Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • PLATONISM IS JUST FRAUD. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. There is no matter except as a functi

    PLATONISM IS JUST FRAUD. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

    There is no matter except as a function of the limits of our actions.

    As far as we know existence is constructed of forces.

    The relations between those forces exist.

    From that set of relations between those forces, some set of operations are possible.

    The states of equilibrium that those forces rest within.

    Everything is constructed from the operations that are possible between those forces.

    Our experience of the universe is limited by the limits of our actions.

    The universe is not capable of introspection, planning, or choice.

    We can, because we can remember, search, model, and forecast, identify the forces and operations at various scales of the universe starting with human scale and working in both directions large and small.

    We can make and test observations and create those theories of observations we call ‘facts’.

    We can use operations to attempt to transform that which we observe between states.

    We can create stories (narratives) theories to attempt to explain those transformations (we call these stories ‘theories’)

    We can create many ‘crutches’ to assist us in memory, recall, comparison, and operation given the limits or our actions (the limits of our perception, memory, categorization, and comparison).

    We call these crutches by many names.

    But they are must memories.

    They exist as memories.

    Memories limited by our ability to act (change state).

    Fragmentary relations subject to constant revision the construction of which we are unable to analyze through introspection.

    The experience of which we cannot analyze through introspection but can analyze through mechanical inspection.

    And through that inspection we can easily observe some variation of (overly simplistically stated) a brainstem that operates purely mechanically.

    a lower brain that senses change in state and rewards or punishes.

    a midbrain that produces wants and incentives.

    an upper brain that performs various complex functions of memory and recall.

    a forebrain that organizes into the language of negotiation the wants of what operates beneath it.

    And our consciousness consists of the experience of what we can judge within a 2-3 second window worth of iterations of stimuli mixed with those memories and fed to different brain regions and the rewards and punishments that our brain gives us as instructions produced through millennia of evolution.

    As far as I know the forces in different states, and the opportunities to change state that we call operations, and our memories exist.

    Giving other-worldly names to nothing other than the experience of memories and the associations we find by searching those memories, is to conflate the physical changes in state, the results of those changes in state upon our ongoing iteration of perceptions, and the reality that exists whether we imagine it or not.

    This conflation, like all forms of conflation, is the origin of deception of the self and others. Conversely, the west is the only civilization to successfully create and retain deflationary truth. We did so because the adults practice law out of necessity, and the warriors pay the price for wishful thinking and pretence. And the priests and the little people including the philosophers are simply malcontents trying to create excuses to circumvent that law and steal.

    SUGGESTION

    We think by suggestion, we communicate by suggestion, we understand by suggestion, but we truth-test through criticism (due diligence).

    And we have a name for those who fail to perform due diligence in order to negotiate on behalf of their wants:

    FRAUD.

    As far as I know, all platonism is fraud. fraud by learned habit. fraud by convenience. fraud by intent.

    BUT ITS JUST FRAUD.

    Humans seek to acquire. If you cannot acquire truthfully, then you are acquiring untruthfully.

    FRAUD.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 14:51:00 UTC

  • One of the most interesting transformations I’ve seen in Adam. Someone who has e

    One of the most interesting transformations I’ve seen in Adam. Someone who has experience and devoted himself to multiple systems of thought. And who advocates a very egalitarian world. Yet his emerging work is an elegant synthesis of scientific language and philosophy.

    Skye is also interesting because he can empathize with a host of philosophical frameworks the way most of us can empathize with different genres of literature. Although, I am still stuck with that negativa other than subjective intuition that philosophical aesthetes rely upon.

    Bierling consistently astounds me, and he seems to seek to strike the balance between mores and truth, and can conduct most arguments easily despite rather recent work. he has a public persona that’s genuine, insightful, and frankly, marketable. I feel very emotionally close to him because I have very similar moral sentiments.

    Josh Jeppeson is intersesting because he already bridged science and the aesthetic occult in his own life (which seems to be a common combination that I run across), and he, like many nietzcheans, feels the occult, and judges scientifically, and there is something fascinating in that positiva/negativa combination. I have learned a great deal from his criticism and some of my more recent insights are the result of trying to answer him.

