http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ron-paul-thinks-there-should-be-more-secessionist-movements-in-the-u-s-20140930ON MESSAGE: AND THE RIGHT MESSAGE: RON PAUL SHOULD STICK WITH DOMESTIC POLICY
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-30 13:51:00 UTC
Form: Short Note
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The argument developing in geopolitics, is that the world war has not ended. Thi
The argument developing in geopolitics, is that the world war has not ended. This is a different take on the clash of civilizations. As far as I can tell we either must break into smaller nations that gradually ameliorate our differences over the terrain or we must, as china did, develop totalitarian conquest. The lower trust countries, as the majority, now empowered with consumer capitalism, will be able to once again crush us. Just as they always have. Our respite has ended.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-30 11:05:00 UTC
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memory is an awesome thing. new card. saw the pin printed about a month ago when
memory is an awesome thing. new card. saw the pin printed about a month ago when i opened the mail. thought I’d copy it down later. realized I hadn’t, the other day. woke up this morning. vaguely recalled the moment. and then bang, there it is. so cool.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-29 12:09:00 UTC
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Moral Foundations as Property Rights
(a central concept of Propertarianism) [O]f Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights:
And three others can be expressed as community property rights covering social capital. Which obviously enough, have been, and continue to be, mirrored in corporate shareholder agreements.
It should be noted that the male reproductive strategy among chimpanzees as well as humans evolved to kill off males in opposing groups and collect females. And that females evolved to place greater emphasis on children and females than the (fungible) tribe. As such the distribution of moral intuitions varies in intensity between the feminine (1-3) and the masculine (4-6). This difference in moral intuitions roughly reflects the voting pattern we have seen since the enfranchisement of women into the electorate: an increase in the use of political violence to produce an increase in the female reproductive strategy (individual dysgenic reproduction) and a decrease in the male reproductive strategy (tribal eugenic reproduction). When I first read a paper by Jonathan Haidt, years ago now, I immediately understood the implication. Just as the ten commandments are reducible to “There is but one law: property, and thou shalt not steal”, all our moral rules can be reduced to one: “thou shalt not steal directly or indirectly, by action or inaction.” These rules are genetic in origin. They are necessary and immutable.
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Moral Foundations as Property Rights
(a central concept of Propertarianism) [O]f Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights:
And three others can be expressed as community property rights covering social capital. Which obviously enough, have been, and continue to be, mirrored in corporate shareholder agreements.
It should be noted that the male reproductive strategy among chimpanzees as well as humans evolved to kill off males in opposing groups and collect females. And that females evolved to place greater emphasis on children and females than the (fungible) tribe. As such the distribution of moral intuitions varies in intensity between the feminine (1-3) and the masculine (4-6). This difference in moral intuitions roughly reflects the voting pattern we have seen since the enfranchisement of women into the electorate: an increase in the use of political violence to produce an increase in the female reproductive strategy (individual dysgenic reproduction) and a decrease in the male reproductive strategy (tribal eugenic reproduction). When I first read a paper by Jonathan Haidt, years ago now, I immediately understood the implication. Just as the ten commandments are reducible to “There is but one law: property, and thou shalt not steal”, all our moral rules can be reduced to one: “thou shalt not steal directly or indirectly, by action or inaction.” These rules are genetic in origin. They are necessary and immutable.
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Rents.
Economic Rents create lost opportunities for exchange. A cost. They grant a privilege whose results are incalculable (unavailable because profit and loss are externalized) and therefore unmeasurable (comparable with other investments) and invisible (they are forgotten and never rise again), instead of creating a calculable, measurable, investment and return for the polity.
Unfortunately, democracy – majority rule – forces us to create these lost opportunities to exchange rents and privileges which are incalculable.
Furthermore, the pooling of taxes into general funds, rather than charging fees for services, for the payments of debts, and collecting returns on investments, create opportunities for rents. It is this system of rents that we systemically MUST construct under democracy. Democracy does not let us do otherwise.
