Why GREECE, GREXIT, and “EUROPE” are an unnatural proto-Nazi “Aryan” construction — or why putting Teutons and Greeks together isn’t the smartest (and most stable) idea.
Nor is it natural.
The least *unnatural* union for Greece is some sort of *loose* Mediterranean League of City States (and another minor Balkan connection). But again, it would need to stay fuzzy –i.e., should you want to use history/culture, use them properly (“annales” style).
+ There are two natural cultural (eventually leading by mixing to ethnic) demarcations: butter vs olive oil (and eventually a third, the palm tree). The demarcation is robust: if people have the same food, they are the same (or eventually through mixing) become the same. Now if a nonblind but deaf Martian visited Turkey and Greece, he would think they are the same people (same with Lebanon and Western Syria). If words are different, body language in the Levant, Greece, Turkey and Southern Italy is similar. “Una faccia, una razza”. But a bureaucrat blinded by constructions would put the Greek in the same unit as the German, and bundle the Turk with the Huns in the Altai mountains near China.
+ But Mediterraneans are integrated as a socio-cultural unit. This is not just recent; the integration is 5000 years old in the East and 3000 in the West. The trend to “Europeanize” came with German scholarship which starting in 1820s (one Müller) tried to kill any Levantine/Babylonian connection to Greece, trying to give Germany some nobility in its historical roots, while French scholarship was until then considering Greece as deeply rooted in the Levant and Asia Minor, as a continuum from Babylon to the Phoenicians to classical Greece (mythology says that Europa herself was Phoenician). The rise of antisemitism played a part: the Teutonic cultural separation from the Levantine Canaanite race (the Jews and Phoenicians had near-identical language and ethnicity).
+ The Levant and what is now Greece spent at least 1000 years in the same political unit Rome-Byzantium and another few hunded in the Ottoman Empire; the Greeks and the Germans have now about 40 years together.
+ The nation-state started integrating the Mediterranean people. During the 19th Century only a few coastal cities such as Marseille and Toulon in Southern France spoke French, the rest spoke Provencal or Catalan.
+ The idea of a Mediterranean unit is not popular. Partly because it has been linked to Mussolini.
+ The Mycenians did not use a Semitic language (linear B). But the word Knossos (the capital) means “settlement” in Phoenician.
+ If a French person looks like a Mediterranean and speaks French, it is by colonization. The same applies to the “Aryanization” of Greece, to the “Turkification” of Asia Minor, and the “Arabization” of Syria or the “Aryanization” of India. Arian/Semitic/Hun is not a distinction beyond the language spoken.
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Religions Come In Many Forms
[T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of perceptive and cognitive labor.
Progressivism (Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism) is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. We are unequal. Diversity is bad. Redistribution to the point where it affects reproduction is bad. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible and therefore the rules cannot be possibly true). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology. I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and pseudo-scientific. -
Religions Come In Many Forms
[T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of perceptive and cognitive labor.
Progressivism (Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism) is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. We are unequal. Diversity is bad. Redistribution to the point where it affects reproduction is bad. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible and therefore the rules cannot be possibly true). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology. I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and pseudo-scientific. -
Names (truth) vs Analogies (deceits)
[A] sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operations. An experience or an observation or an imagination of cause and effect is an analogy. Names may or may not convey meaning. THey may or may not convey loadings which we, as moral creatures, feel are terribly important. But operations are names and experiences are analogies. I have a pretty low opinion of meaning. It’s a vehicle for comprehension yes.
But that comprehension is by definition loaded. And loading and framing are means of deceit.Source: (1) Curt Doolittle
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Names (truth) vs Analogies (deceits)
[A] sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operations. An experience or an observation or an imagination of cause and effect is an analogy. Names may or may not convey meaning. THey may or may not convey loadings which we, as moral creatures, feel are terribly important. But operations are names and experiences are analogies. I have a pretty low opinion of meaning. It’s a vehicle for comprehension yes.
