Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Our people suffer because their high trust is exploitable via rents, where that

    Our people suffer because their high trust is exploitable via rents, where that high trust is not exploitable by credit rents elsewhere.

    To eliminate this parasitism, we have the choice to cease trustworthiness or to destroy rents.

    As such I choose, and I am certain we will all choose, to destroy those rents.

    By destroying rents we will force investments into innovation at risk rather than parasitism on the externalization of risk.

    Correcting the rent system is actually quite easy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-14 09:23:00 UTC

  • Blockchain

    BLOCKCHAIN I am not wrong very often. I wasn’t wrong on this subject either. Blockchain is an inadequate solution, and frankly I haven’t been able to understand how anyone could think otherwise except for having been stunned by the shiny object of the gold rush. IMHO, all we are doing is conducting R&D for post-money fiat money. Why? Because it eliminates the middle-man between the treasury and the people AND it eliminates the state’s ability to *DEFINE PROPERTY RIGHTS*. Even better it eliminates the ability for originators to package and sell loans and then evade responsibility for them. Moreover, it eliminates the problem of check cashing services, and the hard-money-economy of the ‘bottom’. All these things are profoundly important. But the libertarian fantasy that somehow an independent banking system will emerge is as absurd as it always has been. In the end, we have physical actors transferring physical assets, or all we are doing is playing a simulation. And the government can always and everywhere intercede in the physical world – simply because it is so profitable to do so. They have both every incentive and every resource as well as the public good at their disposal. So, while I appreciate that the nerd community wants to obtain sovereignty – all we are doing is devoting our free time and energy to funding the replacement for current absurdly antiquated, third party driven, financial system. This is to say that Holochain is a good step forward. It is also to say that blockchain was … childish… in my opinion as a technologist and political economist. Fun but childish. (And yes I lost I think something under 20K on a blockchain tech investment – but I knew I would. I was helping a friend. ) I can’t quite see a fully operational holochain platform, and the language used in the space is profoundly obscurant, so I have to reserve advocacy until I am capale of doing it honestly. That said it’s much closer to the result. On the other hand a monolithic and redundant system run by the private sector under state contract directly for the treasury is how I expect the solution to roll out. And it is the people who sell the government on that solution that will make all the money. I’d do it but I’m too busy trying to make a revolution ….

  • Blockchain

    BLOCKCHAIN I am not wrong very often. I wasn’t wrong on this subject either. Blockchain is an inadequate solution, and frankly I haven’t been able to understand how anyone could think otherwise except for having been stunned by the shiny object of the gold rush. IMHO, all we are doing is conducting R&D for post-money fiat money. Why? Because it eliminates the middle-man between the treasury and the people AND it eliminates the state’s ability to *DEFINE PROPERTY RIGHTS*. Even better it eliminates the ability for originators to package and sell loans and then evade responsibility for them. Moreover, it eliminates the problem of check cashing services, and the hard-money-economy of the ‘bottom’. All these things are profoundly important. But the libertarian fantasy that somehow an independent banking system will emerge is as absurd as it always has been. In the end, we have physical actors transferring physical assets, or all we are doing is playing a simulation. And the government can always and everywhere intercede in the physical world – simply because it is so profitable to do so. They have both every incentive and every resource as well as the public good at their disposal. So, while I appreciate that the nerd community wants to obtain sovereignty – all we are doing is devoting our free time and energy to funding the replacement for current absurdly antiquated, third party driven, financial system. This is to say that Holochain is a good step forward. It is also to say that blockchain was … childish… in my opinion as a technologist and political economist. Fun but childish. (And yes I lost I think something under 20K on a blockchain tech investment – but I knew I would. I was helping a friend. ) I can’t quite see a fully operational holochain platform, and the language used in the space is profoundly obscurant, so I have to reserve advocacy until I am capale of doing it honestly. That said it’s much closer to the result. On the other hand a monolithic and redundant system run by the private sector under state contract directly for the treasury is how I expect the solution to roll out. And it is the people who sell the government on that solution that will make all the money. I’d do it but I’m too busy trying to make a revolution ….

  • BLOCKCHAIN I am not wrong very often. I wasn’t wrong on this subject either. Blo

    BLOCKCHAIN

    I am not wrong very often. I wasn’t wrong on this subject either. Blockchain is an inadequate solution, and frankly I haven’t been able to understand how anyone could think otherwise except for having been stunned by the shiny object of the gold rush.

