Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 6

    Now, gov’t can also have another function which is to have a system where different groups of people can negotiate on commons. (I may take a minute to explain the difference between via-negativa & via-positiva, & briefly define “commons”.) The key is to enable representatives of the people to negotiate on commons without violating reciprocity. The problem is our representatives are currently able to make laws that violate reciprocity (“lawmakers” – they shouldn’t be lawmakers, there is only one law, natural law of reciprocity), instead they should be negotiating on commons, without violating reciprocity. Can you give us an idea how this could look, paint a picture for us? Were there times in our history when we did this better than we do now that would give us a reference point?

    Something we’re missing here, is the difference between a perfect institutional model for a given population distribution at a given level of development, and a perfect institutional model for those who have been successful in the production of a middle class polity, where members of the polity own and act as they own the commons as well as the private. So there is an optimum government for europeans, but many other people lag because they cannot at least yet, produce a middle class polity in which every other person is a potential customer in one of the series of markets for cooperation. It’s this incentive not the belief in the good that creates a high trust polity. And it’s rule of law and it’s suppression of parasitism that drives people into those markets instead of markets for parasitism. And by and large it’s a military tradition that makes that law possible. Because military epistemology is empirical and does not tolerate falsehood. Humans do poorly at mixing epistemologies. This is somewhat of a benefit since military epistemology is a prophylactic against sophistry. The structure is the same but the distribution of the franchise (participation) can only expand as does membership in the market. Furthermore as the market expands, new people enter the market but some others exit it. For example, why do state employees have a vote? That said there is a conflict between desire for consumption that as it’s increasing produces status feedback, and increases in consumption and change that leave people behind or feeling left behind. So progress only works as long as consumption is increasing. And it’s not any longer because frankly there is very little left we desire to consume at this level of development. We’ve sort of saturated physical, emotional, and intellectual demand. All that’s left is signaling and security. We had perfect government…(describe british prewar system)

    • Methods of Decision Making
      1. Rule of Law Monarchy with cabinet, and assent and dissent of the public.
      2. Rule of Law Republic with Representatives
      3. Rule of Law with Jury selected from the people
      4. Rule of Law Auction
      5. Rule of Law Market
    • Whether decision is Assent, Dissent, or Contract
      1. If Assent or Contract
        1. Equal Vote vs
        2. Equal Economic Bid, vs
        3. Proportional Economic Bid.
      2. And:
        1. Monopoly (and sufficient to fund and reciprocal) or
        2. Proportionality (sufficient to fund and not irreciprocal.)
    • Houses organized by necessary differences in interests
      1. Gender
      2. Race
      3. Religion
      4. Economic Class
      5. Urban vs Suburban vs Rural (oppy cost differences)
      6. Territory

    This creates markets for producing trades between groups with different interests. In a perfect world we would have a government that was dynamic and adapted to periods of war and scarcity (authority), ordinary markets, and windfalls. A monarchy as a judge of last resort, meaning any decision can be vetoed. And some percentage of revenues under discretionary control of the monarchy so that arts and letters and character are open to exclusive funding. A federal government limited to function of insurer of last resort, meaning a purely via-negativa government managing military, law, treasury, and social security. Local governments competing to produce attractive commons Cities and territories governed separately because of their vast difference in costs and value of commons. Cities are gene sinks they’re terrible but people desire them.

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 6

    Now, gov’t can also have another function which is to have a system where different groups of people can negotiate on commons. (I may take a minute to explain the difference between via-negativa & via-positiva, & briefly define “commons”.) The key is to enable representatives of the people to negotiate on commons without violating reciprocity. The problem is our representatives are currently able to make laws that violate reciprocity (“lawmakers” – they shouldn’t be lawmakers, there is only one law, natural law of reciprocity), instead they should be negotiating on commons, without violating reciprocity. Can you give us an idea how this could look, paint a picture for us? Were there times in our history when we did this better than we do now that would give us a reference point?

