Curt Doolittle

Form: Critique

  • NOTES ON: Making Sense of Race by Edward Dutton

    Making Sense of Race by Edward Dutton (2020) (kindle edition) Nits

    • No TOC. A TOC explains the thesis. It’s sort of ‘unfair’ to the reader to not include one. 😉

    The Formation of Races

    • Speciation: AFAIK species refers to geographic isolation and variation producing reproductive specialization.
    • Speciation: AFAIK humans evolved hyper adaptivity and hyper opportunism, and so will have sex with anything.

    Understanding Life History Strategy

    • The most important ‘tell’ is only suggested here with the high incidence of dementia in east Asians.  In general, it’s not clear that east Asians are more K selected so much as that they are dramatically more neotenous and k selected, with neoteny likely passing optimum levels.
    • In general the R/K theory (Female vs Male Strategy) is overplayed when the CAUSAL axis is more one of neoteny first (universal), and then sexual dimorphism second(particular). This is a better (scientifically causal) framing of race and subrace (species and subspecies) differences.
    • So far I think the primary difference between past and present or between Rushton and Dutton’s analysis is that we know a great deal more about brain development and its consequences than we did in the past – and I”m pretty much current on that subject.

    What It Means To Be Smart

    • Again, causally, intelligence is best understood as the continuation of human evolution of hyper adaptability, and intelligence a measure of RATE of adaptability.
    • This rate of adaptability is the first reason for western success, because our institutions are the most hyper adaptive (law not state or religion).

    Religion and Intelligence

    • I dunno about this chapter. As far as I know religiosity is dependent on four factors, in order: 1) familial indoctrination, 2) empathic personality (demand for mindfulness) 3) stresses (demand for mindfulness) 4) intelligence and I’m not sure intelligence matters except above 115.

    Jews

    • It’s better to consider the Ashkenazim the most recent hybrid subrace that achieved isolation and speciation by about 500 years ago. They just isolated within host peoples rather than geographically. And were persecuted rather than subject to climate and resource pressure, and it APPEARS that they either narrowed or reversed cognitive sexual dimorphism which is painfully obvious in the data.
    • The Gypsies, Jews, and Muslims are best seen as a spectrum of parasitic strategies targeting escalating scale of predation on competitors because they take advantage of the IE world’s trifunctionalism and erroneous categorization of war as physical, where the gypsies practice petty theft and undermining virtues, the jews theft from the commons undermining eugenic virtues, and the Muslims inverting eugenic to dysgenic virtues.  Everyone ELSE practices TOTAL WAR. Europeans practice our traditional ritual war limited to violence. We are WRONG.  The future requires the abandonment of our ‘domestication of warfare’, and return as the Semites and the Chinese, to total war.

    Taboos

    • Well, since we have the science and I have the law it is possible to increase the scope of our laws to prohibit baiting people into hazards with the false promise of freedom from physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. Then we are at least forced to trade with one another.

    SUMMARY

    • Dutton is an excellent author. Very readable. Complete. Best current summary available.
    • Nothing new here other than the full spectrum coverage of current knowledge.
    • Doesn’t really take on the evidence of cog sci. (I’m overly sensitive since this is one of my areas)
    • No solution (we have solutions – that’s what we do)
    • Doesn’t identify the left’s techniques of lying and denying (see my upcoming podcast)
    • Should clearly address (as we do) the Urheimats, timing, and direction of evolution, AND the three-axis of human variation in cognitive development (Aggression/Neoteny, dimorphism, longitudinal development/agency.

  • NOTES ON: Making Sense of Race by Edward Dutton

    Making Sense of Race by Edward Dutton (2020) (kindle edition) Nits

    • No TOC. A TOC explains the thesis. It’s sort of ‘unfair’ to the reader to not include one. 😉

    The Formation of Races

    • Speciation: AFAIK species refers to geographic isolation and variation producing reproductive specialization.
    • Speciation: AFAIK humans evolved hyper adaptivity and hyper opportunism, and so will have sex with anything.

    Understanding Life History Strategy

    • The most important ‘tell’ is only suggested here with the high incidence of dementia in east Asians.  In general, it’s not clear that east Asians are more K selected so much as that they are dramatically more neotenous and k selected, with neoteny likely passing optimum levels.
    • In general the R/K theory (Female vs Male Strategy) is overplayed when the CAUSAL axis is more one of neoteny first (universal), and then sexual dimorphism second(particular). This is a better (scientifically causal) framing of race and subrace (species and subspecies) differences.
    • So far I think the primary difference between past and present or between Rushton and Dutton’s analysis is that we know a great deal more about brain development and its consequences than we did in the past – and I”m pretty much current on that subject.

