Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • The Germanic Secret is indo-european in origin: “I shall not lie, cheat, steal,

    The Germanic Secret is indo-european in origin: “I shall not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” The west invented Truth.#NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 08:42:00 UTC

  • Truth is found by eliminating the false; prosperity by eliminating the parasite;

    Truth is found by eliminating the false; prosperity by eliminating the parasite; liberty by eliminating bureaucracy and politician.#NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 08:22:00 UTC

  • The Answer

    (religion) [J]ust because your ancestors valued a particular comforting lie or falsehood is not a reason to perpetuate the lie or falsehood. We are comfortable now with suppressing lies with physical science where were were not so in the past. We are currently uncomfortable with suppressing lies in social science: ethics, politics, economics, religion, and war, but we will not be so uncomfortable in the future. I am almost certain that the gains from ending lies in social science will be as great as those from ending lies in physical science. But I suspect an even greater effort to preserve lies in social science than the effort to preserve lies in physical science. Why? Because the church had only the pulpit, which we eventually defeated with the press. But the Academy has the media, and we are not yet sure that the internet is as capable of defeating the lies of the academy as the book was in defeating the lies of the church. Both have had the same incentives: to perpetuate their income by the sale of forgiveness or indulgences, just as the academy sells the promise of prosperity and diplomas. The monetary incentives of the church and academy are the same. The customer base of the church and the academy are the same. The church sold mysticism for millennia. The academy has been selling pseudoscience for over a century. The way we end the academy’s lies is to defund it like we did the church. The way we defund it is through the same revolution that it took to defund the church. But if we merely shift the academy to something new, just as we shifted the church to the academy, we have only moved to a new problem rather than solving the problem. The answer is to reform the church and the academy so that they sell truths, not lies. Truths in physical science, truth in social science, truth in what is best called ‘spiritual science’: mindfulness. There are many ways to produce mindfulness: from stoic philosophy, to sport, to yoga, to meditation, to the piety and sacredness of commons and ritual, to the creation of arts. The human mind requires mindfulness without the constant peer feedback of the consanguinous tribe. The greater the division of knowledge and labor, the more important is mindfulness for the happiness of the human mind. So it is possible to construct a church, academy, and commons that produces truth in physical, truth in the social, and truth in the mind. We need no lies. There is no excuse for lies. Lies exist to profit only from the loss of others. We can sell truth rather than sell fraud. We can remake the west. Because it is these truths that were the original path of western civilization before the great lies were leashed upon us by the great liars of history. Science: truth in the physical. Nature: truth in the commons Law: truth in the market. Stoicism: truth in the mind. We are the people who invented truth. Truth is our religion. We can return to the truth. End the lies Remake man in the image of gods: truth. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Answer

    (religion) [J]ust because your ancestors valued a particular comforting lie or falsehood is not a reason to perpetuate the lie or falsehood. We are comfortable now with suppressing lies with physical science where were were not so in the past. We are currently uncomfortable with suppressing lies in social science: ethics, politics, economics, religion, and war, but we will not be so uncomfortable in the future. I am almost certain that the gains from ending lies in social science will be as great as those from ending lies in physical science. But I suspect an even greater effort to preserve lies in social science than the effort to preserve lies in physical science. Why? Because the church had only the pulpit, which we eventually defeated with the press. But the Academy has the media, and we are not yet sure that the internet is as capable of defeating the lies of the academy as the book was in defeating the lies of the church. Both have had the same incentives: to perpetuate their income by the sale of forgiveness or indulgences, just as the academy sells the promise of prosperity and diplomas. The monetary incentives of the church and academy are the same. The customer base of the church and the academy are the same. The church sold mysticism for millennia. The academy has been selling pseudoscience for over a century. The way we end the academy’s lies is to defund it like we did the church. The way we defund it is through the same revolution that it took to defund the church. But if we merely shift the academy to something new, just as we shifted the church to the academy, we have only moved to a new problem rather than solving the problem. The answer is to reform the church and the academy so that they sell truths, not lies. Truths in physical science, truth in social science, truth in what is best called ‘spiritual science’: mindfulness. There are many ways to produce mindfulness: from stoic philosophy, to sport, to yoga, to meditation, to the piety and sacredness of commons and ritual, to the creation of arts. The human mind requires mindfulness without the constant peer feedback of the consanguinous tribe. The greater the division of knowledge and labor, the more important is mindfulness for the happiness of the human mind. So it is possible to construct a church, academy, and commons that produces truth in physical, truth in the social, and truth in the mind. We need no lies. There is no excuse for lies. Lies exist to profit only from the loss of others. We can sell truth rather than sell fraud. We can remake the west. Because it is these truths that were the original path of western civilization before the great lies were leashed upon us by the great liars of history. Science: truth in the physical. Nature: truth in the commons Law: truth in the market. Stoicism: truth in the mind. We are the people who invented truth. Truth is our religion. We can return to the truth. End the lies Remake man in the image of gods: truth. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • We Solved Social Science

    [A]ristotle and Plato : Natural Law (vision but failure) Augustine and The Church. (incremental improvement – but failure) Hobbes, Locke, Smith and Hume (incremental improvement but bordering on science) Menger (Austrian/Galacian Science – German Rational tradition) 1840 Mises (Jewish/Galacian pseudoscience – jewish legal tradition) 1881 Hayek (German/Anglo Empirical – Adopted Anglo legal tradition) 1899 (failure again, with only hayek discovering that it is law not economics that produces social science) Rothbard (Jewish/Russian Justification -Jewish legal tradition)1926 Hoppe (German Rational – Continental legal tradition), 1949 Doolittle (Anglo Empirical – Anglo Saxon legal tradition). 1959 (success) Rothbard, Doolittle, and Hoppe. We solved social science in three generations. The only social science possible is the common law: the discovery of means of violating the requirement for productive, fully informed, voluntary transfer, limited to positive externalities of the same. Economics is the study of information and incentives to cooperate. The basis of natural law is disproportionate value of cooperation. The language of natural law is economic, not moral. It was the failure of prior generations to rely upon financial and economic language rather than religious and moral language that prevented the solution to the problem of the social sciences. Morality is economic. It must be. Since we are part of the physical universe. This is where Hayek ended up. He was right. But even he could not escape his language. And even he did not know how to solve the problem of truth.

