Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • WHY ISN’T REDISTRIBUTION SIMPLY CANNIBALISM? Interesting

    WHY ISN’T REDISTRIBUTION SIMPLY CANNIBALISM?

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 07:54:00 UTC

  • A MAN’S NEEDS Ran across a kindred spirit over late breakfast. He has the same ‘

    A MAN’S NEEDS

    Ran across a kindred spirit over late breakfast. He has the same ‘gear’.

    iPhone

    Macbook Air

    Jeans, Collared Shirt, V-neck sweater.

    Leather Jacket.

    Backpack.

    Motorcycle or Roadster

    Cash and Card

    Manners, ethics, morals and a smile.

    Basic understanding of money, history, science and logic.

    Friends and Friends with Benefits

    (prescriptions, toiletries, and of course, the proverbial towel)

    Doesn’t take much really.

    Possessions are both a prison, and the means by which the state controls you.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 06:51:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 05:15:00 UTC

  • TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER It’s a genetic

    TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

    It’s a genetic benefit that’s gone too far. But I still cannot find similar work on it’s mirror effect: solipsism.

    “Autism is an interesting phenomenon. Two books that I recommend on this subject are Thomas Sowell’s Late-Talking Children and Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy. To grossly oversimplify, it appears that clinical autism results from the same gene complexes that, in their less extreme form, result in introversion, a fascination with structure, and spatial reasoning skills. A genetic propensity for autism, like sickle-cell anemia, confers benefits to mild cases despite being maladaptive in its extreme form. Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression have been similarly linked to superior cognitive abilities, and it stands to reason that genes for any mental illness with a genetic component must confer some benefit, whether we understand it or not.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 01:04:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 15:17:00 UTC

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  • POSNER ON US POLICY @Posner This breach of peace is because that lesson has atro

    http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/09/when-should-we-interfere-in-another-countrys-internal-affairs-posner.htmlCONTRA POSNER ON US POLICY

    @Posner

    This breach of peace is because that lesson has atrophied into a moral conviction expressed as policy.

    a) People have the right to self determination.

    b) Self determination is limited to good citizenship in the pattern of production and trade.

    c) That destabilization of the pattern of production and trade that influences commodities that could encourage warfare is equal to the waging of war against a neighbor.

    d) That if a people choose a government that abridges a, b or c, then we, the USA, will punish that government and the citizenry for their poor choices.

    We are not a peer nation. We are an empire. We act like an empire. We act like an empire in no small part because we must out of economic self interest, and in no small part, because our main trading, political, and cultural partners, actually WANT us to, so that they can participate in the reconstruction of Europe, after the first world war that destroyed human civilization as we know it, and from which we only begin to emerge in the present decade – albeit over a century behind what might have been.

    So, in closing, I’m a little uncomfortable with harkening back to historical reference of equal states, when our empire is run pragmatically for pragmatic purposes, and our policy has been reduced to ideology

    Curt Doolittle

    THe Propertarian Institute

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 14:41:00 UTC

  • “The issue today is not communism or socialism versus capitalism; it’s how much

    “The issue today is not communism or socialism versus capitalism; it’s how much regulation of capitalism is optimal. ” – Posner

    I DON”T THINK SO

    I think the issue today is, regardless of regulation, what norms produce the benefits of capitalism and what norms threaten it.

    But then I see the world in decades and centuries so I’m a little more attuned to the long run.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 13:54:00 UTC

  • TO CAPITALISM “The major modern challenges to capitalism came not from that or a

    http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/09/has-capitalism-revivedsurvived-posner.htmlCHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM

    “The major modern challenges to capitalism came not from that or any other depression, but from the two world wars of the twentieth century, without which it is hard to believe that the European nations would have lost their colonies, experienced a great depression (in the 1930s), or (in central and eastern Europe) become communist. Without World War I, it is very doubtful that Russia would have become communist; and without the Soviet conquests in eastern and central Europe in World War II, neither would Poland, Rumania, etc. have become communist.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 13:51:00 UTC

  • DISASTER OF POSTMODERNISM: TOTALITARIAN HUMANISM “Diagnoses of the malaise of th

    http://berlinbooks.org/brb/2013/09/the-humanities-are-not-your-enemy/THE DISASTER OF POSTMODERNISM: TOTALITARIAN HUMANISM

    “Diagnoses of the malaise of the humanities rightly point to anti-intellectual trends in our culture and to the commercialization of our universities. But an honest appraisal would have to acknowledge that some of the damage is self-inflicted. The humanities have yet to recover from the disaster of postmodernism, with its defiant obscurantism, dogmatic relativism, and suffocating political correctness. And they have failed to define a progressive agenda.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 12:50:00 UTC