Curt Doolittle

Theme: Reciprocity

  • Thus the myth must end: free trade is just an excuse to engage in the very crime

    Thus the myth must end: free trade is just an excuse to engage in the very crimes that the left claims of capitalists: socialization&privatization. Either one is engaged in reciprocity or one is engaged only in the voluntary, or one is engaged in the involuntary AND irreciprocal.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-04-09 21:14:02 UTC

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    My friend @tylercowen new book is out today. It is an all-in defense of American capitalism. Even if you disagree with him, you should read it because a) intellectual bubbles suck and b) to see an extraordinary mind at work. https://t.co/7IgvkfbLX6

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  • I should spend a year attacking the capitalism vs socialism false dichotomy. It’

    I should spend a year attacking the capitalism vs socialism false dichotomy. It’s either rule of law by reciprocity or arbitrary rule by discretion. We always have mixed economies. However, under western rule of law by reciprocity there is no ‘free trade’ only ‘reciprocal trade.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-04-09 21:11:33 UTC

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    @mikerosenwald

    My friend @tylercowen new book is out today. It is an all-in defense of American capitalism. Even if you disagree with him, you should read it because a) intellectual bubbles suck and b) to see an extraordinary mind at work. https://t.co/7IgvkfbLX6

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  • The left doesn’t care about duplicity, hypocrisy, double standards, or merit, be

    The left doesn’t care about duplicity, hypocrisy, double standards, or merit, because they test proportionality (unearned) versus reciprocity (earned). So whenever a leftists claims hypocrisy, it’s schoolgirl schoolyard raspberries and nothing more.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-04-09 21:09:53 UTC

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  • Do They Operate in Reciprocity

    (FB 1541795636 Timestamp) by John Mark One of the things that has helped me the most about Curt’s work is simply thinking in terms of “do they (whatever group) steal or not”. In other words, do they operate in reciprocity (natural law) or not. E.g. as Curt says, it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s rule of law (reciprocity, natural law, no theft) vs absence of it (corruption, parasitism, theft). (Rough not exact paraphrase) So many of the labels/terms people use are poorly defined or have different meanings depending on the speaker (often purposefully so, as a means of deceit/theft).

  • Do They Operate in Reciprocity

    (FB 1541795636 Timestamp) by John Mark One of the things that has helped me the most about Curt’s work is simply thinking in terms of “do they (whatever group) steal or not”. In other words, do they operate in reciprocity (natural law) or not. E.g. as Curt says, it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s rule of law (reciprocity, natural law, no theft) vs absence of it (corruption, parasitism, theft). (Rough not exact paraphrase) So many of the labels/terms people use are poorly defined or have different meanings depending on the speaker (often purposefully so, as a means of deceit/theft).

  • Our Solution – and Our Limited Function in It.

    (FB 1541945323 Timestamp) OUR SOLUTION – AND OUR LIMITED FUNCTION IN IT. 1) We are the JUDGES of the NATURAL LAW – the JUDGES of our polity. “Those Who State Limits.” 2) There are warriors, artists, scientists, engineers, craftsman, doctors, and mothers. Their jobs are ‘what shall we do and ‘how shall we do it’. Our job in the division of labor – a division of unequal knowledge and function – but equal duty and responsibility. 3) Signals alone will drive excellence out of what we shall do, if natural law is imposed upon them since the GOOD and EXCELLENT are the only means possible available to them. 4) Our men will build valhalla because we leave them no other choice. Our men will make immortality because we leave them no other choice. Our men will reach the stars because we leave them no other choice. We do not need instruct them to do so because we leave them no other choice. 5) As judges we must prosecute violators of the natural law. No matter who, where, and when they may be. 6) Our way is War: to eliminate that which is bad – leaving those with less agency to produce only that which is good. We parent mankind by this means alone. Not by telling them what to do. But by telling them what not to do, and leaving them to discover all possible means of doing what else they may do? It is for the lesser people – all who have failed – to anchor their people in an era by stating that which they must or should do other than avoid or defeat that which is false or bad. The uniqueness of western civilization is sovereignty reciprocity truth, duty, and the law – producing markets of the good by eliminating the bad, and thereby continuously calculating our transformation into gods – omniscient and omnipotent – by the fastest means possible: trial and error.

  • Our Solution – and Our Limited Function in It.

    (FB 1541945323 Timestamp) OUR SOLUTION – AND OUR LIMITED FUNCTION IN IT. 1) We are the JUDGES of the NATURAL LAW – the JUDGES of our polity. “Those Who State Limits.” 2) There are warriors, artists, scientists, engineers, craftsman, doctors, and mothers. Their jobs are ‘what shall we do and ‘how shall we do it’. Our job in the division of labor – a division of unequal knowledge and function – but equal duty and responsibility. 3) Signals alone will drive excellence out of what we shall do, if natural law is imposed upon them since the GOOD and EXCELLENT are the only means possible available to them. 4) Our men will build valhalla because we leave them no other choice. Our men will make immortality because we leave them no other choice. Our men will reach the stars because we leave them no other choice. We do not need instruct them to do so because we leave them no other choice. 5) As judges we must prosecute violators of the natural law. No matter who, where, and when they may be. 6) Our way is War: to eliminate that which is bad – leaving those with less agency to produce only that which is good. We parent mankind by this means alone. Not by telling them what to do. But by telling them what not to do, and leaving them to discover all possible means of doing what else they may do? It is for the lesser people – all who have failed – to anchor their people in an era by stating that which they must or should do other than avoid or defeat that which is false or bad. The uniqueness of western civilization is sovereignty reciprocity truth, duty, and the law – producing markets of the good by eliminating the bad, and thereby continuously calculating our transformation into gods – omniscient and omnipotent – by the fastest means possible: trial and error.

  • The First Principles

    (FB 1541903425 Timestamp) THE FIRST PRINCIPLES Once you understand that we are “The People of The Law” and that “Truth is enough” and “Via Negativa” produces markets that calculate what a man cannot reason, the rest will fall into place. It is simply difficult to acquire those three cognitive habits.

  • The First Principles

    (FB 1541903425 Timestamp) THE FIRST PRINCIPLES Once you understand that we are “The People of The Law” and that “Truth is enough” and “Via Negativa” produces markets that calculate what a man cannot reason, the rest will fall into place. It is simply difficult to acquire those three cognitive habits.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1541989411 Timestamp) —“Our enemy always counts on the assumption that we are above doing to them what they readily do to us.”—Matt Evans When we leave our first offering to Vlad Tepes that assumption will dissipate immediately. 😉