Theme: Predation

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.