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Definition: Philosopher (What Does A Philosopher Do?)
What’s it mean to be a philosopher? What is this thing we call philosophy? We could say that it is a discipline by which we learn the craft of reasoning. So, many of us philosophize just as many of us repair machines, or do housework, or use mathematics. But using these tools is different from demonstrating a mastery of them, or demonstrating one’s ability of surviving a competition with others who may do it better. Or creating innovative ideas using reason.
We could say that philosophy is a discipline in which we attempt to master the criteria for decision making in any field of interest. Or rather, the process of creating a set of internally consistent general rules (theories) of decidability in a domain of inquiry. We could say that philosophy is a discipline in which we attempt to discover fundamental truths – but I would suggest that this is the same as determining the means of decision making – a network of interdependent, internally consistent theories – in any field of interest. I’m going to provide a narrow definition of the discipline of philosophy. Because while many people philosophize, just as many people work with wood, few people succeed in mastery of it. A philosopher’s job is to take new knowledge and understanding, and to reorganize the causes, values, decisions, and narratives of the current network of causes, values, decisions, and explanatory narratives to make use of the new knowledge, providing us with greater explanatory power, greater power of action, and greater parsimony between our model of the world we live in and objective reality. This is a better way of saying that a philosopher’s job is to increase the precision of model we use to determine courses of action in the world. Conversely, it is possible to use reasoning to create errors, to create justifications and rationalizations, to create cunning but empty circumventions, and develop elaborate deceits. And it appears that many philosophers use the verbal craft of philosophy, not to create greater correspondence, but to advocate for a deception. And that is what most if all prophets do. So reasoning, or philosophizing, can be used for good – meaning greater correspondence with reality, giving us grater control of reality. Or it can be used for ill – meaning non-correspondence with reality, giving others more control of us. A philosopher reorganizes a network of theories in response to, by including, knew knowledge and understanding. A logician is not a philosopher. -
Definition: Philosopher (What Does A Philosopher Do?)
What’s it mean to be a philosopher? What is this thing we call philosophy? We could say that it is a discipline by which we learn the craft of reasoning. So, many of us philosophize just as many of us repair machines, or do housework, or use mathematics. But using these tools is different from demonstrating a mastery of them, or demonstrating one’s ability of surviving a competition with others who may do it better. Or creating innovative ideas using reason.
We could say that philosophy is a discipline in which we attempt to master the criteria for decision making in any field of interest. Or rather, the process of creating a set of internally consistent general rules (theories) of decidability in a domain of inquiry. We could say that philosophy is a discipline in which we attempt to discover fundamental truths – but I would suggest that this is the same as determining the means of decision making – a network of interdependent, internally consistent theories – in any field of interest. I’m going to provide a narrow definition of the discipline of philosophy. Because while many people philosophize, just as many people work with wood, few people succeed in mastery of it. A philosopher’s job is to take new knowledge and understanding, and to reorganize the causes, values, decisions, and narratives of the current network of causes, values, decisions, and explanatory narratives to make use of the new knowledge, providing us with greater explanatory power, greater power of action, and greater parsimony between our model of the world we live in and objective reality. This is a better way of saying that a philosopher’s job is to increase the precision of model we use to determine courses of action in the world. Conversely, it is possible to use reasoning to create errors, to create justifications and rationalizations, to create cunning but empty circumventions, and develop elaborate deceits. And it appears that many philosophers use the verbal craft of philosophy, not to create greater correspondence, but to advocate for a deception. And that is what most if all prophets do. So reasoning, or philosophizing, can be used for good – meaning greater correspondence with reality, giving us grater control of reality. Or it can be used for ill – meaning non-correspondence with reality, giving others more control of us. A philosopher reorganizes a network of theories in response to, by including, knew knowledge and understanding. A logician is not a philosopher. -
