Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • FREE RIDING IS NOT AN EXCEPTION IT IS THE RULE. PROPERTY IS THE EXCEPTION. AND C

    FREE RIDING IS NOT AN EXCEPTION IT IS THE RULE. PROPERTY IS THE EXCEPTION. AND CREATING THE INSTITUTIONAL HABIT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IS AN ACTIVE NOT PASSIVE PROJECT.

    Ya’ gotta’ understand: aristocracy is an activist form of defense.

    We evolved in a state of pervasive free riding. To create the institution of Property, you must deny people access to the fruits of your efforts except by voluntary exchange. To deny them access, you must use violence. You must first stop existing free riding. Then you must prevent future free riding. You cannot obtain liberty by pacifism, or reaction alone. Property requires activism. Because aggression against your property: the attempt to free ride upon your efforts, is not an exception – it is the RULE.

    Sorry.

    Aristocracy of the willing, for the willing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-29 06:37:00 UTC

  • Why brunettes? They are fine as they are, and don’t feel the need to get more at

    Why brunettes? They are fine as they are, and don’t feel the need to get more attention. The more I think about america as the country of attention-starved children, the more obvious it becomes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 11:33:00 UTC

  • You know, we can put morality back into economics, and radically change politics

    You know, we can put morality back into economics, and radically change politics.

    The human instinct against free riding isn’t escapable in economics. we must account for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 06:52:00 UTC

  • I bet we can empirically measure brutalist vs humanist on a scale that directly

    I bet we can empirically measure brutalist vs humanist on a scale that directly corresponds to your desirability as a mate.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-27 04:08:00 UTC

  • A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS A good CEO makes you feel safe takin

    A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS

    A good CEO makes you feel safe taking risks in the interests of the company, and unsafe taking risks that do not. I tell people “I will not let you fail”. If they fail, I congratulate them on what they learned. The absence of failure: efficiency, is a chimera. If you aim for efficiency you will calcify your people, and your organization and it will not respond to the market.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 02:23:00 UTC

  • No limit to love for the good, no limit to wrath for the bad

    No limit to love for the good, no limit to wrath for the bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-25 05:14:00 UTC

  • NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION

    NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION. SORRY. NO QUARTER, NO MERCY.

    If liberty is a social function for you, then join a tupperware club or something but don’t get in the way. For some of us. Liberty is not entertainment. It’s what we’re working on. It’s what we’re fighting for every day:

    —“Liberty in practice, in our lifetime”—

    (I’m sitting here in Kiev with a very clear view of the fact that liberty is only possible with an armed and trained militia willing to die to preserve their freedom from tyranny. Everything else isn’t freedom, it’s permission.)

    ———–

    *(er. Well, before some Seattleite jumps on me, yes, I have a deserved reputation of ruthlessness, but that’s business too. But in person I’m a hamster. )

    ht: Juan Sebastian Ortiz / Andy Curzon

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 06:49:00 UTC

  • Economic velocity achieved with high trust in a stable population, is very diffe

    Economic velocity achieved with high trust in a stable population, is very different from economic velocity achieved with expansionary credit, in an expanding population. The first requires invention. The second only application.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 01:45:00 UTC

  • Why? For honor and glory. Isn’t that enough?

    Why? For honor and glory. Isn’t that enough?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 14:19:00 UTC

  • REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTUM You put a bunch of guys together with room temperature IQ

    REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTUM

    You put a bunch of guys together with room temperature IQ’s who want a revolution and nothing happens except the consumption of alcohol. If you put together a bunch of guys at the opposite end of the spectrum, you can accomplish anything you’re willing to devote your attention to. It’s not complicated. You just have to have the IQ, and the desire. Entrenched fragile bureaucracies that lack popular support are merely prey. And they’re overconfident prey.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 07:13:00 UTC