Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Why Is There Oil in The Middle East? (lessons)

    Hydrocarbons are from dead organic material – and you need an astonishing set of circumstances to make oil out of these things and preserve them. First, you’ve got to concentrate them somewhere where they’re not dispersed or oxidized – which means in swamps, marshes, lakes or something like that. (See “Peat Marshes” and “Bog Bodies”.) Then you’ve got to heat them up slowly over a long, long period to cook them up to make oil. And then, when they make oil and start to ‘ferment’, you’ve got to have some way of trapping the liquid and the gas. All these things, it turns out, happen on the margins of continents. Sediments just get washed in, and all those dead things get buried deeper and deeper and gently get cooked for a long time. So, the circumstances for making oil are very good on the margins of continents. Especially the margins of oceans that aren’t on a plate boundary – because there are no earthquakes there. Now, what happened in Saudi Arabia is that that happened to be on the margin of a huge ocean which separated Asia from the southern continents. So, a hundred million years ago, Africa, India and Arabia were all a long way further south from where they are now and they’ve all moved north and bashed into Asia. One of those places is [what is now] Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. And what’s happened is the margin of that ocean, with the margins of Arabia, and Africa and India, have all just popped up above sea level from the pressure of colliding together.

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    Millions of years ago, most of the Middle East was covered by what scientists call the Tethys Ocean (aka Tethys Sea). Rivers flowing into the ocean gave rise to trillions of microscopic organisms and other marine plants and animals. The corpses of these organisms on the ocean floor is where oil (and natural gas) comes from. This is why they are called fossil fuels. Over millions of years, this decomposing organic material became covered by miles of new organic matter and also the sand and salt flowing in from the rivers and streams. Yes, salt flows into the ocean from freshwater rivers and streams. Anyway, these layers became more and more packed as newer layers formed on top of the previous layers. The pressure and heat from these upper layers change the buried organic matter into a sludgy substance of hydrocarbons and other compounds that constitute what we know as crude oil. Theoretically, as long as marine life keeps dying, oil will keep being created So it’s not that there is more oil in the middle east than anywhere else. There’s loads of oil on the other continental margins – but that’s all underwater. It’s hard and expensive to get out. Whereas in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq it’s popped up nicely above sea level and also in. So it’s actually extremely easy to find, an cheap to take out. It’s just more that it is conveniently situated than anything else. (Source: From an interview with James Jackson from the University of Cambridge and other sources on the internet, map from paleomap project)

  • Parenting

    Jan 10, 2020, 12:41 PM Again: if parenting was that influential we couldn’t exist. Instead, parents primary control is ONLY who they mate with, and while you can’t make your kids ‘better’ you can do them harm. So in parenting, as in ethics, DO NO WRONG is far more important than trying to do right. Because once they are in the real world they will always and everywhere revert to type – hence why your ancestors and mine sought to give them enough MANNERS to get prestige jobs young. This is how we ‘buy’ positions for our children. The half-life of your parenting is short. Training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of lists, money, accounting, interest, and contract, help everyone. Because success is caused by conscientiousness (discipline) regardless of intellectual ability. Let me say that again for clarity: Economic returns on intelligence are marginal and economic returns on behavioral training (manners, ethics, morals etc) are exponential. And the importance of Active Listening, Seeking To Understand, Hygiene, Grooming, Dress and Vocabulary, Weightlifting for men and Dancing for Women, and team sports for both cannot be overstated. All those disciplines produce mindfulness. This is counter-intuitive to people but your stress in life is usually determined by your success at training yourself out of impulsivity through rituals, and training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Seeking to Understand, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of list-making, money, accounting, interest, and contract, produce a calm mind far better and more productively than religion or therapy. One’s natural Intellectual ability only grants access to complexity, and marginal increases in income, while conscientiousness and training (above) grant access to opportunity, success, and wealth. Getting kids into ‘good schools’ etc doesn’t improve them it filters them (buys them access). That explains classes. (Uncomfortable truth warning) Different ethnic groups differ largely because of differences in neoteny(rate and depth of maturity) and as such sexual, social, and economic market value – more importantly in the short term, it affects ages for learning different skills. This is why our education system ‘treating us as equal’ is a failure since the most neotenous (east Asians) can learn anything young at the cost of ‘topping out’ young, where less neotenous (Europeans) need more development, and least neotenous afro-Asiatic and Africans more physicality and socialization, before they can be relaxed enough for intellectualization – even so, the Asian method of combining group movements, recitation, and learning are disproportionately more effective than seated classroom work. And seated classroom work is far more effective with lots of slowly incremental rather than short steep increases in difficulty. Girls aren’t ‘getting ahead’ of boys in mixed-gender, mixed-race schools – the schools are damaging boys development of physical movement, planning, and dominance play, making them care nothing about self others or society, and increasing psychosis in girls without a hierarchy of multiple ages to limit behavior and focus emotion on reciprocal training – and we are seeing it play out in all walks of life. Competition socializes. So, tiger moms are buying children access to filters not improving their children (and we see this in the workforce over time). And by not TRAINING in the basics (manners ethics and aggressive competition) that matter most we are creating an infantilized emotional population unfit or not only military service, the workforce, but a political system we call democracy.

