Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Curt Doolittle posted in Libertarian

    Curt Doolittle posted in Libertarian.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:27:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“Tucker may not have a rational or empirical answer, nor be

    (worth repeating)

    —“Tucker may not have a rational or empirical answer, nor be able conduct a debate with people like me, but he is taking liberty in the right direction – away from those who have demonstrably failed.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:26:00 UTC

  • ON TUCKER’S HUMANITARIANISM Tucker may lack a rational argument with which to ar

    ON TUCKER’S HUMANITARIANISM

    Tucker may lack a rational argument with which to articulate his position, and may argue with sentiments rather than rationalism, but his sentiments are correct expressions of his intuitions, and as usual, his intuitions are correct: there is something rotten in Rothbard’s Ghetto and it has harmed the cause of liberty long enough.

    Sentimental arguments may be less articulate than rational and empirical arguments; but then again, the number of people who can grasp and be persuaded by sentimental arguments vastly outweighs those who can manage rational and empirical arguments. If I wanted to devote more time to criticism than creativity I could spend the full circuit of my day trying to correct the arguments of libertarians employing moralism masquerading as rationalism, and never see an end to it.

    We have few intellectuals left, and the few we do are third tier, because rothbard (and mises) was wrong. Tucker may not have a rational or empirical answer, nor be able conduct a debate with people like me, but he is taking liberty in the right direction – away from those who have demonstrably failed.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 06:22:00 UTC

  • ABBREVIATED GLOSSARY LIST (list of some key terms) ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM A

    ABBREVIATED GLOSSARY LIST

    (list of some key terms)

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM

    Aristocracy. Aristocratic Egalitarianism (open entry). Enfranchisement(voluntary). Reciprocal Insurance. Truth-Telling. Homogeneity. Militia and Regiment.

    -negatives-

    Liberty vs License or Permission.

    KEY TERMS FOR PROPERTARIAN ETHICS AND POLITICS

    Trust. High Trust. Transaction Costs. Common Law. Moral spectrum: Criminal,Ethical,Moral,Conspiratorial. Property Mirrors Morality. Competing Insurance Organizations. Calculability, Rationally Calculable. Formal (procedural) and Informal(normative) Institutions. Fully Informed, Warrantied, Voluntary Exchange Free Of Externality.

    -negatives-

    Pooling and Laundering (numbers). Obfuscation, Obscurantism, Verbalism (words). Overloading, Framing and Loading (content). Golden Rule(authoritarian) vs Silver Rule(egalitarian). Pathological Altruism. Monopoly Insurer vs Polycentric Insurance.

    -tangents-

    The Pack Response. Power vs Weakness.

    KEY TERMS FOR TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY

    Realism. Scientific Realism. Performative Truth. Testimonial Truth vs Platonic Truth. Testimony. Witness. Empiricism for observation. Operationalism for existence. Instrumentalism for reducing imperceptible and incomparable to perceptible and comparable.

    Calculable vs Computable, Axiomatic and Internally consistent vs Descriptive and externally correspondent. Existence Proof. “Logics” as instruments. Information vs Imagination. Decidability.

    TERMS OF CRITICISM OF ROTHBARDIAN AND MISESIAN IDEAS

    Libertinism not libertarianism. NAP under IVP. Ghetto Ethics, Crusoe Ethics. Fallacy of aggression. Low trust. High Transaction Costs. Insufficient For Formation Of A Voluntary Polity. Jews and Gypsies.

    (Must go to work now….)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:57:00 UTC

  • DONT BLAME THEM. **THE PROBLEM IS US** You know, the problem isn’t catholics, is

    DONT BLAME THEM. **THE PROBLEM IS US**

    You know, the problem isn’t catholics, islam, or judasim, or their least effective low trust peer: gypsies. Its **us***. If your society is defenseless militarily it is your fault for not devoting sufficient effort and resources to defenses. If your society is colonizable, then you have not worked hard enough to prevent colonization. If your society is convertible, then you have not devoted enough resources to resist conversion. If your society is deceivable you are not devoting enough resources to preventing deception. If you lack liberty, you are not devoting enough resources to the violence required to prevent tyranny.

