Illusion of Consumer Goods, The Reality Of Undersocialization
To get status signals and attention in a country where everyone is desperately lonely, lives an an illusion of their own making created out of consumer goods, and lacks any kind of validation from others because everyone else is doing the same thing. Yes, that’s really the reason.
Dunning Kruger Never Stops
Dunning Kruger Never Stops To the idiot, the world conspires or lies. To the average, the more powerful conspires or lies. To the intelligent, the more intelligent conspires or lies. Differences in knowledge and understanding that are to you unimaginable are to those with far more just normal risk assessments they would make. I published…
The Constitution Could Not Survive Expansion of the Franchise
The American constitution created a system wherein the natural aristocracy could not be DISEMPOWERED by other classes, but where none of the natural aristocracy could obtain SUFFICIENT power to deprive other members of it. Ergo, the American model could not sustain expansion of the franchise.
The New Right: Returning to Aristocratic Egalitarianism
(text version) (important) (positive positioning) [It’s what we do. Own it.] Let me stay on message: As a philosopher, I manufacture intellectual weaponry in the war against lies. And I strive to speak truthfully about the causes of the decline of western civilization, and how to repair them permanently. An effort that requires I surface…
Equality Creates Conflict
***Let a thousand nations with a thousand variations bloom. We are not equal. And our attempts to obtain equality merely convert our potential market compatibility into certain political conflict.*** Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute
Fight This War, Not The Last One
FIGHT THIS WAR NOT THE LAST ONE I wouldn’t recommend fighting a revolution in favor of fascism, any more than I would recommend conducting a war using horse cavalry. Every generation we get an opportunity to modernize our weapons. Truth is enough. Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Testimonial Truth, Propertarian Ethics. Nomocratic Rule of Law, with Natural Law,…
To The Economist on Putin
(posted as a comment about putin on the economist) You’re largely correct but there is a middle position that would be more correct than the one you mentioned. Putin has done a great deal for his people, and we cannot underestimate, and we must respect and admire him for the change in their quality of…
Do We Choose Our Rulers?
Actually, it depends on the organization’s SIZE, and method of adapting. – For very large organizations, it’s that no one wills change of leader sufficiently, because of the cost of change. – For medium organizations, people choose the leader possible for the group to preserve its power. – For small organizations, it’s absolutely true that…
What Are Conservatism, Libertarianism, Progressivism?
A Genetic Predisposition – an Instinct An Intuition – an instinct and experience A Tradition – a surviving portfolio of habits An Ideology – a Justification A Philosophy – a Moral Model A Formal Philosophy – An Institutional Model A Social Science (law)
A Nation? Nationalism? Vs Statism?
A State, and bureaucracy, provide fertile ground for parasitism, for the sole reason that a majority of men do not demand Rule of Law, under Natural Law, using Judge Discovered Law, and accumulating in the Common Law. A nation is quite good at preventing alternative ‘tax farms’, brought into being by conquest using war, religion,…
Philosophers and Feeling vs Scientists and Reporting
Aug 25, 2016 11:31am Philosophers place greater weight upon FEELING, and the cognitive scientists place greater weight on REPORTING, which tells us nothing about TRUTH but a great deal about the instrumentation available to SUBJECTIVE introspective and OBJECTIVE empirical testing. My experience is that while in retrospect the initial stage of awareness is arguably ‘me’…
Philosophy(choice) vs Logic(decidability)
—“CURT, YOUR CRITICISM OF PHILOSOPHY IS AN INTERESTING PHILOSOPHY”— Irony appreciated. Even if it’s just a play on words. The question is not whether it’s a personal philosophy (means of PREFERENTIAL or UTILITARIAN choice) but whether its a method of universal DECIDABILITY independent of preferences and utility. (truth). In other words, is it a “Law”…
Positive Philosophy And Negative Law
Aug 25, 2016 2:46pm If you want to inspire, inform, and rally, i think that’s a domain of ‘MEANING”, whereas if I want to scrutinize your use of inspiration, information, and rallying that’s a question of ‘TRUTH’ as in DECIDABILITY (science). Since I think the jury is in, and that the past century was lost…
Basic Income
There is no problem with paying dividends on the economy. I don’t see why that’s a problem. But every time I do the math I come to the same conclusion: that surpluses sufficient to create a marginal difference in the quality of life of the individuals are not possible. In other words, it’s pretty much…
Coming To The Rescue And Correcting The Libertine Narrative (Fraud) Of History.