  • Parenting

    Jan 10, 2020, 12:41 PM Again: if parenting was that influential we couldn’t exist. Instead, parents primary control is ONLY who they mate with, and while you can’t make your kids ‘better’ you can do them harm. So in parenting, as in ethics, DO NO WRONG is far more important than trying to do right. Because once they are in the real world they will always and everywhere revert to type – hence why your ancestors and mine sought to give them enough MANNERS to get prestige jobs young. This is how we ‘buy’ positions for our children. The half-life of your parenting is short. Training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of lists, money, accounting, interest, and contract, help everyone. Because success is caused by conscientiousness (discipline) regardless of intellectual ability. Let me say that again for clarity: Economic returns on intelligence are marginal and economic returns on behavioral training (manners, ethics, morals etc) are exponential. And the importance of Active Listening, Seeking To Understand, Hygiene, Grooming, Dress and Vocabulary, Weightlifting for men and Dancing for Women, and team sports for both cannot be overstated. All those disciplines produce mindfulness. This is counter-intuitive to people but your stress in life is usually determined by your success at training yourself out of impulsivity through rituals, and training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Seeking to Understand, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of list-making, money, accounting, interest, and contract, produce a calm mind far better and more productively than religion or therapy. One’s natural Intellectual ability only grants access to complexity, and marginal increases in income, while conscientiousness and training (above) grant access to opportunity, success, and wealth. Getting kids into ‘good schools’ etc doesn’t improve them it filters them (buys them access). That explains classes. (Uncomfortable truth warning) Different ethnic groups differ largely because of differences in neoteny(rate and depth of maturity) and as such sexual, social, and economic market value – more importantly in the short term, it affects ages for learning different skills. This is why our education system ‘treating us as equal’ is a failure since the most neotenous (east Asians) can learn anything young at the cost of ‘topping out’ young, where less neotenous (Europeans) need more development, and least neotenous afro-Asiatic and Africans more physicality and socialization, before they can be relaxed enough for intellectualization – even so, the Asian method of combining group movements, recitation, and learning are disproportionately more effective than seated classroom work. And seated classroom work is far more effective with lots of slowly incremental rather than short steep increases in difficulty. Girls aren’t ‘getting ahead’ of boys in mixed-gender, mixed-race schools – the schools are damaging boys development of physical movement, planning, and dominance play, making them care nothing about self others or society, and increasing psychosis in girls without a hierarchy of multiple ages to limit behavior and focus emotion on reciprocal training – and we are seeing it play out in all walks of life. Competition socializes. So, tiger moms are buying children access to filters not improving their children (and we see this in the workforce over time). And by not TRAINING in the basics (manners ethics and aggressive competition) that matter most we are creating an infantilized emotional population unfit or not only military service, the workforce, but a political system we call democracy.

  • Carlos Gohn Arrested

    I’ve followed this guy for quite a few years as an example of someone whose empirical management and workload was something I simply had to be in awe of. I don’t know if he’s guilty of anything yet but his skill is certainly something to study. He was brutal (American) in both France and Japan. He did a job with Renault. Then he saved Nissan. But he’s been accused of financial reporting issues. Running both Renault and Nissan at the same time. But this put Japanese and french companies in conflict because Nissan is far better in engineering and selling into both Asia and America. This was a mistake. He should have taken one or the other. And he was … excessively greedy in executive compensation. Japan, esp, does not tolerate high exec pay. I”m not sure what he’s being accused of is a ‘crime’. Mixing companies across cultures does not work well.

