Curt Doolittle

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  • YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T) Colloquial verse (

    YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T)

    Colloquial verse (narrative) comes last, not first. I have just finished what looks like 25 years of work, and six to eight of it full time, to ensure I knew what I was talking about. History is full of ‘accessible literature’ that did no good whatsoever, other than to satisfy the cravings of those not needing conversion. I wanted to wait until I knew what I was talking about.

    Our (my group’s) strategy all along has been to complete the work then produce a second version wrapped in literary references (examples pro and con).

    I do not think it is my job or function to talk to the common folk. And I do not think it is possible for me to do it. I think it is much more possible for the followers who enjoy that to do it. And that has been our plan all along.

    And furthermore, your intuition is false. It might be true for populism under democracy, but it won’t shift the world.

    Instead, look what nearly incomprehensible scribblers (like me) have achieved when we produce rigorous systems of thought – we live – largely unconsciously – in a society formed almost entirely by the writings of incomprehensible, often counter-intuitive, in their era-revolutionary, ‘scribblers’.

    And those want to organize people use those scribbles to do so.

    And arguments roll downhill.

    Just how it is.

    I originally did my work in public, becuase it was the only way to get decent criticism in a timely fashion. I kept doing it for that reason. And I continue doing it because I learn a great deal from those who follow me (and increasingly less so from critics).

    So your intuition is incorrect. That’s the evidence. Few people know who Spinoza was, no one has read darwin actually, or keynes, or acquinas, or hume, or kant. Or Marx for that matter. But we all live in societies constructed by the scribblings of these people.

    Power seeks argument.

    It is up to some of us to produce the weapons that those who can exert power seek.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-31 10:45:00 UTC

  • Seems like we are done with the problem solving. Now it’s up to teaching and dis

    Seems like we are done with the problem solving. Now it’s up to teaching and distributing.

    I am pretty confident that I can run a set of courses on Natural Law, and that I can teach every class that I need to.

    I am quite good on stage, I have taught, but not to a camera – and I worry about it.

    I can’t see a seminar format working becuase it requires graduate students with expertise in the subject matter and this subject matter is too alien.

    I have a burning urge to create courses because I think the incremental rollout of those courses will give me what I need to write the book in a newer, simpler, more accessible form.

    If I look at the chapters I drafted last summer and fall they are not as good as the work I would write today. And I think by teaching I will learn even better to write the book. I am not sure.

    What I do know is that every draft is dramatically shorter and that it is now something I can produce in short form, despite its scope.

    Moreover, it is very hard to sit and work without feedback. yet writing scripts for videos turns out to be an excellent method of writing chapters.

    So that’s what I’m thinking. It’s time to get started on those.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 19:58:00 UTC

  • I want a high trust, moral, ethical, and truthful, and redistributive society. A

    I want a high trust, moral, ethical, and truthful, and redistributive society. And I want room for all the wacky people in this world. They’re a luxury good. I want the ability for the left coasts to do as they will, the heartland as they will. And every variation in between. And I see no reason for continent-wide cultural monopoly that creates conflcit now boiling into hatred, and soon in to civil war. And most importantly, what I don’t want is the continued erosion of Rule of Law, Juridical Law making, and pervasive lying in government, and so I want to wreck it and start over – so we can have both. There are good ways and bad ways of doing things and oppression of one another is not a good way. The constitution was designed to require us to preserve at the state level our differences, and only the common at the federal level. Unfortunately the civil war ended our constitution. But, that said, now that the land grasp of the western continent is over, there is no reason NOT to Devolve the fed. So, let us diversify the culture. And may the best men win.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 19:52:00 UTC

  • AND EXPANDED OVERVIEW OF PROPERTARIANISM

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/UPDATED AND EXPANDED OVERVIEW OF PROPERTARIANISM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 15:09:00 UTC

  • THE FOUR STANDARD HOME DESIGNS a) Hot or Temperate Climate: Defensive, Suburban,

    THE FOUR STANDARD HOME DESIGNS

    a) Hot or Temperate Climate:

    Defensive, Suburban, Urban

    One floor, Double-walled, air-gap or insulated, brick or concrete block, with exterior stucco, interior plaster, in traditional courtyard design, with tall interior facing windows, with interior-facing roof, with downspouts (filtered) feeding central cistern (water pool).

