Curt Doolittle

Theme: Constitutional Order

  • UPDATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – Paragraph 2 —We hold these truths t

    UPDATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – Paragraph 2

    —We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that to prosper despite our inequality we must voluntarily cooperate; and to voluntarily cooperate we must be considered equal under the law; and as such we must establish equal rights under the law; and that among these rights are Life, Body, Mind, Freedom of Action and the Pursuit and Accumulation of Property-in-Toto, for self, Family, Kin, Clan, Tribe, and Nation, through productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of the imposition of costs against the property of others by externality.—

    Jefferson unfortunately lacked the language to state the preamble more perfectly.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-12 09:45:00 UTC

  • ITS LAW NOT ECONOMICS – THE FALSE DICHOTOMY We fail at communism and a hundred m

    ITS LAW NOT ECONOMICS – THE FALSE DICHOTOMY

    We fail at communism and a hundred million die.

    We fail at capitalism, create cronyism, and a civilization dies.

    We fail at natural law and give birth to capitalism and communism and everything in between.

    If we succeed at natural law, we create markets not capitalism.

    And our civilization will flourish – yet again.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-07 09:58:00 UTC

  • “Rule of law certainly does not depend on democratic principles, but on the mark

    —“Rule of law certainly does not depend on democratic principles, but on the market exchange of fully informed sovereign parties.

    Almost by definition democracy requires that people are duped into believing that ideology runs the world (as opposed to interests) and that politicians and their establishment colleagues form cartels to perpetuate this illusion.

    Case in point: election campaigns have very little connection to what an elected politician will actually pursue in office. The mechanisms at play in the exercise of power are not advertised.

    Instead of institutionalizing swindle we should institutionalize the pursuit of our proper interests.

    What mechanisms are at play in aristocracies?

    Well, at first glance, norms of reproduction and inheritance (multi-generational investments), a degree of nepotism and the threat of violent ousting of rulers when exchange is not reciprocal.

    Because if guns are traded for common suffrage we have a democracy instead.”—Simon Ström

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-06 17:07:00 UTC

  • Transcendence and Sovereignty Were The Last Pieces

    Yep. Transcendence and Sovereignty were the last pieces. In the end, warriors make rule possible, but Judges rule. In the monopoly of soldiery officers rule, and in the market of cooperation judges rule. Judges and Officers provide the same function under positiva (military) and negativa (market) organizations. The question is only which method judges use to rule. And there is only one scientific, logical, true, and perfectly decidable method by which judges *can* rule, and that is Reciprocity: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. The west has always been poly-narrative. With each class evolving its own narrative. And with each class narrative justifying its role in the natural law of sovereign men. The cult of sovereignty for the aristocracy, the cult of law for the priesthood of the aristocracy, the cult of philosophy for the middle aspirational classes, and the cult of religion for the laboring classes, and the cult of rejection, rebellion, and escape by the undesirable classes. And in turn, there is only one method of producing Sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and sufficient surplus for subsidy, and this is via the incremental suppression of parasitisms in all its forms, producing sovereign men, and eliminating parasitic men – leaving only means of survival in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, and production of polities. The monarchy provides the judge of last resort in war, the judiciary the judge of markets, and the officer corps the commander of the monopoly that is war. And so, as long as the men willing and able to fight for sovereignty are trained in, and participate in, a local militia, a regional regimental system, and are trained by a national army, in exchange for rights of public speech, access to territorial and capital ownership, and participation in the choice of commons, then because of their arms and their numbers, no usurper can deprive them of sovereignty; and because of their investment and advantage from it, they will preserve their sovereignty, and because of their universal standing in courts of natural law, they will have incentive and peaceful and productive means of preserving their sovereignty, through the incremental suppression of all parasitism of which they are aware. Men must create a market for the suppression of parasitism, by in turn creating a market for cooperation, because of the market for violence that is the result of a large militia of diverse personal but homogenous collective, interests. There is but one method of obtaining and preserving the sovereignty, necessary for the production of agency, necessary for the transcendence of man, and that is the organization of a franchise (corporation) of warriors of sufficient number, with sufficient incentives, and sufficient institutional means, that the only conditions that prevent conflict and preserve cooperation. The advantage of this order is that we preserve our original innovation: maneuver (what we call today ooda-loops) because of the distribution of decision making to the lowest possible level of the organization: a market for heroism in battle. We developed markets in everything, because markets adapt faster and innovate faster than all alternatives. And for a small population of people, the use of excellence(professionals) and technology (excellence), and markets (maneuver) is simply *faster* in all dimensions than all larger and slower alternatives. He who adapts fastest and best has the advantage. Because the first and last enemy of all is TIME.

