Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • LESSONS FROM THE GULAG 3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never a

    LESSONS FROM THE GULAG

    3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face).

    4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent.

    6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North.

    7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests.

    8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily.

    9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face.

    Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 13:41:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. “Guilt Pangs of Autistics” Pangs from those m

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    “Guilt Pangs of Autistics”

    Pangs from those many times throughout your life where you correct teachers and professors with autistic frustration over some error they’re making, and they they interpret it as emotional investment on your part, or offense, or criticism of them.

    No. Um. We just can’t stand mistakes. You’re just an object like a desk or a pet. It isn’t personal. We don’t have the concept of ‘personal’ until later in life. Really. And we’re horrified when you ‘take it personally’. You just convince us that the world is full of crazy people.

    Those of us who succeed, learn to role play by imitating others. And we obtain through discipline and study that which you obtained at birth. I still may not always be able to read your facial expressions but I can read your body language just fine. The reason being that your face is subtle but your body is not. It states your understanding of our relationship every second, the way your face states your feelings.

    I have a lot of guilt pangs over those episodes. Not the least of which is in the knowledge that I couldn’t control my impulse to ‘correct’ the teachers and professors. By the time I was in my early twenties I learned to just leave the room. “There is nothing to be learned here”.

    And into my thirties I did the same with meetings (really). “There is nothing smart going on here”. I learned to vote with my feet. This had the consequence of producing respect (and fear). When it was just an attempt to control my frustration at ignorance, error, and stupidity, and to devote my time to more important issues. Walking away from stupidity is the greatest negative reinforcement you can provide.

    Now, my understanding is that along the spectrum – before we develop unrecoverable damage, we largely have higher neural density, and it simply takes longer to program that neural density with intuition than it does with practicing (repetition).

    If that is the case then we are the next step in evolution, and that next step in evolution. Why? it will take us longer to mature a human through learning than it does an animal through instinct.

    And that is an interesting evolutionary risk. Since at some point if you are so dependent upon learning over intuition, then it is a weakness for a genome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 13:27:35 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE STRONG CREATE THE PRIVILEGES OF THE WEAK

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE STRONG CREATE THE PRIVILEGES OF THE WEAK

    The Woman:

    —“[Some quote stating we are all brothers and sisters and should practice patience, kindness, and charity.]”— Buddha

    The Man:

    —“The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”–Genghis Khan

    The world is filled with all types of men. The strong give the weak the privilege of meekness. The able give the incompetent the privilege of sustenance. The brave give the coward the privilege of self image. It is one thing for the weak, incompetent, and cowardly to find peace of mind in their status as dependents and quite another to claim their excuse for their condition a good, rather than the privilege of remaining the protected children of better men.

    Stoicism teaches action, achievement, and the full suite of heroic virtues are available to all of us, and that mindfulness that insulates us from the the chaos of life is available to us through the pursuit of such virtues.

    Eat the weak.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 13:05:13 UTC

  • “Guilt Pangs of Autistics” Pangs from those many times throughout your life wher

    “Guilt Pangs of Autistics”

    Pangs from those many times throughout your life where you correct teachers and professors with autistic frustration over some error they’re making, and they they interpret it as emotional investment on your part, or offense, or criticism of them.

    No. Um. We just can’t stand mistakes. You’re just an object like a desk or a pet. It isn’t personal. We don’t have the concept of ‘personal’ until later in life. Really. And we’re horrified when you ‘take it personally’. You just convince us that the world is full of crazy people.

    Those of us who succeed, learn to role play by imitating others. And we obtain through discipline and study that which you obtained at birth. I still may not always be able to read your facial expressions but I can read your body language just fine. The reason being that your face is subtle but your body is not. It states your understanding of our relationship every second, the way your face states your feelings.

    I have a lot of guilt pangs over those episodes. Not the least of which is in the knowledge that I couldn’t control my impulse to ‘correct’ the teachers and professors. By the time I was in my early twenties I learned to just leave the room. “There is nothing to be learned here”.

