Theme: Institution

ON THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC ACADEMY’S SPECIALIZATION

I think Group Evolutionary Strategy is an empirical science.

I think Political Orders (informal and formal institutions) evolve to facilitate group evolutionary strategies.

I think all groups demonstrate a individual productivity, the production of reproduction (families), the production of goods and services, the production of commons, and the production of group evolutionary strategy in competition against other groups.

I think formal (institutional) economics studies one form of the three methods of influence: invention, investment, production distribution, trade, and consumption. And that this discipline studies largely the production of commons.

I think economics does not study the two other (necessary) methods of organizing human behavior: threat/force/law, and threat/exclusion/religion-myth-narrative-ideology. The three threats of deprivation are threat of harm, threat of loss of consumption, threat of loss of cooperation.

I think studying any set of formal or inform institutions in isolation leads to selection bias, confirmation bias.

I think economics, like democratic secular humanism, like individualism over familialism, like consumption over group competitiveness is providing a destructive influence on western civilization and is more responsible for the decline in the institutions of western civilization than feminism, more than socialism, and is second only to mass immigration in the damage done.

One can construct a pseudoscience by failing to follow the scientific method, yet claiming that one does. However, one can also construct a pseudoscience by not understanding the scientific method (laundering imaginary relations, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, and deceit) and failing to apply ALL its methods of preventing error bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, and deceit.

The scientific method requires we test for:

categorical consistency, logical consistency, empirical consistency, existential possibility (operationalism), full accounting, parsimony and limits, and in human affairs, morality: fully informed, productive, warrantied, voluntary transfer under which cooperation is rational and non parasitic.

The scientific method, much like the broken window fallacy, requires full accounting as a defense against demonstrating confirmation bias by the use of selection bias.

And therefore by not accounting for the changes in all forms of capital, including genetic, normative, familial, institutional, informational, economics simplifies the craft, and avoids full accounting, justifies consumption, and encourages the rapid destruction of genetic, normative, familial, institutional, and informational capital.

If a man ever says “but in economics we only study …” you have just seen a man engage in pseudoscience, just as much as a priest or mystic says “i only study the words of…” There is no difference.

Ergo I think that economics is a study of a subset of cooperation under the (false, unscientific, pseudoscientific) assumption that consumption is a ‘good’ rather than group competitiveness is a good. And I think economics (including those advocating liberty) has been complicity in the destruction of western group evolutionary strategy.

Why? I think coming to terms (as I have) with western group evolutionary strategy confirms the empirical basis of western civilization, but I also think that coming to terms with western group evolutionary strategy eliminates our ability to engage in that most (despicable) form of fraud: unearned virtue-signaling, which the academy and state so depend upon for mass support.

The west succeeded in developing faster than all other groups by upward redistribution of reproduction and the constant and relentless domestication of the underclasses through hanging, war, manorialism, and starvation.

The entry of women into the workforce and into the franchise reversed this strategy.

That is social science: group evolutionary strategy. Everything else is pseudoscience. And must be.

Curt Doolittle