Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • 1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory

    1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory many categories of resources, and evolved to demonstrate constant acquisitiveness of those resources.

    3) Property: The scope of those things they act upon, or choose not to act upon, in anticipation of obtaining property, constitute their demonstrated definition of property-en-toto.* (See Butler Schaeffer)

    4) Value: Human emotions evolved to reflect changes in state of property-en-toto.* As such nearly all emotions can be expressed in terms of reactions to property. (imposed costs here, pre-moral, but also pre-cooperation, and only defense and retaliation, not cooperation)

    2) Non-Conflict: That which humans act to obtain without imposition upon in-group members they evolved to intuit as their property, and demonstrate this intuition by defense of their inventory, and punishment of transgressors.

    5) Cooperative Production: That which humans act in concert with one another to produce

    5) Moral (cooperative) Intuitions(instincts): Moral intuitions reflect prohibitions on free riding by members with whom one cooperates in production and reproduction. (This is where free riding enters.)

    6) Distribution of Intuitions by Reproductive Strategy: Moral intuitions vary in intensity to suit one’s reproductive strategy. This intensity and distribution of moral intuition varies between males and females, as well as between classes and between groups.

    7) Variation By Family Structure: Moral rules reflect prohibitions on free riding given the structure of the family in relation to the necessary and available structure of production.

    8) Resolution of Disputes: Property rights were developed in law as the positive enumeration in contractual form, of those moral rules which any polity (corporation) agrees to enforce with the promise of violence for the purpose of restitution or punishment. Conversely, any possible property rights not expressed, the community (corporation) is unwilling to adjudicate, restore or punish, or has not yet discovered the need to construct.

    9) Instrumentation: Property rights are necessary for the instrumental measurement of moral prohibitions because of the unobservability of changes in human emotional states, and our inability to determine truth from falsehood. And as such we require an observable proxy for evidence of changes in state.

    10) Family: As a general rule, as the division of knowledge and labor increases, so must the atomicity of property rights, and as a consequence, the size of the family must decline {Consanguineous, Punaluan, Pairing (Serial Marriage), Hetaeristic, Traditional, Stem, Nuclear, Absolute Nuclear}.

    11) Trust: As a general rule, for the size of the family to decrease, trust must increase, and trust can only increase with expansion of property rights to include prohibitions on unethical actions.

    11) Moral Competition: As a general rule, the scope of moral prohibitions expressed as property rights, must increase to limit demand for authority.

    12) Demand for Authority: As a general rule, if a delay in the production of property rights evolves, then demand for authority will fill the vacuum with authority to either suppress retaliation (conflict) or to prevent circumstances leading to conflict, or both.

    13) Governments, particularly empires (of which states are merely a smaller class), in an effort to first create a standard “weight and measure” in the practice of law, imposed uniform codes on sub groups, for all subgroups under their management, and second, to centralize rent seeking.

    14) Governments then expanded the law to include commands, not uniform standards. Thereby conflating the imposition of standards of law, with the creation of commands holding the status of law – commands that were only law by analogy.

    15) Governments, by homogenizing law, centralized law (and command), and by centralizing law (and command), centralized rent-seeking (and increased it.) Note: this often forced tribal leaders and family elders out of rent seeking and power, and into production, thus lowering transaction costs for production and trade at the expense of increasing overall costs of the parasitic bureaucracy.

    (….Add: free riding and commons…)

    16) Aristocracy sought to prevent centralization in favor of competing jurisdictions that adapt quickly. Bureaucracy sought to centralize a homogenous jurisdiction that provided certainty (stability).

    17) Libertarians (classical liberals), seek to purge rent seeking, from the central system, and return to aristocracy

    18) Libertines (cosmopolitans) seek to restore unethical and immoral action – and non-conflict (non-cooperation) rather than moral and therefore productive cooperation.)

