Author: Curt Doolittle

Continuing my feedback to conservatives:

OBSESSIONS
There is a term for the conservative tendency to justificationary reductionism called “monocausotaxophilia” in psychology, and “monocausalism” in philosophy, and people who use it “monocausalists”.

The Market Competition For Political Solutions
Meaning that there are always a multitude of competing networks of people moving the aggregate direction of a polity, and as such there are multiple causal axis producing a circumstance that is only marginally in the same direction with main fat ‘tails’ of causality dragging behind it each of those networks.

Both Sexes Fail To Cognitively Scale For Different Reasons
While we continually express the frustration with women who do not comprehend that emotions do not scale in the absence of the interpersonal ability to regulate behavior – we fail to recognize that a signifiant population of conservatives, while capable of systematizing cannot systematize competing interests at scale. So both sexes are often equally incompetent to judge the behavior of organizations at sale and the near impossibility of doing so by incentives alone.

The Problem of Scale in Voluntary Orders
That there is the problem. People in networks do not have full alignment. Only sufficient incentives to maintain their ability to cooperate sufficiently to survive. Not to do teh best, but to survive amidst the competition between a multitude of self and other interests.

The Masculine and Conservative Point of Failure
So my point here is that conservatives cannot seemingly imagine the difficulty of organizing networks of people with only marginally overlapping interests to produce some end or other by cooperative means – because all such means have cooperative costs.

Why Is This Even More Problematic than in the Past?
Why is this a problem for so many conservatives? Desocialization, Undersocialization, and economic class stratification, so that so many of our people have no experience working in an organization of any scale AND in proximity to those who have to make decisions at scale, AND the high investment by those who make decisions in helping men how to make decisions at scale, when there are increasingly divergent interests among the people at all scales.

Yet at the same time loyalty networks and compensation networks and self interest networks mean that at any time even the most hierarchical organizations must satisfy some clientele among the members as well as external players, more so than others.

Simple version is that without military traiining and participation men cannot imagine the problem any more than women without four or five children can think as rationally as a man.

The Problem of Our Political Order
And we have no king, no nobility, no aristocracy, no head of the manor to appeal to. We cannot appeal to or expect results from our senators and representatives unless we have vast amounts of money or the capacity to threaten their reelection. And even if we could they could never overcome the various interests inside and outside of the government necessary to bring about resolution of our injustices. Worse, despite rule of law and judicial supremacy, we have no separate court for collective pursuit of prosecutions against the state bureaucracies. The agencies have no responsibility for their regulations and processes to pass legislative approval. And there is no way of altering them when they are irresponsible and harmful.

Overcentralization means over failiure of networks of discordant interests.
This is largely because the federal government has take upon itself the work of the states, disempowering the states, thus preventing the states to function as a market for the production of commons using competing ideas, and disempowering the people from obtaining action from the states. And from the evidence produced by the states, to alter policy at the federal level.

The Resulting Conservative Behavior is Moralizing Rather than Operationalizing – Becuse they don’t know how to do something without moral uniformity: intuition. The same problem of emotional intuition that plagues women but the male version. Just as female oppression equals male conspiracy for the same reason.

Conservative Scale Blindness
So my point here is that conservatives cannot seemingly imagine the difficulty of organizing networks of people with only marginally overlapping interests to produce some end or other by cooperative means – because all such means have cooperative costs.

Resulting Dumb Ideas
And so most conservatives propose rather childish simplistic solutions that would work at interpersonal sale in some small business but cannot work at any scale in ether an enterprise, an industry, or a government.

And so conservatives don’t know how dumb they are, even IF they’re profoundly moral in their dumbness, and in doing so see conspiracy instead of complexity due to scale beyond which a deliberative government can function.

Dumbness Creates Opportunity for Evil
And as such bad actors seeking to take advantage of the dysfunction of such a system both overtly and by merely following rational incentives whether they understand the consequences or not, and whether they understand that the consequences they favor are capitalizing or capital destroying for others – and as such effectively a crime against the people and their states.

The System Isn’t Working As Designed – It’s Been Appropriated by the Financial, Clerical, and Global Talking Classes made possible by the postwar conversion of anglo-germanic demonstrated competency and loyalty to credentialists without demonstrated competency or loyalty but self interest.

So it is false to say the system is working as designed instead of the systems at play work in parallel, cooperation and competition with one another given the influences and power dynamics at plan in that system between those networks of people.

Power is What Matters
Then the problem of fixing the present troubles, is obtaining and preserving sufficient monopoly of power to suppress the harms while fostering the goods.

And we have discussed how to do so. It’s not a mystery. It’s not even hard. The only problem is the power to do so.

The Conflict Among Conservatives
Now, I’m aware of ongoing conflict over the direction and purpose of my work the people who work with me, the organization as a brand and the people who follow our work, and those who are aware, and those who are affected by it whether consciously or not.

