Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Liberty In Modernity Isn't For Simpletons

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one.

  • Liberty In Modernity Isn’t For Simpletons

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one.

  • Liberty In Modernity Isn't For Simpletons

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one.

  • Liberty In Modernity Isn’t For Simpletons

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one.

  • SIMPLETONS People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, t

    SIMPLETONS

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-26 08:19:00 UTC

  • Cultural Observations: Eastern European ‘luxury’ (Embarrassing note to friends:

    Cultural Observations: Eastern European ‘luxury’

    (Embarrassing note to friends: We don’t have a car. We have a driver, and a housekeeper, and someone else to help too – so oversized the two bedroom apartment is never empty. And that apartment plus all the ‘help’ are about equal in cost to a decent apartment in Seattle – not much at all. Now, you can do the same thing in much of the rest of the world, but there is a definite class and culture difference between you and the staff. Whereas here in eastern Europe, it’s more like hiring your extended family and sort of living with them. And I gotta tell, ya’, if it wasn’t for the damned banking problem here, and the inability to ship stuff to from major retailers to Ukraine, I can’t imagine a better place or way to live. Yeah, it’s a bit dirty and run-down everywhere, but the people make up for it. Now, if I lived alone instead of with a tribe, I’d really prefer to just have a housekeeper/assistant of some kind – a wife without sex who can’t take your assets, vs a wife without sex in america who can take your assets. And you can have all the girlfriends you want. I really hate my government. Because if it weren’t for them I might actually be able to be happy here. So I might have to dispose of the government.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-25 08:44:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS Mothers walking hand in hand with adult daughters. Fathers

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    Mothers walking hand in hand with adult daughters.

    Fathers telling sons to hold the door open for little girls and their mothers.

    Girls walking hand in hand with their friends.

    No one seeking attention.

    Everyone returning attention that is given.

    I remember when we were like this.

    Because we were all family.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-25 08:14:00 UTC

  • Awesome short comparison of nordic cultures as family members. 🙂

    Awesome short comparison of nordic cultures as family members. :).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-25 02:24:00 UTC

  • VINCENT LEE HORTON ON AUTISTIC INQUIRY —“The bard or village storyteller disco

    VINCENT LEE HORTON ON AUTISTIC INQUIRY

    —“The bard or village storyteller discovered that the better the mythology the more likely the audience and the storytelling became more valuable than the story. autistics place higher value in principles of communication that validate multiple points of reference to perception as the point of conversation in the first place.

    I would argue that the ‘weakness’ [of autism] is actually the strength. Whereas an autistic is somewhat endlessly uncertain about their phenomenological reality they have adapted to continuously accumulate more points of reference to validate and therefore are better informed. The non-autistic has a handicap in their assumptions about truth.”— Vincent Lee Horton

    Love it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-24 11:32:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: You may want the consumption of a living in a country wit

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS:

    You may want the consumption of a living in a country with an absolute nuclear family, but I’ll guarantee that once you tire of the consumption – which you will, because we all do – you will wish you lived in a country with an extended family, whose attention you can never stop consuming and whose insurance against the vicissitudes of life are irreplaceable by the state.

    I love Ukraine. The people. Despite the run-down, falling-apart, unmaintained, decaying, soviet architectural despair, I love every soul I know here. Even if, they would rather consume and experience, than appreciate the perfection of what they have, I love them anyway. Because if they don’t appreciate themselves, that may in part, be why the rest of us do.

    What decays in the west is not so visible: the family, the culture, the community, and the human soul, leaving an alienated husk waiting to die alone.

    The anglo-consumer west is a recipe for loneliness.

    Marx was so wrong it’s worse than tragic – it’s criminal. Alienation comes not from disassociation from MATERIAL things, but from family, tribe, country and nation.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-24 07:48:00 UTC