    19) Liberty: ……….(liberty as tariff , slavey, right to local law and custom, libertarianism as standard weight and measure) – not free riding however.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-26 15:32:00 UTC

  • SUSCEPTIBILITY DUE TO TRUST NOT STUPIDITY I don’t mean to call Rothbardians stup

    SUSCEPTIBILITY DUE TO TRUST NOT STUPIDITY

    I don’t mean to call Rothbardians stupid and immoral per-se. It’s easy to be misled by pseudo-rationalism and pseudo-science. It’s easy to be misled by half-truths. It’s easy to be misled by words that sound moral but which produce immoral actions.

    I don’t mean to call Misesians stupid per se. It is easy for average and above average minds, to be misled by pseudo-rationalism and pseudo-science when it is articulated with that great a level of detail. That’s the purpose of loading (emotions), framing (selective inclusion and exclusion of properties), and overloading (great detail, and repetition).

    But the susceptibility of those minds capable of managing economic thought, which requires consideration of more dimensions that other forms of thought, demonstrates why so many are susceptible to the other forms of cosmopolitan deception via loading, framing and overloading: leftism in general, and neo-conservatism.

    They manipulate our moral intuitions. We are the most moral people. We are most subject to pseudoscientific excitement of our moral intuitions. Whatever moral bias you adhere to, the cosmopolitans have a pseudoscientific and immoral argument to excite you: leftism, libertarianism, or neo-conservatism. And high trust europeans are readily susceptible to these false moral arguments.

    Just as our scientists and philosophers have been subject to such pseudoscience in the form of abstract truth (Popperian truth as well), psychology, sociology cantorian sets, platonic truth, mathematical platonism, and modeling.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-21 09:42:00 UTC

  • Honestly, we pity those of you who seek security and predictability rather than

    Honestly, we pity those of you who seek security and predictability rather than innovation, adventure an conquest.

    You are mere mortals. And we are mere mortals who challenge the gods.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-19 20:33:00 UTC

  • WEAPONIZED GOSSIP (Profound) We humans are capable of three means of influence,

    WEAPONIZED GOSSIP

    (Profound)

    We humans are capable of three means of influence, persuasion, and coercion.

    1) Violence or the threat of it.

    2) Remuneration or the threat of deprivation if it.

    3) Ostracization or the threat of it.

    I’d originally taken the idea from Johnson, who referred to ostracization as morality.

    But with our advances in genetic, cognitive, behavioral, and anthropological knowledge it has become clear to me that the means of influence is gossip. That our gossip accuses others of moral violation. And that moral violation drives ostracization. And that ostracization drives up opportunity costs and transaction costs.

    Gossip evolved as a means of rallying betas to kill, punish, or control alphas. And therefore return reproductive control to females.

    Once you approach political speech as gossip for the purpose of reproductive control, you rapidly come to the conclusion why it is morally loaded and why it is rarely rational or scientific.

    You also will understand why the culture of critique was successful in the 20th century.

    Its weaponized gossip.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-19 08:31:00 UTC

  • ADVICE TO THE YOUNG (WOMEN): CHOOSING DEGREES FOR LIFETIME HAPPINESS Don’t pay c

    ADVICE TO THE YOUNG (WOMEN): CHOOSING DEGREES FOR LIFETIME HAPPINESS

    Don’t pay college tuition for trade school education. Get a major in something that is the maximum extent of your abilities, and then minor in or take basic courses in your trade.

    In this case I’m referring to a young relative of mine that I love who is too smart for the career she has targeted. I would suggest that if you are a woman and can handle the nursing curriculum then whether or not you choose to be a nurse you can always downgrade if you can’t hack the program. If you do hack it, the entire healthcare field is open to you. Furthermore you can get an advanced degree such as Nurse Practitioner, and and within this generation, nurses will approach doctor salaries. NP is a great career for a smart woman who wants to participate in care-taking fields.

    I will also put out that when you are a young woman you are probably very ignorant about the world, and certainly too ignorant of the world to know in high school what career you should follow. And to make matters worse, you also have raging hormones in your body making you extremely sensitive to care-taking stimuli. By the time you are in your late twenties to mid thirties these hormones will decline in influence and you will care very much more that you are working with people who think about the world the way that you do, and are interesting than you will about care taking of yet another of the same problems that you have seen a thousand times. You can let your hormonal influences in youth determine your mid and late life circumstances, but if you do you will end up as one of the many unsatisfied people in the world who dreams of being what else she could have been.

