Rural America in the 60s-70’s: not so good.
Connecticut in the 70’s and early 80s: horrible.
Boston in the 80’s : up and down.
Seattle in the 90’s : Geek Heaven.
Everywhere in the 00’s: ok but pensive.
Everywhere in the 10’s: waiting for catastrophe.
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 14:07:00 UTC
Camping. Tents. Fire. Ghost stories. Cold sleeping bag. Fear.
Camp sites, mini-bikes, clambakes.
(sheer goodness)
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 13:56:00 UTC
—“Writing in eprime produces language that sounds closer to an accurate description of the actual experience, and involves fewer covert assumptions”—
Note the word COVERT”
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 12:42:00 UTC
—“In essence, E -prime consists of a more descriptive and extensionally oriented derivative of English, that automatically tends to bring the user back to the level of first person experience.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 12:37:00 UTC
(Peter Boettke : Thinking about your unassuming but thought-provoking quip on the importance of the P in PhD. Because I wrestle with this problem of the ‘need to reform philosophy’ that Locke set out to achieve in his era – and we must do again in ours. And, since what’s missing from philosophy is any notion of cost, I might go as far as saying that it’s absence of the insights of economics – even such things as the commensurability provided by money and prices – that have doomed the philosophical profession to empty verbalisms.
I OFTEN feel like mathematicians and economists could do with a better understanding of philosophy. But I ALWAYS feel like philosophers could do with a better understanding of economics. I can’t think of any of the insights I have produced that would have been possible without econ, and particularly micro econ, and most importantly Austrian econ. And while I have been critical of the abuse of Mises by Rothbard, I am increasingly concerned that no one seems to be taking mises half-solution to the great logical problem of our age, any further.
There is a terrible need for philosophy, and terrible need for its reformation. But I am pretty sure that the reason that terrible need exists, is the lack of accounting of costs, opportunities and incentives provided by economic philosophers. Philosophy is missing “demonstrated commensurability” across differences in perceptions, experiences, memories, judgements, knowledge, labor and advocacy, by different demands of different people, with different needs.)
(Sorry if this is out of line in some way but I have very few people to think out loud to on these matters.)
– Cheers
(edited. like everything I seem to write on an iphone needs to be. ) 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 10:05:00 UTC
–“When I restrict myself to active voice by using E-Prime, so the argument goes, then I must bring out of hiding the agents involved in whatever situations I set out to discuss. This constraint supposedly prevents me from unawarely using psychological tricks such as concealed denial, self-reproach, blame-casting, unaware projecting, etc. In that sense, I can use E-Prime to help keep me honest with myself.”–
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 09:41:00 UTC
(Ukraine is my home. I don’t want to leave it, even for a few weeks. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 09:24:00 UTC
I NEED ALL MY FRIENDS. TODAY. RIGHT NOW.
PLEASE HELP ME STAY IN UKRAINE – RIGHT NOW !!!! 🙂
There is an excellent company here in Ukraine. It is run by a very good man with many years of experience whose previous company bought one of my previous companies. In my opinion, they are the best company in Ukraine. And technology in Ukraine will grow quickly for the next ten years here at least.
They have a program named SYMPHONY UNIVERSITY. They teach how to do international business, software development, project management, etc. Usual consulting stuff. And it’s a draw for people. This company cares about their staff.
I want to teach in this program. Why? Because I love to teach. I know these subjects. And I will be able to still write if I do this work, and I will be able to stay in UKRAINE.
Please go to https://www.facebook.com/Symphony.Solutions/
Write a short respectful post saying why you think they should hire me. or What people would learn from my classes. Or What impact it would have in their business. Or how it would make a difference in their recruiting.
I really need this in order to stay here and work in Ukraine or I wouldn’t ask.
And yes, your opinion matters.
Please click on the link and help your philosopher out. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 07:51:00 UTC
( Tired in my soul. Sigh. Love my friends. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for your criticism, counsel, and joy. Being thankful makes the world a lot easier. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 06:01:00 UTC
STEVE HOROWITZ’S OBFUSCATORY JUSTIFICATIONISM
(argumentative weaponry. use it.)
He’s using the ancient technique of stating a Half Truth for the purpose of “suggesting” a lie.
Cultural Marxism is taught in nearly all classes. The fact that the Paleos all use Marx and Marxism as a bucket-label for Marxism(social science), Communism(politics), Socialism(economics), Freudianism(psychology), Boazianism(anthropology), cultural marxism(aesthetics), Rothbardian libertinism(normative communism), Straussian neo-Conservatism(Zionism), is just a matter of verbal convenience. Which is obvious once you rattle off all those pseudosciences. We just say Marx and Marxist, and Marxism. What we should say is “Cosmopolitanism”: Jewish Pseudoscientific Enlightenment – the second “Great Lie”. The Counter-Enlightenment against completion of the enlightenment by Maxwell, Darwin, Spencer, Nietzsche, and Poincare.
So ask the question differently: show me where they teach natural law? You won’t find it outside of a few Christian universities, and they don’t even understand that “Natural Law= Social Science”. They teach it as philosophy or religion – not science.
I don’t know why I have to apologize every day for my ancestors failed colonialism, despite dragging humanity out of ignorance, starvation, poverty, superstition, and disease, yet the other tribes don’t need to apologize for the damage done by their reactions to the enlightenment.
(Please don’t jump on the anti-Semite bus ok? I care about fixing problems. I don’t think jews know what they’re doing any more than we do, women do, or any other group does. It’s all information problems and genetic adaptation problem. Both of which can be solved by institutions that transform us away from deception and closer to truth.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 05:56:00 UTC