(FB 1542046400 Timestamp) “We Can Teach You The Education That Was Denied You.” —” Hi Curt … I was wondering whereâs a good starting point? I watched your YouTube with Richard Nikoley. I loved it. Especially when you two spoke about the election and empires. I donât have a super firm grasp on grammar,logic, and rhetoric (The Trivium). Should I dive into those subjects first before diving deep into propertarianism? Or where is a good place to start on your reading list? Any thoughts will help. Thanks” —Bryan Baker YOU LEARN IT BY UNPEELING THE ONION ONE LAYER AT A TIME. sort of like reading a fable, then a myth, then a short story, then a novel, then a historical novel, then a history, then the science. This is the only way to learn it – like we learn everything else. A layer of complexity at a time. 1 – Read the Short Overview by Eli Harman Here: https://propertarianinstitute.com/2018/03/29/propertarianism-core-concepts-by-eli-harman/ 2 – Read Thru The Overview Here (This is most of it … there is a lot of material) https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/ 3 – Watch the videos here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/thepropertarianinstitute/videos/ 4 – Take the classes when we start teaching them (before christmas). 5 – To build your general knowledge of the world: our reading list: https://propertarianinstitute.com/reading-list/ While you can ALWAYS learn A LOT from what we do here, it is a very big program that covers all the disciplines. LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM THOROUGHLY IS NO DIFFERENT FROM TAKING A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY DEGREE, DOUBLE-MAJORING IN THE LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMICS WITH A MINOR IN HISTORY BUT WITHOUT THE “ELECTIVES”. IT’S A HUGE PROGRAM. But this is why you do it: “We Can Teach You The Education That Was Denied You as A Man.” How Long It Will Take? How long would it take you to learn to program a computer in an object oriented language? To study Calculus? To Study Accounting? To Study Economics? To study the law? Any technical discipline with itâs own methods and terminology takes about a year to âlearnâ, two years to feel comfortable with, and three years to be effective with, four years to be creative with, and five or six years to master: the 10,000 hour rule. This is just a rule of thumb when discussing how long it takes for humans to learn anything at all. Some of us are faster and some of us slower, but in general, those who are faster can tolerate accumulating hours more so than those who are slower. But in the end, itâs hours. That said, if you read the Short Courses and watch the Videos, in one month you will see how it all fits together, and in three months you will find that it has affected your thinking. Our experience is that on average, if you read the articles, follow me, Eli, and a few others, that in six months you will âunderstandâ everything we say. It will take you about a year to âstart thinkingâ in Natural Law â and thatâs when youâll feel the explanatory power starts affecting your life. Then, sort of like a light switch, over a very short period of time, all human activity will âmake senseâ in very simple terms. âEverything becomes obvious.â If you have come to Propertarianism through the usual route: Constitutionalist or Classical Liberal > Libertarian > Anarcho Capitalist > NRx > Propertarianism, then your progress will be much faster. If you have studied one of the hard sciences so that you are familiar with the scientific method and scientific epistemology, then your progress will be faster. If you have at least some understanding of accounting, finance, or economics, then it will be much faster. If you have a background in philosophy â it might actually slow you down: most of philosophy, like most of religion, is nonsense or outright falsehood: fantasy literature. (If you have abnormal behavior and youâre looking for justification of it, you wonât find it here â you will find that there is a differences between tolerance and advocacy and abnormal behavior is not something that will be sanctioned in any society for long. Go see the left libertarians. They love deviant, selfish, anti-social behavior.) But in general the more you know the easier it will be to learn.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542046400 Timestamp) “We Can Teach You The Education That Was Denied You.” —” Hi Curt … I was wondering whereâs a good starting point? I watched your YouTube with Richard Nikoley. I loved it. Especially when you two spoke about the election and empires. I donât have a super firm grasp on grammar,logic, and rhetoric (The Trivium). Should I dive into those subjects first before diving deep into propertarianism? Or where is a good place to start on your reading list? Any thoughts will help. Thanks” —Bryan Baker YOU LEARN IT BY UNPEELING THE ONION ONE LAYER AT A TIME. sort of like reading a fable, then a myth, then a short story, then a novel, then a historical novel, then a history, then the science. This is the only way to learn it – like we learn everything else. A layer of complexity at a time. 1 – Read the Short Overview by Eli Harman Here: https://propertarianinstitute.com/2018/03/29/propertarianism-core-concepts-by-eli-harman/ 2 – Read Thru The Overview Here (This is most of it … there is a lot of material) https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/ 3 – Watch the videos here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/thepropertarianinstitute/videos/ 4 – Take the classes when we start teaching them (before christmas). 