Curt Doolittle

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  • SMART CAR BLOWN OFF THE ROAD TODAY We’re driving in the blowing snow behind a pl

    SMART CAR BLOWN OFF THE ROAD TODAY

    We’re driving in the blowing snow behind a plow on a rural road between scrubby corn fields where the vicious wind is easily defeating the plow’s futile but diligent attempts to keep the road clear. A green Smart Car is stopped at an intersection parallel to the wind. The driver tries to get across before the plow piles more snow in front of her, and accelerates to the left, putting her car perpendicular to the wind, and is abruptly whisked way into the ditch like so much snow off the roof of a passing truck. Of course, being rural Canada. young men fall out of cars (and all over themselves) to help her. She’s unharmed.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-25 20:09:00 UTC

  • ON BEING QUOTED I’d like to say I’m aloof enough not to care when someone quotes

    ON BEING QUOTED

    I’d like to say I’m aloof enough not to care when someone quotes me. Especially when it’s favorable. But I’m not. It makes me happy. It’s evidence that laying one little brick at a time makes a difference. Thanks.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-25 19:25:00 UTC

  • AN EXAMPLE OF SCIENTISTIC HUBRIS IN ECONOMICS “Ben Bernanke has said that he cou

    AN EXAMPLE OF SCIENTISTIC HUBRIS IN ECONOMICS

    “Ben Bernanke has said that he could not save Lehman because it would be have been in violation of the law. My response is that it is not his responsibility to enforce the law. It is his responsibility to safe guard the lives of millions of people. … When the Capitol Police haul him away in chains then his responsibility to prevent the Great Recession ends. Until that moment the choice not to act, is his choice alone. … The constitution is no shield.” – Karl Smith, Modled Behavior

    Thus begins all violent ends.

    Government consists of institutions. People have the institutions that they choose to. People deserve the consequences of those institutions. They learn from those consequences. People choose or choose not to alter institutions to prevent repeats of the past. People deserve the consequences of choosing or not choosing to alter those institutions. Political externalities are so vast, economic consequences are a trifle by comparison.

    Politics is the exercise of power. Power is the ability to alter the probability of outcomes. It is the ability to transfer, or deny the transfer, of opportunities and rewards between groups.

    Let’s see what this economist has done: 1- The scientistic fallacy. 2 -The fallacy of goodwill. 3- The false consensus bias. 4-Fallacy of collective terms. 5-The denial of externalities. 6- The fallacy of the short run.

    So he errs. And in that error would open the door to far greater horrors than the one we suffer now.

    The west is unique: it is the only social order that employs the competition between organizations with competing interests who must enact rules which are used by ordinary people who run institutions to conduct the affairs of the polis. It is a ‘game’ form of government for a ‘game’ marketplace. It is the only instance of that model to survive. and as a consequence it breaks the consanguineous bonds that determine the fate of all other civilizations.

    So, Fix the laws. The rule of law is all we have. Without it, we cannot have a high trust society, and would quickly devolve into either india or south america.

    Politics is more complex than economics. Political externalities have greater consequences than economic externalities.

    And Scientistic hubris is legion.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-23 10:34:00 UTC

  • Propertarian Brick At A Time: Developing A Political Language For “Anglo America

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/21/what-i-learned-from-lew-rockwell/One Propertarian Brick At A Time:

    Developing A Political Language For “Anglo American Aristocratic Martial Commercial Conservatism”.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-21 11:11:00 UTC

  • Is Not A Solution: Providing An Alternative To Paul Krugman. I want to make Karl

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/21/karl-smith-is-a-better-public-intellectual-than-paul-krugman/Criticism Is Not A Solution: Providing An Alternative To Paul Krugman.

    I want to make Karl Smith the person on the left-of-center that conservatives engage with, and get Karl a major media outlet. We cannot develop compromise policies with ideologues. So the other side needs a better voice. And to do that, we have to protect the other side’s public intellectuals from our own ideologues.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-21 09:09:00 UTC

  • A SWEET PARAGRAPH FROM THIS MORING’S WORK ON PHILOSOPHY “This history of philoso

    A SWEET PARAGRAPH FROM THIS MORING’S WORK ON PHILOSOPHY

    “This history of philosophy can be reduced to the five struggles:

    1) First, between man’s primary desire to retreat into the limits of his senses in the face of evolving complexity, and his reluctant acknowledgement that he must learn and employ the tools of reason and calculation in order to extend those limited senses, despite the discomfort these unintuitive abstract tools subject him to.

    2) Second, the conflict between his preference for the material ease of commercial society and his emotional discomfort at the consequential alienation caused by post-tribal, post familial, and increasingly individualistic commercial society.

    3) Third, between the comfort of historical norms and the precious status we achieve by adhering to them, and the opportunity of economic, technical and organizational innovation that of necessity disrupts those norms.

    4) Fourth, the need to develop justification of our system of norms such that we can resist or conquer the economic strategies, organizational strategies, and status signals embedded in competing systems of norms.”

    5) And fifth, between the masculine aristocratic inter-temporal instinct to concentrate capital and to constrain the breeding and consumption of the lower classes, and the feminine communal instinct to perpetuate her genes no matter how she has bred them, and her defensive posture of granting others the same opportunity, despite that it threatens us with Malthusian fragility.

    These five conflicts define the history of philosophy as an attempt to justify existing norms, or an appeal to modify them so that we may adapt to the future or regress into the past.”

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-19 12:15:00 UTC

  • should save this article for one of the conservative magazines — but I’m too bu

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/17/a-reply-to-paul-craig-roberts-were-not-exporting-democracy-were-exporting-consumer-capitalism/I should save this article for one of the conservative magazines — but I’m too busy to engage in self promotion right now. Please forward to your conservative networks. My Libertarian friends, please forgive me. I’m doing good works the old fashioned way. One step at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-17 14:56:00 UTC

  • To Denmark” is the progressive utopian fantasy. Here is how to accomplish it

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/17/getting-to-denmark/”Getting To Denmark” is the progressive utopian fantasy. Here is how to accomplish it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-17 14:49:00 UTC

  • Aug 01, 2009Place: Richmond, Ontario (45.1833, -75.8333)Address: Richmond, Ontar

    Aug 01, 2009Place: Richmond, Ontario (45.1833, -75.8333)Address: Richmond, Ontario K0A 2Z0

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-15 14:31:00 UTC

  • Jan 01, 1993Place: Sammamish, Washington (47.6080113, -122.0311651)Address: Samm

    Jan 01, 1993Place: Sammamish, Washington (47.6080113, -122.0311651)Address: Sammamish, Washington 98074

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-15 14:28:00 UTC