Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Also: The problem for sub saharan africa (and for most of the world) is (a) the

    Also: The problem for sub saharan africa (and for most of the world) is (a) the tradition of stealing on behalf of your family tribe and clan, and (b) the expression of this tradition in *corruption*.

    The only fix for corruption is not to demand good people (they don’t exist) but to create good judges.

    If you demand uncorrupt judges (and kill them if they are not uncorrupt), the judges will prosecute politicians.

    Until you have an army or police force, and a judiciary that is paid enough that corruption is not ‘valuable’, then it does not matter what government you have.

    step 1. soldiers who protect the people.

    step 2. judges who are not corrupt

    step 3. police (or soldiers) who will enforce the judge’s rule.

    It is cheaper to create highly paid police and judges than to create a highly paid military.

    The world is very simple if we stop trying to find good men, and instead, punish people who are bad – leaving only good people able to work in government.

    Ukraine has the same problem. Every poor country has the same problem.

    Westerners do not have this problem because we were always a militia – meaning all men fight. This is the secret to western successes. It all begins with our militia.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:10:00 UTC

  • Russian history was fairly heroic before the (((Soviet))) era. It’s the american

    Russian history was fairly heroic before the (((Soviet))) era. It’s the american west with worse weather against more advanced peoples with even more viscous traditions.

    I studied history first, but I studied art history second, and it was art history that helped me understand the different peoples of this world more so than any other. Economics explains why things happen but art gives you insight into the soul of the people and what inspires them. So this …. russian aesthetic … frames my understanding of them as ‘we few against the world’.

    So there are very good books on russian art history. And just skimming through them is probably important.

    This is the best ‘textbook’ I’ve seen:

    1 – A History of Russia – by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg

    2 – The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, by Peter Hopkirk

    3 – The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture

    by James H. Billington

    4 – Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales by Serge A. Zenkovsky

    5 – While Shakespeare is undoubtably the best poet, the best Novels and Plays in Christendom are the Russian – bar none. The great works of the russian novelists are well known.

    So, I see russians as a small poor people, in a hostile territory, struggling to overcome the barbarians. My view of russians is fairly heroic. That they made a terrible mistake with (((stalin and trotsky))) is something I see them escaping – slowly.

    The problem is it probably can’t be done domestically better than putin is doing it. His mistakes have been largely international.

    And he’s right. Russia emerged from the (((bolshevik))) era by return to her origins. And the west is continuing to fall for the (((cosmopolitan lies))).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-07 12:56:00 UTC

  • THE PEACE DIVIDEND IS SPENT Ok. Let me explain. The cold war peace dividend is o

    THE PEACE DIVIDEND IS SPENT

    Ok. Let me explain. The cold war peace dividend is over. OK? Good. That’s what gave us the 1990’s, as everyone gave up on the soviet model and converted to consumer capitalism.

    I’m glad we got that straight. Now, just as Regan had to rebuild the military after the democrats destroyed it in the 60’s and 70’s, Trump (or someone) is going to have to rebuild it in the next decade. And the era of fighting rebels is over. From now on we are just going to carpet bomb them – that’s what the russians taught us.

    And the reason is pretty simple: it’s because our attempt to spread democracy has been a catastrophe and corporate government (fascism) has won.

    I hope you caught that.

    FASCISM WON.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-06 20:49:00 UTC

  • —“what Is Your Opinion on Teen Sex?”—

    As always, the problem is not sex, but causes and consequences: (a) pregnancy – and the damage this does to not only you, the child, but the society that must pay for your mistakes, (b) and single motherhood, (c) or immature parenthood, (d) the degree of interest in it, such that it detracts from other things. (e) the high correlation between multiple sex partners and unsuccessful families. The ‘intensity’ of the male sex drive in the teens is just …. amazing. Testosterone is the most wonderful drug of all. It’s just mind-consuming. I think for boys it doesn’t matter – we are evolutionary machines and the need for sex is purely physical. But girls are different – and should not use sex to ‘buy’ attention, or being liked, or ‘belonging’, or ‘status’ (which is all too common), and should not participate because of alcohol or drugs – if you need alcohol you aren’t ready yet. This is the best test: If you aren’t prepared with protection, aren’t ready to do it without chemical assistance, aren’t willing to plan it rather than stumble into it, and you aren’t willing to keep it between the two of you permanently, then you aren’t ready. Conversely, if you have protection, don’t need chemical assistance (drugs or alcohol), can plan it so that it’s private somewhere, and can keep it between the two of you permanently (the urge to tell everyone is very powerful), then you might be ready. General rule of thumb: What happens between male and female is no one’s business as long as you don’t make it anyone’s business. This is true in all walks of life. The problem is, do you need to tell anyone? If you do, then you aren’t ready.

