Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • Aristotle wandered around and started trouble on the streets of Athens. I do it

    Aristotle wandered around and started trouble on the streets of Athens. I do it on the streets of facebook. The point is to learn. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 14:47:00 UTC

  • We are analyzing religion via comparative religions. You wanna tell me you can h

    We are analyzing religion via comparative religions.

    You wanna tell me you can have this ‘classroom’ in any academy in America? And for free?

    Good luck finding that.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 10:27:00 UTC

  • FOR NEWCOMERS I understand the frustration with the inaccessibility of Propertar

    FOR NEWCOMERS

    I understand the frustration with the inaccessibility of Propertarianism (Natural Law) in its CURRENT FORM.

    I am leading in the way we need leading. I am providing the anti-marx (anti-abrahamism, anti platonism), and the ‘bible’ of western civilization- law beyond which no man or government may tread without suffering the pain of death.

    Is it not a lot to ask of a man, alone, to be aristotle and alexander in the same flesh? I’m only human. And a bit of a hobbit at that.

    If need be I’ll change uniforms, but at present, in my state of mind, I am doing what my people need most: creating their ‘book’.

    I’ll create the book(bible), the judges(priests), and the school (discipline of natural law).

    I would very much prefer someone else be alexander to my aristotle.

    Why? As you age your understanding of war increases, but your physical and mental energy for it declines. I can write for another twenty years. I can fight for another five.

    But time will take me. I can feel it. And it will take a generation or two to repair the damage of four.

    Affections

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 05:14:00 UTC

  • What? You expect, as a NEWB, to jump into Propertarianism (Natural Law) like you

    What? You expect, as a NEWB, to jump into Propertarianism (Natural Law) like you do into some democratic-era ideology?

    Sorry kid. Not gonna happen. It’s pretty hard.

    If you were going to take another form of advanced mathematics, take a course in advanced programming, or take an advanced course in the writing of international laws, then you might have some idea of the work it takes.

    Most people lurk for three to six months, and it seems like the very smartest people need a year, and on average two or more years.

    So when I talk about religion you have no idea what I’m talking about.

    But like every other idiot you assume because you feel passionately about religion, or politics, or morality, that you have some understanding of it.

    Nope.

    Learn something. This is the most profound advancement in thought since empiricism. We completed the Enlightenment. Just deal with it.

    Natural law = Formal Logic + operational language and grammar + changes in state of capital + deconstruction of non-formal discourse into negotiations for changes in capital.

    It’s a combination of economics + finance + accounting + programming + law.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 13:04:00 UTC

  • NOT AN EBOOK BUT PRETTY CLOSE: —“Curt: Do you have an e book out yet?”— The

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/PROPERTARIANISM: NOT AN EBOOK BUT PRETTY CLOSE:

    —“Curt: Do you have an e book out yet?”—

    The idea of an ebook kind of bothers me. I don’t know why I would do that. But if you want the equivalent it’s up on the site.

    That is current thru last fall. At present I’m still working on synthesis ( making it all a little easier to understand), and on completing the work on the formal logic, so that isn’t all in there. But most of the major concepts are in there already.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 14:24:00 UTC

  • Thanks to the success of the Marxists and Critical Theorists in the occupation a

    Thanks to the success of the Marxists and Critical Theorists in the occupation and conquest of the academy, Academic discourse in philosophy, politics, economics, what passes for ‘social science’, using books, journals, papers, blogs, and classrooms appears at least in retrospect as indifferent from seeking the approval of the church fathers prior to publication. There isn’t any difference between offense of the pretenses of the church, and offence of the pretense of the marxists, feminists, and snowflakes. They are both hostile to truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 18:53:00 UTC

  • SHOULD I READ POINCARE OR ABOUT POINCARE, OR ABOUT THE DEBATES POINCARE WAS ACTI

    SHOULD I READ POINCARE OR ABOUT POINCARE, OR ABOUT THE DEBATES POINCARE WAS ACTIVE IN??? 😉

    —“Hey Curt – here’s a question for you: what of Poincare’s should I read? Since I know you like him!”—Davin Eastley

    Great question. Although, Poincare was, like Hilbert, so successful, that we live in a mathematics that you probably know of so thoroughly it is really old hat to you. So reading about his biography might be interesting. Reading about his philosophy might be interesting. But reading about his math? You’ve already learned it all.

    Poincare is interesting in the debate on the foundations of mathematics and against that of Cantor. I view him along with Menger (marginalism), Mises(praxeological constructivism), Brouwer (Mathematical intuitionism and later, Constructivism), Bridgman (scientific operationalism), and Popper (Scientific falsificationism – his attempt at completing the scientific method, as part of the tribe attempting to solve the problem of pseudoscience that arose out of the excessive use of statistical analysis in the 19th century, and in particular, the use of probability by Keynes to circumvent moral (reciprocity) testing of each action in a network of transactions.

    So that said, I would suggest reading the SEP articles on Constructive Mathematics and Intuitionism first, in the context of the struggle to define the foundations of mathematics. Then to read the SEP articles on all the rest of theh players above for the same reason. Then to read Poincare’s book …. (wait… I’ll look it up, it’s escaping me)… “Science and Hypothesis”.

    There is a very great similarity between the economic calculation debate against classical economics and the intuitionist-constructivist against classical mathematics.

    Once you see the parallel you will see how this is not a problem of math or economics but of epistemology that popper suggested: it is increasinly difficult to make truth propositions that are dependent upon deductions, unless we can also construct the result we have deduced without the need for deduction.

    Stated in those terms I think its understandable. Particularly because we tend to work today in high causal density fields, with far greater categorical variation than classical mathematics operated under.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 10:54:00 UTC

  • AGENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL VELOCITY (important) For those of us who were born gene

    AGENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL VELOCITY

    (important)

    For those of us who were born genetically capable of agency, we take longer to mature because we require so much information in order to render decisions without the context that ‘normals’ have. Meanwhile, normals mature earlier at the expense of agency. And the feminine mature earliest at high cost to agency. I think this is the causal explanation we are looking for. My mother told me I was born an old man who desired to play peter pan. This rather motherly and colloquial observation turns out to have been scientifically correct. info-vores arise because of lack of genetic contextualism. We mature more slowly. But possess greater agency because of it. We could say this another way: that humans are capable of breeding a distribution of rates of maturity to ensure a supply of people who are biased to calculate the full range of short (child rearing) and long (tribal competitiveness) problems.

    ( Aaron Kahland, Caitie Doolittle, Jean Barresi, Elizabeth Doolittle)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-06 11:01:00 UTC

  • WE NEED TO ACT – BUT WE ARE NOT ALL CAPABLE OF PAYING THE SAME COGNITIVE COSTS.

    WE NEED TO ACT – BUT WE ARE NOT ALL CAPABLE OF PAYING THE SAME COGNITIVE COSTS.

    we need to act. if we cannot understand. it does not help us act. we act with what we can understand. not everyone can handle low context thought. they require the savings provided by high context terms and norms. hence why it is so difficult to change state in a populace with uncomfortable truth and so easy with comforting lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-03 11:57:00 UTC

  • A lot of language consists of suggestion. Education and literacy teach us a lot

    A lot of language consists of suggestion. Education and literacy teach us a lot of ideas and terms that we use like children do, under the pretense of comprehension of them.

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-03 10:31:00 UTC