5 – To build your general knowledge of the world: our reading list: https://propertarianinstitute.com/reading-list/ While you can ALWAYS learn A LOT from what we do here, it is a very big program that covers all the disciplines. LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM THOROUGHLY IS NO DIFFERENT FROM TAKING A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY DEGREE, DOUBLE-MAJORING IN THE LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMICS WITH A MINOR IN HISTORY BUT WITHOUT THE “ELECTIVES”. IT’S A HUGE PROGRAM. But this is why you do it: “We Can Teach You The Education That Was Denied You as A Man.” How Long It Will Take? How long would it take you to learn to program a computer in an object oriented language? To study Calculus? To Study Accounting? To Study Economics? To study the law? Any technical discipline with itâs own methods and terminology takes about a year to âlearnâ, two years to feel comfortable with, and three years to be effective with, four years to be creative with, and five or six years to master: the 10,000 hour rule. This is just a rule of thumb when discussing how long it takes for humans to learn anything at all. Some of us are faster and some of us slower, but in general, those who are faster can tolerate accumulating hours more so than those who are slower. But in the end, itâs hours. That said, if you read the Short Courses and watch the Videos, in one month you will see how it all fits together, and in three months you will find that it has affected your thinking. Our experience is that on average, if you read the articles, follow me, Eli, and a few others, that in six months you will âunderstandâ everything we say. It will take you about a year to âstart thinkingâ in Natural Law â and thatâs when youâll feel the explanatory power starts affecting your life. Then, sort of like a light switch, over a very short period of time, all human activity will âmake senseâ in very simple terms. âEverything becomes obvious.â If you have come to Propertarianism through the usual route: Constitutionalist or Classical Liberal > Libertarian > Anarcho Capitalist > NRx > Propertarianism, then your progress will be much faster. If you have studied one of the hard sciences so that you are familiar with the scientific method and scientific epistemology, then your progress will be faster. If you have at least some understanding of accounting, finance, or economics, then it will be much faster. If you have a background in philosophy â it might actually slow you down: most of philosophy, like most of religion, is nonsense or outright falsehood: fantasy literature. (If you have abnormal behavior and youâre looking for justification of it, you wonât find it here â you will find that there is a differences between tolerance and advocacy and abnormal behavior is not something that will be sanctioned in any society for long. Go see the left libertarians. They love deviant, selfish, anti-social behavior.) But in general the more you know the easier it will be to learn.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542054692 Timestamp) THE COSTLY SCHOOLING OF THE COCKROACHES OF CRITIQUE —“Curt covering for his ignorance of actual knowledge”– Robert Townsend (ie: This ass-clown: https://www.facebook.com/robert.townsend.1088893) So wait, I made the argument that the knowledge was disbursed and that it was degree of available investment that made possible the experimentation that made the nuclear program eventually yield, and you are saying that one person’s ‘genius’ was more influential that time, place, state of available knowledge, number of people in the field, and funding available for experimentation?. This is the same fallacy of the imbeciles who fear artificial intelligence, when it is not a shortage of calculative power (bayesian account) that is the problem but the time and resources to conduct the experiments necessary to incrementally falsify errors in our theories. I mean, the calculus was developed simultaneously. So were just about every one of the technological and scientific advancements – even Einstein was merely first and heaped with undue praise just like every other. All he brought to the problemw as the frame. And yes it was an innovation but it is also a deterministic one. The same is true for great musicians and artists – a market develops over three generations that produces an outlier (mozart, durer, davinci). I mean, I understand you’re not well read but start with The Gifts of Athena and then for a broader view move back to charles murray, then narrow in on the evolution of copper, bronze, iron, and steel, and then move to writing and language. Genius is the archetype but it is economies and the competition between many people that percolates by market means individual excellences. And it is the ECONOMY THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Why? textual interpretation is cheap, but experiments are costly. the reason we can’t make more progress in physics at the moment appears to be nothing more than we can’t get anyone to put up the 10B it would take to run the next scale of tests…. So I mean, you can use CRITIQUE (sophism) to attempt to position that I have not put forth an argument, but as I have just illustrated, I have both done so and illustrated how childish your ‘hero worship’ is, and how you are YET AGAIN demonstrating the problem of the J-Question’s method of argument by employing Critique against me while ‘heaping undue praise’ on an individual when it is merely the individual who crosses the line first that gets the prize, but it is the CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMPETITIVE RACE IN THE FIRST PLACE that made his achievement possible. So again, please do not waste my time. It is not difficult for me to eviscerate ignorant, pre-rational, sophists like yourself, but it is still a waste of my time. There are many fools like you in the world and the cost of intellectually tarring and feathering you morons is not difficult so much as time consuming. Unfortunately you propagate like cockroaches and you sell your idiotic narratives to other cockroaches, at a rate that defeats our ability to correct you with intellectual insecticide. QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM Thus endeth the lesson.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542149498 Timestamp) NO. MORAL LITERATURE IS FOR DIM PEOPLE I mean, the general argument that smart people study science, economics, and law and not-very-smart people study moral literature or what we call ‘continental philosophy’, and even-less-smart people study narrative literature, is simply true. There is a reason marx is only taught as fantasy moral literature, and not science, economics or law. It’s because it’s very hard to read any of this when it’s contrary to the evidence, and reducible to nothing more than a revolt against Darwin Menger Spencer and Nietzsche.