Curt Doolittle

Theme: Deception

  • FREUD IS WEARING A SLIP? 🙂 What is it called when you say one thing and mean an

    FREUD IS WEARING A SLIP? 🙂

    What is it called when you say one thing and mean another?

    1) A slip of the tongue (parapraxis) where a word is accidentally replaced by another. In a nervous setting, a slip of the tongue can be called a Freudian Slip.

    2) It can also be innuendo, whereby ones says something which is apparently innocent but means something else, usually of a sexual nature.

    3) It can be metaphor, where a difficult idea is expressed in simple or picturesque terms eg “It’s raining cats and dogs” to mean “Its raining heavily”.

    4) It can be euphemism, where the word(s) used substitute for other words or ideas that are being avoided, for reasons of sensitivity, secrecy, etc.

    5) It can be hyperbole, (exaggeration) where the truth is stretched for emphasis eg “I’ve told you a million times not to do that” when you mean “I’ve told you many times”

    6) It can be metonym, where a simple idea is used to represent a larger concept eg the White House to represent the US presidency.

    7) It can be slang. A Londoner might say “Where’s my trouble and strife” when he means “Where’s my wife”

    8) It can be a malapropism where a word is accidentally replaced by a similar sounding one eg “I can say without fear of contraception..” instead of “I can say without fear of contradiction..”

    9) It can be a spoonerism, where the initial letters of two words are swapped eg saying “Its roaring with pain” instead of “Its pouring with rain”

    10) If it is intentional, is called deceit, lying, misleading, mendacity.

    At least for this particular writer and speaker, malapropism is an almost guaranteed daily occurrence.

    When talking quickly I often skip words, to confusing and sometimes humorous effect.

    I am really conscious of my tendency to make freudian slips so I’m careful when I’m nervous.

    I intentionally use hyperbole because it is the only access to decent humor available to me. :0

    THANKS TO ANSWERS.COM FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION TO HUMOR

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-05 14:40:00 UTC

  • WE TRADE INTERPERSONAL CORRUPTION … We trade interpersonal corruption, which i

    WE TRADE INTERPERSONAL CORRUPTION …

    We trade interpersonal corruption, which is endemic in the rest of the world, for systemic corruption of organizations in the western world.

    I am still struggling a bit to be sure that I understand these processes. But certainly coercion exists equally in these societies. The question is the transfer of transaction costs from individuals to organizations. It is far easier and cheaper for us to interact with one another. But it appears it is equally complicated for the organizations that we belong to (political parties) to resolve high friction differences.

    Economic productivity then, is gained by the process of pressing free riding and rent seeking and that form of involuntary transfer that we call price competition from a property of personal relations, both into the market where it is not visible and it is morally sanctioned, but also, into the political system.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-05 11:16:00 UTC

  • FINISHED MY WORK ON RORTY. (eh.) His criticism of the metaphysical project is ac

    FINISHED MY WORK ON RORTY. (eh.)

    His criticism of the metaphysical project is accurate. His definition of truth as ‘whatever we agree upon’ is just a justification for postmodern verbal deception. It’s a justification not a description.

    Waste of time.

    Sigh.

    As for political philosophy, we are back to the philosophy of science, but where instead of testing hypotheses against the regular patterns of the physical universe, we are testing hypotheses against the willingness to enter voluntary exchanges.

    Of course, the universe has a fairly constant periodicity at the newtonian scale of our human actions (albeit at much faster and slower, larger and smaller, that’s something else entirely). But human beings exhibit any number of periodic patterns due to age, generation, state of current knowledge, arrangement of current resources, and arrangement of humans into complex webs of production that we call a division of labor, all of which is signalled by prices made possible by the commensurability of money, subject to flocking and swarming, and external shocks from the physical world.

    Just as we hypothesize that the universe expands and contracts, so does our civilization, as we gain new knowledge of how to more effectively extract calories from the world’s resources, then via fertility, consume the incremental value of that knowledge.

    Meanwhile we school like fish to national opportunities, until they too are exhausted via boom and bust. And within that boom and bust the constant signaling necessary for mating and reproduction take place giving rise to subtle differences in fashion and aesthetics, which are the micro-applications of those advances in our capture of calories from the material world.

    Truth is a description of actions that if repeated, reproduce previous results among categories with a similar periodicity. This is somewhat problematic because first, periodicity becomes extremely complicated outside of the newtonian physical world, or, among humans, outside of the family.