    IMHO, all we are doing is conducting R&D for post-money fiat money. Why? Because it eliminates the middle-man between the treasury and the people AND it eliminates the state’s ability to *DEFINE PROPERTY RIGHTS*. Even better it eliminates the ability for originators to package and sell loans and then evade responsibility for them. Moreover, it eliminates the problem of check cashing services, and the hard-money-economy of the ‘bottom’.

    All these things are profoundly important.

    But the libertarian fantasy that somehow an independent banking system will emerge is as absurd as it always has been. In the end, we have physical actors transferring physical assets, or all we are doing is playing a simulation.

    And the government can always and everywhere intercede in the physical world – simply because it is so profitable to do so. They have both every incentive and every resource as well as the public good at their disposal.

    So, while I appreciate that the nerd community wants to obtain sovereignty – all we are doing is devoting our free time and energy to funding the replacement for current absurdly antiquated, third party driven, financial system.

    This is to say that Holochain is a good step forward. It is also to say that blockchain was … childish… in my opinion as a technologist and political economist. Fun but childish. (And yes I lost I think something under 20K on a blockchain tech investment – but I knew I would. I was helping a friend. )

    I can’t quite see a fully operational holochain platform, and the language used in the space is profoundly obscurant, so I have to reserve advocacy until I am capale of doing it honestly. That said it’s much closer to the result.

    On the other hand a monolithic and redundant system run by the private sector under state contract directly for the treasury is how I expect the solution to roll out.

    And it is the people who sell the government on that solution that will make all the money.

    I’d do it but I’m too busy trying to make a revolution ….

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-12 18:50:00 UTC

  • SEMITIC URHEIMAT IS NORTH AFRICA Africa-to-Levant hypothesis Map of Semitic lang

    SEMITIC URHEIMAT IS NORTH AFRICA

    Africa-to-Levant hypothesis

    Map of Semitic languages and statistically inferred dispersals. One hyptothesized location of the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic between the African coast of the Red Sea and the Near East is also indicated.

    Christopher Ehret has hypothesized that genetic analyses (specifically those of Y chromosome phylogeography and TaqI 49a,f haplotypes) shows populations of proto-Semitic speakers may have moved from the Horn of Africa or southeastern Sahara northwards to the Nile Valley, Northwest Africa, the Levant, and Aegean.[4]

    Edward Lipiński supports a Northwest African origin due to the relationship between a Pre-Semitic Afroasiatic language and the Niger–Congo languages, whose urheimat probably lies in Nigeria–Cameroon.[5] In support of this hypothesis, Lipiński points out that Proto-Semitic:

    – did not originate in Arabia, as previously hypothesized, since the region could not have supported massive waves of emigration before the domestication of camels in the second millennium BC.[3]

    – did not originate in Mesopotamia (and adjoining areas of modern Syria), since there is evidence the original inhabitants were a non-Semitic population.

    – shares more isoglosses and lexicostatistical convergences with the Berber languages than any other family, thereby;

    – showing signs of a link with Berber long after other Afro-Asiatic language families, such as Egyptic and Chadic, and;

    – was still spoken during the mid-Neolithic Subpluvial (i.e. 5th millennium BCE, when the Sahara was more humid).

    A Neolithic culture in the Sahara possibly related to Proto-Semitic collapsed due to desertification and climate change around 3500 BC, according to Lipiński – a fact attested by evidence such as rock art.

    This may have forced Proto-Semitic speakers to emigrate en masse through the Nile Delta to Western Asia. They were probably responsible for the collapse of the Ghassulian culture in Palestine around 3300 BC.[6] Another indication of the arrival of the proto-Semitic culture is the appearance of tumuli in 4th and 3rd millennium BC Palestine, which were typical characteristic of Neolithic North Africa.[6]

    It is possible that at this point, the ancestors of the speakers of Elamite moved towards Iran, although the inclusion of Elamite in Afroasiatic is only contemplated by a tiny minority.[7]

    The earliest wave of Semitic speakers entered the Fertile Crescent via Palestine and Syria and eventually founded the Akkadian Empire.

    Their relatives, the Amorites, followed them and settled Syria before 2500 BC.[6] The collapse of the Bronze Age in Palestine led the southern Semites southwards, where they reached the highlands of Yemen after 20th century BC. Those crossed back to the Horn of Africa between 1500–500 BC.[6]

    Recent Bayesian analysis suggests an origin for all known Semitic languages in the Levant around 3750 BCE, with a later single introduction from South Arabia into the Horn of Africa around 800 BCE.