And the Psychology and Incentives Behind Conservative Behavior
So what you might find funny I find a bit .. well, annoying … because I recognize both this conservative bias to simplistic reductio conspiracy, and I recognize it is an expression of powerlessness, and I recognize that among the powerless, such ‘sticks’ are useful for beating the bushes for attention and building communities of attention.

Consequences
The result of which is audience capture, and one’s stagnation in service of that audience capture rather than the goal of producing material change with the audiences that not only haven’t captured you, but the audiences we need to reach who have the ability and agency to actually bring about any change – precisely because they AREN’T social and economic outcasts losers and lost boys.

What To Do?
On the other hand, and I’m workin on trying to say this with the most love and care that I can, because I do love and care for almost everyone I come into contact with who expresses any interest or understanding of the work, and even more so those who invest in it and try to put it to work.

Upgrades Are Part of Growing Up
But, you know, when you go through life, when you build friend networks, when you build volunteers organizations when you start companies, buld industries, start intellectual movements, political parties, and even proto-armies, you start with ‘what you can get’ and ‘upgrade’ as you mature in value and legitimacy until you have sufficient legitimacy to influence outcomes among the people who have the capacity to influence outcomes.

Legitimacy Lowers Acquisition Costs
We are at the cusp of legitimacy. However, because of that we are also at risk of illegitimacy. And that illegitimacy will result from alienating those people who have the ability to act and cause change because of people who do not – and who do not, because they are demonstrably under-socialized, antisocial, dysfunctional, or psychologically unfit, which includes just as many on the right as on the left.

Our Burden Of Proof Is Heavy Enough Already
It is bad enough that we have to make the feminine-jewish-abrahamic-marxist argument even if we are explaining it as a normal sequence of development, and that we can ‘cure’ it as well as fix the economy.

But when we exert overly aggressive attention to niche, questionably scientific, and often conspiratorial claims, that demonstrate the individuals advancing and following these claims are simply underdeveloped, and when their underdeveloped demonstrations of being out of control in life appeal to ideas and wants irrelevant to the goal of reforms, then we are damaging legitimacy.

We are not claiming that the degree of agitation and the bubbling rage are illegitimate. If anything they are so.

We are not claiming that conservative objectives are immoral, if anything, just the opposite.

We are claiming that rallying around something too stupidly simple to really matter at grand scale, just because you can grasp it, and obtain positive emotions from doing so – that produces illegitimacy for you, for those you associate with, and of course, those movements that seek to produce material change among people who are not so exasperated, frustrated, and angry that they latch onto the meaningless because it is all that they understand and can demonstrate their aggressions by arguing in favor of.

So, Reals over Feels
And that illegitimacy can’t happen no matter how much ‘feeels’. you want. We need reeelz not feeels.

Hard Choices: Immediate or Delayed Gratification?
We have at times turned over people who are subsequently successful. We have affected others who are again, successful in their niches. We have had people leave over emotional issues. And cast out others over potential of canceling. Even others who simply can’t and don’t want to keep up. We have also ejected people who were, despite their energetic advocacy, mentally unstable and a risk.

Turning Points
But we are past the R&D stage, and in the production and distribution stage, and so those fringe people with emotional and psychological, or obsessive needs had to go; those who caused disruption had to go;Those with competing interests had to go; and unfortunately those with niche obsessions, or those captured by unhelpful audiences, may need to move along and continue their journey without us and without association with us in order for us to continue to seek legitimacy.

Time is Pressing
And we need to do this fairly quickly given the Overton window and the rate at which we are producing content and hopefully if we continue at this rate, we produce a publication which in turn gives us extraordinary legitimacy even if it’s only among those with the intellectual capacity to then use it as a tool themselves to capture an audience.

My Changing Position
So, you know, I’ve been very ill for a long time and these things were acceptable at that point, especially when I wasn’t sure I’d be here to finish the work and I’d hoped to seed enough people that my departure would at lest not end the work.

The Choice
But at this point with both the conferences under us and the quality of the work we’re producing, and the rather fascinating spread of our influence which at present is subtle, then anyone who is no longer a fit for the pursuit of legitimacy has to make a choice. It’s ‘on mission’ or on your own mission.

All Choices are Good
And just as I have spun off many startups from my own, maybe others can begin their startup with their interests.

Self Defense
But what’s not going to happen is the positive feedback loop from the lost boys despite it’s psychological rewards, prevent us from legitimacy, raising revenue, and having a material impact.

Tough Love
Love y’all, but (humor) we have to understand that you need to upgrade your friends when you go to college, and maybe again after; and you need to upgrade women to keep them under 25 ;), and you need to upgrade your staff to keep them revenue making, access better and more customers, and hire better people; and of course you need to upgrade your associates such that they don’t prevent future upgrades. 😉

Conservative Adulthood
It’s time to grow up and seek delayed gratification in order to obtain the returns on investment that are higher over time. 😉

Cheers