Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • like i said. only europeans could invent what we did – but everyone can use it .

    … like i said. only europeans could invent what we did – but everyone can use it … at the cost of face. A cost we have always paid.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 21:06:00 UTC

  • THEM (MIDDLE EAST) VS US (WEST) Face ………………………vs Truth Reasona

    THEM (MIDDLE EAST) VS US (WEST)

    Face ………………………vs Truth

    Reasonableness ……..vs Decidability

    Pilpul ……………………..vs Construction

    Critique ………………….vs Falsification

    Authority ………………..vs Market

    Equality ………………….vs Hierarchy

    Proportionality ………..vs Reciprocity

    Herd ………………………vs Pack.

    Feminine ………………..vs Masculine

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 20:15:00 UTC

  • Halloween Celebration: Driven by (a) children per household, (b) relative wealth

    Halloween Celebration: Driven by (a) children per household, (b) relative wealth (c) the dominance of the workplace as means of trick-or-treating, because (d) the dissolution of the stable, territorial, intergenerational family, because of the growth of cities – and (e) as Haidt’s recent book suggests: the ‘infantilization’ of the generation, and it’s ‘paranoia’ due to the inverse relation between crime and criminal trends.

    Where I am in a rural area of the USA at the moment, its as insane as christmas decorations in suburbia.

    Don’t underestimate the impact of the current political stress over white-replacement on civic participation. It’s huge.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 19:22:00 UTC

  • Japan and Face

    October 30th, 2018 8:29 AM

    —“I lived in Japan for five years. Pet peeve. Face is a weak male pretending to be dominant. Only weak males give a shit about face.—Richard Nikoley

    [W]estern civilization is heroic (and we are the subject of worldwide ridicule for it.) Honor (telling truth regardless of the consequences) is our promise we are NOT weak. And because we are not weak, peers rather than subjects. We pay a high cost to create the high trust society we live in, and we actively suppress ‘the weak’, their parasitism, their behavior, and reproduction because of it.

  • Table: The Middle East vs The West

    October 30th, 2018 8:15 PM 

    THEM (MIDDLE EAST)     VS US (WEST)
Face ..................vs Truth
Reasonableness ........vs Decidability
Pilpul ................vs Construction
Critique ..............vs Falsification
Authority .............vs Market
Equality ..............vs Hierarchy
Proportionality .......vs Reciprocity
Herd ..................vs Pack.
Feminine ..............vs Masculine

  • Table: The Middle East vs The West

    October 30th, 2018 8:15 PM 

    THEM (MIDDLE EAST)     VS US (WEST)
Face ..................vs Truth
Reasonableness ........vs Decidability
Pilpul ................vs Construction
Critique ..............vs Falsification
Authority .............vs Market
Equality ..............vs Hierarchy
Proportionality .......vs Reciprocity
Herd ..................vs Pack.
Feminine ..............vs Masculine

  • “There’s no way to be ruthless enough to defend the gains of hundreds of thousan

    —“There’s no way to be ruthless enough to defend the gains of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, representing thousands of lifetimes spent braving the ice, war, and plagues, to produce a healthier, smarter genome.”—@[11804727:2048:Steve Pender]

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 13:19:00 UTC

  • I’ve seen this somewhere before. The entire aristocratic project “…never inclu

    I’ve seen this somewhere before. The entire aristocratic project “…never included more than 25000 people…., or 250,000 in total.”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 13:03:00 UTC

  • HARMONY VIA HIERARCHY OR SOVERIEGNTY Sorry man. I knew when I wrote it I was bei

    HARMONY VIA HIERARCHY OR SOVERIEGNTY

    Sorry man. I knew when I wrote it I was being lazy and leaving too much up to the reader, but I was tired….

    here:

    1) yes asian harmony is a commons paid for by NOT speaking truth regardless of the consequences, in order to preserve the harmony created by the hierarchy, under the presumption of the balance between humans and nature, man and woman, parent and children, rulers and people.

    2) european (northern) disharmony (truth) is a commons paid for BY speaking and paying the costs to the dominance hierarchy.

    Soldiers REPORT to officers. OODA Loops (Maneuver) requires initiative within the limits of contract. Warriors volunteer for war as opportunity (booty).

    Serfs OBEY rulers. Children OBEY parents. And each maintains the contract for harmony by holding formation so to speak (and asians hold formation almost as well as we do). Sefs are recruited for war out of obligation and are paid.

    3) So we produce sovereignty and property and commons, and they produce harmony and property and commons.

    And we develop faster than they do for that reason. Hence why they have adopted our means of rapid adaptation in POLITICS (law, accounting, industry, science) but not in NORMS (heroism, confrontation, demonstration of fitness by truth to power vs their demonstration of fitness by obedience and conformity).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 11:41:00 UTC

  • “I lived in Japan for five years. Pet peeve. “face” is a weak male pretending to

    —“I lived in Japan for five years. Pet peeve. “face” is a weak male pretending to be dominant. Only weak males give a shit about “face.”—Richard Nikoley

    Western civilization is heroic (and we are the subject of worldwide ridicule for it.)

    Honor (telling truth regardless of the consequences) is our promise we are NOT weak. And because we are not weak, peers rather than subjects.

    We pay a high cost to create the high trust society we live in, and we actively suppress ‘the weak’, their parasitism, their behavior, and reproduction because of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 08:29:00 UTC