Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Can’t happen. Ever. Amateurish. Instead, simply limit what they can do with weal

    Can’t happen. Ever. Amateurish. Instead, simply limit what they can do with wealth to prohibit the creation of states within states – which is the problem. End most of them by nationalizing consumer credit, insurance, and retirement, limit credit money creation to the state.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-18 13:45:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362397803079696391

    Reply addressees: @Lord_Keynes2

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362386639633326080

  • O. You can’t run. You can’t hide. They will eradicate you. You can only show up

    O. You can’t run. You can’t hide. They will eradicate you. You can only show up and fight.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-18 04:12:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362253649196572674

    Reply addressees: @AlphaSoupNotSee @afterrthought

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362233701535416323

  • The federal government only gained that power by directly collecting (huge) inco

    The federal government only gained that power by directly collecting (huge) income tax and holding the states hostage. It’s a relatively easy system to change.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-18 01:46:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362216790470885378

    Reply addressees: @Inductivist

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362195322538139649

  • Sure seems like the left has been winning and continues to – and the right is al

    Sure seems like the left has been winning and continues to – and the right is all talk and no action.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-17 22:50:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362172549724069892

    Reply addressees: @JarvisWitts

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362145038394748929

  • RT @aldafa_ir: @JimmyMc98355985 @curtdoolittle Every man does his duty and is re

    RT @aldafa_ir: @JimmyMc98355985 @curtdoolittle Every man does his duty and is respected for it in a military/universal militia structure. W…


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-17 18:24:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362105759295811601

  • In this sense, citizens have a positive incentive if treating the state as a fir

    In this sense, citizens have a positive incentive if treating the state as a firm, but a negatve incentives if treating firms as the state. We cannot ever limit demand for human adaptability. We can only pay the cost of it. There are no regularities any longer.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-17 17:41:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362094869578199041

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362094315519037440


    IN REPLY TO:

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    The only ‘firm’ of consequence is the polity, and without the empirical operation of that polity, and the least possible friction of it’s economy, the incentive of the workers is to reduce adaptability of firms vs decreasing the rent seeking of both peers and state.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1362094315519037440

  • The only ‘firm’ of consequence is the polity, and without the empirical operatio

    The only ‘firm’ of consequence is the polity, and without the empirical operation of that polity, and the least possible friction of it’s economy, the incentive of the workers is to reduce adaptability of firms vs decreasing the rent seeking of both peers and state.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-17 17:39:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362094315519037440

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1362093442738900993


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Marxists are obsessed by and distracted by a world economy that no longer exists, positing a community that doesn’t and cant exist, and incentives and knowledge that doesn’t and can’t exist under a geostrategic order that ended twenty if not thirty years ago, and was squandered.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1362093442738900993

  • no. politics isn’t a board game. people are in power because a vast collection o

    no. politics isn’t a board game. people are in power because a vast collection of people and processes can’t function otherwise, and the alternatives are very very dangerous.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-17 05:26:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1361909885051543553

    Reply addressees: @Ozpin_88

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1361903484837199872

  • Defining Conservatism In Scientific Terms

    CONSERVATISM UNDERSTOOD

    1. A conservative questions the overestimation of reason, and above all questions consensus. Conservatism is familial, stoic, pragmatic, and empirical. In other words risk averse to capital.

    2. As a means of questioning, a conservative requires reciprocity (tort): american < british < anglo saxon < germanic < european < norther indo european in law. That law evolved from the oath (tell the truth, never steal, never flee, in combat).

    3. A Conservative requires ‘empirical’ results – and where empirical fails, the ‘traditional’ is adequate, since traditional survived empirical tests in competition in reality.

    4. A Conservative accumulates genetic, cultural, normative, institutional, physical, and territorial capital – attempting to pass on to future generations of his family, more than he himself inherited.

    5. Conservatism is a eugenic group evolutionary strategy that increases accumulated capital through intergenerational transfer, using intergeneration lending, in order to produce increasingly ‘noble’ families.

    6. Ergo successful individuals in the market for craftsmanship, successful purchase of the franchise through military service, successful individuals in the market for marriage and child rearing, successful individuals in the market for industry, successful families in the market for noble (intergenerational) families.

    7. In other words, conservatism(aristocracy) is a eugenic group evolutionary strategy. And while bipartite manorialism was practiced from 700, and aggressive hanging of up to 1% of the population every year after 1000, and an attempt to escape church-state nobility, and create an entrepreneurial nobility (meritocracy), succeeded by 1600, there was a great reaction to the english revolution, and a greater reaction to the french revolution. Thus while Locke,smith,hume,adams, and jefferson promised an aristocracy available to everyone, Burke, after the french revolution, and germans after that, recognized that the peasantry was even worse at rule (see russia) than the nobility.

    The problem with today’s conservatism is that darwin and spencer were famous before the war, after the second world war, conservatism and eugenics were effectively banned from discourse, academy, and science.

    As such conservatives never (until perhaps 2000) restored empirical discourse to conservatism, because eugenics are antithetical to the experiment with democracy. This changed incrementally beginning in 76, through the 80s, and aggressively since 2000, and more aggressively since 2008.

    1 – Soveriengty requires reciprocity

    2 – Reciprocity requires rule of law (tort), jury(thang, senate, house of lords, supreme court), and an independent judiciary.

