Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure

    http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2014/11/23/its-the-economics-that-got-small/I think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure to understand the problems of general rules and arbitrary precision. Mises’ failure was to create the pseudoscientific argent instead of recognizing operationalism and intuitionism as more mature arguments.

    In this sense, Samuelson is half right in practice but meaningless in theory. While Mises was half right in theory and meaningless in practice.

    It’s actually a fascinating problem – which is why I work on it.

    Mises intuited and Samuelson did not, that morality was non arbitrary and could not be divorced from economic theory.

    None on the other 20th century thinkers could solve that problem either.

    We needed another near century to do it.

    The problem now is the uncomfortable task of reinserting morality into economics – And by that I mean quantitatively.

    Because I am fairly certain it is possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 12:43:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism and the Purpose of Philosophy

    (very important)

    [T]he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.
    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.
    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.
    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.
    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.
    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.
    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.
    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • Propertarianism and the Purpose of Philosophy

    (very important)

    [T]he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.
    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.
    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.
    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.
    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.
    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.
    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.
    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • A Challenge – Only Hoppe Can Debate Me

    —“First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you then you win.”—

    [O]nly a dishonest man would recommend people not read something, rather than attack the central argument of the author. But then, dishonesty is central to the ghetto ethic, is it not?

    If you do not understand the central arguments, that is one thing, but ignorance or incompetence is not a criticism of me, it is a statement about your judgement of the mirror.

    So READ this list. Read Hoppe’s Aristocracy, Monarchy, Democracy. Read Mencius – both of these works are criticisms not solutions. These answers are: Organized violence, property-en-toto, property rights by reciprocal insurance, the symmetry of morality and property rights, and the rule of organic evolutionary law, operationally stated and calculatively constrained, praxeology resurrected as operationalism, and science as the struggle to evolve the means of speaking the truth. Watch my videos. And follow me in Propertarianism, as I drag liberty back into aristocracy and out of the medieval ghetto – kicking and screaming against the objection of a generation of failed libertines using the techniques of the marxists, to create a cult of ideology, rather than an operational institutional framework for the restoration of liberty by demonstrable actions.

    THE SHORT LIST: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom
    Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism
    Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying
    Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
    Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy

    A THEORY
    The only person who can compete with the argument that I make is hoppe – just as he did with his new essay – by adopting my positions: the source of liberty is violence, and the only source of liberty the law, and that argumentation is a legal constraint not a functional one. And that only by operationalism – constructing decisions by incentives and available information – is human action rationally and scientifically explicable. 

    Cheers 

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • A Challenge – Only Hoppe Can Debate Me

    —“First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you then you win.”—

    [O]nly a dishonest man would recommend people not read something, rather than attack the central argument of the author. But then, dishonesty is central to the ghetto ethic, is it not?

    If you do not understand the central arguments, that is one thing, but ignorance or incompetence is not a criticism of me, it is a statement about your judgement of the mirror.

    So READ this list. Read Hoppe’s Aristocracy, Monarchy, Democracy. Read Mencius – both of these works are criticisms not solutions. These answers are: Organized violence, property-en-toto, property rights by reciprocal insurance, the symmetry of morality and property rights, and the rule of organic evolutionary law, operationally stated and calculatively constrained, praxeology resurrected as operationalism, and science as the struggle to evolve the means of speaking the truth. Watch my videos. And follow me in Propertarianism, as I drag liberty back into aristocracy and out of the medieval ghetto – kicking and screaming against the objection of a generation of failed libertines using the techniques of the marxists, to create a cult of ideology, rather than an operational institutional framework for the restoration of liberty by demonstrable actions.

    THE SHORT LIST: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom
    Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism
    Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying
    Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
    Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy

    A THEORY
    The only person who can compete with the argument that I make is hoppe – just as he did with his new essay – by adopting my positions: the source of liberty is violence, and the only source of liberty the law, and that argumentation is a legal constraint not a functional one. And that only by operationalism – constructing decisions by incentives and available information – is human action rationally and scientifically explicable. 

    Cheers 

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of inv

    The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of invalidation but as a process of discovery.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY (important) The value of philosophy

    PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY

    (important)

    The value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.

    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.

    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.

    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.

    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.

    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.

    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.

    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 04:58:00 UTC

  • The imagination, like the mirror, always lies

    The imagination, like the mirror, always lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 14:44:00 UTC

  • THE CONSPIRACY OF TRUST [satire] There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, an

    THE CONSPIRACY OF TRUST

    [satire]

    There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    [I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.]

    Johannes Meixner

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 07:51:00 UTC

  • ON RUSSIAN TRUTH –“Russians aren’t westerners. They find no shame in lying. Wor

    ON RUSSIAN TRUTH

    –“Russians aren’t westerners. They find no shame in lying. Words are just sounds you make to influence weak, naive people.”—

    Truth is a uniquely western concept. (Unfortunately).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-24 09:20:00 UTC