Curt Doolittle

Theme: Reciprocity

  • Western Man’s God = Anthropomorphized Natural Law At least that’s what it was. W

    Western Man’s God = Anthropomorphized Natural Law

    At least that’s what it was. We have been pagans since the enlightenment it seems. Despite our sojourn into babylonian mysticism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 07:50:00 UTC

  • “QUESTION:” CURT: DO YOU HAVE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THIS TALK?” Sure. Or, I’ll try

    “QUESTION:” CURT: DO YOU HAVE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THIS TALK?”

    Sure. Or, I’ll try hard. 😉

    1) The “NAP” that only limits physical aggression leaves open “trickery and deceit’ as well as ‘free riding parasitism’ and ‘conspiracy’. And by leaving open these forms of aggression, the NAP cannot produce property rights, an anarchic polity, or a condition of liberty.

    2) It is irrational for other than career criminals to prefer membership in a polity with the high transaction costs and high opportunity costs, and high risk due to trickery and conspiracy over one in which trickery, deceit, and conspiracy are permitted. And this is why no such economic polity exists.

    3) But a definition of aggression that includes physical, trickery and deceit, free riding parasitism, and conspiracy can produce property rights, an anarchic polity, and a condition of liberty. Because it is rational to prefer an anarchic polity free of these forms of parasitism over one that has much higher costs.

    4) So Rothbardian Non Aggression against ‘physical property’ can’t create a condition of liberty, while classical liberal Non Aggression against ‘demonstrated property’ can create a condition of liberty.

    5) What is demonstrated property? Anything you have homesteaded or obtained through productive, fully informed, voluntary exchange, and without imposing costs upon the demonstrated property of others.

    6) What do people demonstrate as their property? Life, Kin, Mate, Friends, Allies, physical property, territory, built capital, norms, and institutions.

    7) What Exceptions are there? Communities produce opportunities by virtue of population density and cooperation in a division of labor while using property rights, and expect members to homestead those opportunities. We call this process of homesteading opportunities ‘competition’. This creating of common opportunities and homesteading them is what produces the virtuous cycle that makes cities (markets) so productive.

    8) So how do we create liberty? We create liberty by reciprocal insurance of one another’s demonstrated property from transgression by others, thereby creating the first commons: property rights, or what we loosely call ‘cooperation’.

    9) This argument kills the idea of individualism per se and instead states that all rights are possessed by individuals but rights can only be created by an organized polity willing to construct them by reciprocal insurance of one another’s demonstrated property from the imposition of costs.

    The rest of the talk is largely a criticism of why the NAP failed, and why Rothbard came up with it for cultural reasons. And how the reason he didn’t complete the NAP or write it operationally was to circumvent the logical conclusion that with greater articulation his attempt to avoid payment for the commons would have been exposed.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:25:00 UTC

  • REPAIRING THE FALLACY OF NON AGGRESSION New Video from The Propertarian Institut

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc_kETTSlQPROPERTARIANISM – REPAIRING THE FALLACY OF NON AGGRESSION

    New Video from The Propertarian Institute

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    OUTLINE

    PART ONE – OBVERSE: FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION

    Criticism may identify a problem, but only solutions are actionable.

    But falsehoods are cheaper to produce than truths.

    Certain falsehoods are very resistant to refutation.

    I want to restore truth and liberty to the west

    only the west can produce truth and liberty

    the west has been disproportionately beneficial to mankind for having invented truth and liberty.

    There are falsehoods, and heavily invested falsehoods that we must refute because they hinder the restitution of truth and liberty.

    And one of those falsehoods is the so called Non-Aggression Principle

    A half truth, the purpose of which is not to create liberty, but to justify sophisticated parasitism.

    IF YOU FOLLOW MY WORK – YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ENLIGTHENMENT FALLACIES

    The Enlightenment Fallacies:

    1 – anglo empiricism and the aristocracy of everyone (hobbes/locke/etc).

    2 – french moralism (rousseau) and the equality of everyone.

    3 – german rationalism (kant and the german philosophers)

    4 – cosmopolitan pseudoscience “the second great lie” (boaz, marx, freud, cantor, mises, [horkimer,adorno,fromm,marcuse], rand, rothbard)

    Followed by:

    5 – Anglo NeoPuritanism/Postmodernism/Feminism

    Each culture attempted to state its group evolutionary strategy as a universal good, and to state that man’s nature in the state of nature justified their group evolutionary strategy.

    None of these groups are aware that they are engaging in fallacy, wishful thinking, and deception. Other than Gypsies they do so out of cultural habit. Europeans do not understand what they do, and no one else does either.

    TWO THEORIES OF LIBERTY

    And there are only two substantial bodies of thought for the advancement of liberty: The classical liberal project under the failed assumption of an aristocracy of everyone. But which the classical liberals did not understand as a market for commons where trades occurred between the classes.

    And the only substantial argumentative for distorting liberty: Rothbardian cosmopolitan libertinism.

    Libertinism is not an offshoot of classical liberalism or correctly, libertarianism. But of eastern European cosmopolitan anarchism as it existed in the border territories under Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian Rule.

    In other words, under the artificial Crusoe’s island created by the large state. Or more clearly, a very large agrarian ghetto.

    Why is this important? Because it was a condition of “Granted Liberty”.

