Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • CAUTION TO NEW FRIENDS Please keep in mind what I do. OK? I write political phil

    CAUTION TO NEW FRIENDS

    Please keep in mind what I do. OK? I write political philosophy. Aristocratic, Conservative, Libertarian philosophy. I use Facebook as an historical sketch pad, where I try ideas out until I get them into compact and digestible form. There are all sorts of benefits to doing this. Not the least of which is that other people get to see how the sausage is made so to speak. But also because the act of speaking in public produces very different work from speaking in private. And when I just ‘write to myself’ in private, its even harder to comprehend the results. 🙂

    Thanks for your love and friendship.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 12:31:00 UTC

  • I am pretty good at critiquing what ‘is’, but I am also pretty bad at critiquing

    I am pretty good at critiquing what ‘is’, but I am also pretty bad at critiquing what other people think ‘is’, and I don’t see much value in critiquing what other people prefer ‘is’ unless what they prefer is harmful to others.

    The literary critics, and those who conduct an analysis of others works, always impress me. Because I just can’t do it. I can do my thing. But I can’t do their thing.

    Why is that so frustrating?

    In art school I studied painting primarily because I am bad at it. Which annoys me no end. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 12:07:00 UTC

  • Hi Curt. Wrote this poem about an experience in Turkey. I am sure you have many

    Hi Curt. Wrote this poem about an experience in Turkey. I am sure you have many things to say about it;)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 03:08:00 UTC

  • Jan 01, 1973Place: Canandaigua (city), New York (42.8861, -77.2817)Address: Cana

    Jan 01, 1973Place: Canandaigua (city), New York (42.8861, -77.2817)Address: Canandaigua (city), New York

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-23 00:55:00 UTC

  • PRIOR WARNING TO MY FEMALE FRIENDS I have to kill off the ideas of Universalism,

    PRIOR WARNING TO MY FEMALE FRIENDS

    I have to kill off the ideas of Universalism, Postmodernism and Democracy, not morally, but rationally and empirically. In doing so I must criticize feminism and democracy, and some of the emotions that women intuitively hold dear.

    Unlike other reactionaries (aggressive conservatives) I don’t recommend returning to the past. Like a libertarian, I recommend freedom. But I also recognize the difference in reproductive strategies and moral sentiments between men and women.

    Given that it is no longer necessary for women to be exclusively bound to home and child rearing, and that women both participate in the work force and dominate it’s middle ground, the past arrangement between men and women under agrarian society is no longer necessary even if it were preferable.

    GIven this change from a male economy and a female homestead, to a pre-agrarian female homestead, with transitory males, now that he feminists have succeeded in destroying the family, by forcing economic cooperation between men and women via marriage, through the proxy of the state via taxation. It seems prudent to attempt to construct a social order that recognizes the heterogeneity of our interests as males and females.

    One thing is deterministically certain. If we the long term monogamous family is indeed a dead or at least marginal institution, the current remnants of family (child support and spousal support) will disappear along with that institution. Largely because large members of men will continue to lack incentive to work and pay taxes, or to signal status by familial conformity. And the increasingly disturbing rate of single mother hood will continue to reduce the majority of women and children into single parent poverty, until the system of redistribution is perceived as not only unfair but destructive, and overwhelms both the tax system, the economy and the political system.

    We see this slowly happening now. And the economic luxury we possessed when first the socialists, then the feminists, then the multi-culturalists, banded together, no longer exists and is no longer possible due to the flooding of the world workforce with billions of laborers after the fall of communism and the failure of the socialist project.

    So what does this have to do with me? I think it’s possible to take what we have learned from the market and technology and to produce a political order that allows us to cooperate on means even if we have opposing ends.

    But in order to make a new idea both understandable, and desirable, I must criticize and show the failure of the existing ideas.

    I must criticize it so that I can replace it with something better.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-23 00:50:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY AND FREEDOM SOCIETY CONFERENCE – BODRUM TURKEY Notes from the front: 1)

    PROPERTY AND FREEDOM SOCIETY CONFERENCE – BODRUM TURKEY

    Notes from the front:

    1) Both Perpetual Traveller and I are sick as dogs. Flu. He was worse today, but it caught up with me tonight and I’m a total mess as well now. Today (Monday) is ‘Boat Day’ where we all go out on the local wooden ships and get trashed in the sunshine, in this beautiful little cove. It’s our high point of the year. Unfortunately, I suspect neither of us is going to be able to engage in the usual troublemaking. (I can barely breathe.)