    This statistical analysis could not, however, estimate when or where the ancestor of all Semitic languages diverged from Afroasiatic.[1] It thus neither conflicts nor confirms the hypothesis that the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic occurred in Africa.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-10 15:37:00 UTC

  • No Cosmopolitans, This Time Wont Be Different.

    It’s (((Their))) whole counter-reaction against the scientific revolution. I use key figures to show a trend, (Boas, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Frankfurt school, Rand/Rothbard, the SPLU/ACLU but the number of them resisting modernity is nearly all of them. They want cosmopolitanism (pastoralism) as do women, where they are not responsible for territorial commons. But if we look at where that’s been tried (levant) it requires oppressive empires, expands tribalism, and generates low trust conditions, and poverty. I’m not sure, since (((they))) have, and cosmopolitanism has, failed everywhere else, why they think ‘this time will be different’ . It wont. Rousseau and the french start the trend that evolved into the technique we call postmodernism. Kant expands it. Marx expands it, and when marxism fails the french then invent postmodernism, and (((they))) adopt it as well. The french are deeply feminine, and anti-aristocracy. (((They))) are deeply feminine and anti-aristocracy. We are deeply masculine and deeply pro aristocracy. And it’s pretty easy to see that the effeminate prosper under our ‘protections’ but that they will take it too far into undermining us with the privileges we give them with aristocracy (markets in everything).

  • No Cosmopolitans, This Time Wont Be Different.

    It’s (((Their))) whole counter-reaction against the scientific revolution. I use key figures to show a trend, (Boas, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Frankfurt school, Rand/Rothbard, the SPLU/ACLU but the number of them resisting modernity is nearly all of them. They want cosmopolitanism (pastoralism) as do women, where they are not responsible for territorial commons. But if we look at where that’s been tried (levant) it requires oppressive empires, expands tribalism, and generates low trust conditions, and poverty. I’m not sure, since (((they))) have, and cosmopolitanism has, failed everywhere else, why they think ‘this time will be different’ . It wont. Rousseau and the french start the trend that evolved into the technique we call postmodernism. Kant expands it. Marx expands it, and when marxism fails the french then invent postmodernism, and (((they))) adopt it as well. The french are deeply feminine, and anti-aristocracy. (((They))) are deeply feminine and anti-aristocracy. We are deeply masculine and deeply pro aristocracy. And it’s pretty easy to see that the effeminate prosper under our ‘protections’ but that they will take it too far into undermining us with the privileges we give them with aristocracy (markets in everything).

  • There Is No Reason We Must Behave as Pre-Literate Pre-Scientific Pedlars of Nonsense

    If you were to read just Fukuyama’s Trust and his two books on Political Order you might have a better understanding of why the east held out longer than the rest. ANd it is pretty simple. If you hold a toll bridge on the only trade route from the eastern to the western mediterranean, and can hire others navies to help you (Venice) and can hire mercenaries (vikings as well as others) and can breed your own custom armies, you can hold out despite the fact that you have a low trust people who you cannot organize or modernize – particularly where all the wealth and cheap population is on your side of the bridge. The fact is that they couldn’t hold out. That they didn’t. That they held out longer because the trade route was until the 19th century, the most valuable on earth. And they needed all of that wealth to compensate for their failure to form chinese levels of bureaucracy or western levels of militia. But while they lost, they did fail. yes they probably failed because of plague, just as the entire empire fell disproportionately due to plagues. But then end result was an inability to govern the poorer peoples. Evidence is evidence and progress all but ceased under christianity, and all but exploded with the scientific revolution and scientific enlightenment, literacy, and the closure of the monasteries. There is a reason the catholic countries are poorer, have higher corruption, and the protestant countries the opposite. There is a reason why the nordic peoples rescued us from the church’s ignorance. And there is a reason why those who were shortest under church administration are more prosperous. Evidence is evidence. is evidence. Data is data is data. Just because a value is non zero doesn’t mean it is equal to a value Why did we have explosive growth in knowledge from the recovery of the bronze age collapse in 500bc to the abrahamic collapse in 300ad? Why did we have explosive expansion after the abrahamic collapse, There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. and everything bad in christianity was intentionally added to it. We cannot be free of the lies of the marxists and postmodernists without reforming our religion from a supernatural to a natural one. Christianity is reducible first, to the extension of kinship love to non kin – which is the optimum game strategy for cooperation – and second to the requirement for individual service (in other words, doing that charity yourself). Everything else is just nonsense. We have a full history of people who are saints thru service, generals thru service, thinkers in the service of all, and even the occasional business person thru service – although I don’t think much of them. Mass consists of a history lesson, a commentary on current events,an oath, and a feast. THere is no reason that the history lesson, commentary, oath, and feast cannot be (again) reformed so that we refer to literary analogy for the purpose of wisdom rather than supernatural authority for the purpose of obedience. All groups need a ‘cult’ but it turns out that the best cult is ancestor worship, and the best form of mindfulness is self authoring (stoicism), and the best form of political teaching is forgiveness. There is no reason we must behave as pre-literate pre-scientific pedlars of nonsense churches that continuously decline, rather than to modernize the church so that the propaganda of the abrahamists is removed, and replaced with our traditional (germanic) love of nature, and of man.

