Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOMETHING AREN’T ALL THAT USEFUL UNLESS YOU ALSO HAVE ARGUMENT

    ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOMETHING AREN’T ALL THAT USEFUL UNLESS YOU ALSO HAVE ARGUMENTS FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

    This is libertarianism’s problem. A failure to provide a solution to the problem of institutions both formal and informal.

    Without formal institutions you have a religion. Not a replacement for the state.

    Institutions create norms.

    Property is a norm.

    Property was created by the application of violence.

    Propertarianism gives us the tools with which to create formal institutions in heterogeneous populations.

    Propertarianism completes libertarianism.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-12 17:12:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATISM AND PLANNING Conservatism consists primarily of an increased sensit

    CONSERVATISM AND PLANNING

    Conservatism consists primarily of an increased sensitivity to threats both short and long term, and a reliance on hierarchy and order as a means for ensuring the persistence of the group and the self. However, what we fail to understand, is that an increased sensitivity to threats, results in a more complex inter-temporal planning structure, and that order simplifies the act of planning for the mitigation of threats. Like all cognitive biases there is a reason for their existence.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 11:52:00 UTC

  • MAJORITY RULE IS AN ARTIFACT OF PRODUCTIVE SCARCITY The only reason to have majo

    MAJORITY RULE IS AN ARTIFACT OF PRODUCTIVE SCARCITY

    The only reason to have majority rule is because there is so little excess productive capacity. If we have such high productive capacity, why does a majority need to agree upon the use of it?

    A government of exchanges rather than takings: Propertarianism.

    ( Think about that one a bit. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 07:45:00 UTC

  • God save the Queen

    God save the Queen.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-25 12:00:00 UTC

  • THE BEST WAY TO DISPROVE THE SUPERIORITY OF ANY IDEOLOGY IS TO SHOW THAT ALL IDE

    THE BEST WAY TO DISPROVE THE SUPERIORITY OF ANY IDEOLOGY IS TO SHOW THAT ALL IDEOLOGIES ARE NOTHING BUT REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES GIVEN VERBAL JUSTIFICATION IN AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN POLITICAL POWER TO DISTORT PROPERTY IN FAVOR OF FUNDING ONE GROUP’S REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS.

    This means that the only ‘good’ ideology is one that produces the best biology.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 18:15:00 UTC

  • HOPPE: DEMOCRACY IS THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM

    HOPPE: DEMOCRACY IS THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-02 18:00:00 UTC

  • I LOVE THIS COUNTRY Really. It’s beautiful, and graceful in its tragedy

    I LOVE THIS COUNTRY

    Really. It’s beautiful, and graceful in its tragedy.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-23 17:38:00 UTC

  • WHAT DO TOU REALLY NEED IN LIFE? A little money. A pretty woman. A fast car. And

    WHAT DO TOU REALLY NEED IN LIFE?

    A little money. A pretty woman. A fast car. And good friends.

    Everything else is making license plates 😉

    (drunken commentary)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-18 15:47:00 UTC

  • POLITICS Conservatives eat their dead. Progressives resurrect them, and rewrite

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/republicans-mourning-mitt-romney/story?id=17742687FUNNY: POLITICS

    Conservatives eat their dead. Progressives resurrect them, and rewrite both memories and history to suit consensus.

    Conservatism is aristocracy. Aristocracy is meritocracy. Meritocracy is objective.

    Even if its language is allegorical.

    There is a difference between arguments and actions. Of the two arguments are less scientific than actions. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-17 08:36:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY, IN ALL ITS FORMS RENDERS ALL HUMAN ACTION MORALLY COMMENSURABLE. While

    PROPERTY, IN ALL ITS FORMS RENDERS ALL HUMAN ACTION MORALLY COMMENSURABLE.

    While PREFERENCES and SUBJECTIVE VALUE are not commensurable, that does not mean that moral actions in favor of, or against, NORMS are cannot be commensurable.

    Norms are a market. They are, perhaps, our first market. And our commercial market exists, as an analogistic response to it. This is somewhat supportable by comparing the normative economies, political economies, and commercial economies of different civilizations.

    If I can distill the significance of propertarianism down to something I can communicate this simply, then it will serve a function that we have been searching for, since the invention of politics.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-15 13:01:00 UTC