Curt Doolittle

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  • “CURT: WHY ISN’T WINSTON CHURCHILL DEMONIZED FOR STARVING INDIANS TO FEED EUROPE

    —“CURT: WHY ISN’T WINSTON CHURCHILL DEMONIZED FOR STARVING INDIANS TO FEED EUROPEANS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR”— A Hindu (Indian)

    A REPRIMAND FOR ASKING THE QUESTION

    (Part of my ongoing effort to make people look in the mirror rather than blame others)

    **The following is what I tell every ethnic group on earth. You aren’t special.**

    Your question is typical of a failed people wishing to blame others for their condition …

    1 – Who grant themselves a social, economic, political, military and intellectual equality that does not exist. The very idea that all humans are equal is anti-empirical, and merely a means by which to encourage economic cooperation and competition rather than violent conflict. It is an ambition in cooperation not an existential property of humans, or human groups. Quite the opposite.

    2 – Who assume that we grant each other equal standing for anything other than utilitarian reasons – in order to increase trade and reduce opportunity for conflict.

    3 – Who assume that the utility of cooperation is endless, when it is merely whenever it is more rewarding than not cooperating. Or in the case of the primitive civilizations, when it is more profitable to “Mature them out of superstition(india), destructive traditions and customs (india), ignorance(india), illiteracy(india), poverty (india), overbreeding(india), child mortality, early death, systemic filthiness (india), disregard for maintenance of the commons (india), resistance to truth telling (india), pervasive self-justificationary excuse making (india), pervasive familial corruption(india), inability to develop a middle class (india), vast asymmetry between the size of the classes (india), who cannot defend themselves (muslim gunpowder empires), – than it is to rule them, profit from ruling them, and like a good parent, try to raise them out of that current state.

    4 – Why should we pay any cost of parenting a primitive people unless it is profitable? History demonstrates quite clearly that extermination is more profitable than cooperation.

    5 – When we are at war, why would we not favor family, kin, and civilization over primitive peoples? Isn’t that the reason for pervasive indian corruption? Favoring family over commons?

    6 – And why should we treat undomesticated human animals any differently than any other undomesticated animal? The answer is, we don’t until we can trade with them. So the problem is, parenting a people until we can trade with them.

    LOOK IN THE MIRROR

    Whenever you want to blame someone else, exhaust your opportunity to blame the person, the family, the tribe, the nation, the civilization **in the mirror**.

    Despite having one of the three early great civilizations, and despite amassing capital (not wealth, but capital), why did India and indians consistently fail? Why could she not resist Whites? Why couldn’t she resist the mongols? Why couldn’t she resist the muslims? Why couldn’t she resist the british? And conversely, why did east asia and the west europe succeed? Why do indians always fail?

    West Europe probably exceeded china for the simple reasons of geography and culture. Had china not had to resist barbarians at her walls, she might have continued her expansion into the new world.

    On the other hand, once China explored the rest of the world, they saw nothing worth bringing home. Once the west saw the rest of the world, they saw opportunity for expansion.

    And so the west dragged primitive peoples out of primitivism (ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, infant mortality, early death, disease, corruption, tyranny, the vicissitudes of nature, and a universe hostile to human life.

    **We are not family, we are not kin, we are not friends, we are at best trading partners of convenience,** that fight by population, religion, means of government, and economic productivity, rather than fight by violence.

    And if you think otherwise you are simply fooled by your ability to absorb 3000 years of western civilization, and profit from doing so, while the british empire establishes the world trade destroyed by the muslims, and the americans pay the high cost of policing that system of world trade against primitive peoples of all civilizations, not the least of which were the russians, the chinese, the communists, and now the muslims. ANd no doubt, had india been powerful enough to mount a resistance, her also.

    We are all compatible at the feast. When in famine, it’s self, family, and kin we defend.

    No man is a hero to his debtors. Yet you are our debtors.

    Do not assume any equality whatsoever. All equality is merely a useful means of maturing you so that you’re profitable rather than a risk or cost.

    TRUTH: EVEN DARWIN AND MALTHUS WERE TOO KIND

    Territory is what you hold because you can.

    You can hold territory because you produce a people who can fight, and an economy to arm them against competitors.

    The purpose of ‘human rights’ – which are nothing but property rights – is not to produce human rights per se, but to demand states produce wealth by internal reformation rather than achieve wealth through conquest. In other words, it is a means of self defense. A form of cost reduction.