    Minimum interior wet-walls, Traditional under-window steam heat, off traditional boiler, off natural-fuel iron stove. Every civilization discovered it. Any man can build it. And it doesn’t get any better than that. Start with one building, add a wing at a time, until you have a donut. Main, kitchen, dining. Wing left bedrooms. Wing right Living Room and Office. Wing Main Entry, Parents/Grandparents Apt (or workshop or shop)

    b) Temperate climate

    Territorial views. Non-defensive (security through remoteness)

    Reverse the Donut. Cross Design. Mix of one and two floors. Maximum External glass. Main house kitchen, living vaulted ceiling. Right arm, entry and storage. Left Arm Dining. head-arm, Upstairs master suite, downstairs Children’s bedrooms.

    c) Cold Climate:

    Cube. Raise it. (“Medieval Keep design”) Full basement, only half underground, first floor windows > man-height off the ground.

    9′ ceilings, tall windows, defensive shutters. Basement storage, main food formal living dining, second bedrooms and family space, third master suite in roof with dormers.

    d) Hard Freeze Climate / “modern tents’.

    Cottage. Stick houses are cheap, can be insulated like hell, and resist earthquakes. But they are ‘cottages’ not ‘houses’ and certainly not defensible, or durable keeps. And they have no sound dampening or thermal mass.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 11:57:00 UTC

  • COUNTER-SIGNALING NEO-LIBERALISM 😉 (contra free trade)(from econlog) (COMMENT R

    COUNTER-SIGNALING NEO-LIBERALISM 😉

    (contra free trade)(from econlog)

    (COMMENT REJECTED BY ECONLOG – WOW_

    Gentlemen (and the economic academy as a whole)

    1) it is fairly evident that the value of lower prices declined with completion of the transition from agrarianism. In fact, investors, inventors, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and distributors, and merchants, have a very hard time selling anything but marketing and status signal deltas. (See research on phones, phone plans, and software for them). What pent up demand for consumption exists? Other than for signals? In fact, it is quite possible to make an argument that status signal consumption is evidence of hyperconsumption and a misallocation of all forms of capital.(See virtue signaling in Austrialia, Canada, and the UK, and among progressives in the USA. What is the cost of virtue signal spirals? How are they made possible? The answer is non-trivial.)

    2) Cherry-picking consumption without measuring offsetting costs, and declines in intra-generational, inter-generational capital( capital in toto), is not practicing science. It’s practicing pseudoscience.

    3) When was the last time you saw a balance sheet rather than an income statement, and what is the difference in the aggregates illustrated by each?

    4) Why does the myth persist that there is a difference in personal, familial, local, regional, and national economics without stating that difference is limited to monetary not capital in toto constraints?

    So no. There is a limit to comparative advantage (capital consumption). Free trade, like investment in literacy, is a transitional good not a persistent one. Cities create a false efficiency under all but the German postwar model. They are transitional not absolute goods. Measurement of consumption is a transitional good, not a persistent one. Democracy is a transitional good in the presence of windfalls from technology or resources, republicanism superior during status quo, and fascism superior during periods of war.

    A necessary test of pseudoscience is whether limits have been articulated, so that we do not make the error of confusing temporal utility with ‘ideal’ good.

    There are no theories without limit except the theory that there are no theories without limit.

    20th century economics consists of the study of transition from agrarianism, to industrialism, to informational economies.

    What measures are missing? How do we know when the model we used for transition is no longer transitional but purely consumptive of longer term capital?

    (Signals)

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 08:47:00 UTC

  • Dear Media Companies. Entertainment is a fashion business. As specialization inc

    Dear Media Companies.

    Entertainment is a fashion business.

    As specialization increases and cost of production of content decreases, the value of capital and management decreases.

    What does this mean? Media companies (channels) have short life spans.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 08:01:00 UTC

  • “If you think it’s expensive to replicate a test, just look at the cost we’re be

    —“If you think it’s expensive to replicate a test, just look at the cost we’re bearing for not doing it.”—Gilberto Carlos

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 07:37:00 UTC

  • POSSIBLE TO DEMAND WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE IN SCIENCE – ACTUALLY, IN ALL PUBLI

    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/29/j-scott-armstrong-fraction-1-papers-scientific-journals-follow-scientific-method/ITS POSSIBLE TO DEMAND WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE IN SCIENCE – ACTUALLY, IN ALL PUBLIC SPEECH

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-30 00:43:00 UTC

  • That which is discretionary – command That which is historical record – common l

    That which is discretionary – command

    That which is historical record – common law record

    That which is descriptive of that record – general rules of common law

    That which is utopian or ideal in creating that record – legal philosophy

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-29 23:55:00 UTC