(FB 1547755789 Timestamp) —‘Knowing is half the battle. The other half is the organized application of violence.”— Eli Harman “Libertarianism with pointy bits.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548005504 Timestamp) EMERGENT RELIGION: A MARKET COMPETITION —“I donât think I have the stamina for trying to formulate how weâd construct a religion operationally.”–Curtus Maximus I can define the terms. I think it’s entirely possible. Because it was at one time. And it can be again. It’s actually liberating to understand religion: Narrative(Strategy), Education, Ritual, Oath, Debt – to one another across time. Creating all that is an interesting mission. Like I said, I might consider it after publishing The Law. (Assuming I live long enough.) —“I think the proper thing to do would involve subjecting them all to falsification and letting them compete in the market for religions.”—Curtus Maximus Exactly. Shared vision brother. 😉
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1547981973 Timestamp) Russian Folk Tales. https://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html You distinguish a people by the lessons of their folk tales. Russians are ethnic europeans.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547914974 Timestamp) A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM by Daniel Roland Anderson (law) Depending on oneâs academic and personal background, a law degree does significantly more harm than good when it comes to understanding Curtâs work. (Math, Engineering, and Philosophy majors can help. English Lit, Sociology, and Political Science will hinder.) Mostly, a law degree hurts, because one learns to conflate legislation and regulation with actual lawâwhich you wonât learn in law school at all. And the version of Common Law schools teach (pilpul) will definitely do more harm than good because reciprocity has no role in the process, unless learning how to circumvent, distort, denigrate, and subvert reciprocity counts as a ârole.â Law schools excel at this. Also, Dunning-Kruger will be an issue for most law school grads. The situation is actually worse than Iâm making out, but Iâm spending some time with a friend who grew up working in the fields with me, so Iâm in a good mood. This kid just turned 32 and intuitively grasps the basics of Curtâs work very, very quickly. He graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, played a little college football and then never held an 8-5 jobâopting instead for work where results determined income 100%. Heâs trained people and started businesses and is raising a family. He has a real law degree. 😉
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1547981973 Timestamp) Russian Folk Tales. https://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html You distinguish a people by the lessons of their folk tales. Russians are ethnic europeans.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547914974 Timestamp) A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM by Daniel Roland Anderson (law) Depending on oneâs academic and personal background, a law degree does significantly more harm than good when it comes to understanding Curtâs work. (Math, Engineering, and Philosophy majors can help. English Lit, Sociology, and Political Science will hinder.) Mostly, a law degree hurts, because one learns to conflate legislation and regulation with actual lawâwhich you wonât learn in law school at all. And the version of Common Law schools teach (pilpul) will definitely do more harm than good because reciprocity has no role in the process, unless learning how to circumvent, distort, denigrate, and subvert reciprocity counts as a ârole.â Law schools excel at this. Also, Dunning-Kruger will be an issue for most law school grads. The situation is actually worse than Iâm making out, but Iâm spending some time with a friend who grew up working in the fields with me, so Iâm in a good mood. This kid just turned 32 and intuitively grasps the basics of Curtâs work very, very quickly. He graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, played a little college football and then never held an 8-5 jobâopting instead for work where results determined income 100%. Heâs trained people and started businesses and is raising a family. He has a real law degree. 😉
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548086432 Timestamp) A TWITTER CONVERSATION WITH THE INFORMED OPPOSITION (useful counter-argument for you) Cowardice is all that separates us from victory. —“What constitutes a victory?”— A victory consists in the restoration of the constitution to Rule of Law by the Natural Law of Reciprocity, the elimination of accumulate rent seeking, and the prohibition on commercial, financial, bureaucratic, academic, and political speech that is false or irreciprocal. —“So limiting free speech is a victory. Sounds kinda fascist.”— Well we eliminate reciprocity in private life, and falsehood, fraud, and deceit in commercial speech, but not in economic, academic, and political speech. Turns out we can eliminate them in public speech. (BTW: “Sounds Kinda” is an admission of ignorance, not an argument) —“Fair enough on the semantics. But if we parse out all the word salad, a win for you is basically a re-writing of the Constitution that establishes a cultural hiearachy.”