(from elsewhere)(via stephen hicks) [O]nly two regrets I have in life. First was not choosing a degree in philosophy despite my fascination with it – although my study of art and art history has framed my personality and life. I can attest personally that the study of certain philosophy dramatically improves your ability in the work force. It’s a lot like living life as Methuselah. You have all this accumulated wisdom of all these smart folks, and you don’t have to so much learn the hard way as you go along, as work to gather useful information with which to apply that accumulated wisdom. It’s so much easier. 1) Intro-Micro/Macro Economics, History, Philosophy, Grammar, Rhetoric, Art (aesthetics). Combine that series with ANY one of the technical disciplines (learn how to extend your perception with logical instrumentation): 2) Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, Finance, Programming, Mathematics, Law, Econometrics. We should teach western fairy tales, myths and legends, literature and history throughout our youth. If you enter the world literate, with exposure to moral philosophy, grammar and rhetoric, classes on math through geometry, newtonian physics, basic checkbook accounting, money, banking, credit and interest, basics of consumer purchase/sale and contract, and most importantly, classes on cooperation(ethics), friendship, and marriage – then you are armed for daily life. We focus too heavily on trying to make everyone a member of the upper middle class via mastery of abstractions. But those of us with those abilities will succeed no matter what. and instead, we create chaos in our civilization by both destroying the family as the source of wisdom and education on life matters, sending unsophisticated people entirely unready into a world managed by law, economics, finance credit and interest. We screw over our lower and middle classes with the folly of good intentions and false promises.
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The Value of Studying Philosohpy
(from elsewhere)(via stephen hicks) [O]nly two regrets I have in life. First was not choosing a degree in philosophy despite my fascination with it – although my study of art and art history has framed my personality and life. I can attest personally that the study of certain philosophy dramatically improves your ability in the work force. It’s a lot like living life as Methuselah. You have all this accumulated wisdom of all these smart folks, and you don’t have to so much learn the hard way as you go along, as work to gather useful information with which to apply that accumulated wisdom. It’s so much easier. 1) Intro-Micro/Macro Economics, History, Philosophy, Grammar, Rhetoric, Art (aesthetics). Combine that series with ANY one of the technical disciplines (learn how to extend your perception with logical instrumentation): 2) Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, Finance, Programming, Mathematics, Law, Econometrics. We should teach western fairy tales, myths and legends, literature and history throughout our youth. If you enter the world literate, with exposure to moral philosophy, grammar and rhetoric, classes on math through geometry, newtonian physics, basic checkbook accounting, money, banking, credit and interest, basics of consumer purchase/sale and contract, and most importantly, classes on cooperation(ethics), friendship, and marriage – then you are armed for daily life. We focus too heavily on trying to make everyone a member of the upper middle class via mastery of abstractions. But those of us with those abilities will succeed no matter what. and instead, we create chaos in our civilization by both destroying the family as the source of wisdom and education on life matters, sending unsophisticated people entirely unready into a world managed by law, economics, finance credit and interest. We screw over our lower and middle classes with the folly of good intentions and false promises.
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Choice Words on Cooperation
—“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—
Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER…
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Choice Words on Cooperation
—“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—
Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER…
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COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER (good stuff!) —“Cooperation in
COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER
(good stuff!)
—“Cooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing numbers of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 07:56:00 UTC
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“Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past mil
—“Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.”—Matt Mullenweg
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-28 03:14:00 UTC
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Fragility: It’s Easier Than Ever to Revolt
(from elsewhere)(archival) [F]ree Northerner,
Our opponents attacked us with better leadership, better organization, outright lies, obscurant rationalism, pseudoscience, and propaganda: repeated over and over again. Most effectively by achieving by judicial activism and immigration, what could not be achieved by persuasion. And of those who could be persuaded, it was predominantly women who, like they were by Christianity in Rome, most easily fooled. And who, being fooled in large numbers, tilted votes, taught children in schools, provided income and incentives to universities as a new customer base, and staffed marketing departments and advertising agencies. Contrary to current opinion, it is very easy to do something about it. It is merely costly, not hard. Because contemporary civilization is fragile. But to succeed in any campaign, we must have a better idea, better articulated, better leaders, better organization, and a means of persecuting lying, deceit, pseudoscience, and propaganda. Because gossip and deceit are cheap and easily made plentiful. That is their tactic. Women evolved to use gossip to rally against alphas. By contrast, violence and truth are expensive and hard to make plentiful. But that is both our tactic and our objective: truth and the threat of violence for those who gossip and deceive. We require: A goal. A plan. A moral justification for violence. And the will to pay the high cost of saving our civilization from the age of lies and propaganda made possible by the introduction of women into the politics of our high trust polity under open enfranchisement representative democracy, without houses of government that represent our competing class and gender interests. Our opponents’ strategy is purely verbal – so they need numbers. We don’t. We need a few good men willing to risk life and liberty. Because the liars have created pervasive fragility that can easily be exploited. Once we have actionable demands, we can raise the cost of not meeting those demands by taking advantage of that fragility. Whether it be nullification, secession, revolution, or civil war, is merely a measure of the cost that the people are willing to pay to preserve their tyranny of the masses. We need a solution to post-democratic equalitarian government, the construction of immoral laws, judicial activism in order to do something other than just rebel. Which is what I work on full time. Thankfully, success is more possible now than it has ever been. Liberty, truth and rule of law and natural aristocracy in our lifetime, or tyranny, deceit, propaganda, Brazil and castes in the next. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy Kiev, Ukraine. http://freenortherner.com/2015/…/07/nihilism-and-utopianism/ -
