Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Retweeted Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias): Every 4 years people say it’s the mo

    Retweeted Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):

    Every 4 years people say it’s the most important election in years because growing polarization means the stakes are in fact always rising.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-20 14:29:00 UTC

  • “A country is not a nation but a territory. A nation is a people not a corporati

    —“A country is not a nation but a territory. A nation is a people not a corporation. Nor is a corporation a person – but a partnership we sanction with limited liability acting ourselves as the insurer of last resort.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-20 09:35:00 UTC

  • Is The United States A Rogue State?

    The problem with american policy is that it’s policy is utopian. 

    1. The postwar consensus was that states needed to focus internally on capitalism and human rights, and stay within their borders, so that we don’t have another civil war. Unfortunately americans promote democracy AND consumer capitalism instead of consumer capitalism regardless of political order.
    2. Democracy is a bad idea. Its not a cause of prosperity. It is a luxury good – a conspicuous consumption for wealthy societies, and creates chaos and suffering elsewhere.
    3. American postwar policy says ‘choose the government you want”.  what we don’t say is “but if you choose badly we will send you back to the stone age”.  Unfortunately, human instinct is parasitic: people choose badly.  Why? no enlightenment, no chivalry, no high trust, no prohibition on cousin marriage, and unfortunately, a full standard deviation in lower median IQ.
    4. People are not oppressed so much as parasites that need domestication.
    5. The west is better off than the rest not because of our virtues, but because for one thousand years we hung 1/2 to 1% of the underclass every year, controlled access to farm land, delayed childbirth, prohibited cousin marriage, and starved the rest.  SO most of the west is decendent from the middle class.  The rest of the world hasn’t done this (other than china and Japan) and so they are disproporionately impuslive, aggressive, and of lower intelligence than westerners.
    6. Europe failed in its colonial efforts to national detriments.  We have colonized Europe to its detriment.  Ottoman colonies are the source of world conflict.  The germans were probably right in the first world war, and we should have stayed out of it.  We tend to be wrong a lot. Other than the war on communism – we tend to be wrong a lot.

      Is that uncomfortable? It’s true.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-a-Rogue-State

  • Is Donald Trump Doing A Good Job At Bringing Conservatives And Liberals Together?

    The country has been engaging in ‘the big sort’ for decades now. 
    The Republican party represents whites and married women.
    The Democratic party represents non-whites and unmarried women.

    All economics and politics are merely demographic: Race, Culture, Class, Age, and maritial status.   We blither a lot about politics under the assumption that people change. They don’t. 

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-doing-a-good-job-at-bringing-Conservatives-and-Liberals-together

  • Does China Actually Care About North Korea?

    China cares about damaging american power, maintaining the power of the party so that they can prevent the fragmentation of the Chinese (Han) Empire, and restoring her position as ‘center of the world’, in order to gain economic, political and military advantage.


    North Korea helps and hurts this strategy.

    https://www.quora.com/Does-China-actually-care-about-North-Korea

  • How Can The Government Fix The Systematic Racism Problem In America?

    Stop forcing integration, restore voluntary disassociation, and provide separate houses of government for different races.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-government-fix-the-systematic-racism-problem-in-America

  • Is The United States A Rogue State?

    The problem with american policy is that it’s policy is utopian. 

    1. The postwar consensus was that states needed to focus internally on capitalism and human rights, and stay within their borders, so that we don’t have another civil war. Unfortunately americans promote democracy AND consumer capitalism instead of consumer capitalism regardless of political order.
    2. Democracy is a bad idea. Its not a cause of prosperity. It is a luxury good – a conspicuous consumption for wealthy societies, and creates chaos and suffering elsewhere.
    3. American postwar policy says ‘choose the government you want”.  what we don’t say is “but if you choose badly we will send you back to the stone age”.  Unfortunately, human instinct is parasitic: people choose badly.  Why? no enlightenment, no chivalry, no high trust, no prohibition on cousin marriage, and unfortunately, a full standard deviation in lower median IQ.
    4. People are not oppressed so much as parasites that need domestication.
    5. The west is better off than the rest not because of our virtues, but because for one thousand years we hung 1/2 to 1% of the underclass every year, controlled access to farm land, delayed childbirth, prohibited cousin marriage, and starved the rest.  SO most of the west is decendent from the middle class.  The rest of the world hasn’t done this (other than china and Japan) and so they are disproporionately impuslive, aggressive, and of lower intelligence than westerners.
    6. Europe failed in its colonial efforts to national detriments.  We have colonized Europe to its detriment.  Ottoman colonies are the source of world conflict.  The germans were probably right in the first world war, and we should have stayed out of it.  We tend to be wrong a lot. Other than the war on communism – we tend to be wrong a lot.

      Is that uncomfortable? It’s true.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-a-Rogue-State

  • Why Is Neoliberalism So Prevalent In The U.s.?

    Women voters, and the profitability of selling education that appeals to future women voters.  And the profitability of selling consumption to women voters in their role as consumers. 


    Really.  That’s the reason.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-neoliberalism-so-prevalent-in-the-U-S

  • Is Donald Trump Doing A Good Job At Bringing Conservatives And Liberals Together?

    The country has been engaging in ‘the big sort’ for decades now. 
    The Republican party represents whites and married women.
    The Democratic party represents non-whites and unmarried women.

    All economics and politics are merely demographic: Race, Culture, Class, Age, and maritial status.   We blither a lot about politics under the assumption that people change. They don’t. 

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-doing-a-good-job-at-bringing-Conservatives-and-Liberals-together

  • What Is The Difference Between Economic Liberalism And Political Liberalism In The Context Of International Relations?

    The difference is that political liberalism produces more honest negotiations but less consistent policy. 


    For this reason political liberalism is a luxury, not a utility.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-economic-liberalism-and-political-liberalism-in-the-context-of-international-relations