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PERSONAL ADVICE

(worth repeating)

It is not helpful to think of others as fools, idiots or malcontents, which presumes human equality of ability, but to think of others as different breeds of human with better and lesser abilities, each of whom does the best it can competing against the mean of human abilities that we call ‘society’.

Instead of wishing for lower transaction costs, which one cannot possibly achieve, it is better to recognize one’s superiority, and choose between helping the demonstrably inferior, ignoring them, or admonishing them a little bit in order to ‘correct’ their behavior – a necessary and beneficial contribution to the commons.

The illusion of equality under the enlightenment fallacy has produced negative conceptual norms even in the best of us. So those of us with Aristocratic abilities and sentiments should not fall victim to the fallacy ourselves.

My approach is to assume everyone is making constant errors, and to try to help them. It’s an aristocratic duty, and taking priestly, professorial, or philosophical, or whatever approach you wish to call ‘teaching’ or ‘training’ has improved my life dramatically. In my twenties I decided to help everyone I cam in contact with in some small way – usually by helping them understand the world as it is, rather than as they wish it to be.

Helping others removes frustration, and brings you and others joy. You will always be happier helping than being frustrated. And yes, helping is a high cost. On the other hand the more helping you do the better you get at it, and it is wonderfully rewarding to experience how you are treated by others when they expect that you will try to help rather than confront them.

We have a lot of work to do. The enlightenment fallacy, the errors of the socialists and the lies of the postmodernists can be countered with recent scientific evidence, and by learning a few arguments from Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Propertarianism, and Testimonial Truth and Operationalism.

They created a fallacy by talking. The cure is truth. And truth is helpful.