  • Transcendence and Sovereignty Were The Last Pieces

    Yep. Transcendence and Sovereignty were the last pieces. In the end, warriors make rule possible, but Judges rule. In the monopoly of soldiery officers rule, and in the market of cooperation judges rule. Judges and Officers provide the same function under positiva (military) and negativa (market) organizations. The question is only which method judges use to rule. And there is only one scientific, logical, true, and perfectly decidable method by which judges *can* rule, and that is Reciprocity: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. The west has always been poly-narrative. With each class evolving its own narrative. And with each class narrative justifying its role in the natural law of sovereign men. The cult of sovereignty for the aristocracy, the cult of law for the priesthood of the aristocracy, the cult of philosophy for the middle aspirational classes, and the cult of religion for the laboring classes, and the cult of rejection, rebellion, and escape by the undesirable classes. And in turn, there is only one method of producing Sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and sufficient surplus for subsidy, and this is via the incremental suppression of parasitisms in all its forms, producing sovereign men, and eliminating parasitic men – leaving only means of survival in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, and production of polities. The monarchy provides the judge of last resort in war, the judiciary the judge of markets, and the officer corps the commander of the monopoly that is war. And so, as long as the men willing and able to fight for sovereignty are trained in, and participate in, a local militia, a regional regimental system, and are trained by a national army, in exchange for rights of public speech, access to territorial and capital ownership, and participation in the choice of commons, then because of their arms and their numbers, no usurper can deprive them of sovereignty; and because of their investment and advantage from it, they will preserve their sovereignty, and because of their universal standing in courts of natural law, they will have incentive and peaceful and productive means of preserving their sovereignty, through the incremental suppression of all parasitism of which they are aware. Men must create a market for the suppression of parasitism, by in turn creating a market for cooperation, because of the market for violence that is the result of a large militia of diverse personal but homogenous collective, interests. There is but one method of obtaining and preserving the sovereignty, necessary for the production of agency, necessary for the transcendence of man, and that is the organization of a franchise (corporation) of warriors of sufficient number, with sufficient incentives, and sufficient institutional means, that the only conditions that prevent conflict and preserve cooperation. The advantage of this order is that we preserve our original innovation: maneuver (what we call today ooda-loops) because of the distribution of decision making to the lowest possible level of the organization: a market for heroism in battle. We developed markets in everything, because markets adapt faster and innovate faster than all alternatives. And for a small population of people, the use of excellence(professionals) and technology (excellence), and markets (maneuver) is simply *faster* in all dimensions than all larger and slower alternatives. He who adapts fastest and best has the advantage. Because the first and last enemy of all is TIME.

  • The Relationships Within The Hierarchy of Laws

    THE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE HIERARCHY OF LAWS 1) Laws of Nature: Equilibria: The DISCOVERY of which is the subject of physical science. We can know the first causes of the deterministically equilibrial universe – but we cannot sense them without extensive work. 2) Laws of Man: man is an expensive organism fighting the dark forces of time, ignorance, and scarcity, and must act to acquire, and in acting to acquire, acts rationally (to ensure returns – in the greatest return for the least effort, in the shortest time, with the greatest degree of certainty at the lowest risk); and in acting rationally, must conserve physical, emotional, and mental energy, and expend physical, emotional, and mental effort; and can choose to cooperate with others, prey upon others, or boycott others at all times; and may make use of violence, remuneration, or gossip(lauding/shaming), to do so. 2) Natural Law: Non-Parasitism, leaving Reciprocity as the only possible action, because only by non parasitism do we produce the incentive to cooperate rather than prey upon, retaliate against, or boycott. We can know the first cause of reciprocity through direct observation, and we do know it. We cannot implement reciprocity without extensive work (institutions) which allow us to concentrate our forces. 3) Natural RIghts: The methods of insuring natural law, by an insurer of last resort (militia, military, judiciary, monarchy). We cannot implement those institutions without rules by which institutions may enact processes, independently of subjective opinion. 4) Property in toto: the means of commensurability (measurement) between our actions: changes in state of property in toto exist in reality (laws of nature), limited by the abilities of man’s action (laws of man), violate or do not violate reciprocity (rule of law), and are insured or not insured by institutions (natural rights), and can be measured or not measured by changes in property in toto. FRAMING: Laws of Nature > (limits of, methods of transformation) … Laws of Man > limits of, methods of action) … … Laws of Cooperation > (limits of and methods of cooperation.) … … … Laws of Information > ( limits of and methods true Speech) … … … … Laws of Sentience > (limits and methods of ‘thinking’)

