Van Harvey

@Van_Blogodidact @CourtenayTurner @thepalmerworm @corTheory This was my comment in a private chat recently regarding the account to which you refer...

@theRTcafe @CourtenayTurner @thepalmerworm @corTheory 💯

Shall we play a game? Should we? To what ends should we combine Game Theory with the Rule of Law? That's another strange game, in which the only winning move is not to play. But many 'defenders of liberty' are urging us all to play along...🧵

@CourtenayTurner @thepalmerworm I’m not an academic but learned what sophistry was here on X on my 1st, now banned x acct. Learned who @S_Coughlin_DC was then, watched “The Wizard’s Grimoire” and the whole series. Learned who Josef Pieper was, life has been less “sophisty” since. 😄 ia800603.us.archive.org/34/items/abuse…

*not consequences* -> not causes 😑

Don't 'Should' all over yourself. The consequences of the Rule of Law whose purpose is to uphold and defend individual rights, was an explosion in productivity, wealth, and prosperity to an extent that no one had ever dreamed of. But those welcome consequence of upholding first principles, are effects, not consequences, or justifications for why you should uphold Natural Liberty.

courtenayturner.substack.com/p/the-technocr… This. Is. 🔥 @Van_Blogodidact just nailed it. Game Theory isn’t ‘neutral’ or ‘compatible’ with moral realism—it’s the metaphysical Trojan horse that lets technocrats redesign reality itself so their models don’t have to deal with pesky things like free will, teleology, or the imago Dei. They need to hollow out the foundation first. That’s not prudence—that’s constructivism dressed up as ‘Economic Thinking.’ And it all feeds straight into the Santa Fe Institute grift—the complexity theory hub (Epstein/Maxwell were very interested) that spawned Game B and ‘minimum viable metaphysics.’ See my piece on Jim Rutt’s technocratic philosophy paving the road to posthuman control. This is how they build the new financial system: tokenized everything creating a literal cybernetic organism for a gamified society. Blockchain as the nervous system, tokens as behavioral hormones, DAOs as the decision cortex—programmable nudges turning humans into nodes in their feedback-loop machine. (Full breakdown in my ‘Tokenization of Everything’ Substack + Microsoft 666 patent thread.) Shoutout for quoting the real Bezmenov warning vs. the faux-Yuri lure. Defenders of liberty: stop playing their game. The only winning move is to reject the board entirely and defend metaphysical realism, natural law, and human sovereignty. open.substack.com/pub/courtenayt… courtenayturner.substack.com/p/the-proof-of…

@CourtenayTurner @thepalmerworm @corTheory Gaming the Game Theory Games, and other shades of 'Economic Thinking' blogodidact.blogspot.com/2026/03/gaming…

The purpose of Game Theory, as is the case with 'Economic Thinking', is to model (meaning to substitute theory for reality) how best to escape from the 'restrictions' of respecting your individual rights, so as to manage society through ever more efficient calculations of every move that you 'should' be made to make. And that is not compatible with metaphysical & moral realism

Game Theory and 'Economic Thinking' are attempts to reverse that process of causality, as their projected results are their justifications for implementing their strategies, and their systems are reflexively used to transform them into its own causes.

@BuzzPatterson Yet.

You’re not France.

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@DSPetolicchio Was... Hillary... not available?

Nancy pelosi, obviously

@DSPetolicchio Miyamoto Musashi.

Tokugawa

NnnnooOooo f'ing waAayyyy!!!😱

@thepalmerworm I'm pretty sure that you'd have a very difficult time explaining to any of those of our Founders' generation, how a sound education could fail to transmit a solid understanding of the traditions of The West.

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@RealDeanCain Looks like evil pollen.

Bad policy = run away!!

@m_takewaka Start? No. Continue? Absolutely.

My American friends, I'm facing a major problem here. When I say I want to eat American BBQ, some Americans say, "come to Texas," others say, "come to South Carolina," and still others say, "come to Missouri." I'm confused. Are you guys going to start a BBQ civil war?