Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • CHINESE CONFLATIONISM Not only were there no terms for politics vs society, but

    CHINESE CONFLATIONISM

    Not only were there no terms for politics vs society, but there was no distinction. It’s one vast hierarchy. An enormous family. Which many of us agree with, and which produces exceptional ends. However, there also exists nothing but conflation and the total absence of competition. And without competition one relies on outsiders to force one to evolve. And without others to force one to evolve, one adopts the decision of ‘stability’ rather than ‘innovation’. which is desirable in many cases. But in the end, it means you will stagnate and eventually be conquered.

    Man must transcend the animal, the domesticated animal, the fully human.

    The universe’s clock ticks.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 09:17:00 UTC

  • CHOOSING BETWEEN FASCISM AND CLASSICAL MONARCHY (important post) I think that on

    CHOOSING BETWEEN FASCISM AND CLASSICAL MONARCHY

    (important post)

    I think that once you ‘lose hope’ in democracy and equality and return to hierarchy, you have a range of choices available. National socialism on the one end and classical monarchy on the other.

    The ‘good’ in national socialism existed in their use of nationalism, aesthetics, and the creation of rituals and festivals – the kind of ‘religion’ that replaces otherworldly mysticism with real-worldly art in all aspects of life. This was genius. But while Germany had created the next flowering of Europe (after Italy’s renaissance and England’s scientific enlightenment), and brought european civilization to it’s highest achievements therein, national socialism overextended itself like most religions do, into “purity” for its own sake.

    Moreover, National socialism was dependent upon finding a leader who can do good. Classical Monarchy is dependent upon a leader who prevents people from doing bad. It is very hard to do good other than build monuments (which is what monarchs do). It is very easy to prevent harm without doing harm, which is what monarch’s do.

    So, IMHO, it is better to have an aesthetic monarchy IN GENERAL, and call out the fascists in time of economic and political war. In other words I think it is useful to constitute both a military, a police force, a judiciary, and an aesthetic ‘priesthood’ that maintains purity.

    And let them work together to suppress evils of all kinds. In my opinion, natural law can be used to allow the policing of aesthetics. If that is the case, then culture can be policed just as information is policed. This form of policing merely limits the bad without limiting the innovative.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 08:21:00 UTC

  • “Lead them with government and regulate them by punishments, and the people will

    –“Lead them with government and regulate them by punishments, and the people will evade them with no sense of shame. Lead them with virtue and regulate them by ritual, and they will acquire a sense of shame—and moreover, they will be orderly.”–

    the laws of nature, myth(history), rituals, celebrations.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 03:43:00 UTC

  • BREXIT FUTURES (from the uk mirror) The USA+UK collectively preserve the interna

    BREXIT FUTURES

    (from the uk mirror)

    The USA+UK collectively preserve the international system of defense, law, finance, and trade that was created over 500 years by the British Empire.

    In retrospect, Britain’s attempt to suppress german expansion on the continent rather than to cede the continent to Germany, and retain the international system of finance and trade all seems to have been a mistake.

    And that the Continued ANGLO civilization, the restoration of empire by military and financial and trade means (rather than direct rule) is a superior solution for all english speaking countries.

    The UK/US combination still constitutes the majority military, legal, and financial (and even scientific and empirical) function in the world economy. And that is why the stock (usa) and bond (uk) markets favor both countries.

    In the long term our interests are more aligned than the UK’s with Europe.

    Together we have ruled Europe for a century and all it has done is create world wars and allow Europe to commit demographic, economic, and political suicide.

    So its perhaps time to recognize the errors of our past. And for the naval powers (UK/USA) and the island cultures (USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND) to let the continental go their way.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-17 10:28:00 UTC

  • ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC? Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previou

    ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC?

    Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previously but isn’t it the case that city states will be amalgamated into empires again and again? History repeats? So whilst we live with empires today, by implementing market gov and creating 1000s of city states we will just be back on the repeat train, no?”—-

    GREAT QUESTION!

    We can form various forms of empires. This list is not exhaustive but the spectrum will serve as the framework for all possible answers.

    1) Military denial (the empire performs no other function than to deny external conquest of any member state. [Greeks]

    2) Commercial denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing weights, measures, property, contract, and dispute resolution.) [Romans]

    3) Civic denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing language, rituals, traditions, myths) [Chinese and current western democratic humanism]

    4) Productive Denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing production or some significant part of it) [communism/authoritarianism/soviet-chinese socialism].

    5) Migratory or movement denials (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating the movement of individuals) [serfdom]

    6) Associative or Reproductive denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating associations, reproduction, and family structure). [slavery]

    7) Total denial (the empire also performs the function of total management of the individual independent of his choice) [chattel slavery]

    8) Life denial (the extermination of all life for the purposes of obtaining a territorial monopoly on all future potential).

