Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

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    http://people.ucalgary.ca/~frank/habermas.html. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-23 01:16:00 UTC

  • THE CAPABILITY CURVE – HUMOROUS VERSION

    THE CAPABILITY CURVE – HUMOROUS VERSION

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-22 06:54:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-21 02:27:00 UTC

  • Is It True, As John C. Drew Asserts, That He Is “the Only Ph.d. Level, Published Political Scientist Contributing Comments At Quora”?

    I don’t know if he is the only PhD, since there are a lot of PhD’s in Political Science.  You must realize that in America that a PhD does not mean that  you have mastered a field, but it means you have mastered the art of RESEARCH in your field.  And I am fairly sure that most questions are better answered by Pollsters, statisticians and Political Economists than political scientists. I am not sure that those of us who write political philosophy, even the philosophy of political economy, are any better at it than any of the other groups. 

    But, that hedging said, by and large, very few specialists post here, and most of the questions are fraudulent attempts to promote leftism by asking critical questions.  See “The Critical Theory” and “The Culture of Critique” as means of undermining western moral and social structures through obscurantist criticism.

    I tend to only answer questions here if they sound reasonably intelligent and honest, and thats a high bar for this forum.  And it’s getting worse.  Democracy is a pretty good way of peaceful transfer of power, but not a good way of understanding much of anything. It’s a race to the bottom in most cases.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-as-John-C-Drew-asserts-that-he-is-the-only-Ph-D-level-published-political-scientist-contributing-comments-at-Quora

  • Is It True, As John C. Drew Asserts, That He Is “the Only Ph.d. Level, Published Political Scientist Contributing Comments At Quora”?

    I don’t know if he is the only PhD, since there are a lot of PhD’s in Political Science.  You must realize that in America that a PhD does not mean that  you have mastered a field, but it means you have mastered the art of RESEARCH in your field.  And I am fairly sure that most questions are better answered by Pollsters, statisticians and Political Economists than political scientists. I am not sure that those of us who write political philosophy, even the philosophy of political economy, are any better at it than any of the other groups. 

    But, that hedging said, by and large, very few specialists post here, and most of the questions are fraudulent attempts to promote leftism by asking critical questions.  See “The Critical Theory” and “The Culture of Critique” as means of undermining western moral and social structures through obscurantist criticism.

    I tend to only answer questions here if they sound reasonably intelligent and honest, and thats a high bar for this forum.  And it’s getting worse.  Democracy is a pretty good way of peaceful transfer of power, but not a good way of understanding much of anything. It’s a race to the bottom in most cases.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-as-John-C-Drew-asserts-that-he-is-the-only-Ph-D-level-published-political-scientist-contributing-comments-at-Quora

  • Let me correct this a bit. If you can’t make it good, make it big. If you can’t

    Let me correct this a bit.

    If you can’t make it good, make it big.

    If you can’t make it big, make it red.

    If big and red fail, then make it look like a sex organ.

    Then repeat the process.

    Seems to work flawlessly.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 05:22:00 UTC

  • (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 16:58:00 UTC

  • + ELOCUTION + POETRY Bring it back. Today. Daily

    http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ajd1102.0001.001/2?page=root%3Brgn%3Dfull+text%3Bsize%3D100%3Bview%3DimageORATORY + ELOCUTION + POETRY

    Bring it back. Today. Daily.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 16:22:00 UTC

  • ON CONSERVATIVE LITERATURE (books on rational conservatism) –See reading lists

    http://www.propertarianism.com/MORE ON CONSERVATIVE LITERATURE

    (books on rational conservatism)

    –See reading lists at www.propertarianism.com Then “Reading Lists” from the menu–

    My last post was just too narrow so I thought I’d forward this canon on rational conservatism. It doesn’t hold a candle to Libertarian theory because it’s fundamentally an emphasis on the normative rather than political or economic economy. But that’s precisely why we should study it. Conservatives ‘get it’. Even if they can’t talk about it rationally or intelligently. ARATIONAL != IRRATIONAL.

    MORE ON THE ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH

    Jerry z Muller :

    _Conservatism_

    http://www.amazon.com/Conservatism-Anthology-Political-Thought-Present/dp/0691037124/

    _The Other God That Failed_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-that-Failed-Deradicalization/dp/069100823X

    “Us and Them : The enduring power of ethnic nationalism”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63217/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them

    “Capitalism and Inequality : What the right and the left get wrong”

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138844/jerry-z-muller/capitalism-and-inequality

    George H. Nash: _Conservative Intellectual Movement in America_

    http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Intellectual-Movement-America-ebook/dp/B0055PNMQ4

    Robert NIsbett : _The Quest for Community_

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558150587?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=1558150587

    F.A. Hayek : _The Constitution of Liberty_, _The Road to Serfdom_

    RESTORATION SCHEMES

    Mark R Levin : _The Liberty Amendments_ (Restoration)

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Amendments-Restoring-American-ebook/dp/B00CO4IP5M

    (Levin’s ideas are solid but the Genii is out of the bottle. Secession is the only power we have to force a rewrite, and that would simply lead to organized dissolution.)

    Richard M Weaver : _Ideas Have Consequences_ (Philosophy/Ideology)

    http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Have-Consequences-Richard-Weaver-ebook/dp/B00BN4YIGY

    (Weaver’s Philosophical attempt at Restoration.)

    ON ‘THE FALL’

    (Criticism is good. It’s just not an answer to the problem)

    Richard Epstein : _How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution_

    http://www.amazon.com/Progressives-Rewrote-Constitution-Richard-Epstein-ebook/dp/B004XOZ658/

    Whittaker Chambers: _Witness_

    http://www.amazon.com/Witness-Whittaker-Chambers-ebook/dp/B0028085JS/

    Thomas Sowell : _The Vision Of The Anointed_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X

    ON SENTIMENTAL AND ANALOGICAL CONSERVATISM

    (What I want to get away from.)

    Before about 1990, the scientific knowledge did not exist to support conservatism. And the speculation generated by the pseudo-sciences of the 19th century by Marx, Freud, Cantor, The Frankfurt School, the American Marxist Movement, and the American-European Postmodern movement, were successful, particularly in the 1970’s in creating anti-rational ideas in the masses via universities.

    Leo Strauss : _History of Political Philosophy_

    Russell Kirk : _The Conservative Mind_

    ____________ : _The Politics of Prudence_

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Prudence-Russell-Kirk-ebook/dp/B0055PKEX8

    Michael Oakeshott (everything)

    Ostwald Spengler : _The Decline of the West_

    Francis Yockey : _Imperium_ (romantic vision of totalitarian recreation)

    GOING FORWARD – REFORMATION CONTINUES

    The connection between christianity, high victorian language, germanic manners, and our morally loaded aristocratic poetry and literature, is still present in these works. We have, slowly, converted most of our language to that of science, models and the study of incentives and cognitive abilities and biases. We have learned a great deal, slowly, about the institutions, traditions, memes, morals, ethics, manners, myths and metaphysics of western civilization. But most importantly, we have learned enough about political economy, and the influence of norms on that political economy, to discuss ‘the pagan and christian west’ in ratio-scientific rather than ratio-philosophical terms.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 15:33:00 UTC

  • PAUL KRUGMAN : High priest of The Church Of Political Kleptocracy It’s worth doi

    PAUL KRUGMAN : High priest of The Church Of Political Kleptocracy

    It’s worth doing a book on Krugman as an example of Kevin MacDonald’s criticism. I mean, this guy may realize he is a hack, but he may or may not realize that his INTUITIONS are immoral.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-17 12:44:00 UTC