I have another video with Eric Field but his side of the audio is … well, inaudible. Not sure how we’re going to fix that one. I’m going to give it a shot and see if maybe he’ll just record the questions again and I’ll cut them in.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:59:00 UTC
http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2016/01/another-eli-harman-guest-post.htmlELI HITS HARD ON OUR LACK OF ETHNOCENTRISM
—“And another feature of Western peoples is low ethnocentrism, because normative outbreeding and the prohibition on inbreeding mixed up the tribes and clans, creating homogenous outbred populations that can universalize kinship trust. This also was a competitive advanatage. White people form the largest ingroups. But we have a tendency to simply assume everyone is ingroup, and treat them accordingly, because in the past, that generally would have been the case. So those features have been hacked, by hostile aliens, who have convinced many of us we can gain status, and signal enlightenment and sophistication, by incessantly attacking our own, for the benefit of outgroup parasites who are unwilling or unable to reciprocate the kinship trust, or kinship altruism, that we extend them.”—-Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:45:00 UTC
—“Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of share croppers living with the illusion that they are getting ahead with economic “freedom” just around the corner; as they fall deeper and deeper into debt with each planting and harvest no matter how bountiful.”— James Santagata
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:39:00 UTC
DEAR JUSTICES. A TRUTH. A WARNING. A PROMISE.
***Our American Judges have been turned into Nazi Officers with ‘its the law’ a hollow substitute for ‘I was following orders’.***
***There is only one law: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs by externality, on that another has obtained by either homesteading of opportunity, or exchange by the same productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange free of the same externality.***
Everything else is literally an order.
If you follow immoral orders you have no escape from justice.
Either you adjudicate natural law, or you issue commands.
If you issue commands then you are responsible for your actions.
So we pray you take heed how you command our people.
We are coming with rifle and guillotine, not pitchfork and noose.
And we shall hold you accountable for your commands.
I swear upon all my gods, the judiciary will preserve the rule of law or be put to death and replaced by those who shall.
Natural Law is sacred.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:36:00 UTC
“QUESTION:” CURT: DO YOU HAVE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THIS TALK?”
Sure. Or, I’ll try hard. 😉
1) The “NAP” that only limits physical aggression leaves open “trickery and deceit’ as well as ‘free riding parasitism’ and ‘conspiracy’. And by leaving open these forms of aggression, the NAP cannot produce property rights, an anarchic polity, or a condition of liberty.
2) It is irrational for other than career criminals to prefer membership in a polity with the high transaction costs and high opportunity costs, and high risk due to trickery and conspiracy over one in which trickery, deceit, and conspiracy are permitted. And this is why no such economic polity exists.
3) But a definition of aggression that includes physical, trickery and deceit, free riding parasitism, and conspiracy can produce property rights, an anarchic polity, and a condition of liberty. Because it is rational to prefer an anarchic polity free of these forms of parasitism over one that has much higher costs.
4) So Rothbardian Non Aggression against ‘physical property’ can’t create a condition of liberty, while classical liberal Non Aggression against ‘demonstrated property’ can create a condition of liberty.
5) What is demonstrated property? Anything you have homesteaded or obtained through productive, fully informed, voluntary exchange, and without imposing costs upon the demonstrated property of others.
6) What do people demonstrate as their property? Life, Kin, Mate, Friends, Allies, physical property, territory, built capital, norms, and institutions.
7) What Exceptions are there? Communities produce opportunities by virtue of population density and cooperation in a division of labor while using property rights, and expect members to homestead those opportunities. We call this process of homesteading opportunities ‘competition’. This creating of common opportunities and homesteading them is what produces the virtuous cycle that makes cities (markets) so productive.
8) So how do we create liberty? We create liberty by reciprocal insurance of one another’s demonstrated property from transgression by others, thereby creating the first commons: property rights, or what we loosely call ‘cooperation’.
9) This argument kills the idea of individualism per se and instead states that all rights are possessed by individuals but rights can only be created by an organized polity willing to construct them by reciprocal insurance of one another’s demonstrated property from the imposition of costs.
The rest of the talk is largely a criticism of why the NAP failed, and why Rothbard came up with it for cultural reasons. And how the reason he didn’t complete the NAP or write it operationally was to circumvent the logical conclusion that with greater articulation his attempt to avoid payment for the commons would have been exposed.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:25:00 UTC
HEADLINE: FORMATTING IN PLAIN TEXT FOR READABILITY
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Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:49:00 UTC
***Under the advice of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of migrant workers.***
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:35:00 UTC
—“The status quo is that we have free immoral speech and unfree moral speech.”— Eric Orwoll
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:34:00 UTC
I love kids in this part of the world. They aren’t attention starved. They don’t have this urgent almost panicked need for mommy and daddy to provide boundaries and information. Not as good as Austria (my favorite). But still wonderful.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:30:00 UTC
LONG AMERICAN WORK HOURS? WHY?
Lack of hierarchy. Extreme information gathering. Unnecessary Negotiating.
Would we change less sovereignty and more hierarchy for more time?
I kind of doubt it.
(I’m tying this behavior to loneliness. work socialization is a vent.)
Conversely, europeans who are far more provincial than we are (really) for all their criticism of our rural culture, would not. Because they don’t need socialization as much as we do.
American Low Attention parenting + Low Attention Schooling = High Attention Workplaces.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:24:00 UTC