Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional

    (important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever. That argument is dead. This one reigns.

    Source: (4) Curt Doolittle

  • Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional

    (important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever. That argument is dead. This one reigns.

    Source: (4) Curt Doolittle

  • THE TRUTH INQUISITION? IS THAT WHAT WE EVOLVE INTO? I mean, do we evolve into an

    THE TRUTH INQUISITION? IS THAT WHAT WE EVOLVE INTO?

    I mean, do we evolve into an independent judiciary? Just as law is a ‘cult’ do we start out as a series of prosecutors against the heresies of pseudoscience, postmodernism, propaganda and lying? Is that how we take back the church?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 03:33:00 UTC

  • “OVERSING IS AN ERP FOR TASKS” The organization and facilitation of collaborativ

    “OVERSING IS AN ERP FOR TASKS”

    The organization and facilitation of collaborative white collar production.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 02:59:00 UTC

  • SPECIATION IN MAN IS LESS GENETIC AND MORE COGNITIVE, NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONA

    SPECIATION IN MAN IS LESS GENETIC AND MORE COGNITIVE, NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL

    (important) (alternate theory of man)

    [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever.

    That argument is dead. This one reigns. Forever.

    ( Don Finnegan Eli Harman Roman Skaskiw )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 02:00:00 UTC

  • “I generally do not follow socialistic thinking processes such as the concept of

    —“I generally do not follow socialistic thinking processes such as the concept of trade between groups. Methodological individualism is, to me, the way to go, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out. So I am sorry I cannot agree with this analysis. Individuals trade, and individuals act. This idea of a group having some kind of living reality jump straight out of Plato and was debunked back in the Middle Ages by the philosophers called nominalists.”— Lawrence

    Well, you have to create an argument other than ‘the way to go’. Because that’s not an argument. it’s an expression of taste. 🙂

    Individuals cooperate. They form families. They form friendships. They form cooperative alliances. They form partnerships, corporations, armies, and nations. So empirically, that is what people do. And praxeologically we can easily explain why it is in their interest to do so. And we can explain praxeologicaly why it is against their interest not to do so.

    Groups who cooperate out-compete groups that do not cooperate. Universally. And the higher the trust, the more truth, the faster the rate of economic and inventive velocity. The more competitive the group.

    The west has successfully out-competed other groups precisely because we produced commons. Including the commons of property rights, rule of law, the common law, the militia, and truth telling. Even science was produced as a commons.

    There are productive commons, and parasitic commons. it matters only whether the commons is productive (moral) or parasitic (immoral). A commons is, like violence, value neutral. Commons and violence can be use to create productivity or they can be used for purposes of parasitism.

    So not only is cooperation at scale, and the production of commons methodologically individualistic, but it fails the test of methodological individualism to suggest people not seize the opportunity to cooperate to produce returns unachievable by individual action.

    Cooperation exists and moral intuition exists to preserve cooperation, for the simple reason that the rewards of cooperation are disproportionately higher than the rewards of individual production.

    So the only question is whether you can voluntarily participate and exit such commons, and if you have universal standing in defense from parasitism. If so, then only productive commons can be constructed. This is what we call the Civic Society.

    But if you don’t participate, why will members of that Civic Society tolerate your presence? They usually don’t.

    So you can’t be right. Praxeologically you can’t be right.

    Just how it is.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (London).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-18 05:54:00 UTC

  • ON REPAIRING WESTERN PRESS Roman got me thinking last week, about the central di

    ON REPAIRING WESTERN PRESS

    Roman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state.

    Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers.

    And it’s much easier for a ‘journalist’ to report on someone’s feelings, and speech than it is to report on facts and incentives. It’s much easier to create moral outrage or high ground with verbalism that obscures incentives, rather than the incentives themselves.

    To report ‘scientifically’ is possible with propertarian incentives and testimonial truth. We can systematically criticize what people say, and report on their incentives rather than their propaganda.

    But that means retraining a lot of ‘journalists’ and eliminating the perverse incentives that we have produced with the popular press.

    And the press, who free rides on destruction of the informational commons, may not like carrying the burden. On the other hand, we would have a lot fewer ‘journalists’ and they would be highly respected – and highly paid.

    And I think that’s something all of us would like.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 04:02:00 UTC

  • Civic Evolution

    (important idea) (very interesting)

    [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions:

    1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)
    2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)
    3) ————->BANK(adds production)?
    Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?)

    I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union.

    But what if your credit union also offered education?

    Individual + Family + Education + Credit Union + Insurance.
    Individual + Partnership + Banking + Investing + Treasury.
    Individual + Unit + Regiment + Militia.
    Individual + House + Government + The Law.

    (Is the central bank the central force prohibiting the conversion of Credit Unions into the central means of producing a civic order?)

    I think this is my big idea for Q3 2015.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute.
    Kiev, Ukraine

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  • Civic Evolution

    (important idea) (very interesting)

    [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions:

    1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)
    2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)
    3) ————->BANK(adds production)?
    Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?)

    I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union.

    But what if your credit union also offered education?

    Individual + Family + Education + Credit Union + Insurance.
    Individual + Partnership + Banking + Investing + Treasury.
    Individual + Unit + Regiment + Militia.
    Individual + House + Government + The Law.

    (Is the central bank the central force prohibiting the conversion of Credit Unions into the central means of producing a civic order?)

    I think this is my big idea for Q3 2015.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute.
    Kiev, Ukraine

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  • The Free Market is a Fiat Construct, Produced by Organized Violence

    [T]he free market itself is a fiat construct. Just as property rights are a fiat construct. Morality, Property, and Free Markets require forcible imposition. The condition of primitive man is one of overlapping rents. Paternalism, Non-kin-Morality, Property and Trade were institutional innovations all of which required the organized application of violence to construct. Neither violence nor fiat are ‘bads’. They are means, not ends. One either constructs a distribution of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, distribution, and trade by the imposition of property rights, morality, and free markets or one fails to do so by constructing a network of rents.

    Fiat criticism is non-substantive. The natural order of man is an equilibrium between static rents and innovative freedoms. To construct liberty requires a constant application of organized violence to resist the equilibrating forces of rent seekers. Pacifist Libertinism is an attempt by means of obscurantist loading, framing, and overloading to achieve cheaply, by sophisticated gossip, that which can only be achieved by organized violence. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

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