— You mean, a win restores non-parasitism, and restores reciprocity, under which those who are productive require non-parasitism upon the commons from those who are not, in exchange for redistribution. (Don’t accuse me of word salad as pretense of equality of comprehension.) Your use of the word ‘culture’ in this sense is a code word (deceit, fraud) for ‘rights of parasitism’. That’s all it means. Nothing else. if you followed my work you would be horrified but if intellectually honest, awed. Truth is what it is. Theft is what it is. … The first question of philosophy is ‘why not commit suicide?’; the first question of ethics is ‘why not kill you and take what is yours?”; the first of politics “Why should me and mine not end, enslave, enserf you?” The only answer to the second two questions is ‘reciprocity’. Once we can no longer cooperate the, the second and third questions are all that come into play. So, either revolt, separate, prosper, and speciate, or the strong eat the weak. I’m for separatism. If separatism fails, then any alternative is superior to continued parasitism. 😉 I’m intuiting healthy IQ on your end. Which is why I’m answering the question despite our differences in objective. The herd and the female strategy of equality, and the pack and the male strategy of meritocracy. We are wealthy enough now to separate and pursue both not one. No one needs to be oppressed except under monopoly. And monopoly is simply tyranny whether male strategy or female strategy. So, revolt, separate, prosper, speciate. -cheers
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548086432 Timestamp) A TWITTER CONVERSATION WITH THE INFORMED OPPOSITION (useful counter-argument for you) Cowardice is all that separates us from victory. —“What constitutes a victory?”— A victory consists in the restoration of the constitution to Rule of Law by the Natural Law of Reciprocity, the elimination of accumulate rent seeking, and the prohibition on commercial, financial, bureaucratic, academic, and political speech that is false or irreciprocal. —“So limiting free speech is a victory. Sounds kinda fascist.”— Well we eliminate reciprocity in private life, and falsehood, fraud, and deceit in commercial speech, but not in economic, academic, and political speech. Turns out we can eliminate them in public speech. (BTW: “Sounds Kinda” is an admission of ignorance, not an argument) —“Fair enough on the semantics. But if we parse out all the word salad, a win for you is basically a re-writing of the Constitution that establishes a cultural hiearachy.”— You mean, a win restores non-parasitism, and restores reciprocity, under which those who are productive require non-parasitism upon the commons from those who are not, in exchange for redistribution. (Don’t accuse me of word salad as pretense of equality of comprehension.) Your use of the word ‘culture’ in this sense is a code word (deceit, fraud) for ‘rights of parasitism’. That’s all it means. Nothing else. if you followed my work you would be horrified but if intellectually honest, awed. Truth is what it is. Theft is what it is. … The first question of philosophy is ‘why not commit suicide?’; the first question of ethics is ‘why not kill you and take what is yours?”; the first of politics “Why should me and mine not end, enslave, enserf you?” The only answer to the second two questions is ‘reciprocity’. Once we can no longer cooperate the, the second and third questions are all that come into play. So, either revolt, separate, prosper, and speciate, or the strong eat the weak. I’m for separatism. If separatism fails, then any alternative is superior to continued parasitism. 😉 I’m intuiting healthy IQ on your end. Which is why I’m answering the question despite our differences in objective. The herd and the female strategy of equality, and the pack and the male strategy of meritocracy. We are wealthy enough now to separate and pursue both not one. No one needs to be oppressed except under monopoly. And monopoly is simply tyranny whether male strategy or female strategy. So, revolt, separate, prosper, speciate. -cheers
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548026676 Timestamp) “WHAT I WANT” by Bill Joslin I don’t want a prophet or an equivalent. I don’t even want a leader. I want to be able to put gas in my truck without having to check if that’s going to cut into our grocery bill. I want my Daughter to have a lifelong home – but at more than $200k a year we can’t afford in Toronto, because it would take 25 years to pay it off – and we only have about 20 left it us. I’d like my daughter to be able to form a family and properly care for it without it demanding 60 hour work weeks from both parents (and to the point above – take an entire lifetime to pay off) I’d like my phone and data bill to not be the second highest investment I make every month (costs as much as a car payment) I’d like to go a day without having to defend my race, ancestors and culture to my daughter due to nonsense thrown at her daily. I’d like a future for my progeny that contains happiness which doesn’t resemble a Pyrrhic victory. I don’t want the future to look back at me, mine and my generation with resentment and regret (like I do to boomer et al) but with respect and inspiration… And I want the path to achieve this to not require me to turn into a monster to change the course of our civilization. I don’t want the genocide which is on our horizon. ( It leads to human extinction.)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548008761 Timestamp) “EXHAUSTING” by Rosenborg Predmetsky It’s just as I’d said in a previous post: Curt’s posts can be exhausting to read, but for the exact opposite of why continental philosophy is exhausting to read: The first is exhausting because so much substance is compressed in so little, whereas in continental philosophy, so little is enshrouded by so much. by John Mark YES. When I found Curt the experience was the opposite of when I tried to read philosophy. Philosophy: “There’s got to be something worthwhile in here somewhere.” Curt: “OMG I could spend an hour thinking about each paragraph.” (CD: these guys made my day. not because of my ego. But because when someone understands, I feel ‘validated’ – because the hard work did some good and I didnt end up just writing to myself. Moreover, it means they are becoming leaders – so I don’t have to… lol. 😉 )