Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • ancap_venetaz@curtdoolittle i hope rothbard comes back from the grave to volunta

    ancap_venetaz@curtdoolittle

    i hope rothbard comes back from the grave to voluntarily slice your neck off

    curtdoolittle@ancap_venetaz,

    Then I’d make him my bitch in person as well. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 22:01:00 UTC

  • My goodness, you silly chipmunk! We are the #NewRight

    My goodness, you silly chipmunk! We are the #NewRight.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 20:23:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760209406067875841

    Reply addressees: @ImFarToTheRight

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    IN REPLY TO:

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  • JOURNALISM /www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-15

    http://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-155957129.htmlDISHONEST JOURNALISM

    /www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-155957129.html

    How can you possibly misunderstand Trump in the context of this conversation unless you’re TRYING to be dishonest?

    Trump’s media-friendly colloquialisms converted to complete sentences:

    “Mark it down: Putin will not invade Ukraine on my watch”

    “The people of Crimea have decided to stick with Russia and it’s hard to argue with that”

    Apparently, the reporter doesn’t grasp that Trump is honest but careless because it always works in his favor: He is singlehandedly ending the media’s influence on the electoral process. And that is why his supporters admire him. They are hoping trump will end the century of pseudoscience and propaganda we call ‘political correctness’.

    TRUTH

    Crimea was a Russian possession and its inclusion with Ukraine a bureaucratic snafu under the late soviets.

    Crimea is Russia’s only warm water port. Strategically there is no comparison for the united states. Only china’s dependence upon the south china sea compares to Russia’s dependence upon the warm water port.

    The Donbas Basin bordering Russia is where the Soviets built many of their arms factories – and without those factories, the Russian army could not continue to modernize – their plans would have been set back as much as a decade.

    Putin ‘panicked’ when Yakunovych (the corrupt ex president) arrived in Moscow and said that the Ukrainian revolution was a western coup (it was a local reaction by nearly everyone in Ukraine to the decision not to join the EU and save the Ukrainian economy, and her people, from constant poverty.) When the fires of revolution started in Moscow and St Petersburg He panicked further.

    Instead of calling western leaders and saying “I am sorry that I must do this but it is a strategic necessity that Russia cannot do without and we will compensate the Ukrainians with discounted petroleum products for decades to pay for it”, he used reverse asymmetric warfare, and captured Crimea and started the fighting in the Donbas. Then he sent ‘little green men’ to capture Crimea, more to invade the Donbas, armed the local unions and gangsters to the teeth, and sent waves of 200 to 400 white trucks with so-called ’emergency supplies’ to dismantle the equipment at the arms factories and, ship it back to Russia where the plants could be reconstructed and the maintenance and repair of the Russian military could continue.

    Russians are who they are for the simple reason that they cannot believe Americans are as naive as we have demonstrated that we are with our idealism. Putin was happy to join nato and the west. It is incomprehensible to Putin that he must conduct an HONEST educational campaign to win over the American people first. And incomprehensible to him that our state department is stupid enough to ask Russia to follow regular process for such things. This is not how ‘things are done’ in Russia. They do not beg.

    This is something Trump understands.

    That is why he doesn’t speak in platitudes.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 13:35:00 UTC

  • Yes. Taleb and I are working on a similar problem for similar reasons from oppos

    Yes. Taleb and I are working on a similar problem for similar reasons from opposite ends of the spectrum. He:Macro/Me:Micro

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 13:08:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760099917088030720

    Reply addressees: @wjfrisby

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    @wjfrisby

    @curtdoolittle Taleb says something like this in Antifragile, doesn’t he? (Chapter 4: “What Kills Me Makes Others Stronger”).

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760073205616967680

  • excellent. Quotable. Quoted. Shared

    excellent. Quotable. Quoted. Shared.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 13:06:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760099395765403648

    Reply addressees: @wjfrisby

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760073708853755905

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    @wjfrisby

    @curtdoolittle The resilience of the collective derives in part from willingness of brittle individual components to sacrifice themselves.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/760073708853755905

  • COSTS OF TRUTH (worth repeating)

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/the-costs-of-truth/THE COSTS OF TRUTH

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 01:34:00 UTC

  • Rothbard and mises are pretty easy to ‘put down’. It doesn’t mean that they didn

    Rothbard and mises are pretty easy to ‘put down’. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t make contributions. But that those contributions are a fractional part of their works, and that their greater ambitions: mises to cast economics as a branch of logic rather than the science of cooperation; and Rothbard to cast low trust intersubjectively verifiable property rights of ghettos, bazaars and borderlands tolerated by empires as sufficient for the construction of a condition of liberty in their absence.