    Second because production cycles and therefore all the categories of measurement, randomly fall apart and then are recreated in response to changing demand on one and and availability of solutions on the other.

    Truth is not what we agree it is. Ambitions may be whatever we agree upon. Even if those ambitions are metaphorically, a-rationally or irrationally stated.

    It may be true that we can chant false things often enough that people will for some time believe them long enough to implement som policy or other. In fact, that is what happens most of the time. That is the purpose of the progressive-postmodern program.

    But truth in the physical world and truth in the world of human action are different in the sense that the actions needed to replicate something in the physical world will remain constant, and actions needed to replicate something in the human world will not remain constant.

    In either case, any true statement is a statement about the set of actions, not about the thing or process itself (which doesn’t exist as a set of conditions except as a collection of statements or symbols or stimuli). Most confusion is caused by this confusion. We can make statements. We can test these statements.These statements under test, will either reproduce prior results (true) or not (false), or be inconclusive (not true, not false, but simply non logical).

    True statements are true by means of analogies constructed of abstract categories we call actions – and they are indeed categories. And these statements are just statements. They are statements that if imitated, produce consistent results each time that they are tested. And without additional information they will not change. But since we are always subject to new information, they are constantly open to possible change, even if that change is largely only an increase in the detail provided by smaller and larger, or faster and slower scales.

    Humans must be able to reduce conceptual analogies to something that can be processed by the brain in two or three seconds. Most of our work is to produce some means by which we create causal categories that can be submitted to our senses in a form that we can associate with other associations in three seconds or less.

    Lots of associative power. Short periodicity for processing that much information.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-31 13:20:00 UTC

  • PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicit

    PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION

    In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims.

    1) On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.

    2) On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.

    3) Values are subjective—but sexism and racism are really evil. Technology is bad and destructive—and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.

    4) Tolerance is good and dominance is bad—but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.

    There is a common pattern here: Subjectivism and relativism in one breath, dogmatic absolutism in the next.

    Hicks, Stephen R. C. (2010-10-19). Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Kindle Locations 4281-4291). Ockham’s Razor Publishing / Scholargy. Kindle Edition.

    The only possible conservative strategy is the one they adopted. Equal irrationalism and dogma.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-30 08:16:00 UTC

  • THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE “Postmodernism is the academic f

    THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

    “Postmodernism is the academic far Left’s epistemological strategy for responding to the crisis caused by the failures of socialism in theory and in practice. “

    Hicks, Stephen R. C. (2010-10-19). Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Kindle Locations 2183-2185). Ockham’s Razor Publishing / Scholargy. Kindle Edition.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-30 07:59:00 UTC

  • The Signaling Properties Of Secular Democratic Humanism Versus Christian Aristocratic Egalitarianism

