Curt Doolittle

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  • What’s The Difference Between Communism And Libertarianism?

    In Communism private property is abolished in order to create exclusively common property. (Rule By Discretion)

    In Libertarianism, common property is abolished in order to create exclusively private property. (Anarchy)

    In Classical Liberalism (Rule of Law), the houses of government constitute a market for the voluntary production of commons between the people who pay for them with sacrifice of their private property. (Rule of Law)

    https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-communism-and-libertarianism

  • If An Advanced Alien Civilization Uses An Axiomatic System That Allows Them To Solve Many Math Problems That We Have Tried For Centuries To Solve, Would We Adapt To Their System So That Our Math Knowledge Can Catch Up To Theirs?

    Um. I don’t think you understand the constitution of mathematics. And I am not sure that I want to invest that level of effort. But given the simplicity of math, and the impossibility of anything more ‘simple’ than math, the only thing we can do with mathematics that we cannot do now, is increase the dimension of constant relations that we calculate. And even today, that is largely a function of computational power. I mean, once you get to Lie groups you really have completed the circle, very similarly to how once you get to chemistry you have completed the subatomic cycle, and started over.

    https://www.quora.com/If-an-advanced-alien-civilization-uses-an-axiomatic-system-that-allows-them-to-solve-many-math-problems-that-we-have-tried-for-centuries-to-solve-would-we-adapt-to-their-system-so-that-our-math-knowledge-can-catch-up-to-theirs

  • What Do Libertarians Think Of A Progressive Global Wealth Tax?

    Why would we want to end capital flight? It tells governments that they are managing badly.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-libertarians-think-of-a-progressive-global-wealth-tax

  • Why Do People Say It’s Not Their Responsibility To Explain Issues Of Social Justice, Racism, And Oppression, When They Also Say A White, Straight Man Can Never Experience These Things?

    Don’t you think that by asking this question you are using racism against white people?

    Look. White people made modernity and dragged everyone else into it kicking and screaming.

    White people produce the ONLY high trust- low corruption high truth telling society other than Japan.

    When other peoples produce the same levels of development then they will obtain the same treatment.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-say-its-not-their-responsibility-to-explain-issues-of-social-justice-racism-and-oppression-when-they-also-say-a-white-straight-man-can-never-experience-these-things

  • Do You Agree That Greed Is The Main Source Of All Problems We Face Today?

    No.
    1 – Overpopulation of the untalented classes.
    2 – Competition for status, because status increases opportunity.
    3 – Factual differences in individual, group, social, political, and religious value in modernity.
    4 – Lack of material value of vast sectors of the population – which will only get worse as technology advances.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-that-greed-is-the-main-source-of-all-problems-we-face-today

  • Why Do Americans Support The 1% Knowing They Will Never Be Part Of It?

    a large percentage of americans cross the 400k threshold at least one year.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-support-the-1-knowing-they-will-never-be-part-of-it

  • What Are Good Introductory Books To Study About States, Politics, And Public Laws?

    THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF

    The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian), Rousseauian (Social-Democratic) and Marxist(socialist and communist) SELF PROJECTIONS of the nature of man. When in reality, our physical brains are structured in a spectrum from the very masculine(Aryan), to the very feminine (Marxist), and we are totally incognizant of our cognitive biases.

    So the first problem is understanding MAN before we can judge rule, government, politics, economics, norms, and religion. And that is provided by science. Then we can understand Politics.

    OUR MINDS (PREPARE YOU)
    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)
    Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (The Cognitive Biases)
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
    Paul Fussell: Class (the class biases)
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    MAN (POLITICAL ORDERS)
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
    Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay

    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST (IF YOU ARE INTERESTED)
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW (Rule of Law)
    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.
    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20th CENTURY CONTEXT (WHAT WENT WRONG)
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws

  • Which Country Best Reflects Your Political And Ethical Philosophy?

    Switzerland. Small, homogenous, locally organized country win no external ambitions, and a universal militia. Cant be done much better.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-country-best-reflects-your-political-and-ethical-philosophy

  • Is There A Simpler Version Of Das Capital?

    Yes. It says, “Don’t bother, this was all nonsense, oops. Read the Marginalists instead. then both Keynes and hayek. Hayek was right.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-simpler-version-of-Das-Capital

  • How Did Karl Marx Impact Our Society?

    100 MILLION PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF HIS PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC NONSENSE.

    https://www.quora.com/How-did-Karl-Marx-impact-our-society