Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • QUARTERLY REMINDER – WHAT I DO HERE – FAIR WARNING! For new friends and follower

    QUARTERLY REMINDER – WHAT I DO HERE – FAIR WARNING!

    For new friends and followers, please understand what I do here on FB. It is my sketch pad. I work in public like a village blacksmith where you can peer into the forge and see the experimental work being done – good and bad.

    Propertarianism is a very special thing and you can learn a lot about the world by following me. But it does require that you keep in mind that I am constantly using the community as an experimental pool to test ideas and seek criticism.

    I am slaying a few hundred years of sacred western ideas, and doing so mercilously. This often requires that I experiment in everything from very rigorous philosophy, to the most general of aphorisms and narratives. Some of which are guaranteed to offend you. (And me sometimes, too.)

    But my goal is to capture what made the west competitively successful in our history in formal logical and scientific terms – for the first time, to capture it as an analytic political philosophy, recommend formal institutions, espouse it as an ideology, and provide moral authority for revolution, the strategic and tactical means of conducting that revolution.

    I am not so much a populist as an engineer. Its not my job to be popular. It’s my job to discover the truth.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 08:42:00 UTC

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  • I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average h

    I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average historical investment a philosopher makes in an idea seems to be every waking hour for a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:27:00 UTC

  • Made another leap. Something in the background emerged from ocd frustration. Coo

    Made another leap. Something in the background emerged from ocd frustration. Cool

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:17:00 UTC

  • MY ‘BOSSES’ IN THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTARIANISM You know it’s funny but Properta

    MY ‘BOSSES’ IN THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTARIANISM

    You know it’s funny but Propertarianism is no longer a solo effort. I have a manager, an editor, and multiple advisors, helpful critics, and in some cases, people who are better than I am at USING propertarianism. And it feels a little bit like I’m an engineer on a project trying to create infrastructure.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 03:51:00 UTC

  • (truth: I lucked out in no small part ’cause I was good-looking enough to compen

    (truth: I lucked out in no small part ’cause I was good-looking enough to compensate for the liability. People give you lots of leeway if you’re attractive. And if you smile a lot, work at having good manners and listen to them carefully, they give you even more. But man it was very hard to be a child in my part of the world in that era. Damn. I haven’t thought about it much, but believe it or not I didn’t say much either. And that helped too. No point talking when no one understands you – smiling and listening work better. Books are your friends. Today kids like us have internet, computers and other toys to amuse ourselves with. But a small farm town with three television channels is a pretty boring place for an infovore. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 22:26:00 UTC

  • (You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financi

    (You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financial risk, and late in delivering it, as well as successfully advancing not just political philosophy, but very possibly the discipline of philosophy itself, and working on building an intellectual and political movement, while living in a strange new world where nothing is financially, politically or militarily stable. I just recovered my health, two years after nearly kicking the damn bucket with my third serious illness. … I can only do so much OK? I’m only freaking human. Damn… It’s freaking interesting to watch drama on tv, but living it isn’t exactly for the feeble. Entrepreneurs – and philosophers for that matter – make a difference not so much by being smarter, but by working more hours on a single problem than anyone else is willing to. Kant, Smith and Einstein – not to forget Keyenes – just spent absurd numbers of hours on their ideas. Ideas aren’t that special – effort is. Spending 80,000 hours on a problem is just very hard to do, and it takes something on that order to solve a problem no one else has been willing to. But you know: we are all just freaking human. Ok? Me especially. Hospital rooms suck. Avoid them. I would like to avoid seeing another one for a decade if I can. Lead lined rooms protecting others from the radiation you’re giving off is not something I want to experience again. Nor is the conversation that i might wake up and not be able to use my facial muscles. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-05 09:18:00 UTC

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  • (Getting Closer)

    (Getting Closer)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-05 03:47:00 UTC