Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/sunday-review/are-western-values-losing-their-sway.html?smid=fb-share

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-12 23:18:00 UTC

  • CAN I PLEASE HAVE BETTERS? I mean, I want a king whose family has been in royalt

    CAN I PLEASE HAVE BETTERS?

    I mean, I want a king whose family has been in royalty for a thousand years. I want a senate with Norman Schwartzkopf’s, a house of commerce with captains of finance and industry, a house of commons with heads of households (families) and small and medium business owners, and a house of dependents who are none of the above. Why do we vote with unaccountable numbers rather than measurable money? Why do I have to listen to professional politicians lie about a non-existent common good, instead of the point of view of each of the classes? Why do we engage in the greatest lie since monotheism: democracy, rather than discuss the expressed wants and needs of the different classes?

    I am happy to acknowledge my betters in family and business, industry and finance, trade routes and defense. Why do I not want my betters to rule? Why would any of us prefer the existing system of conflict generation and lying over truthful speech in the pursuit of creating commons between the classes?

    **I pray thee god, grant us kings, and deliver us from the people.**

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-12 07:59:00 UTC

  • FEAR OF HAVING BETTERS? Why is it that some of us find comfort in having ‘better

    FEAR OF HAVING BETTERS?

    Why is it that some of us find comfort in having ‘betters’ and some of us are horrified by the fact that we have betters – so much so that we deny it? And, is this another expression of the masculine feminine reproductive strategy making its way into cognitive and moral biases?

    Can we please have an honest aristocracy rather than government by pseudoscientific lying prole?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-12 07:45:00 UTC

  • “Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was po

    —“Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn’t because we didn’t have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing — electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important — I’m not taking anything away from that — but innovation is the real driver of progress.”

    — Bill Gates, Rolling Stone, March 13, 2014

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 19:16:00 UTC

  • “Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t th

    —“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.”— Bill Gates, Playboy, July 1994

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 19:14:00 UTC

  • You know when you drive around town in America and notice a beautiful woman? In

    You know when you drive around town in America and notice a beautiful woman? In Ukraine we at surprised when a woman isn’t….

    Like flowers.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 12:43:00 UTC

  • SILENT EPIDEMIC OF TRAFFIC DEATHS IN UKRAINE

    http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ECAEXT/Resources/UkraineSafetyOpEdmay2010.pdfTHE SILENT EPIDEMIC OF TRAFFIC DEATHS IN UKRAINE

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 12:36:00 UTC

  • It’s a lot easier to love your fellow man when you realize that aside from the p

    It’s a lot easier to love your fellow man when you realize that aside from the passionately envious left, pretty much everyone else is a well meaning fool beset with overwhelming incompetence.

    Think locally. Act locally. You are too ignorant to do otherwise.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 12:30:00 UTC

  • THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES One of the unfortunate byproducts

    THROWING CIVILIZATION DOWN DYSGNEIC STAIRCASES

    One of the unfortunate byproducts of developing a significant knowledge of the failures of representative democracy – particularly American first-past-the-post, two-party representative democracy – is that you no longer question whether the whole process is despicable just because you disagree with it. Its just despicable period – agree with outcomes or not.

    We are throwing our civilization down the stairs of cultural Mayan pyramids in sacrifice to an even more ridiculous belief than the appeasement of the gods by human sacrifice.

    At least murdering criminals and captured enemies for entertainment purposes is doing some good in the world. But democracy is just the opposite: it’s reversing five thousand years of genetic pacification.

    The enlightenment was as devastating to politics and philosophy as it was enabling for science and technology.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 12:02:00 UTC

  • “Some people will never learn anything, … because they understand everything t

    —“Some people will never learn anything, … because they understand everything too soon.”—Alexander Pope

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-11 09:59:00 UTC