Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • You pretty much cant delete your profiles from most dating sites. And despite my

    You pretty much cant delete your profiles from most dating sites. And despite my posts being four or five years old, I still get a few pings every day.

    What I find most interesting is the ‘seasonality’ of interest. The minute the fall starts, I get quite a few (which I think is kids going back to school?). Christmas, New Years, and OMG Valentine’s day. There is also a peak in the late spring when everyone is tired of winter. I suppose I could go through my email history if it isn’t automatically deleted and do some stats on it. But it’s too obvious to bother with. In the summer, everyone is out and about and seeing opportunities whether real or not, in front of them every day.

    Now, I met Amanda online. And I met my unnamed friend in NYC online, that if the world were a different place, I would probably consider the most likely soul-mate I could ever have. I met one woman I seriously regret not pursuing even though we spent a year on and off. And a number of others, both wonderful and tragic. But every other woman that I’ve had a durable relationship with I’ve met through friends, or social situations. (I met Veronika in a club. Which, at least for me happens here but never in the states. And it was in the fall: october )

    Anyway, we humans are pretty interesting creatures. 🙂 Seasonality, or, the economy of relationship hunting, included. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 06:19:00 UTC

  • Let me correct this a bit. If you can’t make it good, make it big. If you can’t

    Let me correct this a bit.

    If you can’t make it good, make it big.

    If you can’t make it big, make it red.

    If big and red fail, then make it look like a sex organ.

    Then repeat the process.

    Seems to work flawlessly.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 05:22:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 04:42:00 UTC

  • Enough Said

    Enough Said.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 04:25:00 UTC

  • (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 16:58:00 UTC

  • + ELOCUTION + POETRY Bring it back. Today. Daily

    http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ajd1102.0001.001/2?page=root%3Brgn%3Dfull+text%3Bsize%3D100%3Bview%3DimageORATORY + ELOCUTION + POETRY

    Bring it back. Today. Daily.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 16:22:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIAN COMMENSURABILITY 1) Words make experiences commensurable. 2) Number

    PROPERTARIAN COMMENSURABILITY

    1) Words make experiences commensurable.

    2) Numbers make the imperceptible commensurable.

    3) Money makes subjective value commensurable.

    4) PROPERTY MAKES MORALS COMMENSURABLE.

    5) Reproductive strategy makes morals rational and non-arbitrary.

    The problem is, you have to define property as people actually use it, as they demonstrate by their actions.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 15:47:00 UTC

  • (Feeling guilty about not writing more) My company’s product has really needed m

    (Feeling guilty about not writing more)

    My company’s product has really needed my attention for the past six months – and it’s paid off. We have made more progress on the software since July than we had in the previous six months. It’s exceeded my expectations considerably. Although I’ve doubled my expected investment too, because I understand we have a category killer on our hands.

    But my writing suffered. And while in the few months of 2013 I’d made incredible progress, and while I’ve managed to solve a few core theoretical problems over the summer, I haven’t put the additional chapters to paper.

    But, you know, I’ve been thinking about the PFS Interim Meeting in London and the talk I want to give, and not surprisingly, I realized once again, that every six months that go by, I can distill the arguments further, into increasingly clear and compact statements.

    So maybe that isn’t such a bad thing. 🙂

    Good. My guilt is assuaged for the evening. Now, do I have permission to do something mindless now? lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 15:43:00 UTC

  • ON CONSERVATIVE LITERATURE (books on rational conservatism) –See reading lists

    http://www.propertarianism.com/MORE ON CONSERVATIVE LITERATURE

    (books on rational conservatism)

    –See reading lists at www.propertarianism.com Then “Reading Lists” from the menu–

    My last post was just too narrow so I thought I’d forward this canon on rational conservatism. It doesn’t hold a candle to Libertarian theory because it’s fundamentally an emphasis on the normative rather than political or economic economy. But that’s precisely why we should study it. Conservatives ‘get it’. Even if they can’t talk about it rationally or intelligently. ARATIONAL != IRRATIONAL.

    MORE ON THE ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH

    Jerry z Muller :

    _Conservatism_

    http://www.amazon.com/Conservatism-Anthology-Political-Thought-Present/dp/0691037124/

    _The Other God That Failed_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-that-Failed-Deradicalization/dp/069100823X

    “Us and Them : The enduring power of ethnic nationalism”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63217/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them

    “Capitalism and Inequality : What the right and the left get wrong”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138844/jerry-z-muller/capitalism-and-inequality

    George H. Nash: _Conservative Intellectual Movement in America_

    http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Intellectual-Movement-America-ebook/dp/B0055PNMQ4

    Robert NIsbett : _The Quest for Community_

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558150587?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=1558150587

    F.A. Hayek : _The Constitution of Liberty_, _The Road to Serfdom_

    RESTORATION SCHEMES

    Mark R Levin : _The Liberty Amendments_ (Restoration)

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Amendments-Restoring-American-ebook/dp/B00CO4IP5M

    (Levin’s ideas are solid but the Genii is out of the bottle. Secession is the only power we have to force a rewrite, and that would simply lead to organized dissolution.)

