Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS. (profound)(important) The Central Prob

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rightsPRIVATE PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS.

    (profound)(important)

    The Central Problem of Human Cooperation Is Suppression and Prevention of Free-Riding.

    Private property rights, or rather, absolute private property rights, effectively place a ban on all free riding. The use of the state to police the prevention of free riding, transforms free riding into rent seeking both inside the government and out.

    We advocate private property.

    However that confuses consequence with cause. If we suppress all free riding in a society, we are left with absolute private property and the high trust society.

    The state is a means for restoring the ability of people to conduct free riding via rent seeking while forcing the productive classes ever harder onto the hamster wheel of competition.

    In this long article, I summarize propertarianism, and the construction of property rights via the total suppression of free riding (technically, in economic terms, ‘discounts’).

    This helps illustrate the cause of which private property is the result.

    (Edited version of prior post)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-22 15:01:00 UTC

  • OUR WEALTH OF VIOLENCE Under anarchy, we agree NOT to use our natural capacity f

    OUR WEALTH OF VIOLENCE

    Under anarchy, we agree NOT to use our natural capacity for violence, theft and fraud, and by each of us agreeing to not use violence theft and fraud, we obtain property rights. Property rights are the RESULT of forgoing violence, theft, fraud, fraud by omission, obstruction, externalization and shaming and rallying. When we forgo all of these forms of involuntary transfer, nothing is let to us but that narrow means of cooperation we call honest, fully informed, voluntary exchange.

    By many of us agreeing not to use our natural capacity for violence, theft fraud, fraud by omission, obstruction, externalization, shaming, rallying, and organized extortion, and instead forcing ourselves to cooperate voluntarily, by honest, fully informed, voluntary exchange, we create a market.

    Governments are monopolistic insurers, usually formed by nobility, and oligarchy, or a conquerer.

    Under a monopoly government, we pay our wealth of violence to the state, as the first, and ultimate tax. And in return, we expect defense, arbitration of differences.

    We also agree to paying for the necessity of supporting defenders (warriors and soldiers), administrators (sheriffs), and arbitrators (judges), in exchange. It is a convenient division of labor to hire specialists. Warriors, sheriffs and judges are necessary arbiters of war, violence, theft and fraud.

    Although, in English history, the militia is the check and balance on the insurers, rather than competing insurers. In fact, the militia, of armed men, is the only check on monopoly government.

    Violence is the answer, and the only answer.

    We were born with a wealth of violence. We let the state borrow our violence on our behalf, as a division of labor, so that we may specialize in what we wish to. But if the state does not justly use our violence, it is our obligation and our moral right, and our personal necessity, to withdraw our wealth of violence from the state, and to use that wealth to enact a new order.

    I am tired of poor people being dragged into court, fined and losing work for no other reason than choosing to eat or sleep or work, rather than pay taxes, fines, and fees. I am tired of families struggling or the elderly struggling, so that the impulsive and unconstrained bearers of children can obtain succor at their expense.

    I am tired of white males being prosecuted for trying to take great risks to create wealth and protect it so that they no longer must take great risks.

    Withdraw your wealth of violence. Cease paying your tax of violence. Become a protestor of the violence tax, and return your violence to your own control, and use. Take back your first and greatest wealth.

    VIOLENCE IS OUR FIRST NATURAL RIGHT.

    USE IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 14:07:00 UTC

  • *PROPERTY IS THE ANSWER* Property is equal in explanatory power over human coope

    *PROPERTY IS THE ANSWER*

    Property is equal in explanatory power over human cooperation, to physics in explanatory power over the causes and consequences of the physical world.

    Humans minds are difference engines.

    But most of the time, they’re calculating differences in property.

    We just didn’t quite grasp how broadly people applied ownership.

    THE FOUR MORAL SCIENCES

    1) Reason = The instrumental logic of Perception.

    2) Mathematics = The instrumental Logic of Relations

    3) Physics = The instrumental logic of Causes

    4) Property (Economics) = The instrumental logic of Cooperation

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 07:44:00 UTC

  • TRUST VS THE STATE 1) The lower the trust, the more demand for the state. 2) The

    TRUST VS THE STATE

    1) The lower the trust, the more demand for the state.

    2) The higher the trust, the lower the demand for the state.

    3) The more diverse, the lower the trust.

    4) Diversity creates demand for the state.

    Just how it is.

    DIVERSITY SPECTRUM

    ——————

    Self

    —Offspring

    —Family

    Desirability for Mating

    —Status Distance

    —Genetic Fitness

    —Genetic Distance

    Desirability for Cooperation

    —Reproductive Structure Distance (Family Type)

    —Normative Distance (culture, manners, ethics, morals, myths, traditions, rituals)

    —Resource Distance

    —Legal Distance

    Risk

    —Normative Competitor

    —Material Competitor

    —Material Displacer

    Danger

    —Destroyer

    —Conqueror

    —Murderer

    AN HOMOGENOUS EXTENDED FAMILY WITH LOW DIFFERENCE IN APPEARANCE, ABILITY, NORMS AND RESOURCES = HIGH TRUST.

