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  • “Curt: Whats the most inspiring philosophical text you’ve read?”— (a) Inspirat

    —“Curt: Whats the most inspiring philosophical text you’ve read?”—

    (a) Inspiration is something I don’t really need, which is why I don’t see philosophy as self-help but decidability.

    (c) I don’t read philosophy except to understand how previous generations of thinkers have failed. (really). Instead, I read science and art history, both of which are *demonstrated*, not fantasized (as is philosophy). In fact, I still read philosophers and generally thing “OMG this is sh-t”.

    (b) The only books I can recall inspiring me were those of history, particularly military history, and within that group ‘Strategy” by Liddel-Hart, and the history of the Mongols. I consider my study of the mongols my first really independent research program outside of arts and sciences.

    (e) And whether you consider Sun Tsu, Alexander, Caesar, Machiavelli, Napoleon, Clausewitz, and Keegan philosophy or military strategy and history is a question of bias in categorization.

    (d) I can only remember being affected heavily by Hayek’s two papers on knowledge, less so his work on law, and more so Popper and Kuhn’s work on scientific epistemology. In my understanding of history I have combined nietzsche’s aryanism, hayek’s knowledge and law, weber/mises/simmel’s calculation problem, completed popper’s epistemology, and Hoppe’s reduction of all social science to statements of property (tort).

    (e) In aesthetics I was affected by rand’s romantic manifesto in no small part because my university’s art college was based upon it – and it stuck with me HARD.

    (f) You might call Simmel’s “The Philosophy of Money” a book on philosophy or work of social science. I deem it the latter. And I read Weber, Durkhiem, and Pareto to understand economics for the same reason.

    (g) You might call Nietzche’s Birth of Tragedy philosophy but I consider it social science. I respect nietzsche but I don’t read him for philosophy or inspiration (I find german literature ridiculous), but I did try to understand how he failed to produce a more scientific program for his insight into heroic ethics.

    SO WHAT I HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHEN THEY ASK ME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY:

    is there a literature in ordinary language that I can read as a shortcut to understanding? And the answer is I don’t think so. And I am pretty sure you will learn more from following me for two years than you will learn from any study of philosophy. Not because I”m particularly good, but because I’m actually a scientist, and most philosophers have been tragic.

    I started with history, then science, then artificial intelligence, and then economics. And so my ‘route’ to wisdom was scientific not literary.

    cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 11:40:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle Um. Fascism = Monopoly. Everyone wants a monopoly – whether left

    Curt Doolittle Um. Fascism = Monopoly. Everyone wants a monopoly – whether left right or center. THe west however rose at its unprecedented pace in the ancient and modern worlds, under tripartism and markets for cooperation, while maintaining underclass eugenics (suppression). So basically fascism won. The ‘examples’ being set for the rest of the world are china, russia and saudi arabia – a trend in the research that was identified in the 90’s. Democracy in the 19th and 20th and the French Revolution’s counter-empiricism will be, as in the ancient world, remembered as nothing more than a revolt made possible by temporary excesses in income made possible by european technological superiority and the use of it in colonization. In less than a century that competitive advantage (capital) has been spent down, and the world is dividing again into large caste systems (india, south america, the muslim world) and nationalisms (china, japan, south korea). With the west by fully accidental means, choosing to follow india, south america, and the levant, into permanent class warfare.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 10:27:00 UTC

  • “Nobody is out of the gene pool, unless they don’t reproduce.”— Apparently you

    —“Nobody is out of the gene pool, unless they don’t reproduce.”—

    Apparently you don’t understand the difference between pools(ponds, lakes), rivers, and oceans?


