Reading Hoppe's Economic Science and the Austrian Method. Need to get more acquainted with his stuff and his precise stance on economic methodology and epistemology. Especially if I'm out here having hot takes. Can't do my job as a contrarian if I can't do adequate hot takes!
Thank you! I might just do that...
I love the Dao. I love Jesus. I am curious about your understanding of him and his connection with or identity to consciousness. That was an interesting, very different sentence for me to read, but it sounds like it might be something I have beheld myself, ny understanding of the wisdom and natural processes of the Way, the free market, the good, the life.
I have such a great corn collection. I shouldn't brag but I'm stocked up but good.
It might also be that certain parts of their brain are acting rational from their limited scope. A lack of intellectual honesty is effectively a barrier to information flow. The mind is composed of pieces that operate in conjunction to perform logical and processual tasks. Operating on bad info can result in inefficient and seemingly illogical outcomes. Sometimes people just need to realize that what is really blocking them is their failure to think, not their failure to not drink.
I made an economics budget line and indifference curve diagram for my friend yesterday about why it is actually completely rational from a certain point of view (in her case, a short term thinking point of view) why she will not work on a learning project if her laptop is set aside instead of on her desk, even though she would be happier to have gotten it out and worked on it a while, yet she will start it if the laptop is already out. There is an initial cost that is great enough to not want to move and expend the energy, yet that cost reduces to very little once the laptop is out and the additional reward of doing the work becomes manifest. It would be an additional burden if there was a cost to even remembering that you have a project to work on and where the laptop is. People who drink alcohol frequently have similar costs that they are unwilling to bear or unaware that it is of prime importance or would be, had they taken a step back and considered from another point of view, often a longer time horizon.
You probably know all this, it's just interesting for me to talk about haha
Yeah I don't get people who drink often. I mean I can at times understand it, but it is completely irrational. Unfortunately many people suffer dysfunction of the mind lol
Ohhh you're talking the levels, I get it. Thanks! Yeah I tend to think, when I think deeply, somewhere in the very high levels. I'm able to integrate and understand this way and that way and that I'm just a person playing my part so I gotta make rational sense yet achieve goals by being able to see other points of view without falling into believing people on authority. Whatever that is, that's my default mode.
People just keep killing themselves with fiat food.
I too plan to age like fine wine
I wish the Mad Max wiki were more consistent and fleshed out. They have like oodles of dialogue in Mad Max 1 about the MFP being only in control of a certain territory and the financial relationship between Fifi and the guy who funds the MFP. The wiki just says the MFP was started by the Australian government and leaves it at that. But Australia the state clearly no longer exists at this point and is a combination of ungoverned anarcho-capitalist territories (where the MFP and other police agencies operate) and ragged anarcho-criminal territories.
Furiosa is such a badass movie, and an excellent study in human choice in a world of criminals.
I feel like that's what Hoppe is starting to do more, after hearing the preview manuscript of his new book on methodologies in economics. Calling positive analysis a tremendous waste of resources. Like, if it's funded by the government yeah sure it's a waste of resources. But look at how Friedman verified the Austrian theories by positive analysis and brought loads of people to libertarianism!!
That's quite profound. You are profoundly oblivious, haha! I was oblivious to the fact that I am too for a minute, until you mentioned it, though I operate as if I know how ignorant I am, usually, by not jumping to conclusions. We are often even oblivious to how well-structured our minds are, or how poorly structured, until we bring attention to the concept.
The Last Conservative (Milton Friedman)
https://mises.org/misesian/last-conservative
By David Gordon
> Milton Friedman’s commitment to statistical analysis led him vehemently to oppose the economics of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, whom he regarded as the purveyors of a priori, “unscientific” theorizing.
Is that true? Did he have a change of heart later, because he wound up proving them right on virtually everything with data analysis of their theories playing out in the real world.
What is postmodern about realizing that other perspectives might give insight to how to sharpen your own ideas or areas where there is a chance you are wrong? I thought postmodernism is all about rejection of any objective truth, which is not what I'm saying at all. Or am I mistaken, is it about acceptance of multiple ways of framing things rather than rejecting of objective truth?
Also, I think multiple people just all realized that stuff at the same time. And even if he got inspiration from another source without credit, that's not necessarily dishonest, so I also don't think it matters. Thanks for the question!
That's an interesting way to look at it. Yes I feel like he is averse to looking at multiple points of view. I feel that he should recognize that he is right but entertain other ideas in case they rhyme with some truth that he is not yet glimpsing, to further round out his rhetoric and takes on things and offer a compelling, rational perspective that can compete with other narratives about the world even in the uninitiated.
In some (not all) of his proofs, he takes the particular and magically makes it universal. He sometimes appeals to collectives as if they have a property right in their own right that is of the same urgency/importance as individual rights (national borders, legality of war). And he recently has been making the claim that positive analysis of markets is not only generally inefficient and a less sound basis for economic science, but that it is categorically a waste of all the resources put into it. What of the people who would be more convinced by that research?? And what if there was a flaw in the accepted deductions or definitions of the preeminent rationalist school of economic thought? (human error is rampant in the sciences, especially in our highly politicized, propagandized environment - what makes Austrian economics and his own work guaranteed to be infallible? perhaps some redundancy is, especially if voluntarily funded and unbiased, useful after all)
https://tidal.com/track/43360330?u
Jeff Riggenbach provides some bitchin' vocals in this track #tunestr #MurrayRothbard #taxationistheft #anarchocapitalism #antiimperialism #anarchism #statistsbedamned