    What It Means To Be Smart

    • Again, causally, intelligence is best understood as the continuation of human evolution of hyper adaptability, and intelligence a measure of RATE of adaptability.
    • This rate of adaptability is the first reason for western success, because our institutions are the most hyper adaptive (law not state or religion).

    Religion and Intelligence

    • I dunno about this chapter. As far as I know religiosity is dependent on four factors, in order: 1) familial indoctrination, 2) empathic personality (demand for mindfulness) 3) stresses (demand for mindfulness) 4) intelligence and I’m not sure intelligence matters except above 115.

    Jews

    • It’s better to consider the Ashkenazim the most recent hybrid subrace that achieved isolation and speciation by about 500 years ago. They just isolated within host peoples rather than geographically. And were persecuted rather than subject to climate and resource pressure, and it APPEARS that they either narrowed or reversed cognitive sexual dimorphism which is painfully obvious in the data.
    • The Gypsies, Jews, and Muslims are best seen as a spectrum of parasitic strategies targeting escalating scale of predation on competitors because they take advantage of the IE world’s trifunctionalism and erroneous categorization of war as physical, where the gypsies practice petty theft and undermining virtues, the jews theft from the commons undermining eugenic virtues, and the Muslims inverting eugenic to dysgenic virtues.  Everyone ELSE practices TOTAL WAR. Europeans practice our traditional ritual war limited to violence. We are WRONG.  The future requires the abandonment of our ‘domestication of warfare’, and return as the Semites and the Chinese, to total war.

    Taboos

    • Well, since we have the science and I have the law it is possible to increase the scope of our laws to prohibit baiting people into hazards with the false promise of freedom from physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. Then we are at least forced to trade with one another.

    SUMMARY

    • Dutton is an excellent author. Very readable. Complete. Best current summary available.
    • Nothing new here other than the full spectrum coverage of current knowledge.
    • Doesn’t really take on the evidence of cog sci. (I’m overly sensitive since this is one of my areas)
    • No solution (we have solutions – that’s what we do)
    • Doesn’t identify the left’s techniques of lying and denying (see my upcoming podcast)
    • Should clearly address (as we do) the Urheimats, timing, and direction of evolution, AND the three-axis of human variation in cognitive development (Aggression/Neoteny, dimorphism, longitudinal development/agency.

  • You are afraid. Like you were afraid of Darwin. Like you were afraid of Galileo.

    You are afraid. Like you were afraid of Darwin. Like you were afraid of Galileo. Like you were afraid of Copernicus. Like you were afraid of Aristotle, The Stoics and Epicureans. I understand. I pity you. But I understand.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-12-05 23:48:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1335370540979195906

    Reply addressees: @ClarkMedia1980

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1335369919324680198

  • France Is The Obstacle To European Cooperation

    Is A Unified Europe Necessary? Response to Alain De Benoit Sovereignty in the Russian apolitical? French political, authoritarian and socialist? Sovereignty in the German Holy Roman Empire and pre-war American states? Sovereignty In the British and American individual? The reason Britain leaves the EU and that the Anglosphere is incompatible with Europe is the common law makes individuals and the law sovereign, not the parliament, nor the state, and thereby forcing the people, the parliament, the state to exhaust all possible means of preserving individual and legal sovereignty before they can produce commons. The French model that presumes her feminine authoritarian false consensus bias, and limited adversarialism is best despite her failure as a world power, failure as a scientific and industrial power, cause of endless european wars, undermining of all other european alliances, and postwar tolerance for Islam given the 1500 year history of its war on civilization. So Russian authoritarian? French authoritarian unification? German, British, and American federation of states? France has been the PROBLEM for Europe. The Germans, Italians, East Europe, and Russia would readily organize if it were not for French attempts to undermine the greater German people for centuries and continue her long running program of first trying to seize papal then european power, despite being the most backward government in Europe, launching the authoritarian revolutions, and giving birth to socialism and communism. Other than France the rest of Europe only joins the EU for economic and military reasons. Economic reasons provided by Germans, military reasons provided by the USA, and it’s despite the French authoritarianism that the rest of Europe fears. The USA is very close to a second civil war that will result most likely in a restoration of her original design as a mirror of the HRE with traditional Germanic law as that law. Was preserved in England and never subject to the corrupting influence of Napoleonic law that deprived the people and the law of sovereignty. The rest of Europe should fear a unified Europe that contains Paris more than it should fear a unified Europe that contains Moscow. At least Moscow works in Russian people’s interests. Paris does not. So perhaps the French should look more objectively at the problem. It’s not that Europe fears integration. it’s that the French history of undermining european peoples, and the French authoritarian model rather than the Holy Roman Empire, British, and American model, is a threat to european civilization – as it always has been. That is the cause of the failure of european coherence. Humility would serve Paris better than ambitions to rule.

