Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • ENOUGH LYING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. This is just, getting, well, … frankly it

    http://freebeacon.com/iran-white-house-lying-about-details-of-nuke-deal/C’MON. ENOUGH LYING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

    This is just, getting, well, … frankly it’s gone all the way down to absurdly comical.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-27 01:06:00 UTC

  • VIOLENCE: The Source Of Liberty Is The Militia – Every Armed Man. Everything else is decoration and ritual

    A people must consist as an extended, outbred family. The philosophy (religion) of these people must be fairly homogenous. The men must be armed such that the government must fear the people. The source of freedom is not democracy, it is the militia. Democracy is precisely the opposite of freedom. It is incompatible with freedom. Democracy is a means of enacting free riding and rent seeking.

  • VIOLENCE: The Source Of Liberty Is The Militia – Every Armed Man. Everything else is decoration and ritual

    A people must consist as an extended, outbred family. The philosophy (religion) of these people must be fairly homogenous. The men must be armed such that the government must fear the people. The source of freedom is not democracy, it is the militia. Democracy is precisely the opposite of freedom. It is incompatible with freedom. Democracy is a means of enacting free riding and rent seeking.

  • You've Got It Backwards : Aristocracy

    Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.

  • You’ve Got It Backwards : Aristocracy

    Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.

  • You've Got It Backwards : Aristocracy

    Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.

  • You’ve Got It Backwards : Aristocracy

    Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well. It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal. To be human, requires property. The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all. Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.

  • Why Progressives Are In Denial

      Why progressives are in denial over the immorality of GROWTH via CONSUMPTION and IMMIGRATION, rather than GROWTH via CONSTANT POPULATION and INVENTION. Because if they don’t stay buried in denial, they have to admit that their greatest ‘achievement’ of the 20th century was a catastrophic failure that destroyed the inter-GENERATIONAL system of calculation, cooperation and incentives. You know, there isn’t much difference between the necessity of money and prices for temporal coordination, and for the necessity of credit and interest for short inter-temporal coordination, and for the accumulation of wealth, and borrowing for long term, intergenerational coordination. These means of calculating are necessary, not arbitrary. FACTS The following are true; (a) consumption requires that population increases. (b) growth requires that innovation increases (c) consumption is not growth it is expansion – there is a difference. (d) consumption can finance growth. (e) the limit of consumption to finance growth is determined by the rate of invention produced by the financing of consumption. (There is a tidy graph defined here, but I”m not interested enough to go draw it, so I’ll leave it up to your imagination.) I don’t need to bring up that growth via consumption is dysgenic, and growth via invention is eugenic. We have to think about THE PLANET after all. I also don’t need to bring up that growth via consumption is the (mindless) female reproductive strategy that depends on regulation by nature, and that growth via invention is the (mindful) male reproductive strategy, and that this largely provides the explanation for the differences in voting behavior. NO FREE LUNCH http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-generational-injustice-of-social.html

  • Why Progressives Are In Denial

      Why progressives are in denial over the immorality of GROWTH via CONSUMPTION and IMMIGRATION, rather than GROWTH via CONSTANT POPULATION and INVENTION. Because if they don’t stay buried in denial, they have to admit that their greatest ‘achievement’ of the 20th century was a catastrophic failure that destroyed the inter-GENERATIONAL system of calculation, cooperation and incentives. You know, there isn’t much difference between the necessity of money and prices for temporal coordination, and for the necessity of credit and interest for short inter-temporal coordination, and for the accumulation of wealth, and borrowing for long term, intergenerational coordination. These means of calculating are necessary, not arbitrary. FACTS The following are true; (a) consumption requires that population increases. (b) growth requires that innovation increases (c) consumption is not growth it is expansion – there is a difference. (d) consumption can finance growth. (e) the limit of consumption to finance growth is determined by the rate of invention produced by the financing of consumption. (There is a tidy graph defined here, but I”m not interested enough to go draw it, so I’ll leave it up to your imagination.) I don’t need to bring up that growth via consumption is dysgenic, and growth via invention is eugenic. We have to think about THE PLANET after all. I also don’t need to bring up that growth via consumption is the (mindless) female reproductive strategy that depends on regulation by nature, and that growth via invention is the (mindful) male reproductive strategy, and that this largely provides the explanation for the differences in voting behavior. NO FREE LUNCH http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-generational-injustice-of-social.html

  • (CORE) On Race And Diversity In Libertarianism

    (cross posted for reference) (insights) (important) METHODS Methods of justification for libertarianism (or any other political and moral bias) 1) Sentimental (I like it) 2) Moral (it’s better) 3) Historical (it works) 4) Empirical (direct experimentation) 5) Economic (indirect experimentation) 6) Ratio-scientific (cumulative evidence and theory) TWO SOURCES OF LIBERTARIAN THOUGHT 1) Conservative and Classical Liberal Land holders (christian) 2) Anarchic and religious non-land holders (jewish/gypsies) FOUR SOCIAL STRUCTURES 1) German (Kant/hierarchical/duty/nuclear family) 2) French ( Rousseau/equalitarian/care/traditional family) 3) British (smith-hume+ / aristocratic egalitarian / empirical/ absolute nuclear family) 4) Jewish (ricardo-mises-rothbard/tribalism) FOUR AMBITIONS 1) The british saw free trade as an international means of achieving peace and prosperity for all europeans. 2) The germans were trying to resist british consumerism’s disruption of ‘social order’ implicit in german ‘duty’. 3) The french were trying to extend the family to all of society, and demonstrate their nobility having failed to conquer Europe. (The failures of the world wars and transformation from demonstrated material achievement, to the use of generosity and diversity to maintain status, explain current european behavior.) 4) The jews were and are, trying to justify their participation in a host society without integrating. THE ANSWER There are two basic reasons for ‘tolerance’ in the libertarian movement. 1) Jewish authors justifying right to inclusion but denial of the necessity of payment into the commons. 2) christian authors arguing for payment only into non monopolistic commons, while retaining a homogenous moral commons. 3) feminist and postmodernist influences. DOMINANCE OF JEWISH THOUGHT I think that Rothbard brought his heritage to the table (just as Hayek stated of Mises) and he conflated the two ambitions. This is actually, the reason why rothbard failed to give us a morally tolerable libertarianism. And it is why libertarianism fails to gain traction. Humans are tribal. Immigration is a political problem. And human seek political power. So it is better to have a homogenous, liberty seeking people, for whom no seizure of power is of any group benefit, because the group is already in power. And there is no incentive for status achievement, because in a homogenous society, there is no status value to trying to gain power. HOPPE’S CORRECTION Hoppe, through admittedly interesting logic, has shown that rothbard was wrong. I have I think, with rather scientific rather than purely rational terms, demonstrated that Rothbard was wrong. CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT There is a very great difference between ‘we will not fight despite our differences if we trade’ and ‘we are all equal and can politically cohabitate without conflict’. Politics is a family matter. Trade is a cross-family matter. We can easily trade, but we cannot be politically diverse without replacing conflict over trade with conflict over politics. ROTHBARD WAS WRONG. THE STATUS ECONOMY RULES. We don’t ‘need’ much as human beings, except to hold onto our status, improve our status, and prevent loss of status. Loss aversion is more applicable to status than any other human trait except perhaps life and limb. We accumulate status, and desperately hold onto it.