Curt Doolittle

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  • A MONTH OF BRIBES: UKRAINE So we paid a bribe friday to a policeman. Saturday to

    A MONTH OF BRIBES: UKRAINE

    So we paid a bribe friday to a policeman. Saturday to a policeman. Today to an immigration officer. And a month ago to a customs officer. The policemen were men. The other two were women. The women cost $400 each and the policemen $20 each. To arrange the bribes took another $400.

    Mind you. In immigration, we bribed people to simply do their jobs. In the other cases we bribed them to do their jobs rationally. But none of these bribes are to evade crime. They are bribes to minimize corruption.

    If the common law and universal standing were in place, we could sue these people. But there is no rule of law in Ukraine or russia.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 04:37:00 UTC

  • ASPIES NEED PERMISSION TO BE THEMSELVES It’s interesting that my posts on Aspien

    ASPIES NEED PERMISSION TO BE THEMSELVES

    It’s interesting that my posts on Aspieness, and the Autistic-Solipsistic spectrum are so popular. I really don’t want that to be part of my brand, but it helps people who are also borderline, and it explains, by analogy, our equally important moral spectrum blindness in the context of politics and ethics – so It’s hard not to use it.

    Fashion, Tattoos, Aspieness, Autistic-Solipsistic Spectrum, and gender differences in perception. I still think the most popular posts I’ve ever written were on Tattoos and Fashion. lol

    But really, aspies are a lot happier if they give themselves permission to be the creatures that we are. So I sort of see my struggle as something I can use to make life easier for others – ’cause it was not very easy for me. I had to work like hell. lol

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 03:06:00 UTC

  • A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS A good CEO makes you feel safe takin

    A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS

    A good CEO makes you feel safe taking risks in the interests of the company, and unsafe taking risks that do not. I tell people “I will not let you fail”. If they fail, I congratulate them on what they learned. The absence of failure: efficiency, is a chimera. If you aim for efficiency you will calcify your people, and your organization and it will not respond to the market.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 02:23:00 UTC

  • ASPIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE (riffing off the shooter) (Aspies are usually pretty

    ASPIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE

    (riffing off the shooter)

    (Aspies are usually pretty peaceful people. But while we can lack from a little to a lot of empathy, we have normal levels of desire for social integration. This is one of the reasons aspies are attracted to rothbardian libertarianism – it’s an anti-social philosophy in the sense that it consists of rules that do not require one to empathize in order to function. However, we do get the people who are extremely frustrated by constant social rejection, and who become angry and depressed because of it. As we see in the news today. Social anxiety drugs are pretty effective but it takes years to re-learn social skills. And most aspies are left to flounder on their own without help in learning those skills. Some of us are just annoyingly persistent and relentlessly pursue them. In my case, so that I could chase girls. 🙂 One of the problems the rest of the world does not see, is how the lack of family and culture in america is alienating, and more so than any other culture I have witnessed – except for niches in japan – americans are lonely people starved for attention. Which is why they idolize people who get a lot of it, even by crass means. So it’s a culture more likely to foster alienated people than cultures that both have normative rules that are highly enforced, and extended family and social networks that train people to cope. Very dysfunctional society really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-25 13:31:00 UTC

  • Operationalism, by which I mean, strict construction from a sequence of descript

    Operationalism, by which I mean, strict construction from a sequence of descriptive actions, solves so many philosophical problems that are no more than artifacts of obscurant language.

    Chief among them the fallacy of Natural Rights, and the fallacy of aggression.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-25 05:18:00 UTC

  • No limit to love for the good, no limit to wrath for the bad

    No limit to love for the good, no limit to wrath for the bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-25 05:14:00 UTC

  • THE FALLACY OF STARTING WITH THE ASSUMPTION YOU HAVE PROPERTY RIGHTS RATHER THAN

    THE FALLACY OF STARTING WITH THE ASSUMPTION YOU HAVE PROPERTY RIGHTS RATHER THAN NEEDING TO CONSTRUCT THEM

    If you have no property rights, but only permission from the state, to use its property in certain fashion, then the state cannot aggress against your property – nor can anyone else, except to the extent determined by the state.

    To defend against this argument you must counter that natural rights exist like a soul, or are merely an allegory to contract rights, envisioned out of necessity for flourishing – or some other magical concept. Despite the fact that, contradictory to universal claims, nowhere on earth do private property rights exist. They are profoundly unnatural.

    All that is necessary for cooperation is the institution of property. The scope of property is not defined by the means of transgression against property. We can only possibly hold a right that we have obtained in contract. The contract for property rights in the absence of a state can only be constructed by individuals exchanging the promise of defense in response to transgression, and the means of aggressively constructing those rights . The only means of preventing the universally extant violations of those rights obtained in such a contract, and reciprocally insured via that contract, is the organized application of violence against the state.

    So it is an erroneous assumption, and a convenient one, that you start from a position of liberty, rather than start from a position of needing to construct liberty.

    Intersubjectively verifiable property is a fallacy. Aggression is a fallacy. Natural rights are a fallacy. Crusoe’s Island is a fallacy. Man evolved from consanguineous bands by suppressing free riding, thereby pressing all into participation in production. Property is the natural result of suppressing free riding. At all points and at all times property is constructed by resisting free riding. Property results from the suppression of free riding. The origin of private property as we understand it occurred when Indo European cattle raiders were able to concentrate extraordinary wealth under pastoralism, by way of organized violence and they kept what they obtained in those raids. This is the origin of property: the organized application of violence against free riding.

    People who are unwilling to enter the contract for organized violence in order to construct property rights both in contract and in daily practice (as a norm), are merely free riders (thieves) from those who are willing to act to construct property rights in contract and in daily practice (as a norm).

    In other words, by claiming you have ‘natural rights’ you’re not only demonstrably wrong, but just trying to obtain property rights at a discount by free riding on the efforts of those who do construct property rights.

    So, you’re not only wrong, but a dishonest, free riding thief, like statists you condemn are.

    As far as I know this argument is bulletproof.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-24 23:00:00 UTC

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    Social mobility, fixed forever? Gregory Clark’s The Son Also Rises is a book of scholarship, and of scholastic overreach

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-24 09:26:00 UTC

  • READING

    http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/05/22/honest-broker-mr-piketty-neoclassicists-suggested-interpretation-week-may-17-2014/WORTH READING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-24 09:23:00 UTC

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    http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/point-view/2014-05-22/anatomy-russian-information-warfare-crimean-operation-a-case-study

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-24 06:48:00 UTC