Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • (Profound) We have been so busy trying to take advantage of the physical world f

    (Profound)

    We have been so busy trying to take advantage of the physical world for 2500 years that we took the cooperative world for granted.

    Is it any wonder that it was hard to understand the physical world – truth – when out minds and language evolved from negotiation not fro truth?

    Is it any mystery then why rationalism and mysticism are such excellent vehicles for deceptive negotiations – positioning lie as truth, and various other forms of conflation?

    But what is it that we are negotiating? And what changed with the scale of our social orders?

    Propertarianism: we acquire and defend, negotiate to acquire and defend. And we use obscurity to hide thefts that otherwise violate the incentives for cooperation.

    Behind the obscurant language and layers of loading and framing are very simple rules.

    The logic of cooperation.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:14:00 UTC

  • it is a bit hard to replace your normatively acquired moral intuitions with form

    it is a bit hard to replace your normatively acquired moral intuitions with formal logic of cooperation. But you can do it. And when you do, the world of man is a clear to you as the physical world is to the mathematician and physicist.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 14:38:00 UTC

  • ON INTERVENTION (reposted from fb/paleolibertarian) If we wish to extend propert

    ON INTERVENTION

    (reposted from fb/paleolibertarian)

    If we wish to extend property rights to others we must always intervene, else when we need intervention ourselves, no one is likewise obligated to intervene on our behalf.

    No man is an island. Britain, North America, and Australia temporarily can act as islands due to luck of geography, and the diasporic peoples can always run to hide in another ‘tent’. But as a general rule – a theory of human action, we cannot take exceptions and under the pretense of rules.

    The question is not whether we intervene, but whether our intervention increases property rights, and whether those we assist in obtaining property rights enter into a contract for mutual defense of property rights.

    There exist no other circumstances under which property rights can be brought into existence by human action, other than by contractual exchange. and there exist no opportunities to bring them into existence other than offers of intervention. Because offers of intervention constitute offers of reciprocal contract.

    Aristocracy expanded to the lower classes by adopting the price of entry: reciprocal defense of property. And that is the only means by which liberty has ever, and shall ever, be obtained.

    Liberty cannot be had at a discount. One pays for it, or one seeks to obtain it by fraud. Period.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 05:16:00 UTC

  • I agree to non violent cooperation by voluntary exchange. I do not agree to conq

    I agree to non violent cooperation by voluntary exchange. I do not agree to conquest by involuntary takings

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 08:59:00 UTC

  • THE FIRST QUESTION OF COOPERATION The first question of cooperation is and will

    THE FIRST QUESTION OF COOPERATION

    The first question of cooperation is and will always remain “why should I cooperate rather than kill you and take your stuff?” Any question of cooperation, once rejected, does not regress into boycott, but into violence. Violence is the source of all wealth, because it is with violence that we suppress free riding and force all human action into the market for the voluntary organization of production, distribution and trade.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-05 09:36:00 UTC

  • We Discovered Truth Telling

    [W]hile Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

  • We Discovered Truth Telling

    [W]hile Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

  • WE DISCOVERED TRUTH TELLING I think that while Propertarianism does provide the

    WE DISCOVERED TRUTH TELLING

    I think that while Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 14:19:00 UTC

  • (Very interesting to watch people’s ability to use propertarianism – the logic o

    (Very interesting to watch people’s ability to use propertarianism – the logic of cooperation – expand far beyond the promise of praxeology – the logic of action. Equally interesting: seeing Hoppe abandon German rationalism in his most recent work – and to at least acknowledge allodial property – originated in violence and aristocratic reciprocal insurance. Equally interesting that MI continues to have so much trouble with funding. So I think I was right: the rothbardians jumped the shark and we are in a new era of liberty. – Cheers)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 08:24:00 UTC

  • THOSE WHO FIGHT SOLDIER: A Soldier fights for enfranchisement/nationalism/imperi

    http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/—” THOSE WHO FIGHT

    SOLDIER: A Soldier fights for enfranchisement/nationalism/imperialism/pride/ – he is an employee or a slave.

    MERCENARY: A Mercenary is a professional who fights for goods (money or other things of value) – he is a businessman.

    WARRIOR – A Warrior is a professional, who fights for honor and to defend ones property / or loved ones–

    – Joseph Santaniello

    PROPERTARIAN CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY

    I. Several (Personal) Property

    Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.”

    – Physical Body

    – Actions and Time

    – Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands.

    – Several Property: Those things we claim a monopoly of control over.

    II. Artificial Property

    Artificial Property: “Can a group issue specific rights to members?” This topic is dependent again, upon the ORIGIN question above. If markets are made, then the shareholders of the market may create artificial property of any type that they desire. Including but not limited to:

    – Shares in property: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (claims for partial ownership)

    – Monopoly Property such as intellectual property. (grants of monopoly within a geography)

    – Trademarks and Brands (prohibitions on fraudulent transfers within a geography).

    III. Interpersonal (Relationship) Property

    Cooperative Property: “relationships with others and tools of relationships upon which we reciprocally depend.”

    – Mates (access to sex/reproduction)

    – Children (genetic reproduction)

    – Familial Relations (security)

    – Non-Familial Relations (utility)

    – Consanguineous Relations (tribal and family ties)

    – Racial property (racial ties)

    – Organizational ties (work)

    – Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    – Status and Class (reputation)

    IV. Institutional (Community) Property

    Institutional Property: “Those objects into which we have invested our forgone opportunities, our efforts, or our material assets, in order to aggregate capital from multiple individuals for mutual gain.”

    – Informal (Normative) Institutions: Our norms: manners, ethics and morals. Informal institutional property is nearly impossible to quantify and price. The costs are subjective and consists of forgone opportunities.

    – Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws. Formal institutional property is easy to price. costs are visible. And the productivity of the social order is at least marginally measurable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 05:20:00 UTC