Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 19:42:00 UTC

  • You watch those Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian crash videos, and insane drivers,

    You watch those Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian crash videos, and insane drivers, and the soviet era apartment blocks, snow, and bitter cold. And you form an opinion.

    But to me it invokes such love and homesickness now that it’s almost unbearable.

    Culture matters more than consumption.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 19:27:00 UTC

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    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/05/karl-marx-communism-death-column/578000002/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 18:41:00 UTC

  • Usually people who want to debate aren’t knowledgeable enough, intelligent enoug

    Usually people who want to debate aren’t knowledgeable enough, intelligent enough, or intellectually honest enough to bother with, but given a moderator I’ll try.

    —“Are Property Regimes Ponzi Schemes?”–

    Property isn’t a ponzi scheme (it’s not false) however it will (often) increasingly lead to the concentration of wealth, until it no longer can, unless certain safeguards are put in place (natural law).

    The reason for this concentration of wealth is that we tolerate financial rents today like we tolerated land rents of yesterday. The problem has been prohibiting rents.

    We can actually prevent rents today. But that means the price of such prevention is working while younger and older, direct redistribution of liquidity, the ending of consumer intersets, very strict nationalism to prevent immigration, and a requirement that women produce more than replacement rate children.

    So as always problems can be fixed if you’re a scientist, but not if you’re merely a rationalist, or a purveyor of moralistic fairy tales.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 17:17:00 UTC

  • (Recorded a great podcast with Claire Khaw today. Had a blast. Smart lady.)

    (Recorded a great podcast with Claire Khaw today. Had a blast. Smart lady.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 14:56:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/992780018123182081

  • (Recorded a great podcast with Claire Khaw today. Had a blast. Smart lady.)

    (Recorded a great podcast with Claire Khaw today. Had a blast. Smart lady.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 10:56:00 UTC

  • i like intj’s in charge. i’m happy to play merlin for an arthur

    i like intj’s in charge. i’m happy to play merlin for an arthur….

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 20:56:00 UTC

  • (just a thought)

    (just a thought)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 19:02:00 UTC

  • The Study Of History Creates Depth Of Understanding

    The lack of depth of even the most ambitious lay thinkers never ceases to amaze me. I expect compartmentalizational ignorance from members of the academy, but the laity has no such excuse to specialize. I hear IQ this and that from people the time, and as far as I can tell, endless curiosity, extreme suspicion of your intuitions, the continuous accumulation of knowledge, and the continuous reformation of your frames in response to that knowledge is what creates ‘depth’. And as far as I know, Durant was right: that depth is most likely from the study of one or more dimensions of history- for it is demonstrated history – not justified – that tells us the truth of man.

  • The Study Of History Creates Depth Of Understanding

    The lack of depth of even the most ambitious lay thinkers never ceases to amaze me. I expect compartmentalizational ignorance from members of the academy, but the laity has no such excuse to specialize. I hear IQ this and that from people the time, and as far as I can tell, endless curiosity, extreme suspicion of your intuitions, the continuous accumulation of knowledge, and the continuous reformation of your frames in response to that knowledge is what creates ‘depth’. And as far as I know, Durant was right: that depth is most likely from the study of one or more dimensions of history- for it is demonstrated history – not justified – that tells us the truth of man.