Curt Doolittle

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  • THOSE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING MY WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM (Prior to its compl

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING MY WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM

    (Prior to its completion)

    For some reason I’ve had a bevy of requests over the past week for help understanding my work. I know that people sense that I’ve produced some interesting answers that ring true, but how can they either learn, test or falsify those arguments?

    Well, I’ve been working on a book for a while now. And just as I think I’ve completed it, I understand something new and significant enough, that I have to restate my arguments. This turns out, most of the time, to make the arguments more compact. But that compactness takes time.

    I think the best way to look at what I’m doing is to correct and complete praxeology (cooperation), as a ratio-scientific system of thought, based on reproductive strategies and reproductive instincts, that can compete with reason (words), numbers (identity), measurement (relations), physics (causes), and money (economics), as the logic of cooperation. If I am as successful as I think I have been, then I will have completed Mises’ work in producing the only science that was not invented in the ancient world, and therefore, solved the problem of the social sciences that has eluded us for millennia. Mises identified praxeology with economics, which is only partly correct. It is instead the science of cooperation, of which economics is merely a component.

    My original goal was only to provide conservatives with a rational language with which to articulate their preferred and habituated social order, by transforming libertarian property rights theory into a universal property rights theory. But the end result is that I have, I think, except for the formal arguments, completed praxeology.

    An interesting side effect is that in ‘completing the set of sciences’, and incorporating ‘action’ via operational language into those sciences, I have also been able to ‘cure’ mathematics of platonism, and legitimize Scientific Realism as the only logically tenable metaphysics and epistemology that can survive scrutiny by all the scientific disciplines, from reason through cooperation.

    This should, albeit differently from Mises’ intention, succeed in rendering the obscurant leftist language of kleptocracy, and possible, all competing languages for the discussion of politics and economics, archaic.

    The greeks themselves, as an aristocratic class, had heavily loaded their philosophical language, and we have but persisted in copying that loading across the ages. In no small part because this loading was necessary for both the function of religion and state, in a period where the institutions of law, money and credit were not sufficiently universal to tolerate ‘honest discourse’ on the structure of cooperation. It was this persistence in us, and the problem of institutions, that prevented the solution to the social sciences – at least until Mises and Weber.

    I will unfortunately have to refute the Misesian and Rothbardian categories that define praxeology as what they are: nonsense – or rather demonstrate that they are advocacy rather than science. However, this refutation will result in an extremely simple socio biological representation of human action as cooperation on reproduction given different modes of material production that are available, while accommodating the natural instincts that we posses from our ancestors.

    The outcome of this confrontation of previous moral argument with scientific reality, and calculative necessity, is that different social orders – meaning allocations of property rights – benefit different groups differently based upon their relative abilities. But the underlying moral instincts that drive these multitudinous permutations of manners, ethics, morals and norms, laws, and property rights, myths, rituals and traditions, remains constant across all human beings.

    The fundamental problem facing all groups is the increasing suppression of discounts, and their replacement by market competition.

    Northern Europeans, Protestants, North Sea Peoples, The Outbred Absolute Nuclear Family Culture that developed out of Indo European Circumpolar people’s pastoralism, the horse, bronze, wheel and chariot, Manorialism, the church’s interventions, and natural trade patterns between the Mediterranean and the north sea, were the most successful at suppressing discounts in all walks of life. The result was the high trust society: the extension of in-group moral intuitions to all members of the local society, to whom they were closely related.

    This is a selection of postings I’ve written over the past year.

    MY FULL ‘ARISTOCRATIC’ READING LISTS ARE AT

    www.propertarianism.com/reading-list/

    ON THE ORIGINS OF THE ETHICS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    See Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

    ON THE ORIGINS OF OUR FAMILY MODELS IN LAND USE

    See Emmanuel Todd

    ON THE ORIGINS OF INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

    Engels,Todd and Duchesne (Pastoralism)(Manorialism)

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/07/6480/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-moral-basis-of-red-and-blue-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11 26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/19/diedre-mccloskeys-close-on-the-european-miracle-just-close/

    ON THE ORIGINS OF THE RULE OF LAW AND ON THE ORIGINS OF THE COMMON LAW

    (see hoppe and rothbard)

