Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • Which Country Best Reflects Your Political And Ethical Philosophy?

    Switzerland. Small, homogenous, locally organized country win no external ambitions, and a universal militia. Cant be done much better.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-country-best-reflects-your-political-and-ethical-philosophy

  • What Do Americans Think Of The Fact That Their Country Is Seen Almost Everywhere On Earth As The Most Arrogant And Bellicose Country Responsible Of The Death Of Millions Of Innocent People?

    WE LOOK AT SUCH PEOPLE AS UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN.

    —-”What do Americans think of the fact that their country is seen almost everywhere on Earth as the most arrogant and bellicose country responsible of the death of millions of innocent people?”—-

    What do Americans think? You mean uneducated or educated, or educated and knowledgeable, or educated, and knowledgeable, and experience americans?

    For the educated, and knowledgeable and experience American, we feel quite rightly that the world is ungrateful for westerners and americans dragging them kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, child death, early death, disease, tyranny. Yes, the european empires tried to drag the world out of a 2000 year dark age and did so profitably. And yes during the world wars, they collapsed and failed to finish the job. And yes, america post-war forced those countries to modernize thesleves rather than directly ruling them as did the colonizers. And yes, communism, socialism, and islamic fundamentalism are all means by which the world resisted being dragged out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, child death, early death, disease, and tyranny.

    And yes, we are trying to stop the spread of regressive islam, the same way stopped the spread of regressive socialism, and the same way we stopped the spread of regressive communism. Unfortunately, we are internally under attack by the newest pseudoscientific pseudo rational religion called ‘postmodernism’. And we are no longer in the economic position to fight internal cults (postmodernism that owns our universities and media and government), nor are we in the position to hold states and people accountable for their rule. Nor arwe we in the position to rule states directly. Because the cost is just too high compared to a century ago.

    The USA has had a simple policy since the end of the world war that is unstated:
    1 – This kind of war must never happen again – mankind will end.
    2 – We can prevent such a war from happening by bringing all people into an interdependent economic world order. Economic cooperation changes ‘conflicts’ from physical to economic, cultural, and informational. It is still conflict, but it is less bad than war.
    3 – People will pursue the interdependent economic world order for the simple reason that they would prefer the comforts of consumer capitalism than to be envious of those that have them.
    4 – We can achieve this by a) preventing expansion of state power, b) directing states to producing human rights (all of which are but property rights), c) advancing democracy so that states will work at human rights (property rights) and then by consequences, join the world economic order out of self interest. d) advancing the self determination of peoples, but retaining borders.

    The problem with this set of goals is that:
    a) most peoples are not demographically advanced enough to adopt consumer capitalism, rule of law, and democracy. Familialism and corruption are too common in the rest of the world, and only northern europeans have succeeded in eliminating it. (Read Fukuyama for some of the reasons why)
    b) americans have said ‘self determination’ and ‘democracy’ (The Carrot) but have not spoken the consequence (The Stick). Which is ‘if you choose poorly we will punish your government, and by consequence punish you.)
    c) Had we completed the colonial ( modernization) project in russia, china, and finally in the middle east, rather than abandoning those peoples, we may have made this process less full of conflict, as did the british in their colonies. but at present we are still struggling with russian, chinese, iranian, pakistani aggression, and unfortunately, north Korea’s threat.

    We have paid a high price in blood and treasure where we could just have easily ruled the world exploitatively and by force – without much effort at all. What other people would do such a thing?

    How many people has Islam killed? How many have Communists Killed? How many have westerners dragged out of ignorance, superstition, poverty and disease?

    Our entire project is nothing more than trying to prevent another world war in the process of dragging people out of the abrahamic (jewish, christian, muslim->Marxist-Socialist, Postmodernist, fundamentalist) dark age.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-Americans-think-of-the-fact-that-their-country-is-seen-almost-everywhere-on-Earth-as-the-most-arrogant-and-bellicose-country-responsible-of-the-death-of-millions-of-innocent-people

  • What Are Good Introductory Books To Study About States, Politics, And Public Laws?

    THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF

    The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian), Rousseauian (Social-Democratic) and Marxist(socialist and communist) SELF PROJECTIONS of the nature of man. When in reality, our physical brains are structured in a spectrum from the very masculine(Aryan), to the very feminine (Marxist), and we are totally incognizant of our cognitive biases.

    So the first problem is understanding MAN before we can judge rule, government, politics, economics, norms, and religion. And that is provided by science. Then we can understand Politics.

    OUR MINDS (PREPARE YOU)
    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)
    Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (The Cognitive Biases)
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
    Paul Fussell: Class (the class biases)
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    MAN (POLITICAL ORDERS)
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
    Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay

    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST (IF YOU ARE INTERESTED)
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW (Rule of Law)
    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.
    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20th CENTURY CONTEXT (WHAT WENT WRONG)
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws

  • As A Rural American, What Would You Like Those On The Coasts (in The City) To Know About You?

