“WHERE DO I START?” —“Curt, I’ve been working on your reading list, but there

“WHERE DO I START?”

—“Curt, I’ve been working on your reading list, but there doesn’t seem to be any specific order to the thing, it’s topic specific. Is that on purpose? Why not have some foundational readings, which then branch out towards other topics?”— Ankit Patel

The foundational readings are in the first section. But if you want me to give you the MOST IMPORTANT that i consider you need today it would be:

Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Francis Fukuyama: Trust

Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order.

Niall Ferguson:. Civilization: The West and the Rest.

Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.

Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty

I wrote this list as I went along, cataloguing those works that I’d read and not dismissed. But where i started with the study of western civilization i ended up in law.

But the truth is, (and I now this sounds like ego-bullshit) you’re actually not going to find the synthesis of so many fields that I provide anywhere else by anyone. It’s just almost impossible to cover every field I have at the depth I have and I don’t think it was possible before the 21st century to do so.

So at present my blog (the record of my writing) with all its repetition is actually more helpful than the reading list.

It’s one of the reasons i’m so hard to understand. I’m pulling from all these fields at once to show that speaking the truth is possible and that we CAN complete the scientific method and turn it into LAW : Natural Law.

I mean, in the end that’s all my work reduces to: we know the name of TRUTH now, and we can put it in law, where we could not put it into law before. And because of that we can now protect the market for information and the informational commons the same way that we protect the market for goods, the market for services, and the market for polities.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute