1) To develop mental fitness and distance from our impulses (to develop agency) 2) To accumulate an inventory of human errors and bias so that we do not make them in our own lives, and are not affected by others who employ them. 3) To survey the sets of myths and paradigms (stories we tell ourselves) such that we can choose goals in our lives. 4) (the bad part) to find a verbal means of achieving some degree of the mindfulness that is trainable through religion(mythology), ritual (prayer or repetitious action), and self authoring (stoicism – a ritual), and meditation (a ritual in and of itself). Mindfuless serves as a sedative for animal impulse, without the soporific affect of chemicals that interfere with processing in general.. As far as I know that is the end of philosophy. The rest is just left to religion(nonsense/lies) or science (decidability/truth). Nearly all of the corpus of philosophy is reducible to fantasy moral literature (french), or fantasy psychological Literature (german), fantasy pseudoscientific literature (ashkenazi), or the attempt to develop scientific versions of those fields (english, American.) The problem with science, law proper, and truth proper is that in matters of the personal and social we are not ambivalent neutral surveyors of the material – but seek only personal and group advantage in whatever we can filter from it to advance our interests. Yet science and truth are uncomfortable and dehumanizing. So to no small degree, philosophy is PRACTICED as the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of finding excuses that comfort us given our genetic, social, economic, cultural, and temporal conditions without relying on the demands easily falsified and supernatural faith. In other words, like religion, it’s therapeutic self medication – sedation.
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What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
1) To develop mental fitness and distance from our impulses (to develop agency) 2) To accumulate an inventory of human errors and bias so that we do not make them in our own lives, and are not affected by others who employ them. 3) To survey the sets of myths and paradigms (stories we tell ourselves) such that we can choose goals in our lives. 4) (the bad part) to find a verbal means of achieving some degree of the mindfulness that is trainable through religion(mythology), ritual (prayer or repetitious action), and self authoring (stoicism – a ritual), and meditation (a ritual in and of itself). Mindfuless serves as a sedative for animal impulse, without the soporific affect of chemicals that interfere with processing in general.. As far as I know that is the end of philosophy. The rest is just left to religion(nonsense/lies) or science (decidability/truth). Nearly all of the corpus of philosophy is reducible to fantasy moral literature (french), or fantasy psychological Literature (german), fantasy pseudoscientific literature (ashkenazi), or the attempt to develop scientific versions of those fields (english, American.) The problem with science, law proper, and truth proper is that in matters of the personal and social we are not ambivalent neutral surveyors of the material – but seek only personal and group advantage in whatever we can filter from it to advance our interests. Yet science and truth are uncomfortable and dehumanizing. So to no small degree, philosophy is PRACTICED as the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of finding excuses that comfort us given our genetic, social, economic, cultural, and temporal conditions without relying on the demands easily falsified and supernatural faith. In other words, like religion, it’s therapeutic self medication – sedation.
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Ethnocentrism Is the Optimum Political Order
(sorry, it’s just science) Rule of Natural Law and Markets in Everything is the optimum set of institutions, for the simple reason that they can continuously adapt and as such continuously suppress rent opportunities, and the accumulation of fragility. Nationalism is the optimum international order. The problem is GETTING EVERYONE THERE the way we dragged humanity kicking and screaming into consumer capitalism and rule of law. Anyone arguing otherwise is simply trying to steal something(s) from someone(s) else(s) somehow(s). PROSECUTE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THEFTS.
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Ethnocentrism Is the Optimum Political Order
(sorry, it’s just science) Rule of Natural Law and Markets in Everything is the optimum set of institutions, for the simple reason that they can continuously adapt and as such continuously suppress rent opportunities, and the accumulation of fragility. Nationalism is the optimum international order. The problem is GETTING EVERYONE THERE the way we dragged humanity kicking and screaming into consumer capitalism and rule of law. Anyone arguing otherwise is simply trying to steal something(s) from someone(s) else(s) somehow(s). PROSECUTE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THEFTS.
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Stoicism Is Intuitive and Absent Any Woo Woo.
