Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1545151057 Timestamp) PROPERTARIANISM AND STOICISM VS BUDDHISM? —“We ought to discuss Buddhism (I am a Buddhist) and Propertarianism (I’ve discussed various matters with Curt Doolittle) in the future.”— Andrew Taylor by The Propertarian Institute It’s not complicated. Buddhism evolved out of hinduism’s ‘spiritualism’ and because of that started out very similar to stoicism but with less empirical names of phenomenon, and was largely a way of developing mindfulness by way of REJECTING the world. Stoicism began as self authoring and was very close to the then-greco-roman empirical method. It’s purpose was to facilitate ACTION in the world, despite our emotions. Stoicism was incorporated into christianity when the stoic schools were forcibly closed by the christian hordes. Buddhism was adopted widely but evolved into a religion rather than a discipline. This has to do largely with the means of spreading stoicism (middle class schools) vs the means of spreading buddhism (common folk under direction of independent teachers, and eventually out of political utility as in japan. ) Where buddhism is pacific and heroic, stoicism is martial and heroic. Otherwise they are similar. My suspicion is that stoicism would have turned into a religion like stoicism if it had not been suppressed by the jews, christians, and the byzantine (greek) re-conquest of rome.

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    (FB 1545151473 Timestamp) COURSES AT THE INSTITUTE MUST BE ACTION ORIENTED There is a difference between meaningful and actionable. We are trying to ensure that all the courses produce knowledge and skills that are actionable. That they are merely understandable, and meaningful is a measurement of the state of ignorance and lack of agency of the student. Instead, we are trying to produce agency and action as the source of meaning – not meaning given the current life experience and condition of the individual students. Until the Clinton’s destruction of the military, when you went into the military the first thing they did in boot camp was break your self monitoring and self image so that it could be rebuilt as a soldier by necessity and a warrior if at all possible. That is the purpose of the institute. Not to provide you comfort in your current state, but to provide you agency in that state that is your full potential. Western civilization specialized in the social, economic, political, and military production of AGENCY. And that is our purpose. Cheers.

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    (FB 1545150911 Timestamp) REGARDING CLAIRE KHAW’S CRITIQUE OF JOHN MARK by The Propertarian Institute Let’s understand Claire’s critique: Claire is a die-hard advocate for monotheistic religious, Christian if necessary, and Muslim if possible, Authoritarianism. Her argument is reducible to “I can’t understand it so it’s not good”, and here motive is “I can understand authoritarian religion so it is good.” That’s all she has to say – really. The rest is just (((critique))): meaning criticism of straw men, rather than proposal of a possible educational, social, economic, legal, and political order that can compete with the alternatives. Critique is always employed as a deceit. It’s just been Industrialized during the (((late 19th and entire 20th))) centuries due to the hostile attack on western civilization in the modern world using sophism, utopianism, and pseudoscience like judaism, christianity, and islam used sophism and supernaturalism to create a hostile attack on the great civilizations of the ancient world, through the natural vulnerability of women to such ideas, and the natural demand by the underclass of such ideas – despite those ideas being in conflict with anything other than dysgenia and decline. -Cheers Fool us once, shame one (((abrahamists))) of all religions. Fool us twice, shame on us for letting them.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545151057 Timestamp) PROPERTARIANISM AND STOICISM VS BUDDHISM? —“We ought to discuss Buddhism (I am a Buddhist) and Propertarianism (I’ve discussed various matters with Curt Doolittle) in the future.”— Andrew Taylor by The Propertarian Institute It’s not complicated. Buddhism evolved out of hinduism’s ‘spiritualism’ and because of that started out very similar to stoicism but with less empirical names of phenomenon, and was largely a way of developing mindfulness by way of REJECTING the world. Stoicism began as self authoring and was very close to the then-greco-roman empirical method. It’s purpose was to facilitate ACTION in the world, despite our emotions. Stoicism was incorporated into christianity when the stoic schools were forcibly closed by the christian hordes. Buddhism was adopted widely but evolved into a religion rather than a discipline. This has to do largely with the means of spreading stoicism (middle class schools) vs the means of spreading buddhism (common folk under direction of independent teachers, and eventually out of political utility as in japan. ) Where buddhism is pacific and heroic, stoicism is martial and heroic. Otherwise they are similar. My suspicion is that stoicism would have turned into a religion like stoicism if it had not been suppressed by the jews, christians, and the byzantine (greek) re-conquest of rome.

