Curt Doolittle

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  • IN FAIRNESS TO BOTH SEXES – WE MISREPRESENT EACH OTHER’S PERSPECTIVES> So true.

    IN FAIRNESS TO BOTH SEXES – WE MISREPRESENT EACH OTHER’S PERSPECTIVES>

    So true. Women want, and often need, to vent their emotions. And to organize them, so that they can self-correct them. It’s much harder to be a woman than a man. Our minds are much less cluttered. I think of our function in a relationship as helping women bail out the boat, so that it’s floating on it’s own enough that they can pilot it in the waves. Once we’ve bailed out the boat, you can often suggest ideas. but it is important that women feel the solution is their own, and that they do not have to fight their emotions to adopt it. A woman cannot suppress the chaos in her mind and emotions, any more than we can suppress our anxiety about various threats. In our case we need care-taking so that we can restore our energy and therefore will to continue fighting. Women need to have their emotions bailed out so that they can think straight. It’s the same problem for both sides. It’s just that our stress is low level and pre-cognitive, and theirs is high level and dominates their ability to think. So we both need ‘restoration’. The problem in both cases is to provide one another with the energy with which to deal with stresses. It is not in itself to solve the problem. We can usually solve our problems if we have the emotional wherewithal to solve them. It is this wherewithal that we give to each other. Albeit in different ways.

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

  • ASTON MARTIN DID IT. The car industry is slow. And really, not very good at desi

    https://www.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2015/03/03/aston-martin-dbx-concept-challenges-conventionDAMN. ASTON MARTIN DID IT.

    The car industry is slow. And really, not very good at design. Cars should be designed by crowdsource whenever possible.

    A few years ago, a small company crowdsourced the design of a rally car. And it looks like a Camaro.

    Now if we can get the existing Camaro in AWD, a 2″ Lift, and Oversized Tires, the car gods will have spoken.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-07 03:34:00 UTC

  • MUST BREAK UP AMERICA INTO SMALLER COUNTRIES. That’s the only answer. Your appea

    http://larrysummers.com/2015/04/05/time-us-leadership-woke-up-to-new-economic-era/WE MUST BREAK UP AMERICA INTO SMALLER COUNTRIES.

    That’s the only answer. Your appeals are well intentioned but irrelevant.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-06 13:48:00 UTC

  • SOLI DEO GLORIA

    SOLI DEO GLORIA

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-06 08:45:00 UTC

  • THE NEW CURRICULUM? (worth repeating) I would argue that we should be taught the

    THE NEW CURRICULUM?

    (worth repeating)

    I would argue that we should be taught the following:

    1) Manners, ethics, and Morality under the Golden Rule, Silver Rule, and the one-rule of property and voluntary exchange. The miracle of cooperation. How we insure one another in a multitude of ways.

    2) Truthfulness, Witness and Testimony (Operationalism and Existential Possibility) as well as how to spot errors in truthfulness, witness, and testimony.

    3) Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric, Debate and Oratory (as we once were), including how to spot ignorance, error, bias, deception, and Loading-Framing-Overloading (“Suggestion that overwhelms reason”).

    4) External Correspondence (empirical observation, analysis and testing) with a nod to Instrumentalism. And how to falsify external correspondence. What a pseudoscience is, and how to spot it.

    5) How to use free association (what we call ‘creativity’) “Filling the shelves of your mind, and then ‘playing’. Which is a discipline if you work at it. (It’s my preferred discipline.)

    6) Arithmetic, Accounting, Finance, Economics (in that order)

    7) Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry, and at least the ‘idea’ of calculus. But taught as the history of the development of these problems that people were solving, instead of as wrote. With far more emphasis on word problems.

    8) Mind. Biology. Chemistry, Physics, (in that order)

    9) The western heroic canon.

    10) As much history – as the narrative of problems people solved – as we can tolerate.

    And honestly, I think all philosophy is discardable except as an interesting inquiry into the intellectual history of the struggle to develop science: Truth telling.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-06 05:01:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM: OVERTHROW PSYCHOLOGIZING AND SOCIOLOGY – THE TWO MEANS OF LEFTI

    PROPERTARIANISM: OVERTHROW PSYCHOLOGIZING AND SOCIOLOGY – THE TWO MEANS OF LEFTIST EXPANSION

    A friend reminded me the other day that with Propertarianism we can replace the use of psychology, psychologizing, and sociology in historical analysis, and most likely as disciplines.

    Because propertarianism provides us with the causal properties of human wants and fears.

    We are simple creatures.

    And Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology were the primary means by which the left took over the academy.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-06 02:29:00 UTC

  • MORAL JUSTIFICATION, CRITICAL TRUTH SPEAKING, FREE ASSOCIATIVE THEORIZING. (wort

    MORAL JUSTIFICATION, CRITICAL TRUTH SPEAKING, FREE ASSOCIATIVE THEORIZING.

    (worth repeating)

    (a) I must justify my actions in accordance with objective morality, local norms and laws. (I must show that I met terms of the contract for cooperation – thus if I err I am blameless and free of restitution.)

