I am not sure how you get praxeology and apriorism in the same argument, because operationalism (praxeology) and justification (apriorism) are like oil and water. They don’t mix. They’re mutually exclusive concepts.
Then, you pour gasoline on it, and call it a ‘science’ when it’s not, and we get ‘pseudoscience’ out of it. Sigh. No wonder Misesians look stupid all the time.
Why nobody figured that out is sorta’ exasperating.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 07:03:00 UTC
LIBERTY IS LIKE TRUTH
Liberty is like truth : there is infinitely more of it than you have, no matter how much you have at present. Liberty is not a state. It’s a pursuit.
(repost) (worth repeating)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 06:31:00 UTC
IS STATISM MORE UTILITARIAN THAN ARISTOCRACY?
FROM : Roman Skaskiw
QUESTION: Been reading Fukuyama — Seems state structures replaced kinship-Aristocratic ones b/c states were better at coordinating violence and meritocracy (first in war, then in bureaucracy).
He uses the end of the Chou Dynasty in China to illustrate this.
1. Do you agree with this assessment? 2. Do you think modern technology and understanding could overcome these disadvantages if we reverted to some form of aristocratic kinship?
ANSWER:
Yes. Because they had insufficient property rights.
Yes, Because they had a low trust society.
The monarchies did not have this problem. Nor could they build such great edifices of war. I think, whether Fukukuyama admits it, where all other historians do, the purpose of the Chinese system was the conduct of war and suppression.
By contrast, the purpose of the western model is ADJUDICATION. One cannot had adjudication without property rights. One must have tyranny. One cannot have adjudication without property rights, one must have tyranny.
Command and control under the western model is superior. Rates of innovation under the western modal are superior. The fact that the Chinese got started first, is not much testimony. The fact that no matter what Europe did, when it used science, it exceeded rates of development of all other civilizations. Property rights and science. They are both ‘CALCULABLE’ institutions.
The west, under duress kept the “east” (desert and steppe people) at bay.
The east, under duress, kept the “west ” (desert and steppe people) at bay.
We just chose different models, and the desert and steppe people are still a (fkng) problem to this day.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 06:19:00 UTC
LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIMES!
Aristocratic Egalitarianism + Propertarianism + Operationalism (Praxeology/Ethical Realism)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 04:49:00 UTC
REPOST – BECAUSE IT’S THAT GOOD.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 04:39:00 UTC
(Brief panic attack as I fear that 30 days of work on my book were lost to the hard disk crash. Not all, but about maybe, three weeks of research notes. Why? the save directory and backup directory were outside of Dropbox for some reason, and while travelling I didn’t have time machine available. Not sure how I moved it or how it ‘got moved’, but I lost quite a bit of work there. And it’s my fault for not looking carefully at where the docs were saving. Great hardware and software can’t compensate for human error. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 11:25:00 UTC
https://foursquare.com/v/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F–mafia/4bd73bb732a29521ee18d6b8/photos(personal) (neighborhood hangout)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 09:37:00 UTC
(Is it OK if I actually think like this? At least, metaphorically that is. lol )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 09:21:00 UTC
FUTURE VIDEOS
We are going to start making regular videos on:
(a) The Evolution of the High Trust Society (The Western Protestant Ethic)
(b) Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Propertarian restatement of western ethics)
(c) Propertarianism (Moral Realism/Logic of Cooperation)
(d) Post Democratic Solutions to Political Institutions
and, if anyone is crazy enough to want to follow the “hard stuff”
(f) Instrumentalism, Operationalism and Intuitionism (Praxeology restated ‘correctly’)
Unfortunately, I cannot pull a Monlyneux, and talk to the camera. I need an interview format to think and speak comfortably. So we’ll be doing these in interview format.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 06:42:00 UTC
Click for video: videos/10536312_10152565041752264_655761083_n_10152565024892264.mp4 Curt Doolittle on the entrepreneurial opportunity in Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 04:49:00 UTC