Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Why I Write Natural Law (Science) Not Philosophy (Choice).

    Human nature invests minimum to gain maximum and is quite lazy when it comes to unnecessary precision, but then attempts to use imprecise terms (and ideas) to solve precise problems. Human experties in sciences (deflationary grammars) serves to deflate any given level of abstraction. I have a chart you need to see. I understand the unification of the sciences and I think plenty of other people do – but it’s just very different from what we’d expected. —“the inference would be that a corresponding language of specificity would be a part of that.”— Well, exactly. –“However, that is not why we have failed at achieving”— The reason we failed is that there is a market for agency via deception (non-correspondence, inconsistency, and in-coherence), just as much as there is a market for agency via truthfulness(correspondence, consistency, and coherence). Ergo, just as we have eliminated the markets for violence, theft, fraud, free riding, etc, we can eliminate the market for falsehoods: by law. The problem was (and is no longer) a criteria for warranty of due diligence against falsehood of information entered intot he informational commons. In other words, I’m not ‘selling’. I’m not interested in convincing people that crime is crime, only in producing law that states what crime is, and therefore outlaws it. People will then respond accordingly – as they always have done – to incremental suppression of parasitism. And that is the means by which we have produced civilization: the incremental suppression of parasitism through the incremental expansion of the law, by the discovery and cataloging the means by which man engages in parasitism. So I am not really writing philosophy (choice and preference), but law (necessity and truth). Hence my lack of concern for what ‘people think’. People have ‘thought’ that outlawing each form of parasitism was bad in every generation because it forces them into survival in the service of others in the market – and non-survival if they do not.

  • Why I Write Natural Law (Science) Not Philosophy (Choice).

    Human nature invests minimum to gain maximum and is quite lazy when it comes to unnecessary precision, but then attempts to use imprecise terms (and ideas) to solve precise problems. Human experties in sciences (deflationary grammars) serves to deflate any given level of abstraction. I have a chart you need to see. I understand the unification of the sciences and I think plenty of other people do – but it’s just very different from what we’d expected. —“the inference would be that a corresponding language of specificity would be a part of that.”— Well, exactly. –“However, that is not why we have failed at achieving”— The reason we failed is that there is a market for agency via deception (non-correspondence, inconsistency, and in-coherence), just as much as there is a market for agency via truthfulness(correspondence, consistency, and coherence). Ergo, just as we have eliminated the markets for violence, theft, fraud, free riding, etc, we can eliminate the market for falsehoods: by law. The problem was (and is no longer) a criteria for warranty of due diligence against falsehood of information entered intot he informational commons. In other words, I’m not ‘selling’. I’m not interested in convincing people that crime is crime, only in producing law that states what crime is, and therefore outlaws it. People will then respond accordingly – as they always have done – to incremental suppression of parasitism. And that is the means by which we have produced civilization: the incremental suppression of parasitism through the incremental expansion of the law, by the discovery and cataloging the means by which man engages in parasitism. So I am not really writing philosophy (choice and preference), but law (necessity and truth). Hence my lack of concern for what ‘people think’. People have ‘thought’ that outlawing each form of parasitism was bad in every generation because it forces them into survival in the service of others in the market – and non-survival if they do not.

  • The History Of Our People

    Indo-European migrations were the migrations of pastoral peoples speaking the Proto-Indo-European language, who departed from the Yamnaya and related cultures in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, starting at c. 4000 BCE. They spread throughout Europe and Asia, forming new cultures with the people they met on their way, including the Corded Ware culture in Northern Europe and the Vedic culture in India. Modern knowledge of these migrations is based on data from (a) linguistics, (b)archaeology, (c) anthropology and (d) genetics. a) Linguistics describes the similarities between various languages, and the linguistic laws at play in the changes in those languages. b/c) Archaeological data, describes the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language and culture in several stages from the Proto-Indo-European Eurasian homeland in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, into Western Europe and Central and South Asia, by migrations, and by language shift through elite-recruitment as described by anthropological research. d) Recent genetic research has a growing contribution to the understanding of the historical relations between various historical cultures. The Indo-European languages and cultures spread in various stages. Early migrations from c. 4200–3000 BCE brought archaic proto-Indo-European into: 1) the lower Danube valley, 2) Anatolia, and the 3) Altai region 4) Pre-Celtic and pre-Italic probably spread into Europe after new migrations into the Danube Valley, 5) While pre-Germanic and pre-Balto-Slavic developed east of the Carpathian mountains, at present-day Ukraine, moving north and spreading with the Corded Ware culture in Middle Europe (third millennium BCE). 6) The Indo-Iranian language and culture emerged at the Sintashta culture (c. 2100–1800 BCE), at the eastern border of the Yamna horizon and the Corded ware culture,growing into the Andronovo culture (c. 1800–800 BCE). 7) Indo-Aryans moved into the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (c. 2300–1700 BCE) and spread to the Levant (Mitanni), northern India (Vedic people, c. 1500 BCE), and China (Wusun). 8) The Iranian languages spread throughout the steppes with the Scyths and into Iran with the Medes, Parthians and Persians from ca. 800 BCE. (Straight from Wikipedia. This isn’t controversial. It’s just how it is.)

