Curt Doolittle

Theme: Predation

  • “But when to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit, instrumen

    “But when to mischief

    mortals bend their will,

    how soon they find fit,

    instruments of ill.”

    – Alexander Pope

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 12:32:00 UTC

  • “IF I CANNOT HAVE MY MORAL CODE, AND YOU WANT ME TO HAVE YOUR MORAL CODE…” And

    “IF I CANNOT HAVE MY MORAL CODE, AND YOU WANT ME TO HAVE YOUR MORAL CODE…”

    And if morals, ethics and manners (norms) cost me opportunities.

    Then you are just using an excuse to deprive me of my savings in the normative commons, as well as my reproductive strategy, as well as my family structure, as well as my reproductive status, as well as my future opportunities.

    Property rights is the only form of cooperation under diversity.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 17:19:00 UTC

  • (IRONIC HUMOR) PROPERTY RIGHTS AND TAXES AS LOANS The exchange of free riding, f

    (IRONIC HUMOR) PROPERTY RIGHTS AND TAXES AS LOANS

    The exchange of free riding, fraud, theft and violence for property rights functions as an involuntary loan of the opportunity to consume by way of free riding, fraud, theft and violence, on the unproductive. In exchange for which, at some later time, they receive the service of less toil, lower prices and greater variation, and freedom from slavery.

    Under democracy, the unproductive tax the income of the productive, so that the unproductive receive the same benefit as if they were productive.

    The problem is that the productive need the unproductive to have money to spend, in order to maintain momentum (velocity) in the economy, from which the productive benefit.

    So as long as the tax money of the productive is given to consumers, and not the government, and not to competing social interests, it’s a necessary and reasonable exchange of value – instead of a forced loan of free riding, fraud, theft and violence from the unproductive for the purpose of consumption, it’s a forced loan from the productive to the consumer.

    Now, if the productive could SAVE enough that when they got off the hamster wheel of velocity, that they could maintain their standard of living, I kind of think that this system works in a sort of madcap kind of way. I don’t like it very much. Because the hamster wheel is really risky for entrepreneurs. And I don’t want to suppress the lottery effect. that drives innovation under capitalism. But it might be possible to solve the problem of rewarding entrepreneurship differently from investment and lending.

    I think, if I work a little bit more at this I can explain it all in moral language that average ‘folk’ can understand. ‘Cause the language of man is morality not empiricism.

    The world we have made is a hysterically funny place.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-01 05:18:00 UTC

  • PANTHER GANG UP OVER 300M. Can we get them to steal from government instead? 😉

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_JEWELRY_HEIST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-28-09-53-17PINK PANTHER GANG UP OVER 300M.

    Can we get them to steal from government instead? 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 12:51:00 UTC

  • POLITICAL POWER OF ORGANIZED MINORITIES Chechens In Russia Cartels in Mexico Tur

    http://darussophile.com/2013/07/27/chechens/THE POLITICAL POWER OF ORGANIZED MINORITIES

    Chechens In Russia

    Cartels in Mexico

    Turks in Germany

    Pakistanis in Britain

    The Mafia in Ukraine

    African-Americans in America

    One “DC Sniper” in Washington.

    While all of these groups can create lawless areas within each country, and the government cannot act on it, because it demonstrates the powerlessness of the government in the face of organized violence, some groups are superior at organized violence than others. So policing only works against people who want to be policed. Think about that when you go to a court room and see a long line of people being punished for no other reason than administrative compliance because they live powerlessly on the financial margin. Or when you see a mom pulled over in a mini van for going three miles over the speed limit, while another area of town is battened down like a war zone because the police cannot afford to, and are not willing to, protect it.

    If you can make the police officers and or judges afraid of you, then you can take over any country. A little at a time.

    The question is only whether you can organize effectively or not. And CLANS are very effective means of organization (Chechens). But you can also organize by religion, or commercial interest. The difference is the incentives: a clan has an incentive that is immutable, religions are weaker, and commercial interests are weakest. Yet It’s easier to form commercial organizations and harder to form clans.

    The question is only whether you choose to support the state or not. If you choose to undermine it. THen a small organization of any kind will rapidly make an area ungovernable.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 04:01:00 UTC

  • VAMPIRES IN WASHINGTON DC You know, this whole ‘farming’ the productive citizen

    VAMPIRES IN WASHINGTON DC

    You know, this whole ‘farming’ the productive citizen thing is really a wonderful analogy to what the federal government has become.

    In one of the Stargate science fiction worlds, there are these vampires that treat human populations as herds of cattle, and they ‘cull’ the herds to feed off of every so often.

    Now, the federal government doesn’t do that. THey just make sure that none of us will ever be self reliant enough to do without them, and so they harvest enough of our productivity through taxation that we continue to labor, but then, have to spend our old age in poverty.

    So, I tend to think of the federal government as an enormous vampire clan.

    Because it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-23 16:39:00 UTC

  • FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN UKRAINE Defensive lament on the predatory bureaucracy

    http://romaninukraine.com/a-conversation-with-a-restaurant-manager/STRUGGLE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN UKRAINE

    Defensive lament on the predatory bureaucracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-20 12:40:00 UTC

  • IMPORTANCE OF PUNISHING FREE RIDERS AND RENT SEEKERS Not that we haven’t know th

    http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5978/617.abstractTHE IMPORTANCE OF PUNISHING FREE RIDERS AND RENT SEEKERS

    Not that we haven’t know this for centuries, and practiced it for millennia.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-03 09:37:00 UTC

  • OBTAINING PRIVATE PROPERTY AT A DISCOUNT Any attempt to obtain the institution o

    OBTAINING PRIVATE PROPERTY AT A DISCOUNT

    Any attempt to obtain the institution of private property by argument rather than by violence is merely an attempt to obtain private property at a discount.

    I would go so far as that it is an act of fraud: an attempt to obtain the right of private property at a discount by means of argument, while requesting an involuntary transfer of communal property rights by depriving others of their communal property rights so that we may possess private property rights on our own.

    At best we buy those rights with a promise of cheaper goods and more pacifist life from those who would begrudgingly surrender their communal property rights in exchange for private property rights.

    And at best, those who favor communal property will fail to breach their contract and restore communal property rights – a claim on our property – as soon as they can find a way to do so.

    The majority of humans prefer the institution of communal property. They demonstrate that they do. They may demonstrate that they prefer the market for goods and services provided by private property. But they do not prefer the responsibilities they must bear in exchange for private property.

    Private property is the product of violence and the willingness to use violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-21 11:29:00 UTC

  • WHATS WRONG WITH UKRAINE: SYSTEMIC ENDEMIC CORRUPTION The bureaucrats prey on th

    WHATS WRONG WITH UKRAINE: SYSTEMIC ENDEMIC CORRUPTION

    The bureaucrats prey on the citizens. Who despite this level of corruption are, from my subjective opinion, the finest people currently living on planet earth.

    “Ukraine suffers from widespread corruption throughout its economic and political system. Many businesses are subject to theft, extortion and fraud. The problem has been exacerbated by the existence of poorly paid police forces which have failed to combat the significant levels of organized criminal activity” – Chadbourne, Kyiv

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-15 12:58:00 UTC