Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • Aesthetics In Three Dimensions

    THREE AXIS OF AESTHETIC CRITICISM: 1) CRAFT (Materials and Workmanship) 2) DESIGN (Aesthetic appeal and ‘beauty’) 3) CONTENT (Values, associations and narrative) The comparative quality of all art is objectively ascertainable by recursive triangulation.

  • Criticism is Truthful, and Critique is Deception

    Critique != Criticism 


    In Criticism the alternative choice must be defended.

    In critique the alternative choice must be obscured.

    The purpose of Criticism is to identify truth. The purpose of Critique is obscurantism: complex deception.

    Critique is deception. Control by deception using  obscurantism.

    We forgo our opportunity for violence in exchange for pursuit of the truth.

    However if the opposition is not equally engaged in the pursuit of the truth, then we need not forgo the honesty of violence just to tolerate acts if deception.

  • Criticism is Truthful, and Critique is Deception

    Critique != Criticism 


    In Criticism the alternative choice must be defended.

    In critique the alternative choice must be obscured.

    The purpose of Criticism is to identify truth. The purpose of Critique is obscurantism: complex deception.

    Critique is deception. Control by deception using  obscurantism.

    We forgo our opportunity for violence in exchange for pursuit of the truth.

    However if the opposition is not equally engaged in the pursuit of the truth, then we need not forgo the honesty of violence just to tolerate acts if deception.

  • Why Is Gold Or Silver Precious In The First Place? I Would Say That Rice Is Precious.

    I will improve Paul Frank’s statement slightly:
    1) Scarcity
    2) Universal Utility.
    3) Non-perishability
    4) Volume and weight to value ratio (and therefore transportability)
    5) Nearly universal convertibility.
    6) Functional unit of account, store of value, and medium of exchange.

    Very few goods meet this criteria. Silver and gold are pretty much the only goods that do meet this criteria.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-gold-or-silver-precious-in-the-first-place-I-would-say-that-rice-is-precious

  • Why Is Gold Or Silver Precious In The First Place? I Would Say That Rice Is Precious.

    I will improve Paul Frank’s statement slightly:
    1) Scarcity
    2) Universal Utility.
    3) Non-perishability
    4) Volume and weight to value ratio (and therefore transportability)
    5) Nearly universal convertibility.
    6) Functional unit of account, store of value, and medium of exchange.

    Very few goods meet this criteria. Silver and gold are pretty much the only goods that do meet this criteria.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-gold-or-silver-precious-in-the-first-place-I-would-say-that-rice-is-precious

  • CRITIQUE IS NOT EQUAL TO CRITICISM Critique != Criticism — In Criticism the al

    CRITIQUE IS NOT EQUAL TO CRITICISM

    Critique != Criticism — In Criticism the alternative choice must be defended. In critique the alternative choice must be obscured. The purpose of Criticism is to identify truth. The purpose of Critique is obscurantism: complex deception.

    Critique is deception.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 07:00:00 UTC

  • Is Political Economy A Discipline? How?

    “Political Economy” refers to the pre-war term for the discipline of Economics.  However, because the discipline of 20th century economics evolved to emphasize Macro-Economics and Econometrics, we use Political Economy today to refer to the study of institutions that assist in the voluntary organization of production (which is what capitalism means), by allowing individuals to cooperate in production, and providing them the incentive to cooperate in production. 

    These institutions include numbers, counting, accounting, money, banking, and interest, private property, shareholder property, common property, promise, contract, and common law.  Legislative and Regulatory law, fiat money, fiat credit, Redistribution, Fiscal, Trade and Monetary policy. 

    In practical terms we tend to separate academic economics: macro economics and econometrics into short term spending and policy tactics, from political economy: the long term effects of formal institutions (governmental institutions etc) and informal institutions (manners, ethics, morals, norms, traditions, myths, eduction and religion).

    (I work in Political Economy not Macro Economics.)

    https://www.quora.com/Is-political-economy-a-discipline-How

  • Is Political Economy A Discipline? How?

    “Political Economy” refers to the pre-war term for the discipline of Economics.  However, because the discipline of 20th century economics evolved to emphasize Macro-Economics and Econometrics, we use Political Economy today to refer to the study of institutions that assist in the voluntary organization of production (which is what capitalism means), by allowing individuals to cooperate in production, and providing them the incentive to cooperate in production. 

    These institutions include numbers, counting, accounting, money, banking, and interest, private property, shareholder property, common property, promise, contract, and common law.  Legislative and Regulatory law, fiat money, fiat credit, Redistribution, Fiscal, Trade and Monetary policy. 

    In practical terms we tend to separate academic economics: macro economics and econometrics into short term spending and policy tactics, from political economy: the long term effects of formal institutions (governmental institutions etc) and informal institutions (manners, ethics, morals, norms, traditions, myths, eduction and religion).

    (I work in Political Economy not Macro Economics.)

    https://www.quora.com/Is-political-economy-a-discipline-How

  • How Has Civil Society Led To Political Developments?

    This question posits a possible misrepresentation.  No society where government supplies services is categorized as ‘civil’. A ‘civil’ society is one in where we demonstrate civic participation whether in the pre-war or greek sense: where citizens volunteer to participate in the management of the commons and the provision of services.  We live in an managerial society postwar, where the state manages professionals (bureaucrats and their agents) for the provision of services. (See Burnham). 

    The abuse of this term originates in the conflation of treating one another ‘with civility’ (without violence or coercion), with ‘civic society’, in which individuals participate in the voluntary organization and production of commons. 

    We do not live in a civic society, we live in a civil society. 

    Meaning matters.  Ideas produce consequences.

    https://www.quora.com/How-has-civil-society-led-to-political-developments

  • How Can One Determine When Subjective Reasoning Might Be Preferable To Objective Reason?

    This question is not necessarily coherent, since subjective reason is a non-sequitur. If you mean, “When is intuition more useful than reason?” then that is a question currently addressed by Kahneman and Haidt.  Intuition is very powerful, but not logical or observable.  Reason is very weak, but observable.  And they inform one another.  However, any concept of truth is determined by reason.  Any concept of preference by intuition. And we lie to ourselves whenever possible in an effort to conflate the two.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-one-determine-when-subjective-reasoning-might-be-preferable-to-objective-reason