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/on-law-as-a-problem-of-calculation-coordination-and-dispute-resolution-in-the-face-of-necessary-ignorance-and-diversity-of-interest/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2012/07/31/justice-scalia-explains-textualism-and-originalism-without-explaining-why-we-must-rely-upon-them/

    ON TRUST

    Fukuyama: Trust, Various by Huntington

    ON PROPERTY RIGHTS AS INCREASING SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS AND FORCIBLE TRANSFER OF COMPETITION INTO THE MARKET WHERE THE RESULTS ARE VIRTUOUS.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/the-origins-of-property-as-increasing-prohibitions-on-discounts/

    ON CHIVALRY AS STATUS THROUGH SERVICE

    (can’t find any posts quickly)

    ON THE STATE SUPPRESSION OF FREE RIDING AND THE RESULTING CONCENTRATION OF RENT SEEKING

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/why-doesnt-it-occur-to-us-that-we-dont-need-a-single-monopoly-government/

    ON RACE AND DIVERSITY

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/core-on-race-and-diversity-in-libertarianism/

    ON CLASS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/propertarian-class-theory/

    ON GENDER

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-female-arms-race-against-men-how-many-people-can-i-rally/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/genies-cant-be-put-back-into-bottles/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2012/12/11/single-women-now-rule-america/#.UrysYGQW3Wo

    THE LIMITS OF MISESIAN CRITICISM OF ECONOMICS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    ON THE REFORMATION OF PRAXEOLOGY, SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE MORAL SCIENCES

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/propertarianism-the-formal-logic-of-cooperation/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/we-cannot-think-without-metaphysical-biases/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-problem-of-ratio-moral-versus-ratio-scientific-arguments/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/20/legal-equality-is-necessary-economic-equality-is-unattainable-and-genetic-equality-is-undesirable-your-genes-matter/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/17/logic-praxeology-and-science-dependency-and-demarcation-reforming-libertarianism-by-incorporating-scientific-argument-rather-than-relying-on-the-purely-rational/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/19/necessity-vs-preference-in-political-and-ethical-theory/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/scientific-and-philosophical-realism-terms-working-page/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/01/the-purpose-of-philosophy-in-the-analytic-naturalistic-philosophy-of-action/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/14/on-realism/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/on-the-distribution-of-platonism-in-the-stem-fields/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/we-cannot-think-without-metaphysical-biases/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/27/the-cognitive-biases-in-the-empirical-fields/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/27/1-on-the-purpose-of-scriptural-versus-rational-and-ratio-scientific-ideologies-2-on-the-source-of-property-rights-and-liberty/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/the-incentives-of-scientists-and-philosophers-a-virtuous-competition-for-status

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/01/more-on-hoppe-et-all-vs-popper-from-elsewhere/

    ON PROPERTARIANISM

    http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/08/31/ethics-morality-defined/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/competition-is-the-only-sanctioned-involuntary-transfer/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/cultures-are-portfolios-of-property-rights/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/17/property-is-not-created-by-a-choice-or-by-a-belief-it-is-an-action-that-action-is-the-application-of-organized-violence/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/the-honesty-of-violence/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/12/putting-violence-back-into-polite-political-discourse-once-sentence-at-a-time/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/14/the-source-of-private-property-is-violence/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/reason-and-fact-are-insufficient-for-persuasion-because-myth-mysticism-and-falsehood-are-more-comfortable-truths/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/property-praxeology-and-violence/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/voluntary-transfer-is-the-only-testable-ethical-principle/

    ON PROPERTARIANISM VS LIBERTARIANISM

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/notes-on-the-libertarian-reformation-revised-and-edited/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/12/internecine-warfare-as-evidence-of-intellectual-failure/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/core-on-the-utopianism-of-libertarianism/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-mythology-of-the-enlightenment/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-aristocracy-of-everybody-is-a-failure/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/15/a-critique-of-the-anarchic-program-compared-to-the-intuitive-and-conservative-programs/#.Uryd1GQW3Wo

