Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • Dont Throw Out The Libertarian Baby With The Progressive Bathwater

    LIBERTARIAN != ROTHBARDIAN ANARCHO CAPITALIST. Classical liberals are also ‘libertarians’. Rothbardians via the Mises institute adopted the tactics of the marxists, but this time, using the internet – so they’re ‘everywhere’. Anarcho capitalism was structured like the marxist IDEOLOGY. It is a MORAL, not scientific argument, for ideological rather than political purposes. The anarcho capitalist program DID give us: a) the incentives of a bureaucracy are worse than the incentives of a monarchy. b) the critique that democracy was simply a slow road to communism, c) propertarian ethics that make all moral codes commensurable and d) the use of competing insurance companies to replace monopoly bureaucracy. e) the sufficiency of the common law, and the necessity for it. f) the state as the cause of ‘evil corporations’. g) the required prohibition on law-making, and the constraint of government to contract negotiation between groups. What it did not give us is: a) means of investments in commons (government) b) means of preventing free riding, fraud by omission, theft via externality, privatization of gains and socialization of losses. c) a means of accommodating the collectivism of women in their effort to restore the sex economy in favor of the productive economy (but that’s too long a discussion.) Thankfully others have given us: a) lottocratic representation b) direct democracy And hopefully I’m trying to fix that. I think I have. But I’m not sure. http://blog.jim.com/politics/the-dark-enlightenment-critique-of-libertarianism.html

  • um… we're libertarians.

    Um…. We’re libertarians. It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries. It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power. It’s hard being the only rational person standing. People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.

  • um… we’re libertarians.

    Um…. We’re libertarians. It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries. It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power. It’s hard being the only rational person standing. People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.

  • um… we're libertarians.

    Um…. We’re libertarians. It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries. It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power. It’s hard being the only rational person standing. People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.

  • um… we’re libertarians.

    Um…. We’re libertarians. It’s not just that we have the best political philosophy. It’s not just that we have the best articulated political philosophy. It’s not just that our political philosophy corresponds to human behavior as it is, rather than as we wish it was. It’s not just that we’ve solved the problem of formal institutions. Its not just that our political philosophy is a system for achieving economic prosperity that humans demonstrably prefer. It’s not just that everyone seems to prefer to live in more libertarian countries. It’s that, other than the marxists, we’re the ONLY political position that has an articulated political and economic philosophy; it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy corresponds with the human beings as humans actually ACT in real life; and it’s that we have the ONLY political philosophy that’s solved the problem of monopoly bureaucracy and formal institutions; it’s that we have the ONLY articulated philosophy that gives precedence to prosperity instead of power. It’s hard being the only rational person standing. People aren’t rational tho. Their moral. At least. In their own terms.

  • The Reason You Use The Word 'liberty' And Not 'aristocracy'?

      Because you are carrying around the enlightenment error that anyone other than egalitarian aristocracy actually desires liberty. They don’t. Aristocracy: 1) Private Property Rights in exchange for contributing Perpetual Military Service in the defense of private property rights of all who have earned them. 2) Egalitarianism: anyone willing to also grant rights and contribute service can also gain those rights by contributing that service. 3) Denial, by promise of violence, of any and all concentration of power sufficient to alter the distribution of property and property rights. 4) The Absolute Nuclear Family and Prohibition on inbreeding. 5) Chivalry: Social Status Through Charity, and service as well as through arms. 6) Decision Making by majority vote of those who have earned property rights. Aristocracy is tribal paternity and property rights, open to all who will equally grant them, and defend them. LIBERTY EXPRESSED AS A ‘RIGHT’ IS AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS AT A DISCOUNT, AND NOTHING ELSE.

  • The Reason You Use The Word ‘liberty’ And Not ‘aristocracy’?

      Because you are carrying around the enlightenment error that anyone other than egalitarian aristocracy actually desires liberty. They don’t. Aristocracy: 1) Private Property Rights in exchange for contributing Perpetual Military Service in the defense of private property rights of all who have earned them. 2) Egalitarianism: anyone willing to also grant rights and contribute service can also gain those rights by contributing that service. 3) Denial, by promise of violence, of any and all concentration of power sufficient to alter the distribution of property and property rights. 4) The Absolute Nuclear Family and Prohibition on inbreeding. 5) Chivalry: Social Status Through Charity, and service as well as through arms. 6) Decision Making by majority vote of those who have earned property rights. Aristocracy is tribal paternity and property rights, open to all who will equally grant them, and defend them. LIBERTY EXPRESSED AS A ‘RIGHT’ IS AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS AT A DISCOUNT, AND NOTHING ELSE.

  • The Reason You Use The Word ‘liberty’ And Not ‘aristocracy’?

      Because you are carrying around the enlightenment error that anyone other than egalitarian aristocracy actually desires liberty. They don’t. Aristocracy: 1) Private Property Rights in exchange for contributing Perpetual Military Service in the defense of private property rights of all who have earned them. 2) Egalitarianism: anyone willing to also grant rights and contribute service can also gain those rights by contributing that service. 3) Denial, by promise of violence, of any and all concentration of power sufficient to alter the distribution of property and property rights. 4) The Absolute Nuclear Family and Prohibition on inbreeding. 5) Chivalry: Social Status Through Charity, and service as well as through arms. 6) Decision Making by majority vote of those who have earned property rights. Aristocracy is tribal paternity and property rights, open to all who will equally grant them, and defend them. LIBERTY EXPRESSED AS A ‘RIGHT’ IS AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS AT A DISCOUNT, AND NOTHING ELSE.

  • The Two Dark Or Anglo-counter-enlightenment Projects

      1) Attack on diversity and equality as a means of preserving our ability to use historical deliberative classical liberal institutions 2) Formulation of alternative institutions that make possible the voluntary cooperation between diverse and unequal people. THE RIGHT IS DOING THE FIRST. I (as a libertarian) AM DOING THE SECOND. THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT REACTIONARY – ITS RADICAL.

  • The Two Dark Or Anglo-counter-enlightenment Projects

      1) Attack on diversity and equality as a means of preserving our ability to use historical deliberative classical liberal institutions 2) Formulation of alternative institutions that make possible the voluntary cooperation between diverse and unequal people. THE RIGHT IS DOING THE FIRST. I (as a libertarian) AM DOING THE SECOND. THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT REACTIONARY – ITS RADICAL.