Curt Doolittle

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  • Bill Joslin A model for this could be described as concentric rings of influence

    Bill Joslin

    A model for this could be described as concentric rings of influence, centering on the individual and radiating out into the commons based on which domain one acts as judge-of-last-resort.

    Am I judge-of-last-resort for my mind (clarity of intention)

    Am I judge-of-last-resort for my body (voluntary intentional action)

    Am I judge-of-last-resort for my household (do I direct my domestic life)

    Am I judge-of-last-resort for my livelihood (do I direct my means of survival)

    Am I judge-of-last-resort which secures (ensures) my property-en-toto

    Am I judge-of-last-resort in the intergenerational shared commons (do I direct my place in history)

    For each of those questions, if there is another person to which you are beholden then the answer is no.

    Everyman a king of his household

    Everyman a rifleman

    Everyman a sheriff

    Everyman a judge

    ….in opportunity only, secured by demonstrations of ability.

    Cult of non-submission – cultivation of autonomy

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-04 11:41:00 UTC

  • Neil A. Bucklew The Transcendent? Of course the idea boils down to unclear defin

    Neil A. Bucklew

    The Transcendent? Of course the idea boils down to unclear definitions and murky grammar. and none of us have the time to sort them all out.

    the transcendent cannot be consumed by definition, but there are plenty of illusions that trigger a neurochemical reaction that is expressed as a transcendent emotion. if the experience is what you want to consume, how is it transcendent?

    so mindfulness and fasting are more transcendent than illusory gods, who are symbolic guides at best, and ludicrous distractions as worst.

    What is generally called the transcendent is as you describe, an emotional quest of sorts for some idea that triggers a neurochemical reaction. this is incorrectly named as transcendent and should have a different term. i am of the opinion that this need and behavior is related to atomizing individuality, and the loss of tribal/community connection. our “gods” were our connection to our tribe, throughout time.

    But there is also a “real’ transcendent. there are real limits and boundaries. identifying and exceeding them could be called transcendent.

    Self improvement as well as community improvement is simply work done to improve the market value of the individual or community. but it requires identifying and potentially exceeding limitations, opening the path of Caesar, Aristotle, Odin, Zeus, and Tesla to those who dare.

    Tesla is an example we can look at because he is recent and well documented. There is no silliness involved. He had to eat and sleep just like everyone else, yet he achieved some sort of what i would tentatively call “real transcendent”.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-03 17:02:00 UTC

  • Sorry man. My strategy? (a) I don’t do images, (b) I don’t do, or allow memes or

    Sorry man. My strategy? (a) I don’t do images, (b) I don’t do, or allow memes or images. (c) I write at fletch-kincaid 28 or so. Meaning there is no way the editors (or the proles) can understand anyway. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 19:34:31 UTC

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  • Love ya back man. 😉

    Love ya back man. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 16:01:21 UTC

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  • “Have you written about the Coase theorem in respect to the propertarian theory

    —“Have you written about the Coase theorem in respect to the propertarian theory of property? I searched your site & didn’t find anything related. Most discussions of externalities are at least tangentially prefaced with a description of the Coase theorem & its limitations. I’m interested in how you (or another propertarian) would approach the problem.”—

    1) Hmmm… I think I see polity formation as the process of suppressing local rents, centralizing them to pay for local suppression of rents, and trading a small number of low cost rents that are predictable (taxation) for many high transaction cost rents that are not ….

    2) …and the individuals in the polity capturing the differences as profits on decreased transaction costs, increased risk tolerance, and higher economic (monetary) velocity. (This follows my general method of analysis by via-negativa: we are always saving time via cooperation).

    3) Coase’s theorem can be stated the same way: the differential rents (different allocations of property rights) are suppressed by competition across variable property allocations (normative property, and formal property rights) by international trade. …

    4) So Coase expresses at the inter-polity scale, what I express at the intra-polity scale. But the phenomenon is the same: increasing the radius of cooperation will suppress rents(assymetries) through competition, whether internal or external. ….

    5) … and we eventually converge on individual property rights with gains captured and redistributed as commons, just as we see by comparison the convergence on mathematics, and the convergence on scientific ‘grammar’ as a universal language.

    6) Competition at ever increasing scales causes convergence on indifference in all ‘grammars’ (Methods) of cooperation from the conceptual to the verbal, to the material. (offset by war, group strategy etc.)

    7) So in this sense my approach is broader than Coase, and where Coase incorrectly suggests cooperation reinforces seeking equilibrium, instead cooperation seeks convergence, competition seeks efficiency, and opportunity seeks disequilibrium, with shocks as discovery of limits.

    8) That’s pretty heavy but I think it’s in your intellectual wheelhouse.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 12:21:00 UTC

  • My answer to Are verbally fluent intellectuals often handicapped by their except

    My answer to Are verbally fluent intellectuals often handicapped by their exceptional verbal ability because it allows them to subconsciously manipulate their language to effortlessly produce verbally persuasive but otherwise questionable arguments? https://www.quora.com/Are-verbally-fluent-intellectuals-often-handicapped-by-their-exceptional-verbal-ability-because-it-allows-them-to-subconsciously-manipulate-their-language-to-effortlessly-produce-verbally-persuasive-but-otherwise/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 00:33:20 UTC

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  • “for use in ethics and politics”… 😉

    …”for use in ethics and politics”… 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 21:39:43 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle I agree with most of this, but disagree with the notion that economics is *only* meaningful in law and ethics. Price Theory (microeconomics) is useful in Industry, particularly its quantitative methods (linear algebra & calculus) of calculating optimal quantities & prices.

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  • That’s patently not true. They care costly. They are cheaper than military war.

    That’s patently not true. They care costly. They are cheaper than military war. They are often if not always cheaper than loss of the spectrum of capital these wars are instituted to end. Peace is only drawn from future reserves.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 19:01:35 UTC

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    Nobody wins a trade war. American businesses will be hurt. American consumers are going to be hurt. And American national interests are going to be hurt by engaging in a trade war with our most important allies.

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  • Um. Excuse me. Let me help you. There is no ‘bulletproof’ backpack or body armor

    Um. Excuse me. Let me help you. There is no ‘bulletproof’ backpack or body armor. Rifle bullets go thru body armor, walls, steel, concrete, trees. There is nothing that a series of bullets will not penetrate. The only solution is armed men with zero tolerance.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 13:29:44 UTC

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  • @TOOEdit Once You Seek Pilpul and Critique, You Can’t Unsee It

    @TOOEdit Once You Seek Pilpul and Critique, You Can’t Unsee It. https://t.co/BIMsLBFpPV

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-30 18:58:22 UTC

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