    And into my thirties I did the same with meetings (really). “There is nothing smart going on here”. I learned to vote with my feet. This had the consequence of producing respect (and fear). When it was just an attempt to control my frustration at ignorance, error, and stupidity, and to devote my time to more important issues. Walking away from stupidity is the greatest negative reinforcement you can provide.

    Now, my understanding is that along the spectrum – before we develop unrecoverable damage, we largely have higher neural density, and it simply takes longer to program that neural density with intuition than it does with practicing (repetition).

    If that is the case then we are the next step in evolution, and that next step in evolution. Why? it will take us longer to mature a human through learning than it does an animal through instinct.

    And that is an interesting evolutionary risk. Since at some point if you are so dependent upon learning over intuition, then it is a weakness for a genome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 09:27:00 UTC

  • THE STRONG CREATE THE PRIVILEGES OF THE WEAK The Woman: —“[Some quote stating

    THE STRONG CREATE THE PRIVILEGES OF THE WEAK

    The Woman:

    —“[Some quote stating we are all brothers and sisters and should practice patience, kindness, and charity.]”— Buddha

    The Man:

    —“The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”–Genghis Khan

    The world is filled with all types of men. The strong give the weak the privilege of meekness. The able give the incompetent the privilege of sustenance. The brave give the coward the privilege of self image. It is one thing for the weak, incompetent, and cowardly to find peace of mind in their status as dependents and quite another to claim their excuse for their condition a good, rather than the privilege of remaining the protected children of better men.

    Stoicism teaches action, achievement, and the full suite of heroic virtues are available to all of us, and that mindfulness that insulates us from the the chaos of life is available to us through the pursuit of such virtues.

    Eat the weak.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-04 09:05:00 UTC

  • Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand.

    Men divide cognitive labor more so than women. We have many tribes. Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand. This specialization as in all things reflects the class structure. That is what men have been doing for the past ten years: building tools. Not one – but many. Each ‘faction’ of the New (Scientific) Right is developing the tools that they know how to use. And when we are ready we will form an army with very special tools, for each tribe, and because of that variety of weapons we will win.

  • Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand.

    Men divide cognitive labor more so than women. We have many tribes. Each tribe specializes in the conceptual tools that they best understand. This specialization as in all things reflects the class structure. That is what men have been doing for the past ten years: building tools. Not one – but many. Each ‘faction’ of the New (Scientific) Right is developing the tools that they know how to use. And when we are ready we will form an army with very special tools, for each tribe, and because of that variety of weapons we will win.

  • All You Need to Know About Stoicism

    Stoicism consists of disciplined self authoring. The purpose of stoicism is to teach mindfulness. Not escapist mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not fantasy mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not victim mindfulness but actionable mindfulness. Enumerate a number of virtues (these are open to debate) Write a plan for your life that includes achievements and virtues. Every day plan your day. Every night review your progress. Repeat this process until you do it by nature. The purpose is to insulate you from opinions, influences, and manipulations of others, while gradually achieving your ends, without falling into manipulation, influence, and opining others. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. The rest is just a romance novel we wrap around that discipline. It’s the best method we know of so far, with buddhism a far distant, and escapist, second.

  • All You Need to Know About Stoicism

    Stoicism consists of disciplined self authoring. The purpose of stoicism is to teach mindfulness. Not escapist mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not fantasy mindfulness, but actionable mindfulness. Not victim mindfulness but actionable mindfulness. Enumerate a number of virtues (these are open to debate) Write a plan for your life that includes achievements and virtues. Every day plan your day. Every night review your progress. Repeat this process until you do it by nature. The purpose is to insulate you from opinions, influences, and manipulations of others, while gradually achieving your ends, without falling into manipulation, influence, and opining others. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. The rest is just a romance novel we wrap around that discipline. It’s the best method we know of so far, with buddhism a far distant, and escapist, second.

  • Humanity Fills Every Niche of Opportunity – Including the Criminal

    The Roma at one end of the spectrum, using begging and theft, and the They fill middle of the spectrum using rent seeking, and the end of the spectrum (predation) is occupied by last of the pastoralists to adopt monotheism using outright predation. I mean HUMANITY FILLS EVERY AVAILABLE NICHE of opportunity for exploiting the existing world, and only the westerners persist by preventing exploitation of all those niches.