Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Political Quakerism?

    —“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill

  • Political Quakerism?

    —“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill

  • Chasing Down ‘Libertarian’ Smells

    CHASING DOWN ‘LIBERTARIAN’ (free rider) SMELLS Matt Mitchell —“Curt, is there anything in particular that I said that goes against what you said? For markets to function there needs to be a particular order in the first place, right? Things can change in time, yes, though there are things that do not change or are unlikely to change. Forcing people to live one way or the other, doesn’t help in any way.”—

    Curt Doolittle Hmmm…. well, you know, I have a job right? And in my job I look for opportunities to encourage people to think ‘completely’. So to some degree I’m just ‘riffing’ off your post to get people to think. But in the context of your post, you are implying steady state, homogeneity, and religious authority necessary to indoctrinate those beliefs – when people merely choose the beliefs that suit their circumstances. So that I felt the need to do was to remind you and others, that we are not agrarians any longer. That the world of modern urbanity is much more like living as diasporic tribes floating between city-markets, trading our goods (skills, labor), and that we do not have the steady state, the homogeneity, or the ability to indoctrinate under these conditions, and as such we can only struggle to impose limits and exceptions (laws) in a jurisdiction, not ‘regularities’ (beliefs). So I was reacting to a ‘libertarian smell’, and ‘false assumption’ smell to your argument. Trade always existed. Cities were created by violence. Markets were created by violence. Trade routes were created by violence. More violence than the thieves could muster to prey upon them. The truth is, we have to fight. And that’s all there is to it. So what is the social order that both allows us to fight and eliminates the need to fight? Rule of law. So yes, forcing people to live under increasing suppression of parasitism is unquestionably in all of history a ‘good’. It may in fact, be the good that produces the highest returns of all. Even more so than the division of labor. Because it is the first good that makes the division of labor possible. 😉 Force, fire, water, air, and words, are good things put to good purpose. Or bad things put to bad purpose. They are not intrinsically good or bad. ———–definition———– “Code smell”, also known as bad smell, in computer programming code, refers to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. According to Martin Fowler, “a code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system”.

  • Dear Feds. Please Legitimize me.

    DEAR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT A) Please come for me. Please give me even more credibility, and expand my market dramatically. B) Please expand the opportunity for promoting discourse on rule of law and the solution to the next iteration of european governments.

    C) Please ensure that the income source necessary to fund any revolution (a foreign government) will provide for a revolution. Once you tried to destroy me procedurally, you made me an enemy, and I made it my mission to ensure that rule of law is restored, so that never again can a man be harmed by the arbitrary judgement of individuals prior to juridical review, under rule of law, under natural law, of universal standing, and universal applicability – without exception.

  • Dear Feds. Please Legitimize me.

    DEAR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT A) Please come for me. Please give me even more credibility, and expand my market dramatically. B) Please expand the opportunity for promoting discourse on rule of law and the solution to the next iteration of european governments.

    C) Please ensure that the income source necessary to fund any revolution (a foreign government) will provide for a revolution. Once you tried to destroy me procedurally, you made me an enemy, and I made it my mission to ensure that rule of law is restored, so that never again can a man be harmed by the arbitrary judgement of individuals prior to juridical review, under rule of law, under natural law, of universal standing, and universal applicability – without exception.

  • IS DOOLITTLE A RUSSIAN SHILL? “Doolittle is a shill for Putin” — Eli Harman My

    IS DOOLITTLE A RUSSIAN SHILL?

    “Doolittle is a shill for Putin” — Eli Harman

    My posts on Ukraine and Russia

    https://propertarianism.com/category/off-topic/russia-and-ukraine/

    My Posts on Putin and Russia

    https://propertarianism.com/?s=Putin+Russia

    My Video on Circumpolar Civilization (inspired by Gorbachev)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n42R6coy5Dk

    My position is pretty clear for anyone doing the research.

    And yes, I would rather live in Eastern Europe than western.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 14:49:00 UTC

  • DEAR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT A) Please come for me. Please give me even more credibil

    DEAR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

    A) Please come for me. Please give me even more credibility, and expand my market dramatically.

    B) Please expand the opportunity for promoting discourse on rule of law and the solution to the next iteration of european governments.

