Theme: Truth

  • THE HIERARCHY OF PROPERTARIANISM’S GOALS AND MAPPING THOSE GOALS TO PHILOSOPHICA

    THE HIERARCHY OF PROPERTARIANISM’S GOALS AND MAPPING THOSE GOALS TO PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES

    (important) (attn: nietzscheans) (aesthetics)

    1) TRUTH (KNOWLEDGE, TRUST)

    2) LIBERTY (EXPERIMENTATION, CREATIVITY, INVENTION)

    3) COMMONS (INFRASTRUCTURE, PROSPERITY, MONUMENTS)

    4) VICTORY (SECURITY, EVOLUTION, ETERNAL PERSISTENCE)

    5) BEAUTY (EXCELLENCE, VIRTUE, TRANSCENDENCE)

    –Learning from Competition–

    Debating with the well intentioned folks who desire an inspirational program has taught me to articulate clearly the promise of aristocratic philosophy of our ancestors. This may have been their objective. And if so, they have achieved it. Although ad-hom attacks are less useful and informative they are ‘inspirational’, in that they provide motivation to counter criticisms.

    –The Market for Virtues–

    Like any market, men are motivated by the environment created by the portfolio of virtues, but they DIVIDE specialization in that market by preferring each of the virtues more or less than the others: some valuing everything equally other valuing one in particular. I am no different from any other man in that I value the instrument of change (Truth) with which I seek to transcend the current state of our culture (pseudoscience, propaganda, feminine dysgenics, outright lying, and the use of gossip rallying and shaming by the betas, women, media (defending advertisers customers:women), government (defending bureaucracy’s enablers:women).

    So my personal bias on the use of truth to transcend the age of pseudoscience and bring about the age of truth, in which my people are at a tremendous cultural if not genetic advantage, and from which they can transform themselves and by example, mankind, as much as we transformed mankind in the ancient world and in the modern world through our superior application of truth and the total near suppression of parasitism from all walks of life.

    (I might have done better at disassembling the arguments, but I have been ill the past three days and perhaps I haven’t been at my best.)

    MAPPING GOALS TO PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES

    1) Truth – Truth

    2) Liberty – Epistemology

    3) Prosperity – Ethics, Politics and Commons

    4) Victory and Beauty – Aesthetics

    We had a number of central problems in this debate.

    (i) First, methodological, in that it is non logical to construct a science (discipline of removing error, imaginary content, bias, wishful thinking and deceit from our theories, thoughts and words) by engaging in the very act of deceitful argument that has been used to conquer us in the ancient religious world (babylonian, jewish and christian mysticism), and in the modern world (german conflationary rationalism, cosmopolitan pseudoscience and propaganda, and anglo feminism). These are inexpensive tactics, while truth is an expensive tactic which is why no other civilization uses it.

    (ii) Second, organizational, in that if we cannot engage in conflationary deception, and if we wish to speak truthfully, then truth, epistemology ethics and politics are merely technological disciplines without introspective content, and aesthetics is also a ‘technological’ discipline specifically (like design in the arts) for the purpose of invoking introspective responses. Now, given that I have had time to think of it, I suppose it is possible to start with aesthetics rather than end with aesthetics, but I would not then build the sequence from necessity to preference. But what I will do is try EITHER to use the preferences (truth, liberty, prosperity, victory, beauty) as introductions to each section of the book, or I will use a chapter later in the book to map truth, liberty, prosperity, beauty, and victory, to truth, epistemology, ethics and politics, aesthetics, and war. My intuition is that I should introduce each chapter with it’s aesthetic representation, and then construct it as necessity. I think that this would be both easier to understand, and more satisfactory to critics, and more rewarding for the reader as he goes along: This allows me to ‘mix’ aesthetics and truth without conflating them.

    ***So in this sense, my critics have won me over, and while they argue poorly, they did not fail to educate me.***

    (iii) Third, Emotional Dependence as a weakness preventing transcendence from weak man to great man: the pacification of impulse.

    Or better stated, the transcendence from unarticulated intuition to rational articulated *plan*.

    While it may be true that conflationary argument is deception, and it may be true that dependence upon impulse is an admission of weakness, I do not assist in training those who wish to ‘transcend’ from impulsive man to rational man, by failing to draw the contrast for him. So I admit that it is better to educate and bear the responsibility for education and transcendence than it is to simply dismiss the common man who requires sentiments for motivation rather than rational thought, as not useful.

    (iiii) Fourth, obscurant self deceit, or what we call ‘rationalization’. – an expression of the feminine.

