Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF THE ANGLO SAXON ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR FAMILY “The English are d

    ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF THE ANGLO SAXON ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR FAMILY

    “The English are descended from the Germanic conquerors who brought to England the ‘integrated nuclear family,’ in which nuclear families formed separate households, but stayed close to their relatives for mutual cooperation and defense. These people were illiterate, so we have no written records from those times, and we cannot know precisely how they organized their family life. But what we do know for sure is that over time the original Germanic family type developed into the ‘Absolute Nuclear Family,’ or ‘ANF,’ which we have today. It appears that the family type we have now has existed for about a thousand years.” — America 3.0. p51

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-24 05:05:00 UTC

  • PREVALECE OF CORRUPTION : ASIANS AND EDUCATION (low trust society) (corruption)

    http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/asian-immigrants-and-what-no-one-mentions-aloud/CULTURAL PREVALECE OF CORRUPTION : ASIANS AND EDUCATION

    (low trust society) (corruption) (education)

    The author doesn’t take the time to put in the references to the empirical work, but he does talk a bit about Asian performance.

    1) high test scores

    2) hard work for them

    3) pervasive cheating

    4) not matched by college performance.

    5) not matched by performance in real life.

    6) Colleges are discriminating against admission of asians.

    I don’t much care really. Because NORTH EAST asians assimilate and really, except for their slight weakness in verbal skills, they end up as pretty good citizens, behaviorally indistinguishable from us, with all the right status signals. And, if what I’ve read is correct, they lose the pervasive asian corruption fairly quickly. Within a generation or so.

    I wish we could get everyone else to work hard and conform. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-24 03:56:00 UTC

  • (Interesting) Data shows Roma ( gypsies ) are incrementally settling down and sl

    (Interesting)

    Data shows Roma ( gypsies ) are incrementally settling down and slightly decreasing endogamy. ( this i don’t understand yet.)

    Egyptians remain obsessively inbred.

    American jews continue outbreeding. Bias male of course. (!) But mild.

    However if we take white-asian and black-hispanic groups as mutually beneficial, then the 15% exogamy rate drops to insignificance.

    Humans are fascinating.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-23 06:38:00 UTC

  • FALL OF ROME (As I understand it) 1) Scale 2) Diversity 3) Insufficient Rates of

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/0578094185/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkTHE FALL OF ROME

    (As I understand it)

    1) Scale

    2) Diversity

    3) Insufficient Rates of Reproduction

    4) Plague

    5) Human Cost of Land vs Sea Empire

    6) Germanic Invasion

    7) Muslim destruction of the east

    8) Muslim destruction of mediterranean trade

    9) Hard Money (gold)

    10) Lack of “calculative institutions”

    (Thanks for the Reminder Skye)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-22 04:12:00 UTC

  • ON DIVERSITY When I use the term ‘diversity’, I am not terribly concerned with r

    ON DIVERSITY

    When I use the term ‘diversity’, I am not terribly concerned with race. I am concerned with culture: institutions, myths, traditions, habits, norms, metaphysical value judgement unstated but universal to the traditions.

    I care only about race in the senses that (a) people vote as racial blocs, and (b) people are less re-distributive with genetic distance. and (c) Racial groups tend (in the lower classes) to value in-group signals more that out-group signals, and sometimes intentionally so (keep ’em in strategy). Some cultures have very strong normative rules and do a better job of inclusion than we do. Some cultures and races are better at integrating that others. (None of us care too much about east Asian Americans).

    I care mostly about conflict and the distraction and expense of conflict over power, access to power, privilege, status signals, and opportunity. I would much prefer that we lived under a constitutional monarchy where we could live in our own little tribal villages, with our own laws, and the monarch was only interested in generating revenue for himself by getting us to trade and cooperate. And where we have no access to power, so the ONLY POWER we can exercise is in the market. This worked extremely well for Austrian Jews for example. And I’d prefer it worked extremely well for all of us.

    Diversity works. But diverse desire for control of others does not.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 09:44:00 UTC

  • “THE CULTURE OF PREVENTION” : WESTERN POSITIVISM : THE SIX RULES OF PREVENTION :

    “THE CULTURE OF PREVENTION” : WESTERN POSITIVISM : THE SIX RULES OF PREVENTION : THE SYSTEMATIC WESTERN ADOPTION OF JEWISH OBSCURANTISM

    (insight)

    The interesting thing about western culture, is the underlying assumption that we can CHANGE THE WORLD to suit our desires. It’s a POSITIVE outlook on life. Life isn’t suffering or difficult. Its an opportunity for heroisim and GLORY. “The purpose of life is to bend nature to our will, such that we leave the world better for having lived in it.”

