–“Those with no pride in themselves often substitute pride in their nation’s achievements — that is, other people’s accomplishments.”– SRC
Hmmm…. That doesn’t hold SRC.
(a) Yes that may be true that the have no significant achievements.
(b) However they may be preserving capital by doing no harm to the capital those prior achievements brought into being and handed down.
(c) That capital is measurable both by comparison with competitors, and by pricing the cost of the harms to that capital.
(d) And they may (and often are) simply demonstrating willingness to defend that capital, by their words and deeds demonstrating they will, and as a consequence considering themselves virtuous for doing so.
The most obvious example is “How do you price the ‘bowling alone’ disintegration of the civil society?”
Or how do you price the intentional destruction of fraternal education and civil society organizations?
Or how do you price the financialization of the healthcare industry?
Or how do you price ending liability for interference ina marriage, and instituting no fault divorce, child support and alimony?
Or how do we price the consequence of the pill – given that we are beginning to understand not only the biological consequences but the psychological, marital, social, economic, and political consequences?
Or how do you price NOT suppressing something like the ‘woke’ (race marxist) continuation of the pseudoscientific marxist sequence, or the marxist sequence as a reformation of the abrahamic supernatural sequence – both of which, if not so desirable could easily be measured as frauds and harms? We are still paying the cost of the latter. Meanwhile we are paying the cost of the former.
Or worse, how do we price the introduction of women in to the voting pool without giving them their own house of government so that trades could be conducted between the classes given their separate interests as the anglo and european system had done for millennia?
Or worse, ignoring the common law constraint on female antisocial behavior and instead letting it spread throughout the workplace academy bureaucracy and now military, when female antisocial behavior is always and everywhere reducible to evasion of responsibility for defense of the commons on one end and undermining, canceling, and sedition on the other? (Gossiping, Shaming, Rallying, RIdiculing, Psychologizing, Moralizing, Ostracizing) And instead they seek minimum responsibility, maximum privilege, maximum preference, and maximum hyperconsumption without the first thought of reciprocal exchange – the entire premise upon which our civilization is based, and why we outpaced the rest in the three ages of civilization: bronze, iron, and steel.
We thought men were bad. But we had no idea the consequences of women in organizations. Something that is so politically incorrect that it is all but a moral sin to speak of it.
So what has been the cost of the failure to suppress social, political, and informational frauds as equally as we have suppressed commercial frauds?
Or to carry that forward, what is the cost of Income Statement government financing of the corporate state vs Balance Sheet government financing of the monarchies? The fact that these questions are both answerable but evaded is reducible to the deception that is made possible by not doing so. Cui bono.
All of these ‘crimes’ are made possible by the fact that prior to the present it was challenging to disadvantageous to self destructive for institutions (state, finance, faith) to determine whether a proposition of social, economic, political, strategic, or evolutionary nature was testifiable and not criminal harm or theft especially from common capital, and therefore both good and true.
Yet as far as I know, and I’m fairly confident I understand this problem as well or better than anyone living, the truth is, for reasons above, no longer a criteria for decidability, because decidability by truth requires sovereignty and reciprocity, and the feminine and the left and the abrahamic sequence all seek power to evade decidability, truth, sovereignty, reciprocity so that they can evade voluntary exchange, evade merit, evade the work and risk of production, and most importantly, evade the policing of the commons against those who would do as they do.
So, the evolution of economic thought has taught those of us whose logical foundations are predicated upon it, that one accounts for all costs both seen and unseen, and opportunity costs, both seen by our actions, and unseen by our inactions.
One of the reasons I am an anti-philosophy philosopher so to speak, is that disentangling the imaginary pretense from the faith, and the moral pretense of philosophy, the justificationary pretense of the ratio-empirical, leaving us with the constructively testifable from first principles, is that it is all too easy for empirical, philosophical, and theological to make excuses to avoid the truth when it suits a prior, and when most priors are so, because they provide a discount, and false priors are so because they cause an involuntary transfer from the productive to the non by free riding, socialization of losses or privatization of commons, fraud, conspiracy, corruption, sedition, treason and war.
The Natural law is quite simple. An extension of physics to all human behavior, and all behavior to cooperation. The only reason for mine to kill and take from thine is sovereignty in demonstrated interests, reciprocity in display word and deed, leaving us with voluntary markets for cooperation and involuntary markets for resolution of disputes that we call the court whether common or state.
So quite the contrary. just as christianity contrived a means of virtue, self worth, and status by doing no wrong, those who claim virtue by doing no wrong to the capital of the commons are just, moral, and deserving of their claim of virtue.
We must account for the seen and unseen. When I do not take your wallet that I have found, but isntead drop it in the mailbox so that it is delivered to you, then I have forgone an opportunity. When I do not engage in a crime, I have forgone an opportunity. When I do not impose a cost on genetic, behavioral, normative, traditional, cultural, or institutional capital than have forgone an opportunity.
Most of the high trust society is paid thus indirectly by means of NOT doing something – because it is the only thing we can do equally. And it is this high trust and the commons that we produce and capitalize that has made the west evolve faster than the rest and faster than the rest altogether.
Affections
– CD
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