    I stand by my criticism that self-satisfying justification of one’s weakness as heroic is merely an admission of and demonstration of weakness. But I accept that it is a philosopher’s duty to provide men the awareness of such, and to provide a means of obtaining strength, and ability.

    (v) Fifth, the “Going One’s Own Way” as failure to organize an army to institute change – an admission of defeat, of weakness.

    I stand by the criticism that self focus is mere justification of weakness, and only competition demonstrates excellence, not ones self image – which is mere justificationary delusion. If you cannot demonstrate excellence then you do not possess it. Transformation of man requires an army to suppress the parasitism that inhibits our transformation. As such failure to organize into an army or at least a band of raiders, or at least to act to force change, is admission that ones self image is counter to one’s objective status and value. I understand that the millennial generation is raised by women to feel each person is intrinsically virtuous and valuable, and therefore his self perception of his status is higher than it is, and therefore he is prohibited from organizing into a hierarchy where his self image would be refuted by demonstration and evidence, but epistemologically that is not possible to know without competition that demonstrates the truth or falsehood of it. The emphasis on one’s feelings and inspiration is just a means of preserving the falsehood of one’s self image without requiring that one demonstrate that image by successful competition – and it prevents learning and improving from such competition.

    (vi) Sixth, Operationalism is a means of preventing self deception, bias confirmation, and justification.

    EXISTENTIAL, OPERATIONAL, ‘ACTING’, AND COMPETING test our perceptions, experiences, judgements, memory, and values. Experiencing is not testing perception. If one acts, describes ones actions, and competes against others and survives, then one’s ideas may be true. If one does not then one’s ideas cannot be known to be true. By failing to test the existential possibility of one’s thoughts one merely cowers behind self deception, self delusion, and the nursemaiding of one’s weak character.

    CLOSING

    One can be forgiven for failure when one does not know the alternative means of succeeding. One can be forgiven for one’s failure to develop a means of succeeding – we vary in our talents, and some cannot reach such heights. But one cannot be forgiven for denying he failure of one’s perceptions, values, strategy, and tactics. And one cannot be forgiven for failing to discard one’s values, strategy and tactics when aware of means of succeeding.

    This is the lesson of “guns germs and steel”: either adopt technologies despite the internal costs, or be conquered by those that have adopted those technologies.

    If you mind is too weak for this then you are too weak for any purpose other than direction, subservience, slavery, or death.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-17 07:52:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism in Twelve Words

    (fun) Guest Post from Carlos Clark

    Propertarianism in twelve words. “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” —Cadet Honor Code, West Point

  • Propertarianism in Twelve Words

    (fun) Guest Post from Carlos Clark

    Propertarianism in twelve words. “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” —Cadet Honor Code, West Point

  • The Third Way (the end of history) Is The Truthful Society – Not Democracy

    [I] am not sure how Fukuyama missed it, other than it seems like all throughout his career he seeks to justify his theory of monopoly bureaucracy, and his admiration of Sinic civilization. He investigates the problems of bureaucracy under democracy – the failure to develop an independent professional bureaucracy first, and then democracy, such that patronage jobs are not given out.

    But he does not demonstrate that the public intellectual class and private companies would not create problems of the Deep State’s self maximization of self interest, the parasitism of bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy’s attempt to eliminate all competition, and it’s enforced stagnation. To create a high trust society one requires (a) a near universal militia (b) private property rights, independent judiciary (‘priesthood’) and rule of law proper (c) a natural nobility with long term interest in the territory, (d) insurers of last resort operated by professionals. One does not require a monopoly bureaucracy. It is an admission of the failure of a people to develop and maintain rule of law. One requires rule of law, law sufficiently articulated that it is inescapable (decidable), and universal standing such that the people can make use of it to control anyone acting in a public capacity in addition to private capacity. If the basis of law is articulated as the total prohibition on free riding in all its forms, including: violence, theft, fraud, free riding, conspiracy, invasion and conquest; and if we defend the informational commons from pollution (“Abusus”), by requiring proof of existence and morality in any claim of common good; and if we construct a market for the construction of commons between the classes; then the end of history is not as Fukuyama claims – the professional bureaucracy. Instead, the professional bureaucracy is yet another example of the failure of a people to develop an answer to the problem of politics, ethics, economics and the social sciences. Chinese failed first to solve the problem of politics. They created the monopoly state first, and never discovered the rule of law. And in doing so, they failed first. The end of history – at least the end of history that we can see today – is the truthful society. And democratic polities of all stripes are yet another failure to construct rule of law applicable to every living soul. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
  • The Third Way (the end of history) Is The Truthful Society – Not Democracy

    [I] am not sure how Fukuyama missed it, other than it seems like all throughout his career he seeks to justify his theory of monopoly bureaucracy, and his admiration of Sinic civilization. He investigates the problems of bureaucracy under democracy – the failure to develop an independent professional bureaucracy first, and then democracy, such that patronage jobs are not given out.