    Think about the rest of the world’s “golden rule” and the anglo saxon “silver rule”. While they say “do unto others” we say “do not do unto others, that which you would not have done unto you.” The implied sovereignty in the Anglo Silver Rule is quite different from the slavish peasantry implied in the Golden Rule.

    WESTERN CIV is the culture of PREVENTION, under the ASSUMPTION that we can achieve our desires if no external entity PREVENTS IT. So our goal is to let everyone pursue their desires, and for us to pursue our mutual desires, and to PREVENT anyone from impeding that process. Nature is beautiful for this reason, as is man, as is life. Because it is not a struggle for the opportunity to pursue one’s fancy, it is a struggle only to prevent those from preventing us from pursuing our fancies.

    This is much more English a vision than the German vision of accomplishing the same thru duty.

    THE MAGIC LAWS OF THE CULTURE OF PREVENTION

    1) PREVENT THE USE OF POWER : DECENTRALIZATION, BALANCE OF FORCES, COMPETITION, MILITIA, SOVEREIGNTY

    2) PREVENT VIOLENCE THEFT AND FREE RIDING : PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON LAW, RIGOROUS NORMS

    3) PREVENT LOSS OF CAPITAL : FORCE ALL CONFLICT INTO THE MARKET WHERE IT PRODUCES CAPITAL RATHER THAN DESTROYS IT

    4) PREVENT THE IMMORAL SOCIETY OF THE EXTENDED FAMILY : NUCLEAR FAMILY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY

    5) PREVENT CONQUEST BY SUPERIOR FORCES : RELY ON TECHNOLOGY, PROFESSIONAL WARRIORS, AND THE MILITIA, TO MAKE USE OF INFERIOR NUMBERS AND WEALTH.

    6) PREVENT FRAUD BY OBSCURANTISM : TRUTH, SCIENCE, AND OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE

    THE CULTURE THAT DECRIES HUBRIS

    Greek mythology would only be created by a people who had such confidence that their warning would be a universal caution against any incidence of hubris. It is the mythology of a cautious, conservative, but confident people. The same is true for Germanic mythology. Albeit Christianity tries desperately to tame it by directing it to positive uses. The church could not defend against the Normans so they directed them to fighting the crusades. Not that the crusades were not a good use of men. But that it gave vent to the warrior ethos. Chivalric codes did the rest by allowing warriors, or those who could not afford to be, or those not able to be, to demonstrate heroism through service.

    ON THE WESTERN ADOPTION OF JEWISH OBSCURANTISM

    Unfortunately Jewish culture has mastered the art of obscurantism, pseudo-rationality and pseudo-science, as a means of undermining land-holder moral and social codes, and we have failed to convert them to our aristocratic doctrine. Or we had succeeded prior to the second world war, when American Jewry and Scotts Presbyterians were indistinguishable from one another, and both doing our civilization justice. Since them, we have legions of westerners in university settings doing the same, since Freud, Marx, Cantor gave birth to the Bolsheviks, the Frankfurt School and the Postmodernists took control of the university in an effort to claim for themselves what had previously been the social power of the church.

    Thought leadership in obscurantism has, since then, become a western profession thanks to Kant, Heidegger, Rorty, Adorno, Foucault. Rawls tried to resurrect it with his Victorian parlor trick, and Hayek alone could not hold them back, because he confused psychology with the necessity of calculation and did not yet have the analogy of computer science to help him solve the problem as we propertarians have.

    Mises and Rothbard took us again, into another Jewish pseudo-science, which Hoppe partly rescued us from, and which I’m trying to rescue us from entirely.

    But the real heavy lifting has been done, as always in the west, by empirical scientists in the Anglo tradition, leaving the rationalists in the continental tradition, once again, searching for some form of obscurantism to justify their tyrannical appropriation from the masses, and the meritocratic natural aristocracy that would arise without their predation on them by means of force of government, and various modes of obscurantist language.

    Meanwhile at home, as means of resisting the state, the religious right uses a time honored form of obscurantism themselves to save their society from conquest by the predatory state bureaucracy.

