(Um. Don’t get me wrong. Hoppe’s APPLIED ethics of property is just about flawless. It’s his ‘excuses’ for the institution of property that are just more Kantian, jewish, cosmopolitan, marxist, libertine, total freaking nonsense. But don’t blame him He’s a german. They’re incredibly gullible that way. 😉 )
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-15 12:49:00 UTC
ON THE PRETENSE OF MORALITY AS COVER FOR PARASITISM
Social orders consist of a variety of institutions. I am going through the sum total of human thought AND human institutions, and attempting to discover the methods of eliminating deceit from the commons.
Now, it SOUNDS to me like Brian cannot grasp the difference between telling people SOMTHING TO DO and think, versus telling people what they CANNOT speak, display and act upon in the commons because it spreads falsehood.
Now, I already know why Brian is doing that kind of counter-signaling, and I expect all people to counter-signal when they are attached to a preferred falsehood, just as a corrupt politician, a corrupt public intellectual, a corrupt academic, a corrupt businessman, or any other corrupt person justifies his parasitism upon other people through use of deception.
So the fact that people want to preserve their falsehoods, whether to preserve a false self image, or to preserve the ability to obtain false signals by virtue signaling others, or to preserve allies, or to preserve intellectual malinvestments, or to preserve allies political and cultural, or to preserve rents, is somewhat immaterial
If you are engaging in falsehood as a means of obtaining something via the commons then it is just another form of fraud.
If you think that you can construct a set of virtues (values, positives) that are non-parasitic and advance some reproductive strategy that is good. If you can construct a set of virtues (values, positives) that advance a different reproductive strategy (signal strategy), that is also non-parasitic, that’s also good. And literary structure under the transcendent monomyth, the archetypes, the pagan virtue portfolios, allows all of that to occur – that’s just the logic and science of literature.
but there is no more reason to tolerate the ‘sales’ of parasitic and false marketing of parasitic and false values, than there is any other form of conspiracy to do harm either public or private.
And I don’t think there exists a criticism that’s survivable, unless you say that ‘i don’t care, I want to preserve a means of fraud and parasitism upon the achievements and potential of those who refrain from parasitism and fraud.”
I understand why folks would resist, but you know, truth is what it is: things are true and moral or they are untrue and immoral.
it’s not complicated.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-14 21:53:00 UTC
RESTORING THE PRIVATE CIVIC, NORMATIVE, COMPETITIVE, ORDER.
Well, Yes, I am intentionally screwing with people by asking the question under the guise of church. Because I suspected the reaction I got. And therefore people are so anchored that it is impossible.
2) If instead, I said, “If schools, in which we invest heavily in intergenerational activities, providing a service we cannot do without (education), shortened their school hours, but expanded their functions, so that they had a weekly ‘feast’ (food) after which they taught weekly family ‘lessons’ using the great myths and virtues in the form of literary interpretation; and served broader civic functions like fitness, registries of birth, property, and death; Credit Union with zero interest consumer loans; and armory of the militia; would we be able to restore the civic society with many such ‘shareholder organizations’? Secondly, could we repurpose our many declining and abandoned churches, and related property, for this purpose, to preserve their architecture?”
In other words, can we recreate the civic society out of multiple private institutions, that are necessary because they provide necessary functions?
Is this a possible institutional solution(normative government)
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-14 21:29:00 UTC
THE LAYER CAKE OF SOCIAL ORDER
RELIGION
Religion evolved to provide understanding of the word, virtues to imitate, and general prohibitions, across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, so that people could cooperate more easily and retaliate (feud) less frequently.
Weapon: ostracization (death sentence)
Records: memory of locals.
LAW
Law evolved to standardize punishments across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, to keep the peace, preserve productivity, preserve taxation, and legitimize (provide value by) rule.
Weapon: violence, deprivation
Records: written ledgers of crimes and punishments.
CREDIT
Credit rule evolved to increase productivity by the promise of consumption in the present, such that the primary form of social punishment was loss of consumption, status, and signaling.
Weapon: deprivation of consumption, status, and signaling.
Records: written and electronic records of creditworthiness.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-14 13:30:00 UTC
A QUESTION OF INSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION
(serious question)
1) If the church can no longer teach falsehoods, why do we need schools separate from the church? If the curriculum includes Sacredness, Piety, Mindfulness, Ritual, and Oath – all of which are necessary for education – why do we need church separate from schools? if schools can no longer teach falsehoods, why do we need the competition of the church? Why do we need separation of church and school?
(thinkers please)
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-14 11:24:00 UTC
CONSPIRACY THEORY: THE THING YOU RAIL AGAINST IS AN IQ, AGENCY, AND SANITY TEST
As far as I know, yes, in any organizational structure, whenever the organization fails, there is always some blame avoidance going to occur, because it probably was preventable with more aggressive action. Yet there is no reward for reorganizing the priorities of any organization.
That has nothing to do with a ‘conspiracy’ other than a conspiracy of common interest to avoid blame.
That has nothing to do with the pseudoscientific nonsense that a building that size, subject to those events, would fall precisely in that manner.
Buildings pancake all over the world. The technical term is ‘Progressive Collapse’. There is no miracle to it. A small earthquake is enough under the right conditions. I’ve seen jack-failures during a renovation cause it.
That has nothing to do with the pseudoscientific nonsense that the smaller buildings would not collapse from even minor damage associated with the event.
All of this has to do with precisely what I stated: there is a very, very, very high correlation with affinity to conspiracy theories, affinity to addiction, affinity for schizotypal behavior and though, and affinity to ‘fight’ dunning kruger effects to preserve self-imaage and self confidence given the ‘continuous failure of cognition’ the individuals of these disabilities demonstrate.
