Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • (wow, I have written more on race than I thought)

    (wow, I have written more on race than I thought)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-04 10:25:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-03 19:16:00 UTC

  • ( I find writing about technology cathartic.)

    ( I find writing about technology cathartic.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-03 14:44:00 UTC

  • I am a very simple automaton. I am a bit of an aspie. I sense everything intense

    I am a very simple automaton. I am a bit of an aspie. I sense everything intensely. I like watching, and thinking.

    But I don’t like conflict. And unfortunately, I was raised in an angry, violent, unpredictable home that I sensed intensely. I was raised in time and place where violence among young men was expected and common. It was horrible. And inescapable. So I learned to fight, to fight often, and to fight with cunning, and vicious. (Mostly wrestle larger people to the ground and exhaust them.) As an adult I carried a gun almost all the time. They are great equalizers of size, and favor thought and calm.

    But amidst that chaos, anger, and violence I wanted to escape. I can’t empathize quite as much as everyone else, so I break everything into these tiny pieces that don’t require any empathy to test – they’re purely causal. And there is nothing left to reduce. I don’t have to rely on introspection or feelings.

    And that’s the secret you know.

    I just solved for ‘Can you damned ignorant idiots just fucking cooperate for mutual benefit so that I can be a hamster? Because as a quiet little hamster, I am too often the victim of your stupidity.’

    I just did it longer and harder than anyone else had. 😉

    And in the end, in my maturity, I understood that unless you raise the cost of not cooperating truthfully, by the threat of violence, that people simply are too damned lazy to learn enough about one another to identify opportunities for productive voluntary exchange.

    Ergo I evolved as a consequence of circumstances to explain the natural law of cooperation – and the dedication and confidence and will to punish the fucking hell out of everyone who even THINKS about breaking it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-03 13:00:00 UTC

  • CURT: WILL YOU [Answer, Advise, Inspire] ME [or our Group], IF WE WANT TO [Learn

    CURT: WILL YOU [Answer, Advise, Inspire] ME [or our Group], IF WE WANT TO [Learn, Plan, Take Action]?

    Um. I it’s my job. I am accessible, I am free for the asking. Just ask. I answer questions all day long. I love doing it. I love enthusiasm.

    Now, as for Interviews? I won’t do interviews unless you’re ready to ask me specific questions on a specific topic. I don’t care if the conversation veers in various directions once we get there. But good questions are evidence of your ability to interview me. I don’t want or need to promote my work really. I wont just ‘explain propertarianism’ to people any longer. It’s too much for you, your audience, and to tedious for me. 😉 See? Easy. )

    Respect my time. I am not a potential chat buddy. I have plenty of friends. Thanks. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-02 19:18:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “CURT: HOW HAVE YOUR VIEWS CHANGED?” —“Hey Curt. Quick question that I wo

    Q&A: “CURT: HOW HAVE YOUR VIEWS CHANGED?”

    —“Hey Curt. Quick question that I would like you to expand upon if you wish. Could you expand upon how your thought process has change or stayed the same from the 80s to the Curt 90s curt to the now curt doolittle?”—

    CURT

    I think my emotional intuition (what I feel good and bad about) has remained fairly constant.

    I still like to screw around as if I’m a teenager. Seriously. I would live in a dorm with college kids if I could.

    I have a lot more knowledge, and am a lot more articulate, and a lot more social than I was. I have a lot more confidence because of knowledge, ability to articulate, and social experience.

    I cared a lot (waaaay toooo much) about getting girls, then a lot about getting successful, then a lot about getting stuff, and now I don’t care about any of those things.

    I relied upon intuition, and experience, and I have abandoned all of that and I rely upon knowledge and reason mostly.

    I cared a lot about proving myself for a variety of childhood reasons. And once I did (or every time I did) I felt better and better. And I have proven myself in every dimension, and now I don’t need to.

    I think that is the major difference in how I feel. What I wish I could tell my young self is that stuff and women don’t matter – do what you love and are good at. The other things come by externality.

    Is that what you mean?

    FRIEND

    Yes for the most part.

    Thank thank you for that well worded and thought out answer.

    Also how has your view of the society changed? Or was it that you viewed society through the lenses of which you just stated

    CURT

    I was a typical classical liberal with faith in democracy and rule of law, and my only belief was that monarchy and a parliament was better than the presidency and a house of commons.

    I had greater faith in mankind – I was more optimistic, because I lacked the experience of the world to know the full range of how people can act.

    I am much more forgiving of people because I understand how diverse our abilities are. And I have a fonder appreciation for the working and middle classes, and I have lost all respect for the talking and educated classes.

    I was part of the generation indoctrinated in to feminism, and I ‘bought it’ and it turns out everything I was told was false.

    I dunno. I have always been a bit ‘afraid’ of people because social anxiety runs in my family. and I have a touch of autism that makes it worse. I’ve always been an outsider because of these things. So I don’t know if my perspective is something that can be learned from.

    I would say my swing has mostly been from confused arrogance, to understanding confidence.

    FRIEND

    wow thank you for that. Great stuff and well thought out and stated as always.

    i think you should share this with your readers if you haven’t already.

    xcheers brotha

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-31 13:55:00 UTC

  • YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T) Colloquial verse (

    YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T)

    Colloquial verse (narrative) comes last, not first. I have just finished what looks like 25 years of work, and six to eight of it full time, to ensure I knew what I was talking about. History is full of ‘accessible literature’ that did no good whatsoever, other than to satisfy the cravings of those not needing conversion. I wanted to wait until I knew what I was talking about.

    Our (my group’s) strategy all along has been to complete the work then produce a second version wrapped in literary references (examples pro and con).

    I do not think it is my job or function to talk to the common folk. And I do not think it is possible for me to do it. I think it is much more possible for the followers who enjoy that to do it. And that has been our plan all along.

    And furthermore, your intuition is false. It might be true for populism under democracy, but it won’t shift the world.

    Instead, look what nearly incomprehensible scribblers (like me) have achieved when we produce rigorous systems of thought – we live – largely unconsciously – in a society formed almost entirely by the writings of incomprehensible, often counter-intuitive, in their era-revolutionary, ‘scribblers’.

    And those want to organize people use those scribbles to do so.

    And arguments roll downhill.

    Just how it is.

    I originally did my work in public, becuase it was the only way to get decent criticism in a timely fashion. I kept doing it for that reason. And I continue doing it because I learn a great deal from those who follow me (and increasingly less so from critics).

    So your intuition is incorrect. That’s the evidence. Few people know who Spinoza was, no one has read darwin actually, or keynes, or acquinas, or hume, or kant. Or Marx for that matter. But we all live in societies constructed by the scribblings of these people.

    Power seeks argument.

    It is up to some of us to produce the weapons that those who can exert power seek.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-31 10:45:00 UTC

  • (i’m struggling so hard to speak slowly in interviews that I don’t sound like my

    (i’m struggling so hard to speak slowly in interviews that I don’t sound like myself to me. I used to talk very fast (and still can) and maybe I’ve taken it too far.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-28 08:06:00 UTC

  • ( if you’re gonna use a sock account at least use a damned profile photo … wtf

    ( if you’re gonna use a sock account at least use a damned profile photo … wtf. it’s almost impossible to know who to approve. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-28 06:29:00 UTC

  • bad sleep night. bad software day. wanna break something. (preferably something

    bad sleep night. bad software day. wanna break something.

    (preferably something that psychotic and stupid that bleeds.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-27 18:39:00 UTC