The practice of stoicism (the western version of mindfulness) improves one’s chances of achieving agency – by deconflating the experience of reality, without adding error, religion(prayer), mysticism(buddhism), pseudoscience(new age), or disutility(ritualism) all of which produce mindfulness but do not necessarily improve agency.
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ARISTOCRACY: THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF AGENCY
Aristocracy: the production of Agency (peers) by the incremental suppression of parasitism, by the use of the common law, leaving no option for survival but market production: the civilization-wide industrialization of the domestication of the animal man, for fun and profit.
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Look, truthful speech is expensive, which is why humans practice it so rarely and westerners alone were able to discover deflationary truth.
For a man, truthfulness is cost, but that cost comes as a form of self sacrifice to the pack, warriors, tribe, army, and nation – a means of paying for his share of the opportunity, just as his actions pay for a share of the kill.
For a woman it is a risk to speak the truth – no so much because of men, but because of what other women will do to her, and her greater dependence upon those women than upon the men, who most often treat her (in her opinion) as property, utility, or livestock.
I think all of us struggle for agency, and truth and discipline are the means by which we obtain it. But agency is of different value to different group evolutoinary strategies.
While i am certain that different classes possess different agency, I am just as certain that the jews my people complain about possess no more agency than the women they complain about, and for exactly the same reason: evolutionary biology.
I wonder how much agency east and southeast asians have despite their accomplishments. I mean, is it as simple as theh require the high context civilization to functoin, just as we funciton best in the low context civilization? Have our brains evolved likewise?
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘TRUTHFUL KNOWLEDGE’
In Propertarianism (Natural Law) have a very precise definition of ‘truthful knowledge’ that isn’t open to interpretation. We don’t use the word ‘true’ knowledge, and we don’t even use the word ‘true’ very often, except to say ‘that’s not true, or that can’t be true”, and tend use the world ‘truthful’ or ‘truth candidate’ instead.
I suppose for greater clarity for newcomers would could say that by “Truthful Knowledge” we are referring to the most parsimonious and consistently correspondent statement possible, that is as free of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, and deceit, as the scope of human language and human knowledge currently tolerates.
And I could criticize myself for using that Truthful Knowledge which to the inexperienced, immediately invokes via-positiva justificationism, when I mean via negativa ‘a surviving truth candidate’.
So when we say we are making a Truthful Statement, it is one that has SURVIVED the test of Testimonial Epistemology:
The Operational Sequence of Universal, Testimonial, Epistemology:
experience ->
… free association ->
… … idea ->
… … … ‘wayfinding’ ->
… … … … hypothesis ->
… … … … … critical testing (falsification) ->
… … … … … … theory ->
… … … … … … … publication (market testing) ->
… … … … … … … … Law ->
… … … … … … … … … metaphysical assumption(acculturation).
In that phase of Critical Testing we attempt to construct an operational description of a sequence of subjectively testable operations, (which is a very densely loaded set of terms), that adhere to a very strict grammar.
This form of ‘strict construction’ exposes (quite readily) whether we know what we are talking about or not. And shows us where we need to add clarity before we can make a truthful statement.
Then we use a checklist to ensure that we can WARRANTY to others that we have done due diligence, in ensuring that we do not engage in the many problems of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, loading, framing, obscurantism, and deceit.
This list includes a set of consistency checks. They are:
– Categorical Consistency: identity consistency
– Logical Consistency: internal consistency
– Empirical Consistency: external correspondence
– Existential consistency: operational language and subjective testability
– Moral consistency: Reciprocity (which we have a very strict definition of as well: consisting only of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer limited to productive externalities)
– Scope Consistency: (this one is hard) but it means have we
…. (a) fully accounted for call costs?
…. (b) defined the limits – at what points does this statement no longer apply?
…. (c) tested the parsimony – (this one is very hard) have we overstated our case, and can this be stated more precisely?
Because humans ourselves serve as a STANDARD OF MEASURE in relation to other humans due to limited differences in subjective testability; and because of the difficulty in making a series of operational statements, while at the same time surviving the checklist of six dimensions of actionable reality, it is almost impossible to be held accountable by others for speaking a falsehood.
This is what we mean by ‘Truthful Speech’. Your warranty that you have done due diligence that your speech will do no harm.
Curt Doolittle
The Cult of Non Submission
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Natural Law of Sovereign Men
The Aesthetics of Agency
The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine
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Dammit Eli the agency thing… dammit. Powerful
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If you fail to possess truthful knowledge then how can you claim either free will or agency?
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—“Aristocracy defined on the foundation of agency gives me chills (heroic call to action)”— Bill Joslin
Aristocracy: the search for, breeding and rearing of, humans: those post-homo-sapiens, who possess agency, and who therefore may create a condition of sovereignty.
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( My sister teaches kindergarten. My mother taught middle school. I sort of teach at the other end of the spectrum. Whats the difference? Mostly choice. The little ones can’t choose, the middle ones prefer to choose not to, and the adults choose to. )
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