Theme: Grammar

  • The Architecture of Propertarianism

    [T]hinking through the remainder of Propertarianism. WHICH COMMUNICATION METHOD? 1) Poem / Parable / Story / Novel / Play, (analogy), Dostoyevsky, Orwell 2) Essay(Advice / Preference), Locke, Smith, and Hume. 3) Argument(scholarly persuasion / Necessity), Darwin. 4) Prescription (law, actionable / requirement ), The US Constitution. 5) Bible(Law+Myth, Pedagogy) Koran, Hebrew law. The Western Canon

    ETHICAL METHODS 1) Virtue Ethics (Imitation) – in Youth – Using Story 2) Deontological Ethics (Rules) – at Maturity – Using Prescription(Law) or Argument 3) Teleological Ethics (Outcomes) – when Aged – Using Essay or Bible LIFE EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 1) Youth – Little Experience – virtue ethics – outcomes 2) Maturity – Some Experience – Deontological ethics. 3) Aged – Much : Teleological ethics – outcomes. REQUIREMENTS 1) Durable medium – the longer the better. myths last forever. 2) Pedagogical – can be taught by parable or by rule, or studied to gain wisdom. 3) Hard to criticize – can survive decades if not centuries of criticism THOUGHTS [M]y first draft in 2006 was an essay. The second draft in 2013 was an argument. But both were plagued by ideosyncratic language. So (on advice from hoppe) I rewrote it using standard philosophical language, using the five branches of philosophy as the skeleton. Over the past two years, I’ve been able to condense the arguments substantially, and make them more comprehensible. Mostly through continuing to enumerate a number of spectra. And at this point, Propertarianism is much closer to Spinoza’s extremely parsimonious work than Smith’s windy narrative, and Hume or Kant’s, structured arguments. My intuition tells me that since propertarianism and testimonialism constitute a LEGAL philosophy (a political philosophy expressed as law), that I should not really get into the business of defending each of the propositions. I would lose the reader. And rather than justify the reasoning I should merely DEMONSTRATE it’s explanatory power. I should state the law as “given x, we seek y, by doing z, and this is moral because of w.” Then to follow with examples showing adherence to the rule, then failure to adhere to the rule. Then to address every possible questions of conflict both private and public that I can (like the reformed Torah). The intuition that I should write Propertrianism (Testimonialism) as a legal version of the 48 Laws of Power (book) has been nagging me for years now. And it’s held up consistently enough that I don’t think it’s going to change. I am incapable of writing a novel. Novels, Essays and Arguments are not as durable as laws and bibles. And I want Propertariaism(Testimonialism) to be durable. For centuries. At least. So the big question is: “can I write a bible”. And the answer, I think is yes. Science, Philosophy, Morality, Law, Politics and Religion in a single volume. All identical. All unified.
  • The Architecture of Propertarianism

    [T]hinking through the remainder of Propertarianism. WHICH COMMUNICATION METHOD? 1) Poem / Parable / Story / Novel / Play, (analogy), Dostoyevsky, Orwell 2) Essay(Advice / Preference), Locke, Smith, and Hume. 3) Argument(scholarly persuasion / Necessity), Darwin. 4) Prescription (law, actionable / requirement ), The US Constitution. 5) Bible(Law+Myth, Pedagogy) Koran, Hebrew law. The Western Canon

