Curt Doolittle

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  • An Intimate Relation Between the Work of Wagner and Of Nietzsche

    —“There is an intimate relation between the work of Wagner and of Nietzsche. It is important to stress this relation, for Nietzsche himself made a major manoeuvre of distraction, intending to demonstrate—perhaps first of all to himself—that his work was independent of, and even opposed to, that of Richard Wagner. This exercise of concealment has strongly influenced the judgement of philosophers and intellectuals, who are naturally inclined to pay more attention to the ‘intellectual’ work of Nietzsche than to Wagner’s ‘artistic’ work.”— Daniel Gurpide

  • An Example of Why Religion Is More Moral than Science, Engineering, Philosophy or Magic.

    by Adam Voight An example of why Religion is more moral than science, engineering, philosophy or magic. “Saruman” – Old English for “engineer”. Of course, over the long run the difference between religion and magic is contested and variable. This is why Odin is the sketchiest Sky Father ever. He is both Gandalf and Sauron, whom Tolkien split up into Good and Evil facets. The clue is the Nine Rings of Power given to the Ringwraiths: Odin’s Ring produced nine rings every day, and the giving of rings is typical of the lord’s gifts to his men. The phrase “Lord of the Rings” is only used once in all of Germanic lit: it refers to Beowulf, but it is so used late in the story, just before the fatal dragon episode (I cannot find it now. it mentioned during some swimming episode, perhaps in recounting his expedition against Grendel’s mom or swimming to Finnmark.) It seems that Tolkein saw the modern era as a struggle within the soul of Europe, between the good Odin and the bad Odin. Notice that Gandalf officiates at a wedding, something that Odin would never do; the Vanir and Thor were best for this purpose. Wagner also made Odin the crux of the conflict in the Ring cycle, by making Odin’s one lie to the Giants the tragic flaw that brought about Ragnarok. Odin in this version is more of a villain than in the Eddas, but shares the villainy with Alberich. In the Eddas, he is a good guy, but still crazy. Praying to him before a battle could bring victory, or it could bring you death with induction into the Einherjar. (CD: Thank you. exactly.)

  • An Example of Why Religion Is More Moral than Science, Engineering, Philosophy or Magic.

    by Adam Voight An example of why Religion is more moral than science, engineering, philosophy or magic. “Saruman” – Old English for “engineer”. Of course, over the long run the difference between religion and magic is contested and variable. This is why Odin is the sketchiest Sky Father ever. He is both Gandalf and Sauron, whom Tolkien split up into Good and Evil facets. The clue is the Nine Rings of Power given to the Ringwraiths: Odin’s Ring produced nine rings every day, and the giving of rings is typical of the lord’s gifts to his men. The phrase “Lord of the Rings” is only used once in all of Germanic lit: it refers to Beowulf, but it is so used late in the story, just before the fatal dragon episode (I cannot find it now. it mentioned during some swimming episode, perhaps in recounting his expedition against Grendel’s mom or swimming to Finnmark.) It seems that Tolkein saw the modern era as a struggle within the soul of Europe, between the good Odin and the bad Odin. Notice that Gandalf officiates at a wedding, something that Odin would never do; the Vanir and Thor were best for this purpose. Wagner also made Odin the crux of the conflict in the Ring cycle, by making Odin’s one lie to the Giants the tragic flaw that brought about Ragnarok. Odin in this version is more of a villain than in the Eddas, but shares the villainy with Alberich. In the Eddas, he is a good guy, but still crazy. Praying to him before a battle could bring victory, or it could bring you death with induction into the Einherjar. (CD: Thank you. exactly.)

  • THE SCALES OF THE SACRED. by Bill Joslin —“Our people are the most sacred thin

    THE SCALES OF THE SACRED.

    by Bill Joslin

    —“Our people are the most sacred thing we have left”—Adrienne Barbeau-Bot

    CONSTRUCTION

    The Immediate, The Temporal. : familial, family and kin. Kin is sacred.

    The intermediate: The Intertemporal. Tribal. Those families which share norms, traditions and culture. Culture, traditions and norms are sacred.

    Intergenerational: national.

    The accumulated social and common capital generated by kin and tribe. The commons en toto . The property we create together over generations via shared norms, traditions and culture intended for our future kin. The commons are sacred.

    Ancestor worship, hero (tribal archetypes) worship preserves the sacred across scale and time horizons.

    DESTRUCTION

    The dissolution of “tribe” resulting from universalism of enlightenment values (values reified out from within their natural limits), segregated commons from tribal and kin ownership, resulting in rampant consumption of commons. This paving the way for globalism where economics are sacred at the cost of kin, tribe, commons.

    Monotheism destroyed the operationally sacred in the name of universalism and the ideally sacred. This solidified the opportunity for parasitism of the commons, kin and tribe.

    RECONSTRUCTION

    Our people truly, operationally, and biologically are the most sacred upon which all other value depends.

    (CD: I can edit this for a little more analytic clarity but basically bill has done a great job of it, and I’m gonna run with the ‘my people are sacred’ as a religion message.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 12:57:00 UTC

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  • by Bill Joslin Truth, as a semantic axiom, with limitless constellations of inte

    by Bill Joslin

    Truth, as a semantic axiom, with limitless constellations of interpretive frames.

    Correspondence presumes an existential frame.

    An existential frame provides a means of checking and vetting outside of the presumptions of the context one might bring to an assertion – that being testability of its existence.

    This testability then defines the methodology. T

    he methodology then presumes the existential frame and uses said method to update the interpretive frame.

    By doing so a feedback between interpretation, methodology occurs and is measured by existence (what can be measured or observed – and how) this allows both the interpretive frame and methodology to be updated (both are provisional).

    This affords the most robust means of coherence to truth (small ‘t’ truth) in the context of truth as a semantic axiom i.e truthful and honest reporting.

    (CD: when you can understand and make that argument on your own, ” you are there “.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 12:24:00 UTC

  • “Good people” have been too glorified.

    October 26th, 2018 12:34 PM by Jayant Bhandari

    In conventional wisdom “good people” have been too glorified. It is assumed that 80% of the society is of decent people, who like to work with others, pay their taxes and just want to fit in. It is the evil, say, 5% of the people who make life hell for the society. My view is that these 85% are basically meat, without moral or rational anchors. They are adrift and can be made to believe in whatever those in power want them to. The direction of the society is decided by a minority of rational/moral people, the 2% as Curt Doolittle suggests. These people—whether in power or outside—give direction to the society. It is under their leadership that intellectual and financial capital gets accumulated. Here is the real problem: This 2% leaders in Europe have slowly been castrated using political correctness or have become docile because of modern comforts they have grown up in. As the quality of this 2% falls (rather rapidly), Europe is losing its civilization. The counterpart of this 2% of Europe in the Third World is 0.000002%, maybe less–this is the reason why the Third World is always adrift, rudderless, always tending towards Malthusian equilibrium.