Curt Doolittle

Theme: Class

  • ( When we promise status signals in exchange for entry into the consumptive clas

    ( When we promise status signals in exchange for entry into the consumptive classes, that’s easy. But are we now short on signals?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 12:12:15 UTC

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  • We call that a “Natural Aristocracy” and it’s the most desirable state of affair

    We call that a “Natural Aristocracy” and it’s the most desirable state of affairs, since they and we share the same interests.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-02 18:31:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/683354829310291973

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    Paul Krugman: What happens to a nation that gives ever-growing political power to the superrich? https://t.co/zgi74kUgeJ

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  • We sold the Indians beads. The neo-puritans sold us membership in the consumer c

    We sold the Indians beads. The neo-puritans sold us membership in the consumer class. The cosmopolitan postmoderns and Jews sold us status signals.

    We love our beads. The British love them most of all.

    But that is all they are.

    Capital exists.

    Signals that lie do not.

    And most of the signals they sold were snake oil that gave us cancer.

    What should be the punishment?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-02 14:04:00 UTC

  • OUCH —“The party of Obama, Clinton and Sanders owes its ideology not to Jeffer

    OUCH

    —“The party of Obama, Clinton and Sanders owes its ideology not to Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, but to the socialists of the 20th century: Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Castro.”—

    Just to note that Muslim(Obama), Christian(Clinton) and Jew(Sanders) all follow the same ideology, that was followed by Lenin(jewish), Stalin (Georgian), Hitler(Austrian German), Mao(Chinese), Castro (Caribbean Latin)

    (It’s actually rare to find blonde, red, and brown haired people in positions of left wing marxist political power. Hillary is an exception. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-28 04:11:00 UTC

  • Paternalism and Classism, But Not Racism

    [I]f you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful ability for us to religion, culture, race, class and caste. We struggle with a certain problem: that while small nations are better for the development of community and mutual insurance, large states are materially valuable for the conduct of war and less so for trade bargaining. But once we have nuclear weapons it is very hard to violate borders without committing suicide. So there appears to be no reason for large states other than aggressive warfare. And yes, some territory is objectively better than other territory. And some genes are objectively better than other genes. And we start from different levels of development. But states are as much a barrier to development as they are to improvement precisely because of scale. Scale increases the ability to engage in corruption. With scale we find anonymity. With anonymity we have informational asymmetry. With informational asymmetry we have opportunity for corruption (privatization of commons). So you know, I’m a CLASSIST, in that i recognize the problem of carrying a large and counterproductive underclass, but I am not a RACIST in that I want all groups to transcend the animal, become fully human, and evolve into what we imagine as gods. And its possible. We had it right. Unfortunately we blew it. And now we have to fix it.

  • Paternalism and Classism, But Not Racism

    [I]f you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful ability for us to religion, culture, race, class and caste. We struggle with a certain problem: that while small nations are better for the development of community and mutual insurance, large states are materially valuable for the conduct of war and less so for trade bargaining. But once we have nuclear weapons it is very hard to violate borders without committing suicide. So there appears to be no reason for large states other than aggressive warfare. And yes, some territory is objectively better than other territory. And some genes are objectively better than other genes. And we start from different levels of development. But states are as much a barrier to development as they are to improvement precisely because of scale. Scale increases the ability to engage in corruption. With scale we find anonymity. With anonymity we have informational asymmetry. With informational asymmetry we have opportunity for corruption (privatization of commons). So you know, I’m a CLASSIST, in that i recognize the problem of carrying a large and counterproductive underclass, but I am not a RACIST in that I want all groups to transcend the animal, become fully human, and evolve into what we imagine as gods. And its possible. We had it right. Unfortunately we blew it. And now we have to fix it.

  • Propertarian Class Structures

    [P]ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) —Priesthood and Intellectuals —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort —Medicine and Nursing —Mothering and Child Care —Elder Care —Poor Care Commercial Class (organization and execution of production) —Major Corporate Alliances —Finance, Banking —Business and Entrepreneurship —Distribution and Trade Producer Classes —Calculators ——Scientists (discover) ——Engineers (build) ——Programmers (instruct) ——Accountants (measure) ——Project Managers (time) —Artist Class … —Labor Class … —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production) … —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production) … Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production) …

  • Propertarian Class Structures

    [P]ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) —Priesthood and Intellectuals —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort —Medicine and Nursing —Mothering and Child Care —Elder Care —Poor Care Commercial Class (organization and execution of production) —Major Corporate Alliances —Finance, Banking —Business and Entrepreneurship —Distribution and Trade Producer Classes —Calculators ——Scientists (discover) ——Engineers (build) ——Programmers (instruct) ——Accountants (measure) ——Project Managers (time) —Artist Class … —Labor Class … —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production) … —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production) … Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production) …

  • DEAR HOLLYWOOD (my casting gripe) Please stop casting lower middle class and upp

    DEAR HOLLYWOOD

    (my casting gripe)

    Please stop casting lower middle class and upper proletarian actors in upper middle class and upper class professional and intellectual roles.

    Please stop writing dramatic sequences between professionals that would only be spoken by blue collar and white collar clerical workers. I mean, go watch and Aaron Sorkin movie if you have to. But you know, impulsivity and emotionalism decline rapidly with competence.

    I mean, it’s embarrassing – and it eliminates any possibility of suspension of disbelief.

    You get one ‘gimme’ in any bit of literature. If you put together say, a sci fi movie, then you need the characters to work. If you put together a contemporary drama the ‘gimme’ can be the characters.

    But seriously. I mean, these things are expensive.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 15:03:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES

    (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    Martial Class (suppression of parasitism)

    —Kings and Generals

    —Knights(professionals), Soldiers

    —Judges, and Sherriffs

    Commons Class (Construction of Commons)

    —Infrastructure Institutions

    —Civic Organizations

    —Beauty and Maintenance

    —Disaster Services

    Insurer Class (Insurance)

    —Priesthood and Intellectuals

    —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort

    —Medicine and Nursing

    —Mothering and Child Care

    —Elder Care

    —Poor Care

    Commercial Class (organization and execution of production)

    —Major Corporate Alliances

    —Finance, Banking

    —Business and Entrepreneurship

    —Distribution and Trade

    Producer Classes

    —Calculators

    ——Scientists (discover)

    ——Engineers (build)

    ——Programmers (instruct)

    ——Accountants (measure)

    ——Project Managers (time)

    —Artist Class

    …

    —Labor Class

    …

    —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production)

    …

    —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production)

    …

    Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production)

    …

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 04:57:00 UTC