Curt Doolittle

Form: Reply

  • yes 🙂

    yes 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-01 00:53:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/870080794684870656

  • Are People Outside Of The Us Amazed That Americans Can Vocally Dislike The President?

    Well, I have no idea. We all gossip and complain about our politicians. Some countries punish it. Some countries like the USA encourage it. It’s part of american nature to complain about government. I find chinese people of a certain character think it’s odd. Russians understand that they must be respectfully cautious. But I think for most Westerners it’s just part of life in a Democracy. In Ukraine people complain constantly about ALL politicians and bureaucrats – and they should.

    https://www.quora.com/Are-people-outside-of-the-US-amazed-that-Americans-can-vocally-dislike-the-president

  • What If All At Once, Every Nation On Earth Began To Embargo All Trade, Travel, And Financial Transactions To And From The Usa?

    It would be suicidal, the USA would retaliate (FWIW the USA can survive autark-ically for extended periods albeit with consequences). The world economy would come nearly to a halt, and there would, outside of the second and third world, utter economic collapse – ergo, no one is that crazy. Prices, particularly of petroleum would skyrocket, markets would collapse, central banks wouldn’t be able to clear, and ….

    It would be really, really, really bad. If the USA shut off the world financial system alone, or the internet, that would pretty much end all opposition. $14T flows through the USA’s financial system every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY. That’s what, seven times Russia’s annual Economy? That’s the entire Chinese annual economy every two days?

    The problem very different from business or personal finances. If you or your family or your small business stop ‘spending’ the world goes on without you. But if your whole country stops spending, monetary velocity stops and everybody starts starving really,really fast. The same is true of the world. Wanna see a great depression when there are too many humans for us to go back to villages and farms to survive? Well, it will make the great depression look like an overnight flu.

    Nobody both gets to be in charge of a government, and be that stupid at the same time, because – believe it or not – there are guys like me that run the world system of production, finance, distribution, and trade, and we all understand just fine what would happen…

    https://www.quora.com/What-if-all-at-once-every-nation-on-Earth-began-to-embargo-all-trade-travel-and-financial-transactions-to-and-from-the-USA

  • Are People Outside Of The Us Amazed That Americans Can Vocally Dislike The President?

    Well, I have no idea. We all gossip and complain about our politicians. Some countries punish it. Some countries like the USA encourage it. It’s part of american nature to complain about government. I find chinese people of a certain character think it’s odd. Russians understand that they must be respectfully cautious. But I think for most Westerners it’s just part of life in a Democracy. In Ukraine people complain constantly about ALL politicians and bureaucrats – and they should.

    https://www.quora.com/Are-people-outside-of-the-US-amazed-that-Americans-can-vocally-dislike-the-president

  • What If All At Once, Every Nation On Earth Began To Embargo All Trade, Travel, And Financial Transactions To And From The Usa?

    It would be suicidal, the USA would retaliate (FWIW the USA can survive autark-ically for extended periods albeit with consequences). The world economy would come nearly to a halt, and there would, outside of the second and third world, utter economic collapse – ergo, no one is that crazy. Prices, particularly of petroleum would skyrocket, markets would collapse, central banks wouldn’t be able to clear, and ….

    It would be really, really, really bad. If the USA shut off the world financial system alone, or the internet, that would pretty much end all opposition. $14T flows through the USA’s financial system every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY. That’s what, seven times Russia’s annual Economy? That’s the entire Chinese annual economy every two days?

    The problem very different from business or personal finances. If you or your family or your small business stop ‘spending’ the world goes on without you. But if your whole country stops spending, monetary velocity stops and everybody starts starving really,really fast. The same is true of the world. Wanna see a great depression when there are too many humans for us to go back to villages and farms to survive? Well, it will make the great depression look like an overnight flu.

    Nobody both gets to be in charge of a government, and be that stupid at the same time, because – believe it or not – there are guys like me that run the world system of production, finance, distribution, and trade, and we all understand just fine what would happen…

    https://www.quora.com/What-if-all-at-once-every-nation-on-Earth-began-to-embargo-all-trade-travel-and-financial-transactions-to-and-from-the-USA

  • Is Russia Our Enemy?

