http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraine-iraq-and-black-sea-strategy#axzz3C9w2N7iENEOCONS – IT IS ONLY IN RETROSPECT I SEE FORMER IDOLS AS INSTRUMENTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM
We do not need to make the world safe for others, if making the world safe for others is making the world unsafe for us.
End the empire.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraine-iraq-and-black-sea-strategy#axzz3C9w2N7iE
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-02 08:09:00 UTC
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141932/gregory-clark/the-american-dream-is-an-illusionGREGORY CLARK DOES IT AGAIN: CLASS IS GENETIC
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141932/gregory-clark/the-american-dream-is-an-illusion
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-02 04:06:00 UTC
NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EASTERN EUROPE – AND THE WORLD
We don’t have to fight. We just have to rapidly sell nukes to eastern Europe.
The fools in the west spent decades on disarmament only to have Obama demonstrate to the world, that the only defense of one’s borders and people is nuclear weapons.
Obama is the greatest advocate for the proliferation of nuclear weapons in history.
Russia could not touch Ukraine if it was nuclear armed. Moscow is an easy target.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-01 06:39:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/reading-list/BOOKS, JUST TEN? ARE YOU KIDDING?
Sean Ring, Johannes Meixner, Michael Parley Griffith, Robyn Harte-Bunting Vincent Wolters, Brian Ó Caithnia, Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski.
There is a difference between books that affected me emotionally, books that affected my thinking, books I learned from, and books that I recommend. I keep a book list on Propertarianism.com that references all the books I recommend. But those are the books whose arguments and ideas are correct, not the books that affected me intellectually, emotionally or spiritually.
Durant was wright that there are few answers in philosophy. Philosophy tells us of intellectual history, and makes one’s mind fit. That is all. It is the wishful thinking of man, not the evidence of man. Instead, history provides us with evidence of man to work from. History, Economics(cooperation) and evolutionary biology provide answers that philosophy does not, but only if our minds are fit enough to tell the difference between possible truth and possible fallacy.
HEROIC MAN AFFECTED ME MORALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY
Heroism is the central western proposition.
The Iliad, the Odyssey, The Greek Myths, Aesop’s Fables. Pinocchio. Beowulf. Le Morte D’ Arthur. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Macbeth.Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Spencer’s The Faerie Queene. Ivanhoe. Howard’s Conan stories. Starship Troopers, A Wizard of Earthsea. Harlan Ellison’s stories. Time Enough For Love. Hobbit/LOTR. Dune. Snow Crash, and Neuromancer. (Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, Frazer’s The Golden Bough).
The principle pagan arguments are is the worship of the earth and the personal virtue of the heroism of man, and the political virtue of aristocracy as prevention against tyranny – under which the earth is not worshipped, man is not heroic, and the best do not rise for us to imitate their behaviors, and aspire to their achievements.
BOOKS THAT AFFECTED MY THINKING
The books that affect you are determined by where you were in your intellectual development. That is why the books that affect each of us are somewhat different. These are the books that I remember very much rearranging or influencing everything else that I understood at the time.
Encyclopedia Britannica. The Constitution and DoE. Biography of Samuel Colt. Durant’s Lessons of History. Karen Armstrong’s: The Great Transformation. Ceram’s Gods, Graves and Scholars. Mallory’s In Search of Indo Europeans. Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation. The Third Chimpanzee. Guns Germs and Steel. Kahneman’s Thinking fast and slow. Haidt’s The Righteous Mind. Keegan’s History of Warfare. Fussel’s Class. Rand’s aesthetics. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, and essays on Knowledge. Popper’s CR and Open Universe. The many papers of the economic calculation argument.
BOOKS I RECOMMEND
Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey
Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom
Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism
Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Francis Fukuyama: Trust
Sam Harris : Lying
Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate
Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
BOOKS I LEARNED FROM
Well that’s too many to list, so I’ll just point to my web site:
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-01 05:11:00 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHTj0iccdVM&feature=youtube_gdata+-+Video+Tube+for+YouTube+-+AndroidLAW OF COOPERATION, NOT JUSTICE
Want to thank Skye Stewart for sharing Friedman’s book and video with me. I’d originally thought it was a statement of the obvious for those of us with economic backgrounds. But for the rest of the world, the importance of the fallacy of justice as taught in law, and the importance of economic thought in replacing that fallacy, is probably as central to the reformation of political thinking as is the fact that all rights are reducible to property rights, and that rights can only be obtained in exchange.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-01 04:39:00 UTC
http://tobingrant.religionnews.com/2014/08/27/politics-american-churches-religions-one-graph/
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-31 08:35:00 UTC
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_ECUADOR_DIGITAL_MONEY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-29-08-28-04This is what I expect to happen if any digital currency is successful.
Ecuador creates it’s own fiat digital currency. Which is good for the third world. Becuase digital currency is traceable and hard for corrupt politicians to steal.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 13:58:00 UTC
A BIAS AGAINST CONFLICT
We all have our goals in life. Our preferences and our biases. I am not unaware that my ultimate bias is against conflict. I hate it. I am really good at it, precisely because I hate it. My household as a child was filled with constant conflict. I worried about my mother all the time. So in developing a political philosophy it is somewhat obvious that the defining property of propertarianism, is that it’s rationally calculable, in any an all circumstances. As such all disputes are rationally decidable. I don’t care what political order you choose, any more than I care what sport you play. What I care about is that you don’t steal from me, and I won’t steal from you. Because stealing of one kind or another is the source of all human conflict. After you suppress stealing, everything else is merely envy. And envy it turns out, if you can’t steal, is a pretty good motivator.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 07:42:00 UTC
It’s really interesting to live in a country where mothering isn’t a chore, burden, or interference with life and career, but is the purpose of life, and something to be enjoyed, and cherished. It’s one thing to say that women may not enter the work force, and another to say that they must. There is no economic evidence that they must. In fact, all it does is cause job displacement and higher taxation. That’s it. Oh.. and it makes a lot of wimpy male and spoiled female children.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 05:10:00 UTC
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/27/6069415/lets-be-clear-about-this-russia-is-invading-ukraine-right-nowRUSSIA INVADES FULL SCALE
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-28 13:20:00 UTC