    But he does not demonstrate that the public intellectual class and private companies would not create problems of the Deep State’s self maximization of self interest, the parasitism of bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy’s attempt to eliminate all competition, and it’s enforced stagnation. To create a high trust society one requires (a) a near universal militia (b) private property rights, independent judiciary (‘priesthood’) and rule of law proper (c) a natural nobility with long term interest in the territory, (d) insurers of last resort operated by professionals. One does not require a monopoly bureaucracy. It is an admission of the failure of a people to develop and maintain rule of law. One requires rule of law, law sufficiently articulated that it is inescapable (decidable), and universal standing such that the people can make use of it to control anyone acting in a public capacity in addition to private capacity. If the basis of law is articulated as the total prohibition on free riding in all its forms, including: violence, theft, fraud, free riding, conspiracy, invasion and conquest; and if we defend the informational commons from pollution (“Abusus”), by requiring proof of existence and morality in any claim of common good; and if we construct a market for the construction of commons between the classes; then the end of history is not as Fukuyama claims – the professional bureaucracy. Instead, the professional bureaucracy is yet another example of the failure of a people to develop an answer to the problem of politics, ethics, economics and the social sciences. Chinese failed first to solve the problem of politics. They created the monopoly state first, and never discovered the rule of law. And in doing so, they failed first. The end of history – at least the end of history that we can see today – is the truthful society. And democratic polities of all stripes are yet another failure to construct rule of law applicable to every living soul. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
  • “WHO IS TO DO THE LAUNDERING?” THE EFFECT OF WARRANTY —“As for truth, who is t

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/21/a-hierarchy-of-truths/Q&A: “WHO IS TO DO THE LAUNDERING?” THE EFFECT OF WARRANTY

    —“As for truth, who is to do the laundering and how do we know if it has been done in error?”—Karl Smith

    We do it ourselves, and warranty we have done so. If we have ‘interests’ then we can test it. But warranty tends to produce desired ends: “skin in the game”.

    1) Spectrum: Deceitful, Honest, Truthful, True, Tautological.

    See: A Hierarchy of Truths

    http://www.propertarianism.com%2F2015%2F06%2F21%2Fa-hierarchy-of-truths%2F

    2) We can give honest testimony but honesty is not warrantied (promise) that we have performed due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. As such we cannot state that we have laundered that information consisting of imaginary, erroneous, imaginary, biased, or wishful thinking from it.

    We can give truthful testimony, if we can warranty we have performed due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. We need a method of performing due diligence (criticism) of our statements.

    We cannot testify to truth even if we utter it, because even if we perform due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit, we cannot know if we are informationally complete, and cannot warranty it.

    We can testify to a tautology because it is informationally complete, but as informationally complete it has no theoretical content (no general rule), and therefore no general explanatory power, and requires no warranty.

    3) We can subject our theories to criticisms:

    – identity (naming, properties, category)

    – internal consistency(logic),

    – external correspondence(empiricism),

    – parsimony(limits),

    – existential possibility (operationalism),

    – morality (productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of hazard and externality of the same criteria),

    Or more simply, we can use the scientific method, which has nothing unique to the sciences per se, and instead is a general process of criticism for the production of truthful testimony: epistemology.

    Science is a Moral Discipline

    http://www.propertarianism.com%2F2014%2F12%2F23%2Fscience-is-a-moral-discipline-in-which-we-struggle-to-speak-truthfully%2F

    MORE – SEE

    a) A Short Course In Testimonial Truth

    https://www.google.com/search…

    b) A Short Course in Propertarian Morality

    www.propertarianism.com%2F2015%2F07%2F27%2Fa-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2%2F

    Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-16 04:46:00 UTC

  • (not that I feel like beating on russia these days, but truth is truth) The west

    (not that I feel like beating on russia these days, but truth is truth)

    The west has legitimate problems with Russia:

    1) Russia’s history of murdering its own people in vast numbers, and occupying and destroying much of eastern Europe, and then engaging in both the cold war and the expansion of world communism. This history prevents Russia from making a legitimate claim to extension of its borders just as we resist german’s extension of is borders.

