Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Argument, persuasion and advice, are far less powerful at changing people than l

    Argument, persuasion and advice, are far less powerful at changing people than loving them is.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-09 07:42:00 UTC

  • Q: Curt, Would You Consider Yourself A Continental Philosopher?

    QUESTION:  “Curt, Would you consider yourself a continental philosopher?”

    ANSWER:  

    [N]o. Propertarianism is an analytic argument based upon empirical evidence independent of and explicitly contrary to, if not hostile to, continental rationalism. 

    Continental philosophers reject natural science as the exclusive means of knowledge, whereas, I argue a sort of synthesis, where the methodology of science is merely what is necessary for us to speak the truth about what we sense, perceive, and reason – not any particular vehicle for obtaining knowledge.

    Then I demonstrate, fairly frequently, that rationalism without these tests of truth-telling, has proved to be a vehicle for lies, deceptions and frauds – Marx, Freud, Cantor, Russell, the Frankfurt School, Mises’ failure at producing praxeology, Rothbard’s immoral libertinism, and dozens more.

    So the struggle to tell the truth, rather than the assumption that there is a superior means of knowledge to merely struggling to tell the truth, is what separates Propertarianism, (which includes operationalism and testimonial truth) from Praxeology.  With Propertarianism we can achieve what Praxeology promised, but we do so not by depending upon rationalism which is an exceptionally good vehicle for error and deception, but by relying upon making observations of phenomenon, attempting to construct them operationally (praxeologically), and speaking truthfully about what we have done.

    I am in the camp of thinkers that suggests Kant was with Zoroaster and Abraham in constructing one of the worst sets of ideas in history – and the continent has absorbed it.  The evolution of complex lies: Zoroaster->Abraham->Kant->Marx->Postmoderns had only physical science, and the strong, as competitors to contain them. I have tried to make it nearly impossible to construct such rational deceptions and errors, and I think succeeded.

    Now, just to flip it around, the Analytic tradition in English speaking countries has spent a century of wasted effort attempting to construct a science of itself. And it was a complete failure. They were trying to use language to determine truth, but this isn’t possible – and some of them know it finally.

    Propertarianism and operationalism and testimonial truth take the opposite approach – we must demonstrate, describe, only what is extant – because that is the only information that can be known to exist – and as such not constitute justification, deception, imagination, projection. The purpose is to make sure we speak the truth – that we DO NO HARM.

    Why? Because it turns out that rationalism can be used as the most successful form of lying and human misery since the invention of scriptural monotheism. IN that sense, Continental rationalism is just christianity 3.0 – mysticism in secular obscurant language.

    Curt Doolittle,
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev Ukraine

  • Q: Curt, Would You Consider Yourself A Continental Philosopher?

    QUESTION:  “Curt, Would you consider yourself a continental philosopher?”

    ANSWER:  

    [N]o. Propertarianism is an analytic argument based upon empirical evidence independent of and explicitly contrary to, if not hostile to, continental rationalism. 

    Continental philosophers reject natural science as the exclusive means of knowledge, whereas, I argue a sort of synthesis, where the methodology of science is merely what is necessary for us to speak the truth about what we sense, perceive, and reason – not any particular vehicle for obtaining knowledge.

    Then I demonstrate, fairly frequently, that rationalism without these tests of truth-telling, has proved to be a vehicle for lies, deceptions and frauds – Marx, Freud, Cantor, Russell, the Frankfurt School, Mises’ failure at producing praxeology, Rothbard’s immoral libertinism, and dozens more.

    So the struggle to tell the truth, rather than the assumption that there is a superior means of knowledge to merely struggling to tell the truth, is what separates Propertarianism, (which includes operationalism and testimonial truth) from Praxeology.  With Propertarianism we can achieve what Praxeology promised, but we do so not by depending upon rationalism which is an exceptionally good vehicle for error and deception, but by relying upon making observations of phenomenon, attempting to construct them operationally (praxeologically), and speaking truthfully about what we have done.

