Curt Doolittle

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  • “All anarchism involves accepting costs (e.g. the cost of rampant immorality or

    —“All anarchism involves accepting costs (e.g. the cost of rampant immorality or non-contributing to commons) in the hopes that there will be benefits to compensate. Ancaps sometimes posit that increased productivity from economic liberty will help offset difficulties from collective action problems in providing defense or the cost of defending free riders, etc… But this is nonsense because ancaps can’t even generate economic productivity because they can’t maintain trust or control transaction costs because they don’t even attempt to constrain parasitism, fraud, or freeriding. So you end up paying costs to get, more costs…”—Ely Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-12 07:40:00 UTC

  • “Male cooperation is based on voluntary hierarchy, so the fact that someone is b

    —“Male cooperation is based on voluntary hierarchy, so the fact that someone is better than you in some way means it is better for men to be friends. Female cooperation is not hierarchical, because caring for children does not require leadership in the same way that hunting and warfare do.”— Adam Voight

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-11 09:41:00 UTC

  • “We should be ruling the humans, Not running around Making back-alley treaties w

    —“We should be ruling the humans, Not running around Making back-alley treaties with them. For fuck’s sake, these people are our food.”—

    My opinion about returning to our previous strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 20:18:00 UTC

  • by Bill Joslin Sovereignty ensures Autonomy – in that autonomy I’m defining as a

    by Bill Joslin

    Sovereignty ensures Autonomy – in that autonomy I’m defining as agency free of imposition from another agent – whereby property en toto provides commensurability of measurement and autonomy provides decidability in commons creations and constraints on rule via negativa – restrict commons and rule from anything which inhibits development of agency in the polis – measured by our best empirical methods.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 17:57:00 UTC

  • by Jací Eugène Esteban –“Curt Doolittle’s craft of word usage is not something

    by Jací Eugène Esteban

    –“Curt Doolittle’s craft of word usage is not something that should be used to slight him. Curt is aware that his arguments take place on the Internet, and as such, his opponents are granted the liberty to counter his claims with a quick Google search, but his opacity makes this difficult, leaving his opponent to retort only with preexisting knowledge. If he has to use words without synonyms or make up his own phrases, he will do it to avoid semantic arguments. Sometimes, we get it. Sometimes, we don’t, but it still stands that his style is unrivalled. The only thing it obfuscates is his accessibility.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 16:24:00 UTC

  • RESTORING ORIGINAL INTENT: VOTING AS VETO by Bill Joslin The vote then, as a mea

    RESTORING ORIGINAL INTENT: VOTING AS VETO

    by Bill Joslin

    The vote then, as a means of preventing polis retaliation, could serve as a post hoc veto run every few years. You don’t vote in a governor general or management team but rather vote them out. This eliminates the parasitic incentive to persuade the polis to get a vote and inverts this toward performance. If you want to keep the job then you must perform. If you don’t perform you get voted out. Negativa vote (veto) which aligns more closely to the Anglo inception (vote provides a last non-violent step to oust tyrants before rebelling)… It ensures bottom-up feedbacks to top-down controls. Just a thought.

    Appointed into position by peers, ousted by peers or polis. If the polis is discontent they can lobby for a vote of no confidence.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 12:10:00 UTC

  • THE EXPLANATION OF DEFLATIONARY GOVERNMENT By Bill Joslin If we deconflate commo

    THE EXPLANATION OF DEFLATIONARY GOVERNMENT

    By Bill Joslin

    If we deconflate commons management from law (remove rule by legislation – remove the use of the Monopoly on force backing legislation) – and return to pure Nomocracy, there would be no use for voting.

    Judicial supremacy accountable to a a judge of last resort (governor general) and deflate legislation to nothing more than a management team held accountable to law. Here are the rules here is the budget, get to work.

    Those management teams could be elected, but I don’t know why, they should be hired- literal employees. They don’t pass laws, they administer budgets and negotiate deals.

