Cultural Observations: We have a thing here. A Russian thing. On VK. VK is a Russian clone of Facebook. Which is free of intellectual property regulations. The thing is called “40kg”. Its a VK page, and like, a movement or something. It’s a constant stream of small fit chicks showing off. I don’t know how many of them are under 90 pounds. But a whole lot of them look under 110 pounds / 50kg. Just not an ‘american’ thing.
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WE HAVE THE MOMENTUM NOW. LETS HOPE WE DON”T SCREW IT UP.
Gotta transform the working class arguments soon.
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(There just aren’t a lot of philosophers writing software. And if they are, given the nature of dweebs, they are working on puzzles, not problems. And there is a very great difference between a puzzle and a problem. ) 😉
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MHO: the only test of one’s capacity is his mastery of this hierarchy: Historical, Moral, Rational, Critical, Decidable, and Prescriptive argumetns in propertarianism.
Individuals do not need to master all of them. Only those that they can make use of.
1) The sets of narratives describing the historical evolution of truth and incremental suppression and how this reduces all costs and forces all people into productive production and exchange.
HISTORICAL
2) The division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy as demonstration of reproductive strategies, and voluntary exchange as the only means of making use of that disparate information. The evolution of a market for goods and services (consumption) and a market for commons (investment).
MORAL
3) The strict construction of propertarian arguments as a description of incentives, in various matters of human cooperation and conflict.
RATIONAL
4) The strict construction of criticism of statements under testimonialism using all 7/8 criterion
CRITICAL (SCIENTIFIC)
5) The strict construction of law enforcing all of the above in matters of dispute.
DECIDABLE
6) The construction of propertarian institutions.
PRESCRIPTIVE
)
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MUST READ
(FWIW: I have thought for a long time Eli would catch or pass me. This piece is perfectly constructed, and well written. This is how it is done.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUO9L577GS4ITS DONE: THE END OF LIBERTARIANISM
—“Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, tweeted the following:
“Rand killed libertarian momentum. The action in 2016 is on the alt right and the socialist left. @JustinRaimondo l @NRO @realDonaldTrump”
Jeff Deist is right.”—
WATCH IT
h/t: Asgeir Theodor
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ARE FUNDAMENTALIST MOVEMENTS RATIONAL?
If you mean by ‘rational’ to imply ‘justificationary’ for the purpose of granting higher ontological status to internal consistency than internal correspondence, then yes.
That is the meaning of “Fundamentalist”: internally consistent but non correspondent.
We can treat FUNDAMENTALISM as a reaction to RATIONALISM, just as we can treat SCRIPTURALISM as a reaction to REASON.
Both technologies and their modern equivalent :
(PSEUDOSCIENCE AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS are a Reaction to SCIENCE.)
Seek to give higher criteria for decidability to internal consistency rather than external correspondence.
This is also the source of the various sects that attempt to create “Social Justice” and “Social Truth”.
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