    I am in the camp of thinkers that suggests Kant was with Zoroaster and Abraham in constructing one of the worst sets of ideas in history – and the continent has absorbed it.  The evolution of complex lies: Zoroaster->Abraham->Kant->Marx->Postmoderns had only physical science, and the strong, as competitors to contain them. I have tried to make it nearly impossible to construct such rational deceptions and errors, and I think succeeded.

    Now, just to flip it around, the Analytic tradition in English speaking countries has spent a century of wasted effort attempting to construct a science of itself. And it was a complete failure. They were trying to use language to determine truth, but this isn’t possible – and some of them know it finally.

    Propertarianism and operationalism and testimonial truth take the opposite approach – we must demonstrate, describe, only what is extant – because that is the only information that can be known to exist – and as such not constitute justification, deception, imagination, projection. The purpose is to make sure we speak the truth – that we DO NO HARM.

    Why? Because it turns out that rationalism can be used as the most successful form of lying and human misery since the invention of scriptural monotheism. IN that sense, Continental rationalism is just christianity 3.0 – mysticism in secular obscurant language.

    Curt Doolittle,
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev Ukraine

  • TRANSACTION COSTS: Why is imposing transaction costs on others not imposing any

    TRANSACTION COSTS:

    Why is imposing transaction costs on others not imposing any other cost upon them? Sure, of the various costs you can impose upon them: violence, theft, fraud, privatization, socialization conspiracy – like moral violations, they are indirect costs. But then that’s what we use the term morality to refer to: indirect costs. So then why is imposing indirect costs upon others different from any other immoral violation?

    Well it isn’t.

    Separatism imposes transaction costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-09 04:59:00 UTC

  • Consumer Capitalism? Or Is It Consumer Credit-Ism?


    [W]hy do we refer to our voluntary organization of production as Capitalism when that era ended at least half a century ago –  and call it Consumer Cedit-ism instead.

    Ukrainians are poor because they lack credit. Capitalism is a different social class problem altogether. And by historical standards we don’t really have any capitalists any longer – only people with enough trust to accumulate a lot if credit.  Our rich aren’t really rich enough to do much of anything other than try desperately to stay rich against all odds.

    In the 18th and 19th century, It was easy to amass a little capital and produce consumer goods.

    It was a lot harder to distribute consumer credit to all.  

    Consumer Credit-ism is how we operate our society – capitalism died with the end of the conversion of people from the farm.


  • Consumer Capitalism? Or Is It Consumer Credit-Ism?


    [W]hy do we refer to our voluntary organization of production as Capitalism when that era ended at least half a century ago –  and call it Consumer Cedit-ism instead.

    Ukrainians are poor because they lack credit. Capitalism is a different social class problem altogether. And by historical standards we don’t really have any capitalists any longer – only people with enough trust to accumulate a lot if credit.  Our rich aren’t really rich enough to do much of anything other than try desperately to stay rich against all odds.

    In the 18th and 19th century, It was easy to amass a little capital and produce consumer goods.

    It was a lot harder to distribute consumer credit to all.  

    Consumer Credit-ism is how we operate our society – capitalism died with the end of the conversion of people from the farm.


  • Methodological Ternary-ism: Physical Instrumentation, Logical Instrumentation, Social Instrumentation

    [T]ruth. This word can be translated as the “mind of God”. Because this word is used as if referring to the mind of God. But, this use is a deception in and of itself. There exists no mind to discover, and no truth to discover: it isn’t hidden. The universe lies bare for us all to see.

    So it’s not that anything is hidden from us to uncover. Instead, we lack the senses to see it, and we lack the mind to comprehend without some means of reducing it to analogy to experience that we can sense and perceive. So, the problem we face, is not one of knowing the Truth – the mind of God – as if we seek to know the mind of one another. The problem we face is in compensating for the frailty of our senses, perception, reason by the construction of instruments. We construct three forms of instruments. 1- Physical Instrumentation (the instruments) 2- Logical Instrumentation (the logics and methods) 3- Social Instrumentation (institutional) And of three, the third is most important, since it is the hardest to develop and control, because the incentives of individuals are contrary to the production of instrumental measurements. We – all of us – constitute the third form of instrument – the division of calculation across individuals. And our only means of producing accurate measures and calculations upon them is to require truthful testimony from one another. But your take away from this short bit of prose, is that westerners engaged in methodological ternary-ism*, not methodological dualism. And we didn’t even know that was our art. I think this problem is now one I can consider solved. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy Kiev Ukraine — *Note: I mean ‘consisting of three’ and nothing more. I wanted to use the extant term “trinitarianism”, but it’s too loaded for practical use.

  • Methodological Ternary-ism: Physical Instrumentation, Logical Instrumentation, Social Instrumentation

    [T]ruth. This word can be translated as the “mind of God”. Because this word is used as if referring to the mind of God. But, this use is a deception in and of itself. There exists no mind to discover, and no truth to discover: it isn’t hidden. The universe lies bare for us all to see.

    So it’s not that anything is hidden from us to uncover. Instead, we lack the senses to see it, and we lack the mind to comprehend without some means of reducing it to analogy to experience that we can sense and perceive. So, the problem we face, is not one of knowing the Truth – the mind of God – as if we seek to know the mind of one another. The problem we face is in compensating for the frailty of our senses, perception, reason by the construction of instruments. We construct three forms of instruments. 1- Physical Instrumentation (the instruments) 2- Logical Instrumentation (the logics and methods) 3- Social Instrumentation (institutional) And of three, the third is most important, since it is the hardest to develop and control, because the incentives of individuals are contrary to the production of instrumental measurements. We – all of us – constitute the third form of instrument – the division of calculation across individuals. And our only means of producing accurate measures and calculations upon them is to require truthful testimony from one another. But your take away from this short bit of prose, is that westerners engaged in methodological ternary-ism*, not methodological dualism. And we didn’t even know that was our art. I think this problem is now one I can consider solved. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy Kiev Ukraine — *Note: I mean ‘consisting of three’ and nothing more. I wanted to use the extant term “trinitarianism”, but it’s too loaded for practical use.

  • Q: “Curt, why are you trying to rile me up” (Female) A: “Well you know, it’s jus

    Q: “Curt, why are you trying to rile me up” (Female)

    A: “Well you know, it’s just a ruse to get you to think, right?” (Me)

    The point is that marriage is destructive to men as it is currently constructed and enforced by the state – resulting in suicide and poverty for older males at increasing rates.

    So the reason I say something inflammatory is to draw attention to this fact, and demonstrate that the contract is unequal, and as such should be eliminated. In other words, I think we must end common property for all property worth fighting over.

    And I operate under the assumption, demonstrated by evidence, that marriages are temporary exchanges of powers of attorney, but never of property. That children belong to their mothers and never to their fathers, unless the court deems mothers dangerous to the child (in which case it’s rare the father is any better.(

    So if we are no longer to be married for life then we are not longer able to rationally possess common property – and upon failure or bankruptcy of the partnership (not corporation) that we call “the family”, all partners depart with their proportional contributions.

    In practice this means that title to any item must be provided, and no unstated title may remain unprovided for.

    Now, I should note that I can see a post-familial society but I must work on that a bit before I’m confident that it isn’t comparatively uncompetitive. Because as far as I can tell, high time parenting isn’t replaceable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-08 15:36:00 UTC

  • “Oxytocin has also been implicated in the etiology of autism, with one report su

    —“Oxytocin has also been implicated in the etiology of autism, with one report suggesting autism is correlated with genomic deletion of the gene containing the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR). Studies involving Caucasian and Finnish samples and Chinese Han families provide support for the relationship of OXTR with autism.”—

    Progress. Slow but steady.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-08 14:09:00 UTC