Curt Doolittle

Theme: Coercion

  • LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY” ( ) (posted on site in comments

    http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/OPEN LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

    ( http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/ )

    (posted on site in comments section given no link to messaging)

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    Wondering if you’d be willing to do a chat.

    We both started working on similar problems at about the same time. And have come to similar conclusions although not identical through different methods.

    I know that the difference in our work comes down to the difference between aggregates and consumption under the assumption of common good on your end, and truthfulness, morality, and rational cooperation under the assumption of not doing ‘bad’ on mine.

    And perhaps nothing more than the difference between dysgenic and eugenic reproduction as the translation of the criteria we both call that “assumption” of common good or ‘doing bad’.

    With that understanding (if we can achieve it) I feel you are better informed than I am on the consequences of MMT and inflation on prices, credit, debt and possibly information.

    Now I am not an MMT supporter but it is the only referrer I know that has enough meaning to provide a starting point.

    And while I agree that the K/NK movements describe cause and consequence. I do not think it constitutes a full accounting of consequence, and as such is insufficient. Nor do I find agreement with discretionary action rather than rule of law in matters of influencing the economy by policy means. Any more than I find agreement with discretion in rule of law in the practice of law, or policy.

    The problem we (both) face in this subject matter is that there are very few people with broad enough knowledge of the various movements to converse with. Particularly the relatively serious failure of the 20th century thinkers to solve the problem of social science (the Wilsonian Synthesis) and its consequence.

    It would help me a great deal if we could talk through this set of ideas. I would be hopeful it would be equally helpful to you as well.

    Thanks

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 06:54:00 UTC

  • “By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and

    —“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose.”— JM Keyens

    Somehow, the “extra-judicial theft of purchasing power and wealth via inflation” (the operative Keynesian mechanism for curing a “lack of aggregate demand”) disappeared from Keynes’ narratives by the 1930s. – Bob Roddis

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 05:29:00 UTC

  • Progressives *Must* Lie

    [P]rogressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And when they came they prefer deceit. Lying is necessary to frame kleptocracy as virtuous, theft as moral and dysgenia as good.

  • Progressives *Must* Lie

    [P]rogressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And when they came they prefer deceit. Lying is necessary to frame kleptocracy as virtuous, theft as moral and dysgenia as good.

  • Rothbard’s Ethical Ghetto

    (h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating by parasitism on the backs of others. Rothbard’s pretense is simply a means of justifying parasitism on that hard won liberty. There is nothing libertarian about Rothbardian ethics. Its just a complex philosophical lie to justify immoral and unethical theft.

  • Rothbard’s Ethical Ghetto

    (h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of cheating by parasitism on the backs of others. Rothbard’s pretense is simply a means of justifying parasitism on that hard won liberty. There is nothing libertarian about Rothbardian ethics. Its just a complex philosophical lie to justify immoral and unethical theft.

  • THE PURPOSE OF RULE IS THE PREVENTION OF RULE You get your own house of governme

    THE PURPOSE OF RULE IS THE PREVENTION OF RULE

    You get your own house of government, not because I want to rule you, or we want to rule you, but because i want and we want to prevent you from ruling us. You may rule yourselves as you see fit. You may exchange with us as we both agree. But you may not rule us against our will.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 02:43:00 UTC

  • Progressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And

    Progressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And when they came they prefer deceit.

    Lying is necessary to frame kleptocracy as virtuous, theft as moral and dysgenia as good.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-06 02:39:00 UTC

  • Am I Free?

    [A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No) Do I have freedom to transfer my wealth to my offspring? (No) Do I have freedom of exit for myself and my property? (No) Do I have freedom from retroactive Regulation, Legislation, and Law? (No) Do I have Juridical Defense in all manner of interference? (No) Then I am not free. This list constitutes the criteria for freedom. And its opposite the criteria for slavery. I must possess each of these freedoms to exist in a state of freedom. If not, then by definition, and without exception, then I am not free. If I am not free then I am a slave. I know full well I am enslaved. That me and mine are enslaved. And so now you have a choice. Either free me and mine from slavery, And then Leave, or Resign and Repent, or Die. This is the most generous offer I will grant you. If you do not free me and do not leave, or do not repent, and do not resign, then you will die. I promise before all the gods past and present. You will die. And there will be no mercy. No forgiveness. No remorse. You have sought genocide against me and my kin. For this crime only restitution available is the death of you and your kin.

  • Am I Free?

    [A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No) Do I have freedom to transfer my wealth to my offspring? (No) Do I have freedom of exit for myself and my property? (No) Do I have freedom from retroactive Regulation, Legislation, and Law? (No) Do I have Juridical Defense in all manner of interference? (No) Then I am not free. This list constitutes the criteria for freedom. And its opposite the criteria for slavery. I must possess each of these freedoms to exist in a state of freedom. If not, then by definition, and without exception, then I am not free. If I am not free then I am a slave. I know full well I am enslaved. That me and mine are enslaved. And so now you have a choice. Either free me and mine from slavery, And then Leave, or Resign and Repent, or Die. This is the most generous offer I will grant you. If you do not free me and do not leave, or do not repent, and do not resign, then you will die. I promise before all the gods past and present. You will die. And there will be no mercy. No forgiveness. No remorse. You have sought genocide against me and my kin. For this crime only restitution available is the death of you and your kin.