Curt Doolittle

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  • GRIFTERS IN CHIEF”

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/grifters-in-chief-1477610771″THE GRIFTERS IN CHIEF”

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 18:37:00 UTC

  • “Post modern consumer culture. It’s the only way to have a multiethnic capitalis

    —“Post modern consumer culture. It’s the only way to have a multiethnic capitalist society is if all ties to group identity are stripped away and systematically replaced. I suggest watching the Curtis documentary “The century of the self”. We’re seeing a new ethnic competition in the United States because of immigration. It takes a few decades to strip away people’s identities and render them into pure consumers.”–Murray Sell

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 18:35:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.livescience.com/56614-brain-may-get-desensitized-to-dishonesty.html

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 17:46:00 UTC

  • William Butchman , Eli Harman I had no idea this podcast was this freaking amazi

    https://propertarianforum.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/propertarian-podcast-007-market-fascism/(Damn William Butchman , Eli Harman I had no idea this podcast was this freaking amazing when we recorded it. It’s fantastic. damn.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 12:04:00 UTC

  • REPEATING: SUMMARY OF THE NEW RIGHT’S MARKET FASCISM, PROPERTARIAN ETHICS, AND T

    https://singulardiscourse.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/what-i-think-ive-got-from-propertarianism-so-far/WORTH REPEATING: SUMMARY OF THE NEW RIGHT’S MARKET FASCISM, PROPERTARIAN ETHICS, AND TESTIMONIAL TRUTH

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 11:04:00 UTC

  • PEMBER ON THE SUMMARY OF THE NEW RIGHT

    http://civilianwarcollege.com/summary-new-right/AUSTYN PEMBER ON THE SUMMARY OF THE NEW RIGHT

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 11:02:00 UTC

  • DECENTRALIZED DECISIONS ARE BEST WITH AUTHORITY ONLY HELPFUL WHEN QUESTIONS ARE

    DECENTRALIZED DECISIONS ARE BEST WITH AUTHORITY ONLY HELPFUL WHEN QUESTIONS ARE OTHERWISE UDECIDEABLE.

    (from Eli Harman )(worth repeating)

    I like markets and all – if suitably tempered by prohibition on what is demonstrably harmful.

    Offers and prices are the way of communicating positive values in the marketplace, with payment the authentication made that such communication is accurate.

    Threats are the means of communicating negative values in the marketplace with initiation of violent hostilities the authentication that such communication is accurate.

    Prices may be reckoned in money, or in blood.

    But either way, decentralized methods of decision making are generally best, with authority only better in select cases, and those too, vetted and delimited by decentralized means.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 10:42:00 UTC

  • THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF VIOLENCE: (from Eli Harman) (worth repeating) It’s an

    THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF VIOLENCE:

    (from Eli Harman) (worth repeating)

    It’s an article of faith among many libertarians that violence, and particularly aggressive violence, is necessarily negative sum.

    Prices contain information and markets broker them (in a subjective utility maximising way.) Violence only short circuits that, disrupts markets, destroy price signals, and makes everyone worse off.

    But this is not correct.

    In the first place, market transactions aren’t necessarily positive sum. If they are fraudulent or create negative externalities for those not party, they can be negative sum.

    And in the second place, violence is itself a signal, and transmits information. A threat expresses a subjective evaluation just as an offer does in the marketplace. “Hey, don’t do that or we’re going to fight.”

    And the initiation of hostilities demonstrates the authenticity of that information just as a payment does in the marketplace. One undertakes real cost, and real risk, in resorting to violence.

    (In contrast, whining, and playing the victim DO NOT demonstrate the authenticity of grievances in the way that resorting to violence does, and so are liable and likely to prove negative sum, if indulged, just as theft is liable and likely to prove negative sum, in the marketplace, because it does not make a sufficient demonstration and exchange of value.)

    Markets and prices on the one hand, and violence and threats on the other, are both necessary components to a stable, functional, and efficient society and economy. To suppress either wholly in favor of the other, would be to forego the benefits they offer, and to pervert incentives towards destructive outcomes.

    No society which does either will be able to compete, long term, against one which makes a more sensible tradeoff between them, making best use of information supplied by both exchange and conflict.

    Violence is the means of expressing the subjective evaluations not captured by price signals, which are as vast and varied as those which are.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 10:40:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-26 14:15:00 UTC

  • “THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE: BE THE BIGGEST AND BADDEST” —“The female reproductive

    “THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE: BE THE BIGGEST AND BADDEST”

    —“The female reproductive strategy drives whoever expresses it to seek the strongest patron to sponsor them, while the male reproductive strategy seeks brothers in arms to reciprocally insure each other against other groups of males.

    Females selectively reveal information to engineer the patron’s emotional investment, while males submit to the stronger guy by offering our violence in his service in return for loyalty.

    Asymmetric vs symmetric loyalties.

    So the solution is simple:

    Become the biggest, baddest guys anywhere and punish those who undermine us, and things fall back into place.”— Moritz Berling

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-26 12:48:00 UTC