Curt Doolittle

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  • “Roger is my husband. He’s the best appliance ever.”— Anon. Yep

    —“Roger is my husband. He’s the best appliance ever.”— Anon.

    Yep.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 15:06:00 UTC

  • THE STATE AS A MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE IS EVIDENTLY FALSE The westphalian peace res

    THE STATE AS A MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE IS EVIDENTLY FALSE

    The westphalian peace resulted in the demand between states that the state maintain a monopoly on violence. The muslims do the opposite and ended the westphalian peace.

    The state cannot in fact and never has had, a monopoly on violence. It still doesn’t. It just tries. What defines a state is not it’s monopoly on violence but it’s capacity to produce the incentives that produce order with violence among those incentives.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 13:58:00 UTC

  • Demonic gods are not terrifying except to children. What’s terrifying is market

    Demonic gods are not terrifying except to children. What’s terrifying is market competition and acceptance of our inequality and your status in the market. The solution? Develop alternative markets, not for accomplishment but for adherence.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 13:14:00 UTC

  • HOW DO WE DEFINE ECONOMICS? IT TOOK TIME… Adam Smith (1776) defined what was t

    HOW DO WE DEFINE ECONOMICS? IT TOOK TIME…

    Adam Smith (1776) defined what was then called political economy as “an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, in particular as:

    —“a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator [with the twofold objectives of providing] a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people … [and] to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue for the publick services.”—

    John Stuart Mill (1844) defines the subject in a social context as:

    —“The science which traces the laws of such of the phenomena of society as arise from the combined operations of mankind for the production of wealth, in so far as those phenomena are not modified by the pursuit of any other object.”—

    Alfred Marshall provides a still widely cited definition in his textbook Principles of Economics (1890) that extends analysis beyond wealth and from the societal to the microeconomic level:

    —“Economics is a study of man in the ordinary business of life. It enquires how he gets his income and how he uses it. Thus, it is on the one side, the study of wealth and on the other and more important side, a part of the study of man.”—

    Lionel Robbins (1932) developed implications of what has been termed “Perhaps the most commonly accepted current definition of the subject”:

    —“Economics is a science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.”—

    Gary Becker, a contributor to the expansion of economics into new areas, describes the approach he favours as :

    —The study of human behavior by “Combining i) the assumptions of maximizing behaviour, ii) stable preferences, and iii) market equilibrium, used relentlessly and unflinchingly.”—

    I’m pretty obviously a Beckerian in that I see economics as a methodology applied to the science of studying demonstrated behavior, and the application of physics to life forms that (a) have memories, (b) consciousness, and (c) the possibility of cooperation.

    I see economics as an extension of physics into conscious life. And I see p-law as the logic of invariance from the physical, natural, and evolutionary laws.

    I see Physics, Economics, Law, and evolutionary necessity as the hierarchy of laws of nature.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 12:25:00 UTC

  • DISAMBIGUATION OF GOVERNMENT (BANKRUPTCY) 1. Military > State > Government > Com

    DISAMBIGUATION OF GOVERNMENT (BANKRUPTCY)

    1. Military > State > Government > Commons > institutions-organization

    2. Rule of Law > Law > Courts > Contracts > Biz-trade

    3. Strategy+Tradition > Religion+Education+Academy+Media > Families/Consumers > People-consumption

    State (corporation holding assets)

    1. Federal State -> Federal Government

    2. … Regional State -> Regional Government

    3. … … Territorial: County Corporation -> County Government

    4. … … Market: Local Corporation -> Local Government

    If a state declares bankruptcy the creditors get screwed all or partly. The state has demonstrated incompetence in the management of state affairs, and then the creditors will seek higher interest rates in the future, and after a cycle or two governments ‘learn’ partly because they have evidence of the consequences after bankruptcy and no evidence prior to bankruptcy – just as we now have evidence of immigration, diversity, monetary policy, and democracy – evidence of failure seems to be necessary to prevent repetition of human hubris.

    The state as a monopoly on violence is evidently false because it was a construct of the westphalian peace. At present it’s falsified, just as it was prior to the westphalian peace. In other words it was always false.

    The state is a corporation. The institutions organize the use of assets. The owners of that corporation consist of a small number of people willing to use sufficient violence to prevent alternative organizations of institutions and assets. The people who govern may or may not constitute sufficient violence to do so.

    Usually they don’t. In china they do. In russia they do. Because the fear of chaos in those countries is the opposite of the love of opportunity in NE European civilizations. – something the rest of the world cannot comprehend – because they never developed trust or commons … as we did.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 12:07:00 UTC

  • “I’m not entirely sure why so many people make economics a mystery.”—Robert Da

    —“I’m not entirely sure why so many people make economics a mystery.”—Robert Danis

    Fixed Pie vs:

    1) opportunity costs

    2) equilibration and full accounting

    3) lacking basic vocabulary and knowledge of the two cycles.