    OBSCURANT LANGUAGE IS IMMORAL BECAUSE IT IS FRAUD. IF YOU CANNOT DESCRIBE IT IN THE LANGUAGE OF ACTION (AS OPERATIONS) THEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT. IF YOU USE OBSCURANT LANGUAGE YOU ARE LYING, WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND IT OPERATIONALLY OR NOT.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 08:39:00 UTC

  • THE NEW HOLIDAY: FRIDAY THE 13TH : TEMPLARS DAY : BANKING AND LIBERTY (idea) I t

    THE NEW HOLIDAY: FRIDAY THE 13TH : TEMPLARS DAY : BANKING AND LIBERTY

    (idea)

    I think I’m going to celebrate every Friday the 13th as Templar Day! A ‘High Holiday’. 🙂

    Friday, 13 December 2013

    Friday, 13 June 2014

    Friday, 13 February 2015

    Friday, 13 March 2015

    Friday, 13 November 2015

    Friday, 13 May 2016

    Friday, 13 January 2016

    Friday, 13 October 2016

    COMMENT: FREEDOM AND BANKING

    If you have a bank, and you have weapons, you can form a state within a state. The mormons use an unpleasantly ridiculous doctrine to achieve this state within a state. But there is no need for a ridiculous doctrine. History is a sufficient mythology, and credit, and community, a sufficient incentive. People, money, and guns control geography.

    Banks are necessary for us to cooperate anonymously with one another: without understanding what each of us does. Money and credit are information systems, and a bank is a market for cooperation.

    TEMPLAR BANKERS

    “Though initially an Order of poor monks, the official papal sanction made the Knights Templar a charity across Europe. Further resources came in when members joined the Order, as they had to take oaths of poverty, and therefore often donated large amounts of their original cash or property to the Order. Additional revenue came from business dealings. Since the monks themselves were sworn to poverty, but had the strength of a large and trusted international infrastructure behind them, nobles would occasionally use them as a kind of bank or power of attorney. If a noble wished to join the Crusades, this might entail an absence of years from their home. So some nobles would place all of their wealth and businesses under the control of Templars, to safeguard it for them until their return. The Order’s financial power became substantial, and the majority of the Order’s infrastructure was devoted not to combat, but to economic pursuits.

    “By 1150, the Order’s original mission of guarding pilgrims had changed into a mission of guarding their valuables through an innovative way of issuing letters of credit, an early precursor of modern banking. Pilgrims would visit a Templar house in their home country, depositing their deeds and valuables. The Templars would then give them a letter which would describe their holdings. Modern scholars have stated that the letters were encrypted with a cipher alphabet based on a Maltese Cross; however there is some disagreement on this, and it is possible that the code system was introduced later, and not something used by the medieval Templars themselves.[5][6][7] While traveling, the pilgrims could present the letter to other Templars along the way, to “withdraw” funds from their accounts. This kept the pilgrims safe since they were not carrying valuables, and further increased the power of the Templars.

    “The Knights’ involvement in banking grew over time into a new basis for money, as Templars became increasingly involved in banking activities. One indication of their powerful political connections is that the Templars’ involvement in usury did not lead to more controversy within the Order and the church at large. Officially the idea of lending money in return for interest was forbidden by the church, but the Order sidestepped this with clever loopholes, such as a stipulation that the Templars retained the rights to the production of mortgaged property. Or as one Templar researcher put it, “Since they weren’t allowed to charge interest, they charged rent instead.”

    “Their holdings were necessary to support their campaigns; in 1180, a Burgundian noble required 3 square kilometres of estate to support himself as a knight, and by 1260 this had risen to 15.6 km². The Order potentially supported up to 4,000 horses and pack animals at any given time, if provisions of the rule were followed; these horses had extremely high maintenance costs due to the heat in Outremer (Crusader states at the Eastern Mediterranean), and had high mortality rates due to both disease and the Turkish bowmen strategy of aiming at a knight’s horse rather than the knight himself. In addition, the high mortality rates of the knights in the East (regularly ninety percent in battle, not including wounded) resulted in extremely high campaign costs due to the need to recruit and train more knights. In 1244, at the battle of La Forbie, where only thirty-three of 300 knights survived, it is estimated the financial loss was equivalent to one-ninth of the entire Capetian yearly revenue.