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542149498 Timestamp) NO. MORAL LITERATURE IS FOR DIM PEOPLE I mean, the general argument that smart people study science, economics, and law and not-very-smart people study moral literature or what we call ‘continental philosophy’, and even-less-smart people study narrative literature, is simply true. There is a reason marx is only taught as fantasy moral literature, and not science, economics or law. It’s because it’s very hard to read any of this when it’s contrary to the evidence, and reducible to nothing more than a revolt against Darwin Menger Spencer and Nietzsche.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542230800 Timestamp) THE INSTITUTE AS A DEGREE ISSUING “INSTITUTION” Regulations in the United States require only a business license and the payment of taxes, and do not require a business issuing degrees to possess accreditation prior to the conduct of operations. The reason being that the accreditation process takes a long time – usually years – and accrediting an operating organization is less failure prone. That does not mean the criteria for accredited organizations can be ignored, just that the startup costs and time of issuing degrees in the Philosophy of Natural Law (whether in the context of ‘theology’, philosophy, or law. The value of accreditation is that it gives access to student loans, and therefore a broader range of students, a broader range of classes, and a larger pool of professors. There are a great number of advantages to conducting business as a THEOLOGICAL rather than purely academic institution and we are still exploring that choice. This allows us to explicitly require physical, emotional and intellectual training for satisfaction of degree requirements. Furthermore, the positioning of Natural Law as a Religion has additional benefits. So again, we are working through it. Because it is not so much that you would use such a degree for career purposes (any more than any philosophy degree). As such we WILL BE ISSUING DEGREES. Anyway. More as thoughts evolve on this matter.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542230800 Timestamp) THE INSTITUTE AS A DEGREE ISSUING “INSTITUTION” Regulations in the United States require only a business license and the payment of taxes, and do not require a business issuing degrees to possess accreditation prior to the conduct of operations. The reason being that the accreditation process takes a long time – usually years – and accrediting an operating organization is less failure prone. That does not mean the criteria for accredited organizations can be ignored, just that the startup costs and time of issuing degrees in the Philosophy of Natural Law (whether in the context of ‘theology’, philosophy, or law. The value of accreditation is that it gives access to student loans, and therefore a broader range of students, a broader range of classes, and a larger pool of professors. There are a great number of advantages to conducting business as a THEOLOGICAL rather than purely academic institution and we are still exploring that choice. This allows us to explicitly require physical, emotional and intellectual training for satisfaction of degree requirements. Furthermore, the positioning of Natural Law as a Religion has additional benefits. So again, we are working through it. Because it is not so much that you would use such a degree for career purposes (any more than any philosophy degree). As such we WILL BE ISSUING DEGREES. Anyway. More as thoughts evolve on this matter.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542386080 Timestamp) IT DOESN’T TAKE 30 YEARS TO SPEAK IN THE NATURAL LAW. IT TAKES AS LONG AS A DEGREE IN THE LAW —“In 30 years maybe I’ll have Curt’s ability to summarise this well.”— Regarding: ( “….No Marxist, postmodern, feminist revolution is possible because the competence structure necessary for the preservation of human standards of living cannot tolerate any other distribution than the Pareto…..”) Just to comfort you … it takes four years on average if you try to construct and repeat the arguments. There are people who are faster and take a year or so, but only four so far. We have pre-complied many of the arguments. We are in the process of refining them today into Definitions, Series (this>that>that-other), Aphorisms, and Maxisms, (like the quote above) that can be memorized rather than reinvented each time you want to use them. So it depends on age (younger is easier), personality (observers, lower agreeableness), and whether you have experience in philosophy of science, programming, economics, and history, so that you either have an existing framework, or so that you are not so ‘addicted’ to analogies and literature that (really) induce a form of ignorance through imprecision. Evidence is that if you are drawn to philosophy and theology it might be an impediment – although not always. Philosophy and theology as practiced are a significant part of the problem: fantasy literature.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542476005 Timestamp) (from elsewhere) I dunno, I lived in rural america during the cold war, undermining of the education system, and underclass conquest (civil rights movement). I lived in suburban new england and Boston during the reagan revolution, star wars, and the american restoration. I lived in seattle during the microcomputer boom and the insane wealth it generated. In ukraine during the ukrainian revolution. And it looks like America during the second american civil war. interesting times.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542476005 Timestamp) (from elsewhere) I dunno, I lived in rural america during the cold war, undermining of the education system, and underclass conquest (civil rights movement). I lived in suburban new england and Boston during the reagan revolution, star wars, and the american restoration. I lived in seattle during the microcomputer boom and the insane wealth it generated. In ukraine during the ukrainian revolution. And it looks like America during the second american civil war. interesting times.