Curt Doolittle’s Substack
Philosopher, Social Scientist, Classical Liberal Libertarian, Serial Tech Founder, and Founder of the Natural Law Institute, I work on epistemic, economic, legal, and constitutional reforms to resolve the Crisis of Our Age.
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The Marxist Sequence: The Second Semitic Revolt Against Civilization (opens the original)
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Author: Curt DoolittleAffiliation: The Natural Law InstituteDate: September 21, 2026Abstract. This essay advances a genealogical and functional account of a recurrent strategy: convert moral testimony into coalitionary authority, use that authority to transfer resources and liability, and protect the transfer by exempting its premises from ordinary falsification. It distinguishes biological origin, historical inheritance, and functional convergence; traces th
The Western Civilisation Stack (opens the original)
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By Rob McMullanIn response to the clip going around with the African lady saying 'WHAT WHITE CULTURE!?!'Because I can explain it in more detail than anyone else... here are the main things that create western civilisation. The principle, the law of nature that is an adaptation to and what operation it creates in our civilisation. THE WESTERN CIVILISATION STACKWestern civilisation can be understood as a set of adaptations to the laws of nature that allow millions of people to cooperate, solve pro
REGIONAL VARIATION IN AMERICAN TRASH TALKING (opens the original)
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There are highly distinct regional differences in both the style and delivery of trash-talking across the United States. 1. Boston & New England: The Cynical BreakdownBoston trash-talk is often built on sharp cynicism, local pride, and a dry, cutting wit.The Style: It is deeply personal, structural, and relies heavily on pointing out your flaws, lack of intelligence, or general helplessness.New Englanders tend to use a deadpan delivery or a fast-paced verbal sparring style that feels more calcul
Confusion over the Meaning of Science (opens the original)
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In physical sciences we can construct, observe, measure, and predict but at the extremes not explain. In behavioral sciences we can observe, measure, and explain but not construct or predict at scale.'Mathiness' the is a folly of the physical world - failing to grasp the limits of reducibility to mathematics.At NLI and Runcible we think in terms of grammars - systems of measurement suita
Explaining Goedel vs Doolittle on Completeness and Closure (opens the original)
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Gödel establishes a limit on global formal closure. Doolittle’s work develops a method for achieving local operational closure despite that limit.Gödel’s incompleteness theorem says that any consistent, effectively specified formal system powerful enough to express arithmetic will contain propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within that system. Such a system cannot simultaneously be sufficiently expressive, consistent, and complete. It also cannot, under the relevant conditions, prove
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