You know, writing about what you CAN experience, analogies to experience, and that which you cannot experience is really difficult…. All language is analogy to experience, so try to talk to the blind and deaf about color and sound requires layers of analogy all of which are open to misinterpretation and error… sigh…
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 17:22:00 UTC
SIMPLICITY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH
Free speech in a culture of men who tell the truth increases the velocity of cooperation and production. Free speech in a culture of men who systemically lie, by sophisticated means, temporarily increases consumption at the expense of trust and the consequential increases in innovation and production. In the 20th century science is somewhat immune from lying if not from their fascination with non-truthful speech, because so little (other than global warming) has been profitable to lie about and because like doctors and lawyers they protect their ‘ticket’ by persecuting offenders. It is this same ethic that is missing from politics. As such, without a systemic means of policing, free speech is simply a legalized endorsement of systematic lying for personal, organizational, political, and tribal gain. The only means we have of such a defense at the extra-professional scale of general political speech is the law. We may never be able to speak or know the ultimate truth on any matter, but thanks to science we have learned how to speak truthfully, and truthful speech is s required wherever others may come to harm, and politics, as the organized application of violence, is by definition the use of harm whenever used deceitfully.
Truth is enough The law is enough. Property rights are enough. And voluntary Exchange is a sufficient vehicle for the achievement of human wants and needs.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 16:43:00 UTC
SELLING DYSGENIA FOR PROFIT
You just prohibit lying, by requiring truthful speech. We do not allow for fomenting a conspiracy, why should we allow for the fomenting of theft for the purpose of profiting from the sale of dysgenia? I man, that’s the left’s program right? Sell dysgenia for profit? SO, unwind it by merely replacing free speech with free truthful speech. One cannot bring a harmful product, physical, service, or speech, to market without warranty against the production of harm.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 16:11:00 UTC
SO GIVEN THAT FACEBOOK IS A WELL-DRESSED, CLOSED, EMAIL SYSTEM …
… for consumers, so that it can attract consumer advertising. Then what would a well-dressed closed email system for the workplace look like? In other words: **What would you replace Outlook with?**
he he he.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 16:03:00 UTC
TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT RESPECTING OTHERS:
1) Which?
(a) Every man must be treated with respect or he may punish you for disrespect.
Or
(b) Every man must earn respect before he may punish you for disrespect.
2) Which produces a more scientific result? (a) or (b)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 14:50:00 UTC
SURPRISE FINDING : ANCESTRAL LANDS
I knew something was in the back of my head. And I have to translate it a bit from its current state. But I thought people might find this excerpt from the ending of the video interesting:
—“Therefore I would argue, that you not only possess a universal moral right to your transformed and improved ancestral lands it they were taken from your people by force, but, that assuming you produced and do produce, a higher standard of Propertarian morality than it’s takers, that you possess a universal moral obligation to restore ancestral lands, whether your own lands or otherwise.”—
Now, you have to understand the rather narrow conditions in support of this argument. But still, if you had asked me going into this analysis I would never have predicted that conclusion at all – and would have said it was crazy. But it’s not. It stands.
Not sure how long before I get the video out. I keep thinking I will finish it but I didn’t’ get time to work on the script until today – and only for an hour or two.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 14:44:00 UTC
FB, GOOGLE AND THE PROBLEM WITH MAJOR BRAND ADVERTISING
You see, Google merely transferred the money spent on yellow pages to a new medium, that provided, like shareware, free advertising (search results – the white pages), and better placement (yellow pages), and much better placement (advertisement position on the page).
Now I have no idea why google tolerates all these local (sh_t) yellow page listings other than it generates click money for them at the expense of users, instead of creating a very clear means of searching for local services based upon your address, that is edited as the yellow pages were, that places some demand for legitimacy upon the people making the listings. Because it’s impossible to find almost anything local still. So that seems like a ‘miss’ because it’s a hole someone can hurt them with in the future. (Citysearch was awesome and I still miss it)
But back to the broader picture, this plan to transform the yellow pages business onto the net was fantastic. However, it did not help attract major brands. Major brands cannot find success on google or Facebook, nor can these platforms be used to create local draws – events.