    But westerners created condition of “Constructed Liberty”

    Its not liberty if one has permission: granted liberty.

    Its only a condition of liberty if one has constructed liberty.

    So how do we construct a condition of liberty?

    THE SPECTRUM OF AGGRESSION AND NON AGGRESSION

    So lets try to talk about what makes liberty possible, and how the half truth of aggression fits into the construction of a condition of liberty.

    -3) – You can choose to aggress against the property en toto of others. This is called predation. But you must defend yourself against retaliation and extermination. (This is the usual criticism of the islamists – raiding culture.)

    -2) – You can choose to aggress against the private and common property but not life of others. This is called thievery. But you will experience retaliation for it. (usual criticism of gypsies – beggar and thief culture)

    -1) – You can choose not to aggress against the life and physical property of others but retain the possibility of parasitic existence through deception. But you will experience retaliation. (usual criticism of diasporic jews – deception culture)

    0) – You can choose not to aggress against the property en toto of others and by doing so it is almost impossible to invoke retaliation. This is called boycott. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +1) – You can engage in productive exchange with others, both benefit and not invoke retaliation. This is called trade. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +2) – You can engage in reciprocal insurance of others and thereby obtain insurance from them. This is called Liberty. So that you can defend your property en toto, private property, and life from those who wish to deprive you of it.

    +3) – You can invest your profits in the commons in exchange for status (increased opportunity and discounts), or productivity (increased returns), and cooperate for the defense of those commons from privatization and destruction. This is called a polity. (Europa)

    +4) – You can actively impose property-en-toto upon others both to reduce your costs and to improve your returns. This is called pacification. (Usual example is Late Rome, British Empire, American Empire)

    SO FOUR FACTORS ARE SUFFICIENT FOR CONSTRUCTED LIBERTY

    1 – Non Aggression against property-en-toto (demonstrated property), is sufficient for non-retaliation.

    2 – Reciprocal insurance of property-en-toto is sufficient for defense and the formation of a polity.

    3 – Contribution to the commons is sufficient for obtaining compound intergenerational returns.

    4 – Pacification is sufficient for the evolution of man and his civilization.

    PART II – CRITICISM OF THE HALF TRUTH

    The Fallacy of the Sufficiency of Non violence against physical property.

    The Evolutionary Strategy Constituent In The Fallacy NAP/IVP as parasitic.

    The Purpose of the NAP/IVP is Parasitism, theft, free riding, not liberty.

    —“But the NAP is just a ….means of individual choice!!!!”—

    Then if NAP is just a means of individual choice, and not a moral proposition, then why would one choose to avoid moral choices? Except to act immorally? Which is my criticism. The NAP was adopted by rothbard as a half truth in order to perpetuate ghetto ethics.

    It is insufficient for a personal determination of rational action.

    It is insufficient for interpersonal moral decidability.

    And it is insufficient for a political basis for law.

    And its insufficient for the basis of anarchic polity, and therefore it is insufficient for the basis of liberty.

    So if it is insufficient for each of these criteria: decision, non-retaliation, and economic and political cooperation, and sufficient basis of cooperation for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state as method of decidability… then what is it’s function other than to allow one to engage in deceits?

    So the NAP is a fraud by suggestion, just as I have stated, because it is nothing more than an attempt to escape paying the high cost of liberty, through the mutual defense of one another’s property-en-toto from the imposition of costs, by organized application of violence to demand and enforce restitution for those costs.

    So it’s not just that the NAP is insufficient for moral action, it is that the NAP is an attempt both to justify parasitism by non violent means, and justify non payment of insurance.

    That is not liberty. That’s cunning thievery.

    That’s the end you know. You can try all you want. But rothbardian immoralism falsely labeled with the term liberty is merely another great cosmopolitan lie.

    LIBERTY

    Liberty is not obtained by individual choice alone, but by mutual insurance that we will not impose costs upon that which has been obtained by others by means of homesteading of opportunities, and the consequent productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer free of imposition of cost upon that which others have obtained by the same means.

    Liberty is produced only when we use the organized application of violence to deny humans survival by any means other than that which fosters cooperation.

    There are no free rides. Everyone fights. No one quits. If you quit, then you live by someone else’s permission, not by liberty.

    CLOSING

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:34:00 UTC

  • New Video Rendering. Trying to end the NAP Fraud forever. 37 minutes. Pretty tho

    New Video Rendering. Trying to end the NAP Fraud forever. 37 minutes. Pretty thorough. Just me no interviewer. Not sure that’s so good.

    Not sure it’s going to convert as many libertarians as I want to but it’s going to give them nowhere to run. If there was anywhere left to run anyway.

    Makes me so painfully aware that I”m in the same mental construct as David Gordon. Because I hear his speech pattern and mental processing in my own voice. I hoped I was less nerdy. I tried very hard to be less nerdy. lol Or maybe that speech pattern is a necessary byproduct of analytic argument. That’s possible. But I won’t give myself that out. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 13:06:00 UTC

  • WHY THE NAP/IVP IS JUSTIFICATION FOR THIEVERY AND FRAUD —“you remove the NAP f

    WHY THE NAP/IVP IS JUSTIFICATION FOR THIEVERY AND FRAUD

    —“you remove the NAP from the class of individual choice”—

    Then if NAP is just a means of individual choice, and not a moral proposition, then why would one choose to avoid moral choices? Except to act immorally? Which is my criticism. The NAP was adopted by rothbard as a half truth in order to perpetuate ghetto ethics.