    So civilizations can form, empires can form, but the question is which type of empires do we permit to form?

    “Bibles” limit a state.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 20:43:00 UTC

  • FOR PROGRESSIVES TOO. JUST BE HONEST ABOUT IT. —“I like Curt’s work because it

    FOR PROGRESSIVES TOO. JUST BE HONEST ABOUT IT.

    —“I like Curt’s work because it gives to politics a language and a formal logic that are so neutral and simple (well, if you are a bit on the spectrum) that a cooperative and peaceful world looks possible.

    “I dont give a damn, really, about my tribe except that I’m abstractly aware that my survival depends on the survival of my tribe.

    “I recently concluded: I have to be progressively oriented, that was imprinted into my DNA during the first few years of my life. But I don’t have to lie about that. Give me some free stuff, then leave me alone, and I will give some free stuff to you later when my neurotic brain compels me to produce something out of pure boredom.”— Ivan Ilakovac

    My objective was mainly to end the lying of the left and improve the arguments of the right. I don’t care what kind of government you have as long as I can have a separate one that reflects what I want – and so can everyone else.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 14:09:00 UTC

  • Nicholas Herndon: —“They’re (Democrats) missing the idea that many Americans w

    http://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/dont-think-of-a-rampaging-elephant-linguist-george-lakoff-explains-how-the-democrats-helped-elect-trump/Via Nicholas Herndon: —“They’re (Democrats) missing the idea that many Americans who depend on health care, affordable health care, for example, have strict-father positions and voted for Trump against their interests. And this is something has been known for ages, that a lot of poor conservatives vote against their material interests, because they’re voting for their worldview. And the reason for it is that their moral worldview defines who they are. They are not going to vote against their own definition of who they are.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 13:14:00 UTC

  • THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING PRESIDENCIES – PREDICTION? Prediction is a fool’s erra

    THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING PRESIDENCIES – PREDICTION?

    Prediction is a fool’s errand since a presidency is largely the result of world events and the character of the president.

    OBAMA’s MISTAKES

    Obama’s biggest mistake was the whole fraudulent health care episode(scam) over the wishes of the population. second was his attempt to remove america from world affairs by creating a vacuum to be filled opportunistically, rather than an alliance to fill it predictably. Third was his embracing of anti-white immigration policies. Fourth was his failure to grasp that with the end of world communism and the universal adoption of consumer capitalism, as well as the international rejection of western universal representative democracy in favor of state corporatism, and the rise of islam as the successor to communism as the competition to consumer capitalism, all brought a sympathetic end to globalism, a return to nationalism.

    TRUMP’S NEED FOR POWER AND ITS SOURCES

    Trump has been given a mandate by his SUPPORTERS to end the status quo (globalism). Right intellectuals (myself included) are most concerned about ending the Cathedral Complex (Academy, State, Media), that replaced the Military Industrial Complex during the 1960’s. He has given himself the mandate to end american self sacrifice on the behalf of an ungrateful world. And to attempt to make the future (coming) hyper-contraction of the world economy as the BRICS end their rapid expansion, more survivable.

    I expect that he cannot accumulate enough power to fulfill his charter without a significant house cleaning. And so what I expect is a house cleaning. This will likely come in the form of an attack on the bureaucracy as well as the news media, and an emphasis on consumers, jobs, and advantageous trade policy – which will force the bureaucracy into a competition with him that will fail.

    So what i will watch is how he communicates directly to the american people, in his progress and how the court cooperates. If he is able to fill the court and overturn the power of the central bureaucracy, then he will be able to do it.

    The thing he must preserve is his base. They will only turn on him (the right eats its betrayers while the left does not), if he fails to pursue immigration and trade reforms.

    THE COUNTER-REACTION

    The media – which is already suffering from loss of its narrow distribution channel may survive if they try hard but my suspicion is that the media is now in the same position as the think tanks, and will require financial support even more so to survive.

    I like the ‘fake news’ movement because the solution is to make commercial and political speech liable just as product and service claims are liable. That would end the news media forever as a mechanism of propaganda.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-13 14:28:00 UTC

  • END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT TRUTHFUL GOVERNMENT: MARKETS IN EVERYTHING

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/06/06/the-end-of-history-the-truthful-civilization-sorry-francis/THE END OF HISTORY IS NOT DEMOCRACY BUT TRUTHFUL GOVERNMENT: MARKETS IN EVERYTHING

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:14:00 UTC

  • TRANSACTION COST THEORY OF GOVERNMENT

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/02/04/a-short-course-in-the-transaction-cost-theory-of-government/THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY OF GOVERNMENT

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:13:00 UTC