Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • We have grown used to our luxuries – spending our heritage. Spending down our no

    We have grown used to our luxuries – spending our heritage. Spending down our normative capital. And we have been able to spend it down only because of a temporary technological advantage. We have inserted tremendous risk into our civilization by assuming that the economic advantage of fossile fuels, upon which industrial and post industrial modernity is built, is something that we can perpetuate – which seems at least possible – and that we will retain our advantage over the rest of the world, and that all others in the world will not equilibrate that advantage – which seems impossible.

    The problem is that we cannot exit the risk that your assumption places on the rest of us, while you can internalize the opportunity of your preference without exporting the risk onto us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-15 04:54:00 UTC

  • SPECIALIZATION AND THE REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF LABOR

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNg4NpDTxMMORAL SPECIALIZATION AND THE REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF LABOR

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-15 02:55:00 UTC

  • THOUGHTS ON OPERATIONALISM AND FALSIFICATIONISM Still thinking because I can’t q

    THOUGHTS ON OPERATIONALISM AND FALSIFICATIONISM

    Still thinking because I can’t quite grasp ..hmm.. and I think it’s like falsification – that if an argument (a theory) isn’t falsifiable then it isn’t scientific. And that …. well, that something isn’t ‘scientific’ is a non-operational statement – its like saying it’s good or heavenly, but that doesn’t tell us anything. Internal consistency, external correspondence and existential possibility do tell us something.

    —“operationalise a concept likes suppression”–

    Damn…. finally… I know how to talk about it…. YAY!

    Thank you Ayelam Valentine Agaliba. For some reason you always give me the most helpful breadcrumbs…. the only people in this world worth anything in epistemology are CR’s.

    I am too under the weather this morning to write something meaningful. But I can now show that the way I am using operationalism is as a further extension of falsificationism for those cases where our sense and perceptions are sufficient for decidability (social sciences). Or I would invert it: that falsification is a lower standard of operationalism for those cases when our sense and perception are insufficient for decidability (the physical universe).

    Well that is a good way to start off a day even if it’s a day with a headache…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-15 02:54:00 UTC

  • BOETTKE’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST ECONOMIC BOOK OF 2014 Leeson, Anarchy Unbound

    BOETTKE’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST ECONOMIC BOOK OF 2014

    Leeson, Anarchy Unbound,

    Powell, Out of Poverty,

    Skarbek, The Social Order of the Underworld.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-14 15:31:00 UTC

  • article has become very popular and controversial. 1. Living outside of what you

    http://familyshare.com/marriage/5-ways-you-are-unknowingly-destroying-your-husband-and-killing-your-marriageThis article has become very popular and controversial.

    1. Living outside of what you can afford

    2. Constant negativity (ie: reminding/nagging/advising/helping)

    3. Putting everything else first

    4. Withholding physical affection

    5. Not speaking his language

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-14 06:13:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism vs Neo-Reaction

    (draft)
    [I] tend to see Propertarianism as Post-Neo-Reactionary. Although, it may be more accurate to position NRx as a rationalist program in the continental and moral traditional, and Propertarianism as an analytic program in the anglo scientific tradition – but both making the same criticism: the evolution of the cathedral, the failure of the enlightenment program, and the necessity to return to modernity (science) and away from postmodernism (pseudoscience, cosmopolitanism and neo-puritanism).

    The most important difference is that Propertarianism is not so much reactionary as it is revolutionary. In that literally I am working on a program to cause and justify a revolution. However, I don’t recommend a return to the past at all, but an evolution of the classical liberal model of government that serves the wants and needs of post-industrial individuals, families (or lack of), societies, economies.

    Propertarianism—-NeoReaction
    Scientific————-Rational
    Analytic————–Allegorical
    Solution————-Criticism
    Legal—————–Moral
    Progressive———-Reactionary
    Prescriptive——–Prescriptive
    Institutional———Technical

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  • Propertarianism vs Neo-Reaction

    (draft)
    [I] tend to see Propertarianism as Post-Neo-Reactionary. Although, it may be more accurate to position NRx as a rationalist program in the continental and moral traditional, and Propertarianism as an analytic program in the anglo scientific tradition – but both making the same criticism: the evolution of the cathedral, the failure of the enlightenment program, and the necessity to return to modernity (science) and away from postmodernism (pseudoscience, cosmopolitanism and neo-puritanism).

    The most important difference is that Propertarianism is not so much reactionary as it is revolutionary. In that literally I am working on a program to cause and justify a revolution. However, I don’t recommend a return to the past at all, but an evolution of the classical liberal model of government that serves the wants and needs of post-industrial individuals, families (or lack of), societies, economies.

    Propertarianism—-NeoReaction
    Scientific————-Rational
    Analytic————–Allegorical
    Solution————-Criticism
    Legal—————–Moral
    Progressive———-Reactionary
    Prescriptive——–Prescriptive
    Institutional———Technical

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  • you need operational language in politics law and economics

    http://takimag.com/article/jonathan_gruber_honest_liberal_patrick_buchanan#axzz3Li934qk7Why you need operational language in politics law and economics

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 13:51:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOrv3LK3tvg

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 13:16:00 UTC

  • anything cooler than this? Seriously? Look at what these maps show us about huma

    http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_G2a_Y-DNA.shtmlIs anything cooler than this? Seriously? Look at what these maps show us about human history. A horizontal expansion. Now contrast this with the celtic north-south axis. So damned cool. Then exaggerate mountains deserts and rivers.

    We flow like water.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 02:46:00 UTC