Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Evolution: Female Strategy (sedition) > Semitic(against Egyptian, Iranic, indo e

    Evolution:
    Female Strategy (sedition) > Semitic(against Egyptian, Iranic, indo european conquerors) > Jewish(Abrahamic against europeans and Persians) > Christian > French Socialist > German Rationalist > Jewish Marxist.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-04 19:08:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676306967814369299

    Reply addressees: @SClaus1984

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676299337129684992

  • A SUMMARY OF THE PAST CENTURY OF HISTORIANS OF CIVILIZATIONAL RISE AND FALL –“Q

    A SUMMARY OF THE PAST CENTURY OF HISTORIANS OF CIVILIZATIONAL RISE AND FALL
    –“Q: Hey Curt, what are your thoughts about Oswald Spengler?”–

    My thoughts on Spengler differ based upon what question you’re asking.

    In General I think of Spengler compared to Arnold Toynbee and Carroll Quigley. Though I tend to think of all historians of rise-and-fall in relation to all others:

    Spengler (Very German,1880) thought civilizational cycles were deterministic.

    Toynbee(British, 1889) thought that they rise and fall based on their success or failure to handle challenges.

    Quigley(American, 1910 ) thought they had tendencies to go through cycles but good government could change the course.

    Huntington(American, 1927) Thought that civilizational differences were nearly impossible to overcome so the future would be decided by the conflicts that arose between the civilizations.

    Tainter (American, 1949) Tainter thinks (like me) in economic terms, and that all organizations, including states and civilizations, ‘calcify’ by exploiting opportunities, investing in all manner of systems and institutions to do so, and maximize rents and free riding – until a shock can’t be adapted to without collapse and reorganization – learning and developing the appropriate systems. In other words, humans behave at all scales, including the economic and political, as neural economies behave.

    Diamond (American Jewish, 1937) Diamond thinks that geography and geographical resources were more deterministic than demographics, culture, and institutions. This is partly correct and partly wrong, and his later work on fall of civilizations just repeats the same as everyone else. Diamond always has an agenda and I find him as exasperating as he is helpful – just like say, Howard Zinn(Marxist) and NY Harari(Mythicist) who are full of pop culture Jewish nonsense in the jewish pseudoscientific tradition of Freud, Boaz, Marx, and Gould, as well as the ever dominant Frankfurt school.

    Fukuyama (Japanese American, 1952) Fukuyama thinks three things are necessary for a strong and capable MODERN state, the state’s subordination to a rule of law, and the state’s accountability to all its citizens. But while these are difficult to produce, maintaining it is even harder. Because all political systems (as in all human organizations) calcify, exhaust resources and opportunities, maximize internal rent seeking, overproduce rent-seeking elites, and decay. So Fukuyama attributes (correctly) rise and fall to political decay from political overpopulation, self interest, rent seeking, and corruption.

    Turchin (Russian American, 1957) Turchin believes, even more analytically, than Fukuyama, and mathematically that the overproduction of elites produce political decay. But he also holds to the cyclical view of history the way that previous russian thinkers (and I include myself in this group) recognize the patterns of economic cycles and the reasons for them in the cycles of history.

    My perception is that these men are increasingly refining the theory of history at civilizational scales in parallel with the increasing refining of the theory of economic history at national and global scales.

    I think the best thing we can learn from all of them is the need for small government, with the maximum use of financial investment by the state and the maximum use of the private sector, combined with the minimum public sector employment. Because it’s our governments and the people who seek rents and privileges and distributions from them that cause us to fail.

    One thing I can’t stress enough is that people like Turchin and myself are not ‘literary essayists’ reading texts, but using economic and legal data, by effectively trying to discover the algorithms for human behavior at scale. Whereas there is a great deal of theology, philosophy, and idealism in earlier generations of thinkers – particularly those pre-war.

    I hope this short set of paragraphs helps.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation

    Reply addressees: @OtonielFilho5


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 17:52:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675925458926313485

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675901776195727361

  • MARXIST STORYTELLING (JUSTIFICATION, PILPUL CRITIQUE) VS THE WEST, VS THE IDEAL

    MARXIST STORYTELLING (JUSTIFICATION, PILPUL CRITIQUE) VS THE WEST, VS THE IDEAL ECONOMY
    Storytelling is (Mythologizing) has a long history in semitic pre-abrahamic, and abrahamic religion, and of course, as a consequence in the marxist revision of the semitic religions.

    Yet always and everywhere this Storytelling (Mythologizing) exists to evade the central problem of human behavior: Rule of Law, by the Natural Law, of Self Determination by Self Determined means, Limiting us to Sovereignty in Demonstrated interests and reciprocity in display word and deed, (a) produces incentives (b) produces meritocracy (c) produces natural hierarchy, (d) produces empirical decidability (e) which in turn produces courts for the suppression of violations of reciprocity (f) at the expense of continuing natural selection by the suppression of the reproduction of the unfit for the stage of technological development.

