Ideas

Propertarianism:

Propertarianism  (INCOMPLETE)

What is Propertarianism? It’s a methodology for articulating and comparing the properties of different political systems. Propertarianism is useful because it has broad explanatory power that is based upon observable human nature. But most importantly, propertarianism allows us to discuss political concepts in rational rather than allegorical, historical, or moral terms. Why? Because Propertarian Definitions of Property Explain The Incentives Behind All Human Behavior.

Propertarian Epistemology (Done)

Definitions For Philosophers: Mind, Perception, Consciousness, Calculation, Limits, Communication and Metaphysics. Not everyone is concerned with such things, but for those that do, and those that do are the people that participate in debates, Propertarian Epistemology provides those definitions.

The Key Concepts (Done)

The concepts that propertarianism depends upon that alter existing libertarian philosophy: Voluntary Transfer, Calculability, Pooling and Laundering, Extended Concepts of Property, Multi-Class Government, Private Insurance, and Self-Determination.

On The Permanent Genetic Differences In Our Political Preferences (UNDONE)

Our political differences are driven by our natural differences in mating and reproductive strategies. They are unalterable. As such majority rule will always enslave the top, and oligarchical rule will always suppress the breeding rates and preferences of the bottom.

On A Government of Exchanges Versus A Government of Majority Rule (UNDONE)

The only resolution to politics is not majority rule, which of necessity is oppressive, and which appears to be naturally regressive, but of contractual exchanges between classes.

Propertarian Insights (UNDONE)

Ideas that you haven’t heard before.
Why Civilizations Fail – Lack Of Property Definitions and Institutions for calculation.
Forgone Opportunity Costs And The Portfolio Of Norms
Extending The Concept Of Property
Complexity, Ignorance, Calculation and Incentives
Incalculability of Pooling, Laundering and Bureaucracy
The incalculability of unique objects when pooled (the problem of financialization)

Ideological Context:

Political Ideology Restated In Propertarianism (DONE)

An ideology is the set of integrated doctrines consisting of myths, assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program, that can be used by a portion of the population, to justify and obtain political power within a given social, political and economic system.

A Brief Introductory Definition Of Each Political Ideology In Propertarian Language (DONE)

Defining the different Political Ideologies, from libertarian to socialist, using propertarian language.

The Differences Between The Two Libertarian Traditions (DONE)

A propertarian analysis of the conservative-libertarian spectrum that attempts to define terms.

The Differences Between The Three Propertarian Libertarian Solutions (UNDONE)

Behind Rothbard, Hoppe and Doolittle: Jewish Religion, German Nationalism, and English Imperialism. We all bring our backgrounds to the table.

The Relationship Between Libertarianism and Austrian Economics (DONE)

Why Austrianism? Explanatory power. Economics is a moral science. Not a game. We need to understand so that we can better act, not so that we can predict under the assumption that we can outwit the actions of others. In that context, contemporary economics is an immoral activity indistinguishable from gambling.

The Four Competing Branches Of Economists (INCOMPLETE)

And their different biases. If you understand these tools preferred by these four bodies of thought you will understand most of the conflict among economists and why different branches associate with different political parties.

Criticisms Of Libertarian Dogma

Correcting Rothbard On The Purpose Of Political Philosophy (DONE)

Ethics is an in-group problem. Politics is an out-group problem. It is contradictory that a libertarian who disavows coercion would advocate a uniform ethical system given that different groups define the allocation of property rights differently. Especially when the reason for that difference is mating and hereditary preferences.

How Do We Get To A State Of Liberty? (DONE)

We need systems of maintaining a social order that are useable by the human beings that we have, not the human beings we wish we had.

Contra Caplan and Boettke On The Calculation Debate (DONE)

There is no difference between incentives and prices. They are two halves of the same coin. Here is why.

The Failures Of The Crusoe Thought Experiment (UNDONE)

The problem is not a man on an island, wherein several property by definition is created by the natural violence of the ocean waves. It is when the island is fully populated and a man desires to create the institution of property by the application of his violence, for the betterment of both himself and others.

On The Virtue Of Violence

Adding the virtue of violence back into political theory. We exchange our violence for property rights. Without that understanding, we do not give ourselves the right to withdraw our payment of violence, and use it once again to obtain our property rights. The tree of liberty is the product of the application of violence, not the ignorance of it.

