Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU TRUST YOUR LIBERTY TO YOUR FELLOW MAN? Your fellow men

    HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU TRUST YOUR LIBERTY TO YOUR FELLOW MAN?

    Your fellow men and women do not desire liberty. They desires consumption, status, and ease.

    Liberty requires great expense, revolt against the masses, and constant diligence.

    The source of liberty is the organize application of violence to deny access to others, that which you have labored to obtain by voluntary means.

    The left’s irrational utopian vision is no worse than the rothbardian irrational libertarian utopia.

    Aristocratic egalitarians invented liberty.

    And the manufactured it with organized violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-19 09:33:00 UTC

  • CENTRAL OBJECT OF THE ANARCHIC RESEARCH PROGRAM The central objective of the ana

    http://propertarianism.com/ideas/THE CENTRAL OBJECT OF THE ANARCHIC RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The central objective of the anarcho capitalist research program has been how to eliminate the monopoly bureaucracy and its institutionalize parasitism on the population, yet still produce a prosperous social order.

    In libertarian circles we often refer to this simply as “the problem of social order.”

    THE CENTRAL THEORY

    Like marxism, libertarian philosophy is pretty rigorously thought out. By the time we get to Hoppe, it’s a well articulated theory of politics. So the logical errors in libertarianism tend to be complex, not trivial.

    Most criticisms of libertarianism are naive or irrelevant because libertarian claims are technical, articulated in a formal and technical language, and they are not intuitive or normative claims at all. So without knowledge of the libertarian terminology and it’s arguments, is pretty hard to make a legitimate criticism – and that’s why so many criticisms are not legitimate.

    DEFINITIONS

    “NAP: the non-aggression principle. That one will not aggress against the life and property of others.”

    “Property: (n) Your life, your mind, your body, things you have obtained in trade, and things you have converted to first-use (homesteading).”

    “Violence: (n) Physical aggression against property.”

    “Aggression: (n) hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.”

    So it’s okay to use violence against aggression. ie: any time you and your property are threatened. And to obtain restitution for your lost property.

    So, no, the NAP is not a prohibition on violence. It’s a prohibition on the violation of property in which you, yourself, are also your property (that which you must have monopoly of control). Or more accurately, private property functions as an extension of your body and life. (true) and as such violations against your ‘things’ are violations against your body.

    WHY PROPERTY THIS SO IMPORTANT

    The general theory upon which anarcho capitalism rests, is that a rigid definition of property, and the common law, are sufficient for the formation of a polity. And that monopoly government and its systematic predation due to lack of competition is not necessary. Because the common law is sufficient ‘government’ for an anarchic polity. (This is the legal framework of a migratory herding people, or disasporic traders.)

    This differs from a high trust agrarian society where the people must organize to prevent others from displacing them from the land. In a landed society, it is necessary for organizations to have leaders, to prevent free riding by those not willing to fight for that land.

    PROSPERITY AS ‘THE COMMON GOOD”

    But since trust is an index of productivity, because lack of trust acts as a friction on seizure of opportunity – and particularly on the concentration of capital by future-oriented people – (a form of transaction cost) then high trust is the the greatest social asset a polity can possess in the production of wealth.

    Property will evolve from trust. Trust evolves from the prevention of free riding. The prevention of free riding evolves from the need to cooperate.

    THE PROBLEM WITH NAP AND PRIVATE PROPERTY: “TRUST”

    Private property and a weak state only evolve in high trust societies. But high trust societies are not dependent upon the NAP. They are dependent upon the suppression of free riding. The absolute nuclear family for example, even prohibits free riding by your children.

    The NAP doesn’t prohibit unethical and immoral actions, so you can’t initiate violence against, say, a blackmailer, or scam artist, or other person who engages in conspiracy. Its a license for predation. Given the high cost of violence and the low cost of unethical and immoral behavior, it’s non-logical to essentially prohibit violence but not prohibit every kind of cheating possible.

