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  • Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome o

    Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome or paris do? Was there a philosohpical center of the german enlightenment? I mean kant was from prussia (now occupied by russia).


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 08:04:00 UTC

  • PASSIVE VOICE ALLOWS FOR THE ‘VICITIMISM’ EXPLOIT (insightful)(first application

    PASSIVE VOICE ALLOWS FOR THE ‘VICITIMISM’ EXPLOIT

    (insightful)(first application of operationalism)

    –“West Point forbids its cadets to use the passive voice. It’s an excellent practice. In the strict sense we forbid the passive voice in English and it makes for much more solid communication than in French where the passive voice acceptable. Inverted sentences in the passive voice drive me nuts as they seem nothing more than the exclamation of a noun that the speaker modifies with adjectives and participles, which he, in turn, further modifies with adverbs.

    I think also that the passive voice makes for a cultural vulnerability that socialism and the ‘victimism’ exploit. If you are a people to whom things happen (passive voice), are you not more likely to allow a nebulous 3rd party (the State) act on you? If, on the other hand, you are a nation that makes things happens (active voice), are you not more likely to oppose the usurpation/negation of your liberties?”– Don Finnegan

    Active Voice, E-Prime, and Operational Language place increasing demands on the speaker such that his words cannot contain obscurantisms.

    (Germans were wrong. English is better for philosophy. lol)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 07:55:00 UTC

  • What is the origin of Jewish/Cosmopolitan/Marxist/Postmodern “Psychologizing?” W

    What is the origin of Jewish/Cosmopolitan/Marxist/Postmodern “Psychologizing?” Where does that come from?

    We don’t do this in western philosophy, particularly in aristocracy, except under polemical circumstances. It’s considered ill mannered at minimum, is a violation of the equality of condition required to enter into debate, and as such it has and can get you challenged to a duel, and killed – which was only successfully outlawed last century. I suggest wrongly so. It is the worse violation of debate, and an obscurant means of calling someone a liar. And calls his argument into question, not on logical grounds but on grounds of honesty that are a prerequisite for warriors to lay down their arms when entering a debate.

    In the west, ridicule is dishonest. It could get you killed. Heck, calling a woman a whore could get you killed. We constrained speech heavily until the marxists abused the constitutional law.

    I didn’t really understand it before as a technique for loading, framing, and overloading, nor that it is an evolution of ‘rallying and shaming” used by females to control alphas through competitors.

    But where does it start? Where did this evolve from? Why does Popper use it to criticize Hegel (fallaciously in most cases). Why do Rothbard and Hoppe rely upon ridicule when they have a weak argument? Why does rothbard create straw men? Why is Mises adamant that he is right, condemn others as socialists, but write pseudoscience with the air of pontification? Why is nonsense endemic in rothbardian libertarianism? Why are postmoderns masters of it on a scale never seen before? Why are marxists masters of rallying and shaming?

    I had thought it was a Marxist strategy arising out of critique. I don’t know a lot of thinkers outside of Spinoza, Maimonides, Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Rothbard and Chomsky. Chomsky can’t utter an honest sentence. But Spinoza, Maimonides, and Mendelssohn don’t seem to do anything of the sort.

    Why do marxists rely so heavily on ridicule rather than argument? Conversely, why was it so hard, and does it remain so hard, for conservatives to adopt ridicule, and instead continue to levy accusations of immorality? Why do progressives and socialists all conservatives stupid, yet fail to grasp them, while conservatives understand progressives but merely call them wrong and fostering immorality?

    I can explain these behaviors in evolutionary terms, and I can explain them in cognitive terms. But what I don’t know is where the use of that form of rhetoric in public originated? Where does this kind of nonsense argument start? Is it in France? Is that where the marxists got their arguments? It is, is isn’t it. But, is that the start of it, or did it exist before?

    Was it buried int he lower classes but prohibited like Montainge’s digressions from literary works? Than with the rise of printing it expanded through newly available channels the way ghetto speak has expanded in current language?

    So where does this set of techniques come from? Where does the straw man, ridicule, pseudoscientific, ‘critique’ method of fallacious argument that is so expensive and impossible to counter come from?

    Help appreciated.

    I mean, I know it’s immoral and I know how to arm against it now, but where did it start? It seems so much like french vaudevillian nonsense, and thats the only place I can come from.

    Thanks.


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

  • I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and p

    I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and proof criteria across the top. But I’d just rather keep it simple.

    Truth (testimony) in which you attest to some subset of the following:

    – Proof of Construction (causality in the form of actions of measurement reducible to sympathetic testing: ie: empiricism and instrumentalism)

    – Proof of Consistency (Internal Consistency: math, logic, protocol/test)

    – Proof of Falsification (parsimony)

    – Proof of Correspondence/Verification (correlation)

    Regarding a:

    – Theory (general rule of arbitrary precision) or if possible;

    – Theory (general rule of perfect parsimony)

    While paradigmatic shuffles are affected by changes in basic concepts, as far as I can tell, all statements reduced to operations, and satisfying the test of construction will result in increases in precision, not in falsification.

