Curt Doolittle

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  • ECONOMY, BUSINESS AND STATE (h/t Andy Curzon )(edited and revised) If we look at

    ECONOMY, BUSINESS AND STATE

    (h/t Andy Curzon )(edited and revised)

    If we look at Austrian business cycle theory as merely an instance of the cycle of ‘flocking and schooling’ that follows any kind of change in knowledge that as a consequence produces an opportunity, then the century of pseudoscience was just another business process by which to exploit a market opportunity, and it played out as a series of eddies and pools, which are currently in the process of maximum exploitation and collapse.

    And so governments are just temporary corporations exploiting business opportunities. And management(government), employees(bureaucracy), customers(consumers), and investors(citizens) all compete for the maximum returns.

    This matches all political theory throughout history that suggests that people seek opportunities until it is possible to seek rents, and rents expand until the civilization collapses. It also matches the data that without private(shareholder) public(corporation) alliance no city state became economically competitive.

    I disagree with Diamond for example, since I am pretty sure the reason for these collapses is a breakdown of incentives : the information system that allows for the organization of production. I would say that civilizations collapse either due to extreme efficiency followed by shocks (1200 BC), or the equivalent of cancer: damage to the information system that eliminates the relationship between production and consumption.

    But since humans flock and school, then break off in smaller schools, to exploit opportunities, we are pretty good at a sort of fractal exploitation of every possible opportunity until it’s been exhausted.

    I suspect either an expansion of statism in order to extend the status quo, or an upcoming era of increased statist tyranny in the name of order. If not I suspect collapse of the western control of commerce and trade, and an expansive war or system of wars, to fill the vacuum; and an acceleration of civil wars to take advantage of change at home.

    It is better to study businesses than states, because the model is sufficient and the data is better.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 04:20:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) –“The whole anglo philosophical and political fantasy of equa

    (worth repeating)

    –“The whole anglo philosophical and political fantasy of equality has been a disaster for mankind. We must be equal in property rights and equal under the law, but that’s so that we may coordinate our actions as specialists, and succeed as specialists – not so that we can act as equals.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 04:11:00 UTC

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF AUTISTIC INTUITION TO OPERATIONAL EXPOSITION. Yes, my work

    THE TRANSFORMATION OF AUTISTIC INTUITION TO OPERATIONAL EXPOSITION.

    Yes, my work is getting clearer. Yes it is getting easier for BOTH you and I to understand. Well, but what’s the reason why I had a lot of trouble articulating my ideas in the past? I could sense the pattern and talk about it with autistic forms of symbolic analogy, but I could not convert it into more accessible language because I hadn’t yet been able to identify and model all the axis I was working from. Today I can. And pretty soon I’ll be able to reduce it to a few simple rules. But going from autistic speech (pattern intuition without rational comprehension of those patterns) is just not a very suitable means of argument. And the art is in patiently and deliberately attempting to state the arguments operationally (using new existentially possible frameworks to build upon) rather than meaningfully (using extant imaginary frameworks to build upon).

    I don’t really ‘think’ of things in any material sense as much as gather information and ‘catch’ intuitions that are usually too subtle and complex to ignore . The difference which has caused me some difficulty in life is that I intuit operationally correspondent (operational) patterns, but I have no intuition for experiential (meaningful) patterns what soever. My brain does not allow me to use empathy as a shortcut. This particular blindness means that I am somewhat limited to ascertainable facts instead of experiences – I just don’t HAVE those experiences to work from. Whereas ordinary people have a problem seeing beyond experiences because they’re so clear, influential and meaningful.

    Autistic worlds are very different. There is a lot LESS in them. So we have less to calculate with. If you look at it that way it’s not so much that people like me are massively smarter than people with similar IQ’s. But it’s that we only see non-experiential signals, and as such are sort of specialized tools – conceptual warrior ants in the human tribal hive.

    I think it’s wrong to express this as a disease or illness rather than a specialization. And I think it’s also wrong to to say autistic thought is ‘more internal’, rather than we are just working with the data we have to work with. In my case it has been emotionally painful but personally fruitful.

    The whole anglo philosophical and political fantasy of equality has been a disaster for mankind. We must be equal in property rights and equal under the law, but that’s so that we may coordinate our actions as specialists, and succeed as specialists – not so that we can act as equals.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 04:10:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: If we contain Russian barbarism, then who will contain American barbar

    QUESTION: If we contain Russian barbarism, then who will contain American barbarism?

    ANSWER: Well that is not an honest statement right? It posits a false moral equivalency rather than the truth that each party is half-right. Moreover, it is easier to correct the half-right anglo island dweller political ideology, but very difficult to correct half-right russian-steppe low trust and pervasive corruption.

    The answer of course is to close borders, and bring capital to people rather than people to capital, and cause internal reformation through capitalism, trade, and prosperity, rather than export of cancerous low trust behavior to higher trust countries, and buildup of land, sea, and air, state-militaries.

    So, if you mean, who will correct American perception of the value of extending democracy – which requires a high trust society – rather than just limiting protecting property rights (borders, human rights/liberty, capitalism/property rights)? Then that is an honest question.