    (b) I must warranty my testimony is truthful by critically prosecuting it.

    (c) I must(can) Innovate (reason / Develop Theories) by any free associative principle possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-06 02:18:00 UTC

  • DELONG AND PAUL KRUGMAN AND THEIR ANTI-EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS RE: Brad, I would cou

    https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/friedman-ideas-great-recession-by-j–bradford-delong-2015-03BRAD DELONG AND PAUL KRUGMAN AND THEIR ANTI-EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS

    RE: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/friedman-ideas-great-recession-by-j–bradford-delong-2015-03

    Brad,

    I would counter, as I have since 2009, that you and your intellectual kindred fail to grasp that politics is moral not merely empirical. That humans are tribalists not universalists. That universalism suits the interests of the academy’s revenues, but not the interests of all polities. That human morality is roughly translatable into a prohibition on free riding. And that under plenty, humans share excess in exchange for status, and under duress humans punish free riders.

    What you have seen in the great recession is a evidence of moral expression that will always exist under democratic polities that are able to express moral instincts. Under the great recession we are punishing free riders build up under the era of plenty.

    You may call this irrational. But the use of this moral intuition is doing precisely what those who carry that instinct intuit that it should: punishing free riders – even and extreme personal expense. The middle class votes against its material interests out of altruistic punishment of free riders.

    Until we find an institutional means of controlling free riding, we will continue to see this behavior in high-trust high-altruistic-punishment societies. And it is only high trust high altruistic punishment societies that matter. Because they are always the only societies with wealth to distribute. Since those societies are the only ones that produce excesses.

    I will not live long enough I think, to restore morality to economics. But at some point someone will. Because good economics is empirical. And empirically – humans do, and must, act morally. And morality is a synonym for the prohibition on free riding.

    Democracy is incompatible with your interpretation of ‘good’ economics. And economics without morality is not scientific, but ideological and dysgenic.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-05 14:23:00 UTC

  • THE DECLINE IN USA’S MILITARY POWER IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS – ONLY FOR BU

    THE DECLINE IN USA’S MILITARY POWER IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS – ONLY FOR BUREAUCRATS

    (from elsewhere)

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/31/396604082/dozens-of-countries-join-china-backed-bank-opposed-by-washington

    The USA pays for its military through the sale of petro-dollars and debt that it inflates away. It was this technique started under Nixon that allowed the USA to economically bankrupt the soviets via military competition. (Something easy enough to repeat with the Putinista Russians.)

    The sale of oil in euros was the first blow that limited future american military expansion. This allowed europeans to cease indirect payment for defense to the USA. The rise of China and demand for american debt sustained american military expansion. The attempt of Iran to create a bourse and take over this tax on world oil production by demanding middle eastern oil in the currency of their choice, is an effort to transfer this power. With nuclear weapons it becomes a possibility for them.

    China has set out to replace america as the global power in the current century. But to do so requires weakening the USA’s state department, and to weaken american financial interests. It is more important to weaken the relationship between capital and democracy. So for china, the use of such a bank, will extend its power, and more importantly, eliminate the correlation between demand for credit, demand for commerce, and the corresponding demand for democracy and human rights. In other words, china wants to spread authoritarian capitalism, by improving the standing of authoritarian capitalism.

    So in the long term, americans will have to retrench, because democracy is a failed experiment, social democracy a failed experiment, and authoritarianism with limited capitalism (aristocratic capitalism), superior to proletarian capitalism (social democracy).

    Americans would very much prefer to withdraw from world affairs. Especially that we are now marginally oil independent. Unfortunately, the left has succeeded in overwhelming americans through immigration, and thereby achieving through population-conquest what could not be achieved through ideas.

    But to state that this change in power is a ‘problem for americans’ is simply not true. It’s a problem for bureaucrats. But americans will merely experience a decline in standard of living to european levels of consumption. They will dramatically decrease their public spending on the military. Europe will dramatically increase its military spending on the military. And the world will equilibrate to less variation in purchasing power between nations. And the nations with the greatest purchasing power will be those that possess the best legal systems, with the greatest experimentation, and the least rents. In that race, americans may still win.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-05 08:05:00 UTC

  • (Diary entry. Self analysis. It is interesting. Over the past 90 days, focusing

    (Diary entry. Self analysis. It is interesting. Over the past 90 days, focusing entirely on our software product, my anxiety has risen to the point where I am almost unable to function. If I don’t write, it’s like a spring of stress is being wound inside of me. Philosophy – Propertarianism in particular – has allowed me to find perpetual purpose and release for my autistic demon. I can feed it an endless diet of problems, and bring them to resolution. Even if that problem is only one of simplifying the means of expression. So, I cannot function any longer without allocating time for my writing. Just as I cannot write without the social experience of business. I have to do both to be happy. I think these two activities tend to keep me ‘calm and ordered’ and without the autism taking control of me. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-05 07:26:00 UTC