Curt Doolittle

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  • The Four Horsemen of the Reconstruction

    Mar 10, 2017 10:17am THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION 1) Jordan Peterson: Meaning (Opportunity generation) 2) Jonathan Haidt: Causation (Moral division of labor) 3) Curt Doolittle: Decidability (Natural Law) 4) Taleb: Measurement (‘Science’) FYI: Let’s take notice that I have the lousy job of saying ‘no’ – no one is ever going to like me for that. Haidt has the better job of saying ‘why’. Peterson has the best job of saying ‘how’. And Taleb has the hard job of trying to quantify the information necessary to change categorical state when we lack the data that will be produced by AI’s necessary to develop a testable unit of measure.

  • What Happened to the Right?

    WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT? —“What *happened* to the right? Despite the fact that I lean right I often find myself embarrassed by the state of modern conservative thought and its aggressively anti-intellectual tendencies. Today’s conservatives can’t seem to accept evolution or articulate a coherent vision of right-wing principles and theory, yet they descend from De Maistre, Evola, Burke, Mises, Rand, and similar thinkers. Other than you, Moldbug, and a handful of libertarians like Tom Woods and Bob Murphy there is almost nothing interesting happening. What went wrong?”— A Friend They couldn’t find an answer to social darwinism and the fact that western civilization is in fact, darwinian – and that this Darwinianism is the reason for our success. What do you do when you tell the lie of democracy and at the same time have to tell the truth of darwinian evolution? You talk nonsense That’s what —“Ah. So if we don’t want to squander the promise of the Western Aristocratic tradition there’s no avoiding social Darwinism?”— Bingo. We have to TELL THE TRUTH.

  • What Happened to the Right?

    WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT? —“What *happened* to the right? Despite the fact that I lean right I often find myself embarrassed by the state of modern conservative thought and its aggressively anti-intellectual tendencies. Today’s conservatives can’t seem to accept evolution or articulate a coherent vision of right-wing principles and theory, yet they descend from De Maistre, Evola, Burke, Mises, Rand, and similar thinkers. Other than you, Moldbug, and a handful of libertarians like Tom Woods and Bob Murphy there is almost nothing interesting happening. What went wrong?”— A Friend They couldn’t find an answer to social darwinism and the fact that western civilization is in fact, darwinian – and that this Darwinianism is the reason for our success. What do you do when you tell the lie of democracy and at the same time have to tell the truth of darwinian evolution? You talk nonsense That’s what —“Ah. So if we don’t want to squander the promise of the Western Aristocratic tradition there’s no avoiding social Darwinism?”— Bingo. We have to TELL THE TRUTH.

  • The Functions of the Classes

    THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CLASSES (propertarian class theory) ——UPPER——- TOOL OF COERCION: FORCE – MILITARY, LAW, SHERIFF
    1) UPPER – PRODUCTION OF ORDER (SOVEREIGNTY) Rule Economyt (Aristocracy Profit from the Organization of Labor+K) ——MIDDLE——- TOOL OF COERCION – REMUNERATION – ORGANIZATION, DISTRIBUTION AND TRADE 2) UPPER MIDDLE – ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION (LIBERTY) Capitalism ( Organization of Labor+Knowledge ) 3) MIDDLE – ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATION (FREEDOM) Market Economy ( Voluntarily Organized Labor+K) 4) LOWER MIDDLE (working) TRANSFORMATION (PARTICIPATION) Mixed Economy ( Voluntary + Involuntarily Organized Labor+K) ——LOWER——- TOOL OF COERCION: GOSSIP (RESISTANCE) – PRODUCTION, DIST. AND TRADE 5) LOWER (working) LABOR (PARTICIPATION) Command Economy ( Lower – Involuntarily Organized Labor+K) 6) DEPENDENT – PRODUCTION OF GENERATIONS (POS. FREEDOM) Dependent Economy (Dependents – Redistributions from Labor+K) #NewRight

