Curt Doolittle

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  • Ethics of cooperative and sentient creatures capable of choosing between opportu

    Ethics of cooperative and sentient creatures capable of choosing between opportunities, must develop both objective morality (ethics of ‘natural law’) and group competitive ethics (moral norms), and individual competitive ethics (personal moral judgements). The principle conflicts in the study of manners, ethics, morality, and group evolutionary strategy (law of cooperation), are caused by (a) differences in male and female reproductive strategy, (b) differences in the desirability of the classes (associative, reproductive, economic, political, and military), and (c) differences in distributions of abilities between groups (tribes), and (d) necessities of territorial adaptation. Ergo while ethics(and morals) are objectively decidable across any group, because objectively decidable ethics exist, individuals, groups, and very large groups each construct portfolios of more complex normative and personal ethics(morals) so that they can successfully compete against other peers, genders, classes, tribes, nations, and civilizations. This does not mean that we cannot say one civilization’s nation’s, tribe’s, class’, gender’s person’s are decidability more moral than another’s. But then, these things we call ethics (morals) are tools of evolution. And both prey, parasite, and predator exist between organisms in nature, and prey, parasite and predator exist within organisms as well.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 17:37:00 UTC

  • THE ONLY NECESSARY RESPONSE TO ALL NON-ARGUMENT BY EMOTION Being offended isn’t

    THE ONLY NECESSARY RESPONSE TO ALL NON-ARGUMENT BY EMOTION

    Being offended isn’t an argument. It is a confession that you resort to animal instinct instead of human reason; or that you incapable of thinking; or that you do not know how to think; that you do not choose to think; or that you seek to resort to self deception by avoiding thinking; or that you actively seek to deceive others by disapproval, shaming and rallying. So are you animal, stupid, ignorant, incompetent, lazy, dishonest, or a liar?

    ( Molyneux needed a little Propertarian expansion. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 17:08:00 UTC

  • All human action is an attempt to satisfy a human desire. Creating and consuming

    All human action is an attempt to satisfy a human desire.

    Creating and consuming art fulfills a desire.

    What desire is being fulfilled?

    In a population what demand is being satisfied?

    The subjective value of an operation is created by achieving a result, not in the operation itself. The value to OTHERS in articulating operations, is that they as ‘names’ or ‘referents’ they are insulated from bias and suggestion – especially when compared to INTENTIONAL or EXPERIENTIAL descriptions.

    So the value of operations in themselves is contained in the achievement of an end by the actor.

    The value of speaking in a sequence of operations is contained in the improvement of truth content, over intentional and experiential descriptions. The value is that by eliminating intent and experience and error, bias, suggestion, and deceit, we purify the information transferred in the process we call ‘the communication of meaning’.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 17:01:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux): In the same way Marxism robs worker

    Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux):

    In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 14:01:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux): Being offended isn’t an argument. I

    Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux):

    Being offended isn’t an argument. It is a confession that you are ruled by emotion. It is a confession that you do not know how to think.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 14:00:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux): The masses only praise you for dist

    Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux):

    The masses only praise you for distracting them from their own moral cowardice and conformity. Those who provoke discomfort create change.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:59:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux): Hard times create strong men. Stron

    Retweeted Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux):

    Hard times create strong men.

    Strong men create good times.

    Good times create weak men.

    Weak men create hard times. https://t.co/nT8a6x6Pfv

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:57:00 UTC

  • “a thing is never said too much when it has not been well enough learned. Some p

    “a thing is never said too much when it has not been well enough learned. Some people need to have remedies shown to them; others need them trodden in”- Seneca, Letters 27.9

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:50:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “CURT, WHAT IS A GOOD SOURCE OF NEWS???” —“Can you recommend a good sourc

    Q&A: “CURT, WHAT IS A GOOD SOURCE OF NEWS???”

    —“Can you recommend a good source of news? I mostly read the Economist; neoliberal assumptions aside it’s weighty and thorough.”— Trent Fowler

    Interesting question that I can answer on multiple levels.

    1) Every source of news is ‘good’ if you know what they’re lying about (their bias).

    When I hear news, I don’t take it on face value as a statement of honest moral intent, but I take every single news item i read as a lie of some sort, if for no other reason than it’s stated with sufficient confidence to get your opinion: ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseodorationalism, pseudoscience and deceit.

    So all news is good news if you realize its all lies and you’re looking for possible half-truth candidates by combining enough stories across enough outlets that you can figure out the rational intentions of the people who are being reported upon.

    2) I tend to read this web site every single day: www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent/ Understanding that professors in the academy are always biased toward globalism and think the academy is a good thing instead of the problem.

    I read stratfor, understanding that it’s got a neocon bias.

    I tend to read the Forbes blogs.

    I read the WSJ

    I read pretty much any new paper that’s mentioned on SSRN.

    I let other people SELECT news for me (I follow people on twitter)

    3) But here is the trick. You get to the point where you have enough information, that really, you are rarely learning anything new. Because man isn’t new. Man’s thousands of years old. And all that happens over time is that we make things cheaper, and our speech gets more complex. But otherwise we’re the same as we were when we built the first villages and cities.

    I think news cannot be understood unless history is understood. So I would read my suggested reading list before I would worry about the news. News is just gossip.

    History and science will be the NEWS to you, until you run out of news when reading history and science.

    And you will run out of news once you see it’s just a long history of repetitions of cycles.

    And that’s the most profound thing I can tell you.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:47:00 UTC

  • “The laws of thermodynamics in general and entropy in particular, make the unive

    —“The laws of thermodynamics in general and entropy in particular, make the universe hostile to us. Everything tends to come apart over the long term – even our cells and their component parts, on up to planets and stars.

    Whatever “coming back together” that might occur on the larger time scale of the universe is beyond any meaning to us in practical terms – other than enjoying the knowledge of it, and perhaps gleaning from it any useful bits in regards physics that we can put to work in our machinations of survival and continuation, development, and improvement of the species.

    Within the short time scales that we deal with as biological agents it’s this constant “coming-apart” that forces us to defeat the red queen. To survive we must find ways to build bastions and bulwarks against this one tendency of the universe.

    I would submit that it’s most accurate to say that the universe is indifferent to the fact that the way it operates is hostile to us.” — Shanaynay Tomson

    (CD: edited to: remove suggestion that the universe has intent; fully expand sentences; rephrase parentheticals. tip. I try to use parentheticals to create parallel sequences between vernacular terminology and technical terminology, or to insert my ‘voice or opinion’ into the middle of an objective text. I recommend that you write however you are comfortable to get an idea out of your head and into text, but then go through it, organize it and fully expand it. -cheers)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:19:00 UTC