Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • LITERARY GENERATIONS – THE TECHNO MYTHOS I wasn’t really aware of how much I was

    LITERARY GENERATIONS – THE TECHNO MYTHOS

    I wasn’t really aware of how much I was affect ed by Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Elison, Bova, and Herbert during the 60’s and early 70’s. I was very much aware of how I was affected by Girard and the Heavy Metal movement, Alien and Blade Runner in the late 70’s and turn of the 80’s (star wars re-americanized and made ‘cute’ sf and that wasn’t my gig). Then even more aware of the influence of Gibson, Sterling, and Stephenson in the 80’s and 90’s – a grungier vision of the future. I haven’t been affected by any author much since then. In fact, it’s hard to read much sci fi, if not all fiction now. The zeitgeist at present is one of conquest by immigrants and ‘the fall’ represented by the pervasiveness of the zombie genre. So we are all buried in a decay narrative now. Optimism seems impossible, so we won’t buy it in our literature. At least the Nuclear Holocaust era gave us post-apocalyptic hope for renewal. This one is a hopeless mythos.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-30 04:19:00 UTC

  • A RULE, THE ENGLISH ARE NOT FAMILY ORIENTED PEOPLE”

    https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/asabiyyah-2/”AS A RULE, THE ENGLISH ARE NOT FAMILY ORIENTED PEOPLE”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-29 05:23:00 UTC

  • Everyone keeps promising us a new version of the Jetsons, or Star Trek. But we’v

    Everyone keeps promising us a new version of the Jetsons, or Star Trek. But we’ve seen the future. It’s Blade Runner in Sao Paulo, Cairo and Delhi.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-28 07:21:00 UTC

  • “Latvians aren’t Slavs; they’re Balts just like Lithuanians. They’re probably in

    —“Latvians aren’t Slavs; they’re Balts just like Lithuanians. They’re probably in this dataset because Balts are close neighbors and relatives of Slavs. Note that these six Latvians are overall the most northerly group in this analysis, which suggests that they have the highest ratio of European Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Nevertheless, they’re obviously still very similar to Lithuanians and their Uralic neighbors to the north, the Estonians.”—

    Well, I think we know this. Right? Like most of the identity nonsense we are trying to correct with science, many of our current ‘myths’ are the product of justifying state power in a region rather than furthering the interests of the tribes and peoples in question.

    The problem of tribalism doens’t affect just the rest of the world. We just had stronger states to destroy our tribes more effectively than they did.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-25 03:20:00 UTC

  • SHORTHAND ANE – Ancient North Eurasian BA – Bronze Age EBA – Early Bronze Age EH

    SHORTHAND

    ANE – Ancient North Eurasian

    BA – Bronze Age

    EBA – Early Bronze Age

    EHG – Eastern European Hunter-Gatherer

    EN – Early Neolithic

    LBK – Linearbandkeramik or Linear Pottery culture

    LN – Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic

    LN/EBA – Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age

    MA1 – Mal’ta Boy

    MN – Middle Neolithic

    SHG – Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer

    WHG – Western European Hunter-Gatherer

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-25 02:44:00 UTC

  • WHAT CAUSED THE KURGAN SHIFT TO THE EAST? —“the post-Kurgan Europeans are shif

    WHAT CAUSED THE KURGAN SHIFT TO THE EAST?

    —“the post-Kurgan Europeans are shifted east, towards the Bronze Age steppe groups (most of which are in fact classified as Kurgan cultures), relative to the pre-Kurgan Europeans. Coincidence? Certainly not. Interestingly, the West Asians show a similar shift to the east, although it’s not yet clear who caused it and when.”—Eurogenes

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-25 02:39:00 UTC

  • Not So Fast. They Buy Our Stuff,  But Remain Unpacified.

    [U]nfortunately, no other culture, even the catholic states, approaches protestant high trust (and therefore economic velocity). We have genetically pacified northern Europe aggressively for a millennium, practiced delayed reproduction an eugenic mating for just as long, and pacified through eugenic manorialism less so for millennia before that. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/08/america_takes_o.html Cultures can adopt technology, but it has yet to be seen if anyone can adopt high trust. Truth telling, and even the very concept of it, much less contractual adherence, diminish very, very rapidly, and corruption increases very rapidly outside of the Hanjal line. I don’t see much reason for optimism. We have a very poor record of spreading truth telling and trust, even if we have a great record of spreading money, accounting, banking, interest, and consumer capitalism. Other cultures wear our clothes, eat our food, listen to our music, watch their movies, and employ our technology. But they remain familial, inbred, tribal, corrupt, and unpacified. The western miracle was caused by our accidental discovery of truth. From that discovery all of consequence was derived. Without that, little of consequence will be constructed. Our frequent self congratulation is merely signaling and hubris. We should leave the brits to specialize in it. They’re better at it. wink emoticon

  • Not So Fast. They Buy Our Stuff,  But Remain Unpacified.

    [U]nfortunately, no other culture, even the catholic states, approaches protestant high trust (and therefore economic velocity). We have genetically pacified northern Europe aggressively for a millennium, practiced delayed reproduction an eugenic mating for just as long, and pacified through eugenic manorialism less so for millennia before that. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/08/america_takes_o.html Cultures can adopt technology, but it has yet to be seen if anyone can adopt high trust. Truth telling, and even the very concept of it, much less contractual adherence, diminish very, very rapidly, and corruption increases very rapidly outside of the Hanjal line. I don’t see much reason for optimism. We have a very poor record of spreading truth telling and trust, even if we have a great record of spreading money, accounting, banking, interest, and consumer capitalism. Other cultures wear our clothes, eat our food, listen to our music, watch their movies, and employ our technology. But they remain familial, inbred, tribal, corrupt, and unpacified. The western miracle was caused by our accidental discovery of truth. From that discovery all of consequence was derived. Without that, little of consequence will be constructed. Our frequent self congratulation is merely signaling and hubris. We should leave the brits to specialize in it. They’re better at it. wink emoticon

  • New Video: Circumpolar Civilization

    [E]xplaining why we have failed to integrate Russians into western Civilization despite their membership in Christendom and their obvious similarities to Americans: trust. This is a rather deep video that demonstrates the distribution of trust from Chinese “delay and deceive” constant deception, to Russian/Muslim “honor in lying”, to German Truth and Duty, to British moral optimism, to American Utopianism and how it affects each country. Then we discuss how we can unite these different ‘time preferences’ and ‘risk profiles’ into a vast intra-civilizational distribution of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor using Rule of law, if only we can end American ideological Utopianism and Russian lying and legal corruption.

  • New Video: Circumpolar Civilization

    [E]xplaining why we have failed to integrate Russians into western Civilization despite their membership in Christendom and their obvious similarities to Americans: trust. This is a rather deep video that demonstrates the distribution of trust from Chinese “delay and deceive” constant deception, to Russian/Muslim “honor in lying”, to German Truth and Duty, to British moral optimism, to American Utopianism and how it affects each country. Then we discuss how we can unite these different ‘time preferences’ and ‘risk profiles’ into a vast intra-civilizational distribution of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor using Rule of law, if only we can end American ideological Utopianism and Russian lying and legal corruption.