Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • WE SHALL HAVE A GOVERNMENT – BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Man organizes. He forms or

    WE SHALL HAVE A GOVERNMENT – BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

    Man organizes. He forms organizations. Just as surely as he acts.

    One cannot, in pursuit of individualism, prohibit organization, nor the allocation of control of individual property rights to the organization, so that capital can be concentrated and applied for the group’s advantage. Since people will seek to form commons, and seek to form organizations to produce commons, and since property rights and rule of law must exist as a commons, and since humans seek monopoly advantage for their preferred organization, then the question is how to construct institutions that allow for the formation of organizations for the production and EXCHANGE OF commons, the production and exchange of which are unachievable without such institutions, because, while the market is an institutions just as property rights are an institution, markets produce consumables, not commons which we must prohibit from consumption. This is the difference in production between productive markets (the market) and commons markets (what we call ‘government’). As such the task is to produce commons markets (governments) which allow for the production and trade of commons which are non-consumable, yet prohibit monopoly control of that means of production. The consumer market allows us to produce consumable goods by the voluntary organization of production. A government market allows us to produce commons by the voluntary production of commons. FOr this system to function all that need be guaranteed is individual property rights. However, any commons created within the market for the production of commons must be prevented from privatization – just the opposite of that which is produced in the market for consumption. And no body of people unable to produce commons could survive in competition with those that do. So government is not a matter of preference. We must have government and we must produce commons, even if the only commons we produce is the rule of law and property rights. The principle challenge is converting from monopoly government and monopoly bureaucracy to monopoly property rights, and a government that facilitates the voluntary organization of production of commons just as we voluntarily organize to produce goods and services today.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-09 17:33:00 UTC

  • Sean Gabb: THOUGHTS ON INDEPENDENCE —“…dissolution would, of necessity, end

    Sean Gabb: THOUGHTS ON INDEPENDENCE

    —“…dissolution would, of necessity, end the pernicious delusion of Britain as a great power in the world. We lost our hegemonic position in the 1940s. But our rulers have never lost their belief that, if we only suck up hard enough to the Americans, and keep up our membership dues to the right international bodies, we can somehow “punch above our weight.” A rational policy after 1945 would have focussed all effort on the defence of our home islands and the maintenance of our commercial and industrial position. No longer what we became after 1760, we needed to relearn how we had conducted ourselves before then [before the age of empire]. Instead, our ruling class chose three generations of self-deception. …

    Ending the United Kingdom will end this [self deception]. England by itself will remain both rich and powerful. But there will be no more playing the ghost of the British Empire sitting enthroned on the grave thereof. It will be an end welcome to us and to those elsewhere in the world we remain able to hurt without being able to rule.”—

    Well said. I have the same objective for the States. If Scotland can secede, then so can Texas or any other justifiably secede, and we can end anglo imperialism and the universalism that both anglos and jews advocate, returning liberty to national rather than corporate and commercial purposes.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-09 15:22:00 UTC

  • Max, Exceptionally good articles “The End Of Politics (1 and 2)”. Particularly t

    Max,

    Exceptionally good articles “The End Of Politics (1 and 2)”. Particularly the lists, and the insights into the potential changes in culture that increase the chance of general appreciation of liberty. Its optimistic, and I hope you are right. On the other hand, we westerners are unique in the world in our total discount of the family, and we are rapidly outbred by those groups that either do not discount the family, or who have effectively weaponized the family and/or tribe as a competitive evolutionary strategy. And as Emmanuel Todd has argued, our lack of familialism is a competitive weakness in constructing society, even if has been a legal, commercial and political advantage in the past, when we have acted tribally (as christendom). So my expectation, despite my preferences, is that we will either see the re-nationalization of liberalism, or a constant reduction in trust that takes us ever more toward familialism and ever farther from anarchism. As such, I question instead, what institutions foster liberty under familial and tribal conditions. If liberty is at all possible, and competitively desirable under familialism and tribalism.

    Thanks again for writing something worthy of reading in the liberty movement.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-09 10:42:00 UTC

  • Should be of interest, Curt. Nice chart. 😉

    Should be of interest, Curt. Nice chart. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 13:28:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Oversing is a full fledged application running in a browser, not

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Oversing is a full fledged application running in a browser, not a set of web pages that are repeatedly disposed of. And so we burden the browser pretty heavily. The past couple of days the guys are working on JS memory leaks that are more apparent when you manipulate the DOM rather than just terminate and load a new one.

    My heroes. I would hang myself. lol

    Its really cool to look at the Agile Board view of your workspace and see cards fly around as people work on them, and then we update automatically by websockets. It’s really terrific.

    Seems like so much work left to do but really there is so much there now. It’s crazy. Enormous. But I’ve lost that concern that it will be hard to use or learn. It really isn’t. Sure, the workspace is a bit of a new paradigm, but not that much that it’s a stretch. I mean, we modeled it on working with an Excel spreadsheet for goodness sake. And we’ve added ‘modes’ of increasing complexity so that beginning users can just start out and see it as a sort of glorified email system. While at the other end a COO can really run the entire company from it.