    It’s a logical box. You wont’ get out of it. Rothbardianism is objectively immoral.

    It is insufficient for a personal determination of rational action. It is insufficient for interpersonal moral decidability. And it is insufficient for a political basis for law. And its insufficient for the basis of anarchic polity, and therefore it is insufficient for the basis of liberty.

    So if it is insufficient for each of these criteria: decision, non-retaliation, and economic and political cooperation, and sufficient basis of cooperation for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state as method of decidability… then what is it’s function other than to allow one to engage in deceits?

    So the NAP is a fraud by suggestion, just as I have stated, because it is nothing more than an attempt to escape paying the high cost of liberty, through the mutual defense of one another’s property-en-toto from the imposition of costs, by organized application of violence to demand and enforce restitution for those costs.

    So it’s not just that the NAP is insufficient for moral action, it is that the NAP is an attempt both to justify parasitism by non violent means, and justify non payment of insurance.

    That is not liberty. That’s cunning thievery.

    That’s the end you know. You can try all you want. But rothbardian immoralism falsely labeled with the term liberty is merely another great cosmopolitan lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 03:53:00 UTC

  • FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION This should help people understand how the NAP

    FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION

    This should help people understand how the NAP was a cunning lie.

    -3) – You can choose to aggress against the property en toto of others. This is called predation. But you must defend yourself against retaliation and extermination. (Usual criticism of Islamists)

    -2) – You can choose to aggress against the private and common property but not life of others. This is called thievery. But you will experience retaliation for it. (usual criticism of gypsies)

    -1) – You can choose not to aggress against the life and physical property of others but retain the possibility of parasitic existence through deception. But you will experience retaliation. (usual criticism of jews)

    0) – You can choose not to aggress against the property en toto of others and by doing so it is almost impossible to invoke retaliation. This is called boycott. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +1) – You can engage in productive exchange with others, both benefit and not invoke retaliation. This is called trade. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +2) – You can engage in reciprocal insurance of others and thereby obtain insurance from them. This is called Liberty. So that you can defend your property en toto, private property, and life from those who wish to deprive you of it.

    +3) – You can invest your profits in the commons in exchange for status (increased opportunity and discounts), or productivity (increased returns), and cooperate for the defense of those commons from privatization and destruction. This is called a polity. (Europa)

    +4) – You can actively impose property-en-toto upon others both to reduce your costs and to improve your returns. This is called pacification. (Usual example is Rome, British Empire, American Empire)

    Non Aggression against property-en-toto (demonstrated property), is sufficient for non-retaliation. Reciprocal insurance of property-en-toto is sufficient for defense and the formation of a polity. Contribution to the commons is sufficient for obtaining compound intergenerational returns. Pacification is sufficient for the evolution of civilization.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 02:54:00 UTC

  • Am I Free?

    [A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No) Do I have freedom to transfer my wealth to my offspring? (No) Do I have freedom of exit for myself and my property? (No) Do I have freedom from retroactive Regulation, Legislation, and Law? (No) Do I have Juridical Defense in all manner of interference? (No) Then I am not free. This list constitutes the criteria for freedom. And its opposite the criteria for slavery. I must possess each of these freedoms to exist in a state of freedom. If not, then by definition, and without exception, then I am not free. If I am not free then I am a slave. I know full well I am enslaved. That me and mine are enslaved. And so now you have a choice. Either free me and mine from slavery, And then Leave, or Resign and Repent, or Die. This is the most generous offer I will grant you. If you do not free me and do not leave, or do not repent, and do not resign, then you will die. I promise before all the gods past and present. You will die. And there will be no mercy. No forgiveness. No remorse. You have sought genocide against me and my kin. For this crime only restitution available is the death of you and your kin.

  • Am I Free?

    [A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No) Do I have freedom to transfer my wealth to my offspring? (No) Do I have freedom of exit for myself and my property? (No) Do I have freedom from retroactive Regulation, Legislation, and Law? (No) Do I have Juridical Defense in all manner of interference? (No) Then I am not free. This list constitutes the criteria for freedom. And its opposite the criteria for slavery. I must possess each of these freedoms to exist in a state of freedom. If not, then by definition, and without exception, then I am not free. If I am not free then I am a slave. I know full well I am enslaved. That me and mine are enslaved. And so now you have a choice. Either free me and mine from slavery, And then Leave, or Resign and Repent, or Die. This is the most generous offer I will grant you. If you do not free me and do not leave, or do not repent, and do not resign, then you will die. I promise before all the gods past and present. You will die. And there will be no mercy. No forgiveness. No remorse. You have sought genocide against me and my kin. For this crime only restitution available is the death of you and your kin.

