Curt Doolittle

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  • Racism, Loading and Framing

    [G]ad,
    I was going to point out that it is possible to conduct racist statements through loading and framing for the purpose of rallying or shaming.

    The problem is that the kind of people who make empirical statements (us), tend not to make morally loaded and framed statements. Since those of our political persuasion do not, and we tend not to be influenced by them, we forget that most argument (if we call it that) is not empirical, even if it is, its correlative and subject to selection bias. Humans are moral creatures. Humans seeks status more so than anything but life.

    Racism + Morality *vs* Truth + Empiricism

    Whether an argument is moral or not is a reflection of the individual’s reproductive strategy. So in a sense, any moral argument that consists of rallying and shaming is in fact a truthful expression of one’s reproductive strategy. The problem is that our reproductive strategies differ. And moral arguments are incommensurable. As such moral arguments are meaningless. And they only necessary under political monopoly.

    Yet if we conduct exchanges rather than monopoly, and we force no costs upon others in the process, then we are acting cooperatively (morally) with those we disagree with (reproductively) but not sacrificing for them, and we cooperate with those we agree with (reproductively) and may choose whether or not to sacrifice for them.

    SO the problem we face is that while we have used monopoly government to construct a market for goods and services, we have not also used that monopoly to create a market for commons – leaving the only monopoly the rule of law.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    (PS: when someone fights an empirical statement I usually just ask them why they’re liars. How can liars and lying be a moral action? How can they say they do good by lying? Is lying good then? etc, etc… But every response has to return to the central question: why are you a liar? )

    FWIW: I don’t do racism. try to fix our civilization, not blame others for pursuing their interests by taking advantage of our failures.

  • The Media as Drug Dealer

    [I]t doesn’t make financial sense to operate a newspaper. The FT generates 35M of profit per year on over 500M in revenues. That’s what, 7%? The reason to own a newspaper is influence: gossip. Now the financial times is, like the Journal, a financial rather than political newspaper. So by definition it’s an empirical and heroic medium rather than one of complaining, for the purpose of rallying shaming, and power accumulation.

    I went through five daily issues of Canada’s main newspaper a few years ago, circling correspondent articles (what I consider truthful) and you could find about three small articles a day. The rest were entertainment, created by appealing to the anglosphere’s erroneous sense of moral superiority. In other words, the newspaper business sells advertising to marketers, and then consumers buy signaling: a form of conspicuous consumption, that carries signals. And quite the opposite of what we expected: people are not able to insulate themselves from the most influential drug after sex: signals of moral fitness. If we look at the evolutionary reasons why this all works, it’s obvious: moral fitness makes us generous, and moral violation makes us punish. But we should look at the non-financial media as what they are: drug dealers. They’re causing suicide through addiction.

  • The Media as Drug Dealer

    [I]t doesn’t make financial sense to operate a newspaper. The FT generates 35M of profit per year on over 500M in revenues. That’s what, 7%? The reason to own a newspaper is influence: gossip. Now the financial times is, like the Journal, a financial rather than political newspaper. So by definition it’s an empirical and heroic medium rather than one of complaining, for the purpose of rallying shaming, and power accumulation.

    I went through five daily issues of Canada’s main newspaper a few years ago, circling correspondent articles (what I consider truthful) and you could find about three small articles a day. The rest were entertainment, created by appealing to the anglosphere’s erroneous sense of moral superiority. In other words, the newspaper business sells advertising to marketers, and then consumers buy signaling: a form of conspicuous consumption, that carries signals. And quite the opposite of what we expected: people are not able to insulate themselves from the most influential drug after sex: signals of moral fitness. If we look at the evolutionary reasons why this all works, it’s obvious: moral fitness makes us generous, and moral violation makes us punish. But we should look at the non-financial media as what they are: drug dealers. They’re causing suicide through addiction.

  • Conceptual Laundry: Twitter.

