Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • QUARTERLY REPEAT: CURT, WHAT PHILOSOPHERS ARE WORTH READING REALLY? NONE. BUT IF

    QUARTERLY REPEAT: CURT, WHAT PHILOSOPHERS ARE WORTH READING REALLY? NONE. BUT IF YOU MUST….

    —“Curt: Which philosophers are worth reading? I take it Hume, Newton and Aristotle are among the ones who avoided engaging in falsehoods?— Alex

    You know, to be honest, I don’t think much of philosophers other than to get a feel for how the history of thought evolved into science.

    I would suggest reading about philosophers rather than philosophers themselves. I would rather someone read the SEP than any given philosopher. (Seriously. Encyclopedias prevent you from anchoring. )

    That said, it is hard to say no to:

    1 – Aristotle/Aurelius,

    2 – Machiavelli/Durkheim/Pareto/Hayek,

    3 – Bacon/Locke/Smith/Hume/Jefferson,

    4 – Galileo/Newton/Darwin/Maxwell.

    5 – The Greek tragedies, Dostoyevsky, Checkov, and Nietzche.

    6 – The Greek and Roman myths, the whole corpus of Christiandom’s myths that survived christianity as folk myths of the hearth. And perhaps most importantly homer, and the entire european (including Russian) great myths that evolved from that set of myths.

    And whichever of my followers had the genius bit to add, that it is only through tragedy that we can communicate to all classes, is something that I think bears knowing.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-02 15:19:00 UTC

  • IS FACEBOOK CENSORING ME? ” (and what to do about it) —“Hi Curt – Wanted to le

    IS FACEBOOK CENSORING ME? “

    (and what to do about it)

    —“Hi Curt – Wanted to let you know that Facebook has been hiding your posts from me … They used to appear in my feed, about two weeks ago they stopped appearing in my feed and I had to go to your actual profile to see them. I check my account once a week.”— A Friend

    —‘I added Curt as a close friend. I now see every post, hope that helps.’— Bjorn Moritz

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-01 17:20:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-01 10:52:00 UTC

  • Thoughts?

    Thoughts?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-31 16:03:00 UTC

  • (cultural humor) —“If we could convince the Chinese that Jihadi testicles were

    (cultural humor)

    —“If we could convince the Chinese that Jihadi testicles were an aphrodisiac islam would be extinct in a generation.”—

    Great way to save endangered species.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-29 19:21:00 UTC

  • It’s OK to be ignorant (or stupid) but it is not OK to assume your level of comp

    It’s OK to be ignorant (or stupid) but it is not OK to assume your level of comprehension is a measure of anything but your own ignorance. OK? It only SOUNDS like ‘babble’ or ‘gibberish’ to you. You want others to pay the cost of educating you? That’s why you levy criticism. To use shaming in order to force others to educate you rather than demonstrating your ignorance and asking to be educated.

    I understand inadequacy. You just don’t realize that you’re demonstrating it – and fooling no one.

    If you don’t understand, then ask. If you’re too much of a poser to ask, or too stupid to understand, those are issues for you to deal with. Me, I’m patient as hell, and gregarious with the public – it’s my job. But there is a limit to the costs I am willing to bear on behalf of posers and idiots.

    😉

    I know, the supply of posers and idiots is much higher than the supply of moral, honest people, with capable intelligence. But this sort of catharsis helps me relieve my frustration of the reality of that asymmetry.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-29 12:42:00 UTC

  • (humor)(takedown) Typical product of the Australian education system, with a deg

    (humor)(takedown)

    Typical product of the Australian education system, with a degree in philosophy (fictionalism) and politics (fictionalism), and like a good secular christian pursuing proper left-interests and debating them with feminine passion

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    You should recognize that there are higher goals to fight for than those you do: namely those things that preserve your ability to think, act and feel as you do. Simple passions are for women.

    I will venture you do not understand the necessary meaning of politics rather than the conventional, nor philosophy as literature rather than science.

    Perhaps had you studied common law, mathematics, physics, economics, war, and history, rather than moral fictionalism – secular religion – you might speak and argue both scientifically and with a full accounting rather than cherrypicking those intuitionistic measures that satisfy the priors of your self selected fictionalism.

    That is a masculine adult scientific criticism of your feminine , adolescent, sophomoric screed.

    Or more colloquially, you argue like a schoolgirl.

    I am too kind to suggest the host of reasons for your condition, but I am sure that besides the primary cultural export of Australians (like Canadians) being self aggrandizing virtue signaling, and perhaps some lack of paternal or martial influence, or perhaps genetics, that you have chosen the work of women for your cause. Usually a sign of conspicuous consumption by those lacking masculine attributes.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-29 09:55:00 UTC

  • ‘velvet glove’ n. : superficial gentleness and courtesy masking a strong and uny

    ‘velvet glove’ n.

    : superficial gentleness and courtesy masking a strong and unyielding will or determination

    (cd: Hmm… I didn’t know that’s what it meant. I’ve always taken it literally.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-28 12:20:00 UTC

  • HATING ON RELIGIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND GOVERNMENTS Religions, Philosophies, and

    HATING ON RELIGIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND GOVERNMENTS

    Religions, Philosophies, and Governments I will hate on all day long. You cannot choose your genes – only learn to act morally with them. And yes, it is costly to choose a new Religion, Philosophy or Government. But if you do not choose the costly, then you force the rest of us to pay the price of your poor choices. And then whether we hate your responsibility.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-27 11:27:00 UTC

  • ‘In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated

    — ‘In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”.”— Mark Twain

    (via Walter Ware)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-27 11:24:00 UTC