Curt Doolittle

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  • STOICISM IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR WOMEN THAN IT IS FOR MEN —“Stoicism has cl

    STOICISM IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR WOMEN THAN IT IS FOR MEN

    —“Stoicism has cleared my thinking dramatically. Its so naturally easy for us women to get sucked into our emotions and feminism has made it so we can’t be held accountable. So women are in the mind set that they can’t control their emotions, where stoicism teaches you that you can. I heard that Stoicism was the inspiration for Cognitive Behavior Therapy which is the same treatment they use for women with personality & identity crises. CBT is kind of like diluted small brain stoicism.”—Sarah Heard

    Men can feel ‘lost’ without it. Women can feel victims of their emotions without it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 14:54:00 UTC

  • THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL It’s just a fact that the

    THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL

    It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos.

    This is inescapable.

    There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva).

    Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles).

    Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony.

    The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 14:01:00 UTC

  • WORTH REPEATING

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/TRUTH: WORTH REPEATING

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 13:43:00 UTC

  • WORTH REPEATING

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/TRUTH: WORTH REPEATING

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 13:43:00 UTC

  • THE BASIC THEORIES OF ECONOMICS You should be at least casually aware of them. I

    THE BASIC THEORIES OF ECONOMICS

    You should be at least casually aware of them.

    I recommend just reading Investopedia from front to back (it’s what I did to make sure I could translate all the terms into propertarian language)

    -Schools of Thought-

    Classical

    Marxism

    Keynesian (positive)

    Neoclassical synthesis

    Austrian School

    -Economic Systems-

    Free market capitalism

    Market socialism

    Central planning

    Mercantilism

    Shock therapy

    Washington consensus

    -Economic Cycles-

    Keynesian (normative)

    Monetarism

    The Phillips curve

    Permanent income hypothesis

    Rational expectations

    Time consistency

    Financial accelerator

    Financial instability hypothesis

    Lender of last resort

    -Growth-

    Neoclassical growth

    New growth theory

    Creative destruction

    Human capital

    The rule of law

    Limits to growth

    -Global Trade-

    Comparative advantage

    Heckscher-Ohlin trade model

    New trade theory

    Optimal currency area

    The impossible trinity

    Purchasing power parity

    -Choice-

    Rational choice

    Game theory

    Public choice

    Expected utility theory

    Prospect theory

    -Tax & Spend Policies-

    Tax incidence

    Excess burden

    Supply-side economics

    Crowding out

    -Markets-

    The invisible hand

    Marginalism

    The tragedy of the commons

    Property rights

    Polluter pays principle

    Adverse selection

    Moral hazard

    Efficient market hypothesis

    Rent seeking

    -MORE Theories To Get You Started-

    Supply and Demand (Invisible Hand)

    Neo-Malthusian (Resource Scarcity)

    Solow Model (growth comes from capital, labor, and technology)

    New Growth Theory (Romer & endogenous growth)

    Institutions and Growth (rule of law, property rights, etc.)

    Efficient Markets Hypothesis

    Permanent Income / Life Cycle Hypothesis

    Something Behavioral (e.g., Prospect Theory)

    Adverse Selection and the Lemons Problem

    Moral Hazard

    Tragedy of the Commons

    Property Rights as a solution to the Tragedy of the Commons

    Game Theory (e.g., Prisoner’s Dilemma)

    Comparative Advantage

    New Trade Theory

    The Trilemma (exchange rates, capital flows, and monetary policy)

    -EVEN More Theories-

    Washington Consensus

    Financial Accelerator

    Theory of Independent Central Banks

    Bagehot Theory of Central Bank Lending

    Creative Destruction (Schumpeter)

    Ricardian Equivalence

    Dynamic Consistency

    Diversification and Investment Portfolio Design

    Capital Asset Pricing Model

    Option Valuation (Black-Scholes et al.)

    Austrian Economics

    Speculative Bubbles (e.g., Minsky)

    Liquidationist View of Downturns

    Time Value of Money (incredibly important but very old)

    Public Choice / Economic Theory of Regulation (politicians and government workers as self-interested maximizers)

    Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

    Welfare Theorems

    Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption

    Polluter Pays Principle (e.g., Piouvian Taxes)

    Offsetting Behavior (e.g., people drive safe cars more aggressively)

    Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory

    Optimal currency areas

    Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity

    Mercantilism

    Rubinomics

    Supply-side Economics

    Laffer Curve

    Phillips Curve

    Theories of Economic Geography

    Fisher Theory of Interest Rates

    Liquidity Traps

    Resource Curse (Dutch Disease)

    Exchange Rate Overshooting (Dornbusch)

    Auctions

    Mechanism Design

    Principal-Agent Theory (e.g., separation of management and ownership)

    Theory of Optimal Taxation (e.g., broad base, low rate, tax less-elastic activities)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 12:40:00 UTC

  • “What Does True Mean?”– Ok, so traditionally we say “a statement that is consis

    –“What Does True Mean?”–

    Ok, so traditionally we say “a statement that is consistent, correspondent, and coherent.”

