Curt Doolittle

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  • REPOST (quotable) Progressivism: Incrementalism via the art of ‘Obscure, Lie, an

    REPOST

    (quotable)

    Progressivism: Incrementalism via the art of ‘Obscure, Lie, and Justify’.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 09:48:00 UTC

  • LOOKING LIKE CENTRAL AMERICA? Loving the commons is not common. It’s unique to P

    http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-pico-union-trash-20131029,0,73522.storyLA LOOKING LIKE CENTRAL AMERICA?

    Loving the commons is not common. It’s unique to Protestantism and the absolute nuclear family (ANF). Everyone else ruins the commons.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 09:12:00 UTC

  • “OUR POLITICAL NATURE”: PAPER MACHE INTELLECTUALISM. (book review) (criticism) =

    “OUR POLITICAL NATURE”: PAPER MACHE INTELLECTUALISM.

    (book review) (criticism)

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    This review is from: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

    Trivial, biased regurgitation of Haidt’s work without credit.,

    October 29, 2013

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    1.0 out of 5 stars

    I understand the business of writing money-making books by regurgitating the works of others for fun and profit. And I understand the need to simplify works for less academic readers. But I also understand not giving credit to the people who you’re copying. Especially when it’s by attempting to avoid references to them. I also understand the use of obscurant language, bias as propaganda, and oversimplification via analogy as a means of inserting deception.

    This is a weak attempt by an also-ran author to insert his political bias into the political discourse as a substitute for scholarship. It’s not plagiarism per se. Because that would add insult to the prior work.

    Read Haidt instead. It is a balanced work by the leading academic in the field. If you read “The Righteous Mind”, “Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System”, “The Red Queen”, and “Demonic Males” you will know pretty much the moral origins of human beings. If you read Andrew Heywood’s “Political Ideologies : An Introduction” that will explain political discourse.

    The fact is, that moral codes are largely genetic. What isn’t genetic is determined by the structure of the family (absolute nuclear, nuclear, traditional, extended or tribal). What isn’t determined by family structure is determined by economics. However, this is all misleading because MORAL sensibilities are different from VOTING PATTERNS.

    American voting patterns can be reduced to this single statement, and nothing else matters:

    —“93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of those under 30, and 62% of single people, voted for Obama. And white married couples over 30 years of age voted for Romney. Not much else matters.”—

    -Dick Morris”

    NOTHING ELSE MATTERS – WE ARE TRIBAL CREATURES.

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 07:31:00 UTC

  • MONOPOLY AND BUREAUCRACY Again, there are NECESSARY functions of government. ( s

    http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/AGAIN: MONOPOLY AND BUREAUCRACY

    Again, there are NECESSARY functions of government.

    ( see http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/#propertarian item (g) )

    While the definition of property rights must, in the end, be homogenous across groups as individual property rights, there is no reason why we need a monopoly means of organizing people under those property rights. There is absolutely no material reason why we cannot have polycentric governments that vary from absolute surrender to minarchy.

    Government, in the sense, that we need both a definition of property rights, and a means of common investment, as well as common insurance – and all organizations require leaders, even if they are purely judges, selected randomly by lot. (preferably so)

    If you’re wandering around saying government is evil rather than bureaucracy and monopoly are evil you’re just polluting the intellectual pool.

    The problem is monopoly, bureaucracy, and the sanction of various partial monopolies and rents by those in the state, to persist their control over the state.

    SECRET

    The chinese philosophers could not, because of the asian family structure and existing hierarchy solve the problem of politics, like the Greeks solved the system of politics PRECISELY because they were not hierarchically solidified. Confucius and Lao Tzu failed. They directed the entire civilization to operate as an extended family. (Unfortunately, Fukuyama is wrong. As usual. But at least he’s informative.)

    We libertarians are making a similar mistake. ROTHBARD FAILED, and so did his ethics. Hoppe succeeded (by admittedly strange means) and solve the problem of politics at scale for us. But Rothbard failed, either by intent, or by cultural influence, or by lack of understanding. But he failed. And he continues to cause us to fail at securing our liberty.

    While I would agree that violence was necessary to transform barbarians into city and farm dwellers, I would also argue that such a monopoly was necessary to conduct that transformation.

    But now we need a DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION. The barbarians are converted. The problem is not how to convert barbarians. THe problem is how to prevent FEMALES from returning us to barbarism via the ballot box.

    Socialism was murderous. But the threat to human prosperity is the assumption that women have the right to reproduce at the expense of others, or that all reproduction is of necessity ‘good’.

    Government is not the enemy. Monopoly is. Socialism is not a problem any longer. But feminism and the totalitarian humanism that is an expression of feminine communism are.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 07:27:00 UTC

  • INTERESTING : DAVE RAMSAY ETC : CREDIT AND THE STATE (personal finance) Never he

    INTERESTING : DAVE RAMSAY ETC : CREDIT AND THE STATE

    (personal finance)

    Never heard of this guy until recently. But his message is pretty good for average families who get trapped on the credit treadmill.

    ON CREDIT

    Myself, I don’t use credit cards. If I don’t have cash I don’t buy it. Cars included. I’ll never have another mortgage either, if I can help it. I pay and save first, then the rest of my income is mine to spend as foolishly as I want. I hit my reserves for new investments. Otherwise I live on my income.

