Curt Doolittle

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  • (ok. now I gotta do some biz work.)

    (ok. now I gotta do some biz work.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 05:00:00 UTC

  • My site is attacked constantly – mostly out of Russia. They’re using the ‘admin’

    My site is attacked constantly – mostly out of Russia. They’re using the ‘admin’ account and then getting banned for failed login attempts. (a) there is no admin account and (b) i use strong passwords. But what I found is that if you return ‘wrong password’ they keep trying the admin account. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 04:38:00 UTC

  • One of the most severe problems young men face is the limited number of sources

    One of the most severe problems young men face is the limited number of sources of status signaling available to them that also encourages them to develop wealth, independence, and ultimate liberty from which aristocratic confidence springs.

    I have always enjoyed the company of artists, writers, and nerds, but I always do business with more serious folk – partly because it is my family tradition back to at least the fourteenth century to engage in business, government and military affairs.

    The current era allows us to digitally associate with groups who we might not have personal access to in normal time and space. So I would recommend looking for opportunity locally, friends locally, and signals online where it is information rather than social status, physical features, language, and fashion that we share.

    Most men who are successful want to ‘give back’ to society in some way or another. I want to give back to the people who, like me, had little help on their journey – as a catharsis by which I exorcize past frustrations.

    This is why I love my fellows so much, and encourage them so much, and put in so much of my time and effort – its actually selfish. With each act I compensate for each prior frustration.

    Men need love each other, and strengthen each other, for the women only pretend to, and the government they have elected, tries to destroy us.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 04:33:00 UTC

  • A friend of mine, who I feel a heartfelt man-love and respect, said recently tha

    A friend of mine, who I feel a heartfelt man-love and respect, said recently that I am more intolerant of normals than I am of people on the margins. And its true. But it’s because all the ‘interesting’ stuff happens on the margins. If you are a social scientist, a philosopher of man, a curious soul, and an aesthete, then normals are the people you want to work with and politic with, but outliers are the people you want to learn from. They explore the margins.

    And that’s where we find innovation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 04:22:00 UTC

  • The very competent men I know – and many of them – never refer to romantic pasts

    The very competent men I know – and many of them – never refer to romantic pasts, childhood, or childhood symbols, they merely focus on existential presents in pursuit of possible futures. This is quite different from the idealism and longing for past myths. I don’t like knowing this. But what it tells me is that we have infantalized our males.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 04:13:00 UTC

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH MONEY? Now, I know that people who f

    QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH MONEY?

    Now, I know that people who follow me vary greatly in their economic status, and I am not so much interested in my fellow rich folk, as I am the ordinary man. But just to open discussion, and likely to make a point:

    If you received $100,000USD tax free out of the blue, what would you do with it?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 04:09:00 UTC

  • “Not all property is physical and not all property is private – truth is intelle

    —“Not all property is physical and not all property is private – truth is intellectual property held in commons, and dishonesty causes damage to this shared property.”—Arkan Nathanael

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 03:58:00 UTC

  • TRUTH Americans have too long tolerated lying in commerce and in public discours

    TRUTH

    Americans have too long tolerated lying in commerce and in public discourse, and instead of evicerating libel, slander, and fraud, we can dramatically improve our lives by requiring truthfulness. Amazon takes a great step forward in creating an example of the use of marketing to commit fraud.

    —“AMAZON, the world’s largest online marketplace, is suing more than 1,000 people suspected of selling fake reviews in one of the biggest legal actions to uncover hidden identities on the internet.

    The web giant is mounting the unprecedented court action to strip 1,114 alleged fake reviewers of their anonymity and force them to pay damages for the “manipulation and deception” of Amazon customers, according to court documents filed in America on Friday.

    It is the first time any company has taken action against its own reviewers on this scale, according to legal experts, and could have far-reaching implications for privacy and the way consumer websites are policed.”—–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 03:41:00 UTC

  • Q&A: NAME FOR PROTECTIONISM FOR THE NORMATIVE COMMONS? —“Curt… Can you help

    Q&A: NAME FOR PROTECTIONISM FOR THE NORMATIVE COMMONS?

    —“Curt… Can you help me find the correct term which describes a nationalist state that allows freedom as long as you don’t “go against the nation (the foundation of the nation and the heritage)”.—

    Well, you do it with a set of rules (limits) and you give that a name. In the main, you’re describing a nationalist state which exercises the right of exclusion (which is required by natural law) to prohibit non-kin (non nationals) and the contractual (constitutional) provision that one may not export costs of association and trade onto other citizens’s common property:culture.

    We have no name that I know of for such a thing other than Nationalism, and nationalism fits. But it is not constrained enough. So we must add the limitation of protectionism. But we must clarify protectionism not of trade but of culture. So I would say Culturally Protectionist Nationalism.

    This conveys free trade allowing competition for goods and services, but not competition for culture, just as we do not allow competition for property rights, law, and government.

    The Chinese do this aggressively. So do the Muslims. And presently the Russians have started.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 03:34:00 UTC

  • “Moscow has used everything from shady energy deals, to webs of shell companies,

    —“Moscow has used everything from shady energy deals, to webs of shell companies, to hot money in the City of London, to the financing of extremist political parties in Europe. Its success in doing so raises the economic cost of conflict, reduces resolve to resist Moscow, and gives Russia a ready-made lobby in Western capitals. The Kremlin has effectively weaponized globalization.

    Rather than an Iron Curtain with armies facing off across the Fulda Gap, the main fault line of the current conflict is between a Western zone of transparency and a Moscow-dominated sphere of corruption. Any containment policy, therefore, needs first and foremost to limit Russia’s sphere of corruption and extend the Western zone of transparency.

    “The front lines of containment are the non-Russian states in the potential path of Russian expansion. Seen in this light, a divided Ukraine occupies the same role in today’s containment strategy as a divided Germany did in yesterday’s,” Motyl wrote in Foreign Affairs. “Ukraine should therefore be the recipient of similar financial, political, and military assistance.””—–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-17 16:41:00 UTC