Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • SHOULD HAVE BEEN “GUNS, GERMS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS” Well, if you start a civiliz

    SHOULD HAVE BEEN “GUNS, GERMS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS”

    Well, if you start a civilization with the problem of coordinating irrigation if an alluvial plain, thats very different from starting a civilization with the problem of allocating land to farmers who do not rely upon irrigation.

    Each culture, each civilization, carries with it, its means of warfare, means of coordination of use of the land, and family structure.

    None of which are particularly relevant in a modernity, in which our means of production and reproduction depend upon abstract institutions of property and contract which allow the voluntary organization of production in vast, unknowable overlapping patterns of specialization and trade.

    Capitalism isnt a belief, its a technology.

    Guns, germs, steel… MONEY, ACCOUNTING, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 05:33:00 UTC

  • THE IRONY OF PRAXEOLOGICAL APRIORISM In retrospect, isnt it ironic that not just

    THE IRONY OF PRAXEOLOGICAL APRIORISM

    In retrospect, isnt it ironic that not just a single thinker, but a group of thinkers have tried to construct a logic of rational action, and extend it into a logic of cooperation, and further into a logic of economics, by using a method of philosophical argument that is expressly not constructed of actions – operations?

    It is ironic. Its Ironic as hell.

    But when the irony ends we are left with a tragedy.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 05:05:00 UTC

  • WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE IN COMBAT

    https://www.vdare.com/posts/study-finds-women-dont-belong-in-combatOBVIOUS: WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE IN COMBAT

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 03:05:00 UTC

  • BUDGETS BY ANOTHER NAME

    http://feedly.com/k/1s3fkMQFRUSTRATION BUDGETS BY ANOTHER NAME

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 14:13:00 UTC

  • PIECE ON SIGNALING

    http://feedly.com/k/1uSu8MgGOOD PIECE ON SIGNALING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 14:04:00 UTC

  • I registered the propertarian domains and trademarks for a reason: to differenti

    I registered the propertarian domains and trademarks for a reason: to differentiate between empty moralism of Rothbardian aggression, and the rational and empirical dependence exclusively upon property. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 11:18:00 UTC

  • MAKES MINIMUM WAGE? (interesting. about what you’d expect)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/upshot/minimum-wage.html?_r=1WHO MAKES MINIMUM WAGE?

    (interesting. about what you’d expect)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/upshot/minimum-wage.html?_r=1

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 08:10:00 UTC

  • OPEN COURSEWARE OFFERINGS I have tried a few and unfortunately the quality varie

    http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/top-89-open-courseware-projects/TOP OPEN COURSEWARE OFFERINGS

    I have tried a few and unfortunately the quality varies from tragically incompetent to surprisingly good.

    When i was in college i chose courses based upon the books listed in the bookstore.

    As far as I can tell, a professor’s syllabus is his most important contribution.

    If he asks a daily thought question in a forum then responds to replies, thats pretty good.

    Mostly i have just met other interesting people.

    But there is no substitute for living at a university.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:52:00 UTC

  • Silly. Rant. Can we just make it easy on humanity and ask the jews to run scienc

    Silly. Rant.

    Can we just make it easy on humanity and ask the jews to run science and medicine? Ask white people to run government, law, military and engineering. Those are white people specialties. Good division of labor. Banking will be a dead business soon. Thats the point of contention and it will be eliminated.

    I love my people. But there are just things that you want the ashkenazim for: anything personal that requires understanding. And there are things you want white people for: anything political that requires judgement.

    I am always relieved when i meet a jewish doctor, or a white lawyer. I don’t think too much of the opposite arrangement.

    Its gotta be genetic.

    Did you ever notice that white folk really like moral and witty, but disdain cunning?

    My anglo roots.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:06:00 UTC

  • MAGIC OF HUMAN BEINGS This is how you earn your place among the gods

    http://digg.com/video/youre-going-to-love-this-polish-street-musicianTHE MAGIC OF HUMAN BEINGS

    This is how you earn your place among the gods….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 14:36:00 UTC