[W]hen one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some position, the fact that these thinkers said one thing or another never increases the merit of the thought – that’s an appeal to authority. Instead, it tells us that this idea has been in the public discourse for many years. And that we are not novel in our thoughts, or particularly insightful in our times. Instead, that we might learn from great minds how they approached the problem and see if we can better them having many additional shoulders of giants to stand upon between long ago, and the present. On the other hand what we find in these ancient texts and in all histories of man, is that he remains constant over time. It is his geography, the number of his population, and his technology that changes. Not he.
Theme: Truth
-
Prophet’s Words Are Wielded Only By Those Who Can Wield Them
[W]estern man, like eastern man, is poly-philosophical. UPPER – TRUTH – RULE – FORCE 1) Aristotle’s Law of truth, The Common Law, and The Martial Law of those who rule: aristocracy. MIDDLE – UTILITY – COOPERATION – TRADE 2) The Host of Middle Class Philosophers myths of aspiration for cooperation, 3) Aesop and the Nordic, Celtic, and Germanic Myths of household wisdom, LOWER – NECESSITY – INSURANCE – GOSSIP 4) Aquinas and the Nazarene’s philosophy of poverty, suffering, and hope. It is not a mystery that these philosophies roughly correspond to the IQ distribution. Both out of ability and out of utility.
-
Prophet’s Words Are Wielded Only By Those Who Can Wield Them
[W]estern man, like eastern man, is poly-philosophical. UPPER – TRUTH – RULE – FORCE 1) Aristotle’s Law of truth, The Common Law, and The Martial Law of those who rule: aristocracy. MIDDLE – UTILITY – COOPERATION – TRADE 2) The Host of Middle Class Philosophers myths of aspiration for cooperation, 3) Aesop and the Nordic, Celtic, and Germanic Myths of household wisdom, LOWER – NECESSITY – INSURANCE – GOSSIP 4) Aquinas and the Nazarene’s philosophy of poverty, suffering, and hope. It is not a mystery that these philosophies roughly correspond to the IQ distribution. Both out of ability and out of utility.
-
The Power To Enforce Laws That Have Been Discovered
(by Eli Harman)
“Make lying illegal and you’ll outlaw the truth. So what other “LAWS” do you want to make? What other power do you want to give to those who have power?”
[Y]ou misunderstand. My aim isn’t to give power, but to take it, and to hold it. In specific, the power I seek is not that of MAKING laws, but of enforcing those that I DISCOVER to be conductive to human flourishing and cooperation, by such processes as shall prove most conducive to the discovery of such laws, meaning, in large part, distributed processes. But that is not the whole part, because hierarchy and authority have their place too. Some conflicts are not decidable under law, because there may be no objectively “right” or “best” answer. But the role of authority is in pronouncing judgement in such cases, when there is nevertheless some benefit to being on the same page. And in the never-ending clash and conflict between authorities, we must suppose truth, wisdom, and justice to confer some advantages, though not all will embody or exhibit them, and none perfectly.
-
The Power To Enforce Laws That Have Been Discovered
(by Eli Harman)
“Make lying illegal and you’ll outlaw the truth. So what other “LAWS” do you want to make? What other power do you want to give to those who have power?”
[Y]ou misunderstand. My aim isn’t to give power, but to take it, and to hold it. In specific, the power I seek is not that of MAKING laws, but of enforcing those that I DISCOVER to be conductive to human flourishing and cooperation, by such processes as shall prove most conducive to the discovery of such laws, meaning, in large part, distributed processes. But that is not the whole part, because hierarchy and authority have their place too. Some conflicts are not decidable under law, because there may be no objectively “right” or “best” answer. But the role of authority is in pronouncing judgement in such cases, when there is nevertheless some benefit to being on the same page. And in the never-ending clash and conflict between authorities, we must suppose truth, wisdom, and justice to confer some advantages, though not all will embody or exhibit them, and none perfectly.
-
DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL. If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like
DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL.
If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like a Tsar, and acts like a Tsar, it’s a Tsar.
Create a dynasty.
Restore Nation and Family.
Abandon the Corporate State.
Restore Parliamentary Monarchy.
Help restore monarchy to our peoples.
The enemy is corporatism, and our restoration is in nationalism.