    Russia is not so much an enemy as Russia and Russians feel somewhere between a messianic and religious conviction that they must restore Orthodox civilization, and that the west has consistently prohibited their efforts – and the truth is we were wrong and the russians were right.

    Russia is paying a very high price for the Bolshevik and Soviet Eras.

    We were wrong in entering WW1. Wrong in entering WW2. Wrong not to defeat the communists in China, and wrong not to immediately include the Russians in NATO. We were right to crush Saddam Hussein but wrong to try to create a democracy, rather than let the existing peoples replace him.

    Russia merely screwed up invading Ukraine. She could have easily bought all of ukraine other than Galacia (in the west) for a song, and now she has made herself a threat again.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Russia-our-enemy

  • Why Can’t The Us Just Obliterate The Likes Of China And Russia?

    Because we are Europeans. We are the world’s Aristocracy. We invented aristocracy. We are also, unfortunately, Christians. Meaning we play ‘extremely forgiving tit for tat’. And so we don’t do that. We civilize people instead. It’s just more profitable.

    Look. when the Great Khan was to decimate China, his advisors told him how much money he could make by taxing them rather than just robbing and killing them.

    If you’re a westerner, with the only high trust civilization on earth, making customers is simply more profitable than killing them. 3500 years ago the Indo Europeans and conquered pretty much everything from the atlantic to the source of the Yellow River, and from the arctic circle to Egypt, with the Iranians dominating the warm climates and the europeans dominating the cooler climates.

    It’s just profitable to rule.

    It’s also really hard to profit from rule when almost everyone on earth is dead and the people who are left want to kill you.

    The real question is why the west and the russians don’t get together and kill everyone else and just enjoy the rest of history together.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-the-US-just-obliterate-the-likes-of-China-and-Russia

  • Do Americans Let Strangers Enter All Their Rooms At Home?

    Let me help you with something very important.

    Germanic peoples, meaning English and German speaking, are very ‘high trust’ cultures. That means you can leave your car unlocked, your door unlocked, let people walk around your house, and leave valuables lying around and no, people won’t touch them. We have many shops that leave merchandise outside overnight and no one steals it. This is not true in our ‘cities’ (immigrant cities) but it is true many other places.

    That’s why western civilization is ‘special’. It took us a very long time to build a high trust society.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-Americans-let-strangers-enter-all-their-rooms-at-home

  • Why Are So Few Scientists Libertarian? Is There An Element Of Government Funding That Has Been Indispensable For The Advances In Science We Have Seen Since The Last Century?

    Have you noticed how few intellectuals are libertarians? Have you noticed that oddly, all books on libertarianism are entry level, and none of them advanced?

    Libertarianism had an early flowering in the sixties and seventies. But by the 80s almost all had abandoned it, and at present only the few people associated with the Mises Institute’s pseudoscientific propaganda remain. The reason being that it’s a dead end.

    The general intellectual progress through the ideologies is Classical Liberal (Hayek/Haslitt) > Libertarian (Rothbard) > Anarcho Capitalist (Hoppe) > Dark Enlightenment (Mencius) > Propertarianism (Strictly Constructed Natural Law Classical Liberalism)

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-few-scientists-libertarian-Is-there-an-element-of-government-funding-that-has-been-indispensable-for-the-advances-in-science-we-have-seen-since-the-last-century

  • Is Russia Our Enemy?

    Russia is not so much an enemy as Russia and Russians feel somewhere between a messianic and religious conviction that they must restore Orthodox civilization, and that the west has consistently prohibited their efforts – and the truth is we were wrong and the russians were right.

    Russia is paying a very high price for the Bolshevik and Soviet Eras.

    We were wrong in entering WW1. Wrong in entering WW2. Wrong not to defeat the communists in China, and wrong not to immediately include the Russians in NATO. We were right to crush Saddam Hussein but wrong to try to create a democracy, rather than let the existing peoples replace him.

    Russia merely screwed up invading Ukraine. She could have easily bought all of ukraine other than Galacia (in the west) for a song, and now she has made herself a threat again.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Russia-our-enemy