    Something we’re missing here, is the difference between a perfect institutional model for a given population distribution at a given level of development, and a perfect institutional model for those who have been successful in the production of a middle class polity, where members of the polity own and act as they own the commons as well as the private. So there is an optimum government for europeans, but many other people lag because they cannot at least yet, produce a middle class polity in which every other person is a potential customer in one of the series of markets for cooperation. It’s this incentive not the belief in the good that creates a high trust polity. And it’s rule of law and it’s suppression of parasitism that drives people into those markets instead of markets for parasitism. And by and large it’s a military tradition that makes that law possible. Because military epistemology is empirical and does not tolerate falsehood. Humans do poorly at mixing epistemologies. This is somewhat of a benefit since military epistemology is a prophylactic against sophistry. The structure is the same but the distribution of the franchise (participation) can only expand as does membership in the market. Furthermore as the market expands, new people enter the market but some others exit it. For example, why do state employees have a vote? That said there is a conflict between desire for consumption that as it’s increasing produces status feedback, and increases in consumption and change that leave people behind or feeling left behind. So progress only works as long as consumption is increasing. And it’s not any longer because frankly there is very little left we desire to consume at this level of development. We’ve sort of saturated physical, emotional, and intellectual demand. All that’s left is signaling and security. We had perfect government…(describe british prewar system)

    • Methods of Decision Making
      1. Rule of Law Monarchy with cabinet, and assent and dissent of the public.
      2. Rule of Law Republic with Representatives
      3. Rule of Law with Jury selected from the people
      4. Rule of Law Auction
      5. Rule of Law Market
    • Whether decision is Assent, Dissent, or Contract
      1. If Assent or Contract
        1. Equal Vote vs
        2. Equal Economic Bid, vs
        3. Proportional Economic Bid.
      2. And:
        1. Monopoly (and sufficient to fund and reciprocal) or
        2. Proportionality (sufficient to fund and not irreciprocal.)
    • Houses organized by necessary differences in interests
      1. Gender
      2. Race
      3. Religion
      4. Economic Class
      5. Urban vs Suburban vs Rural (oppy cost differences)
      6. Territory

    This creates markets for producing trades between groups with different interests. In a perfect world we would have a government that was dynamic and adapted to periods of war and scarcity (authority), ordinary markets, and windfalls. A monarchy as a judge of last resort, meaning any decision can be vetoed. And some percentage of revenues under discretionary control of the monarchy so that arts and letters and character are open to exclusive funding. A federal government limited to function of insurer of last resort, meaning a purely via-negativa government managing military, law, treasury, and social security. Local governments competing to produce attractive commons Cities and territories governed separately because of their vast difference in costs and value of commons. Cities are gene sinks they’re terrible but people desire them.

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 3

    So what we see is that it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s reciprocity vs parasitism. Law’s job is to suppress all forms of parasitism and thus enforce natural law of reciprocity. In my other vids on Propertarianism I’ve explained the basics of how we can write/design our rule of law to do that better than we do today. But Why is it that enforcing reciprocity (eliminating parasitism) produces wealth and high quality of life?

    It’s Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Non Parasitism, Rule of Law, suppression of demand for authority. (PACK) VS Equality, Proportionality, Parasitism, Rule by Discretion, Demand for authority.(HERD) So yes, the capitalism vs socialism is a false dichotomy that is perhaps the best persistent example of using pilpul and critique to present a straw man argument when all economies must be mixed because defense of the private for the purpose of consumption and the common for the purpose of preservation are two very different things requiring two different kinds of enforcement. We must have markets for association, cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, elites and their strategies, and polities. Because markets calculate the unknown. Its only backward organizations that can use authority for short periods to adapt (transform) to a new technology using a novel set of incentives. This is the value of executive and states: to reorganize incentives that have calcified. Answering the WHY IS IT…? Question is just (a) we make time through divisions of labor (b) we make more time the faster we identify and capture opportunities. (c.) for increasingly complex goods, services, and information, we produce longer more complex production cycles with more opportunities along the chain, in to more and more organizations in sustainable networks of specialization and trade. We are calculating a way of defeating the dark forces of time and ignorance in a window of opportunity between catastrophic events on a plant that has had a set of what I suspect are rare coincidences. Western man uses maneuver – ooda loops- to move faster than others. That’s it. And law, and markets in all aspects of life favor evolution, eugenics, and prosperity as a method of competitive advantage. And the weak spot in our civilization is that (a) until now it wasn’t codified in a sort of bible of the law, and (b) our women and some portion of our men will always be vulnerable to false promises that evolution and the red queen can be ignored rather than defeated.

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 3

    So what we see is that it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s reciprocity vs parasitism. Law’s job is to suppress all forms of parasitism and thus enforce natural law of reciprocity. In my other vids on Propertarianism I’ve explained the basics of how we can write/design our rule of law to do that better than we do today. But Why is it that enforcing reciprocity (eliminating parasitism) produces wealth and high quality of life?

