Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UK VS USA (worth repeating) I always want to smack Brits

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UK VS USA

    (worth repeating)

    I always want to smack Brits for incompetence. But their view of competence is pleasing the boss, while our view is pleasing the customer while making sure the boss merely gets his cut.

    —

    It’s very interesting how much pride Americans take in customer service, and how they treat rules other than those about money as guidelines, and that rigorous attention to rules is a sign of incompetence.

    Whereas for Brits, rigorous adherence to rules is not only a civic duty, a moral mandate, but a matter of pride.

    These differences are expressions of American distaste for hierarchy and Continental fear of a vacuum of it.

    It also reflects American risk taking ( the stock market in the USA) versus British (the bond market in London .)

    And the difference in proactive rules in Europe, and reactive rules in the States.

    It explains American use of lawyers to resolve conflicts rather than European rules and processes to prevent them occurring.

    Everything is easier in the states by orders of magnitude for this reason.

    You will feel safer in Europe. You can get rich in the states just by working hard.

    It’s fascinating really.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 09:50:00 UTC

  • (Worth repeating) The Enlightenment: ———————- The Anglo-Empirical.

    (Worth repeating)

    The Enlightenment:

    ———————-

    The Anglo-Empirical.

    The Counter-Empirical:

    ————————–

    The German-rational.

    The Cosmopolitan-pseudoscientific

    The French pseudo rational.

    Each tried to perpetuate its cultural strategy.

    The Anglo island universalism of seafarers.

    The German particularism of landed walled fortress of armies.

    The Jewish un-landed separatists.

    Burke took England into universal export of anti ignorance.

    The Germans reinforced their walls both intellectual and organisational.

    The Jews manufactured sold their pseudoscience as an alternative to empirical science to a population hungry for products that bridged the old and new.

    The French tried tyranny then slowly retreated behind isolationist walls where the could preserve their illusion.

    Unlike the majority of reactionaries I give much more weight to institutional reproduction of behaviour than genetic. I don’t discount genetic. It’s too obvious. It’s that I think institutions are actionable and genetics are not.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 06:29:00 UTC

  • THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH SEA AND THE LEVANT. Action vs verbalism Operat

    THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH SEA AND THE LEVANT.

    Action vs verbalism

    Operations vs meaning

    Testimony vs Platonism

    Recipe vs allegory

    Promise vs convenience

    Warranty vs irresponsibility

    Innovation vs criticism

    Landholding vs migrants

    Commons vs parasitism

    Honest Debate vs loaded gossip

    Warriors vs priests

    Liberty vs authority

    Public truth vs private pragmatism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-06 05:02:00 UTC

  • The argument developing in geopolitics, is that the world war has not ended. Thi

    The argument developing in geopolitics, is that the world war has not ended. This is a different take on the clash of civilizations. As far as I can tell we either must break into smaller nations that gradually ameliorate our differences over the terrain or we must, as china did, develop totalitarian conquest. The lower trust countries, as the majority, now empowered with consumer capitalism, will be able to once again crush us. Just as they always have. Our respite has ended.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-30 11:05:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY IN MODERNITY ISN’T FOR SIMPLETONS (reposted) People who live in tents, r

    LIBERTY IN MODERNITY ISN’T FOR SIMPLETONS

    (reposted)

    People who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that.

    When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief.

    When you tell people that property is a rule that you cannot violate, that’s a formal institution we call law.

    The first is religion. The second is government.

    Is your brand of liberty for goatherds living in tents (religion) that requires belief, or for engineers, builders and craftsmen, (government) that requires laws?

    People who live in tents have very simple property. They need very simple laws.

    Liberty in modernity isn’t for simpletons.

    Try not to think like one.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-28 07:29:00 UTC

  • Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious: – The Turks LOOK fo

    Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious:

    – The Turks LOOK for something to do. (Just like european americans)

    – The Ukrainians wait until something MUST be done.

    – The Russians ONLY do things that they they were told to, and can’t get away with not doing. (Unless it involves shoving or hitting someone, which is an opportunity never to be missed).

