Curt Doolittle

Theme: Crisis

  • Prelude to Civil War – Via Washington Himself

    Jan 30, 2020, 5:20 PM

    “At a time, when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. Addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufacturers, remains to be tried.” ~ George Washington, Letter to George Mason (April 5, 1769)

  • The West’s Crime Against Russia

    Feb 20, 2020, 10:12 PM

    “The only greater tragedy than the fall of the soviet union is the west’s crime of not saving the russian people from suffering because of it. The restoration of eastern europe was great, yes, but it was offset by the collapse of everything east of it was and remains a terrible horror. The russian colonial program failed like the european colonial programs failed. The lesson is that we cannot colonize other peoples – nor let them colonize us.”

  • The West’s Crime Against Russia

    Feb 20, 2020, 10:12 PM

    “The only greater tragedy than the fall of the soviet union is the west’s crime of not saving the russian people from suffering because of it. The restoration of eastern europe was great, yes, but it was offset by the collapse of everything east of it was and remains a terrible horror. The russian colonial program failed like the european colonial programs failed. The lesson is that we cannot colonize other peoples – nor let them colonize us.”

  • If you can’t man-up and discuss politics then you are just a child with pinwheel

    If you can’t man-up and discuss politics then you are just a child with pinwheels and cotton candy totally ignorant of the content of adult conversation.

    The revolt is over political power to displace whites.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 11:59:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266700738157326336

    Reply addressees: @TheKanehB @vamosvigilante @VulcanSpooky

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266700480689963008

    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @TheKanehB @vamosvigilante @VulcanSpooky Mimi you are a woman arguing your feminine moral instincts and completely over your head in political argument.

    Life is Competition
    All politics is proxy for violence.
    The subtext in all political discourse is violence.
    All Political argument, demands under threat of violence.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1266700480689963008

  • Leftism = Cancer

    Leftism = Cancer https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/leftism-cancer/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:04:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266505734910509058

  • Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia

    —“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren

    Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.

  • Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia

    —“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren

    Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.

  • The Law of The Cycles of Political Orders

    The Law of The Cycles of Political Orders https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/the-law-of-the-cycles-of-political-orders/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 21:34:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266483070775054336

  • The Law of The Cycles of Political Orders

    Eric Danelaw shared a link. Mar 2, 2020, 12:14 PM Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget, from truthdig.comTHE LAW OF THE CYCLES OF POLITICAL ORDERS (thanks for the invite to comment) Organizations evolve to exploit an opportunity that can only be exploited by organizations. The organizational myth, history, tradition, rules, methods of description, persuasion, and argument expand until all available opportunity, rents, extractions, and predations under it are exhausted and all incentives to persist the organization are exhausted by enough of the population that they are incentivized to seek other opportunities. At that point in the shift of incentives, the opportunity that evolves is radical extra-political reorganization of capital, elites, and institutions, to eliminate the accumulated, rents, extractions, and predations so that incentive to persist organization of the polity, society, community, is restored. This reorganization can consist of three possibilities, including i) retention of strategy but redistribution of capital and restructuring of institutions (best if say, under rule of law), ii) rotation of strategy, elites, and restructuring of institutions (best if say, under rule of legislation), or iii) replacement of strategy, elites, institutions altogether (best if under tyranny). For example Picketty is right in some sense, but it turns out that the aristocracies were actually better than we thought because they had Hoppeian incentives to avoid the tragedy of the commons, and to persist the polity and society while continuously reorganizing the institutions and elites. This is why we ( or at least I) have recommended (in the new constitutional amendments) capital reallocation, institutional reformation, and a shift back to intergenerational elites, on a scale not seen since the roman reforms. We don’t do things too badly. But our 20th century experiments in variations on the ancient tripartite order under rule of law largely didn’t work. There is a reason we evolved so quickly compared to other civilizations despite the dark ages. We already invented perfect government. We just didn’t adapt it correctly in response to the industrial revolution. Because we didn’t understand why we’d been successful. Now we do. Cheers.

  • The Law of The Cycles of Political Orders

    Eric Danelaw shared a link. Mar 2, 2020, 12:14 PM Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget, from truthdig.comTHE LAW OF THE CYCLES OF POLITICAL ORDERS (thanks for the invite to comment) Organizations evolve to exploit an opportunity that can only be exploited by organizations. The organizational myth, history, tradition, rules, methods of description, persuasion, and argument expand until all available opportunity, rents, extractions, and predations under it are exhausted and all incentives to persist the organization are exhausted by enough of the population that they are incentivized to seek other opportunities. At that point in the shift of incentives, the opportunity that evolves is radical extra-political reorganization of capital, elites, and institutions, to eliminate the accumulated, rents, extractions, and predations so that incentive to persist organization of the polity, society, community, is restored. This reorganization can consist of three possibilities, including i) retention of strategy but redistribution of capital and restructuring of institutions (best if say, under rule of law), ii) rotation of strategy, elites, and restructuring of institutions (best if say, under rule of legislation), or iii) replacement of strategy, elites, institutions altogether (best if under tyranny). For example Picketty is right in some sense, but it turns out that the aristocracies were actually better than we thought because they had Hoppeian incentives to avoid the tragedy of the commons, and to persist the polity and society while continuously reorganizing the institutions and elites. This is why we ( or at least I) have recommended (in the new constitutional amendments) capital reallocation, institutional reformation, and a shift back to intergenerational elites, on a scale not seen since the roman reforms. We don’t do things too badly. But our 20th century experiments in variations on the ancient tripartite order under rule of law largely didn’t work. There is a reason we evolved so quickly compared to other civilizations despite the dark ages. We already invented perfect government. We just didn’t adapt it correctly in response to the industrial revolution. Because we didn’t understand why we’d been successful. Now we do. Cheers.