Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • AFIK the ‘clannishness’ sentiment increases with diversity in temperate climes,

    AFIK the ‘clannishness’ sentiment increases with diversity in temperate climes, and decreases in homogeneity in cooler.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-03 12:25:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/805025175838326784

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    “empathy is often used by those who wish to generate animus toward outgroups” https://t.co/laS5uuviwi Paul Bloom in TICS, autism-relevant

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  • ‘CLANNISHNESS’ AND ‘TOLERANCE’ ARE SITUATIONAL GOODS. AFIK the ‘clannishness’ se

    ‘CLANNISHNESS’ AND ‘TOLERANCE’ ARE SITUATIONAL GOODS.

    AFIK the ‘clannishness’ sentiment increases with diversity in temperate climes, and decreases in homogeneity in cooler.

    This is because in warm climes others are resource competitors, while in cold climes others are insurance against the environment.

    (thinking…) Despite what you’d think. Out-group antagonism is a superior evolutionary strategy as long as you breed faster than competitors (islam).

    (thinking…) We tend to think that tolerance is a good, but it is only a good as long as it increases our numbers faster. (christianity).

    We europeans tend to practice low clannishness, high tolerance, but low birth rates. This is a terrible evolutionary strategy.

    In fact, it’s suicidal.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-03 09:25:00 UTC

  • The Puritans are the result of the failure of protestantism. The classical liber

    The Puritans are the result of the failure of protestantism.

    The classical liberals are the result of the failure of the enlightenment.

    We, in our era, are the result of the failure of 20th century philosophers and social sciences to complete the enlightenment, and to unify philosophy, law and science, and return us to Roman and Stoic Realism: Natural Law.

    We didn’t ‘get it’. It wasn’t Aristotle that mattered, as much as the stoics, natural law, and the common law. Everything else was a byproduct of Indo European Sovereignty’s dependence for existence on the empirical, natural, common law.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-01 17:09:00 UTC

  • THE ESTATES OF THE REALM: TRIPARTITION OF SOCIETY —“The tripartition of societ

    THE ESTATES OF THE REALM: TRIPARTITION OF SOCIETY

    —“The tripartition of society actually goes way back in Aryan mythos: Sun, Fire, Lightning | Above Time, In Time, Against Time | Priests, Workers, Warriors.”— Josh Jeppeson

    (i know nothing about the time thing: https://www.savitridevi.org/lightning-03.html )

    While other civilizations may have been narratively monolithic, the church was merely one component of the system of cooperation between the classes that constituted the informal structure of western civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-01 12:39:00 UTC

  • THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR – AND WHY IT WORKS. Just read WILLIAM S LIND, VICTOR DAVI

    THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR – AND WHY IT WORKS.

    Just read WILLIAM S LIND, VICTOR DAVID HANSON, MARTIN VAN CREVELD, JOHN KEEGAN and NIAL FERGUSON

    Each explains why the western way of war HAS BEEN superior (until now).

    For ‘bathroom reading’ I recommend Sun Tzu, and Liddel-Hart. that’s the corpus. that’s all there is to read.

    The rest is just playing war games so that you understand

    Concentration of forces, maneuver, and supply lines with the available technology.

    The conduct of patrol and raids for small groups. And the basics: firing/fire teams/ambush/fields of fire; fitness/liquid, air, temperature body-management; concealment/cover/movement and signals; and emergency medical.

    As far as I can tell, playing paintball a lot will get you there if its on a large enough territory. (paintball is a 300’/sec game, instead of a 1000’/sec+ game, and a 350′ game instead a 300 yard game, and paintballs can’t penetrate walls, while you pretty much can’t stop 223 or 762 from penetrating walls.) But since most fighting appears to be urban now, paintball equipment is an excellent and safe training method.

    If I had my way, it’d be the primary sport in school, not football. Not the least of which because of injuries, but we don’t fight in legions any longer by pushing and shoving, and with weapons, silence, fitness and endurance are more important than strength. Strength just increases calorie, water, and oxygen consumption. The question is, how long can you fight with a rifle with five other guys, when you’re hungry, thirsty, physically spent, sleepy, and cold?

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-30 10:23:00 UTC

  • Venice provided the navy to byzantium. You cannot look at venice itself

    Venice provided the navy to byzantium. You cannot look at venice itself.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-29 18:47:49 UTC

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  • Just as the Greeks had to create philosophy outside of Greek legal institutions,

    Just as the Greeks had to create philosophy outside of Greek legal institutions, the #NewRight had to create thought outside the Cathedral.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-29 13:46:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803595938036117504

  • THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF OUR ENSLAVEMENT –“In 61 AD, Suetonius Paulinus led his ar

    THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF OUR ENSLAVEMENT

    –“In 61 AD, Suetonius Paulinus led his army across the Menai Strait and massacred the druids and burnt their sacred groves.”–

    They exterminated one of the worlds oldest religions: ancestor worship.

    Why? Because the druids controlled the gold trade in Britain and Ireland.

    —“On Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip IV of France, in league with Pope Clement V ordered all Templars to be rounded up and thrown in prison.”—

    They exterminated our second independent financial order.

    Why? Because Philip was in debt to the Templars, and the pope was his relative. Unfortunately, neither Philip nor Clement understood banking. There were no reserves in the bank of the Templars, and no money gained by their destruction – only their lands.

    In 1694, by granting the construction of a private ‘bank of england’ the crown effectively privatized the income from the expansion of the economy, creating rule-by-credit without the juridical or market defenses of the people. In 1913, the American government did the same.

    Why? A fraud made possible by a misunderstanding of the properties and function of fiat money: fiat money consists of fractional shares in the economy. It is not money. We use it as a money substitute in all walks of life. But fiat money is a form of stock that we use as money, not a form of commodity money (real money) whatsoever. It costs nothing to produce it, yet it is easily used to extract money from the population without returning to the population the profits generated from he sale of these new shares of stock (interest).

    In the archaic past hard money (real money, commodity money, and bank notes) required transportation. Digital money and credit money (account registrations of promises of future payments) requires no transportation.

    HOW DO WE ‘FIX’ THIS?

    Distribute liquidity directly to the people by debit cards.

    Dilute and undilute the money supply for fiscal policy (infrastructure investments).

    Preserve the fed as insurer of last resort, and regulator of overnight interest rates.

    Manage interest rates against ‘real’ productivity increases (not immigration increases) through monetary policy.

    Manage employment through fiscal policy.

    Sieze all ill appropriated proceeds back to 1694 in the UK, and 1913 in the USA. (Including Soros’s violation of the requirement for productivity.)

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-29 09:29:00 UTC

  • The world only has one substantive problem, one failed civilization: Islam. The

    The world only has one substantive problem, one failed civilization: Islam. The rest is just economics, over population, and demographics.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 17:55:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803296244936359936

  • “my [antidote for] all Platonism has always been Thucydides. Thucydides and, per

    —“my [antidote for] all Platonism has always been Thucydides. Thucydides and, perhaps, Machiavelli’s [The Prince] are most closely related to me by the unconditional will not to delude oneself, but to see reason in reality — not in “reason,” still less in “morality.” — Nietzsche

    —‘The unconditional will not to delude oneself’—

    Priceless.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 09:53:00 UTC