Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Did Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism And Post-colonialism Fail?

    IT APPEARS to be in the process of failing, but for institutional reasons.  I dont know if i can get it across, but the simple analogy is a ponzi scheme. Although given any rate of growth, a ponzi scheme of this nature can be sustainable as long as there is an arithmetic connection between inputs and outputs. Libertarians argue that a conservative version of the singaporean model should be sustainable. Because by “saving” instead of issuing debt, the individual knows how to plan, and the debt issued for services matures before there is a claim on it.  And the money is productive in the economy in the meantime.  But government spending is constrained.

    https://www.quora.com/Did-liberalism-socialism-anarchism-and-post-colonialism-fail

  • Did Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism And Post-colonialism Fail?

    IT APPEARS to be in the process of failing, but for institutional reasons.  I dont know if i can get it across, but the simple analogy is a ponzi scheme. Although given any rate of growth, a ponzi scheme of this nature can be sustainable as long as there is an arithmetic connection between inputs and outputs. Libertarians argue that a conservative version of the singaporean model should be sustainable. Because by “saving” instead of issuing debt, the individual knows how to plan, and the debt issued for services matures before there is a claim on it.  And the money is productive in the economy in the meantime.  But government spending is constrained.

    https://www.quora.com/Did-liberalism-socialism-anarchism-and-post-colonialism-fail

  • No. I don’t know anything. I just make arguments. Like any other intellectual ma

    No. I don’t know anything. I just make arguments. Like any other intellectual makes arguments. We don’t choose whether our arguments are true or not. We try to construct them as honestly as possible, if we are honest with ourselves, and then see wether, like so many experimental products, they survive in the market for criticism. I get a little frustrated with people who assume one moral bias or strategy is preferential to all. I ‘think’ I’m right. But I don’t know. I can just follow the only strategy that seems to work: prosecute a set of ideas until they succeed or fail. The minute you try to persuade an audience rather than test your ideas to see if they fail, you’ve stopped acting as a scientist and started acting as an advocate. It is probably possible to advocate what you think may be true. But the minute you claim you’re right, then, well, that’s not advocacy that’s politics.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 16:38:00 UTC

  • “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism” Increases in wealth under manorialism an

    “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism”

    Increases in wealth under manorialism and the forcible ban on intermarriage, forced a shift from kindreds to lineages, which in turn forced a shift towards nuclear families. As a side effect there was a delay in marriage and reproduction, more assortive mating (romance), the extension of the kin ethic to all potential family members.

    Property is inseparable from the nuclear family. Because property gives males control over breeding. You can add women to the economy. You either can add them to the voting pool, OR you can undermine the nuclear family and assortive mating, through child support, alimony, and redistribution. But you can’t do both and keep property rights. Property is the antithesis of the female reproductive strategy. The feminists are right, which is why the feminists and the socialists are allies. Or rather, the feminists give the socialists ethical air cover.

    But if women can vote to control their reproduction and at the same time control the productivity of males through political expropriation, then you will NEVER EVER have the institution of private property. EVER.

    Property was created by the application of organized violence. It put reproduction in control of the male. And eventually led to eugenic reproduction.

    If there is anything that puts a stake in the heart of libertarian hyper-individualism (moral diversity denial) then that’s it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 14:26:00 UTC

  • You know, some of us spend all this time tilting at windmills. You can’t even te

    You know, some of us spend all this time tilting at windmills. You can’t even tell who is a crank or genius until well after he’s dead. WTH is the point? Really. 🙂

    I read up on a few ancestors who were fire breathing Puritans. If you met my Grandfather, you’d think no time had passed since the English civil war. Maybe since the middle ages. Except he knew physics and chemistry. But the personality was the same.

    I sit here obsessed with morality and ethics for no reason of my own choosing other than some strange mechanism drives me to.

    And you wonder how much of life is in our genes? I don’t.

    I don’t think I’m much different from that man 400 years ago. And I kind of doubt that he was much different from the man 400 years before him. Or the one two hundred years before him. A thousand years of genes doing the same thing. And if we met we’d recognize the same traits in one another.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 10:44:00 UTC

  • LANGUAGE CHANGES TO REFLECT OUR CHOICE OF SPATIAL FREEDOM : BY OURSELVES AND UNH

    http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/changes-in-language-reflect-our-247626.aspxOUR LANGUAGE CHANGES TO REFLECT OUR CHOICE OF SPATIAL FREEDOM : BY OURSELVES AND UNHAPPY ABOUT IT.

    “a gradual rise in the use of “feel” and a decline in the use of “act,” suggesting a turn toward inner mental life and away from outward behavior. She found a growing focus on the self, with the use of “child,” “unique,” “individual” and “self” all increasing from 1800 to 2000.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-09 10:51:00 UTC

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • RATS? Food chain funnies

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/the-animals-are-also-getting-fat.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29FAT RATS?

    Food chain funnies

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-08 13:26:00 UTC

  • INFINITY Out of the three possible definitions of infinity that i can understand

    INFINITY

    Out of the three possible definitions of infinity that i can understand today, I am going to choose to define infinity as the point at which the last marginally different value is followed by a marginally indifferent different value. Ie the first marginally indifferent value. More simply as the smallest unit which would affect change in state. Or as stated traditionally as a “limit.”

    This definition does not require we stipulate any platonic infinity. It simply states that the value is unknown, and for our purposes indifferent to the calculation.

    In practice, this is the operational definition as applied in practice in scientific experiment and argument.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-08 09:06:00 UTC