    Berens is interesting in that he is so frighteningly good at constructing propertarian arguments that i am often humbled – he gives me something to aspire to. This is a very talented guy and I haven’t seen any of his development so I can’t comment on his transition.

    Ziavalov is much closer to my perspective, in that he is pretty rigidly scientific (something the russians have been excellent at developing at scale). I notice that our differences derive from my america distaste for conflict, and while I know nothing about him, his name suggests russian origin or influence. And he has that attitude toward conflict: ‘it is what it is, grow up’.

    I’ve long considered Eli and I partners even though we really just riff off each other. Eli takes a more ‘working class man’s view’ of things which i am sure he considers a compliment. But if you are an average person and want to learn Propertariaism (to which he is a major contributor), the price is time with Eli, and a few beers.

    I consider Butch a partner as well, and an advisor and he is better at explaining my position on many subjects than I am – those that relate to libertarian positions especially.

    I see Bill rapidly fulfilling this role as well, but against more philosophical and argumentative positions. Where James Berens would (like me) stomp on you, Bill tries to educate you.

    We have a lot of advocates … some of whom are dear friends to me, but who aren’t terribly interested in the formal work. That said that list is too long to include here.

    Curt Doolittle

    Bill Joslin

    Steve Pender

    Ulysses Aaron Cartwright

    Ivan Ilakovac

    Moritz Bierling

    Con Eli Khan

    Josh Jeppson

    Austyn Pember

    Lycurgus Lawgiver

    Nicholas Arthur Catton

    Arkan Nathanael

    Carlos Clark

    Ely Harman

    Joel Davis

    William Butchman

    James Augustus Berens

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 09:38:00 UTC

  • One of the criticisms of fiat currency and manipulation of the money supply, is

    One of the criticisms of fiat currency and manipulation of the money supply, is that it damages the ability to form aristocratic families by means of saving, and drives all great families out of saving and production into financialization.

    ——- via Nick Zito ———

    Dan Kanivas, admirer of the millionaire next door

    Written Nov 10, 2015

    A recent article written by advisors to wealthy families discusses some of the common ways that family wealth is destroyed over multiple generations, as well as techniques to help prevent the destruction of family wealth over time:

    Wealth management usually comes in two parts: financial planning to increase and manage your wealth, and estate planning to protect and pass the wealth along to heirs with as few taxes as possible. Unfortunately, 70% of family wealth is destroyed by the second generation, and family unity is destroyed right along with the wealth. After three generations, the loss of wealth exceeds 90%.

    Some families, however, thwart lost fortunes and family dysfunction by adding a third component to their wealth management strategy: They prepare their heirs to receive an intellectual inheritance as well as a financial inheritance. When heirs are brought into a family’s stories, traditions, and values, they can better relate to their past and become better stewards of the family’s capital.

    The “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” saying is so true that nearly every culture on the planet has some version of it, including a 2,000-year-old Chinese proverb. It says the first generation works hard to create a fortune; the second generation enjoys the spoils of that fortune, substituting entertainment for hard work; and the third generation, with no role model to follow, squanders what remains of the fortune. Their children have to start all over again.

    What is to blame for the destruction of wealth, and why do so many families experience it? The culprit is not poor investment strategy, nor should people be quick to blame economic downturns or bad markets.

    Roy Williams and Vic Preisser, authors of Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values, collected data from 3,250 families who had lost their wealth. Less than 3% said poor planning and investments caused their reversal of fortune. Instead, 25% said heirs were unprepared, and 60% fingered lack of communication and trust in the family.

    The consequences of neglecting intellectual legacy can be seen in the families who ignored it, such as William Henry Vanderbilt’s heirs. Their fortunes could be worth over $300 billion in today’s dollars. However, by 1973, in just two generations, not a single heir was even a millionaire.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 09:08:00 UTC

  • NATURAL LAW AND THE INFORMATIONAL COMMONS (Curt with Summary by Bill Joslin) In

    NATURAL LAW AND THE INFORMATIONAL COMMONS

    (Curt with Summary by Bill Joslin)

    In the end, any moral commons is possible, while no immoral commons is possible. This allows for competing moral commons but denies competition from immoral commons.

    I have found no reason why police have discretion to suggest prosecution except where there is evidence of conspiracy to prevent prosecution.

