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  • IT’S THE AGE OF LIES THAT’S HARD TO OVERCOME – PROPERTARIANISM ISN’T THAT DIFFIC

    IT’S THE AGE OF LIES THAT’S HARD TO OVERCOME – PROPERTARIANISM ISN’T THAT DIFFICULT

    by Neil A. Bucklew

    I am a working class person; 10 years in the marines; general labor almost all of my life. i study math and science and tech as a hobby. In no way could anyone consider me a genius.

    I do not have much trouble understanding Curt at all. I merely have to check some sources on things I have little knowledge in.

    It has been said we live in an age of mysticism. but that is a euphemism for lying. we live in an age of lies. we live in a cult of escalating lies, and have done so for over a century. holding on to lies makes understanding truth more difficult.

    You do not have to have a giant brain or iq to understand propertarianism is. just stop lying to yourself. lies are information that take processing time. You don’t let them in your computer, so don’t let them in your head.

    —-

    (CD: I think the issue that makes the difference is life experience. Military and work with common folk is educational in ways that the academy, bureaucracy, and white collar privilege create ignorance.)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-21 11:55:00 UTC

  • THE VIA NEGATIVA COST OF THE RELIGION OF THE LAW —“Law by Natural Law of Recip

    THE VIA NEGATIVA COST OF THE RELIGION OF THE LAW

    —“Law by Natural Law of Reciprocity consists as a set of ideas of falsification which do not require belief in, testimony to, or action according to, one or more falsehoods as a cost of inclusion and use, but rather demands that you cannot do this, no matter what, and this requirement acts as the cost for inclusion and use.”—Curtus Maximus

    (perfect argument)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-21 11:23:00 UTC

  • A TWITTER CONVERSATION WITH THE INFORMED OPPOSITION (useful counter-argument for

    A TWITTER CONVERSATION WITH THE INFORMED OPPOSITION

    (useful counter-argument for you)

    Cowardice is all that separates us from victory.

    —“What constitutes a victory?”—

    A victory consists in the restoration of the constitution to Rule of Law by the Natural Law of Reciprocity, the elimination of accumulate rent seeking, and the prohibition on commercial, financial, bureaucratic, academic, and political speech that is false or irreciprocal.

    —“So limiting free speech is a victory. Sounds kinda fascist.”—

    Well we eliminate reciprocity in private life, and falsehood, fraud, and deceit in commercial speech, but not in economic, academic, and political speech. Turns out we can eliminate them in public speech. (BTW: “Sounds Kinda” is an admission of ignorance, not an argument)

    —“Fair enough on the semantics. But if we parse out all the word salad, a win for you is basically a re-writing of the Constitution that establishes a cultural hiearachy.”—

    You mean, a win restores non-parasitism, and restores reciprocity, under which those who are productive require non-parasitism upon the commons from those who are not, in exchange for redistribution. (Don’t accuse me of word salad as pretense of equality of comprehension.)

    Your use of the word ‘culture’ in this sense is a code word (deceit, fraud) for ‘rights of parasitism’. That’s all it means. Nothing else. if you followed my work you would be horrified but if intellectually honest, awed. Truth is what it is. Theft is what it is. …

    The first question of philosophy is ‘why not commit suicide?’; the first question of ethics is ‘why not kill you and take what is yours?”; the first of politics “Why should me and mine not end, enslave, enserf you?” The only answer to the second two questions is ‘reciprocity’.

    Once we can no longer cooperate the, the second and third questions are all that come into play. So, either revolt, separate, prosper, and speciate, or the strong eat the weak. I’m for separatism. If separatism fails, then any alternative is superior to continued parasitism. 😉

    I’m intuiting healthy IQ on your end. Which is why I’m answering the question despite our differences in objective. The herd and the female strategy of equality, and the pack and the male strategy of meritocracy. We are wealthy enough now to separate and pursue both not one.

    No one needs to be oppressed except under monopoly. And monopoly is simply tyranny whether male strategy or female strategy. So, revolt, separate, prosper, speciate.

    -cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-21 11:00:00 UTC

  • “EXHAUSTING” by Rosenborg Predmetsky It’s just as I’d said in a previous post: C

    “EXHAUSTING”

    by Rosenborg Predmetsky

    It’s just as I’d said in a previous post: Curt’s posts can be exhausting to read, but for the exact opposite of why continental philosophy is exhausting to read: The first is exhausting because so much substance is compressed in so little, whereas in continental philosophy, so little is enshrouded by so much.

    by John Mark

    YES. When I found Curt the experience was the opposite of when I tried to read philosophy.

    Philosophy: “There’s got to be something worthwhile in here somewhere.”

    Curt: “OMG I could spend an hour thinking about each paragraph.”

    (CD: these guys made my day. not because of my ego. But because when someone understands, I feel ‘validated’ – because the hard work did some good and I didnt end up just writing to myself. Moreover, it means they are becoming leaders – so I don’t have to… lol. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 13:26:00 UTC

  • MISSION STATEMENT: DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM AT ONCE —“Therefore, the Romans, fore

    MISSION STATEMENT: DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM AT ONCE

    —“Therefore, the Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and, even to avoid a war, would not let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others.” — Machiavelli, The Prince

    —“Even today, putting off that which must be done is not to our advantage. If it must come, let it be in my time.”- Noah J Revoy

    We are in our current predicament because we did not deal with the problem at once.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 12:39:00 UTC

  • A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM by Daniel Roland

    A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM

    by Daniel Roland Anderson (law)

    Depending on one’s academic and personal background, a law degree does significantly more harm than good when it comes to understanding Curt’s work. (Math, Engineering, and Philosophy majors can help. English Lit, Sociology, and Political Science will hinder.)

    Mostly, a law degree hurts, because one learns to conflate legislation and regulation with actual law—which you won’t learn in law school at all.

    And the version of Common Law schools teach (pilpul) will definitely do more harm than good because reciprocity has no role in the process, unless learning how to circumvent, distort, denigrate, and subvert reciprocity counts as a “role.”

    Law schools excel at this.

    Also, Dunning-Kruger will be an issue for most law school grads.

    The situation is actually worse than I’m making out, but I’m spending some time with a friend who grew up working in the fields with me, so I’m in a good mood.

    This kid just turned 32 and intuitively grasps the basics of Curt’s work very, very quickly.

    He graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, played a little college football and then never held an 8-5 job—opting instead for work where results determined income 100%. He’s trained people and started businesses and is raising a family.

    He has a real law degree. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-19 11:22:00 UTC

  • Untitled

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    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 21:21:00 UTC

  • “…. their words, their arts, they, and their lines, erased from time and for a

    —“…. their words, their arts, they, and their lines, erased from time and for all time. …”—


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 21:18:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1086372269545402369

  • “Women marry men hoping to change them to their preference. Men marry women hopi

    —“Women marry men hoping to change them to their preference. Men marry women hoping they will retain the preferences the men see.”—Glen Daniels

    And well,l that’s not how it works. Women change constantly. Men don’t.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 19:51:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1086350436708352000

  • “women lie and pretend to be what they used to be before in the past, whereas me

    —“women lie and pretend to be what they used to be before in the past, whereas men lie and pretend to be what they will be in the future (or what they hope to become in an alternate universe or in their fantasy).”—

    (psychology today.)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 17:16:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1086311399842893824