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/dont-throw-out-the-libertarian-baby-with-the-progressive-bathwater/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/17/the-value-of-hoppes-anarcho-capitalist-research-program/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/01/property-rights-and-taxes-as-loans/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/rights-and-fuzzy-language-you-demand-rights-you-cant-have-them-without-an-exchange/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/23/dear-libertarians-join-the-21st-century-dont-fight-the-last-war-its-postmodernism-not-socialism/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/20/brian-caplan-is-wrong-on-immigration-like-most-libertarians/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/13/kinsellas-criticism-of-locke-and-my-explanation-of-lockes-reasonable-mistake-and-what-to-do-about-it/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/09/on-rent-seeking/

    ON DEBATE

    http://www.propertarianism.com/tools-and-techniques-for-political-debate/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/08/29/a-short-essay-on-the-moral-obligation-to-disregard-feelings-in-political-discourse/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 17:37:00 UTC

  • ON MUHAMMED The media can glorify anyone with nonsense words. But Muhammed was a

    ON MUHAMMED

    The media can glorify anyone with nonsense words. But Muhammed was a warrior who took a bunch of ignorant criminals experienced in constant warfare and used them to raid two civilizations exhausted from long term war, and guarantee that they never returned to prior successes.

    Would the world be a better place with the Sassanid Iranians and the Eastern Roman Byzantines unconquered? It’s pretty hard to argue otherwise. All of Islamic ‘thought’ was the product of conquered people from Greek, Byzantine and Sassanid empires, writing in Arabic to please their masters.

    Very much like the same tactic, used by the mongols to conquer and rape the Indians and the slavs. Their is nothing to respect here. You can respect the Chinese at least for using their capacity for war to create a vast and wealthy civilization. But you cannot respect teh mongols, nor the arabs, because in both cases, they used cavalry tactics to destroy capital and trade. Their destruction of Mediterranean trade deprived Europe of gold, and trade from the wealthier east, and brought about the dark ages.

    Sort of crediting the antique dealers for the design and production of their wares. Or the plague bearers for surviving. I mean, we aren’t all impressed with ourselves for wiping out the native americans.

    If the christianization of Europe was not the greatest human tragedy in history, then the conquest of the Byzantines and the islamification of the Balkans, and the destruction of the Iranian indo-european civilization by the arab, certainly was. The most recent human tragedy was wold communism. Thankfully the Anglosphere was not sufficiently exhausted to resist it. And the economic program was such a failure that it wasn’t sustainable.

    however, we must understand, that EUROPE **IS** exhausted, genetically and is dying under the weight of immigration without assimilation.

    Only one people has invented science, reason, and industrialization, and done it twice. Everyone else is an also ran, except the Chinese, who probably would have done the same, if not prisoners of ideographic language, under the control of philosophers who failed to solve the problem of politics and therefore, the problem of economics.

    Inbred, ignorant, mystical, low trust, anti-rational, anti-scientific, overbreeding, low intelligence, highly impulsive, incapable of intellectual or artistic innovation people are not impressive to me. I can make nearly the same criticism of rats and dogs.

    Is that insulting enough. lol ?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 14:48:00 UTC

  • Dear God(s). Thank you for my friends. My family. Even the woman in my life. 😉

    Dear God(s). Thank you for my friends. My family. Even the woman in my life. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 11:36:00 UTC

  • “Permanent gold backwardation will trigger hyperdeflation ‘with the certainty of

    “Permanent gold backwardation will trigger hyperdeflation ‘with the certainty of scientific law’. ” – NASOE

    You know, I’m not a hard money bug, but I cannot disagree with this statement. But there is a solution other than gold, it is, ‘calculability’, or the requirement for returns on credit issued at interest.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 11:34:00 UTC

  • FUNNY: I thought I would share. The government sued me for $1.2M But it turns ou

    FUNNY:

    I thought I would share.

    The government sued me for $1.2M

    But it turns out that they owe me, with interest!!! LOL I knew it.

    2009 – $36,020

    2010 – $43,331

    2011 – $53,835

    2012 – $47,090

    Total refunds due: $180,276

    I can run software development in Kiev for an entire year on that much money. 🙂

    I should have all my money back in week. 🙂

    But I think that the hotel does not want me now. So that I must go. 🙁

    Love you.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 10:37:00 UTC

  • “LET MY PEOPLE GO” What then, is the difference, between the enslavement of the

    “LET MY PEOPLE GO”

    What then, is the difference, between the enslavement of the rabble for the satisfaction of the nobility, and the enslavement of the productive for the satisfaction of the rabble?

