Curt Doolittle

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  • Markets of The Via-Negativa

    October 16th, 2018 1:44 PM MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA [M]arkets don’t do much more than suppress the network of rents that exist wherever market competition does not. As always, markets are a via-negativa good. Just as law is a via-negativa good. Just as falsification is a via negativa good. We never know the truth, the good, the moral, the just, we only know their opposites. Why? Our knowledge is forever incomplete.

  • The Problem of Political Stability

    October 16th, 2018 12:33 PM THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL STABILITY by Michael Churchill

    The left cannot function once its means are revealed. Its leaders understand that, hence the cultivation of Antifa as shock troops. Democracy may be in the process of phasing out as an optimal political solution, because it creates a monopoly, and one side cannot accept the other side’s victory if it’s a given that it is not one country but two enemy camps. Even Bolsonaro is a manifestation of that. So the interesting question is what will the political map look like in 20 years around the globe. A mix of right and left wing dictatorships? The problem with dictatorship is that it is not really stable if it’s imposed on half the population against their will. Thus it would seem to me something else would be more likely to come about.

    ( CD: Ergo, Nationalism(Fascism) by Political Order. )

  • The optimum government is flexible

    October 16th, 2018 11:30 AM

    —“That The optimum government is flexible (Roman) with Authoritarianism for War, Markets for growth, and Redistribution for Windfalls. Can’t be said enough.”— William L. Benge

  • The Rise of The Postwar Anti-White Cult

    October 16th, 2018 6:10 PM THE RISE OF THE POSTWAR ANTI-WHITE CULT (and it’s parallel to Christianity)

    —“The shroud dropped over our eyes circa 1945 from what I can tell.”—- A Friend

    [Y]es. They used the postwar prosecution of the Nazis to create new a religion (Fictionalism) in order to oppose the Darwinian revolution, Cultural Marxism to destroy our Art, History, and Values – and to the 1965 immigration act to destroy our social order, and Postmodernism to lie about it, and take advantage of the conformist mind to run with the herd. (from elsewhere)

  • Agency Must Be Trained

    October 16th, 2018 5:41 PM AGENCY MUST BE TRAINED by Brandon Hayes

    [A]gency has to be fostered and trained. We can develop systems to promote it. Having an agency based (propertarian) framework is a great first step. Teach people to view the world in a reciprocal fashion. We teach dogs to be helpful; I can teach even an objectively bad dog to not be a burden.

  • NPCs? Not So Simple…

    October 16th, 2018 5:39 PM NPCs? NOT SO SIMPLE… by Ely Harman

    It’s not as simple as “NPC bad!” There are NPCs on our side too. Most conservatives are NPCs. The issue is most people lack the agency (awareness) for self-ownership, sovereignty, enfranchisement, or any number of related, partially overlapping, terms. That doesn’t mean they can’t be good, functional, members of society. It just means they can’t be in charge of it. Making a pretense of putting NPCs in charge (through universal franchise democracy or whatever) is just a sham way of putting whoever can pull their levers (media, academia, etc…) In charge. And that’s simply not worth doing for a variety of complex reasons mostly having to do with issues of accountability or “skin in the game.”