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 10:19:00 UTC

  • Nietzsche vs The Stoics

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint). So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.). When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’). Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation. Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.*** So we have three components to deal with. One is … (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is … (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is … (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training. Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak…… Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”.. 1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality. 2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy. 3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness. So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ). And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring. So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed. But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics). And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship). And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes. The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense. ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies. We are only equal in poverty. Otherwise we are unequal in markets. As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Nietzsche vs The Stoics

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint). So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.). When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’). Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation. Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.*** So we have three components to deal with. One is … (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is … (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is … (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training. Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak…… Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”.. 1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality. 2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy. 3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness. So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ). And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring. So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed. But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics). And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship). And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes. The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense. ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies. We are only equal in poverty. Otherwise we are unequal in markets. As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • (FYI: it’s a joke. There is no possible way to make Acquisitionism > Testimonial

    (FYI: it’s a joke. There is no possible way to make Acquisitionism > Testimonialism > Propertarianism > Natural Law for ‘dummies’, any more than there is formal logic, systems programming, or the calculus. )


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 15:10:34 UTC

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  • OMG, you didn’t share that did you?! lolz…… (hugs man)

    OMG, you didn’t share that did you?! lolz…… (hugs man)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 13:19:36 UTC

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  • “CURT: WHEN WILL THE NEXT CORRECTION (COLLAPSE) OCCUR?” —“Curt, when do you th

    “CURT: WHEN WILL THE NEXT CORRECTION (COLLAPSE) OCCUR?”

    —“Curt, when do you think is the next economic / financial crisis slanted? Somebody I know well and trust, who got out of dodge last time around, is expecting it to be less than 18 months out, as indicated by the inverted bond yield curve. Is this accurate?”—- Moritz Bierling

    I have been saying that it looks to me like 2017-2020 since 2006. And that we would have some vast reorganizational catastrophe between 2020 and 2025.

    I was paying a lot of attention prior to the crisis, and so I was spot on (within 30 days) of estimating it correctly. Even the 2014 return.

    (I was conversely waaaaaaaaay off on China, which I thought would run out of options by 2010, but is deftly managing their equilibration and converting to totalitarianism before their great correction).

    I am not paying close enough attention to patterns today, so your friend is probably correct. I don’t need greater precision for my work. The reason being that I’m trying to provide “what to do about it” in advance – although still behind schedule.

    My understanding, and my strategy, is that we will see convergence in the next 24 months and that will begin the next ‘great wars’ era, because (a) the civil unrest will occupy the west, and (b) world powers in waiting will seize the opportunity, (c) both because they can afford to, and (d) because our ‘model’ (democracy) will have been proven wrong, so they will ‘advance’ under a sense of ‘moral authority to right a tragic wrong’.

    I think it is extremely unlikely that I err.

    Why? Humans always pursue available incentives.

    (PS:

    1) I can tell by the loans being generated that we are at the limit of possible credit expansion and I suspect the bond yield is reflecting it.

    2) I can tell by the absolutely certain future direction of oil prices that this will coincide with and partly drive the rest of the outcomes I anticipate.)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 12:19:00 UTC

  • BUT WHAT DOES NATIONAL SOCIALISM MEAN? –“I’ve been reading your posts. Properta

    BUT WHAT DOES NATIONAL SOCIALISM MEAN?

    –“I’ve been reading your posts. Propertarianism sounds an awful lot like national socialism. Maybe there is something Im missing. But, I’d be interested, if you have time, just to know what perhaps the major difference is.”—

    Well, you know, that depends on your definition of national socialism.

    In the choice of Nationalism vs Universalism, I suggest nationalism in order to force groups to pay the high cost of domesticating their own people educationally, normatively, culturally, economically, and politically, rather than forcing other groups to pay for that domestication. This is compatible with natural law (reciprocity) where universalism is not because it consists of forcing others to pay the cost rather than you paying the cost of revolution, reformation, and reeducation.

    In the scientific vernacular, Socialism refers a political and economic system whereby production, distribution, exchange, and reward, are determined by a bureaucratic government in order to insure equidistribution despite unequal contribution to production. In other words, turning a society into the equivalent of a 18th and 19th century factory.

