Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • 1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING. “My own fav

    http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-did-british-left-reject.htmlBY 1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING.

    “My own favoured explanation is that the Left realized that its traditional appeal – focused on the abolition of serious material poverty (starvation, homelessness, exposure to life-threatening cold etc.) and equal opportunity according to merit rather than birth.

    “By the 1950s it was apparent that these had already happened – so the Left needed a new agenda, and started systematically lying about reality.

    “This was the ‘turn’ from Old Left to New Left – old Left being about prosperity and opportunity – New Left (which became Political Correctness) about favourable outcomes for designated victim groups, and about ‘oppression’ of these groups conceptualized as psychological suffering rather than life-threatening deprivation. “

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 10:51:00 UTC

  • WE CAN’T GET TO DENMARK REASON #1,475,908 If you want redistribution just break

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/why-swedenizing-the-us-will-never-work/WHY WE CAN’T GET TO DENMARK REASON #1,475,908

    If you want redistribution just break the USA up in to sixty 5M person countries. Over two generations they will all move to be with ‘they and theirs’, and competition will control what legislation cannot.

    Democracy is for extended families and the nordics are all blood relatives.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 10:46:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATIVES ARE BETTER PERSUADERS THAN LIBERTARIANS “Neutrality, Tolerance, an

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006N75LFI/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkWHY CONSERVATIVES ARE BETTER PERSUADERS THAN LIBERTARIANS

    “Neutrality, Tolerance, and Equality are not neutral whatsoever–They’re a conspiracy.”

    Morality is universally comprehensible, intuitive, and emotionally activating. Libertarian economics, politics and reasoning is the best there is. But it doesn’t persuade. Now, the reason it doesn’t persuade I blame on Rothbard. But it’s really an artifact of our moral and religious heritage. We didn’t know how to articulate it until recently, in rational terms.

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006N75LFI?SubscriptionId=AKIAJBFRWAXYFVDX3VKQ&tag=cmpthgh-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B006N75LFI

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 08:16:00 UTC

  • DO YOU REALLY WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT CLOSES PARKS TO PUNISH YOU? Do you really w

    DO YOU REALLY WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT CLOSES PARKS TO PUNISH YOU?

    Do you really want police departments to have military vehicles, military arms, and swat teams?

    Do you really like being farmed like farm animals?

    If you do. THen you’re welcome to it.

    But those of us who don’t. Well. We’re going to have to eventually do something about it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-05 10:33:00 UTC

  • A QUICK REWRITE OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPLES (Comment: Steve Sailor like

    A QUICK REWRITE OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPLES

    (Comment: Steve Sailor likes to pick on libertarians and “Aspergys” as socially clueless. I kind of reject that. The Rothbardians are just ‘wrong’. But the Rothardian movement is moral and ideological, not ratio-scientific. It’s a rebellion movement. And there are good uses for rebellion movements. The protestant movement is the best example. Fundamentalism is an exceptionally effective means of resistance in no small part, because like ideology, religion can be counter to reason and therefore uncriticizable.

    LACK OF ECONOMIC CONTENT

    Libertarians place economic capital ahead of moral capital. Conservatives place moral capital ahead of economic capital. And, as I’ve been arguing, I think that the conservatives are right. We may not have been able to prove that a century ago, but I think we can now. We have enough evidence from a multitude of studies of morality, trust and corruption around the world. And it’s pretty hard to argue with. Without the right institutions you cannot have the right norms. Without the right norms you cannot produce the right economy. Without the right economy you cannot MAINTAIN the right institutions. The circle is pretty challenging to maintain across generations, which themselves are cyclical.

    So again, we see the illustration of the differences between the libertarians and conservatives, as placing different weights on different moral criterial.

    THE CURRENT PRINCIPLES OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

    This list is evolving. Conservatives are notoriously challenged because their arguments are even more morally loaded than libertarians. I’ve tried to improve it a bit.

    And I’m reluctant for a few reasons. THe first is that conservatives are very leery of our rather analytical language. If we express their morals in propertarian terms they seem to feel like all meaning is lost.

