Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

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    http://mises.org/document/6995/Why-American-History-Is-Not-What-They-Say

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 05:09:00 UTC

  • “Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: ‘To every man upon this

    “Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:

    ‘To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;

    And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds,

    For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods’ “

    Beautiful. Not quite enough to build a plot on tho…. ;(

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 17:06:00 UTC

  • follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, serious

    http://www.thesartorialist.com/I follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, seriously. Here in Kiev, women can have no money at all, yet they compose their own style, shop carefully, move gracefully, and they look like the just stepped off the runway. I don’t mean, like, a few of them. I mean, all but a few of them.

    Men have quite a bit of the soviet era fitness thing going on. So they just tend to look better in general. I’m sure that the t-shirt-wearing-fat-tv-gamer guys exist here but I don’t see any of them. We have the whole Goth and motorcycle and tattoo cults too, but none of it is so nihilistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 10:42:00 UTC

  • OF DIFFERENT REGIONS OF AMERICA AND HOW THEY AFFECT VOTING

    http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/maps-of-the-american-nations/ANCESTRY OF DIFFERENT REGIONS OF AMERICA AND HOW THEY AFFECT VOTING

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 09:42:00 UTC

  • FERTILITY RATE DIFFERENCES. “…fertility is dysgenic for women and roughly neut

    FERTILITY RATE DIFFERENCES.

    “…fertility is dysgenic for women and roughly neutral for men by IQ. However, here we see that there is finer pattern behind this when you break it down. What is actually happening is that fertility is highly dysgenic by IQ for liberal men (for whom indeed, the smartest category of such men here – roughly IQ 115+ – about 50% leave no descendants); is slightly dysgenic for moderate men; and is slightly eugenic for conservative men.”

    TRANSLATION

    “fertility is dysgenic for women” : women produce increasingly less intelligent offspring.”

    “Highly dysgenic for liberal men” : Liberal men do not reproduce anywhere near replacement rates.

    “Slightly eugenic for conservative men” : conservative males produce more offspring of increasing intelligence.

    WHY DOES THIS MATTER

    It matters because we live in a democracy. Women vote to increase their reproduction by consequence, to decrease aggregate intelligence. This is not true if we have stable nuclear families that must be self supporting before it’s possible to bear children.

    So, the family model is not neutral.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 09:23:00 UTC

  • What Would Happen To Monetary Currency Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchy?

    Currency is necessary for a variety of reasons, and groups would get together to form currency unions. I suspect that no matter what happened, in no matter what circumstance, the group that managed to to this best at scale would displace all but a few of the other groups, and that we would once again return to a ‘state’ currency, if not a monopoly currency.  And I suspect those multiple currencies would be precious metals and paper money just like today.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-monetary-currency-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchy

  • Anarchism: What Becomes Of The Idea Of “job Security” Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchist Living?

    Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly.   And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used.

    None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable alliances.  And it looks like this trend will continue.  Employment likewise will continue to be driven by rapid changes in the marketplace.

    The people outside of the market have ‘job security’ but those people are in ‘jobs’ only by analogy. Is being a soldier a job? Is being a senator a job?  An IRS Agent?  A job is driven by market. Otherwise you’re just another kind of soldier. If you cant be easily unemployed by changes in the market then you aren’t in a job, You’re a paid soldier of one kind or another.

    If the question is, can we have employment insurance.  I think so. 
    If the question is, can we have create a sort of minimum income scheme. I think possibly.  Can we do this in america? I don’t think so. The country is too big. And people are familial and tribal : they are members of some sort of kinship, and they remain that way for life.
    If the question is, can you be insulated from the variation in the market so that you do not have to constantly maintain marketable skills? No, I don’t think so.

    https://www.quora.com/Anarchism-What-becomes-of-the-idea-of-job-security-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchist-living

  • What Would Happen To Monetary Currency Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchy?

    Currency is necessary for a variety of reasons, and groups would get together to form currency unions. I suspect that no matter what happened, in no matter what circumstance, the group that managed to to this best at scale would displace all but a few of the other groups, and that we would once again return to a ‘state’ currency, if not a monopoly currency.  And I suspect those multiple currencies would be precious metals and paper money just like today.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-monetary-currency-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchy

  • Anarchism: What Becomes Of The Idea Of “job Security” Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchist Living?

    Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly.   And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used.

    None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable alliances.  And it looks like this trend will continue.  Employment likewise will continue to be driven by rapid changes in the marketplace.

    The people outside of the market have ‘job security’ but those people are in ‘jobs’ only by analogy. Is being a soldier a job? Is being a senator a job?  An IRS Agent?  A job is driven by market. Otherwise you’re just another kind of soldier. If you cant be easily unemployed by changes in the market then you aren’t in a job, You’re a paid soldier of one kind or another.

    If the question is, can we have employment insurance.  I think so. 
    If the question is, can we have create a sort of minimum income scheme. I think possibly.  Can we do this in america? I don’t think so. The country is too big. And people are familial and tribal : they are members of some sort of kinship, and they remain that way for life.
    If the question is, can you be insulated from the variation in the market so that you do not have to constantly maintain marketable skills? No, I don’t think so.

    https://www.quora.com/Anarchism-What-becomes-of-the-idea-of-job-security-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchist-living

  • CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST Every once in a while I put out a short list of m

    CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST

    Every once in a while I put out a short list of my favorite books to recommend. I try to keep it short (The list on my web site is well over a thousand books now.)

    THIS LIST

    Morality = Family Model = Property Rights = Wealth = Fragile.

    INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Alan Macfarlane: The Origins of English Individualism

    Emmanuell Todd: L’invention de l’Europe: (family and ideology)

    James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

    MORALITY

    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (evolutionary morality)

    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence (co-authored by Richard Wrangham

    FORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

    Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail

    Colin Renfrew: The Collapse of Complex Societies

    Hans Hoppe: (post-bureaucracy for homogenous groups)

    POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

    Political Ideologies: An Introduction (introduction to ideology)

    Stephen Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism

    Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 11:19:00 UTC