Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
Form: Short Note
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The Melting Pot That Isn't
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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The Melting Pot That Isn't
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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You’ve Got It Backwards : Aristocracy
Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.
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You've Got It Backwards : Aristocracy
Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.
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You’ve Got It Backwards : Aristocracy
Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.
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You've Got It Backwards : Aristocracy
Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.
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Dont Throw Out The Libertarian Baby With The Progressive Bathwater
LIBERTARIAN != ROTHBARDIAN ANARCHO CAPITALIST. Classical liberals are also ‘libertarians’. Rothbardians via the Mises institute adopted the tactics of the marxists, but this time, using the internet – so they’re ‘everywhere’. Anarcho capitalism was structured like the marxist IDEOLOGY. It is a MORAL, not scientific argument, for ideological rather than political purposes. The anarcho capitalist program DID give us: a) the incentives of a bureaucracy are worse than the incentives of a monarchy. b) the critique that democracy was simply a slow road to communism, c) propertarian ethics that make all moral codes commensurable and d) the use of competing insurance companies to replace monopoly bureaucracy. e) the sufficiency of the common law, and the necessity for it. f) the state as the cause of ‘evil corporations’. g) the required prohibition on law-making, and the constraint of government to contract negotiation between groups. What it did not give us is: a) means of investments in commons (government) b) means of preventing free riding, fraud by omission, theft via externality, privatization of gains and socialization of losses. c) a means of accommodating the collectivism of women in their effort to restore the sex economy in favor of the productive economy (but that’s too long a discussion.) Thankfully others have given us: a) lottocratic representation b) direct democracy And hopefully I’m trying to fix that. I think I have. But I’m not sure. http://blog.jim.com/politics/the-dark-enlightenment-critique-of-libertarianism.html
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Dont Throw Out The Libertarian Baby With The Progressive Bathwater
LIBERTARIAN != ROTHBARDIAN ANARCHO CAPITALIST. Classical liberals are also ‘libertarians’. Rothbardians via the Mises institute adopted the tactics of the marxists, but this time, using the internet – so they’re ‘everywhere’. Anarcho capitalism was structured like the marxist IDEOLOGY. It is a MORAL, not scientific argument, for ideological rather than political purposes. The anarcho capitalist program DID give us: a) the incentives of a bureaucracy are worse than the incentives of a monarchy. b) the critique that democracy was simply a slow road to communism, c) propertarian ethics that make all moral codes commensurable and d) the use of competing insurance companies to replace monopoly bureaucracy. e) the sufficiency of the common law, and the necessity for it. f) the state as the cause of ‘evil corporations’. g) the required prohibition on law-making, and the constraint of government to contract negotiation between groups. What it did not give us is: a) means of investments in commons (government) b) means of preventing free riding, fraud by omission, theft via externality, privatization of gains and socialization of losses. c) a means of accommodating the collectivism of women in their effort to restore the sex economy in favor of the productive economy (but that’s too long a discussion.) Thankfully others have given us: a) lottocratic representation b) direct democracy And hopefully I’m trying to fix that. I think I have. But I’m not sure. http://blog.jim.com/politics/the-dark-enlightenment-critique-of-libertarianism.html
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um… we're libertarians.
Um…. We’re libertarians. It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries. It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power. It’s hard being the only rational person standing. People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.