    That is the most interesting part of the problem of bringing conservatives into the rational fold.

    LIST

    – Rejection of The Cathedral. A rejection of The Cathedral in all it’s guises: Totalitarian Humanism, Universalism, Political Correctness, (or whatever other names it goes by, such as Universalism or Political Correctness).

    – Particularism.

    A rejection of sociological universalism, egalitarianism, equalitarianism, diversity as regressive, and destructive. And a preference for particularism, innovation, and excellence.

    – Science.

    The use of science and reason as compatible with particularism, as a contrast to the irrationalism of postmodernism that is necessary to provide cover for, and distract from, universalism.

    – Evolution.

    An acceptance of Darwinian evolution, shunning egalitarian political correctness both from the left and from the Trotskyite right.

    – Biodiversity.

    An acceptance of human biodiversity.

    – BioPolitics.

    Particular people’s have varied biological and demographic interests and imperatives.

    – Incompatibility:

    That human populations are not fungible. They are unique. And therefore, skepticism about mass Third World immigration.

    – Political Institutions.

    The recognition that there is no single best political order. As Aristotle notes in the Politics, some ethnicities are better suited for totalitarianism, some monarchy; some for aristocracy; others, for participatory forms of government such as the city state.

    – Aristocracy:

    Freedom and Democracy are Incompatible. Liberty is incompatible with democracy, and democracy leads to mediocrity.

    – Uneven Progress: An acceptance of science and futurism as a means to improve at least some peoples’ lives. And a recognition that ‘progress’ will be available only to some, and not the entire human population.

    – Religion: Atheistic, Agnostic and with a preference for Ancestral Neopaganism or a form of Christianity that is ethnocentric and particularist.

    – Introspection:

    The end of ‘White Man’s Burden’ as well as ‘Colonial Guilt’ and ‘White Guilt’. We dragged humanity out of ignorance and poverty kicking and screaming. And, they will never thank us for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-05 10:05:00 UTC

  • DESIGNED TO FAIL The purpose of the health care act is to force a total takeover

    DESIGNED TO FAIL

    The purpose of the health care act is to force a total takeover of 1/5 of our economy by the state.

    Higher premiums. Less Coverage. Rationed health care. That’s what you wanted. That’s what you’ll get. We are not a small european country consisting of closely related individuals.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 07:21:00 UTC

  • OF *COURSE* THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA. Academia

    OF *COURSE* THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA.

    Academia is part of the state. It’s the church of the state. And Academia’s bureaucratic and commercial incentives are to foster the fantasy of upper middle class universalism so that they can sell their over-priced,defective, non-performing wares, without warranty or right of suit, to a highly motivated, ignorant and idealistically motivated consumer, who will do nothing more than blame himself, society or the government, for his or her failure to obtain upper middle class status, despite being sold ‘the promise’ by universities.

    Not that academics aren’t involved in our movement. They are. It’s just interesting that the taboo of empirical work on ‘differences’ and ‘incompatibilities’ is as dominant in state-sponsored-academia as it was under the pre-reformation church.

    TOTALITARIAN HUMANISM, CULTURAL MARXISM, POSTMODERNISM AND SOCIALISM ARE THE RELIGION OF THE STATE

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 06:10:00 UTC

  • “ON THE FIRST DAY OF SHUT-DOWN MY TRUE LOVE SAID TO MEEEEEEE….” Is this like a

    “ON THE FIRST DAY OF SHUT-DOWN MY TRUE LOVE SAID TO MEEEEEEE….”

    Is this like a long holiday? Do we get to celebrate each day of Shutdown? A feast day? Can we start a shutdown celebration counter? Like, “It’s been X days since the last accident!” Sort of : “It’s been X Days Of Less Government”.

