(h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating by parasitism on the backs of others. Rothbard’s pretense is simply a means of justifying parasitism on that hard won liberty. There is nothing libertarian about Rothbardian ethics. Its just a complex philosophical lie to justify immoral and unethical theft.
Theme: Predation
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Rothbard’s Ethical Ghetto
(h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating by parasitism on the backs of others. Rothbard’s pretense is simply a means of justifying parasitism on that hard won liberty. There is nothing libertarian about Rothbardian ethics. Its just a complex philosophical lie to justify immoral and unethical theft.
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Actually. Wanna do the world violent good? Spend a year researching some scumbag
Actually. Wanna do the world violent good? Spend a year researching some scumbag in your free time, and figuring out how to end his reign of scumbagism. And do something about it either above board or below.
Even if you did only one scumbag every two or three years, over the course of your lifetime you would change the world dramatically for the better.
Get your testosterone and anger out in sports or the gym. Never discuss your hobby.
Every man a warrior. Every man a Sheriff. Every man a Judge.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 04:48:00 UTC
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THE FINAL WORD ON NAP/ISV, NAP/DP (the end of the libertine as useful idiot) Rot
THE FINAL WORD ON NAP/ISV, NAP/DP
(the end of the libertine as useful idiot)
Rothbardianism is an attempt to restore eastern european financial predation on the middle, working and lower classes.
The NAP is, like most Cosmopolitan arguments – whether socialist, libertine, or neo-conservative – is a half truth (informationally incomplete) intentionally designed to require you to substitute your own information thus appealing to our ‘pathological altruism’. So the purpose is to get us to invest or risk, so that we can lose our investment yet blame ourselves.
The Logic of the Half Truth isn’t difficult. One must have something to aggress against. So the statement NAP is a half truth.
The ongoing debate in cosmopolitan libertinism is reducible to defining the scope of property that we insure one another from, and which we agree to retaliate for, aggression against.
The test is Blackmail. Blackmail constitutes a voluntary exchange, but it incentivizes retaliation. This is an empirical statement (an is) not theoretical statement (should).
The purpose of property rights (mutual insurance of each other’s property) is to incentivize cooperation and disincentivize retaliation in furtherance of productivity.
So rothbard proposes NAP/IVP or “ghetto” property rights. Meaning “if I can get away with a deal then it was moral”, whereas “aristocratic” NAP/Demonstrated Property or western property rights by contrast “if one will not retaliate against me for this action then it was moral”.
This is why westerners created a high trust polity where none did, and why the jews were eventually outcast (or murdered) wherever they settled.
(This is also the source of the ‘lie’ of Crusoe’s island which is little more than an idealized ghetto: the sea functioning as the walls of the ghetto. Yet man evolved without such walls – and having to build a common defense to erect them, not by the gift of natural walls provided by the sea, or gift of unnatural walls provided by the aristocracy who constructed the cities.)
All libertinism, all rothbardianism, is an insidious lie as great as marxism, neo conservatism, christianity, judaism, islam, and all other great lies. The purpose of this lie is to destroy our ability to construct commons, including our most important commons: trust and truth telling.
Libertinism was designed to morally license lying and cheating. To restore the method by which the ghetto preyed upon the lower classes and to apply it to those same individuals. And well intentioned ‘useful idiots’ bought into Rothbardianism just as happily as well intentioned idiots bought into marxism-socialism-neo-puritanism-postmodernism and neo-conservatism.
We all criticize one another without grasping that we have all been fooled. All baited. All deceived. Just as we were by christianity.
The only source of liberty is our reciprocal warranty under pain of death that we will use violence to prevent the imposition of costs upon one another’s property, and will retaliate against the imposition of costs on one another’s property, regardless of cost.
Roads are not the problem that we must solve. The problem is the creation of property rights in sufficient scope that we eliminate demand for the state as a preventer of theft, a prosecutor of theft, and an insurer against theft by all means possible.
Rothbard is no better than boaz, marx, freud, keynes, or Strauss. He was just another cosmopolitan liar creating a great deceit with which to undermine our high trust civilization – the only high trust civilization ever to exist.
There is no shame in having been fooled and playing the part of a useful idiot.
But there is shame in seeking to defend a great lie in order to avoid admitting that one has been duped into playing the part of a useful idiot.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-30 04:39:00 UTC
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NO YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT FIAT MONEY Contrary to libertine deceptions. The ambition
NO YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT FIAT MONEY
Contrary to libertine deceptions.
The ambition of rothbardianism is to resurrect Usury, not improve our lot.
If a cosmopolitan is talking and it sounds good it’s a half truth that seeks to steal from you. So you just have to go looking for it.
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Paul (Molly)
(a) There is no reason why one must save and invest in the same medium (currency). (Just as molly suggests)
(b) fiat money constitutes shares in the issuing government and is managed as such. We literally borrow from one another.
(c) the price of commodity money (silver / gold) is more open to manipulation and more volatile than fiat currency (stock) simply because (i) scale and (ii) the treasury targets price stability (inflation).
I want the government to stop stealing from me also, but the value of a relatively stable rate of inflation, and the discounts that come from the use of fiat currency (stock), mean that I must save and invest in alternative stores of value.
Remember that hard money lenders have power over you that a government that must maintain price stability (inflation) does not. Meaning that if you issue debt then government is a problem. But if you borrow credit then inflation is your friend.
