Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • YES, YOU CAN USE VIOLENCE TO CREATE PEACE. —“You can’t bomb people into peace”

    YES, YOU CAN USE VIOLENCE TO CREATE PEACE.

    —“You can’t bomb people into peace”—

    Arguably false. The great ‘peaces’ have all been the result of those empires possessing and exercising disproportionate power over trade routes, and in doing so creating single commercial zones, so that all competition is forced into the market for goods and services, and all political and military competition is suppressed. So the evidence is quite the contrary: you absolutely can bomb into peace. No question about it. In fact, bombing into peace is the standard by which such things are accomplished. The question is not the bombs, but whether one chooses to rule or exploit those one has bombed. If one chooses to rule, and rules by rule of law, then who GOVERNS is something quite different. Most polities will tolerate rule if they can continue governance (discretionary production of commons). It is not the provision of commons (government) that challenges less advanced people, but the adjudication of differences by objective means.

    Aristocracy’s function is to rule, not necessarily to govern. We prohibit violence and theft, prohibit error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit., and adjudicate differences. We do not favor much else other than beauty. Aristocracy uses limits. Hypotheses we leave to others.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-04 02:28:00 UTC

  • The Conduct of a Contemporary Revolution

    [T]HE CONDUCT OF A CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTION

    1) Develop a political solution to issue as a demand, and a plan for orderly transition.

    2) Raise the cost of the status quo until the status quo is intolerable.
    ….a) inform the population of demands, and warn them to inventory goods.
    ….b) begin civil disobedience and malicious compliance (raise costs of maintaining order)
    ….c) create lists of names, and issue threats (create fear in state, academy, and media.)
    ….d) start fires (cheap, effective friend)
    ….e) disrupt infrastructure (power largely)
    ….f) selective kidnapping and assassination (make locals unwilling to govern)
    ….g) tactical entrapment and assassination (make locals unable to govern or protect)
    ….h) draw in the military and hold them in many locations. (delegitimize the government and show it is incapable of rule, and bankrupt it and the economy.)

    3) Allow transition to occur by any of the possible means:
    ….a) enactment of changes (modify government)
    ….b) nullification (incrementally replace government)
    ….c) secession (create new governments)
    ….d) coup-d’-etat (military take over the government)
    ….e) insurrection and revolution (replace the government)
    ….f) civil war (replace the government after costly warfare)

    Each of these solutions is more costly than the previous. But thankfully, contemporary economies and governments are very fragile when subject to economic and infrastructure disruption. So lower cost solutions are likely.

    It is easier to replace a government today than at any time in history. And it takes a smaller number of people to cause disruption than at any time in history.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • The Conduct of a Contemporary Revolution

    [T]HE CONDUCT OF A CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTION

    1) Develop a political solution to issue as a demand, and a plan for orderly transition.

    2) Raise the cost of the status quo until the status quo is intolerable.
    ….a) inform the population of demands, and warn them to inventory goods.
    ….b) begin civil disobedience and malicious compliance (raise costs of maintaining order)
    ….c) create lists of names, and issue threats (create fear in state, academy, and media.)
    ….d) start fires (cheap, effective friend)
    ….e) disrupt infrastructure (power largely)
    ….f) selective kidnapping and assassination (make locals unwilling to govern)
    ….g) tactical entrapment and assassination (make locals unable to govern or protect)
    ….h) draw in the military and hold them in many locations. (delegitimize the government and show it is incapable of rule, and bankrupt it and the economy.)

    3) Allow transition to occur by any of the possible means:
    ….a) enactment of changes (modify government)
    ….b) nullification (incrementally replace government)
    ….c) secession (create new governments)
    ….d) coup-d’-etat (military take over the government)
    ….e) insurrection and revolution (replace the government)
    ….f) civil war (replace the government after costly warfare)

    Each of these solutions is more costly than the previous. But thankfully, contemporary economies and governments are very fragile when subject to economic and infrastructure disruption. So lower cost solutions are likely.

    It is easier to replace a government today than at any time in history. And it takes a smaller number of people to cause disruption than at any time in history.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Under Rule of Law, governments cannot make law, only contracts within the law. A

    Under Rule of Law, governments cannot make law, only contracts within the law. All else is not Law, but dictate (command). #tlot #tcot #NRx

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-02 10:39:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/627790721727262720

  • Q&A: REVOLUTION. RESULTING IN THE ‘RIGHT’ PEOPLE? (worth repeating) QUESTION: —

    Q&A: REVOLUTION. RESULTING IN THE ‘RIGHT’ PEOPLE?

    (worth repeating)

    QUESTION:

    —“How do we demand a return to an Aristocracy of the right people? This is a steep hill we’re climbing.”—

    ANSWER:

    The right people are impossible to know. And even such, it’s not a matter of choosing the right people. It’s a matter of preventing all the WRONG people. And preventing the wrong people is something that we can do.

    Prosecute the bad, and only the good remain. Determine the false, and only true remains.

    Fragility is easy to exploit into a cascade.