    I have found no reason why police have discretion to suggest prosecution of crimes against the informational commons when all citizens are interested parties and can prosecute violations of the informational commons – or prosecute attempts to prevent truth from entering the informational commons.

    Islam would not survive, some of the ‘pseudo-arts’ would not survive, just as pseudo-rationalism, and pseudo-science would not survive.

    Conversely can you imagine the INDIRECT education this would provide to people in the same way that scientific reasoning has indirectly produced the Flynn effect (along with reducing the number of the low end outliers)?

    Imagine a world where disinformation and deception are readily eliminated from the public discourse. How would that effect private discourse?

    one does not need a positiva program. we need only a negativa program. every person on earth will then work to produce a host of positiva programs.

    Most of philosophical history, as most of religious history, has been attempting to develop positivia programs. And they all result in stagnation.

    Meanwhile the west incrementally evolves the common law and we invent philosophies and ideologies and narratives in each generation.

    By a monopoly negativa of the Natural, empirical, judge discovered, common law, we create the possibility of a market in everything – including information.

    But just as we have deprived people of murder, then harm, then theft, then fraud, then conspiracy, we can deprive people of disinformation and suggestion – an extension of interpersonal fraud by the use of media.

    —“^^ okay. So now… if the rights and privileges afford police (to arrest and detain) and judges (to decide resolution) is extended to the whole populace (and incomplete terms but will leave for the moment) then anyone can enforce the law – the larger the market the less likely the market can be used for abuse. Every man and judge, every man an enforcer, every man a gaurd. One natural law makes this possible as the burden to fully understand it does not have tlnearly the same costs as a law degree today”—Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 09:03:00 UTC

  • La izquierda carece de masculinidad

    La izquierda tiene que usar la indignación y las ofensas porque es absolutamente incapaz de usar la verdad sin exponerse a sí misma. Así que ante la incapacidad de utilización de la verdad, los izquierdistas extraen sus procederes cooperativos y amenazan con retirarse. Debemos responder a las amenazas de la retirada tan severamente como respondemos a las amenazas o a quien nos hace trampa o nos engaña. Esto es profundamente importante como concepto a estudiar en el comportamiento enfermizo de los izquierdistas. Existe mucha investigación que confirma la forma en la cual nosotros reaccionamos ante ese tipo de mentiras y rechazos, esas diferencias son biológicas, existen y están ampliamente difundidas. Y esas mismas investigaciones han demostrado que el sexo femenino es más sensible a ellas, es por ello que la izquierda ha buscado apoderarse de la vanguardia que son las mujeres. Como hombres debemos luchar a toda costa para retener la integridad de nuestro grupo. Estamos programados genéticamente por la naturaleza para hacerlo. Y nos afecta en niveles cognitivos de la misma manera que la música nos afecta. La influencia de nuestra fuerza es la estrategia definitiva para derrotar a la izquierda, sabotear sus normativas, retar sus convenciones al ser brutalmente honestos provoca la retirada en masa de las mentiras que los izquierdistas lanzan a diario hacia nosotros. Si elevamos no sólo el nivel del debate, sino nuestra capacidad de crear una vanguardia que arrincone a la izquierda, habremos ganado la guerra ideológica by default. El costo de la cohesión y preferencias a lo interno por el grupo propio, cooperar con nuestros pares, y cuidar a nuestras mujeres y niños crea en la izquierda una serie de dudas que consideran amenazas peligrosas para su supervivencia ya que los izquierdistas apelan a lo que no protegemos como grupo para ellos crear vanguardia. La izquierda rechaza el carácter masculino de la lucha y lo sustituye por la lucha de clases, al ponernos en un terreno en donde somos iguales en una lucha que no existe. Si rechazamos la lucha de clases y exultamos el verdadero significado de la sangre, sudor y lágrimas que los hombres han derramado para poder hacer que sus naciones sean grandes, habremos hecho de nuestras naciones grandes de nuevo y le habremos ganado a la izquierda.