  • An Overview of Propertarianism for Serious Newbies

    Some Introductory Help:

    • On The Use and Meaning Of “-ism’s”.
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/02/20/the-definition-and-use-of-isms/
    • The Meaning of Fictionalism
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/24/definition-fictionalism/
    • Significant Definitions 
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/definitions/
    • Series/Sequences
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/sequences/
    • The Glossary 
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/glossary/
    • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
      https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

    THE UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: TRUTH (AGENCY, SOVEREIGNTY) 1) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/09/17/we-put-the-west-in-western-civilization/ 2) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/ THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT – THE CONFLICT OF CIVILIZATIONS ACROSS MILLENNIA Part I – The Beginning – Sovereignty, and The Counter Revolution against it. (Bronze Age – Black Sea)

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, and as a consequence Agency, Natural Law, Thang (Jury), Testimonial (Deflationary) Truth, and Markets in Everything (Meritocracy).
    • The Counter-Revolution: The Eastern Development of Fictional Scriptural Religion in the Oral Tradition.

    Part II – The Counter Revolution Against Reason and Sovereignty. (Iron Age – Aegean-Mediterranean)

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, Agency, Natural Law, Jury, Senate, Testimonial (Deflationary) Truth, Reason, and Markets in Everything.
    • The Counter Revolution: The Eastern (Jewish, Byzantine, Muslim) Development of Fictional, Scriptural, Authoritarian Religion, conflated with Law, in the Written Tradition.

    Part III – The Counter Enlightenment Against Science and Sovereignty. (Steel Age – North Sea-Atlantic) 

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, Agency, Natural Law, Jury, Multi-House Government, Testimonial (Deflationary Truth), Reason, Rationalism, and Empiricism, and Markets in Everything.
    • The Counter: Revolution: The Eastern (Jewish, French, Russian) Development of Fictional, Pseudoscientific, Authoritarian Religions.