    The purpose of directing states to produce internal reformation and wealth so that they join the world economy, is to prevent another world war, and in no small part to convert from war by violence to war by commerce. For the simple reason that war by commerce tends to produce the opposite effect: continuous self improvement. This is the paradox of economic competition.

    If you do not understand this then you are still of a religious rather than scientific disposition, and believe in comforting falsehoods.

    **So stop blaming other people, and look in the mirror.**

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-31 10:55:00 UTC

  • How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”— Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/–“Curt: How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”—

    Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’, because I don’t use the concept of ‘faith’, or the concept of ‘justification’. So I would instead, say “this is my understanding, or this is history as I understand it, or these are my understandings.”

    (I will explain some other time why resource and opportunity scarcity and lack of agency attract ‘beliefs’ and why resource and opportunity plenty and possession of agency attract ‘understandings’. Or you can ponder that on your own.)

    Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that:

    1. my work consists of completing that thing we call the scientific method, and systematically applying it to the entire scope of human knowledge.

    2. My ambition is to eliminate the propagation of falsehoods in the commons – particularly given that we’ve industrialized lying during the past century, and that this means of lying has been designed to undermine our civilization just as were judaism, christianity, and islam in the ancient world, and marxism, boazianism, freudianism, and Frankfurt and postmodern schools in the modern world.

    3. my understanding of history is that western civilization evolved not first but fastest because we required a militia in our territory, and as a byproduct of organizing a militia, discovered what we think of today as scientific (or I call ‘testimonial’) truth – and as a consequence, markets in every aspect of life.

    4. The rest of my work explains how to evolve our traditional system away from a second dark age, and continue the process of dragging humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, and lack of agency.

    In historical context, let’s just say that almost all of the world is only partly through the scientific revolution, and that this will help humanity with understanding the ‘rest of the way’.

    ITS ALL AVAILABLE

    If you want an understanding of propertarianism, believe it or not, ‘its all there for the taking’.

    See …

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/

    And if you read ….

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/

    … which includes a description of history and western civilization’s unique place in it.

    Then you will have a basic understanding. But this is like learning any other discipline – and is very close to learning a mixture of programming and law.

    The technical part is quite difficult. But you don’t need to understand it. All you need to understand is that small homogenous nationalist polities operating under what I call ‘perfect government’ will produce the desires of socialists, libertarians, and aristocrats, without providing any of the m with a monopoly that allows them to live parasitically upon the others.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-30 12:16:00 UTC

  • The function of Christianity is to train us to pay a high cost in status signals

    The function of Christianity is to train us to pay a high cost in status signals in order to exhaust opportunities for cooperation, given that it’s the optimum strategy for any human group.But Its training for domesticated animals. Rational humans need no fairy tales. Just do it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-29 00:54:55 UTC

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  • One of the best reasons to learn how to use weapons is the development of agency

    One of the best reasons to learn how to use weapons is the development of agency. Because, you can get hurt, die, or kill someone if you lack agency.

    I know, the ‘big relentless machine’ in my head (the autistic urge for order in all things) gets a ‘rest’ when I am using weapons, for the simple reason ‘it’ is more concerned about not getting hurt by the weapons than it is about anything else. So I find working with weapons increases my agency. It gives me peace of mind: a sense of ‘calm’.

    This is the same effect that thrill seekers get by taking high risks.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-28 11:12:00 UTC

  • The NRA Is The Political Wing Of The Militia

    THE NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA You need to understand the Pareto Rule. 1% of people determine everything. 19% of people organize the remaining 80% of people so that it gets done. This is why always and everywhere 80% of wealth is in the possession of 20% of the people. Because that distribution (a power law) is required to provide people with incentives to do something constructive rather than prey upon one another. (really). Slavery, and serfdom are actually expensive. Freemen are profitable. Citizens are more profitable. Universal citizenship appears to have been a mistake, because it has resulted in underclass rule. The origin of all orders is the organized application of violence to deny anyone the alternatives. It takes about .0001% of adult males to change the political order by the use of violence. Hence, the armed militia rules, and the government is merely operating within the tolerances of that militia. That is why anglo peoples have frequent small revolutions that do little other than modify the *written* social contract, we now call the constitution. The NRA functions as the political arm of the militia. They negotiate with the government on behalf of the militia. The alternative is to end the government, for violating the constitution created by the militia. Which is what we are very close to doing.

