Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘

    HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘huggy’. Still familial. And teasing is still part of our language.

    In business I pretty much hug everyone. Despite what people say about being uncomfortable, demonstrated approval both reduces people’s fear of you as ‘the boss’ and creates a more relaxed atmosphere.

    In every company I use and try to propagate this kind of affection. It works.

    So, here in Ukraine it’s just not OK. I hugged a guy yesterday and he said “this is making me uncomfortable”. I laughed. Said it was cultural.

    But you don’t see three drunk guys walking down the street with their arms around each other here.

    I like our way better. Men are men here. That’s true.

    But if you’re confident in your masculinity then you shouldn’t be offended by false threats to it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-08 05:47:00 UTC

  • What Do Foreigners Find Most Annoying About Americans?

    GENERAL NOTE ON AMERICAN IGNORANCE AND ANNOYANCE
    1) Our nationalism was intentionally created in order to fight the world wars, then to win the cold war against the plague of international communism. Americans are actually naturally insular.  THe problem is that we’re stuck with running this empire that we inherited from the brits, and the europeans won’t carry their own water.

    2)  Americans are wealthy enough so that even our ignorant lower classes can afford to travel. Like every other culture, our ignorant lower classes outnumber middle and upper middle classes.

    3) I think our ignorance is not the issue that’s so frustrating – the entire world has the same distribution of ignorance in their societies. But Americans have the highest measurable CONFIDENCE in the world (an intentional goal of our education system).  And its the combination of average ignorance and overstated confidence that’s so annoying.

    Heck. I find it annoying.  ;/

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-foreigners-find-most-annoying-about-Americans

  • IN AN HEROIC MYTHOS… the loss of community participation caused by the state c

    IN AN HEROIC MYTHOS…

    the loss of community participation caused by the state conquest of previously voluntary institutions, and the loss of the nuclear family, and the lack of scarcity for labor caused by immigration has left the men in the middle without the vehicle for obtaining status signals.

    It is unlikely that without supporting access to status signals, these men will retain their affectation and pursuit of heroic signals in the face of futility.

    Instead they will adopt resignatory urban metrosexuality, mediterranean and middle eastern bravado, and technological entertainment escapism. Others will check out of society and simply live de minimus lives. Others will try, fail, become enslaved to child support, and perpetual poverty in their maturity.

    They will degenerate into this state until either the culture of abandonment becomes pervasive or they find some idea around which to organize.

    The dream is still sufficiently familiar that drop outs do not consider themselves a class with common interests and goals.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-26 15:34:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS I can’t find paper coffee filters in the

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS

    I can’t find paper coffee filters in the coffee shops or the local grocery stores. It seems everyone I talk to just uses paper towels, if they have a drip machine. Even though most people seem to have espresso machines at home.

    Feels a little gauche when I use paper towels to make Nepalese dark roast in a Russell Hobbes coffee machine… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-23 05:41:00 UTC

  • FEUDALISM WAS VOLUNTARY? “What gives european feudalism its unique identity is t

    FEUDALISM WAS VOLUNTARY?

    “What gives european feudalism its unique identity is that that it is a type of political order based on a contractual agreement between free men who are ennobled in the calling of arms.” – Richard Duchesne, Uniqueness of Western Civilization, p470

    Propertarian reasoning would help us understand, that taking up the force of arms earned the warrior a contract for PROPERTY RIGHTS with his peers and superiors. Thats what enfranchisement meant. That’s what Freedom meant: PROPERTY RIGHTS.

    PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE CREATED, EARNED AND HELD BY THE APPLICATION OF ORGANIZED VIOLENCE.

    VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE. IT IS OUR CURRENCY. WE PURCHASE PROPERTY RIGHTS WITH THAT CURRENCY.

    We can choose to purchase property rights, purchase servitude, or to purchase tyranny. What we purchase with our violences is our choice. It is not a matter for consensus. It is not a matter for discourse. It is not a matter for argument. It is simply a purchase.

    What is it that you wish to purchase with your only natural currencies: time and violence?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-12 07:15:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://mises.org/daily/2404/The-European-Miracle

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-11 15:30:00 UTC

  • “Diversity without commonality is not community, it’s estrangement.” Today’s rhe

    “Diversity without commonality is not community, it’s estrangement.”

    Today’s rhetorical gem.

    See Sowell’s post on diversity as a substitute for thought.

    The evidence is in, that diversity is a bad. And that the people who promote it are seeking status at others expense.