But that comprehension is by definition loaded. And loading and framing are means of deceit.Source: (1) Curt Doolittle
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No More Slavery, Conquest, and Colonization
[S]o if we cannot parasite upon others, and control their reproduction (slavery) then why can others parasite upon us and limit our reproduction (through redistribution and taxation)? If we cannot colonise others, then why can others colonise us? Forcible Redistribution Is Slavery. Forced immigration is colonisation. Statism is Slavery. Nationalism. Meritocratic immigration. Source: Curt Doolittle
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No More Slavery, Conquest, and Colonization
[S]o if we cannot parasite upon others, and control their reproduction (slavery) then why can others parasite upon us and limit our reproduction (through redistribution and taxation)? If we cannot colonise others, then why can others colonise us? Forcible Redistribution Is Slavery. Forced immigration is colonisation. Statism is Slavery. Nationalism. Meritocratic immigration. Source: Curt Doolittle
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End Libertinism: Prosecute Liars
THE PROSECUTION CONTINUES.
—-“Kurt, whenever I hear someone say the laws of science prove X, I know that they do not know the history of science. Science never speaks for all time and it never has. I am saying that the use of history as if it were an experiment of science is fallacious. So the entire beginning of your conversation above is without any meaning. I was merely being polite.”—-
[W]ell, you didn’t hear that right? In fact, the first sentence of my response says just the opposite. So are you creating a straw man? Do you err or do you lie? And moreover, You are not being polite. You just do not understand what youre talking about and can’t defend it. So you avoid articulating it. You hide behind a lie. A pretense. (a) economic phenomenon are emergent and non-deducible. That is what defines an economic phenomenon. (b) emergent economic phenomenon are empirically observable, and are not directly observable. (c) causes of observable phenomenon can either be constructed out of subjectively testable existentially possible operations, or they cannot be true, because we cannot construct an existence proof (d) all general rules of arbitrary precision possess limits. (e) for this reason, rational justification (apriorism) can be used only for contractual and moral justification (informationally complete statements), not for the the criticism of truth propositions (informationally incomplete statements). (f) we can identify any hypothesis by free association – the means of constructing the hypothesis conveys no truth content. (g) But since we can identify an hypothesis by free association, we must eliminate the imaginary content, leaving only the existential content. So the purpose of criticism is to eliminate imaginary content and leave only possible content. (h) We can test any hypothesis only by attempts to criticize it to see if it survives. We cannot justify it – ever. (i) We can list the means of criticism from the most rudimentary through each additional dimension until we have exhausted all possible dimensions known to us. i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called explanatory power) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of voluntary transfers) Even if we pass all of these tests, this only tells us that we have a truth candidate. We can never know if we have found the most parsimonious truth. Mises engaged in multiple verbal conflations not the least of which were conflating science and logic, and conflating truth and morality. On top of it he relied upon the fallacy of justificationary german rationalism, rather than criticism. Like Hoppe he confuses empiricism (observation – existential testing) with positivism. He uses half-truths to obscure his failure: that man acts, but not why he evolved action, nor why he acts: to acquire. He avoided the smithian insight that cooperation is the scarcest good, and that it is cooperation we spend most of our efforts in obtaining. Science is the discipline of truth telling by laundering imaginary content from our hypotheses. Philosophy is the discipline of truth telling. Science and philosophy are identical under this assertion. Economics is no different from any other discipline other than we can subjectively test first principles (rational incentives) in economics, while we cannot test the first principles of the universe yet – because we do not know them. Although mathematics is nearly good enough, since axiomatic systems cannot lose information the way theoretical systems can. Economics is scientific because science is merely the discipline of truth telling by sanitizing our theories of error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit. MOVE ON. I ended mises. Deal with it. Move on. I ended rothbard. deal with it. Move on. I ended intersubjectively verifiable property as sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity. Move on. The cosmopolitan branch of libertarianism is dead. I killed it. Forever. It’s in the dustbin of history. The only liberty that remains is aristocracy. The violent suppression of parasitism in all its forms through the definition of property as property-en-toto (demonstrated property that humans will retaliate against aggressions against), and the use of rule of law under the common law to incrementally suppress aggressions against property en toto in all walks of life. There is no free riding. No liberty at a discount. No empty words by which we obtain liberty. Liberty does not exist unless it is made. It is made by men with arms killing or threatening those who impose upon that which they have acquired without imposing costs against property en toto upon others. Now you can go run to Hans, or any other libertarian smart enough to hold an argument with me and I will defeat them. What you cannot do is state that you hold a position that you cannot defend except by error, foolishness, or pretense of deceit. Cosmopolitanism is dead. The century of pseudoscience and deceit is over. Welcome to the new age. Thus endeth the lesson. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine Source: (5) Curt Doolittle – THE PROSECUTION CONTINUES. 🙂 PROSECUTE LIARS….