    I would like them to secede or allow us to secede so that each of us can live life how we wish without imposing the costs of our preferences on the other. In simple terms, the coasts have high population densities and are heterogeneous expensive micro-cultures, with vast but low cost, high risk commons. Those of us in the germanic states (yes, that’s the difference) live in low population densities with much larger commons to manage with less wealth. In other words, our personal, economic, social, and political needs are incompatible.

    Separate in a productive manner. Or revolt and separate in costly manner.

    Civil wars eventually happen. The american civil war is not over. It’s still going on because we HAVEN’T separated.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-rural-American-what-would-you-like-those-on-the-coasts-in-the-city-to-know-about-you

  • Would Those Who Emigrated Return To Russia If Navalny Or Another Opposition Leader Won And Started Mass Reforms?

    A) Never, ever happen. putin is too popular. Navalny has support of urban minority activists.
    B) Russia has all the reforms she can handle. She lacks the money to do it faster. And lacks the people to do it faster. Some things take generations. People with bad habits must literally die off.
    C) democracy has turned out to be a suicidal thing, and russians are right to resist it.

    Russia doesn’t need more activism. It needs a bigger middle class. and putin is doing that, while preventing a return to the oligarchs that preyed upon his people.

    https://www.quora.com/Would-those-who-emigrated-return-to-Russia-if-Navalny-or-another-opposition-leader-won-and-started-mass-reforms

  • *The Complete And Correct Answer.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-* First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about. SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.* TERMS **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*), **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*), **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and; **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things. DEFINITIONS: **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions) **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**. **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse. **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive. **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO** Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks. Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers. So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production. Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time. Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute

  • COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER. —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citize

    https://www.quora.com/Do-governments-create-wealth-and-jobs-for-its-citizens/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1dbcc7c2&srid=u4Qv*THE COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-*

    First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about.

    SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.*

    TERMS

    **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*),

    **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*),

    **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and;

    **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things.

    DEFINITIONS:

    **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions)

    **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**.

    **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse.

    **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive.

    **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO**

    Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks.

    Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers.

    So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production.

    Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time.

    Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian InstituteUpdated Dec 28, 2017, 8:38 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-28 20:38:00 UTC

  • *The Complete And Correct Answer.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-* First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about. SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.* TERMS **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*), **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*), **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and; **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things. DEFINITIONS: **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions) **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**. **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse. **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive. **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO** Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks. Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers. So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production. Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time. Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute

  • From the period between the civil war and the 1970’s, the south held animosity t

    From the period between the civil war and the 1970’s, the south held animosity toward the republican party over Lincoln’s civil war. This led to the Democratic and Republican parties having both conservative and classical liberal members. Beginning between 76 and 80 this began to change because the democratic party had been captured more aggressively by the radical left and the feminists. Plus the left had used immigration starting in 1964 as a means of achieving the socialist revolution (tearing down the american experiment) through demographic warfare where they had failed by propaganda and pseudoscience (marxism, boazianism, freudianism, cantorian mathematics, and keynesian post marxist economics.) By and large the democratic effort has been effective for large business and finance. So many large business owners that serve the unproductive, laboring, working, and lower middle classes (what he invests in), are better off with policy that increases consumption. Whereas the republican (Aristocratic) is far more concerned with accumulating capital in Human (eugenic), behavioral (normative), institutional (rule of law by tort reciprocity – not rule BY legislation), and territorial than current consumption which consumes human capital (dysgenic, dysnormative, discretionary rather than reciprocal.) So between his AGE, his REGION, and his INTERESTS he votes for conservative democratic policies.

  • the period between the civil war and the 1970’s, the south held animosity toward

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Warren-Buffett-considered-republican-or-democrat-Why/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=e1e41bdf&srid=u4QvFrom the period between the civil war and the 1970’s, the south held animosity toward the republican party over Lincoln’s civil war. This led to the Democratic and Republican parties having both conservative and classical liberal members.

    Beginning between 76 and 80 this began to change because the democratic party had been captured more aggressively by the radical left and the feminists. Plus the left had used immigration starting in 1964 as a means of achieving the socialist revolution (tearing down the american experiment) through demographic warfare where they had failed by propaganda and pseudoscience (marxism, boazianism, freudianism, cantorian mathematics, and keynesian post marxist economics.)

    By and large the democratic effort has been effective for large business and finance. So many large business owners that serve the unproductive, laboring, working, and lower middle classes (what he invests in), are better off with policy that increases consumption.

    Whereas the republican (Aristocratic) is far more concerned with accumulating capital in Human (eugenic), behavioral (normative), institutional (rule of law by tort reciprocity – not rule BY legislation), and territorial than current consumption which consumes human capital (dysgenic, dysnormative, discretionary rather than reciprocal.)

    So between his AGE, his REGION, and his INTERESTS he votes for conservative democratic policies.Updated Dec 28, 2017, 7:38 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-28 19:38:00 UTC