Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • LIBERTY IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT TOO Active, violent, institution of property rig

    LIBERTY IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT TOO

    Active, violent, institution of property rights, against the will of free-riders and rent seekers, as well as against the will of the violent and fraudulent.

    Natural rights are a logical prison for libertarians.

    We can’t possibly desire to be left alone in our natural state of freedom, because that is not man’s natural state: free riding is. Community property is.

    We can only logically desire to forcibly implement property rights against the will of the majority.

    This is liberty’s prison.

    Natural rights libertarianism, is a convenient excuse to feel morally superior while taking no active action to alter the course of events.

    Liberty is made by violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 09:40:00 UTC

  • LOOK AT THE CROWD!!!! ENORMOUS!!

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-live-updates-332341.htmlKIEV: LOOK AT THE CROWD!!!! ENORMOUS!!

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 07:49:00 UTC

  • POLICY CREEP : WIKIPEDIA VS THE STATE – NO DIFFERENCE “When asked to identify Wi

    POLICY CREEP : WIKIPEDIA VS THE STATE – NO DIFFERENCE

    “When asked to identify Wikipedia’s real problem, Moran cites the bureaucratic culture that has formed around the rules and guidelines on contributing, which have become labyrinthine over the years. The page explaining a policy called Neutral Point of View, one of “five pillars” fundamental to Wikipedia, is almost 5,000 words long. “That is the real barrier: policy creep,” he says. But whatever role that plays in Wikipedia’s travails, any effort to prune its bureaucracy is hard to imagine.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 05:48:00 UTC

  • ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT

    ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT IS THE NEXT FORM OF GOVERNMENT?

    Most theorists, Especially Plato, but certainly enlightenment proponents, obsess over the means of creating people to suit our form of government. But what form of government is possible given the very real and variable people that we actually have?

    This is where I make people unhappy. Because i want to understand the question: What people do we actually have?

    And that’s uncomfortable.

    But it’s the only way to design institutions that facilitate the cooperation between the people we actually have.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 02:07:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/news-analysis-a-television-news-breakthrough-333200.htmlANALYSIS:UKRAINE

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 01:37:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/3275054-yanukovych-podpysal-sohlashenye-s-rossyei-obiazyvauischee-ukraynu-vstupyt-v-ts-up

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 10:54:00 UTC

  • END OF THE RULE OF LAW : STUFF NIXON WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE “The Imperial Senate

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-democrats-outbreak-of-lawlessness/2013/11/28/3184b6f2-579b-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.htmlTHE END OF THE RULE OF LAW : STUFF NIXON WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE

    “The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away forever.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 09:09:00 UTC

  • ON POPULISM

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/the_ideological_2.htmlCAPLAN ON POPULISM

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 09:05:00 UTC

  • OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original

    OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original diagram accurate enough?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 08:31:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN OR ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN? If calling one’s self a libertarian mea

    LIBERTARIAN OR ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN?

    If calling one’s self a libertarian means that one hopes to enfranchise others in the love of liberty then that is a fools game. The only difference between aristocratic egalitarianism and libertarianism, is that AE uses force to obtain liberty and suppresses the evolution of the state. while we libertarians appeal to reason like a beggar for alms.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:22:00 UTC