Curt Doolittle

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  • HELP? Anyone want to tell my why this is terribly difficult to comprehend? It’s

    HELP?

    Anyone want to tell my why this is terribly difficult to comprehend? It’s about as dumbed down as I can make it, and apparently it’s not dumbed down enough….

    JCL: In a short sentence, what problem are you trying to solve?

    CD: I want to know if you have solved the question of the definition of private property expressible in law that is necessary for the formation of a voluntary property. I think not.

    JCL: In a short sentence, what solution do you propose?

    CD: That law must mirror high-trust morality, and that morality is defined as a prohibition on imposed costs (parasitism, free riding, et al), leaving only productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange free of externality. Conversely, that Rothbardian property (intersubjectively verifiable private property) provides insufficient scope of dispute resolution for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of demand for the state. People will demand a state in low trust polities. They do.

    JCL: In a short sentence, how do you think my theory of liberty is relevant–if it is?

    CD: While you have correctly stated the subjective point of view, this does not resolve the problem of obtaining consensus on the necessary scope of property rights, expressed in law, that are required for the rational formation of a voluntary property. (It is apparently not important or clear to you that morality is synonymous with your definition of liberty. This does not matter in your line of reasoning. It matters in determining the scope of rights defined in the law, since humans retaliate against unethical and immoral action, and people demonstrate demand for authoritarian states to suppress retaliation in low trust societies.)

    JCL: In a short sentence, what is mistaken about my theory of liberty?

    CD: As you intend it, nothing. However it does not solve the problem facing libertarians unless it is actionable; and it remains in-actionable without a consensus on the scope of property rights that must be articulated in law. There is nothing erroneous about your theoretical definition of the experience of liberty. But the experience you describe is insufficient for the solution of the problem of decidability.

    I reached the same conclusion that you did, but I did so by asking a different question: what scope of dispute resolution is necessary to eliminate demand for the state as a suppressor of retaliation or an enforcer of rules. And I looked to the evidence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-17 20:19:00 UTC

  • (Today) “Who is Curt Doolittle and what is he doing to libertarianism?” I’m the

    (Today) “Who is Curt Doolittle and what is he doing to libertarianism?”

    I’m the person who is gutting immoral libertinism, and make it intellectually embarrassing to mention the name rothbard, non aggression, and open borders, so that we can return liberty to the high trust society where it came from.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-17 17:35:00 UTC

  • IS NO MORE CREATIVE ACT THAN CREATING A NATION” Let a thousand nations bloom

    http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/sean-connery-scottish-independence-there-no-more-creative-act-creating-new-nation”THERE IS NO MORE CREATIVE ACT THAN CREATING A NATION”

    Let a thousand nations bloom.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 23:47:00 UTC

  • (can’t sleep. blame it on coffee and coca cola. lol) Car prices in Ukraine are d

    (can’t sleep. blame it on coffee and coca cola. lol)

    Car prices in Ukraine are dropping rapidly. The entire economy is collapsing because of the Russian war against Ukraine.

    Cut the SWIFT system.

    Cut the Credit Card system.

    Close the borders.

    Close the Airports.

    Shut off the Internet.

    The Ruble will collapse in 30 days.

    Demand restoration of the borders, and arm eastern europe with nuclear weapons.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 21:26:00 UTC

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    Reclaiming Conservatism from Libertarians

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 19:37:00 UTC

  • data: the imaginary hobgoblin of rising income inequality. Isn’t happening

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/09/more-on-the-imaginary-hobgoblin-of-rising-income-inequality-with-data-from-todays-census-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29#mblCensus data: the imaginary hobgoblin of rising income inequality.

    Isn’t happening.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 19:35:00 UTC

  • MUCH WORTH VIEWING ( I really appreciate Peter’s work in keeping the Austrian ap

    http://new.livestream.com/RethinkNY/reny2014/videos/62102827VERY MUCH WORTH VIEWING

    ( I really appreciate Peter’s work in keeping the Austrian approach alive given the absurdity of the Misesian-Rothbardian abuse of it – even if he remains a universalist. lol)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 16:31:00 UTC

  • MORE ON HUMAN SCALE You know, empiricism (observation) and instrumentalism (inst

    MORE ON HUMAN SCALE

    You know, empiricism (observation) and instrumentalism (instrumental observation) are demarcated by the limits of our sense perception. But the process is essentially the same.

    I would prefer to get the point across that the reason we require instrumentalism is that once we pass beyond our sense perception, we also pass beyond human scale.

    I consider economics to be instrumental : a discipline for measuring that which is directly unobservable, and therefore only indirectly observable.

    Just as I consider all logics to be instruments, and any human action that does not require such instruments within human scale.

    This distinction turns out to be terribly important once we realize just WHY Bridgman was so concerned about operationalism, why Poincare so concerned about mathematical platonism, why Brouwer was so concerned about mathematical operationalism and intuitionism, and why **I** am so concerned about both verbal operationalism and testimonial truth, and it’s opposite: the use of verbalisms (obscurant analogies), loading and framing.

    Because we have been systematically applying the methods, including mathematical methods, but more importantly, the philosophical methods, that we developed during the era of human scale where we could reason without instruments, to the era of post-human scale where we cannot sense perceive without instruments. And there is a vast difference in the properties of human scale and post-human scale measurements.

    Most important of these, at least in economics, is morality. Morality is a local phenomenon and macro economics is NOT. Just as we cannot apply the morals of the famly to the extended order, we cannot likewise apply the rules of the extended order to the family.

    Now, if we apply the rules of the family to the extended order our efforts will be non-predictive. That is merely an empirical or perhaps epistemological criticism. But when we apply the rules of the extended order (non-moral) to the rules of the family and tribal (moral) then we commit suicide.

    Macroeconomics as I understand it is merely a secular christian crusade against aristocracy by the Cathedral. It is not we who are conquering the cathedral. But the out-group nations who understand that the cathedral’s immorality is socially destructive religion, both for it’s hosts (us) and everyone touched by it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 13:04:00 UTC

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    http://nationalreview.com/%2Farticles%2F269428%2Fpaul-krugman-prophet-socialism-donald-luskin

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 11:48:00 UTC

  • I took me a long time to understand how he could construct such complex fallacie

    I took me a long time to understand how he could construct such complex fallacies, but once I understood that he substitutes accusations of stupidity for all moral resistance it was clear that he is merely an immoral man attempting to apply aggregate inter-state morality to particular intra-state (tribal) groups. He is calling morality and moral man stupid. His argument is that we should prefer wealth over morality.

    Think about that for a minute. **We should prefer wealth over morality.**

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 11:16:00 UTC