Curt Doolittle

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  • LARGE STATES ARE VULNERABLE – NOT TO CONSENSUS BUT TO SINGLE ACTORS. From Eli Ha

    LARGE STATES ARE VULNERABLE – NOT TO CONSENSUS BUT TO SINGLE ACTORS.

    From Eli Harman

    —“Regarding the problems of centralized states. These fall into three categories, problems of knowledge, interest, and power. These can be solved ultimately only by competition, accountability, and division of power. But coercive territorial monopolies may be the most suitable forms for providing public goods and suppressing free-riding locally.”—

    —“Advances in technology favor the offense. And this is why large states will break down and be replaced by small states, because large states won’t be able to defend their territories, populations and economies. A world of large states is fragile. A world of small, competitive states is robust and antifragile.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 06:55:00 UTC

  • PRIVILEGE

    http://www.newmarksdoor.com/mainblog/2014/05/liberal-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-valise.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewmarksDoor+%28Newmark%27s+Door%29PROGRESSIVE PRIVILEGE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 05:58:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.traditionalbritain.org/content/role-heredity-politics

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 05:48:00 UTC

  • PRESERVING THE BENEFITS OF LIBERTY FOR THE EXCLUSIVE ENJOYMENT OF THE WILLING By

    PRESERVING THE BENEFITS OF LIBERTY FOR THE EXCLUSIVE ENJOYMENT OF THE WILLING

    By Eli Harman

    —“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.

    This is what Curt Doolittle means when he says “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, 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.

    If liberty is thus to be manufactured, the problem of free-riding must also be overcome by institutional forms that deny the benefits of liberty to those unwilling to participate in its manufacture, and that preserves the benefits for the exclusive enjoyment of those so willing.”—

    Aristocracy in a nutshell.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 05:00:00 UTC

  • THAT PUTIN REALIZES HE’S WHITE, MAYBE HE CAN START ACTING LIKE IT. (Asia for Asi

    http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21602695-vladimir-putin-pivots-eastward-should-america-be-worried-best-frenemiesNOW THAT PUTIN REALIZES HE’S WHITE, MAYBE HE CAN START ACTING LIKE IT.

    (Asia for Asians. India for Indians. Africa for Africans. Europa for Europeans. And the deserts for muslims. Sorry Vald. You have bad, egoistic, ignorant, advisors. You don’t get to play both sides when you have 140M people and 11 time zones to defend, and the Chinese Empire is on your doorstep.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 07:06:00 UTC

  • INTELLECTUAL MALPRACTICE SUIT AGAINST JARED DIAMOND IN THE MAKING. Diseases are

    http://santiagotimes.cl/qa-european-contact-land-use-led-easter-island-collapse/ANOTHER INTELLECTUAL MALPRACTICE SUIT AGAINST JARED DIAMOND IN THE MAKING.

    Diseases are the best weapon ever.

    Fragility created by exceeding the limits of the institutions of cooperation from providing correct information and therefore incentives, followed, by shocks that collapse the fragile system.

    (Dear fragility makers. We are coming for you. And there is nothing you can do to stop it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 08:13:00 UTC

  • “The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a

    “The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.” – Cicero

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 10:17:00 UTC

  • USA, LIKE USUAL, IS LATE TO THE PARTY. BUT THEY FINALLY GET THERE. (Contrary to

    http://usembassykyiv.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/behind-putins-cynicism-and-hypocrisy/THE USA, LIKE USUAL, IS LATE TO THE PARTY. BUT THEY FINALLY GET THERE.

    (Contrary to Stupid-tarian fantasies)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 09:00:00 UTC

  • FEEDING THE DEEP STATE ITS FAVORITE FOOD —“In light of the new security situat

    FEEDING THE DEEP STATE ITS FAVORITE FOOD

    —“In light of the new security situation created by Russia’s illegal and illegitimate aggression against Ukraine, we have taken immediate measures to enhance collective security in the air, at sea and on the ground. … The Ukraine crisis has compelled the alliance to refocus on its core mission of defending its members after years in which its main effort has been far away in Afghanistan.”—

    So stupid. Russia could have led the western world. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

    The white people who failed.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 17:45:00 UTC

  • PICKETTY I don’t share Don very often. But here are two (OBVIOUS) criticisms of

    http://cafehayek.com/2014/05/two-piketty-links.htmlCONTRA PICKETTY

    I don’t share Don very often. But here are two (OBVIOUS) criticisms of Picketty’s work that reflect austrian understanding of economics and behavior.

    TWO QUOTES

    —“In other words, there are two ways to explain why the mean wealth of the x% has grown faster than the mean wealth of the whole population. According to Piketty, it means that the richer you are in the first place, the faster your capital grows over time (hence, the dynastic wealth world he foresees). But it might also be the opposite: this phenomenon is exactly what we should expect to see in a world of high wealth turnover, a world where fortune rewards skills, hard work and risk taking. Quite symptomatically, Piketty and its numerous followers have completely dismissed that possibility.”—Guillaume Nicoulaud.

    —“But what if people don’t spend down their savings? That seems to be Piketty’s assumption, at least for the very rich: they build more and more wealth which they don’t spend, and that wealth generates capital income, which they also don’t spend, and so on. If that happens, then the capital-output ratio does keep rising. But this also means that Piketty’s rich-get-ever-richer projection can happen only if the rich don’t live like rich people, that is, that they don’t spend their wealth or the income generated by their wealth. All those savings just sit there making the economy more productive and, in the process, raising wages for the proletariat while the top 1% don’t actually consume any of the returns on those savings. Piketty’s scenario is close to Charles Murray’s desire that the rich live a little less ostentatiously.”—Andrew Biggs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 04:44:00 UTC