Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • The Crime Of Statism : Conspiracy I disagree vehemently with Walter Block on eth

    The Crime Of Statism : Conspiracy

    I disagree vehemently with Walter Block on ethics, but I agree with his proposition that Statism should be criminalized.

    Under Propertarianism it’s conspiracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-13 02:07:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Aristocracy in a post-agrarian economy is a philosophica

    ARISTOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY

    Aristocracy in a post-agrarian economy is a philosophical choice made by individuals with a set of intellectual, moral, and emotional dispositions. It is not a property of wealth. But a property of ones choice to take ownership of the commons, and to abstain from free riding, in an alliance with others who would do the same.

    Aristocracy is a choice.

    Choose.

    THE VIRTUE OF ARISTOCRACY

    The choice is not the same as producing consistent membership in a family that propagates that philosophy.

    One can choose, but its the outcome that is the measure of the achievement.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-12 08:00:00 UTC

  • Works both ways. Make a woman feel safe by providing whatever it is that makes h

    Works both ways. Make a woman feel safe by providing whatever it is that makes her feel safe. Make a man feel valued by whatever means he needs to feel valued.

    Thats about all I can figure out. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-12 07:19:00 UTC

  • THE HIGH QUALITY OF SPANISH SPEAKING LIBERTARIANS So, tell me again, why so many

    THE HIGH QUALITY OF SPANISH SPEAKING LIBERTARIANS

    So, tell me again, why so many Spanish speaking libertarians are so damned good. While so many English speaking libertarians are so ridiculous?

    I mean I get the issue with german speakers because of the continental structure of libertarian arguments. It’s intuitive.

    But spanish speakers are just head and shoulders above for some reason.

    I mean. It’s consistent. Why?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-11 15:51:00 UTC

  • KNOWLEDGE Wondering…. Hmmm. I don’t like Mokyr’s categories of knowledge. I te

    KNOWLEDGE

    Wondering…. Hmmm.

    I don’t like Mokyr’s categories of knowledge. I tend to state them as “knowledge of construction” and “knowledge of use”. Now he’s been trying to talk about the knowledge economy, so only usable knowledge is meaningful to him.

    But I think this is the correct expanded hierarchy.

    0) Knowledge of identity. (we are aware of it)

    1) Knowledge of consequence. (what changes in state we can observe)

    2) Knowledge of use. (how to put it under out control to change states)

    3) Knowledge of construction. (what its made of and how its made)

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-11 15:19:00 UTC

  • I DIDN’T REALIZE THE POWER OF MY ARGUMENT AGAINST LIBERTARIAN PERCEPTION OF REAL

    I DIDN’T REALIZE THE POWER OF MY ARGUMENT AGAINST LIBERTARIAN PERCEPTION OF REALITY.

    But that’s the final nail in the coffin of praxeology. If we are morally blind (and science says that we are) for the reasons that I’ve stated (genetics, reproductive strategy, discounting of the dependence upon others for information and opinion, and higher intelligence discounting of transaction costs) then that which is possible to apprehend in the context of voluntary exchange, is open to, and the victim of, cognitive biases – just like all other judgements.

    As such, the logic of cooperation must forever be empirically and instrumentally derived as a theoretic construct, and can only be treated as theoretic construct, not an axiomatic one. (Given the strict difference between axiomatic-non-correspondent-with-reality and theoretic-correspondent-with-reality systems.)

    So I have finally put an end to the argument that ethics, and the logic of cooperation are axiomatic, and we can discard praxeology.

    Have to run now, but I’ll continue with this argument over the next month or two as I refine it further.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    KIev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-11 08:26:00 UTC

  • OCCUPY (CONQUER) THE WHOLE OF UKRAINE” If Russia had something positive to add t

    http://24tv.ua/home/showSingleNews.do?putins_main_aim__occupy_whole_ukraine_kwasniewski&objectId=431334&lang=en”TO OCCUPY (CONQUER) THE WHOLE OF UKRAINE”

    If Russia had something positive to add to the world, rather than as a source of corruption, brutality, and poverty, then that would be one thing. But Russia is a net negative influence on everything it touches.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-10 15:18:00 UTC

  • REFERENCES FOR MY FELLOW ASPIE-TARIAN LIBERTARIANS As far as I know I’m the only

    REFERENCES FOR MY FELLOW ASPIE-TARIAN LIBERTARIANS

    As far as I know I’m the only one arguing that the autistic spectrum should be described as the “solipsistic-autistic spectrum”, but I might argue that I’m just using loaded language to demonstrate and allow us to criticize the failure of the female side of the spectrum as well as the male. That is because women are are as comfortable using solipsistic arguments as we are using autistic. However, I’m pretty sure that the basic thesis is correct. That is, that most of these brain states are produce by in-utero chemistry.

    Baron-Cohen, S. 1995. Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    ______. 2002. “The Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6:248–54.

    ______. 2009. “Autism: The Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory.” In “The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience,” special issue of Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1156:68–80.

    Lucas, P., and A. Sheeran. 2006. “Asperger’s Syndrome and the Eccentricity and Genius of Jeremy Bentham.” Journal of Bentham Studies 8:1–20.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-08 11:23:00 UTC

  • While Paternalism (headmanship) has been universal, when insurance and gathering

    While Paternalism (headmanship) has been universal, when insurance and gathering were more important than productivity and warfare, matrilinealism seemed to determine what limited property was important (relations) and what inheritance and therefore ownership. But when productivity became more important than insurance, patrilinealism seemed to develop into the primary social order determining what increasingly complex property was important (livestock, territory, agrarian production, built capital). Now that women can seek rents via the state, we are seeing property return to communalism and men attempt to preserve their control over it.

    Without families, I do not yet understand how civilization can function any more than I can understand how an economy can function without prices and incentives.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-07 08:40:00 UTC

  • I just get comfortable again and Putin goes and starts insurrections in three ma

    I just get comfortable again and Putin goes and starts insurrections in three main cities so that he can have an excuse to ‘save’ the residents.

    Playbook continues.

    Dammit. Someone shoot that fking guy please.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-06 16:08:00 UTC