    The NAP operates on the assumption that a high trust society already exists, but actually fosters the destruction of the high trust society.

    Because high trust societies do not limit ‘property’ wither private or common to the physical.

    High trust societies prevent free riding, of which private property crime is merely one component.

    That is why it’s non-rational.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-18 14:52:00 UTC

  • PUTIN ON EXCEPTIONALISM —“They have come to believe in their exceptionalism an

    PUTIN ON EXCEPTIONALISM

    —“They have come to believe in their exceptionalism and their sense of being the chosen ones. That they can decide the destinies of the world, that it is only them who can be right.”—

    Not really. It’s pretty hard to argue against self-determination. Certainly the Tibetans, Mongolians, Ukrainians, South Vietnamese, Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Czechs, Georgians… (well you get the idea)… all prefer self determination.

    And the west supports self determination. Because ‘Sovereignty’ is the central value of the western heroic vision of man. Because it leads to the division of labor and prosperity for all.

    It’s pretty hard to argue in favor of military expansion of territory. But its pretty easy to argue for the containment of military expansion of territory.

    Its pretty hard to argue that a government that will exterminate millions of its own people is ‘a good way’.

    But then, I want to collapse the USA because our government has become like theirs. Not because of it’s puruit of self determination. Instead, the west has turned against self determination.

    European and American as well.

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-18 11:25:00 UTC

  • THREATS ARE SAFER

    http://www.internationalrealist.com/2011/11/why-we-will-soon-miss-cold-war-john.htmlWHY THREATS ARE SAFER

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:58:00 UTC

  • Having fun this morning watching the pundits around the world reposition themsel

    Having fun this morning watching the pundits around the world reposition themselves on all sorts of things. The most interesting is that given European energy dependency upon Russia, the eastern turn of Russia to the Chinese model,

    In 2008 and 2009 it was very interesting to watch all the economists change their point of view on the trajectory of the economy. Right now it’s pretty interesting to see them change their view on the trajectory of social democracy.

    I might have been blinded by being emotionally so involved in the passions in Ukraine. But, as long as Ukrainians remain free of Russian occupation, the net result here might be the end of the “end of history” and the illusion of a unified world.

    I want to put a bullet in the European Union, the American Federal Government, and “Universalism”.

    And this actually helps. And an emboldened china helps even more.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:50:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: UK CENSORSHIP Are libertarian or “right wing” writers in the UK open t

    QUESTION: UK CENSORSHIP

    Are libertarian or “right wing” writers in the UK open to prosecution?

    If I spent a couple of years writing there, would I be in danger of statist persecution? Seems like its limited to direct personal attacks. But in general I advocate rebellion against statists and in favor of monarchy, in pursuit of liberty. If I get carried away now and then, is this a risk?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:02:00 UTC

  • I guess that I should be happy that Russia just helped put a bullet in the mytho

    I guess that I should be happy that Russia just helped put a bullet in the mythos of democracy. Not that it needed a bullet. It’s pretty much been an unmitigated disaster everywhere.

    Although, the data in the west at least, suggests that it’s women and non-nuclear family immigration that made the marginally destructive difference.

    WEAK AND THE STRONG

    1) Democracy is weak – Monarchy is superior.

    2) The Absolute nuclear family is weak – the Extended and Inbred Families are superior.

    3) Secularism is weak – Religion is stronger.

    4) Credit is weak – Force is stronger.

    The west had one thing going for it: a homogenous (behaviorally intolerant, absolute nuclear family) protestant society under monarchy where there is no access to political power, forces all groups to compete only in the market.

    When groups compete in the market they innovate. Innovation OVER TIME allows for the rapid development of technology that allows a free minority to remain free.

    When groups compete in politics they’re not innovating, just transferring between each other. While it may be true that groups can invest together to attempt to obtain dividends on their investments, and that state sponsored investments generally can concentrate greater capital than private investments,

    The least costly military is a fully participatory militia capable of denying any forces access to territory without perpetual losses, and nuclear weapons to prevent military and nuclear threats.