    In general if you want to have the most fulfilling life, you should always try to operate at the limits of your ability, and associate with people at that same limit. You will constantly make each other better. If you associate with people who have 95-105 IQ’s they are ‘normal’, but if you associate with people 105-115, it’s a very different world you will live in. For example, in the medical field, doctors are usually above 125, and often much higher, while almost all workers in medical administration and service are below 100. If you want to know why doctors act the way they do it’s because it’s very frustrating to talk to people more than 15 points different from you. You don’t see it usually in your education system, but as you mature, you rapidly understand that at 15 points is a standard deviation, and that our social classes (if not our economic classes) are structured by IQ, and that it is much more rewarding for you to work with the people at the top of your spectrum rather than with people below it.

    Next, in the same vein, when you are young, and female (with lower dominance than males) the idea of managing people is harder to imagine than doing a job that does not require a lot of collaboration. But if you are smart, then the only rewarding job as you mature is that which requires a lot of collaboration. If you are smart enough that bad customer service, organizational disorder and inefficiency bother you, and wise enough to understand that people must do things differently because they are each equipped differently, then it is wise to look at careers with management responsibility.

    If you don’t like what this says to you then I am sorry for you – because life will teach you this lesson even if you do not want to learn it. Associate with the best people you can. That means the people who constantly challenge you to improve yourself. You will make them better and they will make you better.

    The opposite is also true. If you associate with people less able than you are, in a career that is less challenging than you are capable of, you will be both socially and occupationally bored, and constantly frustrated by what you see as pervasive incompetence and error. And you will rapidly find yourself a prisoner of that little world in which you have walled yourself.

    Money is not everything. Once you make over 60K, happiness does not improve – you just buy more expensive houses, cars, clothes, and ‘stuff’. But this is a misleading statistic. Because once you make over say, 90K, the quality of people you associate with on a daily basis increases dramatically. Fulfillment in life comes from your family, your friends, but the people you spend the most time with are those at your work. So just as you would be careful with friends, careful selecting a mate, it is wise to be careful selecting a line of work where you are with people who fulfill you rather than frustrate you.

    If you are smart – smart enough to graduate in the upper 10 or 20% of your class, make sure that you are not consigning yourself to your parent’s social class, and the kinds of careers that are easily understood among your family, friends and associates. If you live in NYC or SF you are more aware of the many careers available. If you live in a small town somewhere rural you are not. It helps to read help wanted advertisements in big cities if you want to understand the world. Employment offers are the map of the world as it is. Whatever people tell you is largely mythology.

    So my advice to everyone at every level of ability is to shoot for the most complex degree in one of the most complex fields with the greatest quantitative demands that you can handle. And to consider trade school your last option. You can always switch from harder degree to less hard degree. But if you work hard you will not. But if you are going to pay that much money for an education, do not pay for trade school expecting a college education. It’s a recipe for debt and an unsatisfying life.

    Affections.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 10:47:00 UTC

  • PERSONAL ADVICE (worth repeating) It is not helpful to think of others as fools,

    PERSONAL ADVICE

    (worth repeating)

    It is not helpful to think of others as fools, idiots or malcontents, which presumes human equality of ability, but to think of others as different breeds of human with better and lesser abilities, each of whom does the best it can competing against the mean of human abilities that we call ‘society’.

    Instead of wishing for lower transaction costs, which one cannot possibly achieve, it is better to recognize one’s superiority, and choose between helping the demonstrably inferior, ignoring them, or admonishing them a little bit in order to ‘correct’ their behavior – a necessary and beneficial contribution to the commons.

    The illusion of equality under the enlightenment fallacy has produced negative conceptual norms even in the best of us. So those of us with Aristocratic abilities and sentiments should not fall victim to the fallacy ourselves.

