http://usembassykyiv.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/behind-putins-cynicism-and-hypocrisy/THE USA, LIKE USUAL, IS LATE TO THE PARTY. BUT THEY FINALLY GET THERE.
(Contrary to Stupid-tarian fantasies)
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 09:00:00 UTC
http://usembassykyiv.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/behind-putins-cynicism-and-hypocrisy/THE USA, LIKE USUAL, IS LATE TO THE PARTY. BUT THEY FINALLY GET THERE.
(Contrary to Stupid-tarian fantasies)
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 09:00:00 UTC
—“It’s bad enough that we have dishonest socialism. We don’t need dishonest libertarianism.”—
(worth repeating)
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-16 10:08:00 UTC
[B]lock is the poster child for unethical, immoral, ghetto libertarianism, and he hurts the movement every time he opens his mouth. Rockwell is barman of the lunatic fringe, and Kinsella the bouncer of ignorance and dogmatism — they’re the three stooges of the red-flag rothbardian conspiracy to cause the failure of the western liberty movement – and the’re live onstage, nightly. Our enemy is the state. It’s not ethics or morality. The libertarian’s only moral question is how to maintain a moral and ethical high trust society while getting rid of the state, and all possible demand for the state. Libertines are a cancer. There isn’t any ‘thick’ or ‘thin’ libertarianism. That’s another ruse to obscure the red flag operation of the libertines to undermine the high trust society we have slowly built for millennia. Aristocratic egalitarianism is the only source of liberty that ever was or will be. The enfranchisement of the willing in the reciprocal insurance of one another’s property by the promise of organized violence to defend it. That is “Right” libertarianism. The wealth and liberty that comes from Right libertarianism, makes possible the LUXURY of left libertarianism’s moral appeals for charity. But libertines are merely parasites on aristocratic necessity and charitable luxury. Non-aggression is a ruse. A lie. A convenient distraction. A false flag. The means of violating our property is immaterial. All that is necessary is that property is violated in whatever creative manner than man invents. Hoppe was right. We need no more than property for our freedom. And we have no use for libertines: parasites by any other name. Moral Realism, Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism. The virtue of violence. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev Ukraine
[B]lock is the poster child for unethical, immoral, ghetto libertarianism, and he hurts the movement every time he opens his mouth. Rockwell is barman of the lunatic fringe, and Kinsella the bouncer of ignorance and dogmatism — they’re the three stooges of the red-flag rothbardian conspiracy to cause the failure of the western liberty movement – and the’re live onstage, nightly. Our enemy is the state. It’s not ethics or morality. The libertarian’s only moral question is how to maintain a moral and ethical high trust society while getting rid of the state, and all possible demand for the state. Libertines are a cancer. There isn’t any ‘thick’ or ‘thin’ libertarianism. That’s another ruse to obscure the red flag operation of the libertines to undermine the high trust society we have slowly built for millennia. Aristocratic egalitarianism is the only source of liberty that ever was or will be. The enfranchisement of the willing in the reciprocal insurance of one another’s property by the promise of organized violence to defend it. That is “Right” libertarianism. The wealth and liberty that comes from Right libertarianism, makes possible the LUXURY of left libertarianism’s moral appeals for charity. But libertines are merely parasites on aristocratic necessity and charitable luxury. Non-aggression is a ruse. A lie. A convenient distraction. A false flag. The means of violating our property is immaterial. All that is necessary is that property is violated in whatever creative manner than man invents. Hoppe was right. We need no more than property for our freedom. And we have no use for libertines: parasites by any other name. Moral Realism, Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism. The virtue of violence. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev Ukraine
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/187733/POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AS A POSITIONAL GOOD
(you should read this)
A few more people get on board with the argument that PC is just cheap status seeking. This post and the one it references demonstrate the problem of creeping progressivism: once you create a new taboo, you must keep creating new taboos.
Progressivism is a cancer.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-13 04:33:00 UTC
NOTHING TO LOSE AND NOTHING TO FEAR
—“There is no one so careful about what they post on Facebook as University Professors.”— Anonymous
Well some of us work outside of the Cathedral. The rules are different. We have nothing to lose. And nothing to fear.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-12 07:08:00 UTC
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/laurence-m-vance/i-am-a-libertarian/WELCOME TO THE END OF LIBERTARIAN SUPERSTITION
I think he mean’s he’s a Rothbardian. Unless there is a Copyright on the term ‘libertarian’ held by the some group of rothbardians.
Unfortunately, Rothbardian is a little too close to ‘stupid-tarian’ and ‘aspie-tarian’ and ‘immoral-tarian’.
The NAP/IVP is a dead argument. Not by opinion, not by rationalization, but by evidence in our grubby hands, produced by science. It’s also one of the main reasons that the liberty movement has failed: because Rothbard’s ghetto ethics are objectively immoral.
Period. End. Of. Story.
