CAN WE PLAY A GAME?
(learn something interesting)
1) So, can you explain the difference between the following terms?
– Experiencing
– Thinking
– Reasoning
– Rationalism
– Scientific Descriptions
– Operational Definitions
– Analytic Rationalism
– (Formal) Logic
– Mathematics
– Arithmetic
– Naming
The structure of this list isn’t arbitrary. And it should tell you something very important.
**Operationalism** + **Testimonal Truth**
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 08:43:00 UTC
THE CHOICE OF TERMS: “TESTIMONIAL TRUTH”
I was going to go with performative truth, which is an established term, but which applies to formal languages and is already heavily loaded within the analytic movement. So I’m going to go with “Testimonial Truth” because it is easily understood and not encumbered by existing loadings.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:46:00 UTC
WHAT IS CURT DOING? DRIVING TOWARD FASCISM? (NO)
Just a note to tame the people I might make nervous: Don’t get ahead of me. I have already solved the institutional problem of a heterogeneous system of cooperation over homogenous normative polities – the way we demonstrate that want to live. Shared cooperation but tribal homes. Insurance at scale. I solved that first. The problem has always been in explaining why it’s necessary, and why its the ONLY institutional solution to heterogeneous polity: calculability.
We have to stop people from trying to steal. The history of the evolution of the suppression of free riding is that we must expand our definition of property with the expansion of what we use as property. The commons is property. That property can be polluted with lies, or constantly maintained by truthful debate.
It’s not that complicated. We’ve been doing it mostly right for 4500 years.
I work by constructing arguments out of necessary propositions constrained by a few assumptions: liberty, prosperity, and rates of innovation that improve our genetic competitiveness against others who are doing the same. Our western strength has been the degree with which we have maintained conceptual correspondence with reality while increasing the population we cooperate with. This turns out to produce the greatest rate of innovation of any civilization, allow us out here on the fringe to ‘come from behind’ repeatedly.
The side effect is that we get to profit from selling these innovations to others, just as others previously benefitted from selling their innovations to us. But we have always been in small numbers. And we are returning to a people of small numbers. And we have lost our advantage.
So when I work I run down ideas and test them via argument. some of them succeed and some of them fail. I reinforce the ones that succeed, and discard those that fail. Sometimes I have to abandon entire strains of thought. But when I have an idea, I take it to market and find people to criticize it. And I improve it more.
Right now I am trying to find a solution to what I call ‘lying’ or ‘shipping fraudulent intellectual product’. And while I know the basis of it, I see something very interesting out on the horizon at least as interesting as the other ideas I’ve produced.
And so I am constructing arguments that function as a bridge that extends in that direction.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:45:00 UTC
(I am onto something new, and I can sense it, but I can’t tell what it is exactly… I think at the very edge of my mind I sense a solution….)
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:40:00 UTC
RESTATING MACDONALD: THE FULL POLITICAL SPECTRUM OF ADVOCACY
OK, so extending on Macdonald, Critique is a method of attacking western civilization by all possible political ideologies, from every class at once:
ARISTOCRATIC CLASS: Straussian Neoconservatism: International critique: extension of altruistic punishment, and justification of punishment, to the rest of the world. Complaint by the Aristocratic (military) class.
UPPER MIDDLE: Misesian Pseudoscience: Critique of the state financial system as a tool of the genetically homogenous polity. Complaint by the upper middle (financial) class.
MIDDLE: Rothbardian libertarianism: critique of the polity as a legally, culturally, and genetically, homogenous entity for the advancement of that genetically homogenous polity. Complaint by the middle (merchant and professional) class.
LOWER: Marxism, Pseudoscientific Socialism, Irrationalist Postmodernism: Critique of industry as a tool of the genetically homogenous polity. Complaint by lower (the working and craftsman), priestly, public intellectual, and academic classes.
The systematic conversion of an heroic homogenous outbred polity into a guilt driven polity by exacerbating their sense of altruism and altruistic punishment – and in doing so bribing the intellectual classes to obtain populist power under democracy by justifying the altruistic punishment of, and self destruction of, the homogenous polity, to the advantage of the insurgent polity.