    The Anglos (Legal Empiricists / Locke-Smith-Hume-Jefferson), French (Literary Moralists / Rousseau) and The Germans (Literary Rationalists / Kant) had attempted to restate their group evolutionary strategy in modern terms. So did the Cosmopolitan Universalist Jews ( Argumentative Fictionalists (pseudo-mythology[authoritarian religion] / pseudo-law/ pseudo-rationalism / pseudoscience / outright-lying)) advocating separatism, poly-ethicalism, fictional utopianism as a universal ‘moral’ strategy. The Cosmopolitan Universalists (Jews) started producing pseudoscience as the enlightenment change rolled across Eastern Europe, (Boaz, Marx, Freud, Frankfurt) primarily as a reaction to the articulation of aristocratic thought in scientific terms (Darwin, Social Science, Spencer, Nietzsche, and the Romanticists.) ( FYI: Marxism: parasitism upon in-group private production. Libertarianism: parasitism upon in-group commons production. Neo-Conservatism: Parasitism upon other nations’  (out-group) private and commons production. ) While the Germansdefended against the enlightenment by rational restatement of hierarchy, duty, and reason in a new literary fashion invented by Kant. The French, Jewish and Russian together attacked the Anglo Enlightenment: the restoration of sovereignty and the attack on Fictionalism which all those nations depended upon. They each responded with a new fictionalism: The French out of feminine idealism and preservation of authority, Jews out of separatism, fear and preservation of authority, and Russians out of opportunity for aggression, restoration of orthodox civilization, usurpation, and preservation of authority – and our Puritans (anglo separatist equivalent of the Jews), and our women (as always) were, frankly, “suckers” for it. Just as they were in the ancient world. The Great Catastrophe  Just as Byzantium overextended herself and lost to the Turks. Just as Persia and Byzantium overextended themselves and lost to Arabs. Just as Rome overextended herself in Europe and lost to Byzantium; Just as Athens overextended herself in Sicily, and lost to Sparta; Just as the Bronze Age civilizations overextended themselves in the eastern mediterranean and lost to the barbarians. Just as all civilizations overextended themselves, Britain, in an effort to preserve the balance of powers from which she profited, constrained Germany, leaving America as her heir. Just as Athenian democratic greed prematurely ended the first industrial revolution (the Antikithera device only one step removed from Babbage’s mechanical computer), leaving pragmatic Rome to rule with Athenian and Carthaginian invention – the British, French, and American democratic (commercial) greed ended the second (this time German) scientific revolution, leaving pragmatic America to rule with German and British inventions. The European civil war to contain Germany was a catastrophe for the West in that it both truncated the completion of the Enlightenment (scientific revolution), whose second phase, and our rescue from eastern mysticism, was in progress in Germany (and from which 19th and 20th century America was the chief beneficiary – not originator.) It cast doubt upon the Western (aristocratic) order just as the thirty years war had cast doubt upon the prior (religious) order. Thereby reversing our prior gains against supernatural utopianism and the restoration of aristocratic (rule of law) rule, and replacing that supernatural utopianism with economic and political utopianism: pseudoscience. Postwar Jews immigrating to the United States used their pseudoscience (see “Pilpul”) and attacked and took over the academy and media just as they had used the pulpit in the ancient era, and the printing press in the prior era, to spread their second great lie of pseudoscience in every field of human social order. Women freed from labor under the industrial revolution used these arguments to reform slavery, seek the vote, and then using the vote, to claim men were their enemies and oppressors rather than their domesticators in a great compromise between the reproductive strategies of women (numbers) – their genes, and those of men (the tribe) – their genes. Once the slaves had been freed, the women also demanded equal representation, and within one generation after obtaining it used ‘the great lies’ of the cosmopolitans to undermine the western order further by creating a century of pseudoscience. They used this pseudoscience to pursue the destruction of the church, the destruction of the family, and the conquest of academy, state and media by women’s interests (r-selection), because women dispose of more of the earned income than do men in all these areas. Women are great consumers and it is profitable to serve them – even when they are spending down five thousand years of accumulated cultural and genetic capital. Women were sold Christianity. Women were sold Cosmopolitanism. Therefore the industrialization of lying found ready consumers. In marketing and advertising, in media and entertainment, and in democratic politics. The insatiable desire of women to consume, preen, signal, nest, care, and redistribute regardless of long term consequences, provided ready ground for the utopian ideology of endless resources provided by endless growth and the end of constraint. The Failure of Western Thinkers Western thinkers (for a variety of reasons) in the 20th century were unable to defeat this pseudoscientific utopian fiction, just as Western thinkers had been unable to defeat the previous age’s supernatural utopian fiction in the ancient world. As Poincare (mathematics) and Friedrich Hayek (economics and law) warned us, the twentieth century would be, and was, regressive in social science, economics, and politics – and it will be remembered as an age of mysticism (actually an age of fictionalism). Even though our progress in Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, and Information Technology — all products of the truncated German Scientific Revolution – combined with the continued sale of the conquered American continent, combined with the inheritance of the British Empire, combined with the new (now necessary) invention of fiat (stock) money, gave 19th and 20th century America a vast economic boom, which allowed the USA to drag recidivist civilizations (those that adopted the new Jewish Fictionalisms under world communism, socialism, social democracy, and Keynesian non-operational Economics) out of ignorance, poverty, starvation, disease and tyranny. Why? Because democracy in the ancient and modern world was nothing but a lie by which the middle class could take over the government from the aristocracy – and then over-extend growth until the polity developed economic, political, social, and genetic fragility. Our Western habit. One the Chinese did not practice. (If you must expand to grow productivity you are not in fact productive and innovative, but consumptive.) But neither the Western Aristocracy, nor its bourgeoise caste could speak the truth: that man, like plant and other animal, had been domesticated for fun and profit by the imposition of meritocracy by shrinking the reproduction of the lower classes, – and that the differences in the rate of development of civilizations is the result of the shrinking of the underclasses, making possible the progress of the civilization in every possible field of endeavor: linguistic, informational, economic, normative, social, cultural, political, and institutional. The lesson: In the absence of profit through conquest, the most eugenic civilization will always emerge as the most advanced civilization. And this uncomfortable truth is incompatible with unearned (universal) enfranchisement that justifies bourgeoise takeover of government from the aristocracy.PART IV – What Must Be Done? ( The Second Reformation Against Parasitism and Deceit. ) So armed with this knowledge, how do we reverse the century of propaganda, lies, and pseudoscience of the alliance between the Jews, women and minorities, and return the west its lost confidence, and restore the civilization’s strategy of truth+commons? We extend the warranty of due diligence against fraud that we require in products in the market, and services in the market, to cover information in the market, and we restore liability to all participants in a chain of production. We eliminate the economic subsidy for ‘entertainment’ we call copyright. We eliminate financial profiting from the sale of shares of the polity (Fiat Money, or for ordinary people, ‘dollars’ in the form of electronic money), preserving all of the appreciation and interest for the polity (treasury). And we grant universal standing (class action) to defense of the market for information. Eventually, we create separate houses of government for separate classes. And we eliminate representatives and change to direct per-resolution, democracy. This will raise the cost of the various fictionalisms (pseudo-myths/religion, pseudo-rationalisms, pseudo-science, and outright deceit) and eliminate its profitability such that we end the industrialization of lying made possible by mass media. This solution is an incremental advancement upon classical multi-house government in which each class negotiates with other classes for the production of commons, while suppressing the consistent deception (lying) that has been made possible by the industrialization of information distribution (media). By stating in rational and scientific terms the reason for the West’s rapid success in the ancient and modern periods, despite its many disadvantages. Then using this knowledge to defeat this great utopian pseudoscientific lie, even though we failed in the 20th century, and even though we failed in the ancient world against utopian supernaturalism. Our ambition is to require truthful speech in economics, politics, and law, the way we require truthful speech in contract, in the market for goods, and in the market for services. There is no reason that one cannot warranty his speech against the great utopian lies if he is to publish it (sell it, distribute it) in the market for information we call ‘the media’. The West practiced Agency, Sovereignty, Testimony in Deflationary Truth, Natural Law of Cooperation, Markets in Everything, and Aristocratic Egalitarianism (a form of eugenics at scale), and the Militia – and profited from the incremental domestication of the animal man lacking agency, in to the human that possesses it. But this strategy was never written down, only handed down I’m writing it down. Forever. Truth was enough to create the West, and truth is enough to restore the west. THE NORTH SEA PEOPLE AND HANSEATIC CIVILIZATION (MEDITERRANEAN:V3, AGEAN:V2, BLACK SEA:V1) http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/ A SHORT COURSE IN SOVEREIGNTY AND AGENCY https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/sovereignty-and-agency/ THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOVEREIGNTY https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/11/27/consequences-of-sovereignty/ A VERY SHORT COURSE IN DECIDABILITY http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/30/a-very-short-course-in-decidability/ A SHORT COURSE IN TESTIMONIAL TRUTH http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/28/a-short-course-on-propertarianisms-testimonial-truth/ THE DUE DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR A WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/04/due-diligence-necessary-for-the-warranty-of-truthfulness/ A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN MORALITY http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/a-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2/ A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/09/26/a-short-course-in-propertarian-reasoning/ THE EVOLUTION OF SUPPRESSION VIA COMMON LAW http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/05/10/the-evolution-of-suppression/ A SHORT COURSE IN NATURAL LAW https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/29/a-short-course-in-natural-law/ A SHORT COURSE IN ACQUISITIONISM (PSYCHOLOGY) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/23/core-acquisitionism-restating-psychology/ A SHORT COURSE IN GROUP ORGANIZATION (SOCIOLOGY) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/30/a-short-course-in-sociology-group-cooperation/ ( Still working with this one)THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY OF GOVERNMENT https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/02/04/a-short-course-in-the-transaction-cost-theory-of-government/ A SHORT COURSE IN MARKET GOVERNMENT (“Perfect Government”, “Markets in Everything”, and sarcastically: “Market Fascism”) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/30/a-short-course-in-perfect-government/ A SHORT COURSE IN THE WESTERN (ARISTOCRATIC) GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY ( … ) A SHORT COURSE IN GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY (COOPERATION/COMPETITION/WAR) ( … ) 1000 WORDS THAT CAPTURE IT ALL http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/05/19/the-most-profound-1000-words-you-can-read-on-political-philosophy-today/ THE CURE FOR PROPAGANDA (LYING) AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/01/18/the-cure-for-propaganda-and-western-civilization/ THE END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT THE TRUTHFUL CIVILIZATION http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/06/the-end-of-history-the-truthful-civilization-sorry-francis/ There is much, much more online. But this is enough to keep you (or anyone else for that matter) busy for quite a while. Curt

