Theme: Truth

  • James Augustus Berens: —“Heroic Man, by necessity, is uncultured—more precisel

    James Augustus Berens:

    —“Heroic Man, by necessity, is uncultured—more precisely de-cultured. He seeks the destruction in himself of that which is untrue, dishonest, lowly. For industrialized mass culture is driven by values produced and consumed by the herd, those domesticated masses so enthralled with their own mediocrity that their sheepishness eludes them.

    Indeed an honest observer would risk little to note that common man, that tame, soft fellow seems almost incapable of grasping even the most basic of truths about his fundamental condition.

    But mans collective mastery over nature subsumes with it the elimination, nay the distancing, of the contest; and as such, the ultimate test of that which he values. It has come to pass that we are so free of our original burden—the shrill and unforgiving mistress we call nature—that we actively hold anti-values as the highest of all values, and the consequences for our mis-valuations are so far removed from the immediately perceptible that it takes a mad man or a genius to see the necessary course of subsequent events (most likely one must suffer through both).

    But Heroic Man gives easily to his own restlessness and distaste of common values. And as such seeks values of the highest degree, only those tested by time, his enemies and nature. And where the random course of events fails to deliver a satisfactory test, the Hero—to the bewilderment of the domesticated herd—most paradoxically tests all that is himself by confronting that primordial principle that governs all of existence, including his own. That is, the law of entropic decline, disorder, decay.

    Only at the edge of near-death, does our Hero re-affirm his values, does he say yes to himself and yes to the world. It is, in this particular manner—the test, crucible & contest—that the Hero transcends mere man, that he aligns himself with The True, The Beautiful & The Good.

    For nothing is more True than Survival.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 22:36:00 UTC

  • PLATONISM IS JUST FRAUD. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. There is no matter except as a functi

    PLATONISM IS JUST FRAUD. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

    There is no matter except as a function of the limits of our actions.

    As far as we know existence is constructed of forces.

    The relations between those forces exist.

    From that set of relations between those forces, some set of operations are possible.

    The states of equilibrium that those forces rest within.

    Everything is constructed from the operations that are possible between those forces.

    Our experience of the universe is limited by the limits of our actions.

    The universe is not capable of introspection, planning, or choice.

    We can, because we can remember, search, model, and forecast, identify the forces and operations at various scales of the universe starting with human scale and working in both directions large and small.

    We can make and test observations and create those theories of observations we call ‘facts’.

    We can use operations to attempt to transform that which we observe between states.

    We can create stories (narratives) theories to attempt to explain those transformations (we call these stories ‘theories’)

    We can create many ‘crutches’ to assist us in memory, recall, comparison, and operation given the limits or our actions (the limits of our perception, memory, categorization, and comparison).

    We call these crutches by many names.

    But they are must memories.

    They exist as memories.

    Memories limited by our ability to act (change state).

    Fragmentary relations subject to constant revision the construction of which we are unable to analyze through introspection.

    The experience of which we cannot analyze through introspection but can analyze through mechanical inspection.

    And through that inspection we can easily observe some variation of (overly simplistically stated) a brainstem that operates purely mechanically.

    a lower brain that senses change in state and rewards or punishes.

    a midbrain that produces wants and incentives.

    an upper brain that performs various complex functions of memory and recall.

    a forebrain that organizes into the language of negotiation the wants of what operates beneath it.

    And our consciousness consists of the experience of what we can judge within a 2-3 second window worth of iterations of stimuli mixed with those memories and fed to different brain regions and the rewards and punishments that our brain gives us as instructions produced through millennia of evolution.

    As far as I know the forces in different states, and the opportunities to change state that we call operations, and our memories exist.

    Giving other-worldly names to nothing other than the experience of memories and the associations we find by searching those memories, is to conflate the physical changes in state, the results of those changes in state upon our ongoing iteration of perceptions, and the reality that exists whether we imagine it or not.

    This conflation, like all forms of conflation, is the origin of deception of the self and others. Conversely, the west is the only civilization to successfully create and retain deflationary truth. We did so because the adults practice law out of necessity, and the warriors pay the price for wishful thinking and pretence. And the priests and the little people including the philosophers are simply malcontents trying to create excuses to circumvent that law and steal.