IT ONLY SEEMS LIKE A LEFTIST CONSPIRACY
It isn’t. It’s a united front against our people and our civilization from every class.
ANTI-CONSPIRACY NOTE
Note that I don’t see this as an intentional conspiracy, but the following of genetic and cultural incentives to exploit all available opportunities for expansion.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:39:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle posted in Libertarian.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:27:00 UTC
(worth repeating)
—“Tucker may not have a rational or empirical answer, nor be able conduct a debate with people like me, but he is taking liberty in the right direction – away from those who have demonstrably failed.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:26:00 UTC
ON TUCKER’S HUMANITARIANISM
Tucker may lack a rational argument with which to articulate his position, and may argue with sentiments rather than rationalism, but his sentiments are correct expressions of his intuitions, and as usual, his intuitions are correct: there is something rotten in Rothbard’s Ghetto and it has harmed the cause of liberty long enough.
Sentimental arguments may be less articulate than rational and empirical arguments; but then again, the number of people who can grasp and be persuaded by sentimental arguments vastly outweighs those who can manage rational and empirical arguments. If I wanted to devote more time to criticism than creativity I could spend the full circuit of my day trying to correct the arguments of libertarians employing moralism masquerading as rationalism, and never see an end to it.
We have few intellectuals left, and the few we do are third tier, because rothbard (and mises) was wrong. Tucker may not have a rational or empirical answer, nor be able conduct a debate with people like me, but he is taking liberty in the right direction – away from those who have demonstrably failed.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:22:00 UTC
ABBREVIATED GLOSSARY LIST
(list of some key terms)
ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM
Aristocracy. Aristocratic Egalitarianism (open entry). Enfranchisement(voluntary). Reciprocal Insurance. Truth-Telling. Homogeneity. Militia and Regiment.
-negatives-
Liberty vs License or Permission.
KEY TERMS FOR PROPERTARIAN ETHICS AND POLITICS
Trust. High Trust. Transaction Costs. Common Law. Moral spectrum: Criminal,Ethical,Moral,Conspiratorial. Property Mirrors Morality. Competing Insurance Organizations. Calculability, Rationally Calculable. Formal (procedural) and Informal(normative) Institutions. Fully Informed, Warrantied, Voluntary Exchange Free Of Externality.
-negatives-
Pooling and Laundering (numbers). Obfuscation, Obscurantism, Verbalism (words). Overloading, Framing and Loading (content). Golden Rule(authoritarian) vs Silver Rule(egalitarian). Pathological Altruism. Monopoly Insurer vs Polycentric Insurance.
-tangents-
The Pack Response. Power vs Weakness.
KEY TERMS FOR TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY
Realism. Scientific Realism. Performative Truth. Testimonial Truth vs Platonic Truth. Testimony. Witness. Empiricism for observation. Operationalism for existence. Instrumentalism for reducing imperceptible and incomparable to perceptible and comparable.
Calculable vs Computable, Axiomatic and Internally consistent vs Descriptive and externally correspondent. Existence Proof. “Logics” as instruments. Information vs Imagination. Decidability.
TERMS OF CRITICISM OF ROTHBARDIAN AND MISESIAN IDEAS
Libertinism not libertarianism. NAP under IVP. Ghetto Ethics, Crusoe Ethics. Fallacy of aggression. Low trust. High Transaction Costs. Insufficient For Formation Of A Voluntary Polity. Jews and Gypsies.
(Must go to work now….)
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:57:00 UTC
DONT BLAME THEM. **THE PROBLEM IS US**
You know, the problem isn’t catholics, islam, or judasim, or their least effective low trust peer: gypsies. Its **us***. If your society is defenseless militarily it is your fault for not devoting sufficient effort and resources to defenses. If your society is colonizable, then you have not worked hard enough to prevent colonization. If your society is convertible, then you have not devoted enough resources to resist conversion. If your society is deceivable you are not devoting enough resources to preventing deception. If you lack liberty, you are not devoting enough resources to the violence required to prevent tyranny.
We have been colonized, converted, and deceived with pseudoscience.
Guns, Germs, Steel ….. requires Institutions and Philosophy.
We worked too hard at production and not hard enough at defense.
COOPERATION DOES NOT MEAN SACRIFICE
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:53:00 UTC