Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • The youngest libertarian

    The youngest libertarian …

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 12:44:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll ha

    http://www.angrybearblog.com/2012/10/starve-state-support-traditional.htmlTHE CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST

    Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll have to write a response. But finally some progressives understand the conservative strategy. No thtat they can do anything about it. Because the middle class is too moral to adopt the progressive philosophy.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:17:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT The purpose of good government is to deny people acces

    THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT

    The purpose of good government is to deny people access to power. To deny people access to violence. To deny people access to fraud. To deny people access to theft. To deny people the ability to abuse ‘norms’. The best government denies people all possible means of pursuing self interest except through the service of each other in the market.

    Now, it is true that there are efforts that are relatively difficult to impossible to undertake without the structure of government, because the privatization of contribution to the commons must be prohibited in all forms of contract. And unlike entirely private goods and private contracts, it is possible to privatize (cheat) from from the public contributions to the commons. But this again, is a negative. Individuals do not need government to conduct these investments. They only need a forum for creating public contracts that bar all members of the citizenry from privatization (theft) of the commons being created by the investment.

    In the end analysis, this means, that the problem of government is the creation of law, and the use of buraucracy rather than contract and private services. Contracts have terms. They expire. They can be fulfilled. They cannot be modified at will by later legislatures. Private firms must survive competition. THey can die off. They cannot become a parasite on investors (the public.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 03:44:00 UTC

  • POLITICAL TRIBALISM IN THE US VS UKRAINE Even in the UK, where I feel more at ho

    POLITICAL TRIBALISM IN THE US VS UKRAINE

    Even in the UK, where I feel more at home than in the states, I don’t feel about the people the same way I do here. I literally want to hug them at random while walking down the street. THey are beautiful, sweet and wonderful. Partly because metaphysically speaking, they naturally think about government the way that we libertarians do: it’s a corrupt enterprise. And given that it’s a corrupt enterprise we must rely upon personal relationships. Personal relationships then, rather than abstract principles, determine the nature and content of communication between people. The degree to which americans are essentially ‘religious’ about social order is only evident to me in this dramatic contrast, where people have zero faith at all in such abstractions. For all american talk about freedom and liberty, we willfully oppress ourselves from both right and left. And while the political class here is openly predatory and self interested in paternal familialism, the american political class is just as predatory and self interested in ideological tribalism. It’s just the same instinct and process devoid of genetic preference, and obscured by ideological abstraction.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-31 07:38:00 UTC

  • INFOGRAPHIC

    http://dmarron.com/2012/10/29/the-partisan-and-ideological-makeup-of-congress/AWESOME INFOGRAPHIC

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-30 15:28:00 UTC

  • SCARCITY IN EVERYTHING “The single most exciting thing you encounter in governme

    SCARCITY IN EVERYTHING

    “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” ~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-29 08:05:00 UTC

  • SCIENCE VS SCIENTISM AND RELIGION : THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY There is a fundamen

    SCIENCE VS SCIENTISM AND RELIGION : THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY

    There is a fundamental difference between those who possess the capacity for utilizing reason, those who possess the capacity for comprehending reason, and those who possess the capacity for utilizing rules and conventions, and those who lack the capacity for utilizing any of the above.

    To suggest that science and reason are sufficient devices for cooperation and social order in a division of knowledge and labor, is UNSCIENTIFIC because it is contrary to both evidence and reason.

    Science becomes the religion of scientism and no better than mysticism if it supposes universal application and utility.

    The question remains: why must we advocate one unified means of argument and comprehension, across all peoples within a polity? The answer is that under the irrational religion of secular democracy – those institutions which we currently live under – we suppose unanimity of ability in order to justify the use of state power.

    If you can understand this, you will understand that the problem is not one of science versus religion – which in principle can produce the same ends. But between the false premise of universalism and equality mandated the the institution of democracy.

    It is our political system that is the cause of our problems.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-19 02:26:00 UTC

  • THE FIVE FORMS OF LIBERTARIANISM

    THE FIVE FORMS OF LIBERTARIANISM http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/09/28/a-definition-of-libertarianism-draft-two-from-intuitive-sentiment-to-institutional-framework/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-09 06:50:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/255560836825882624

  • A Definition Of Libertarianism – Draft Two : From Intuitive Sentiment To Institutional Framework

    Libertarianism lih-ber-tair’-ee-un-ih’-zum (noun)1) SENTIMENT: A sentiment giving precedence to individual liberty above the competing sentiments of care-taking and order — which are the respective priorities of left and right. 2) POLITICAL BIAS: A range of political biases that express the precedence for liberty as the freedom from organized coercion through the minimization or elimination of monopolistic government — and therefore maximizing the self organizing civic virtues and norms. 3) ECONOMIC BIAS: An economic philosophy that seeks to maximize human prosperity by increasing the opportunity for entrepreneurial trial and error by advocating the inviolability of individual property rights, free trade, and sound money. 4) POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: An explicitly articulated political philosophy that reduces all rights to property rights, where property has been obtained by the processes of homesteading, manufacture, and voluntary exchange, which are necessary for peaceful human cooperation because they facilitate the emergence of a market for goods and services where prices convey information that we can use to determine our actions. 5) INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: An framework of political institutions that seeks to replace the monopoly of the abstract state and its attendant bureaucracy with private formal institutions and public informal institutions that are subject to the pressures of market competition. libertarian lih-ber-tair’-ee-un An individual who demonstrates a preference for one or more of the definitions of Libertarianism.

  • Trying To Define Libertarianism In One Hundred Words. (And Failing)

    LIBERTARIANISM:1) A sentiment giving precedence to individual liberty above care-taking and order. 2) A range of political biases that express that precedence as freedom from organized coercion through the minimization or elimination of monopolistic government — and therefore a reliance on the maximization of self organizing civic virtues and norms. 3) An institutional framework that is reliant upon the sole principle of several property that has been obtained by homesteading, manufacture, and voluntary exchange. The result of which maximizes peaceful human cooperation by facilitating the emergence of a market for goods and services where prices convey information that we use to determine our actions. 4) An explicit political philosophy that reduces all rights to property rights, and seeks to replace the monopoly of the abstract state and its attendant bureaucracy with private institutions that are subject to the pressures of market competition. (138 words)