    Any place that is clean is not run by Turks, Ukrainians or Russians – probably americans, or in the cases I’ve seen, people from western ukraine (less russified) that have seen enough of the world to want to bring the same standards here.

    Although I gotta say that americans here, in general, annoy the hell out of me. (it’s the ideology). But they work hard and are obsessively honest, and that’s still so rare and wonderful no matter where on earth you find it.

    I keep running into Brits that are such catholic-marxists in atheistic robes that I want to make them disappear in the night to save these people from them.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 11:10:00 UTC

  • Cultural Observations. Stupid Stuff. Last night I was watching a movie where one

    Cultural Observations. Stupid Stuff.

    Last night I was watching a movie where one of the leads was supposedly Russian, but he was obviously a Celt (kelt). And I felt a bit like I was watching someone in blackface: annoyed, disrespectful, and honestly, it harmed suspension of disbelief. There are a lot of tribes among the slavic peoples, and here in Ukraine, while I can’t make them all out – and they are all mixed together with germanic peoples – I can tell Celts from Germans, from Scandinavians, from Poles, from Czechs, from Hungarians, from Slovenians, from the Sythians from the groups with black hair and long heads which I don’t know how to identify (but they scare my genes), from the White Russians, Rus/Ukrainians, Asiatic Russians, from the turkic peoples. But there are others I have no idea where they are from.

    It’s really beautiful. But lets drop the blackface. It’s revolting really.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-26 06:17:00 UTC

  • ( Don Finnegan )

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/u-s-ethnic-mix-boasts-german-accent-amid-surge-of-hispanics.htmlhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/u-s-ethnic-mix-boasts-german-accent-amid-surge-of-hispanics.html

    ( Don Finnegan )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-24 16:11:00 UTC

  • GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE (cultural observations) Jaw-dropping. Beautiful. Feminine

    GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

    (cultural observations)

    Jaw-dropping. Beautiful. Feminine. Everywhere. Every day. My brain stem forces the production of happiness inducing chemistry telling me my brothers and I have captured lots of good women from competing males. Maybe that is why Slavs are so much less aggressive: lots of environmentally induced dopamine. 😉

    I took a walk in the park here today. It rivals western parks in the 19th century tradition. Long wide walks, stone walls, ponds and birds. Sweeping lawns. A physical commons without beggars and bums.

    This is who we were – when we were still a civic society. When people participated in, took responsibility for, and managed the commons themselves, rather than politicians – administrative whores.

    This beauty. These buildings. This land. This character. These parks. These norms. This religion. This is who we were.

    THIS IS WHO WE WERE.

    For the crime of statism alone, we should slaughter every one of them forward and backward for three generations. For the crime of socialism we should do it for all living generations.

    LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US.

    Statism and imperialism are crimes against humanity that must be so feared that no living soul in our society ever dares breath the idea again.

    Kill them all and give the devil his due.

    Mercy is for those who deserve it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-23 07:43:00 UTC

  • I am not into racism or antisemitism. I am critical of every one of the enlighte

    I am not into racism or antisemitism. I am critical of every one of the enlightenment grroups for their stuipidity.

    (worth repeating)

    —“I am not interested in anti-semitism. I argue only against the accidental application of jewish in-group ethics and argument structure as pseudoscience in an era where our western extant means of logic and argument at human scale required our retention of european testimonial truth and operationalism because at that time our intellectual problems in all fields exceeded human scale.

    I am not anti semitic. Just the opposite. I’m a compatibilist. I do think the Jewish century is over with, and that it was tragically harmful. If you want to get involved in racism or whatever, that is not what I do. I think it’s always the wrong question. The answer is why you subject yourself to internal political competition, not why other pursue a better life for themselves.

    I do not think Jews understood what they were doing any more than we anglo europeans understood what we were doing, or the germans or the french understood what they were doing. We all just justified what we had done before in the new context in order to maintain group cohesion.

    My effort is to make us understand what happened, and why jewish pseudoscientific thought in all disciplines was so easy to attack western civilization with.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-21 21:13:00 UTC