    Philosophy, to be true, must be critical. There are no answers in philosophy itself. It’s conceptual laundry detergent. Philosophy consists either of telling us how to speak truthfully, or it is just a means of loading, framing and overloading The greatest lies in history have been produced philosophically: monotheism, marxism, freudianism, postmodernism. Philosophy has done more harm that good. That’s because it’s an exceptional vehicle for deception by suggestion. Philosophy can be performed wishfully, morally, rationally, historically, and scientifically. Only the last has any value. Does your government improve cooperation and exchange, or create conflict and takings? That’s an easy question to answer. But why must we persist in a submissive mythos of federation, truth, trust and love, instead of just truth, trust and love? The Church then chartered nobility with love and trust – and left them to war and justice (production). They federated our tribes The Church manufactured idealism, and used Love to break kin and tribal biases, extending trust, and creating economic velocity. Aristocracy must rule by the formal logic of cooperation: non parasitism expressed as property. Else be ruled by worse. That is my answer to yesterday’s question about the failure of South Africa and the genocide conducted against its farmers. Rule of law, and production of commons are two different things. Democracy is a catastrophe because it merges law and commons. Failing to parent the young, and failing to parent less advanced polities differ only in scale. Aristocracy must parent. Take nothing not paid for. Master a craft. Speak the truth. Safeguard the weak. Mete justice. Improve commons. Show love. Add beauty. Cultures vary in their needs for commons. But rule of law, common law, property rights are objectively universal for all men. Rule of Law and Contractually Constructed Commons are different things. Rulers can adjudicate while leaving commons to locals. Rule and Colonization are two different things. Rule by rule of law and strict property rights is objectively universally moral. Religions evolved for the poor. Philosophy for the middle. And Law for the Ruling classes. The three metodologies reflect perceived control. Islam is a religion of submission, Christianity less so. But western Aristocracy is a cult of non-submission to man, government, or god. I don’t like analogies. They’re used to lie. Myths are analogies. But at least Christianity’s myths teach us love, truthfulness and beauty. The obvious failure of progressivism is that it is constructed entirely of lies. It isn’t philosophy then. It’s just lying. Cultures are not equal. They suppress parasitism more or less, display corruption more or less, and speak the truth more or less.

  • Conceptual Laundry: Twitter.

    Philosophy, to be true, must be critical. There are no answers in philosophy itself. It’s conceptual laundry detergent. Philosophy consists either of telling us how to speak truthfully, or it is just a means of loading, framing and overloading The greatest lies in history have been produced philosophically: monotheism, marxism, freudianism, postmodernism. Philosophy has done more harm that good. That’s because it’s an exceptional vehicle for deception by suggestion. Philosophy can be performed wishfully, morally, rationally, historically, and scientifically. Only the last has any value. Does your government improve cooperation and exchange, or create conflict and takings? That’s an easy question to answer. But why must we persist in a submissive mythos of federation, truth, trust and love, instead of just truth, trust and love? The Church then chartered nobility with love and trust – and left them to war and justice (production). They federated our tribes The Church manufactured idealism, and used Love to break kin and tribal biases, extending trust, and creating economic velocity. Aristocracy must rule by the formal logic of cooperation: non parasitism expressed as property. Else be ruled by worse. That is my answer to yesterday’s question about the failure of South Africa and the genocide conducted against its farmers. Rule of law, and production of commons are two different things. Democracy is a catastrophe because it merges law and commons. Failing to parent the young, and failing to parent less advanced polities differ only in scale. Aristocracy must parent. Take nothing not paid for. Master a craft. Speak the truth. Safeguard the weak. Mete justice. Improve commons. Show love. Add beauty. Cultures vary in their needs for commons. But rule of law, common law, property rights are objectively universal for all men. Rule of Law and Contractually Constructed Commons are different things. Rulers can adjudicate while leaving commons to locals. Rule and Colonization are two different things. Rule by rule of law and strict property rights is objectively universally moral. Religions evolved for the poor. Philosophy for the middle. And Law for the Ruling classes. The three metodologies reflect perceived control. Islam is a religion of submission, Christianity less so. But western Aristocracy is a cult of non-submission to man, government, or god. I don’t like analogies. They’re used to lie. Myths are analogies. But at least Christianity’s myths teach us love, truthfulness and beauty. The obvious failure of progressivism is that it is constructed entirely of lies. It isn’t philosophy then. It’s just lying. Cultures are not equal. They suppress parasitism more or less, display corruption more or less, and speak the truth more or less.

  • All Truth Is Negative In Government Too

    [T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion of logic. We need juries, not legislatures.

  • All Truth Is Negative In Government Too

    [T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion of logic. We need juries, not legislatures.

  • The Costs of Truth

    [T]RUTH, HONESTY, COSTS, JUSTIFICATION, CRITICISM COSTS OF TRUTH Hierarchy of Truths by internality to externality of costs.: 1) True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) True enough for me to feel good about myself. 3) True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. CATEGORIES OF TRUTH 1) TRUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 2) TRUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 3) HONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. ….CATEGORIES OF HONESTY ….3.1 Demonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements. ….3.2 Position: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions. ….3.3 Opinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions. ….3.4 Preference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants). ….3.5 Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors). JUSTIFICATION (SUPPORT) VS CRITICISM (SURVIVAL) 1) OBVERSE: We justify moral arguments given the requirement to preserve the disproportionate rewards of Cooperation, without which survival is nearly impossible. Law and Morality are Contractual, informationally complete, and open only to increases in precision – we know the first principles of cooperation. 2) REVERSE: We criticize intuitions, hypothesis, theories and laws to remove imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from our imaginations in order to identify truth candidates. Reality is Non Contractual, informationally incomplete, and forever open to revision. We do not yet know the fist principles of the universe. The reason it took us so long to identify the meaning of truth (Testimony) was that we evolved from moral and cooperative creatures, and we evolved science from moral and cooperative and therefore justificationary reasoning. However, now that we know the first principles of cooperation we can complete the evolution of physical science by adding to it the criticisms necessary for cooperative science: Physical Science Criticisms i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called empirical testing) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) Additional Cooperative Science Criticisms: vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of property en toto)