    ETHICAL METHODS 1) Virtue Ethics (Imitation) – in Youth – Using Story 2) Deontological Ethics (Rules) – at Maturity – Using Prescription(Law) or Argument 3) Teleological Ethics (Outcomes) – when Aged – Using Essay or Bible LIFE EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 1) Youth – Little Experience – virtue ethics – outcomes 2) Maturity – Some Experience – Deontological ethics. 3) Aged – Much : Teleological ethics – outcomes. REQUIREMENTS 1) Durable medium – the longer the better. myths last forever. 2) Pedagogical – can be taught by parable or by rule, or studied to gain wisdom. 3) Hard to criticize – can survive decades if not centuries of criticism THOUGHTS [M]y first draft in 2006 was an essay. The second draft in 2013 was an argument. But both were plagued by ideosyncratic language. So (on advice from hoppe) I rewrote it using standard philosophical language, using the five branches of philosophy as the skeleton. Over the past two years, I’ve been able to condense the arguments substantially, and make them more comprehensible. Mostly through continuing to enumerate a number of spectra. And at this point, Propertarianism is much closer to Spinoza’s extremely parsimonious work than Smith’s windy narrative, and Hume or Kant’s, structured arguments. My intuition tells me that since propertarianism and testimonialism constitute a LEGAL philosophy (a political philosophy expressed as law), that I should not really get into the business of defending each of the propositions. I would lose the reader. And rather than justify the reasoning I should merely DEMONSTRATE it’s explanatory power. I should state the law as “given x, we seek y, by doing z, and this is moral because of w.” Then to follow with examples showing adherence to the rule, then failure to adhere to the rule. Then to address every possible questions of conflict both private and public that I can (like the reformed Torah). The intuition that I should write Propertrianism (Testimonialism) as a legal version of the 48 Laws of Power (book) has been nagging me for years now. And it’s held up consistently enough that I don’t think it’s going to change. I am incapable of writing a novel. Novels, Essays and Arguments are not as durable as laws and bibles. And I want Propertariaism(Testimonialism) to be durable. For centuries. At least. So the big question is: “can I write a bible”. And the answer, I think is yes. Science, Philosophy, Morality, Law, Politics and Religion in a single volume. All identical. All unified.
  • Science and truthful speech require that we categorize, contrast, value. Reality

    Science and truthful speech require that we categorize, contrast, value. Reality hurts? Sorry, but that’s no reason to lie.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-06 10:31:23 UTC

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  • THE COSTLY FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF REALITY AND THE INSUFFICIENCY OF OUR LANGUAGE

    THE COSTLY FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF REALITY AND THE INSUFFICIENCY OF OUR LANGUAGE

    (worth repeating)(revised and expanded)

    It is extremely difficult to translate subjective experiential feminine language into rational and scientific masculine language. Which is something that is often agonized over by feminist philosophers. One of the things I like about propertarianism is that it is possible to translate feminine experiential language into a neutral medium.

    But it is impossible to capture the fact that emotions are COSTLY for women and their reactions UNCONTROLLABLE or overwhelming. So while we see women as absurd creatures it is because we do not appreciate the effort and therefore the cost that women feel they bear in managing them.

    Our language, developed largely for men, and by men, does not account for this burden. I think if it did, it would go a long way to improving inter-gender understanding of the vast differences between the male and female experiences of life that are not captured in our language.

    That does not mean we should tolerate the diminution of our language into postmodern or worse devolutions, but it does me that we should develop a language for the rational description of the female experience so that we are aware of their costs.

    Because of this high cost of emotions, women use verbal deceits to morally justify the transfer of emotional costs from the self to the rest of society.

    Meanwhile, men, who have developed a multitude of institutions to control and suppress their equally expensive to control emotions of violence somehow are taken for granted. We exert equal control, but we have had 50K years to develop institutional means of directing our aggressiveness and competition to productive ends.

    As yet women have not found a way to devote their emotions to constructive ends. Instead, they have – or at least single women have – in large part voted to destroy civilization by the systematic attack on property, family, and marriage that makes the compromise between the gender’s possible despite our differences in reproductive strategy.

    Language would help women articulate the cost of their experience and allow the genders to engage in exchanges to assist them, rather than lies and rents in order to justify them.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-05 20:16:00 UTC

  • NOW WHY IS CURT INTERESTED IN THE PROBLEM OF BURDENSOME TRUTHFUL AND OPERATIONAL

    NOW WHY IS CURT INTERESTED IN THE PROBLEM OF BURDENSOME TRUTHFUL AND OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE RATHER THAN EASIER, MEANINGFUL AND ALLEGORICAL LANGUAGE?

    (important piece)

    Because the latter 19th, and majority of the 20th century, used allegorical language to load, frame, construct narratives, pseudosciences, and outright lies, to overload, and produce suggestion that evoked pathological altruism and altruistic punishment for the purpose of leftist deception.

    Could the postmoderns(mythicists), the socialists(pseudoscientists), the feminists(ralliers), the social ‘scientists’ (liars), the psychologists (shamers), keyensians (innumerists), have been able to destroy western common law, western high trust society, the civic society, the nuclear family, and social science, even truth itself, and create demand for authority had political speech been held to the same standards of truthful speech as we hold scientists to?

    My work in Testimonial Truth is designed to rescue western civilization from postmoderns by legally protecting the informational commons from untruthful public speech. That does not mean one cannot err. It means that in matters of the commons one can be held to the same standards of truth as are the sciences. It means reinstatement of libel, slander, defamation, for false statements. It means extension of truth to the defense of the informational commons by the same means we defend all other commons.