    SUGGESTION

    We think by suggestion, we communicate by suggestion, we understand by suggestion, but we truth-test through criticism (due diligence).

    And we have a name for those who fail to perform due diligence in order to negotiate on behalf of their wants:

    FRAUD.

    As far as I know, all platonism is fraud. fraud by learned habit. fraud by convenience. fraud by intent.

    BUT ITS JUST FRAUD.

    Humans seek to acquire. If you cannot acquire truthfully, then you are acquiring untruthfully.

    FRAUD.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 14:51:00 UTC

  • CURE FOR LEFTISM – AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION (TRUTH)

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/01/18/the-cure-for-propaganda-and-western-civilization/THE CURE FOR LEFTISM – AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION (TRUTH)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:15:00 UTC

  • END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT TRUTHFUL GOVERNMENT: MARKETS IN EVERYTHING

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/06/the-end-of-history-the-truthful-civilization-sorry-francis/THE END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT TRUTHFUL GOVERNMENT: MARKETS IN EVERYTHING


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:14:00 UTC

  • SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/09/26/a-short-course-in-propertarian-reasoning/A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:12:00 UTC

  • DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR A WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/04/due-diligence-necessary-for-the-warranty-of-truthfulness/DUE DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR A WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:11:00 UTC

  • SHORT COURSE IN TESTIMONIAL TRUTH

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/28/a-short-course-on-propertarianisms-testimonial-truth/A SHORT COURSE IN TESTIMONIAL TRUTH


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:10:00 UTC

  • Much of Propertarianism and Testimonialism evolved from my criticism of the pseu

    Much of Propertarianism and Testimonialism evolved from my criticism of the pseudoscience of Mises, the immoralism of Rothbard, and the Kantian/Marxist rationalism of Hoppe.

    I was trying to restate what I saw in Hoppe (a formal, operational, logic of human cooperation that could be stated as law), in scientific terms (an extension or completion of the scientific method)

    If you want to deeply understand the internals of propertarianism it is best achieved by reading through my work reforming JEWISH Austrian economics (mises/rothbard/hoppe) from pseudoscientific and pseudo-rational, to fully scientific and rational. (Reforming CHRISTIAN Austrian economics Menger is unnecessary since that corpus has already been added to the mainstream. Mises’ insight – praxeology as a test of reciprocity – has not.)

    I created a separate group to store those ideas as a set of posts (articles).

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/750994611656577/

    If you work through this list (and it is work) you should have an historical context in which to understand Propertarianism.

    What you will not probably grasp is that NATURAL LAW (propertarianism) is the completion of the program started by the Aristotle and the Stoics, which is (contrary to christianity) the origin and cause of western civilization. Not that I had any idea. I just discovered that as I went along.

    But that’s another longer story.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 12:00:00 UTC

  • THEORY VS FACT VS A PRIORI This is one of those things that i have to explain ov

    THEORY VS FACT VS A PRIORI

    This is one of those things that i have to explain over and over again.

    1) THEORY: we are capable of only one epistemological method (EM) of describing cause and effect relations:

    observation > free association > idea > wayfinding > hypothesis > criticism > theory > public criticism > law > survival in widespread application > incorporation into normative metaphysical value judgements.

    2) A FACT: A fact is a special case of the EM, in which we create an hypothesis, theory, and law to describe an OBSERVATION.

    3) THE A PRIORI: an apriori is a special case of the EM in which once we discover an hypothesis, we cannot imagine a false condition (I use the incidence of prime numbers as an example of special cases). Almost all non-reductio apriori statements fail unless they also include limits and full accounting. this does not prevent the use of apriori concepts. it limits that which can be deduced from apriori statements to ‘very little’.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 10:54:00 UTC

  • Philip Saunders hits a homer. —“Okay, I think I have a clearer idea of what yo

    Philip Saunders hits a homer.

    —“Okay, I think I have a clearer idea of what you’re saying. High trust, truth based polities will accelerate past polities which don’t uphold these standards. The law itself is boiled down to the point that most people can understand it, be held responsible for it, and enforce it. We also extend common law bans on commercial fraud to interpersonal fraud. So if you impose costs informationally, then you are culpable. is that Close?”—Philip Saunders

    More than close. Better said than I could say it. 🙂 Awesome.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 09:50:00 UTC