Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Vacher de Lapouge

    by Daniel Gurpide Vacher de Lapouge was the French founder of a school – Anthroposociology – which wanted to apply the new Darwinian science of evolution to the study of politics. Before WWI, he had followers in Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway and the USA. I don‘t think Lapouge was ever translated into English, despite his having several American disciples (Madison Grant, Carlos Closson at the University of Chicago). I know he also visited the USA twice (Second International Eugenics Congress in NYC in 1921 and some Conference on Family Planning with Margaret Sanger). The text in a previous post here: [ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=293882641177035&id=100016659043273 ] is a summary of “Les Selections Sociales“ made by Pitirim Sorokin and polished by me to adapt it to modern sensitivities (the original is too politically incorrect). Sorokin, Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota, wrote a work entitled “Contemporary Sociological Theories” in 1928. It contains a chapter on the racial question. The chapter is memorable, for it marks the close of the period in which both sides in the controversy (hereditarians/environmentalists) were free to put forward their views, and authors who wished to do so could give objective accounts of the evidence pointing in each direction. Sorokin supported neither side, he just expressed clearly and shortly the views of both sides in the controversy. The book is worth reading today, as a reminder of what was possible before 1933. In France, the main opponent of anthroposociology was (((Emile Durkheim))); in the USA, (((Franz Boas))). From the beginning of the thirties onwards scarcely anyone outside Germany and its allies dared to follow the hereditarian school, lest it should appear that they were excusing or supporting the Nazi cause. Anthropology became a strictly ‚cultural‘ discipline.

  • Modern Art – the Art Movement After the Invention of Photography Through the End of The First World War

    MODERN ART – THE ART MOVEMENT AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR A couple of things happened that we need to take into account. 1 – Photography destroyed the artists capacity to earn just like photoshop destroyed the art supply business (which I was a significant player in) and drove everyone to digital. 2 – There was a HUGE increase in demand for decorative arts as the size of the middle class expanded. 3 – The urban apartment and war era panel products and mass manufacturing produced an environment unsuitable for curvalinear arts 4 – Immigration created the problem of producing decoration for new groups who neither wanted to reflect their (peasant) ancestry but wanted to signal their new influences. 5 – The marxists exploited this like they did all other immoral market opportunities.

  • Modern Art – the Art Movement After the Invention of Photography Through the End of The First World War

    MODERN ART – THE ART MOVEMENT AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR A couple of things happened that we need to take into account. 1 – Photography destroyed the artists capacity to earn just like photoshop destroyed the art supply business (which I was a significant player in) and drove everyone to digital. 2 – There was a HUGE increase in demand for decorative arts as the size of the middle class expanded. 3 – The urban apartment and war era panel products and mass manufacturing produced an environment unsuitable for curvalinear arts 4 – Immigration created the problem of producing decoration for new groups who neither wanted to reflect their (peasant) ancestry but wanted to signal their new influences. 5 – The marxists exploited this like they did all other immoral market opportunities.

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post. by Daniel Gurpide Vacher de Lapouge was the French

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    by Daniel Gurpide

    Vacher de Lapouge was the French founder of a school – Anthroposociology – which wanted to apply the new Darwinian science of evolution to the study of politics. Before WWI, he had followers in Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway and the USA.

    I don‘t think Lapouge was ever translated into English, despite his having several American disciples (Madison Grant, Carlos Closson at the University of Chicago). I know he also visited the USA twice (Second International Eugenics Congress in NYC in 1921 and some Conference on Family Planning with Margaret Sanger).

    The text in a previous post here:

    [ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=293882641177035&id=100016659043273 ]

    is a summary of “Les Selections Sociales“ made by Pitirim Sorokin and polished by me to adapt it to modern sensitivities (the original is too politically incorrect).

    Sorokin, Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota, wrote a work entitled “Contemporary Sociological Theories” in 1928. It contains a chapter on the racial question. The chapter is memorable, for it marks the close of the period in which both sides in the controversy (hereditarians/environmentalists) were free to put forward their views, and authors who wished to do so could give objective accounts of the evidence pointing in each direction. Sorokin supported neither side, he just expressed clearly and shortly the views of both sides in the controversy. The book is worth reading today, as a reminder of what was possible before 1933.

