Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • HAIDT IS A KINDLY MESSENGER. LEARN FROM HIM OR LEARN FROM US UNKINDLY, OR FROM C

    https://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.htmlJON HAIDT IS A KINDLY MESSENGER. LEARN FROM HIM OR LEARN FROM US UNKINDLY, OR FROM CONSEQUENCES.

    —“Here is my interview in @EveningStandard, with Katie Law. I talk about “moral backsliding” –the way some of the moral progress of the last 70 years is coming undone:

    https://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.html “—Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

    1) NO. We came out of a period of vast economic institutional, cultural, and genetic asymmetry and conspicuous consumption of compromises between genes, gender, class, and interests. We are no longer in conditions making possible conspicuous consumption of signal goods.

    2) Under vast asymmetry, like when inheriting a fortune or winning a lottery, we can afford to transgress previous norms and traditions that preserved our common interests. Conversely, having SPENT DOWN all that accumulated capital, we now return to the historical mean: nations.

    3) The left is by demonstrated preference cognitively feminine: consumptive, reproductive, maternal, the right masculine: conservative, capital producing, paternal. And women resist tightening the belt more than men do. So you will continue to tighten your belt and resist it all.

    4) But cooperative necessity in social orders, like gravity in physical orders, is inescapable – and resistance is expected but ultimately futile. Your mistake is confusing PROGRESS with CONSUMPTION. And confusing OPPRESSION with DOMESTICATION.

    5) And we have no choice but to defeat genetic and economic red queens. Why? Demographics is destiny. Your hyperconsumption has expanded the world underclass, reversing thousands of years of human domestication (economic and political eugenics).

    6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume. Humans are not insulated from the laws of physics and our productivity, particularly by the consumption of hydrocarbons, not as the liberals presumed – infinite. Welcome to consequences you created.

    7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it. Belt Tightening will come either by the restoration of nationalism, capital accumulation, and economic and political eugenics or it will come from collapse.

    8) We are only equal in poverty. We are only prosperous in inequality. Because inequality is the product of defeating the red queen through genetic, institutional, economic, cultural, and normative capital investment in defeating the red queen in every one of those disciplines.

    9) Jon Haidt is a “Kindly Messenger”, delivering a this information in sympathetic terms. You can learn from him. You can learn from those of us who deliver it in unsympathetic terms. Or from the consequences by the conflict you have created with your hyper-consumptive Privilege.Updated Oct 15, 2019, 10:08 AM


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-15 10:08:00 UTC

  • COUNTER -SIGNALING ANTI-BRITISH SENTIMENT (reciprocity)(hostile countersignal on

    COUNTER -SIGNALING ANTI-BRITISH SENTIMENT
    (reciprocity)(hostile countersignal on twitter)

    —“The British dragged you out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor,… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=484630262133869&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 22:49:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1183877408107192320

  • @rasterman I don’t know enough from what I can gather there, but islam is not go

    @rasterman I don’t know enough from what I can gather there, but islam is not good for people at all either. So while he’s practicing bias, and error, he’s not using GSRRM or baiting into hazard, or sophism or any other abrahamic technique.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 22:46:24 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102963162946021975

  • EXCERPTS FOR EMPHASIS BY LUCAS CORT by @[100008389721909:2048:Lucas Cort] Import

    EXCERPTS FOR EMPHASIS BY LUCAS CORT

    by @[100008389721909:2048:Lucas Cort]

    Important parts I’d like to emphasize:

    “We just were suckered yet again by the marxists into the false dichotomy of unfettered capitalism – monopoly of the middle class, or unfettered socialism – the monopoly of the underclass, rather than the successful european invention of rule of law, an unfettered monopoly of the upper, aristocratic, or martial class that derives its income from suppression of parasitism resulting in commission we call taxation.”

    “So in the twentieth century we destroyed (a) rule of law of tort, destroyed (b) the limits on reproduction of the underclasses, (c) destroyed the monetary and accounting system, (d) destroyed homogeneity of the population, and (e eliminated the monarchy and created a conflict for access to power to circumvent the market and obtain privileges and rents by the state, and (f) ended the prohibition on libel, slander, duel, hanging, fighting, civic defense and policing – all in order to accommodate those peoples not majority middle class (g) ended the family as a system of measurement by which resource consumption was measured.”

    “At the highest level we can disambiguate government into Rule (decisions), Government (production and administration of commons), Treasury (revenue and expenses), and insurer of last resort (both negative like military and positive like care taking).”

