Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS” “We have the right to…” Translated: “We do not violate

    TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS”

    “We have the right to…”

    Translated:

    “We do not violate the principle of cooperation by doing ….”

    It’s almost always false. Cooperation isn’t a question of equality, but one of incentives. If you engage in parasitism, I don’t have the incentive to cooperate with you.

    The first question of politics is: Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? So when you say “We have the right to…”, you’re saying this won’t make you prefer to kill me and take my stuff.

    And that means that whenever the statement ‘if I have the right to…” occurs, the question is only whether the speaker is engaging in parasitism or not. If he is engaging in parasitism then he doesn’t have a right whatsoever.

    So claiming one has a right is a contrary indicator – almost always. You do not possess a right, you possess a prohibition. You are prohibited from parasitism. The other fellow has demanded a right of non-parasitism in order to rationally cooperate with you.

    So when you speak honestly, you find that the response is quite different.

    All talk of ‘rights’ is a means of deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 01:59:00 UTC

  • American police don’t enforce the law. They oppress dominance displays

    American police don’t enforce the law. They oppress dominance displays.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 01:51:00 UTC

  • WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? Philosophy is in large part little more than public prayer f

    WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

    Philosophy is in large part little more than public prayer for the over-educated, under-informed, and insufficiently intelligent; a profitable street-swindle for academics; and a convenient vehicle of deceit for public intellectuals. Thankfully politicians are now too ignorant and illiterate to use it, and voters too dim to grasp it.

    Yes you can quote me on that.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 13:10:00 UTC

  • “There has been a total failure of the smart and rich people running our corpora

    —“There has been a total failure of the smart and rich people running our corporations to have any sense of trying to help proles by improving their future-time-orientation. Instead, they just try to rip them off and brainwash them into mindless consumerism. They completely lack what the French called noblesse oblige.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 13:03:00 UTC

  • LET FREEDOM REIGN Prohibit parasitism. Property rights for property en toto. Com

    LET FREEDOM REIGN

    Prohibit parasitism.

    Property rights for property en toto.

    Common organic law.

    Universal standing.

    Universal adherence.

    Contracts for commons

    Hereditary Monarch with Veto.

    Citizenship as shareholder.

    Dividends.

    Progressive fees.

    Voluntary allocation to commons.

    Truthful speech and deed.

    Warranty of truthful speech and deed.

    Mandatory insurance

    Involuntary saving.

    Involuntary service.

    No politicians.

    Lots of public intellectuals.

    Every man a sheriff.

    And catching liars is a profitable avocation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 12:39:00 UTC

  • Bin Laden’s Book List? He’s a hearts-and-minds guy

    Bin Laden’s Book List? He’s a hearts-and-minds guy.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 11:50:00 UTC

  • Why do we conduct economic analysis in monetary terms rather than work hours? Yo

    Why do we conduct economic analysis in monetary terms rather than work hours? You can judge the productivity of those hours – sure. But consumption must be measured in hours, production in hours. Everything else is basically some sort of deception of convenience?

    Talk about ‘mathiness’? OMG. The only measure of consumption was caloric. Now its both caloric and informational. Any ‘family’ metric is another deceit.

    Pseudoscience is too prevalent in macro.

    IT might sound like I am a neophyte making an ancient argument, but that’s not the case. The problem is that political issues are driven by time and stress. And that consumption in information eras cannot be easily measured in physical terms.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 07:51:00 UTC

  • laden reading list

    http://www.cbsnews.com/media/bin-laden-books-notable-works-author-reactions/Bin laden reading list

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 07:32:00 UTC

  • Marx Freud Cantor Boaz Lewontin Frankfurt Krugman, Stiglitz, De Long Mises, Roth

    Marx

    Freud

    Cantor

    Boaz

    Lewontin

    Frankfurt

    Krugman, Stiglitz, De Long

    Mises, Rothbard, Caplan

    Neocons:

    Fritz Lens 1930 Important Geneticist Evolution in the North by hard environment. Group competition wasn’t important. Selected for problem solving, not for aggression. Individualism is part of western uniqueness. (non aggression). High investment in children. Mating on Affection and personal attraction. Personal compatibility. Physical attractiveness. (not cousin marriage). Paternal Involvement. Uniquely tended toward monogamy. Sexual selection for blonde hair and blue eyes. (finer skin) more hair and eye color diversity: personal attraction. Less selected for fearing outsiders. Women have higher status in than in higher cultures.

    Western hunter gatherers (ice age >10K years ago). 7K yerars ago, farmers. more influential in the south. white but more dark skinned. indo europeans 4500 years ago as a military elite. Hunter gatherers are more egalitarian and select leadership. Northern europeans are pretty much that kind.

    Westerners travel the world to take care of others. But no one else does that. This empathy isn’t based upon kinship.

    His argument is genetic.

    (Loneliness)

    Individualism. associated with creativity. (hofstad’s index of patents).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 14:19:00 UTC

  • different vision of european settlement

    http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2015/05/large-scale-recent-expansion-of.html?m=1A different vision of european settlement

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 08:14:00 UTC