Curt Doolittle

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  • ONLY FOUR: HEGEL, SPENGLER, WEBER, MCNEIL –“I can think of only four individual

    ONLY FOUR: HEGEL, SPENGLER, WEBER, MCNEIL

    –“I can think of only four individuals, two philosophers of history, one

    sociologist, and one world historian, who have spoken in a wideranging

    way of:

    i) the “infinite drive,” “the irresistible trust” of the Occident,

    ii) the “energetic, imperativistic, and dynamic” soul of the West,

    iii) the “rational restlessness” of the West,

    iv) “the deep-rooted pugnacity and recklessness of Europeans”

    – Hegel, Spengler, Weber, and McNeill respectively.”– Ricardo Duchesne

    Well, I’m in agreement on the last three, and am pretty sure I’ll be forced to agree on Hegel – who gives me a headache. I have a very hard time with conceptual empathy, and he requires it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 17:30:00 UTC

  • WE DON”T NEED THEORISTS TO BE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING, JUST BEING RIGHT ABOUT ONE

    WE DON”T NEED THEORISTS TO BE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING, JUST BEING RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING IS ENOUGH

    (worth repeating)

    Rothbard’s work on banking is some of the best that’s ever been done. His history of economics is some of the best that’s ever been done. He blows it on ethics (which if you follow me is a pretty simple argument) he blows it on praxeology (which a first year philosophy student probably can demonstrate). Hoppe’s the same. If you ignore Argumentation and Praxeology and focus on his theory of socialism and capitalism, his Ethics of Property, his criticism of the incentives of private vs corporate governance, and his solutions to privatizing regulation via competing insurance companies, it’s some of the best and most revolutionary work that’s been done in the past century.

    Philosophers don’t need to be right about everything, they just need to contribute a single novel idea. Hoppe did more than one. And I think his greatest contribution is probably the means of constructing his arguments – which is why I was drawn to him. He has successfully employed economic reasoning to ethics on a scale never done before, in rigorous form.

    If you want to refute Rothbardian ethics, Argumentation Ethics, and Praxeology, then it’s not all that hard (although it took me a long time myself). The thing is, that if you refute those things, it doesn’t change ANYTHING regarding Rothbard’s history or Hoppe’s institutional solutions. In fact, all it does is eliminate a lot of nonsensical justification that isn’t necessary. It’s just a holdover from before the soviet union fell and chia abandoned central planning for state capitalism, and the world understood that socialism was empirically dead, as well as logically. We have evidence now that previous generations didn’t.

    If you pick something you want refuted it’s pretty easy. Search for criticisms of those three topics. I’m probably the best critic of Rothbard’s ethics, but you’ll find Hoppe’s arguments criticized all over the place. But what you won’t find is his solution to the problem of institutions criticized, or Rothbard’s history criticized. Or of you do, I’ll bet its pretty stupid criticism.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy Of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 16:47:00 UTC

  • THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA 1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he

    THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA

    1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he entered it.

    2) Man’s purpose is to bend nature to our will.

    3) Man’s purpose is to question everything.

    OR HEGEL’S VERSION

    –“The principle of the European mind is self-conscious Reason which is

    confi dent that for it there can be no insuperable barrier and which therefore

    takes an interest in everything in order to become present to itself

    therein…In Europe, therefore, there prevails this infinite thirst for

    knowledge…The European is interested in the world, he wants to know it,

    to make this Other confronting him his own, to bring to view the genus,

    law, universal, thought, the inner rationality, in the particular forms of

    the world. As in the theoretical, so too in the practical, the European

    mind…subdues the outer world to its ends with an energy which has

    ensured for it the mastery of the world. Hegel, Philosophy of Mind”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 14:55:00 UTC

  • LAUGHABLE ARGUMENTS OF ROTHBARDIANS I always find it interesting that rothbardia

    LAUGHABLE ARGUMENTS OF ROTHBARDIANS

    I always find it interesting that rothbardians claim they are misunderstood and have the ‘right moral vision for man’, in spite of the rejection of those ideas, arguments, and values by the majority, then one second later you hear: ‘but no one believes that’, or ‘most people think’ or some other appeal to common perception as a means of reaching for legitimacy.

    Weak minds easily fall for weak arguments. 🙂

    You know who you are. lol

    Rothbardian ethics are objectively immoral and are the reason for the failure of libertarianism. Period. End of story. Get over it. Move on. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 14:38:00 UTC

  • THE KINSHIP OF PROPERTY RIGHTS –“Aristocratic Egalitarianism Is The Kinship Of

    THE KINSHIP OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

    –“Aristocratic Egalitarianism Is The Kinship Of Property Rights. He who shall exchange the defense of property with me, I shall treated as my kin.”–

    (I think that’s the most reductive statement that I can make. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 11:02:00 UTC

  • THE POPULAR WILL IS MURDEROUS Our civilization was built upon the work of three

    THE POPULAR WILL IS MURDEROUS

    Our civilization was built upon the work of three people: a prophet: Jesus, a philosopher: Socrates, and a scientist: Aristotle; two of whom were murdered under the popular will, and the third who barely escaped their attempt.

