Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • I assume this isn’t a serious question, but just for fun: The Song dynasty from

    I assume this isn’t a serious question, but just for fun: The Song dynasty from the mid 900s to mid 1200s is similar to the earlier Roman expansion a millennia earlier, and gave promise to the rest of the world that had stagnated by 800ad, exhausting the gains of agrarianism. But like the Roman fall to the barbarians from Europe, the dynasty fell to the Mongols.
    However, the Germans who like the Mongols wanted essentially to become those they conquered, could not preserve Roman civilization’s administration while the Mongols could preserve the Chinese.
    Fundamental issue with Chinese civ is very subtle. But in the broadest sense, despite exceptional waterways and rice farming, and despite the geography being a relative fortress insulating them, the Chinese were bound like every civ by the limitations on the sequence of institutional formation. Religion first is worst. State first is better. Law first is best. Why? That spectrum describes the rate of evolutionary adaptation of civilizations – and yes it’s really that stupidly simple.

    Reply addressees: @shirazDom @scrumble_eggs @skullthots @bortisbased @lauferlaw @elonmusk @alx

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 06:25:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698945425716224000

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  • Were the dark ages dark, and Christianity a contributor? Well, it’s very difficu

    Were the dark ages dark, and Christianity a contributor?
    Well, it’s very difficult to make the argument that the dark ages weren’t dar from the evidence. That claim is largely a rationalization due to our understanding that life wasn’t all that bad in Europe and never has been. It’s great geography. But the collapse of greco roman civ wasn’t restored until the time of Napoleon. And there was a whole lot of suffering in the middle agse.
    As for truth the problem with Christian testimony(truth) is that it’s true at small scale and by analogy but false at large scale and by correspondence.
    Worse, as you will rapidly learn, the abrahamic religions teach the feminine means of lying, and we are very susceptible (for reasons I’m working on) to the feminine means of lying. If you haven’t noticed the sophistry of the religious or contrasted the logic of Jewish (agreement) vs European(truth) law then you might want to.
    Effectively, Christianity teaches people to lie about everything other than what it teaches people to tell the truth about.
    I mean, we had the ultimate religion in stoicism, and the Christians destroyed it on purpose.
    And we’re still getting out of Christian superstition on one hand, and the marxist-to-woke sequence is just just the reformation of occult abrahamic argument to pseudoscientific abrahamic argument, and abrahamic argument is just the codification of the female means of deception by seduction by false promise into baiting into hazard of social construction of deception under plausible deniability, then using gossiping, rallying, shaming, undermining, and canceling against opponents.
    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @WhereAmIWrong @scrumble_eggs @skullthots @bortisbased @lauferlaw @elonmusk @alx

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 05:16:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698928132659523584

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698924701496586573

  • Truth before face. It’s what separated the West from the rest: oath, testimony,

    Truth before face. It’s what separated the West from the rest: oath, testimony, jury, then confession – producing evolutionary velocity in the bronze, iron, and steel ages, and without Christianity would have brought us the industrial revolution by six or eight hundred AD, and evaded the suffering of the dark ages of superstition.

    And that is why the neo-Marxists, Postmodernists, Anti-Family Feminists, and the PC-Woke(race Marxist) movement, and especially the ‘pronoun’ movement have sought to undermine truth before face. Their Second attempt at another dark age of ignorance and deceit.

    Because truth is the foundation of the success of Western civilization:
    The organized production of self-determination by self-determined means by reciprocal insurance of sovereignty in demonstrated interests, reciprocity in display word and deed, duty, truth before face, excellence and beauty before adequacy, maximizing individual responsibility for both the private and the common, limiting us to voluntary cooperation in markets in everything, and limiting us to truthful disputes in court before a jury of peers, at the cost of constraint of the reproduction of those unfit for all of the above.