  • We Solved Social Science

    [A]ristotle and Plato : Natural Law (vision but failure) Augustine and The Church. (incremental improvement – but failure) Hobbes, Locke, Smith and Hume (incremental improvement but bordering on science) Menger (Austrian/Galacian Science – German Rational tradition) 1840 Mises (Jewish/Galacian pseudoscience – jewish legal tradition) 1881 Hayek (German/Anglo Empirical – Adopted Anglo legal tradition) 1899 (failure again, with only hayek discovering that it is law not economics that produces social science) Rothbard (Jewish/Russian Justification -Jewish legal tradition)1926 Hoppe (German Rational – Continental legal tradition), 1949 Doolittle (Anglo Empirical – Anglo Saxon legal tradition). 1959 (success) Rothbard, Doolittle, and Hoppe. We solved social science in three generations. The only social science possible is the common law: the discovery of means of violating the requirement for productive, fully informed, voluntary transfer, limited to positive externalities of the same. Economics is the study of information and incentives to cooperate. The basis of natural law is disproportionate value of cooperation. The language of natural law is economic, not moral. It was the failure of prior generations to rely upon financial and economic language rather than religious and moral language that prevented the solution to the problem of the social sciences. Morality is economic. It must be. Since we are part of the physical universe. This is where Hayek ended up. He was right. But even he could not escape his language. And even he did not know how to solve the problem of truth.

  • Why Not Prosecute Those Who Profit from Genocide

    THE MIDDLE CLASS NEGOTIATES. ARISTOCRACY PROSECUTES. WOMEN, PRIESTS, AND STATE APOLOGIZE. [I] prosecute falsehoods. I’m agnostic in prosecuting falsehoods. I prosecute libertarian and conservative falsehoods as hard or harder than I prosecute progressive falsehoods. Why? Because libertarian and conservative literature, philosophy, and rhetoric has been a demonstrated failure in competition against socialist, feminist, and postmodern matriarchal literature, philosophy, and arguments. Why? Because women vote more consistently against THE GREAT GENDER COMPROMISES, of the west, and because women are the dominant consumers, and because women are the most pliable customers of the profiteers in the academy media, and state. No matriarchal civilizations survive. Why? It’s suicidal. We give women and those who profit from their impulses uncommon liberty, yet not adequate restraints. We prosecute profiting from the sale of all other forms of harm. Why don’t we prosecute those who profit from this kind of harm: genocide.

  • Why Not Prosecute Those Who Profit from Genocide

    THE MIDDLE CLASS NEGOTIATES. ARISTOCRACY PROSECUTES. WOMEN, PRIESTS, AND STATE APOLOGIZE. [I] prosecute falsehoods. I’m agnostic in prosecuting falsehoods. I prosecute libertarian and conservative falsehoods as hard or harder than I prosecute progressive falsehoods. Why? Because libertarian and conservative literature, philosophy, and rhetoric has been a demonstrated failure in competition against socialist, feminist, and postmodern matriarchal literature, philosophy, and arguments. Why? Because women vote more consistently against THE GREAT GENDER COMPROMISES, of the west, and because women are the dominant consumers, and because women are the most pliable customers of the profiteers in the academy media, and state. No matriarchal civilizations survive. Why? It’s suicidal. We give women and those who profit from their impulses uncommon liberty, yet not adequate restraints. We prosecute profiting from the sale of all other forms of harm. Why don’t we prosecute those who profit from this kind of harm: genocide.

  • The Public and Specialists

    [B]ecause specialized knowledge is often counter-intuitive, professionals in a discipline overestimate their understanding. This is why economists can only give opinions on very narrow specializations within their craft. Because of the inescapable effect of anchoring, specialists rapidly decline in predictive ability over random surveys of the general population on matters of public behavior. The general public is a constant victim of overestimating their understanding, and display pervasive dunning-kruger effects. Meanwhile specialists underestimate their understanding for the same reason. While each individual in the general public is demonstrably an idiot about almost everything, enough of the general public grasps his state of affairs well enough to bias the survey of the public opinion toward a more accurate prediction than that of specialists. In other words, a lot of people tend to be more right than a few people when it comes to general things, and specialists tend to be right about very specific things, and everyone in between is pretty much useless.

  • The Public and Specialists

    [B]ecause specialized knowledge is often counter-intuitive, professionals in a discipline overestimate their understanding. This is why economists can only give opinions on very narrow specializations within their craft. Because of the inescapable effect of anchoring, specialists rapidly decline in predictive ability over random surveys of the general population on matters of public behavior. The general public is a constant victim of overestimating their understanding, and display pervasive dunning-kruger effects. Meanwhile specialists underestimate their understanding for the same reason. While each individual in the general public is demonstrably an idiot about almost everything, enough of the general public grasps his state of affairs well enough to bias the survey of the public opinion toward a more accurate prediction than that of specialists. In other words, a lot of people tend to be more right than a few people when it comes to general things, and specialists tend to be right about very specific things, and everyone in between is pretty much useless.