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  • Robyn, The red pill

    Robyn,

    The red pill.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:54:00 UTC

  • THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PS

    THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:52:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC

  • (self assessment) The rule of thumb of divorce, is that it will take you about a

    (self assessment)

    The rule of thumb of divorce, is that it will take you about a year to get over every four years of marriage. This fall is five years. Seems like it’s worked about right for me. We sort of rebuild our minds sufficiently to forget almost anything every three years, so I bet there is some sort of algorithm in there we could develop and explain in terms of sensory overload. In other words, the more different your circumstance the more quickly you will develop alternate memories to replace the old. On the other hand of you carry it with you you’re associating the past with the present. So there is some sort of polluting going on while you’re forgetting. The mind is fascinating.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 11:23:00 UTC

  • YOU NIAL FERGUSON. ( Or should we call you St George? ) Krugman: a dishonest man

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/07/14/is-paul-krugman-leaving-princeton-in-quiet-disgrace/?fb_action_ids=10152560886224106&fb_action_types=news.publishesTHANK YOU NIAL FERGUSON. ( Or should we call you St George? )

    Krugman: a dishonest man who we should never take seriously.

    “Where I come from … we do not fear bullies. We despise them. And we do so because we understand that what motivates their bullying is a deep sense of insecurity. Unfortunately for Krugtron the Invincible, his ultimate nightmare has just become a reality. By applying the methods of the historian – by quoting and contextualizing his own published words – I believe I have now made him what he richly deserves to be: a figure of fun, whose predictions (and proscriptions) no one should ever again take seriously.” – Nial Ferguson.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 10:04:00 UTC

  • Sometimes, its good to be the king

    Sometimes, its good to be the king.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 09:30:00 UTC

  • What do you think of this? Is the whole thing not a silly language game? Page 6-

    What do you think of this?

    Is the whole thing not a silly language game?

    Page 6-23:

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 09:06:00 UTC

  • MYTHOLOGY Heard a great story from my ex-wife today. Made me laugh. There is a n

    MYTHOLOGY

    Heard a great story from my ex-wife today. Made me laugh.

    There is a not-small group of people in Seattle that seems to think I am Darth Vader or something. Which, while I do understand a bit, just isn’t the case. (I am a hamster – at least since my last illness.) Yes, some of those stories are PARTLY true. But most are a lot of made up nonsense: mythology.

    And, just to put rumors to rest, NO I didn’t start the revolution here in Ukraine. 🙂 No, I was not sent here on the government payroll (this time at least.) No I am not currently working for the government (although I bet I’m back on a watch list somewhere – again.)

    But if the truth be known, being Darth Vader isn’t all that hard. And you really don’t need the Force, or magic powers. You just need to outsmart them enough so that they THINK you have the force or magic powers. Then they start making up nonsense about you that takes on a life of its own – and sooner than you think: BAM – instant mythology. (Ack).

    Unfortunately, it is really not very hard to outsmart a lot of people. The technique is called ‘the prestige’. Act like you’re doing ONE thing that seems obviously self interested, while really doing another that is not, or which is significantly less so. People always assume, presume, and once they commit to a plan of action, you are in control of their actions. Me, I follow the numbers, and I’m loyal to a fault. If you wanna know what I’m thinking, in the end, it’s the numbers and loyalty – you just have to understand WHICH numbers, and who I’m loyal to.

    But that said, I don’t wanna be that guy any more. OK? That’s why I moved away from the dysfunctional land of the MSFT morality-distortion-field, to the land of nice people uncorrupted by such things.

    It’s kind of surprising now to look back and see that world.

    But, now, instead of back I’m moving forward.

    I just want to create a revolution.

    Not here. THERE.

    – Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 07:42:00 UTC

  • THE WISE, THE WELL MEANING, AND THE FOOLS Wise people discuss ideas Well meaning

    THE WISE, THE WELL MEANING, AND THE FOOLS

    Wise people discuss ideas

    Well meaning people discuss events.

    Fools discuss people.

    Wise people debate incentives

    Well meaning people debate morals

    Fools debate aspirations

    Wise people solve in terms of operations.

    Well meaning solve in terms of logic.

    Fools solve in terms of experiences.

    Wise people consider consequences over decades or centuries.

    Well meaning people consider consequences over months or years.

    Fools consider consequences over moments – if at all.

    Wise people think in terms of distributions.

    Well meaning people think in terms of groups.

    Fools think in terms of ideal types.

    Wise people argue economically.

    Well meaning people argue with historically.

    Fools argue with analogies.

    Wise people contemplate the necessary.

    Well meaning people contemplate the preferential.

    Fools contemplate luxuries.

    Wise people philosophize empirically.

    Well meaning people philosophize rationally.

    Fools philosophize idealistically.

    Wise people judge in terms of scarcity.

    Well meaning people judge in terms of utility.

    Fools judge in terms of envy.

    Wise people desire art

    Well meaning people desire design.

    Fools desire novelty.

    Wise people solve competitively.

    Well meaning people solve consensually.

    Fools solve decisively.

    Wise people trade.

    Well meaning people persuade

    Fools command.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    July 2014

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 06:46:00 UTC