Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • THE ORIGIN OF GREATNESS IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION (worth repeating) Greatness in we

    THE ORIGIN OF GREATNESS IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION

    (worth repeating)

    Greatness in western culture was achieved through rule and wealth made possible by technology, violence and the discovery of truth used together to suppress chaos, and impose order, leaving production as the only option for survival.

    Great arts were produced as status signals. And it was possible because of significant concentration if wealth, and accumulated talent built over generations because of that demand.

    We cannot wish greatness into being. We can only create the circumstances under which we can afford to have it emerge.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-14 08:48:00 UTC

  • “Dem Debate: – Sanders: I’m going to give away tons of free stuff mahk mah wowds

    –“Dem Debate:

    – Sanders: I’m going to give away tons of free stuff mahk mah wowds

    – Hillary: I’m going to give away even MORE free stuff, AND I’m a WOMAN.

    – Unknown Candidate #1: I guess I’ll give away free stuff, too.

    – Unknown Candidate #2: Yeap, me too. Free stuff for everyone.

    – Unknown Candidate #3: Ditto. Free stuff.”–

    (from James Louis LaSalle )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-14 08:45:00 UTC

  • TERMS: MARKETING, BRANDING, ADVERTISING, PR, SALES, COMMUNICATIONS Marketing: Th

    TERMS: MARKETING, BRANDING, ADVERTISING, PR, SALES, COMMUNICATIONS

    Marketing: The systematic *planning, implementation and control of a mix of business activities intended to bring together buyers and sellers* for the mutually advantageous exchange or transfer of products.

    Brand: A ‘weight and measure’ that promises some form of quality to the customer. Branding: The discipline of creating that *promise*.

    Advertising: The paid, public, non-personal (disinter-mediated) announcement of a *persuasive* message by an identified sponsor; to its existing customers and potential customers.

    Public Relations: The systematic discipline of inducing the public to have *understanding* of, and *goodwill* toward, a person, firm, or institution.

    Sales: The process of locating and directly communicating an individual for the purpose of *persuasively* obtaining agreement on the purchase of goods or services.

    Communications: The process of distributing *explanatory* information to internal and external audiences.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-14 06:26:00 UTC

  • Having an I love Slavic culture day today. In the states it’s pretty clear that

    Having an I love Slavic culture day today. In the states it’s pretty clear that Anglos, Dutch, and Nordics occupy the upper class, then germans, then Slavs. I would like to see data on it just to make sure it’s not geographic sampling in my part.

    But here, they reach a natural distribution and it’s beautiful.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-14 04:17:00 UTC

  • TRUSTWORTHINESS OF HISTORIANS? History is a discipline. That discipline can be p

    TRUSTWORTHINESS OF HISTORIANS?

    History is a discipline.

    That discipline can be pursued objectively(truthfully) or subjectively (falsely).

    As far as I know, truthfulness is the most moral and trustworthy demonstration possible.

    History tells me:

    – That Man is a predator who cooperates when it’s to his advantage and preys when it s to his advantage.

    – That cooperation under risk is an expensive and intolerable burden. And that conquest to reduce risk is rational and evident.

    – That the empowerment of competitors appears not to produce beneficial returns.

    – That conquest has lead to prosperity by the centralization of rents in exchange for the suppression of local rents and parasitism, and the consequent decline in local transaction costs.

    – That his history is one of increasing aggression.

    – That increasing aggression made cooperation more preferable.

    – That to attribute change in incentives to change in man himself is the fallacy of wishful thinking.

    – That if we act as if man has changed rather than his incentives that we will be conquered by the next higher wave of aggression.

    – And that the only means of preserving cooperation is to preserve the incentives to cooperate rather than prey upon one another. Not to construct, preserve or advocate a fallacious history or properties of man.

    So I suggest the opposite: that a man is both untrustworthy and dangerous if he advocates falsehoods even If he casts them as noble lies.

    The search for blame in history is generally not reversible. Like religion it is a self satisfying means of resenting the envy of the status quo. And that we can but learn how not to repeat past mistakes of conquest or defeat by making incentives for conquest and defeat impossible.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-14 04:00:00 UTC

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  • LOVE So times you fall in love at first sight. I have fairly recently. Then you

    LOVE

    So times you fall in love at first sight. I have fairly recently. Then you dismiss it as reproductive impulse. Then you confirm it through experience. And then the attraction sticks with you.

    Unfortunately there are things I just don’t believe in: interfering with a marriage. Especially when the man does his duty for his family.

    Even if he is not as able or successful. If he does his selfless duty I respect him. And it offends me to interfere.

    I am just not wired like that. I can’t really understand people who are.

    Now, assuming the woman takes action to separate that is a different thing. But I have enough of marley’s chains on my conscience. I don’t need that one.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 16:22:00 UTC

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    http://www.shakesville.com/2015/10/im-professor-not-swat-team-member.html?m=1

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 14:16:00 UTC

  • APPARENTLY THEY DON’T TEACH ANY KIND OF LOGIC TO PHYSICS PROFESSORS ANY LONGER?

    APPARENTLY THEY DON’T TEACH ANY KIND OF LOGIC TO PHYSICS PROFESSORS ANY LONGER?

    —“Yes. I hope a member of a SWAT team will not assume that a weekend spent learning physics or astronomy would let them walk in front of my students and teach them astronomy or physics; I’ll do them the same credit of assuming that a weekend spent learning how to handle a gun would make me nearly as good as a SWAT team member. (Or even ‘capable of making the situation safer’.) — Becca Stareyes

    Any military officer will assure you that gun safety and use is teachable even to imbeciles in just a few lessons.

    Else we would not be able to field armies.

    Mastery of any abstract reasoning presents a high barrier to entry. Competence with a firearm can be achieved with an IQ of 80. And for what it’s worth the target iq of police officers is 107 – barley sufficient for junior college work.

    As a philosopher I will flip the argument around and suggest that it is difficult to imagine one can both fully grasp the standard model on the one hand and field such a sophomoric fallacy on the other.

    Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 14:06:00 UTC