    MORE – Outline By Chapter (needs updating for 2016 and 2017) [T]he Outline of Propertarianism in posts organized by chapter. This is only useful at this point to scan and get a sense of the structure of the argument. But you’re a smart guy and it might bear glancing. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/propertarian-posts-by-chapter/ MORE (for 20th c. libertarians)FOR CONTRA MISES: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/750994611656577/ FOR CONTRA ROTHBARD The Minimum Basis for Law (Nomocracy) http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/02/propertarianism-vs-rothbardiansm/ Fallacies http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/ A Lot More On Rothbard’s Low Trust Ghetto Ethics. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/?s=ghetto+ethics

  • An Overview of Propertarianism for Serious Newbies

    Some Introductory Help:

    • On The Use and Meaning Of “-ism’s”.
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/02/20/the-definition-and-use-of-isms/
    • The Meaning of Fictionalism
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/24/definition-fictionalism/
    • Significant Definitions 
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/definitions/
    • Series/Sequences
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/sequences/
    • The Glossary 
      https://propertarianinstitute.com/glossary/
    • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
      https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

    THE UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: TRUTH (AGENCY, SOVEREIGNTY) 1) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/09/17/we-put-the-west-in-western-civilization/ 2) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/ THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT – THE CONFLICT OF CIVILIZATIONS ACROSS MILLENNIA Part I – The Beginning – Sovereignty, and The Counter Revolution against it. (Bronze Age – Black Sea)

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, and as a consequence Agency, Natural Law, Thang (Jury), Testimonial (Deflationary) Truth, and Markets in Everything (Meritocracy).
    • The Counter-Revolution: The Eastern Development of Fictional Scriptural Religion in the Oral Tradition.

    Part II – The Counter Revolution Against Reason and Sovereignty. (Iron Age – Aegean-Mediterranean)

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, Agency, Natural Law, Jury, Senate, Testimonial (Deflationary) Truth, Reason, and Markets in Everything.
    • The Counter Revolution: The Eastern (Jewish, Byzantine, Muslim) Development of Fictional, Scriptural, Authoritarian Religion, conflated with Law, in the Written Tradition.

    Part III – The Counter Enlightenment Against Science and Sovereignty. (Steel Age – North Sea-Atlantic) 

    • The Revolution: The choice of Sovereignty, Agency, Natural Law, Jury, Multi-House Government, Testimonial (Deflationary Truth), Reason, Rationalism, and Empiricism, and Markets in Everything.
    • The Counter: Revolution: The Eastern (Jewish, French, Russian) Development of Fictional, Pseudoscientific, Authoritarian Religions.

