In our family, thanks to my mother, “I love you” cost emotional pence – easily earned, easily given. So there were always a lot of pence around to be had. In some families, those same words are far more scarce – emotional Ben Franklins. And the aren’t just lying around everywhere. 🙂
I like our way better. 🙂
Love is cheap, and like money, the more you use it the more there is in circulation, and the wealthier everyone becomes.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-29 10:25:00 UTC
Question: Is feeling = doing? Or is feeling != doing? (Where doing=acting)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 18:05:00 UTC
ON PRAXEOLOGY AS ADVOCACY OR SCIENCE
Why would we suppose that a science of human action would advocate liberty? Or, would the science of human action, not advocate liberty, but simply EXPLAIN all possible human incentives, and the means of cooperation possible within those, whether those incentives produced liberty or not?
(Riddle on that one a bit.)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-27 14:53:00 UTC
I THINK I HAVE A WIN: THE “SOLIPSISTIC – AUTISTIC” ARGUMENT. 🙂
(useful idea) (theory of mind)
Step 1 : Theory (done)
Step 2 : Research (in progress)
Step 3 : Test and falsify (to-do)
MORE: Also, it looks like male brains are created by ‘poisoning’ at every early embryonic stages, and then growing the areas that are not ‘poisoned’. Not dissimilarly to how brain damaged people learn to use other areas of the brain. Coupled with the fact that certain regions and properties can only be grown at certain early stages of development, it’s not possible to regrow some areas. This is why boys take longer to develop. They must develop compensations for ‘poisoned’ features, and girls do not.
The problem for girls, is that they either overdevelop similar areas, or fail to mature them, and solipsism is the result of not enough maturity of development, or too much overdevelopment, to distinguish between their feelings and those of others.
I think narcissism is an attempt to regrow, or obtain functionality that was lost, and can be considered, a property of the Solipsistic-Autistic Spectrum.
Just as Aspies like me are extremely social whenever we can tolerate it, in order to exercise those areas, and gain those emotional rewards. 🙂
We all need a certain level of stimulation to remain conscious, and a certain level of chemical reward to stay happy. The more means of getting those rewards the better. The fewer means of getting those rewards, the more actively we need to pursue those actions which produce rewards.
For me anyway, I get it out of learning and problem solving. And without that particular exercise the obsessive desire of my brain to obtain positive stimulation by the only means possible for it, would crush the ‘me’ that exists in there as an experiential observer and weak influence on that obsessed machine.
This is probably the model we should be looking at. Because at present we tend to see organs and genes as mechanical processes, and the brain as a feat of engineering whose parts are broken or not, rather than as a bonsai tree or topiary the growth of which is shaped by chemistry at precise points in its development.
Humans have very few forms of incentives. I have, in propertarianism, reduced those incentives to statements of property. And while I have a theory of consciousness, I did not yet have an adequate theory of mind. And what this organic representation of brain development means, is that human behavior can be reduced to a small number of reward systems for accumulating experiences (short term) and property (medium term).
Furthermore it is an action-based theory of mind and incentive, developed in time. And ‘action’ always provides greater explanatory power than ‘state’.
We are creatures of action. We act. We must act. And we must act in time.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 05:08:00 UTC
http://t.co/a25jBGq4rsNature is more important than nurture.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-13 14:46:00 UTC
WHY MOM’S MATTER TO MEN
“Men who had ‘warm’ childhood relationships with their mothers took home $87,000 more per year than men whose mothers were uncaring. Men who had poor childhood relationships with their mothers were much more likely to develop dementia when old. Late in their professional lives, the men’s boyhood relationships with their mothers — but not their fathers — were associated with effectiveness at work. “
“On the other hand, warm childhood relations with fathers correlated with lower rates of adult anxiety, greater enjoyment on vacations, and increased ‘life satisfaction’ at age 75 — whereas the warmth of childhood relationships with mothers had no significant bearing on life satisfaction at 75.” — Harvard Study
My mom was (is) amazing. Couldn’t have been better. Especially given the circumstances. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 11:04:00 UTC
LONG TERM STUDY ON MALE HAPPINESS
We all know this. I can tell just by looking at other men my age, almost all of whom look ten years older than I do. That is, ALCOHOL use has the greatest impact on your health and happiness. More so than ANY OTHER FACTOR.
I’m luck. I can’t really drink much. And when I do, it doesn’t take much. I can’t and don’t smoke. My preferred vices are food and stress (adrenaline). And despite what, four catastrophic illnesses I still look better than 90% of the guys my age.
I am quite certain that a shot of whiskey when you’re stressed is a good thing. But a habit of relaxing with alcohol is just another way to damage your body slowly – it’s almost as bad as cigarettes.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 10:58:00 UTC
http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/knockout-game-goes-terribly-right-woman-wails-her-attackerKNOCKOUT GAME : WOMAN BEATS THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF HER ATTACKER.
This joker takes a swing at this woman and she pounds him into the floor.
This guy, he has no chance of respect ever, as long as there is digital media.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-09 16:54:00 UTC
FORCING ALL IMMORAL ACTION INTO THE MARKET?
I guess one of the things that I don’t repeat often enough, is that human impulses can be redirected, but not suppressed.
With extraordinary training those impulses for near term reward can be redirected to longer term rewards. This just requires a hormonal education (training), so that the individual perceives certain suppressions as kicks or highs, the way some of us perceive saving or investing over the experience of consuming something less complex than an ‘idea’.
All of us have a frustration budget. Some of us have a love of frustration for some reason, so we love to play with problems and are actually unhappy if we dont have any to work on. But most people have a pretty low budget because MOST of their ideas and ambitions are frustrated.
So when we suppress free riding, and push competition, we must realize how much of the majority’s frustration budget is expended by doing so.
Now, look at all the types of immoral, involuntary transfers:
1-DIRECT INDIVIDUAL
Murder
Violence
Destruction
Theft
Theft by Fraud
Theft by Fraud by omission
2 – INDIRECT INDIVIDUAL
Theft by Impediment
Theft by Externalization
3 – INDIRECT COLLECTIVE
Theft by Free riding
Theft by privatization
Theft by socialization
4 – ORGANIZATIONAL COLLECTIVE
Theft by Rent seeking
Theft by Complexity, Rule, Process or Obscurantism
Theft by Extortion
Murder, Destruction and Theft by War
FORCING ALL IMMORALITY INTO THE MARKET
While believe it or not, in-family competition, that produces a material ‘loser’ is considered immoral. And as such, most humans intuit competition on PRICE as immoral even if they don’t consider competition on QUALITY immoral.
But we have discovered that the market, conducted outside of the family, produces a virtuous cycle, since as long as there are two sellers and one buyer, while one seller loses on opportunity the buyer gains, and both sellers LEARN, and are forced to constantly innovate.
And that the civil society is produced by allowing ONLY the market as a means of fulfililng wants and needs.
Since we are unequally capable in the market, this is frustrating to many, and rewarding to the few. Even though all benefit, the inability to rest from the competition turns most of us into slaves who will be passed by if we do not stay in the race.
The only problem I see with this system is that redistribution increases the rates of breeding in the lower classes while rates of innovation make the lower classes increasingly unemployable.
We have not yet solved this problem.
As far as I can tell, the only solution is to pay the lower classes not to breed.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 12:46:00 UTC
MAIDAN TODAY : BRAVERY OR COWARDICE?
I want to go to participate in the mob today just to experience it. But V is passionately against it. ‘NuwOH!’ is now “no!’ sounds when she says it.
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 02:22:00 UTC