Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PARTY! WHOO HOOO!!!

    GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PARTY! WHOO HOOO!!!

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-01 02:57:00 UTC

  • I SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN 🙂 Belgium went without a government

    I SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN 🙂

    Belgium went without a government for, what? More than a year? It would be wonderful if we could keep the american government shut down for a year. Even six months.

    Hopefully long enough to default.

    A man can hope, can’t he? 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-01 02:53:00 UTC

  • CONCLUSION: BEARING PERSONAL ARMS IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF FREEDOM The origin of pr

    CONCLUSION: BEARING PERSONAL ARMS IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF FREEDOM

    The origin of private property rights was as the reward for enfranchisement, and enfranchisement the reward for owning and carrying, and using arms in defense of both private and common property.

    No other civilization developed and held peerage – interpersonal property rights. None. And None other held them.

    Aristocratic Egalitarianism is the cultural difference between western civilization and the rest. It is why we have the common law. And we have the common law because of property rights. And we have property rights because ‘citizenship’ meant bearing arms. And nobility meant the right to bear them.

    We can ‘lend’ our violence to the government if we wish, to act on our behalf. A division of labor is good for all of us.

    But when the government ceases to use our violence on our behalf, and instead uses it to violate our hard won, hard kept rights, then we may recall our loan of violence. And we may only do that if we are armed.

    Violence is a virtue. It is the highest virtue. It is the origin of freedom. It is the only origin of freedom.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-01 02:48:00 UTC

  • (Funny) HOW TO ZAP YOUR DEV TEAM “I just told you the business requirements. I’v

    (Funny) HOW TO ZAP YOUR DEV TEAM

    “I just told you the business requirements. I’ve told you that each of the solutions you’ve come up with satisfies the business requirements and is equally beneficial to the user. But you have to pick a solution. My only requirement is that it’s consistent. As long as its consistent, I won’t have a sales or training problem. So the only question then is the amount of work it is for you to get it done. And that’s your decision, not mine.”

    Short circuit. 🙂 Sparks.

    Never ceases to entertain me. 🙂 Ever. It’s like using a pen laser to tease a cat. 😉

    Humans are the best toys EVER. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-30 05:59:00 UTC

  • We dont need another way of thinking. We cant convince anyone to adopt it. We do

    We dont need another way of thinking. We cant convince anyone to adopt it. We dont need a new religion or belief.

    What we need is to understand why our beliefs, ways of thinking, and institutions failed to survive the extension of the franchise, and what to do about it now that they have failed.

    We cannot turn back the clock. Nor is the absurdity of the progressive fantasy either possible or survivable.

    It appears possible to reform our institutions by impending systemic collapse, or by outright insurrection.

    But it is clear that the majority favors feudal equality over entrepreneurial freedom. Numbers tell us that they do.

    So if we are to have freedom and they equality without one side conquering the other then we must sever our relations into multiple states or develop an alternative to majority monopoly rule.

    Given the value of scale in an insurer of last resort, and the virtue of a multiplicity of city states. And given the economic opportunity and cultural freedom that secession creates for each state, it may be possible to design a compromise solution which serves the moral differences and financial commonalities if each given modern technology.

    It would take a few years to implement but that time would permit demographic adjustment as well as the dismantlement of the federal monopoly, and the possibility if the solution would give vent to what is now leading to civil war.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 14:47:00 UTC

  • THE STATE IS THE ENEMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY “…a herd of timid and industrious anim

    THE STATE IS THE ENEMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY

    “…a herd of timid and industrious animals of which government is the shepherd…”

    QUOTE:

    “It seems that if despotism came to be established in the democratic nations of our day, it would have other characteristics: it would be more extensive and milder, and it would degrade men without tormenting them. …

    I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. …

    Above these an immense … power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living?

    So it is that every day it renders the employment of free will less useful and more rare; it confines the action of the will in a smaller space and little by little steals the very use of it from each citizen. …

    Thus, after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than

    …

    I have always believed that this sort of regulated, mild, and peaceful servitude, whose picture I have just painted, could be combined better than one imagines with some of the external forms of freedom, and that it would not be impossible for it to be established in the very shadow of the sovereignty of the people.”

    –Alexis de Tocqueville

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 13:18:00 UTC

  • “IMPERFECTION COMES FROM TRYING TO BE RIGHT” (Evan Sayet) So we abandon all reas

    “IMPERFECTION COMES FROM TRYING TO BE RIGHT”

    (Evan Sayet)

    So we abandon all reason. Prove that right isn’t right and wrong isn’t wrong. Hate, detest and decry any judgement. There is no criteria for truth, beauty, justice.

    “The moral imperative of Indiscriminateness.”

    “Rational thought is a hate crime. They cannot judge the merits of the positions that they hold. They have been indoctrinated into the liberal thought process.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 11:13:00 UTC

  • ONE YEAR IN EXILE : THE EXPERIENCE OF DETOXING FROM AMERICA (Some random thought

    ONE YEAR IN EXILE : THE EXPERIENCE OF DETOXING FROM AMERICA

    (Some random thoughts after 51 weeks in Ukraine.)

