Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • My kitchen is full of beautiful women. I… I really don’t understand why I ende

    My kitchen is full of beautiful women.

    I… I really don’t understand why I ended up in the land of Oz.

    But it’s a beautiful place at times.

    lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 08:28:00 UTC

  • The “gullible high trust white people” meme has legs. Why is it that we just lov

    The “gullible high trust white people” meme has legs.

    Why is it that we just love pseudoscience?

    Platonism is forgivable. And its curable. But gullibility? Why are white people so gullible?

    If I figure it out (and I will) there is something very valuable in there somewhere.

    I know its partly genetic. I know its partly institutional.

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 06:49:00 UTC

  • VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE NOT A VICE **If you will not fight for property rights, you

    VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE NOT A VICE

    **If you will not fight for property rights, you have not earned those rights in exchange from those who DO fight for them. Instead, you’re just another beggar trying to get them at a discount. Just another free rider on the backs of others. Just another parasite.**

    The source of liberty is the organize use of violence to suppress criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial behavior.

    Violence is a virtue, not a vice.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 04:21:00 UTC

  • Mises and Rothbard were half wrong. For their inspiration they looked to the ghe

    Mises and Rothbard were half wrong. For their inspiration they looked to the ghetto: the anarchic state within a state – just as did all jewish intellectuals from that part of the world. The jewish enlightenment not the anglo or continental was where they looked for inspiration. The problem is, you’d need the monarchical state to reconstruct the ghetto. That’s the Crusoe economics: the island is the ghetto, and the ocean is its walls.

    For a study of economics it’s adequate. Rothbard doomed our movement though, by looking to ghetto ethics. Effectively rothbard says “we will both give up violence but we will not give up deception.”

    It has not occurred to Libertarians, of any stripe, that it’s praxeologically impossible to form a polity with enough trust in one another, and therefore low enough transaction costs, that they will reduce their demand for a third party (the state) and thus grant one another liberty.

    It’s impossible because it’s irrational. Non logical.

    This is why libertarianism failed. Rothbard does not so much advocate liberty as justify immorality.

    There is no peaceful solution to liberty. The source of liberty (property rights), was the exchange of those rights between those men willing to use organized violence to obtain those rights – including the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding. The wealth that resulted from the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding produced status signals that were desirable for others to imitate. Over time, westerners evolved to adopt the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding,

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic because they do not enforce a requirement that individuals produce what they transfer – rothbardian ethics permit and justify parasitism. The NAP is insufficient because it does not prohibit parasitism. Without a prohibition on parasitism, humans will not reduce demand for a state to limit parasitism.

    VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE NOT A VICE

    **If you will not fight for property rights, you have not earned them in exchange from those who do fight for them. You’re just another beggar trying to get them at a discount. Just another free rider on the backs of others. Just another parasite.**

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 04:18:00 UTC

  • (personal) (silly) Difficult Choices. The girls are out at the disco. You can fe

    (personal) (silly)

    Difficult Choices. The girls are out at the disco. You can feel a little spring in the air. And so it seems like people want to get out of the house. Me included.

    Seems like a good night to go sing a little Rolling Stones, and enjoy the city. Also seems like a good night to go to sleep with a glass of Singelton.

    I have to start working on modifying Ostrom’s work soon. I should be a good boy. But I feel like a little spring rock-and-roll. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:41:00 UTC

  • (edite and reposted)

    (edite and reposted)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:36:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS Russians playing the gr

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/russias-save-ukraine-memorandum-prevent.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS

    Russians playing the great game, and doing it in public – the western way.

    Very interesting.

    Russian is a pragmatic language and Russians have pragmatic culture. It’s not really idealistic at all. Maybe the opposite. But as a low trust society it’s been difficult for them to move political discourse into the public sphere.

    Westerners of course work by a different ethic: get conflicts out in public so that we can resolve them. And over the past decade you consistently see the Russians moving toward the western model.

    The article below lists in honest terms both why Russia cannot tolerate a european Ukraine, and, how to solve it as a collective crisis that positions Russia as the rational actor against, what the rest of the world (rightly) sees as irrational western immoral political behavior.

    Now, what I would like to see from the western side, is focusing on using Russia to collapse corruption in Ukraine, and to use Ukraine as a model by which to test how to restructure Russia.

    Because these people stilly act like Boyars and Oligarchs: oppressive parasites..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:08:00 UTC

  • CURE POSTMODERNISM (interesting) DIMMI: “But that will make people feel bad, can

    CURE POSTMODERNISM

    (interesting)

    DIMMI: “But that will make people feel bad, can we say it some other way?”

    NOBILITY: “If the truth makes people feel bad, then they need to learn how to feel differently about the truth. So telling them the truth apologetically and criticizing ‘shaming and rallying’ is how we teach them to feel differently about the truth.”

    Tell the truth.

    Agree to debate the truth. Agree not to use violence, ridicule, rallying or shaming, if they agree not to use violence, ridicule, rallying or shaming.

    Because violence is honest but not helpful, and ridicule, rallying, and shaming are a form of deception – lying. Not truth. Because whether people like something or not has nothing to do with what is true or not.

    If they do not agree to debate without ridicule, rallying and shaming, then you do not agree to abandon violence.

    We should never take violence as an intrinsically bad thing. Violence is the only warranted response to fraud, deception, lying, omission, distraction – because the reason we enter into debate, and forgo our violence, is so that we may pursue the truth.

    If we enter into debate and only forgo our opportunity for violence, the greatest liar wins.

    If we enter into debate and agree that we must forgo both violence, and deception, then the greatest truth wins.

    So the proper response to postmodern argument in debate, which is the most obscurant and elaborate form of lying yet developed by man, is violence.

    “The purpose of debate is the pursuit of truth. The purpose of conflict is to win. If we are in conflict I will use violence and deception. If we are in debate then we are cooperating, and I will not use violence or deception. Therefore I will debate you as long as you do not engage in violence, or deception – where deception includes lying, fraud, deception, omission, obscurantism, ridicule, rallying and shaming. If you engage in any of those, then I will engage in violence.”

    This statement alone with win most arguments.

    ***The only moral questions are those that can be answered via voluntary exchange; and the only immoral actions those that can be solve by exchange but are not.***

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:08:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/ukraine-frees-all-protesters-detained.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 16:43:00 UTC

  • Voting Morally, Even If Against Your Economic Interest, Is Voting Rationally

    (minor criticism of the myth of the rational voter) [P]eople do vote rationally. Its rational to vote morally even at high personal cost. I dont have time to refute the part Kaplan got wrong. But it should be obvious that he got it wrong. [callout]The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism.[/callout] The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism. Any group that votes immorally will be exterminated by groups that vote morally. That is why the anglo world is dying: its immoral (reproductively destructive).