Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • POLITICIANS ARE AN UNNECESSARY EVIL We no longer need politicians and representa

    POLITICIANS ARE AN UNNECESSARY EVIL

    We no longer need politicians and representatives, and no longer need democratic assent to pass something, and to divide a budget equally, and to vote with money where it is required. In fact, all politicians do is to create hazards. So given that distance no longer impacts ability to cooperate and communicate in real time; and given that concentration of politicians in one place merely creates a perfect environment for lobbying and corruption; and given that running for office produces nothing but negative externalities exacerbating corruption; it seems much wiser to let anyone post proposals (contracts), to reject any proposal of involuntary transfer(propertarianism), to hold debates in public over them with the best public intellectuals contributing to the discourse; to require truthful speech in such deliberation (testimonialism), and to select a jury by lot from each house to spend those budgets, and enter into those contracts. Politicians are an unnecessary evil in a world of instantaneous communication.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-16 06:34:00 UTC

  • pledges to end federal employee unions. Well now we are seeing interesting polic

    http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/14/hot-air-exclusive-walker-pledges-to-end-federal-public-employee-unions/Walker pledges to end federal employee unions.

    Well now we are seeing interesting policy ideas!

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-14 11:33:00 UTC

  • READ: 5 PAPERS. Will we revolt before the cathedral complex kills us off?

    https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/key-recent-papers-and-postings/MUST READ: 5 PAPERS.

    Will we revolt before the cathedral complex kills us off?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 12:00:00 UTC

  • CAN I PLEASE HAVE BETTERS? I mean, I want a king whose family has been in royalt

    CAN I PLEASE HAVE BETTERS?

    I mean, I want a king whose family has been in royalty for a thousand years. I want a senate with Norman Schwartzkopf’s, a house of commerce with captains of finance and industry, a house of commons with heads of households (families) and small and medium business owners, and a house of dependents who are none of the above. Why do we vote with unaccountable numbers rather than measurable money? Why do I have to listen to professional politicians lie about a non-existent common good, instead of the point of view of each of the classes? Why do we engage in the greatest lie since monotheism: democracy, rather than discuss the expressed wants and needs of the different classes?

    I am happy to acknowledge my betters in family and business, industry and finance, trade routes and defense. Why do I not want my betters to rule? Why would any of us prefer the existing system of conflict generation and lying over truthful speech in the pursuit of creating commons between the classes?

    **I pray thee god, grant us kings, and deliver us from the people.**

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-12 07:59:00 UTC

  • THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES One of the unfortunate byproducts

    THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES

    One of the unfortunate byproducts of developing a significant knowledge of the failures of representative democracy – particularly American first-past-the-post, two-party representative democracy – is that you no longer question whether the whole process is despicable just because you disagree with it. Its just despicable period – agree with outcomes or not.

    We are throwing our civilization down the stairs of cultural Mayan pyramids in sacrifice to an even more ridiculous belief than the appeasement of the gods by human sacrifice.

    At least murdering criminals and captured enemies for entertainment purposes is doing some good in the world. But democracy is just the opposite: it’s reversing five thousand years of genetic pacification.

    The enlightenment was as devastating to politics and philosophy as it was enabling for science and technology.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 12:02:00 UTC

  • Consent. You misunderstand. Consent in the justification of policy is not possib

    Consent. You misunderstand. Consent in the justification of policy is not possible by democratic means. See ILoO.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 12:23:07 UTC

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  • If government is constructed as a market rather than as a management system, the

    If government is constructed as a market rather than as a management system, then that would not entail coercion?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 12:15:40 UTC

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  • That we use monopoly rule (rule of law) differs from monopoly production of comm

    That we use monopoly rule (rule of law) differs from monopoly production of commons (government).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 12:15:00 UTC

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  • US INTELLIGENCE REVOLTS AGAINST ADMINISTRATION LAUNDERING OF REPORTS Great artic

    US INTELLIGENCE REVOLTS AGAINST ADMINISTRATION LAUNDERING OF REPORTS

    Great article today on how dozens of US Intelligence analysts are calling the administration ‘liars’ on our ‘successes’ against ISIS / ISIL. The’ve been at it for a year now and they were told maybe they should ‘retire’. They state that they did not speak up during the Bush administration, when poor intelligence reports formed the basis of Bush’s belief in weapons of mass destruction – that we later found didn’t exist. They don’t want this to happen again. So they’re speaking up: it’s not going well against ISIS ISIL. But what is more important (to me) since I know ISIS / ISIL isn’t doing all that badly at all, is that they Intelligence community is taking the heat for the WMD debacle – and showing it. I love that there are ethical people in the world.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-10 06:22:00 UTC

  • Consent is myth. Not possible, nor does it desirable (iron law of oligarchy). Mo

    Consent is myth. Not possible, nor does it desirable (iron law of oligarchy). Monopoly govt and democracy are dead.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-09 17:26:21 UTC

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