Curt Doolittle

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  • V. REASONS LYING IS PART OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION (Roman Skaskiw) 1) They have be

    V. REASONS LYING IS PART OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION

    (Roman Skaskiw)

    1) They have been solving the problem of creating a culture to justify their state. And their enormous tangle of lies will unravel with the truth:

    The accumulated weight of Russia’s lies has to be pressing on something – there has to be a consequence to it.

    For centuries they’ve valued strength above everything else, but they lie to achieve it, and because no one can trust anyone else, they are far weaker than their European neighbors. Maybe it’s time for them to understand the truth.

    But to accept it, Russians need a moral exit. They need a way to feel good about themselves that isn’t a lie. They need to rediscover their own story. They need a new mythology.

    But they’ve been lied to for so long: Russians are not ‘Rus’. They are not Kievan. They are Muscovites – Europeans, mostly – but their culture and institutions are Byzantine, Mongol, Tatar and Islamic. And that is an unappealing, uninspiring history.

    This conflict may be truth’s conquest of strength. It will continue toward Moscow because truth and cooperation is stronger than strength exercised as savagery and corruption.

    The faster Muskovites find their story and return to their roots, the less people will suffer.

    2) They inherited institutions from the Golden Horde, and before intermarrying with the Finno-Ugric, Turkik, and Slavic people in and around Muskovy, they led them for two generations, training the locals in brutality and lying by example.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:52:00 UTC

  • “Mainstream Economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of

    —“Mainstream Economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation by reducing transaction costs and uncertainties but how to force consumption for the purpose of increasing employment.”—

    Of course the simplest method here is to stop distorting the labor economy and directly redistribute liquidity to consumers such that employment makes less of an impact on the unemployed. That would have a side effect of impoverishing the financial sector. Which is a good thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 00:50:00 UTC

  • JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAST AND EFFICIENT!

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca5_1436194719#fD7V2FhQdbdX4HjR.01UKRAINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAST AND EFFICIENT!

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 02:58:00 UTC

  • Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories

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    —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance. Unfortunately, when policymakers embrace blindly their untested conventional wisdom, the consequences can be far worse.”—–

    I could not have done this work in the Academy.  It wouldn’t have been possible.  You can’t really assemble degree in this kind of philosophy, this kind of economics, this kind of politics. The system is the problem. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories

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    —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance. Unfortunately, when policymakers embrace blindly their untested conventional wisdom, the consequences can be far worse.”—–

    I could not have done this work in the Academy.  It wouldn’t have been possible.  You can’t really assemble degree in this kind of philosophy, this kind of economics, this kind of politics. The system is the problem. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • PUBLIC SECTOR – THE STATE – IS THE SOURCE OF THE GREEK PROBLEM. (Via Alex Tabarr

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/the-battle-for-greece.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.v2oFN1Sk.dpufTHE PUBLIC SECTOR – THE STATE – IS THE SOURCE OF THE GREEK PROBLEM.

    (Via Alex Tabarrok )

    —“We are on the right track but unfortunately the job wasn’t completed. We are a country in the European Community which has the biggest public sector in Europe. And all of us in the private sector spend millions to support the situation. So the only way that Greece can become a true Western country…is to make these reforms.…Look the main problem in this country is the public sector. There is no other problem. Entrepreneurs here are very, very competitive. We have to let this thing, this monster that we call the public sector, it has to go, it has to finish. This is the main issue.”—- a greek entrepreneur.

    The State Is The Monster

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 11:19:00 UTC

  • “UNIVERSITIES ARE REPOSITORIES FOR DISCARDED THEORIES.” Priceless —“Universiti

    “UNIVERSITIES ARE REPOSITORIES FOR DISCARDED THEORIES.”

    Priceless

    —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance. Unfortunately, when policymakers embrace blindly their untested conventional wisdom, the consequences can be far worse.”—–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 11:10:00 UTC

  • TECH’S DARK SECRET – FOUNDERS AREN”T NORMAL PEOPLE –“A recent study by Dr. Mich

    TECH’S DARK SECRET – FOUNDERS AREN”T NORMAL PEOPLE

    –“A recent study by Dr. Michael Freeman, a clinical professor at UCSF and an entrepreneur as well, was one of the first of its kind to link higher rates of mental health issues to entrepreneurship.

    “Of the 242 entrepreneurs surveyed, 49% reported having a mental-health condition. Depression was the No. 1 reported condition among them and was present in 30% of all entrepreneurs, followed by ADHD (29%) and anxiety problems (27%). That’s a much higher percentage than the US population at large, where only about 7% identify as depressed.

    “More surprising was the incidence of mental health in the families of entrepreneurs: 72% said they either had mental-health problems themselves or in their immediate family.

    “A founder who has no history of mental illness from a family with no history either “is the exception, not the rule,” Freeman said.”–

    http://www.michaelafreemanmd.com/Research_files/Are%20Entrepreneurs%20Touched%20with%20Fire%20(pre-pub%20n)%204-17-15.pdf

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 15:51:00 UTC

  • “But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contai

    —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 15:03:00 UTC

  • RT @RealJamesWoods: The Left will tolerate no dissent. Convert or be destroyed (

    RT @RealJamesWoods: The Left will tolerate no dissent. Convert or be destroyed (shunned, humiliated, forcefully unemployed, etc.) http://t.…

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-29 04:02:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/615369645944664064