    “So there is no one static form of government producing the commons necessary for the current conditions, but one rule of law under which the production of commons varies according to the demand for commons.

    With P-law. we can produce any system of rule, production of commons, treasurer, and insurer of last resort.”

    “So I proposed a strictly constructed rule of law, with a monarchy as judge of last resort, a cabinet of professionals, subcontracted bureaucracies, houses for the classes and genders randomly selected like juries, requiring property and service, that have right of veto over taxes, fees. In this system no one is insulated from the law, and we create a market for the suppression of parasitism.

    There is more to it but that’s most of it. “This system scales up and down from authoritarian to redistributive as circumstances permit. “Updated Oct 14, 2019, 8:47 PM


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 20:47:00 UTC

  • And you are giving us incentive to stop dragging you, and instead correct our er

    And you are giving us incentive to stop dragging you, and instead correct our error.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 14:59:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1183759302923898880

    Reply addressees: @Bipin_karki @CGTNOfficial

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1183759184048865281


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @Bipin_karki @CGTNOfficial The British dragged you animals out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, and the vicissitudes of nature – and you kicked and screamed all the way – and still do. We could have, instead of Christian ethics, emptied the world of all of you – easily.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1183759184048865281


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @Bipin_karki @CGTNOfficial The British dragged you animals out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, and the vicissitudes of nature – and you kicked and screamed all the way – and still do. We could have, instead of Christian ethics, emptied the world of all of you – easily.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1183759184048865281

  • A READ FOR NEWBIES (and he’s worth a follow too) (he runs online tv now) Oct 14,

    https://rationalrise.com/blog/curt-doolittle-crackpot-cult-leader-or-truth-speaker/WORTH A READ FOR NEWBIES

    (and he’s worth a follow too) (he runs online tv now)

    https://rationalrise.com/blog/curt-doolittle-crackpot-cult-leader-or-truth-speaker/Updated Oct 14, 2019, 11:30 AM


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-14 11:30:00 UTC

  • ANSWER TO ARABIC DEMOGRAPHICS POSTED ON OUR SITE FB censored the post where an A

    http://propertarianism.com/blogCENSORED ANSWER TO ARABIC DEMOGRAPHICS POSTED ON OUR SITE

    FB censored the post where an Arabic Speaker asked me to explain how a group with a lower average IQ could achieve european standards of living.

    I explained that it is not an IQ problem but a population demographic problem. And in fact, with very rare exceptions, this is in general, the rule for all human groups. The difference between groups is almost entirely the product of the possibility of reproduction by the lower classes. If it’s possible the problem will be worse, if it’s harder it will be better. This is just the boring science of why climate and farming together put so much pressure on developing intelligence and Conscientiousness. It didn’t make people smarter, it lowered the number of people that could survive farming and winters. In other words, different groups are not better or worse, but the sizes of the classes in different groups create economic and political difficulties for some, and eliminate difficulties for others. This is why middle and upper classes the world over get along just fine, but the lower middle, working, and underclasses cause conflicts with each other.

    Despite my attempt to provide a rebuttal to counter hate speech, someone reported the post, and facebook censored it. I agreed with the decision in order to prevent conflict.

    This is why I am careful about who I allow in my friends list – it’s not the people that friend me that are the problem, it’s the people in YOUR friends list.

    If you want the answer to the question in Arabic see our web site: propertarianism.com/blog http://propertarianism.com/blog “The Problem Isn’t Race It’s Demographics”.Updated Oct 13, 2019, 12:00 PM


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-13 12:00:00 UTC

  • OPINIONS? —“Curt, when is the Next Propertarianism Convention?”

    OPINIONS?

    —“Curt, when is the Next Propertarianism Convention?”—


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-12 20:55:00 UTC

  • RT @charlesmurray: The morphing of Nature into Scientific American

    RT @charlesmurray: The morphing of Nature into Scientific American. https://t.co/C30YGcVNOi


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-12 18:15:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1183083747480145926

  • ” might have done better by reading the summaries of the major philosophers firs

    —” might have done better by reading the summaries of the major philosophers first instead of going through their complete works one by one. Still, I’m going through them pretty fast.”— Martin Štěpán

    I don’t really recommend philosophy, but science and economics instead. That said, myself I just read the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. And most of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and I don’t know how many summaries of the works of philosophers before I ‘bothered’ with the source material. And even then, except for starting with aristotle and plato like everyone else, I worked backwards from the present to the past. Because it’s readily apparent from that process what’s worth reading and what’s drivel.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-12 17:47:00 UTC