Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • THE CULTURE OF NON-SUBMISSION : HEROISM The indo european peoples, as sky-worshi

    THE CULTURE OF NON-SUBMISSION : HEROISM

    The indo european peoples, as sky-worshipping, technology-adapting, meat-eating pastoralists, invented heroic, aristocratic, egalitarianism, and managed to survive only in northern Europe. This value system, which we call heroism, is the very antithesis – the opposite – of the ideology of submission that is the identifying characteristic of islamic and Chinese civilizations.

    The western high trust ethic is incompatible with postmodernism just as it was incompatible with socialism and early christianity. And it’s even more incompatible with Islam.

    Aristocracy is pagan, egalitarian, and the antithesis of submission.

    Libertarians are commercially aristocratic, in the same way that conservatives are militarily aristocratic. But while our concepts of excellence vary, our embrace of heroic, egalitarian, excellence is the same.

    Liberty is property. And property and liberty are aristocratic virtues.

    The rest of people want nothing to do with them.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-27 12:40:00 UTC

  • Is It Possible To Quantify Work Experience?

    In reality, no.  (We have been doing it for ten years.) 
    (a) skills are perishable
    (b) experience is not indicative of performance – perhaps error reduction, but not competitive performance.
    (c) rate of career advancement, educational institution (a filter), IQ and physical appearance are the best individual measures.

    We have used stack ranking and peer review and it is surprisingly effective.  Management is almost always wrong. Peers are the best determinant of value.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-quantify-work-experience

  • READING: WHY MALTHUS

    http://lindert.econ.ucdavis.edu/seminars/papers/WuLeminJMPMalthusianConstancy.pdfWORTH READING: WHY MALTHUS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-23 13:42:00 UTC

  • GOOD REASONS WHY HOMESCHOOLING IS AWESOME

    http://childrensmd.org/uncategorized/why-doctors-and-lawyers-homeschool-their-children-18-reasons-why-we-have-joined-americas-fastest-growing-educational-trend/EIGHTEEN GOOD REASONS WHY HOMESCHOOLING IS AWESOME

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-22 07:18:00 UTC

  • REWRITING ECONOMIC HISTORY TO INCLUDE R&D. Finally. FInally we’re getting our ec

    http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/04/we-are-essentially-rewriting-economic-history.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FKupd+(Economist’s+View)FINALLY: REWRITING ECONOMIC HISTORY TO INCLUDE R&D.

    Finally. FInally we’re getting our economic data updated. Now, if they’d just do the same with household income data, we might have a worthwhile set of data to work from.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-22 07:16:00 UTC

  • THE STATE VS GOD I’m not really sure how a bureaucracy run by human beings under

    THE STATE VS GOD

    I’m not really sure how a bureaucracy run by human beings under the auspices of the common good, is any different under the state theocracy or the religious theocracy.

    They’re both bureaucratic monopolies, and bureaucratic monopolies are made of human beings with human incentives. The bigger a bureaucracy gets the fewer of its members are elites and the more of them are average people who are insulated from the competition of the market and increasingly act like they are insulated from the competition of the market.

    And if history is any measure, a weak federal church is a lot less warlike and oppressive than a strong federal legislature.

    I mean, the data is the data.

    The state is worse than the church.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-22 00:34:00 UTC

  • The other, less vainglorious argument, is that the public views expansion of tax

    The other, less vainglorious argument, is that the public views expansion of taxation and redistribution, whether between cultures in the USA, or between cultures in Europe, as having passed a tipping point, and that the politicians in both countries understand which is more dangerous to them.

    I think your argument is correct but irrelevant. I think my argument is also correct, and the one answer that is relevant.

    If you want democracy, you’re going to get democratic results. This is one of them.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-17 10:43:00 UTC

  • POWER OF WOMEN ELECTIONS ARE DETERMINED BY SINGLE WOMEN AND SINGLE MOTHERS POLIC

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/explaining-the-gender-gap-on-gun-control-20130412THE POWER OF WOMEN

    ELECTIONS ARE DETERMINED BY SINGLE WOMEN AND SINGLE MOTHERS

    POLICY IS DETERMINED BY WOMEN.

    Men are more evenly distributed on political issues.

    Women are more concentrated on political issues.

    Women vote more often and more consistently.

    Women are less likely to vote in favor of the family, but in favor of single women.

    Women are more likely to vote to involuntarily transfer wealth from married men to single women.

    There are no PEOPLE as a homogenous uniform polity. Increasingly it is WOMEN AGAINST MEN and the FAMILY in all walks of life.

    Just how it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-13 14:41:00 UTC

  • WHICH CULTURES ARE THE MOST FAMILIAL? Worst is the USA, Ireland was second (24.3

    WHICH CULTURES ARE THE MOST FAMILIAL?

    Worst is the USA, Ireland was second (24.3 percent), followed by New Zealand (23.7 percent). At the other end, Greece, Spain, Italy and Luxemborg had among the lowest percentages of children in single-parent homes.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-12 03:23:00 UTC

  • OMG OF THE DAY “I’m not demanding. I just want you to buy me a car.” Only a woma

    OMG OF THE DAY

    “I’m not demanding. I just want you to buy me a car.”

    Only a woman can say that kind of thing with a straight face.

    And only a woman can actually believe it.

    WTH?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-11 03:29:00 UTC