    The least costly bureaucracy is private monarchy, voluntary representation or direct democracy, and privatized delivery of services.

    There are some areas where division of labor is destructive, and that’s war, and the maintenance of the normative commons.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 21:48:00 UTC

  • RT @CGGiske: The Crimea referendum sounds like a classical communist farce. Like

    RT @CGGiske: The Crimea referendum sounds like a classical communist farce. Like a percentage worthy of Stalin. Just leave Ukraine alone. #…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 20:22:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/445294133234917376

  • RUSSIAN TRANSITIONAL FAILURE TO ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM (Anglo Saxon, Friesi

    RUSSIAN TRANSITIONAL FAILURE TO ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM

    (Anglo Saxon, Friesian Aristocratic Egalitarianism)

    I KNOW democracy(political freedom) is just the path to communism and totalitarianism by slower means, and I know political freedom by definition is immoral. I know social democracy is just the secularization of jewish-christianity by empty verbalisms, at the further expense of propertarian aristocracy.

    These are not value judgements they are logical necessities given the distribution of human interests and abilities, and the evolutionary strategies of different groups.

    I am perfectly happy with a monarchical Russia that denies people access to political power. Just as I am perfectly happy that all other countries deny people political power under any form of private government. What I am not comfortable with is EXPANSION of CORRUPTION, and the expansion of the bureaucracy, and the SPREAD of corruption and bureaucracy.

    Now the Russians might be right is that the southern and eastern peoples (the ‘middle world’) are incapable of universalism and high trust. (I believe this may be the case given behavior under immigration.) And that the only possible solution for Russia is to engage in hierarchical government to use their minority population to conquer and oppress the ‘middle people’ (Turkiks, Uralics, Altaics, Mongols, Arabs, and any indo-european muslims) who pose a risk to them. And I even ENCOURAGE that position.

    But that does not apply to europeans(slavs, germans, nordics and celts), who have survived for four thousand years by denying the ‘middle people’ access to Europe, despite our smaller numbers.

    Russia may yet keep the east at bay if Germany does not return to its traditional role in doing so. I want the USA out of Europe so that Germany has no CHOICE but to abandon the pacifist fallacy and return to its traditional role as keeping the east at bay.

    We can see that any civilization touched by the Turkic and Islamic people suffers in ignorance, low trust and poverty. And cannot seem to escape it. It never occurs to us that advanced civilizations with low rates of reproduction do not SURVIVE against reproductive and aggressive civilizations – because he who breeds eventually wins. So the Islamic way of life, despite it’s low trust, violence, ignorance and mysticism, may in fact be the most effective way of conquest, even if it deprives humans of their reach for the stars. History tells us that the Chinese war machine is only bounded by the desert on one side and the ocean on the other. Western colonization was aristotelian, commercial, anglo saxon as well as military.

    So a Russia that used violence to first create property rights at the expense of creating a rent seeking class of statists was simply a necessary step in the evolution of a polity towards liberty. Thats what government is FOR: suppressing high transaction costs of free riding in exchange for the low transaction costs of rent seeking. But that interim statism is only helpful if then one suppresses rent seeking in ADDITION to free riding (what libertarians have got wrong by the way).

    And without the further transition away from statist brutality, the people are merely prey to be expropriated from.

    That is the difference between Friesian-anglo-saxon, propertarian, aristocratic egalitarianism’s total suppression of free riding, and every other political order constructed by man.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 10:30:00 UTC

  • RT @davidmwessel: RT @ianbremmer: At stake in #Ukraine conflict: US/EU lose cred

    RT @davidmwessel: RT @ianbremmer: At stake in #Ukraine conflict:
    US/EU lose credibility
    Russia loses influence
    Ukrainians lose their country

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-15 02:06:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/444655834967339008