    Reply addressees: @scrumble_eggs @skullthots @bortisbased @lauferlaw @elonmusk @alx

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 04:40:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698918991786369024

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  • Again a play on words. Yes, the spectrum of monkeys to apes to hominids evolved

    Again a play on words. Yes, the spectrum of monkeys to apes to hominids evolved as gene flow across all of the world they could reach. But Humans ( Homo sapiens sapiens) evolved from a branch of the hominids that nearly went extinct in Africa, and exited Africa during a crisis,with fully modern humans , then the full human toolkit (physical and social tech) as the new super predator spread across the world killing off every remaining previous generation except for some opportunistic reproduction given that humans specialize in adaptation itself, including sexual adaptation, by having sex with anything vaguely resembling a vagina. So apes and hominids may have developed like all gene flow, everywhere they could survive. But Homo sapiens evolved in the East African rift valley. Even if they may have migrated north when the wet regions of the south dried.
    You might make the case that this branch didn’t really reach full potential until they reached the dry Persian gulf, then back propagated gene flow into Africa. But that would be stretching it.
    You might make the case that before the Mediterranean flooded, that hominids lived there and in Europe, with a range from Europe to Africa and beyond, because until then Africa and Eurasia were connected. That doesn’t alter the fact that Africa was and is an evolutionary meat grinder because up and down climate variation causes north south migration and adaptation.

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    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 00:38:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698858045411913728

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  • I have, but none of these theories are mutually exclusive. There was gene flow a

    I have, but none of these theories are mutually exclusive. There was gene flow among hominids all over the place. That doesn’t alter the fact that we have very clear evidence of the locations and sequences of the expansion of “anatomically modern humans” first and “fully modern humans” (with the full ‘toolkit’). The only thing I’m not sure of is the recent data that forces us to consider whether the east asian south-to-north migration or west-to-east migration had the greater influence. It looks to me like the west to east but that could be wrong. Everything else fits.
    So think of the gene flow out of Africa as the dominant sent of surviving genes, and neoteny (the value of social behavior) the universal direction of all evolutionary speciation.

    Reply addressees: @Hail__To_You

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 19:15:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698776860472078336

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  • Africa’s State of Development is Simple: … (a) African geography is (most) hea

    Africa’s State of Development is Simple:
    … (a) African geography is (most) heavily affected by climate variations over the millennia and epochs, causing a north-south back-and-forth of habitable lands.
    …(b) Africa’s horrific disease gradient requires rapid maturity, and it’s fauna is hard to domesticate.
    …(c) Africa’s population coverage (not density) prohibited isolation and speciation.
    …(d) The absence of cold weather prohibited close-quarters domestication syndrome.
    …(e) Even so, Africa, due to the desert and waters all around, is effectively isolated, and has a narrow east-west green belt, is huge, and has few useful rivers for east-west trade, so africa was too far from trade routes.
    …(e) even such, the new generation of subraces of africans (especially the Bantu) nearly replaced the old africans (Kho-San) as thoroughly as homo sapiens replaced older species across the world, and even how Europeans and Siberian Americans repeatedly replaced previous generations in those territories.

    Africa is backward because it’s an early generation with lower selection pressure for domestication syndrome maintaining a lower IQ (the result of neoteny ), compounded by disease gradient and geography.

    They’re doing just fine now. They need another century or two and they’ll be just fine.

    Reply addressees: @SwannMarcus89

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 17:59:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698757692246872064

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  • RT @whatifalthist: It’s weird that in our age people treat the world that existe

    RT @whatifalthist: It’s weird that in our age people treat the world that existed in say 2005 as stable and sacrosanct. The idea that borde…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 17:39:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698752775318818907

  • This is well-known and has been for years. But these are HOMINIDS not humans. Wh

    This is well-known and has been for years.
    But these are HOMINIDS not humans.
    What happened?
    5M years ago the ideal place to live, the dry Mediterranean basin, flooded.
    This separated Europe from Africa (again).
    Climate shifts did the rest.
    As our early ancestors migrated north…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 17:37:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698752218634011116

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  • (worth watching) Zeihan: Demographics Part 6: The Orthodox Predicament

    (worth watching)
    Zeihan:
    Demographics Part 6:
    The Orthodox Predicament https://youtu.be/UuhgLlxJMkU?si=faBZ8Ssoxes24aXD

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 17:34:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698751309120155658

  • I dont. But i dont downplay out of Africa either

    I dont. But i dont downplay out of Africa either.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 13:43:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698693143032471983

    Reply addressees: @Hail__To_You

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698657495911158102