continuous calculation of our ascent into godhood.
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Agency Is Necessary for Sovereignty: Our Next Great Enterprise
Agency is necessary for sovereignty otherwise one cannot self insure. If you cannot self insure then others must insure you out of self defense. If others must insure you then you are dependent upon them as a child upon a parent. You are not sovereign agent, and cannot reciprocally insure those with agency – and you especially cannot insure them against yourself. Western civilization specialized in the continuous production of agency. We emphasize sovereignty. But sovereignty is something we grant one another through reciprocity. Agency over the self exists or it doesn’t – independent of others. Stoicism attempts to produce agency. All other religions do not – they produce avoidance or escapism – with shintoism the closest peer looking backward rather than forward, and the original Buddhism the closest ambition – mindfulness but not agency. And Buddhism does not maintain the western charter demanding heroism, and speaking truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competence) hierarchy. If you master Propertarianism (natural law) you will have intellectual agency – all human experience is then explicable in operational terms, and the world coherent and comprehensible. If you master stoicism (self authoring) then you will develop intuitionistic and emotional agency. If you maintain diet and physical fitness – particularly team sports – you will develop physical agency. If you exchange sovereignty with others who do the same, then you will be sovereign. Rome had almost completed the development of a new religion when the Abrahamists worked diligently to undermine the great aristocratic civilizations. The lesson of Constantine is never let anyone other than a member of a noble family that has retained noble status in marriage hold office – ever. The lesson of the Abrahamic revolt against civilization, is that we must suppress all forms of supernaturalism, sophisms (pseudo-ratioalism), and pseudosciences. And the only way to do that is the use of the LAW: the organized use of force to suppress imposition of costs upon the private and common, existential and informational, by using the courts as a market for truth, thereby empowering all people to suppress falsehoods. Which leads us to our charter: —“Europeans do not know how to live unless they are engaged in some great enterprise. When this is lacking, they grow petty and feeble and their souls disintegrate.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish PhilosopherThis is our next great enterprise. To rid humanity of the abrahamic falsehoods whether they be supernatural, sophistry, or pseudoscience. We have incrementally suppressed the evil in mankind by forcible domestication of genes and behavior in the ancient world and in the modern. The revolt against us in the ancient world brought about a dark age – we were far too tolerant. The abrahamic revolt against us in the modern world using collectivist pseudoscience and postmodern sophism, and the systematic use of pilpul and critique in the reputation destruction of our great civilization – a civilization that has dragged humanity out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature. This revolt against civilization, has not yet been stopped – we have been too tolerant. The most intolerant wins. We must rule by our law, out of self defense, and drag mankind kicking and screaming once again into transcendence of the gods we may yet be, in a universe hostile to all but gods. Transcendence by Agency, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Markets in Everything: the continuous calculation of our ascent into godhood.
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Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right
[T]here are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value. This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change. Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science. There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression. Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.
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Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right
[T]here are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value. This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change. Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science. There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression. Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.
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AVOID GETTING STUCK IN AGE-DEPENDENT NARRATIVES Aesop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Art
AVOID GETTING STUCK IN AGE-DEPENDENT NARRATIVES
Aesop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Arthurian Legends, Homer, the greek myths, are all not only helpful but possibly necessary. We mature from those to novels, then to biographies, then histories, then maybe economic histories, and then into the sciences.
But some of us PEAK in life at some particular point and freeze – we all know high school kids who are still living in that world where peer-pressure was the only form of education that worked on them.
And some of us continuously mature until very old age, precisely because peer pressure does not force us into conformity but into advancement.
So I view nietzsche as a necessary critique for those that are not able to judge without sentimental and emotional associations.
The human differs from the animal in distance from impulse and emotion. The adult differs from the child in further increase in distance. The sage differs from the adult in further distance.
The point is to make use of STAGE SPECIFIC INFORMATION while not getting STUCK in childish pubescent, young adult stage – and continue to mature.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 10:18:00 UTC
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NIETZSCHE, RAND, MARX, AND THE ADOLESCENT RIGHT There are a lot of young men who
NIETZSCHE, RAND, MARX, AND THE ADOLESCENT RIGHT
There are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes.
