Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

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    (FB 1546264291 Timestamp) WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON 2018’S ENDING OF THE LIBERAL ORDER Now we need to replace it with something much better.

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    (FB 1546218298 Timestamp) ДРУЗЬЯ В КИЕВЕ Привет. В Киеве есть люди, которые хотят организовать встречу “Propertarian”. Я хотел бы, чтобы это произошло. Если возможно и желательно, я присоединяюсь к собранию по скайпу (я не могу быть там сейчас). Вам это интересно? Спасибо

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    (FB 1546201719 Timestamp) Libertarians always think small. War is a profitable exercise. For some of us it is our favorite occupation. The problems arise from ruling, colonizing, and commingling. But the lessons of history are unambiguous: the wholesale removal of people from territory is always and everywhere the optimum business venture.

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    (FB 1546284109 Timestamp) by Vengefül Bobmoran

    Approach -> …..Doesn’t scale beyond

    Socialism -> …. Family Democracy ->.. Neighborhood Civility -> ……… Polity

    One level higher :

    Empathy -> Race / Ethnic group Trying to deduce others’ feelings/intentions by using your own thought process only gives reliable results if the thought processes are similar. “They would never lie to us…” <— projection : I would never lie to them. Interestingly, we can also use those as a confirmation tests. If socialism doesn’t work, your family boundaries are wrong. If civility doesn’t work, the polity boundaries are wrong, etc.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546284109 Timestamp) by Vengefül Bobmoran

    Approach -> …..Doesn’t scale beyond

    Socialism -> …. Family Democracy ->.. Neighborhood Civility -> ……… Polity

    One level higher :

    Empathy -> Race / Ethnic group Trying to deduce others’ feelings/intentions by using your own thought process only gives reliable results if the thought processes are similar. “They would never lie to us…” <— projection : I would never lie to them. Interestingly, we can also use those as a confirmation tests. If socialism doesn’t work, your family boundaries are wrong. If civility doesn’t work, the polity boundaries are wrong, etc.

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    (FB 1546611466 Timestamp) PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN ONE GOVERNMENT ORDER OR ANOTHER? You have to choose whether to trust the self interest of the judicial ‘priesthood’, the self interest of the monarchy, the self interest of the ruling oligarchy, or the self control of the democratic polity, or the self interests of public intellectuals. My argument is that you can’t trust any of them, and that the judicial priesthood benefits from ‘maintaining the rules of the game’, but if and only if the military will back them up. Why? The judiciary is a purely via-negativa discipline: it advocates nothing, and only resolves conflicts. It is already privileged. It is already high status. It is operationally selective (failure is quickly obvious and resolved), and failure of members is against the interest of the whole, who police it well through hierarchical review. The central issue in limiting the judiciary and preserving its freedom from via-positiva action, is nothing more than insufficiently enumerated terms of decidability. And that’s what i’ve done. Provided that completeness. -Curt Doolittle

  • (FB 1546547926 Timestamp) US WARNS US CITIZENS TO EXERCISE CAUTION IN CHINA”

    (FB 1546547926 Timestamp) US WARNS US CITIZENS TO EXERCISE CAUTION IN CHINA” https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/china-travel-advisory.html

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546611466 Timestamp) PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN ONE GOVERNMENT ORDER OR ANOTHER? You have to choose whether to trust the self interest of the judicial ‘priesthood’, the self interest of the monarchy, the self interest of the ruling oligarchy, or the self control of the democratic polity, or the self interests of public intellectuals. My argument is that you can’t trust any of them, and that the judicial priesthood benefits from ‘maintaining the rules of the game’, but if and only if the military will back them up. Why? The judiciary is a purely via-negativa discipline: it advocates nothing, and only resolves conflicts. It is already privileged. It is already high status. It is operationally selective (failure is quickly obvious and resolved), and failure of members is against the interest of the whole, who police it well through hierarchical review. The central issue in limiting the judiciary and preserving its freedom from via-positiva action, is nothing more than insufficiently enumerated terms of decidability. And that’s what i’ve done. Provided that completeness. -Curt Doolittle

  • (FB 1546547926 Timestamp) US WARNS US CITIZENS TO EXERCISE CAUTION IN CHINA”

    (FB 1546547926 Timestamp) US WARNS US CITIZENS TO EXERCISE CAUTION IN CHINA” https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/china-travel-advisory.html

  • (FB 1546785134 Timestamp) DUAL CITIZENSHIP FOR DUAL LOYALTY

    (FB 1546785134 Timestamp) DUAL CITIZENSHIP FOR DUAL LOYALTY