Curt Doolittle

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  • WHEN DID WE STOP ENFORCING TRUTH, AND WHY? When did we, the aristocracy, stop en

    WHEN DID WE STOP ENFORCING TRUTH, AND WHY?

    When did we, the aristocracy, stop enforcing truth telling at the point of a sword? Seriously. When and why?

    Did we hold truth as a life or death standard only between ourselves?

    Did we extend the franchise without extending the requirement for truth telling?

    Sigh. We thought it was just property ownership that was required. But property ownership requires truth telling.

    We didn’t understand that universal enfranchisement meant opening the pandora’s box of lies.

    Or is it worse, in that we could profit from lying? I can’t find that evidence. What I find evidence of, is that the liars found profit in lying to one another.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-31 08:20:00 UTC

  • CURIOUS THOUGHT: What Happens If We?……. So, lets say that tomorrow, all prop

    CURIOUS THOUGHT: What Happens If We?…….

    So, lets say that tomorrow, all property rights violations by corporations were immediately open to suit by any individual, albeit under loser-pays. What difference would there really be?

    I am not sure that there would be much really.

    Now, lets say one month later, all special privileges for all businesses and collective bargaining groups disappeared: all barriers to competition etc. How would the world be any different?

    I think that there would be a bit of difference.

    Now, lets say that one month later, all consumer credit (not producer credit) was provided directly from the treasury, at minimum interest, to individuals by credit card, bypassing the banks.

    I think there would be a lot of difference. Mostly because the financial system would be cut out of the distribution of liquidity.

    Now,let’s say, that one month later, instead of lowering interest rates, the treasury just distributed money directly to those consumer credit cards. What would change?

    I think the change would be radical. And most of it for the good.

    Particularly since no one would tolerate a single immigrant who was a non producer.

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-29 13:41:00 UTC

  • Could We Use Insurance For Public Speech?

    [I]f one had to be insured to issue public speech (sort of like homeowners insurance – everyone had it) then we would rapidly evolve classes in making public speech, which would demonstrate how to witness (truth telling). (Heinlein suggested something of this order.) Now some speech advocates theft, and some does not. Some purports to convey truths, and some does not. This is essentially restoring the greek discipline of rhetoric in an age where media replicates faster than greek era human voices could quell. This is also much closer to anglo saxon law. Why is it that I an produce a ladder that subjects people to harm and am accountable, but if I advocate a political policy that causes millions of deaths, I am not accountable? (as usual, I am suggesting a common law (property rights), universal standing, and private insurance based solution to regulation, with fairly high confidence that the public, insurers and producers will seek practical means of solving problems without authoritarian intervention.)

  • Could We Use Insurance For Public Speech?

    [I]f one had to be insured to issue public speech (sort of like homeowners insurance – everyone had it) then we would rapidly evolve classes in making public speech, which would demonstrate how to witness (truth telling). (Heinlein suggested something of this order.) Now some speech advocates theft, and some does not. Some purports to convey truths, and some does not. This is essentially restoring the greek discipline of rhetoric in an age where media replicates faster than greek era human voices could quell. This is also much closer to anglo saxon law. Why is it that I an produce a ladder that subjects people to harm and am accountable, but if I advocate a political policy that causes millions of deaths, I am not accountable? (as usual, I am suggesting a common law (property rights), universal standing, and private insurance based solution to regulation, with fairly high confidence that the public, insurers and producers will seek practical means of solving problems without authoritarian intervention.)

  • So why would you be afraid of arguing the truthfulness of your public speech in

    So why would you be afraid of arguing the truthfulness of your public speech in a court of your peers, if your public speech was truthful?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-28 04:23:00 UTC

  • INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SPEECH? If one had to be insured to issue public speech (so

    INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SPEECH?

    If one had to be insured to issue public speech (sort of like homeowners insurance – everyone had it) then we would rapidly evolve classes in making public speech, which would demonstrate how to witness (truth telling). (Heinlein suggested something of this order.) Now some speech advocates theft, and some does not. Some purports to convey truths, and some does not. This is essentially restoring the greek discipline of rhetoric in an age where media replicates faster than greek era human voices could quell. This is also much closer to anglo saxon law. Why is it that I an produce a ladder that subjects people to harm and am accountable, but if I advocate a political policy that causes millions of deaths, I am not accountable?

    (Looking for non-reactionary problems with this, without giving a lot more detail, so that I don’t color it too much.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-27 02:00:00 UTC

  • WHAT IF MOST SOCIAL THEORY AND CRITICISM IS JUST DECEPTION? Not disagreement. Bu

    WHAT IF MOST SOCIAL THEORY AND CRITICISM IS JUST DECEPTION?

    Not disagreement. But simple deception?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 12:41:00 UTC

  • Psychology… Am I the only person who self-anchors when speaking? I don’t like

    Psychology…

    Am I the only person who self-anchors when speaking? I don’t like to say certain things because it anchors my thinking, whereas I don’t anchor if I don’t speak it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 05:21:00 UTC

  • Are Criticism and Critique nothing but justifications for people who cannot inve

    Are Criticism and Critique nothing but justifications for people who cannot invent? Isn’t that what the record of history tells us?

    interesting…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 05:15:00 UTC

  • So wait. If a warrior militia tells the truth. And if a warrior militia is all t

    So wait. If a warrior militia tells the truth. And if a warrior militia is all that is available to hunter gatherers under harsh environmental conditions, where others are valued rather than disposable, is civilization simply a means of increasing our ability to lie with increasing impunity? Sure looks like it…..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 03:01:00 UTC