Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • WILL WILL DELAY AND DISTRACT UNTIL THE WEST IS DISTRACTED –” As a Russian analy

    http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2014/07/window-on-eurasia-putin-never-backs.htmlPUTIN WILL WILL DELAY AND DISTRACT UNTIL THE WEST IS DISTRACTED

    –” As a Russian analyst notes Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” in his 15 year rule. His KGB training requires him to double down, fight his way out, turn up the pressure, never admit, never retreat. He will continue his support of his proxies in east Ukraine and hope that the West’s attention span will be short.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 15:06:00 UTC

  • WHAT WAS THE AGENDA OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL? —“facilitating radical individual

    WHAT WAS THE AGENDA OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL?

    —“facilitating radical individualism (social atomization) among gentiles while retaining a powerful sense of group cohesion among Jews—the agenda of the Frankfurt School.”—

    You know, truth would have worked a lot better. Why wasn’t the truth amenable? Was there some reason that truth was problematic? Why is it that our tribes cannot unite? Would identity be lost? Has it been lost to any tribe? No. Why cannot we form a global elite that is mutually beneficial?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 14:24:00 UTC

  • I LOVE PUTTING ANOTHER SPEAR INTO ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINISM I didn’t expect to com

    I LOVE PUTTING ANOTHER SPEAR INTO ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINISM

    I didn’t expect to come to the conclusion that the west’s advantage is truth telling.

    But if my argument against the NAP/IVP wasn’t enough of a moral one to provide ideological fervor to a population, the fact that libertinism is desirable by ‘the people who lie” and aristocracy desirable by “the people who tell the truth”, certainly is inspiring, morally inciting, and a single concept to which a movement can be reduced.

    “The People Who Speak The Truth”

    Everyone else lies. It’s pretty good. You can build a an ideology, a philosophy, a movement, a government, and a civilization on that principle.

    “The People Who Insure One Another’s Property With The Promise Of Violence”

    Everyone else is a free rider.

    “The People Who Choose Sovereignty Instead of Submission”

    Everyone else is merely a slave. And they deserve the results of their slavery.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 02:11:00 UTC

  • LIBER-TARDS, ASPIE-TARIANS, IMMORAL-TARIANS?

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ron-paul-is-putin-s-new-best-friend-20140721WTF – LIBER-TARDS, ASPIE-TARIANS, IMMORAL-TARIANS?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 14:51:00 UTC

  • EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE? The author gives an accurate depiction

    http://skibinsky.com/no-russian/THE EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE?

    The author gives an accurate depiction of how Ukraine escaped the Moscow Mafia. But is he correct in his somewhat colloquial analysis of the russian government? I think so. Economists agree. Although not in such unpleasant terms.

    Too bad. I had great hopes for russia. I love russians and russian culture. But can they do what the Ukrainian’s have done? Throw out the mafia? I don’t think so. Half the country is on the dole.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 13:59:00 UTC

  • “Curt, why do you post where people disagree with you and you disagree with them

    “Curt, why do you post where people disagree with you and you disagree with them?”

    My first impulse is to say thats a profoundly stupid question. Are you sure you want to ask it?

    The next most obvious response is to ask what I will learn from people who agree with me.

    Of course the answer is scientific: because I learn more.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 05:29:00 UTC

  • VERDICT: CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHERS? THEY’RE TERRIBLE. Seriously. You know, I cri

    VERDICT: CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHERS? THEY’RE TERRIBLE.

    Seriously. You know, I criticize libertarians for a nonsensical view of man every day, but at least we produce pretty rigorous philosophy now and then. At least SOME logical and institutional innovations.

    Sure we have conservative public intellectuals – most of them neocons. Murray’s an analyst, not a philosopher. But philosophers?

    Who have we got really? Sowell, maybe Weaver? In the past we’ve had only Oakeshott, Burke, Locke, Hume, De Tocqueville and Smith? Is Hayek a conservative (protestations to the contrary). I think so. It is possible to make conservative arguments rationally and scientifically – Sowell does it. Why is it that its rare? Are scientists procedurally conservative, even if their incentives encourage them to be politically progressive? I don’t know. I do know that science at the moment is doing a phenomenal job of reversing a century and a half of progressive psuedoscience. That does not mean scientists are conservative. It does mean however that conservatives operate scientifically: if it can’t happen without the government interfering, then it shouldn’t happen. Let the evidence present itself for all of us to judge. Take small risks. Human hubris is a dangerous thing.

    What have the progressives got? I mean, the list is endless.

    Why are we so bad at understanding ourselves, but so good at understanding the physical world?

    Not sure I can answer that quite yet.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 01:38:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://ish.re/CV6F

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:33:00 UTC

  • ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM —“The completeness of Nozick’s compos

    ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM

    —“The completeness of Nozick’s composition is remarkable: he touches somewhere in the book, however lightly, almost every note of American decadence. Gandhi is there. The necessary deference to feminism is there. The necessary reproof to “racism” is there. Carlos Castaneda is there, referred to as though he were a thinker, which he is not… . Drugs of course are there, and in no unfavorable light: drugs may have their place, Nozick thinks, in “the treatment for philosophical parochialism.” Has he left anything out? Is there anyone in post-Vietnam America who needs to be placated, whom he has not placated? This was obviously a worry, and there is a nervous catch-all reference to “children’s rights, the treatment of animals, domination and ecological awareness.””—-

    –“Nozick looked forward to a new version of philosophy that would replace arguments with a kinder, gentler alternative—explanations—because arguments, after all, attempt “to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not.”—

    From David Stove

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:24:00 UTC

  • DECREASES TRUSTWOTHINESS

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/07/whod-a-thunk-it-socialism-is-demoralizing-socially-corrosive-and-promotes-individual-dishonesty-and-cheating/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29#mblSOCIALISM DECREASES TRUSTWOTHINESS

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-19 14:17:00 UTC