    “LET MY PEOPLE, GO!”

    Why should the rabble be herded and exploited for the benefit of the upper middle classes. Why should the middle and upper middle classes be herded and exploited for the benefit of the lower and elite classes?

    “LET MY PEOPLE GO! LET US DIVIDE!

    NULLIFY. RESIST. REVOLT. SECEDE!

    LET MY PEOPLE, GO!

    We have as much a right to pursue our interests as an extended family than every other people has the right to its identity and success.

    “PHARAOH!, PHARAOH!, LET MY PEOPLE, GO!”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 08:56:00 UTC

  • IS THE EASIEST WAY TO DISMANTLE AN OVERREACHING BUREAUCRACY

    http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/tim-draper-six-californias-secede-silicon-valley-ballot-initiative/SECESSION IS THE EASIEST WAY TO DISMANTLE AN OVERREACHING BUREAUCRACY

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 08:15:00 UTC

  • We moved entirely to Oversing today, and we’re using our own product entirely. (

    We moved entirely to Oversing today, and we’re using our own product entirely. (Its fun really).

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 08:11:00 UTC

  • INSURED, FREE RIDER VS PARASITE – The Spectrum Of Free Riding. Terminology confl

    INSURED, FREE RIDER VS PARASITE – The Spectrum Of Free Riding.

    Terminology conflict: “Free Rider” vs “Parasitic”

    In dry economic language, we use the term ‘free rider’. In libertarian language, we use the term “Parasitic”.

    Free Riding refers to the in-group relation between producer and free rider – in group, in-family, free riding is a form of redistribution.

    In the North Sea Model, Parasitic is accurate since the unit of cooperation is the absolute nuclear family. And free riding even upon parents is prohibited. So parasitic is the correct out-group description of the affect free riders have on the producers.

    I had always considered ‘parasitic’ a loaded term. But it’s not. Turns out that it’s accurate.

    Although propertarianism has led me to conclude that I do not see a problem with insuring people against destitution, I so see a problem with parasitism and free riding.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 07:40:00 UTC

  • Divided land, divided church Protests in Ukraine have highlighted the division b

    http://www.dw.de/ukraine-divided-land-divided-church/a-17296538Ukraine: Divided land, divided church

    http://www.dw.de/ukraine-divided-land-divided-church/a-17296538

    Protests in Ukraine have highlighted the division between the country’s two main Orthodox churches. One has an independent streak and is protecting demonstrators from police. The other is subordinate to Moscow. …

    In the early hours of November 30, dramatic scenes played out before the monastery gates. A few hundred meters downhill, on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), special police forces violently cleared a camp set up by opponents of the government. Hundreds of students were brutally beaten and chased into the surrounding streets. They found refuge at the monastery. Priests blocked the path of the baton-wielding police officers and did not let them through. …

    The monastery’s opposition role does not appear to be a coincidence. It was destroyed during the Soviet era and rebuilt in the 1990s. It belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate. That church was founded after the independence of Ukraine and considers itself independent. But the Russian Orthodox Church has blocked it from gaining recognition as a part of the global Orthodoxy. The move was political, said Kyiv Patriarchate spokesman Archbishop Yevstratiy. “Russia wants to use the church to retain its influence over Ukraine.”

    Moscow’s schism

    Most believers in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. It has its headquarters in the famous Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery on the steep right bank of the Dniper River. This church is subordinate to the Russian Patriarch. …

    The two-decade-long division in Ukrainian Orthodoxy is reflected in the attitude toward the current events. Where the Kyiv Patriarchate granted demonstrators protection from the police, its priests praying alongside hundreds of thousands of protesters on the Maidan, the Moscow-oriented Patriarchate is behaving differently.

    “Our priests may indeed go to the demonstrations, but only as citizens, and not as churchmen,” spokesman Grigori Kovalenko told DW. He denied, however, that this was due to instructions from Russia. “There is no influence on us from Moscow,” he said.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 07:21:00 UTC