Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • THE WEST VS THE EAST VS THE ARAB MODEL Citizens as individual actors with the st

    THE WEST VS THE EAST VS THE ARAB MODEL

    Citizens as individual actors with the state as neutral arbiter vs citizens as troublesome dependents to be managed by the paternal head of family.

    “These societies possess the outward trappings of a modern state but are founded on informal patronage networks, especially those of kinship, and traditional ideals of patriarchal family authority. In nations pervaded by clannism, government is coopted for purely factional purposes and the state, conceived on the model of the patriarchal family, treats citizens not as autonomous actors but rather as troublesome dependents to be managed.” – the Arab Development Report.

    We are different. Our ancestry is that of egalitarian warriors not extended familial hierarchy.

    We were different from the start.

    And that difference: the need to debate between peers is the origin of reason, science, and all else that we have used to dig humanity out of ignorance and poverty.

    Kicking and screaming, all the while.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-16 04:03:00 UTC

  • BY THE STATE, TOM WOODS’ NULLIFICATION, MARK LEVIN’S RESTORATION, SECESSION, OR

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00740KVN0/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkCONQUEST BY THE STATE, TOM WOODS’ NULLIFICATION, MARK LEVIN’S RESTORATION, SECESSION, OR COMMON VIOLENCE.

    Choose one or have it chosen for you.

    While nullification is the cheapest solution and violence the most expensive, I’m not personally partial to non violence so Nullification, Restoration, Secession, or violent Revolution are all acceptable alternatives to conquest, culture-cide, and genocide. ;).

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00740KVN0

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451606273/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/190-1332324-1194528?keywords=liberty%20amendments&qid=1376569733&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-16 03:45:00 UTC

  • IF DEMOCRACY IS A MEANS OF SQUASHING PUBLIC OPINION” We can’t improve, repair, o

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QT8Q-Hcll0″WHAT IF DEMOCRACY IS A MEANS OF SQUASHING PUBLIC OPINION”

    We can’t improve, repair, or replace government, if you think that democracy is a means for change, rather than a means of preventing change.

    My definition of libertarian is anyone who advances liberty.

    So that positioning out of the way, If you eliminated the advocacy of Ron Paul from this video, so that it would be entirely neutral, it would be the most accurate condemnation of american government that a talking-head has made on-air.

    It’s worthy of one of the great orators of our past.

    And I can’t recommend it enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 08:48:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://mises.org/document/6995/Why-American-History-Is-Not-What-They-Say

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 05:09:00 UTC

  • follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, serious

    http://www.thesartorialist.com/I follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, seriously. Here in Kiev, women can have no money at all, yet they compose their own style, shop carefully, move gracefully, and they look like the just stepped off the runway. I don’t mean, like, a few of them. I mean, all but a few of them.

    Men have quite a bit of the soviet era fitness thing going on. So they just tend to look better in general. I’m sure that the t-shirt-wearing-fat-tv-gamer guys exist here but I don’t see any of them. We have the whole Goth and motorcycle and tattoo cults too, but none of it is so nihilistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 10:42:00 UTC

  • OF DIFFERENT REGIONS OF AMERICA AND HOW THEY AFFECT VOTING

    http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/maps-of-the-american-nations/ANCESTRY OF DIFFERENT REGIONS OF AMERICA AND HOW THEY AFFECT VOTING

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 09:42:00 UTC

  • CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST Every once in a while I put out a short list of m

    CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST

    Every once in a while I put out a short list of my favorite books to recommend. I try to keep it short (The list on my web site is well over a thousand books now.)

    THIS LIST

    Morality = Family Model = Property Rights = Wealth = Fragile.

    INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Alan Macfarlane: The Origins of English Individualism

    Emmanuell Todd: L’invention de l’Europe: (family and ideology)

    James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

    MORALITY

    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (evolutionary morality)

    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence (co-authored by Richard Wrangham

    FORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

    Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail

    Colin Renfrew: The Collapse of Complex Societies

    Hans Hoppe: (post-bureaucracy for homogenous groups)

    POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

    Political Ideologies: An Introduction (introduction to ideology)

    Stephen Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism

    Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 11:19:00 UTC

  • PREFERENCES AND BEAUTY

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068395MATING PREFERENCES AND BEAUTY

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 03:55:00 UTC

  • Other than translating Emmanuel Todd’s ideas into propertarian language I really

    Other than translating Emmanuel Todd’s ideas into propertarian language I really didn’t have to do much with ideology.

    I guess the only issue, is that propertarianism tells us what institutions we would need for multiple (heterogeneous) family systems. History doesn’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 10:09:00 UTC

  • “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism” Increases in wealth under manorialism an

    “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism”

    Increases in wealth under manorialism and the forcible ban on intermarriage, forced a shift from kindreds to lineages, which in turn forced a shift towards nuclear families. As a side effect there was a delay in marriage and reproduction, more assortive mating (romance), the extension of the kin ethic to all potential family members.

    Property is inseparable from the nuclear family. Because property gives males control over breeding. You can add women to the economy. You either can add them to the voting pool, OR you can undermine the nuclear family and assortive mating, through child support, alimony, and redistribution. But you can’t do both and keep property rights. Property is the antithesis of the female reproductive strategy. The feminists are right, which is why the feminists and the socialists are allies. Or rather, the feminists give the socialists ethical air cover.

    But if women can vote to control their reproduction and at the same time control the productivity of males through political expropriation, then you will NEVER EVER have the institution of private property. EVER.

    Property was created by the application of organized violence. It put reproduction in control of the male. And eventually led to eugenic reproduction.

    If there is anything that puts a stake in the heart of libertarian hyper-individualism (moral diversity denial) then that’s it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 14:26:00 UTC