Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Patiently waiting for iMovie to render. I’ve split the Ron Manners interview int

    Patiently waiting for iMovie to render. I’ve split the Ron Manners interview into one on Ukraine and one on my work on Propertarianism and reforming libertarianism.

    We didn’t prep for this at all. I didn’t know he would interview me (or I wouldn’t look like I just rolled out of bed after a wild night – I actually wasn’t feeling well). So it’s a natural and casual discussion.

    Ron is a great guy really.

    I bet he didn’t like my answer though: that resources (USA, Australian, Canada, Argentina, and Ukraine) are simply a vehicle for constructing rent seeking polities. The UK still has an incredibly rent-seeking culture, without resources, but only because they still operate as if the empire exists. And that empire exists, except that the UK is merely the swiss banking system of the Anglo American empire. That empire is coming to an end. Along with the european discount on defense, outsourced to americans.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 03:33:00 UTC

  • I love Apple products. Hard drive crash yesterday. Boot. See menu. Press “Restor

    I love Apple products. Hard drive crash yesterday. Boot. See menu. Press “Restore from time machine backup”, wait three hours. Bang, you’re back in business.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 01:49:00 UTC

  • CORRECTING THE LIBERTARIAN ARGUMENT AGAINST CORPORATIONS Corporations are collec

    CORRECTING THE LIBERTARIAN ARGUMENT AGAINST CORPORATIONS

    Corporations are collections of people insured by the state in order to decrease the risk of legal attacks on one hand and increase employment, wealth and taxes on the other.

    Unfortunately, for historical reasons, this legal protection and corporeal terminology evolved rather than insurance and economic terminology.

    As such, most of the political rhetoric regarding corporations as analogies for people are empty verbalisms.

    The correct amalogy is public-private investments in order for the state to encourage risk taking by insuring owners against legal risk.

    This turns out to be useful during early capitalism, but decreesses in value as wealth increaees.

    Public private partnerships are useful and necessary means of producing commons which are later fully privatized.

    No populace has SURVIVED economic competition without this strategy.

    The evolutionary failure is in not privatizing (uninsuring) these entities once one has a functioning economy.

    This is another example of the confusion caused by conflating administrative law and insurance functions and economic policy in a single governmental body.

    If instead we used insurers and insurer paid legal processes, and loser-pays we could achieve the same effect.

    However, the libertarian logical fallacy is that such public private partnerships are not nevessary for the initial production of an economy and the organic development of laws that facilitate risk taking.

    We are correct that this insurance should be withdrawn at some point, and that it had gone too far. But we are wrong to assume that it is not competitively necessary for a polity to generate a high trust, high velicity economy.

    Westerners invented most capitalist law. But once law is invented, it can be restated and reformed without its historical linguistic and cultural baggage.

    This is the problem: the empty verbalism of organic development using governments mixing functions of administrative law, insurer, producer of commons, and economic policy.

    As such many if our arguments are empty verbalisms not attempts at institutional reformation.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 01:09:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 00:34:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism is not a Philosophical Preference – It's The Logic Of Cooperation : Praxeology

    [P]ropertarianism can be used to describe, compare, and advocate any political system in rigidly logical, universally commensurable form. While one can surely advocate liberty with it, its primary purpose is to suppress error, fallacy and deception. Its the logic of cooperation. The logic of ethics and politics. Aristocratic Egalitarianism can be argued with it. Which I do every day. And AE is the most ethical political model yet developed. But propertarianism only allows me to argue in favor of it logically and truthfully – to construct proofs. But preference for any given political order is still one if choice.

  • Propertarianism is not a Philosophical Preference – It’s The Logic Of Cooperation : Praxeology

    [P]ropertarianism can be used to describe, compare, and advocate any political system in rigidly logical, universally commensurable form. While one can surely advocate liberty with it, its primary purpose is to suppress error, fallacy and deception. Its the logic of cooperation. The logic of ethics and politics. Aristocratic Egalitarianism can be argued with it. Which I do every day. And AE is the most ethical political model yet developed. But propertarianism only allows me to argue in favor of it logically and truthfully – to construct proofs. But preference for any given political order is still one if choice.

  • Propertarianism is not a Philosophical Preference – It's The Logic Of Cooperation : Praxeology

    [P]ropertarianism can be used to describe, compare, and advocate any political system in rigidly logical, universally commensurable form. While one can surely advocate liberty with it, its primary purpose is to suppress error, fallacy and deception. Its the logic of cooperation. The logic of ethics and politics. Aristocratic Egalitarianism can be argued with it. Which I do every day. And AE is the most ethical political model yet developed. But propertarianism only allows me to argue in favor of it logically and truthfully – to construct proofs. But preference for any given political order is still one if choice.

  • Propertarianism is not a Philosophical Preference – It’s The Logic Of Cooperation : Praxeology

    [P]ropertarianism can be used to describe, compare, and advocate any political system in rigidly logical, universally commensurable form. While one can surely advocate liberty with it, its primary purpose is to suppress error, fallacy and deception. Its the logic of cooperation. The logic of ethics and politics. Aristocratic Egalitarianism can be argued with it. Which I do every day. And AE is the most ethical political model yet developed. But propertarianism only allows me to argue in favor of it logically and truthfully – to construct proofs. But preference for any given political order is still one if choice.

  • HD CRASH (silly)(personal) Yesterday I was sitting here, in this same spot, look

    HD CRASH

    (silly)(personal)

    Yesterday I was sitting here, in this same spot, looking at my two Macbook Pros thinking that I really could cut down to one, and if I had a serious problem, then I could buy another.

    Of course, this morning I woke up to an unrecoverable hard disk crash. And was thrilled to have a spare computer to work with.

    Thankfully I use both Dropbox to mirror my entire Documents directory, and use Apple’s time machine for backups.

    So that settles it. 🙂 There is a shop in Lviv that can get American keyboards (the wide enter key), with both Roman and Cyrillic letters, rather than the (shitty) european keyboard (skinny vertical enter key). In just two days. So I think I’m going to have them get me the new one, upgrade the 15″ Macbook Pro that just crashed to a SSD, and stay with two computers.

    I should probably be a good boy and sell my 17″, but I think I’lll keep it around, since it’s such a pleasure to use at times.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-06 11:56:00 UTC

  • FIRST CAR. VERY TEMPTING PRICE

    http://dcmotorcars.com/index.php/vehicle?vid=5-2l1400188436MY FIRST CAR. VERY TEMPTING PRICE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-06 03:49:00 UTC