Curt Doolittle

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  • Studying legal papers and theory you quickly learn that law is ignorant of econo

    Studying legal papers and theory you quickly learn that law is ignorant of economics and scale. You learn that the problems lawyers and the courts face are problems of economics and scale. You learn that they are trying to solve a social science problem with a crude instrument that changes slowly. Jurist and Lawyers have seen the atomic but not the aggregate. and so it creates a kind of disciplinary blindness. The problem with the profession is that while we have common and continental law, we have lost or only just discovered natural tort law, which solves problems of juridical decision making, where conflating the law with legislation and regulation and to some degree command, create all those problems of interpretation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 19:26:00 UTC

  • WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friend

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS

    Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them.

    I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you.

    In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you.

    My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something.

    Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’.

    Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to.

    So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do.

    Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 19:21:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 18:17:00 UTC

  • PERCEPTION OF MAN (from elsewhere) The general rule is this: 1) we are super-pre

    PERCEPTION OF MAN

    (from elsewhere)

    The general rule is this:

    1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation.

    2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior.

    3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior.

    4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior.

    5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument).

    6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it.

    7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will.

    I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 18:08:00 UTC

  • WESTERN MAN, AND THE LAW. by Michael Churchill (Paraphrasing Curt): The myth of

    WESTERN MAN, AND THE LAW.

    by Michael Churchill

    (Paraphrasing Curt): The myth of western man IS the law. The law is our mythology. We are creatures of the law. The law allowed us to rise out of the slime. To civilize ourselves and everybody else.

    (Paraphrasing Bil): Hippie healing experience is a not-very-useful diversion from law. Every hippie healing modality can be better handled with better application of natural law. It was some failure to apply the law (in past or present) that created the disorder and suffering in the first place. So one can go straight to the breakdown in the natural law and thereby get to the root of the problem. Identify the misunderstanding of natural law, and the root of the problem is revealed.

    To the extent one resists full accounting under natural law, one is fleeing from one’s problems, and the suffering continues. A week of hippie healing gives temporary respite from symptoms, but without full accounting and truth-telling, the core of the disorder remains.

    Half our suffering today results from suppression of natural law by those who benefit from its non-application (which leads to societal breakdown, which is always good for somebody).

    Anyway, this is the core of the Proprietarian analysis and I find it very persuasive. (But I am still not convinced Freud was completely wrong either.)

    (CD: Well, looks like michael has earned his propertarian diploma)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 14:46:00 UTC

  • In working through a strategy, which I usually do while just walking around, dri

    In working through a strategy, which I usually do while just walking around, driving, listening to others, or writing, I do not shy from unethical and immoral options any more than I do moral or costly options. Once you find a solution the problem lies only in finding a solution that is not UNETHICAL or IMMORAL. This is the problem with moralizm. You limit yoru scope of conception. Or, you are too weak of character to eliminate the unethical and immoral choices until you find an amoral or moral means of achieving the same end.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 12:02:00 UTC

  • VIOLENCE MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER; BUT WE SEEK AN ARBITER OF TRUTH, AND WE KNOW NO

    VIOLENCE MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER; BUT WE SEEK AN ARBITER OF TRUTH, AND WE KNOW NO TRUER OTHER

    by Brandon Hayes

    Swords first; words second. When words fail swords are drawn; violence is at the bedrock NOT discussion.

    This is the way of the world: “War, uncivilization, chaos are the defaults – peace and civilization are the anomalies. All civil human interactions draw from a complex set of proxies for violence.” – Bill Joslin

    Truth and what is true isn’t created in words (but discovered and explained); as words must be chosen carefully to have any grounding at all. Truth is reality en toto (words can barely do it justice). This is why God (reality) is the flaming sword bearer. This is why having untrue aim is to sin; for an arrow to fly true it adheres to Truth.

    All your proxies for the truth have blinded you to it; have protected you from it; have given you a false sense of its absence; and truth will be your rude awaking, as you’ve been ignoring its soft cries and recent screams.

    Please understand, until recently your proxies have sufficed. The idea to minimize violence through civilized means is a kind one; we believe in extending kinship. But, the unfit proxies haven’t replaced violence as of late; they have merely postponed it. We don’t settle issues anymore; we push them off and allow them to stew. Instead of keeping the pot cool you’ve been heating the water slowly in hopes of boiling you some frogs; they’ve noticed and are now escaping the pot.

    Look, we can (still, but not for long) avoid the conflicts to come; we, as humans, have a unique ability of willing ourselves into proper action (agency). We can change our behavior sets based on ideas; we can bully ourselves into new behavioral patterns; we can be our own animal trainers (domesticators).

    “The difference is, that because I look for negative externalities, frauds, thefts, exchanges, positive transfers, and positive externalities I CALCULATE that an action is immoral, amoral, or moral, and you INTUIT it.

    I have the AGENCY to consider all possibilities and choose the moral, amoral, or the immoral as required.

    This is the lesson of sun tzu, machiavelli, and aristotle – as well as every other general: morals are not truths but utilities, not knowledge but habits. The great books of wisdom and strategy are written so that we do not make the mistakes of christians and allow ourselves to be conquered, for having forgotten how to fight.

    They are written to ensure that we are civilized by reason not by habit..

    I have agency. I am not an animal. My intuitions provide information only. My reason rules my decisions. Moral, amoral, immoral, as needed.” – Curt Doolittle

    The arbiters of truths are always unpleasant; the truth is undesirable. That is until the Truth comes as violence and becomes undeniable. Human beings have it in them to fend off the harsh Truths of nature; even of human nature; but the humans show no signs that they will allow their lies to abate; they egg the truth on woefully unprepared for the horrors it has in-store for those who’ve denied it so long.

    Can we wise up in time? I pray we can; but I promise prayers alone aren’t enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 11:33:00 UTC

  • CHRISTIAN TOLERANCE AS FREE RIDING – FAILING TO PAY FOR THE COMMONS —“In my es

    CHRISTIAN TOLERANCE AS FREE RIDING – FAILING TO PAY FOR THE COMMONS

    —“In my estimation, most of what passes for Christian ‘turning the other cheek’ in our time is just cowardice and or weakness and decadence. Its the indecision that people like Joslin have recently written about… the inability to act. In order for such to be a truly valid moral action it would require strength of character and a context in which it was appropriately enacted leading to the betterment of relations between individuals and not just apathy or passivity on the part of the restrainer for evil others benefit.”— Chris Novalis

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 11:30:00 UTC

  • “Do what is instrumental. The end has always justified the means. Virtue deliver

    —“Do what is instrumental. The end has always justified the means. Virtue delivers nothing if it is not accompanied by an iron will. Systems are applicable for a particular time, place, and people. Be Machiavelli in a world of Mother Teresas. Only fools abide by the rules of defeatists.”— @[724441849:2048:Charlie Delta]

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 10:19:00 UTC

  • Moral intuition is for the peasantry. The rest of us, whether king, general, min

    Moral intuition is for the peasantry. The rest of us, whether king, general, minister,financier, or entrepreneur, must calculate.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 09:59:00 UTC