Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

    —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I would never have been ‘permitted’ to develop Propertarianism (Natural Law) in the academy. The simple reasons that (a) interdisciplinary phd’s are nearly impossible, (b) taking 10+ years to solve a hard problem is unacceptable. (c) publishing along the way to a solution only serves to anchor you in a falsehood. (d) the academy forces presumptions (paradigms) that are false due to its market incentives to produce educational products rather than truth (in other than the physical sciences).

  • SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE? by Aaron Kahland I am going to play Devil’s advoca

    SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE?

    by Aaron Kahland

    I am going to play Devil’s advocate here. Perhaps there is little problem with single mothers per say. After all, countless German boys were raised by single mothers after both WW1 and WW2 – it did not result in high crime rates, drug use and educational problems. The same can likely be said for multiple other countries who lost large numbers of their men – e.g. France post-WW1.

    If so, then the problem is cultural. The culture that has unleashed the contemporary single mothers onto us – specifically in the West. Perhaps they are single for the same reason that they are poor parents – they are simply undesirable – indelibly tainted by both their own upbringings (boomer parents) and the societal environment in which they live.

    Further, the absolute nuclear family simply is most probably super-fragile. It cannot withstand male losses in wartime anymore than it can resist the effects of male losses in welfare-time.

    Young boys having lost fathers in previous periods were enveloped in an environment dominated by grandfathers, surviving uncles, male schoolteachers, male leaders. Today, those boys have none of those and it is to their great detriment. Boys need tribes, instead they get incompetent mothers and television.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 16:32:00 UTC

  • Women Rule only When Men Can No Longer Reach Consensus – It Is a Death Knell

    From: The Fate of Empires by Arthur John Hubbard (via Noah J Revoy) “An increase of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the Professions hitherto monopolized by men. ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, lbn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’ Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded. Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed.”

  • Women Rule only When Men Can No Longer Reach Consensus – It Is a Death Knell

    From: The Fate of Empires by Arthur John Hubbard (via Noah J Revoy) “An increase of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the Professions hitherto monopolized by men. ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, lbn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’ Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded. Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed.”

  • “Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practi

    —“Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practice. If peers practice equivalent sovereignty, institutions emerge between you so that in practice, you respect the sovereignty of others. But nobody rides for free.”—Simon Ström

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 13:59:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1009435518579462149

  • WOMEN RULE ONLY WHEN MEN CAN NO LONGER REACH CONSENSUS – IT IS A DEATH KNELL Fro

    WOMEN RULE ONLY WHEN MEN CAN NO LONGER REACH CONSENSUS – IT IS A DEATH KNELL

    From: The Fate of Empires by Arthur John Hubbard

    (via Noah J Revoy)

    “An increase of women in public life has often been associated with national decline.

    The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women

    ruled Rome.

    In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the

    Professions hitherto monopolized by men.

    ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, lbn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’

    Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded.

    Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed.”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 10:21:00 UTC

  • When we try to understand early society in Scandinavia it is obvious that it was

    When we try to understand early society in Scandinavia it is obvious that it was decisive for an individual to be part of a family and a social group. You were in a way identified by your affiliation to a family, a group and a society.

    The worst punishment you could thus get was to be cut off from this group and society, to be excommunicated or outlawed, which has been described as a ‘social death.’

    In other words we can see that our forefathers had another concept of freedom than we have. Freedom was not defined as an individual freedom, but a right to belong to a fellowship, to be part of a social group. A stranger was often considered as an enemy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 10:05:00 UTC

  • “Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practi

    —“Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practice. If peers practice equivalent sovereignty, institutions emerge between you so that in practice, you respect the sovereignty of others. But nobody rides for free.”—Simon Ström

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 09:59:00 UTC

  • “The built-in irony of Propertarianism – all these long descriptions so people w

    —“The built-in irony of Propertarianism – all these long descriptions so people will be concise.”—Neil A. Bucklew

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 19:37:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1009158284878721024

  • The Quality of Parenting Is Determined by Values

    —“I don’t think there is any non-material advantage that high-IQ brings to raising children. The advantages to IQ are all endogenous. Working-class folks with excellent values are going to out-parent upper-middle class couples who are non-present and ‘compensate’ via indulgence. The quality of parenting is determined by values.“— Aaron Kahland