http://therightstuff.biz/2014/03/09/death-of-honor/”Honor and discipline are not compatible with our post-modern culture. This is fact. One values selflessness, the other values selfishness. Post-modernism is the antithesis of honor.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:24:00 UTC
Good Marketing requires that we:
1) stay on message;
2) stay in brand, and;
3) stay visible.
Good Ideology is mostly good marketing. And good marketing is expensive.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:22:00 UTC
http://therightstuff.biz/2014/03/09/death-of-honor/
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:16:00 UTC
WHAT MORAL RULES DO YOU USE IN GLOBAL STRATEGY?
(anti-russian pro-conflict warning) (i warned you)
I don’t understand why Crimea can’t be an independent country. I view voluntary secession as an inviolable human right of free association. I don’t understand why Crimea, which has been a Russian asset for a very long time, cannot choose to join Russia. I completely understand why Russia’s internal security requires the Crimean warm water ports.
But that is very different from taking it by force. Especially when it could have been leased or purchased outright, and a referendum constructed that would easily have been possible by merely negotiating a discount on gas with Ukraine.
If Russia cannot be a good world citizen, the the only alternative, is to yet again, militarily punish Russia; and to keep punishing Russia economically and politically every few generations until it learns to be a good world citizen. Fascination with the quality of life of one’s citizens, stable borders, and plentiful trade: period. Not restoration of the Caliphate or the Soviet Empire. The world needs far more smaller states not bigger ones, whose only value is the ability to conduct of war.
We have spent five-hundred years of blood and treasure incompetently but steadily dragging humanity out of ignorance and poverty. And we have spent spent the past twenty years building commercial ties and dependence the post-soviet sphere and the west, in the hope of bringing Russia into the modern word of prosperity.
Because a militaristic and totalitarian Russia is intolerable to the west.
Because while a German-Russian partnership, where both countries Suppress corruption, share resources and skills, is an asset to both the world and the west, and allows the american empire to contract – – while a Europe held hostage by a totalitarian Russia is a strategic impossibility for both america
The only way to prevent energy being used as a weapon is to conquer or colonize the source of the energy.
So, if Russia has given up on the respect for boundaries, maybe the west should give up on respect for boundaries, and colonize Moscow and Russian resources.
Just drive them into poverty yet again, collapse their economy. And acknowledge that Russia is not ready willing and able to enter the modern world on its own.
And it’s self defense to leave that kind of government in your back yard.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-13 15:06:00 UTC
THE IMMORALITY OF PACIFIST LIBERTARIANISM
Pacifist (peasant and merchant) libertarianism is analogous to begging at the foot of the state, trying to get PERMISSION to enjoy some liberty.
Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism actively denies others the possibility of infringing upon liberty by the constant threat of violence.
Or put in Propertarian terms, whining, whimpering, pleading, chastising and justifying are just excuses to do nothing to advance liberty and feel good about it, or relying upon ‘faith’ while waiting to get liberty at a discount, rather than pay the high cost of denying others access to your property. It’s just christian ‘waiting for the savior’ in secular language.
We aren’t doing anything. The only reason it looks like we’ve moved the needle at all, is because everyone else is failing so badly – both the Cathedral and the Enlightenment are collapsing under the weight of democracy.
The source of liberty is the organized application of violence by every living should that desires it. And liberty is only earned by those willing to use violence to deny others the ability to infringe upon our liberty.
The cause of moral intuition is the prohibition on free riding: cheating, and trying to get something at a discount at other’s expense.
Pacifist libertarianism IS IMMORAL by that standard.
For millennia one gained property rights by fighting for them or committing to fight for them. That is the only means of possessing property rights – by obtaining them in exchange from others who are willing to fight for them.
Everyone else is a free-rider. If they possess liberty. It is only because those willing to use violence to deny others access to property give it to them.
That is a DESCRIPTIVE ethic. Rather than all the Continental nonsense that libertarians rely upon by taking cues from the obscurantism of the Marxists.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-13 10:05:00 UTC
No doubt you’d find this interesting, perhaps some content there that might be workable. 🙂 Perhaps a response even.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-13 09:40:00 UTC
SOME OF THE “FIRST PROBLEMS” OF PHILOSOPHY
1) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
“Why do we not commit suicide?”
2) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF POLITICS
“Why should I not kill you and take your stuff?”
3) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF COOPERATION
“How can we prevent free riding?”
4) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF DIVISION OF LABOR
“How do we determine who controls which resource?”
5) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF FAMILY STRUCTURE
“How do we organize reproduction, child rearing and inheritance in the current means of production?”
6) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF INTER-FAMILIAL COOPERATION (community)
“Why should a woman be free to bear children that they cannot support, and place the burden for them upon others without their consent?”
7) THE FIRST PROBLEM OF INTER-COMMUNITY COOPERATION (economy)
“what is are the universal moral rules we must observe to successfully cooperate with all other groups?”
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-13 09:30:00 UTC
http://www.analyticalfreedom.com/why-sex-invalidates-interventionism/EXTREMELY GOOD WRITING : GOOD READ FOR ETHICAL SUPERGEEKS
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-12 18:13:00 UTC
TERNARY ETHICS vs BINARY vs SINGULAR
Examples
1) Aristocracy(violence) vs Ghetto (trade) vs Peasantry (Submission)
2) Prohibition on free riding vs private property vs community property
3) Do not unto others… vs do only unto others.. vs do unto others…
4) Ternary Ethics vs Binary Ethics vs Singular ethics (submission)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-12 13:49:00 UTC
THE END OF MORAL INTUITIONISM AND THE RISE OF MORAL REALISM
(meaningful)
Most philosophical debate degenerates to a recursive discourse on norms.
That’s because human beings really enjoy the ease of introspection, and the self reinforcing reward of moral intuitionism.
But if propertarianism is correct, and I am pretty certain that it is, then moral truths can be expressed as purely rational arguments, and introspection merely tells you about your own reproductive strategy, class strategy, culture strategy, and cognitive biases.
That means an end to moral intuitionism.
Propertarianism allows us to produce a formal logic of ethics and morality, that denies us our cognitive biases and rational limitations.
And that is why we need formal logics.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-12 12:44:00 UTC