Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Opportunity is not a demonstrated interest. It is a commons produced by the conc

    Opportunity is not a demonstrated interest. It is a commons produced by the concentration of a polity and the observation of and enforcement of non imposition. In other words, market opportunities are produced a s a commons that one may then compete for by the satisfaction of others wants. One may work to ‘settle’ an opportunity before others juts as one may settle a bit of land before others, and in doing so demonstrate an interest. But this is the same whether it is a simple transaction or the domestication of acreage. So you may have an interest in preserving the polity, by creating a market and the opportunities generated by the market. But. you do not have an interest in an opportunity any more than you have an interest in privatizing any other commons.

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    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-14 20:21:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1790477533634265088

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  • MYTHICISM IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITION VS HISTORY IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION |VERSU

    MYTHICISM IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITION VS HISTORY IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION

    |VERSUS|: Europeans: Aristocracy, History and Natural Law
    vs
    Semites: Priesthood, Mythicism and Authoritarian Law.

    Context (Origins)
    Much of the mythicism in the Abrahamic tradition is relatively recent (between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century AD) aligns with the period of Hellenistic influence and the formation of key texts and ideas in Judaism and early Christianity.
    During this time, Jewish thought was influenced by Greek philosophy, and significant religious literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the apocryphal and pseudepigraphal writings, was produced.
    This period also saw the development of the Pharisaic and early Rabbinic traditions, which further shaped Jewish and Christian religious thought.

    Mythicism (Covey Meaning Produced by Others)
    Mythicism refers the production of fictional history by incorporating events, people, myths, legends, loading, framing, and propaganda. The audience is left with the responsibility of interpreting these figures or stories as symbolic, allegorical, or fictional, rather than as real, historical events or individuals. Mythicism was, historically the interpretation of ‘wisdom literatures’ produced by mythicism especially among south eurasians from the west coast of north africa to the east coast of India. The Chinese chose a philosophy of harmony (social), and somewhat mythologized the past. The europeans chose rational (legal, political) philosophy and sought to produce history (legal evidence).

    Properties of Mythicism:
    – Symbolic Interpretation: Mythicism interprets religious or historical narratives as symbolic or allegorical, often conveying deeper truths or cultural values.
    – Skeptical of Historicity: Mythicists often question or deny the historical existence of certain figures (e.g., Jesus Christ in some versions of Jesus myth theory).
    – Cultural and Religious Context: Myths are seen as products of their cultural and religious contexts, reflecting the beliefs, values, and practices of the people who created them.
    – Narrative Structure: Mythic narratives often involve supernatural elements, deities, or heroes, and serve to explain natural phenomena, human behavior, or cultural traditions.

    History (Derive Meaning Yourself From Evidence)
    History consists of the study of past events, particularly those involving human activities, societies, and civilizations. It is based on the critical analysis of evidence such as documents, artifacts, and other records, aiming to reconstruct and understand past realities.

    Properties of History:
    – Empirical Evidence: Historical study relies on empirical evidence, including written records, archaeological findings, and other material artifacts.
    – Methodological Rigor: Historians use critical methods to evaluate sources, verify facts, and construct coherent narratives about the past.
    – Focus on Actual Events: History seeks to document and explain real events and developments, distinguishing between factual occurrences and fictional or mythological accounts.
    – Contextual Analysis: Historical analysis involves understanding events within their broader social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.

    Comparison of Mythicism vs History
    – Basis: Mythicism often interprets narratives as symbolic or fictional, while history focuses on factual, evidence-based accounts of past events.
    – Purpose: Myths typically serve to convey moral, philosophical, or cultural lessons, whereas history aims to provide an accurate and coherent account of what actually happened.
    – Methodology: Mythic interpretation relies on literary and cultural analysis, while historical study employs empirical research, source criticism, and contextual examination.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-14 20:09:33 UTC

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  • GREAT QUESTION –“Q: Curt: Is understanding or agreeing with the law a pre-requi

    GREAT QUESTION
    –“Q: Curt: Is understanding or agreeing with the law a pre-requisite?”–

    1) NATURAL LAW: Well, you must understand nothing more than rights, and that you have none other than those over those demonstrated interests you have produced by your own burdens of cost. (cost in the widest sense).

    2) CRIMINAL LAW: You do not need to know criminal law but if you have the vaguest sense of Natural Law it should be obvious that one does not deprive, steal, harm, or destroy the demonstrated interests of others regardless of reason. Criminal laws license the insurer of last resort (usually the government) on behalf of the people, to use organized force if necessary to pursue, cease, detain, prosecute, perform restitution, punishment, and prevention of repetition or imitation.

