Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • Moritz Bierling: —“As Ely Harman has pointed out, violence is the “clearing” (

    Moritz Bierling: —“As Ely Harman has pointed out, violence is the “clearing” (or mechanism of validation) of negative values (limits). It is the most immediate and because it comes out of the most primal part of our brain, the reptilian brain, it has the highest and most honest information content of any action, and method of coercion. Which is also why the left tries so very hard to take away our instincts, our ability and willingness to act on information coming from organs other than the “rational” (justificationary) brain, and all means of interpersonal coordination not centrally controllable (ie. religion, myth, heroic acts, patriotism, national identity, etc).”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 16:33:00 UTC

  • INTERESTING IDEA: EAST VS WEST CLASS INTERESTS? Siraaj Khandkar —“Your distinc

    INTERESTING IDEA: EAST VS WEST CLASS INTERESTS?

    Siraaj Khandkar

    —“Your distinction of two highest tiers is interesting. I always wondered what are the main differences that influenced developments of Western and Eastern Europe (besides geography-necessitated strategies) and one of the things seems to be that Russian highest classes peak at ideas (your lower upper) and rarely prioritize entrepreneurship (this is how I understand your “Power, Associations, Opportunities”).”—

    Curt Doolittle

    ^^^ correct. Although I had not considered that, you’re right. Western judiciary and laws provide protections such that the entrepreneurial class can operate fairly freely without fear of predation by the state. (but omg if you do anything bad the state will eat you in public one bite at a time, to make an example of you.) Russian thinkers are deep and creative. But the entrepreneurial class (a dozen of whom I’ve met) live in relative fear OR evolve into oligarchs that the government fears.

    I also think that the history of Boyars as predators and soviets, then gangsters, and oligarchs have left Russians exhausted and suspecious. Germanic europeans did not have this problem. The princedom’s competed for talent. American europeans didn’t have it at all since we never have had a ‘noble’ class other than the entrepreneurial class we call the ‘Puritans’/Calvinists.

    Americans have a serious problem with our big financial institutions, but any INDIVIDUAL in them is easy to take down. We are so dependent upon those financial institutions, just as Russians are dependent upon their resource institutions.

    I’ve been sort of back and forth on the whole putin vs oligarchs thing, but we need to do a similar thing here in the west. Because the Soros’ and Rothchilds and various large financial institutions do what the oligarchs have done, but just use more sophisticated means of doing it. But our people are just as pissed off. They just are in the condition of Russia in the 1990’s so they aren’t ready to kill people yet. (But we’re getting there.)

    I think what differs between east and west europe is that the highest power in the west are the judges, and the highest power in the east are the rulers. And that’s probably been an historical truth since the dawn of our civilizations. In america even more so than in europe. Our supreme court at least until recently, and our constitution, at least until recently, were considered ‘sacred’. And in western history kings have had a very difficult time usurping the common law. In english history it’s a good way for a king to get killed.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:07:00 UTC

  • Philip Saunders hits a homer. —“Okay, I think I have a clearer idea of what yo

    Philip Saunders hits a homer.

    —“Okay, I think I have a clearer idea of what you’re saying. High trust, truth based polities will accelerate past polities which don’t uphold these standards. The law itself is boiled down to the point that most people can understand it, be held responsible for it, and enforce it. We also extend common law bans on commercial fraud to interpersonal fraud. So if you impose costs informationally, then you are culpable. is that Close?”—Philip Saunders

    More than close. Better said than I could say it. 🙂 Awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 09:50:00 UTC

  • Interesting take: —“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for m

    Interesting take:

    —“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for migrants (hunters). But when it comes to advanced economies these are both reflex propositions in response to possibilities of defection and the tragedy of the commons.

    The problem we have today is past even managing the despoiling of commons. The ecosystem has become a people-system. And the main problem with this system is that people can occupy every niche but they don’t eat each other.

    This state of affairs is unnatural/unsustainable. Because more and more effort is called for from everyone in a kind of hysteria. And there is no proper instinctual response in place.”— Brian Barr

    (CD: edited as best I could. I can’t quite decompose it. But there is something interesting implied by the failure of the information system he’s referring to.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 17:23:00 UTC

  • LEARN FROM THIS: HOW TO OVERLOAD A SYSTEM All organizations can be overloaded. A

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/rough-ride-uber-morocco-cabbies-sabotage-app-035845867.htmlREVOLUTIONARIES LEARN FROM THIS: HOW TO OVERLOAD A SYSTEM

    All organizations can be overloaded. ALL OF THEM.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 08:07:00 UTC

  • “Define your terms. If you can’t define a term operationally, then don’t use it.

    —“Define your terms. If you can’t define a term operationally, then don’t use it. That’s the difference between a scientist, and a story teller.”— Felicity Sharpe

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-08 17:48:00 UTC

  • “You cannot have Switzerland without Germany. You cannot have Canada without USA

    —“You cannot have Switzerland without Germany. You cannot have Canada without USA .. Respect does not keep people from conquering you. The weak benefit from a friend who is feared.”— Doug Holland

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-08 15:17:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIANISM EXPOSED (by joel davis) —“By a priori reasoning (conflating the

    LIBERTARIANISM EXPOSED

    (by joel davis)

    —“By a priori reasoning (conflating their own imaginary “moral” precepts with observable operations) they determine humans are universally entitled to property rights.

    Yet for property rights to have existential possibility they require enforcement. This enforcement COSTS the enforcers. Non-enforcers must PAY for this service.

    If an individual does not pay for the enforcement of his property rights, he receives them as a parasite.

    By extension, members of society require property rights to mutually gain from cooperative social cohesion.

    Enforcing payment for the costs of the enforcement of property protects society against the higher costs of non-cooperation.”—Joel Davis

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-07 21:19:00 UTC

  • Retweeted 🐸 hbd nrx 🐸 (@HbdNrx): This was great stuff for helping Europe become

    Retweeted 🐸 hbd nrx 🐸 (@HbdNrx):

    This was great stuff for helping Europe become less clannish. Now we’ve gone too far and need the opposite. https://t.co/XxPF0y9Haw

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-07 08:07:00 UTC

  • “The university system does more harm than good now”— Jordan Peterson —“The

    —“The university system does more harm than good now”— Jordan Peterson

    —“The University has moved OUTSIDE of the universities. Many universities are now ideological factories. The only thing universities have is accreditation.”—

    DO WE BUILD THE PROPERTARIAN INSTITUTE AS A TRADE SCHOOL? A school of natural law?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-05 08:22:00 UTC