    Everything from that point onward decreases trust in a population.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 10:15:00 UTC

  • ON SATIRE AND RIDICULE When we agree to enter into discourse, debate, even polem

    ON SATIRE AND RIDICULE

    When we agree to enter into discourse, debate, even polemic, we grant each other the right of free speech, in pursuit of the truth, for shared benefit. Otherwise there is no reason to lay down our weapons: we simply substitute the honesty of violence for the deception of words.

    Satire and ridicule are forms of deception. They are theft. A crime. A moral crime. And the majority of us sense it is a moral crime, even when we disagree with it.

    You cannot get around this logic. Satire and Ridicule, unless they are, like the greek drama, directed at ourselves, rather than others, a violation of the contract for cooperation.

    So one can state how and why we use it. But one cannot legitimize it. It’s not possible.

    (See Habermas)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 01:30:00 UTC

  • SOCIAL CAPITAL : THE CONSERVATIVES : HOMOGENEITY=TRUST The conservative vision o

    SOCIAL CAPITAL : THE CONSERVATIVES : HOMOGENEITY=TRUST

    The conservative vision of man, is that he is a wild beast that must be tamed through constant training, and adhere to social structures that encourage his good behavior – particularly marriage. In the Mormon community for example, I have often heard is “An unmarried male between 17 and 22 is a threat to society.”

    But this is incorrect really. It’s the negative statement, not the positive. The positive is provided by Fukuyama (better than all others I think) “..shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships..”

    Again, that’s still distracting, because it doesn’t address the behavioral issue that they mean to develop: TRUST. Social capital is the set of shared norms, values, habits, traditions that facilitate cooperation by increasing TRUST. Trust meaning predictability of taking risk with persons outside of your family group, without fear of loss attributable to one party taking advantage of the other through deception (fraud, lying) or asymmetry of information (fraud by omission).

    The west is a high-trust society. It is actually the ONLY high trust society. It is so because westerners have outbred (protestants at least) such that they actually were an extended family, with very rigid norms, and as such adaptation to norms demonstrated trustworthiness and avoidance of them untrustworthiness.

    There is nothing different about trust in any given society other than how far it extends outside the family.

    SO, conservatives, although they cannot articulated it, are constantly engaged in the process of fighting to maintain the homogeneity of the absolute nuclear family, and a set of conformative rules around the absolute nuclear family, and particularly prevention of free riding and cheating, because these ‘bad behaviors’ reduce trust and the ability to form dynamic and frictionless relationships for cooperation and mutual benefit.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-10 05:39:00 UTC

  • KIEV UPDATE: PROTESERS BUILD BARRICADES AND ORGANIZE VOLUNTEER GUARDS Hmmm…..

    KIEV UPDATE: PROTESERS BUILD BARRICADES AND ORGANIZE VOLUNTEER GUARDS

    Hmmm….. That is a good strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 16:16:00 UTC

  • If we cannot cooperate, then we can either surrender, or conquer. It is cheapest

    If we cannot cooperate, then we can either surrender, or conquer. It is cheapest to surrender. But it is a theft from all those who did not surrender before you. And when they saved in the past, for you to consume in the present, they did so at much higher cost to themselves. So the only solution is to conquer. Out of self defense.

    Violence is the only solution.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 10:38:00 UTC

  • “COLLECTIVE BONDS” = COMMUNAL PROPERTY AND FREE-RIDING VS PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHO

    “COLLECTIVE BONDS” = COMMUNAL PROPERTY AND FREE-RIDING

    VS PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHOUT FREE RIDING

    “…the individual in (parts of) europe was liberated from the “collective bonds” because europeans started outbreeding in the early medieval period and, over the subsequent generations, the frequencies and perhaps even types of altruism genes changed in the populations. europeans quit behaving like inbred pashtuns who are always looking for revenge when their familiy’s honor is tainted because they (the europeans) were no longer inbred.”….

    -HBD Chick

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 09:15:00 UTC

  • WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM? And

    WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM?

    And how does one know those points of demarcation?

    The central problem of human cooperation is not violence, it is free-riding. Violence and theft in-group, turns out to be fairly easy to suppress. But free-riding in-group is very hard to suppress.

    So, to use a common libertarian philosophical error, lets look at Crusoe’s island. Why? Because the central problem of cooperation for any human being is that he is born into a tribe that raises him, whether that tribe is a pair or few dozen parents. So the model we must work from instead, is an island evenly distributed with individuals of different ages and abilities, all of whom naturally try to free-ride on one another. Free riding is a useful strategy for a multi-generational animal that requires high investment parenting.

    1) Rearing and Care-taking

    2) Mutual Insurance

    3) Free-Riding

    4) Parasitism

    5) Fraud by omission

    6) Fraud by misrepresentation

    7) Entrapment

    8) Theft

    9) Violence

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 08:34:00 UTC