    I think what we are seeing is the ‘abandonment of hope’ that any ideology can obtain consensus by consensus, and instead that any model must be obtained by force.

    (_ Including those models of: authoritarian utopian universalist jews (socialists), authoritarian utopian universalist jews (necons), authoritarian universalist Christians (progressives), particularist classical liberals (American contractualism/constitutionalists), particularist authoritarian familialists (social conservatives), highly particularist reactionary conservatives ( hard right ), reactionary separatist jews and Christians (libertarians), and utopian reactionary separatists (left libertarians). _)

    The corporate model failed. The real problem we face is that we will appeal to Ceasars unless we find an institutional solution to heterogeneous polities, and leave behind the monopoly majoritarianism of small homogenous and capital constrained polities which has clearly failed to scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-31 15:08:00 UTC

  • If you are still an anarcho capitalist, there is hope: we can cure you. You need

    If you are still an anarcho capitalist, there is hope: we can cure you.

    You need no longer play a useful idiot on behalf of cosmopolitan pseudoscience.

    Although honestly it’s kind of hard to imagine people still suffer from it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-31 11:35:00 UTC

  • Just thinking again about colonization post you wrote yesterday. And just wanted

    Just thinking again about colonization post you wrote yesterday.

    And just wanted to thank you for what you have taught me. It seems like every time I start to stumble into a hole you save me from it.

    Strange synchronicity.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-29 07:18:00 UTC

  • CAPLAN ALWAYS REQUIRES A TABLESPOON OF SALT Caplan’s opinion, like most of his o

    CAPLAN ALWAYS REQUIRES A TABLESPOON OF SALT

    Caplan’s opinion, like most of his opinions, is not about western civilization in the same sense as westerners use the term in the Greco/Roman, Germanic, or Anglo, American, French, and German enlightenment thinkers: as the struggle for rule of law and truth, goodness and beauty.

    Instead, Caplan’s misattribution of ‘western civilization’ is the Cosmopolitan (Ashkenazi) enlightenment vision of a universal market of high consumption combined with the British Imperial Marketplace that transformed British civilization from a germanic Hanseatic one prior to 1830’s expansion of the industrial revolution, to a purely commercial international one after 1830, under Disraeli and Gladstone.

    Once you understand that he is not talking about western civilization at all, but cosmopolitan, his arguments are a little more transparent – and always consistent.

    The west didn’t develop first, it developed fastest. Why? It’s counter-intuitive: martial epistemology and the oath of the intitatic brotherhood of soldiers, the economics of concentrating family wealth into technology (bronze, horses, chariots and their descendants) for use by professional warriors, and the voluntary construction of armies from these voluntary associations. The reward for which was enfranchisement in freedom: the reciprocal insurance of one’s property from theft and conquest. Conversely given the wetness of our terrain, and its oceans, seas, and rivers, we never had to create a monopoly organization to control irrigation that caused the centralization of authority and capital in the flood-river civilizations. Instead, we constructed manorialism, which was the control of territory and its allocation to those best able to use it.

    Out of these conditions we developed argument, reason, common law, natural law, jury, senate, independent judiciary, private property, contract.

    And these processes from ideas, to organizations, to production to institutions, to armies can adapt faster as a group than any other known human social order.

    So the west defeated the rest not because it was first, because it was fastest. And it was fastest for the simple reason that we discovered ‘truth’ in the objective sense, and it was more valuable to us than the propaganda and deception necessary for central governments to organize multitudes for alternative, more communal, means of production.

    We discovered truth. Truth gave us trust. Trust gave us velocity. And we were (and are) faster than the rest because of it.

    Truth is the secret of the west.

    (That and that we’re the most eugenic civilization aside from the Ashkenazim).

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-28 08:05:00 UTC