Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict

    RELIGIONS COME IN MANY FORMS

    To act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we requre a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful decidability so that we can succeed in cooperating with others in a densely populated world where we share a division of cognitive labor.

    Progressivism: Democratic Socialist Secular Humanism is just as much a religion predicated upon falsehoods as is supernatural scriptural monotheism. To some degree scientism is just as much a religion as any of them when paired with correlative mathematics (statistics). I am not quite sure that mathematical modeling of the physical universe doesn’t equally qualify as a form of Buddhism (any set of axiomatic rules in which everything is possible cannot be possible). Western conservatism (aristocratic egalitarianism) is certainly a religion, even if its content was accumulated empirically over thousands of years. At present it is a mythology.

    I hope someday to debate the standing atheists – not in defense of religion, and not against atheism, but that they are not atheists, but statists, innumerate and unscientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:59:00 UTC

  • So are you saying that morality does not construct an economy for the production

    So are you saying that morality does not construct an economy for the production of cooperation?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 10:58:21 UTC

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  • Choice Words on Cooperation

    —“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—

    Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER…

  • Choice Words on Cooperation

    —“[C]ooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing amounts of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—

    Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER…

  • COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER (good stuff!) —“Cooperation in

    COOPERATION: CHOICE WORDS FROM MY CURRENT PAPER

    (good stuff!)

    —“Cooperation in a division of knowledge and labor is a disproportionately rewarding action – so much so, that without it, it’s nearly impossible to survive, and with it, and increasing numbers of it, we prosper. And instead of income being the result of action, it is the result of action to acquire, and the most valuable things one can acquire are opportunity for cooperation, acts of cooperation, and debts of cooperation that can be inventoried for future use. Which is precisely what mankind demonstrates daily by his actions in every walk of life.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 07:56:00 UTC

  • “Mainstream Economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of

    —“Mainstream Economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation by reducing transaction costs and uncertainties but how to force consumption for the purpose of increasing employment.”—

    Of course the simplest method here is to stop distorting the labor economy and directly redistribute liquidity to consumers such that employment makes less of an impact on the unemployed. That would have a side effect of impoverishing the financial sector. Which is a good thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 00:50:00 UTC

  • Chain of Education

    [I]n a family, ***REGARDLESS OF SIZE*** if everyone takes care of educating the rank below them, then the entire group will prosper. It doesn’t work the other way though. ie: democracy is a bad thing. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Chain of Education

    [I]n a family, ***REGARDLESS OF SIZE*** if everyone takes care of educating the rank below them, then the entire group will prosper. It doesn’t work the other way though. ie: democracy is a bad thing. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • CIVIC EVOLUTION? (important idea) (very interesting) 1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)

    CIVIC EVOLUTION?

    (important idea) (very interesting)

    1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)

    2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)

    3) ————->BANK(adds production)?

    Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?)

    I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union.

    But what if your credit union also offered education?

    Individual + Family + Credit Union + Insurance + Education.

    Individual + Partnership + Banking + Investing + Treasury.

    Individual + Unit + Regiment + Militia.

    Individual + House + Government + The Law.

    !!!! Is the central bank the central force prohibiting the conversion of Credit Unions into the central means of producing a civic order? !!!!

    Dammit. Yes it is. Wow. Awesome. !!!!!!

    I think this is my big idea for Q3 2015.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute.

    Kiev, Ukraine

    (PS: Aaron Kahland . I knew you were right. I just had to figure out why. Now I know why. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 05:47:00 UTC

  • CAN THE TRUTH BE A COMMONS? (Interesting) —“Truth telling is commons, but trut

    CAN THE TRUTH BE A COMMONS? (Interesting)

    —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”—

    Let me state this clearly:

    “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.”

    How does truth telling exist?

    The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and in the institutional means for its inter-temporal and intergenerational persistence: testimony, jury and law.

    How does truth exist?

    I put it this way: that information can be treated as a commons, and we can protect the informational commons just as we do every other commons both physical and normative.

    So when we propose the statement ‘is the truth a commons?’ we are stuck with whether can we treat the truth as a commons.

    That requires we define truth, which as far as I know, can consist only of the extant history of truthfully constructed statements. If we protected those statements, then that’s not logical. Because we do not in fact know whether they are true, only that they are truthfully constructed.

    So our only choice then is to require that only truthful statements enter into the commons, and then let the best surviving statements rise and the lesser fall. Just as we require only non-harmful products enter into the market for goods and services and allow them to rise and fall.

    There is no truth that can exist as a commons. There can exist only truthfully constructed statements. And we cannot protect those statements since it’s counter-productive. We can only prohibit ‘polluting’ them like all other commons.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 14:58:00 UTC