  • The NRA Is The Political Wing Of The Militia

    THE NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA You need to understand the Pareto Rule. 1% of people determine everything. 19% of people organize the remaining 80% of people so that it gets done. This is why always and everywhere 80% of wealth is in the possession of 20% of the people. Because that distribution (a power law) is required to provide people with incentives to do something constructive rather than prey upon one another. (really). Slavery, and serfdom are actually expensive. Freemen are profitable. Citizens are more profitable. Universal citizenship appears to have been a mistake, because it has resulted in underclass rule. The origin of all orders is the organized application of violence to deny anyone the alternatives. It takes about .0001% of adult males to change the political order by the use of violence. Hence, the armed militia rules, and the government is merely operating within the tolerances of that militia. That is why anglo peoples have frequent small revolutions that do little other than modify the *written* social contract, we now call the constitution. The NRA functions as the political arm of the militia. They negotiate with the government on behalf of the militia. The alternative is to end the government, for violating the constitution created by the militia. Which is what we are very close to doing.

  • Natural Highs Good and Bad

    –“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND [INSERT DRUG OF CHOICE HERE] – Religion Included”— My answer is more parsimonious (simple).

    • Anthropomorphism provides an intuitive means of measurement.
    • Intuition provides a discount on costly reason, and more costly calculation.
    • Intuition that is not false is not only cheaper but often more accurate than reason, as one’s ability to reason declines.
    • Anthropomorphism, intuition, avoidance or reason and solution, and suspension of disbelief during the process (what we call ‘daydreaming on one end and occult on the other’), evoke the feeling of surrendering our will (reason) to the pack, and the burden of reason (being human).

    This spectrum describes the beast(child), to the human(Adult) to the post-human(Wisened). So, while I understand fire gazing, day dreaming, pondering, listening to the oral story (myth), story, novel, fantasy novel, I no longer enjoy the conflation of the fantasy novel with the pretense that such things exist, or that the dependence upon such things has literally served as a drug to manufacture inaction, incomprehension, denial of reality, and worst, the destruction of the ancient civilizations by that drug, and the dark agrees of suffering that followed. So while we can produce highs from exercise, from socialization, from study, and from success, we can also produce highs from the disciplined training of our minds and bodies to produce altered states that no other creature can produce. And further we can do so by chemical means, and now advanced chemical means, and more recently, direct neural stimulation (video games). So, many things ‘feel good’ but the fact that they feel good physically, emotionally, or intellectually does not tell us whether or not that they are personally suicidal, interpersoanly, socially, politically, civilizationally or dysgenically. Every drug user of every kind justifies his addiction and attempts to do so only confirm that addiction. Some humans require those drugs because they cannot obtain them by the means evolution provided us, or they are too lazy to do so: working with others to achieve existential transcendence rather than the illusory or experiential, that in fact harm the individual, lose his potential, denigrate his lineage, his people, and mankind. It’s not that I don’t understand you see. It’s that I understand all too well, that we seek means of avoiding action by which we transform the universe into a garden for man. Some of us transcend ourselves, our people, our civilization, and man into gods. Most of us resist it kicking and screaming all the while, physically, emotionally, intellectually.

  • Natural Highs Good and Bad

    –“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND [INSERT DRUG OF CHOICE HERE] – Religion Included”— My answer is more parsimonious (simple).

    • Anthropomorphism provides an intuitive means of measurement.
    • Intuition provides a discount on costly reason, and more costly calculation.
    • Intuition that is not false is not only cheaper but often more accurate than reason, as one’s ability to reason declines.
    • Anthropomorphism, intuition, avoidance or reason and solution, and suspension of disbelief during the process (what we call ‘daydreaming on one end and occult on the other’), evoke the feeling of surrendering our will (reason) to the pack, and the burden of reason (being human).

    This spectrum describes the beast(child), to the human(Adult) to the post-human(Wisened). So, while I understand fire gazing, day dreaming, pondering, listening to the oral story (myth), story, novel, fantasy novel, I no longer enjoy the conflation of the fantasy novel with the pretense that such things exist, or that the dependence upon such things has literally served as a drug to manufacture inaction, incomprehension, denial of reality, and worst, the destruction of the ancient civilizations by that drug, and the dark agrees of suffering that followed. So while we can produce highs from exercise, from socialization, from study, and from success, we can also produce highs from the disciplined training of our minds and bodies to produce altered states that no other creature can produce. And further we can do so by chemical means, and now advanced chemical means, and more recently, direct neural stimulation (video games). So, many things ‘feel good’ but the fact that they feel good physically, emotionally, or intellectually does not tell us whether or not that they are personally suicidal, interpersoanly, socially, politically, civilizationally or dysgenically. Every drug user of every kind justifies his addiction and attempts to do so only confirm that addiction. Some humans require those drugs because they cannot obtain them by the means evolution provided us, or they are too lazy to do so: working with others to achieve existential transcendence rather than the illusory or experiential, that in fact harm the individual, lose his potential, denigrate his lineage, his people, and mankind. It’s not that I don’t understand you see. It’s that I understand all too well, that we seek means of avoiding action by which we transform the universe into a garden for man. Some of us transcend ourselves, our people, our civilization, and man into gods. Most of us resist it kicking and screaming all the while, physically, emotionally, intellectually.

  • “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND [INSERT DRUG OF CHOICE HERE]”— My answer is more parsimo

    –“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND [INSERT DRUG OF CHOICE HERE]”—

    My answer is more parsimonious (simple).

    Anthropomorphism provides an intuitive means of measurement.

    Intuition provides a discount on costly reason, and more costly calculation.

    Intuition that is not false is not only cheaper but often more accurate than reason, as one’s ability to reason declines.

    Anthropomorphism, intuition, avoidance or reason and solution, and suspension of disbelief during the process (what we call ‘daydreaming on one end and occult on the other’, evoke the feeling of surrendering our will (reason) to the pack, and the burden of reason (being human).

    This spectrum describes the beast(child), to the human(Adult) to the post-human(Wisened).

    And access to the abiity to incurr such costs, is in itself a measure.

    So, while I understand fire gazing, day dreaming,pondering, listening to the oral story (myth), story, novel, fantasy novel, I no longer enjoy the conflation of the fantasy novel with the pretense that such things exist, or that the dependence upon such things has literally served as a drug to manufacture inaction, incomprehension, denial of reality, and worst, the desruction of the ancient civilizations by that drug, and the dark agees of suffering that followed.

    So while we can produce highs from excercise, from socialization, from study, and from success, we can also produce highs from the disciplined training of our minds and bodies to produce altered states that no other creature can produce. And further we can do so by chemical means, and now advanced chemical means, and more recently, direct neural stimulation (video games).

    So, many things ‘feel good’ but the fact that they feel good physically, emotionally, or intellectually does not tell us whether or not that they are personally suicidal, interpersoanly, socially, politically, civilizationally or dysgenically.

    Every drug user of every kind justifies his addiction and attempts to do so only confirm that addiction.

    SOme humans require those drugs because they cannot obtain them by the means evolution provided us, or they are too lazy to do so: working with others to achieve existential transcendence rather than the illusory or experiential, that in fact harm the individual, lose his potential, denigrate his lineage, his people, and mankind.

    It’s not that I don’t understand you see. It’s that I understand all too well, that we seek means of avoiding action by which we transform the universe into a garden for man.

    Some of us transcend ourselves, our people, our civilization, and man into gods. Most of us resist it kicking and screaming all the while, physically, emotionally, intellectually.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-25 20:41:00 UTC

  • NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA You need to understand the Pareto Rule.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-NRA-insist-it-represents-the-best-interests-of-America-and-claims-to-have-strong-support-when-only-2-of-the-population-are-NRA-members/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=e12ecfae&srid=u4QvTHE NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA

    You need to understand the Pareto Rule. 1% of people determine everything. 19% of people organize the remaining 80% of people so that it gets done.

    This is why always and everywhere 80% of wealth is in the possession of 20% of the people. Because that distribution (a power law) is required to provide people with incentives to do something constructive rather than prey upon one another. (really). Slavery, and serfdom are actually expensive. Freemen are profitable. Citizens are more profitable. Universal citizenship appears to have been a mistake, because it has resulted in underclass rule.

    The origin of all orders is the organized application of violence to deny anyone the alternatives.

    It takes about .0001% of adult males to change the political order by the use of violence.

    Hence, the armed militia rules, and the government is merely operating within the tolerances of that militia.

    That is why anglo peoples have frequent small revolutions that do little other than modify the *written* social contract, we now call the constitution.

    The NRA functions as the political arm of the militia. They negotiate with the government on behalf of the militia.

    The alternative is to end the government, for violating the constitution created by the militia.

    Which is what we are very close to doing.Updated Mar 25, 2018, 9:51 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-25 09:51:00 UTC