Curt Doolittle

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  • INSPIRATIONS AND CAUTIONS –“Life is something you forge by your will, or is for

    INSPIRATIONS AND CAUTIONS

    –“Life is something you forge by your will, or is forged by accident in the absence of our will.”— (worth repeating)

    –“Out of life’s school of war, that which does not kill us only serves to make us stronger”– Nietzsche

    –“What is the worst that can happen? Could you tolerate it? So worry about success, not failure. If you worry about failure you have no mind for success. And so, comfort yourself with life as it is, rather than as you pretend you wish it to be. Because you do not desire it enough to worry more about creating it, than you do about the risk of reaching the state that you think is the worst that can happen.”– (worth repeating)

    A CAUTION:

    –“Do not counsel the well-intentioned and moral youth to attempt what is beyond their abilities – because you then share responsibility for the consequence of their failures. Just because you are able, doe not mean others are equally so. Counsel the young and less-able to make small, evolutionary steps, not take large gambles, lest you create a moral hazard for them, and for you. The distance each of us can leap, from the slight improvement in our lives, the the disciplined restructuring of our lives, to radical reformation of our lives, to the act of innovation and creation, depends greatly upon the natural, limited ability of the individual. As such, first rule of counsel is *do no harm*. Incite others to disciplined self improvement according to their , but never to gambling. The enlightenment fallacy that we call may join the aristocracy is a moral hazard. We can’t. We haven’t. And it’s harmful to incite people to gambling with their lives.”– (a lesson I have learned and carry the burden of.)

    –“The people who do great things do not need inspiration, they need facts, methods, capital, relationships, and opportunities. Disciplined daily pursuit of ends comes naturally to them. Entrepreneurs, Artists, Philosophers and Generals are born and assisted, not made through inspiration.”– (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 03:54:00 UTC

  • (Yep…. I am going to struggle with this one a bit.)

    (Yep…. I am going to struggle with this one a bit.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 22:20:00 UTC

  • THE MANNERS OF TRUTH It is one thing to argue whether x leads to y “is true”. It

    THE MANNERS OF TRUTH

    It is one thing to argue whether x leads to y “is true”. It is another to argue whether we and our opponent’s speak truthfully.

    And now, we know, that the statement “x leads to y is true” can *only* mean “I promise you will also find that x leads to y”.

    We have been indoctrinated into untruthful speech. We have become a culture of liars. We have lost Grammar, lost Rhetoric, lost history.

    Imagine a news talk show, where one spoke truthfully and the other didn’t.

    We can and should call liars liars, and even vectors for lies, liars.

    Because it is true.

    To treat manners with higher priority than truth is to let others steal from the normative commons merely by their utterances. And moral men neither can steal, nor tolerate stealing from others.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 22:20:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 14:25:00 UTC

  • (Damn… I was right. I did it… hasn’t been a bad couple of months after all.

    (Damn… I was right. I did it… hasn’t been a bad couple of months after all. …. unified philosophy and science… cool).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 12:13:00 UTC

  • Since I can never knowingly speak the truth, all I can do is use every possible

    Since I can never knowingly speak the truth, all I can do is use every possible means of guaranteeing that I speak a falsehood.

    Yes, truthful speech is expensive. So is the damage caused by untrue speech.

    So, if someone will not undertake this effort, nor warranty his speech, then what are we to assume?

    We have options:

    1) he cares not for the damage done (a hazard)

    2) he intends to cause damage (cause harm)

    3) he exports risk because of his failure onto others (theft)

    None of them are good.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 11:29:00 UTC

  • If you can’t calculate it, then it’s just an act of faith. Go look up the list o

    If you can’t calculate it, then it’s just an act of faith. Go look up the list of cognitive biases and show me how you think you’re so much smarter than the next guy? Isn’t it that you’re not? Isn’t it that you just are too ignorant to know better? Anything that you think is in your interests is at some point not in someone else’s. Anything you think is in everyone’s interest is impossible to achieve – because at some point, doing the opposite is in someone else’s interest. And all of us do what is our interest – at all times.

    All Propertarian statements are calculable and decidable. PERIOD.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 10:11:00 UTC

  • Austerity is altruistic punishment in action. Its not only that we display altru

    Austerity is altruistic punishment in action. Its not only that we display altruistic punishment. But that we should, and will. Period.

    Paul Krugman is an immoral man. That is why he does not understand. He is morally blind.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 08:05:00 UTC

  • MUST READ – MARXISM AND GERMANY’S POSITION IN THE WORLD

    http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/what-fall-wall-did-not-change#axzz3IhjU4BZDSTRATFOR – MUST READ – MARXISM AND GERMANY’S POSITION IN THE WORLD

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 07:22:00 UTC

  • POPPER, HAYEK, HOPPE, BROUWER, BRIDGMAN, POINCARÉ – The` Least Wrong Philosopher

    POPPER, HAYEK, HOPPE, BROUWER, BRIDGMAN, POINCARÉ – The` Least Wrong Philosophers.

    Dragging Germans and Cosmopolitans out of the well of authoritarianism.

    For my purposes, Popper and Hayek are just the best thinkers to build upon, because they’re the least wrong. Hoppe isn’t important so much for what he has said but how he has taught us to say anything we wish to say at all. And whether he likes it or not (I don’t much care are this point) my work is a continuation of his – dragging it out of the absurd primitivism of cosmopolitan and german rationalism, kicking and screaming all the way. I think that, as of yesterday, I was able to drag Popper out of the cosmopolitan tradition as well. Laundering him of his cultural habits.

    THE FORMULA

    If you haven’t solved morality you need authority. But if you have solved morality you don’t need authority. I solved morality and therefore I don’t need authority: there is no difference in morality and property other than the scope of morality that the community is willing and able to enforce. Conversely, the less morality that people are wiling and able to enforce, the more people will demand for an authoritarian government to either impose an arbitrary moral standard, or impose sufficient order that retaliation for immoral and unethical actions is prohibited.

    As such the primary determinant of whether a polity can obtain liberty under rule of law is determined by the difference between the rate of adaptation of the legal code and the rate of change in the accumulated forms of property demonstrated by the populace for use in their reproduction and therefore production.

    The reason the west was able to evolve then, faster than all other civilizations, both times that it managed to escape eastern mysticism, is because the rule of law, judges and the jury can produce adaptation faster than other cultural methods of adaptation.

    (pretty cool really)

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    de.aristocratia at gmail.com

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-11 07:00:00 UTC