Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE NORMAL WORLD VS THE ABNORMAL HIGH TRUST WEST —“Japanese are basically as irreciprocal and asymmetric as jews – but with a twist. In that, while they don’t like cheating, defrauding, lying, and stealing, etc. that would cause retaliation, they are always asking the question “is it good for japan?” the way jews ask “is it good for jews?” India does that too – the question is always “is it good for india? And they are very clear on ingroup vs outgroup in everything – and not just race, but family. There are different pronouns for things like mother, father, our company, your company, etc. depending on how you are talking to and your relative position. The Vietnamese language is same way. In vietnam its blatantly clear that everything inside is from your fathers side: patriarchy.”– James

  • hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignor

    … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:38:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061025344369684480

    Reply addressees: @HumanProgress

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

    IN REPLY TO:

    @HumanProgress

    In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

  • Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sover

    Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation ….

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:37:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061024959512961024

    Reply addressees: @HumanProgress

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

    IN REPLY TO:

    @HumanProgress

    In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

  • “The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the

    —“The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”—

    โ€” Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 38 “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 20:47:00 UTC

  • THE GODS GAVE US FIRE, BUT WE MAD OURSELVES GODS WITH METAL. As far as I know (a

    THE GODS GAVE US FIRE, BUT WE MAD OURSELVES GODS WITH METAL.

    As far as I know (and I may be wrong) gods gave us fire via Prometheus, but man invented metal. And while Hephaestus is a god of Smiths (and I am not sure how many civilizations have such a thing other than Thor and Hephaestus) the gods did not give man metal. We made our solves gods by discovering it, and bending it to our will. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 17:48:00 UTC

  • YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting R

    YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster. In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.”–humanprogressorg

    Yes. Yes. Thank you.

    Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation ….

    … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.

    Thank you Western Civilization, The Evil White Male, The Oppressor, The Colonialist, the Bringer of ending human suffering and the privilege of ridiculing those to whom your entire station is but a debt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 17:41:00 UTC

  • lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. Yo

    lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. You do not do it like you did to greece and judea.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 13:49:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060892115209732099

  • lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. Yo

    lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. You do not do it like you did to greece and judea.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 08:49:00 UTC

  • CONSTANTINE THE DESTROYER OF THE EMPRE Emperor Constantine moved the legions fro

    CONSTANTINE THE DESTROYER OF THE EMPRE

    Emperor Constantine moved the legions from the frontiers to one consolidated roving army as a way to save money and to protect wealthier citizens within the cities. However, this grand strategy would have costly effects of the Roman empire by weakening its frontier defenses and allowing it to be susceptible to outside armies coming in. Also, people who lived near the Roman frontiers would begin to look to the barbarians for protection after the Roman armies departed. “Constantine abolished this frontier security by removing the greater part of the soldiery from the frontiers to cities that needed no auxiliary forces. He thus deprived of help the people who were harassed by the barbarians and burdened tranquil cities with the pest of the military, so that several straightway were deserted. Moreover, he softened the soldiers who treated themselves to shows and luxuries. Indeed, to speak plainly, he personally planted the first seeds of our present devastated state of affairs โ€“ Zosimus, 5th-century CE historian[citation needed]

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 07:38:00 UTC

  • Constantine the Destroyer of The Empre

    CONSTANTINE THE DESTROYER OF THE EMPRE Emperor Constantine moved the legions from the frontiers to one consolidated roving army as a way to save money and to protect wealthier citizens within the cities. However, this grand strategy would have costly effects of the Roman empire by weakening its frontier defenses and allowing it to be susceptible to outside armies coming in. Also, people who lived near the Roman frontiers would begin to look to the barbarians for protection after the Roman armies departed. “Constantine abolished this frontier security by removing the greater part of the soldiery from the frontiers to cities that needed no auxiliary forces. He thus deprived of help the people who were harassed by the barbarians and burdened tranquil cities with the pest of the military, so that several straightway were deserted. Moreover, he softened the soldiers who treated themselves to shows and luxuries. Indeed, to speak plainly, he personally planted the first seeds of our present devastated state of affairs รขย€ย“ Zosimus, 5th-century CE historian[citation needed]