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  • From the website: Elucidation on Ludwig Von Mises’s works (Praxeology and Human

    From the website: Elucidation on Ludwig Von Mises’s works (Praxeology and Human Action volumes)

    Mises: “Human Operationalism”, Not “Human Action”

    Sunday, January 18th, 2015

    He was that close.

    I have more important things to do with my life, but if I had the time I could rewrite his tome Human Action as Human Operationalism, and instantly reform the debate from one between science and pseudoscience in which he has been outcast, to one that unified all fields, and restored his position in intellectual history.

    Damn. He was SO CLOSE. So close. It’s taken me years. And in retrospect it’s tragic. Terribly tragic. He *almost* reformed economics and saved us from a century of destructive Keynesian policy.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 17:25:00 UTC

  • doing his thing

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426529/rush-limbaugh-national-review-conservative-media-revolution?ziHlow8J1hUEuCL2.01Limbaugh doing his thing.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 16:20:00 UTC

  • is merely unsophisticated and lacks understanding of the construction business i

    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tama-starr-ugly-art-trump-deals-article-1.2422470?utm_content=buffer54c86&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferShe is merely unsophisticated and lacks understanding of the construction business in which the majority of players are scamming the developer – the one who has the money. The developer’s rational strategy is to force all parties into negotiations post delivery. In general the rule of thumb is that profitability of construction is obtained in court.

    This is very similar to international relations where no parties deal ethically and most have little concept of it and many see ethics as stupidity.

    That is why trump is the perfect man for this stage of Americas development.

    Curt Doolittle, the Propertarian Institute, Kiev Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 16:13:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 15:55:00 UTC

  • OF COERCIVE SPECIALIZATION (this is going around already, so I thought I’d share

    http://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/661980406582018048/photo/1/large?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=661980406582018048DIVISION OF COERCIVE SPECIALIZATION

    (this is going around already, so I thought I’d share the most recent version) https://t.co/2mzSzgNXDp


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 13:56:00 UTC

  • Having a ‘Systematizing’ mind (which is a nice sounding term for an autistic and

    Having a ‘Systematizing’ mind (which is a nice sounding term for an autistic and compulsive need for order in everything whether useful or not) mostly helps you find similar patterns in what were to most people are disconnected subjects.

    You can however, take this method too far, as most philosophers have, by trying to carry an analogy like a hammer that is looking for nails. And so I am very cautious about doing that.

    But fortunately or unfortunately, once you start to see how simple human behavior is, and how obfuscatory most of our language is – by conflating experience, action, observation and intention – it becomes clear that like most things man has discovered, the fundamental principles are quite simple.

    Man acquires. Man cooperates because acquisition is dramatically superior when we cooperate. Man cheats. Because it improves his acquisition costs if he gets away with it. Man invests heavily in suppression of cheating in order to preserve the incentive to cooperate at every opportunity.

    Males evolved so that a group of brothers collected women and kept away competing males. Females evolved to keep the peace and to control alphas wherever possible – especially once men developed weapons such that betas could be rallied to suppress alphas.

    There are three ways of coercion and man specializes in them. As such we don’t develop a single class hierarchy, but we develop three, and whatever group is more useful at the moment leads while the others compete for leadership – the first time in history that the martial class has been out of power is the USA between 1963 and the present. Which hasn’t been very good for the west.

    Man justifies his negotiating position and ‘feels’ he speaks morally and justly when he does so, but this is only true if and only if cooperation with competitors is voluntarily produced so that each side must compromise.

    So majority rule is dysfunctional because it makes exchanges impossible. The virtue of the anglo model was that just as the private sector formed a market for the production of goods and services, the public sector formed a market for the production of commons. And they did that by exchanges between the houses: monarchy, nobility, middle class, and clergy.

    So upon enfranchising women, we did not create a separate house for them and their ‘special interests’ but because of their less diverse interests, they concentrated their forces with the minority of ‘cheating’ males, and incrementally destroyed western civilization.

    We can quite easily repair this process. But it is going to be done at the point of a gun, not by the moral judgement of women and their allies in the Cathedral complex.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 13:48:00 UTC

  • When I die, I want my ashes cast into cobblestones that are used in the sidewalk

    When I die, I want my ashes cast into cobblestones that are used in the sidewalks in L’viv. I wanna let Ukrainian women walk all over me for eternity. lol

    (no. not really. But permanent and useful membership in the life of the polis is an interesting alternative to a grassy plot. Besides, that makes the commons of the sidewalk or square sacred, and that’s a pretty interesting idea. )


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 12:40:00 UTC

  • Personal Tax Annoyance of the Day: That those of us with low liquidity are taxed

    Personal Tax Annoyance of the Day:

    That those of us with low liquidity are taxed at the same rate as those with high liquidity. If we are to have progressive taxation, then lets tax progressively by liquidity. If we are to have income taxes, then lets not tax by year but by the production cycle.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 12:14:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 08:44:00 UTC

  • REALISTIC MEDIEVAL COMBAT IS AN EXCERCISE IN POINTED THINGS. An arrow, a lance,

    REALISTIC MEDIEVAL COMBAT IS AN EXCERCISE IN POINTED THINGS.

    An arrow, a lance, a spear, a sword, and a knife are piercing weapons.

    A axe and a cutlass are chopping weapons.

    A hammer, mace, and club, are smashing weapons.

    Armor renders slicing weapons useless.

    Edged weapons are useful only against the unarmored: rapiers are for dueling among gentlemen and knives for assassination or getto.

    A bullet, like all pointed weapons concentrates energy in a tiny area and pierces, with damage caused by the hydraulic effect of mostly liquid biological tissue.

    So any armored combat that relies upon edged weapons rather than very dangerous pointed weapons, less dangerous smashing weapons is material in technique.

    But hacking and slashing and chopping with straight swords against armored opponents is about as meaningful as a pillow fight.

    Fencing with foils or cutlass against merely padded opponents is more realistic.

    A melee between armored men with long swords looks like a fight with short spears.

    A melee between armored men with single handed swords and shields looks more like an MMA brawl than fencing.

    Hand to hand fighting is a last resort more dependent upon the physicality and athleticism of the fighters. So most of history involved fighting that keeps men at distance and reliant upon technology and skill.

    Guns are just the most recent equalizer of men in battle.

    Although drones really remove the physicality of man from the conflict entirely.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-04 07:58:00 UTC