(FB 1545084448 Timestamp) Religions, Moneylending, and Commerce are universalist, but Militias,Armies,Kings, and the Law are Nationalist.
Theme: Constitutional Order
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545534356 Timestamp) –“Yes please but when is the book coming!?”— Vladyslav Romanyuk IMO: just the constitution is probably the most practical. classes will be easier than the book. book still feels extremely difficult to me as i edit it. constitution widest reach. classes easiest to really learn it. online material using the outline, videos, selected posts, reading list, a bit less easy, but certainly accessible. book very technical and thorough, and pretty hard in my opinion. no way around it. going to need all of those methods. core is epistemology/grammars/operational language, defeating fictionalisms. everything built on it. but total scope and application is huge. ) i mean what bill keeps saying is that general knowledge is required. in that sense you sort of need the classes. i mean we are teaching western civ…. all of it … in scientific language. we are teaching the school and college education people did not receive. its big. its a degree in the science of civilization
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(FB 1545588763 Timestamp) IR-RECIPROCITY AND LICENSE OF PREDATION AGAINST US. It breaks the contract and the law, since if they have no duty to protect, and we have no right to defend, it legalizes predation – which is precisely what we see. Ergo: return to the militia: every man a craftsman, a warrior, a sheriff, a judge, and his own legislator. EVERY MAN A SHERIFF.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1545534356 Timestamp) –“Yes please but when is the book coming!?”— Vladyslav Romanyuk IMO: just the constitution is probably the most practical. classes will be easier than the book. book still feels extremely difficult to me as i edit it. constitution widest reach. classes easiest to really learn it. online material using the outline, videos, selected posts, reading list, a bit less easy, but certainly accessible. book very technical and thorough, and pretty hard in my opinion. no way around it. going to need all of those methods. core is epistemology/grammars/operational language, defeating fictionalisms. everything built on it. but total scope and application is huge. ) i mean what bill keeps saying is that general knowledge is required. in that sense you sort of need the classes. i mean we are teaching western civ…. all of it … in scientific language. we are teaching the school and college education people did not receive. its big. its a degree in the science of civilization
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546126631 Timestamp) You will be struck by our New Constitution in that it includes what others do not: Definitions as constants, variables, and types, and that there is far more definition, constant, variable and type, than their is prescription. This constitution states what is and what must be. What one then does with that constitution in terms of institution and procedure is then quite short – and relatively unassailable.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546102610 Timestamp) JOSLIN ON CONTINUING THE LONGEST RUNNING SYSTEM OF MODERN GOVERNMENT by Bill Joslin I have an admission, a confession… I still, after all these years, see classical liberalism and the anglo-enlightenment as a shining jewel in history; rare and valuable. But it was flawed. The flaw pertains to reifying critical concepts of its success into universal ideals. Namely equality (ideal) out of isonomy (realz), tolerance as an ideal versus tolerance of trivial and arbitrary differences (the real). Now I don’t see that these were critical flaws but rather a result of kinship and common sense being embedded in a long history of social norms of a homogeneous polity. They, at the time, didn’t need explicit statements on the limits to these concepts because they were “self-evident” and taken for granted within the normative domain. Overtime, what was taken for granted was forgotten, and Christian sentiment of universal love blew these operational necessities out of reality and into civic ideals. I would find much joy in holding this centrist stance, but in good faith cannot. I cannot because kin-selection backfilles for these flaws (homogeneity in the founding cultures) and paints a scene of future failure (universal franchise pushes kin-interests into the polictical sphere i.e. loss of unity in the polity). Civic values can provide that homogeneity but will always be vulnerable to lower resolution means (biology, ethnicity, race) We can correct CL, IMO. We can correct the errors. This line of development would put us toward the middle. Completing the enlightenment – which is really what we are doing. But we can’t do that without addressing identity and identity properties (kinship). Which right now puts us at the edge of the fringe. (The flaws currently poked at CL are not what CL was in its initial incarnations but rather what the romantics did to CL after they became the agenda setters in the 19th century)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546126631 Timestamp) You will be struck by our New Constitution in that it includes what others do not: Definitions as constants, variables, and types, and that there is far more definition, constant, variable and type, than their is prescription. This constitution states what is and what must be. What one then does with that constitution in terms of institution and procedure is then quite short – and relatively unassailable.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546611466 Timestamp) PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN ONE GOVERNMENT ORDER OR ANOTHER? You have to choose whether to trust the self interest of the judicial ‘priesthood’, the self interest of the monarchy, the self interest of the ruling oligarchy, or the self control of the democratic polity, or the self interests of public intellectuals. My argument is that you can’t trust any of them, and that the judicial priesthood benefits from ‘maintaining the rules of the game’, but if and only if the military will back them up. Why? The judiciary is a purely via-negativa discipline: it advocates nothing, and only resolves conflicts. It is already privileged. It is already high status. It is operationally selective (failure is quickly obvious and resolved), and failure of members is against the interest of the whole, who police it well through hierarchical review. The central issue in limiting the judiciary and preserving its freedom from via-positiva action, is nothing more than insufficiently enumerated terms of decidability. And that’s what i’ve done. Provided that completeness. -Curt Doolittle
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546611466 Timestamp) PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN ONE GOVERNMENT ORDER OR ANOTHER? You have to choose whether to trust the self interest of the judicial ‘priesthood’, the self interest of the monarchy, the self interest of the ruling oligarchy, or the self control of the democratic polity, or the self interests of public intellectuals. My argument is that you can’t trust any of them, and that the judicial priesthood benefits from ‘maintaining the rules of the game’, but if and only if the military will back them up. Why? The judiciary is a purely via-negativa discipline: it advocates nothing, and only resolves conflicts. It is already privileged. It is already high status. It is operationally selective (failure is quickly obvious and resolved), and failure of members is against the interest of the whole, who police it well through hierarchical review. The central issue in limiting the judiciary and preserving its freedom from via-positiva action, is nothing more than insufficiently enumerated terms of decidability. And that’s what i’ve done. Provided that completeness. -Curt Doolittle
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547575509 Timestamp) I don’t think you understand. The existing common law consists of that which the judiciary will decide, and the state will enforce under the presumption we are equals. The existing continental law consists of the presumption of a feudal difference between the state and the citizenry, and that the citizens are permitted that which is not prohibited or commanded. The existing and past soviet and islamic law, consists of the presumption of enslavement by the state or the priesthood’s false god, and the the limiting of one’s actions to that which is permitted. “The White Law” consists of that law of cooperation, the abridgement of which demands adjudication, and restitution, for us to refrain from extermination, enslavement, or enserfment. it is a via-negativa law. It is a law of those who are equal in sufficient agency to be granted agency by one another – with the rest of man, beast, plant, and matter to be defended against in the interests of our continued production of agency, and continued transcendence.