Curt Doolittle

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  • CAUSE OF HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM: “SHARED INTENTIONALITY” (book recommendation) –“

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GG0C9WK/THE CAUSE OF HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM: “SHARED INTENTIONALITY”

    (book recommendation)

    –“Human thought, in Tomasello’s conception, is different from that of all other organisms because humans alone have the capacity to think about the thoughts of others, and do so collectively. Tomasello’s greatest strength is his insistence on relying on data to support his hypotheses, particularly the fascinating studies he summarizes comparing pre‐ linguistic children to our great ape relatives. (Publishers Weekly 2013-12-02)”–

    –“What is it that differentiates humans from other animals? It’s the question that keeps evolutionary anthropologists like Michael Tomasello up nights. But after 20-plus years wrestling with the thorny subject, he puts forward his ‘shared intentionality hypothesis,’ designed to account for how early humans learned to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborators. (New Scientist 2014-01-04)”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 03:25:00 UTC

  • “So where is it that I actually go to check my privilege? I want to be a good se

    –“So where is it that I actually go to check my privilege? I want to be a good self-hating white American male.”–

    Justin Ptak

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 02:47:00 UTC

  • “Gods are important for the wisdom and virtues they represent. This is a point i

    –“Gods are important for the wisdom and virtues they represent. This is a point in favor of polytheism. Not all wisdom and virtues are equally important for everyone.”–

    Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 02:41:00 UTC

  • HOPPE’S RIGHT – YOU CAN’T SAY ‘LIBERTY’ IN STATE-FUNDED ACADEMIA – YOU HAVE TO W

    HOPPE’S RIGHT – YOU CAN’T SAY ‘LIBERTY’ IN STATE-FUNDED ACADEMIA – YOU HAVE TO WORK OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA TO DO THE WORK THAT MUST BE DONE.

    I bet I couldn’t find a dissertation committee for my project. I bet if I was in state-funded-academia there is no way I could keep my job and do this work. Sean Gabb lamented a few weeks ago, that we used to have people in academia, media, and government, but we don’t. You have to do your work outside of the state-system. Even our closest allies at GMU never violate the sanctity of the social democratic state, democracy, and equality except in very timid terms: policy preference.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 02:31:00 UTC

  • MY OWN TINFOIL HAT WARNING- So, what happens if the chinese keep extending the b

    -MY OWN TINFOIL HAT WARNING-

    So, what happens if the chinese keep extending the bubble so that it pops closer to 2020 when the USA hits it’s similar cycle AND the demographic cycle, AND europe hits its hard wall, AND the USA loses a grip on the international pattern of finance and trade?

    Sea Peoples. It’ll be like the sea peoples. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 16:03:00 UTC

  • QUESTIONING MYSELF, BUT IT SEEMS THAT I MUST SOLVE HONESTY IF NOT TRUTH. (Still

    QUESTIONING MYSELF, BUT IT SEEMS THAT I MUST SOLVE HONESTY IF NOT TRUTH.

    (Still having serious cold and or allergy problems. And having trouble getting in the zone.)

    But I’ve been wrestling with the idea of whether or not I need to solve this problem of “Truth” or not in order to finish my work. And, unfortunately, the problem is that I do have to solve it.

    MORALITY: I can solve the problem of articulating the objective source of moral instincts.

    ETHICS: I can solve the problem of the ethics of cooperation (free riding) – by extending the definition of property rights and adding truth, warranty, symmetry.

    POLITICS: I can solve the problem of politics by adding calculability (in all its complexity)

    POLITICAL SPEECH: But I think I must solve the problem of public speech as well since it is more influential in the formation of agreements than the rules by which agreements are constructed.

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    MORAL VIOLATIONS

    Those discounts, in economic terms are:

    1. Violence (asymmetry of force)

    2. Theft (asymmetry of control)

    3. Fraud (false information)

    4. Omission (Omitting information)

    5. Obscurantism (Obscuring information)

    6. Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction)

    7. Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction)

    8. Free Riding (using externalities for self benefit)

    9. Socializing Losses (externalization to commons)

    10. Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons)

    11. Rent Seeking (organizational free riding)

    12. Corruption ( organized rent seeking)

    13. Conspiracy (organized indirect theft)

    14. Extortion (Organized direct theft)

    15. War (organized violence, theft and destruction)

    16. Immigration (conquest via displacement)

    17. Conversion (conquest via mysticism)

    PERSONAL ETHICS

    The Ethical code that prevents those discounts (involuntary transfers, free riding) consists in:

