Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • “Success expands acquisitions, which increases the phenomena to track, which all

    “Success expands acquisitions, which increases the phenomena to track, which allows for un-meritocratic creep into social and governmental institutions.”

    “The aristocracy gradually gets infected by the petty bourgeoisie who desire the material comforts and status gained, but who reject the virtue trials that grant warrior-aristocrats their moral indisputability.”

    “As the social and governmental institutions come to be stocked with mere bureaucrats, demands of virtue and competence decline. It becomes a downward spiral of the weak and incompetent struggling to cheaply profit how their petty vision and ability allow them.”

    “The republican ideal necessitates selling two products: liberty and security, the former for the virtuous and hungry who want enfranchisement and are willing to accept the rigors and the latter for the plebs who will otherwise ally with a Caesarian-Machiavellian figure against the aristocracy if they aren’t granted their petty needs (and with their subsequent constraints of influence).”

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-04 11:04:00 UTC

  • Now, if the west relied upon high trust warranty, how could we rely once again o

    Now, if the west relied upon high trust warranty, how could we rely once again on high trust, or must we move to low trust Skin?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 21:38:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837416926099931136

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    Skin in the game, almost finished https://t.co/6sEm1JDeWg

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

  • Without low trust SKIN IN -or- high trust WARRANTY OUT, western civ kept high tr

    Without low trust SKIN IN -or- high trust WARRANTY OUT, western civ kept high trust population but low trust economics and policy.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 21:37:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837416665272942592

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    Skin in the game, almost finished https://t.co/6sEm1JDeWg

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

  • YOUR POVERTY AND YOUR LACK OF AGENCY You’re poor because you lack Agency sure. B

    YOUR POVERTY AND YOUR LACK OF AGENCY

    You’re poor because you lack Agency sure. But you know, even if we remove obstructive institutions, and even if we create institutions to invest in overcoming your initial circumstance, we are still stuck with the fact that we cannot change YOU, and that YOU can lack Agency for your own informational, intellectual, emotional, or physical reasons. We know for certain that you cannot tell if you are able or not. We don’t like to choose whether you are able or not – we can err. All we can do is invest in eliminating impediments so that you can DEMONSTRATE whether you possess agency and ability – or not.

    Anyone who tells you more money will matter is simply lying to you. You’re poor because you lack Agency, because you or your parents or your ancestors have lacked intellectual, emotional, or physical ABILITY as well as informational (ignorance) or institutional impediment.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 10:23:00 UTC

  • James Augustus My central argument is that Europe benefited by having an evoluti

    James Augustus

    My central argument is that Europe benefited by having an evolutionary environment that allowed for a high frequency of cultural, institutional and intellectual iterations, and that truth, sovereignty and natural law produce an existential advantage, so that what survived is what we call Western Civilization and its peoples.

    It is easy to look back at what survived and construct a rational narrative, but by doing so we are being fooled by randomness as Taleb is so succinct at pointing out.

    Evolutionary arguments are superior inasmuch as they point to what didn’t survive (via negativa) deterministically due to selection pressures.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-01 18:29:00 UTC

  • The absolute nuclear family only survives under special conditions: when all men

    The absolute nuclear family only survives under special conditions: when all men are in the militia, all families are culturally homogenous and near kin, there is little migration. In other words, it evolved under the middle class version of farming: manorialism, and the middle class version of farms: producing excess for market sale, and the middle class marketplace that results from the production of excess for market sale.

    The nuclear family and government pensions are a very, very, very destructive cancer.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-26 11:47:00 UTC

  • GOVERNMENTS AS A HIERARCHY OF PRODUCERS OF COMMONS – WHERE PEOPLE POSSESS COMMON

    GOVERNMENTS AS A HIERARCHY OF PRODUCERS OF COMMONS – WHERE PEOPLE POSSESS COMMON INTERESTS ONLY

    —“My question is how can government peruse multiple solutions while remaining expedient instead of the “one size fits all” solutions that seem to only cause more conflict.”—

    You can pursue many commons, you cannot pursue multiple norms (cultures).

    You can form i) a federal government that provides only the functions of insurer of last resort, ii) a regional government that provides only infrastructure commons, and iii) a local government that provides normative commons. And lastly, iv) a family that provides what is necessary to the particular circumstance.

    People need what they need to compete.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 12:36:00 UTC

  • The Cult of Non Submission The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Sove

    The Cult of Non Submission

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Natural Law of Sovereign Men

    The Institutional Production of Human Agency

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-20 20:43:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY: THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF AGENCY Aristocracy: the production of

    ARISTOCRACY: THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF AGENCY

    Aristocracy: the production of Agency (peers) by the incremental suppression of parasitism, by the use of the common law, leaving no option for survival but market production: the civilization-wide industrialization of the domestication of the animal man, for fun and profit.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-20 18:46:00 UTC

  • After natural law, a hierarchical militia is the most important institution for

    After natural law, a hierarchical militia is the most important institution for the construction of sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and subsidy.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-19 10:20:00 UTC