Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • 0) That which I am unwilling to act upon 1) That which I am willing to act upon.

    0) That which I am unwilling to act upon

    1) That which I am willing to act upon.

    2) That which I am willing to warranty.

    3) That which those I cooperate with are willing to warranty.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-23 16:06:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism: Libertarianism for Adults. No Pseudoscience Necessary

    Propertarianism: Libertarianism for Adults. No Pseudoscience Necessary.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-23 07:16:00 UTC

  • (1) Almost every single rationalist argument Hoppe makes is false. (2) Almost ev

    (1) Almost every single rationalist argument Hoppe makes is false.

    (2) Almost every analysis of incentives Hoppe makes is true.

    The Economics and ethics of private property is disposable nonsense. Democracy the god that failed is mostly tolerable.

    His most recent essay (short book/long essay) abandons rationalism entirely, which is why its worth reading.

    I am unafraid of debate with skilled opponents. I’ll win. Just how it is.

    Science wins.

    Every time.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-21 10:23:00 UTC

  • WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIBERTINES? Because given moral justif

    WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIBERTINES?

    Because given moral justification to correct violations of purity and sanctity a sufficient number of conservatives will use violence to restore order. Only conservatives act for social good alone. Libertines and progressives act only in their self interest. Why? Because libertinism is purely a status seeking effort, and progressivism is both status seeking and dysgenic.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-21 04:06:00 UTC

  • WHY DO LIBERTARIANS ALWAYS LOSE? Libertinism. Meaning incorrect attribution of l

    WHY DO LIBERTARIANS ALWAYS LOSE?

    Libertinism. Meaning incorrect attribution of legal, economic, political and military value to costs of high-cost, high-trust norms. Conservatives do not make this mistake – if anything they over-value norms. Libertines discount norms. Progressives never even consider them or find prohibition on their consumption antithetical.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-21 03:59:00 UTC

  • MONUMENTS – OUR HIGHEST ART. Monuments serve as incontrovertible title registrie

    MONUMENTS – OUR HIGHEST ART.

    Monuments serve as incontrovertible title registries.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-20 00:58:00 UTC

  • “Meaning” Is A Great Way of Lying

    [I]t really doesn’t matter what an author says or intends. What matters is whether its true or not- and I do not mean internally consistent, I mean externally correspondent. When we roll a bag of conceptual marbles down the hill, we do not control them – reality does. When we roll our sentences into the public it does not matter what we say or how we say it but whether what we say is true and truthful.


    Nothing marx, freud and rothbard say for example is truthfully expressed, so we cannot judge an author by his own terms, but on whether his arguments are operationally possible in reality.


    Meaning is a great way to lie. Which is useful in myths and religious dogma. It was useful in pseudosciences. It was useful in the fallacy of psychologizing. It was useful by the postmoderns. It is useful in all public speech. But it is just a perfect vehicle for lying.


    I run into this all the time, when criticizing certain authors. My favorite is still the typical economist’s reply that ‘we don’t concern ourselves with that’.


    Which makes me crazy because they do affect that which they claim to ignore, without admitting that it is precisely what they ignore that allows them to justify their work.
    Marx is better though. Best. Liar.Ever.

  • “Meaning” Is A Great Way of Lying

    [I]t really doesn’t matter what an author says or intends. What matters is whether its true or not- and I do not mean internally consistent, I mean externally correspondent. When we roll a bag of conceptual marbles down the hill, we do not control them – reality does. When we roll our sentences into the public it does not matter what we say or how we say it but whether what we say is true and truthful.


    Nothing marx, freud and rothbard say for example is truthfully expressed, so we cannot judge an author by his own terms, but on whether his arguments are operationally possible in reality.


    Meaning is a great way to lie. Which is useful in myths and religious dogma. It was useful in pseudosciences. It was useful in the fallacy of psychologizing. It was useful by the postmoderns. It is useful in all public speech. But it is just a perfect vehicle for lying.


    I run into this all the time, when criticizing certain authors. My favorite is still the typical economist’s reply that ‘we don’t concern ourselves with that’.


    Which makes me crazy because they do affect that which they claim to ignore, without admitting that it is precisely what they ignore that allows them to justify their work.
    Marx is better though. Best. Liar.Ever.

  • CURT ON THE UNGRATEFUL OPPRESSED If you think you are oppressed, then let me int

    CURT ON THE UNGRATEFUL OPPRESSED

    If you think you are oppressed, then let me introduce you to some of my ancestors. They thought of it as ‘settling’, ‘civilizing’ or ‘conquering’. And the fact is that getting settled, civilized and conquered by them was a pretty good thing compared to some of the alternatives. So if you really think that your current state is unjust, then I think it’s perhaps time to remind you what ‘unjust’ can be.

    Besides. If we don’t. Others will do it in our stead.

    Because you’re a dead end.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-17 13:58:00 UTC

  • END OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA – BECAUSE OF SCIENCE AND EVIDENCE The Progressive fan

    END OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA – BECAUSE OF SCIENCE AND EVIDENCE

    The Progressive fantasy was that reason and speech could overwhelm our and defeat our genes. But all they did was to give license to them – degeneracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-16 02:51:00 UTC