Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1543423166 Timestamp) THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A EUROPEAN IDENTITY (worth repeating) (edited) All that is required to claim one is a Christian is to have adopted the teachings of Christianity: THE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY: THE VIA-NEGATIVA 1. Do not covet (envy) 2. Do not lie, cheat, gossip, or conspire. 3. Do not rape, adulter, or prostitute. 4. Do not murder, steal, or harm. THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY: THE VIA-POSITIVA 1. The eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2. The extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. 4. The commitment to personal acts of charity for those who are in need. THE ARYAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. Demand and Do: Sovereignty and Reciprocity, 2. Demand and Do: Truth and Duty 3. Demand and Do: The Law and Markets 4. Demand and Do: Insure the Good, Punish the Wicked. THE HEATHEN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. The laws of nature are binding on all of existence; and; 2. Nature is sacred and to be contemplated, protected and improved; and; 3. To leave the universe changed for the better – a Garden – for having lived in it. 4. To die a good death in the service of my people. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF MAN INTO GODS. Through the continuous competition between trial and error, as we calculate perfection one thought, word, and deed at a time. “ONE DROP RULE” For kin, the One Drop Rule. That this is the optimum ingroup evolutionary strategy is simply a matter of logic and evidence.

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    (FB 1543425047 Timestamp) MORE ON DE-PROPAGANDIZING “CAPITALISM” (required reading)

    1. Trade has always existed (generating exchange)

    2. Markets have almost always existed (generating prices).

    3. Capitalists have existed as long as there have been markets (generating means of production).

    4. Northern Europeans (Venetians less so. Saxons largely, the Hansa in particular, the English systematically, the Dutch first at political scale), developed rule of law – which is why they escaped the church with the reformation.)

    5. Capitalism consists of rule of law consisting nearly entirely of markets, and socialism of rule of men eliminating or vastly reducing markets – but all polities have some mixed economy and must do so. The problem is that the state is superior at investing in some commons, but the private sector is far better at allocating and maximizing the returns on capital.

    6. So capitalism and socialism only evolved once the industrial revolution came into play – and the socialists demanded control over production. Capitalism then was the name they used for ‘market bias under rule of law’ , and socialism ‘state bias under rule of men’.

    So any statement about when was capitalism invented, is rater ‘stupid’ really. The answer is very simple: capitalism was the ‘jewish’ view of markets, and socialism the ‘jewish’ view of the state. And suckers bought into this false dichotomy. The question is and always will be the utilities of the state monopoly vs the private sector market. And as it stands, the lesson is quite clear: when it is simple and you know how to do it, but it’s risky and expensive, the state can provide startup capital and market protections. Once that investment is running, it can be ‘sold’ to the private sector who can then maximize its potential. The USA has mastered the art of moving this high risk investment into the private sector, but this has had the effect of hollowing out predictable sectors of the economy. So it appears that once again, there are those things it is better for the state to produce (labor-consuming and strategic companies, that are less speculative and produce slower longer returns), and things that it is better for the private sector to produce (IQ consuming and highly speculative things with shorter higher returns.) CONVERSELY The flood river and irrigation valleys of the fertile, crescent, pakistan-india, and china, could produce state-capital easily, just as the west could produce private-capital easily. The west and east homogenous peoples higher trust. The center tribal heterogenous people lower trust. It’s not complicated. You do what you can with the people and geography you have.

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    (FB 1543423166 Timestamp) THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A EUROPEAN IDENTITY (worth repeating) (edited) All that is required to claim one is a Christian is to have adopted the teachings of Christianity: THE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY: THE VIA-NEGATIVA 1. Do not covet (envy) 2. Do not lie, cheat, gossip, or conspire. 3. Do not rape, adulter, or prostitute. 4. Do not murder, steal, or harm. THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY: THE VIA-POSITIVA 1. The eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2. The extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3. The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war. 4. The commitment to personal acts of charity for those who are in need. THE ARYAN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. Demand and Do: Sovereignty and Reciprocity, 2. Demand and Do: Truth and Duty 3. Demand and Do: The Law and Markets 4. Demand and Do: Insure the Good, Punish the Wicked. THE HEATHEN EUROPEAN IDENTITY 1. The laws of nature are binding on all of existence; and; 2. Nature is sacred and to be contemplated, protected and improved; and; 3. To leave the universe changed for the better – a Garden – for having lived in it. 4. To die a good death in the service of my people. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF MAN INTO GODS. Through the continuous competition between trial and error, as we calculate perfection one thought, word, and deed at a time. “ONE DROP RULE” For kin, the One Drop Rule. That this is the optimum ingroup evolutionary strategy is simply a matter of logic and evidence.

