Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • LOVE DOES NOT MEAN WE ABANDON REASON. IT MEANS WE RETAIN PATERNALISM. The Christ

    LOVE DOES NOT MEAN WE ABANDON REASON. IT MEANS WE RETAIN PATERNALISM.

    The Christian ideal of extirpation of hatred from the Human Heart does not mean that at the same time we abandon reason. To require capital and rule of law and property rights be brought to people in order to improve the objective morality of their norms, rather than people brought to capital, rule of law, property rights and high trust in order to degrade the host’s capital, rule of law, property rights, and high trust.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 05:30:00 UTC

  • (ideas. This is what happens when I get enough sleep) 🙂 I’ve been working on re

    (ideas. This is what happens when I get enough sleep) 🙂

    I’ve been working on religion since I think January? Finally making minute progress. I have this feeling that somehow I have to reform Christianity. And until recently I thought that was impossible. But just as we need different narratives for every standard deviation of IQ, so do we need social mythos for every standard deviation in IQ. And while stoicism is a personal philosophy, and law is a political philosophy, Janus is looking much more interesting an idea for a religious philosophy at the moment. Gods speak to us in the language we can understand. To do otherwise would be ungodlike.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 05:18:00 UTC

  • (edit: note that this graph shows the 50th percentile in color, while the stars

    http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/plugins/share-this-image/sharer.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businesspundit.com%2Fthis-epic-chart-shows-the-wages-of-nearly-every-job-in-america%2F%2338209&img=www.businesspundit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FEvery-Single-Median-Wage-In-America.png&title=This+Epic+Chart+Shows+The+Wages+Of+Nearly+Every+Job+In+America++Business+Pundit&desc=Every+Single+Median+Wage+In+America#38209AWESOME.

    (edit: note that this graph shows the 50th percentile in color, while the stars show the 90’th percentile. So it includes Interesting but obvious outliers. 😉 And it is also a more useful graph than most becasue it shows those distributions.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 04:41:00 UTC

  • LAW: CROWDFUNDING – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MONEY (virtue of common law)

    http://www.businesspundit.com/ftc-decides-failed-crowdfunding-companies-are-responsible-for-paying-back-customers/NEW LAW: CROWDFUNDING – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MONEY

    (virtue of common law)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:21:00 UTC

  • CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Ever play the computer

    CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

    Ever play the computer simulation ‘life’? what happens as the rate increases? Patterns emerge that were previously imperceptible. Cities themselves are temporary infrastructure.

    —-“the U.S consists of old and new cities. New cities such as Las Vegas have less “crumbling infrastructure” because the capital stock was built in the last 30 years. Older cities such as Detroit and Cleveland and even Los Angeles have an older public capital stock (roads, sewer pipes, airports). As more people move to new cities, the old cities have fewer Congressmen representing them and this leads to less pork flowing to such places. Spatial cross-city political economy is an important subfield that political scientists should be working on.”—- ibid

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:18:00 UTC

  • WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE? Well it does really. You can se

    WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE?

    Well it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period.

    But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China.

    2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places.

    4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.)

    3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’.

    5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating).

    (h/t paul)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:09:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-06-07/trade-and-trouble?utm_content=buffer787f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 02:19:00 UTC

  • Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?

    BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“

    The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so that the government can enact any law that it desires. The american system was designed to make it HARD to pass laws, so that the government could do as little as possible.  And presidents, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have undermined that constitution whenever possible.

    Americans historically operate under the anglo saxon principle of voluntary order: “I will allow the government certain actions for our common good, and disallow the government all other actions. If the government violates those actions I will replace it with a government that does not.”

    https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-American-obsession-with-the-constitution-come-from

  • Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?

    BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“

    The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so that the government can enact any law that it desires. The american system was designed to make it HARD to pass laws, so that the government could do as little as possible.  And presidents, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have undermined that constitution whenever possible.

    Americans historically operate under the anglo saxon principle of voluntary order: “I will allow the government certain actions for our common good, and disallow the government all other actions. If the government violates those actions I will replace it with a government that does not.”

    https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-American-obsession-with-the-constitution-come-from

  • Untitled

    http://econ.st/1JO6FV4

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-14 18:03:00 UTC