Theme: Agency

—“Who do you know that can understand narratives from any political or ideological tribe (across topics) without being personally emotionally captured or repulsed by any of them….well enough to steel-man the various perspectives … Extra credit if after steel-manning they can run error correction (analytic abilities) and parallax (synthetic abilities) on the perspectives/narratives to form higher order synthesis and/or mappings. … I really want to find these people.

Thank you. “–Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel,

My work is in the field, and consists of:

1) “A universally commensurable, value neutral, logic, vocabulary, and grammar of metaphysics(ontology), psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, and group evolutionary strategy.”

2) Testimonial (performative, promissory) truth using that language.

3) Natural Law Jurisprudence combining the above.

All human behavior can be described in economic terms. I’m the best in the world at it (really). You can test me with any sample question fairly easily. But it’s a mirror that some of us cannot bear to look into.

Truth is a harsh judge. 😉

And I can almost guarantee that no public intellectual in the business of selling ideas to a population will look into that mirror. Because public intellectuals are just merchants like any other producing a product that satisfies the intuitions and impulses of the market.

Unlike priests, public intellectuals and politicians, a General, a Judge, and a Statesman, have no such luxury of selling snake oil comforts that externalize false promises to subsequent generations, other peoples or other nations.

Western civilization evolved fastest of all because military epistemology, judicial testimony, adversarial law, and individual sovereignty was pushed down to the lowest levels of society, as bait for status by conformity, resulting in markets in all aspects of life and the most rapid calculation possible for man because it is least divergent from physical natural and evolutionary law.

If you haven’t evolved your reasoning into the present age with entropy, computability, artificial neural networks economic equilibrium, and evolutionary selection you are in the intellectual dark ages and contributing to the production of a civilizational dark age, and obscuring the fact that man has developed in a rare, brief, period of geological, solar, and galactic peace, on a planet, solar system, galaxy and universe that appears to be all but hostile to advanced life.

The Truth brings Childhood’s End.