    My approach is to assume everyone is making constant errors, and to try to help them. It’s an aristocratic duty, and taking priestly, professorial, or philosophical, or whatever approach you wish to call ‘teaching’ or ‘training’ has improved my life dramatically. In my twenties I decided to help everyone I cam in contact with in some small way – usually by helping them understand the world as it is, rather than as they wish it to be.

    Helping others removes frustration, and brings you and others joy. You will always be happier helping than being frustrated. And yes, helping is a high cost. On the other hand the more helping you do the better you get at it, and it is wonderfully rewarding to experience how you are treated by others when they expect that you will try to help rather than confront them.

    We have a lot of work to do. The enlightenment fallacy, the errors of the socialists and the lies of the postmodernists can be countered with recent scientific evidence, and by learning a few arguments from Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Propertarianism, and Testimonial Truth and Operationalism.

    They created a fallacy by talking. The cure is truth. And truth is helpful.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 07:36:00 UTC

  • “CRITIQUE IS WEAPONIZED GOSSIP” It’s interesting. Fascinating really. Gossip evo

    “CRITIQUE IS WEAPONIZED GOSSIP”

    It’s interesting. Fascinating really.

    Gossip evolved as a means by which to control alphas. So that females could control reproduction again. Or at least exert some control over their reproduction.

    One of the theories is that we learned to speak in order to gossip. In that sense, the theory that language was invented to lie, has some merit.

    Gossip consists mostly of lies and deception. It is an attempt to to provoke rallying and shaming.

    If you combine hermeneutic analysis of scripture (psychologizing), Gossip (control), Rallying and Shaming, and dual ethics (justified immorality) you can develop critique. The left’s technique.

    The left’s war on truth and meritocracy.

    Truth and violence are the cure for deception and critique.

    (See. I am still making progress. Slowly. Slowly. But progress none the less.)

    Quite the opposite of the rationalists, as far as I can tell, all language that is other than unloaded factual description is largely justification.

    Quite the opposite of the platonists, truth is constituted in testimony, and testimony is demonstrated by recipes. That we use general theories to describe recipes is merely a device for simple memories to create generalizations – patterns. But the net is, that only recipes that work are correspondent with reality, and all words are merely allegories.

    One thing the left did, with its hermeneutics, and its psychologizing, and its platonism, is to intentionally confuse words with actions.

    It’s time to end the second war of mysticism. First was the christianization of the west and the second is was the mystification of science and reason.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-01 08:14:00 UTC

  • I love my family, my friends, and even my opponents in the great game. Thank you

    I love my family, my friends, and even my opponents in the great game. Thank you god for all of them. Even the ones who want to kill me. :).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-30 08:05:00 UTC

  • A BIAS AGAINST CONFLICT We all have our goals in life. Our preferences and our b

    A BIAS AGAINST CONFLICT

    We all have our goals in life. Our preferences and our biases. I am not unaware that my ultimate bias is against conflict. I hate it. I am really good at it, precisely because I hate it. My household as a child was filled with constant conflict. I worried about my mother all the time. So in developing a political philosophy it is somewhat obvious that the defining property of propertarianism, is that it’s rationally calculable, in any an all circumstances. As such all disputes are rationally decidable. I don’t care what political order you choose, any more than I care what sport you play. What I care about is that you don’t steal from me, and I won’t steal from you. Because stealing of one kind or another is the source of all human conflict. After you suppress stealing, everything else is merely envy. And envy it turns out, if you can’t steal, is a pretty good motivator.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 07:42:00 UTC

  • It’s really interesting to live in a country where mothering isn’t a chore, burd

    It’s really interesting to live in a country where mothering isn’t a chore, burden, or interference with life and career, but is the purpose of life, and something to be enjoyed, and cherished. It’s one thing to say that women may not enter the work force, and another to say that they must. There is no economic evidence that they must. In fact, all it does is cause job displacement and higher taxation. That’s it. Oh.. and it makes a lot of wimpy male and spoiled female children.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 05:10:00 UTC