    (base upon quote from Madariaga)

    –“…our civilization rests on the death of two persons: a philosopher (Socrates) and the Son of God (Jesus), both victims of the popular will.”– Madariaga

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 08:40:00 UTC

  • PERSONAL SKYPE CHATS ON PROPERTARIANSM, ARISTOCRATIC LIBERTARIANISM, AND CRITICI

    PERSONAL SKYPE CHATS ON PROPERTARIANSM, ARISTOCRATIC LIBERTARIANISM, AND CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIANISM

    (monthly repetition of the offer)

    Pretty successful last go round. So I think I’ll keep posting this offer once a month or so to see how it goes.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 06:36:00 UTC

  • GATES’ GO TO CHURCH. I GO TO CHURCH TOO. I TALK TO GOD. (PRETTY OFTEN REALLY) No

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-gates-reveals-family-goes-to-catholic-church-it-makes-sense-to-believe-in-god-116166/THE GATES’ GO TO CHURCH. I GO TO CHURCH TOO. I TALK TO GOD. (PRETTY OFTEN REALLY)

    Now, my reasons for going to church, for talking to god are fairly intellectual, and not in the least superstitious or supernatural. But then that is based upon one’s ability to think in increasing degrees of abstraction from the more simplistic and anthropomorphic. I might prefer that ‘church’ preached the “Matter of Greece, France, Germany, and England” as myths, and I might prefer that the ‘church school’ taught physical fitness, military and political strategy, morality and the law, the use of money, and economics’. But I accept the simple fact that a polity must experience running, dancing, chanting, singing, reciting, together to help us ‘bond’ by reminding us of our origins as a pac; of surrendering our will to the group – which is the source of the feeling of ‘spirituality’, and the ultimate sense of safety that we can experience.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 06:14:00 UTC

  • ITS UP TO ROTHBARDIANS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE NOT MORALLY BLIND ADVOCATES

    ITS UP TO ROTHBARDIANS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE NOT MORALLY BLIND ADVOCATES OF A PARASITIC, IMMORAL IDEOLOGY….

    …rejected by all but a dysfunctional minority; and by their profligate advocacy of an unethical, immoral, parasitic, regressive, and therefore politically impossible criteria for a voluntary social order, have impeded and harmed the preservation and expansion of our liberty.

    We cannot look to the ghetto – a state within a state – for institutional, legal, and moral insight. We must look to Aristocracy, the militia, the common law, the absolute nuclear family, and the total suppression of free riding, in all its forms, for our moral, legal and institutional insight. Because only Aristocratic Egalitarians of european history have produced liberty in any form.

    The vast majority of humans do not want liberty. But all wish to enjoy the prosperity that results from the aristocracy’s suppression of free riding, and the increased velocity of production and trade that results from that undesired suppression of free riding.

    The use of organized violence to eliminate free riding by a willing and committed minority, the admission into enfranchisement of those who demonstrate such a commitment, and the desire of, and incentive for, the unenfranchised to participate in the wealth of the market produced by the violent suppression of free riding, is the only means of obtaining liberty. Everything else is merely the pretense of liberty by permission of others, and the free riding upon those who fight to preserve liberty against the pervasive human preference to free ride whenever possible.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine.

    Слава Україні Glory to Ukraine

    Слава Європі Glory to Europe

    Слава Свободи Glory to Liberty

    Слава всім нам. Glory to us all.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 05:56:00 UTC

  • WORLD’S BEST WORK SPACE? 😉 OK. Off to the coffee shop. “The Lviv Strudel and Ga

    http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g295377-d4187431-Reviews-Lvivski_pljacky-Lviv_Lviv_Oblast.htmlTHE WORLD’S BEST WORK SPACE? 😉

    OK. Off to the coffee shop. “The Lviv Strudel and Galacian Cheesecake Bakery” Which has a branch near the Metro in Kontractova Plaza. About 500 yards from the apartment. Amazing food. Great staff. Good wireless. Good music. Not too loud.

    Today’s work? I have to break down each of the moral biases and give references to the research in support of each. Then describe it in property rights. This isn’t all that difficult, it’s just tedious. I’ve been putting it off since last summer. (because it’s tedious).

    Moscow in my jaded, and not terribly humble opinion has the best coffee and pastry shops of any major city that I’ve been to. Vienna of course has the best cakes. But here in Kiev we have some pretty darn good shops. Lots of little shops with great coffee, great pastry, good FREE wireless. A lot like seattle really. Except the people are nicer, better looking, and the pastries are better.

    So when you either write or program for a living, coffee shops are the most awesome – if expensive – part time work space

    (NOTE: Our instinct for liberty comes from three sources: controlling alphas, the awareness of the undiscovered valley, and our openness to and desire for new stimulation. Evolution is AWESOME.)

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 05:04:00 UTC