(FB 1546102380 Timestamp) One bit of frequent advice is that if we grow to quickly the idiot factor will be impossible to control. I agree with this proposition, but it can be offset by changing what we talk about as we expand: early entrants are activists that need technical content. Ordinary people simply want to know what such a constitution would look like, how it would work, how governments would work, and how they would benefit from it. They do not need to understand the strict construction of law from first principles in algorithmic and operational language, or that we can test the truth of propositions by subjecting them to tests of due diligence in the dimensions available to human minds. They only need to know that some people can, and that if we do so, its as rigorous as mathematics. Ordinary people just need FEATURES AND BENEFITS. They do not need to understand the detailed process of engineering of those features and benefits.
Theme: Institution
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546100286 Timestamp) Let me help you. It is a disadvantage to me, to the work, and to the movement to be associated with ‘those who have failed’. The more mainstream we become, the less value in fringe players. So no, leaving behind the fringe is part of the strategy. Not getting their attention. Propertarianism is not a philosophy or a religion, it is practical law the purpose of which is to defeat the means by which our high trust people (and other stupid people) are deceived by taking advantage of the weakness of our neurological construct using language. NO MORE LIES, NO MORE PARASITISM IS NOT A RIGHT WING MESSAGE: IT IS A MAJORITARIAN MESSAGE. The purpose of separatism is economic and political as well as genetic and cultural. The purpose of conquest is the same. It is just a choice given the possibilities. My strategy is simple: STARVE THE BEAST AND THE PARASITES DIE WITH IT.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546100286 Timestamp) Let me help you. It is a disadvantage to me, to the work, and to the movement to be associated with ‘those who have failed’. The more mainstream we become, the less value in fringe players. So no, leaving behind the fringe is part of the strategy. Not getting their attention. Propertarianism is not a philosophy or a religion, it is practical law the purpose of which is to defeat the means by which our high trust people (and other stupid people) are deceived by taking advantage of the weakness of our neurological construct using language. NO MORE LIES, NO MORE PARASITISM IS NOT A RIGHT WING MESSAGE: IT IS A MAJORITARIAN MESSAGE. The purpose of separatism is economic and political as well as genetic and cultural. The purpose of conquest is the same. It is just a choice given the possibilities. My strategy is simple: STARVE THE BEAST AND THE PARASITES DIE WITH IT.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546611466 Timestamp) PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN ONE GOVERNMENT ORDER OR ANOTHER? You have to choose whether to trust the self interest of the judicial ‘priesthood’, the self interest of the monarchy, the self interest of the ruling oligarchy, or the self control of the democratic polity, or the self interests of public intellectuals. My argument is that you can’t trust any of them, and that the judicial priesthood benefits from ‘maintaining the rules of the game’, but if and only if the military will back them up. Why? The judiciary is a purely via-negativa discipline: it advocates nothing, and only resolves conflicts. It is already privileged. It is already high status. It is operationally selective (failure is quickly obvious and resolved), and failure of members is against the interest of the whole, who police it well through hierarchical review. The central issue in limiting the judiciary and preserving its freedom from via-positiva action, is nothing more than insufficiently enumerated terms of decidability. And that’s what i’ve done. Provided that completeness. -Curt Doolittle
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546475501 Timestamp) —“Curt, How are the courses going to work?”— Well, lets get across the principle reason we need the university format. (a) To provide you and others confidence in your investment of time and effort. (b) To provide social, physical (fitness, fighting, war) and strategy (how to conduct war), the natural law and government under the natural law – the most ‘complete’ western aristocratic education that you can recieve. (c) Our methodology requires a rather great deal of general knowledge that you have been denied in order to suppress the continuation of western civilization. (d) To provide consistent training so that you all ‘sound the same’, and therefor preserve the brand value (persuasive value) of the methodology. (e) To provide the full set of courses necessary for a judicial priesthood in the natural law, to transform our civilization just as thoroughly as did the M-P-F’s. (f) To weaken any possible criticism. In other words, this is going to be, as is in all my work, serious. The courses will work just like college/university: 1 – Lecture (video), 2 – Assignment (usually short essay questions), and; 3 – Online discussions (in other words, a lot of help is available, because that’s part of ‘our thing’ is teaching one another.) You will be able to just engage in online conversation, to join social events and activities, to take individual courses, or to take a certification in a series of courses, or to get a degree. These courses will be (I