    The Anglos (Legal Empiricists / Locke-Smith-Hume-Jefferson), French (Literary Moralists / Rousseau) and The Germans (Literary Rationalists / Kant) had attempted to restate their group evolutionary strategy in modern terms. So did the Cosmopolitan Universalist Jews ( Argumentative Fictionalists (pseudo-mythology[authoritarian religion] / pseudo-law/ pseudo-rationalism / pseudoscience / outright-lying)) advocating separatism, poly-ethicalism, fictional utopianism as a universal ‘moral’ strategy. The Cosmopolitan Universalists (Jews) started producing pseudoscience as the enlightenment change rolled across Eastern Europe, (Boaz, Marx, Freud, Frankfurt) primarily as a reaction to the articulation of aristocratic thought in scientific terms (Darwin, Social Science, Spencer, Nietzsche, and the Romanticists.) ( FYI: Marxism: parasitism upon in-group private production. Libertarianism: parasitism upon in-group commons production. Neo-Conservatism: Parasitism upon other nations’  (out-group) private and commons production. ) While the Germansdefended against the enlightenment by rational restatement of hierarchy, duty, and reason in a new literary fashion invented by Kant. The French, Jewish and Russian together attacked the Anglo Enlightenment: the restoration of sovereignty and the attack on Fictionalism which all those nations depended upon. They each responded with a new fictionalism: The French out of feminine idealism and preservation of authority, Jews out of separatism, fear and preservation of authority, and Russians out of opportunity for aggression, restoration of orthodox civilization, usurpation, and preservation of authority – and our Puritans (anglo separatist equivalent of the Jews), and our women (as always) were, frankly, “suckers” for it. Just as they were in the ancient world. The Great Catastrophe  Just as Byzantium overextended herself and lost to the Turks. Just as Persia and Byzantium overextended themselves and lost to Arabs. Just as Rome overextended herself in Europe and lost to Byzantium; Just as Athens overextended herself in Sicily, and lost to Sparta; Just as the Bronze Age civilizations overextended themselves in the eastern mediterranean and lost to the barbarians. Just as all civilizations overextended themselves, Britain, in an effort to preserve the balance of powers from which she profited, constrained Germany, leaving America as her heir. Just as Athenian democratic greed prematurely ended the first industrial revolution (the Antikithera device only one step removed from Babbage’s mechanical computer), leaving pragmatic Rome to rule with Athenian and Carthaginian invention – the British, French, and American democratic (commercial) greed ended the second (this time German) scientific revolution, leaving pragmatic America to rule with German and British inventions. The European civil war to contain Germany was a catastrophe for the West in that it both truncated the completion of the Enlightenment (scientific revolution), whose second phase, and our rescue from eastern mysticism, was in progress in Germany (and from which 19th and 20th century America was the chief beneficiary – not originator.) It cast doubt upon the Western (aristocratic) order just as the thirty years war had cast doubt upon the prior (religious) order. Thereby reversing our prior gains against supernatural utopianism and the restoration of aristocratic (rule of law) rule, and replacing that supernatural utopianism with economic and political utopianism: pseudoscience. Postwar Jews immigrating to the United States used their pseudoscience (see “Pilpul”) and attacked and took over the academy and media just as they had used the pulpit in the ancient era, and the printing press in the prior era, to spread their second great lie of pseudoscience in every field of human social order. Women freed from labor under the industrial revolution used these arguments to reform slavery, seek the vote, and then using the vote, to claim men were their enemies and oppressors rather than their domesticators in a great compromise between the reproductive strategies of women (numbers) – their genes, and those of men (the tribe) – their genes. Once the slaves had been freed, the women also demanded equal representation, and within one generation after obtaining it used ‘the great lies’ of the cosmopolitans to undermine the western order further by creating a century of pseudoscience. They used this pseudoscience to pursue the destruction of the church, the destruction of the family, and the conquest of academy, state and media by women’s interests (r-selection), because women dispose of more of the earned income than do men in all these areas. Women are great consumers and it is profitable to serve them – even when they are spending down five thousand years of accumulated cultural and genetic capital. Women were sold Christianity. Women were sold Cosmopolitanism. Therefore the industrialization of lying found ready consumers. In marketing and advertising, in media and entertainment, and in democratic politics. The insatiable desire of women to consume, preen, signal, nest, care, and redistribute regardless of long term consequences, provided ready ground for the utopian ideology of endless resources provided by endless growth and the end of constraint. The Failure of Western Thinkers Western thinkers (for a variety of reasons) in the 20th century were unable to defeat this pseudoscientific utopian fiction, just as Western thinkers had been unable to defeat the previous age’s supernatural utopian fiction in the ancient world. As Poincare (mathematics) and Friedrich Hayek (economics and law) warned us, the twentieth century would be, and was, regressive in social science, economics, and politics – and it will be remembered as an age of mysticism (actually an age of fictionalism). Even though our progress in Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, and Information Technology — all products of the truncated German Scientific Revolution – combined with the continued sale of the conquered American continent, combined with the inheritance of the British Empire, combined with the new (now necessary) invention of fiat (stock) money, gave 19th and 20th century America a vast economic boom, which allowed the USA to drag recidivist civilizations (those that adopted the new Jewish Fictionalisms under world communism, socialism, social democracy, and Keynesian non-operational Economics) out of ignorance, poverty, starvation, disease and tyranny. Why? Because democracy in the ancient and modern world was nothing but a lie by which the middle class could take over the government from the aristocracy – and then over-extend growth until the polity developed economic, political, social, and genetic fragility. Our Western habit. One the Chinese did not practice. (If you must expand to grow productivity you are not in fact productive and innovative, but consumptive.) But neither the Western Aristocracy, nor its bourgeoise caste could speak the truth: that man, like plant and other animal, had been domesticated for fun and profit by the imposition of meritocracy by shrinking the reproduction of the lower classes, – and that the differences in the rate of development of