    In the scientific vernacular, Capitalism refers to a political and economic system whereby all production, distribution, exchange, and reward are determined by market forces.

    In classical liberalism, and social democracy, some degree of the proceeds of mutual cooperation in markets, is captured by the state and used to produce commons outside of market competition.

    In christian monarchies these goods are determined by the monarchic administration.

    In classical liberalism these goods are determined by those who produce (the middle classes), and in social democracy these goods are determined by majority (which means the working and underclasses).

    Since this market(private) and non-market(Public) activity always and everywhere exists, we are all merely discussing which class has a monopoly on the decision making, the distribution of that taxation across the population, and amount of that taxation at any point in the population, given the available proceeds from cooperation (taxation).

    At present (a) the economic mainstream seeks to maximize takings and maximize commons. However, that is because they do not measure all capital changes (intangibles like trust, group traits, and survivability from shocks).

    And;

    (b) we know the current targeting methods (gdp, interests rates) do not work, and;

    (c) that the austrian prediction (exacerbation of cycles until collapse) appears to be correct. And we have;

    (d) only to resort to direct inflation by redistribution of liquidity to consumers in times of shocks, despite;

    (e) this will create a dependence upon redistributions, only exacerbating larger and longer cyclic shocks.

    So, what I propose instead is (a) nationalism, in fact, collections of city states, and (b) redistribution, yes, but (c) markets for the production of commons, and the total elimination of the political class other than a monarchy as a judge of last resort. And (d) we pay underclasses (those who are unproductive) not to reproduce. Because (e) it is possible to create a constitution under rule of law that is not open to interpretation, only to expansion of suppression of parasitism.

    But when you (or others) say ‘national socialism’ I don’t really know what that means, other than to say that in my understanding we run the government in the interest of the tribe (nationalism) using rule of law, without engaging in discretionary rule.” And in that case I don’t know what ‘socialism means’ since nationalism and socialism are synonyms, just as communism and universalism are synonyms.

    Now, compare Fascism’s version of ‘National Socialism’, that’s a very different thing, with a very strong political class, and the use of aesthetics and propaganda to reinforce the hero worship of that political class, and, well, that is just something I would rail against. We can laud our generals in times of war, our kings in times of peace, each other in times of prosperity, and our ancestors, thinkers, artists, scientists, engineers in times of stress, and nature, her gifts, and her seasons in times of sacredness.

    Why? Those things are true and difficult to corrupt into deceits that manipulate us. Rousseau and Kant tried to create secular version of christianity and it led to marx’s destruction of civilization.

    Our ancient ancestors never made the mistakes of the semites, but in our time of weakness, the eastern (syrian) byzantine empire imposed semitic superstition on us by force. And we only rescued ourselves from that dark age during the viking conquests, the crusades, and the Hansa, by taking back responsibility for ourselves, and our achievements, instead of submitting to the evil god of middle eastern slaves.

    Why? Because our origins are in the militia: the voluntary army of individually sovereign warriors, who submit to no one. To resolve differences between sovereign equals requires we can only decide as such by tests of reciprocity, and tests of reciprocity limits us to property and the common law of tort.

    We will continue to convert ourselves into gods, and drag mankind kicking and screaming behind us if we preserve our sovereignty as a militia of warriors, each of whom is a shareholder in the nation. But, we die, the west dies, and our transformation of man into gods dies, when the militia dies.

    It all begins with the militia.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 16:29:00 UTC

  • NIETZSCHE VS THE STOICS —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly cr

    NIETZSCHE VS THE STOICS

    —“Curt: In “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche harshly criticized the stoics and their desire to live according to nature. How do you understand his criticism? do you think it’s an unconditional criticism?”— Ahmed Reda

    Nietzsche has the strange german occupation with suffering and striving (armies), (look at medieval german art), whereas the anglos, scandinavians, romans, and greeks(navies) saw the same impulse as achievement and tragedy. ie: as heroic achievement(opportunity) vs heroic endurance (constraint).