    Conversely the problem of socialism is the (a’) production of incentives, (b’) the production of corruption instead of meritocracy, (c’) the production of an unnatural hierarchy (competence in corruption), (d’) produces arbitrary decidability (corruption), (e’) which prohibits the function of courts in suppression of corruption and irreciprocity (d’) and exacerbates dysgenic reproduction. And it’s dysgenic reproduction that is undermining the west at the moment, and is starting to undermine china.

    And lastly, the falsehood (by marx) that ‘society’ is family rather than that society consists of families, clans, sometimes tribes and nations, that require incentive to cooperate, compete, and avoid conflict and war. In other words, society is a product of a market for cooperation. It is only among the incomptent ignorant and weak, that they claim that others hold any obligation to them, other than the one that we can all hold to one another: non-aggression, non violence, non-predation, non-parasitism.

    In particular why do the competent care for being preyed upon by the incompetent? The standard question is: why if will parasitically prey upon me and mine (the competent), would I and mine not parsitically prey upon you (the incompetent)? Why if you parasitically wish to prey upon me and mine (the productive) through government, would I and mine not parasitically prey upon you by enserving or enslaving, and ruling you (the unproductive)? Worse, in an age where labor no longer has any value, and increasingly will have no value, why not separate from you or end you?

    This is the rational question of the strong and the competent. Therefore it is better to find a means of non-parasitism between the classes so that these classes and countries can cooperate interally and externally.

    Reality: We need economies that suit our demographics. The demographic composition of africa is in th 60’s and 70’s meaning only 10% of the pouplation is capable of self regulatory and self learning behavior necessary for a economy other than agrarian. The composition of south eurasia, meaning MENA+India is in the low 80’s, meaning that more than half the population is unemployable in any skilled labor, and the intellectual classes are extremely limited in number. In europe and east asia, our demographics are around 100-105, meaning all but 10-15% of our populations are capable of ecnomic participation in advanced economies. This is because your political and economic condition is dependent upon i) demographic distribution (summarized in IQ), and ii) smart fraction – meaning the percent of the population over 125.

    So, the non-ideological description of these diverse needs, is that some groups can maintain a market economy, some groups require a military economy (soviet), and some groups require a peasant economy (much of the ‘developing’ world).

    And the utopian economy supplies the market, the military, and the peasant economies, so that all classes operate by the means it’s possible for them to operate under.

    Because we have learned, even in europe, that the majority of the population cannot bear the responsibility of northern european high trust polities, where individuals are fully responsible for themselves. Instead, the majority prefer serfdom (socialist) economies because their survival is insured (as were serfs and slaves) and their market competition is limited to the production of sufficient income to pay for entertainment and other luxuries. And for those that are truly dependent, they can retain their in-famiily dependence and shared reciprocal insurance and obtain some redistribution from their betters in exchange for limiting their reproduction.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 14:35:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675875865836638211

  • It’s not irrational. It’s just not good. One of our educational problems is over

    It’s not irrational. It’s just not good. One of our educational problems is overplaying the history of the atlantic and the age of empires and underplaying the holy roman empire, and the evolution of ‘being european’.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 04:56:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675730162262876161

    Reply addressees: @FlashGorgone

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675726436764663808

  • RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle Curt Doolittle responds to the accusations that

    RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle Curt Doolittle responds to the accusations that he is anti-French by saying French civilization is indeed…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 03:36:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675710031382159360

  • RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle CD says: The Left has been trying to make White

    RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle CD says: The Left has been trying to make White-Western Christian civilization “into the Middle East,”

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    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 03:35:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675709943419138049

  • RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle CD says: The USA has been running on ‘fumes,’ t

    RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle CD says: The USA has been running on ‘fumes,’ to a great extent, for nearly sixty years; running on the in…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 03:35:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675709922359615494

  • RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle Curt Doolittle says it is very hard (costly) to

    RT @Hail__To_You: @curtdoolittle Curt Doolittle says it is very hard (costly) to maintain a Western culture, and… “What happened is that…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-03 03:35:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675709816461828102

  • RT @LukeWeinhagen: Family culture versus individual culture

    RT @LukeWeinhagen: Family culture versus individual culture.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-02 00:49:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675305749155840000

  • We can look back at history and see most progressive movements that attempted to

    We can look back at history and see most progressive movements that attempted to evade behavior demonstrated by human nature – especially our rather slow rate of adaptation to habituated concepts, norms, and institutions – have ended in harms.

    The optimum political order is the small homogenous ethnostate with rule of law by the natural law, an independent judiciary, a monarchy as head of state and judge of last resort, a cabinet of professionals to govern, and houses as a market for trades between the classes for the production of commons, with the intergenerational family (not the individual) as the central object of policy. Christianity even if secular is a massive benefit because itis the only religion adapted to natural law.

    Reply addressees: @CrispinFitheler @FarajRashi93307


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-01 18:12:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675205723419033602

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675203998658461697