    2) Absence of rule of law, widespread corruption, use of propaganda and outright lying – which in Russia is heroic and in the west is the very pinnacle of immorality. The Russian sponsorship of a predatory government maintaining the poverty of the people of Ukraine and its agitation over the return of eastern Europe to christendom given its history was and is intolerable both to Westerners and to eastern europeans. The assumption that Russia would add rule of law but retain its conservatism was just fine – as long as Russia joined the west thereby uniting all european peoples and restoring christendom after its destruction by the communists. This would have achieved the long standing goal of uniting german culture and engineering with Russian resources and labor.

    3) Russian intellectuals’ fascination with the restoration of an empire responsible for genocides only surpassed by the Chinese, and the tragic victimization and impoverishment of eastern Europe, and even Germany – instead of unity of european peoples. As if power – disappearing people in the night, suppressing speech, and terrorism by secret police – rather than prosperity were somehow something to aspire to.

    4) Invasion of Ukraine breaking the postwar consensus on borders – the purpose of which was to prevent another world war. In doing so Russia confirmed both its failure to learn from its past failings, and its willingness to impose harm on ‘our people’. Putin was until then a respected politician in the west who could just have asked the west to negotiate a trade for discounted natural gas in exchange for a full crimean lease including independence on the hong kong model for 200 years – after which it would have been irrelevant. The same for the Donbas since Ukrainians despise that region because it’s the source of Russian influence on the government, source of gangsters supported by Russia, and the source of the drug trade. So Putin confirmed that Russia had learned nothing, and wishes to repeat its past crimes against humanity.

    American utopianism is absurd and the neo-conservative movement has been as disastrous as the progressive, neo-puritain, and socialist. Americans are perfectly happy to feel good about themselves by punishing brown and yellow people the world over. America has the luxury of stupidity due to wealth in part gained by their domestic utopianism.

    And sure, democracy is done for, republicanism is a luxury of wealthy europeans riding on the accumulated wave of centuries of intellectual, technical and artistic achievement. Yes, women have have used enfranchisement to incrementally destroy the west that alone liberated them, and yes, the left has used the funding provided by women through advertising and expanding education in the the academy and rent seeking that expands the state to convert us into another brazil.

    That does not mean that anything Russia desires or does is not more of the same even worse than we have experienced from her before. She rails against the nazis who were half the criminals the russians have been.

    That people want strength is a statement of their weakness.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-15 17:31:00 UTC

  • (Worth Repeating) —-“There is a reason the strong can speak their minds honest

    (Worth Repeating)

    —-“There is a reason the strong can speak their minds honestly and truthfully: only the weak need do otherwise.”—-


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-15 16:37:00 UTC

  • NIETZSCHE, EVOLUTION, AND TRUTH (reposted) My understanding is that Nietzsche cl

    NIETZSCHE, EVOLUTION, AND TRUTH

    (reposted)

    My understanding is that Nietzsche claimed, that by Darwin’s removing the exterior causes for the evolution of man, that what he calls ‘will to power’ was sufficient to produce man (or all similar animals) through the process of evolution.

    Now, today we might use different terminology. I use ‘acquisition’ and ‘pacification’ and eschew ‘power’ since it appears from the evidence that it’s the acquisition of a portfolio of experiences and opportunities for experience that people desire and act in favor of – chief of which is status.

    I think we might also argue that mere entropy causes our development, even if circumstances (a peaceful enough oven in which to cook advanced life) are extremely rare, the universe has many opportunities to try. So as such our will to power is merely a set of chemical responses that we evolved in order to defeat entropy.

    So in effect I agree but eschew reliance on Nietzsche’s effeminate psychologizing and german conflation, loading and framing.

    Further, since psychologizing and psychology evolved as tools of feminine gossip and critique, I avoid them. I have the courage to use truth, rather than depend upon intellectual crutches.

    Using psychological explanations is a display of feminine strategies. Which is useful for the weak. But unnecessary for the strong.

    Truth is enough. Incentives are enough. Psychologizing is merely an attempt to engage in gossip using the strategy of women who do so because they are demonstrably weaker.

    I don’t know if I want power. I want to demonstrate I am simply superior. Power just means more work to do. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-15 16:35:00 UTC

  • Slayer of false gods, false promises, pseudoscience, shoddy argument, and justif

    Slayer of false gods, false promises, pseudoscience, shoddy argument, and justification of priors.

    Sigh.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-15 16:07:00 UTC