(FB 1543521336 Timestamp) THE FRAGILITY OF CURRENT STOIC RESTORATION MOVEMENT —“Curt, it looks like the Daily Stoic has taken a Left Turn. Can you take a look?”— One of my followers has complained about what she perceived as a ‘turn to the left’ by the Daily Stoic. She asked if I would investigate, since I am advocating the restoration of stoicism as required education – a restoration of our ancient personal religion so to speak. My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because they already practice the habits under indirect guise. Their interest and mine is political, economic, and evolutionary. The cognitive discipline (habits) Stoicism provides, produces superior polities. Those polities are superior because they are less dependent upon falsehoods to govern. So the direction of the Stoic Restoration has more than trivial importance to me, and to them. But what troubles me when I survey your (collective) approach, which is the imbalance between defensive self help and detachment – the trap fallen into by the Buddhists – and disciplined self-authoring in the excellences (‘virtues’), and in achieving one’s life’s goals (change). In other words, without the COMPETITION between rational distance from your emotions, and pursuit of achievements in life, all one does is recreate abrahamic and buddhist detachment from reality. This produces no excellences, only defenses – submission to circumstance. Western civilization was unique in that we developed Heroism, Individual Sovereignty, Truth and Duty, The Natural Law (of tort), and Markets in all aspects of personal, academic, intellectual, commercial, civic, and political life – avoiding theocratic or bureaucratic monopoly. It was this set of traits that allowed us to develop all the paradigms (disciplines) all of which were united only by those few criteria above. This meant that law > jury > reason > empiricism > science > technology > medicine could evolve … … and with them we could – in the ancient and modern if not medieval worlds – drag mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the victimization by uncaring nature. The means by which we achieved all of this was competition (markets). And the means by which the stoic virtues can be achieved without causing the same catastrophe that reverses the western achievement, is by both increased independence from our animal intuitions, and … … application of that mind, emotions, and body, freed of those limits, to achieve the heroic at whatever scale of heroism the individual is able – no matter how large or small. To make the most of the one life we have available to us, in a manner must desirable to us. Leaving this competition between unsaid, is to leave stoicism incomplete. And to fall into the errors we have seen in prior eras, which slowly cause a people to descend into what is emotionally comforting but in demonstration of consequence indifferent from nihilism. In Sincerity and With Affection Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute. ( From twitter stream: https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1068232096496390144)
Theme: Governance
-
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543515002 Timestamp) —“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as âcommunismâ”—Georg Ios
-
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
(FB 1543511975 Timestamp) ATTACKING THE 20th CENTURY: NATIONAL SOCIALISM WON. In other words China implemented National Socialism. Reeducation camps and all. —“Is it the word National as in Nationalist or is it Socialism as in Socialist ? I’m trying to understand if this is an attack on President Trump for saying he is a nationalist or an attack on the Socialist democrats ?”—@jonn_schulz It’s an attack on our understanding of the 20th century. China has implemented the National Socialist (NSDAP/NAZI) social, economic, and political model: one man rule, nationalism, state capitalism, spending, remilitarization, censorship, digital conformity, reeducation camps.
-
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543592915 Timestamp) THE COMMONS OF NOMOCRACY by Bill Joslin Nomocracy (Rule of Law) is a Commons. The forms of rule, outlined by Aristotle, describe the cycle of competition to gain a monopoly over the commons (to seize control of it). Nomocracy exists as a commons. [Nomocracy, under everyman a Sheriff (contract and criminal law separated from legislative and regulatory institutions), exists as a commons, where all contribute via participation in lawful behaviour, as well as execution of the law and all who do so reap the benefits – a type of property.)] An end to the many *-ocracies (forms of rule which monopolize law) could end civilizational cycles.
-
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543592915 Timestamp) THE COMMONS OF NOMOCRACY by Bill Joslin Nomocracy (Rule of Law) is a Commons. The forms of rule, outlined by Aristotle, describe the cycle of competition to gain a monopoly over the commons (to seize control of it). Nomocracy exists as a commons. [Nomocracy, under everyman a Sheriff (contract and criminal law separated from legislative and regulatory institutions), exists as a commons, where all contribute via participation in lawful behaviour, as well as execution of the law and all who do so reap the benefits – a type of property.)] An end to the many *-ocracies (forms of rule which monopolize law) could end civilizational cycles.
-
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
(FB 1543761176 Timestamp) THERE ARE ONLY THREE MEANS OF COERCION All groups govern one another and compete with others, using a combination of those three means of coercion. And with those means of coercion they put them to good or ill use. For example, force can be used for predation or law, remuneration for bribery or trade, speech et all for moral or immoral purposes.
-
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
(FB 1543761176 Timestamp) THERE ARE ONLY THREE MEANS OF COERCION All groups govern one another and compete with others, using a combination of those three means of coercion. And with those means of coercion they put them to good or ill use. For example, force can be used for predation or law, remuneration for bribery or trade, speech et all for moral or immoral purposes.
-
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543794442 Timestamp) —“Political Violence Is a Game the Right Canât Win”— followed by justifications… Theory is not empirical. study mao, isis, arab spring, ukraine, the rapid acquiescence once the civil rights movement went violent. note the acceleration of time frames. The usa is fragile. the left would use mass violence, the right mass attack on infrastructure.
-
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543794442 Timestamp) —“Political Violence Is a Game the Right Canât Win”— followed by justifications… Theory is not empirical. study mao, isis, arab spring, ukraine, the rapid acquiescence once the civil rights movement went violent. note the acceleration of time frames. The usa is fragile. the left would use mass violence, the right mass attack on infrastructure.
-
(FB 1544136212 Timestamp) DOOLITTLE JOINS LAUREN ON MOLY ON WEINSTEIN @BretWeins
(FB 1544136212 Timestamp) DOOLITTLE JOINS LAUREN ON MOLY ON WEINSTEIN @BretWeinstein You stepped in it. Anyone who studies any of history will discover that the group strategy and tactic of some civilizations cause invention, some cause stagnation, and some cause devolution. 2) Just because you are getting support and attention, do not assume you have license to overreach and hubris. Civilizational differences are in our Laws: Western Empiricism, Easter Wisdom, Indian Mythology, Semitic Fraud (Pilpul/Critique), African Magic, Australian Devolution. 3) That We dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of supernaturalism in the ancient world, and ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature is purely empirical. 4) …. The indo european expansion, the ancient world reason, the modern world empiricism, science, and technology. 5) Where would the world be had Europe, like China, built a wall at the Bosphorus, Caucuses and Urals? Where would the world be without the Semitic Dark Age and its thousand years of decline, and 1B dead, and the destruction of the great civilizations of the ancient world? Where would the world be without Supernaturalism, Sophism, and Pseudoscience: The Semitic Dark Age of Judaism, Christianity, Islamism, and the attempt to do the same in the modern world of Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism’s to repeat Ancient destruction in Modernity? 6) So it is not that some Gene Pools, some Civilizations, are just variations on a theme like the Cervidae. Some Rapidly Evolve, some Slowly Evolve, some Stagnate, and some bring about decline through the destruction of civilization in every one of its dimensions. Just like the Classes, some Civilizations are innovators, some producers, some some consumers, some free riders, some parasites, and some predators. And I have, we have, had enough of the sophism of relativism and the pseudoscience of equalitarianism, and the pseudosciences of man: Boas et all, Marx et al, Freud et al, Cantor and the Logicians, Mises and the libertarians, Adorno et al, Keynes, Derrida et al, neocons et al. So before you cast the stone of Critique, reciprocity would demand you do not live in the Glass House of sophism and pseudoscience.