Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • “Q: Curt: Why is Russia not in the top 10 of the 2019 global competitiveness ind

    —“Q: Curt: Why is Russia not in the top 10 of the 2019 global competitiveness index?”—

    THE SOCIAL ANSWER

    Read the comment [on Quora] by Dima Vorobiev as it gives the Russian perspective – which isn’t wrong so to speak. In particular, it’s still a hierarchical rather than majority middle-class civilization. They don’t have the institutions of, or morals of, a rule of law people like northern Europeans – these are rules of a majority middle-class civilization. They don’t have a participatory government – that is a system of middle-class majority civilization. Northern Europeans developed rule of law because we developed a majority middle-class civilization (West Ukraine did – it was under Austrian rule, hence the division in Ukraine.). Russia only stopped serfdom in the late 19th century, never developed a middle class, and transitioned right into Bolshevism, Leninism, Soviet Communism. So, instead, as Dima states, they remain an aristocratic civilization, where there is an aristocratic political class, an aristocratic commercial class, and ‘the people’. My experience of life in Ukraine and Russia (which I prefer to America), that the people go about their civil and family work, the business class goes about its business, and the state goes about its business, and as such there is less conflict because everyone isn’t involved in everyone else’s business – which is a good thing since they don’t know enough to do so. (Unlike the presumption of Americans.) Russia had to bear the soviet era but has not fallen for western ‘decadence’ (destruction of the family, morals, civil life, and social responsibility). Family and civil life are still meaningful. And the only problem is the time it takes to create infrastructure and employment across eleven terribly cold time zones with only 140m people with an economy the size of Texas.

    THE ECONOMIC ANSWER:

    The correct answer is of course that the GCI is a political tool as much as an empirical one. Russia like China has been through the perils of the international system, which favors certain countries and not others.

    The principle answer is Time. They need more time to develop. Unreported in the west is Putin’s success at creating rule of law in Russia. Overreported in the west is the Russian use of Jingoism to inspire the people. If you view Russia from the lens of 1992 until today, it’s not as grand as china, but it’s pretty impressive.

    The second reason – which is just plain incomprehensible – is the decline the Russian workforce which is particularly suited to engineering and technology work (I prefer to hire them myself). This decline is due to declines in education and is in part due to the increase in (bad) entertainment. Seriously. Russians had the world’s best education system. And it needs it.

    The third reason is the condition of the financial sector, which is not sufficiently entrepreneurial (risk-tolerant). This is (in my opinion) the central problem. Until sanctions are lifted OR Russia succeeds in building a sufficiently trustworthy entrepreneurial credit sector, it will be difficult to get the 1/3 of the population who still lives in ‘rustic’ conditions, out of them.

    The fourth reason is the low trust society and its impact on rule of law. I tried to buy about a dozen tech companies in Russia rather than start one and it’s impossible to determine what’s true; difficult to trust a contract will hold; So relationships matter and always will. Russia is just like Americans except they trust the government 1000x less, and friends and family 1000x more.

    In other words, Russians wouldn’t take this report very seriously. It just feeds into the hands of the same people who spent the past 70 years putting us in the current precarious position.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-22 18:07:00 UTC

  • The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century?

    The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century? https://t.co/JLsgo3tsCO

  • The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century?

    The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century? https://propertarianinstitute.com/2020/09/20/the-solution-to-the-great-sort-of-the-21-st-century/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-20 01:51:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307497553815121927

  • The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century?

    THE SOLUTION TO THE GREAT SORT OF THE 21ST CENTURY? The future increase in selection pressure by intelligence is not a hard problem to solve at all. 1 – Groups divide by kinship interest, 2 – Elites for each group compete for and evolve their group. 3 – Limit bottom reproduction until marginal differences between groups are eliminated. What’s the worst? Collecting the brightest in one polity thereby leaving all other polities behind, while fomenting conflict in that polity. What’s worst of all? Fomenting that conflict in the only laboring, working, lower-middle, and middle-class population that has developed high trust and truth-before-face, upon which the entire meritocratic edifice that gives the opportunity to those diverse elites is constructed – thereby ensuring the destruction of the high trust polity and return of kinship interest above all. The world is not complex. If it seems so it is the lies used to circumvent the physical, natural, and evolutionary laws; the lies used to circumvent that only Europeans discovered, applied, and adapted to them; and in doing so dragged mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, and disease; and that the world hates Europeans for doing so, and casts Europeans as oppressors as a proxy for nature and natures’ god, for most adapting to those physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. That is the reason for european exceptionalism. And the world shudders and does everything possible to deny it. So what is the real problem? By inventing the age of sail in response to the Muslim conquest of Byzantium, and spreading around the world, Europeans reunited mankind, sought to bring them to their level of adaptation to physical natural and evolutionary laws – and the world it seems, cannot adapt and do so. And so by the middle of this century, just as the european colonial project failed, the Jewish cosmopolitan project in all its Marxist, postmodernist, feminist forms, will fail, and we will end the costly failed experiment, and return to a conflict of civilizations, led by core states, advancing kinship interests, cooperating by trade, in a world where we must once again develop civilizational trade routes to survive, which will place us once again into military conflict over the returns on those routes. In other words, a return to normal, and a return to speciation, especially speciation by intelligence – just as we have always speciated. And the chance that I err herein approaches zero.

  • The Solution to The Great Sort of The 21 St Century?