    4) ISLM->ISMP vocabulary talking about aggregates vs operational vocabulary talking about behaviors)

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 11:20:00 UTC

  • Economists talked in bold, confident, nonsense up until 2008. They don’t any lon

    Economists talked in bold, confident, nonsense up until 2008. They don’t any longer. For good reason. You can produce and economy as an extension of producing rule of law of reciprocity but you cannot produce an economy directly. You can insure some of an economy by partnership between state and strategic industry. But an economy is an endless competition – war – at slow speed, and there is no way to outwit chaos.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 10:20:00 UTC

  • THE EMOTIONAL ECONOMY — Dr Barrett. —“…your brain is wired to model your wo

    THE EMOTIONAL ECONOMY

    — Dr Barrett.

    —“…your brain is wired to model your world, [measured] by what is relevant for your body [and its] budget, and then you experience that model as Reality.”—

    Or as I’m fond of saying in Vitruvianism, “Man is the measure of all things to man. Experience is constructed from those measurements. And the grammars are just systems of measurement.

    —“The theory of constructed emotion incorporates elements of all three flavors of construction. From social construction, it acknowledges the importance of culture and concepts. From psychological construction, it considers emotions to be constructed by core systems in the brain and body. And from neuro-constuction, it adopts the idea that experience wires the brain.”—

    —“Emotions [evolved to] 1) to make meaning – to understand one’s state is more efficient, 2) prescribe action, 3) regulate your body budget to prepare for said action. These 3 are about you. Two other functions: 4) emotional communication and 5) social influence.”—

    —“Your body budget fluctuates normally throughout the day, as your brain anticipates your body’s needs and shifts around your budgetary resources like oxygen, glucose, salt, and water. When you digest food, your stomach and intestines “borrow” resources from your muscles. When you run, your muscles borrow from your liver and kidneys. During these transfers, your budget remains solvent.

    —“Affective Realism is a step past implicit bias. The Reality we see/hear is shaped by our affect. … You might believe that you are a rational creature, weighing the pros and cons before deciding how to act, but the structure of your cortex makes this an implausible fiction. Your brain is wired to listen to your body budget. Affect is in the driver’s seat and rationality is a passenger. It doesn’t matter whether you’re choosing between two snacks, two job offers, two investments, or two heart surgeons your everyday decisions are driven by a loudmouthed, mostly deaf scientist who views the world through affect-colored glasses.”—

    Book goes off the rails later on but the beginning is close enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 09:57:00 UTC

  • THE P PROGRAM AND OUR PURPOSES Bill Joslin has always been as interested in the

    THE P PROGRAM AND OUR PURPOSES

    Bill Joslin has always been as interested in the application of P to personal philosophy, as I have been interested in religion (mindfulness), politics, and law. This division of labor has helped expand our collective reach – and bill’s role as “the Professor” led to the production of our best people.

    Likewise, Luke Weinhagen is exploring another avenue, and we have had people spin off into all sorts of other interests -although it’s humorous at how deterministic their attempts to alternative personal and political agendas have been.

    P is a METHOD. That method completes the spectrum of the sciences because P is to sentient sciences as Math is to Physical sciences: the means of calculation, of constant relations from which we can produce subsequent deduction, inference, abduction, and creativity.

    Using human logical facility, mathematics, and P we we can articulate the social order that’s least divergent from physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. The least divergent from physical, natural and evolutionary laws, the more advantage we have in maintaining the optimum quality of life as we continue to calculate by market discovery using continuous trial and error, the means of maintaining our advantage, in our race with the red queen and her evolutionary competition in this brief period of geological and astronomical peace.

    The P-Constitution is constructed by the application of that method, because a universal militia, using sovereignty, reciprocity, rule of law by the common law of tort, and the markets in everything that result, and the production of commons from the surpluses, that was incrementally discovered by accident by our ancestors is the optimum human social order for continuous calculation.

    Although it comes at a price: increasing demand for mindfulness, increasing demand for intolerance, increasing responsibility for commons, and the suppression of those who cannot maintain cadence with our evolution by success in those markets.

    We have to know the reasons for western success in the ancient and modern worlds. Knowing them, we have to use them to defeat the second abrahamic attack on our civilization, and renew our resistance to eastern tyranny, as well as our own vulnerability because of our tolerance. And we have to restore our institutions so that we continue our transcendence into the gods we imagine – and be mindful, fit, and prosperous during our ascent.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 09:00:00 UTC

  • Thank you Brandon Hayes for all you do for us

    Thank you Brandon Hayes for all you do for us.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 08:30:00 UTC