Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • DUELS (worth repeating) You aren’t honor bound to accept one. You’re threatened

    DUELS

    (worth repeating)

    You aren’t honor bound to accept one. You’re threatened that if you impugn the honor of another you will apologize, or fight to prove the truth of your statement, or die by murder for doing neither.

    While positioned as trial by combat, the principle is ancient: “put up or shut up.”

    My position on dueling is that the court is one weapon that is available to us in such matters, and that reputation is in fact, a critical asset in one’s inventory.

    The reason dueling was outlawed was that men hired substitutes (mercenaries) and it became a means of murder rather than suppression of gossip or test of truth telling.

    The reason it was originally promoted, was the equivalent of ‘take it outside’. It allowed men to ‘cool off’ before getting in a fight, and hopefully allow cooler heads to prevail. Also it was quite heavily regulated, with the intention to harm not so much to kill.

    Challenging a man to a duel ends a conversation very quickly since it can escalate in to a very risky life or death proposition. Also, today’s guns are very dangerous by comparison. If we can fight, use sticks and bats, use knives, use swords, use guns, or use courts, then I suspect there would be a lot more truth telling, and a lot less gossip, and a lot more civility in this world.

    And those who ‘cheat’ us, would be put to death in vast numbers.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:53:00 UTC

  • YOURSELF: LEARN SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT ART Stephen Hicks on 20th Century

    http://www.stephenhicks.org/2015/11/24/the-state-of-the-art-world-late-2015-edition/ARM YOURSELF: LEARN SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT ART

    Stephen Hicks on 20th Century Art

    HICKS: WHY ART BECAME UGLY

    http://atlassociety.org/students/students-blog/3671-why-art-became-ugly

    HICKS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTEST OF THE CENTURY

    http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/12/18/lifestyle/most-important-artist-of-the-century/#1

    HICKS: TAKING MODERN ARTISTS AT THEIR WORD

    http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/09/11/lifestyle/taking-modern-artists-word/

    HICKS: THE STATE OF THE ART WORLD 2015

    http://www.stephenhicks.org/2015/11/24/the-state-of-the-art-world-late-2015-edition/

    All,

    Reading these pieces again tonight (sitting in my usual hotel room, listening to the traffic and occasional soviet-era street car roll by in old Kiev, four blocks from the Dniepr) I think I can and should augment Stephen’s work with a propertarian analysis (property-en-toto, acquisitions, incentives). So maybe that’s how I’ll handle my chapter on aesthetics… hmm…

    ( h/t Stephen Hicks )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:31:00 UTC

  • Voluntary sterilization of refugees? Interesting. Haven’t heard a suggestion lik

    Voluntary sterilization of refugees? Interesting. Haven’t heard a suggestion like that in a century. #NRx

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:14:00 UTC

  • THE SUM OF OUR DIFFERENCES MEME 1) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are

    THE SUM OF OUR DIFFERENCES MEME

    1) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts

    2) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts.

    This is one of the opposition’s techniques: offering discounts in order to escape payments for the commons. In other words, they preach cheating.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:07:00 UTC

  • Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments

    Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts. #mattyglesias

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:02:00 UTC

  • Sum of our differences: “There is a difference between promise of return on a co

    Sum of our differences: “There is a difference between promise of return on a cost, and a promise of a discount avoiding one.” #mattyglesias

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:01:00 UTC

  • NO AUTHORITIES, NO MONOPOLIES. ONLY MARKETS An old friend from Ottawa Canada who

    NO AUTHORITIES, NO MONOPOLIES. ONLY MARKETS

    An old friend from Ottawa Canada who I both respect and like very much, inspired me to explain my research program in contextual terms. I think it’s worth repeating.

    —” I should say that I still view your politics, views on society, and race to be profound anathema to everything I believe in – but I miss the challenges you presented too.”—

    You see, I sympathize with moral men, seeking to do good, from any point of the political compass, any tribe, any race. I just prefer that we seek to find voluntary means of voluntary exchange to construct commons, rather than to find authoritarian monopolies with which to construct commons. Any ideology under majoritarian rule is by definition an authoritarian position that advances one’s interests against those of others. I don’t seek my authority, any one else’s, nor to tolerate the authority of others.

    Hence my research program goals:

    —

    I do my job. It’s only by the truth that we create a market for compromise between reproductive strategies, that is free of fraud.

    To a very large degree, that is what I see myself engaged in the process of doing: creating a formal logic of social science independent of experiential valuation – a valuation that is nothing more than a measure of agreement or disagreement with reproductive strategy over which we have little or no control, and even less influence.

    I know it is easy to look at my contrarianism as an appeal for an opposite position – but I am the opposite of a totalitarian – in fact, I seek to construct a market for the exchange of commons that forces compromises and exchanges rather than the current continuous reinforcement of extremes that is caused by majoritarian monopoly representative democracy. I seek to restore a market of exchanges between the classes that existed prior to classical liberalism.

    Moreover, the hard right has picked up on my work and is running with it. And the truth is, they are fine with the compromise. What they are not fine with is a perpetuation of postmodern propaganda and lying, cultural conquest, genocide of their people, and a second conversion of rome to a second pseudoscientific rather than mystical christianity.

    So my “no more lies” is a campaign for ending a century and a half of lying, propaganda, and pseudoscience. And restoring rule of law, a market for commons, and the norm of truth telling.

    Which, is somewhat difficult of a position to oppose without justifying nearly any action no matter how extreme of one’s opposition.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 15:28:00 UTC

  • It’s Logical that some groups of people, lacking aesthetic ability, would practi

    It’s Logical that some groups of people, lacking aesthetic ability, would practice gossip as their art.

    Once you realize that ‘the others’ have weaponized the feminine reproductive and intellectual strategy, you understand them and women much more clearly.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 15:09:00 UTC

  • They have also no Noblessé Obligé. They have hierarchy but their concept of nobi

    They have also no Noblessé Obligé. They have hierarchy but their concept of nobility is power not paternalism. Signals. It’s +/-.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 12:01:56 UTC

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