Ridicule alone is merely an admission of incompetence. Competence followed by ridicule will get you hurt, but at least it is not dishonest. Competence without ridicule will not get your hurt, and is honest, and allows you to resort to violence if the other party attempts to disengage via dishonesty, incompetence, or ridicule.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 11:36:00 UTC
IS PATERNALISM THEN, MERELY THE PREVENTION OF FREE RIDING?
And isn’t aristocracy familial paternalism, tribal paternalism, national paternalism?And isn’t the suppression of lying a parental, communal, and aristocratic necessity?
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 02:58:00 UTC
QUESTION: How can you lie if you don’t know the truth? In order to stop lies, shouldn’t you first learn what they are?
ANSWER: You can speak truthfully, even if you cannot speak the most parsimonious and therefore ‘ultimate’ truth. It is very hard to load, frame and obscure operational language. So you can warranty your truthful speech but you cannot warranty any theory or deduction is true.
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Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 20:11:00 UTC
THE FEMALE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY = THE POSTMODERN STRATEGY
1) Attract Attention (promise sex, affection, subsidy/rent or attention)
2) Rally.
3) Shame.
4) Gossip (load and frame)
5) Overload (persistence)
6) Change to outright lying. (shift)
It works. It works if you don’t use violence and truth to suppress it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 11:16:00 UTC
CHRIS REARDON ON THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT
—“A progressives says says with confidence: ‘…liberals are becoming more liberal while staying very much checked into reality.’ But, can you blame a fish for not knowing it’s in water?” — Chris Reardon
“A fish knows not that it is in water” – moral blindness.
“The frog stays in the pot until it boils” – incrementalism and experiential blindness.
Progressives can have no say in the future of man, since they are morally incapable intellectually incapable of making inter-temporal judgements.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 08:59:00 UTC
We know progressives can’t imagine the minds of conservatives. We know conservatives can imagine the minds of progressives. What conservatives don’t stop to consider is that while they can understand progressives, they can’t imagine that progressives can’t reciprocate. The idea that someone else could not be just wrong, but morally blind – and possibly morally blind because dysgenia is an exceptional reproductive strategy for females. most of plant and animal kingdom practices it. It’s males in our species who are eugenic, not females.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 16:21:00 UTC
MOVING THE GOAL POSTS
—“The left is always moving the goalposts. If you point out that the welfare state (compassion + bureaucracy + taxes + regulation) generates sloth, parasitism, irresponsibility, etc, you might get the answer that “you, too, would be slothful, etc. if you had to face what the average poor person faces everyday”. In other words, the old model of poor people as poor people with middle-class values/sensibilities is gone. Apparently, capitalism is a game of economic musical chairs in which millions of (once) poor folks make it into the lower or middle-class but somehow a vast underclass gets left without jobs, thereby triggering the underclass traits we all know and love.”–
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 16:03:00 UTC
The silly-tarians who argue from moral intuition, and nothing else – they aren’t harmful, or vectors for lies.
Traditional libertarianism (versus immoral libertinism) is a combination of what we consider morality, psychology and law.
It is a skeptical political science driven by historical evidence not a specific prescription for actions, not a claim to authoritarian scripture (as is all cosmopolitanism).
It raises the e question of whether the cosmopolitan moral blindness is an artifact of centuries of debating scripture versus reality – and like all cultures the cosmopolitans were blinded by enforced ignorance.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 08:05:00 UTC
ACCOUNTABLE AND UNACCOUNTABLE TRUTH
(worth repeating)
The analytic and cosmopolitan concept of truth (including Popper’s truth), like the levantine pseudo-truth it arose from, is an UNACCOUNTABLE concept of truth.
Whereas the Indo-European truth, refers to testimony given between warriors whose life or death depends upon the veracity of that testimony. Etymologically, “Tréw” means testimony ‘like an oak”: and therefore, ACCOUNTABLE and WARRANTIED truth given via the spoken word.
Conversely, “true” for cosmopolitans, Jews and Muslims means ‘the mind of god’. Not ‘that which I am accountable for speaking truthfully’.
This was the mistake of the analytic movement’s distraction as well. They tried to improve on truth and found all they could achieve was tautology, rather than spending a century on SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY. Popper sensed this, mises sensed it, but they failed. Just as the christian europeans failed, because they assumed truth and assumed that the problem was logical instead of truthful.
This is why the 20th century was such a failure: the operationalist, intuitionists, and praxeologists all FAILED.
So, now, that is my job. That’s our job. That’s the purpose of Propertarianism, Operationalism, and Testimonial Truth: to restore the purpose of philosophy to the SPEAKING of truth – not how to merely investigate the phenomenon of the physical word. Or not how to persuade people without unaccountable for it.
Discovering the truth is just labor, and doing it morally. Speaking the truth is a skill that must be mastered: Speaking operationally. Giving truthful testimony.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 11:45:00 UTC
Imagine if the 20th century in philosophy had been spent trying to prevent people from lying rather than on the absurd quest to find a way to tell the truth….that we can never know….
Tragic.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 11:52:00 UTC