    THE SOLUTION TO THE GREAT SORT OF THE 21ST CENTURY? The future increase in selection pressure by intelligence is not a hard problem to solve at all. 1 – Groups divide by kinship interest, 2 – Elites for each group compete for and evolve their group. 3 – Limit bottom reproduction until marginal differences between groups are eliminated. What’s the worst? Collecting the brightest in one polity thereby leaving all other polities behind, while fomenting conflict in that polity. What’s worst of all? Fomenting that conflict in the only laboring, working, lower-middle, and middle-class population that has developed high trust and truth-before-face, upon which the entire meritocratic edifice that gives the opportunity to those diverse elites is constructed – thereby ensuring the destruction of the high trust polity and return of kinship interest above all. The world is not complex. If it seems so it is the lies used to circumvent the physical, natural, and evolutionary laws; the lies used to circumvent that only Europeans discovered, applied, and adapted to them; and in doing so dragged mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, and disease; and that the world hates Europeans for doing so, and casts Europeans as oppressors as a proxy for nature and natures’ god, for most adapting to those physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. That is the reason for european exceptionalism. And the world shudders and does everything possible to deny it. So what is the real problem? By inventing the age of sail in response to the Muslim conquest of Byzantium, and spreading around the world, Europeans reunited mankind, sought to bring them to their level of adaptation to physical natural and evolutionary laws – and the world it seems, cannot adapt and do so. And so by the middle of this century, just as the european colonial project failed, the Jewish cosmopolitan project in all its Marxist, postmodernist, feminist forms, will fail, and we will end the costly failed experiment, and return to a conflict of civilizations, led by core states, advancing kinship interests, cooperating by trade, in a world where we must once again develop civilizational trade routes to survive, which will place us once again into military conflict over the returns on those routes. In other words, a return to normal, and a return to speciation, especially speciation by intelligence – just as we have always speciated. And the chance that I err herein approaches zero.

  • Our Position on USA, Race, and Government

    Our Position on USA, Race, and Government https://t.co/3tI85el3ip

  • Our Position on USA, Race, and Government

    Our Position on USA, Race, and Government https://propertarianinstitute.com/2020/09/20/our-position-on-usa-race-and-government/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-20 01:28:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307491829311565827

  • Our Position on USA, Race, and Government

    P-LAW IS FOR EVERYONE (from Twitter) OUR POSITION ON USA, RACE, AND GOVERNMENT While there are minor physical differences, the only material POLITICAL difference between the races is the historical geographic pressure on the group’s underclass and its resulting size relative to the middle class. This ratio determines the group’s success of pareto-organization (hierarchy) of an economy that can compete in the world market. But people demonstrate ingroup priority in politics and all life: marriage, neighborhood, generating different political demands. Whites and Asians demographic distributions are more successful in advanced market civilizations dependent on individual productivity using written communication, logic, calculation, protocols, machines, and technology. Therefore people with different demographic distributions require different economic structures and costs to those economic structures, and they can’t politically mix without conflict since the needs of a population 4–50% able to compete in market civ and one that 80-90% can, are polar opposites. And burning your own consumption and reproduction in favor of political competitors makes people angry (Very). Add to that the uncomfortable truth that sexual, social, economic, and political market value is determined by the degree of neoteny AND demographic distribution, and you end up with the predictable hierarchy of races and subraces that is evident across the world. Therefore while the USA is a continental empire, we are better off with the original design of the country, as an imitation of Historical Europe, with a lot of small states each customizing the production of state services for people with common needs and common interests, and cooperating by the markets rather than perpetual conflict in politics. We can still maintain the services of the federal (continental) government by in-state, military, treasury, benefits, and dispute between states, but devolve the federal government from creating a ‘globalist’ order here in the states with the same resulting conflict as worldwide. This will end the political conflict and drastically reduce power distance between the people and the government. It will generate harmony, It will allow every possible mixture of people and ever possible political model, and states will compete to sere people, but still live within their economic means.

  • Our Position on USA, Race, and Government

    P-LAW IS FOR EVERYONE (from Twitter) OUR POSITION ON USA, RACE, AND GOVERNMENT While there are minor physical differences, the only material POLITICAL difference between the races is the historical geographic pressure on the group’s underclass and its resulting size relative to the middle class. This ratio determines the group’s success of pareto-organization (hierarchy) of an economy that can compete in the world market. But people demonstrate ingroup priority in politics and all life: marriage, neighborhood, generating different political demands. Whites and Asians demographic distributions are more successful in advanced market civilizations dependent on individual productivity using written communication, logic, calculation, protocols, machines, and technology. Therefore people with different demographic distributions require different economic structures and costs to those economic structures, and they can’t politically mix without conflict since the needs of a population 4–50% able to compete in market civ and one that 80-90% can, are polar opposites. And burning your own consumption and reproduction in favor of political competitors makes people angry (Very). Add to that the uncomfortable truth that sexual, social, economic, and political market value is determined by the degree of neoteny AND demographic distribution, and you end up with the predictable hierarchy of races and subraces that is evident across the world. Therefore while the USA is a continental empire, we are better off with the original design of the country, as an imitation of Historical Europe, with a lot of small states each customizing the production of state services for people with common needs and common interests, and cooperating by the markets rather than perpetual conflict in politics. We can still maintain the services of the federal (continental) government by in-state, military, treasury, benefits, and dispute between states, but devolve the federal government from creating a ‘globalist’ order here in the states with the same resulting conflict as worldwide. This will end the political conflict and drastically reduce power distance between the people and the government. It will generate harmony, It will allow every possible mixture of people and ever possible political model, and states will compete to sere people, but still live within their economic means.

  • Tucker Carlson Is Right – There Is No Political Solution

    Tucker Carlson Is Right – There Is No Political Solution https://propertarianinstitute.com/2020/09/19/tucker-carlson-is-right-there-is-no-political-solution/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-19 23:06:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307456126519136257