    But that’s not really clear enough. So, I’ll expand it fully:

    1 – categorically consistent

    2 – internally consistent (logical)

    3 – externally correspondent (empirical)

    4 – existentially possible (operationally stated)

    5 – rational and reciprocal (voluntary, ethical and moral)

    6 – with stated limits and full accounting. (complete)

    7 – and coherent across all of the above. (coherent)

    The reason being that (a) those are the categories actionable by man) and (b) no category is closed without appeal to the next. and so (c) any statement must pass all those tests.

    Now, a fact consists of a theory of a measurement.

    And a statement consist of a promise of constant relations.

    And a theory consists of a contingent description of causal relations.

    You only know falsehoods. We never know truths without perfect knowledge. We never have perfect knowledge. So all we can do is warranty our truthfulness (due diligence) against falsehood.

    This is the difference between justificationism (i think this because of these excuses) and falsificationism (i think this because I have no other choice that survives falsification).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 11:57:00 UTC

  • BEFORE YOU ASSUME I”M WRONG, ASK. I had to create a language of commensurability

    BEFORE YOU ASSUME I”M WRONG, ASK.

    I had to create a language of commensurability across all the disciplines so I pulled terms from each where they were ‘the least wrong’ so to speak, giving precedence to math, physics and economics wherever possible.

    If my vocabulary confuses you (which I understand) just ask me how I”m using it. Many words are used in different contexts in different disciplines.

    Don’t assume (like most people) that I don’t know what I”m talking about. I create commensurability the best I can and then define my terms precisely. But this vocabular takes some work to master. Mastering operational language is even harder. Mastering complete operational grammar is … painful – it’s like programming.

    I’m extremely precise.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 11:49:00 UTC

  • “The key is training our women. I’ve helped my wife think and speak specifically

    —“The key is training our women. I’ve helped my wife think and speak specifically and empirically, “operational language” (I use this all the time, thank you for that.) I’ve watched my wife go from admin to Vice President of a major corporation because of it. It’s our duty to teach our women to think like men.”—Eric Bumpus

    You are braver than I am but I agree that stoicism and operational language would be of even greater benefit to women than to men, because women of necessity lack men’s agency and so they need it more so than we do.

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 11:42:00 UTC

  • LANGUAGE MATTERS English and German, in particular, but indo european languages

    LANGUAGE MATTERS

    English and German, in particular, but indo european languages in general are analytic (meaning low context high precision). English uses a huge vocabulary and very precise grammar to increase precision further than the original german. But that said, german is a precise descriptive language.

    Semitic languages are synthetic (meaning high context low precision). So these languages require a great deal of interpretation, and are open to suggestion, allegory, and multiple meanings.

    Chinese is absurdly synthetic (extremely high context, and extremely low precision), and requires deduction from context to extract meaning. When you directly translate Chinese it sounds poetic. Not because it’s poetic but because it’s so imprecise that we interpret it as poetic.

    The west developed law and science, east reasoning and evidence, and the center superstition, parable, and deceitfulness. Why is it that the semitic peoples choose to lie to each other – and themselves? Why are they so low trust? Why could not even the ottomans produce a bureaucracy?

    Heterogeneity (diversity), Higher aggression. etc….

    —note—

    (Problems of disciplinary cross over. Analytic/Synthetic divide in philosophy, in linguistics(Grammar), vs vocabulary(Semantics) vs. … well you get the idea. I pull from multiple disciplines to create commensurable terminology. Misinterpretation by newbs is predictable.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 11:05:00 UTC

  • THE FUTURE CULT Restoration of Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Markets in E

    THE FUTURE CULT

    Restoration of Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything, ends Abrahamism (Pilpul, Justificationism, Platonism) and all the Abrahamic religions and eliminates the Abrahamic Dark Age. It also eliminates Marxism, Boasianism, Freudianism, Frankfurt school Fictionalism and Postmodernism – which together constitute the second attempt at an Abrahamic Dark Age. And with it the fantasy of the aristocracy of everyone (monopoly) – restoring Tripartism (markets between the classes).

    The question is only how to we replace the supernatural lies (Abrahamic Dark Age One), and the pseudoscientific and pseudo-rational lies (Abrahamic Dark Age Two) with Truths: Man, Nature, Transcendence, Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything. And the answer is pretty simple: the truth is enough. our history is itself so wondrous and our defeat of time, ignorance, and abrahamism(deceit) so profound, that there is nothing superior to be thankful for than nature and our ancestors and heroes. History as Mythology. The oath as oath. Remembrance as Ritual and Sacrifice, and Festival as Feast and celebration.

    We are the gods we once worshipped. And we have our ancestors, nature, and the universe to thank.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 10:51:00 UTC