Curt Doolittle

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 09:12:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 03:10:00 UTC

  • The Virtuous Tariffs

    by Pat Buchanan William McKinley, the veteran of Antietam who gave his name to the McKinley Tariff, declared four years before being elected president: “Free trade results in our giving our money…our manufactures and our markets to other nations. …It will bring widespread discontent. It will revolutionize our values.” Campaigning in 1892, McKinley said, “Open competition between high-paid American labor and poorly paid European labor will either drive out of existence American industry or lower American wages.” Substitute “Asian labor” for “European labor,” and is this not a fair description of what free trade did to U.S. manufacturing these last 25 years? The results have been some $12 trillion in trade deficits, arrested wages for our workers, six million manufacturing jobs lost, 55,000 factories, and plants shut down. McKinley’s future vice president Teddy Roosevelt agreed with him: “Thank God I am not a free trader.” What did the Protectionists produce? From 1869 to 1900, GDP quadrupled. Budget surpluses ran for 27 straight years. The U.S. debt was cut two-thirds to 7 percent of GDP. Commodity prices fell 58 percent. America’s population doubled, but real wages rose 53 percent. Economic growth averaged 4 percent a year. And the United States, which began this era with half of Britain’s production, ended it with twice Britain’s production.

  • The Virtuous Tariffs

    by Pat Buchanan William McKinley, the veteran of Antietam who gave his name to the McKinley Tariff, declared four years before being elected president: “Free trade results in our giving our money…our manufactures and our markets to other nations. …It will bring widespread discontent. It will revolutionize our values.” Campaigning in 1892, McKinley said, “Open competition between high-paid American labor and poorly paid European labor will either drive out of existence American industry or lower American wages.” Substitute “Asian labor” for “European labor,” and is this not a fair description of what free trade did to U.S. manufacturing these last 25 years? The results have been some $12 trillion in trade deficits, arrested wages for our workers, six million manufacturing jobs lost, 55,000 factories, and plants shut down. McKinley’s future vice president Teddy Roosevelt agreed with him: “Thank God I am not a free trader.” What did the Protectionists produce? From 1869 to 1900, GDP quadrupled. Budget surpluses ran for 27 straight years. The U.S. debt was cut two-thirds to 7 percent of GDP. Commodity prices fell 58 percent. America’s population doubled, but real wages rose 53 percent. Economic growth averaged 4 percent a year. And the United States, which began this era with half of Britain’s production, ended it with twice Britain’s production.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE WEST’S INCREDIBLY OPTIMISTIC RESPONSE TO

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE WEST’S INCREDIBLY OPTIMISTIC RESPONSE TO SUFFERING
    by Tim Spillane

    (Note: the trials of achilles)

    I came across a discussion by Joseph Campbell on the differences between the Western and Levantine interpretations of suffering- it’s a bit long but worth posting:

    —“[In the Hellenic world] God is immanent throughout nature… science, therefore, deals with the material body of which God is the living spirit… God, the informing spirit of the world, is rational and absolutely good. Nothing, therefore, can occur that is not- in the frame of the totality- absolutely good. The doctrine… was reaffirmed by Nietzsche… where the word ‘good’ is read not as ‘comfortable’ but as ‘excellent,’ and a call is issued to each to love his fate: ‘amor fati’. Spengler also represents this view in his motto, adopted from Seneca… ‘The fates guide him who will, him who won’t they drag.’ It is a view derived rather from courage and joy than from rational demonstration: from a life of zeal and affirmation, beyond any kind of calculation. It leaves the Buddhist sentiment of compassion far behind; for compassion contemplates suffering. And Job’s problem also is left behind; for that too rests upon the recognition of suffering. In Seneca’s words: ‘Not what you bear but how you bear it is what counts.’ And again: ‘Within the world there can be no exile, for nothing within the world is alien to man.’

    “’Great is God,’ declared the lame slave Epictetus: ‘This is the rod of Hermes: touch what you will with it… and it becomes gold. Nay, but bring what you will and I will transmute it to Good. Bring sickness, bring death, bring poverty and reproach, bring trial for life- all these things through the rod of Hermes shall be turned to profit… Thus should we ever have sung: yea and this, the grandest and divinest hymn of all- Great is God, for that he has given us a mind to apprehend these things, and duly to use them!’”

    This is the incredibly optimistic response to suffering developed natively in the West, and it couldn’t be further from developments among the Abrahamics. Campbell goes on, “The ideal of indifference to pain and pleasure, gain and loss, in the performance of one’s life task, which is of the essence of this stoic order, suggests the Indian ideal of Karma Yoga described in the Bhagavad Gita… However, the Indian life task is imposed upon each by his class statues, whereas the Greco-Roman task is that recognized and imposed on each by his own reason: for God here is Intelligence, Knowledge, and Right Reason. Furthermore, the condition of ‘nirvana,’ disengagement in trance rapture, which is the ultimate goal of Indian yoga, is entirely different from the Greek ideal of ‘ataraxia,’ the rational mind undisturbed by pleasure and pain. Yet, between the two views there is much to be compared, and particularly their grounding in… ‘pantheism,’ which is fundamental… to India… and to the Classical world: against which the biblical view, whether in Jewish, Christian, or Islamic thought, stands in unrelenting, even belligerent, argument.