Fragility: It’s Easier Than Ever to Revolt
(from elsewhere)(archival) [F]ree Northerner,
Our opponents attacked us with better leadership, better organization, outright lies, obscurant rationalism, pseudoscience, and propaganda: repeated over and over again. Most effectively by achieving by judicial activism and immigration, what could not be achieved by persuasion. And of those who could be persuaded, it was predominantly women who, like they were by Christianity in Rome, most easily fooled. And who, being fooled in large numbers, tilted votes, taught children in schools, provided income and incentives to universities as a new customer base, and staffed marketing departments and advertising agencies. Contrary to current opinion, it is very easy to do something about it. It is merely costly, not hard. Because contemporary civilization is fragile. But to succeed in any campaign, we must have a better idea, better articulated, better leaders, better organization, and a means of persecuting lying, deceit, pseudoscience, and propaganda. Because gossip and deceit are cheap and easily made plentiful. That is their tactic. Women evolved to use gossip to rally against alphas. By contrast, violence and truth are expensive and hard to make plentiful. But that is both our tactic and our objective: truth and the threat of violence for those who gossip and deceive. We require: A goal. A plan. A moral justification for violence. And the will to pay the high cost of saving our civilization from the age of lies and propaganda made possible by the introduction of women into the politics of our high trust polity under open enfranchisement representative democracy, without houses of government that represent our competing class and gender interests. Our opponents’ strategy is purely verbal – so they need numbers. We don’t. We need a few good men willing to risk life and liberty. Because the liars have created pervasive fragility that can easily be exploited. Once we have actionable demands, we can raise the cost of not meeting those demands by taking advantage of that fragility. Whether it be nullification, secession, revolution, or civil war, is merely a measure of the cost that the people are willing to pay to preserve their tyranny of the masses. We need a solution to post-democratic equalitarian government, the construction of immoral laws, judicial activism in order to do something other than just rebel. Which is what I work on full time. Thankfully, success is more possible now than it has ever been. Liberty, truth and rule of law and natural aristocracy in our lifetime, or tyranny, deceit, propaganda, Brazil and castes in the next. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy Kiev, Ukraine. http://freenortherner.com/2015/…/07/nihilism-and-utopianism/ -
IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO REVOLT IN A FRAGILE POLITY (from elsewhere)(archival)
IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO REVOLT IN A FRAGILE POLITY
(from elsewhere)(archival)
Free Northerner,
Our opponents attacked us with better leadership, better organization, outright lies, obscurant rationalism, pseudoscience, and propaganda: repeated over and over again. Most effectively by achieving by judicial activism and immigration, what could not be achieved by persuasion. And of those who could be persuaded, it was predominantly women who, like they were by Christianity in Rome, most easily fooled. And who, being fooled in large numbers, tilted votes, taught children in schools, provided income and incentives to universities as a new customer base, and staffed marketing departments and advertising agencies.
Contrary to current opinion, it is very easy to do something about it. It is merely costly, not hard. Because contemporary civilization is fragile.
But to succeed in any campaign, we must have a better idea, better articulated, better leaders, better organization, and a means of persecuting lying, deceit, pseudoscience, and propaganda. Because gossip and deceit are cheap and easily made plentiful. That is their tactic. Women evolved to use gossip to rally against alphas.
By contrast, violence and truth are expensive and hard to make plentiful. But that is both our tactic and our objective: truth and the threat of violence for those who gossip and deceive.
We require: A goal. A plan. A moral justification for violence. And the will to pay the high cost of saving our civilization from the age of lies and propaganda made possible by the introduction of women into the politics of our high trust polity under open enfranchisement representative democracy, without houses of government that represent our competing class and gender interests.
Our opponents’ strategy is purely verbal – so they need numbers. We don’t. We need a few good men willing to risk life and liberty. Because the liars have created pervasive fragility that can easily be exploited.
Once we have actionable demands, we can raise the cost of not meeting those demands by taking advantage of that fragility. Whether it be nullification, secession, revolution, or civil war, is merely a measure of the cost that the people are willing to pay to preserve their tyranny of the masses. We need a solution to post-democratic equalitarian government, the construction of immoral laws, judicial activism in order to do something other than just rebel.
Which is what I work on full time.
Thankfully, success is more possible now than it has ever been.
Liberty, truth and rule of law and natural aristocracy in our lifetime, or tyranny, deceit, propaganda, Brazil and castes in the next.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
Kiev, Ukraine.
http://freenortherner.com/2015/06/07/nihilism-and-utopianism/
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-10 01:36:00 UTC
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Current Western Institutional Trends explained
[P]rivatization of commons in Western Europe and North America since the 1980s is but a reaction to a rapidly growing heterogeneous society; and a move by those who have*, to prohibit those who can’t**, from fraudulently obtaining rents.Similarly, creating compliance processes is making what used to be unnecessary to formulate and to structure, and implicit – knowledge of, and compliance with, core business-affecting legal procedures – explicit, so that the workforce created by heterogenification can either understand it, or be deprived of excuses in case they don’t.<div class=”_5wd4 _1nc6 direction_ltr _5yt9″ title=”13:20″ data-reactid=”.3d.$“>
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* property, status, class
** obtain property, status, class