    WHAT DO I MISS?

    1) Cleanliness. I miss ‘clean’. I like clean and tidy and pretty, all wrapped up in a victorian bow. Everything is dirty here. Everything. The commons is something that does not exist in though, action, or practice.

    2) Movies. I pretty much go to every movie that comes out. And for the past year I haven’t seen anything that isn’t on Amazon.

    3) “Really Well Educated People”. They don’t exist here. Russian grade school is fantastic. But that is aging out of the school system here too. Russian university education is…. weak. Extremely weak. Surprisingly so. IT’s metaphysical. I can’t put my finger on it. But you know, for every idiot in the social sciences we have in america, the people on this side of the world have an idiot in the natural sciences.

    4) Customer Service. American customer service is amazing. You can’t really shop here either. The choices are very limited. and “Doing things right.”. People sort of hack everything together. Every repair of everything is done without pride or professionalism.

    The USA is clean. And the ‘really smart people’ are actually ‘really smart’. Unfortunately everyone OTHER than the ‘really smart people’ has been failed by our indoctrinating ‘equalitarian-diversity-promoting’ education system, and that vast numbers of ignorant disillusioned self righteous, entitlement seeking morons walk the streets like not-quite-yet-zombies on the verge of changing entirely into rabid spittle-spewing animals, while the few civilized folk armor themselves in heavy german cars, gated neighborhoods and fortified homes in a desperate attempt to keep both the state and the barbarians at bay.

    WHAT DO I LOVE?

    1) The people are… really the best I have ever encountered in the world. They are gentle, sweet, helpful, kind, loving and so beautiful that I never cease to be awed by it.

    2) Men are men and women are women, and families are the most important social unit, and that turns out to be so damned awesome for everyone.

    3) You can walk through a city part at midnight and the only danger is that you’ll interrupt a couple kissing under a tree.

    4) Everyone understands how evil government is, because corruption that we in the states have institutionalized but is invisible, is very visible, and personal here.

    I don’t miss America and its internecine conflict. I don’t miss the hatred of white christian males. The inescapable narcissism. Being inundated by lame and tragic advertising. Mind numbing commercialism. I don’t miss watching my country and civilization die at the hands of the left’s war on any form of reason, or judgement that can exist.

    Those things I do miss are the few things that remain symbols of the middle class that they desperately cling to as their only symbol of self respect, while the institutional, cultural, and physical world crumbles around them.

    All they have left is their consumption, their homes and cars. Because there is no ‘we’ left. No commons. No truth and beauty. Nothing.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 11:10:00 UTC

  • AUSTERITY – WHY THE CONSERVATIVES WON. In a series of posts in 2009-2011 on Paul

    AUSTERITY – WHY THE CONSERVATIVES WON.

    In a series of posts in 2009-2011 on Paul Krugman’s blog on the NYT (who will not engage us), and Karl Smith’s (who at the time had the freedom and inclination to engage us), I argued that the only possible solution to the conflict between the short time preference of the left, and the long time preference of the right, was to propose a range of spending and saving options that gave something to everyone. I did this because back-channel conservatives were arguing that they would give into spending and redistribution if they could dismantle some part of monopoly on indoctrination held by the left.

    And I know I sounded ridiculous at the time. But my argument was sound. And it’s been proven over time to have been correct: Haidt’s thesis that the conservatives have a lock on morality that can only be overcome by demographics is correct. The conservatives will happily bring the government to a craw, and possibly even bankrupt it, if it means fighting for what they morally believe.

    We know that human beings will pay very high costs to punish cheating. This is why the middle doesn’t move. Free riding is cheating. Sure the bankers are bad. But that’s government’s fault. But free riding is also government’s fault. THere is no greater chance that americans will tolerate free riding than germans will.

    MORALITY TRUMPS ECONOMICS.

    Morality is a product of genetic distribution and family structure. If you don’t grasp and internalize that. Then you will never grasp and internalize politics. And you policy initiatives will always fail.

    LIBERTARIANS AND PROGRESSIVES ALIKE

    It may not be obvious that I’m criticizing both progressives and libertarians. I am. We are not equal. We do not possess the same moral codes. Our reproductive interests are not the same. And at some point there is a limit to the compromise we will pay to sacrifice our reproductive interests for others.

    That we intuit these sensations as moral rather than biological is simply our own egocentrism playing games with us. We are intuitive creatures bound by a thin veil of reason, and enmeshed in a network of habits we call a socially constructed reality. But our justifications are little more than that. In the end, over time, we obey our selfish genes, or we will not exist.

    He who breeds wins.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 08:27:00 UTC

  • WHY WE NEED THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT: UNIVERSALIST ANTI-RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE “I

    WHY WE NEED THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT: UNIVERSALIST ANTI-RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE

    “I am continually amazed at the extent to which evolutionists have been indoctrinated—mainly by Richard Dawkins—against supposing that groups have any important role to play in human evolution.”

    –Kevin MacDonald, A People That Shall Dwell Alone:

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 08:12:00 UTC