    Richard M Weaver : _Ideas Have Consequences_ (Philosophy/Ideology)

    http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Have-Consequences-Richard-Weaver-ebook/dp/B00BN4YIGY

    (Weaver’s Philosophical attempt at Restoration.)

    ON ‘THE FALL’

    (Criticism is good. It’s just not an answer to the problem)

    Richard Epstein : _How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution_

    http://www.amazon.com/Progressives-Rewrote-Constitution-Richard-Epstein-ebook/dp/B004XOZ658/

    Whittaker Chambers: _Witness_

    http://www.amazon.com/Witness-Whittaker-Chambers-ebook/dp/B0028085JS/

    Thomas Sowell : _The Vision Of The Anointed_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X

    ON SENTIMENTAL AND ANALOGICAL CONSERVATISM

    (What I want to get away from.)

    Before about 1990, the scientific knowledge did not exist to support conservatism. And the speculation generated by the pseudo-sciences of the 19th century by Marx, Freud, Cantor, The Frankfurt School, the American Marxist Movement, and the American-European Postmodern movement, were successful, particularly in the 1970’s in creating anti-rational ideas in the masses via universities.

    Leo Strauss : _History of Political Philosophy_

    Russell Kirk : _The Conservative Mind_

    ____________ : _The Politics of Prudence_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Prudence-Russell-Kirk-ebook/dp/B0055PKEX8

    Michael Oakeshott (everything)

    Ostwald Spengler : _The Decline of the West_

    Francis Yockey : _Imperium_ (romantic vision of totalitarian recreation)

    GOING FORWARD – REFORMATION CONTINUES

    The connection between christianity, high victorian language, germanic manners, and our morally loaded aristocratic poetry and literature, is still present in these works. We have, slowly, converted most of our language to that of science, models and the study of incentives and cognitive abilities and biases. We have learned a great deal, slowly, about the institutions, traditions, memes, morals, ethics, manners, myths and metaphysics of western civilization. But most importantly, we have learned enough about political economy, and the influence of norms on that political economy, to discuss ‘the pagan and christian west’ in ratio-scientific rather than ratio-philosophical terms.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 15:33:00 UTC

  • MULLER : IS THE MARKET MORAL? (Important Propertarian Concept: Market And Morali

    http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/is-the-market-moral-JERRY MULLER : IS THE MARKET MORAL?

    (Important Propertarian Concept: Market And Morality)

    Yes the market is moral in the universal. No it is not in the particular. BUT lets look at this a little more deeply.

    Muller is the author of THE DEFINING intellectual work on Conservatism. It was his work that convinced Jonathan Haidt that there was more than one moral code. Both is book _Conservatism_ and his Teaching Company Lectures, are the first and most important discussion of conservatism in rational and moral terms.

    Conservatism, like libertarianism, has produced a landscape littered with trite entry-level works that are little more than pop entertainment, or statements of personal enlightenment. And there are only a handful of authors who produce more than sentimental, allegorical, or historical works. And that is because conservatism, still, remains an habituated moral philosophy, not a rationally articulated one – Something some of us are trying to change. Muller changed that with _Conservatism_.

    **This particular essay shows however, that even Muller still does not grasp the market as the REPOSITORY into which we have transformed ALL immoral action. It is the ONLY place we allow immorality. And that is because the market produces virtuous consequences as an output of that instinctively immoral activity: competition. The negative feedback to the producer creates the incentive for the producer to improve his or her wares, or to price them more cheaply. It creates a squirrel cage wheel of increasing quality and decreasing prices.

    The market has made LIFE outside of the market, increasingly moral. The virtue of the immoral process of the market, produces virtuously moral longer term outcomes in terms of prices, quality and choices.

    But more importantly, it does not require we eliminate our attempts to outwit each other. It simply gives us a single virtuous venue in which to do it. And the consumer always wins, no matter what bet he places.**

    WHAT YOU SHOULD READ

    _Conservatism_

    http://www.amazon.com/Conservatism-Anthology-Political-Thought-Present/dp/0691037124/

    _The Other God That Failed_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-that-Failed-Deradicalization/dp/069100823X

    “Us and Them : The enduring power of ethnic nationalism”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63217/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them

    “Capitalism and Inequality : What the right and the left get wrong”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138844/jerry-z-muller/capitalism-and-inequality

    WHERE HE IS WRONG

    The Mind and Market

    The Jews and Capitalism

    His failure is perhaps our own failure to articulate property, property rights, reproductive strategy, the mind, moral intuitions and moral codes as the cause of both ‘the mind and market’ and the near universal condemnation of jewish morality despite their success in the market.

    No one is perfect. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 09:04:00 UTC