    2) Roman Skaskiw finally has convinced me to love Bitcoin. I’m not exactly an early adopter of technology. But there are at least two means of making money. Roman is more interested in the anarchic and political properties of Bitcoin, but I’m mostly interested in whether I can make money with it or not. (I always feel like I’m pissing on his parade with my skepticism – but that’s just because I couldn’t see how to make a business out of it until today.) So I think we’ll find a venture to kick off together. Something small. Learn it. Then try for the big one. ‘Cause the big one interests me a great deal.

    3) Dr Flynn (of The Flynn Effect) is quite wonderful to listen to, and I finally got the chance to ask him two of my burning questions. One he had the answer to (the decline of Anglo IQ over the past century and a half). The other he confirmed for me, closely enough: that Pareto’s rule appears to be correlated with IQ and Trust. He didn’t and others don’t see trust has having the same level of importance, but then, I’m interested in the informal institutions that set the west apart, and trust is one of the ‘miracles’ that the west developed. The problem is that trust won’t do you much good if you can’t get the vast majority of the property into the hands of your population with IQ over 115, where it can be used by problem-solvers. My third question I couldn’t get answered which was my argument that the ability to articulate your ideas in verbal form, and the ability to repair machines (both forms of problem solving) seem to require about 106 or so IQ. 106 looks like, to me, the ‘median IQ’ that is the minimum for greek, english and jewish levels of intellectual expansion. I think I can prove this with the data pretty easily, but he kept insisting that we can TRAIN people to do most of those things if they are TRAINABLE (meaning down to 90 or 95). But that they can’t innovate. Which appears to be true. But that’s an educational question, that the germans have clearly solved. Whereas I’m concerned about informal institutions (norms) and what norms can develop regardless of whether there is explicit training. Again, the germans have this down cold, and the americans are terrible at it. This is sort of “Le Lion’s” argument to smart fraction put in economic terms. Really, what I got out of the conversation is that I pretty much understand the literature and I’ve pretty much got the arguments down. So It’s going to be pretty hard to attack me on that front.

    3) Continuing my transition from a Hayekian to anarcho capitalist to a Dark Enlightenment Libertarian. And I’m working to unify the economic and political insights of Hoppe with the cultural and informal institutional insights of the Dark Enlightenment project. The problem is that the Dark Enlightenment (Aristocratic Philosophy) is positioned as a reactionary rather than revolutionary movement and I would need to change that. And that involves organizing rather than writing and while that’s something I can do, it’s not something that I enjoy very much.

    FYI: “Dark Enlightenment — A new intellectual current made up of Reactionary components. The unifying factor of the Dark Enlightenment is a critique of Democracy, bluntly summarized by Peter Thiel when he wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” The “Dark Enlightenment” is a term coined by British philosopher Nick Land, who explicated the concept in his Dark Enlightenment sequence. This sequence, along with the writings of Mencius Moldbug, make up the core literature of the movement. The Dark Enlightenment is a Reactionary project that rejects modernity, universalism, and Democracy in favor of Traditionalist, particularist, and aristocratic values. “

    4) @Khan Thank you for the brilliant strategy. Planning is the work of a general staff and everyone finds it interesting. Again. Thank you.

    (More Later)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-23 00:02:00 UTC

  • Adam. Just wanted to thank you once again for all that you’ve helped me understa

    Adam.

    Just wanted to thank you once again for all that you’ve helped me understand. Sometimes we just need to hear the right thing and the right time, from the right messenger. And you were the right man to who taught me the right things at the right time.

    You’re one of the best men I’ve ever known. And I’m lucky to have that privilege.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-22 23:16:00 UTC

  • Sep 23, 2013 12:00pm

    Sep 23, 2013 12:00pm

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-20 11:23:00 UTC

  • 2007 WHEN I SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN, EVERYONE TREATED ME LIKE AN IDIOT Told ‘ya.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2012/02/06/the-federal-reserves-explicit-goal-devalue-the-dollar-33/IN 2007 WHEN I SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN, EVERYONE TREATED ME LIKE AN IDIOT

    Told ‘ya. No Other Way Out.

    Period.

    (Of course, I haven’t had any US dollars since 2009, or US assets since 2010.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-20 10:29:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-20 08:05:00 UTC