    If you mean that you think that the world will naturally adopt borders (common property), human rights(mind and body), and capitalism (private-property), that is possible. But then again, we cannot have any of these things unless we insure others and they insure us – by intervention when asked.

    Russia is correct in its criticism of american ideological error in failing to understand the importance of authority in heterogeneous low trust polities with complex borders. More primitive people require more authoritarian governments. More advanced peoples require less authoritarian governments. Democracy is a luxury good of advanced, high trust homogenous societies with absolute nuclear families. I

    As far as I know the USA largely plays sheriff, and is incorrect only in the sense that (a) we do not require Europe(Germany) to carry its own water, (b) we are wrong that democratic governments are superior to authoritarian governments.

    Why? Because democratic and authoritarian governments are mere reflections of the demands of homogeneity-high trust and diversity-low trust societies, not reflections of good intentions.

    We are also wrong in that we should support the formation of more governments into smaller polities to solve problems due to artificial or legacy borders that prevent the formation of higher trust polities. So we should support secession. The problem is that if we support secession that will be also supported at home and the ability of the government to finance playing sheriff to the world will dissipate even more quickly.

    My preference is to increase awareness of the fallacy of borders/democracy and the importance of property/liberty, and to advocate separatism and secessionism at home so that we may incrementally lose the ability to project wars.

    I suspect the opposite will happen: that new redistribution of economic power will cause existing large states to attempt to expand privilege (influence) and control (rents) and that the world will continue on its present course toward Huntington’s conflict.

    Libertines should try to keep in mind that the purpose of the cosmopolitan movement was to retain Jewish separatism, identity, law, ethics, morality and custom, while justifying their expansion into any and all economies and walks of life, without paying the high costs of land-holding that host populations constantly pay and whose narratives place upon them so many obligations. And we also forget that that the purpose of the anglo-puritanical movement was religious anti-statism using the same jewish model, but that by divorcing it from militialism, and associating itself with more easily seduced women and socialists, that the puritanical movement could overtake academy and state and create the Cathedral.

    The way to change this state of affairs, which I argue in propertarianism – I think fairly persuasively – is to return to cost, science and action from cost-evasion, belief and verbalism, and make each of us accountable for the rights that we must pay for in order to possess them.

    Learn: Jury, Testimony, Law, Property-en-toto, and Evolutionary Strategy. The reliationship between family structure and trust; and between homogeneity and borders and trust. The relationship between trust and economic velocity. The relationship between the evolution of free riding, the rate of evolution of law, trust and economic velocity.

    The relationship is between homogeneity, property, family, law, truth, trust and economic velocity.

    Curt Doolittle

    (H/T to William T Houston for the inspiration).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 03:49:00 UTC

  • TRADING THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR THE CATHEDRAL COMPLEX Great. We trad

    TRADING THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR THE CATHEDRAL COMPLEX

    Great. We traded the paranoid military industrial complex, for the faith based evangelical cathedral complex and its equivalent of acolytes in the state department.

    Military epistemology is at least factual, even if military psychology is necessarily paranoid.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 03:30:00 UTC

  • anything cooler than this? Seriously? Look at what these maps show us about huma

    http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_G2a_Y-DNA.shtmlIs anything cooler than this? Seriously? Look at what these maps show us about human history. A horizontal expansion. Now contrast this with the celtic north-south axis. So damned cool. Then exaggerate mountains deserts and rivers.

    We flow like water.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 02:46:00 UTC

  • FOODS AND THE CATHEDRAL: PSEUDOSCIENCE AS RELIGION Their business plan is to ope

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.htmlWHOLE FOODS AND THE CATHEDRAL: PSEUDOSCIENCE AS RELIGION

    Their business plan is to open near colleges, where acolytes of the cathedral gather in great numbers.

    (It’s actually fascinating.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 02:14:00 UTC

  • CREATED THE 21ST CENTURY RULE: NUKES ARE REQUIRED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EVERYONE

    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-considering-deployment-of-nuclear-missiles-in-europe/RUSSIA CREATED THE 21ST CENTURY RULE: NUKES ARE REQUIRED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EVERYONE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 01:55:00 UTC

  • I mean, moving up the Maslowian pyramid of needs just means that today’s priests

    I mean, moving up the Maslowian pyramid of needs just means that today’s priests don’t hand-wave over illness and despair, but hand-wave over your ‘potential’ and ‘career’, and sell you democratic socialist security and rational and technological saviors.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-11 12:35:00 UTC

  • Why can’t we just say we’re anti-representational, anti-majoritarians? I’m pro a

    Why can’t we just say we’re anti-representational, anti-majoritarians? I’m pro anything that’s voluntary and moral. If it’s involuntary and immoral then I’m not.

    Majority rule is demonstrably immoral and involuntary.

    Contracts don’t require ‘rule’. They require incentives and exchanges.

    It’s not like we can’t produce commons contractually.

    In fact, I think the evidence supports the argument that we would create more commons contractually. It’s just that the Cathedral and the bureaucracy couldn’t parasite upon us. But that would be a good thing now wouldn’t it?

    What is the difference between unproductive priests and shamans, and unproductive overpaid bureaucrats, professors and academic administration workers?

    Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-11 12:16:00 UTC