Next, because they were designed for consumers, it’s very hard for major brands to use these platforms to advertise to businesses that actually want to see those ads. And yes, there are things that businesses want to subscribe to. If I could see the advertising equivalent of Pinterest, as a user, and select what promises
Now, I’m living in a world where I see mobile as a bit of a misallocation of capital that will come to an end like the housing boom. (or the iPad era). It’s only interesting because like the era where americans immigrated germans into the midwest or the gold rush era in California, or the current migration of Chinese out of the serfdom of rice cultivation.
So I’m giving some thought to a more static world than we have seen for the past two decades.
And I’m more interested (as I have been for some time) in big brands, able to sell complex value propositions rather than trying to get attention from the consumer with A.D.D. from overstimulation.
Now, if we had very detailed profiles on individuals, even if you couldn’t see their names, and you could publish Pinterest-style information (Rich I mean), as a major brand, I would think that would be interesting. I mean, we have all these trivial little publications that try to reach out to people in industries. What if that was always available to them like a separate tab within Facebook?
We don’t want interruptions. But we all like diversions. And advertising property constructed can be a great diversion.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 10:11:00 UTC
(Dammit these short daylight hours are killing my productivity…)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 08:35:00 UTC
THE CATHEDRAL’S DEMAND FOR RESPECT
I am not sure why I should treat a coward, a liar and a thief with respect. Does anyone know the answer to that question? Because I certainly don’t.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:43:00 UTC
FOR HONOR AND GLORY
Honor = Remember, Record, and Celebrate
Glory = Reward with Celebration
Meaning? Your offspring, your name, AND your deeds will outlive you.
TERMS
Thou shalt not lie,
….nor permit others to lie.
Thou shalt not steal,
….nor permit others to steal.
Thou shalt not harm,
….nor permit others to harm.
Thou shalt not cause involuntary cost,
…nor permit others to cause involuntary cost.
Thou shalt not conspire,
….nor permit others to conspire.
Thou shalt not conquer,
….nor permit others to conquer.
Thou shalt not evade punishment of offenders,
….nor permit others to evade punishment of offenders.
Thou shalt not forgive an offense until punished or restored,
….nor permit others to forgive an offense until punished or restored.
Thou shalt not end a punishment once begun,
….nor permit others to end a punishment once begun.
Thou shalt remember, record, and celebrate,
….the names and deeds of honorable men,
….and require others to remember, record, and celebrate,
….the deeds of honorable men.
OATH
I shalt not lie,
….nor permit others to lie.
I shalt not steal,
….nor permit others to steal.
I shalt not harm,
….nor permit others to harm.
I shalt not cause involuntary cost,
…nor permit others to cause involuntary cost.
I shalt not conspire,
….nor permit others to conspire.
I shalt not conquer,
….nor permit others to conquer.
I shalt not evade punishment of offenders,
….nor permit others to evade punishment of offenders.
I shalt not forgive an offense until punished or restored,
….nor permit others to forgive an offense until punished or restored.
I shalt not end a punishment once begun,
….nor permit others to end a punishment once begun.
I shall remember, record, and celebrate,
….the names and deeds of honorable men,
….and require others to remember, record, and celebrate,
….the deeds of honorable men.
RITUAL
Memorize names and deeds of the pantheon of heroes in each of the four disciplines, and celebrate them on holidays.
IT IS THROUGH HONOR WE GAIN IMMORTALITY
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(roughly copied from song of roland, with obedience removed)
To at all times to speak the truth
To guard the honour of fellow men. (again, force the truth)
To fight for the welfare of all
Never to refuse a challenge from an equal
Never to turn the back upon a foe.
To persevere to the end in any enterprise begun
To refrain from the wanton giving of offence
To protect the weak and defenceless
To live to obtain honour and glory
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:42:00 UTC