    In France, the main opponent of anthroposociology was (((Emile Durkheim))); in the USA, (((Franz Boas))). From the beginning of the thirties onwards scarcely anyone outside Germany and its allies dared to follow the hereditarian school, lest it should appear that they were excusing or supporting the Nazi cause. Anthropology became a strictly ‚cultural‘ discipline.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 19:28:14 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Russian and Ukrainian traditional music, and

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Russian and Ukrainian traditional music, and even some of the pop, has what we call the ‘polka’ sound, which is a two beat tempo. Russian folk songs on the other hand are beautiful. And some of them are quite funny. If you study both nordic, germanic, and slavic pagan holidays you see what we used to be like not so very long ago. It’s more obvious in the baltics and ukraine since they were under less political and commercial pressure. The baltics held out until 1500’s.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 17:22:26 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. When traveling, you do notice a bit of Steppe

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    When traveling, you do notice a bit of Steppe, Rug, and Yurt culture in Russian aesthetics – particularly decor. You notice very quickly when you leave the plain and enter the european wood east of L’viv, and return to european decor. This is because our aesthetic tends to retain some of the symbolism of our folk crafts.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 17:15:47 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. RUSSIAN VS WESTERN ART What you will notice r

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    RUSSIAN VS WESTERN ART
    What you will notice rather quickly once aware, is that Russian art has a legacy of iconography that leads to a preference for constrained space and extreme detail, and lacks the imperial spaciousness of english landscapes and American photography. Unfortunately we live in an era of sterile apartments built by cranes and with panel products and not in homes crafted by hand, filled with artifacts handed down over the generations. Art is inescapably a subordinate to architecture and until we fix architecture we cannot fix the art that decorates it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 17:13:32 UTC

  • AESTHETICS: ART > DECORATION > CRAFT We have evolved these disciplines for very

    AESTHETICS: ART > DECORATION > CRAFT

    We have evolved these disciplines for very obvious reasons:

    – Art (The social, and Monumental, content).

    – Decoration (the personal and environmental)

    – Craft (the material)

    More is always better.

    – More content.

    – More decoration

    – More craft

    Why? They represent the accumulation of intellectual (art), emotional (design) and physical (craft) calories.

    Bounty. Art like all things that are beautiful, conveys bounty (fertility), which is why we are attracted to it.

    See? Everything is very simple and very clear once you understand it.

    EVERYTHING IS SIMPLE. THE UNIVERSE IS SIMPLE. IT’S THE LIES WE TELL TO MASK OUR IGNORANCE THAT CREATE COMPLEXITY.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:27:00 UTC

  • MODERN ART – THE ART MOVEMENT AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE END

    MODERN ART – THE ART MOVEMENT AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    A couple of things happened that we need to take into account.

    1 – Photography destroyed the artists capacity to earn just like photoshop destroyed the art supply business (which I was a significant player in) and drove everyone to digital.

    2 – There was a HUGE increase in demand for decorative arts as the size of the middle class expanded.

    3 – The urban apartment and war era panel products and mass manufacturing produced an environment unsuitable for curvalinear arts

    4 – Immigration created the problem of producing decoration for new groups who neither wanted to reflect their (peasant) ancestry but wanted to signal their new influences.

    5 – The marxists exploited this like they did all other immoral market opportunities.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:21:00 UTC

  • by Daniel Gurpide Vacher de Lapouge was the French founder of a school – Anthrop

    by Daniel Gurpide

    Vacher de Lapouge was the French founder of a school – Anthroposociology – which wanted to apply the new Darwinian science of evolution to the study of politics. Before WWI, he had followers in Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway and the USA.

    I don‘t think Lapouge was ever translated into English, despite his having several American disciples (Madison Grant, Carlos Closson at the University of Chicago). I know he also visited the USA twice (Second International Eugenics Congress in NYC in 1921 and some Conference on Family Planning with Margaret Sanger).

    The text in a previous post here:

    [ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=293882641177035&id=100016659043273 ]

    is a summary of “Les Selections Sociales“ made by Pitirim Sorokin and polished by me to adapt it to modern sensitivities (the original is too politically incorrect).

    Sorokin, Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota, wrote a work entitled “Contemporary Sociological Theories” in 1928. It contains a chapter on the racial question. The chapter is memorable, for it marks the close of the period in which both sides in the controversy (hereditarians/environmentalists) were free to put forward their views, and authors who wished to do so could give objective accounts of the evidence pointing in each direction. Sorokin supported neither side, he just expressed clearly and shortly the views of both sides in the controversy. The book is worth reading today, as a reminder of what was possible before 1933.

    In France, the main opponent of anthroposociology was (((Emile Durkheim))); in the USA, (((Franz Boas))). From the beginning of the thirties onwards scarcely anyone outside Germany and its allies dared to follow the hereditarian school, lest it should appear that they were excusing or supporting the Nazi cause. Anthropology became a strictly ‚cultural‘ discipline.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 15:28:00 UTC