Curt Doolittle

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  • OF SEX AND MARRIAGE – SPOT ON (worth watching) (thanks Jacob)

    http://policymic.com/articles/82899/this-animated-video-shows-the-wild-economics-of-sexECONOMICS OF SEX AND MARRIAGE – SPOT ON

    (worth watching)

    (thanks Jacob)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 13:48:00 UTC

  • ***That one is ruled by a tyrant says much about the tyrant. THAT ONE IS RULED B

    ***That one is ruled by a tyrant says much about the tyrant. THAT ONE IS RULED BY AN INCOMPETENT SAYS MUCH ABOUT THE RULED.***

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 07:34:00 UTC

  • FAREWELL TO ALMS – PROSPERITY FOR ALL REQUIRES THE SUPPRESSION OF THE BREEDING O

    http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Princeton-ebook/dp/B001EQ4OLA/ref=la_B001I9OM4W_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393721299&sr=1-2A FAREWELL TO ALMS – PROSPERITY FOR ALL REQUIRES THE SUPPRESSION OF THE BREEDING OF THE UNDERCLASSES.

    As the germans keep demonstrating, the quality of your human capital determines your quality of life. Period. End. Of. Story.

    We are not equal. And increasingly, the bottom is dead weight on mankind, and the planet.

    Deal with it.

    Progressivism is suicide.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 19:58:00 UTC

  • SOCIAL STATUS IS AS HERITABLE AS ANY BIOLOGICAL TRAIT (because our social status

    SOCIAL STATUS IS AS HERITABLE AS ANY BIOLOGICAL TRAIT

    (because our social status is a reflection of our biological properties.)

    —“…overall social mobility rates are much lower than those typically estimated by sociologists or economists. The intergenerational correlation in all the societies for which we construct surname estimates — medieval England, modern England, the United States, India, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Chile, and even egalitarian Sweden — is between 0.7 and 0.9, much higher than conventionally estimated. Social status is inherited as strongly as any biological trait, such as height.” — Gregory Clark, _The Son Also Rises_

    SORRY LIB’S IT’S ALL GENES

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 19:41:00 UTC

  • IS EASTERN UKRAINE TOO?

    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116810/putin-declares-war-ukraine-why-and-what-nextTARGET IS EASTERN UKRAINE TOO?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 18:55:00 UTC

  • DISPOSABLE MALE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bATHE DISPOSABLE MALE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 17:33:00 UTC

  • “You see, …. *I’m* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I’m int

    –“You see, …. *I’m* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I’ve *seen* the future, you know what it is. It’s made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake…”– Edgar Friendly

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 13:37:00 UTC

  • THE VIRTUE OF SUPERIORITY “….the Nietzschean argument [is] that the act of dem

    THE VIRTUE OF SUPERIORITY

    “….the Nietzschean argument [is] that the act of demanding recognition and achieving self-worth may be inherently aristocratic and inegalitarian insofar as this demand is driven by a high emotional desire to be recognized as a superior rather than as an equal. “

    (The fear of being left behind.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 13:28:00 UTC

  • Back when I was in university, I did a little work with war games. It was very l

    Back when I was in university, I did a little work with war games. It was very little. But the experience was life altering.

    The absolute out-of-the-blue perfection of Putin’s invasion of Crimea is EXACTLY the kind of scenario that lands in your lap.

    I can pretty easily imagine what’s going on in the states right now.

    There is no compelling strategic interest in crimea.

    The Russians have a legitimate claim to the territory.

    We have used the same arguments in Panama and other places.

    BUT

    The west’s self image is predicated on being the police of self determination and the prohibitor of taking territory by force. The west loses, it loses it’s entire claim for moral legitimacy.

    It would have been easier for Putin to just engineer crimean annexation without troops. But you know, it’s BETTER FOR HIM to exercise muscle.

    GUTLESS MORON IN WASHINGTON

    This is why you don’t elect progressives to the presidency.

    They’re almost always confused. This president is not only confused. but lazy and stupid.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 12:56:00 UTC

  • GEEK ERA *STUDY* OF A WORK – HUNTING FOR NECESSARY ARGUMENTS. Reading is differe

    GEEK ERA *STUDY* OF A WORK – HUNTING FOR NECESSARY ARGUMENTS.

    Reading is different from studying. Studying means to me, not understanding the author’s arguments so much as understanding what his various arguments could imply.

    0) I read the TOC and random paragraphs in the interesting chapters.

    1) If it’s worth reading in depth, I read it once – really, just to understand the author’s theory.

    2) I convert it to text – usually from pdf to text file. A couple chapters at a time. I can almost always find it on line. If I can’t then I literally scan it a chapter at a time by hand.

    3) I edit the text file so that it’s suitable for spoken works.

    4) I convert it to computer generated speech.

    5) I listen to it, usually three or four times. Sometimes more.

    I ‘study’ the work until I can’t find a single idea in there left to benefit from.

    The truth is, that most authors’ theories can be deduced from the TOC and the book jacket. Just as most books are really better stated as a ‘paper’ than a book. They’re simple.

    A lot of work is predicated upon theories that are nonsensical. And I simply can’t put up with reading them. Others are biased (Fukuyama’s) but I can see through the bias. Some are simply wrong, or failed attempts as pseudoscience (Mises praxeology and Rothbard’s ethics), some are obscurantist pseudo-scientific masks for ignorance (Freud), some obscurantist and fraudulent (Heidegger), some mystical (religion), and as such, I consider most of them ‘evil’ and I just ignore them.

    History tends to be a little less victim of stupidity than philosophy. And as Durant said, the answers to questions of man are in history, not in philosophy. There are no answers there.

    Very few works are substantial enough (like Hayek’s) to actually STUDY. Some works are just so large (histories) that I find I have to listen to them a few times before I’ve exhausted the possibilities that the author has made possible.

    I guess one of the things that helps us study others is that, we write to understand and communicate to others our understanding. Books are experiments. I know some people seem to have much higher reading comprehension to me, because they’re trying to understand the author’s point of view. And I sort of don’t work that way. Instead, I simply am looking for theories. For arguments. Not justifications. But NECESSARY arguments.

    NECESSARY is very different from JUSTIFICATIONARY.

    And if you HUNT for NECESSARY arguments you will find very few of them. And when you do, it’s like finding buried treasure.

    There are very few necessary arguments.

    And fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange is one of them.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 12:47:00 UTC