Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • (Sigh. You Can’t Fix Stupid)

    (Lament)(catharsis)

    [I] get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    PDF PRINTOUT OF THE THREAD:

    (1) Wes Lysander – Meritocracies_ China and India Democracies_..

  • (Sigh. You Can’t Fix Stupid)

    (Lament)(catharsis)

    [I] get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    PDF PRINTOUT OF THE THREAD:

    (1) Wes Lysander – Meritocracies_ China and India Democracies_..

  • (this whole seasonal darkness thing just shuts down my brain. gotta find some su

    (this whole seasonal darkness thing just shuts down my brain. gotta find some sun. because I’m going to be a walk-on for the Walking Dead pretty soon. damn.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 14:23:00 UTC

  • Had a great chat with a thoughtful friend a bit earlier. Some points that I thou

    Had a great chat with a thoughtful friend a bit earlier. Some points that I thought I’d share:

    1) I cannot work faster than I am. I know people want me to. But I can’t. I work pretty much around the clock now, and I cannot produce faster than I do now. So I can’t accelerate the program.

    2) Yes I am open to future expansion of the Propertarian Institute. I don’t view propertarianism as ‘mine to control’ but a formal logic that is part of nature.

    3) I am not an anti-theist, and I do not classify myself as an atheist, although I think most religious people would disagree with me because my concept of god is rather esoteric – and I talk to my god all the time. Pretty much daily. So for my purposes, my god exists.

    4) Throwing over governments is trivial. The problem isn’t throwing over the government. I can write how to do that in ninety days. The problem is giving people something to overthrow it FOR, and a moral justification for doing it and paying the high costs of doing it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 14:30:00 UTC

  • UKRAINIAN CRIMINALITY Just had my leather gloves stolen. Fancy shop. Placed them

    UKRAINIAN CRIMINALITY

    Just had my leather gloves stolen. Fancy shop. Placed them on a bench, on my jacket. Saw guys scoping it. Moved my stuff. Too late. I didn’t notice the gloves were gone.

    It’s like Europe: pervasive petty crimes that we don’t have in the states.

    We have a lot of minority’s crime violence but not this degree of petty crime.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-20 10:04:00 UTC

  • (caught another cold or flu. I am going to go live in a bubble in new hampshire.

    (caught another cold or flu. I am going to go live in a bubble in new hampshire.)

    When you;re a kid, getting sick means time off from school. When an adult who has stuff to do, it’s punishment.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-19 18:08:00 UTC

  • For reasons I can’t share (and I share almost everything) I have been stressed f

    For reasons I can’t share (and I share almost everything) I have been stressed for the past few months, and a bit remiss in thanking all the people ( you ) who help me on this journey.

    It really matters to me. Every day. And I am thankful for you, every day.

    It has been a very difficult year but a very productive one.

    And while I do try to make you a bit envious of living an eccentric life amidst revolution and war, the truth is that it the past few years have been very hard, and your friendship and support has been at times the only positive aspect of my daily life.

    We do not express our love for our friends often enough – particularly between men. But love is contagious when it is sincere. And sincere thanks for advice, counsel, support and occasional cheerleading are sincere expressions of appreciation within the limits of the man-rules.

    In an effort to illustrate, I often delve into rhetorical positioning. But it is only to make the point that only we can be responsible for our tribes. Our civilization.

    But the best way to fuel that fire of revolution is not merely self righteous indignation and fury at our jailers, but to love one another as brothers in the pursuit of it.

    I love you all.

    -Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-13 00:08:00 UTC

  • Excited. On my way to L’viv to meet with my friend Eli Harman, and my “boss” Rom

    Excited.

    On my way to L’viv to meet with my friend Eli Harman, and my “boss” Roman Skaskiw.

    It’s like winning a trip to Hawaii for Aristocratic libertarians. 🙂

    One problem. I need a box to stand on to hug Eli. 😉

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 23:51:00 UTC

  • (diary) I had a regret. A very big one. That I had not worked on philosophy when

    (diary)

    I had a regret. A very big one. That I had not worked on philosophy when I was in college – that I had not joined the literature department when asked by its chair. That I was overly fascinated with career motives in engineering, law, or art, than I was in ‘the recreation of literature and philosophy’.

    But now, I question, would I have just fallen into the trap of the academy and perished with academic philosophy during my generation? I can never know the answer to this question – I suspect I might have been much happier person in twenties and thirties if I had. It is just as likely I think, given that it was during the Reagan revolution, that I would have found some equally interesting problem to solve.

    On the other hand, I am profoundly proud of what I have chiseled out from inside of this chunk of marble under my daily toil. Propertarianism is something very special and very profound. And now that I can see my way to finishing it – that I *can* finish it – perhaps without too much struggle, I know what it means to me to have made it. It is the greatest thing I have ever done, and everything else in my life is discounted to the pale by its achievement.

    I am very fond of and proud of what I have learned about man and myself by my serial entrepreneurship. I am emboldened by the knowledge that I can compete on that stage. And I will never look at material things again and say “I want or wish for that experience”. But, given the illness and anxiety all that entrepreneurship has given me, I wish I had not done it.

    Yet here I am, having crafted, despite those decisions – whether good or bad – my single goal in life, from the age of twelve. I had no other.

    At the age of twelve, I told my god I would build him a church if he gave me the wealth to do it. I meant a building. But the wealth he gave me was to give me time, and the church we wanted was one built of my words.

    And building with those words I have restored my gods – not to an altar, but to a pedestal, where they desire to be. Altars are for the submissive and the weak to obey. Pedestals are for the competent and the strong. Gods are to be admired, imitated, remembered. No god worthy of advice seeks submission. Any god worthy of advice and counsel seeks liberty for his people – or he is not a god but a demon – a devil. Some gods need us to free them from a prison constructed by demons. Liberty frees our gods from theirs.

    I know what my next purpose is. I must finish this one and start on it while I have the time left to craft it – thankfully I now have build the words to craft it with.

    We need tools to make the tools, to make the things we desire. Propertarianism is but the tool with which to craft the tool, to make the thing, that we desire.

    When I write, my gods speak to me in the only way they can. I am never quite sure which words are mine, and which are theirs. I believe they are mine, but then when I look back at them, I cannot imagine how they could be.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 04:59:00 UTC

  • FORGE LIFE BY YOUR WILL. I just figured out that I’m a year older than I thought

    FORGE LIFE BY YOUR WILL.

    I just figured out that I’m a year older than I thought, and that I’m eligible for senior citizen benefits. 🙂

    Given that I live like the average 25 year old – that is an absurdly ironic statement about the nature of our assumptions of our working lives.

    As far as I know, I’m just on chapter four of my life. I am *just getting started*.

    Life is something you forge by your will, or is forged by accident in the absence of our will.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 06:42:00 UTC