Form: Question

CURT CAN YOU REDUCE YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO A SINGLE SENTENCE?

first, that’s impossible. Ask aristotle to do the same., and the result is meaningless. However, I can perhaps provide short, summary that does a reasonable job, even if it represents only ten percent of the philosophical system:

Because of the disproportionate rewards for cooperation, the good is reducible to the moral, and the moral is reducible to reciprocity, and the result of reciprocity leaves only markets for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary cooperation, free of negative externality possible for our survival, and therefore the purpose of familial, social, economic, political, and national organizations is the continuous production of institutional means by which we assist in reciprocal cooperation at ever increasing scales, without admitting failure by sacrificing reciprocity.

However, since markets are empirical and meritocratic, for this state of affairs to be possible requires that we incrementally reduce the scale of the underclass through negative (hanging, imprisonment) or positive means (zero-child, single-child and zero immigration), as well as continuing the evolution of suppression of parasitism by the incremental discovery of ‘crimes’ via the common law, universal standing, universal coverage, by tests of reciprocity.

It is this system that has led to the success of the west in the early black sea bronze age, the ancient mediterranean, and modern atlantic worlds, and its failure that led to the ‘halting’ of the west in the medieval world.

Since western civilization is unique in developing this set of ideas and dragging humanity out of ignorance and poverty and disease, western civilization must preserve these meritocratic behaviors rather than succumb to the underclass populism of religion, postmodernism, pseudoscience, and consumerism – not just for our civlization, but for all mankind.