  • The Functions of the Classes

    THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CLASSES (propertarian class theory) ——UPPER——- TOOL OF COERCION: FORCE – MILITARY, LAW, SHERIFF
    1) UPPER – PRODUCTION OF ORDER (SOVEREIGNTY) Rule Economyt (Aristocracy Profit from the Organization of Labor+K) ——MIDDLE——- TOOL OF COERCION – REMUNERATION – ORGANIZATION, DISTRIBUTION AND TRADE 2) UPPER MIDDLE – ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION (LIBERTY) Capitalism ( Organization of Labor+Knowledge ) 3) MIDDLE – ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATION (FREEDOM) Market Economy ( Voluntarily Organized Labor+K) 4) LOWER MIDDLE (working) TRANSFORMATION (PARTICIPATION) Mixed Economy ( Voluntary + Involuntarily Organized Labor+K) ——LOWER——- TOOL OF COERCION: GOSSIP (RESISTANCE) – PRODUCTION, DIST. AND TRADE 5) LOWER (working) LABOR (PARTICIPATION) Command Economy ( Lower – Involuntarily Organized Labor+K) 6) DEPENDENT – PRODUCTION OF GENERATIONS (POS. FREEDOM) Dependent Economy (Dependents – Redistributions from Labor+K) #NewRight

  • Tragedy Allows Us To Construct Truthful Myths

    by James Augustus HERE. BE AWED. AN IMPROVEMENT ON NIETZSCHE —“If we hold that the function of mythic art’s (story, play, movie, etc) is to provide commensurable decidability across the spectrum of classes, then I think that tragedy is the only theme that represents the full spectrum of human experience.Information can be transferred to slave, citizen, master and hero in a manner congruent with their class and the profile of experiences they have with the world.That goes without saying that myth seeks to provide information that is meaningful—tragedy might be our only way to construct myth that is also truthful.”— James Augustus

  • Tragedy Allows Us To Construct Truthful Myths

    by James Augustus HERE. BE AWED. AN IMPROVEMENT ON NIETZSCHE —“If we hold that the function of mythic art’s (story, play, movie, etc) is to provide commensurable decidability across the spectrum of classes, then I think that tragedy is the only theme that represents the full spectrum of human experience.Information can be transferred to slave, citizen, master and hero in a manner congruent with their class and the profile of experiences they have with the world.That goes without saying that myth seeks to provide information that is meaningful—tragedy might be our only way to construct myth that is also truthful.”— James Augustus

  • No, EPrime isn’t Enough. It’s Just a Good Start

    Mar 10, 2017 5:54pm NO, EPRIME ISN’T ENOUGH. BUT IT’S A GOOD START –“Is E prime *really* that great? I’ve spent a lot of time messing around with shorthand, concept maps, and a bunch of other tools in an effort to improve the quality of my thinking. Is it really as simple as eliminating certain verbs from the way I present ideas?”— A Friend Eprime provides us with an explanation of WHY we can lie so easily using the verb to be, and by doing so pretend we speak with authority about that which we know little or nothing – or worse, engage in the suggestion, false dichotomies, and obcurantism which constitute the majority of sophomoric philosophical questions. The grammar (which I posted last week or the week before) plus abandoning the use of the verb to be, plus operational language, plus property in toto, plus limits and full accounting just make it very, very, very difficult to carry on a pretense of knowledge when you don’t possess it. So no, EPrime isn’t enough, but it’s a whole lot. There is a difference between writing well, and writing proofs. We are working at writing proofs

  • No, EPrime isn’t Enough. It’s Just a Good Start

    Mar 10, 2017 5:54pm NO, EPRIME ISN’T ENOUGH. BUT IT’S A GOOD START –“Is E prime *really* that great? I’ve spent a lot of time messing around with shorthand, concept maps, and a bunch of other tools in an effort to improve the quality of my thinking. Is it really as simple as eliminating certain verbs from the way I present ideas?”— A Friend Eprime provides us with an explanation of WHY we can lie so easily using the verb to be, and by doing so pretend we speak with authority about that which we know little or nothing – or worse, engage in the suggestion, false dichotomies, and obcurantism which constitute the majority of sophomoric philosophical questions. The grammar (which I posted last week or the week before) plus abandoning the use of the verb to be, plus operational language, plus property in toto, plus limits and full accounting just make it very, very, very difficult to carry on a pretense of knowledge when you don’t possess it. So no, EPrime isn’t enough, but it’s a whole lot. There is a difference between writing well, and writing proofs. We are working at writing proofs

  • Rights: The Outcome of a Market Exchange

    NICELY STATED —“So, I am thinking of rights not as a naturally-occurring phenomenon that the Rothbardians assert it to be, but the end result of a market exchange between those demanding privileges and those able to supply the defense of those privileges. That is why rights are not absolute (you cannot yell “fire” in a movie theater, cannot use speech to engage in a criminal conspiracy, cannot own certain classes of weapons, etc.) and it is the meeting of the demand for privileges by the citizenry and the supply of defense by the sovereign (with both sides negotiating for their interests and settling on a compromise) that is the actual right. The right is the outcome of this market exchange.”— A Friend