Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • How It Begins

    Apr 22, 2020, 5:33 PM By James Dmitro Makienko This is exactly how Arab Spring started nearly ten years ago – and Maria’s father predicted it ten years before it happened – looking at the dynamic of unemployment among young men in middle eastern countries. When young men have no opportunities in economic, intellectual or sexual marketplaces they take their talents to the marketplace of violence. It is a high-risk – high reward (or rate of return) enterprise. They form packs to see if they can equalize, distribute and reduce high risk (i.e learn basic squad tactics). Then it scales. Squads -> platoons -> companies -> battalions -> regiments -> brigades(or divisions) – > corps -> armies -> state. They keep using violence to get returns while there is an economic incentive for them to do so, or until they meet far greater violence that they cannot easily overcome. And this is how the new elite eventually emerges. Through their merit of how they balance violence, economics and scalability.

  • How It Begins

    Apr 22, 2020, 5:33 PM By James Dmitro Makienko This is exactly how Arab Spring started nearly ten years ago – and Maria’s father predicted it ten years before it happened – looking at the dynamic of unemployment among young men in middle eastern countries. When young men have no opportunities in economic, intellectual or sexual marketplaces they take their talents to the marketplace of violence. It is a high-risk – high reward (or rate of return) enterprise. They form packs to see if they can equalize, distribute and reduce high risk (i.e learn basic squad tactics). Then it scales. Squads -> platoons -> companies -> battalions -> regiments -> brigades(or divisions) – > corps -> armies -> state. They keep using violence to get returns while there is an economic incentive for them to do so, or until they meet far greater violence that they cannot easily overcome. And this is how the new elite eventually emerges. Through their merit of how they balance violence, economics and scalability.

  • Compassion Is an Individual Action, Not a Collective One

    Apr 22, 2020, 5:38 PM by Matt MacBradaigh One can only be compassionate as an individual action, not a collective one. When one tries to extend collective compassion, what happens is recipient (a small segment of society) benefits irreciprocally at the expense of others. Examples: “Compassion” for repeat criminal offenders, “It’s not their fault; it’s the system. Blah blah blah” is at at the expense of those whom are the next repeat criminal offender’s victims. It’s total LACK of compassion for everyone else to satisfy ones feelz. It’s actually downright selfish. “Compassion” for the poor leading to voting for government to take other’s money instead of giving your own, and then engaging in GSRRM to shame anyone who balks at being stolen from.

  • Compassion Is an Individual Action, Not a Collective One

    Apr 22, 2020, 5:38 PM by Matt MacBradaigh One can only be compassionate as an individual action, not a collective one. When one tries to extend collective compassion, what happens is recipient (a small segment of society) benefits irreciprocally at the expense of others. Examples: “Compassion” for repeat criminal offenders, “It’s not their fault; it’s the system. Blah blah blah” is at at the expense of those whom are the next repeat criminal offender’s victims. It’s total LACK of compassion for everyone else to satisfy ones feelz. It’s actually downright selfish. “Compassion” for the poor leading to voting for government to take other’s money instead of giving your own, and then engaging in GSRRM to shame anyone who balks at being stolen from.

  • The State as A Monopoly on Violence Is Evidently False.

    Apr 24, 2020, 2:11 PM   The westphalian peace resulted in the demand between states that the state maintain a monopoly on violence. The muslims do the opposite and ended the westphalian peace. The state cannot in fact and never has had, a monopoly on violence. It still doesn’t. It just tries. What defines a state is not it’s monopoly on violence but it’s capacity to produce the incentives that produce order with violence among those incentives.

  • The State as A Monopoly on Violence Is Evidently False.

    Apr 24, 2020, 2:11 PM   The westphalian peace resulted in the demand between states that the state maintain a monopoly on violence. The muslims do the opposite and ended the westphalian peace. The state cannot in fact and never has had, a monopoly on violence. It still doesn’t. It just tries. What defines a state is not it’s monopoly on violence but it’s capacity to produce the incentives that produce order with violence among those incentives.

  • Maturity of Your Political Preference

    Apr 25, 2020, 8:35 AM MATURITY OF YOUR POLITICAL PREFERENCE “The Limits of Calculability” 1. Communism (Family) > 2. … Socialism (Extended Family) > 3. … … Classical Liberalism (Community – Market) > 4. … … … Rule of Law (Nation(People) – Multiple Markets) > 5. … … … … Military (Territory(International) – Competing Markets).

  • Maturity of Your Political Preference

    Apr 25, 2020, 8:35 AM MATURITY OF YOUR POLITICAL PREFERENCE “The Limits of Calculability” 1. Communism (Family) > 2. … Socialism (Extended Family) > 3. … … Classical Liberalism (Community – Market) > 4. … … … Rule of Law (Nation(People) – Multiple Markets) > 5. … … … … Military (Territory(International) – Competing Markets).

  • The university system has been handing out ‘indulgences’ instead of ‘diplomas’ f

    The university system has been handing out ‘indulgences’ instead of ‘diplomas’ for decades. And selecting against the best for a long time, because the ‘best’ requires three properties: ability, conscientiousness, and morality. Without at test for morality it’s pointless.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-20 13:53:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1263105556010549249

    Reply addressees: @StevePender

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1263103997176676352

  • (It’s not true.) Liberals (tiny) < democrates (huge) <- the uncommitted -> repub

    (It’s not true.)
    Liberals (tiny) < democrates (huge) <- the uncommitted -> republicans (large) > libertarians (tiny)

    Republicans are smarter than Democrats (Achievement – male bias).

    Liberals smarter than Conservatives (Degrees – female bias).

    Libertarians the smartest.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-19 22:21:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1262871041287864327

    Reply addressees: @JulieBorowski

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1262869651102609409