The way to fix the financialization of the economy is to i) nationalize Mastercard and ii) issue liquidity directly to consumers via that card rather than as interest rates through the banking system.
It is this revolution that some of us hope to bring about – and which will literally destroy the banking cartels.
Cheers
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-29 15:32:00 UTC
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EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY: THE SPECTRUM OF PREDATORS (important idea) Every culture
EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY: THE SPECTRUM OF PREDATORS
(important idea)
Every culture has in its past engaged in parasitism, and the evolution of civilization requires a constant process of INTERNALLY suppressing parasitism. Sometimes after realizing one’s failures (the British). Yet some cultures do not specialize in productivity – they specialize in parasitism. This parasitism evolves into the group’s evolutionary strategy.
CLASS…………IMMORAL…………..MORAL
1) Martial:……..Islamic (violence)..[law, contract, property]
2) Labor:……….Gypsy (theft)……..[production and productive exchange]
3) Economic:…Judaic (fraud)…….[voluntary organization of production]
4) Priestly:…….Marxist/Neo-Puritan
………………………………..( pseudoscience, fraud, theft, violence)
……………………………………………….[voluntary production of commons]
(i) Note that politicians, academics, public intellectuals, and teachers are members of the priestly cast: “those who gossip”)
(ii) Note that these are all un-landed peoples who evolved on the steppe and desert whose strategy is explicitly poly moral, poly logical, and separatist.
One can either suppress parasitism or increase parasitism.
Whether a culture is objectively moral or not is dependent only upon this one test.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-28 03:51:00 UTC
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THE SILVER RULE IS THE ORIGIN OF COOPERATION THEFT The only ‘shame’ is theft. Th
THE SILVER RULE IS THE ORIGIN OF COOPERATION
THEFT
The only ‘shame’ is theft. The only oath, not to lie, cheat, steal or impose harm. The summary of this ethic is: “Do not unto others as you would not want done unto you.” The anglo saxons were right and the Christians wrong.
MORALITY (RULE OF COOPERATION)
The silver rule is necessary for cooperation. The golden rule buys options on future cooperation – but encourages parasitism.
ACQUIRE
We act upon that which we have acquired without imposition of costs upon that which others have acquired by doing the same.
COOPERATE
We act in concert to voluntarily produce common goods and services.
WARRANTY
We warranty the truthfulness of our speech by due diligence in the cleansing of error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking, and deceit from our speech.
INSURE
We insure one another against the imposition of costs by collective suppression of free riding by collective prosecution of those who impose costs upon others.
INVEST
We invest in the construction of commons for the production of returns, and we deny one another the ability to impose costs upon them.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-20 06:04:00 UTC
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Parasitism is as Natural as Cooperation: Man Follows Incentives
[P]arasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism. So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to act parasitically as much as incentives allow. And in almost all cases production is more burdensome than parasitism. So, we create institutions to raise the cost of parasitism such that all incentives favor cooperation. We force everyone to participate in the market in order to survive. And if we don’t grasp this we make the same mistake as the Enlightenment peoples, and in particular the classical liberal libertarians, and the cosmopolitan libertines: that man is good and oppressed, rather than man follows incentives and he needs to be prohibited from parasitism so that his only choice is production. Not just because his participation in production increases productivity, but because his abstinence from parasitism decreases transaction costs, risk, and increases its corollary, trust. In this way, prosperity is created not so much by the emphasis on the good, but on the prohibition of the bad, leaving only good actions available to man. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Parasitism is as Natural as Cooperation: Man Follows Incentives
[P]arasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism. So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to act parasitically as much as incentives allow. And in almost all cases production is more burdensome than parasitism. So, we create institutions to raise the cost of parasitism such that all incentives favor cooperation. We force everyone to participate in the market in order to survive. And if we don’t grasp this we make the same mistake as the Enlightenment peoples, and in particular the classical liberal libertarians, and the cosmopolitan libertines: that man is good and oppressed, rather than man follows incentives and he needs to be prohibited from parasitism so that his only choice is production. Not just because his participation in production increases productivity, but because his abstinence from parasitism decreases transaction costs, risk, and increases its corollary, trust. In this way, prosperity is created not so much by the emphasis on the good, but on the prohibition of the bad, leaving only good actions available to man. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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PARASITISM IS AS NATURAL AS COOPERATION: MAN FOLLOWS INCENTIVES Parasitism is ju
PARASITISM IS AS NATURAL AS COOPERATION: MAN FOLLOWS INCENTIVES
Parasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism.
So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to act parasitically as much as incentives allow. And in almost all cases production is more burdensome than parasitism.
So, we create institutions to raise the cost of parasitism such that all incentives favor cooperation. We force everyone to participate in the market in order to survive.
And if we don’t grasp this we make the same mistake as the Enlightenment peoples, and in particular the classical liberal libertarians, and the cosmopolitan libertines: that man is good and oppressed, rather than man follows incentives and he needs to be prohibited from parasitism so that his only choice is production.
Not just because his participation in production increases productivity, but because his abstinence from parasitism decreases transaction costs, risk, and increases its corollary, trust.
In this way, prosperity is created not so much by the emphasis on the good, but on the prohibition of the bad, leaving only good actions available to man.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 03:48:00 UTC