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    (FB 1545149832 Timestamp) RATIONAL SELF-MEDICATION Michael E. Darden, Nicholas W. Papageorge NBER Working Paper No. 25371 Issued in December 2018 NBER Program(s):Health Economics We develop a theory of rational self-medication. The idea is that forward-looking individuals, lacking access to better treatment options, attempt to manage the symptoms of mental and physical pain outside of formal medical care. They use substances that relieve symptoms in the short run but that may be harmful in the long run. For example, heavy drinking could alleviate current symptoms of depression but could also exacerbate future depression or lead to alcoholism. Rational self-medication suggests that, when presented with a safer, more effective treatment, individuals will substitute towards it. To investigate, we use forty years of longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study and leverage the exogenous introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). We demonstrate an economically meaningful reduction in heavy alcohol consumption for men when SSRIs became available. Additionally, we show that addiction to alcohol inhibits substitution. Our results suggest a role for rational self-medication in understanding the origin of substance abuse. Furthermore, our work suggests that punitive policies targeting substance abuse may backfire, leading to substitution towards even more harmful substances to self-medicate. In contrast, policies promoting medical innovation that provide safer treatment options could obviate the need to self-medicate with dangerous or addictive substances. https://www.nber.org/papers/w25371

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545150911 Timestamp) REGARDING CLAIRE KHAW’S CRITIQUE OF JOHN MARK by The Propertarian Institute Let’s understand Claire’s critique: Claire is a die-hard advocate for monotheistic religious, Christian if necessary, and Muslim if possible, Authoritarianism. Her argument is reducible to “I can’t understand it so it’s not good”, and here motive is “I can understand authoritarian religion so it is good.” That’s all she has to say – really. The rest is just (((critique))): meaning criticism of straw men, rather than proposal of a possible educational, social, economic, legal, and political order that can compete with the alternatives. Critique is always employed as a deceit. It’s just been Industrialized during the (((late 19th and entire 20th))) centuries due to the hostile attack on western civilization in the modern world using sophism, utopianism, and pseudoscience like judaism, christianity, and islam used sophism and supernaturalism to create a hostile attack on the great civilizations of the ancient world, through the natural vulnerability of women to such ideas, and the natural demand by the underclass of such ideas – despite those ideas being in conflict with anything other than dysgenia and decline. -Cheers Fool us once, shame one (((abrahamists))) of all religions. Fool us twice, shame on us for letting them.

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    (FB 1545229595 Timestamp) THE DRIVE OF MEN TO ACT VS TO DREAM AND CHIT CHAT Of self interest, opportunity to profit, and material change, it is very unlikely that ‘spiritual’ anything will drive men as much. We know this from all of history. Spirit makes men chatter. Opportunity makes men war. We go to war for opportunity. We stay at war because we love it, and we stay in formation because we love the men next to us.

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    (FB 1545229339 Timestamp) أنا أسف. لا أستطيع ترجمة هذه الكلمات إلى العربية. من الصعب للغاية ترجمة المفردات مع الاحتفاظ بمعنى النص. سلام IS PROPERTARIANISM SOMEHOW CONSERVATISM? The term “propertarian” refers to a ‘criticism’ of libertarians, rule-of-law advocates, ’empiricists’, and ‘materialists’, made in the mid-twentieth century. So I intentionally ‘appropriated’ the criticism ‘propertarian’ as a definition: ‘propertarianism’. All propertarianism is reducible to is a demand for individual Sovereignty, which requires Rule of Law, which then requires, truth, duty, reciprocity, and property. Which then requires markets in everything. Which includes courts that resolve differences empirically, by demanding truth, reciprocity, and property. Leaving the ‘preferential and good’ to the individual sovereign’s choice. This “Sovereignty” or “Sovereigntarianism” results in western hierarchical (market) Aristocracy (monarchy, aristocracy, nobility, burgher, craftsman, laborer, serf, slave, and ‘wild man’) and the institutions of an independent judiciary, a monarch as a judge of last resort, a jury, or’ thang’ or senate or parliament, or multiple houses of parliament, and a militia. So yes, Propertarianism consists of the previously unwritten philosophy of (traditional) western civilization. And as such it consists of libertarian(intellectual), classical liberal(political), and conservative (military). And as such, yes it is a ‘conservative’ (aristocratic) philosophy.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545229595 Timestamp) THE DRIVE OF MEN TO ACT VS TO DREAM AND CHIT CHAT Of self interest, opportunity to profit, and material change, it is very unlikely that ‘spiritual’ anything will drive men as much. We know this from all of history. Spirit makes men chatter. Opportunity makes men war. We go to war for opportunity. We stay at war because we love it, and we stay in formation because we love the men next to us.

  • (FB 1545228227 Timestamp) A WONDERFUL IMAGE BY NICHOLAS ROY (pls thank Nicholas

    (FB 1545228227 Timestamp) A WONDERFUL IMAGE BY NICHOLAS ROY (pls thank Nicholas Roy)