—“Most people describe truth as a semantic axiom. Deflated refers to “truth” not as golden goose found in the world (because we cant know it with certainty – it will always be conditional to our information at hand) but rather a linguistic act – a property of declarative sentences – the attribute of being able to be tested for falsehood. Thus a semantic axiom.”—- Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-31 00:16:00 UTC
https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/826296325289476098/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=826296325289476098Truth in all it’s forms #conservative #libertarian #NewRight #Trump https://t.co/1HnRDvFeW5
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-31 00:09:00 UTC
—“Facts are discovered. Truth remains irrelevant until an assertion of facts rises (either spoken or in our minds as a knowledge claim)… stop conflating facts with truth or the parasites will lay eggs again”— Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-31 00:06:00 UTC
https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/826294648658415616/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=826294648658415616Aristocracy: The Industry by which we domesticated the animal Man. 😉 #conservative #libertarian #NRx #Trump https://t.co/jG5BD23n3V
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-31 00:02:00 UTC
stoicism: agency-in-toto.
(true. love it.)
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 22:44:00 UTC
ECONOMICS IN TOTO?
I did ‘truth in toto’ (testimonialism)
Then I did property in toto. (propertarianism)
Then I did “law in toto’ (natural law of sovereign men)
Then i did ‘markets in toto’ (market government)
Then i did ‘mindfulness in toto’ (stoicism)
I need to do some bitch-slapping work on economics-in-toto rather than letting this f–king pseudoscientists continue their frauds.
If you don’t account for capital in toto you are justifying cherrypicking to conduct a fraud.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 22:41:00 UTC
NATURAL LAW OF SOVEREIGN MEN: DOMESTICATING ANIMAL MAN FOR PEERS AND PROFIT.
An animal has no agency, only impulse; can enter no contracts, only seize conveniences; can resolve no disputes truthfully, only imagine excuses. It cannot be reasoned with, only bribed or punished. But with bribes and punishments it can be trained. And if training fails, abandoned to the wild, enslaved, imprisoned, or killed.
We train the animal with property in toto, manners, ethics, morals, and law. We use peers, parents, teachers, sheriffs, police, judges, juries, soldiers, generals and kings.
The animal can be trained from beast to slave, to serf, to dependent, to freeman, to civilian, to soldier, to aristocracy: human.
The training requires sentience, awareness, consciousness, reason, knowledge, and agency.
But each degree of training demands more of the animal, and many – most – cannot complete it, and transcend the animal.
As such the world is full of a few humans and many domesticated animals of varying degree, and many, many beasts.
Thankfully, like many domesticatable animals, these animals, once domesticated, can often be put to good use.
And as such, the beast man, like all other domesticatable beasts, can be domesticated for profit.
The domestication of man – that occupation we call rule – is the most profitable occupation of all, except for one:
The success in breeding, and training humans.
Because while animals are a commodity, producing the rare human is the most profitable industry of all.
And if it fails, hunting the beast man that remain, is the greatest joy of all.
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 22:32:00 UTC
I feel like Judge Dredd:
The law of sovereign men;
and the animals incapable of it.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 22:03:00 UTC
All the arguments i hear (a) rely on justificationism (excuse making), not falsificationism (warranty of due diligence), (b) seek to preserve investments in conflation – just as all religions do, (c) confuse the resolution of disputes in matters of conflict (truth) with the communication and ideation and cooperation ( meaning ).
I”m in the same place as the men of the scientific enlightenment – right through darwin: instead of a church of excuse making mystics, an academy of excuse making rationalists. Neither grasps that they are just making excuses in order to rally people with meaning, in pursuit of power which they cannot construct through either force or productivity. They sell lies. The academy like the church profits from lies. There may be some truth amidst the lies, but this does mean the lies are not more harmful than the truth is beneficial.
I think humans have been lied to so often that they cannot imagine a world via-negativa (resolving differences, deciding, truth) and via positiva (organizing, teaching, meaning). They cannot imagine a perfect law and a perfect literature would lead to a perfect, transcendent man.
As imperfect, they cannot. Or rather, with such perfection, those who have lesser talents could not rally on truth, force, and remuneration. And so lies are the way that they comensate for inadequacy in their attempts to inspire themsevles in the face of evidence of inferiority, and rally others in the face of their inferiority.
So yes. Maybe truth is for transcendent man, aristocracy and gods, and maybe the half-man requires conflation and lies – he is not transcendent enough yet – still a human animal. Domesticated. Perhaps a freeman. But not able to join the aristocracy.
unable to join the gods.
( did ‘ya see what I did there? truth, myth, and literature. )
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 21:35:00 UTC
OUR TOWER OF BABEL IS NOT LANGUAGE BUT LIES.
The church held onto its lies, and died from it. The academy adopted new lies and prospered from it. The people tried to resurrect their ancient lies, they grasped and the old lies, they grasped at all manner of new lies, and others chose among each of them the most convenient lies. But because of these lies they were all ‘confused’.
They have rebuilt the Tower of Babel. This time, not only with different languages, but with different lies. They have no means of decidability. they cannot know what is true. So they preserve the costs that each person has invested in the lies that work for him or her. Each person protecting his purse-of-lies trying to find others with compatible lies to trade with them.
We cannot know the truth. We can rarely if ever know what is good. We can often know what we prefer, and if we work at it, know what is false.
But knowing what is false provides us with no guidance. We have no ‘authority’ to rely upon, or discount to take, and are stuck with our own devices. It is much easier to rally people around an opportunity that is false that can understand, and fall prey to, than it is to rally them for something that appears more costly – because the truth is often costly.
So I suspect, given the economics of peoples investment in that personal form of wealth we call ‘meaning’ but is largely a network of lies and errors, biasess, and deceits, that like the priests church, a lot of people, a lot of institutions, will have to die before the Tower of Lies is disassembled.
Men are not moral. They do not seek the truth. They seek acquisitions. And they seek those acquisitions at a discount. And the discount that they depend upon is their accumulated store of decidability we call prior understanding.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-30 17:32:00 UTC