  • France Is The Obstacle To European Cooperation

    Is A Unified Europe Necessary? Response to Alain De Benoit Sovereignty in the Russian apolitical? French political, authoritarian and socialist? Sovereignty in the German Holy Roman Empire and pre-war American states? Sovereignty In the British and American individual? The reason Britain leaves the EU and that the Anglosphere is incompatible with Europe is the common law makes individuals and the law sovereign, not the parliament, nor the state, and thereby forcing the people, the parliament, the state to exhaust all possible means of preserving individual and legal sovereignty before they can produce commons. The French model that presumes her feminine authoritarian false consensus bias, and limited adversarialism is best despite her failure as a world power, failure as a scientific and industrial power, cause of endless european wars, undermining of all other european alliances, and postwar tolerance for Islam given the 1500 year history of its war on civilization. So Russian authoritarian? French authoritarian unification? German, British, and American federation of states? France has been the PROBLEM for Europe. The Germans, Italians, East Europe, and Russia would readily organize if it were not for French attempts to undermine the greater German people for centuries and continue her long running program of first trying to seize papal then european power, despite being the most backward government in Europe, launching the authoritarian revolutions, and giving birth to socialism and communism. Other than France the rest of Europe only joins the EU for economic and military reasons. Economic reasons provided by Germans, military reasons provided by the USA, and it’s despite the French authoritarianism that the rest of Europe fears. The USA is very close to a second civil war that will result most likely in a restoration of her original design as a mirror of the HRE with traditional Germanic law as that law. Was preserved in England and never subject to the corrupting influence of Napoleonic law that deprived the people and the law of sovereignty. The rest of Europe should fear a unified Europe that contains Paris more than it should fear a unified Europe that contains Moscow. At least Moscow works in Russian people’s interests. Paris does not. So perhaps the French should look more objectively at the problem. It’s not that Europe fears integration. it’s that the French history of undermining european peoples, and the French authoritarian model rather than the Holy Roman Empire, British, and American model, is a threat to european civilization – as it always has been. That is the cause of the failure of european coherence. Humility would serve Paris better than ambitions to rule.

  • Dune previews certainly suggest that DV will screw up this movie as badly as he

    Dune previews certainly suggest that DV will screw up this movie as badly as he did Blade Runner. I mean, not only is his casting sh-t, but … he needs to stick with making pretty pictures.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-12-04 04:51:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1334722005703286786

  • If you don’t know physics, economics, and natural law jurisprudence, and post 20

    If you don’t know physics, economics, and natural law jurisprudence, and post 2010 cognitive science (neurology and artificial intelligence) then you are functionally illiterate. There is nothing in education meriting a PhD. it’s a craft learned in six months by the bottom 15%.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-12-01 15:48:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1333800168542507008

    Reply addressees: @DavidOBowles

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1333662368656723968

  • Sorry. Rothbard’s ethics in the Ethics of Liberty are Jewish ethics of the ghett

    Sorry. Rothbard’s ethics in the Ethics of Liberty are Jewish ethics of the ghetto and Pale, property limited to intersubjectively verifiable, and their primary means of criminality – fraud by omission, fraud, baiting into hazard, profiting from hazard are licensed. Same for Mises

    Source date (UTC): 2020-11-29 15:56:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1333077365862359041

    Reply addressees: @WhichDrSteus @OVUM56297700 @BenWinegard

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1333076524015251457

  • This is why I can’t read continental thought. eighty pages of pathetic drivel in

    This is why I can’t read continental thought. eighty pages of pathetic drivel in order to make a point that everyone already knows and would take just a paragraph.

    The whole continent is still desperately searching for a secular bible. They’re still serfs and they don’t know it. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1332172682125774850

  • Continental thinkers, feel some absurd need to engage in emotional appeals and r

    Continental thinkers, feel some absurd need to engage in emotional appeals and rather pathetic moralizing rather than just making arguments. Anglos are legalistic,not moralistic so we interpret emotional appeal not as a gesture of care but as an attempt at manipulation or deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-11-27 04:01:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1332172682125774850