  • The Costs of Truth

    [T]RUTH, HONESTY, COSTS, JUSTIFICATION, CRITICISM COSTS OF TRUTH Hierarchy of Truths by internality to externality of costs.: 1) True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) True enough for me to feel good about myself. 3) True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. CATEGORIES OF TRUTH 1) TRUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 2) TRUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 3) HONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. ….CATEGORIES OF HONESTY ….3.1 Demonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements. ….3.2 Position: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions. ….3.3 Opinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions. ….3.4 Preference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants). ….3.5 Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors). JUSTIFICATION (SUPPORT) VS CRITICISM (SURVIVAL) 1) OBVERSE: We justify moral arguments given the requirement to preserve the disproportionate rewards of Cooperation, without which survival is nearly impossible. Law and Morality are Contractual, informationally complete, and open only to increases in precision – we know the first principles of cooperation. 2) REVERSE: We criticize intuitions, hypothesis, theories and laws to remove imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from our imaginations in order to identify truth candidates. Reality is Non Contractual, informationally incomplete, and forever open to revision. We do not yet know the fist principles of the universe. The reason it took us so long to identify the meaning of truth (Testimony) was that we evolved from moral and cooperative creatures, and we evolved science from moral and cooperative and therefore justificationary reasoning. However, now that we know the first principles of cooperation we can complete the evolution of physical science by adding to it the criticisms necessary for cooperative science: Physical Science Criticisms i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called empirical testing) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) Additional Cooperative Science Criticisms: vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of property en toto)

  • Property Rights and Obligations

    [P]ROPERTARIANISM’S PROPERTY, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND OBLIGATIONS CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY 0) Non-Property (Bring under total control) ….CONTROL: Total Control ….PURPOSE: Create Property ….YES: Constituo, Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, Abusus. 1) POSSESSION 2) CONSENSUAL POSSESSION 3) NORMATIVE POSSESSION INSTITUTIONAL POSSESSION – “PROPERTY” 1)  Personal (Private) Property (limited control) ….PURPOSE: Acquisition Inventory and Consumption ….YES: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, ….MAYBE: Abusus 2) Shareholder (Private) Property (very limited control) ….CONTROL: Very Limited Control ….PURPOSE: Dividends from Cooperation ….YES: Fructus ….MAYBE: ?Transitus, ?Usus,?Mancipio, ….NO: Abusus 3) Common (Public) Property (All Citizen Shareholders) ….CONTROL: No control. ….PURPOSE: Prohibition on Consumption. ….MAYBE: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, ….NO: Mancipio, Abusus RIGHTS 1) Constituo – Homesteading: Convert into property through bearing a cost of transformation. 2) Transitus – Transit: passage through 3d space. 3) Usus – Use: setting up a stall. 4) Fructus – Fruits: (blackberries, wood, profits) 5) Mancipio – Emancipation: (sale, transfer) 6) Abusus – Abuse: (Consumption or Destruction) Opposite of Constituo. OBLIGATIONS 1) Non-Imposition : Productive, Fully informed, Warrantied, Voluntary Transfer(Exchange) of property-en-toto, Free of External Imposition of Costs against Property-en-toto. PROPERTY EN TOTO (Demonstrated Property) I. SELF-PROPERTY Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.” ….a) Physical Body ….b) Actions and Time ….c) Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands. ….d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.) II. PERSONAL PROPERTY ….a) Several Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over. III. KINSHIP PROPERTY ….a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction) ….b) Children (genetics) ….c) Familial Relations (security) ….d) Non-Familial Relations (utility) ….e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties) IV. COOPERATIVE PROPERTY ….a) Organizational ties (work) ….b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts) V. SHAREHOLDER PROPERTY ….a) Shares: Partnership or shareholdership: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset) VI. COMMON PROPERTY ….b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons) ….c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property. VII. COMMON INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY: ….a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible. VIII. COMMON FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY ….a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws. WILSONIAN SYNTHESIS: LAW, MORALITY, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE(TRUTH TELLING) 1) Morality: preservation of the disproportionate rewards of cooperation by a total prohibition on imposition of costs against property-en-toto. 2) Law: an evolutionary list of the accumulated prohibitions on innovations in the means of immoral actions: impositions of costs on property en toto. 3) Property Rights: The promise that third parties will warranty restitution and retaliation, and not retaliate for restitution and retaliation, for imposition of costs against property en toto in exchange for the same warranty from the defending party or parties. 4) Science: the discipline(technology) of laundering imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from testimony, leaving only truth candidates. 5) Philosophy: The discipline(technology) of improving truthful testimony. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine