I live my life by what is in front of me. I argue politics by the data since it CAN’T be in front of me. To do otherwise would be to apply specific cases to general rules, or general rules to specific cases, and both of those are illogical.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-29 13:08:00 UTC
—“Every stage of enlightenment begins as heresy.”— Candice Mary
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-29 08:55:00 UTC
Are we measuring social science (truthfulness), providing insurance, or are we measuring deception?
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 16:43:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803278251632099328
Reply addressees: @quiltednursery1 @paulkrugman
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803272737280196609
IN REPLY TO:
@quiltednursery1
@curtdoolittle @paulkrugman A matter of opinion. PAUL should have been awarded 2:)
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803272737280196609
DEMANDING TRUTH IS OUR DEFENSE AGAINST SUBVERSION
The highest art of war is subversion. The defense against subversion if your civilization is meritocratic, is demand for truth in the commons, enforced in court, under universal standing, and if your civilization is not meritocratic, by secretive, authoritarian, censorship. I recommend evolutionary truth rather than devolutionary censorship.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 10:32:00 UTC
—“my [antidote for] all Platonism has always been Thucydides. Thucydides and, perhaps, Machiavelli’s [The Prince] are most closely related to me by the unconditional will not to delude oneself, but to see reason in reality — not in “reason,” still less in “morality.” — Nietzsche
—‘The unconditional will not to delude oneself’—
Priceless.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 09:53:00 UTC
(worth repeating) 1) SOVEREIGNTY (leads to) 2) PROPERTY IN TOTO (leads to) 3) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH (leads to) 4) DEFLATIONARY/DECONFLATIONARY, (leads to) 5) REASON, RATIONALISM, EMPIRICISM, TESTIMONIALISM (leads to) 6) MARKETS IN EVERYTHING, (leads to) 7) DEFEATING THE RED QUEEN (leads to) 6) TRANSCENDENCE.
0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law) 2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?
(worth repeating) 1) SOVEREIGNTY (leads to) 2) PROPERTY IN TOTO (leads to) 3) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH (leads to) 4) DEFLATIONARY/DECONFLATIONARY, (leads to) 5) REASON, RATIONALISM, EMPIRICISM, TESTIMONIALISM (leads to) 6) MARKETS IN EVERYTHING, (leads to) 7) DEFEATING THE RED QUEEN (leads to) 6) TRANSCENDENCE.
0) THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: SOVEREIGNTY. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1) RELIGION: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. (corrected with aristotelian reason, stoic and roman law) 2) CHRISTIANITY: THE FIRST INFANTILIZATION OF THE WESTERN INDO-EUROPEANS (corrected with empiricism, and anglo common law) 3) COSMOPOLITANISM: THE SECOND INFANTILIZATION OF THE WEST. AND THE NEW WEST. (corrected with testimonialism, and propertarian natural law) WHY IS IT WE MUST DE-INFANTILIZE MAN IN EVERY GREAT ERA?
Throughout human history we have been more concerned with what is useful than what is true. The scale of modernity w/ science reversed this.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-27 16:15:51 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/802908805826772992
Nov 15, 2016 2:22pm Benefit and Loss are absolutes. Good and Evil are absolutes. Preference is relative. That we use the authoritarian terms good and evil to lie about our preferences is just another form of fraud.
Nov 15, 2016 2:22pm Benefit and Loss are absolutes. Good and Evil are absolutes. Preference is relative. That we use the authoritarian terms good and evil to lie about our preferences is just another form of fraud.