Curt Doolittle

Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence

  • Illegal, Not Illegal, And Legal.

    (Friend reminds me this is beneath my purview. This post is not about weed, but about markets and the scope of permissible behavior under law.) A Post on ‘weed’ reminded me to make an important point: We do not choose between ILLEGAL, and LEGAL … … but between: ILLEGAL, NOT-ILLEGAL, and LEGAL: SEQUENCE: 0 – Bearable but not Usable ( Grandfathered ) 1 – Usable but not producible ( Personal ) 2 – Producible but not exchangeable, (Private) 3 – Exchangeable but not commercial, (Hobby Market) 4 – Commercial but not industrial, (Craft Market) 5 – Industrial but regulated, (Commercial Market) 6 – Industrial but unregulated (Almost Never). IMO ‘weed’ should have been made not-illegal in Private and Commons but not in Markets. In other words, producible, exchangeable, but not marketable. Commercialization was a mistake. And it was (measurably) unnecessary.

  • Considering The Mainstream Media Bias In Favor Of Democrats, Does This Show That Us Media Is Broken And Must Be Taken Over By The Us Government?

    It shows that it’s time for extending the warranty of due diligence that we demand of products and services, to that of media and information, and to restore defamation (libel and slander) to their historical positions.

    The era of politics by “propaganda in the form of gossip” needs to end.

    https://www.quora.com/Considering-the-mainstream-media-bias-in-favor-of-Democrats-does-this-show-that-US-media-is-broken-and-must-be-taken-over-by-the-US-government

  • Is Socialism Always Authoritarian? Could Capitalism Be Authoritarian? If So, What Is An Example Of Authoritarian Capitalism?

    You are, as is common, due to ‘suggestion’ (deception) by false dichotomy, falling prey to the wrong question. the question is do you want rule of law resulting in markets, or rule by discretion (command), resulting in the absence of markets.

    The answer is, that the contemporary fantasy is that we should maximize our abiity to extract taxation in order to maximize redistsribution. This is good for dysgenic families and individuals. The opposite proosal is to minimize taxation and redistribution, and fund eugenic (meritocratic) families and individuals.

    The free riders (the majority) that do not compete in the market but join large organizations whether private, semi-private, or public, and those who ‘talk for a living’ meaning teachers, academics, media, and politicians, can use democracy to extract from eugenic families and productive individuals in order to fund dysgenic families and unproductive, parasitic, and predatory individuals.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-socialism-always-authoritarian-Could-capitalism-be-authoritarian-If-so-what-is-an-example-of-authoritarian-capitalism

  • Considering The Mainstream Media Bias In Favor Of Democrats, Does This Show That Us Media Is Broken And Must Be Taken Over By The Us Government?

    It shows that it’s time for extending the warranty of due diligence that we demand of products and services, to that of media and information, and to restore defamation (libel and slander) to their historical positions.

    The era of politics by “propaganda in the form of gossip” needs to end.

    https://www.quora.com/Considering-the-mainstream-media-bias-in-favor-of-Democrats-does-this-show-that-US-media-is-broken-and-must-be-taken-over-by-the-US-government

  • My answer to What are good introductory books to study about states, politics, a

    My answer to What are good introductory books to study about states, politics, and public laws? https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 14:44:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946753824110399490

  • What Are Good Introductory Books To Study About States, Politics, And Public Laws?

    THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF

    The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian), Rousseauian (Social-Democratic) and Marxist(socialist and communist) SELF PROJECTIONS of the nature of man. When in reality, our physical brains are structured in a spectrum from the very masculine(Aryan), to the very feminine (Marxist), and we are totally incognizant of our cognitive biases.

    So the first problem is understanding MAN before we can judge rule, government, politics, economics, norms, and religion. And that is provided by science. Then we can understand Politics.

    OUR MINDS (PREPARE YOU)
    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)
    Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (The Cognitive Biases)
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
    Paul Fussell: Class (the class biases)
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    MAN (POLITICAL ORDERS)
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
    Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay

    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST (IF YOU ARE INTERESTED)
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW (Rule of Law)
    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.
    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20th CENTURY CONTEXT (WHAT WENT WRONG)
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws

  • What’s The Difference Between Communism And Libertarianism?

    In Communism private property is abolished in order to create exclusively common property. (Rule By Discretion)

    In Libertarianism, common property is abolished in order to create exclusively private property. (Anarchy)

    In Classical Liberalism (Rule of Law), the houses of government constitute a market for the voluntary production of commons between the people who pay for them with sacrifice of their private property. (Rule of Law)

    https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-communism-and-libertarianism

  • What Are Good Introductory Books To Study About States, Politics, And Public Laws?

    THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF

    The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian), Rousseauian (Social-Democratic) and Marxist(socialist and communist) SELF PROJECTIONS of the nature of man. When in reality, our physical brains are structured in a spectrum from the very masculine(Aryan), to the very feminine (Marxist), and we are totally incognizant of our cognitive biases.

    So the first problem is understanding MAN before we can judge rule, government, politics, economics, norms, and religion. And that is provided by science. Then we can understand Politics.

    OUR MINDS (PREPARE YOU)
    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)
    Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (The Cognitive Biases)
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
    Paul Fussell: Class (the class biases)
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    MAN (POLITICAL ORDERS)
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
    Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay

    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST (IF YOU ARE INTERESTED)
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW (Rule of Law)
    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.
    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20th CENTURY CONTEXT (WHAT WENT WRONG)
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws

  • Dec 26, 2017, 5:48 AM

    http://katehon.com/article/uniqueness-western-lawUpdated Dec 26, 2017, 5:48 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-26 05:48:00 UTC

  • Hence, devolve the federal government to insurer of last resort and return to st

    Hence, devolve the federal government to insurer of last resort and return to states, control over norms lost during the civil war. The constitution was constructed from natural law (reciprocity). Restore it. That’s why we fight: incompatible group evolutionary strategies.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-26 03:02:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/945489990972305408

    Reply addressees: @conradhackett

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/942639410599821312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @conradhackett

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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/942639410599821312