Curt Doolittle

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  • Caplan Always Requires A Tablespoon Of Salt

    Caplan’s opinion, like most of his opinions, is not about western civilization in the same sense as westerners use the term in the Greco/Roman, Germanic, or Anglo, American, French, and German enlightenment thinkers: as the struggle for rule of law and truth, goodness and beauty. Instead, Caplan’s misattribution of ‘western civilization’ is the Cosmopolitan (Ashkenazi) enlightenment vision of a universal market of high consumption combined with the British Imperial Marketplace that transformed British civilization from a germanic Hanseatic one prior to 1830’s expansion of the industrial revolution, to a purely commercial international one after 1830, under Disraeli and Gladstone.

    Once you understand that he is not talking about western civilization at all, but cosmopolitan, his arguments are a little more transparent – and always consistent. The west didn’t develop first, it developed fastest. Why? It’s counter-intuitive: martial epistemology and the oath of the intitatic brotherhood of soldiers, the economics of concentrating family wealth into technology (bronze, horses, chariots and their descendants) for use by professional warriors, and the voluntary construction of armies from these voluntary associations. The reward for which was enfranchisement in freedom: the reciprocal insurance of one’s property from theft and conquest. Conversely given the wetness of our terrain, and its oceans, seas, and rivers, we never had to create a monopoly organization to control irrigation that caused the centralization of authority and capital in the flood-river civilizations. Instead, we constructed manorialism, which was the control of territory and its allocation to those best able to use it. Out of these conditions we developed argument, reason, common law, natural law, jury, senate, independent judiciary, private property, contract. And these processes from ideas, to organizations, to production to institutions, to armies can adapt faster as a group than any other known human social order. So the west defeated the rest not because it was first, because it was fastest. And it was fastest for the simple reason that we discovered ‘truth’ in the objective sense, and it was more valuable to us than the propaganda and deception necessary for central governments to organize multitudes for alternative, more communal, means of production. We discovered truth. Truth gave us trust. Trust gave us velocity. And we were (and are) faster than the rest because of it. Truth is the secret of the west. (That and that we’re the most eugenic civilization aside from the Ashkenazim). Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • Libertines And SJW’s Alike

    Apparently, the technique of using cap-headlines on posts is offensive to Rothbardians, who need a safe place – right next to the Social Justice Warriors – that is free of ratio-scientific argument, and where they can desperately cling to their collective suspension of disbelief free of threats that would contradict their self-worth-sustaining variation of right-Marxist ideology. Let me help you: incentives. While neither a commune without property or a Private Voluntary Society with property is possible for the same reasons: incentives. And why? Because with or without property (a) neither can hold territory from competitors, and so must be held as a ‘ghetto’ by a political entity that can, and (b) communes that depend on normative and institutional communism (rothbardian institutional communism), and communes that depend on normative, institutional, and propertied communism (marxist total communism), both lack sufficient incentives to survive competition from non-communist political orders. Why? Because private, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property is a competitive advantage. Rothbardianism is just normative and institutional communism, as a proposed subsitute for total communism. private property, shareholder property, common property, normative property, institutional property, territorial property: all groups need them to resist competition from other groups. There is no free ride, and no discount available on the range of capital one must protect in order to create liberty. We must protect ALL Property in ALL forms from parasitism and free riding if we are to create a polity capable of both the incentives to attract, and incentives to retain a population The age of wandering shepherds and merchants ended. We call those people vagrants, unassimilated immigrant underclasses, gypsies, diasporic financiers and traders: a spectrum of free riders (parasites) And they exist only with permission of the hosts that DO pay the high costs of protecting private, shareholder, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property. Humans organize. That the kind of people attracted to rothbardianism are those who are less desirable to organize with is the explanation of why they find the idea of an ‘organization’ which asks no common costs of its members. That does not mean these same people can form a polity capable of competitive survival even by incentives to join and stay. It is still preferable to live in a city or the country instead of (costly) suburbia – which is why people do it. Now, we can construct a contractual society on the anglo model, which creates a market for relationships, a market for private property, a market for shareholder property, a market for commons, and a market for warriors to defend the commons, all within a monopoly we call natural law. And in this system all property is private. But one cannot escape paying for the construction and maintenance of that society even if that society is constructed for the thorough suppression of free riding on material goods and services.