    3) CIVIL LAW You do not need to know of or understand a violation of that (natural) criteria, nor intend to do it (civil tort). You need only impose a cost upon that which is not your demonstrated interest. Ignorance is no defense, although we do compensate for children, the aged, the diseased, invalids and sometimes even women for whom responsibility (restitution) exists but not always blame (punishment).

    4) ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: You do not need to know of or understand man made laws (legislation, regulation, and findings of the court). Most derive from 1, and 2, but those that constrain us from externalizing risks onto others whether intentionally or by accident (recklessness, speeding, drunk driving etc) may not be intuitive. So we are likely to receive administrative fines or punishment as ‘training’ so that we are incentivized not do so again, and so that others learn from our ‘ignorance, incompetence, or disregard’.

    5) COMMON CAPITAL LAW: You may not know and may have trouble learning or understanding the vast variety of commons that you presume are there for your use in one way or another, whether physical (material), informal(behavioral), or institutional(Organizations, Processes, and Procedures).

    6) “SACRED” LAW: Without membership in a polity with sufficient experience with the myths, traditions, rituals, festivals, then you may not know, likely will not understand, and may question ‘sacred’ laws even if you do. The “Sacred”, while of religious association, literally means ‘that which you have no right to and every obligation to defend, and are never alienated from respecting or defending. In other words violations of the sacred are the criteria by which others in the polity consider you a risk to the polity, and as such must be p punished, shunned, ostracized, or killed. Most of these sacred laws are categorically common across cultures from traditions, to moral codes, symbols and icons, taboos, spaces and objects, certain texts and rituals. All of these ‘laws’ generate demand for reciprocal altruism, and violating extreme limits on that behavior is generally unforgivable, unrestitutable, and severely punishable.

    7) NORMATIVE BEHAVIOR LAW: You may not know, may have trouble learning, and may disagree with many informal rules, because you, as most people do, confuse the moral terms by which you consent to self regulation of your behavior, with the tolerance from variation from moral norms (terms of cooperation) which have evolved in the polity – but it doesn’t matter what you think. That’s just your strategy for you with others, and your strategy has nothing to do with your strategy’s impact on the commons – as such you may be not only responsible, but blamed and punished for behaviors you believe should be tolerated but are not. Your only solution then is ‘exit’.

    That should cover the vast majority of questions about the categories of law.

    Affections
    CD

    Reply addressees: @Gyeff0

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-14 04:02:28 UTC

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  • THE THREE GRAMMARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRE THREE DIFFERENT CRITERIA FOR EXISTENCE.

    THE THREE GRAMMARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRE THREE DIFFERENT CRITERIA FOR EXISTENCE.

    –“Q: Curt: How is it you have this certainty that the spiritual terms are nonsense”–

    There are three possible forms of existence: material persistence independent of us. Verbal description of experience dependent upon us but sharable. And Intuitionistic experience dependent upon the individual, both impersistent and un-sharable.

    So, do you mean scientifically as in testifiable(material), or the sense of literary and philosophical phenomenalism(verbal), in the sense of theological intuition of supernatural observation(imaginary) of alternate dimensions, or universes?

    If there is some analogy across all three of those frames (demonstrable, descriptive, and imaginary) then we can say we are referring to the same shared experience.

    If, instead, you mean that the phenomenal, or the imaginary exists other than as experience or imagination then that is neither demonstrable, testifiable, sharable, and it is false.

    At this point we know enough about the structure of the universe that any system of information transfer other than those we are aware of is impossible. And we cannot find one single example of the supernatural despite legions of people seeking to discover one, and legions of professionals determining their false every, single, time.

    I can address the spiritual, and just as a movie or novel or scripture can convey a set of imagined and felt qualia to you, it can be explained. This does not mean anything other than that these are three levels of the mind, that correspond to the hierarchy of mental processing. And that mental processing is biased toward the internal sensory(feelings), the external and internal empathic(others), or the external systemic (action).

    So, you cannot testify to the spiritual, but that does not mean the experience is irrelevant or not meaningful to you. As long as you do not engage in self harm by (addiction) to a falsehood.

    Cheers
    CD

    Reply addressees: @HakeemDemi

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-14 00:22:03 UTC

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  • ELECTRIC VEHICLES FROM CHINA AND USE OF TARIFFS TO DEFEND DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES? (

    ELECTRIC VEHICLES FROM CHINA AND USE OF TARIFFS TO DEFEND DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES?
    (RE: https://t.co/KkONn9ltoF @firstpost )

    Why The Tariffs?
    1) No one will trust the Chinese supply chain. Chinese strategy is ‘delay and deceive’. They use moral language to hid immoral ambitions. This strategy is as old as Sun Tzu. The Chinese NEVER have a moral ambition any more than the Russians or the Mullahs of Iran

    2) EV’s are a strategic industry and EV’s produce external strategic industries.