So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value.
This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change.
Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science.
There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression.
Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 09:47:00 UTC
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AGENCY IS NECESSARY FOR SOVEREIGNTY: OUR NEXT GREAT ENTERPRISE Agency is necessa
AGENCY IS NECESSARY FOR SOVEREIGNTY: OUR NEXT GREAT ENTERPRISE
Agency is necessary for sovereignty otherwise one cannot self insure. If you cannot self insure then others must insure you out of self defense. If others must insure you then you are dependent upon them as a child upon a parent. You are not sovereign agent, and cannot reciprocally insure those with agency – and you especially cannot insure them against yourself.
Western civilization specialized in the continuous production of agency. We emphasize sovereignty. But sovereignty is something we grant one another through reciprocity. Agency over the self exists or it doesn’t – independent of others.
Stoicism attempts to produce agency. All other religions do not – they produce avoidance or escapism – with shintoism the closest peer looking backward rather than forward, and the original Buddhism the closest ambition – mindfulness but not agency. And Buddhism does not maintain the western charter demanding heroism, and speaking truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competence) hierarchy.
If you master Propertarianism (natural law) you will have intellectual agency – all human experience is then explicable in operational terms, and the world coherent and comprehensible. If you master stoicism (self authoring) then you will develop intuitionistic and emotional agency. If you maintain diet and physical fitness – particularly team sports – you will develop physical agency. If you exchange sovereignty with others who do the same, then you will be sovereign.
Rome had almost completed the development of a new religion when the Abrahamists worked diligently to undermine the great aristocratic civilizations.
The lesson of Constantine is never let anyone other than a member of a noble family that has retained noble status in marriage hold office – ever.
The lesson of the Abrahamic revolt against civilization, is that we must suppress all forms of supernaturalism, sophisms (pseudoratioalism), and pseudosciences. And the only way to do that is the use of the LAW: the organized use of force to suppress imposition of costs upon the private and common, existential and informational, by using the courts as a market for truth, thereby empowering all people to suppress falsehoods.
Which leads us to our charter:
—“Europeans do not know how to live unless they are engaged in some great enterprise. When this is lacking, they grow petty and feeble and their souls disintegrate.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher
This is our next great enterprise. To rid humanity of the abrahamic falsehoods wither they be supernatural, sophistry, or pseudoscience.
We have incrementally suppressed the evil in mankind by forcible domestication of genes and behavior in the ancient world and in the modern.
The revolt against us in the ancient world brought about a dark age – we were far too tolerant.
The abrahamic revolt against us in the modern world using collectivist pseudoscience and postmodern sophism, and the systematic use of pilpul and critique in the reputation destruction of our great civilization – a civilization that has dragged humanity out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature. This revolt against civilization, has not yet been stopped – we have been too tolerant.
The most intolerant wins.
We must rule by our law, out of self defense, and drag mankind kicking and screaming once again into transcendence of the gods we may yet be, in a universe hostile to all but gods.
Transcendence by Agency, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Markets in Everything: the continuous calculation of our ascent into godhood.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 08:47:00 UTC
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The Poverty of Philosophy
September 5th, 2018 1:14 PM THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY [T]heology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its falsehoods. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies. The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the gap between one stage of ignorance and the next, or to use fallacies for the purpose of conducting some sort of fraud. Philosophy just means ‘we don’t know enough to write history, law, science, and mathematics yet’. Philosophy serves as young adult literature that prepares you for adult literature: history, law, science, and mathematics, just as children’s stories, fables, and fairy tales prepare you for young adult literature. Its storytelling. Stories provide context for history, law, science, and math. So in that sense, the reason philosophy is largely dead, is that history, law, science, mathematics, and logic has rendered it young adult moral fantasy literature. The knowledge required at each state of declining ignorance is much greater than the previous. (I’ve had to master a lot of fields as a judge if not as a craftsman. It took a very long time. I had the luxury of the wealth and time necessary to invest that time.)