  • —“what Is Your Opinion on Teen Sex?”—

    As always, the problem is not sex, but causes and consequences: (a) pregnancy – and the damage this does to not only you, the child, but the society that must pay for your mistakes, (b) and single motherhood, (c) or immature parenthood, (d) the degree of interest in it, such that it detracts from other things. (e) the high correlation between multiple sex partners and unsuccessful families. The ‘intensity’ of the male sex drive in the teens is just …. amazing. Testosterone is the most wonderful drug of all. It’s just mind-consuming. I think for boys it doesn’t matter – we are evolutionary machines and the need for sex is purely physical. But girls are different – and should not use sex to ‘buy’ attention, or being liked, or ‘belonging’, or ‘status’ (which is all too common), and should not participate because of alcohol or drugs – if you need alcohol you aren’t ready yet. This is the best test: If you aren’t prepared with protection, aren’t ready to do it without chemical assistance, aren’t willing to plan it rather than stumble into it, and you aren’t willing to keep it between the two of you permanently, then you aren’t ready. Conversely, if you have protection, don’t need chemical assistance (drugs or alcohol), can plan it so that it’s private somewhere, and can keep it between the two of you permanently (the urge to tell everyone is very powerful), then you might be ready. General rule of thumb: What happens between male and female is no one’s business as long as you don’t make it anyone’s business. This is true in all walks of life. The problem is, do you need to tell anyone? If you do, then you aren’t ready.

  • THE PEACE DIVIDEND IS SPENT. FASCISM WON.

    Ok. Let me explain. The cold war peace dividend is over. OK? Good. That’s what gave us the 1990’s, as everyone gave up on the soviet model and converted to consumer capitalism. I’m glad we got that straight. Now, just as Regan had to rebuild the military after the democrats destroyed it in the 60’s and 70’s, Trump (or someone) is going to have to rebuild it in the next decade. And the era of fighting rebels is over. From now on we are just going to carpet bomb them – that’s what the russians taught us. And the reason is pretty simple: it’s because our attempt to spread democracy has been a catastrophe and corporate government (fascism) has won. I hope you caught that. FASCISM WON.

  • THE PEACE DIVIDEND IS SPENT. FASCISM WON.

    Ok. Let me explain. The cold war peace dividend is over. OK? Good. That’s what gave us the 1990’s, as everyone gave up on the soviet model and converted to consumer capitalism. I’m glad we got that straight. Now, just as Regan had to rebuild the military after the democrats destroyed it in the 60’s and 70’s, Trump (or someone) is going to have to rebuild it in the next decade. And the era of fighting rebels is over. From now on we are just going to carpet bomb them – that’s what the russians taught us. And the reason is pretty simple: it’s because our attempt to spread democracy has been a catastrophe and corporate government (fascism) has won. I hope you caught that. FASCISM WON.

  • “WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON TEEN SEX?”— As always, the problem is not sex, but ca

    —“WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON TEEN SEX?”—

    As always, the problem is not sex, but causes and consequences:

    (a) pregnancy – and the damage this does to not only you, the child, but the society that must pay for your mistakes,

    (b) and single motherhood,

    (c) or immature parenthood,

    (d) the degree of interest in it, such that it detracts from other things.

    (e) the high correlation between multiple sex partners and unsuccessful families.

    The ‘intensity’ of the male sex drive in the teens is just …. amazing. Testosterone is the most wonderful drug of all. It’s just mind-consuming.

    I think for boys it doesn’t matter – we are evolutionary machines and the need for sex is purely physical. But girls are different – and should not use sex to ‘buy’ attention, or being liked, or ‘belonging’, or ‘status’ (which is all too common), and should not participate because of alcohol or drugs – if you need alcohol you aren’t ready yet.

    This is the best test: If you aren’t prepared with protection, aren’t ready to do it without chemical assistance, aren’t willing to plan it rather than stumble into it, and you aren’t willing to keep it between the two of you permanently, then you aren’t ready. Conversely, if you have protection, don’t need chemical assistance (drugs or alcohol), can plan it so that it’s private somewhere, and can keep it between the two of you permanently (the urge to tell everyone is very powerful), then you might be ready.