    At least, I can’t think of any exception to this theory that is not a mere verbalism, or mistake in understanding of the nature of precision. But it’s possible I am wrong.

    I could also take a clue from popper’s use of the funnel of time to illustrate a sort of spectrum of proofs. But I’ll have to think about it.

    What bothers me most is that we have ruined the term ‘truth’ in the vernacular and in science and philosophy. It is used as an allegorical, and general term for a multitude of cases most of which are not truths whatsoever, but mere analogies to truth. Worse, Popper brought his mystical heritage with him and conflated perfect parsimony (ultimate truth), with proof (demonstration of truth) and testimony (truth telling). Only one of those three things can exist – the last.

    Sigh….


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 05:41:00 UTC

  • THANKS TO ALL MY NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS I really appreciate your giving me th

    THANKS TO ALL MY NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS

    I really appreciate your giving me the chance to play philosophy games, and share the planet with you. 🙂

    Curt 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 04:44:00 UTC

  • MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY…. “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, peter Schiff

    MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY….

    “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, peter Schiff sounds a lot less realistic.”

    “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, Molyneux seems like a good populist, but.. not much else”

    “Curt. Since i’ve been following you ….”

    “Curt. I have the same feeling about Rothbard…”

    Reforming libertarianism one person at a time.

    ( Now if I had some hope of getting the same reaction to performative truth, operationalism, and instrumentalism. ). 🙂

    If that happens it will be after I am dead …. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 16:11:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a video

    Curt Doolittle shared a video.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 15:47:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UKRAINIAN ENTREPRENEURS. I crashed a Ukrainian entreprene

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UKRAINIAN ENTREPRENEURS.

    I crashed a Ukrainian entrepreneurs meeting tonight. I like to visit these whenever I can, wherever on earth I am at the time. And see if I can help anyone at all, or meet some interesting people. Tonight was fun – really.

    Talked about how much I love Ukraine and didn’t realize myself how passionate I am.

    Many had the same feeling. But the reason why is interesting: because we all felt we could make a difference here, and in the west we can be consumers, sure, but have no meaningful impact.

    That realization and the feeling was moving. In Ukraine, every entrepreneur matters.

    Every single one.

    And that is a spiritual reward that is hard to obtain elsewhere.

    I need to propagate that message. Ukraine is awesome for biz.

    Met a young lawyer in IT law educated in the UK. Gonna switch. Hate my UA lawyer. ( american).

    Had to stay in message that you find customers with problems and create companies to solve them. You do not build a business you know about and sell it. I want to kill the “idea” meme and push the customer meme because that is the primary reason young people fail. No matter what you think, you’re just ignorant by your customers standards. You must find problems customers cant solve and know more about that than they do. Otherwise you are wasting your time and theirs with your ignorance.

    Talked a little about why Ukraine can only export labor: because there is no accumulated capital whether cultural, institutional, organizational, not patterns of trade, no trusted networks. No accumulated advantage at all. They need to get local capital investment to build Ukrainian companies that accumulate capital locally rather than exporting all the capital produced by their cheap labor.we think in terms of companies in the west but it is the network of companies in any sector that produces goods and services – including the most important companies: the courts/lawyers and banks/accountants. Ukraine doesn’t have them.

    You cannot really fathom how important Austrian economics is to business people ( sans Misesian pseudoscience) in this part of the world. Macro is for politicians. Austrian is for entrepreneurs. ( i hope i live ling enough to repair Austrian economics and rescue it from misesian pseudoscience). I kinda think its gonna take beyond my lifetime to get across how important my ideas are)

    Pissed off one guy by saying that it was cheaper to pay unnecessary government employees to stay home than to have them impede the economy.

    Same guy who thought it was good that the government tried to force money to stay in the country rather than give people reasons to keep it here. He said something else economically destructive. But I forgot it. I should have given him more attention because i didn’t explain his (common) errors. And now he will just hate me. But I cant be on my game all the time..,

    I fucking love ukrainians: all the goodness of americans without the bad.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 14:48:00 UTC

  • I’m envious of the guys who are great husbands, fathers, friends, and providers

    I’m envious of the guys who are great husbands, fathers, friends, and providers who don’t get involved in selfish nonsense like philosophy, politics, public anything, and other self gratifying obsessions. I mean, I wish I could be one of them. I would be suicidal if I tried. I have to feed the merciless dopamine seeking machine in my head with information, competition, and whatever else it needs to keep busy enough to leave me alone. But when I see those family pictures, I see the same thing other people do when they look at athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs and politicians. I see what is beyond my ability to obtain. And while it used to make me sad, I understand that each of us moves humanity forward in our own ways, and we are not able to or meant to be equal in this world. It takes each of us to fill each possible niche. So I content myself with respecting and admiring those that have done what I have not and cannot seem to do no matter how hard I try.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 10:29:00 UTC

  • “The closest you should get to denim shorts is helping a woman out of them”– lo

    –“The closest you should get to denim shorts is helping a woman out of them”–

    lol. Priceless.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 09:43:00 UTC