    3) But most importantly if the price of a good is lower because of lower labor costs (china) and government subsidy (china) then you are:
    … a) Exporting your labor and their income to another country;
    … b) Exporting capital to another country and not creating capital internally;
    … c) And/or depriving your population of skills both in the industry and in tangent industries.

    So when England sold it’s looms to Spain, and Spain to East Asia, this made sense. But the same is not true of technical skills, scientific research, and a skilled work force.

    So when the USA wanted to avoid another world war and create a world of free trade, it made sense to export the American economic advantages to developing countries and countries that needed reconstruction from the wars.

    However, the moment a group seeks to impose authoritarianism, to undermine the world order of free trade, and to seditiously undermine economies, there is no longer an advantage in importing cheaper goods for the population. (In economics this is called ‘accounting for both the seen and unseen costs’).

    This disadvantage to export of capital, income, labor, skill, technology, and scientific research is especially true in a place like America where the problem is more one of extraordinary wealth resulting in the vast majority of the country rising to exceed the level of their personal, financial, economic, and political incompetency (whole country peter principle), and then putting that wealth into poor choices in a population rolling in hyper-consumptive hedonism at the cost of their physical and mental health, and their social and political cohesion as a people.

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-13 22:23:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1790145748014600192

  • THE DEATH OF A STATE BY PROGRESSIVES: CONNECTICUT The Connecticut river valley i

    THE DEATH OF A STATE BY PROGRESSIVES:
    CONNECTICUT
    The Connecticut river valley in the 1700s was, like the loire valley in France, one of the best places to live in human history. But once a paradise now a *hithole state because of *hithole cities. Because progressivism was an outgrowth of puritanism via the first generation of feminist activists seeking the vote. A tragic loss of beautiful territory. The progressive movemetn to imitate the soviets was most successful near the universities that spead it and marxism: Yale, Trinity, and Wesleyan in Connecticut, Harvard and it’s circle in Boston Mass, Columbia in New York, and Berkeley in California. However, it was only in Harford/CT and Boston/MA that the government could be sufficiently captured long enough to implement policies that would indebt generations. And while Boston/MA had to radically reform in response to the dramatic shock, when in the 80s the booming tech sector moved from burdensome Boston to the West Coast, Connecticut died a slow death instead, as companies and talent bled out of the region leaving the only people remaining those that can’t leave.

    List of *hithole *hitplexes in Connecticut.
    1. Hartford – East Hartford – Manchester *hitplex,
    2. Hartford – Newington – Bristol – Waterbury *hitplex
    3. Hartford – Meriden – Hamden – New Haven *hitplex,
    4. New Haven – East Haven – Ansonia – Derby – Milford – Bridgeport *hitplex
    5. Norwich – New London *hitplex

    Attached: Map, Crime Map, Crime Rating.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-13 19:02:54 UTC

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  • A math formula, a statement in formal logic, a physics equation, a chemistry ske

    A math formula, a statement in formal logic, a physics equation, a chemistry skeletal formula, an electronic circuit, an assembly language program, most economics, a set of blueprints, a balance sheet, a good portion of legislation, regulation and law, and certainly my work are ‘word salad’ to those ignorant of the skills necessary to understand them. If you interpret something as word salad you are simply identifying that which your ignorant of. 😉

    Reply addressees: @TOEwithCurt

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-12 19:39:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1789742154002083840

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    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Chris Langan is on Curt Jaimungal’s TOE (@TOEwithCurt) today. Speaking nonsense again, and Curt isn’t capable of handling him. It’s funny that I can find some truth in what Chris says but he’s a bit of a phenomenalist and says ‘start with perception’.
    But that’s rather silly since the universe is constructed from trivial rules, everything in it is emergent from those trivial rules, including the neurons that emerge from those same principles.
    The universe consists of the defeat of entropy by the production of density that survives in persistent relations – and neurons identify sets of persistent relations.
    The only theory we need is evolutionary computation by discovery of stable relations, and the hierarchy of emergent possibilities for recombination and the possible operations they can perform, that emerge from these assemblies – what we call disciplines.
    So of course he doesn’t understand Wolfram as simply running evolutionary simulations to identify emergences.
    Consequence of combinations are are computationally (operationally reducible) but they are not computationally predictable, nor are they mathematically reducible and so cannot be mathematically predictable.
    It’s not that complicated.
    CD

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  • WHY DID RELIGIONS EVOLVE? Religions arose for a good reason in the age of transf

    WHY DID RELIGIONS EVOLVE?
    Religions arose for a good reason in the age of transformation – whenever population density reaches a point where importance to others, clan differences and class differences emerge and alienatino results we require religion. Where originally religion evolved out of the intersection of burial and feast, and formal religion evolved out of the generalization to all of the initiatic brotherhood of warriors. All of these: burial, feast, male adulthood, and the initiatic brotherhood of warriors are bondings that reduce the alienation that occurs with maturity and need for self responsibility.