    C) Please ensure that the income source necessary to fund any revolution (a foreign government) will provide for a revolution.

    Once you tried to destroy me procedurally, you made me an enemy, and I made it my mission to ensure that rule of law is restored, so that never again can a man be harmed by the arbitrary judgement of individuals prior to juridical review, under rule of law, under natural law, of universal standing, and universal applicability – without exception.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 13:44:00 UTC

  • CHASING DOWN ‘LIBERTARIAN’ (free rider) SMELLS Matt Mitchell —“Curt, is there

    CHASING DOWN ‘LIBERTARIAN’ (free rider) SMELLS

    Matt Mitchell

    —“Curt, is there anything in particular that I said that goes against what you said? For markets to function there needs to be a particular order in the first place, right? Things can change in time, yes, though there are things that do not change or are unlikely to change. Forcing people to live one way or the other, doesn’t help in any way.”—

    Curt Doolittle

    Hmmm…. well, you know, I have a job right? And in my job I look for opportunities to encourage people to think ‘completely’. So to some degree I’m just ‘riffing’ off your post to get people to think. But in the context of your post, you are implying steady state, homogeneity, and religious authority necessary to indoctrinate those beliefs – when people merely choose the beliefs that suit their circumstances.

    So that I felt the need to do was to remind you and others, that we are not agrarians any longer. That the world of modern urbanity is much more like living as diasporic tribes floating between city-markets, trading our goods (skills, labor), and that we do not have the steady state, the homogeneity, or the ability to indoctrinate under these conditions, and as such we can only struggle to impose limits and exceptions (laws) in a jurisdiction, not ‘regularities’ (beliefs).

    So I was reacting to a ‘libertarian smell’, and ‘false assumption’ smell to your argument.

    Trade always existed. Cities were created by violence. Markets were created by violence. Trade routes were created by violence. More violence than the thieves could muster to prey upon them.

    The truth is, we have to fight. And that’s all there is to it. So what is the social order that both allows us to fight and eliminates the need to fight?

    Rule of law.

    So yes, forcing people to live under increasing suppression of parasitism is unquestionably in all of history a ‘good’. It may in fact, be the good that produces the highest returns of all. Even more so than the division of labor. Because it is the first good that makes the division of labor possible.

    😉

    Force, fire, water, air, and words, are good things put to good purpose. Or bad things put to bad purpose. They are not intrinsically good or bad.

    ———–definition———–

    “Code smell”, also known as bad smell, in computer programming code, refers to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. According to Martin Fowler, “a code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system”.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 13:29:00 UTC

  • THE TIME FOR COOPERATION (EQUALITY OF SOVEREIGNTY) IS PAST by Eli Harman Peterso

    THE TIME FOR COOPERATION (EQUALITY OF SOVEREIGNTY) IS PAST

    by Eli Harman

    Peterson is trying, Doolittle is trying, every conservative and libertarian has BEEN trying, for the last 50 years, to leave the door open to cooperation, coexistence, and compromise with the left. When they finally and inevitably fail to secure a good faith acceptance for their offer, we will be there, to do the other things. But the offer is necessary, because the inevitable refusal and betrayal are necessary, in order to legitimize what must be done. It will not be said that we didn’t give them enough chances to save themselves. We will give them too many. We already have.

    ( Curt Doolittle: Yes. The time for hope is past. My intentions are to provide a compromise: full reciprocity, thereby treating ‘the others’ (those who lack agency) as foreigners, with whom we settle differences by market cooperation. However, by advocating ‘market fascism’, and aristocratic rule, I’m advocating taking a parental (paternal) responsibility for the ‘others’, in the kindest sense, a domestication of them for profit, out of self-defense, in the middle of the spectrum, and their extermination at the end of the spectrum. My strategy is to simply state this truthfully. And prepare for war. And choose any of the three options that will be available to us in a state of war. I do not fear them. And there are consequences to exterminating them – although I am not sure all are bad. But to domesticate them for profit as we have done for millennia is a position I have a hard time arguing with. Market slavery is still slavery.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 12:23:00 UTC

  • GOOD, HAD TO RE-SHARE

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/12/09/correcting-aristotles-categories-of-philosophy/SO GOOD, HAD TO RE-SHARE

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-24 12:44:00 UTC