YESTERDAY’S VIDEO NUMBER 2 – ELI AND CURT ON PROGRESSIVES LIBERTARIANS AND CONSERVATIVES.
In this 20 minute video I try to convince Eli Harman that progressives are actually valuable in their own way. He remains skeptical. Over beer later (what brand does he drink?) He said I had not yet convinced him. But I am not sure he wasn’t just teasing me.
Why? Because he’s very often teasing me. lol
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-16 00:16:00 UTC
ROMAN CUT THIS: #13 – LESTERIAN VERBALISM
Jan lester’s theory of liberty is an obscurantist tautological verbalism that starts with the mere normative meaning of liberty and he loosely deduces subjective value, rather than starting with subjective value, constructing morality, and defining liberty as a legal constraint against the members of the state as yet another statement of property rights. since nothing he states is existential, he demonstrates the fallacy of rationalism in creating mere analogies rather than operational necessities.
Only in libertine or marxist philosophy could you get away with anything that ridiculous outside of a temple of one kind or another. Only in philosophy could you get away with something that ridiculous.
And that’s before I get to the abuses of Critical Rationalism. For some reason Lester confuses falsification as hardening a theory, with legitimizing incompetence – a failure to demonstrate that he hasn’t just created a tautology. (Which he has.)
Apparently I have to do a summary of on all the extant libertarian follies instead of just making fun of Jan Lester. On the other hand, at least he isn’t promoting libertinism – he’s just promoting pseudo-rationalism, pseudo-science, and sloppy thinking.
Which doesn’t put him in too exclusive a club. Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-16 00:14:00 UTC
YESTERDAY’S VIDEOS : 1- RECAP 2014 IN PROPERTARIANISM
The Year in Review.
Starting in December of last year I came out and started the reformation of libertarianism, and restoring it to its aristocratic heritage, by laundering the cosmopolitan verbalisms that rothbard and others have inserted
1) APRIORISM: While I can’t quite do it elegantly yet, I have put a permanent bullet in apriorism as practiced by the cosmopolitans (mises, rothbard popper etc) and continentals. (Hoppe and all the germans). I don’t much care if that zombie idea dies, but I have ended its life at least.
2) NAP/IVP: I have put a permanent silver bullet in the NAP/IVP. That vampire will just take a while to die. And I have forever put an end to Rothbard’s ghetto ethics.
3) PRAXEOLOGY I have put a permanent silver bullet in Misesian Praxeology as he stated it and Rothbard expanded and abused it – And demonstrate that mises merely failed to develop economic operationalism.
4) EMPIRICISM IN ECONOMICS: in particular in the statement that economics is deductive rather than empirical, and operational.
5) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH : I have defined existential truth as testimonial truth – a minor improvement over performative truth, and used the term “testimonial” in order to both distinguish verbalism of performative truth, from the operationalism of testimonial truth, and to invoke the idea of jury that is central to our western evolutionary strategy.
6) THE TRUTH-SPEAKING METHOD ISN’T LIMITED TO SCIENCE – And I have shown that the scientific method is mislabeled, merely because it is the method scientists developed due to their incentives, but is in fact the universal method of truth-speaking.
7) THE MERGING OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY AS TRUTH SPEAKING – And I think I have or will have, restated western philosophy as the attempt to speak the truth in testimony. And that from that perspective philosophy and science are indistinguishable. We can practice philosophy that reduces our ability to speak truthfully; or increases our ability to lie; or increases our ability to speak truthfully.
Note: today it occurs to me that all these nonsensical philosophical systems are interstitial means of inquiry that are no longer to be dismissed, but which tell us nothing unless the theories produced by them can be operationally articulated (constructed).
8) EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES AND TRUTH: Evolutionary Strategies: and I have touched upon the uses of truth as reflective of evolutionary strategies. The weaponization of truth, of the commons, of the family.
9) THE GENETIC DEFECT OF ALTRUISM – I think I have touch upon the fact that our altruism unless we are isolated on an island, or walled beyond a fortress of mountains, is an uncompetitive strategy that cannot resist aggression and weaponized family and reproduction. It is our vulnerability.
10) FAMILY POLICY VS INDIVIDUAL LAW – I forgot to add to my list for 2914, the concept that law must be constructed for individuals, yet state policy must be constructed for families.
11) LAW AND VELOCITY OF PROGRESS.
12) INTER-TEMPORAL INFORMATION SYSTEM – voluntary exchange as an information system. Just as prices form an information system
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-16 00:05:00 UTC
PAGAN SYMBOLS ARE NOT HATE SYMBOLS
You do understand that this is a war on OUR identity so that others can advance THEIR identity, right?
Mercilessly Wring the Cathedral out of Academy and State.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:50:00 UTC
—“Are we going to engage in the world we actually live in or just hide behind banal rhetoric comforted in the fact you are right while you enjoy your stasis and inactivity?”— Justin Ptak
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:48:00 UTC
UNIVERSALISM IS A SYMPTOM OF A THE IMMATURE MIND OF A CHILD.
It doesn’t matter whose universalism we’re talking about.
I don’t think that needs further explanation. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:47:00 UTC
http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/11/11/constitutionalism-empty-doctrine/
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:41:00 UTC
http://m.wsj.com/articles/harvey-silverglate-liberals-are-killing-the-liberal-arts-1415573959?mobile=y
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:41:00 UTC
COME JOIN US IN L’VIV
It’s cheap. It’s beautiful. The food is awesome. The people are sweet.
And we can talk about liberty, aristocracy, philosophy, economics and politics – a lot.
Really. It’s good for you. It’s good for all of us. Just four or five days is enough.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:00:00 UTC
GOOD ENLIGHTENMENT ARISTOCRATIC THOUGHT – ALBEIT NOT GOOD POST ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT.
“The Closing of the American Mind.” – Alan Bloom
“Cultural literacy” – E. D. Hirsch
“In Defense of Elitism” – William A. Henry
Nietzsche was right. A lot.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 22:49:00 UTC