  • The Success of The Western Order

    Jan 14, 2020, 12:50 PM In the Western tradition, we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties because of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due disrespect or even punishment if we do not do our duties. This is how we produced harmony – more harmony than any other civilization in history – while at the same time producing the most adaptive and rapidly evolutionary body of people in human history. We took control of evolution. The left is the antithesis of Western civilization. Monopoly, equality, submission, dysgenia. The herd. Separate. Evolve, Speciate.

  • The Success of The Western Order

    Jan 14, 2020, 12:50 PM In the Western tradition, we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties because of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due disrespect or even punishment if we do not do our duties. This is how we produced harmony – more harmony than any other civilization in history – while at the same time producing the most adaptive and rapidly evolutionary body of people in human history. We took control of evolution. The left is the antithesis of Western civilization. Monopoly, equality, submission, dysgenia. The herd. Separate. Evolve, Speciate.

  • Symmetries: The Anna Karenina Principle Applied to Civilizations

    Jan 18, 2020, 8:43 AM (core) important —“It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”— Aristotle —“This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.”—Vladimir Arnold (mathematics) —“All well-adapted systems are alike, all non-adapted systems experience maladaptation in their own way,… But in the chaos of maladaptation, there is an order.”— Alexander Gorban, Mathematics, Physics –“All domesticable animals are alike. All undomesticatable animals are different.”— Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel, Anthropology “They cannot be picky eaters; reach maturity quickly; willing to breed in captivity; docile by nature; cannot have a strong tendency to panic and flee; conform to a social hierarchy.” –“All happy families are the same, all unhappy families are different”– Tolstoy, Anna Karenina —“All high trust civilizations are the same. All less trusting civilizations are different” — Doolittle, “P”. A High Trust Civilization Must: 1. Universal Militia (egalitarian, meritocracy, entrepreneurial warfare), 2. Heroism (truth before face, duty before self), 3. Sovereignty (reciprocity, rule of law, jury), 4. Markets in All Aspects of Life (cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, polities), 5. Excellence (competition, innovation, beauty). 6. Limiting the reproduction of the (dependent) underclasses. All Truthful Speech Must: 1. Categorically, 2. Logically, 3. Operationally, 4. Empirically, 5. Rationally, and 6. Reciprocally consistent, 7. Fully Accounted, within 8. Stated Limits, 9. Restitutable within the means available, and 10. Warrantied as such. All Morality (Reciprocity) Must: 1. Productive, 2. Fully Informed, 3. Warrantied, 4. Voluntary Transfer of demonstrated interests, 5. Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated intersets of others, 6. whether body, kin, physical things, normative things, institutional things, cultural things, civilizational things. The Law Must 1. State the via-negativa irreciprocity to resolve, or via-positiva opportunity for cooperation. 2. State the intentions of the signatories 3. State the operations (process of construction) 4. State the limits 5. State how it will terminate, and under what conditions it will terminate. 6. State how it is constructed from reciprocity, including what prior acts it depends upon, and would falsify (invalidate) it as a consequence. 7. State how it is warrantied by the signatories. 8. State the signatories. THE MEANING OF SYMMETRIES A “symmetry” consists of a set of inputs, states, or outputs that must remain constant in order to maintain the survival (state) of a system regardless of transformation (change). In mathematics a Symmetry refers to an intrinsic property of a mathematical object which causes it to remain invariant under certain classes of transformations (such as rotation , reflection, inversion , or more abstract operations). There is no alternative to the symmetry in western civilization. It’s perfect. If we restore it. If not, only one thing must fail, for it to fail. UNDERSTAND THIS. Dimensions (sets of causality) Symmetry (necessity for equilibrium of the system) Only europe did this. Only Japan could have equalled us. Only china came close. Only india was otherwise on the path.