    It’s Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Non Parasitism, Rule of Law, suppression of demand for authority. (PACK) VS Equality, Proportionality, Parasitism, Rule by Discretion, Demand for authority.(HERD) So yes, the capitalism vs socialism is a false dichotomy that is perhaps the best persistent example of using pilpul and critique to present a straw man argument when all economies must be mixed because defense of the private for the purpose of consumption and the common for the purpose of preservation are two very different things requiring two different kinds of enforcement. We must have markets for association, cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, elites and their strategies, and polities. Because markets calculate the unknown. Its only backward organizations that can use authority for short periods to adapt (transform) to a new technology using a novel set of incentives. This is the value of executive and states: to reorganize incentives that have calcified. Answering the WHY IS IT…? Question is just (a) we make time through divisions of labor (b) we make more time the faster we identify and capture opportunities. (c.) for increasingly complex goods, services, and information, we produce longer more complex production cycles with more opportunities along the chain, in to more and more organizations in sustainable networks of specialization and trade. We are calculating a way of defeating the dark forces of time and ignorance in a window of opportunity between catastrophic events on a plant that has had a set of what I suspect are rare coincidences. Western man uses maneuver – ooda loops- to move faster than others. That’s it. And law, and markets in all aspects of life favor evolution, eugenics, and prosperity as a method of competitive advantage. And the weak spot in our civilization is that (a) until now it wasn’t codified in a sort of bible of the law, and (b) our women and some portion of our men will always be vulnerable to false promises that evolution and the red queen can be ignored rather than defeated.

  • Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition. And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence. Why? Because while the division of labor provides discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people. The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them. The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature. Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting. The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common. Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity. Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor. The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency. The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth. It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin. There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes. We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition. (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

  • Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition. And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence. Why? Because while the division of labor provides discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people. The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them. The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature. Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting. The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common. Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity. Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor. The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency. The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth. It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin. There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes. We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition. (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

  • RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE

    The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence.

    The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness.

    The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action.

    The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition.

    And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence.

    Why? Because while the division of labor provides

    discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people.

    The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them.

    The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature.

    Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting.

    The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common.

    Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity.

    Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor.

    The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency.

    The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth.

    It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin.

    There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes.

    We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition.

    (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-15 12:03:00 UTC

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 1

    It’s not always smaller govt vs bigger govt but it’s more accurate to say better govt vs worse govt. (I came from a libertarian mindset where I said “smaller gov’t is always better”, but you helped me see that’s not always true.) E.g. a 3rd-world country doesn’t pay its judges much & thus they are very susceptible to bribes; paying judges well is expensive – technically it’s “bigger govt” – but it’s an investment that pays off. Another example – military; doesn’t have to be wasteful but needs to be strong, good investment.) 

    I think you’re correct in that there is good government under rule of law, and bad government under discretionary rule, and that whether a government provides the commons the demographic demands is why we need different polities for different demands – and let the markets between states compensate for our differences.So good government is a measure of procedural and institutional excellence. What commons are produced by that government is a matter of markets to decide. IMO history is rather obvious.  Dysgenics vs eugenics isn’t a complicated thing it’s just a very impolitic one in universal democracy.The principle reason for our false dichotomy is that we can’t openly have the truthful conversation that our debate is between consumption and dysgenia or conservation, rule of law, and eugenics. He who defeats the red queen wins. You can defeat the red queen under the western model, under the chinese model, or under the jewish model. You can survive and lose to her in the muslim, indian, catholic model.

  • Curt Doolittle’s Via Positiva Strategy

    Over the course of my lifetime I slowly evolved a social strategy that helped me overcome my natural aspiness and social anxiety. This evolved into a personal philosophy.

