Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • UNIVERSAL TRUTHS The adorably silly way women walk with freshly painted toenails

    UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

    The adorably silly way women walk with freshly painted toenails. In every culture I’ve seen. From heel-walking to elaborate tissue paper rituals.

    Like aliens. Only better. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 15:01:00 UTC

  • HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU TRUST YOUR LIBERTY TO YOUR FELLOW MAN? Your fellow men

    HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU TRUST YOUR LIBERTY TO YOUR FELLOW MAN?

    Your fellow men and women do not desire liberty. They desires consumption, status, and ease.

    Liberty requires great expense, revolt against the masses, and constant diligence.

    The source of liberty is the organize application of violence to deny access to others, that which you have labored to obtain by voluntary means.

    The left’s irrational utopian vision is no worse than the rothbardian irrational libertarian utopia.

    Aristocratic egalitarians invented liberty.

    And the manufactured it with organized violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-19 09:33:00 UTC

  • “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country”– Yes, well it’s a nuclear g

    –“Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country”–

    Yes, well it’s a nuclear gas station masquerading as a country.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:41:00 UTC

  • Good Marketing requires that we: 1) stay on message; 2) stay in brand, and; 3) s

    Good Marketing requires that we:

    1) stay on message;

    2) stay in brand, and;

    3) stay visible.

    Good Ideology is mostly good marketing. And good marketing is expensive.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:22:00 UTC

  • create theories. run tests. analyze the results. revise theories. doesn’t matter

    create theories. run tests. analyze the results. revise theories.

    doesn’t matter if its science, business or politics. it’s all the same.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-11 12:47:00 UTC

  • IMPERIALISM Imperialism is defensive when cooperation is structurally impossible

    IMPERIALISM

    Imperialism is defensive when cooperation is structurally impossible. But if cooperation is possible it is preferable. Even then the goal is merely institutional development so that cooperation is possible. Imperialism like violence is an amoral question.

    Extraction is not. Predation is not. Parasitism is not.

    There is a vast difference between teaching people reading, writing, arithmetic, accounting, property rights, and the common law, so that you can cooperate with them rather than either conquer or displace them, and parasitically using them. And since parasitism is a way of life in primitive cultures -which is why they are primitive – it is a very long and difficult lesson to teach them.

    I don’t like imperialism. I don’t like empires at all. I do like cooperative production and trade.

    Respect for others’ property today will mean others may at least attempt to respect your property tomorrow.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 11:08:00 UTC

  • DEVOUT STATE WORSHIP Eric Blankenburg reminds me that those who worship the stat

    DEVOUT STATE WORSHIP

    Eric Blankenburg reminds me that those who worship the state are far more devout than those who worship the divine.

    “State fundamentalism” the most intolerant religion ever invented, with the most suicidal doctrine ever invented.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-08 01:45:00 UTC

  • All Law Is Theoretical, And All Laws Merely Theories

    [W]hat we have learned about humans from the discipline of science is that we must always adhere to two rules, in articulating any theory, because ALL LAW is a theory, and is bound by the same constraints as scientific theory. Revision of law, is equally a revision of theory, bound by the same constraints as all theory. Those two rules are: — a) Calculability and; — b) Operational language. In the context of law, ‘Calculability’ is a property of Empiricism (observation) that refers to the necessity that all monetary actions are made visible – and therefore there is a prohibition on pooling and laundering data through the use of aggregates. This implication is vast, and applies to all laws in all circumstances. For example, taxes are pooled into general funds, and their use discretionary, rather than taxes (fees) are collected for the purpose of particular contracts, and when those contracts are complete the taxes (fees) expire. Cause and effect are broken. Laws are not contracts that expire. They must be. Otherwise they would be ‘incalculable’.

  • All Law Is Theoretical, And All Laws Merely Theories

    [W]hat we have learned about humans from the discipline of science is that we must always adhere to two rules, in articulating any theory, because ALL LAW is a theory, and is bound by the same constraints as scientific theory. Revision of law, is equally a revision of theory, bound by the same constraints as all theory. Those two rules are: — a) Calculability and; — b) Operational language. In the context of law, ‘Calculability’ is a property of Empiricism (observation) that refers to the necessity that all monetary actions are made visible – and therefore there is a prohibition on pooling and laundering data through the use of aggregates. This implication is vast, and applies to all laws in all circumstances. For example, taxes are pooled into general funds, and their use discretionary, rather than taxes (fees) are collected for the purpose of particular contracts, and when those contracts are complete the taxes (fees) expire. Cause and effect are broken. Laws are not contracts that expire. They must be. Otherwise they would be ‘incalculable’.

  • The Universalist State As A Religion

    [L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific.