Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • Render Unto Caesar …

    God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science

  • Render Unto Caesar …

    God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science

  • God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wis

    God / Caesar.

    Pedagogy / Law.

    Experience / Truth.

    Creativity / Decidability.

    Wisdom / Criticism

    Preference / Necessity

    Cooperation / Conflict

    Ambition / Constraint

    Literature / Science

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-24 01:33:00 UTC

  • We always get it backwards. It doesn’t matter who rules. Only that we deny peopl

    We always get it backwards.

    It doesn’t matter who rules.

    Only that we deny people the ability to rule.

    We deny them through rule of law.

    A king is but a judge of last resort.

    A government but an insurer of last resort.

    A parliament but a market for the production of commons: a market of last resort.

    All else from family to production is market activity alone.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-23 06:20:00 UTC

  • Violence is the Resource from Which Institutions of Property are Constructed.

    **[W]e must use violence to create the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. If we do not possess sufficient violence then we cannot maintain the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. Therefore the only institutions of property that can exist are the institutions of property we can construct and maintain by the organized application of violence. Violence is the resource from which the institutions of property are constructed.** (Notice how I made sure I stated how everything exists. As institutions: ideas, habits, rules and processes, territory.)

  • Violence is the Resource from Which Institutions of Property are Constructed.

    **[W]e must use violence to create the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. If we do not possess sufficient violence then we cannot maintain the conceptual, normative, legal, and territorial institutions of property. Therefore the only institutions of property that can exist are the institutions of property we can construct and maintain by the organized application of violence. Violence is the resource from which the institutions of property are constructed.** (Notice how I made sure I stated how everything exists. As institutions: ideas, habits, rules and processes, territory.)

  • Religion Compatible With Natural Law is Not ‘False’

    [W]e cannot claim a religion is false if it is compatible and not in conflict with natural law. We can claim it is literature: myth. And that the literature contains truths so far as those truths consist of statements reducible to natural law. To require literature be compatible with physical law is unnecessary in so far as it remains compatible with natural law. In this sense the Greeks, Chinese, and Japanese developed reasonable approximations. It was the Zoroastrian monotheists that conflated politics and religion and in doing so created the ills of religion. Certainly the stoics, epicureans, Aristotelians, and Roman law,and pagan nature worshippers ruled.

  • Religion Compatible With Natural Law is Not ‘False’

    [W]e cannot claim a religion is false if it is compatible and not in conflict with natural law. We can claim it is literature: myth. And that the literature contains truths so far as those truths consist of statements reducible to natural law. To require literature be compatible with physical law is unnecessary in so far as it remains compatible with natural law. In this sense the Greeks, Chinese, and Japanese developed reasonable approximations. It was the Zoroastrian monotheists that conflated politics and religion and in doing so created the ills of religion. Certainly the stoics, epicureans, Aristotelians, and Roman law,and pagan nature worshippers ruled.

  • Literature for useful Idiots: Socialism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Public Choice

    Literature for useful Idiots: Socialism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Public Choice Theory. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-21 12:09:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/723121601135276032

  • Literature for Nerds: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Continental Philosophy. #New

    Literature for Nerds: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Continental Philosophy. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-21 12:08:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/723121203301339136