    1. Try to make every person you meet your friend or at least predisposed to friendliness. (It’s actually not very difficult.)
    2. Try to help every person you meet even if it’s something minor like complimenting, appreciating, or commiserating.
    3. Try to make every person you meet, at least once in a while, remember you. This isn’t terribly hard if you (a) smile a lot, (b) find something nice to say, like an observation of something they do well.
    4. Preen. It’s not complicated. Look like you TRY. Groom, dress, speak. Learn how to speak clearly in complete sentences, read a few books, and dress conservatively within your class and cultural boundaries. This means you are reliable.
    5. Upgrade friends, associates, work position as frequently as you find utility in doing so. The good friends will remain, those that are holding you back must not.
    6. Pick a set of conditions in life you would be happy with achieving. Not one ideal, not one favorite, but a spectrum that you would be happy with from low cost to high cost to you.  Try to advance whatever will bring about most of them whenever you can.  And make sure it doesn’t depend on anyone giving you attention. That’s the curse. Need for approval and attention. You don’t want to get hooked on it.
    7. Make very few promises. And if you do make a promise don’t commit to a time frame. If you commit to a time frame only commit to doing your best and do your best and document that you have done so. If you must commit to a time from and promise then make sure you have enough money to pay others to get it done.
    8. Work harder than everyone else at achieving that condition.
    9. Suppress your urge to consume and acquire anything that is not both excellent, useful, and beautiful. It is better to have a few very good things than many not good things.
    10. Buy a heavily depreciated used luxury car for cash if you can, and maintain it.
    11. Acquire all assets that you can that you can’t spend.
    12. Take on no debt that doesn’t get you an asset you can’t spend.
    13. Marry early and well, or late and well, but do not marry without evidence of the person you’re marrying succeeding in the social, economic, and political marketplaces.  This is the most expensive
    14. The stock market is for gamblers with inside information and suckers. And it’s going to get worse as the boomers pull their money out and the millennials and underclasses cannot produce goods and services of sufficient multipliers to replace it.

    Most personal philosophies are means of insulating yourself from lack of control over the universe.  This philosophy is a means of taking control of yourself within that universe. Successful, healthy, wealthy, happy people use time, and laying one brick of success at a time because they enjoy laying those bricks.  Some of us are exceptional and can outwork everyone else socially, physically, mentally and emotionally. If you are one of those people you are already doing these things.  For most mortals you will not win your dreams by accident. You will build them over time.  Or not. The current era is organized to destroy you and your dreams. Help me change that. Propertarianism. The Natural Law of Reciprocity. Rule of Law under it. De-politicization, de-financialization, re-familialization.

  • Curt Doolittle’s Via Positiva Strategy

    Over the course of my lifetime I slowly evolved a social strategy that helped me overcome my natural aspiness and social anxiety. This evolved into a personal philosophy.

    1. Try to make every person you meet your friend or at least predisposed to friendliness. (It’s actually not very difficult.)
    2. Try to help every person you meet even if it’s something minor like complimenting, appreciating, or commiserating.
    3. Try to make every person you meet, at least once in a while, remember you. This isn’t terribly hard if you (a) smile a lot, (b) find something nice to say, like an observation of something they do well.
    4. Preen. It’s not complicated. Look like you TRY. Groom, dress, speak. Learn how to speak clearly in complete sentences, read a few books, and dress conservatively within your class and cultural boundaries. This means you are reliable.
    5. Upgrade friends, associates, work position as frequently as you find utility in doing so. The good friends will remain, those that are holding you back must not.
    6. Pick a set of conditions in life you would be happy with achieving. Not one ideal, not one favorite, but a spectrum that you would be happy with from low cost to high cost to you.  Try to advance whatever will bring about most of them whenever you can.  And make sure it doesn’t depend on anyone giving you attention. That’s the curse. Need for approval and attention. You don’t want to get hooked on it.
    7. Make very few promises. And if you do make a promise don’t commit to a time frame. If you commit to a time frame only commit to doing your best and do your best and document that you have done so. If you must commit to a time from and promise then make sure you have enough money to pay others to get it done.
    8. Work harder than everyone else at achieving that condition.
    9. Suppress your urge to consume and acquire anything that is not both excellent, useful, and beautiful. It is better to have a few very good things than many not good things.
    10. Buy a heavily depreciated used luxury car for cash if you can, and maintain it.
    11. Acquire all assets that you can that you can’t spend.
    12. Take on no debt that doesn’t get you an asset you can’t spend.
    13. Marry early and well, or late and well, but do not marry without evidence of the person you’re marrying succeeding in the social, economic, and political marketplaces.  This is the most expensive
    14. The stock market is for gamblers with inside information and suckers. And it’s going to get worse as the boomers pull their money out and the millennials and underclasses cannot produce goods and services of sufficient multipliers to replace it.

    Most personal philosophies are means of insulating yourself from lack of control over the universe.  This philosophy is a means of taking control of yourself within that universe. Successful, healthy, wealthy, happy people use time, and laying one brick of success at a time because they enjoy laying those bricks.  Some of us are exceptional and can outwork everyone else socially, physically, mentally and emotionally. If you are one of those people you are already doing these things.  For most mortals you will not win your dreams by accident. You will build them over time.  Or not. The current era is organized to destroy you and your dreams. Help me change that. Propertarianism. The Natural Law of Reciprocity. Rule of Law under it. De-politicization, de-financialization, re-familialization.