Curt Doolittle

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  • A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING. A LITTLE INTELLIGENCE IS A WAAAAAYYYYYY

    A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING. A LITTLE INTELLIGENCE IS A WAAAAAYYYYYY MORE DANGEROUS THING…..

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-02 08:45:00 UTC

  • “We are sovereign. I am free because We are sovereign.”— Bill Joslin

    –“We are sovereign. I am free because We are sovereign.”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 17:24:00 UTC

  • “To put it succinctly, “individual liberty” is an oxymoron. Liberty is a conditi

    —“To put it succinctly, “individual liberty” is an oxymoron. Liberty is a condition that only exists in a commons established and maintained by force, which I guess has become invisible to too many who enjoy its benefits.”—Dylan Boswell

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 16:48:00 UTC

  • (that feeling when you accidentally post on someone’s timeline that you don’t kn

    (that feeling when you accidentally post on someone’s timeline that you don’t know)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 14:33:00 UTC

  • UPDATE. I have just finished editing the second draft of “Sovereignty: Reforming

    UPDATE.

    I have just finished editing the second draft of “Sovereignty: Reforming Libertarianism”. It’s 235 pages. I have a little work to do on the first page (introduction) that I will finish in the next day or two – I’m a little drained at the moment.

    Last summer I extracted this work from the “big book”, when I understood it was simply too big, wold distract from the work because of it, and as such required a separate treatment.

    For the vast majority of people who will conduct arguments in the space, and reposition sovereignty under natural law as a successor to classical liberalism and libertarianism, this book is ‘enough’.

    At present the big book (“Truth”) is still hovering at 900 pages and will clearly take me over 1000, for the simple reason that my sections on grammar are nearly 100 pages.

    This bigger book will be overwhelming. it is overwhelming to me. It is something that will be studied. Studied for years perhaps. It’s literally an encyclopedia of thought on every discipline.

    In publishing this shorter work first, I will run the risk of releasing something incomplete that may weaken the opportunity for the later work – because by its brevity it will not include the very technical aspects of my work, nor the rather vast series of essays on every subject..

    But I feel it will fulfill the market need that we (all of us) have created until I can get the major work out the door (which is a crushing bit of work).

    And I do feel the ‘collective demand’ so to speak.

    Hopefully this shorter work will provide a stepping stone for you all to work with and at least in my most optimistic dreams, it will reduce the burden.

    I have not approached publishers yet. I have my own biases but I’m open to suggestions from the community.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute.

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 14:32:00 UTC

  • “Group evolutionary strategies may appear as an in-group Red Queen effect leadin

    —“Group evolutionary strategies may appear as an in-group Red Queen effect leading to speciation (divergence), but might actually be coevolution of three separate breeds which are approaching near complete convergence. The three breeds being Denisovian-Homo Sapiens hybrids (Asians), Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens hybrids (Caucasians) and Homo erectus.””—Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 14:28:00 UTC

  • Rationalism = Excuse. Falsificationism = Necessity 1) You know, I specialize in

    Rationalism = Excuse. Falsificationism = Necessity

    1) You know, I specialize in the methods of deception, particularly by moral appeal and hazard:

    (a) Abrahamism: Pilpul via-positiva (Excuse) vs Critique via-negativa (Ridicule)

    – vs –

    (b) Aryanism: Law via-positiva (“I May”) vs Science via-Negativa (Survival from testing)

    2) Once you see Pilpul and Critique as techniques you’ll understand we now need a third defense against falsehood: 1) Cognitive Biases, 2) Rhetorical Fallacies, 3) Justificationary Deceits. …

    3) Where those justificationary deceits include: appeal to reasonableness, appeal to consideration, appeal to empathy, appeal to optimistic outcomes, with loading, framing, selectivity, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, propaganda, and The Fictionalisms.

    4) What can I warranty ethics (Militia Ethics), vs what can I make excuses for (Ghetto ethics).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 14:24:00 UTC

  • “Have you written about the Coase theorem in respect to the propertarian theory

    —“Have you written about the Coase theorem in respect to the propertarian theory of property? I searched your site & didn’t find anything related. Most discussions of externalities are at least tangentially prefaced with a description of the Coase theorem & its limitations. I’m interested in how you (or another propertarian) would approach the problem.”—

    1) Hmmm… I think I see polity formation as the process of suppressing local rents, centralizing them to pay for local suppression of rents, and trading a small number of low cost rents that are predictable (taxation) for many high transaction cost rents that are not ….

    2) …and the individuals in the polity capturing the differences as profits on decreased transaction costs, increased risk tolerance, and higher economic (monetary) velocity. (This follows my general method of analysis by via-negativa: we are always saving time via cooperation).

    3) Coase’s theorem can be stated the same way: the differential rents (different allocations of property rights) are suppressed by competition across variable property allocations (normative property, and formal property rights) by international trade. …

    4) So Coase expresses at the inter-polity scale, what I express at the intra-polity scale. But the phenomenon is the same: increasing the radius of cooperation will suppress rents(assymetries) through competition, whether internal or external. ….

    5) … and we eventually converge on individual property rights with gains captured and redistributed as commons, just as we see by comparison the convergence on mathematics, and the convergence on scientific ‘grammar’ as a universal language.

    6) Competition at ever increasing scales causes convergence on indifference in all ‘grammars’ (Methods) of cooperation from the conceptual to the verbal, to the material. (offset by war, group strategy etc.)

    7) So in this sense my approach is broader than Coase, and where Coase incorrectly suggests cooperation reinforces seeking equilibrium, instead cooperation seeks convergence, competition seeks efficiency, and opportunity seeks disequilibrium, with shocks as discovery of limits.

    8) That’s pretty heavy but I think it’s in your intellectual wheelhouse.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 12:21:00 UTC

  • Do you want brothers in escape, brothers in safety, brothers in comfort, brother

    Do you want brothers in escape, brothers in safety, brothers in comfort, brothers in values, or brothers in action?

    The able do.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 11:57:00 UTC

  • Curt: “That’s ridiculous. Do women ever understand men? At all?” Woman: “No. We

    Curt: “That’s ridiculous. Do women ever understand men? At all?”

    Woman: “No. We aren’t taught and we don’t understand strategy. We just use tactics over and over again to get what we want. Men only use strategy.”

    Curt: “Because we don’t have the impulses to behave otherwise.”

    It’s a bi-direction problem. The fact that we can speak in the same language, and can cooperate, obscures our vast differences in perception, cognition, forecasting, valuation, and consequent actions actions.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 11:14:00 UTC