Curt Doolittle

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  • “Trump was not hired to do the job of a president, he was hired to be a wrecking

    “Trump was not hired to do the job of a president, he was hired to be a wrecking ball to destroy the Washington establishment.” #Trump

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 13:14:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/835115676301996033

  • FREE WILL? —“Up until now everybody has gotten it completely backwards: free w

    FREE WILL?

    —“Up until now everybody has gotten it completely backwards: free will is not rebelling against nature and escaping natural cause-and-effect, but it is exactly the opposite. By becoming part of the cause-and-effect chains and inserting ourselves into them, we gain agency.”—Moritz Bierling

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 10:47:00 UTC

  • “If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and

    —“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 09:38:00 UTC

  • “Libertarians both demand the creation of a highly virtuous population as a prel

    —“Libertarians both demand the creation of a highly virtuous population as a prelude to their preferred government and strenuously oppose any measure to actually create that virtuous population.”—Waylon Hill

    that is because rothbard did not bring ethics of sovereignty to the table but license for parasitism

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 09:32:00 UTC

  • “The only people who would be interested in living in a private law society are

    —“The only people who would be interested in living in a private law society are those people who follow the NAP, i.e., libertarians. So there won’t be any vigilantes, criminal in general, or left- or right-wingers living in a private law society, period.”–David

    The opposite will occur david. Because ‘arbitrary law’ societies cannot compete against highly redistributive polities where one loses a greater percentage of his income to taxation but gains disproportionately higher income and consumption. This is why anarchism fails: commons are necessary to compete for lower opportunity and transaction costs. Libertarians (rothbard) could not figure out how to solve the problem of voluntary commons and by consequence, free riding, and the ostraciziation of free riders. But that is just an admission of failure, not a success. It is a choice of a political LUDDITE. Unable to solve the present problem attempts to destroy the source of his ability to make the choice.

    We know this through demonstrated preference. People do NOT go join ‘libertarian’ outposts. Because the total cost is far higher than the total gain.

    ‘Arbitrary law’ societies attract people for whom the cost of parasitism upon the productivity of others is less than they can obtain from parasitism upon the productivity of others.

    And they only last as long as some group doesn’t choose to destroy them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 09:18:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) —“Aristocracy, in a propertarian social order, would be (in v

    (from elsewhere)

    —“Aristocracy, in a propertarian social order, would be (in very general lines) established by the acquisition of property rights under the condition of defending others’ property rights with violence.”—

    There you go. 🙂

    Suggestion. I do not see aristocracy as providing positive direction (politics), but negative judgement (law). As those who have earned and held wealth over generations, the upper aristocracy forms a market for ideas that will improve the entire polity. I do not make the mistake that aristocracy leads by command except in war. Only that aristocracy creates markets wherein only those with merit rise from undomesticated animal to peer: sovereign human.

    –“Hierarchy is the only organized way a people can coexist.”–

    um. I say that hierarchy is the way we exist because of the demonstrated differences in our abilities and value to one another, and therefore the way we organize; and the only way we can organize; and if possessed of property rights, do organize; but do so voluntarily, meritocratically, and in one another’s interests; under rule of natural law, not rule of command.

    This is a more subtle method of describing natural processes when our natural abilities are freed by property rights.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 08:30:00 UTC

  • “Trump was not hired to do the job of a president, he was hired to be a wrecking

    “Trump was not hired to do the job of a president, he was hired to be a wrecking ball to destroy the Washington establishment.” #Trump

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 08:14:00 UTC

  • “Princess Olga of Kiev was the first ruler of Kievan Rus to convert to Christian

    —“Princess Olga of Kiev was the first ruler of Kievan Rus to convert to Christianity, either in 945 or 957.”—

    always through the women

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-23 17:55:00 UTC

  • “”Objectification” is a really cool concept, but the phenomenology is useless or

    —“”Objectification” is a really cool concept, but the phenomenology is useless or even misleading unless you consider it to be the “user interface” for the genotype. This author explains it well: your qualia is the “control panel” of the Self, not the Self itself.—” Adam Voight

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-23 12:26:00 UTC

  • “My contribution: If you translate information theory and evolutionary theory in

    —“My contribution: If you translate information theory and evolutionary theory into Aristotelean language, you get a ready-made bridge across the fact/value divide”—Adam Voight

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-22 14:54:00 UTC