    1. Requirement that all demonstrated property be categorized as Private Property

    2. Requirement for Voluntary Exchange

    3. Requirement for Speaking the Truth

    4. Requirement for Accountability for Symmetry of knowledge (the whole truth)

    5. Requirement for Warranty as proof of symmetry

    6. Requirement for Prohibition on negative externalities.

    POLITICAL ETHICS

    The Political Ethical Code consists in

    1. Requirement for the One Law of Property

    2. The Common (Organic) Law

    3. The Professional Independent Judiciary

    4. Contracts not law

    – perishability

    – universality

    5. Requirement of “Calculability”

    (note: technically speaking the requirement of calculability implies the requirement for operational language, and the requiremnet for strict constructionism. However, since that deduction apparently isn’t obvious I feel I should call out operational language in the construction of law also.)

    6. Right of rejection, exclusion, secession (boycott, and ostracization)

    POLITICAL SPEECH

    The Public Intellectual’s, Politician’s, Public Speech’s Ethical Code consists in:

    1. Requirement for operational language in e-prime as a defense against deception as a means of advocating involuntary transfers.

    2. Prohibition on advocacy of involuntary transfer and the universal requirement voluntary ethical exchange.

    PROBLEMS

    1. (Prohibition on Inbreeding?)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 15:30:00 UTC

  • WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE ROTHBARDIAN ETHICS OVER ARISTOCRATIC ETHICS? I mean, what k

    WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE ROTHBARDIAN ETHICS OVER ARISTOCRATIC ETHICS?

    I mean, what kind of person wants it to be legal to lie, cheat, deceive, but not use violence against those who lie, cheat and deceive?

    It’s not complicated.

    Rothbard was wrong.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 10:24:00 UTC

  • I REALLY DISLIKE RACISM One should blame one’s own people for their failures, no

    I REALLY DISLIKE RACISM

    One should blame one’s own people for their failures, not others for taking advantage of them. If you are occupied and conquered by others through immigration or displacement, it is no different from being occupied or conquered by others through religious conversion, political usurpation, or military conquest. It is your failure to prevent it. Not theirs for taking advantage of it.

    I see the world as families and tribes that can all prosper if we cooperate productively, without free riding, parasitism and predation. Unfortunately, free riding, parasitism and predation are much easier than mutually beneficial production. So humans prefer free riding, parasitism and predation whenever possible.

    I agree that the distribution of talents in the races is different, and that performatively, we can see that the median distribution of talents is indeed hierarchical.

    I agree that people act as political groups, acting in the favor of their group at the expense of other groups, whenever possible. I believe that the evidence tells us that race is on of the most influential factors in determining group membership, if not the most influential factor.

    I agree that because of those differences, our means and ends are different. But that does not mean that the different classes of all the races, and tribes, particularly the upper classes, cannot work together for the benefit of each tribe rather than abandoning the lower classes to conflict over resources and opportunities. The lower classes exist, and without their upper classes to grant them opportunities through superior competitiveness and cooperation, then they lose the competitive advantage that elites provide.

    The most heinous crime that an upper class can commit is to prey upon it’s own people, rather than provide competitive value for it’s lower classes, in relation to other lower classes.

    This is one of the primary reasons why the middle and lower classes support their elites and act as a group: because its in their interest to do so.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 06:01:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC ORIGINS OF LIBERTY AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY Heroism: Status Through Cr

    ARISTOCRATIC ORIGINS OF LIBERTY AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY

    Heroism: Status Through Creating Change (metaphysics)

    Nation (an extended family)

    Nuclear Family (the organizational unit of society)

    Property (the means of cooperation on means)

    Common Law (the means of dispute resolution)

    Independent Judiciary (the defenders of civilization)

    Monarchy (veto power) (house 1)

    Aristocracy (dispute resolution between nations) (house 2)

    Nobility (commerce with in the nation) (house 3)

    Priesthood (redistribution within the nation) (house 4)

    Militia (ownership)

    Hospitaliers (care taking)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 05:47:00 UTC

  • HAPPY MAY DAY!!!! BELTANE! –“May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Belta

    HAPPY MAY DAY!!!! BELTANE!

    –“May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls half a year from November 1 – another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European paganisms and the year in the Northern Hemisphere – and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.”–

    I want a raucous celebration to attend. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 05:33:00 UTC