  • There Is No Reason We Must Behave as Pre-Literate Pre-Scientific Pedlars of Nonsense

    If you were to read just Fukuyama’s Trust and his two books on Political Order you might have a better understanding of why the east held out longer than the rest. ANd it is pretty simple. If you hold a toll bridge on the only trade route from the eastern to the western mediterranean, and can hire others navies to help you (Venice) and can hire mercenaries (vikings as well as others) and can breed your own custom armies, you can hold out despite the fact that you have a low trust people who you cannot organize or modernize – particularly where all the wealth and cheap population is on your side of the bridge. The fact is that they couldn’t hold out. That they didn’t. That they held out longer because the trade route was until the 19th century, the most valuable on earth. And they needed all of that wealth to compensate for their failure to form chinese levels of bureaucracy or western levels of militia. But while they lost, they did fail. yes they probably failed because of plague, just as the entire empire fell disproportionately due to plagues. But then end result was an inability to govern the poorer peoples. Evidence is evidence and progress all but ceased under christianity, and all but exploded with the scientific revolution and scientific enlightenment, literacy, and the closure of the monasteries. There is a reason the catholic countries are poorer, have higher corruption, and the protestant countries the opposite. There is a reason why the nordic peoples rescued us from the church’s ignorance. And there is a reason why those who were shortest under church administration are more prosperous. Evidence is evidence. is evidence. Data is data is data. Just because a value is non zero doesn’t mean it is equal to a value Why did we have explosive growth in knowledge from the recovery of the bronze age collapse in 500bc to the abrahamic collapse in 300ad? Why did we have explosive expansion after the abrahamic collapse, There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. and everything bad in christianity was intentionally added to it. We cannot be free of the lies of the marxists and postmodernists without reforming our religion from a supernatural to a natural one. Christianity is reducible first, to the extension of kinship love to non kin – which is the optimum game strategy for cooperation – and second to the requirement for individual service (in other words, doing that charity yourself). Everything else is just nonsense. We have a full history of people who are saints thru service, generals thru service, thinkers in the service of all, and even the occasional business person thru service – although I don’t think much of them. Mass consists of a history lesson, a commentary on current events,an oath, and a feast. THere is no reason that the history lesson, commentary, oath, and feast cannot be (again) reformed so that we refer to literary analogy for the purpose of wisdom rather than supernatural authority for the purpose of obedience. All groups need a ‘cult’ but it turns out that the best cult is ancestor worship, and the best form of mindfulness is self authoring (stoicism), and the best form of political teaching is forgiveness. There is no reason we must behave as pre-literate pre-scientific pedlars of nonsense churches that continuously decline, rather than to modernize the church so that the propaganda of the abrahamists is removed, and replaced with our traditional (germanic) love of nature, and of man.

  • THERE ARE ONLY TWO SUCCESS STORIES Don’t be daft. There are only two success sto

    THERE ARE ONLY TWO SUCCESS STORIES

    Don’t be daft. There are only two success stories in history. The far west: a professional militia of kin that create markets, and the far east: a professional bureaucracy of kin that create monopolies. I have no idea why we even pay attention to the fertile crescent. it is an exercise in a professional class of liars (priests). Which is the worst of all possible worlds. Starting first with any technology is a disadvantage because of the cumulative network effect. The chinese avoided religion altogether. The west was conquered by it and has tried repeatedly to escape it. Maybe this time we will be successful in replacing religion with Literature, the Oath, Sports, and Festivals.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:14:00 UTC