Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • (personal) (international) Now I know what immigrants to american feel like when

    (personal) (international)

    Now I know what immigrants to american feel like when they get their green card. It’s awesome. lol… To know I can call Ukraine one of my homes is an awesome feeling.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-29 05:59:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 05:47:00 UTC

  • GREAT LIBERTARIANS: RON MANNERS (MEETING) Thanks to Yuliya Kocherhan I had a won

    GREAT LIBERTARIANS: RON MANNERS (MEETING)

    Thanks to Yuliya Kocherhan I had a wonderful meting with Ron Manners this morning, and we covered everything from his think tanks progress at educating young people, to how resource-rich countries fund a totalitarian state, to Ukraine’s future and its problem of rule of law, to my work on Propertarianism.

    Ron is a very special man.

    www.mannkal.org

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-27 08:42:00 UTC

  • Резиденция! Я могу остаться в Украине!! (I have residency! I can stay in Ukraine

    Резиденция! Я могу остаться в Украине!!

    (I have residency! I can stay in Ukraine!!!!!!)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-27 08:34:00 UTC

  • NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION

    NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION. SORRY. NO QUARTER, NO MERCY.

    If liberty is a social function for you, then join a tupperware club or something but don’t get in the way. For some of us. Liberty is not entertainment. It’s what we’re working on. It’s what we’re fighting for every day:

    —“Liberty in practice, in our lifetime”—

    (I’m sitting here in Kiev with a very clear view of the fact that liberty is only possible with an armed and trained militia willing to die to preserve their freedom from tyranny. Everything else isn’t freedom, it’s permission.)

    ———–

    *(er. Well, before some Seattleite jumps on me, yes, I have a deserved reputation of ruthlessness, but that’s business too. But in person I’m a hamster. )

    ht: Juan Sebastian Ortiz / Andy Curzon

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 06:49:00 UTC

  • Why? For honor and glory. Isn’t that enough?

    Why? For honor and glory. Isn’t that enough?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 14:19:00 UTC

  • KIEV, UKRAINE IS A LOT LIKE OTTAWA, CANADA. Three days of spring. Three days of

    KIEV, UKRAINE IS A LOT LIKE OTTAWA, CANADA.

    Three days of spring. Three days of fall. An uncomfortably hot summer. And a bitterly cold winter. I love the cold really. The heat though, makes my brain shut down. I hate it. Seattle has spring from the second week of January to the first week of july, and fall from the third week in August to the second week in december. You get just enough winter and summer to know they exist.

    I need a beach.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 07:52:00 UTC

  • Raisinwits 🙂

    Raisinwits 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 17:41:00 UTC

  • REVELATIONS There are revelations that you are glad you had, and revelations tha

    REVELATIONS

    There are revelations that you are glad you had, and revelations that you’re sad you’ve had. I’ve had a lot of great revelations that filled me with awe. And a small number that have filled me with …. depression.

    Most of us remember when we realized our parents are not people we really should listen to any longer.

    The hard one for me was realizing just how dim most people were. They weren’t evil really. The just don’t know better. The idea of going through life like that, as an ordinary person, was terrifying. I was depressed for months.

    Today was just one of those days where you realize that the number of ‘human’ humans is actually very, very small. And the rest are just trained apes that we hope don’t do too much damage.

    How do you know you’re talking to a human? You know when you cross disciplinary boundaries and someone can follow you, and you them. Because the ultimate wisdom is in how we know what we can know, and how to go about the possibility of knowing it. Regardless of discipline.

    Everyone else is just imitating some behavior or other, like a well trained pet.

    I know why Socrates tried to walk out of athens, and why Lao Tzu and St Patrick did. It seems completely hopeless.

    Sigh. Bad day.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 16:54:00 UTC

  • “Out of life’s school of war, that which does not kill us, only serves to make u

    —“Out of life’s school of war, that which does not kill us, only serves to make us stronger.”—

    You can love that statement or fear it. You can seek out those wars to make yourself stronger, or avoid them and remain weaker. Aristocracy like science only learns through testing and failure. Science runs tests – luxury goods, so that all of us may benefit. The wealthy run tests of consumption so that all of us may one day have luxuries as consumer goods. Aristocracy runs tests, so that other people do not have to, and can merely learn from imitation. The common law records our successes and prohibitions and society evolves without intent, every constantly to a ‘stronger’ state, than the one before it.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-16 06:38:00 UTC