    It means we saturate the population in truth rather than in lies.

    POSITIVISM VS CRITICISM / OBVERSE VS REVERSE

    So the most common objection I receive from the literary and the scientific fields is that, like you, they seek to understand truth as a means of exploration, while in law and in politics, I seek to understand truthfulness as a means of preventing the **externalization** of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception.

    Science has largely abandoned justificationism in favor of criticism. But public intellectuals (people who preach, advocate, talk) retain justifiactionism. Largely because it is easily used to create moral signals, moral activism, and moral outrage.

    So while expansion of knowledge may be improved by the use of justification in for the purpose of constructing hypotheses, the truth is determined by the survival of those hypotheses from criticism.

    Now I understand that it would place a higher cost on individuals to warranty their public speech in matters of the commons (costs to others) but the entire construction of civilization by constraining others from violence, theft, fraud, extortion, conspiracy, free riding, conversion, immigration, and conquest has cost a great deal.

    In fact, the high trust society, the fact that we even try to speak truthfully, and hold each other accountable for truthful speech, is perhaps the most expensive commons ever created by man.

    That is why no one else does it.

    And why no one else approaches our wealth.

    CLOSING

    It might take a second read to grasp how I constructed my argument from existential, empirical, and necessary rather than allegorical and ‘meaningful’ terminology.

    It is extremely burdensome to write in this fashion, but by that burden we test our understanding of the subject matter. If we cannot articulate our ideas under such constraints we cannot warranty the truthfulness of our statements.

    And so we take a discount on the effort of warrantying our statements for truthfulness, and place the cost of the externalities cause by our laziness (discounting) on the rest of society.

    The problem is, as the postmoderns and socialists and feminists have shown, is that it is much cheaper to produce deceit than it is to refute it.

    So liars won the 20th century.

    Now, you may be a moral man, and as a moral man you write moral content. As such you are immaterial other than that by such arguments as you’ve presented you give permission to the worlds most sophisticated liars to lie.

    So in order to preserve a discount for yourself you preserve the discount for the immoral men and women of this world – who arguably outnumber those of us who are moral men and women.

    Instead I would argue that you can write in whatever mode you prefer, as long as the content of your argument is test-ably moral. This is not a problem for you, certainly.

    But I want to make it a problem for immoral men by opening them to liability for pollution of the informational commons.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-05 12:27:00 UTC

  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF PROPERTARIANISM Thinking through the remainder of Propertari

    THE ARCHITECTURE OF PROPERTARIANISM

    Thinking through the remainder of Propertarianism.

    COMMUNICATION METHOD

    1) Poem / Parable / Story / Novel / Play, (analogy), Dostoyevsky, Orwell

    2) Essay(Advice / Preference), Locke, Smith, and Hume.

    3) Argument(scholarly persuasion / Necessity), Darwin.

    4) Prescription (law, actionable / requirement ), The US Constitution.

    5) Bible(Law+Myth, Pedagogy) Koran, Hebrew law. The Western Canon

    ETHICAL METHOD

    1) Virtue Ethics (Imitation) – in Youth – Using Story

    2) Deontological Ethics (Rules) – at Maturity – Using Prescription(Law) or Argument

    3) Teleological Ethics (Outcomes) – when Aged – Using Essay or Bible

    LIFE EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

    1) Youth – Little Experience – virtue ethics – outcomes

    2) Maturity – Some Experience – Deontological ethics.

    3) Aged – Much : Teleological ethics – outcomes.

    REQUIREMENTS

    1) Durable medium – the longer the better. myths last forever.

    2) Pedagogical – can be taught by parable or by rule, or studied to gain wisdom.

    3) Hard to criticize – can survive decades if not centuries of criticism

    THOUGHTS

    My first draft in 2006 was an essay. The second draft in 2013 was an argument. But both were plagued by ideosyncratic language. So (on advice from hoppe) I rewrote it using standard philosophical language, using the five branches of philosophy as the skeleton.

    Over the past two years, I’ve been able to condense the arguments substantially, and make them more comprehensible. Mostly through continuing to enumerate a number of spectra. And at this point, Propertarianism is much closer to Spinoza’s extremely parsimonious work than Smith’s windy narrative, and Hume or Kant’s, structured arguments.

