Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • A POLITY CANNOT SURVIVE COMPETITION WITHOUT COMMONS Anarchic polities don’t exis

    A POLITY CANNOT SURVIVE COMPETITION WITHOUT COMMONS

    Anarchic polities don’t exist for two reasons: (a) they cannot obtain or defend territory, and (b) they cannot create sufficient commons to attract investment (people).

    How would an anarchic polity come to evolve and persist in competition with social democracy, state capitalist, or classical liberal governments?

    Anarcho-capitalism was a productive research program, but a condition of anarchy is uncompetitive and cannot survive competition from either Nomocratic (classical liberal middle class), social democratic(representative and working class), or state capitalist(command and peasant class) methods of government.

    I only work with what I can find a method to construct. Meaning, that an idea is meaningless unless I see an institutional means of constructing it. ergo: you can have rule of law, but not anarchism, because no polity without the ability to construct commons can survive competition.

    So I don’t really deal with ‘anarchism’ so much as that I rely upon nomocracy as the institutional system with which to prevent parasitism in the construction of commons.

    We can solve the problem of commons but we cannot create a polity without commons. In fact, that’s probably a logical contradiction, since a polity that can prevent occupation and conquest by any organized group must construct a commons to prevent it.

    So in that sense, an anarchic polity incapable of constructing commons is a logical as well as existential impossibility.

    So please give up on your fallacies. Either fight for liberty or acknowledge your servitude, but wishful thinking about anarchic polities is a modern variant on waiting for the resurrection and second coming.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 07:25:00 UTC

  • Listening to Americans. Pretentious magnanimity. Pretense of knowledge and wisdo

    Listening to Americans.

    Pretentious magnanimity.

    Pretense of knowledge and wisdom.

    Retail Sales behavior in all walks of life.

    So utopian. Subconsciously fearful of the game.

    But the only game they know how to play.

    We buy things to provide confirmation we don’t get from others.

    We buy things and look for service to pay for attention.

    The lonely people: Americans.

    First Gen people have it best if they bring family with them.

    Or they are enthralled by consumption.

    Or they are relieved by the ease of doing everything.

    Or they are so appreciative of the willingness and trust.

    And that’s the problem you see. All that other negative stuff is the product of the last.

    Different version of the french pretense at aristocracy.

    Same problem.

    Sometimes I’d rather be ignorant.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 06:48:00 UTC

  • APPARENTLY IT’S HARD TO SEPARATE RATIONALISM FROM SCIENCE. Rationalism provides

    APPARENTLY IT’S HARD TO SEPARATE RATIONALISM FROM SCIENCE.

    Rationalism provides a limited subset of tools with which we can conduct test(criticisms) and construct ideas (hypotheses) within the discipline of constructing Truthful Testimony (science).

    I understand that imagining and exploring ideas via rationalism is desirable because it requires less knowledge than full criticism sufficient for testimony.

    But rationalism (internal consistency) provides only a child( subset) of truth telling (science) not the parent(determinant) of it.

    GATHERING, STUDYING, RESEARCHING, “FILLING THE SHELVES OF THE MIND”

    Collecting general knowledge about a subject so that you have conceptual resources with which to experiment.

    OBSERVATION: Just what it says. You observe and remember (record) something with sufficient instrumentation that you can compare it to future observations.

    FACT: An observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow. In other words an observation that has survived all known criticism.

    FREE ASSOCIATION: Imagining through free association by any means possible from the most rigorous use of mathematics through daydreaming, using the conceptual resources available to you to experiment with.

    HYPOTHESIS : A tentative statement about the natural world leading to deductions that can be tested. Hypotheses can be used to build more complex inferences and explanations. In other words: informed guesses.

    THEORY: A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses. In other words, an hypothesis that has survived scrutiny.

    LAW : A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances. In other words a theory that has survived all known criticism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 06:19:00 UTC

  • I hate when i accidentally post a diary entry on someone else’s page ’cause all

    I hate when i accidentally post a diary entry on someone else’s page ’cause all pages look the same… sigh. (sorry)

    (Traveling two years ago, lifting luggage from the baggage area when tired, I pulled a muscle in the palm of my left hand and it was bad enough that I got some scarring from it. I can’t figure out which muscle exactly. And thats possibly because I hurt more than one. And, yes, I know that given I had such strong hands, that it’s from lack of physical exercise using my hands. The problem is that the therapist’s way of fixing his problem is to keep breaking up the scarring, and it’s freaking painful and debilitating during the long process of injury and healing. Got a plantar fascia injury on my both feet while running in the park back around 2001 and I learned that ‘good men’s shoes’ are not so good. Nike Free or Sandals are probably the best shoe you can buy: as little shoe as possible. The most spread, the most circulation, and the most exercise your foot can get the better. now there isn’t any equivalent for the hand except working with your hands or working at the gym. But I’ve noticed that gyms are virus and bacteria hostels and so I’m back to having my own equipment and that requires your own domicile. So I need a domicile. smile emoticon )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 05:47:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 05:27:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 05:10:00 UTC

  • I also have another video with Eli Harman I forgot about entirely that i”ll get

    I also have another video with Eli Harman I forgot about entirely that i”ll get to.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 05:00:00 UTC

  • I have another video with Eric Field but his side of the audio is … well, inau

    I have another video with Eric Field but his side of the audio is … well, inaudible. Not sure how we’re going to fix that one. I’m going to give it a shot and see if maybe he’ll just record the questions again and I’ll cut them in.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:59:00 UTC

  • HITS HARD ON OUR LACK OF ETHNOCENTRISM —“And another feature of Western people

    http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2016/01/another-eli-harman-guest-post.htmlELI HITS HARD ON OUR LACK OF ETHNOCENTRISM

    —“And another feature of Western peoples is low ethnocentrism, because normative outbreeding and the prohibition on inbreeding mixed up the tribes and clans, creating homogenous outbred populations that can universalize kinship trust. This also was a competitive advanatage. White people form the largest ingroups. But we have a tendency to simply assume everyone is ingroup, and treat them accordingly, because in the past, that generally would have been the case. So those features have been hacked, by hostile aliens, who have convinced many of us we can gain status, and signal enlightenment and sophistication, by incessantly attacking our own, for the benefit of outgroup parasites who are unwilling or unable to reciprocate the kinship trust, or kinship altruism, that we extend them.”—-Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:45:00 UTC

  • “Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into

    —“Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of share croppers living with the illusion that they are getting ahead with economic “freedom” just around the corner; as they fall deeper and deeper into debt with each planting and harvest no matter how bountiful.”— James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:39:00 UTC