THE WISE, THE WELL MEANING, AND THE FOOLS Wise people discuss ideas Well meaning

THE WISE, THE WELL MEANING, AND THE FOOLS

Wise people discuss ideas

Well meaning people discuss events.

Fools discuss people.

Wise people debate incentives

Well meaning people debate morals

Fools debate aspirations

Wise people solve in terms of operations.

Well meaning solve in terms of logic.

Fools solve in terms of experiences.

Wise people consider consequences over decades or centuries.

Well meaning people consider consequences over months or years.

Fools consider consequences over moments – if at all.

Wise people think in terms of distributions.

Well meaning people think in terms of groups.

Fools think in terms of ideal types.

Wise people argue economically.

Well meaning people argue with historically.

Fools argue with analogies.

Wise people contemplate the necessary.

Well meaning people contemplate the preferential.

Fools contemplate luxuries.

Wise people philosophize empirically.

Well meaning people philosophize rationally.

Fools philosophize idealistically.

Wise people judge in terms of scarcity.

Well meaning people judge in terms of utility.

Fools judge in terms of envy.

Wise people desire art

Well meaning people desire design.

Fools desire novelty.

Wise people solve competitively.

Well meaning people solve consensually.

Fools solve decisively.

Wise people trade.

Well meaning people persuade

Fools command.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine

July 2014