—“Observation — journalists and other intellectuals freaking out over the outcome of the election reveal that they were never really “students” of society, or even “social critics”, but were instead partisan cheerleaders. Also, it appears that many are completely incapable of asking themselves whether it might be possible that the consensus of the progressive elite in public policy is perhaps neither as accurately descriptive of how the world works or as normatively appealing as they sincerely believe. Rather than critical self-reflection we see outrage, blame, and emotional expression of pain.There are many reasons to be concerned, but the responsible response from intellectuals is to think through rationally, to ask what I was wrong about, try to force yourself to pass an ideological Turning Test, and to recognize that if there are institutional problems the answer requires institutional solutions.Liberal democratic traditions do not work based on the “good” and the “wise” being in power, but were designed so that “bad men can do least harm”. Let’s hope those liberal democratic institutions are still in operation after so many years of sustained critique by progressive intellectuals.Democratic governance (liberalism) is a different beast from bureaucratic governance (progressivism). Bureaucratic governance requires trained experts immune from democratic checks and balances, democratic governance requires responsible citizens and institutions that empower as well as constrain.”– Peter Boettke (NOTE: I would say they are all engaged in customer seeking – a long form of rent seeking. The interesting question not discussed is that because we humans make use of law, religion, and market, but we choose a dominant bias with which to employ them in our social orders, yielding: (1)kin/law, (2)cult/religion, or (3)state/corporatism; Depending upon homogeneity or heterogeneity of the population; to overcome resistance to the creation and preservation of commons – so that why is it that one bias in the order is always better off than the others? And why does not social-criticism and intellectual-decidability limit itself to the order desired by the population? of course, we know the answer is genetic in both desire for construct, and in the expression of that desire for construct as a will to power. I frequently ask the same question: why do economists vary in bias of decidability? for the same reason: austrian-social-science and rule of law preserving sovereignty, freshwater limits of rule of law as a commons against harm, and saltwater abandonment of rule of law in favor of preferential discretion in order to acquire customers for the state. If it isn’t clear to you, then the answer is this: anything other than kin/law is nothing more than an act of war by slower means. – CD )
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Media-Academia Is To Civilizational Capital, As Central Banks Are To Industrial Capital.
(by Sock ‘Frank Leibowitz’ ) Counterfeit information, derails calculation in all measures of temporality (immediate, medium term, civilizational, evolutionary). Counterfeit money, which is a special case of information forgery, derails catallatic calculation. Counterfeit theories derail civilizational calculation. Media-academia is to civilizational capital, what central banks are to industrial capital.
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Media-Academia Is To Civilizational Capital, As Central Banks Are To Industrial Capital.
(by Sock ‘Frank Leibowitz’ ) Counterfeit information, derails calculation in all measures of temporality (immediate, medium term, civilizational, evolutionary). Counterfeit money, which is a special case of information forgery, derails catallatic calculation. Counterfeit theories derail civilizational calculation. Media-academia is to civilizational capital, what central banks are to industrial capital.
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Consequences of Sovereignty
(worth repeating) 1) SOVEREIGNTY (leads to) 2) PROPERTY IN TOTO (leads to) 3) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH (leads to) 4) DEFLATIONARY/DECONFLATIONARY, (leads to) 5) REASON, RATIONALISM, EMPIRICISM, TESTIMONIALISM (leads to) 6) MARKETS IN EVERYTHING, (leads to) 7) DEFEATING THE RED QUEEN (leads to) 6) TRANSCENDENCE.
0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law) 2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?
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Consequences of Sovereignty
(worth repeating) 1) SOVEREIGNTY (leads to) 2) PROPERTY IN TOTO (leads to) 3) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH (leads to) 4) DEFLATIONARY/DECONFLATIONARY, (leads to) 5) REASON, RATIONALISM, EMPIRICISM, TESTIMONIALISM (leads to) 6) MARKETS IN EVERYTHING, (leads to) 7) DEFEATING THE RED QUEEN (leads to) 6) TRANSCENDENCE.
0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law) 2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?
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The Limits of Markets: Kin.
Markets either facilitate our families, tribes, and nations, or they prey upon our families tribes and nations. Markets and the consumption they provide us, do not create limitless goods. At some point we are no longer advancing our kin, but instead, preventing a future for them. There is no incentive for good families to cooperate and refrain from parasitism if they sacrifice their lineage for others. Either cooperation is mutually beneficial and mutually non-sacrificial, or it is just theft by other means.
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The Limits of Markets: Kin.
Markets either facilitate our families, tribes, and nations, or they prey upon our families tribes and nations. Markets and the consumption they provide us, do not create limitless goods. At some point we are no longer advancing our kin, but instead, preventing a future for them. There is no incentive for good families to cooperate and refrain from parasitism if they sacrifice their lineage for others. Either cooperation is mutually beneficial and mutually non-sacrificial, or it is just theft by other means.
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Harsh Words for Dreamers
Nov 15, 2016 8:09am by James Augustus Berens —“There is a belief popular amongst people who’ve never accomplished anything in life, the idea that one must merely dream or think of what he wants, which is almost always material in nature, and as if by some act of divine will his subjective wants and desires will materialize, with little to no effort expended on his part. Achievement isn’t an act of wishful thinking, only western millennials have had the privilege to maintain such illusions– it is an act of physically imposing one’s will onto the external world. Anything else is an admission that one is devoid of any significant form of agency.”— James Augustus Berens.
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Harsh Words for Dreamers
Nov 15, 2016 8:09am by James Augustus Berens —“There is a belief popular amongst people who’ve never accomplished anything in life, the idea that one must merely dream or think of what he wants, which is almost always material in nature, and as if by some act of divine will his subjective wants and desires will materialize, with little to no effort expended on his part. Achievement isn’t an act of wishful thinking, only western millennials have had the privilege to maintain such illusions– it is an act of physically imposing one’s will onto the external world. Anything else is an admission that one is devoid of any significant form of agency.”— James Augustus Berens.
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The Purpose Of The Electoral College – And The End of the Empire
THE PURPOSE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE – AND THE FUTURE IS THE END OF THE EMPIRE. The purpose of the electoral college is to prevent immigrant and import/export cities that live in relative luxury at low cost of commons and opportunity, from imposing costs upon those lacking those luxuries in material, normative, and institutional means. There are six large immigrant cities in America and these six cities benefit largely from the sale of the conquered continent to immigrants – and nothing more. If not for the electoral college, those six cities would dictate to the continent, despite the fact that the majority of the continent does not possess those luxuries. The only moral solution is to end the international and continental empire so that each group can preserve its preferred norms and institutions. So that each of us possesses our right to self-determination. conversely, if you deny others their right to self-determination, then you are in fact, conducting war against others. The only solution is secession and devolution. And that is what will happen. As strange as it might seem today. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine