tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7495187503456934987..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Meta-Economics or Econo-MetaphysicsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30444465373790886312015-07-07T08:56:36.313-07:002015-07-07T08:56:36.313-07:00I appreciate all the smart Raccoons out here, but ...I appreciate all the smart Raccoons out here, but so smart that you can't see through the clever mind. :)tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14284425849286341812015-07-06T23:28:39.370-07:002015-07-06T23:28:39.370-07:00""I wonder," asked Bob, "if on...""I wonder," asked Bob, "if one essential truth speaks to another?" One difference between them is that Sowell is describing the exact dimensions of the real fence that surrounds us, being that we are unavoidably clothed in finitude."<br /><br />I think they do and are there to see for anyone who might notice. Certainly, when the same first principles are the foundation of all essential truth's they will speak to each other and complement each other.<br />Truth recognizes truth. Perhaps not always as deep, at least at first glance, but the Otential is still there.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9236629508412648492015-07-06T17:39:30.272-07:002015-07-06T17:39:30.272-07:00Ummm 'stairs quo' should probably be '...Ummm 'stairs quo' should probably be 'status quo', but then stairs are also conducive to a fall....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18169369320235930192015-07-06T17:37:18.546-07:002015-07-06T17:37:18.546-07:00Ted, this may not be the very same point, but it&#...Ted, this may not be the very same point, but it's related. <br />1) Good decisions require interested attention, relevant and timely facts, and a grasp of the context involved. <br />2) The degree to which decisions are made without these, is the degree to which such decisions will be indistinguishable from stupid decisions - no matter how smart the decision maker might (seem)to be. <br />3) The further the distance is in time and place from the point on which a decision is being made, the less substance these three factors can contain. <br /><br />And a correllary point: The smarter the bureaucrat considers himself to be, the less respect he will have for these factors, and the more likely he will believe that force of law will enable his intrinsic intelligence to shine through and carry the day. <br /><br />Hence in regards to economies laboring under regulatory law the stairs quo is S.N.A.F.U.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24703685461975051592015-07-06T16:56:52.489-07:002015-07-06T16:56:52.489-07:00"But what if we take flight and reframe it fr..."But what if we take flight and reframe it from the perspective of metaphysics?"<br /><br />YESSS!!!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52637929742794839852015-07-06T16:48:06.275-07:002015-07-06T16:48:06.275-07:00Ted - thanks for the link. I hadn't read that ...Ted - thanks for the link. I hadn't read that one yet. As time goes on, I become ever more convinced that the long-term key to gaining a hold on the culture is, once again, to enter <i>in</i>to the culture, particularly to the arts, and create good music/stories/imagery/entertainment that also happens to be Christian (as opposed to Christian alternatives to pop culture, which always fall flat with non-Christians). juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70119917260320540462015-07-06T16:38:57.068-07:002015-07-06T16:38:57.068-07:00Sowell and Schuon do share the characteristic of b...<i>Sowell and Schuon do share the characteristic of being so extraordinarily essential, meaning that they always get right to the essence of things, with no extraneous equivocating, excess verbiage, or academic BS.</i><br /><br />Call it a sort of psychospiritual triangulation, where one provides the horizontal coordinates and the other, the vertical. Because both are speaking in essential truths, it is very unlikely that they <i>wouldn't</i> meet up and resonate at some particular sweet spot or another. Or many.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33119566669730769702015-07-06T14:28:48.042-07:002015-07-06T14:28:48.042-07:00ISIS is not evil, just in need of a happy meal and...<i>ISIS is not evil, just in need of a happy meal and a good summer read.</i><br /><br />The bad news for hungry ISISians is that swine are very efficient converters. <br /><br />I started on <i>Basic Economics</i> earlier in the year but got distracted. Sowell's explanation of the way the Soviet economy used to work was great. <br /><br />The Law is an Ass all right. The law has only incremental responses. I remember one of the characters in <i>Dune</i> arguing that a benevolent monarch is better than law. It's been close to forty years since I last read it. I could be wrong. I think it went something like one is more likely to get appropriately scaled justice from another human than from a code. Did you break the law or didn't you? Binary. <br /><br />What if I only broke it a little? What if there were mitigating circumstances? Sometimes that is more judiciously administered by a competent and intelligent judge. How common are they? As Ned Pepper told Mattie, "I don't need a good lawyer. I need a good judge."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71517190178323149602015-07-06T12:17:20.339-07:002015-07-06T12:17:20.339-07:00Ted: I will no doubt expand upon that as we proce...Ted: I will no doubt expand upon that as we proceed. But it seems to be another way of expressing the adage that the Law is an Ass.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84731064870869530672015-07-06T11:47:57.496-07:002015-07-06T11:47:57.496-07:00Good article on culture wars!
Culture wars are at...<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/06/welcome-to-culture-war-4-0-the-coming-overreach/" rel="nofollow">Good article on culture wars!</a><br /><br /><i>Culture wars are at their best when both sides have to rely on persuasion to win people’s hearts and minds. Culture wars are at their worst when they turn into an excuse for censorship and conformity. </i>tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42200307944886547302015-07-06T11:10:23.892-07:002015-07-06T11:10:23.892-07:00Rather, one of the points he makes in the book is ...<i>Rather, one of the points he makes in the book is that the state fails (among other reasons) because it imposes binary or categorical law in an incremental universe.</i><br /><br />Bob, I know this statement is some great insight, but da brain can't wrap itself around it. Can you help unpack it?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50071704511557220982015-07-06T11:03:32.942-07:002015-07-06T11:03:32.942-07:00I bet if someone made a map of that region and mar...I bet if someone made a map of that region and marked it solely with liquor stores, you'd easily find Pennsylvania's borders. Unless any of its neighbors have their own liquor licensing boards.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1930973878870952732015-07-06T10:54:44.961-07:002015-07-06T10:54:44.961-07:00Left wing economics in defiance of all reality.<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/05/pa-governor-vetoes-privatized-liquor-sales-says-it-would-raise-prices-and-reduce-selection/" rel="nofollow">Left wing economics</a> in defiance of all reality.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89814044349369633252015-07-06T10:40:36.712-07:002015-07-06T10:40:36.712-07:00To discover economic reality is to unveil the nake...To discover economic reality is to unveil the naked self-interest of the state.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36408392333303474362015-07-06T10:39:39.312-07:002015-07-06T10:39:39.312-07:00There is a reason why a state education doesn'...There is a reason why a state education doesn't go near economics. LoFo = High turnout for the left.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42701358618028886322015-07-06T10:30:32.514-07:002015-07-06T10:30:32.514-07:00In any event, one of the essential truths is that ...<i>In any event, one of the essential truths is that we may magically "manifest and refine form," or turn wishes to horses.</i><br /><br />Ah, a classic bit of Deepaking the Chopra right there.<br /><br /><i>In other words, What I Want does not magically transform into What I Have.</i><br /><br />In a sane world, the majority of people would learn this lesson early, and figure out that if what they want is worth having, it is best to figure out how to <i>earn</i> it. Also that some things are simply not possible, no matter how much we may want, in which case it is better to learn to live with what we have and make the best of it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com