  • The Relationships Within The Hierarchy of Laws

    THE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE HIERARCHY OF LAWS 1) Laws of Nature: Equilibria: The DISCOVERY of which is the subject of physical science. We can know the first causes of the deterministically equilibrial universe – but we cannot sense them without extensive work. 2) Laws of Man: man is an expensive organism fighting the dark forces of time, ignorance, and scarcity, and must act to acquire, and in acting to acquire, acts rationally (to ensure returns – in the greatest return for the least effort, in the shortest time, with the greatest degree of certainty at the lowest risk); and in acting rationally, must conserve physical, emotional, and mental energy, and expend physical, emotional, and mental effort; and can choose to cooperate with others, prey upon others, or boycott others at all times; and may make use of violence, remuneration, or gossip(lauding/shaming), to do so. 2) Natural Law: Non-Parasitism, leaving Reciprocity as the only possible action, because only by non parasitism do we produce the incentive to cooperate rather than prey upon, retaliate against, or boycott. We can know the first cause of reciprocity through direct observation, and we do know it. We cannot implement reciprocity without extensive work (institutions) which allow us to concentrate our forces. 3) Natural RIghts: The methods of insuring natural law, by an insurer of last resort (militia, military, judiciary, monarchy). We cannot implement those institutions without rules by which institutions may enact processes, independently of subjective opinion. 4) Property in toto: the means of commensurability (measurement) between our actions: changes in state of property in toto exist in reality (laws of nature), limited by the abilities of man’s action (laws of man), violate or do not violate reciprocity (rule of law), and are insured or not insured by institutions (natural rights), and can be measured or not measured by changes in property in toto. FRAMING: Laws of Nature > (limits of, methods of transformation) … Laws of Man > limits of, methods of action) … … Laws of Cooperation > (limits of and methods of cooperation.) … … … Laws of Information > ( limits of and methods true Speech) … … … … Laws of Sentience > (limits and methods of ‘thinking’)

  • It All Makes Sense if You Tell the Empirical Truth About Man.

    Apr 21, 2017 7:42pm IT ALL MAKES SENSE IF YOU TELL THE EMPIRICAL TRUTH ABOUT MAN. (possibly shocking) If you have negative rights (rule of law) that does not mean you have demonstrated capacity for positive rights (the right to influence others). Only that you are not a harm to others. . The payment of negative rights by doing nothing BAD buys you access to the market and juridical defense in the courts: freedom. What do you do to demonstrate ADEQUACY that you are equally capable of access to physical property and the security and preservation f the commons? (LIBERTY) What do you demonstrate that in itself demonstrates that you are capable of doing something GOOD by the non-harmful use of positive rights? (voting) (SOVEREIGNTY) Pay your way to freedom and juridical defense: non-imposition of costs. Pay your way to liberty and property ownership: service in defense, emergency, and the preservation of the peace (every man a sheriff). Pay your way to Sovereignty and the decisions about the polity: service, family, property(territory), industry (the employment of others.) Pay your way into Aristocracy: the intergenerational preservation of all of the above. child or beast(pre-human) > slave(youth) > serf(soldier) > freeman(citizen) > liberty(responsibility) > sovereignty(choice) > aristocracy(rule).

  • It All Makes Sense if You Tell the Empirical Truth About Man.

    Apr 21, 2017 7:42pm IT ALL MAKES SENSE IF YOU TELL THE EMPIRICAL TRUTH ABOUT MAN. (possibly shocking) If you have negative rights (rule of law) that does not mean you have demonstrated capacity for positive rights (the right to influence others). Only that you are not a harm to others. . The payment of negative rights by doing nothing BAD buys you access to the market and juridical defense in the courts: freedom. What do you do to demonstrate ADEQUACY that you are equally capable of access to physical property and the security and preservation f the commons? (LIBERTY) What do you demonstrate that in itself demonstrates that you are capable of doing something GOOD by the non-harmful use of positive rights? (voting) (SOVEREIGNTY) Pay your way to freedom and juridical defense: non-imposition of costs. Pay your way to liberty and property ownership: service in defense, emergency, and the preservation of the peace (every man a sheriff). Pay your way to Sovereignty and the decisions about the polity: service, family, property(territory), industry (the employment of others.) Pay your way into Aristocracy: the intergenerational preservation of all of the above. child or beast(pre-human) > slave(youth) > serf(soldier) > freeman(citizen) > liberty(responsibility) > sovereignty(choice) > aristocracy(rule).

  • Rule of Law = Non-Discretion

    Apr 24, 2017 9:50am Rule of Law = Non-Discretion. Discretion != Rule of Law. One cannot have rule of law, and at the same time, command, legislation, regulation, and judicial interpretation, because command, legislation, regulation, and judicial interpretation are discretionary. Nomocracy: Government by Rule of Law. How is a nomocracy possible without command, legislation, regulation and judicial interpretation? Markets in everything: Markets for participation, association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, polities, and dispute resolution. But how do we provide decidability in all those markets? Reciprocity. Why? Because reciprocity always provides decidability.