    3 – Rule of law forces markets, since it incrementally suppresses each innovation in parasitism.

    4 – Markets cause hierarchies, because they are necessary to voluntarily organize production.

    5 – Markets are eugenic, because they are empirical means of testing industry and impulse.

    6 – But they make possible liberty for those with property, freedom for those who labor, and subsidy for those who impose no costs on sovereignty, liberty, freedom, or property.**

    DOMESTICATION Man domesticated the human animal after he had learned to domesticate the non-human animal. And he did so by the same means. And the result in both domestication of the human and non human animal is the same: eugenics.

    CONSERVATIVES Most conservatives do not write philosophy, they run businesses, or write history, economics, science, and law. (I write because I was successful enough in multiple businesses to spend my time writing full time.) Conservatives also are actively suppressed in academy and media.

    This has been true since the end of the war and teh rise of the Frankfurt School, and the Postmodern school, both of which were necessary after the failure of marxist pseudoscience. (a pseudoscience marx died knowing, since he stopped writing as soon as he read the Mengerians, and kept silent only to keep the checks coming in from Engels.)

    AUTHORS TO READ Burke, Hayek, Burnham, Sowell, Buchanan, Murray, and maybe Nietzsche. Veblen. (The essayists are nonsense) Anyone in Hoover or Heritage institutions.

    READING LIST Propertarianism’s Reading List (https://propertarianism.com/reading-list/).

    My reading list (above) contains most of the science we’ve been looking for, while the pseudosciences dominated the mid to late 20th century under the marxist-postmodernists.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Defining Conservatism In Scientific Terms

    CONSERVATISM UNDERSTOOD

    1. A conservative questions the overestimation of reason, and above all questions consensus. Conservatism is familial, stoic, pragmatic, and empirical. In other words risk averse to capital.

    2. As a means of questioning, a conservative requires reciprocity (tort): american < british < anglo saxon < germanic < european < norther indo european in law. That law evolved from the oath (tell the truth, never steal, never flee, in combat).

    3. A Conservative requires ‘empirical’ results – and where empirical fails, the ‘traditional’ is adequate, since traditional survived empirical tests in competition in reality.

    4. A Conservative accumulates genetic, cultural, normative, institutional, physical, and territorial capital – attempting to pass on to future generations of his family, more than he himself inherited.

    5. Conservatism is a eugenic group evolutionary strategy that increases accumulated capital through intergenerational transfer, using intergeneration lending, in order to produce increasingly ‘noble’ families.

    6. Ergo successful individuals in the market for craftsmanship, successful purchase of the franchise through military service, successful individuals in the market for marriage and child rearing, successful individuals in the market for industry, successful families in the market for noble (intergenerational) families.

    7. In other words, conservatism(aristocracy) is a eugenic group evolutionary strategy. And while bipartite manorialism was practiced from 700, and aggressive hanging of up to 1% of the population every year after 1000, and an attempt to escape church-state nobility, and create an entrepreneurial nobility (meritocracy), succeeded by 1600, there was a great reaction to the english revolution, and a greater reaction to the french revolution. Thus while Locke,smith,hume,adams, and jefferson promised an aristocracy available to everyone, Burke, after the french revolution, and germans after that, recognized that the peasantry was even worse at rule (see russia) than the nobility.

    The problem with today’s conservatism is that darwin and spencer were famous before the war, after the second world war, conservatism and eugenics were effectively banned from discourse, academy, and science.

    As such conservatives never (until perhaps 2000) restored empirical discourse to conservatism, because eugenics are antithetical to the experiment with democracy. This changed incrementally beginning in 76, through the 80s, and aggressively since 2000, and more aggressively since 2008.

    1 – Soveriengty requires reciprocity

    2 – Reciprocity requires rule of law (tort), jury(thang, senate, house of lords, supreme court), and an independent judiciary.

    3 – Rule of law forces markets, since it incrementally suppresses each innovation in parasitism.

    4 – Markets cause hierarchies, because they are necessary to voluntarily organize production.

    5 – Markets are eugenic, because they are empirical means of testing industry and impulse.

    6 – But they make possible liberty for those with property, freedom for those who labor, and subsidy for those who impose no costs on sovereignty, liberty, freedom, or property.**

    DOMESTICATION Man domesticated the human animal after he had learned to domesticate the non-human animal. And he did so by the same means. And the result in both domestication of the human and non human animal is the same: eugenics.

    CONSERVATIVES Most conservatives do not write philosophy, they run businesses, or write history, economics, science, and law. (I write because I was successful enough in multiple businesses to spend my time writing full time.) Conservatives also are actively suppressed in academy and media.

    This has been true since the end of the war and teh rise of the Frankfurt School, and the Postmodern school, both of which were necessary after the failure of marxist pseudoscience. (a pseudoscience marx died knowing, since he stopped writing as soon as he read the Mengerians, and kept silent only to keep the checks coming in from Engels.)

    AUTHORS TO READ Burke, Hayek, Burnham, Sowell, Buchanan, Murray, and maybe Nietzsche. Veblen. (The essayists are nonsense) Anyone in Hoover or Heritage institutions.

    READING LIST Propertarianism’s Reading List (https://propertarianism.com/reading-list/).

    My reading list (above) contains most of the science we’ve been looking for, while the pseudosciences dominated the mid to late 20th century under the marxist-postmodernists.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.