    Reply addressees: @Xene1042 @whatifalthist

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-12 18:22:13 UTC

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  • THE BEAUTY OF AN INTANGIBLE GOD The beauty of an intangible god is that we do no

    THE BEAUTY OF AN INTANGIBLE GOD
    The beauty of an intangible god is that we do not need to agree if god is external to the universe, the universe itself, a product of the universe, a product of mankind, a product of a population of people or a product of the individual mind.
    All we need agree upon is the morals that god demands, would demand, or could demand from us for our own individual and collective good, and then we are able to find comfort and utility in life, wether experience god via some approximation of dreams, through context of ritual, through some sense of intuition, through comportment with tradition, or with rational understanding of the morals, traditions, rituals and institutions in producing mindfulness harmony and cooperation among people.
    The only problem arises when on claims knowledge one does not and cannot posses in order to mandate beliefs rather than demand adherence to moral behavior we should have obtained by discipline and saturation in the religion’s traditions.
    Hugs
    CD

    Reply addressees: @Xene1042 @whatifalthist

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-12 17:53:47 UTC

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  • Religions Contain Truth But Their Wisdom Literature Is Propaganda – And That’s O

    Religions Contain Truth But Their Wisdom Literature Is Propaganda – And That’s OK.

    ~~”I am not here to discredit the faith.” … “The bible is a work of ideology” … “Reading the bible with a critical eye teaches respect for the ingenuity of the authors of the work in teaching so many people despite their culture, ability, age, literacy, and education.” … ~~”Give the authors their due.”– Prof Israel Finkelstein
    He’s correct of course. As such we can obtain the spiritual meaning from the text as we do from any other mythology or mythological history, without requiring that the historical claims are factual as much as ideological explanations and justifications that help us derive the proper spiritual meaning and resulting moral behavior, that the authors intended.
    While Chinese philosophy like European philosophy, like the formalization of post-bronze-age-collapse semitic religions, all developed around the same time. With the abrahamic the ‘last’ in that series, because it was largely a counter-revolution against the Indo-European, and especially Greek and roman superiority in technology, military, politics, and philosophy.
    The Chinese were less technical than the europeans for reasons we are not quite sure, but were partly to do with the lack of western law of peerage and lack of European low context high precision language, appear to have produced the resulting impossibility of forming a rule of law government, and finally, some rather odd challenges that emerge with the Chinese language which is high context and low precision.
    The Europeans invented rational philosophy. But the europeans evolved formal civilization thousands of years after the middle east had developed civilization. The earlier fertile crescent civilization relied on an older technology that could not depend upon education and writing, and exclusively dependent upon illiteracy and storytellling to teach people the moral lessons necessary to ‘get along in peace and harmony’.
    So the fertile crescent developed submissive mythicism as their source of authoritarian literature(Priests), the Chinese developed the philosophy of harmony as their source (States), and the europeans developed philosophical darwinian competition through argumentative reason (Courts).
    Those of us that study comparative civilizations, perhaps more than those that study comparative religion, see the necessity of variations in civilizational (race) wisdom literature by these various Paradigms Vocabularies, Grammars, logics. We seek what is good in each, and to elimnate what is false, foolish, or harmful in each.
    The result of course is the Natural Law of Cooperation (self determination, self determined means, sovereignty, reciprocity and tort). Which, of course, given that Europeans developed the paradigm, grammar, vocabulary, and logic necessary for its discovery and articulation, is merely another example of the tendency of europeans, precisely because of the construction of our wisdom literatures.
    First mover is not always best Last mover has an advantage in that one can learn from the mistakes of those that came before you and thus not pay the high and oft impossible cost of overcoming the entrenched metaphysics, institutions, traditions, norms, values, and yes, language and wisdom literature that exists already.
    The best example of this is the abrahamic religions’ revolt against the conquest by greece, rome, and persia, – the indo europeans – by their immitation of the persian religion, and the imitation of the european law in teh torah, and the imitation of the greco roman epic cycle, in the produciton of an anti-hero in jesus in the bible.
    Everything comes from somewhere. Evolution in retrospect is rather obvious. 😉
    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2024-05-11 20:13:28 UTC

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