Author: Curt Doolittle

  • (from elsewhere) Being conquered by accounting, rule of law, guns germs and stee

    (from elsewhere)

    Being conquered by accounting, rule of law, guns germs and steel is something that must be learned from.

    I suppose you make the same statement about being conquered by the Indo-iranians, the Greeks, the mongols, and the muslims, right? In the past century, why did Indians import the thinking of the French and the Russians rather than the british and amerians?

    The question is, what did your people do wrong, such that they failed to invent such things and prevent conquest by so many others?

    Why have you failed for so much of history?

    You see, when you criticize the british, who certainly were parasitic, we see a long series of Indian failures to create sovereignty, for thousands of years.

    And when you criticize the British most, we think of Mao’s statement “If india had been a french colony, gandhi never would have been an old man.” The british could not abide by the immorality of their occupation, despite the profits. Who else has done that?

    What is troublesome is not that the British occupied the indian continent with so few men. But that the indian continent has always be conquered by others with superior technology using so few men.

    Why do Indians always fail?

    When you answer this question you will looking the mirror and question yourself, not that of others.

    All men are fools. Conquerors and Conquered alike.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-26 03:50:00 UTC

  • You can alter the operations of reason because we can inspect them and choose di

    You can alter the operations of reason because we can inspect them and choose differently. (System 2/Choice).

    You can only train the operations of intuition because we cannot inspect them. (System 1/Search).

    You probably cannot even develop an awareness of or modify the operations of your genetics. (System 0/Acquisition)

    I think this is the answer to a great many of questions of the mind.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-26 03:24:00 UTC

  • Why aren’t more philosophers entrepreneurs? There are many entrepreneurs and few

    Why aren’t more philosophers entrepreneurs? There are many entrepreneurs and few philosophers. Entrepreneurship and philosophy are time consuming activities. And honestly, contributing to philosophy is far harder than contributing to the economy via entrepreneurship. To combine entrepreneurship and philosphy requires selling books. Selling books for income requires writing books frequently. Philosophical problems are not solve with frequency, or in short time frames.

    Spinoza ground lenses and lived poorly and died young having the same asthma as I. I write software, live well and have outlived him despite the asthma. He spent his whole life writing a parsimonious two hundred pages.

    The university allows you to report your progress while teaching, to practice the art of lecture and distillation of ideas. And to capture the results of both in your books. And so the university provides the optimum environment for writing whatever you’re writing about.

    The question is wether writing in that environment leads you to conclusions and whether writing in the business environment leads you to different conclusions.

    It appears so.

    It also appears that it is far costlier and therefore less common to write philosophy while also working on entrepreneurship.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-26 03:18:00 UTC

  • Let them tear apart the status quo. That’s what they’re doing. It’s a good thing

    Let them tear apart the status quo. That’s what they’re doing. It’s a good thing.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 18:06:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713426775406211074

    Reply addressees: @FriedrichHayek

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713404532282122240


    IN REPLY TO:

    @FriedrichHayek

    A significant number of the people supporting Trump are as disgusting and ignorant as Trump — many of them worst.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713404532282122240

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 17:36:00 UTC

  • The interest on the stolen territory makes this pittance look trivial. ๐Ÿ˜‰ When w

    The interest on the stolen territory makes this pittance look trivial. ๐Ÿ˜‰ When will Russia compensate us for theft and war?


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 16:17:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713399459284185088

    Reply addressees: @RT_com

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713304183374487552


    IN REPLY TO:

    @RT_com

    Russia demands $683,333 daily interest on #Ukraineโ€™s $3bn overdue debt https://t.co/4iDLlLG2bg https://t.co/3UeVnIQAzs

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713304183374487552

  • You’re not a snowflake. Just a flake

    You’re not a snowflake. Just a flake.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 14:41:00 UTC

  • AND EDUCATION ARE THE TWO GREATEST PREDICTORS OF ESCAPING POVERTY

    http://www.aei.org/publication/for-the-middle-aged-married-poverty-is-rare/MARRIAGE AND EDUCATION ARE THE TWO GREATEST PREDICTORS OF ESCAPING POVERTY


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 14:37:00 UTC

  • The Academy: American Institutions of Encripplement

    The Academy: American Institutions of Encripplement


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 13:58:00 UTC

  • with Ivan Verstyuk from Novoya Vremya (“New Times”) Use Google Translate and it

    http://nv.ua/publications/filosof-biznesmen-iz-ssha-poselivshijsja-vo-lvove-rasskazyvaet-kak-za-paru-millionov-v-god-vyrastit-v-ukraine-amerikanskij-srednij-klass-105652.htmlInterview with Ivan Verstyuk from Novoya Vremya (“New Times”)

    Use Google Translate and it will pretty much come across if you follow me at all.

    I LOVE UKRAINE!!! “Ya Lyoob-lyoo Ukra-eenoo!!!”


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 12:43:00 UTC