Sorry you invested all your self-rewarding status signals out of a false premise, but that’s the price of the early adopter. You were wrong. You need to pick up your shattered dreams and walk out of rothbard’s ghetto, into the sunshine and learn about the logic of cooperation, the necessity of cooperation, and the relationship between cooperation and moral instincts, intuitions and rules.
The thick folks aren’t doing too well at keeping up with science (that seems to be a conservative or post-libertarian endeavor.) So they’re still hoping that they can reconstruct the church with some kind of continental , kantian, justificationary form of rationalism. The priests of libertarianism that will through genius introspection save us from the evils of statism. But once again the drudgery of science does what introspective gazing cannot.
Thin is dead. Thick is incomplete. And conservatives are the only people who act anyway.
Welcome to the scientific method.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-09 09:04:00 UTC
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/07/seen-at-11-positive-pregnancy-tests-up-for-sale-online/”95% OF THE WOMEN ARE TRYING TO ENTRAP MEN”
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-08 02:08:00 UTC
PROPAGANDA
Just as a matter of art, the Russian use of the internet, RTV, paid newsgroup and chat room propagandists, denial of service attacks, edited and manipulated video and photographs, paying local insurgents to cause chaos and destruction, bribing poorly paid police to stay home, while issuing perfect-pitch propaganda from bench, has got to be the most innovative form of warfare that I have seen in my lifetime.
I mean, the whole international islamist militia is pretty good. But they have nothing on Russia.
The only alternative to this kind of warfare is the anglo-swiss military model, which trains every single man, gives him a rifle, and makes him stay and capable through his 40’s.
I mean. As someone who appreciates good propaganda and ideology, marketing and strategy, I have to say that its pretty impressive, low cost way of conducting war.
Everyone who hasn’t read Keegan’s History of Warfare should: war is conducted and won by the criteria set by the culture. The west uses truth and immediate conflict for immediate resolution. China uses precisely the opposite: deception and delay. Russia has chosen the middle ground of deception and steady progress.
When we come for Washington DC it will be on such terms.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-05 06:42:00 UTC
Juan Sebastian Ortiz:
—“Britain´s approach to evolution has not been the selfish gene one but a value loaded social darwinistic one which raises an eyebrow of suspicion as it developed in the imperialistic era of agricultural-industrial domination over hunter gatherers throughout the world. If the data about the Ashkenazi jewish IQ is correct and the argument proposed by Gregory Clark in his Farewell to Alms is correct. There´s no reason to disbelieve that: given an unhampered market, sovereign private property society without a state and the consequent welfare programs that follow from it(military overproduction, affirmative action, minimum wage, etc included) the intergenerational tendency would be eugenic. EVEN controlling for higher availability of medical facilities, pharmaceuticals, etc. After all many of the genes responsible for immune processes are fairly recent….The [active] social darwinism of the 19th century is antiquated and unnecessary given the fundamental institutions of a free society. Having said that here are some Hegelian thoughts on anarcho-libertarianism as the millennial crusade for the Spirit of the world emanating the ultimate and final ethic.”—
Well said. Elegantly. My question is whether the NAP/IVP is a sufficient basis for that order anarchic order. Propertarianism would suggest that high performing groups adhere to much, much, higher standards, and then subjugate their masses by using lower standards, and trade with other states on even lower standards. I think that the NAP/IVP is too low a standard if we ask people to voluntarily join an anarchic polity. And we only think it’s OK because as libertarians we have a cognitive bias (moral blindness) that discounts the cost of OBJECTIVELY unethical and immoral actions as described by Propertarianism’s spectrum that prohibits free riding.
Free Riding is the negative claim and property the positive claim, but the two claims are identical under propertarianism. Where under NAP/IVP prevention of free riding stops at physical aggression. However, people with higher moral thresholds (and who are stronger) see actions such as blackmail, and ‘cheating’, as well as immoral behavior, as violations of the contract for cooperation which puts in place the prohibition on free riding.
I would never join a low trust polity, because it would be poorer than a higher trust polity, since trust determines the velocity of innovation, production and trade.
So I agree with your argument that all we need is an anarchic polity. I disagree that the NAP/IVP is sufficient for the formation of it. And while I haven’t done surveys yet to prove it (I will) science, logic and history, are pretty clearly on my side.
Anarchy is right. Sure. But the NAP/IVP is insufficient. I do not have the empirical evidence to demonstrate what level of suppression of free riding in the unethical and immoral range would be required for the formation of a voluntary polity, but I suggest that it will be far closer to the very limit of Propertarianism’s spectrum of prohibitions, than it is to rothbard’s NAP/IVP.
Hopefully within a year or two I will have that evidence.
But I’ll put money on the fact that only indoctrinated rothbardians choose the NAP/IVP level of suppression. That’s because it’s pretty clear that human beings prefer (logically) seller beware, rather than buyer beware. And propertarianism ensconces that in the legal code.
Thanks for great (rare) dialog.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-05 01:48:00 UTC