  • Libertines And SJW’s Alike

    Apparently, the technique of using cap-headlines on posts is offensive to Rothbardians, who need a safe place – right next to the Social Justice Warriors – that is free of ratio-scientific argument, and where they can desperately cling to their collective suspension of disbelief free of threats that would contradict their self-worth-sustaining variation of right-Marxist ideology. Let me help you: incentives. While neither a commune without property or a Private Voluntary Society with property is possible for the same reasons: incentives. And why? Because with or without property (a) neither can hold territory from competitors, and so must be held as a ‘ghetto’ by a political entity that can, and (b) communes that depend on normative and institutional communism (rothbardian institutional communism), and communes that depend on normative, institutional, and propertied communism (marxist total communism), both lack sufficient incentives to survive competition from non-communist political orders. Why? Because private, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property is a competitive advantage. Rothbardianism is just normative and institutional communism, as a proposed subsitute for total communism. private property, shareholder property, common property, normative property, institutional property, territorial property: all groups need them to resist competition from other groups. There is no free ride, and no discount available on the range of capital one must protect in order to create liberty. We must protect ALL Property in ALL forms from parasitism and free riding if we are to create a polity capable of both the incentives to attract, and incentives to retain a population The age of wandering shepherds and merchants ended. We call those people vagrants, unassimilated immigrant underclasses, gypsies, diasporic financiers and traders: a spectrum of free riders (parasites) And they exist only with permission of the hosts that DO pay the high costs of protecting private, shareholder, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property. Humans organize. That the kind of people attracted to rothbardianism are those who are less desirable to organize with is the explanation of why they find the idea of an ‘organization’ which asks no common costs of its members. That does not mean these same people can form a polity capable of competitive survival even by incentives to join and stay. It is still preferable to live in a city or the country instead of (costly) suburbia – which is why people do it. Now, we can construct a contractual society on the anglo model, which creates a market for relationships, a market for private property, a market for shareholder property, a market for commons, and a market for warriors to defend the commons, all within a monopoly we call natural law. And in this system all property is private. But one cannot escape paying for the construction and maintenance of that society even if that society is constructed for the thorough suppression of free riding on material goods and services.

  • Aristocratic Egalitarianism’s Adaptation To Peace And War

    (important for new right and alt-right)PEACE (disperse efforts – exchange and production ) – Liberty (rule of law, natural law, universal standing and application) – Universalism – Marke Competition: Competition (reproduction, production), Commons Production (monopoly or market) – Insurance: Militia, Emergency Services, Hospital (care) – Voluntary organization of most. —VERSUS—WAR (concentrate efforts – force and destruction ) – Illiberty (command) – Nationalism (genetic and cultural warfare) – Fascism ( economic, and legal warfare) – War (physical warfare) – Involuntary organization of most. THERE ARE NO STEADY STATES – We “FLEX” between liberty and fascism because we shift between peace and war. (Recent related posts on the temporary utility of Fascism as an extension of warfare into economic activity) WHAT DOES FASCISM MEAN? https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154357209457264 FASCISM’S PLACE IN THE GREAT GAME OF ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154366459612264

  • Aristocratic Egalitarianism’s Adaptation To Peace And War

    (important for new right and alt-right)PEACE (disperse efforts – exchange and production ) – Liberty (rule of law, natural law, universal standing and application) – Universalism – Marke Competition: Competition (reproduction, production), Commons Production (monopoly or market) – Insurance: Militia, Emergency Services, Hospital (care) – Voluntary organization of most. —VERSUS—WAR (concentrate efforts – force and destruction ) – Illiberty (command) – Nationalism (genetic and cultural warfare) – Fascism ( economic, and legal warfare) – War (physical warfare) – Involuntary organization of most. THERE ARE NO STEADY STATES – We “FLEX” between liberty and fascism because we shift between peace and war. (Recent related posts on the temporary utility of Fascism as an extension of warfare into economic activity) WHAT DOES FASCISM MEAN? https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154357209457264 FASCISM’S PLACE IN THE GREAT GAME OF ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154366459612264

  • End Copyright

    There are moral laws, and immoral laws. And copyright protection for creative works has long turned evolved an immoral law.  There is no shortage of entertainment, and no evidence that limiting media copyright to terms of the creative commons will reduce the market presence of these productions.  Worse, copyrights produce artificial subsidy that encourages the worst possible behavior in the media: pandering.

  • End Copyright

    There are moral laws, and immoral laws. And copyright protection for creative works has long turned evolved an immoral law.  There is no shortage of entertainment, and no evidence that limiting media copyright to terms of the creative commons will reduce the market presence of these productions.  Worse, copyrights produce artificial subsidy that encourages the worst possible behavior in the media: pandering.

  • It’s Not Capitalism That’s The Problem

    —capitalism is a failure. It’s like the game monopoly. — Except monopoly is nothing at all like real life. And capitalism is responsible for raising the world out of endemic violence ignorance disease and poverty. The problem isn’t capitalism ( the voluntary organization of production ). It’s that the richer we become, the more talented you need to be to earn a living. When we had unused talent most people could move up. Now we have passed the period where there is *unused* talent and entered the period where we have *unusable* talent. Societies progress just as evolution progresses: by eliminating the failures to produce from the gene pool. So has capitalism failed? Or have we failed to continue to constrain the reproduction of the unproductive?