  • The New York Times on The NPC Meme

    October 16th, 2018 8:25 PM THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE NPC MEME (Edited) -What is an NPC?- NPC means “nonplayable character” or “nonplayer character.” It’s a term, borrowed from the world of video games, for a character that is controlled by the computer rather than by a player. An NPC often advances the game’s plot by saying scripted lines, or assisting the playable characters in some way. -What does this have to do with politics?- Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. Liberals, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character. A Reddit user, explains the appeal of the meme: “NPCs are completely dependent on their programming, and can’t do or think on their own.” –Is there more to the NPC meme?– Sort of. There is NPC Wojak — a crudely drawn, gray cartoon avatar with a pointy nose and a blank face. NPC Wojak is a variation of Wojak, an old cartoon (also known as “feels guy”) that represents the mindless liberal, and has become a kind of collective mascot for the far-right commenters online, to use to ridicule the left. —And this is a thing … why?— A group of young, extremely pro-Trump internet trolls have spent the past several years mocking anti-Trump people as whiny, easily triggered snowflakes who are primarily motivated by social acceptance rather than by logic and critical thinking. Many of Mr. Trump’s supporters put their support for him in the language of freethinking rationality and paint the other side as being motivated by blind loyalty and identity politics. (Which is True.) This NPC meme fits neatly into this narrative and offers Mr. Trump’s online supporters … (Actually it’s not that they’re trump supporters but using Trump to retaliate against social justice warriors: NPC’s) … an easy shorthand way to paint liberals as humorless prudes (‘bots’) who say “Drumpf” because the HBO host John Oliver told them to, who march in protests and put on pink “pussyhats” because they’re the popular things to do, and whose views can’t withstand scrutiny. (Because they’re just scripts.) And then, when progressives object to a meme that portrays them as unthinking automatons, it becomes another piece of evidence: See? The left can’t take a joke. — So? — Mostly, it appears to be a 4chan joke that spiraled into some mild voter suppression. And no, they’re not russian bots. Sigh.

  • Dehumanize Them? the Other Way Around.

    October 16th, 2018 5:34 PM DEHUMANIZE THEM? THE OTHER WAY AROUND. By Eli Harman [D]ehumanize them? The issue is that they don’t regard US as human, or our preferences or values as valid, or legitimate – and so, in exchange, regarding THEM as people and THEIR preferences and values as valid and legitimate is giving them something for nothing. Treating them as people entails real and material costs. We have to tolerate them. We have to include them. We have to give them the vote. We have to do what they vote for and give them what they vote for (when they vote to plunder, destroy, and enslave.) But they will NEVER give us the same considerations in return. When they win they go for the jugular. When they lose they cry foul and delay, obstruct, and use every underhanded stratagem to try and get their way ANYWAY. They moralize and try to dictate terms from a position of weakness. They slander, libel and defame to sow division amongst us and turn us against one another. They lie, cheat, and steal. They bully, intimidate, manipulate, censor, resort to street violence, and attempt assassinations. They incite lawless disorder amongst their lowlife supporters. Sympathetic (Feminine) arguments virtually DEMAND that we try, at all costs, to cooperate or negotiate with them. But that is not a worthwhile demand to meet because THEY are not meeting it for us. If anyone is putting that demand to them, they are simply ignoring it. As So shall WE, henceforth – until the present unpleasantness is concluded (however it is concluded.) Which we expect will be violently.

  • Vlad’s Simple Strategy

    October 16th, 2018 6:44 PM VLAD’S SIMPLE STRATEGY [V]lad’s strategy was ‘scorched earth‘. A territory with no crops, and no farmers to work it is a desert to a ruler who wishes to collect taxes from it. Tepes made it irrational to pursue him because (a) he had already penetrated the sultan’s camp to assassinate him, (but the sultan had moved on), (b) there is nothing to feed an army if the land is empty and the crops are burned, (c) there is nothing to tax if the people are dead. So the sultan left because it was better to use insurrection (funding Vlad’s brother to defeat him) than fight a man who would scorch the earth. The romans did even worse to the Carthaginians (Phoenicians) and salted the earth and tore down the buildings as well. The Russians just threw bodies at germans to collect bullets until the winter came. The french killed off their aristocracy entirely, and doomed france to mediocrity for eternity. The northerners murdered and burned their way across the south for similar reasons. The jews raided the Philistines (metal workers) until they were able to burn their cities to the ground. Stories go on and on. Americans were stagnated in vietnam for not understanding the rice trade. Today we would just infect the rice with biochemistry and everyone would starve and die in less than a year.

  • Zero Tolerance

    October 16th, 2018 5:07 PM ZERO TOLERANCE

    —” …really let that sink in…. conflation… that’s all it took. A bit of ambiguity and a bit of repetition and the cult of non-submission became a slave society.”—Bill Joslin

    Zero Tolerance is the only defense against incrementalism.