    It was one thing to promise democracy when there was no empirical evidence. But the evidence is in. It’s genocidal. Mostly because women lacked the experience and accountability for the votes that they cast. We got what the majority of women and the minority of men desired: largely by destroying the family and expanding immigration, and transferring reproduction from the middle to the lower classes through aggressive taxation.

    The problem for creating momentum in any revolution is that people need an alternative institutional framework to accept, if not advocate, that will solve present problems and provide them with a means of understanding how the future might unfold. So, we need something for them to demand. Just as the founding fathers did. Just as all enlightenment movements did. And it must take a moral high ground.

    After that, there are 3 hours of energy, 3 days of water, 6 days of food in the channel, and an economy that cannot tolerate shocks.

    Long gone are the days where the multitudes must take to the streets with pitchforks.

    A small number of men with a few pages of instructions can do far more damage than the communist insurgents did. A sustained but short period of unpredictability and a positive set of demands will collapse the channels, and the government with it.

    All governance is an illusion created by the accumulated momentum of common interests. It is a fragile illusion easily dispelled, which is why governors are so paranoid about the slightest threat.

    It’s easy, with just a few thousand. With 1% it’s all but certain. We have more than 1% if we give them actionable direction.

    (Look at the middle east.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-02 04:53:00 UTC

  • THE CONDUCT OF A CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTION 1) Develop solution to demand, and a pl

    THE CONDUCT OF A CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTION

    1) Develop solution to demand, and a plan for orderly transition.

    2) Raise the cost of the status quo until the status quo is intolerable.

    ….a) inform the population of demands, and warn them to inventory goods.

    ….b) begin civil disobedience (raise costs of maintaining order)

    ….c) threats (create fear in state, academy, and media.)

    ….d) fire (cheap, effective friend)

    ….e) infrastructure disruption (power largely)

    ….f) selective kidnapping and assassination

    ….g) tactical entrapment (make locals unable to govern)

    ….h) draw in the military and hold them in many locations.

    3) Allow transition to occur by any of the possible means:

    ….a) enactment of changes (modify government)

    ….b) nullification (incrementally replace government)

    ….c) secession (create new governments)

    ….d) coup-d’-etat (military take over the government)

    ….e) insurrection and revolution (replace the government)

    ….f) civil war (replace the government after costly warfare)

    Each of these solutions is more costly than the previous. But thankfully, contemporary economies and governments are very fragile when subject to economic and infrastructure disruption. So lower cost solutions are likely.

    It is easier to replace a government today than at any time in history. And it takes a smaller number of people to cause disruption than at any time in history.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-02 00:38:00 UTC

  • JOHANNES IS RIGHT: RELOCATE ALL THE “IMMIGRANTS” TO AFGHANISTAN. I mean, we used

    JOHANNES IS RIGHT: RELOCATE ALL THE “IMMIGRANTS” TO AFGHANISTAN.

    I mean, we used Australia as a prison colony. Why not Afghanistan? It’s a wasteland. Ship them all there. Drop them off, and let them work their way home.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-31 09:38:00 UTC

  • Liberty Must Be Imposed by Force

    LIBERTY (FREEDOM FROM PARASITISM) MUST BE IMPOSED BY FORCE, BUT LIBERTY NEED NOT BE UNIVERSALLY REQUIRED: A MONOPOLY IS NOT NECESSARY. [L]iberty is the desire of those who are able.  Security the desire of those who are not. And parasitism is the desire of those who are evil. While strict construction of agreements, and the decidability of conflicts are impossible without a monopoly of individual property rights to property-en-toto, there is no reason for a monopoly means of producing commons using those rights.

    There is no reason some individuals cannot form collectives and ostracize libertarians and no reason libertarians cannot form collective and ostracize communalists. There is no reason some cannot participate in socialist groups and others libertarian groups – as long as rule of law under property-en-toto, and the total prohibition on parasitism exists as a means of providing for strict construction of agreements, and decidability in conflicts. We know what bad is: parasitism. But good is dependent upon your abilities. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)

  • Liberty Must Be Imposed by Force

    LIBERTY (FREEDOM FROM PARASITISM) MUST BE IMPOSED BY FORCE, BUT LIBERTY NEED NOT BE UNIVERSALLY REQUIRED: A MONOPOLY IS NOT NECESSARY. [L]iberty is the desire of those who are able.  Security the desire of those who are not. And parasitism is the desire of those who are evil. While strict construction of agreements, and the decidability of conflicts are impossible without a monopoly of individual property rights to property-en-toto, there is no reason for a monopoly means of producing commons using those rights.

    There is no reason some individuals cannot form collectives and ostracize libertarians and no reason libertarians cannot form collective and ostracize communalists. There is no reason some cannot participate in socialist groups and others libertarian groups – as long as rule of law under property-en-toto, and the total prohibition on parasitism exists as a means of providing for strict construction of agreements, and decidability in conflicts. We know what bad is: parasitism. But good is dependent upon your abilities. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)

  • The State is a Vehicle for Lying. #tcot #tlot

    The State is a Vehicle for Lying. http://www.propertarianism.com/Z2rlF #tcot #tlot

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 18:40:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/626824826544631808