(Beware the thief in moral disguise) https://fee.org/articles/five-differences-between-the-alt-right-and-libertarians/ 1 – THE COURSE OF HISTORY Domesticating man and woman by the use of organized violence to suppress local parasitism that harms production by increasing transaction costs, to create markets to decrease opportunity costs, and to collect revenues for that suppression of local parasitism, decrease of transaction costs,…
Restitution And Punishment Are Every Man’s Price Of Liberty.
Aug 28, 2016 4:31am Every Man A Sheriff – I advocate restitution and punishment for the crimes of murder, harm, destruction, theft, fraud (in all its forms), socialization of losses and privatization of commons, conspiracy, conversion, invasion, war, and conquest – Any violation of natural law. – I advocate the death penalty when it is…
Doesn’t Everyone Try To Lie Cheat And Steal?
Isn’t libertarianism merely an attempt by the middle class to obtain status and power parity with the judicial-military upper class, without paying the (dear) costs to the relationship to their customers and market that truth, judgment, policing, and warfare entail? Isn’t Jewish libertinism an attempt not only to escape those costs, but the costs of producing…
I’m A Scientist. I Just Use The Language Of Philosophy To Separate Truth(decisions) From Literature(communication)
Like Nietzche I’m an anti-philosophy philosopher. If I finish correctly, there will be no difference between philosophy, science, morality, and law. None. Nietzche couldn’t do it because his era lacked the tools, and he was crippled by the german failure to transition to empiricism. But we can do it. We can do it and demand…
Conflation and Deconflation in Argument
(important concept in demarcation between science and non-science) I want to try to put my objection – if we can call it an objection – into a more articulate form, and see if I can convince you, or at least see if I am capable of communicating this idea with any degree of clarity. 1…
Q&A: How Is Propertarianism Not Limited As Is Godel’s Incompleteness
Aug 29, 2016 10:10am ( I hope someone understands this. It will give me joy. lol) (Note: this is a deceptively complicated question, and I”m going to answer it incompletely becuase of that complication, but hopefully thoroughly enough to get the point across) —“I understand that the incompleteness theorem depends on plenty of axioms, which…
The Class Divisions of Academic Labor
—“Stanford and Chicago GSB have more academic publications that these universities’ economics departments. Two things i don’t like in this trend. 1) Academia persuaded university authorities that to business PhD and MBA math-economics is indispensable. Applied programs people hate this “rigorous” nonsense 2) Too many graduates from mainstream go to teach in business schools.”— Arteom…
The Languages of Fraud
When you defend your use of philosophical rationalism, your presupposition is the disproportionate value of the communication of meaning(learning), under which we obtain explanatory power and opportunity for persuasion and negotiation; whereas you discount or ignore the equal value of prosecution(prevention), under which we eliminate error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, pseudoscience, and deceit. It…
State Incentives
By Eli Harman The allegation is often made (by libertarian anarchists) that what states do is fundamentally incalculable, but that it is always negative sum. In other words, we cannot know the absolute value of any state or state policy, but we can be certain about its sign. Voluntary trades in the marketplace – as…
Q&a: What Do You Mean By The Disproportionate Value Of Cooperation?
No matter how hard 100 men work independently they can never achieve what that can cooperatively. And if they fight instead then the difference in assets between conflict and cooperation produces a measurement of the value of cooperation. Or to fall back on Adam smith. A division of labor between ten is not ten times…
Eli Harman on Cooperation
Cooperation is rational in that it can be vastly preferable to non-cooperation or conflict. But it also requires altruism because most preferable of all is to defect while OTHERS cooperate with you. And foregoing that temptation (on behalf of others, more than yourself) is a price that one must pay in order to cooperate. Cooperation…