Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • Religions and Demand for the State

    Think of it this way: without morality, one cannot construct commons.

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  • Religions and Demand for the State

    Think of it this way: without morality, one cannot construct commons.

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  • “There are two distinct senses of ‘privatization’: (1) The government has one of

    —“There are two distinct senses of ‘privatization’:

    (1) The government has one of its traditional functions performed by private businesses rather than civil servants.

    (2) The government abandons the idea of performing some traditional

    function altogether, and leaves it to the private sector to sort things

    out.”—

    I am not sure, but i think this qualifies as a third:

    (3) a heretofore commons such as land, radio-spectrum, or seas, is sold off to the private sector in order to protect it from consumption.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-15 08:28:00 UTC

  • EXPANDING FUKUYAMA’S THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. So Francis

    EXPANDING FUKUYAMA’S THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

    So Francis Fukuyama argues that a professional bureaucracy must form prior to enfranchisement to prevent corruption.

    This is slightly different from the thesis that the party and voting conditions determine the quality of policy. Both of which are insignificant from my perspective compared to universal standing, rule of law, and property rights.

    But I am fairly certain that Fukuyama’s theory applies to the enfranchisement of women: early enfranchisement of women will have turned out to have been as bad as democracy prior to the professionalization of the bureaucracy.

    Worse, early enfranchisement of women, EXACERBATED the problem of an unprofessional bureaucracy.

    Why?

    Because the labor movement didn’t work. They couldn’t get the working classes to adopt cosmopolitan immoralism (socialism). However, they COULD get women and minorities to adopt it.

    And then use it to populate the bureaucracy.

    I wonder if I could get the good professor to answer that one.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-25 11:18:00 UTC

  • the destruction of the family

    http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/new-benefits-marriage-study-actually-hints-horrors-middle-age-98353/Justifying the destruction of the family

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-20 05:36:00 UTC

  • Explanation for America’s Vast Prison Population – We want it that way: it is ho

    http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/scariest-explanation-americas-vast-prison-population-want-way-95477/The Explanation for America’s Vast Prison Population – We want it that way: it is how we preserve our social order : broken windows.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-19 11:23:00 UTC

  • “A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable, repeat

    “A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable, repeatable business model.” — Steve Noble.

    “A startup goes through three phases: first, the search for the business model, (dysfunctional families are an advantage), second, operating exec to take from startup to operations. From operating to scaling.”–Steve Noble

    Trying to get my arms around a pitch (or even whether I want investors at all),

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-18 20:03:00 UTC

  • Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that all

    Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that all public buildings, all public infrastructure, must be constructed of man-portable, hand-laid materials, then we could both absorb vast amounts of low skilled labor, and return to the production of monumental artworks that last for generations. And we could escape the era of disposable panel-products constructed with machines, that insult us with their very presence. Architecture is our monument: it demonstrates that we improve the land we occupy. It marks the land as ours. It demonstrates our love for it – and for each other. Art evolved as we understand it, to decorate our architectural monuments, public demonstrating our love of man, for what man is capable of with his hands, and such art can only be constructed within arts that were themselves constructed by the hand of man. The devolution of art was both a marxist intention – to destroy our heroic aristocratic traditions, and the product of post-war panel products and industrialization of architecture: industrialization of our monuments. Industrialization of our arts. But it is easily reversible. And no man who builds a monument to his people with his hands, will tolerate insult to the his efforts, the monument, of the sentiment that he contributed to, and constructed, with is own hands. We own what we invest in. And we will not defend that which we do not own.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-18 07:36:00 UTC

  • (Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that al

    (Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that all public buildings, all public infrastructure, must be constructed of man-portable, hand-laid materials, then we could both absorb vast amounts of low skilled labor, and return to the production of monumental artworks that last for generations. And we could escape the era of disposable panel-products constructed with machines, that insult us with their very presence. Architecture is our monument: it demonstrates that we improve the land we occupy. It marks the land as ours. It demonstrates our love for it – and for each other. Art evolved as we understand it, to decorate our architectural monuments, public demonstrating our love of man, for what man is capable of with his hands, and such art can only be constructed within arts that were themselves constructed by the hand of man. The devolution of art was both a marxist intention – to destroy our heroic aristocratic traditions, and the product of post-war panel products and industrialization of architecture: industrialization of our monuments. Industrialization of our arts. But it is easily reversible. And no man who builds a monument to his people with his hands, will tolerate insult to the his efforts, the monument, of the sentiment that he contributed to, and constructed, with is own hands. We own what we invest in. And we will not defend that which we do not own. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-18 07:35:00 UTC

  • is a fascinating infographic, lifted from an imageboard. It correctly singles ou

    http://www.moreright.net/infographic-of-the-cathedral/—“This is a fascinating infographic, lifted from an imageboard. It correctly singles out the Frankfurt School at the source of much modern suffering and civilizational decline. It also spells out the role of international banks in keeping the current system going. Very informative.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-17 07:53:00 UTC