Curt Doolittle

Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS” “We have the right to…” Translated: “We do not violate

    TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS”

    “We have the right to…”

    Translated:

    “We do not violate the principle of cooperation by doing ….”

    It’s almost always false. Cooperation isn’t a question of equality, but one of incentives. If you engage in parasitism, I don’t have the incentive to cooperate with you.

    The first question of politics is: Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? So when you say “We have the right to…”, you’re saying this won’t make you prefer to kill me and take my stuff.

    And that means that whenever the statement ‘if I have the right to…” occurs, the question is only whether the speaker is engaging in parasitism or not. If he is engaging in parasitism then he doesn’t have a right whatsoever.

    So claiming one has a right is a contrary indicator – almost always. You do not possess a right, you possess a prohibition. You are prohibited from parasitism. The other fellow has demanded a right of non-parasitism in order to rationally cooperate with you.

    So when you speak honestly, you find that the response is quite different.

    All talk of ‘rights’ is a means of deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 01:59:00 UTC

  • The Cost of Learning Propertarianism

    (worth repeating) [P]ropertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    ‪#‎propertarianism‬

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • The Cost of Learning Propertarianism

    (worth repeating) [P]ropertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    ‪#‎propertarianism‬

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • THE COST OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM (worth repeating) Propertarianism is like l

    THE COST OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM

    (worth repeating)

    Propertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    #propertarianism

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 05:35:00 UTC

  • Updating Our Ancient Trinity: Truth, Beauty and Morality


    [T]he greeks just couldn’t figure out what they meant by “Goodness”.  But, I have. It’s productivity on the Obverse, and prohibition of free riding on the Reverse.

    It’s do not unto others that you wold not have done unto you: impose no cost is the fee for entry into the fruits of the commons, and heroism: contribution to the commons at self sacrifice, in exchange for status.

    Our ancient indo european ancestors were right all along.

    Contribute to the commons.

    That is the west’s unique evolutionary strategy.

  • Updating Our Ancient Trinity: Truth, Beauty and Morality


    [T]he greeks just couldn’t figure out what they meant by “Goodness”.  But, I have. It’s productivity on the Obverse, and prohibition of free riding on the Reverse.

    It’s do not unto others that you wold not have done unto you: impose no cost is the fee for entry into the fruits of the commons, and heroism: contribution to the commons at self sacrifice, in exchange for status.

    Our ancient indo european ancestors were right all along.

    Contribute to the commons.

    That is the west’s unique evolutionary strategy.

  • TRUTH, BEAUTY, MORALITY The greeks just couldn’t figure out what they meant by “

    TRUTH, BEAUTY, MORALITY

    The greeks just couldn’t figure out what they meant by “Goodness”.

    I have. It’s productivity on the Obverse, and prohibition of free riding on the Reverse. It’s do not unto others that you wold not have done unto you: impose no cost is the fee for entry into the fruits of the commons, and heroism: contribution to the commons at self sacrifice, in exchange for status.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-15 03:19:00 UTC

  • The Evolution of Suppression of Free Riding

    [E]volution:

    1) Higher Income reduces opportunity costs and risk (liberalism). Lower income increases opportunity cost and risk(conservatism).

    2) Economic velocity is produced by the centralization of rents, which lowers local (productive) transaction costs at the expense of high total cost (taxation).

    3) Once rents are centralized, we seek to obtain or privatize (redistribute) those rents (economic liberalism) through enfranchisement.

    4) In a perfect world we seek to eliminate those rents (anglo classical liberalism).

    5) But the diversity of ability leads to class warfare since meritocracy is valuable only to a minority, and rents, and parasitismare beneficial to the majority..

    6) In a perfect world we pay the less able, parasitic, and rent seeking minority directly for the maintenance of the meritocratic commons, and thereby circumvent the parasitism of the bureaucratic, and political classes. And perhaps more importantly, prevent the misallocation of capital.

    7) To accomplish this perfect world requires we develop institutions that allow us to produce commons, and pay people for producing those commons: meritocracy included.

    GRAPH

    X-Axis: Equalitarian/Socialist-Compromise/Social Democracy – Meritocratic/Classical Liberal Monarchy.
    Y-Axis: Totalitarian- Democratic – Anarchic
    Z-Axis: Wealth (elimination of transaction costs by the suppression of free riding)

    Suppression of parasitism comes first. Centralize it to eliminate it locally. Then outlaw it, and eliminate it from the central bureaucracy. Economic velocity is determined by the suppression of free riding in all its forms at all levels in the polity.

    (Read Emmanuel Todd’s Invention of Europe. Ricardo Duchsene’s Uniqueness of the West, Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, Hoppe’s Democracy the God that Failed, and follow my humble efforts.)

    Cheers

  • The Evolution of Suppression of Free Riding

    [E]volution:

    1) Higher Income reduces opportunity costs and risk (liberalism). Lower income increases opportunity cost and risk(conservatism).

    2) Economic velocity is produced by the centralization of rents, which lowers local (productive) transaction costs at the expense of high total cost (taxation).

    3) Once rents are centralized, we seek to obtain or privatize (redistribute) those rents (economic liberalism) through enfranchisement.

    4) In a perfect world we seek to eliminate those rents (anglo classical liberalism).

    5) But the diversity of ability leads to class warfare since meritocracy is valuable only to a minority, and rents, and parasitismare beneficial to the majority..

    6) In a perfect world we pay the less able, parasitic, and rent seeking minority directly for the maintenance of the meritocratic commons, and thereby circumvent the parasitism of the bureaucratic, and political classes. And perhaps more importantly, prevent the misallocation of capital.

    7) To accomplish this perfect world requires we develop institutions that allow us to produce commons, and pay people for producing those commons: meritocracy included.

    GRAPH

    X-Axis: Equalitarian/Socialist-Compromise/Social Democracy – Meritocratic/Classical Liberal Monarchy.
    Y-Axis: Totalitarian- Democratic – Anarchic
    Z-Axis: Wealth (elimination of transaction costs by the suppression of free riding)

    Suppression of parasitism comes first. Centralize it to eliminate it locally. Then outlaw it, and eliminate it from the central bureaucracy. Economic velocity is determined by the suppression of free riding in all its forms at all levels in the polity.

    (Read Emmanuel Todd’s Invention of Europe. Ricardo Duchsene’s Uniqueness of the West, Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, Hoppe’s Democracy the God that Failed, and follow my humble efforts.)

    Cheers

  • AVOIDING THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC: NORMS The term is “Norm”. The basis of all moral

    AVOIDING THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC: NORMS

    The term is “Norm”.

    The basis of all moral intuition is the evolutionary requirement that cooperation is only beneficial if it is non-parasitic and mutually productive. So we prohibit free riding (parasitism) on the one hand, and mandate payment of insurance (charity) on the other, and within very near kin, we sacrifice.

    From this simple and necessary instinct, all moral (cooperative) norms evolve.

    Manners (signaling potential), ethics (interpersonal prohibitions), moral (anonymous prohibitions), Myths and Rituals (intergenerational transmission) evolve.

    Meanwhile we compete using signals. If we are successful in universalism we develop castes, if we are successful in familialism we develop families. In no case do we develop equality except within caste or family.

    We evolved cooperation. So cooperation must be more valuable than predation. It is only more valuable (for the strong) if it is non-parasitic and productive. For the weak, parasitism is a necessary evolutionary strategy. But status signals can be bought cheaply in times of asymmetric prosperity. And we can see the 20th century as an experiment in signals.

    Painful. Rational. Scientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 03:58:00 UTC