Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “Family structure + literacy + godlessness = political ideology” – emmanuel todd

    “Family structure + literacy + godlessness = political ideology”

    – emmanuel todd.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-09 13:00:00 UTC

  • “Since the early 1980s, the American extreme right has evolved from a movement c

    “Since the early 1980s, the American extreme right has evolved from a movement characterized by ultra patriotism, to one increasingly characterized by nihilism.”

    Well. That’s true. I was there. We knew we couldn’t win. We chose to bankrupt the state by all means possible, before it destroyed us. And, had immigration not been so extensive, the strategy would have worked. But between minorities, immigrants and single mothers conservatives couldn’t to it. Not possible. By 92 it was impossible. That was probably the end.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 16:41:00 UTC

  • “Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip

    “Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 16:08:00 UTC

  • VS ADELSON The future of gambling under siege by special interests?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/01/06/the-biggest-bet-ever/SOROS VS ADELSON

    The future of gambling under siege by special interests?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 06:31:00 UTC

  • DERBYSHIRE MANAGES TO TEASE THE FRENCH AND KRUGMAN AT THE SAME TIME (Peugeots ro

    http://takimag.com/article/the_street_keynesians_theodore_dalrymple/print#ixzz2plRrTw2eJOHN DERBYSHIRE MANAGES TO TEASE THE FRENCH AND KRUGMAN AT THE SAME TIME

    (Peugeots roasting, on an open fire…. The smoke from Opels stinging at your nose…. Hmmm Hmmm Hmmmmm… Merry Christmaaaaaaaaas tooooooo yoooooooo….)

    (If you don’t know, burning cars have become a ritualistic exercise in France with 130 or so cars burned per day, and over a thousand on New Year’s.)

    –“Having read Mr. Krugman in The New York Times, [the French] have been persuaded that there is a chronic lack of demand in the French economy that they have decided to stimulate by burning cars.”

    “What better stimulation, indeed, could be imagined? The roughly 40,000 cars burned a year .. provide employment for thousands of people. The cars have to be replaced, so manufacturing is encouraged; service industries such as sales and insurance are likewise given a fillip.”

    “When .. Sarkozy called the rabble who rioted in 2005 “scum,” he should really have thanked them for their presciently Keynesian conduct.”–

    (Krugman is notorious for perpetuating the broken window fallacy.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-07 20:07:00 UTC

  • MEDIA ARE MOSTLY IN STUPID MODE” (judith curry) “In a word. No.”

    http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/07/is-global-warming-causing-the-polar-vortex/”THE MEDIA ARE MOSTLY IN STUPID MODE”

    (judith curry)

    “In a word. No.”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-07 19:17:00 UTC

  • MEANS OF FEMINIST OPPRESSION OF REALITY? CENSORING THE INTERNET Uh ho. What?. Sh

    http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/NEXT MEANS OF FEMINIST OPPRESSION OF REALITY? CENSORING THE INTERNET

    Uh ho. What?. Shaming and Rallying don’t work on the internet?

    Your rejection is powerless? You words can’t carry their own weight?

    You can’t claim that you were open to physical threats on the internet?

    Why do you think men spend more time here than women?

    Words disempower your politicking. But please tell me when you have the right not to be sneered at, jeered, insulted, ridiculed, threatened via twitter messages….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-07 17:35:00 UTC

  • Recent Interview “The anarcho-libertarian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues fo

    http://www.hanshoppe.com/2014/01/taxes-are-expropriation-interview-in-wirtschaftswoche/Hoppe’s Recent Interview

    “The anarcho-libertarian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues for a state-free society. Where government has, for example, no right to compel the citizens to pay taxes to finance armed forces.”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-07 13:38:00 UTC

  • MAYBE, THAT LIBERTY COMES OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN True, maybe that libertaria

    http://isteve.blogspot.com/search/label/libertarianismTRUE MAYBE, THAT LIBERTY COMES OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN

    True, maybe that libertarianism is applied autism.

    That doesn’t change the fact that conservatives just aren’t terribly intellectual. And if you’re a conservative intellectual, its pretty hard not to work with the libertarians.

    So, how does one, build an intellectual movement in the conservative river of discourse? I gotta tell you that I don’t believe you can. Mencius did a pretty good job, but honestly, it’s hard to find a even a libertarian that can understand anything terribly complicated.

    And it’s impossible to find a conservative.

    And that’s exasperating.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 17:42:00 UTC

  • THOUGHTS ON TRUTH THE TWO QUESTIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY –“If you ask a p

    https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/philosophy.htmlMORE THOUGHTS ON TRUTH

    THE TWO QUESTIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY

    –“If you ask a philosopher what the main problems are in the philosophy of mathematics, then the following two are likely to come up: what is the status of mathematical truth, and what is the nature of mathematical objects? That is, what gives mathematical statements their aura of infallibility, and what on earth are these statements about ?” —

    ON THE PAPER

    Nothing new or interesting. I still can’t figure out if the problem of what mathematicians consider ‘arbitrary precision’ is one that they are conscious of or not. (Correspondence and utility in context. )

    What I can tell you is that mathematicians do not define truth, that philosophers do. Conversely, the craft of math requires a language for the production of proofs that humans can manipulate symbolically. Just like we need language that humans can speak and use, not language which would be more ‘true’.

    However, if at some point we want to test whether our mathematics or our language is in fact ‘true’ – in that whatever content we construct corresponds to reality – we must be able to express it in operational language. If we cannot, then it is not in fact ‘true’. I can tell a story about a fantasy world with a certain form of gravity. I can write a proof using certain assumptions. However, these cannot correspond to reality, and therefore, can be consistent with their definitions (internally consistent) but they cannot ever be ‘true’ (correspondent).

    This is important otherwise truth has no meaning, and reality is indistinguishable from dream.

    More later.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 16:54:00 UTC