    General rule of thumb: What happens between male and female is no one’s business as long as you don’t make it anyone’s business. This is true in all walks of life. The problem is, do you need to tell anyone? If you do, then you aren’t ready.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-05 16:46:00 UTC

  • —“Are the far left or the far right more intelligent?”—

    I did quite a bit of research on this in the mid 00’s when a number of left leaning surveys were published that I was pretty sure were wrong. They were. (Especially about mental illness, which appears to be a near monopoly on the left because of the dominance of women on the left. Why? Because males demonstrate anti social behavior by criminality and females demonstrate antisocial behavior by psychosis. Hence why a third of american women are on anti-depressants.) Here is the summary: a) Republicans are smarter than democrats.b) Liberals are smarter than conservatives.c) And libertarians are smartest of all. Moreover: d) People vote by moral intuition because they have no other choice under representative first-past-the-post, two party, government. (See “Myth of the Rational Voter”.) e) Men bias to organize by packs (precision at the cost of consensus), and women bias to organize as herd (consensus at the cost of precision). This means men are less likely to pursue consensus, and instead specialize. Hence the relative heterogeneity of the right compared to the relative homogeneity of the left. Ergo democracies always move left until failure while anglo civilization using hoses for the classes merely had civil wars to reorganize the law to include newly productive classes. f) People vote heavily by race and religion, with single white women the only group ‘defecting’. In some sense, single women determine most presidential outcomes for this reason. Without women voters we would never have had a leftist president. (See Pew.) Why? There are very (painfully) obvious reasons: 1 – Advocates use college degrees as a proxy for intelligence without mediating for the IQ distribution of degrees. In other words, a Phd in Education is rated more highly than bachelors degree in engineering or computer science, yet graduates with those degrees possess the inverse IQ relationship. 2 – Women at the lower end of the distribution disproportionately obtain (nonsense) degrees while men simply enter the work force without them. 3 – There are very few liberals, and very many conservatives. There are very few libertarians and very many democrats. In other words, when you compare democrats and republicans that’s categorically the same as comparing libertarians and leftists. The difference is that liberals will have soft degrees and libertarians will have hard (STEM) degrees. But if you mix categories (liberals and conservatives) then you are comparing vastly different distributions by very different criteria. 

    <- Liberal -- Democrat - independent - Republican -- Libertarian ->
<- Female Reproductive Strategy <---> Male Reproductive Strategy ->

    That’s why.

  • —“Are the far left or the far right more intelligent?”—

    I did quite a bit of research on this in the mid 00’s when a number of left leaning surveys were published that I was pretty sure were wrong. They were. (Especially about mental illness, which appears to be a near monopoly on the left because of the dominance of women on the left. Why? Because males demonstrate anti social behavior by criminality and females demonstrate antisocial behavior by psychosis. Hence why a third of american women are on anti-depressants.) Here is the summary: a) Republicans are smarter than democrats.b) Liberals are smarter than conservatives.c) And libertarians are smartest of all. Moreover: d) People vote by moral intuition because they have no other choice under representative first-past-the-post, two party, government. (See “Myth of the Rational Voter”.) e) Men bias to organize by packs (precision at the cost of consensus), and women bias to organize as herd (consensus at the cost of precision). This means men are less likely to pursue consensus, and instead specialize. Hence the relative heterogeneity of the right compared to the relative homogeneity of the left. Ergo democracies always move left until failure while anglo civilization using hoses for the classes merely had civil wars to reorganize the law to include newly productive classes. f) People vote heavily by race and religion, with single white women the only group ‘defecting’. In some sense, single women determine most presidential outcomes for this reason. Without women voters we would never have had a leftist president. (See Pew.) Why? There are very (painfully) obvious reasons: 1 – Advocates use college degrees as a proxy for intelligence without mediating for the IQ distribution of degrees. In other words, a Phd in Education is rated more highly than bachelors degree in engineering or computer science, yet graduates with those degrees possess the inverse IQ relationship. 2 – Women at the lower end of the distribution disproportionately obtain (nonsense) degrees while men simply enter the work force without them. 3 – There are very few liberals, and very many conservatives. There are very few libertarians and very many democrats. In other words, when you compare democrats and republicans that’s categorically the same as comparing libertarians and leftists. The difference is that liberals will have soft degrees and libertarians will have hard (STEM) degrees. But if you mix categories (liberals and conservatives) then you are comparing vastly different distributions by very different criteria. 

    <- Liberal -- Democrat - independent - Republican -- Libertarian ->
<- Female Reproductive Strategy <---> Male Reproductive Strategy ->

    That’s why.