    We have been colonized, converted, and deceived with pseudoscience.

    Guns, Germs, Steel ….. requires Institutions and Philosophy.

    We worked too hard at production and not hard enough at defense.

    COOPERATION DOES NOT MEAN SACRIFICE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:53:00 UTC

  • In the War of Ideas, some of us are intellectual arms dealers. Although, honestl

    In the War of Ideas, some of us are intellectual arms dealers. Although, honestly, selling the physical assets is a lot more profitable. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:00:00 UTC

  • PATHOLOGICAL SELF DESTRUCTIVE ALTRUISM VS GUILT I had lunch with jewish conserva

    PATHOLOGICAL SELF DESTRUCTIVE ALTRUISM VS GUILT

    I had lunch with jewish conservative Paul Gottfried sometime in the 00’s. I don’t remember when. In a little restaurant in Auburn Alabama. I didn’t know much about him at the time. And he told me about his book and theory of white guilt. Which, of course, I disagreed with, because guilt is not something that my people worry too much about (WASPS). We worry about accomplishment. We worry about not doing harm. But guilt we tend to think of as mistakes and little else.

    I tend to agree with Paul a lot but I think he projected upon northern Europeans, a jewish passion, that we don’t feel. Wasps don’t feel guilty. We acknowledge our mistakes (sometimes slowly) and just try not to repeat them. We are good at punishing our own (which is the opposite of the jewish model, and why guilt is important to them).

    And we do punish our own. Altruistic punishment is an internal means of discipline. Right now we are punishing ourselves out of protestant altruistic punishment not out of guilt. This may seem the same but it is not.

    So Paul is wrong that its guilt(submission to authority). It’s altruistic punishment(nobility).

    —-callout—-

    —“Altruistic punishment is a behavior in which individuals punish others (defectors/free-riders/non-cooperators) at a cost to themselves in order to provide a public good or otherwise advance the fitness/utility of a larger group.”—

    —-callout—-

    Had someone figured this out before Macdonald and others popularized it (or had the idea held on past the thirties) we would have been perhaps able to defend ourselves a bit better.

    The aristocratic reaction to socialism was that it made no sense, but then again, if it worked it was hard to argue with. Conservatives experiment by doing, not bywords. We were afraid that it wouldn’t work. We were right.

    We were afraid the multiculturalism wouldn’t work.

    We were right.

    It’s expensive to incoroporate people into a high trust society and a high trust society requires homogeneous norms.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 04:56:00 UTC

  • “Guys, don’t lie to girls. First, lying isn’t manly. Second, they will eat your

    —“Guys, don’t lie to girls. First, lying isn’t manly. Second, they will eat your brain with a teaspoon for it.”– Russian “Proverb”

    I love Russians. I’m not too fond of the gangsters that seem to constantly run the place since we lost the Czars, but I love Russians.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 04:46:00 UTC

  • We are really just toys for women you know. 🙂 In the aggregate they need us. In

    We are really just toys for women you know. 🙂 In the aggregate they need us. In the aggregate we only want them, we don’t need them. As individuals we desire them. But for them, as individuals we just serve as entertainment. 🙂 Although, they collect harem’s too whenever possible: a group of men who will do things for them for attention and appreciation, and nothing more.

    Compatibilism: Compatible, not equal.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 04:35:00 UTC

  • Roman Skaskiw (all) They are reacting to me now. I’m having an impact. Time to s

    Roman Skaskiw (all)

    They are reacting to me now. I’m having an impact. Time to start videos soon. (please) (I need an interviewer. I am not able to pull it off extemporaneously like our canadian friend mr molyneux.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 03:21:00 UTC