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    (FB 1543674852 Timestamp) WHY DO WOMEN UNDERMINE THE CIVILIZATION and CULTURE, the INSTITUTIONS, and MALES? (important explanations) —“…what kind of evolutionary pressure would create a desire to undermine the ingroup. All the plausible explanations I’ve seen had to do with abusing female impulses that have evolved for entirely different purposes….”—Martin Å těpán Females undermine the concentration of power in alphas in order to preserve some control over their reproductive choice and access to resources and male-provisioned resources, including defense. ie: females can barter attention, effort, care, and sex if they have control of the attention economy. Which is why females are so conscious (and gay men evidencing it) of attention and approval and agreeableness. So just as females operate on a status and attention economy, they fight within that economy: disapproval, shaming, ridicule, gossip, moralizing, undermining, and reputation destruction. And decreasing the number of females is not necessarily in their disinterest – so literally killing off other females increases remaining female market value, so that his the strategy females pursue: that of Hens. Undermining the males (‘sh-t testing’) is useful both at the level of insuring the ‘fitness’ of males in defending them, preserving their ability to choose, assisting them in outing ‘cheaters’ (which women are terrible at, and men excel at), maximizing cost of (returns on) their attention, care, and sex. The only problem here is that women still sexually select for males as if we are under those conditions of hunter gatherers. And this explains the attraction of women to more primitive (less domesticated) groups of males with lower agency despite that the female condition is dependent upon those of us with higher agency, innovation, and adaptivity. Hence the necessity of more domesticated (higher agency) males of defending the ingroup females from conquest or even exposure to, lower agency, higher aggression, males. (FWIW:Delayed marriage provides women with greater reproductive certainty, and therefore greater sortition, and greater formation of genetic castes, and therefore greater speciation – hence white people.) Males conversely, operate on the physical equivalent of the warfare economy, and so losses of males weakens the pack, and dilution of the ingroup male genes weakens male reproductive (evolutionary) persistence, as well as reverses domestication (evolution of agency). I could write on this subject for hours by just weaving through male and female behavior at all levels. And doing so only further demonstrates Acquisitionism and the need for Testimonialism and Natural Law to preserve the Western Advantage given the destructive influences of women.

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    (FB 1543636376 Timestamp) THE ABUSE OF THE TERM “NATION” IN ITS HISTORICAL AND MARXIST-POSTMODERN-FEMINIST CONTEXT (Note: I try to collapse one of the major the cycles of history here, and repeat the same idea from different angles because while the underlying causes are not that difficult, it seems relatively difficult for most of us. Repetition solves that problem.) So Nation = A Race or Subrace or Tribal Group of Similar Genetics, Language, Culture, Traditions, Institutions, and Group Evolutionary Strategy. Period. Everything Else is Just more sophomoric postmodern term abuse. |KIN| Individual > Family > Clan > Tribe > Nation > Race > Man. |TERRITORY| Land > Lands > Country > Empire |RULE| Warriors > Militia > Military (Insurers of Last resort) > Rule(Decidability, monopoly on power) > Government (Management, monopoly on commons) > State (Corporation holding Assets, monopoly on foreign relations) > Empire. In the context of this discussion, either you have a Nation-State, or an Empire. Nation (people), Nation-State (political order), Empire (multi-national political order). We use the term International as a shorthand for inter-imperial, stat, and national. Largely because our terminology evolved during the era of nation states dominated by european nation states – each of which was and always has been an empire, forcibly created by napoleon in france, by the invention of total war, and causing the rest of the world to react to scale in order to produce militaries of capability to resist them. America, Russia, China, and India are Empires. The UK is either a Federation or an Empire, and increasingly demonstrably a Federation. Italy consists of the north and the south – although Federated or Imperial a question unresolved. Spain because – because of her regional conflicts, an empire. France because of Brittany and algeria an empire. The Universalist (pseudoscientific-marxist and sophist-postmodernist and denialist-feminist) movements attempt to construct a redefinition of terms to fool the idiots into working against their interests by reversing eugenic paternalism. The Particularist (scientific, empiricist, paternalist) order simply states what exist, and asks us to choose which order is in our interests, advocating the preservation of eugenic paternalism. It’s not complicated. It’s the pseudoscientists, sophists, denialists, and outright liars and idiots that make the current world APPEAR complicated by layers of loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit. These questions are all open to simple answer. But the dysgenic left kleptocracy attempts to achieve by pseudoscience sophism denialism and deceit, that which the jewish, christians, and islamists achieved by supernaturalism, sophism, denialism and deceit: another dark age, in the multi-millennial war between the eugenic indo europeans, and the dysgenic afro-asiatics. REVOLT ONE Indo European Expansion by Heroic Paternal Militarism vs Semitic invention of Religious Resistance REVOLT TWO Greco Roman Expansion of Empiricism vs Semitic Religious Resistance REVOLT THREE Anglo-European Expansion of Science, Law, Accounting, and Technology vs Semitic Pseudoscientific, Sophist (pseudo-rational), Denialist, Resistance. Just the eugenic masculine heroic aristocracy against the dysgenic feminine resistance. Male vs Female at Scale. Males fight ingroup for position (pack strategy ). Females fight ingroup to Destroy and never stop (herd strategy). Males fight outgroup to cooperate or destroy. Females encourage outgroup to undermine ingroup. None of this rational choice but purely genetic and evolutionary in influence. Surviving Europeans, the Conquered Persians, and Lost Indo-Aryans applied the male strategy of colonize and domesticate for profit. Semites (afro-asiatics), apply the female strategy and use disapproval, shaming, ridicule, gossip, and reputation destruction to excite the underclasses to rebel against those who have made their circumstance possible. The story of Cain and Able is the story of paternal urban agrarian vs maternal herding wanderer. And the different moral intuitions between them and between men and women continue to determine our cyclical competition. Unfortunately, the female intuition is only useful at social scale, and the male intuition at political scale. And when the feminine wins, as we have seen, the great civilizations are destroyed, just as much from plague and war without but from undermining within. Version Two Jews (undermine) > Christians (acquiesce) > Muslims (conquer and replace) Version Three Marxists (undermine) > Postmodernists (acquiesce) > Islamists (conquer and replace) The test of Racial competition of whom only the east asians and indians seem willing to resist by cultural means in india(culturo-centrism), and by state means in china, japan, and Korea (ethnocentrism) That is the explanation of the cycles of history at scale. Cheers

  • (FB 1543677239 Timestamp) ACQUISITION AND THE SUPPLY DEMAND CURVE (And Hayekian

    (FB 1543677239 Timestamp) ACQUISITION AND THE SUPPLY DEMAND CURVE (And Hayekian Triangles). by Bill Joslin (Important concept) (“The Grammar of Social Relations.”) We (Propertarians) often use spectrums, but do so in a linear fashion a-b-c etc. A line in a single dimension, possibly two. Start to end or minimum to maximum. There is always, for any point on the spectrum, a vertical dimension which is context or frame. (CD: usually it’s scale.) We presume, properly, the existential frame, but without explicit expression it leaves us open to frame manipulation. The vertical dimension would be context – we’re always low context, but there might be something to including in what domain of existence we’re referring to for a spectrum, or accounting for all domains along with the spectrum. An example: aquisitionalism on a base biological level (domain)-> acquisition of calories and mating opportunities. Aquisitionalism on an individual level (domain) -> pursuit of “goods’ Aquisitionalism on a social level (domain)-> acquisition of signals and opportunity Aquisitionalism on a societal level (domain) -> acquisition of advantage

    Without specifying or accounting for all domains, we tend to be mistaken for reductionists

    (Curt Doolittle Responds: ) Correct. So we have some spectrum, some time series, and some range of context(conceptual) or conditions (existential). So, because of (a) w can repeat series indefinitely in text, and this trains people through repetition. (b) text (This venue) does not assist us in creating graphs (supply demand curves), and (c) most people are unfamiliar with Hayekian Triangles, which is how these things are optimally communicated. (d) I am … let us say ‘leery’ of illustrating all these concepts in hayekian triangles, despite the fact that in my mind, I model all these concepts in Gary Becker’s supply and demand curves of Social Science Incentives. (Which is how I plan to teach the class: getting the students to draw all of them.) This converts the textual to the graphical. So. A series should define a supply demand curve. —THE GRAMMARS OF SOCIAL RELATIONS — IDEAL TYPE Hyper Generalization (overgeneralization). an Ideal. This is how most people converse in ordinary language. SERIES Hierarchy (series) = The Production Cycle (commonly) CURVE Supply = Volume (quantity, amount) Demand = Criteria for Choice Intersection = Choice TRIANGLES Production Cycle
    Possible Production Range Amount of investment vs trust required. EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN COMPETING TRIANGLES (Mapping two or more curves together) DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC EQUILIBRIUM MODELS (how economics is performed today) So please forgive me if I speak in legal argument using series presuming the user can grasp that I speak in curves not lines. Because if I wrote at any greater level of complexity, (a) the demand on my time would be logarithmic, (b) it would only be fit for academic publication, and not for production of LAW COMPREHENSIBLE BY MEN. –GRAMMARS– Note that this pattern of grammars exists EVERYWHERE in every discipline.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543636376 Timestamp) THE ABUSE OF THE TERM “NATION” IN ITS HISTORICAL AND MARXIST-POSTMODERN-FEMINIST CONTEXT (Note: I try to collapse one of the major the cycles of history here, and repeat the same idea from different angles because while the underlying causes are not that difficult, it seems relatively difficult for most of us. Repetition solves that problem.) So Nation = A Race or Subrace or Tribal Group of Similar Genetics, Language, Culture, Traditions, Institutions, and Group Evolutionary Strategy. Period. Everything Else is Just more sophomoric postmodern term abuse. |KIN| Individual > Family > Clan > Tribe > Nation > Race > Man. |TERRITORY| Land > Lands > Country > Empire |RULE| Warriors > Militia > Military (Insurers of Last resort) > Rule(Decidability, monopoly on power) > Government (Management, monopoly on commons) > State (Corporation holding Assets, monopoly on foreign relations) > Empire. In the context of this discussion, either you have a Nation-State, or an Empire. Nation (people), Nation-State (political order), Empire (multi-national political order). We use the term International as a shorthand for inter-imperial, stat, and national. Largely because our terminology evolved during the era of nation states dominated by european nation states – each of which was and always has been an empire, forcibly created by napoleon in france, by the invention of total war, and causing the rest of the world to react to scale in order to produce militaries of capability to resist them. America, Russia, China, and India are Empires. The UK is either a Federation or an Empire, and increasingly demonstrably a Federation. Italy consists of the north and the south – although Federated or Imperial a question unresolved. Spain because – because of her regional conflicts, an empire. France because of Brittany and algeria an empire. The Universalist (pseudoscientific-marxist and sophist-postmodernist and denialist-feminist) movements attempt to construct a redefinition of terms to fool the idiots into working against their interests by reversing eugenic paternalism. The Particularist (scientific, empiricist, paternalist) order simply states what exist, and asks us to choose which order is in our interests, advocating the preservation of eugenic paternalism. It’s not complicated. It’s the pseudoscientists, sophists, denialists, and outright liars and idiots that make the current world APPEAR complicated by layers of loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit. These questions are all open to simple answer. But the dysgenic left kleptocracy attempts to achieve by pseudoscience sophism denialism and deceit, that which the jewish, christians, and islamists achieved by supernaturalism, sophism, denialism and deceit: another dark age, in the multi-millennial war between the eugenic indo europeans, and the dysgenic afro-asiatics. REVOLT ONE Indo European Expansion by Heroic Paternal Militarism vs Semitic invention of Religious Resistance REVOLT TWO Greco Roman Expansion of Empiricism vs Semitic Religious Resistance REVOLT THREE Anglo-European Expansion of Science, Law, Accounting, and Technology vs Semitic Pseudoscientific, Sophist (pseudo-rational), Denialist, Resistance. Just the eugenic masculine heroic aristocracy against the dysgenic feminine resistance. Male vs Female at Scale. Males fight ingroup for position (pack strategy ). Females fight ingroup to Destroy and never stop (herd strategy). Males fight outgroup to cooperate or destroy. Females encourage outgroup to undermine ingroup. None of this rational choice but purely genetic and evolutionary in influence. Surviving Europeans, the Conquered Persians, and Lost Indo-Aryans applied the male strategy of colonize and domesticate for profit. Semites (afro-asiatics), apply the female strategy and use disapproval, shaming, ridicule, gossip, and reputation destruction to excite the underclasses to rebel against those who have made their circumstance possible. The story of Cain and Able is the story of paternal urban agrarian vs maternal herding wanderer. And the different moral intuitions between them and between men and women continue to determine our cyclical competition. Unfortunately, the female intuition is only useful at social scale, and the male intuition at political scale. And when the feminine wins, as we have seen, the great civilizations are destroyed, just as much from plague and war without but from undermining within. Version Two Jews (undermine) > Christians (acquiesce) > Muslims (conquer and replace) Version Three Marxists (undermine) > Postmodernists (acquiesce) > Islamists (conquer and replace) The test of Racial competition of whom only the east asians and indians seem willing to resist by cultural means in india(culturo-centrism), and by state means in china, japan, and Korea (ethnocentrism) That is the explanation of the cycles of history at scale. Cheers

  • (FB 1543677239 Timestamp) ACQUISITION AND THE SUPPLY DEMAND CURVE (And Hayekian

    (FB 1543677239 Timestamp) ACQUISITION AND THE SUPPLY DEMAND CURVE (And Hayekian Triangles). by Bill Joslin (Important concept) (“The Grammar of Social Relations.”) We (Propertarians) often use spectrums, but do so in a linear fashion a-b-c etc. A line in a single dimension, possibly two. Start to end or minimum to maximum. There is always, for any point on the spectrum, a vertical dimension which is context or frame. (CD: usually it’s scale.) We presume, properly, the existential frame, but without explicit expression it leaves us open to frame manipulation. The vertical dimension would be context – we’re always low context, but there might be something to including in what domain of existence we’re referring to for a spectrum, or accounting for all domains along with the spectrum. An example: aquisitionalism on a base biological level (domain)-> acquisition of calories and mating opportunities. Aquisitionalism on an individual level (domain) -> pursuit of “goods’ Aquisitionalism on a social level (domain)-> acquisition of signals and opportunity Aquisitionalism on a societal level (domain) -> acquisition of advantage

    Without specifying or accounting for all domains, we tend to be mistaken for reductionists

    (Curt Doolittle Responds: ) Correct. So we have some spectrum, some time series, and some range of context(conceptual) or conditions (existential). So, because of (a) w can repeat series indefinitely in text, and this trains people through repetition. (b) text (This venue) does not assist us in creating graphs (supply demand curves), and (c) most people are unfamiliar with Hayekian Triangles, which is how these things are optimally communicated. (d) I am … let us say ‘leery’ of illustrating all these concepts in hayekian triangles, despite the fact that in my mind, I model all these concepts in Gary Becker’s supply and demand curves of Social Science Incentives. (Which is how I plan to teach the class: getting the students to draw all of them.) This converts the textual to the graphical. So. A series should define a supply demand curve. —THE GRAMMARS OF SOCIAL RELATIONS — IDEAL TYPE Hyper Generalization (overgeneralization). an Ideal. This is how most people converse in ordinary language. SERIES Hierarchy (series) = The Production Cycle (commonly) CURVE Supply = Volume (quantity, amount) Demand = Criteria for Choice Intersection = Choice TRIANGLES Production Cycle
    Possible Production Range Amount of investment vs trust required. EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN COMPETING TRIANGLES (Mapping two or more curves together) DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC EQUILIBRIUM MODELS (how economics is performed today) So please forgive me if I speak in legal argument using series presuming the user can grasp that I speak in curves not lines. Because if I wrote at any greater level of complexity, (a) the demand on my time would be logarithmic, (b) it would only be fit for academic publication, and not for production of LAW COMPREHENSIBLE BY MEN. –GRAMMARS– Note that this pattern of grammars exists EVERYWHERE in every discipline.

  • Answering Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

    05 December 2018  (in progress… saving) The Female Method of Warfare:

    • Reputation Destruction,
    • Alliance Destruction,
    • Trust Destruction,
    • Social Destruction.

    RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

    Curt Doolittle: The only material power is violence. Everything else is tolerance by the powerful. If you cannot use violence you are not in fact powerful. If you can use violence and you do not then you are unworthy of rule, and merely free riding, parasitizing, or conspiring. What does this teach you? Master Organized Violence. Use it with Zero Tolerance.

    RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

    Curt Doolittle:: Straw manning is only effective if we are tolerant of straw manning, and avoiding the central issues at hand. The only reason not to engage in war, decimation, enslavement, and enserfment of the various type available, is truthful, productive, discourse on the central issues. If we cannot discourse on issues then we either war if we can, or are destroyed if we cannot. Ergo, the only power is Violence.

    RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

    Curt Doolittle:: Again, straw manning is effective in particular because those who specialize in truth, duty, sovereignty, reciprocity, voluntary exchange under the natural law, and markets in all aspects of life, develop specialization and habituation of doing so. Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Nietzsche (and me for that matter), and The Great Generals, are not telling us how to fight war. They are telling us that we must not be ‘christianized’ by our own moral rule. This is one of the secrets to the west’s success outside of the abrahamic dark age: rule by warriors ensures we are not victims of ingroup morality extended to outgroup conflict. It is also one of the reasons for the success of islam: it is a continuous call to war against aristocracy, by every living soul, to reverse aristocracy and restore dysgenic pastoralism.

    RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

    Curt Doolittle:: Critique is a powerful means of avoiding the act of providing a solution that ‘in total’ is more (need to understand how they seek reciprocity)

    RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

    Curt Doolittle: Ridicule is not discussion, debate, or argument… it is admission one lacks one, and as such breaks the incentive for non violence necessary to negotiate. Therefore all cases of ridicule that are tolerated are nothing more than you avoiding the cost of policing the commons against those who would undermine, free ride, parasite, and predate.

    RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

    Curt Doolittle: tolerating small wins by the enemy only gives them positive reinforcement. If you are practicing truth, duty, sovereignty, reciprocity, natural law, and markets in everything the only objective people can have is falsehood and duty(debt) avoidance, reciprocity and non-sovereignty, arbitrary rule, and free riding, parasitism and predation, and in such cases they are almost always unwilling to trade improvement in their behavior for commons and consumption that results from their improved behavior.

    RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

    CD: …

    RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

    CD …

    RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

    CD …

    RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

    CD …

    RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

    CD …

    RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

    CD: …

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543997055 Timestamp) THE GOAL OF MEMORY IS TO OPTIMIZE DECISION-MAKING. —“The predominant focus in the neurobiological study of memory has been on remembering (persistence). However, recent studies have considered the neurobiology of forgetting (transience). Here we draw parallels between neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying transience. We propose that it is the interaction between persistence and transience that allows for intelligent decision-making in dynamic, noisy environments. Specifically, we argue that transience (1) enhances flexibility, by reducing the influence of outdated information on memory-guided decision-making, and (2) prevents overfitting to specific past events, thereby promoting generalization. According to this view, the goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time, per se. Rather, the goal of memory is to optimize decision-making. As such, transience is as important as persistence in mnemonic systems.”— Neuron, The Persistence and Transience of Memory Blake A. Richards Paul W. Frankland