(worth repeating)
—“Like I keep saying, the Anglos were wrong but argued truthfully; the germans were right but argued untruthfully; and the Jews were wrong and agued untruthfully. What I struggle to do, is to state the german proposition truthfully.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-29 05:27:00 UTC
http://www.returnofkings.com/34330/women-should-not-be-allowed-to-voteWell, sorta.
WHY DOES CURT POST THIS STUFF?
Because I want to show how (a) democracy is a catastrophe, and (b) that we need a government of exchanges not of majority rule.
Democracy (majority rule) did not represent men, it represented the absolute nuclear family. The family is paternal revolution made possible by property and property rights, but it suppressed women’s natural desire to push responsibility for her offspring on the tribe. In other words, suppression of female behavior was necessary for the development of civilization.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-28 10:58:00 UTC
OUR HEROIC WESTERN STRUGGLE GOES ON
(worth repeating)
—“Our struggle goes on. The constant struggle to resist the seduction that the rest of the world fell into – the comfort of lies. **The seduction by the words of priests, public intellectuals, and politicians, rather than adaptation to the actions of heroes.** Because truth, trust, production, and commons are the west’s competitive advantage against the untruthful, untrusting, unproductive, and parasitic peoples.”—
We drag the world behind us – kicking and screaming. And nothing is more heroic or aristocratic than this ultimate form of paternalism.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-28 05:08:00 UTC
INTELLECTUALS : GOSSIPERS
—“Intellectuals are a social class in a position to critique societal matters for which they are not directly responsible and to advocate for the interests of other classes.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-28 03:08:00 UTC
–“Progressivism wears the religions it has devoured like a monster that dresses itself in the skins of people it has eaten. It has consumed Judaism, Christianity, and most of Islam, though the worst and most harmful religion, Islam, still lives and is fighting back.”— Jim
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-27 06:39:00 UTC
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/post/an-interview-with-john-searleSEARLE DOESN’T BUY POSITIVE RIGHTS EITHER
(positive rights are an idiot-test)
It doesn’t occur to him (or anyone else) that all non-positive human rights in the charter are expressions of property rights. (sigh).
But that said. Positive rights constitute an idiot test. Its just one of those things. If you advocate for positive rights, you’re an idiot. Even if you advocate positive property rights. You’re just an idiot. You are a well intentioned idiot. But you are an idiot none the less.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-27 04:51:00 UTC
https://www.academia.edu/9865619/Understanding_Financial_Instability_Minsky_Versus_the_AustriansOUR INFORMATION SYSTEM IS NOT WELL BEHAVED AND LINEAR
My fundamental interest is institutions and law, but I geek-out when someone helps me better understand economics by providing a language for concepts we fail to understand sufficiently to articulate alone. (I love this paper. Maybe it just appeals to my niche interests, but it’s awesome.)
—“The conventional economic paradigm is thus not the only way economic interrelations can be modeled. Every capitalist economy can be described in terms of sets of interrelated balance sheets. At every reading of the balance sheet the financial instruments can be interpreted as generating two sets of time series: the liabilities generate payment commitments, and the assets generate expected cash receipts. Balance sheets relations link yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows: payment commitments entered in the past lead to cash payments that need to be executed now as well as future cash payments, even as liabilities are taken on now that commit future cash flows. In this structure the real and the financial dimensions of the economy are not separated: there is no so-called real economy whose behavior can be studied by abstracting from financial considerations. This system, linking yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows both financially and in terms of the demand for and supply of goods and services, is not a well-behaved linear system. Furthermore, the presumption that this system has an equilibrium cannot be sustained. This modeling of the economy leads to a process in time that generates a path that can fly off to deep depressions and open-ended inflations, even in the absence of exogenous shocks or strange displacements. In this model money is never neutral. (Minsky ibid. 78)”— Ludwig van den Hauwe
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-26 08:57:00 UTC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-sexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/?tid=trending_strip_1SEX IN JAPAN – THE LACK OF IT – AND LACK OF OFFSPRING BECAUSE OF IT
A problem of smart people with low testosterone.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-26 03:09:00 UTC
Understanding Financial Instability: Minsky Versus the Austrians https://www.academia.edu/9865619/Understanding_Financial_Instability_Minsky_Versus_the_Austrians via @academia
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 07:29:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/548017662559670273
ELI ON LIBERTY
Asking people to forego parasitism (if they’re weak) or predation (if they’re strong) is asking them to bear a substantial opportunity cost. They will only do so if someone stands ready to impose a higher actual cost for choosing to engage in them.
Liberty must be manufactured by violence.
Libertarians love to sing liberty’s praises, and there is much to be said in its favor. But it does not follow from this that liberty is always in everyone’s best interests. There are many people who stand to lose more from liberty than they would stand to gain. (And not just because they misperceive the situation.) There are still more people for whom the uncertainty over what they would stand to gain or lose would make desiring liberty irrational.
The incentives that favor liberty do not exist by default, they must be proactively created. And in order for this to happen there must be people likely to benefit from liberty, people who can make good use of it, strong people, capable people, wise people, intelligent people, responsible people, farsighted people; in short, aristocrats. And they must organize to impose liberty on the remainder by force, and in many cases, to their detriment, or to their enduring resentment.
– Northman
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-24 16:53:00 UTC