    Anyway. Just want to thank the guys for their hard work.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 09:51:00 UTC

  • Marco, I’ve asked you this before, but I don’t know if we got anywhere. How do y

    Marco,

    I’ve asked you this before, but I don’t know if we got anywhere. How do you position classical liberals (europeans and american constitutionalist varieties) and the Dark Enlightenment / Return to Aristocracy tribes? I’m not really sure I understand the difference between paleoconservatism and these ideologies, and I’d like to be able to use the same terminology and approach that you do.

    I’ve tried to do it by combining your “Taboo” table by adding “Advocacy” section to it, so we have both positives and negatives. That seemed to help quite a bit.

    Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 09:42:00 UTC

  • The Cathedral places a burden on academics that intellectuals outside of the Cat

    The Cathedral places a burden on academics that intellectuals outside of the Cathedral do not bear = conformity.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 09:33:00 UTC

  • PERSONAL ADVICE (worth repeating) It is not helpful to think of others as fools,

    PERSONAL ADVICE

    (worth repeating)

    It is not helpful to think of others as fools, idiots or malcontents, which presumes human equality of ability, but to think of others as different breeds of human with better and lesser abilities, each of whom does the best it can competing against the mean of human abilities that we call ‘society’.

    Instead of wishing for lower transaction costs, which one cannot possibly achieve, it is better to recognize one’s superiority, and choose between helping the demonstrably inferior, ignoring them, or admonishing them a little bit in order to ‘correct’ their behavior – a necessary and beneficial contribution to the commons.

    The illusion of equality under the enlightenment fallacy has produced negative conceptual norms even in the best of us. So those of us with Aristocratic abilities and sentiments should not fall victim to the fallacy ourselves.

    My approach is to assume everyone is making constant errors, and to try to help them. It’s an aristocratic duty, and taking priestly, professorial, or philosophical, or whatever approach you wish to call ‘teaching’ or ‘training’ has improved my life dramatically. In my twenties I decided to help everyone I cam in contact with in some small way – usually by helping them understand the world as it is, rather than as they wish it to be.

    Helping others removes frustration, and brings you and others joy. You will always be happier helping than being frustrated. And yes, helping is a high cost. On the other hand the more helping you do the better you get at it, and it is wonderfully rewarding to experience how you are treated by others when they expect that you will try to help rather than confront them.

    We have a lot of work to do. The enlightenment fallacy, the errors of the socialists and the lies of the postmodernists can be countered with recent scientific evidence, and by learning a few arguments from Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Propertarianism, and Testimonial Truth and Operationalism.

    They created a fallacy by talking. The cure is truth. And truth is helpful.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 07:36:00 UTC

  • WE PURCHASED NEW DOMAINS 🙂 After some work, we have just purchased domains ARIS

    WE PURCHASED NEW DOMAINS 🙂

    After some work, we have just purchased domains ARISTOCRATIA.COM, ARISTOCRATIA.NET. This allows us to separate my work from everyone else’s contributions. ( A site for “Us” site rather than just me.)

    Obviously I want to address the categories:

    1) Aristocratic Egalitarianism. (source of property rights)

    2) Propertarianism (trust, prohibition on free riding, voluntary exchange, common law.)

    3) Testimonial Truth and Operationalism. (epistemology)

    4) Contractual Government. (which I haven’t come out of the closet with yet)

    5) Revolution and Reformation (nullification, secession, insurrection, civil war)

    6) Counter-Enlightenment (inequality, diversity, compatibility)

    7) Counter-Critique (Speaking the Truth rather than lying and obscurantism).

    8) Debate (rhetoric)

    I think we should:

    a) Use a wall street journal format of some sort. (abstracts linking to articles). And keep a lot of active articles on the front page.

    b) Not be afraid to link to other web sites and ideologies if they post good content.

    c) Allow users to ‘rate’ articles both with likes/dislikes (along with comment), and most importantly to select which form of argument is being made (see my forms of argument). This last bit educates authors and readers about the quality of their arguments. Although I suspect this will require editorial effort. Lastly, to allow users and authors to rate whether an article (or post) is criticism or advocacy.

    d) Promote active posters and their names and faces.

    e) Set our goal of 100 people who can argue the four topics, and use the site to recruit and train those people.

    f) Try to advocate solutions rather than just levy criticisms.

    ALSO – NEWS SITE

    We are also working on a NEWS SITE for Europe. 🙂 But I’m not driving that one. And I haven’t seen the editorial strategy or talking points, but we’re going to get that moving too.

    Slowly. One thing at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 07:28:00 UTC

  • Spanish speakers. Can you share this? Its an important book for the liberty mind

    Spanish speakers.

    Can you share this? Its an important book for the liberty minded.

    Thanks.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-07 17:46:00 UTC