Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Natural Level of Predation of Pastoralists

    October 14th, 2018 2:42 AM NATURAL LEVEL OF PREDATION OF PASTORALISTS (like I said)

    —“Whole German tribes, like the Cimbri, might coordinate for a singular migration for new territory, but for the exclusive pastoralist, their whole existence was migration. Groups such as the Goths and Vandals might settle down, and become primary producers again, but pure pastoralists probably required some natural level of predation and extortion upon settled peoples to obtain a lifestyle beyond marginal subsistence. Which is to say that some of the characterizations of Late Antique barbarians as ad hoc configurations might apply more to steppe hordes.”—

  • African Civilization

    October 14th, 2018 1:13 PM AFRICAN CIVILIZATION [I] dunno man. We clearly have different understandings of africans. They are, by and large, the most optimistic, pro-social, least ideological people on the planet right now. They’re like the youngest child that learned from all the mistakes of their older siblings, and is determined not to repeat them. If the british had not interfered we would have seen a west african consolidated empire, and they would be at least at the level of south americans by now. If you look at the questions I get from around the world it’s Africans and South Americans that are least likely to believe nonsense, and most likely to simply judge mankind empirically Why? They have not lost sight of humanity up-close-and-personal, and are not fooled by propaganda, false history, and cults because of it.

  • Indian Diffusion in to SE Asia

    October 14th, 2018 2:37 AM

    —–The history of Southeast Asia, or perhaps more accurately the quasi-history of Southeast Asia since so many of the records are from China and elsewhere, indicates strong Indian influence in the period before 1000 AD. The standard model is that this is cultural diffusion. And by and large Southeast Asian peoples are are mostly indigenous. But, a non-trivial minority of their ancestry is recent, but pre-colonial, gene flow from the Indian subcontinent. Additionally, the imprint is easier to see in the Y chromosome than the mtDNA. The legends of marriages between Indian Brahmins and native princesses in places like Cambodia probably do reflect something real in the dynamics of the early Indianization.—

  • The antithesis of equality is not inequality. It is quality.

    October 14th, 2018 10:04 AM

    —“The antithesis of equality is not inequality. It is quality.” — Oswald Spengler

    (h/t:Josef Kalinin)

  • War Before Civilization by Keeley

    October 14th, 2018 2:26 AM https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195119126/

  • Natural Level of Predation of Pastoralists

    October 14th, 2018 2:42 AM NATURAL LEVEL OF PREDATION OF PASTORALISTS (like I said)

    —“Whole German tribes, like the Cimbri, might coordinate for a singular migration for new territory, but for the exclusive pastoralist, their whole existence was migration. Groups such as the Goths and Vandals might settle down, and become primary producers again, but pure pastoralists probably required some natural level of predation and extortion upon settled peoples to obtain a lifestyle beyond marginal subsistence. Which is to say that some of the characterizations of Late Antique barbarians as ad hoc configurations might apply more to steppe hordes.”—

  • Communist Rules for Revolution

    October 14th, 2018 2:12 PM FWIW: This is an interpretation of Communist Strategy produced at the end of WW2. We do not in fact know the author. But it was first published in the USA. The fact that communists don’t own up to it, doesn’t mean it isn’t the plan. Like “The Protocols” these are western articulations of the operational objectives of Abrahamic, Communist and now Postmodern and Feminist speech. So “Communist Denialism” of a QUOTE, isn’t the same as the operational description of Communist Tactics spoken in Abrahamic (Sophist) Code. —Communist Rules for Revolution–

    1. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.

    2. Get control of all means of publicity.

    3. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and other trivialities.

    4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

    5. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

    6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

    7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

    8. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

    9. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

    10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.

  • “Humans have great agency within certain bounds (space/time/domain). The west wa

    —“Humans have great agency within certain bounds (space/time/domain). The west was successful because it built a social web of boundaries, that closely aligned one’s freedoms, and responsibilities with one’s ability/agency.”—Dagmar Schmitt

    CONSTANT RELATIONS WITH REALITY AND ABILITY

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-14 14:48:00 UTC

  • The vast majority of civilizations evolved to produce #NPC’s en mass. Western Ci

    The vast majority of civilizations evolved to produce #NPC’s en mass. Western Civilization alone evolved to produce AGENCY en mass (Truth, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Property, Markets). The problem is, we were optimistic about the percentage of HOSTs able to run AGENCY vs SCRIPTS.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-14 14:38:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1051482448775778304

  • FWIW: This is an interpretation of Communist Strategy produced at the end of WW2

    FWIW: This is an interpretation of Communist Strategy produced at the end of WW2. We do not in fact know the author. But it was first published in the USA. The fact that communists don’t own up to it, doesn’t mean it isn’t the plan.

    Like “The Protocols” these are western articulations of the operational objectives of Abrahamic, Communist and now Postmodern and Feminist speech.

    So “Communist Denialism” of a QUOTE, isn’t the same as the operational description of Communist Tactics spoken in Abrahamic (Sophist) Code.

    —Communist Rules for Revolution–

    1. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.

    2. Get control of all means of publicity.

    3. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and other trivialities.

    4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

    5. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

    6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

    7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

    8. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

    9. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

    10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-14 14:12:00 UTC