civilizations is the result of the shrinking of the underclasses, making possible the progress of the civilization in every possible field of endeavor: linguistic, informational, economic, normative, social, cultural, political, and institutional. The lesson: In the absence of profit through conquest, the most eugenic civilization will always emerge as the most advanced civilization. And this uncomfortable truth is incompatible with unearned (universal) enfranchisement that justifies bourgeoise takeover of government from the aristocracy.PART IV – What Must Be Done? ( The Second Reformation Against Parasitism and Deceit. ) So armed with this knowledge, how do we reverse the century of propaganda, lies, and pseudoscience of the alliance between the Jews, women and minorities, and return the west its lost confidence, and restore the civilization’s strategy of truth+commons? We extend the warranty of due diligence against fraud that we require in products in the market, and services in the market, to cover information in the market, and we restore liability to all participants in a chain of production. We eliminate the economic subsidy for ‘entertainment’ we call copyright. We eliminate financial profiting from the sale of shares of the polity (Fiat Money, or for ordinary people, ‘dollars’ in the form of electronic money), preserving all of the appreciation and interest for the polity (treasury). And we grant universal standing (class action) to defense of the market for information. Eventually, we create separate houses of government for separate classes. And we eliminate representatives and change to direct per-resolution, democracy. This will raise the cost of the various fictionalisms (pseudo-myths/religion, pseudo-rationalisms, pseudo-science, and outright deceit) and eliminate its profitability such that we end the industrialization of lying made possible by mass media. This solution is an incremental advancement upon classical multi-house government in which each class negotiates with other classes for the production of commons, while suppressing the consistent deception (lying) that has been made possible by the industrialization of information distribution (media). By stating in rational and scientific terms the reason for the West’s rapid success in the ancient and modern periods, despite its many disadvantages. Then using this knowledge to defeat this great utopian pseudoscientific lie, even though we failed in the 20th century, and even though we failed in the ancient world against utopian supernaturalism. Our ambition is to require truthful speech in economics, politics, and law, the way we require truthful speech in contract, in the market for goods, and in the market for services. There is no reason that one cannot warranty his speech against the great utopian lies if he is to publish it (sell it, distribute it) in the market for information we call ‘the media’. The West practiced Agency, Sovereignty, Testimony in Deflationary Truth, Natural Law of Cooperation, Markets in Everything, and Aristocratic Egalitarianism (a form of eugenics at scale), and the Militia – and profited from the incremental domestication of the animal man lacking agency, in to the human that possesses it. But this strategy was never written down, only handed down I’m writing it down. Forever. Truth was enough to create the West, and truth is enough to restore the west. THE NORTH SEA PEOPLE AND HANSEATIC CIVILIZATION (MEDITERRANEAN:V3, AGEAN:V2, BLACK SEA:V1) http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/ A SHORT COURSE IN SOVEREIGNTY AND AGENCY https://propertarianinstitute.com/category/attributes/sovereignty-and-agency/ THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOVEREIGNTY https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/11/27/consequences-of-sovereignty/ A VERY SHORT COURSE IN DECIDABILITY http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/30/a-very-short-course-in-decidability/ A SHORT COURSE IN TESTIMONIAL TRUTH http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/28/a-short-course-on-propertarianisms-testimonial-truth/ THE DUE DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR A WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/04/due-diligence-necessary-for-the-warranty-of-truthfulness/ A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN MORALITY http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/a-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2/ A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/09/26/a-short-course-in-propertarian-reasoning/ THE EVOLUTION OF SUPPRESSION VIA COMMON LAW http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/05/10/the-evolution-of-suppression/ A SHORT COURSE IN NATURAL LAW https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/29/a-short-course-in-natural-law/ A SHORT COURSE IN ACQUISITIONISM (PSYCHOLOGY) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/23/core-acquisitionism-restating-psychology/ A SHORT COURSE IN GROUP ORGANIZATION (SOCIOLOGY) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/30/a-short-course-in-sociology-group-cooperation/ ( Still working with this one)THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY OF GOVERNMENT https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/02/04/a-short-course-in-the-transaction-cost-theory-of-government/ A SHORT COURSE IN MARKET GOVERNMENT (“Perfect Government”, “Markets in Everything”, and sarcastically: “Market Fascism”) https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/03/30/a-short-course-in-perfect-government/ A SHORT COURSE IN THE WESTERN (ARISTOCRATIC) GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY ( … ) A SHORT COURSE IN GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY (COOPERATION/COMPETITION/WAR) ( … ) 1000 WORDS THAT CAPTURE IT ALL http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/05/19/the-most-profound-1000-words-you-can-read-on-political-philosophy-today/ THE CURE FOR PROPAGANDA (LYING) AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/01/18/the-cure-for-propaganda-and-western-civilization/ THE END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT THE TRUTHFUL CIVILIZATION http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/06/the-end-of-history-the-truthful-civilization-sorry-francis/ There is much, much more online. But this is enough to keep you (or anyone else for that matter) busy for quite a while. Curt

    MORE – Outline By Chapter (needs updating for 2016 and 2017) [T]he Outline of Propertarianism in posts organized by chapter. This is only useful at this point to scan and get a sense of the structure of the argument. But you’re a smart guy and it might bear glancing. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/propertarian-posts-by-chapter/ MORE (for 20th c. libertarians)FOR CONTRA MISES: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/750994611656577/ FOR CONTRA ROTHBARD The Minimum Basis for Law (Nomocracy) http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/02/propertarianism-vs-rothbardiansm/ Fallacies http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/ A Lot More On Rothbard’s Low Trust Ghetto Ethics. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/?s=ghetto+ethics