Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Truth necessary for correspond

    TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

    Truth necessary for correspondence (Europe) (universal high trust) (commitment)

    Truth necessary for fidelity (Judaism) (ingroup high – outgroup low) (pragmatic)

    Truth necessary for conformity (China) (low trust) (avoidance)

    Truth as unhelpful (everywhere else) (no trust) (ignorance)

    FIVE BOOKS

    Gotta read five books:

    1) Keegan’s A History Of Warfare

    2) Armstrong’s A History Of God

    3) Mallory’s In Search of Indo-Europeans

    4) Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order

    5) Fukuyama’s Trust.

    Most people won’t understand the importance of the History of God (cross cultural study of the development of gods) but it’s just as important as Keegan’s history of warfare

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 01:40:00 UTC

  • Cultural Variants of Truth and the Consequences

    Truth and Adherence to Rules are two different things. (submission) Truth and Fidelity to Contract are two different things. Truth and Duty are two different things. Truth and Knowledge are two different things. Truth as Adherence – Familialism (most of the world) Truth as Fidelity – Tribalism (judaism) Truth as Duty – Nationalism (germans) Truth as Science – Universalism. (english) [T]hat members of a community follow rules and conventions with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. That members of a community fulfill promises or contracts with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. Another community may both fulfill it’s promises, its contracts, and the commitment to tell the truth at all times regardless of cost. The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***. If you grasp the profundity of this statement you will understand why some cultures produce science, and some produce trade, and some produce tyranny. Some create science. And some create pseudoscience. And some create only order. Some create science, innovation, trade and trust. Others create only trade, and others create only utilitarian applications of tools. Small things in large numbers have vast consequences. When we use ‘functions” such as the verb to be, or the word ‘truth’ we do not really understand their construction, just that they are shorthand approximations that tend to work. We have just knowledge of use, not knowledge of construction. But the word ‘true’ means very different things in different places: science, fidelity, and adherence. And the consequences are astounding. Truth is a performative declaration. Truth claims then, to different groups, state either epistemology, fidelity, or adherence. I have solved the problem you know. It’s ethics. —- [C]omments From: Ayelam Valentine Agaliba:

    The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***

    This is a most penetrating line. It has vast political implications. Do you know what? I believe that you can better Samuel Huntington. Replace his Hegelianism with your program and what you have is a far more rigorous/descriptive explanation. From: Curt Doolittle

    (^^^Thank you for all the help you have been to me. Love you man.)

    From: Frank Lovell I’d add or say:

    Where there are NO humans, truth rules; where there ARE humans, ethics rules, without which truth and knowledge of truth matter not.

  • Cultural Variants of Truth and the Consequences

    Truth and Adherence to Rules are two different things. (submission) Truth and Fidelity to Contract are two different things. Truth and Duty are two different things. Truth and Knowledge are two different things. Truth as Adherence – Familialism (most of the world) Truth as Fidelity – Tribalism (judaism) Truth as Duty – Nationalism (germans) Truth as Science – Universalism. (english) [T]hat members of a community follow rules and conventions with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. That members of a community fulfill promises or contracts with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. Another community may both fulfill it’s promises, its contracts, and the commitment to tell the truth at all times regardless of cost. The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***. If you grasp the profundity of this statement you will understand why some cultures produce science, and some produce trade, and some produce tyranny. Some create science. And some create pseudoscience. And some create only order. Some create science, innovation, trade and trust. Others create only trade, and others create only utilitarian applications of tools. Small things in large numbers have vast consequences. When we use ‘functions” such as the verb to be, or the word ‘truth’ we do not really understand their construction, just that they are shorthand approximations that tend to work. We have just knowledge of use, not knowledge of construction. But the word ‘true’ means very different things in different places: science, fidelity, and adherence. And the consequences are astounding. Truth is a performative declaration. Truth claims then, to different groups, state either epistemology, fidelity, or adherence. I have solved the problem you know. It’s ethics. —- [C]omments From: Ayelam Valentine Agaliba:

    The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***

    This is a most penetrating line. It has vast political implications. Do you know what? I believe that you can better Samuel Huntington. Replace his Hegelianism with your program and what you have is a far more rigorous/descriptive explanation. From: Curt Doolittle

    (^^^Thank you for all the help you have been to me. Love you man.)

    From: Frank Lovell I’d add or say:

    Where there are NO humans, truth rules; where there ARE humans, ethics rules, without which truth and knowledge of truth matter not.

  • QUESTION? What is the difference, if any, between following the rules in Sinic s

    QUESTION?

    What is the difference, if any, between following the rules in Sinic society, and doing one’s duty in German society?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-11 02:49:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY AND HIGHER TRIBALISM Aristocracy can cooperate on behalf of our trib

    ARISTOCRACY AND HIGHER TRIBALISM

    Aristocracy can cooperate on behalf of our tribes, no matter what tribe we belong to. All aristocracy speaks the same language, and all of us can work to better our own tribes with the help of aristocrats from other tribes. We have no false allegiances. We have no political agendas. Our agenda is merely the advancement of the economic status of our tribes. Aristocracy under ‘higher tribalism’ is a very ‘human’ form of government. No ideologies are needed. No justification for and search for power over others is needed. All wee need is do to negotiate on behalf of our tribes large or small. Under democracy our differences are a source of conflict. Under aristocracy our differences are a source of opportunity for mutual benefit. If we are trapped in an agrarian society all that we can really do is improve the land, and fight over the land if we want greater wealth. But under industrial capitalism, we are not constrained by the productivity of our land, but by the productivity of our people. And the productivity of our people is determined by the productivity of our institutions in assisting the people in cooperating, by making possible the voluntary organization of production.