    But facts aren’t important.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-08 13:34:00 UTC

  • On White Males and Libertarianism

    [W]hite males (the european, or perhaps germanic, race) seek status under the ancient indo-european proscription for heroism via competition. The west is unique for having produced this philosophy of aristocratic egalitarianism – inclusion in equalitarian leadership, and therefore obtaining the reward of property rights, by demonstrated heroism. And the high trust society of the west is the result of aristocratic egalitarianism (heroic achievement, demonstrated excellence, virtue). For most of history, and pre-history, males could achieve this only through combat. With the advent of manorialism, males could demonstrate their fitness through hard work. With the advent of chivalry males could demonstrate their heroic status by charitable service. With the advent of consumer capitalism, males could demonstrate their heroic fitness in commerce. Heroic achievemnet grants access to mates (we have a lof of data on this now that confirms this fact – to the point where we know how many dollars in income per inch of height under 5’10” you must earn to gain the same quality of attractive woman…. Really.) Women are as shallow about status as men are about physical attraction – and the data is the data. As such, white males are intuitively attracted to libertarianism if they see in libertarianism a means of pursuing traditional signals for mating, social status, and wealth. That libertarianism is a rigorous philospohy equalled in detail only by Marxism, and is articulated in economic language and analytical philosophy. It is accessible only to those people with both incentive to learn it, and the ability to understand it. This is why libertarianism is a minority white male philosophy. It is an aristocratic philosophy and difficult to access. Other cultures lack both the mythology and cultural values for heroism and egalitarianism Which is why other cultures also cannot produce the high trust society. And without the high trust society, the wealth necessary for redistribution (charity) is impossible to achieve at scale.

  • THE CULTURE OF NON-SUBMISSION : HEROISM The indo european peoples, as sky-worshi

    THE CULTURE OF NON-SUBMISSION : HEROISM

    The indo european peoples, as sky-worshipping, technology-adapting, meat-eating pastoralists, invented heroic, aristocratic, egalitarianism, and managed to survive only in northern Europe. This value system, which we call heroism, is the very antithesis – the opposite – of the ideology of submission that is the identifying characteristic of islamic and Chinese civilizations.

    The western high trust ethic is incompatible with postmodernism just as it was incompatible with socialism and early christianity. And it’s even more incompatible with Islam.

    Aristocracy is pagan, egalitarian, and the antithesis of submission.

    Libertarians are commercially aristocratic, in the same way that conservatives are militarily aristocratic. But while our concepts of excellence vary, our embrace of heroic, egalitarian, excellence is the same.

    Liberty is property. And property and liberty are aristocratic virtues.

    The rest of people want nothing to do with them.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-27 12:40:00 UTC

  • REGARDING WHITE MALES AND LIBERTARIANISM White males (the european, or perhaps g

    REGARDING WHITE MALES AND LIBERTARIANISM

    White males (the european, or perhaps germanic, race) seek status under the ancient indo-european proscription for heroism via competition. The west is unique for having produced this philosophy of aristocratic egalitarianism – inclusion in equalitarian leadership, and therefore obtaining the reward of property rights, by demonstrated heroism. And the high trust society of the west is the result of aristocratic egalitarianism (heroic achievement, demonstrated excellence, virtue).

    For most of history, and pre-history, males could achieve this only through combat. With the advent of manorialism, males could demonstrate their fitness through hard work. With the advent of chivalry males could demonstrate their heroic status by charitable service. With the advent of consumer capitalism, males could demonstrate their heroic fitness in commerce.

    Heroic achievemnet grants access to mates (we have a lof of data on this now that confirms this fact – to the point where we know how many dollars in income per inch of height under 5’10” you must earn to gain the same quality of attractive woman…. Really.) Women are as shallow about status as men are about physical attraction – and the data is the data.

    As such, white males are intuitively attracted to libertarianism if they see in libertarianism a means of pursuing traditional signals for mating, social status, and wealth.

    That libertarianism is a rigorous philospohy equalled in detail only by Marxism, and is articulated in economic language and analytical philosophy. It is accessible only to those people with both incentive to learn it, and the ability to understand it. This is why libertarianism is a minority white male philosophy. It is an aristocratic philosophy and difficult to access.

    Other cultures lack both the mythology and cultural values for heroism and egalitarianism Which is why other cultures also cannot produce the high trust society. And without the high trust society, the wealth necessary for redistribution (charity) is impossible to achieve at scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-27 03:57:00 UTC