    La masculinidad es positiva, deseable y atractiva para el sexo opuesto

    Así como la feminidad es fundamental para lograr la civilización, preservar la especie, y cultivar relaciones amorosas duraderas, la masculinidad es necesaria para poder preservar el carácter y la fibra moral de nuestra nación. La izquierda con sus mentiras busca separarnos de nuestras mujeres y niños y ponerlos en nuestra contra. Las élites izquierdistas, con su falsa intelectualidad producen ideas tontas y engañosas que obtienen su estatus a raíz del mérito de quien las escupe y que dichas ideas (feminismo, ideología de género) parasitan el orden de confianza superior de nuestra nación. Estas élites y quienes les siguen creen que ellos ganarán, y quizá lo hagan a menos que no les tengamos paciencia y que no alteremos las condiciones bajo las cuales son capaces de explotar el orden superior de confianza sobre el cual nuestra nación depende. Si nuestro orden superior de confianza es tan superior que es infranqueable para la izquierda, conservaremos una sociedad y nación que podrá prosperar de forma homogénea, una táctica que la izquierda, tan étnica, moral, e ideológicamente heterogénea es incapaz de preservar sin entrar en las contradicciones fundamentales de sus propios ideales. Es por ello que la izquierda es incapaz de obtener y mantener la lealtad de los intereses de las otras clases sin mantener una propia clase guerrera y masculina propia. Alberto R. Zambrano U. en colaboración para El Instituto Propietarista.

  • La izquierda carece de masculinidad

    La izquierda tiene que usar la indignación y las ofensas porque es absolutamente incapaz de usar la verdad sin exponerse a sí misma. Así que ante la incapacidad de utilización de la verdad, los izquierdistas extraen sus procederes cooperativos y amenazan con retirarse. Debemos responder a las amenazas de la retirada tan severamente como respondemos a las amenazas o a quien nos hace trampa o nos engaña. Esto es profundamente importante como concepto a estudiar en el comportamiento enfermizo de los izquierdistas. Existe mucha investigación que confirma la forma en la cual nosotros reaccionamos ante ese tipo de mentiras y rechazos, esas diferencias son biológicas, existen y están ampliamente difundidas. Y esas mismas investigaciones han demostrado que el sexo femenino es más sensible a ellas, es por ello que la izquierda ha buscado apoderarse de la vanguardia que son las mujeres. Como hombres debemos luchar a toda costa para retener la integridad de nuestro grupo. Estamos programados genéticamente por la naturaleza para hacerlo. Y nos afecta en niveles cognitivos de la misma manera que la música nos afecta. La influencia de nuestra fuerza es la estrategia definitiva para derrotar a la izquierda, sabotear sus normativas, retar sus convenciones al ser brutalmente honestos provoca la retirada en masa de las mentiras que los izquierdistas lanzan a diario hacia nosotros. Si elevamos no sólo el nivel del debate, sino nuestra capacidad de crear una vanguardia que arrincone a la izquierda, habremos ganado la guerra ideológica by default. El costo de la cohesión y preferencias a lo interno por el grupo propio, cooperar con nuestros pares, y cuidar a nuestras mujeres y niños crea en la izquierda una serie de dudas que consideran amenazas peligrosas para su supervivencia ya que los izquierdistas apelan a lo que no protegemos como grupo para ellos crear vanguardia. La izquierda rechaza el carácter masculino de la lucha y lo sustituye por la lucha de clases, al ponernos en un terreno en donde somos iguales en una lucha que no existe. Si rechazamos la lucha de clases y exultamos el verdadero significado de la sangre, sudor y lágrimas que los hombres han derramado para poder hacer que sus naciones sean grandes, habremos hecho de nuestras naciones grandes de nuevo y le habremos ganado a la izquierda.

    La masculinidad es positiva, deseable y atractiva para el sexo opuesto

    Así como la feminidad es fundamental para lograr la civilización, preservar la especie, y cultivar relaciones amorosas duraderas, la masculinidad es necesaria para poder preservar el carácter y la fibra moral de nuestra nación. La izquierda con sus mentiras busca separarnos de nuestras mujeres y niños y ponerlos en nuestra contra. Las élites izquierdistas, con su falsa intelectualidad producen ideas tontas y engañosas que obtienen su estatus a raíz del mérito de quien las escupe y que dichas ideas (feminismo, ideología de género) parasitan el orden de confianza superior de nuestra nación. Estas élites y quienes les siguen creen que ellos ganarán, y quizá lo hagan a menos que no les tengamos paciencia y que no alteremos las condiciones bajo las cuales son capaces de explotar el orden superior de confianza sobre el cual nuestra nación depende. Si nuestro orden superior de confianza es tan superior que es infranqueable para la izquierda, conservaremos una sociedad y nación que podrá prosperar de forma homogénea, una táctica que la izquierda, tan étnica, moral, e ideológicamente heterogénea es incapaz de preservar sin entrar en las contradicciones fundamentales de sus propios ideales. Es por ello que la izquierda es incapaz de obtener y mantener la lealtad de los intereses de las otras clases sin mantener una propia clase guerrera y masculina propia. Alberto R. Zambrano U. en colaboración para El Instituto Propietarista.

