( is it the moon or something? Why is it these women are hitting on me today? Must be tourists. Or the season change. Or God knows. Although I do notice that women are more attracted to you when you’re in get-it-done mode. Despite the fact that it means you’re oblivious to their interests. I am sure I could figure it out but I am too busy. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 12:22:00 UTC
ACTUALLY I DONT READ PHILOSOPHY.
Marco just reminded me of something I take for granted: I write philosophy but I read science.
Philosophical tradition provides us with an established framework for conveying a complete framework of ideas. I use that framework. But I don’t read many philosophers. They’re largely horrible mixtures of theology, pseudoscience, justification of priors and empty verbalises obscuring the absence of relations.
I view a philosopher’s function as integrating new knowledge into our frames of reference with the ambition of increasing correspondence with reality, because there is advantage in correspondence and disadvantage without.
And as a consequence a philosopher restructures relations, values, and institutions to make use of that new knowledge.
Hence in Propertarianism I follow epistemology with psychology, and I follow ethics with sociology, thereby uniting philosophy psychology and social science.
I view the law as western philosophy and religion. And the judiciary as our priesthood. I view religion and theology, and philosophy largely as propaganda.
And hence my criticism of continentals who seek to construct a new religion. We already have one – and it’s bad: Progressivism. (Liberalism). Or more precisely “democratic secular redistributive(equalitarian), consumer capitalist, humanism”.
I usually argue that the mythos of the church was destructive but the church as an institution was amazingly beneficial.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 12:15:00 UTC
(today’s sarcastic news humor)
Putin is well aware that Obama wears rainbow onesies with the bottom cut out.
Remember the debate with Romney when Obama said:”Governor Romney seems to forget the cold war ended 30 years ago and Russia is no longer a threat”
Chuck Norris tells Vladimir Putin Jokes.
When ISIS fighters are not busy fighting, they gather around campfires, they sing kumbaya, and they tell Obama jokes.
Obama just tweeted “ISIL Lives Matter.”
Exhume Reagan to deal with Putin. His remains would be more effective than who we have in the White House.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 10:45:00 UTC
Propertarianism: External aggression is warranted when a lower trust polity causes harm to a higher trust polity, and the result of aggression will be an increase in the level of non-parasitism.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 10:10:00 UTC
(truth is I feel much safer with Putin and Russia disciplining the middle east than I do Americans)
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 09:50:00 UTC
sorry. you absolutely CAN create religions.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 06:09:00 UTC
—“The dominant civil religion of european civilization is not christianity, it is Liberalism” — Greg Johnson
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 05:52:00 UTC
A MONOPOLY OF LAW, A MONOPOLY OF COMMONS, A MARKET OF EVERYTHING ELSE.
The single necessity of monopoly organization is the holding of territory. The single necessity of objectively moral law is universal: prohibition on parasitism. The single necessity of objectively moral commons is universal: prohibition on privatization – also parasitism. The objective necessity of group survival is cooperation in the means of production. The objective necessity of group persistence is cooperation in the means of reproduction.
To evolve these necessities we need a territory secured by men willing to fight for it; we need an independent judiciary that discovers objectively moral law during the resolution of conflicts; and we need an independent market in which the classes can conduct exchanges in order to construct their desired commons, and to prohibit the privatization of those commons; and we need a market for the division of knowledge and labor; and we need a market for reproduction that produces families families that bear and rear offspring for subsequent generations.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 03:01:00 UTC
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rich-women-like-rich-men-and-rich-men-like-slender-women-2015-09-28?dist=tcountdownhttp://www.marketwatch.com/story/rich-women-like-rich-men-and-rich-men-like-slender-women-2015-09-28?dist=tcountdown
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 01:21:00 UTC
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/when-america-was-great-taxes-were-high-unions-were-strong-and-government-was-big/407284/POSTWAR PRIVILEGE ENDED
1) Americans conquered a new continent
2) They sold off this continent to immigrants
3) They sold consumer goods to these immigrants.
4) They caused a collapse in prices in Europe (like china does to americans today)
5) They created new fiat money to give credit to these immigrants.
6) They directed these profits to investment in everything including the 20’s boom.
7) Europeans sought to control german expansion and created the european civil war.
8) The resulting correction and the oppressive settlement with Germany led to the second world war, which was merely an extension of the first, and which destroyed the word’s economy.
9) Americans inherited control of the British empire’s trading lanes and took over as the reserve currency.
10) American workers benefitted from producing expensive but low quality products to a world largely destroyed by war.
12) It took to the 1970’s for the world to reasonably rebuild.
13) In 1990 the effects of Chinese abandonment of communism and their entry into world labor started the dramatic shift in american consumption of consumer goods, just as america had done to Europe more than a century before.
15) In 2007 the rest of the world has largely adopted the same fiat money and consumer capitalist techniques.
16) In 2015, Americans have lost most competitive advantages EXCEPT for their GERMANIC high trust ethics and rule of law.
17) By 2040 Americans will lose their advantage in high trust ethics and rule of law to cultural and genetic conquest.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 22:54:00 UTC