Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • winters arent enough

    http://feedly.com/k/Tl0XUECold winters arent enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 04:31:00 UTC

  • might have to go through and clarify this a bit. Because its too open to fuzzy t

    http://feedly.com/k/1kP348MI might have to go through and clarify this a bit. Because its too open to fuzzy thinking and erroneous interpretation. But its a good start.

    I still also need to restate Boettke’s defense of Austrian Economics as a moral constraint. When I first started it was the best articulation – but its in desperate need of an update, and better positioning against the other Five Families of economic factions.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 03:52:00 UTC

  • Rothbardian ethics are all well and good if you want to be a parasite within a h

    Rothbardian ethics are all well and good if you want to be a parasite within a high trust low transaction cost society – and harm it in exchange. Or you want to construct a low trust society with high transaction costs that allow you to be one of many parasites.

    But rothbardianism legalizes parasitism under high transaction costs, that are WORSE than the parasitism of the state and its low transaction costs.

    Rothbardianism is worse than statism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 02:51:00 UTC

  • THE SUPERIORITY OF MONARCHY —“There is little doubt that the American Congress

    THE SUPERIORITY OF MONARCHY

    —“There is little doubt that the American Congress or the French Chambers have a power over their nations which would rouse the envy of 21 Louis XIV or a George III, were they alive today. Not only prohibition, but also the income tax declaration, selective service, obligatory schooling, the finger-printing of blameless citizens, premarital blood tests—none of these totalitarian measures would even the royal absolutism of the seventeenth century have dared to introduce.”— Kuehnelt-Leddihn

    While partly the influence of technology more than democracy, there is no question that we were more free under the monarchies. But then, the desire of few men is to be free.

    Rent seeking is preferable to production.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 02:10:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-27/where-americas-immigrants-come

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 01:47:00 UTC

  • people. Acting silly. Pretty incompatible in theory, but we work at it. @taranti

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/awyjw1qksoxuazb/2013-07-10%2020.41.40.jpgSilly people. Acting silly.

    Pretty incompatible in theory, but we work at it.

    @tarantinos. Kiev.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 11:19:00 UTC

  • (silly) FML: When really hot girls ask you to help them try on clothes in the ch

    (silly)

    FML: When really hot girls ask you to help them try on clothes in the changing room.

    Pinch me.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 09:58:00 UTC

  • “Everyone who can see me is actively trying to kill me. I’m invisible to everyon

    “Everyone who can see me is actively trying to kill me. I’m invisible to everyone who isn’t actively trying to kill me, who will just kill my by accident. And everyone I can’t see is just waiting for the opportunity to kill me by surprise.” — Motorcycle creed.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 07:37:00 UTC

  • RIGGING AGAINST WHITE MALES

    http://feedly.com/k/1rNObgNBALLOT RIGGING AGAINST WHITE MALES

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 06:43:00 UTC

  • There is a myth that above 120 IQ, returns are limited. I used to think that abo

    There is a myth that above 120 IQ, returns are limited. I used to think that above 140 IQ returns were limited. Driven largely by the fact that cognitive and social disabilities seem to creep in rather rapidly above the 140s. But the data is looking pretty good now, that if you filter out the disabilities, there really isn’t a point of diminishing returns. What we seem to see is that emotional incentives for personal well being gate performance in very high ranges. So there seems to be over representation of achievement in the 150-160 range compared to the higher ranges. Probably because social bonding with peers is still numerically possible.

    The problem for those of us at the extremes is finding a peer group within our own culture and value system. Otherwise social frustrations consume too much of our time and effort. This is one of the best reasons for the perpetuation of academic families. You feel ‘normal’ in those families above 150 because you’re in a peer social circle.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 00:26:00 UTC