Curt Doolittle

Theme: Sovereignty

  • Power: “The opportunity to alter the probability of outcomes”. Sovereignty: “Pow

    Power: “The opportunity to alter the probability of outcomes”.

    Sovereignty: “Power”

    Will to Power: “The Human Desire For Sovereignty”

    Given the diversity of individual ability, the diversity of individual knowledge, and the diversity of the social classes, all desire for sovereignty is constant, but the expression of it varies almost infinitely. Those at the bottom desiring sovereignty from constraints of scarcity and status deprivation, and those at the top desiring sovereignty of expression over that of their competitors for the ultimate in status attainment. Amidst this vast chaos of wills, the public intellectual attempts to define status – a re-distributor and appropriator of not just money, but status and power.

    Make no mistake. It’s all about money, status and power.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-10-13 11:51:00 UTC

  • What makes the west special is competition: the balance of power, and every indi

    What makes the west special is competition: the balance of power, and every individual’s commitment to preserving the balance of power, and respecting the consequences of that conflict as beneficial. It is a social system that is antithetical to everyone else on earth.

    While the self congratulatory set would love to say we achieved this feat on purpose, through debate and wisdom, that’s entirely false. It is a remnant of tribal heroism. Something else much of the world criticizes us for. (See John Keegan)

    While the self congratulatory set would love to say that our success comes from democracy, that’s false. It comes from aristocracy. From a balance of power between small states, who treated the church as a sort of supreme court system. Democracy is a luxury good. It’s something the very wealthy can afford for very short times – it’s a means of spending your trust fund. But it doesn’t make that trust fund.

    The west’s “Killer Apps” as Nial Ferguson calls them are, 1) competition, 2) science, 3) property rights, 5) the consumer society 6) the work ethic. It’s these killer apps that created the great divergence between “the west and the rest”.

    But those six apps are CAUSED by every individual’s commitment to preserving the balance of power, and competition as a means of determining outcomes.

    Under the competitive model, we do not develop consensus.

    We develop experiments.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-10-05 10:19:00 UTC

  • SOCIAL STRATEGY: Sovereignty: Balance of Power/Competition INSTITUTIONS: Propert

    SOCIAL STRATEGY: Sovereignty: Balance of Power/Competition

    INSTITUTIONS: Property + Rule of Law

    EPISTEMOLOGY: Aristotelianism:Reason/Science/Literacy/Medicine

    ETHICS: Solidarity: Germanic Christianity/Work Ethic/Consumerism

    Note that Democracy doesn’t even enter into it.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-17 16:21:00 UTC

  • Or Dissolve The Union

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/five-trillion-dollars/Devolve Or Dissolve The Union

    Source date (UTC): 2011-08-25 11:10:00 UTC

  • gives some people the right to rule others?

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3178What gives some people the right to rule others?

    Source date (UTC): 2011-07-10 00:16:00 UTC

  • The Ethnic Nation State Is The Most Likely Means Of Preserving Individual Freedom.

    Great panel discussion today, with speakers on China, Turkey, Islam, Europe, and the Anglosphere. The closing questions were largely to do with the changing world boundaries, and nationalism. Summary by, I think, John O’Sullivan, was that, it certainly appears, that the small ethnic nation state is the most likely means of preserving individual freedom. And the consensus was that neither China nor the USA had strong chances of maintaining political unity over the long term. That is, the USA only has such chances if we return to federalism, devolving power to the states, rather than central authority. We can only hope.

  • Бог живет царь. Радуйся! Путин, король! Пусть Бог спасет нас всех! (God save the

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/putin-decides-to-retake-presidency/story-e6frg6so-1226060709096Пусть Бог живет царь. Радуйся! Путин, король! Пусть Бог спасет нас всех!

    (God save the king. Hail! Putin, Czar! May God save us all!) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2011-05-22 22:45:00 UTC

  • ‘…a sovereign and contiguous state’. A state will allow collection of taxes, t

    ‘…a sovereign and contiguous state’. A state will allow collection of taxes, the creation of armed forces.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-05-22 16:23:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/72336836390944768

    Reply addressees: @ristro @BreakingNews

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/72323401129275392

    IN REPLY TO:

    @ristro

    RT @BreakingNews: Obama: Palestinians must have right to govern themselves in a ‘sovereign and contiguous state’

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/72323401129275392

  • Monarchy = Nationalism

    Monarchy = Nationalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-05-16 17:20:00 UTC

  • the currencies. Then the monarchies. …. I can have hope, can’t i?

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,761201,00.htmlFirst the currencies. Then the monarchies. …. I can have hope, can’t i?

    Source date (UTC): 2011-05-06 12:58:00 UTC