Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • IS HAVING BABIES? It’s obvious

    http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/whos-having-the-babies/WHO IS HAVING BABIES?

    It’s obvious.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-12 20:19:00 UTC

  • THE INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IS CHANGING, BUT TOO LATE It’s received wisdom among ort

    THE INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IS CHANGING, BUT TOO LATE

    It’s received wisdom among orthodox economists, that immigration is ‘good’. but the truth is, that it’s good for the upper classes, and bad for anyone else, and it’s only good in the abstract over the very long run.

    I’ve been arguing this same point for years, and I include in my arguments the cost of institutional conformity and increased frication and trust.

    The USA’s immigration history is also a received wisdom that isn’t true. Catholics and Jews had precisely the impact on freedom, civic virtue, manners, morals and ethics, that the protestants worried about. (Yes, it’s true.) Values aren’t arbitrary or neutral.

    THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT TO THE BENEFIT OF IMMIGRATION IS FALSE for everyone except government employees and financiers. For everyone else it’s theft.

    http://cis.org/immigrant-gains-native-losses-in-the-job-market-2000-to-2013

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-11 20:50:00 UTC

  • Revisited. Different language. Same meme. Democracy is ignorance and morality. T

    http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22955#.Ud2wV36pnyY.facebookCaplan Revisited.

    Different language.

    Same meme.

    Democracy is ignorance and morality.

    Thats all it can be.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-10 15:06:00 UTC

  • Read Engels Again: But There Are Better Primary Sources and The Natural State Is Plastic

    Eh.. [G]ist is right. Primary sources are better. Our knowledge is better today. But we are shaking off centuries of bias about our natural state, only to discover that humans organize according to production units counterbalanced by the competition between male and female reproductive competition. Not much more to it than that. We have a lot more detail, but in the end, if our survival depends upon it, we alter our informal and formal institutions to support our economic (productive and consumptive) demands. Now, it’s certainly true that we often adopt BAD ways of doing things. And it’s certainly true that we resist adopting GOOD things when they disrupt (reorder) our existing formal and informal institutions. But cultures that adopt BAD things, or resist GOOD things are almost always “out gunned, out germ-ed, and out steeled” by cultures that make superior decisions. Temporary destructive innovations like mongol and arab mounted raiding techniques paired with lack of supporting formal institutions, or the forcible adoption of socialism by the bolsheviks, the maoists, and the Cambodians as examples of what works as a promise in the short term, but fails in actuality the long.

  • READ ENGELS AGAIN: BETTER FIRST SOURCES Eh.. Gist is right. Primary sources are

    READ ENGELS AGAIN: BETTER FIRST SOURCES

    Eh.. Gist is right. Primary sources are better. Our knowledge is better today. But we are shaking off centuries of bias about our natural state, only to discover that humans organize according to production units counterbalanced by the competition between male and female reproductive competition. Not much more to it than that. We have a lot more detail, but in the end, if our survival depends upon it, we alter our informal and formal institutions to support our economic (productive and consumptive) demands.

    Now, it’s certainly true that we often adopt BAD ways of doing things. And it’s certainly true that we resist adopting GOOD things when they disrupt (reorder) our existing formal and informal institutions. But cultures that adopt BAD things, or resist GOOD things are almost always “out gunned, out germ-ed, and out steeled” by cultures that make superior decisions.

    Temporary destructive innovations like mongol and arab mounted raiding techniques paired with lack of supporting formal institutions, or the forcible adoption of socialism by the bolsheviks, the maoists, and the Cambodians as examples of what works as a promise in the short term, but fails in actuality the long.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-10 05:07:00 UTC

  • PRAXEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION I don’t think philosophical pro

    PRAXEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION

    I don’t think philosophical problems are all that difficult. Any philosophical problem that is terribly difficult, is only difficult if you’re trying to justify a falsehood. 🙂 Praxeological analysis makes it VERY hard to justify a falsehood. As such, if you can’t describe something as human action, either you don’t understand it, or you’re trying to justify a falsehood. Most falsehoods are just attempts at theft by some sort of justification or deception. Otherwise we wouldn’t bother.

    Occam’s razor and all that… 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-08 08:50:00 UTC

  • INCREASE IN FEMALE INFIDELITY? 😉

    http://theweek.com/article/index/246421/do-better-jobs-lead-more-wives-to-cheat40% INCREASE IN FEMALE INFIDELITY?

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-07 15:40:00 UTC

  • A SINGLE PRINCIPLE “….what is necessary for an apodictic political theory to w

    A SINGLE PRINCIPLE

    “….what is necessary for an apodictic political theory to work: All conclusions must spring from a single principle.” – Robert Murphy

    Yes. Well. I”ve done that. But I am not sure I like what it means. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-06 14:43:00 UTC

  • MASTER PINZEL Ahead of his time. 🙂

    http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-01-10-wozniak-en.htmlOLD MASTER PINZEL

    Ahead of his time. 🙂

    http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-01-10-wozniak-en.html#

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-06 07:34:00 UTC

  • Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job All we have done is replace men in service

    Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job

    All we have done is replace men in service and clerical labor with women. In doing so created the single mother family unit as the most influential voting block. And increased inequality by increasing the vast number of single income single parent households at one end and double income double parent households on the other.

    The nuclear family is the only “equality” possible. :).

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/05/only-47-americans-have-full-time-job

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-06 05:45:00 UTC