Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • NOTE FOR ALL: There is a relationship between culture and genome that is self-re

    NOTE FOR ALL: There is a relationship between culture and genome that is self-reinforcing, but mostly in the direction of neotenic evolution (domestication syndrome). So the [R1b > R1a > I] cline have been co-evolving for millennia – at least since the end of the ice age.
    We might argue that genome is just a proxy for civilization because civilizations reflect the demands of their genetic distributions, and the primary axis of genetic distribution in both sexual rate and depth of maturity, sexual dimorphism, temperament (personality) and intelligence.
    But all that would mean is that it’s the distribution of the population under that culture evolved under that genome evolved under that degree of neotenic evolution, made possible by isolation and sub-speciation.
    This is the correct explanation of the correlation of integration possibility rather than purely attributing it to genetics.
    When we account for the entire sequence we see causal clarity and ends the criticism of reliance on genetic determinism.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 22:20:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003953988144930884

  • (Worth The Watch) BARRY DOING HER BEST JOB OF EXPLAINING THE RUSSIAN MIND. It’s

    (Worth The Watch)
    BARRY DOING HER BEST JOB OF EXPLAINING THE RUSSIAN MIND.
    It’s sad. I love them. But they are still serfs. Feudal. And as a low trust polity that never obtained middle class majority and the resulting rule of law, they cannot imagine they can be self organizing and a market economy that would be the envy of the continent if they would just work at it.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 01:50:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003644492898017395

  • I didn’t forget it. On the other hand the germans settled the east, and ran into

    I didn’t forget it. On the other hand the germans settled the east, and ran into the russians who were expanding west. My argument is founded upon the lack of necessity of the english and then americans to enter the war. AFAIK, even WWI as an attempt to recover what had been lost to napoleon. (I try to think about conflict from every side’s position.)

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-20 22:57:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002513673613725846

  • “There is no such thing as the Islamic Golden Age, when it was if anything a Per

    –“There is no such thing as the Islamic Golden Age, when it was if anything a Persian (Iranian) Golden Age that was due to the import of Greek Thought, and was ended by Arab fundamentalism of Al-Ghazali.”–

    Almost all the thinkers were Iranian and only outwardly muslim out of self preservation. At the time egypt and syria are majority christian.

    It’s more about her guest, but it’s accessible.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-19 20:30:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002114328623976458

  • Here is how old this observation is: Aesop’s fable “Hermes and the Arabs” (also

    Here is how old this observation is:

    Aesop’s fable “Hermes and the Arabs” (also known as “The Cart of Lies”), from Laura Gibbs’s translation of the ancient Greek text:

    –“Hermes filled a cart with lies and dishonesty and all sorts of wicked tricks, and he journeyed in this cart throughout the land, going hither and thither from one tribe to another, dispensing to each nation a small portion of his wares. When he reached the land of the Arabs, so the story goes, his cart suddenly broke down along the way and was stuck there. The Arabs seized the contents of the cart as if it were a merchant’s valuable cargo, stripping the cart bare and preventing Hermes from continuing on his journey, although there were still some people he had not yet visited. As a result, Arabs are liars and charlatans, as I myself have learned from experience. There is not a word of truth that springs from their lips.”–

    Low trust, faceless, culture.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:33:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001767697479250133

  • Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (E

    Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (European: truth before face, East Asian: Face before truth, Semitic: facelessness – it’s still admirable to ‘get away with’ something. ‘The ethics of the bazaar.’) Africa never progressed until christianity beyond the ethics of the four family types so it’s not easy to discuss their ethics. Christianity was a reform using theology (semitic mythicism) as a means of making semitic peoples capable of cooperation sufficient to resist the european-persian (indo european) superiors. Talmudic Judaism was a revolt that attempted to adopt western rule of law in semitic terms. Islam was a revolt against the corruption of their tribal elders during the period where europe and persia had exhausted themselves. Fundamentalist islam was a revolt against the introduction of european thought into semitic civilization. The reasons for these revolts are largely understood as natural conflicts between populations with vastly different intelligence, institutions, and trust for ancestral reasons. Unfortunately, when the middle east converted to christianity it made progress, but the barbarism of islam – the most backward people in the region – resulted in the most digressive group strategy on earth – which is why islamic cultures is the last to adapt to modernity.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:30:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001766966202359952

  • I don’t understand ‘fault’ in this context. Sorry. The ‘white man’s burden’ stil

    I don’t understand ‘fault’ in this context. Sorry. The ‘white man’s burden’ still lives in the western and christian subconscious, partly because it was the only known solution to the post-world-war era: “either bring the world along or watch it suicide by the false promise of communism and the result wars.” We brought the world along – sometimes kicking and screaming – but modernization benefitted everyone.
    The problem is we don’t tax the world for this service, and as such we can no longer pay for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 20:50:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001757034375704771

  • (Worth The Read) A survey of the reasons for the decline of europe: the many for

    (Worth The Read)
    A survey of the reasons for the decline of europe: the many forms of hubris.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-15 20:29:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2000664549524169067

  • I want to add that black on black violence in america is just about to reach mor

    I want to add that black on black violence in america is just about to reach more internecine murder than the total number of slaves ever imported into america. Not only are african-americans, at 14% of the population responsible for 50% of crime, but the IQ distribution means more than a third are effectively unemployable in america’s modern technological economy. This proximity between can-and-have vs cannot-and-don’t-have is a source of constant tension, and the crime is the release of that tensions.

    This does not mean we should not work to help one another, it means that there are very few solutions that can be solved within that diverse a polity. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-12 01:34:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1999291770782581136

  • The people of Ghana are probably the most sophisticated in Africa, with Nigerian

    The people of Ghana are probably the most sophisticated in Africa, with Nigerians the only close second (but not always as ethical) ;). I’ve had followers in Ghana for a decade. Good people. Smart. Ambitious. Easy to work with. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-12 00:02:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1999268673383711219