    Because of conflation between church (social conformity – social conservation) and state (monarchs which enforced church law) our governments believe they are in the business of social engineering.

    With conflation of commons management and law, our politicians sell the power of law (cartel protections) and the commons.

    Combined with the presumed ‘right’ to social engineering, democracy functions as a means to manufacture consensus in selling these products… The tendency then is to engineer society toward support for these corruptions either toward consumption (the left) or exploitation (libertarians).

    Culture and social change are natural forces – human nature expressed. Trying to control nature results in supressive and oppression. Culture changes constantly – let it, let nature takes its course but provide constraints.

    Society and culture provides the enriched society needed for the development of the individual – the development of agency in a human.

    By grounding law in creation and preservation of agency, rule of law provides the proper constraints to preserve the enriched environment.

    It’s simply this.

    ***No imposition on autonomy in all forms.***

    Impositions on culture and society which interfere with the development of agency of the polis would be against the law.

    Undue constraints on culture (Puritanism) would constitute damages to those conditions and thus against the law.

    Pomo assaults on reason and identity would pose damages against those conditions and thus against the law.

    This allows optimal social adaptability and cohesion simultaneously.

    ***Property in toto does not capture this intangible – no imposition on agency in all its forms (property in toto included) does.***

    One law – many resolutions – no need to write laws ever.

    Patriotism (ownership incentive) becomes a necessary pillar in the conditions for developing agency in the polis as it stands as the appreciation and protection for the conditions as a whole.

    -Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 11:15:00 UTC

  • by Shanaynay Tomson Without arms and militias voting is simply a pretense. But w

    by Shanaynay Tomson

    Without arms and militias voting is simply a pretense. But worse than that!? It’s a tool for controlling the masses when coupled with endless public lies and a media that propagates falsehoods with regularity.

    Voting has nothing to do with “By The People” – it is a duplicitous and stunningly effective mass control mechanism by which propagandists Tell people what they should think they want -whatever fulfills the purposes and creates the desired outcomes – and what they will give them, then harvest their votes to make them think that what the individuals in power require to reach desired ends is what the people want.

    Voting is a mass control device to appease the sheeple and keep them docile or fired up when and where required.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 10:25:00 UTC

  • THE AMERICAN ERROR IN FORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC by Bill Joslin The British reaso

    THE AMERICAN ERROR IN FORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC

    by Bill Joslin

    The British reason for choosing democracy was formulated very differently than the American moral posturing. It was a last resort before revolution where the polis could oust a tyrant without violence: the right to choose who rules you (not self rule.) Without the right to bear arms and right to form civilian militias, democracy is vacuous and pointless.

    Revolution is costly to infrastructure, production and high trust – democracy was to prevent those costs.

    ( CURT: Bill’s argument, which I agree with, was conflating democratic selection of rulers: a republic, with self-rule: democracy. )

    (CURT: IMO, Rule-via-negativa, and Govern-via-positiva are two different things because they presume different knowledge – one theoretical(political) and one empirical(judicial), and that the competition between monarchy-army-judiciary and state-parliament-commerce and Church-academy-family-militia, is simply the best model possible. And this requires rotation of those who govern (the parliament). And that the opportunity modernity presents us with, is direct democracy at the local level, and the replacement of the federal government with the governors, thereby eliminating the house and senate altogether, and devolving all matters other than military, disputes and insurance to the states. There is certain value in a trade union. There is certain value in a military union. The origin of conflicts is when we cannot create norms, commons, and institutions that serve regional/state, local/city-town, and neighborhood/association-disassociation needs. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 09:47:00 UTC

  • No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make

    No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

    –Friedrich Nietzsche

    I guess, like many things, Nietzsche got there first… Fiction is a very primitive form of calculation.

    (Edit.) Turns out it’s a paraphrase by Danzig. And not at all conveying the original meaning.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 05:54:00 UTC