    [D]EMOCRATIC SECULAR HUMANISM IS A RELIGION It is based upon false premises, and counter to observable fact. It is no less mystical or absurd than an omniscient omnipotent, artificial deity. It’s purpose is to accumulate power. IT IS A WAR ON AN OLD RELIGION BY A NEW RELIGION. The equality of man, the relativity of values, the irrelevance of norms, the equality of cultures, the permanence that technical innovation will ‘save us’, and a dozen other mythos, attribute untrue properties to man and society, in an effort to cast the extended order of human cooperation and competition as an extended family. Humans do not act in this way. Even practitioners of the religion do not act this way. If they did, they would tolerate the old religion. But they don’t. And, in fact, they only tolerate any religion with lower status signals than their religion. TRADING THE HIGH TRUST SOCIETY FOR FALSE, FREE STATUS SIGNALS And those free status signals are the ‘psychological device’ that provides the incentive for adopting the new democratic religion, rather than the old religion’s promise of life after death. This is the technological innovation of democratic secular humanism: it has replaced false promise of afterlife, true status signals, true suppositions about human nature, and true economic principles, with false status signals, false suppositions about human nature, and false economic principles. The net of this new religion has been the destruction of the nuclear family and a the slow regression away from the high trust society that the west built by local outbreeding over more than a thousand years. Because trust in *kindness*, which is an emotionally loaded term for the human need for acceptance and positive status signals, is counterproductive to the economic requirement for trust in trade and contract. [IDEA: positive signals for mere existence versus positive signals for economic action.] The innovation of the west that allowed it to create greater relative wealth at lower rates of corruption, and to tolerate higher risk and innovation, finally consumer credit, was the high trust society. And we can demonstrate empirically that increases in diversity of norms and culture, even race, cause accelerating decreases in trust. Our governmental conflict is just an expression of this difference. It is NOT POSSIBLE to create a civic religion without status signals. Humans value status more than money. No civic religion will ever exist that does not. However, the question is, what actions do those signals produce in the real world? Let’s see: SIGNALS OF TRUSTWORTHINESS IN CONTRACT [A]bsolute respect for the commons and private property, Competition, Individualism, the nuclear family, truth telling, adherence to contract, and conformity to commercial norms, were innovations adopted by the western cultures under manorialism (feudalism), as people sought to demonstrate that they were fit to rent land. Males embraced chivalry because it allowed them to achieve status signals without fighting, and in turn, it allowed them to achieve status through service. Further it did not require extraordinary wealth to do services, as did fighting. [T]hat it takes a long time to change signaling strategies once the capture of fossile fuels permits industrialization, therefore freeing the woman from the drudgery of the home and the man from teh drudgery of the field, and gives us enough free wealth and time to afford to educate our young is certainly good reason to extend property rights to women, and to extend political enfranchise to all consumers and laborers. This is true. But the practical reality is our goods and services may be cheaper and the least of us we may live better than nobility of the past, but that does not change the reality that we are vastly unequal in temperament and ability, and most of us require extraordinary training and reinforcement by others to maintain the high trust society that we buit by accident was counter to intuition and behaviorally expensive to maintain. People universally demonstrate a preference for the benefits of material productivity. Always. Yet they long for the behavior of the tribe and family, despite universal and inescapable tribal poverty, and despite universal and inescapable low trust in family-dominated, in-breeding-in-extended family societies. Be careful what you wish for. You’re getting it. [P]rogressive ideology is a longing for a return to the tribe. It is cheap false status signals that produce negative economic consequences. Cultures are empirically demonstrable to be unequal, and democracy only works in the west because the west started out as aristocratic. Without western culture the west will be like every other barbaric low trust civilization on the planet. Progressive ideology is to the west what christianity was to rome. There is no difference. It is mysticism in different robes. -Curt

  • (From Another Thread: Very Meaningful Ideas in this post) DEMOCRATIC SECULAR HUM

    (From Another Thread:

    Very Meaningful Ideas in this post)

    DEMOCRATIC SECULAR HUMANISM IS A RELIGION

    It is based upon false premises, and counter to observable fact.

    It is no less mystical or absurd than an omniscient omnipotent, artificial deity.

    It’s purpose is to accumulate power.

    IT IS A WAR ON AN OLD RELIGION BY A NEW RELIGION.

    The equality of man, the relativity of values, the irrelevance of norms, the equality of cultures, the permanence that technical innovation will ‘save us’, and a dozen other mythos, attribute untrue properties to man and society, in an effort to cast the extended order of human cooperation and competition as an extended family.

    Humans do not act in this way. Even practitioners of the religion do not act this way. If they did, they would tolerate the old religion. But they don’t. And, in fact, they only tolerate any religion with lower status signals than their religion.

    TRADING THE HIGH TRUST SOCIETY FOR FALSE, FREE STATUS SIGNALS

    And those free status signals are the ‘psychological device’ that provides the incentive for adopting the new democratic religion, rather than the old religion’s promise of life after death.

    This is the technological innovation of democratic secular humanism: it has replaced false promise of afterlife, true status signals, true suppositions about human nature, and true economic principles, with false status signals, false suppositions about human nature, and false economic principles.

    The net of this new religion has been the destruction of the nuclear family and a the slow regression away from the high trust society that the west built by local outbreeding over more than a thousand years.

    Because trust in *kindness*, which is an emotionally loaded term for the human need for acceptance and positive status signals, is counterproductive to the economic requirement for trust in trade and contract. [IDEA: positive signals for mere existence versus positive signals for economic action.]

    The innovation of the west that allowed it to create greater relative wealth at lower rates of corruption, and to tolerate higher risk and innovation, finally consumer credit, was the high trust society. And we can demonstrate empirically that increases in diversity of norms and culture, even race, cause accelerating decreases in trust. Our governmental conflict is just an expression of this difference.

    It is NOT POSSIBLE to create a civic religion without status signals. Humans value status more than money. No civic religion will ever exist that does not. However, the question is, what actions do those signals produce in the real world?