    So he starts from both a rebellion against Christianity and the German strange preoccupation with suffering (and feces for that matter… damn.).

    When Nietzsche has his ‘aha’ moment, studying the Greek Tragedies, and rediscovers that these plays are our equivalent of ‘Church’, he uses the language and ideas available to him to try to restore the Greek (Germanic-Pagan, European Aryan, West Indo European ) presumption that men can join the gods through their heroic deeds, and seek not to please them but at best to mollify them (‘get them out of the way’).

    Unfortunately, German philosophy being the conflationary, secular-theological, literary bloviation (bullsh-t) that it is, he does his best with the (limited) rhetorical tools at his intellectual disposal. (Had Rousseau and Kant not struggled so hard to

    But, does he tell you how to think and act differently? Or is he simply engaging in sentiment, critique and parable? The latter. Hence why Nietzsche is open to interpretation not imitation.

    Now, conversely, the Stoics tell you to live in harmony with nature, but they also **tell you the program of how to learn to do so.***

    So we have three components to deal with.

    One is …

    (a) the set of EXCELLENCES to strive (train) for on the SPECTRUM of CLASS POSSIBILITIES, and the other is …

    (b) the METHOD of training yourself (offense) and others, and the last is …

    (c) the MINDFULNESS (defense) we obtain from that training.

    Aristocracy…………..Middle Class…………Lower Class

    Strong……………………….Able…………………..Weak……

    Excellence ———— Utility ———–Defenses

    Heroic ………………….. Virtuous ………………”Good”..

    1 – The Aristocracy obtains defense from conventional morality.

    2 – The Middle classes obtain defense from criticism and envy.

    3 – The Lower classes obtain defense from position and powerlessness.

    So when I recommend Nietzsche it’s largely his “Birth of Tragedy” so that you understand WHAT it is we seek to accomplish by restoring the TRIPARTISM (class cooperation) of the Western Indo Europeans, the Germanics, and the Greco-Romans, … in order to RESCUE us from the MONOPOLY (equality) of the Syrians (Byzantines > Christians > Jews > Babylonians ).

    And when I recommend the Stoics (and when I say that the germanic libertarians are trying to unconsciously reconstruct the Stoic Program), I am referring to the METHOD of training that today we call (and Peterson calls) Self-Authoring.

    So in my understanding the stoic program is scientific, rational, secular, and simply a form of mental fitness. ANd we can choose our virtues from those of the Aristocracy, Middle Classes, and Lower Classes as needed.

    But as far as I can determine it is no longer necessary to rely on supernatural myth (religion), literary parable (mythology), or verbal justificationism (germanic conflationary rationalism), or literary counter-historicism, counter-empiricism, and counter-rationalism (french postmodernism), or the counter-darwinian pseudosciences (ashkenazi pseudoscience of marx, Boas, Freud, Adorno), or the anglo numerology (Keynesian Economics and Rawlsian ethics).

    And instead we can simply teach people to select the appropriate virtues (for one’s temperaments, abilities or goals), practice self authoring rituals, and obtain the mindfulness (defense from competing suggestion, approval, and disapproval), and organize by natural law (reciprocity) using a strictly constructed constitution, and the common law of tort, under universal standing. And we can engage in whatever hero worship (archetypal imitation) that we want to given the vast inventory of heroes of all classes we can draw from (historical ‘paganism’ or ancestor worship).

    And we can create all the festivals and sports we want to celebrate each – in a market for our heroes.

    The only monopoly that exists in that world is the monopoly of Truth in the Testimonial and therefore Scientific sense, and Reciprocity in the juridical sense.

    ALl monopolies are bad. That said, one must produce markets that provide forums for all but monopolies.

    We are only equal in poverty.

    Otherwise we are unequal in markets.

    As such we may only cooperate on means, despite our inequalities, and disparate ends.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 16:00:00 UTC