Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

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    http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/roger-scruton-fake-culture/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 07:03:00 UTC

  • TWO: STEVEN PINKER NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION. Better angels of our nature i

    TWO: STEVEN PINKER NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION.

    Better angels of our nature is one of the most important books of this century. Along with Acemoglu, Haidt, Fukuyama and a handful of others.

    And since hes one of those whose works we use to correct progressive thinking, I don’t like to criticize him.

    But better angels fails to accurately judge incentives.

    And as such he uses his errors to come to a fanciful conclusion in chapter 10. He nods to the problem of males. But he does not even mention the problems with females.

    I need a few months to write this spring. :/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 13:45:00 UTC

  • ONE: STEPHEN WILLIAMSON NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION I mean. I hate to critici

    ONE: STEPHEN WILLIAMSON NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION

    I mean. I hate to criticize him. But I’m going to have to correct his position on guns.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 13:36:00 UTC

  • JOURNALISTS ARE PRIVATEERS : STATE SPONSORED THIEVES AND TERRORISTS Free speech

    JOURNALISTS ARE PRIVATEERS : STATE SPONSORED THIEVES AND TERRORISTS

    Free speech is device by which we expressly grant each other the freedom to research, publicize and profit from the publicity of, those who would use the violence of state monopoly, or privilege granted by the state monopoly, for the purpose of conducting involuntary transfers from one group to another.

    In this sense, journalism has a function. That is, journalism is the right of essay on involuntary transfers. It is, in effect a form of policing.

    Journalism would fulfill it’s function if we restored libel and slander laws, and we restored privacy and free passage laws so that paparazzi weren’t state sponsored terrorists. Your reputation is your property. Libel and slander laws are simply codifications of your property rights, like any other property right is codified.

    We wrongly grant the police, politicians, bureaucrats, regulators, the judiciary, and even journalists, insulation from suit by private individuals, and groups of individuals. This is what costs us our freedom. If instead we required everyone to respect property rights, then we would have the right of suit against those who libel or slander us, or others.

    The truth is the truth. But hypothesis and drama are not truth, they are profitable utility that is merely theft by involuntary transfer from victim to journalist. As such, journalists are state sponsored thieves and little more, whenever they report on anything other than the involuntary transfer of property, or a political plan to promote and legislate the involuntary transfer of property.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 10:11:00 UTC

  • FOR POSTERITY : “MAN COLD” (So true that it’s painful. But I don’t care. I have

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQSAVED FOR POSTERITY : “MAN COLD”

    (So true that it’s painful. But I don’t care. I have a man cold. lol)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 08:09:00 UTC

  • THE LEFT CEDES THE INTELLECTUALLY OBVIOUS

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/opinion/krugman-is-growth-over.htmlRELUCTANTLY THE LEFT CEDES THE INTELLECTUALLY OBVIOUS

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 06:53:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 06:13:00 UTC

  • SILLINESS Now, I’m pretty silly for a guy who thinks about serious things. And I

    SILLINESS

    Now, I’m pretty silly for a guy who thinks about serious things.

    And I haven’t spent much time with my mother and sisters the past few years.

    But in being in their company, it’s apparent where that silliness comes from. It’s a sort of family language.

    I always thought I was just channeling my sister Ellen.

    But she is just the best practitioner of that language.

    Sorry Veronika. It’s Genetic.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-27 20:38:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-27 16:29:00 UTC

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