The Territorial Organization of Americans
—“Fully half of white Americans live in places smaller than 45,200 people.”— Here’s how the breakdown for where white Americans live works out: Rural areas–Newton IA (0–15,000) 26.4% Newton–Wallingford CT (15,000–45,000) 18.9% Wallingford–Des Moines (45,000–370,000) 20.9% Des Moines–Indianapolis (370,000–1.2 million) 11.8% Suburbs of cities 11.6% The top twenty cities 10.5%
Our elites live in cities, rule them, and are surrounded by underclasses. Our top cities are like hostess cupcakes. White centers, surrounded by darker slums, separating elites from suburban small town, and rural whites. It’s just time before population ratios cause the development of Favelas in major cities. Genetics matter. If only because the lower classes are a greater burden than the upper classes can organize and carry. -
The Territorial Organization of Americans
—“Fully half of white Americans live in places smaller than 45,200 people.”— Here’s how the breakdown for where white Americans live works out: Rural areas–Newton IA (0–15,000) 26.4% Newton–Wallingford CT (15,000–45,000) 18.9% Wallingford–Des Moines (45,000–370,000) 20.9% Des Moines–Indianapolis (370,000–1.2 million) 11.8% Suburbs of cities 11.6% The top twenty cities 10.5%
Our elites live in cities, rule them, and are surrounded by underclasses. Our top cities are like hostess cupcakes. White centers, surrounded by darker slums, separating elites from suburban small town, and rural whites. It’s just time before population ratios cause the development of Favelas in major cities. Genetics matter. If only because the lower classes are a greater burden than the upper classes can organize and carry. -
Perfect Government
NOT ONLY CAN WE HAVE A PERFECT GOVERNMENT – WE HAD IT. We had the perfect government: Monarchy, Multi-House Parliaments with one house per class, and the Common Law under Rule of law, under Nationalism (tribalism). The Monarch had only power of veto. The houses functioned as a market for trading commons between the different socio-economic classes. And an homogenous polity can act redistributively because everyone is a near relation (kin) and not a competitor. This is why the Nordic countries are as they are: small homogenous protestant nations that have practiced eugenic reproduction for more than a thousand years, and perhaps as long as 3500 years. They bypassed the empire phase during colonialism and so they did not develop state corporatism, and therefore the ability to commercially and militarily profit from heterogeneous polities. Nordic countries then produce the ideal because they are small homogenous eugenic nation states with common interests, little diversity, and lack the population, territorial, economic, and military scale needed to engage in conquest by immigration, territorial expansion, economic conquest, or military conquest. The dirty secret of the Human Genome project is that our tribes and races are vastly unequal, largely because some of our tribes and races have been better at suppressing the rates of reproduction of the lower classes (eugenics). And the reason is that the northern climates do not allow marginal individuals to survive under agrarianism. And that most northern peoples aggressively used hanging, delayed marriage and childbirth, regulated access to farmland to people of good character, and effectively engaged in active upward redistribution of reproduction. If you want a Denmark you need to fill it with Danes. The northeast of Europe developed “Bipartite Manorialism” earliest, and the church’s ban on cousin marriage the earliest, and that is one of the significant reasons for northern europe’s advantage. Why? Because while you need to reach the Pareto optimum of both 80% of resources in the control of your top 20%, AND your top 20% must have IQ’s above 106, this cannot be done by improving the intelligence of your best, but by by reducing the numbers of your worst, until your best are the top 20% of your population. This is counter-intuitive. But the point being that your lower classes are a tragic burden on your people. This is the dirty secret of the west’s success: we hung 1% of the population every year. Over twenty years, this has a profound effect. Over five hundred years it will raise a people out of ignorance and poverty. How can we do the same without hanging our troublemakers? We can do it by preventing their births. Otherwise there is no way to get to Denmark. And instead, under normative dysgenia we will decline just as the entire Arab world has declined under islam: through dysgenic reproduction, that depresses the reproduction of our best, and increases the reproduction of our worst. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Science and Uncomfortable Truth The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine