Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

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

    Jan 9, 2020, 3:52 PM 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. 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)

  • Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us.

    Jan 9, 2020, 3:54 PM Why did they invent lying? And why are we susceptible to it? Abrahamic deceit is not backward. It is an advanced technology that like viruses or cancer, that takes advantage of a natural cognitive vulnerability to empathy and suggestion to bypass reason and create addiction. The vast majority of humans have trivial agency and are merely gene machines that imitate others around them. Institutions, Myth, Tradition, Norms are all means of training extremely adaptive domesticated animals to work as a group. European Civilization Institutions: Competition between 1. Military(Duty – Hierarchy), 2. Traditional Law(Markets Meritocracy), 3. Faith (Piety – Equality) UNDERMINING 1. Darwin Undermines faith 2. Postwar Jewish Intellectuals Undermine all three. 3. Successful Disintermediation of the Military from Politics. 4. Immigration prevents reformation The West has maintained a market (not monopoly) between all three Military, Law(Markets), Faith. And they attacked all three. Everyone thinks their ‘discipline(class)’ was the core of european civilization, but it was the balance of powers between them. Like everything in the West, once we have sovereignty we have markets, and tripartism: Military, Law (market), and Faith. We would have made it without immigration. Just like Rome. But this is how the (((christians))) destroyed rome. It’s a repeat of the attack on rome by the same people. Fool us once, shame on them. Fool use twice shame on us.

  • Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us.

    Jan 9, 2020, 3:54 PM Why did they invent lying? And why are we susceptible to it? Abrahamic deceit is not backward. It is an advanced technology that like viruses or cancer, that takes advantage of a natural cognitive vulnerability to empathy and suggestion to bypass reason and create addiction. The vast majority of humans have trivial agency and are merely gene machines that imitate others around them. Institutions, Myth, Tradition, Norms are all means of training extremely adaptive domesticated animals to work as a group. European Civilization Institutions: Competition between 1. Military(Duty – Hierarchy), 2. Traditional Law(Markets Meritocracy), 3. Faith (Piety – Equality) UNDERMINING 1. Darwin Undermines faith 2. Postwar Jewish Intellectuals Undermine all three. 3. Successful Disintermediation of the Military from Politics. 4. Immigration prevents reformation The West has maintained a market (not monopoly) between all three Military, Law(Markets), Faith. And they attacked all three. Everyone thinks their ‘discipline(class)’ was the core of european civilization, but it was the balance of powers between them. Like everything in the West, once we have sovereignty we have markets, and tripartism: Military, Law (market), and Faith. We would have made it without immigration. Just like Rome. But this is how the (((christians))) destroyed rome. It’s a repeat of the attack on rome by the same people. Fool us once, shame on them. Fool use twice shame on us.

  • You Want Parsimony? 😉

    Jan 9, 2020, 5:03 PM RECIPE

    1. A Heroic Narrative of Truth, Duty, Oath and Contract, Heroism, Excellence, Achievement, Mindfulness and The direction of dominance expression to the production of commons.

    2. Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, The universal military as the polity, The individual as the subject of Law and the Family as the subject of Policy

    3. Aristotelianism: Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism, Empiricism, Testimonial Truth (science)

    4. Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity and via positiva markets in everything, and a  via negativa Market for the Suppression of parasitism in court.

    5. A Power Distribution of law, Pareto Distribution of Capital, and Nash Distribution of Returns.

    6. A majority genetic middle class and the suppression of the reproduction of the underclass (unproductive).
      GIVEN THE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN FACILITIES 

    1. Sense Facility (stimuli)
… … Perception (composition)
… … … Association
2. Logic Facility (constant relations)
… … Imagination Facility (prediction)
… … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation)
4. Grammar facility (statements)
… … Paradigms ('metaphysics', 'dimensions')
… … … Frame ('boundaries') 
… … … … Context ('pragmatics')
… … Grammar (rules of continuous recursive disambiguation)
… … … Syntax (rules of sentences)
… … … Stories
… … … … Sentences
… … … … … Phrases
… … … … … … Clauses
… … … Operations (logic)
… … … Vocabulary (Semantics)
… … … … Rules of Organization (Morphology)
… … … … Sounds (Phonology)
… … … … Signs (acts, actions)
… … … … Marks (records)
… … … … … accidental
… … … … … intentional
… … … … … … Mark
… … … … … … Symbol
… … … … … … … Glyph
… … … … … … Pictogram
… … … … … … Picture
… … … … … … Picture Series
… … … … … … Animation
4. Communication Facility ("Language")
( ... ) 3. (epistemology)

      WHERE THE SPEECH IS CONSISTS OF: 

    1. Complete Sentences
2. In promissory form
3. In testimonial form
4. In operational vocabulary (as actions)
5. From an observer’s point of view
6. Absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…)
7. Including all changes in state
8. Including all consequences of change in state
9. Producing a series of testable transactions.

    WARRANTIED AS:

    1. Existential >
... 2. Realism >
... 3. Naturalism >
4. Possible >
... 5. Operational - Demonstrable >
... 6. Empirical - Externally Correspondent >
... 7. Logical > 
8. Rational >
... 9. Rational Choice - Demonstrated Preference >
... ... 10. Incentives - Demonstrated Interest >
... ... ... 11. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... ... ... 12. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... ... ... 13. Status, Reputation, Kith
... ... ... 14. Several Interests (in many forms)
... ... ... 15. Common Interests (in many forms)
... 16. Reciprocal >
... ... 17. Productive
... ... 18. Fully Informed 
... ... 19. Voluntary Transfer >
... ... 20. Free of Negative Externality >
21. Survivable >
... 22. Power Distribution of Law >
... 23. Pareto Distribution of Assets >
... 24. Nash Distribution of Rewards >
25. Complete >
... 26. Consistency, Coherence, Limits, Completeness
27. Warrantable >
... 28. Liable and Warrantied, within the Bounds of Restitution.

    IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRUM OF DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS

    ... 1. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... 2. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... 3. Status, Reputation, Kith
... 4. Several Interests (in many forms)
... 5. Common Interests (in many forms)

    BY RECIPROCAL OR IRRECIPROCAL MEANS

    Where Reciprocity Consists in:
... Productive, 
... Fully informed, sufficient to meet demand for infallibility 
... ... Free of
... ... ... ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, 
... ... ... loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, 
... ... ... fictionalisms, 
... ... ... baiting into hazards, frauds, and deceits.
... Voluntary transfer, of demonstrated interests, 
... ... Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, 
... and Within the limits of restitutability,
... and Liable and warranted by due diligence against all of the above.

    And Where Irreciprocity Consists in: 
... Failing any one of the criteria for Reciprocity.

    IN PURSUIT OR AVOIDANCE OF THE SPECTRUM OF CRIMES

    1.  Murder,
2.  Violence, Harm
3.  Theft, Destruction
4.  Deceit, Fraud, Baiting into hazard
5.  Free Riding, Socialization of Losses, Privatization of The Commons,
6.  Conspiracy,
7.  Conversion,
8.  Immigration,
9.  Warfare
10. Conquest

    FOR MORAL(ETHICAL) OR IMMORAL PURPOSES 

    .. .. .. .. Evil - interpersonal, extrapersonal, irreciprocity without gain (harm for harm's sake)
.. .. .. Immoral - extrapersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. .. Unethical - interpersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. Criminal - direct irreciprocity at gain
Amoral - no affect on others at gain.
.. Reciprocal - direct reciprocity at gain
.. .. Ethical - interpersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. Moral - extrapersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. .. Good - interpersonal, extrapersonal, reciprocity without gain (investment, for investment's sake)

    USING THE SPECTRUM OF GRAMMARS

    (Deflationary Grammars)

… Truths (Sciences)
… … Formal Sciences
… … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) 
… … … Mathematics 
… … … Algorithms
… … … … Recipes
… … … … Protocols, Procedures
… … Physical Sciences
… … … Physics
… … … Chemistry
… … … Biology
… … Human Sciences
… … … Consciousness
… … … Metaphysics (language)
… … … Psychology (individual)
… … … Sociology (group)
… Descriptions 
… … Testimony                 (^ - deflationary Grammars)
… … Rhetoric (persuasive Grammars) 
… Communication
… … Ordinary Language                        (Descriptive Grammar)
… … idiomatic language
… Narrations                  (v-  inflationary Grammars) 
… … Narrative (history, explaining) 
… … … Storytelling (loading, framing) 
… … … … Fictions (analogies, teaching)
… Deceits 
… … … Fictionalism (pretense of knowledge)
… … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic 
… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and 
… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult 
… … … Obscurantism (Obscuring creating ignorance)
… … … … Overloading 
… … … … Propaganda 
… … … … Social Construction
… Frauds
… … … Misdirection (lying)
… … … Baiting Into Hazards
… … … Fraud (for gain) 
… … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

(Inflationary Grammars)

    AND THE SPECTRUM OF CIVILIZATIONAL WISDOM LITERATURES

    Aristotle.......Real/Natural: .....Science (Decidability) Law
Plato: .........Ideal/Natural: ....Sophistry (Justification) Philo
Confucian:....Real/Myth-Natural:...~Reason(Harmony) Reason
Hindu: ......Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Harmony) Mytho.
Persian .....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (?) Mytho/Philo.
Egyptian.....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Order) Mytho.
Semitic......Unreal/Supernatural:..Fraud(Authority) Theo.

    We are forever bound by the grammars of our wisdom literatures. (Grammar: paradigms, vocabulary, logic, grammar) WE INVENTED TRUTH AND THEY INVENTED LYING IN RESPONSE

    .....Female and Semitic vs Male and European
..............Dysgenics vs Eugenics
............Consumption vs Capitalization
....Private Consumption vs Commons Production
............Undermining vs Order
...Approval/Disapproval vs True/False
.........Incrementalism vs zero tolerance
..Plausible Deniability vs Warranty
..................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost
...............Critique vs Falsification
.................Pilpul vs Justification
..........False Promise vs Promise
....Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity
...............One Herd vs Many Packs

  • You Want Parsimony? 😉

    Jan 9, 2020, 5:03 PM RECIPE

    1. A Heroic Narrative of Truth, Duty, Oath and Contract, Heroism, Excellence, Achievement, Mindfulness and The direction of dominance expression to the production of commons.

    2. Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, The universal military as the polity, The individual as the subject of Law and the Family as the subject of Policy

    3. Aristotelianism: Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism, Empiricism, Testimonial Truth (science)

    4. Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity and via positiva markets in everything, and a  via negativa Market for the Suppression of parasitism in court.

    5. A Power Distribution of law, Pareto Distribution of Capital, and Nash Distribution of Returns.

    6. A majority genetic middle class and the suppression of the reproduction of the underclass (unproductive).
      GIVEN THE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN FACILITIES 

    1. Sense Facility (stimuli)
… … Perception (composition)
… … … Association
2. Logic Facility (constant relations)
… … Imagination Facility (prediction)
… … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation)
4. Grammar facility (statements)
… … Paradigms ('metaphysics', 'dimensions')
… … … Frame ('boundaries') 
… … … … Context ('pragmatics')
… … Grammar (rules of continuous recursive disambiguation)
… … … Syntax (rules of sentences)
… … … Stories
… … … … Sentences
… … … … … Phrases
… … … … … … Clauses
… … … Operations (logic)
… … … Vocabulary (Semantics)
… … … … Rules of Organization (Morphology)
… … … … Sounds (Phonology)
… … … … Signs (acts, actions)
… … … … Marks (records)
… … … … … accidental
… … … … … intentional
… … … … … … Mark
… … … … … … Symbol
… … … … … … … Glyph
… … … … … … Pictogram
… … … … … … Picture
… … … … … … Picture Series
… … … … … … Animation
4. Communication Facility ("Language")
( ... ) 3. (epistemology)

      WHERE THE SPEECH IS CONSISTS OF: 

    1. Complete Sentences
2. In promissory form
3. In testimonial form
4. In operational vocabulary (as actions)
5. From an observer’s point of view
6. Absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…)
7. Including all changes in state
8. Including all consequences of change in state
9. Producing a series of testable transactions.

    WARRANTIED AS:

    1. Existential >
... 2. Realism >
... 3. Naturalism >
4. Possible >
... 5. Operational - Demonstrable >
... 6. Empirical - Externally Correspondent >
... 7. Logical > 
8. Rational >
... 9. Rational Choice - Demonstrated Preference >
... ... 10. Incentives - Demonstrated Interest >
... ... ... 11. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... ... ... 12. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... ... ... 13. Status, Reputation, Kith
... ... ... 14. Several Interests (in many forms)
... ... ... 15. Common Interests (in many forms)
... 16. Reciprocal >
... ... 17. Productive
... ... 18. Fully Informed 
... ... 19. Voluntary Transfer >
... ... 20. Free of Negative Externality >
21. Survivable >
... 22. Power Distribution of Law >
... 23. Pareto Distribution of Assets >
... 24. Nash Distribution of Rewards >
25. Complete >
... 26. Consistency, Coherence, Limits, Completeness
27. Warrantable >
... 28. Liable and Warrantied, within the Bounds of Restitution.

    IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRUM OF DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS

    ... 1. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... 2. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... 3. Status, Reputation, Kith
... 4. Several Interests (in many forms)
... 5. Common Interests (in many forms)

    BY RECIPROCAL OR IRRECIPROCAL MEANS

    Where Reciprocity Consists in:
... Productive, 
... Fully informed, sufficient to meet demand for infallibility 
... ... Free of
... ... ... ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, 
... ... ... loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, 
... ... ... fictionalisms, 
... ... ... baiting into hazards, frauds, and deceits.
... Voluntary transfer, of demonstrated interests, 
... ... Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, 
... and Within the limits of restitutability,
... and Liable and warranted by due diligence against all of the above.

    And Where Irreciprocity Consists in: 
... Failing any one of the criteria for Reciprocity.

    IN PURSUIT OR AVOIDANCE OF THE SPECTRUM OF CRIMES

    1.  Murder,
2.  Violence, Harm
3.  Theft, Destruction
4.  Deceit, Fraud, Baiting into hazard
5.  Free Riding, Socialization of Losses, Privatization of The Commons,
6.  Conspiracy,
7.  Conversion,
8.  Immigration,
9.  Warfare
10. Conquest

    FOR MORAL(ETHICAL) OR IMMORAL PURPOSES 

    .. .. .. .. Evil - interpersonal, extrapersonal, irreciprocity without gain (harm for harm's sake)
.. .. .. Immoral - extrapersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. .. Unethical - interpersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. Criminal - direct irreciprocity at gain
Amoral - no affect on others at gain.
.. Reciprocal - direct reciprocity at gain
.. .. Ethical - interpersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. Moral - extrapersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. .. Good - interpersonal, extrapersonal, reciprocity without gain (investment, for investment's sake)

    USING THE SPECTRUM OF GRAMMARS

    (Deflationary Grammars)

… Truths (Sciences)
… … Formal Sciences
… … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) 
… … … Mathematics 
… … … Algorithms
… … … … Recipes
… … … … Protocols, Procedures
… … Physical Sciences
… … … Physics
… … … Chemistry
… … … Biology
… … Human Sciences
… … … Consciousness
… … … Metaphysics (language)
… … … Psychology (individual)
… … … Sociology (group)
… Descriptions 
… … Testimony                 (^ - deflationary Grammars)
… … Rhetoric (persuasive Grammars) 
… Communication
… … Ordinary Language                        (Descriptive Grammar)
… … idiomatic language
… Narrations                  (v-  inflationary Grammars) 
… … Narrative (history, explaining) 
… … … Storytelling (loading, framing) 
… … … … Fictions (analogies, teaching)
… Deceits 
… … … Fictionalism (pretense of knowledge)
… … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic 
… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and 
… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult 
… … … Obscurantism (Obscuring creating ignorance)
… … … … Overloading 
… … … … Propaganda 
… … … … Social Construction
… Frauds
… … … Misdirection (lying)
… … … Baiting Into Hazards
… … … Fraud (for gain) 
… … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

(Inflationary Grammars)

    AND THE SPECTRUM OF CIVILIZATIONAL WISDOM LITERATURES

    Aristotle.......Real/Natural: .....Science (Decidability) Law
Plato: .........Ideal/Natural: ....Sophistry (Justification) Philo
Confucian:....Real/Myth-Natural:...~Reason(Harmony) Reason
Hindu: ......Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Harmony) Mytho.
Persian .....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (?) Mytho/Philo.
Egyptian.....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Order) Mytho.
Semitic......Unreal/Supernatural:..Fraud(Authority) Theo.

    We are forever bound by the grammars of our wisdom literatures. (Grammar: paradigms, vocabulary, logic, grammar) WE INVENTED TRUTH AND THEY INVENTED LYING IN RESPONSE

    .....Female and Semitic vs Male and European
..............Dysgenics vs Eugenics
............Consumption vs Capitalization
....Private Consumption vs Commons Production
............Undermining vs Order
...Approval/Disapproval vs True/False
.........Incrementalism vs zero tolerance
..Plausible Deniability vs Warranty
..................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost
...............Critique vs Falsification
.................Pilpul vs Justification
..........False Promise vs Promise
....Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity
...............One Herd vs Many Packs

  • You Don”t Need to Be an Entrepreneur, Just on An Entrepreneurial Team

    Jan 10, 2020, 2:48 PM Competitiveness isn’t always a good thing to wish in yourself. For those of us that are hyper competitive, the warfare – so to speak – is more enjoyable than the loot that comes from winning it. I don’t like internal conflict but I love external competition. All of us that ‘achieve’ are the same. We love the battle. We’d rather fight hard and lose than not fight at all. You probably can’t make yourself do that. You can however, get on a TEAM with those that do. And use loyalty, work, and discipline to assist them – and get the loot. In other words, don’t necessarily want to be in CHARGE of warfare. Benefit from supporting those who do.

  • Until Behavioral Econ and The Cog-Sci Split from Psychology, Pretty Much All Psych Is (harmful) Pseudoscience.

    Jan 10, 2020, 4:01 PM

    —“At the risk of getting you started 🙂 , what is your take on Integral politics, philosophy, or whatever?”—‎Frank Chandler

    I love it that you asked the question honestly. lol. Wilber’s Integral theory, much like say, MBTI vs Big5/Moral Foundations is a pseudoscientific framework for a rather obvious empirical pattern, framed by his search through eastern philosophy upon what many mid-century thinkers perceived as a failure of the western model – but what was instead, the peak of the success of the second jewish abrahamic undermining of western civilization under marx, boas, freud, adorno-fromm, derrida, friedan et al, to replace masculine hierarchical military western order in competition with the church with a feminine monopoly pseudoscientific and sophomoric order of public intellectuals (secular priesthood) by undermining from within. Traditional western tripartism (military-law-faith and Fight-Work-Pray) was and what remains, still is, a system of cooperation between the classes and genders mediated by familial and individual sovereignty under our thousands of years of traditional customary law. So, one can take the traditional western system of cooperation and simply describe it in scientific terms. Or as we do in Propertarianism, do the same in biological and economic terms, or one can make silly stuff up like Wilber does, or the entire field of ‘pseudoscientific psychology’ that has been replaced by behavioral economics (scientific psychology), neurology, and cognitive science. This is another problem of literary empathic and sympathetic (feminine immature) vs scientific analytic and operational (masculine mature) systems of thinking which perpetuates the historical competition between Theological nonsense by external analogy, philosophical ideal nonsense by internal analogy, and scientific and empirical truth by falsifying both. But our brains evolved from the sensory to the physical to the interpersonal to the analytic, and it is understandable why the process of development is limited and therefore ability and agency by our individual distribution of ability along that spectrum – and that is why training people in physical fitness(body), stoicism(emotions), manners-ethics-morals(intuition), the grammars (measurements), and job skills (productive cooperation) is necessary to produce fully functional human beings in each of the cognitive series of development. So I view ‘that stuff’ as pseudoscientific nonsense for simpletons no matter what it is, from freud through the reformation in psychology with the “Operationalist Movement” that began in the 80’s . Thankfully the cognitive scientists branched off and and matured by 2000, and settled all this nonsense over the past twenty years.