    “Within a world that is itself divine… there is an epiphany of divinity in all sight, all thought, and all deeds, which- for those who recognize it- is a beginning and end in itself… Whereas within a world that is not itself divine, but whose creator is apart [as in the Abrahamic faiths]… one lives not simply to play the part well that is in itself the end, like the grapevine producing grapes, but, as Christ has said, ‘so that the Father may reward.’ The goal is not here and now, but somewhere else.” ––Occidental Mythology

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-28 22:16:16 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. TOURNAMENT SPECIES vs PAIR BONDING SPECIES by

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    TOURNAMENT SPECIES vs PAIR BONDING SPECIES
    by Candice Mary

    Human beings have been shown to use both of these strategies, and studying different cultures, tribes and societies reveals that some use either one or the other consistently and others use both within the society, others lean towards one way or to the other, depending on the socioeconomic strata of the individuals involved.

    TOURNAMENT SPECIES
    -Males have distinct and exaggerated physical characteristics that differ from Females
    -Males are larger than Females
    -Males highly aggressive and compete with one another for dominance
    -Females attracted to signs of health and strength. largest male in group, for protection.
    -higher testosterone,
    -males have decreased life span vs women
    -Males have numerous sexual partners
    -Females most often the only involved parent
    -male abandons females and offspring
    -very rarely produce twins
    -distribution of offspring focused on fewer males of the group, but highest reproductive rate per male.
    -Gene selection is via the dominant male combat first before mating then winner mates with ALL females

    PAIR BONDING SPECIES
    -male and female more equivalent in size
    (Think of animals that you cant tell gender vs the ones you can tell with a naked eye)
    -women attracted to mates who are more like themselves, than their opposites
    -females look for traits in males better suited for equal roles equal parenting unit
    -females delay mating, first expect to be “courted”, to assess potential mate to prove he is dedicated, consistent, and will be a provider for offspring. (Female Birds act helpless to see how a mate reacts, if he’ll hunt for and feed her worms like a baby. Testing paternal instincts)
    -less testosterone among males
    -Often females are a bit larger in size
    -twins much more common
    -equal distribution of males having offspring
    -females may get bored and sometimes abandon mate and offspring to find another partner to reproduce.
    (Women lose interest)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-28 21:17:00 UTC

  • Disinformation

    by Radu M Oleniuc So now I am a disinformation agent. I think those 150 bn (billion) dollars (Iran) do not belong to a terrorist state and were rightfully confiscated. Obama considered them as “seized”, and returned those to a terrorist state massively funding propaganda through various proxies (NGOs, newspapers, corrupt journalists and officials), yet I am spreading disinformation by calling this appeasement simply as it is: treason to our values and civilization by helping an adversary trying to destroy the west. Not only that we as the western world should have not gave “their money back”, we should have bombed their oil fields to pieces and send the bill for the rest. Because those 150 billions are just a small fraction of what we spend on our defense. Not fair? Well, the next time when an Iranian ideologue trains a bunch of suicidal zealots or wants to bribe a journalist using US dollars obtained from oil and gas, he would think twice, because he would know that his oil refinery will be leveled the next day. With his GSM tower antenna as well, because his ideology belongs to the Middle Ages when electricity was not yet invented. He could start planning his attacks with goats, but without any kind of help from mobile phones or GPS. Or SWIFT system, dollars or banks. He could use rupees, rials, renminbi or whatever he wants, but if he uses dollars, then he should know that there is always this risk. Vladimir Ilich Lenin tactic where ‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them” has to stop.

  • Propertarianism Recovers and Transfigures the Founding Myths of Indo-European Culture

    by Daniel Gurpide —“Since Propertarianism recovers and transfigures the founding myths of Indo-European culture, when it comes to specifying its particular tenets such features as the following might be listed: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; the importance of honour (‘shame’ rather than ‘sin’); a heroic attitude towards life’s challenges; the exaltation and sacralisation of the world, beauty, the body, strength, and health; the rejection of any ‘worlds beyond’; and the inseparability of morality and aesthetics. The highest value for an Aryan ethics undoubtedly lies not in a form of ‘justice’ whose purpose is essentially interpreted as flattening the social order in the name of equality, but in all that may allow man to surpass himself. Since to consider the implications of life’s basic framework as unjust would be palpably absurd, such classic antitheses as noble vs. base, courageous vs. cowardly, honourable vs. dishonourable, beautiful vs. deformed, sick vs. healthy come to replace the antitheses operative in a morality based on the concept of sin: good vs. evil, humble vs. vainglorious, submissive vs. proud, weak vs. arrogant, modest vs. boastful.”— Daniel Gurpide (genius)

  • Propertarianism Recovers and Transfigures the Founding Myths of Indo-European Culture

    by Daniel Gurpide —“Since Propertarianism recovers and transfigures the founding myths of Indo-European culture, when it comes to specifying its particular tenets such features as the following might be listed: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; the importance of honour (‘shame’ rather than ‘sin’); a heroic attitude towards life’s challenges; the exaltation and sacralisation of the world, beauty, the body, strength, and health; the rejection of any ‘worlds beyond’; and the inseparability of morality and aesthetics. The highest value for an Aryan ethics undoubtedly lies not in a form of ‘justice’ whose purpose is essentially interpreted as flattening the social order in the name of equality, but in all that may allow man to surpass himself. Since to consider the implications of life’s basic framework as unjust would be palpably absurd, such classic antitheses as noble vs. base, courageous vs. cowardly, honourable vs. dishonourable, beautiful vs. deformed, sick vs. healthy come to replace the antitheses operative in a morality based on the concept of sin: good vs. evil, humble vs. vainglorious, submissive vs. proud, weak vs. arrogant, modest vs. boastful.”— Daniel Gurpide (genius)