    My intuition tells me that since propertarianism and testimonialism constitute a LEGAL philosophy (a political philosophy expressed as law), that I should not really get into the business of defending each of the propositions. I would lose the reader. And rather than justify the reasoning I should merely DEMONSTRATE it’s explanatory power. I should state the law as “given x, we seek y, by doing z, and this is moral because of w.” Then to follow with examples showing adherence to the rule, then failure to adhere to the rule. Then to address every possible questions of conflict both private and public that I can (like the reformed Torah).

    The intuition that I should write Propertrianism (Testimonialism) as a legal version of the 48 Laws of Power (book) has been nagging me for years now. And it’s held up consistently enough that I don’t think it’s going to change.

    I am incapable of writing a novel. Novels, Essays and Arguments are not as durable as laws and bibles. And I want Propertariaism(Testimonialism) to be durable. For centuries. At least.

    So the big question is: “can I write a bible”. And the answer, I think is yes.

    Science, Philosophy, Morality, Law, Politics and Religion in a single volume.

    All identical.

    All unified.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-04 06:17:00 UTC

  • The Deceitful Use of “We”

    (verbalism)(deception)(theft)(predation) [T]he misuse of the word “we” imposes costs upon others, since it is a form of deception that is to distract us from actions of predation and theft. Most frequently, the deceptive use of the word “we” is employed in the political sphere, in the west, is to further violate property en toto under the pretense of equality of interest. It’s a verbal parlor trick for the purpose of theft. It’s chicanery. –William Benge

  • The Deceitful Use of “We”

    (verbalism)(deception)(theft)(predation) [T]he misuse of the word “we” imposes costs upon others, since it is a form of deception that is to distract us from actions of predation and theft. Most frequently, the deceptive use of the word “we” is employed in the political sphere, in the west, is to further violate property en toto under the pretense of equality of interest. It’s a verbal parlor trick for the purpose of theft. It’s chicanery. –William Benge

  • Education: We Do It Wrong.

    [W]e do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar, rhetoric, logic, moral law, contract). 3) History(technical,organizational,economic,artistic). 4) Arithmetic( arithmetic, checkbooks, accounting, credit and interest, banking), 5) Mathematics(algebra, trigonometry, statistics, calculus), 6) Economics (micro-economics, institutions of cooperation, macro-economics). 7) Physics(physics, chemistry, biology). Note the absence of politics and indoctrination.

    Get a job as young as you can. Youth employment not immigrant employment. Elderly employment, not immigrant employment. Travel for a year or two in your late teens. Borrowing to travel is the best investment you can make in your youth. Parochialism is the greatest liability you can most easily overcome. ( Look at the Mormons ) Or do two years in military service learning emergency skills, crowd control, civil defense, and the basics of weapons, fire, movement, communication and fitness. Then go to college. If you go to college you can learn a skill: a quantitative discipline. Or you can seek entertainment: non-quantitative fields. College is a *shitty* filter with not enough variation in filtration. Little of it is useful. And universities teach and distribute cathedral ignorance. Learning selflessness, cooperation, variation, emergency and fighting teaches you to be successful regardless of what technical skill you possess. Then learn a technical skill: the hardest that you can manage and feel confident in using.
  • Education: We Do It Wrong.

    [W]e do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar, rhetoric, logic, moral law, contract). 3) History(technical,organizational,economic,artistic). 4) Arithmetic( arithmetic, checkbooks, accounting, credit and interest, banking), 5) Mathematics(algebra, trigonometry, statistics, calculus), 6) Economics (micro-economics, institutions of cooperation, macro-economics). 7) Physics(physics, chemistry, biology). Note the absence of politics and indoctrination.

    Get a job as young as you can. Youth employment not immigrant employment. Elderly employment, not immigrant employment. Travel for a year or two in your late teens. Borrowing to travel is the best investment you can make in your youth. Parochialism is the greatest liability you can most easily overcome. ( Look at the Mormons ) Or do two years in military service learning emergency skills, crowd control, civil defense, and the basics of weapons, fire, movement, communication and fitness. Then go to college. If you go to college you can learn a skill: a quantitative discipline. Or you can seek entertainment: non-quantitative fields. College is a *shitty* filter with not enough variation in filtration. Little of it is useful. And universities teach and distribute cathedral ignorance. Learning selflessness, cooperation, variation, emergency and fighting teaches you to be successful regardless of what technical skill you possess. Then learn a technical skill: the hardest that you can manage and feel confident in using.