    I would much rather live in a world filled with many enterprising aristocrats feeding off the status given them by their tribes and families, than I would in a world of bureaucrats living off the status obtained by creating conflict using ideology.

    And I am pretty sure that no moral man can justify any other arrangement for any reason other than the selfish accumulation of power, and the power to oppress others to conform to his will.

    All aristocracy requires is the grant of property rights and the reciprocal guarantee of those rights – and a militia consisting of all able bodied men equally willing to guarantee those rights.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 12:31:00 UTC

  • Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome o

    Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome or paris do? Was there a philosohpical center of the german enlightenment? I mean kant was from prussia (now occupied by russia).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 08:04:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UKRAINIAN ENTREPRENEURS. I crashed a Ukrainian entreprene

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UKRAINIAN ENTREPRENEURS.

    I crashed a Ukrainian entrepreneurs meeting tonight. I like to visit these whenever I can, wherever on earth I am at the time. And see if I can help anyone at all, or meet some interesting people. Tonight was fun – really.

    Talked about how much I love Ukraine and didn’t realize myself how passionate I am.

    Many had the same feeling. But the reason why is interesting: because we all felt we could make a difference here, and in the west we can be consumers, sure, but have no meaningful impact.

    That realization and the feeling was moving. In Ukraine, every entrepreneur matters.

    Every single one.

    And that is a spiritual reward that is hard to obtain elsewhere.

    I need to propagate that message. Ukraine is awesome for biz.

    Met a young lawyer in IT law educated in the UK. Gonna switch. Hate my UA lawyer. ( american).

    Had to stay in message that you find customers with problems and create companies to solve them. You do not build a business you know about and sell it. I want to kill the “idea” meme and push the customer meme because that is the primary reason young people fail. No matter what you think, you’re just ignorant by your customers standards. You must find problems customers cant solve and know more about that than they do. Otherwise you are wasting your time and theirs with your ignorance.

    Talked a little about why Ukraine can only export labor: because there is no accumulated capital whether cultural, institutional, organizational, not patterns of trade, no trusted networks. No accumulated advantage at all. They need to get local capital investment to build Ukrainian companies that accumulate capital locally rather than exporting all the capital produced by their cheap labor.we think in terms of companies in the west but it is the network of companies in any sector that produces goods and services – including the most important companies: the courts/lawyers and banks/accountants. Ukraine doesn’t have them.

    You cannot really fathom how important Austrian economics is to business people ( sans Misesian pseudoscience) in this part of the world. Macro is for politicians. Austrian is for entrepreneurs. ( i hope i live ling enough to repair Austrian economics and rescue it from misesian pseudoscience). I kinda think its gonna take beyond my lifetime to get across how important my ideas are)

    Pissed off one guy by saying that it was cheaper to pay unnecessary government employees to stay home than to have them impede the economy.

    Same guy who thought it was good that the government tried to force money to stay in the country rather than give people reasons to keep it here. He said something else economically destructive. But I forgot it. I should have given him more attention because i didn’t explain his (common) errors. And now he will just hate me. But I cant be on my game all the time..,

    I fucking love ukrainians: all the goodness of americans without the bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 14:48:00 UTC

  • Aristocracy : A Kinship of Property Rights

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM A kinship of property rights. The initiatic brotherhood of warriors. The cult of egalitarian sovereignty The origins of western exceptionalism. The only possible means of possessing liberty. The solution to the problem of creating extra-familial trust, is achieved by the extension of property rights, in exchange for the reciprocal guarantee of defending each other’s property. I didn’t invent it. I just wrote it down. For the first time in 4000 years. (And it wasn’t easy either.)

  • Aristocracy : A Kinship of Property Rights

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM A kinship of property rights. The initiatic brotherhood of warriors. The cult of egalitarian sovereignty The origins of western exceptionalism. The only possible means of possessing liberty. The solution to the problem of creating extra-familial trust, is achieved by the extension of property rights, in exchange for the reciprocal guarantee of defending each other’s property. I didn’t invent it. I just wrote it down. For the first time in 4000 years. (And it wasn’t easy either.)

  • ARISTOCRACY AND TRIBALISM Dude, I do not think of people’s race except in descri

    ARISTOCRACY AND TRIBALISM

    Dude, I do not think of people’s race except in descriptive terms, the same way I point out the color of a shirt, car or house when describing it. There are great men. If I have to think of the person’s race to determine if they are great men, then they aren’t. Either a man carries his water or he doesn’t. His race doesn’t matter. If he makes it matter, then unfortunately I have to make it matter too.

    One of the reasons that I find Aristocracy so appealing, is that it’s appealing to EVERY TRIBE out there. It’s GOOD FOR ALL tribes. It doesn’t matter if this tribe or that tribe has better or worse individuals. What matters is that aristocracy can construct the educational and commercial order necessary for that tribe to participate in the global economy.

    The only reason race is a problem, is the denial of it, and the fantasy that all our tribes are equal. They aren’t any more equal than families are equal or classes are equal. We’re just not equal in our traits. But we are equal in the market where we are anonymous and invisible to one another, and equal in our interests in helping one another.

    Aristocracy around the world is the same. It’s the bottom 3/4 of any tribe that is materially different, and its in their interests and possibly in mankind’s interest to be genetically different.

    The only reason to desire large numbers is to conquer people or colonize people according to your favorite biases.

    I can’t for the life of me understand how the world would not be better constructed of 5M person city states rather than 1 billion person empire-states, except that big states can conduct bigger wars.

    If the head of tribe/state X race Y talks to the head of tribe/state A race B get together it probably will work out just fine if they want to conduct a trade. But the minute tribe C tries to increase its dominion nothing good comes out of it except war.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-04 15:00:00 UTC