Curt Doolittle

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  • CONSERVATIVES ARE BETTER PERSUADERS THAN LIBERTARIANS “Neutrality, Tolerance, an

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006N75LFI/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkWHY CONSERVATIVES ARE BETTER PERSUADERS THAN LIBERTARIANS

    “Neutrality, Tolerance, and Equality are not neutral whatsoever–They’re a conspiracy.”

    Morality is universally comprehensible, intuitive, and emotionally activating. Libertarian economics, politics and reasoning is the best there is. But it doesn’t persuade. Now, the reason it doesn’t persuade I blame on Rothbard. But it’s really an artifact of our moral and religious heritage. We didn’t know how to articulate it until recently, in rational terms.

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006N75LFI?SubscriptionId=AKIAJBFRWAXYFVDX3VKQ&tag=cmpthgh-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B006N75LFI

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 08:16:00 UTC

  • ADVANCED CHILDREARING “The secret as to why England and not France or Germany sp

    ADVANCED CHILDREARING

    “The secret as to why England and not France or Germany spawned the Industrial Revolution first goes back to England’s advanced childrearing in its smaller medieval households, not to any ecological advantage.” – Lloyd deMause

    Referring to: David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998, pp. 213-230.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 04:59:00 UTC

  • STATISTICS: SORRY BUT THE MYTH OF GENETIC DISTANCE IS FALSE. Probably too techni

    http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/10/loci-number-and-group-difference.htmlDAMNED STATISTICS: SORRY BUT THE MYTH OF GENETIC DISTANCE IS FALSE.

    Probably too technical for the FB audience but here is a paper on, and discussion about, how the ‘lie’ that two people within a group are more diverse than people across groups is an intentional deception.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-05 10:27:00 UTC

  • “Для каждого человека на этой земле Смерть приходит рано или поздно. И как может

    “Для каждого человека на этой земле

    Смерть приходит рано или поздно.

    И как может человек умереть лучше

    Чем сталкивается многие враги

    Для прах отцов своих,

    И храмы своих богов “.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 07:03:00 UTC

  • INCENTIVES DEFEAT ECONOMIC INCENTIVES “….economists fail to realize what a Kaf

    http://cafehayek.com/2013/10/politics-trumps-economics.htmlPOLITICAL INCENTIVES DEFEAT ECONOMIC INCENTIVES

    “….economists fail to realize what a Kafka-esque world we live in trying to engineer the perfect regulatory system while the banks involvement in the process will always dwarf ours. We should be thinking about the political process and not just the economic process. The person in the street might have a better idea of what’s important.” – Russ Roberts

    But economists do not know why. (Although I do) It is because humans are necessiarly MORAL and will punish IMMORALITY at high cost. If a community is homogenous then this condition is politically and economically productive. But if a polity is diverse then this condition is politically and economically deconstructive. Because the incentive to prevent immorality is greater than the incentive to produce shared prosperity.

    If this natural and uncircumventable human behavior is understood, it becomes obvious that only small homogenous polities can be marginally free and democratic.

    The disorderly introduction of women into the voting pool, without a requirement for property, provided sufficient incentives to destroy the civil society, the high trust society, the nuclear family.

    A friend reminds me that women, which are, empirically, more interpersonally sensitive than empirically sensitive, less politically intuitive, less politically knowledgeable, and lacking the norms and traditions of males toward politics, were largely taken advantage of by Puritans, Marxists, Postmodernists, and Totalitarian Humanists. But empirically speaking, women’s left leaning votes provided the marginal difference to dismantle western civilization.

    Economists are part of the utopian fantasy of equality. This is partly because they work with gross aggregate numbers that launder our differences.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 04:17:00 UTC

  • WOMEN USED THE STATE TO DESTROY CIVIL SOCIETY Without women’s participation in t

    http://cafehayek.com/2013/06/quotation-of-the-day-651.htmlHOW WOMEN USED THE STATE TO DESTROY CIVIL SOCIETY

    Without women’s participation in the voting pool, and the Feminist attack on the family, we would have kept our civil and homogenous society. This book is another example of how minor cognitive biases when let loose by democratic tyranny, can bring a civilization to its end.

    “The shift from mutual aid and self-help to the welfare state has involved more than a simple bookkeeping transfer of service provision from one set of institutions to another. As many of the leaders of fraternal societies had feared, much was lost in an exchange that transcended monetary calculations. The old relationships of voluntary reciprocity and autonomy have slowly given way to paternalistic dependency. Instead of mutual aid, the dominant social welfare arrangements of Americans have increasingly become characterized by impersonal bureaucracies controlled by outsiders.”

    From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

    http://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Aid-Welfare-State-ebook/dp/B0049MNW4Q/ref=la_B001IXS7YY_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370172500&sr=1-1

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-03 02:43:00 UTC

  • THE STATE IS THE ENEMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY “…a herd of timid and industrious anim

    THE STATE IS THE ENEMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY

    “…a herd of timid and industrious animals of which government is the shepherd…”

    QUOTE:

    “It seems that if despotism came to be established in the democratic nations of our day, it would have other characteristics: it would be more extensive and milder, and it would degrade men without tormenting them. …

    I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. …

    Above these an immense … power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living?

    So it is that every day it renders the employment of free will less useful and more rare; it confines the action of the will in a smaller space and little by little steals the very use of it from each citizen. …

    Thus, after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than

    …

    I have always believed that this sort of regulated, mild, and peaceful servitude, whose picture I have just painted, could be combined better than one imagines with some of the external forms of freedom, and that it would not be impossible for it to be established in the very shadow of the sovereignty of the people.”

    –Alexis de Tocqueville

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 13:18:00 UTC

  • “IMPERFECTION COMES FROM TRYING TO BE RIGHT” (Evan Sayet) So we abandon all reas

    “IMPERFECTION COMES FROM TRYING TO BE RIGHT”

    (Evan Sayet)

    So we abandon all reason. Prove that right isn’t right and wrong isn’t wrong. Hate, detest and decry any judgement. There is no criteria for truth, beauty, justice.

    “The moral imperative of Indiscriminateness.”

    “Rational thought is a hate crime. They cannot judge the merits of the positions that they hold. They have been indoctrinated into the liberal thought process.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 11:13:00 UTC

  • WHY WE NEED THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT: UNIVERSALIST ANTI-RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE “I

    WHY WE NEED THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT: UNIVERSALIST ANTI-RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE

    “I am continually amazed at the extent to which evolutionists have been indoctrinated—mainly by Richard Dawkins—against supposing that groups have any important role to play in human evolution.”

    –Kevin MacDonald, A People That Shall Dwell Alone:

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-28 08:12:00 UTC

  • IN POWER AND WEAKNESS It’s interesting to watch both sides collapse while they t

    http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7107CHANGES IN POWER AND WEAKNESS

    It’s interesting to watch both sides collapse while they think the other is at fault. Over the past few months I have watched the left realize that they have failed to change economic policy because conservative morality reigns both here and in europe.

    We have also seen conservatives and libertarians change their strategic objectives.

    But we have not see western culture change it’s objectives quite yet – not at its institutional or spiritual level.

    But our perception, our belief, our literature, our philosophy and our actions for the past 500 years at least, has been those of power.

    And we’re adopting weakness.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-27 11:01:00 UTC