Worse, it is this system of rents, that allows the predatory and parasitic rent-seeking bureaucracy to exist, and expand like a cancer uncontrollably.
Conversely, if we enforced (a) a universal requirement for operational calculability, (b)universal standing for the prosecution of rent seeking, (c) and the negotiation of contracts, rather than the competition for rents in order to obtain power necessary to issue laws (commands), then it is impossible to seek rents. And even if rents are somehow obtained, impossible to hold them.
Yet enforcing (a)(b)(c) does not require that we abandon the construction of commons. Only that we abandon the rentiers. So while it was necessary to centralize rents in order to extinguish family, guild and tribal rents, it is now equally necessary to ban rents permanently.
All that is required is contracts instead of laws, universal standing, and operational calculability. -
Rents.
Economic Rents create lost opportunities for exchange. A cost. They grant a privilege whose results are incalculable (unavailable because profit and loss are externalized) and therefore unmeasurable (comparable with other investments) and invisible (they are forgotten and never rise again), instead of creating a calculable, measurable, investment and return for the polity.
Unfortunately, democracy – majority rule – forces us to create these lost opportunities to exchange rents and privileges which are incalculable.
Furthermore, the pooling of taxes into general funds, rather than charging fees for services, for the payments of debts, and collecting returns on investments, create opportunities for rents. It is this system of rents that we systemically MUST construct under democracy. Democracy does not let us do otherwise.
Worse, it is this system of rents, that allows the predatory and parasitic rent-seeking bureaucracy to exist, and expand like a cancer uncontrollably.
Conversely, if we enforced (a) a universal requirement for operational calculability, (b)universal standing for the prosecution of rent seeking, (c) and the negotiation of contracts, rather than the competition for rents in order to obtain power necessary to issue laws (commands), then it is impossible to seek rents. And even if rents are somehow obtained, impossible to hold them.
Yet enforcing (a)(b)(c) does not require that we abandon the construction of commons. Only that we abandon the rentiers. So while it was necessary to centralize rents in order to extinguish family, guild and tribal rents, it is now equally necessary to ban rents permanently.
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(regarding previous post) The Libertine(Rothbardian) argument is to abandon all
(regarding previous post)
The Libertine(Rothbardian) argument is to abandon all consideration of the competitive production of commons and to return to a low trust levantine polity of pervasively unethical and immoral conditions. (Rothbard, Rockwell, and Block).
However, the propertarian solution is to eliminate the possibility of rents and free riding on the production of commons using competing houses and private production of commons, by requiring contracts, strict construction and original intent, operational calculability, transparency and universal standing. (Methods and procedures that are common in businesses world wide).
I am having a very hard time determining what commons can honestly be demonstrated to be victims of free riding, even if many are subject to privatization and socialization. This is well covered in the literature, and as far as I know, regulation and rent seeking are the cause of most difficulties.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 13:26:00 UTC
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(man talk) Is there ANYTHING more pleasant than sitting with your friends, over
(man talk)
Is there ANYTHING more pleasant than sitting with your friends, over food and drinks, talking about business, politics, and women? I dunno. Add a fire and all we have done in 10,000 years is increase the number of syllables in a sentence.
Same subjects. More parts. That’s it.
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 11:48:00 UTC
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Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious: – The Turks LOOK fo
Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious:
– The Turks LOOK for something to do. (Just like european americans)
– The Ukrainians wait until something MUST be done.
– The Russians ONLY do things that they they were told to, and can’t get away with not doing. (Unless it involves shoving or hitting someone, which is an opportunity never to be missed).
Any place that is clean is not run by Turks, Ukrainians or Russians – probably americans, or in the cases I’ve seen, people from western ukraine (less russified) that have seen enough of the world to want to bring the same standards here.
Although I gotta say that americans here, in general, annoy the hell out of me. (it’s the ideology). But they work hard and are obsessively honest, and that’s still so rare and wonderful no matter where on earth you find it.
I keep running into Brits that are such catholic-marxists in atheistic robes that I want to make them disappear in the night to save these people from them.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 11:10:00 UTC