    I would love to see a Time magazine cover: “A Year Of Shutdown”. Followed by the fact that it’s pretty obvious that non-essential personnel, are in fact, not essential. And that those jobs should be privatized. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-03 03:41:00 UTC

  • WOMEN USED THE STATE TO DESTROY CIVIL SOCIETY Without women’s participation in t

    http://cafehayek.com/2013/06/quotation-of-the-day-651.htmlHOW WOMEN USED THE STATE TO DESTROY CIVIL SOCIETY

    Without women’s participation in the voting pool, and the Feminist attack on the family, we would have kept our civil and homogenous society. This book is another example of how minor cognitive biases when let loose by democratic tyranny, can bring a civilization to its end.

    “The shift from mutual aid and self-help to the welfare state has involved more than a simple bookkeeping transfer of service provision from one set of institutions to another. As many of the leaders of fraternal societies had feared, much was lost in an exchange that transcended monetary calculations. The old relationships of voluntary reciprocity and autonomy have slowly given way to paternalistic dependency. Instead of mutual aid, the dominant social welfare arrangements of Americans have increasingly become characterized by impersonal bureaucracies controlled by outsiders.”

    From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

    http://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Aid-Welfare-State-ebook/dp/B0049MNW4Q/ref=la_B001IXS7YY_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370172500&sr=1-1

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-03 02:43:00 UTC

  • ON FREEDOM: THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL CONSTRAINT TYPES OF FREEDOM 1) INDIVIDUAL FR

    ON FREEDOM: THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL CONSTRAINT

    TYPES OF FREEDOM

    1) INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: freedom of thought, action, property exchange. The freedom to cooperate for INDIVIDUAL ends.

    2) POLITICAL FREEDOM: speech, assembly, leadership, concentration of wealth. (The right to cooperate against others who have a similar right) The freedom to cooperate for GROUP ends.

    3) LEGISLATIVE FREEDOM: This includes the freedom to establish property definitions (real, several, built) as well as abstract (patents, options), as well as enforce normative opportunity cost payments, including manners, ethics and morals, and normative tax payments for a multitude of purposes.

    4) NATIONAL FREEDOM: freedom to control and compete for resources by establishing legal monopoly on violence over geographic territory. (In other words, adding territory to legal freedom.)

    5) CULTURAL FREEDOM: Freedom to employ, coerce, convert, and compete using different opportunity cost norms (opportunity cost payments required of members) as a means of competing against other groups who have different opportunity costs, and different capital structures.

    6) REDISTRIBUTIVE FREEDOM: Freedom to claim a share of proceeds of production, earned by virtue of adhering to norms (bearing costs of adhering to norms), despite lack of control over resources, participation in production, or influence over the productivity of those resources, except by voluntary restraint. (Restraint is a real opportunity cost to individuals.) This is the correct non-platonic definition of economic freedom that describes human actions in the productive process.

    THE ONLY NON-CONTRADICTORY FREEDOM

    The only form of ‘freedom’ you can have, that is non-contradictory (you can equally grant it to others and they to you) is personal, individual freedom.

    And even then, the only form of political freedom you can have is to DENY others the right to their political freedom.

    And at that point you are stuck with the problem of either getting to the point where you can convert the barbarians into paying the opportunity cost of becoming property holders in the first place, (establishing the system of property definitions) and without that need for coercion, you’re stuck in poverty even if you want to change the established order.

    The only freedom you can logically have is individual freedom – the freedom of constraint. We can grant it to others equally. The rest of the freedoms are not ‘freedom’. They’re rights to take from others. All political freedoms are rights to take from others. They are rights of coercion, oppression. But then one cannot have a division of labor, a complex society, economic calculation, and the incentive to participate in productive activities unless you apply the ‘coercion’ of private property – at least to some degree.

    Private property as we understand it is unnatural to man, just as debate as we understand it, using reason and objective truth is unnatural and uncommon to man. It was an INNOVATION. Private property was at best, limited to one’s body, and wearable possessions. In the case of many societies, and some societies today which marry off children. It was only in the west that we developed the nuclear family, Paternal property rights, evolved property rights for women, and therefore universal property rights.

    And the socialists have been trying to return us to primitivism for almost two centuries now.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-02 06:18:00 UTC