Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • (FWIW: It has been nearly impossible to replace you as host of a show. Only Mori

    (FWIW: It has been nearly impossible to replace you as host of a show. Only Moritz came close. Dylan could have done it, but is enraptured by authoritarianism. Pomen,Joe, and Joel might yet be able to. Mark has his own content. Noah his own. But no one is better. Not even Roman.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 18:05:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068566829935861760

    Reply addressees: @PoseidonAwoke @ChimmyRich @MartianHoplite

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068499067452485632

    IN REPLY TO:

    @PoseidonAwoke

    @ChimmyRich @curtdoolittle @MartianHoplite Curt has a lot of great ideas and he has helped me grow in my own ideas tremendously. What is the main thing you’ve learned from the podcasts? Or Curt?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068499067452485632

  • Those polities are superior because they are less dependent upon falsehoods to g

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 19:54:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231753406517253

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960

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    Unknown author

    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.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960

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    @curtdoolittle

    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.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960

  • My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because the

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 19:54:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231751590391810

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    Unknown author

    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.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231751590391810

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    @curtdoolittle

    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.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231751590391810

  • “Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—G

    —“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—Georg Ios

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 18:10:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068205514742530048

  • THE CHOICES OF SOCIAL ORDER GOVERNANCE …………..Force —– Religion ——

    THE CHOICES OF SOCIAL ORDER GOVERNANCE

    …………..Force —– Religion —— Trade (anglo)

    Control Violence and the Law (Law)

    Force……..X………………………………………..

    Force……..X……………….X…………………….

    Force……..X…………………………………..X…

    Force……..X……………….X………………..X…

    Control Education, Inclusion, Exclusion (Norms)

    Religion………………………X…………………….

    Religion…..X………………..X…………………….

    Religion………………………X……………….X….

    Religion…..X………………..X……………….X….

    Control Money and Credit ( Consumption )

    Trade……..X………………………………………..

    Trade……..X………………..X…………………….

    Trade……..X…………………………………..X….

    Trade……..X………………..X……………….X….

    We evolved Force (aristocracy) > Administrative | Administrative (Religion) > Trade (commercial) because it was necessary.

    We should note that the middle east did NOT follow the same route, and developed Religion > Force(kings) > Priest-Kings > Centralized government and production > Then Trade. Never rule of law.

    This is why the fertile crescent was both a benefit and a curse. Just as resource curses are always a double edged sword.

    Means of Decision on the Organization of Production and Choice of Commons:

    ………………Monarchy .. Oligarchy .. Rule of Law . Democracy

    Auth……..: ……X

    Rentiers…: ……………………..X

    Markets…:………………………………………..X

    Socialism.:…………………………………………………………….X

    See?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 17:43:00 UTC

  • HOW DID THEY DO IT AND WHY CAN’T WE? Having divorced themselves from the burden

    HOW DID THEY DO IT AND WHY CAN’T WE?

    Having divorced themselves from the burden of carrying territory, the classes necessary to defend it, police it, govern it, and the classes necessary to engage in production to pay for it, they were free to specialize in predation upon the host – primarily through various forms of usury, rent seeking, and conspiracy with the state against the people, and just as we redistributed lower class reproduction to the upper classes, they invested ALL of their reproduction in the parasitic classes.

    That’s the net of it right there.

    We can’t do that because we need to hold territory, fight for it, and pay for fighting for it, while continuously improving our condition. Ergo we produce commons and they parasitically consume and destroy commons.

    I mean. That’s the economics of it right there.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 17:14:00 UTC

  • “Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—G

    —“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—Georg Ios

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:10:00 UTC

  • ATTACKING THE 20th CENTURY: NATIONAL SOCIALISM WON. In other words China impleme

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 12:19:00 UTC

  • It’s an attack on our understanding of the 20th century. China has implemented t

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 11:32:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068105532244938754

    Reply addressees: @jonn_schulz

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  • “The bigger, systemic problem isn’t separating a church from state, but keeping

    —“The bigger, systemic problem isn’t separating a church from state, but keeping the state from becoming the “church” … The State has, in the vacuum that the absence of a godded religion has generated, deified its social and environmental markets. The State *wants* religion.”—Anne Summers

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-26 12:23:00 UTC