  • ARE WE GOOD OR BAD? People are rational. Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people

    ARE WE GOOD OR BAD?

    People are rational.

    Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at least in the long term.

    But choosing to ‘be bad’ is in many other people’s interest – at least in the short term.

    The principle problem in expanding the size of the good, is that each individual who chooses to be bad has greater influence upon others’ ability to choose to be good, than each individual who chooses to be good has influence upon those who choose to be bad.

    In other words, roughly speaking, every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the benefits created by every person at the top. For the simple reason that discouragement, gossip, threat and failure spread fear of risk faster and farther than encouragement, compliment, opportunity and success.

    There is nothing to be done about human nature.

    All we can do is make it very difficult to be bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 10:40:00 UTC

  • People are rational. Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at lea

    People are rational.

    Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at least in the long term.

    But choosing to ‘be bad’ is in many other people’s interest – at least in the short term.

    The principle problem in expanding the size of the good, is that each individual who chooses to be bad has greater influence upon others’ ability to choose to be good, than each individual who chooses to be good has influence upon those who choose to be bad.

    In other words, roughly speaking, every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the benefits created by every person at the top. For the simple reason that discouragement, gossip, threat and failure spread fear of risk faster and farther than encouragement, compliment, opportunity and success.

    There is nothing to be done about human nature.

    All we can do is make it very difficult to be bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 10:38:00 UTC

  • You know (((Their))) elites have these silly ideas that (1) they obtain their st

    You know (((Their))) elites have these silly ideas that (1) they obtain their status out of merit rather than exploitation through parasitism of our high trust order; (2) that they will eventually win, rather than that we have merely been patient with them; (3) we cannot easily alter the conditions under which their exploitation of the high trust order depends, and (4) that they are superior in toto rather than superior in tactic under favorable conditions that they are themselves unable to create. (5) that they can obtain and hold the loyalty or interests of the underclasses without possessing a warrior class of their own.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 07:57:00 UTC

  • Falsehood of the day: ‘Company Value’ 1) MONETARY PRESERVATION OR GROWTH VALUE A

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/investing/amazon-rules-retail-worth-more-than-almost-everyone/index.htmlSensational Falsehood of the day: ‘Company Value’

    1) MONETARY PRESERVATION OR GROWTH VALUE

    A company share value is meaningless. It’s a popularity contest. And not a meaningful measure of comparison. Most of the time one is investing in *psychology* – market momentum, irrespective of its fundamentals.

    2) INVESTMENT VALUE (DIVIDENDS / APPRECIATION)

    Investing in the dividends and appreciation of the company because of its fundamentals.

    3) OPERATING VALUE (PROFITS)

    A company’s market share, revenue, profit, and trends, are meaningful measures of comparison.

    A company’s PRICE can be determined by a multiple of its revenue and profits in relation to the expected time horizon of returns.

    4) EXIT VALUE

    If owner/management wishes to exit, what can they sell the company for? This is usually a multiple of operating profit discounted by the loss of key management.

    5) ASSET VALUE

    A company’s WORTH is its fixed asset value at liquidation.

    WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

    Because the stock market functions as a savings plan for the country and for the world. So the financial sector looks at companies as a way to move money at low cost to where it will, in aggregate, across their portfolio, mix wins and losses into a profit.

    So Amazon is worth more than sears, macy’s target becasue their revenues and market share are worth more than macy’s and targets.

    Apple on the other hand is a fashion brand that becasue of the iphone could be eradicated quickly. Facebook more so. google less so. Although – the moment you can search by voice and actually get the information you want, the opportunity to advertise will disappear, and the company that succeeds at that will destroy google’s market value.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-07 10:07:00 UTC