    Now, my reasons are different: my aspiness is a challenge. Paying bills quarterly works for me. Paying them monthly is just not something I’ll remember to do. And I only take on bills that can be paid by debit card, over the phone or via email. I don’t like the stress of fighting my subconscious so I don’t get on the TREADMILL of credit. EVER. (Well, I did impulsively buy my Jaguar XJR on credit, but it was a steal. But for the exotics, and all others, I paid cash.)

    Most of my income volatility in life is driven by business investments which usually require extraordinary income sacrifice (at least for me they have.)

    And I’ve carried from 4M to 20M in commercial credit for most of my adult life. (Which I find humorous for some reason.)

    ON WOMEN:

    There are a lot of women who get their happiness from nesting. And they make a wonderful nest. But the problem is that you can’t lower their standard of living if you want to take a business risk. So my advice is to make sure that you know what partner you’re buying into. Those women are usually a pleasure to live with. But they are hard to build financial wealth with.

    ON THE STATE:

    Taxes and Credit are the fuel of the state. The libertarian in me seeks to starve the state wherever possible.

    SO I’M ALL FOR THE DAVE RAMSEY and VOLITIONAL movements. 🙂 Mostly as a rebellion against the state. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 06:44:00 UTC

  • I just cannot keep up with the drinking in this culture of semi professional alc

    I just cannot keep up with the drinking in this culture of semi professional alcoholics.

    I surrender. I cant make the team. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 06:25:00 UTC

  • THE WAR AGAINST WHITE MARRIED PEOPLE “93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of thos

    THE WAR AGAINST WHITE MARRIED PEOPLE

    “93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of those under 30, and 62% of single people, voted for Obama. And white married couples over 30 years of age voted for Romney. Not much else matters.”

    –Dick Morris

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 14:48:00 UTC

  • SARTORIALIST DOES KIEV I can’t believe you were here and I didn’t catch it!!! Si

    http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/the-sartorialist-in-poland-and-ukraine/THE SARTORIALIST DOES KIEV

    I can’t believe you were here and I didn’t catch it!!! Sigh.

    Ukraine fashion any day, on the way to work in the morning. Friday night at the restaurants. Saturday night at the restaurants and clubs. Any sunny day on Khreshchatyk.

    But you know, Sartorialist fashion is PROLE fashion, and Kiev fashion is ARISTOCRATIC. Not sure it’s a fit. (And our way, here in Kiev, is better, thanks. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 13:20:00 UTC

  • ( Please to not invite me to games. It irritates the hell out of me. I play a ga

    ( Please to not invite me to games. It irritates the hell out of me. I play a game for a living: entrepreneurship. I play another one for fun: that game is politics. And I try to avoid the really addictive ones on the PC. I don’t need other games. OK? 🙂 )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 13:07:00 UTC

  • WATCHING THE PRESIDENT : TRENCHANT NAIVE IDEALISM Watching Bush II was kind of i

    WATCHING THE PRESIDENT : TRENCHANT NAIVE IDEALISM

    Watching Bush II was kind of interesting. He sort of looked at his job and it unfolded as he expected, and he knew what the price would be, and his position was that history is the only judge of presidential actions. Now, I disagreed with him on a bunch of them. And his presidency was the last hope of restoring the republic. Demographics have made it impossible now. We have to break up the empire to preserve western civilization in any form at all.

    Watching this guy is something quite different. Most of us knew he was symbolic. That he’s an empty suit elected by the media as a cure for white sins. And honestly, given the change in behavior of black males, I wish we could have elected a black man earlier, and done it with a conservative.

    But this guy has a different bias. He actually believes all the nonsense he was exposed as a child, all the hate he was told, and is taking revenge on america as best as he can with his time in office. He undoubtably thinks he us undoing injustices.

    He makes gaffe after gaffe, idiotic policy move after policy move, and they all fail. And he doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t understand why his is unappreciated. He doesn’t understand why they fail.

    But you can see it in his face that he expects people to love and appreciate him. He doesn’t understand why we don’t agree with him. He doesn’t UNDERSTAND.

    “HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND”

    It’s either that or he’s the most evil person to get into politics since Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin. Because you couldn’t screw up the world more than this if you tried. I didn’t think we could have a president worse than Carter, or more inept at execution than Bush.

    But I was wrong.

    You know, Clinton was a freaking genius at politics and if he hadn’t been so freaking stupid with feminizing the military, radical conservatives, and his attraction to large breasts, he’d be unassailable. I mean I loved and hated him at the same time.

    People underestimate Reagan. He was brilliant. Charismatic, profoundly moral. He read Hayek and applied it. He understood it. He changed the world. He was a perfect high priest of american culture. He was the last high priest of it.

    Obama is just another politically approved, symbolic fool put into a administrative job in control of the empire – an empire past its peak, purpose, and utility.

    And you can see it on his face as he runs away to play golf to get away from the work load.

    KINGS AND QUEENS AND GUILLOTINES

    A monarch’s job is to be the high priest of civic culture. THe most envied societies are monarchies. Monarchs must have veto power, and little else. They are the representation of the people’s moral code. And their morality is guaranteed by guillotine. YOu cannot kill a bureaucracy but you can kill a king.

    We need to break up the empire. We are now for to twelve different cultures and we need to break into four to twelve different countries.

    The only value of the federal government is in the efficiency and power of a combined military force, and the function of an insurer of last resort. It has no value in law. No value in trade. No value in culture. No value in morality. And may in fact produce just the opposite.

    Let us see how the northeast and the left coast function with a hostile and conservative farmland between them.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 13:04:00 UTC