1) HEROISM and SOVEREIGNTY(Competition), 2) TECHNOLOGY, 3) PROPERTY, 4) TRUTH and PROMISE(CONTRACT), 5) JURY, 6) THE HANDS-OFF COMMONS (Sacred Commons).
That is ‘our way’. Nial Ferguson’s six killer apps are consequences (Pareto’s Derivations) not CAUSES (Hegelian differences) nor instincts and intuitions (Pareto’s ‘Residues’).
The western difference is our struggle to speak the truth before the jury of our peers.
It is NOT majority rule.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 02:38:00 UTC
“THE WEST’S UNIQUE STRUGGLE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH”
I think, that this is second only to heroism as the uniquely western value.
Truth is extremely expensive commons to produce. It is perhaps the most expensive commons to produce. Which is why no one else has produced it. And why even our own people often mount resistance movements against it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 02:17:00 UTC
Truth is not found in your means of discovery, but once found, in your reconstruction of the discovery from necessary consequences of available operations.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 02:08:00 UTC
EVERY DOLLAR YOU GIVE TO THE MISES INSTITUTE IS A DOLLAR USED TO HARM THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY.
It’s too bad the “Mises Institute” has so little to do with mises and so much to do with Rothbard. Mises is possible to resurrect, as I’ve demonstrated, as just not quite getting it right. But Rothbard’s immorality would require a systematic purge of his works from intellectual history of liberty.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 01:19:00 UTC
ALL LIFE IS POLITICS – ONCE AGAIN
Action(correspondence). Precision(Parsimony). Meaning(Recursion)
How do I relate these ideas to one another? Meaning allows us to restructure – to reorganize. So meaning is just theorizing with the operations (ideas) at our disposal.
Why are the hermeneuticists so fascinated with meaning instead of truth? oh… it’s cheap.
Wait… so, meaning to the individual isn’t important. Meaning is a political utility.
So why is meaning….. oh… persuasion for the purpose of cooperation (and less positive ambitions) as well.
So is it really… yes, so Popper’s advice is directional.. on the conduct of investigation, but not on truth… yes. Ok. So I am full circle again.
SCIENCE (AND CRITICAL RATIONALISM) ARE SUBSET OF TRUTH TELLING not a superset.
So just as mathematicians practice platonism out of convenience, scientists practice it out of convenience, philosophers practice it out of convenience.
But then LAW IS THE HIGHEST LOGIC and testimony the only existential truth, and all else is merely a subset of the truth telling – using analogies. Analogies that lead us to confusion.
ALL LIFE IS POLITICS
FUK. THATS IT.
( Frank Lovell , Ayelam Valentine Agaliba )
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 00:45:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNg4NpDTxMMORAL SPECIALIZATION AND THE REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF LABOR
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 22:11:00 UTC
THE MISES INSTITUTE’S CULT OF LANGUAGE
The way the Jewish people held sway over their members, is the same way that all religious cults hold sway: there are mandatory beliefs, mandatory language, and mandatory rituals that one must follow or be ostracized. And as long as the benefits of the group are sufficient that threat of ostracization provides incentive to hold to those norms, then people do so out of purely utilitarian choice.
Rallying and Shaming of the Feminists and Socialists works by the same means: neo-puritan and postmodern language demands verbal, belief, and ritualistic conformity or they will rally, shame, and attempt to ostracize you.
Ludwig von Mises attempts to create an equally mandatory pseudoscience of praxeology in order to demand compliance of members. Rothbard expanded Mises’ approach and this approach was a failure until Rockwell and Tucker use the new medium of the web to compete with the old media. And for a short while, it worked.
However, science and truth telling have won the day and the world now speaks in science – leaving mises verbal cult adrift and associated with the lunatic fringe.
And even worse, the world has been systematically abandoning philosophy as a cult language for more than half a century. And its important that the world does so, because philosophy was the ruse under which these systems of lies were constructed and propagated.
That is simply because science corresponds more accurately with reality than does any other form of language – because scientists have the least perverse incentives than anyone other than mathematicians. And even mathematicians still engage in fanciful platonism – moreso than do scientists.
So what use is philosophy? Prior to propertarianism, cognitive science and experimental psychology, I think it was necessary for debating moral discourse. But at present, as far as I can see, it is merely a primitive system of measurement limited to human scale. Perhaps, better stated, it is the means by which we attempt to construct theories such that we may test them, refine them, and state them operationally.
In that sense, philosophy, is merely a looser member of the logics, and a subset of science, which in turn is a subset of truth telling.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 21:52:00 UTC
—“I should hasten to remind the court that we are here, in the presence of the court, because someone must decide that which is difficult to decide – not because the court is particularly skilled at such decisions, not that the court is better at such decisions than I, and certainly not because the court’s time is more precious than mine.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 20:10:00 UTC
Well, there are many things that we CAN say, that are not false, and provide us meaning. While there are other things that we must say and are truthful.
How do I do a better job of demarcating meaning and truth? Because that is what I am after.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 19:54:00 UTC
Popper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search for precision and parsimony, by making truthful statements along the way, rather than coopting the word ‘truth’ from his spiritual background. We are not investigating the mind of god. Nothing is obscured from us. Nature doesn’t try to lie to us, nor is nature mistaken.
The question is not ‘is that true’ but ‘can I testify to and warranty this?”
Linguistic blame avoidance caused a lot of ripple effects in philosophy.
But popper’s culture was not one of truth telling (as his own rhetorical attacks on competitors evidences.) Cosmopolitans are pragmatists not truth tellers. They do not warranty their speech as do westerners.
Meaning in cosmopolitanism is utilitarian and escapable, not truthful and warrantied.
Popper relies upon cosmopolitan truth (the unknowable mind of god), and cosmopolitan truthfulness (non-warrantied speech).
This is why he could advance science but that was the limit of his solution.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 19:46:00 UTC