    SIGNALS OF TRUST

    Absolute respect for the commons and private property, Competition, Individualism, the nuclear family, truth telling, adherence to contract, and conformity to commercial norms, were innovations adopted by the western cultures under manorialism (feudalism), as people sought to demonstrate that they were fit to rent land. Males embraced chivalry because it allowed them to achieve status signals without fighting, and in turn, it allowed them to achieve status through service. Further it did not require extraordinary wealth to do services, as did fighting.

    That it takes a long time to change signaling strategies once the capture of fossile fuels permits industrialization, therefore freeing the woman from the drudgery of the home and the man from teh drudgery of the field, and gives us enough free wealth and time to afford to educate our young is certainly good reason to extend property rights to women, and to extend political enfranchise to all consumers and laborers. This is true.

    But the practical reality is our goods and services may be cheaper and the least of us we may live better than nobility of the past, but that does not change the reality that we are vastly unequal in temperament and ability, and most of us require extraordinary training and reinforcement by others to maintain the high trust society that we buit by accident was counter to intuition and behaviorally expensive to maintain. People universally demonstrate a preference for the benefits of material productivity. Always. Yet they long for the behavior of the tribe and family, despite universal and inescapable tribal poverty, and despite universal and inescapable low trust in family-dominated, in-breeding-in-extended family societies.

    Be careful what you wish for. You’re getting it.

    Progressive ideology is a longing for a return to the tribe. It is cheap false status signals that produce negative economic consequences. Cultures are empirically demonstrable to be unequal, and democracy only works in the west because the west started out as aristocratic. Without western culture the west will be like every other barbaric low trust civilization on the planet.

    Progressive ideology is to the west what christianity was to rome. There is no difference.

    It is mysticism in different robes.

    -Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-25 02:07:00 UTC

  • STIGLITZ SYNDROME ; UNACCOUNTABLE INTELLECTUALS “Stiglitz Syndrome” after Nobel

    STIGLITZ SYNDROME ; UNACCOUNTABLE INTELLECTUALS

    “Stiglitz Syndrome” after Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, referring to the phenomenon of public intellectuals being held utterly unaccountable for their bad predictions.

    From Taleb

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-24 11:03:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIST MAGAZINE IS WRONG ON OLIGARCHS: **FLAUNT IT. FLAUNT IT EVERYWHERE. ALW

    http://www.economist.com/news/china/21573606-rubber-stamp-billionaires-dont-flaunt-itTHE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE IS WRONG ON OLIGARCHS:

    **FLAUNT IT. FLAUNT IT EVERYWHERE. ALWAYS.**

    *That’s what a Republic is. A Natural Rotation Of Oligarchs.*

    Every country has an oligarchy. Oligarchies are NECESSARY and they are unavoidable.

    The question is which composition of people do you want to be governed by: (a) soldiers, (b) priests or (c) commerce?

    Why that list of three? Because there are only three forms of coercion avalable for humans to use in building organizations: (a) violence, (b) ostracization from opportunity and (c) exchange – or, technically, remuneration.

    If, as we have seen, people DEMONSTRATE that they UNIVERSALLY prefer to live under conditions of wealth, and only ONE of these three coercive sets CREATES wealth, then it is only logical, that china DUPLICATES the rise of the West’s aristocracy – which is the SOURCE of western prosperity – by having government run by people who udnerstaand commerce. And in particular, who understand nationalism as a commercial strategy.

    THEY DO IT RIGHT. WE DO IT WRONG NOW. Our leaders are priests of egalitarianism – who assume business will succeed and that they can simply plunder business at will. They are Not aristocrats responsible for the economic welfare of their citizens.

    China is doing it RIGHT. They’re doing it RIGHT by imitating the rise of the WEST. The rise that we were programmed by the left to believe was evil, colonial, oppressive, masculine. When in fact, we dragged all of humanity out of pervasive ignorance and poverty with our aristocratic christian ethics, technology, and culture.

    FLAUNT IT. FLAUNT IT EVERY DAY. AND CHEER THOSE WHO FLAUNT IT.

    (Reposted with edits)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-20 06:41:00 UTC

  • The Self Deception Of The Enlightenment View Of Man

    The so called enlightenment is a mental self deception for the purpose of obtaining signals at a discount and nothing more. The enlightenment view of man was a myth invented to justify the taking if power from the landed nobility. It was that aristocracy that created western excellencies that made us unique in the world, and that we now spend for signaling discounts. Enlightenment principles are genocidal. And we see that in the reproductive data. Liberals don’t breed.