(FB 1550494818 Timestamp) —“isn’t criticism a good thing though?”— Aaron Long Of course. and wanted. and necessary. And it’s why I start ‘king of the hill’ battles constantly – to get criticism on the one hand and educate on the other. The difference is – this particular ‘king’ doesn’t want to win. He wants to create an army of winners.
Theme: Truth
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550511589 Timestamp) HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550506002 Timestamp) TRUTH OVER POPULARITY Aristotle was not the founder of our system of thought because he was popular. They tried to kill him like socrates. Hobbes, Lock, Smith, Hume were not popular on the continent – everything written on the continent since their publications has been a rebellion against it. Darwin was not popular with many if not most. There are many who would have killed him. Truth is what it is. A WEAPON
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550511589 Timestamp) HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550505170 Timestamp) That which we can observe through instrumental and logical means That which we can observe That which we can experience That which we can deduce from experience That which we cannot experience (lack of introspection)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550506002 Timestamp) TRUTH OVER POPULARITY Aristotle was not the founder of our system of thought because he was popular. They tried to kill him like socrates. Hobbes, Lock, Smith, Hume were not popular on the continent – everything written on the continent since their publications has been a rebellion against it. Darwin was not popular with many if not most. There are many who would have killed him. Truth is what it is. A WEAPON
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550505170 Timestamp) That which we can observe through instrumental and logical means That which we can observe That which we can experience That which we can deduce from experience That which we cannot experience (lack of introspection)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550668909 Timestamp) Rothbard (Jewish Pale) and Hoppe (German Free Cities) via positiva, via rationalism. Doolittle(Rights of Englishmen) via negativa, via empiricism. Construct a value system by appeal(RH), or prohibit an anti-value system with violence (D). Inspiration and indoctrination (RH) vs prohibition and market for prosecution(D). Unlimited suppression of parasitic behavior that generates retaliation (D), suppression limited to intersubjectively verifiable property (RH). Suppression of blackmail, defamation, public sophism, supernaturalism pseudoscience( marxism, postmodernism, feminism, denialism). Doolittle: existential survivable without imperial protection, vs Rothbard and Hoppe: dependent, non existential without imperial protection. Doolittle: demonstrated, vs Rothbard and Hoppe: not demonstrated, not modelable, not survivable under competition. RH not possible due to praxeological incentives, and D possible because of praxeological testable incentives. No RH community can form or survive market for polities without parasitic dependence upon an empire because of insufficient incentives for defense and production of commons and their resulting multipliers in competition with free riders. vs Any D community can survive in the market for polities because it does not depend upon an external empire because of sufficient incentives for defense and production of commons and their resulting multipliers in competition with free riders. Crusoe’s island depends upon the ‘free’ protection of a vast ocean. The ghetto depends upon the host city or state. And the Free Cities, The Pale (european wildlands), The American/Australian wildlands, and Iceland/Greenland – all depend upon the host empire, and are economically subsidized by lack of political competition, and the availability of cheap and settleable land. The ghetto ethics of the jews and being exterminated for it on a regular basis versus the high trust ethics of the people who dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance superstition poverty starvation disease hard labor early death…. and the quality of life that people seek despite the costs of commons required to do so. ie: RH consists of pretense that ‘children’ polities, subsidized by parents, can compete against adult polities on their own merits in competition by military, political, economic, religious, demographic, warfare that never ends.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550589901 Timestamp) MORE ON METAPHYSICS ….the idea of ‘proven’ is something I think is meaningless – instead: “remove all reasonable doubt”. Because nothing can be ‘proven’ other than tautologies because nothing is premise-independent other than tautologies. Therefore as far as I know, the question is only one of reasonable doubt. And given that only demonstrated preference shows us what one in fact ‘believes’ rather than ‘signals’ including ‘signaling to the self’, only tests of action with skin in the game tell us – even if we desperately want to be honest – what is in fact ‘true’. Ergo, as far as I know, there is only one physics, and one metaphysics (most parsimonious paradigm) and many false physics(paradigms) and many false metaphysics (paradigms) we can use to describe the physical. And the only metaphysics we can determine we are not signaling (lying) to ourselves and others about is that of ACTION. All else is fiction. Anyway. That’s my understanding.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550668909 Timestamp) Rothbard (Jewish Pale) and Hoppe (German Free Cities) via positiva, via rationalism. Doolittle(Rights of Englishmen) via negativa, via empiricism. Construct a value system by appeal(RH), or prohibit an anti-value system with violence (D). Inspiration and indoctrination (RH) vs prohibition and market for prosecution(D). Unlimited suppression of parasitic behavior that generates retaliation (D), suppression limited to intersubjectively verifiable property (RH). Suppression of blackmail, defamation, public sophism, supernaturalism pseudoscience( marxism, postmodernism, feminism, denialism). Doolittle: existential survivable without imperial protection, vs Rothbard and Hoppe: dependent, non existential without imperial protection. Doolittle: demonstrated, vs Rothbard and Hoppe: not demonstrated, not modelable, not survivable under competition. RH not possible due to praxeological incentives, and D possible because of praxeological testable incentives. No RH community can form or survive market for polities without parasitic dependence upon an empire because of insufficient incentives for defense and production of commons and their resulting multipliers in competition with free riders. vs Any D community can survive in the market for polities because it does not depend upon an external empire because of sufficient incentives for defense and production of commons and their resulting multipliers in competition with free riders. Crusoe’s island depends upon the ‘free’ protection of a vast ocean. The ghetto depends upon the host city or state. And the Free Cities, The Pale (european wildlands), The American/Australian wildlands, and Iceland/Greenland – all depend upon the host empire, and are economically subsidized by lack of political competition, and the availability of cheap and settleable land. The ghetto ethics of the jews and being exterminated for it on a regular basis versus the high trust ethics of the people who dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance superstition poverty starvation disease hard labor early death…. and the quality of life that people seek despite the costs of commons required to do so. ie: RH consists of pretense that ‘children’ polities, subsidized by parents, can compete against adult polities on their own merits in competition by military, political, economic, religious, demographic, warfare that never ends.