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End Libertinism: Prosecute Liars
THE PROSECUTION CONTINUES.
—-“Kurt, whenever I hear someone say the laws of science prove X, I know that they do not know the history of science. Science never speaks for all time and it never has. I am saying that the use of history as if it were an experiment of science is fallacious. So the entire beginning of your conversation above is without any meaning. I was merely being polite.”—-
[W]ell, you didn’t hear that right? In fact, the first sentence of my response says just the opposite. So are you creating a straw man? Do you err or do you lie? And moreover, You are not being polite. You just do not understand what youre talking about and can’t defend it. So you avoid articulating it. You hide behind a lie. A pretense. (a) economic phenomenon are emergent and non-deducible. That is what defines an economic phenomenon. (b) emergent economic phenomenon are empirically observable, and are not directly observable. (c) causes of observable phenomenon can either be constructed out of subjectively testable existentially possible operations, or they cannot be true, because we cannot construct an existence proof (d) all general rules of arbitrary precision possess limits. (e) for this reason, rational justification (apriorism) can be used only for contractual and moral justification (informationally complete statements), not for the the criticism of truth propositions (informationally incomplete statements). (f) we can identify any hypothesis by free association – the means of constructing the hypothesis conveys no truth content. (g) But since we can identify an hypothesis by free association, we must eliminate the imaginary content, leaving only the existential content. So the purpose of criticism is to eliminate imaginary content and leave only possible content. (h) We can test any hypothesis only by attempts to criticize it to see if it survives. We cannot justify it – ever. (i) We can list the means of criticism from the most rudimentary through each additional dimension until we have exhausted all possible dimensions known to us. i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called explanatory power) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of voluntary transfers) Even if we pass all of these tests, this only tells us that we have a truth candidate. We can never know if we have found the most parsimonious truth. Mises engaged in multiple verbal conflations not the least of which were conflating science and logic, and conflating truth and morality. On top of it he relied upon the fallacy of justificationary german rationalism, rather than criticism. Like Hoppe he confuses empiricism (observation – existential testing) with positivism. He uses half-truths to obscure his failure: that man acts, but not why he evolved action, nor why he acts: to acquire. He avoided the smithian insight that cooperation is the scarcest good, and that it is cooperation we spend most of our efforts in obtaining. Science is the discipline of truth telling by laundering imaginary content from our hypotheses. Philosophy is the discipline of truth telling. Science and philosophy are identical under this assertion. Economics is no different from any other discipline other than we can subjectively test first principles (rational incentives) in economics, while we cannot test the first principles of the universe yet – because we do not know them. Although mathematics is nearly good enough, since axiomatic systems cannot lose information the way theoretical systems can. Economics is scientific because science is merely the discipline of truth telling by sanitizing our theories of error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit. MOVE ON. I ended mises. Deal with it. Move on. I ended rothbard. deal with it. Move on. I ended intersubjectively verifiable property as sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity. Move on. The cosmopolitan branch of libertarianism is dead. I killed it. Forever. It’s in the dustbin of history. The only liberty that remains is aristocracy. The violent suppression of parasitism in all its forms through the definition of property as property-en-toto (demonstrated property that humans will retaliate against aggressions against), and the use of rule of law under the common law to incrementally suppress aggressions against property en toto in all walks of life. There is no free riding. No liberty at a discount. No empty words by which we obtain liberty. Liberty does not exist unless it is made. It is made by men with arms killing or threatening those who impose upon that which they have acquired without imposing costs against property en toto upon others. Now you can go run to Hans, or any other libertarian smart enough to hold an argument with me and I will defeat them. What you cannot do is state that you hold a position that you cannot defend except by error, foolishness, or pretense of deceit. Cosmopolitanism is dead. The century of pseudoscience and deceit is over. Welcome to the new age. Thus endeth the lesson. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine Source: (5) Curt Doolittle – THE PROSECUTION CONTINUES. 🙂 PROSECUTE LIARS….
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Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional
(important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.
Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever. That argument is dead. This one reigns.Source: (4) Curt Doolittle