Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

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    Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 05:01:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM California. A very desirable geography. The be

    UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM

    California. A very desirable geography. The best other than France.

    In both cases the geography is a natural resource exploitable by the state.

    As I said to Ron Manners: natural resources make you a slave because States must defend them.

    Diasporic peoples avoid these high costs at the expense of permanent insecurity.

    The golden mean (happy median) is Liberty – prevention of the state while also holding land.

    Only landed people create monuments and art.

    Europe is a vast, open air museum.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:52:00 UTC

  • I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average h

    I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average historical investment a philosopher makes in an idea seems to be every waking hour for a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:27:00 UTC

  • Unfortunately, while fascism saved Europe from socialism and socialists, Keynes

    Unfortunately, while fascism saved Europe from socialism and socialists, Keynes invented the next best thing: mixed economy; wherein we still control private property but not the proceeds from its use.

    Evil genius at its best. It just takes longer. The frog doesn’t feel the pot boil.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:25:00 UTC

  • Made another leap. Something in the background emerged from ocd frustration. Coo

    Made another leap. Something in the background emerged from ocd frustration. Cool

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:17:00 UTC

  • (Profound) We have been so busy trying to take advantage of the physical world f

    (Profound)

    We have been so busy trying to take advantage of the physical world for 2500 years that we took the cooperative world for granted.

    Is it any wonder that it was hard to understand the physical world – truth – when out minds and language evolved from negotiation not fro truth?

    Is it any mystery then why rationalism and mysticism are such excellent vehicles for deceptive negotiations – positioning lie as truth, and various other forms of conflation?

    But what is it that we are negotiating? And what changed with the scale of our social orders?

    Propertarianism: we acquire and defend, negotiate to acquire and defend. And we use obscurity to hide thefts that otherwise violate the incentives for cooperation.

    Behind the obscurant language and layers of loading and framing are very simple rules.

    The logic of cooperation.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:14:00 UTC

  • If language evolved for us to negotiate with, then it’s no wonder that it is so

    If language evolved for us to negotiate with, then it’s no wonder that it is so unsuitable for an internal language to understand truth with.

    (Profound)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:03:00 UTC

  • Propertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like

    Propertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning.

    Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t.

    Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive strategies we demonstrate, and the different group evolutionary strategies we demonstrate, you can pretty much explain all human political activity.

    And this is different from the physical sciences in the sense that we don’t know the first principles of the universe, but we do know the first principles of man: acquire, defend, cooperate, divide labor, develop information systems for extending cooperation – and justify our reproductive strategies constantly for the purpose of negotiating our cooperation.

    Man is simple it turns out.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 02:54:00 UTC

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    http://www.interpretermag.com/the-menace-of-unreality-how-the-kremlin-weaponizes-information-culture-and-money/POSTMODERNISM

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 19:04:00 UTC

  • “Today’s Kremlin is engaged in a nihilistic bid to sow confusion among the “enem

    —-“Today’s Kremlin is engaged in a nihilistic bid to sow confusion among the “enemies of Russia,” based on the almost postmodern conviction that objective truth is irrelevant and the importance of facts has evaporated in favor of narratives. “—-

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 19:03:00 UTC