de.aristocratia
—When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Sparta, he said, “Knowledge of how to rule and to be ruled.”—
Reform the academy with violence, not words: Testimonial Truth. Ethics, Law, Politics, Economics, Engineering and War. One does not rule those who are immoral with their permission – but expressly without it. Otherwise they would not need to be ruled.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 05:21:00 UTC
http://m.wsj.com/articles/harvey-silverglate-liberals-are-killing-the-liberal-arts-1415573959?mobile=y
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 23:41:00 UTC
GOOD ENLIGHTENMENT ARISTOCRATIC THOUGHT – ALBEIT NOT GOOD POST ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT.
“The Closing of the American Mind.” – Alan Bloom
“Cultural literacy” – E. D. Hirsch
“In Defense of Elitism” – William A. Henry
Nietzsche was right. A lot.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 22:49:00 UTC
OOPS!!! “THE GREAT COURSES” AND “THE GREAT BOOKS” of THE WESTERN CANON
You know, both the great courses series, and the western canon are cults-of-democracy, majority rule, and universalism, rather than cults of the jury, one-vote-one-family, and universalism among christians.
In other words, we HAVE TO CLEAN the western Canon of impossible fallacies.
Nietzsche stands largely alone.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 22:38:00 UTC
SO IF THE COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS “REFORMED” THE ACADEMY BY POINTING GUNS AT PROFESSORS. THEN WHEY CAN’T WE “RESTORE” THE ACADEMY BY THE SAME MEANS?
In the sixties,during the proletarian revolution, universities were places of revolution, and professors were held at gunpoint and told to teach revisionist communist history or be killed.
Currently, to satisfy the consumer demand of feminism, universities still teach false, revisionist, history.
Currently, to keep cash flowing from the future into the present, by the sale of a faulty product, universities still teach false, revisionist pseudoscience (social science) and false, religion of the cathedral: universalism, democracy, diversity, while proposing that these create high trust rather than devolve high trust into low trust.
Is not the duty then of aristocratic egalitarians, to suppress lying wherever they find it?
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 22:32:00 UTC
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/opinion/sahlberg-finland-education/index.html
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-14 09:02:00 UTC
(diary)
I had a regret. A very big one. That I had not worked on philosophy when I was in college – that I had not joined the literature department when asked by its chair. That I was overly fascinated with career motives in engineering, law, or art, than I was in ‘the recreation of literature and philosophy’.
But now, I question, would I have just fallen into the trap of the academy and perished with academic philosophy during my generation? I can never know the answer to this question – I suspect I might have been much happier person in twenties and thirties if I had. It is just as likely I think, given that it was during the Reagan revolution, that I would have found some equally interesting problem to solve.
On the other hand, I am profoundly proud of what I have chiseled out from inside of this chunk of marble under my daily toil. Propertarianism is something very special and very profound. And now that I can see my way to finishing it – that I *can* finish it – perhaps without too much struggle, I know what it means to me to have made it. It is the greatest thing I have ever done, and everything else in my life is discounted to the pale by its achievement.
I am very fond of and proud of what I have learned about man and myself by my serial entrepreneurship. I am emboldened by the knowledge that I can compete on that stage. And I will never look at material things again and say “I want or wish for that experience”. But, given the illness and anxiety all that entrepreneurship has given me, I wish I had not done it.
Yet here I am, having crafted, despite those decisions – whether good or bad – my single goal in life, from the age of twelve. I had no other.
At the age of twelve, I told my god I would build him a church if he gave me the wealth to do it. I meant a building. But the wealth he gave me was to give me time, and the church we wanted was one built of my words.
And building with those words I have restored my gods – not to an altar, but to a pedestal, where they desire to be. Altars are for the submissive and the weak to obey. Pedestals are for the competent and the strong. Gods are to be admired, imitated, remembered. No god worthy of advice seeks submission. Any god worthy of advice and counsel seeks liberty for his people – or he is not a god but a demon – a devil. Some gods need us to free them from a prison constructed by demons. Liberty frees our gods from theirs.
I know what my next purpose is. I must finish this one and start on it while I have the time left to craft it – thankfully I now have build the words to craft it with.
We need tools to make the tools, to make the things we desire. Propertarianism is but the tool with which to craft the tool, to make the thing, that we desire.
When I write, my gods speak to me in the only way they can. I am never quite sure which words are mine, and which are theirs. I believe they are mine, but then when I look back at them, I cannot imagine how they could be.
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 04:59:00 UTC
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/texas-tech-students-give-jaw-droppingly-shocking-answers-political-questions-video/
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 14:25:00 UTC
Warrior, Judge, Chevalier (caretaker), Artisan. Thats enough to master for any man.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if you went to university, to expressly develop each of these skills?
We used to do that you know.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-08 02:47:00 UTC
THE ACADEMY’S POLLUTION TOUCHES EVERYTHING
You know, I don’t know what’s quite wrong with contemporary physics. I do know what’s wrong with contemporary politics, philosophy and economics (if anything).
What bothers me is that theoretical physicists seem to be talking just like the philosophers and economists – and so if they’re making the same verbal and logical errors, it just raises my suspicion that the reason we’re having problems in physics at present is for the same reason we’re having problems in philosophy and economics.
All that I know, is that mathematics is to science, what rationalism is to philosophy, what models are to economics: it’s not worth much really, unless you run tests. And I am fairly certain that we have a lot of people using paper, rather than a few people using expensive experiments.
And I think by and large that is the Academy’s fault – they want cheap slave labor (grad students), and so we produce a lot of unproductive people (yes, we have too many scientists, because that’s what the data says).
And if that money was spent on experiments (people are very expensive) rather than paper and formula pushers; it is likely that we would produce better results.
I can’t be sure of it, but it’s hard not to come to that conclusion.
The academy is damaging to everything everywhere.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-07 06:31:00 UTC