Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Evolution of European Writing

    [S]o whomever brought it up, it looks like humans favor a similar evolution of symbols and then incrementally evolve into pictorial or phonetic. I suspect that like most things, the mark-making process like the language speaking process evolves out of efficiency – laziness. lol So just as humans speak language humans can speak, humans draw characters humans can draw. Just as language evolves from harsh clear sounds to lazy songs (chinese), writing evolves from infrequent symbols, to that which we can write quickly.

    Chinese Jiahu symbols c. 6600 BC European Vinča Symbols c5300 BC European Dispillo Symbols c5000 BC Egyptian Hieroglyphic c. 3500 BCE – 400 CE Ur’s Proto-Cuneiform c3500 Sumerian Cuneiform c. 3200 BC Heiratic (egyptian) c. 2900 Cretan Hieroglyphic c. 2100 – 1700 BC Linear A c. 2500 – 1450 BC Linear B c. 1450 – 1200 BC Phoenician c. 1200–150 BC China c. 1200 BC. Mesoamerica c. 600 BC Germanic c. 500 AD?? Slavonic c. 900 AD??
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  • Evolution of European Writing

    [S]o whomever brought it up, it looks like humans favor a similar evolution of symbols and then incrementally evolve into pictorial or phonetic. I suspect that like most things, the mark-making process like the language speaking process evolves out of efficiency – laziness. lol So just as humans speak language humans can speak, humans draw characters humans can draw. Just as language evolves from harsh clear sounds to lazy songs (chinese), writing evolves from infrequent symbols, to that which we can write quickly.

    Chinese Jiahu symbols c. 6600 BC European Vinča Symbols c5300 BC European Dispillo Symbols c5000 BC Egyptian Hieroglyphic c. 3500 BCE – 400 CE Ur’s Proto-Cuneiform c3500 Sumerian Cuneiform c. 3200 BC Heiratic (egyptian) c. 2900 Cretan Hieroglyphic c. 2100 – 1700 BC Linear A c. 2500 – 1450 BC Linear B c. 1450 – 1200 BC Phoenician c. 1200–150 BC China c. 1200 BC. Mesoamerica c. 600 BC Germanic c. 500 AD?? Slavonic c. 900 AD??
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  • Getting Un-Lost: It’s All of the Above: Genetic, Cultural, Institutional, Territorial

    [I] think I have lost a bunch of you. It seems we get truth. It seems we get the high trust society. It seems we get the western model of truth and trust produce economic velocity. It seems we get the reproductive division of perception and cognition. It seems we get that the anglo saxon and classical liberal model could not tolerate the enfranchisement of women and the loss of the church as a separate house of government. It seems we get the century of mysticism, pseudoscience and propaganda caused by the Jewish century – now at an end.

    But now that I venture into history in search of motivation to restore or sense of kin selection, it seems like everyone wants a single axis of causation: genetic, cultural, institutional, territorial. But it’s all of them. Not one.

  • Getting Un-Lost: It’s All of the Above: Genetic, Cultural, Institutional, Territorial

    [I] think I have lost a bunch of you. It seems we get truth. It seems we get the high trust society. It seems we get the western model of truth and trust produce economic velocity. It seems we get the reproductive division of perception and cognition. It seems we get that the anglo saxon and classical liberal model could not tolerate the enfranchisement of women and the loss of the church as a separate house of government. It seems we get the century of mysticism, pseudoscience and propaganda caused by the Jewish century – now at an end.

    But now that I venture into history in search of motivation to restore or sense of kin selection, it seems like everyone wants a single axis of causation: genetic, cultural, institutional, territorial. But it’s all of them. Not one.

  • Grid: Three Group Evolutionary Strategies

    Feminine: Aggressive Gossip: (jewish) Libertarian: Aggressive Trade (anglo neo-puritan) Masculine: Aggressive Violence (muslim)

    Russian = ++Gossip +Violence -Trade Chinese = +Gossip +Violence -Trade I suppose that we can graph all cultures on these three dimensions.

  • Grid: Three Group Evolutionary Strategies

    Feminine: Aggressive Gossip: (jewish) Libertarian: Aggressive Trade (anglo neo-puritan) Masculine: Aggressive Violence (muslim)

    Russian = ++Gossip +Violence -Trade Chinese = +Gossip +Violence -Trade I suppose that we can graph all cultures on these three dimensions.

  • Sorry, But I Love My Betters

    [S]orry, but I am perfectly thrilled to have betters. Here in London I see lots of them. And I am thankful for them. I like what I do. I am glad they do what they do. I can see the Dutch and German in them. They’re bigger, taller, and better looking than my little Celtic self. Why anyone doesn’t want betters is beyond me. What scares me is proles. Especially in the white house.

  • Sorry, But I Love My Betters

    [S]orry, but I am perfectly thrilled to have betters. Here in London I see lots of them. And I am thankful for them. I like what I do. I am glad they do what they do. I can see the Dutch and German in them. They’re bigger, taller, and better looking than my little Celtic self. Why anyone doesn’t want betters is beyond me. What scares me is proles. Especially in the white house.

  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.

  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.