(BTW: As a fellow short person. I won’t hold your height against you.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:47:00 UTC
-
HOW PAUL KRUGMAN USES THE BIG LIE (important piece) (progress on the cosmopolita
HOW PAUL KRUGMAN USES THE BIG LIE
(important piece) (progress on the cosmopolitan method of lying)
Krugman is one of the most artful liars in the modern world. We tend to criticize him on his errors. But casting his work as error is too generous: he is simply an extremely artful liar.
If you could ask the Genii how to create the world’s most objectively evil lie, it would include the use of half truth, used as a means of suggestion, to evoke a moral altruistic response, to force an intertemporal predictive bias, that obscured the loss of difficult-to-measure-capital, as an increase in current consumption. You would convince the lion to eat it’s tail.
This is Krugman’s technique.
That this subtle technique is the origin of The Monotheistic Lie, (The First Great Lie), as well as the 19th-20th century cosmopolitan pseudo-sciences: Boaz, Freud, Cantor, Marx-Keynes (The Second Great Lie), should not surprise us.
What Marx achieved through loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion in dialectic, Keynes achieved by abandoning loading, and relying upon framing, overloading and suggestion, with innumeracy.
This is Keynes’ achievement: to convert the pseudo-moral, into the pseudo-scientific. But the result is the same: obscuring the consumption of capital accumulated over millennia (k-selection for eugenic quality) into short term consumption (r-selection for dysgenic quantity). In other words, the Cosmopolitan’s second attempt at The Great Lie using the same means.
In 2009 I wanted to start blogging about his technique, but rapidly I realized his ability to generate deceit was inexpensive, and the required effort to demonstrate the construction of his lies was terribly expensive. So I’m thrilled that those more capable of it – Bob Murphy – are doing it instead.
Once you understand the mechanism of Krugman’s deception is merely an instance of the Great Lie Technique applied to economics, and his use of suggestion on one hand, and ridicule on the other, you realize he’s just using moral cognitive biases as a very sophisticated slight of hand by which to justify, encourage, and obscure the transfer of capital to consumption, so that the state can expand and the unproductive can obtain commission on the redistribution of capital to consumption.
We can only do what we did in the past, and use science – the discipline of truth telling – to over come the Great Lies.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:25:00 UTC
-
PROPHETS WORDS ARE WIELDED ONLY BY THOSE WHO CAN. Western man, like eastern man,
PROPHETS WORDS ARE WIELDED ONLY BY THOSE WHO CAN.
Western man, like eastern man, is poly-philosophical.
UPPER – TRUTH – RULE – FORCE
1) Aristotle’s Law of truth, The Common Law, and The Martial Law of those who rule: aristocracy.
MIDDLE – UTILITY – COOPERATION – TRADE
2) The Host of Middle Class Philosophers myths of aspiration for cooperation,
3) Aesop and the Nordic, Celtic, and Germanic Myths of household wisdom,
LOWER – NECESSITY – INSURANCE – GOSSIP
4) Aquinas and the Nazarene’s philosophy of poverty, suffering, and hope.
It is not a mystery that these philosophies roughly correspond to the IQ distribution. Both out of ability and out of utility.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 06:19:00 UTC
-
When one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some p
When one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some position, the fact that these thinkers said one thing or another never increases the merit of the thought – that’s an appeal to authority. Instead, it tells us that this idea has been in the public discourse for many years. And that we are not novel in our thoughts, or particularly insightful in our times. Instead, that we might learn from great minds how they approached the problem and see if we can better them having many additional shoulders of giants to stand upon between long ago, and the present. On the other hand what we find in these ancient texts and in all histories of man, is that he remains constant over time. It is his geography, the number of his population, and his technology that changes. Not he.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 03:56:00 UTC
-
THE TRUTH —The Truth was enough to create the west, and it is enough to restor
THE TRUTH
—The Truth was enough to create the west, and it is enough to restore the west. But we must suppress the liars as we have murder, violence, theft, and fraud. That is because like air, land, and sea, information is a precious commons that cannot tolerate pollution if truth is to survive.—
Punish the wicked. We require truth. If requiring fails, what follows is bloody constraint: hand, fist and boot, whip, noose, cross, fire, impale.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 01:54:00 UTC