Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Q&A: Curt. Where Does Pathological Altruism Come From?

    “Where does a memeplex based upon pathological altruism come from? And better yet, how to stop it?”—Ed Herzog

    [R]eally great question.  And it’s not that hard to deconstruct into reproductive intuitions.  We use contributory commons more than any other group on earth. So, it comes from: (1) Indo-European Heroism;  (Uniqueness of the west) (2) Status from Contribution to the Commons, and;(3) Obtaining Signals, even Self-Signals of Conspicuous Consumption using “other people’s money”.  Progressives tend to be less attractive mates (and it plays out in relationship statistics) so they compensate for reproductive inferiority by demonstrating verbal ‘plumage’ that they’re generous – albeit with other people’s cultural, institutional, genetic, and money capital. We North Sea Peoples are more vulnerable to it. It’s likely because it’s partly genetic. Others encourage it because it advances their power base, and relative status by declining ours. We stopped policing liars when we added women to the franchise. Between puritans, women, and jews, and the excuse of blacks, they were able to use numbers to weaken us enough that the Catholics and Jews could open the floodgates and turn the west into Brazil/India. That’s your answer. As far as I know that is a necessary and sufficient answer. And I suspect it will withstand the test of time.

  • HAVE BETTER SELF CONTROL (LOWER TIME PREFERENCE / LESS IMPULSIVITY ) [M]ore adva

    http://phys.org/news/2015-06-liberals.htmlCONSERVATIVES HAVE BETTER SELF CONTROL (LOWER TIME PREFERENCE / LESS IMPULSIVITY )

    [M]ore advanced (higher genetic class) less impulsive, less advanced (lower genetic class), more impulsive.

    We shouldn’t forget that impulsivity is a successful reproductive strategy really. Opportunism is a cheap strategy. Organized production is expensive.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-28 04:19:00 UTC

  • WHY DO PEOPLE INCREASINGLY HOLD MORE RADICAL POSITIONS? Why do people increase r

    WHY DO PEOPLE INCREASINGLY HOLD MORE RADICAL POSITIONS?

    Why do people increase radicalism when confronted with the failure of their ideology?

    Because they do not hold positions rationally, but to justify their intuitions, and their intuitions exist to advance their reproductive strategies (signals). And so they will fight to defend those signals at all costs, consistently escalating to the point of violence if necessary.

    Becuase one’s self-image and social status are one’s property. So one defends them accordingly.

    People change their positions only when they can both no longer see a successful use of their prior strategy, and they can now see how to use a new narrative to achieve their reproductive strategies.

    You can see this not only in individuals, but the broader political phenomenon.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-28 04:15:00 UTC

  • Rallying and Shaming Works. Females invented it. We will kill men for it. But we

    Rallying and Shaming Works.

    Females invented it. We will kill men for it. But we tolerate it out of women.

    We need to stop tolerating it out of women. We let women rally and shame to lie, and we need to stop it. We need to keep them rallying and shaming for to perpetuate the truth.

    Bring back the duel.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-28 04:02:00 UTC

  • WHAT YOU DO WITH “SMART” MATTERS – A LOT You can invest your neuronal developmen

    WHAT YOU DO WITH “SMART” MATTERS – A LOT

    You can invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very narrow concepts, or invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very broad concepts.

    There are THREE reasons why we produce many very smart people in narrow niches, and very few very smart people in broad concepts.

    1) First, the return on narrow specializations is cheaper and quicker, and the return on broad specializations is very expensive and takes much, much, longer – if any returns exist at all. It’s very difficult to produce a Toynbee or a Durant.

    2) Second, our education and our economies are organized to produce craftsmen for the industrial era – specialists, made possible and necessary by the entry of proles into the labor force, made possible by the harnessing of hydrocarbons.

    3) Third, our education system no longer produces aristocratic learning for aristocrats who must govern. Even our aristocratic universities (religious schools) teach the religion of the proles (equality, democracy, pseudoscience, and deception). Instead of teaching politics, ethics, morality, finance and law, so that we may rationally organize our production and rationally adjudicate our differences, with the least risk, loss, and friction in both production and adjudication.

    So I am daily saddened by the tragedy of the many very smart people I meet who fail to produce their potential, and the many proles who fail by attempting to exceed their capabilities and capacities – due to the false promises of their priesthood.

    The only choice one has is independent study: to read. By reading ‘know thyself’. By knowing thyself (relative to the abilities of others) to find a niche to profit from, and to gain wisdom to understand the broader arena of human affairs.

    It is very easy to choose between that which is good to read, and that which is not: read the works of aristocracy. They are scientific in that they were empirical. They are the only equals man has made.

    See “The Importance of Being Well Read No Matter What Your IQ”.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/02/04/the-purpose-of-being-well-read-no-matter-what-your-iq/

    BECAUSE YOUR PRIESTHOOD: YOU ACADEMICS, PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND TEACHERS FAILED YOU – and they failed you in pursuit of selfish money and power.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-27 05:52:00 UTC