    “The Templars’ political connections and awareness of the essentially urban and commercial nature of the Outremer communities led the Order to a position of significant power, both in Europe and the Holy Land.[citation needed] They owned large tracts of land both in Europe and the Middle East, built churches and castles, bought farms and vineyards, were involved in manufacturing and import/export, had their own fleet of ships, and for a time even “owned” the entire island of Cyprus.”

    “The Templars were already a “state within a state”, were institutionally wealthy, paid no taxes, and had a large standing army which by papal decree could move freely through all European borders. However, this army no longer had a presence in the Holy Land, leaving it with no battlefield. These factors, plus the fact that Philip had inherited an impoverished kingdom from his father and was already deeply in debt to the Templars, were probably what led to his actions. However, recent studies emphasize the political and religious motivations of the french king. It seems that, with the “discovery” and repression of the “Templars’ heresy,” the Capetian monarchy claimed for itself the mystic foundations of the papal theocracy. The Temple case was the last step of a process of appropriating these foundations, which had begun with the Franco-papal rift at the time of Boniface VIII. Being the ultimate defender of the Catholic faith, the Capetian king was invested with a Christlike function that put him above the pope : what was at stake in the Templars’ trial, then, was the establishment of a “royal theocracy”.

    “At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. then they were put to death.”

    MANY MANY LIBERTARIAN LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-17 04:29:00 UTC

  • THE MASCULINE SPECTRUM OF TRIBAL ORDERS Adding Orthodox to the spectrum consisti

    THE MASCULINE SPECTRUM OF TRIBAL ORDERS

    Adding Orthodox to the spectrum consisting of:

    Orthodox->Conservative->Libertarian->Anarcho Capitalist yields:

    BIAS MODE MEANS JUSTIFICATION

    Orthodoxy: Rules, External Constraint, ‘Duty’

    Conservative: Reason, Moral Capital (behavioral capital), ‘Harmony’.

    Libertarian: Reason, Economic Capital, ‘Prosperity’

    AnCapitalist: Reason, Personal Capital, ‘Liberty’

    Different visions of the nature of man. Possibly, probably just reflections of class. And if that is true, we can get or use the data to prove it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-17 03:39:00 UTC

  • DOES THE WORLD LOOK LIKE WITHOUT FAMILIES? What does that mean for politics?

    http://www.newgeography.com/content/003133-the-rise-post-familialism-humanitys-futureWHAT DOES THE WORLD LOOK LIKE WITHOUT FAMILIES?

    What does that mean for politics?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-12 10:53:00 UTC

  • (cultural observation) TAXI DRIVERS I take a taxi along the same street every da

    (cultural observation)

    TAXI DRIVERS

    I take a taxi along the same street every day. Its about a $5 fare to the office at most. The taxis collect both on the corner across from my house where Pavel waits for me most mornings unless he gets a fare to the airport. The majority sit around Kontractova (The Place Of Contracts – the old market).

    Now, you know, I have this aristocratic moral intuition that means speaking truth to power, being unforgivingly demanding of peers, forgiving of dependents, and charitable to the working man. And so I like to tip people at the bottom who do good work and deliver good customer service. I see it as a civic duty. A way of creating a feedback loop of good service, and the ‘commercial society’.

    So, because of this behavior, I have this reputation as a ‘mark’ among the taxi drivers. And I love it.

    Every morning I get to play this game. Everyone knows its a game. And it’s a pretty fun game. If Pavel is across the street he charges me $5, and he won’t take more. If I dont have a five, he gets it from me the next day. If He’s not there, then I walk to Kontractova and try to find someone else.

    And the drivers at Kontractova compete, good naturedly, for my fare. Why? Because they know that I love the game with them, and that I’ll always pay more. So we always have this dance. I tell them $4, they tell me $10, I tell them that it’s robbery and offer $5, they tell me “You are businessman!, I have good car!” and finally we settle on $6 or $7, and they know I’ll give them $8 or $10. So I get to play this sort of human pokemon game every morning for the price of a latte, and I absolutely love it. It’s a weird way of belonging to the community but every single person who works on this street pretty much knows me now.

    It’s a Karma thing. I just love it. Conservatism is, after all, a social philosophy tightly bound by the law of Karma. And while I’m a libertarian, I’m a conservative and therefore aristocratic, libertarian.

    We are only equal in our care for one another.

    And that’s the only equality we need.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-11 06:38:00 UTC