In other words, affinity for conspiracies is a form of animism or anthropomorphism where very simple people preserve some semblance of control over their minds and emotions given continuous falsification of their control of their minds, and emotions in reality.
In fact, that might be the perfect description of a diagnosis of schizotypal behavior, and the causes of the behavior we see manifest in such people.
“grasping at straws we can understand’ is a phenomenon universal to all people who lack sufficient intelligence to understand and change, a status quo or condition that they find unacceptable.
Stupid can’t tolerate being stupid so stupid is drawn to convictions that justify stupid’s emotional frustration. The fact that one chooses something absurd to vent one’s frustration against is demonstration of one’s stupidity.
Or better said, we can measure intelligence of the frustrated by the category of problem they demonize.
That should tell you everything you need to know about the psychology of different ‘interest groups’ in across every dimension of the political and moral spectrum.
Smart does as smart does, and stupid does as stupid does.
Hence why I argue that all people are merely participants in a conspiracy of common interests between their genes. The rest is all theatre of avoidance, acceptance, persuasion and deceit.
Truth hurts all of us.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-13 19:35:00 UTC
A SILENT GOVERNMENT IS EVEN BETTER THAN A SMALL ONE
(from elsewhere)
Nina.
Your proposal is doesn’t address the cause: 0) that the only commons governments must produce are those that cannot be produced by private means. 1) that our constitutions do not require sufficient legislation consist of ‘business plans’ for any commons produced, or their life cycle, nor the means of insuring their upkeep. 2) that ‘contracts for commons’ (legislation) are arbitrarily voidable by the legislature at whims, and that this is the problem of a weak constitution and majoritarianism over rule of law. 3) that the incentive of legislatures and bureaucrats is to ‘do something new’ and award their voters (not to keep something beautiful and serviceable). 4) that because of 2 and 3, legislatures rotate funds across each new generation of ‘new’ projects at the expense of old, creating a sea of hazards (decay) behind them. 5) that outsourcing customer service to the private sector with demanding measurable requirements by the government, appears to provides far better service than government employees, for more open hours, with greater public recourse (govt should be required to keep retail hours – period), but that outsourcing maintenance of the physical plant appears not to. 6) that the public’s general concern is not government management but the (excessive,exhaustive,offensive) rents obtained by government employees that service the public in correlation with the service hours, quality of customer service, and constant rotation of investment between commons.
Secondly, It is very hard to argue that the government should ‘instruct or educate’ anyone. In fact, the evidence is almost universal that the opposite is true, and that government should be entirely prohibited from informing and educating people. It’s very difficult to argue that it’s not small government as much as silent government that operates on retail hours with retail levels of service that is the problem.
Thirdly, It is very hard to argue that government should continue the use of redistributive, fiscal, and monetary policy rather than directly distribute liquidity to the population by debit card, and circumvent the financial and public services systems entirely. The worst public private partnership is the purely extractive one of charging interest for the distribution of purely electronic liquidity. The government need not operate as if currency and money are the same thing, or that fiat money is anything other than tradable shares in the economy open to constant dilution.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-13 14:01:00 UTC
WE ALL SEEK RENTS, BUT THERE IS A SOLUTION.
All human organizations expand to the maximum consumption and distribution of rents, until there is insufficient free capital to use as incentives to reorganize the organization in response to changes anywhere from incremental to shocks.
Cooperation evolved as a means of suppression alpha rents ( domination of reproduction and calorie consumption), freeing up the potential cooperation and reproduction of people in exchange for the development of moral instincts.
The institution of Property evolved as a means of suppressing family, kin, clan, tribe, and headman rents, therefore freeing up the incentives and productivity of people.
The state evolved as a means of centralizing rents which were used to suppress local rents, thus eliminating local transaction costs of the people.
The empire evolved as a means of centralizing rents which were used to suppress regional rents, thus eliminating transaction costs of the commercial peoples.
Organizations of commercial people evolve by the provision of rents (rewards) for loyalty to a network of production.
Larger organizations evolved by the organization and provision of capital in order to provide rents (rewards), in exchange for suppressing the rents of many smaller organizations.
At some point one always needs to create ‘a larger’ organization to suppress the smaller organization’s rents, and improve the ability of people to cooperate at lower cost.
That larger or perhaps largest organization, is the militia, and its function is to suppress the parasitism of the State.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-12 08:00:00 UTC
DEFINITION: CTHULU SWIMS LEFT
—“Can you define swing left and swim left? I feel like I might be missing context here.”— Kay Augustus
by Justin Allred
When over time a system of thought is transformed from right-wing (conservative) into left-wing (“progressive.”)
Basically, if a system isn’t explicitly conservative it will over time be bastardized to fit into the egalitarian mythos.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-12 06:48:00 UTC
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
Geographical circumstances and ‘timing’ led to the choice of very counter-to-type cultural norms, which produced as a consequence institutional, cultural, and technological superiority which resulted (as in east asia) in more rapid selection for neoteny and more rapid culling of the underclasses (the “Evil 80s”).
It will be very, very, hard to defeat this argument btw.
It is possible that europeans had developed genetic tendencies prior to the adoption of horse (steppe), wheel(europe), and bronze(armenian anatolia).
However, as far as I can tell, it is unnecessary to rely on genetic accident, given that all of western civilizations advantages are explained without reliance on such accident. And there is no evidence that any other people could not adopt those same cultural, institutional, and genetic abilities by similar reduction of the underclasses alone.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-10 10:37:00 UTC