  • Symmetries: The Anna Karenina Principle Applied to Civilizations

    Jan 18, 2020, 8:43 AM (core) important —“It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”— Aristotle —“This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.”—Vladimir Arnold (mathematics) —“All well-adapted systems are alike, all non-adapted systems experience maladaptation in their own way,… But in the chaos of maladaptation, there is an order.”— Alexander Gorban, Mathematics, Physics –“All domesticable animals are alike. All undomesticatable animals are different.”— Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel, Anthropology “They cannot be picky eaters; reach maturity quickly; willing to breed in captivity; docile by nature; cannot have a strong tendency to panic and flee; conform to a social hierarchy.” –“All happy families are the same, all unhappy families are different”– Tolstoy, Anna Karenina —“All high trust civilizations are the same. All less trusting civilizations are different” — Doolittle, “P”. A High Trust Civilization Must: 1. Universal Militia (egalitarian, meritocracy, entrepreneurial warfare), 2. Heroism (truth before face, duty before self), 3. Sovereignty (reciprocity, rule of law, jury), 4. Markets in All Aspects of Life (cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, polities), 5. Excellence (competition, innovation, beauty). 6. Limiting the reproduction of the (dependent) underclasses. All Truthful Speech Must: 1. Categorically, 2. Logically, 3. Operationally, 4. Empirically, 5. Rationally, and 6. Reciprocally consistent, 7. Fully Accounted, within 8. Stated Limits, 9. Restitutable within the means available, and 10. Warrantied as such. All Morality (Reciprocity) Must: 1. Productive, 2. Fully Informed, 3. Warrantied, 4. Voluntary Transfer of demonstrated interests, 5. Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated intersets of others, 6. whether body, kin, physical things, normative things, institutional things, cultural things, civilizational things. The Law Must 1. State the via-negativa irreciprocity to resolve, or via-positiva opportunity for cooperation. 2. State the intentions of the signatories 3. State the operations (process of construction) 4. State the limits 5. State how it will terminate, and under what conditions it will terminate. 6. State how it is constructed from reciprocity, including what prior acts it depends upon, and would falsify (invalidate) it as a consequence. 7. State how it is warrantied by the signatories. 8. State the signatories. THE MEANING OF SYMMETRIES A “symmetry” consists of a set of inputs, states, or outputs that must remain constant in order to maintain the survival (state) of a system regardless of transformation (change). In mathematics a Symmetry refers to an intrinsic property of a mathematical object which causes it to remain invariant under certain classes of transformations (such as rotation , reflection, inversion , or more abstract operations). There is no alternative to the symmetry in western civilization. It’s perfect. If we restore it. If not, only one thing must fail, for it to fail. UNDERSTAND THIS. Dimensions (sets of causality) Symmetry (necessity for equilibrium of the system) Only europe did this. Only Japan could have equalled us. Only china came close. Only india was otherwise on the path.

  • Our Progressives vs The Enemy’s “Progressives”

    Jan 21, 2020, 4:37 PM Christians (Europeans) Use “Love”. That’s what ‘progressive’ meant. They continued the work of the church in secular prose. This allowed us to slowly decide if we could a given charity or not, and then ‘feel Christian’ in that we had accomplished a good. But It was the ENEMY that used ‘Undermining”, divisiveness. Marxism to create a monopoly of power to undermine the classes. Postmodernism to create a monopoly of power by undermining truth, reason, and cooperation. Feminism to undermining the ‘Militia of Everyone’ and our militarized society where one could have respect regardless of class simply by doing his or her duty. Denialism to create a monopoly herd of conformity to the lowest common denominator. Feminism to create a female monopoly of power over men in order to destroy the compromise between the genders in the only society ever to give women freedoms. Behold Europa, maker of heavens. Behold semitia, maker of hells.

  • Our Progressives vs The Enemy’s “Progressives”

    Jan 21, 2020, 4:37 PM Christians (Europeans) Use “Love”. That’s what ‘progressive’ meant. They continued the work of the church in secular prose. This allowed us to slowly decide if we could a given charity or not, and then ‘feel Christian’ in that we had accomplished a good. But It was the ENEMY that used ‘Undermining”, divisiveness. Marxism to create a monopoly of power to undermine the classes. Postmodernism to create a monopoly of power by undermining truth, reason, and cooperation. Feminism to undermining the ‘Militia of Everyone’ and our militarized society where one could have respect regardless of class simply by doing his or her duty. Denialism to create a monopoly herd of conformity to the lowest common denominator. Feminism to create a female monopoly of power over men in order to destroy the compromise between the genders in the only society ever to give women freedoms. Behold Europa, maker of heavens. Behold semitia, maker of hells.