Contra Mises, Block, Herbner and Salerno On The Clearning Of Preferences (UNDONE)

In austrian dogma, preferences are a stack, constantly reordered. In propertarianism, preferences are a graph (a network) with constantly variable weights. Therefore in any action a network of preferences is cleared, some of which are partially cleared. Some of which may never be. While a market can clear, at least for a time, human preferences do not and cannot according to the same means. Why does that matter? It matters because the vast majority of prices are insuficiently different, and humans make purchase decisions, according to values other than price. It is those values other than price that affect the political system.

The West:

The Miracle Of The West (UNDONE)

The Six Secret Apps, Their Cause
The Manorial System And It’s Consequences
The Invention Of The Nuclear Family And Individualism
The Civil Participatory Society
The High Trust Society and its cause.

Irresolvable Conflicts (UNDONE)

The Faustian West:

1. The Conflict Between the Maternal and Paternal Sentiments – Turning History On Its Head: The Problem Of Constraining The Fertility Of The Lower Classes
2. The Problem of The Division Of Labor And Human Diversity
3. The Conflict Between Small is Good and the Fiat-Money and Credit-Enabled Military-State.
4. The Necessity And Inevitability Of Status Signals Due To The Mating Process
5. The Conflict between Redistribution And Cultural Diversity ( Means Small And Homogenous Are Necessary )
6. The Difficulty In Breaking the Familial, Consanguineous, and Tribal Social Orders
7. The Impossibility Of Large Community: The Impossibility Of Resurrecting American Civic Sentiments.

The Problem of Institutions In The Urban Post Agrarian World (UNDONE)

Every other civilization has died upon urbanizing.  What formal and informal institutions do we need in order to persist in the post agrarian world?

Concepts:

1. A Brief Overview Of The Three Types Of Coercion (UNDONE)

   Three forms of coercion.

2. A Brief Overview Of The Three Categories Of Institutions (DONE)

   Three categories of institutions.

3. A Brief Overview Of The Four Types of Legitimate Rule (DONE)

   The types of legitimate rule.

4. Correcting The Concept Of Social Class (UNDONE)

   We mistakenly understand class to be a function of income. It isn’t. It’s biological. This is why.

5. Citizenship Via Debt And Credit Score (UNDONE)

   From tribe, to religion, to law, to fiat money: conformity in the consumer economy is determined by debt participation, and reputation by credit score. The debtor-citizenship society.

6. On The Division Of Church, State and Judiciary (UNDONE)

   Our ancestors did not anticipate that the institution of the church would lose its credibility. But the very concept of the rule of law, depends upon limits to the government. Limits that were created by the church. Our concept of a government under democracy, where legitimacy is determined by the majority, violates the principle of rule of law.

7. On Our Irreconcilable Sentiments

   We choose according to our sentiments. Reason is the means by which we justify those sentiments.

8. The Concepts Of Planning And Calculating (UNDONE)

   The problem of planning and calculation and the laundering of causality from financial information by the state.

9. The Necessity Of Reducing Complexity to Simple Rules By Identifying First Principles (UNDONE)

   From a few simple rules can evolve miraculous-seeming complexity. The task of philosophy is to reduce complexity into simple rules with wide applicability in order to assist mankind in cooperating in their current social and economic context. We are in a new context. A post-agrarian context. Every other civilization that has urbanized has died. We need simple rules for this new context. Otherwise experimentation and innovation are impossible.

10. On Gender Differences

    We are materially different, and that differences is the source of contemporary political conflict.

11. On Race and Racism

    The market consists of individuals and individual actions. Racism in the interpersonal context is both illogical and unprofitable. The polity consists of groups, with race and culture being highly correlative with political preference. Perhaps almost exclusively so. In political discourse, Recognizing racial preferences is logical, and denying these differences is dishonest. There is a difference between interpersonal and within-market behavior, and political, and therefore extra-market behavior. Race matters in politics.

12. On The Calculability and Incalculability of Private, Shareholder, and Community Property

Articles and Diagrams

1. Social Classes and the Three Tools of Coercion(UNDONE)
2. Sentiments and Political Bias(UNDONE)
3. Generations: Cycles Exist and Affect Us(UNDONE)
4. Genders and Politics: It’s just theft. Period.(UNDONE)

DIAGRAMS

1. The Origins Of Political Philosophies By Race and Religion
2. The Bi-Polarity Of Class : Who Participates in the market economy, and who doesn’t
3. Political Philosophies: A Better Nolan Chart
4. Power And Weakness: Power and weakness affect perception
5. Rock Paper Scissors: Class And Coercive Technologies: Economic classes are hierarchical, but social classes are in parallel
6. Sentiments and Political Bias: chemistry and tribal instincts over choice.