STOICISM IS INTUITIVE AND ABSENT ANY WOO WOO. THE ANSWER TO A BLUE PILLED WORLD by James Santagata What is powerful about Stoicism is that forces us to maintain an INTERNAL locus of control along with high agency. At the same time, filtering out emotions by considering what we have rather than what we don’t and aligning with natural law allow us to think, calculate and act in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Conserving energy, creating the smallest emotional wake (for ourselves and others, thus mitigating or eliminating negative 2nd and 3rd order effects) and economizing motion as well as emotion. What I love about this stuff, is that many of us, me including, stumbled on this, as the only thing that made sense in a Blue-Pilled world- and it is so comforting to say, “omg, this is actually a fully formed philosophy”. BUT we have the added advantage of neuroscience and 2.000 years of accumulated history to take it even further. Love it. And with microeconomics, and nanoeconomics, and behavioral economics. We have the Holy Grail. We can now mathematically model Stoicism and we understand not just ourselves but everyone we interact with, through (as you are wont to say) incentives, we can look at max and min as well as elasticity / inelasticity through microeconomics and with all this granular data, we can look at nanoeconomisc (individual transaction) and then set all this against behavioral economisc / neuroeconomics and see that Stoicism is the way forward and we can improve it Stoicism 2.0 but added a few things and emphasizing a few others. (Omg, I’m gonna orgasm.)
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Stoicism Is Intuitive and Absent Any Woo Woo.
STOICISM IS INTUITIVE AND ABSENT ANY WOO WOO. THE ANSWER TO A BLUE PILLED WORLD by James Santagata What is powerful about Stoicism is that forces us to maintain an INTERNAL locus of control along with high agency. At the same time, filtering out emotions by considering what we have rather than what we don’t and aligning with natural law allow us to think, calculate and act in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Conserving energy, creating the smallest emotional wake (for ourselves and others, thus mitigating or eliminating negative 2nd and 3rd order effects) and economizing motion as well as emotion. What I love about this stuff, is that many of us, me including, stumbled on this, as the only thing that made sense in a Blue-Pilled world- and it is so comforting to say, “omg, this is actually a fully formed philosophy”. BUT we have the added advantage of neuroscience and 2.000 years of accumulated history to take it even further. Love it. And with microeconomics, and nanoeconomics, and behavioral economics. We have the Holy Grail. We can now mathematically model Stoicism and we understand not just ourselves but everyone we interact with, through (as you are wont to say) incentives, we can look at max and min as well as elasticity / inelasticity through microeconomics and with all this granular data, we can look at nanoeconomisc (individual transaction) and then set all this against behavioral economisc / neuroeconomics and see that Stoicism is the way forward and we can improve it Stoicism 2.0 but added a few things and emphasizing a few others. (Omg, I’m gonna orgasm.)
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In Response to A Proposal for Democracy:
—“Begin with your own family”—Lycurgus of Sparta Um. No it doesn’t work in family. It doesn’t work in business. and it doesn’t work in a polity either. Militia, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. via Andrew Clayton
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In Response to A Proposal for Democracy:
—“Begin with your own family”—Lycurgus of Sparta Um. No it doesn’t work in family. It doesn’t work in business. and it doesn’t work in a polity either. Militia, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. via Andrew Clayton
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If You Reformed Christianity
If you took all the falsehood out of christianity then what would remain? – The mass (A lesson, an oath, a feast), festivals. – The extirpation of hatred from the human heart. – The exhaustion of interpersonal forgiveness as the optimum group cooperative strategy. – The demand for personal acts of charity. If you replace life after death with living a good life, persistence through actions, genetic persistence, and human transcendence of our descendents into the gods we imagine. If you replace lessons against the aristocracy in favor of diasporic pastoralists, and instead restored our original mythology os the trials of homer. If you restored the festivals with those of heroes, ancestors and the seasons (nature). If you add ethnocentrism (the optimum group strategy), government by rule of law and markets in everything (the optimum competitive strategy), and stoicism (the optimum mindfulness strategy). Then you have a religion free of lies. Church is a good thing. What one does there produces mindfulness. What one learns there can be truth or lie.
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If You Reformed Christianity
If you took all the falsehood out of christianity then what would remain? – The mass (A lesson, an oath, a feast), festivals. – The extirpation of hatred from the human heart. – The exhaustion of interpersonal forgiveness as the optimum group cooperative strategy. – The demand for personal acts of charity. If you replace life after death with living a good life, persistence through actions, genetic persistence, and human transcendence of our descendents into the gods we imagine. If you replace lessons against the aristocracy in favor of diasporic pastoralists, and instead restored our original mythology os the trials of homer. If you restored the festivals with those of heroes, ancestors and the seasons (nature). If you add ethnocentrism (the optimum group strategy), government by rule of law and markets in everything (the optimum competitive strategy), and stoicism (the optimum mindfulness strategy). Then you have a religion free of lies. Church is a good thing. What one does there produces mindfulness. What one learns there can be truth or lie.