  • Until Behavioral Econ and The Cog-Sci Split from Psychology, Pretty Much All Psych Is (harmful) Pseudoscience.

    Jan 10, 2020, 4:01 PM

    —“At the risk of getting you started 🙂 , what is your take on Integral politics, philosophy, or whatever?”—‎Frank Chandler

    I love it that you asked the question honestly. lol. Wilber’s Integral theory, much like say, MBTI vs Big5/Moral Foundations is a pseudoscientific framework for a rather obvious empirical pattern, framed by his search through eastern philosophy upon what many mid-century thinkers perceived as a failure of the western model – but what was instead, the peak of the success of the second jewish abrahamic undermining of western civilization under marx, boas, freud, adorno-fromm, derrida, friedan et al, to replace masculine hierarchical military western order in competition with the church with a feminine monopoly pseudoscientific and sophomoric order of public intellectuals (secular priesthood) by undermining from within. Traditional western tripartism (military-law-faith and Fight-Work-Pray) was and what remains, still is, a system of cooperation between the classes and genders mediated by familial and individual sovereignty under our thousands of years of traditional customary law. So, one can take the traditional western system of cooperation and simply describe it in scientific terms. Or as we do in Propertarianism, do the same in biological and economic terms, or one can make silly stuff up like Wilber does, or the entire field of ‘pseudoscientific psychology’ that has been replaced by behavioral economics (scientific psychology), neurology, and cognitive science. This is another problem of literary empathic and sympathetic (feminine immature) vs scientific analytic and operational (masculine mature) systems of thinking which perpetuates the historical competition between Theological nonsense by external analogy, philosophical ideal nonsense by internal analogy, and scientific and empirical truth by falsifying both. But our brains evolved from the sensory to the physical to the interpersonal to the analytic, and it is understandable why the process of development is limited and therefore ability and agency by our individual distribution of ability along that spectrum – and that is why training people in physical fitness(body), stoicism(emotions), manners-ethics-morals(intuition), the grammars (measurements), and job skills (productive cooperation) is necessary to produce fully functional human beings in each of the cognitive series of development. So I view ‘that stuff’ as pseudoscientific nonsense for simpletons no matter what it is, from freud through the reformation in psychology with the “Operationalist Movement” that began in the 80’s . Thankfully the cognitive scientists branched off and and matured by 2000, and settled all this nonsense over the past twenty years.

  • Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture

    Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim world is Face-Before-Truth, and Respect without Earning it. On the other hand europeans won’t speak the whole truth and explain why the conflict exists, nor do we state that it’s aristotelian truth, literacy, rule of law, capitalism, and reducing the reproduction of our underclasses – not democracy – that made the west successful. And that democracy is a disaster for non-europeans who have not also developed those institutions. In europe our honor comes from truth before face, and respect when earned. This is heroic. It is to bear personal sacrifice on behalf of the polity. And it puts constant pressure on the ‘lower classes’ to improve their behavior. So this is why europe is high trust, builds large organizations, relatively free of corruption, and why it’s materially good for underclasses but they’re continuously under social pressure to ‘mature’ into paying the high costs of truth before face, earning respect by behavior, defense of the commons, and doing one’s duty regardless of cost.

  • Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture

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