http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/07/whod-a-thunk-it-socialism-is-demoralizing-socially-corrosive-and-promotes-individual-dishonesty-and-cheating/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29#mblSOCIALISM DECREASES TRUSTWOTHINESS
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-19 14:17:00 UTC
Reading a piece by Block, and exasperated at the amount of verbal justification as a means of producing overloading (deception).
Let me help you folks: The first rule of cooperation is “why don’t I just kill you and take your stuff?” Now a weakling might not like that, and a coward might not like that, and a free rider might not like that, but that’s simply a fact. It abuses northern european universalism, which is easily susceptible to overloading and suggestion that implies a breach of the universalist’s assumed trust.
But that is a mere cultural assumption that can be abused by ghetto pragmatism. Instead, we always have the ability to kill and take your stuff. Why wouldn’t we? Mostly because its either too rewarding to engage in trade, or not worth killing you and taking your stuff.
Verbal contradiction doesn’t hold any weight when the choice is between whether to kill you or to trade with you. Negotiation is not bound by logic. It’s bound by not doing what the other person will kill you for.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 15:04:00 UTC
http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/scientists-are-beginning-to-figure-out-why-conservatives-are%E2%80%A6-conservative/Old news but conventional wisdom changes through repetition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:24:00 UTC
THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE
I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.
This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.
(Items marked “***” are best choices.)
1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science
2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience
3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism
— Law
— Ethics
— Fallacies
4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians
— WHY MISES FAILED —
***The Failure Of Mises In Context
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/
***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/
***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/
— CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —
Definition of Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/
Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/
Logic vs Science
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/
Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/
The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/
Why Undermine Praxeology?
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/
Praxeology as Crankism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/
Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/
The Limits of Misesian Criticism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/
*Reforming Praxeology
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/
— CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —
THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY
***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/
***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/
***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/
***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/
***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/
***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/
***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/
ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS
Ghetto Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/
The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/
Criticism of the NAP
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/
The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/
The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/
Reforming Libertarian Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/
The Four Libertarian Frameworks
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/
Tables and Diagram
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/
Rothbardian ethics are parasitic
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/
Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/
LAW
Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/
FALLACIES
List of Rothbardian Fallacies
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/
The deception of “psychic benefit”
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/
Immigration as Redistribution
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/
The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/
Fallacy of Desirable Choice
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/
Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/
More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/
MORAL BLINDNESS
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/
Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:52:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE
I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.
This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.
(Items marked “***” are best choices.)
1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science
2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience
3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism
— Law
— Ethics
— Fallacies
4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians
— WHY MISES FAILED —
***The Failure Of Mises In Context
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/
***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/
***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/
— CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —
Definition of Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/
Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/
Logic vs Science
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/
Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/
The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/
Why Undermine Praxeology?
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/
Praxeology as Crankism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/
Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/
The Limits of Misesian Criticism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/
*Reforming Praxeology
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/
— CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —
THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY
***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/
***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/
***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/
***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/
***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/
***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/
***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/
ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS
Ghetto Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/
The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/
Criticism of the NAP
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/
The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/
The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/
Reforming Libertarian Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/
The Four Libertarian Frameworks
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/
Tables and Diagram
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/
Rothbardian ethics are parasitic
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/
Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/
LAW
Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/
FALLACIES
List of Rothbardian Fallacies
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/
The deception of “psychic benefit”
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/
Immigration as Redistribution
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/
The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/
Fallacy of Desirable Choice
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/
Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/
More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/
MORAL BLINDNESS
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/
Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE
I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.
This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.
(Items marked “***” are best choices.)
1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science
2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience
3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism
— Law
— Ethics
— Fallacies
4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians
— WHY MISES FAILED —
***The Failure Of Mises In Context
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/
***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/
***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/
— CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —
Definition of Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/
Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/
Logic vs Science
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/
Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/
The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/
Why Undermine Praxeology?
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/
Praxeology as Crankism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/
Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/
The Limits of Misesian Criticism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/
*Reforming Praxeology
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/
— CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —
THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY
***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/
***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/
***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/
***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/
***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/
***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/
***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/
ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS
Ghetto Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/
The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/
Criticism of the NAP
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/
The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/
The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/
Reforming Libertarian Ethics
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/
The Four Libertarian Frameworks
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/
Tables and Diagram
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/
Rothbardian ethics are parasitic
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/
Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/
LAW
Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/
FALLACIES
List of Rothbardian Fallacies
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/
The deception of “psychic benefit”
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/
Immigration as Redistribution
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/
The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/
Fallacy of Desirable Choice
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/
Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/
More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/
MORAL BLINDNESS
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/
Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.
http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/07/14/is-paul-krugman-leaving-princeton-in-quiet-disgrace/?fb_action_ids=10152560886224106&fb_action_types=news.publishesTHANK YOU NIAL FERGUSON. ( Or should we call you St George? )
Krugman: a dishonest man who we should never take seriously.
“Where I come from … we do not fear bullies. We despise them. And we do so because we understand that what motivates their bullying is a deep sense of insecurity. Unfortunately for Krugtron the Invincible, his ultimate nightmare has just become a reality. By applying the methods of the historian – by quoting and contextualizing his own published words – I believe I have now made him what he richly deserves to be: a figure of fun, whose predictions (and proscriptions) no one should ever again take seriously.” – Nial Ferguson.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 10:04:00 UTC
THEFT IS ANYTHING BUT LIBERTARIAN
Freedom is evidently obtained and perpetuated at the point of a sword or the barrel of a gun.
The cosmopolitan myth is that man desires to be free, and the state is his oppressor.
And true, some of us do desire freedom.
But the vast majority prefer to free ride and rent seek to their maximum ability, and happily confuse freedom with the possibility of increases in consumption.
Aristocracy requires property; property requires liberty; liberty requires violence.
Attempts to obtain liberty otherwise are both futile and all too obviously seeking to obtain liberty at a discount on the efforts of others: theft.
And theft is anything but libertarian.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 08:34:00 UTC
If I am correct, then dialectical materialism is (as Kant earlier suggested of dialectic), merely a deceptive obscurantism.
But it serves as confirmation of cosmopolitan low trust ethics: fidelity (search for consent); and unlike aristocratic (empirical) ethics, it has nothing to do with the discovery of truth.
In the European anglo empirical model, we seek the truth and commit fidelity to it. In the cosmopolitan model we seek consent and fidelity regardless if truth.
Warriors can die. Traders merely bear losses.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 03:41:00 UTC
SCIENCE AND SOCIALISM
Unfortunately for Socialists and Feminists (socialism in skirts) science has been a losing proposition. While pseudoscience from Marx to the postmodernists active today, was successful in the era of ignorance, the inability to control information via the media, and the explosion in economic, cognitive, psychological, genetic and anthropological sciences has largely been destructive to their ideology. Which is why while they started out with the fallacy of scientific socialism they have ended up with the fallacy of political correctness.
The game is done.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-12 13:46:00 UTC