Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Adults and Institutions, Children and Beliefs

    [C]hildren talk of beliefs. 
    Adults talk of institutions.

    Children talk of “Want and Belief” 
    Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.

    The mind plans with what it has available. 
    We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.

    People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.
    As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.

    And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.

    Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.

    In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.

    All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.

    The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • Adults and Institutions, Children and Beliefs

    [C]hildren talk of beliefs. 
    Adults talk of institutions.

    Children talk of “Want and Belief” 
    Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.

    The mind plans with what it has available. 
    We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.

    People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.
    As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.

    And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.

    Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.

    In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.

    All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.

    The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • You know, despite appearances, I am a pretty nice guy and will work irrationally

    You know, despite appearances, I am a pretty nice guy and will work irrationally hard to make others happy. But precisely for that reason, when people try to take advantage of it and press me into what I don’t want to do, it makes me incredibly frustrated.

    wtf people.

    Btw: always draw out negotiations as long as possible. 😉

    You learn more.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 07:42:00 UTC

  • SOCIAL ORDER: ADULTS AND LOGIC, CHILDREN AND BELIEFS Children talk of beliefs. A

    SOCIAL ORDER: ADULTS AND LOGIC, CHILDREN AND BELIEFS

    Children talk of beliefs.

    Adults talk of institutions.

    Children talk of “Want and Belief”

    Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.

    The mind plans with what it has available.

    We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.

    People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.

    As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.

    And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.

    Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.

    In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.

    All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.

    The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 10:27:00 UTC

  • dear god thank you for women – they are the perfect incentive for our struggle t

    dear god thank you for women – they are the perfect incentive for our struggle to become gods.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-01 03:34:00 UTC

  • THOSE WHO FIGHT SOLDIER: A Soldier fights for enfranchisement/nationalism/imperi

    http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/—” THOSE WHO FIGHT

    SOLDIER: A Soldier fights for enfranchisement/nationalism/imperialism/pride/ – he is an employee or a slave.

    MERCENARY: A Mercenary is a professional who fights for goods (money or other things of value) – he is a businessman.

    WARRIOR – A Warrior is a professional, who fights for honor and to defend ones property / or loved ones–

    – Joseph Santaniello

    PROPERTARIAN CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY

    I. Several (Personal) Property

    Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.”

    – Physical Body

    – Actions and Time

    – Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands.

    – Several Property: Those things we claim a monopoly of control over.

    II. Artificial Property

    Artificial Property: “Can a group issue specific rights to members?” This topic is dependent again, upon the ORIGIN question above. If markets are made, then the shareholders of the market may create artificial property of any type that they desire. Including but not limited to:

    – Shares in property: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (claims for partial ownership)

    – Monopoly Property such as intellectual property. (grants of monopoly within a geography)

    – Trademarks and Brands (prohibitions on fraudulent transfers within a geography).

    III. Interpersonal (Relationship) Property

    Cooperative Property: “relationships with others and tools of relationships upon which we reciprocally depend.”

    – Mates (access to sex/reproduction)

    – Children (genetic reproduction)

    – Familial Relations (security)

    – Non-Familial Relations (utility)

    – Consanguineous Relations (tribal and family ties)

    – Racial property (racial ties)

    – Organizational ties (work)

    – Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    – Status and Class (reputation)

    IV. Institutional (Community) Property

    Institutional Property: “Those objects into which we have invested our forgone opportunities, our efforts, or our material assets, in order to aggregate capital from multiple individuals for mutual gain.”

    – Informal (Normative) Institutions: Our norms: manners, ethics and morals. Informal institutional property is nearly impossible to quantify and price. The costs are subjective and consists of forgone opportunities.

    – Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws. Formal institutional property is easy to price. costs are visible. And the productivity of the social order is at least marginally measurable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 05:20:00 UTC

  • YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘hel

    YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID

    I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 04:50:00 UTC

  • There is a very great difference between a mercenary, a soldier, and a warrior

    There is a very great difference between a mercenary, a soldier, and a warrior.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 12:46:00 UTC

  • ART OF PLAYFULNESS yep. It works. Although I also use it to create distance

    https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/the-art-of-playfulness/THE ART OF PLAYFULNESS

    yep. It works.

    Although I also use it to create distance.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 22:14:00 UTC

  • On Convincing Others

    [C]HALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY
    (useful)

    0 – We are unequally desirable mates – this is necessary for evolutionary adaptation.
    1 – We evolved a reproductive division of labor – the genders.
    2 – We evolved an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor:
    4 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term preferences; 
    5 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term moral biases;
    6 – We evolved, quite naturally, lower(<95), middle(<125) and upper(>125) classes;
    7 – We need virtue(imitative), rule (rational), and outcome (scientific) ethics;
    8 – We need sacred(religious), moral(normative), and calculative (legal) rules;
    9 – We rely upon intuitive(experiential), conscious(rational), and instrumental(calculative) tools to made decisions.
    10 – Our moral biases reflect our reproductive strategies.
    11 – Our normative biases reflect our reproductive strategies.
    12 – Our formal and informal institutions reflect our group-competitive strategies.
    13 – All universalist strategy is to extend group-competitive strategies to dominate other group competitive strategies.

    Short term strategy is in the interest of the lower classes (socialism – labor)
    Medium term strategy is in the interest of the middle classes (classical liberty – trade)
    Long term strategy is in the interests of the upper classes (aristocracy – order)

    Some people are only CAPABLE of sentimental talk and argument.
    Some people are only CAPABLE of rational talk and argument.
    Some people are CAPABLE of scientific talk and argument.

    So what does all of this tell us about persuading others? It tells us that we cannot (and should not) try. It tells us to create institutions that allow cooperation across moral codes and reproductive strategies. It tells us that the majority cannot understand these matters except experientially – once implemented.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.