promise) as good or better than those you would receive in the top ten universities. If you want to study law, it’s yale and harvard, if you want tech and science it’s MIT and Stanford. But if you survey the courses at these universities and compare them to ours, you will find that we are teaching far more substantial content than those others do, even at that level of university. Part of the Accreditation process[1] requires those who teach warranty the students achievement. So this requires high investment of my time. So the first generation or two will get access to me. Afterward I do not know since I expect to do a lot of work generating the course material. I assume (hope) others will move in to teach the course. I know others who could do so already. The workload will be the same as university, which is two hours of work to every one hour of course time. This is extremely hard for me to judge and we will have to tailor it going forward. Mostly I see short readings with some writing. Some classes are 6 credits (two semesters of work) and some are 3 (one semester’s worth of work), and I have added some 1 credit courses as well. We are not bound by time constraints as much as universities so I will accelerate or slow the courses on demand So, this is not one of those multiple choice things (gut courses). We want our education to be meaningful androck solid and doing it online this way produces extraordinarily good data for the accreditation process. I think grades are going to be ‘incomplete’, ‘complete’, ‘distinction’, ‘honors’. I am trying to figure out how to prevent people from overreaching their abilities, so that we don’t have a high drop out rate, or make people unhappy and critical. And so we are going to have an ‘application’ process that does some limited filtering for some of the classes, while say, the combat and weapons classes we just want to know if you’re mentally stable. lol. Oh, and until we have accreditation (which takes years) we will charge the minimum possible for each course that we can. -Curt
[1] regarding accreditation: In the USA anyone can start a college or university, offer training, credits, and certification. It is up to the market to determine whether those certifications have any value. The purpose of Accreditation for the student is to understand the value of those certifications, credits, and degrees in the market. The purpose of Accreditation for the organization, is the access to student loans it provides. Access to student loans will allow us to scale quickly.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546475501 Timestamp) —“Curt, How are the courses going to work?”— Well, lets get across the principle reason we need the university format. (a) To provide you and others confidence in your investment of time and effort. (b) To provide social, physical (fitness, fighting, war) and strategy (how to conduct war), the natural law and government under the natural law – the most ‘complete’ western aristocratic education that you can recieve. (c) Our methodology requires a rather great deal of general knowledge that you have been denied in order to suppress the continuation of western civilization. (d) To provide consistent training so that you all ‘sound the same’, and therefor preserve the brand value (persuasive value) of the methodology. (e) To provide the full set of courses necessary for a judicial priesthood in the natural law, to transform our civilization just as thoroughly as did the M-P-F’s. (f) To weaken any possible criticism. In other words, this is going to be, as is in all my work, serious. The courses will work just like college/university: 1 – Lecture (video), 2 – Assignment (usually short essay questions), and; 3 – Online discussions (in other words, a lot of help is available, because that’s part of ‘our thing’ is teaching one another.) You will be able to just engage in online conversation, to join social events and activities, to take individual courses, or to take a certification in a series of courses, or to get a degree. These courses will be (I promise) as good or better than those you would receive in the top ten universities. If you want to study law, it’s yale and harvard, if you want tech and science it’s MIT and Stanford. But if you survey the courses at these universities and compare them to ours, you will find that we are teaching far more substantial content than those others do, even at that level of university. Part of the Accreditation process[1] requires those who teach warranty the students achievement. So this requires high investment of my time. So the first generation or two will get access to me. Afterward I do not know since I expect to do a lot of work generating the course material. I assume (hope) others will move in to teach the course. I know others who could do so already. The workload will be the same as university, which is two hours of work to every one hour of course time. This is extremely hard for me to judge and we will have to tailor it going forward. Mostly I see short readings with some writing. Some classes are 6 credits (two semesters of work) and some are 3 (one semester’s worth of work), and I have added some 1 credit courses as well. We are not bound by time constraints as much as universities so I will accelerate or slow the courses on demand So, this is not one of those multiple choice things (gut courses). We want our education to be meaningful androck solid and doing it online this way produces extraordinarily good data for the accreditation process. I think grades are going to be ‘incomplete’, ‘complete’, ‘distinction’, ‘honors’. I am trying to figure out how to prevent people from overreaching their abilities, so that we don’t have a high drop out rate, or make people unhappy and critical. And so we are going to have an ‘application’ process that does some limited filtering for some of the classes, while say, the combat and weapons classes we just want to know if you’re mentally stable. lol. Oh, and until we have accreditation (which takes years) we will charge the minimum possible for each course that we can. -Curt
[1] regarding accreditation: In the USA anyone can start a college or university, offer training, credits, and certification. It is up to the market to determine whether those certifications have any value. The purpose of Accreditation for the student is to understand the value of those certifications, credits, and degrees in the market. The purpose of Accreditation for the organization, is the access to student loans it provides. Access to student loans will allow us to scale quickly.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546804780 Timestamp) I will announce when it’s time to register. It will be in the next two weeks (I assume). Right now we are just building out the site, planing and organizing the courses, and hooking up the payment systems etc. Registration = Participation in the discourse (social networking). Application = Access to courses, training, events, and course-forums. Courses = courses must be taken in series. The core (law) is the most important for the online community since our job is counter-argument, persuasive argument, expansion, and evangelism. The rest of the course may be more important for our less ‘social media’ oriented brothers who are more ‘physically’ driven to act.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546798360 Timestamp) THIS YEAR … We are going to need: … (a) coaches/mentors for young men, and a way to filter those coaches to eliminate the quacks and losers, and we will seek to concentrate income in small numbers of them. … (b) a class in teaching mindfulness (self authoring) in the three points of the spectrum: stoicism, epicureanism, and aristocracy (the amount of available agency). Again, concentrating income in small numbers. … (c) a participating network of Paintball/Airsoft groups … (d) a participating network of firearms instructors/ranges that teach not TARGET shooting but fight-shooting (i have specific requirements for this). … (e) a VERY select group of fire-and-movement trainers in the SWAT rather than MILITARY experience. (De-emphasizing patrol and emphasizing strikes and raids. ) … (f) a VERY select group of martial arts (striking, wrestling)
… (g) “the idiots guide to lifting heavy things.” … (h) ” organized hiking, camping, marching etc” events with barbeques or sandwitches. afterward. … (i) political event participation in the assistance of others without drawing specific attention to the institute or the movement. Fighting and shooting are high returns for the first 20%. In other words, 80% of the benefit of training is in the first 20% of the training. This is how we make men fit. Most young men who need this kind of thing do not have a lot of extra money. We need to make sure we are using scale so that we keep the prices down for them. -
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546804780 Timestamp) I will announce when it’s time to register. It will be in the next two weeks (I assume). Right now we are just building out the site, planing and organizing the courses, and hooking up the payment systems etc. Registration = Participation in the discourse (social networking). Application = Access to courses, training, events, and course-forums. Courses = courses must be taken in series. The core (law) is the most important for the online community since our job is counter-argument, persuasive argument, expansion, and evangelism. The rest of the course may be more important for our less ‘social media’ oriented brothers who are more ‘physically’ driven to act.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546798360 Timestamp) THIS YEAR … We are going to need: … (a) coaches/mentors for young men, and a way to filter those coaches to eliminate the quacks and losers, and we will seek to concentrate income in small numbers of them. … (b) a class in teaching mindfulness (self authoring) in the three points of the spectrum: stoicism, epicureanism, and aristocracy (the amount of available agency). Again, concentrating income in small numbers. … (c) a participating network of Paintball/Airsoft groups … (d) a participating network of firearms instructors/ranges that teach not TARGET shooting but fight-shooting (i have specific requirements for this). … (e) a VERY select group of fire-and-movement trainers in the SWAT rather than MILITARY experience. (De-emphasizing patrol and emphasizing strikes and raids. ) … (f) a VERY select group of martial arts (striking, wrestling)
… (g) “the idiots guide to lifting heavy things.” … (h) ” organized hiking, camping, marching etc” events with barbeques or sandwitches. afterward. … (i) political event participation in the assistance of others without drawing specific attention to the institute or the movement. Fighting and shooting are high returns for the first 20%. In other words, 80% of the benefit of training is in the first 20% of the training. This is how we make men fit. Most young men who need this kind of thing do not have a lot of extra money. We need to make sure we are using scale so that we keep the prices down for them.