Curt Doolittle

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  • The youngest libertarian

    The youngest libertarian …

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 12:44:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 05:14:00 UTC

  • STRATEGY ON WALL STREET Conservatives and republicans seek to protect wall stree

    http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/what-explains-wall-streets-shift-away-obama-fat-cat-comments-or-dodd-frankCONSERVATIVE STRATEGY ON WALL STREET

    Conservatives and republicans seek to protect wall street as a defense against the socialist state.

    It is the only defense they have. They rely upon: small business, family conservatives, evangelicals, the military, and the financial sector.

    This is another example of how people will pay very high costs to punish ‘cheaters’.

    And it at least appears that the republicans have been successful in recruiting wall street.

    If this hypothesis is true, it will mean a watershed moment has occurred.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 03:37:00 UTC

  • MORAL SPATIAL REASONING I might have been wrong about something interesting. For

    MORAL SPATIAL REASONING

    I might have been wrong about something interesting.

    For years I have understood that Europeans have superior spatial reasoning especially in the perception of the locations of others in real time. Europeans are followed by east Asians.

    But I assumed that this was a product of military or hunting selection.

    It didn’t occur to me that it is the product of morality: understanding of the intentions of others, and that hunting and fighting superiority, particularly in Europe and Asia evolved as extensions of the moral instinct.

    So does it mean that our concept of time preference should be restated in moral terms?

    We know that time preference, impulsivity and morality are correlated with social class. And that intelligence is also.

    We know that Europeans and east Asians are the least impulsive people. Asians less impulsive than Europeans.

    We know that only east Asians and europeans were able to create advanced societies and that only Europeans were able to break familial bonds.

    But are these all simply effects of greater sensitivity to and priority given to, the detection of intentions for the purpose of seizing opportunities to cooperate : morality?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 02:19:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll ha

    http://www.angrybearblog.com/2012/10/starve-state-support-traditional.htmlTHE CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST

    Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll have to write a response. But finally some progressives understand the conservative strategy. No thtat they can do anything about it. Because the middle class is too moral to adopt the progressive philosophy.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:17:00 UTC

  • EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

    http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/10/medium-of-account-vs-medium-of-exchange.htmlTHOUGHT EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:15:00 UTC

  • EMPLOYMENT TO POPULATION RATIO

    EMPLOYMENT TO POPULATION RATIO

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:06:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT The purpose of good government is to deny people acces

    THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT

    The purpose of good government is to deny people access to power. To deny people access to violence. To deny people access to fraud. To deny people access to theft. To deny people the ability to abuse ‘norms’. The best government denies people all possible means of pursuing self interest except through the service of each other in the market.

    Now, it is true that there are efforts that are relatively difficult to impossible to undertake without the structure of government, because the privatization of contribution to the commons must be prohibited in all forms of contract. And unlike entirely private goods and private contracts, it is possible to privatize (cheat) from from the public contributions to the commons. But this again, is a negative. Individuals do not need government to conduct these investments. They only need a forum for creating public contracts that bar all members of the citizenry from privatization (theft) of the commons being created by the investment.

    In the end analysis, this means, that the problem of government is the creation of law, and the use of buraucracy rather than contract and private services. Contracts have terms. They expire. They can be fulfilled. They cannot be modified at will by later legislatures. Private firms must survive competition. THey can die off. They cannot become a parasite on investors (the public.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 03:44:00 UTC

  • POLITICAL TRIBALISM IN THE US VS UKRAINE Even in the UK, where I feel more at ho

    POLITICAL TRIBALISM IN THE US VS UKRAINE

    Even in the UK, where I feel more at home than in the states, I don’t feel about the people the same way I do here. I literally want to hug them at random while walking down the street. THey are beautiful, sweet and wonderful. Partly because metaphysically speaking, they naturally think about government the way that we libertarians do: it’s a corrupt enterprise. And given that it’s a corrupt enterprise we must rely upon personal relationships. Personal relationships then, rather than abstract principles, determine the nature and content of communication between people. The degree to which americans are essentially ‘religious’ about social order is only evident to me in this dramatic contrast, where people have zero faith at all in such abstractions. For all american talk about freedom and liberty, we willfully oppress ourselves from both right and left. And while the political class here is openly predatory and self interested in paternal familialism, the american political class is just as predatory and self interested in ideological tribalism. It’s just the same instinct and process devoid of genetic preference, and obscured by ideological abstraction.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-31 07:38:00 UTC

  • EXPERIENCES Life is a collection of them. Every man envies and desires this one.

    EXPERIENCES

    Life is a collection of them.

    Every man envies and desires this one. And having lived it, they should.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-30 20:01:00 UTC