  • What’s The Biggest Culture Shock The Us Has Ever Faced?

    There have been culture shocks fairly regularly.
    Just since the Constitution:
    1 – The almost-revolutionary war where the North wanted to secede.
    2 – The North-South conflict from the very beginning.
    3 – The Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War that resulted from the South wanting to secede (which would have meant that the new territories joined the South not the North).
    4 – The immigrant shocks in the late 1800’s and then the underclass immigration shocks prior to 1929.
    5 – The shocks of converting from an agrarian to industrial society – just as farming became enjoyable.
    6 – The shocks of the Depression and the Second World War.
    7 – The shocks of the ‘little pink houses’ where soldiers were reintegrated.
    8 – The shocks of (temporary) postwar wealth (That everyone thought would last)
    9 – The shocks of the underclass revolution (Civil Rights Movement)
    10 – The shocks of Johnson’s attempt to imitate the soviets with the Great Society movement – and its catastrophic (like the Soviets) failure.
    11 …. I mean… there is at least one shock every decade.

    https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-biggest-culture-shock-the-US-has-ever-faced

  • What Would Happen To The Us Economy If (scenario 1) The Top 5% Unleashed All Their Savings Or (scenario 2) Put Away Gradually More Into Savings?

    THE FULL ANSWER

    I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision:
     
     *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use, mostly in home and business real estate – providing home ownership that could not exist otherwise.

    Why? Fiat currency inflation makes it impossible to save. You have to put your money to work just to try to preserve value. Why fiat currency inflation? Because we try to artificially increase employment by artificially stimulating consumption, by artificially discounting the price of credit, by artificially producing ‘money’ by simply debiting and crediting treasury and bank accounts.

    The Cathedral (Academy – Media – State complex that replaced the military industrial complex ) quite intentionally misrepresent the fact that owning (controlling) money, is different from having (storing) it.

    For the (a) voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, to evolve into (b) patterns (networks) of specialization and trade, and into (c) markets that provide continuous adaptation to demand, shocks, innovation, and continuously reduce prices money(wealth, capital) must be organized into a pareto distribution (20% of the population must control at least 80% of the capital), and within that pareto distribution’s 20% another pareto distribution, and so on. (Really, it has to be so. It’s just math and incentives.)

    The reason goods get cheaper is that people at the top of any distribution (and at every level under it) seek signals. We can virtue signal (words), we can membership signal (dress), we can status signal (consumption).

    People at the tops of distributions pay for research and development in signals, that then decrease in cost and increase in ownership. Hence why Gucci bags, and Ferrari’s (neither of which are expensive to produce) are so expensive: to make them scarce, and therefore to preserve their signal value. (Hence why iphones can be so profitable for apple: signal value.)

    Because really, all we all do is chase status signals like mice, hamsters, rats , and squirrels, in the squirrel cage wheel.

    The greatest subconscious fear of humans is ‘being left behind’.

    Hence: status signals.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-the-US-economy-if-scenario-1-the-top-5-unleashed-all-their-savings-or-scenario-2-put-away-gradually-more-into-savings

  • Do You Think That Postmodernism Has Had A Negative Or Positive Effect On Education, Especially In Literature Classes?

    Postmodernism can be best understood in the context of a revolt against science and reason, that is a repetition of the enlightenment revolt against empiricism, and the ancient world’s revolt against reason.

    THE GENERATIONAL REVOLTS AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH

    4 – The Revolt Against Science – Using Publishing and Major Media (19th-20th)
    Marxism/Freudianism/Boazianism(Pseudoscience) > Cultural Marxism(Propaganda) > Postmodernism (Pseudo-rationalism: denial of reality, logic, science and truth.)

    3 – The Revolt Against Empiricism – Using the Printing Press (17th-18th)
    Rousseau(Literary) > Kant(Rationalism) > Continental Philosophy(“Moral Fictionalism”) – the attempt to recreate Germanicized Christianity in secular prose.

    2 -The Revolt Against Reason – Using Writing and Pulpit (1st-7th)
    The reaction to greek idealism and adoption by Rabbinical Judaism (Revolt against the rationality and aristocracy) > Christianity(undermine from within) > Islam (conquer). The revolt of the pastoralists against the Agrarians.

    1- The Revolt Against The Invention of Aristocracy – Using “Writings of the Gods” (~1500bc)
    The European vs Indo-Iranian divide and the invention of scriptural religion.

    So, we see the same process of destruction of Western Civilization, by the same means the the great civilizations of the ancient world were destroyed by Christianity (western roman empire), and Islam (Byzantium, North Africa, Persia, and Levantine – creating the Abrahamic Dark Age.

    POSTMODERNISM IS A REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH. SO, HOW CAN IT BE ANYTHING BUT AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE ANOTHER DARK AGE?

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-postmodernism-has-had-a-negative-or-positive-effect-on-education-especially-in-literature-classes

  • What’s The Biggest Culture Shock The Us Has Ever Faced?

    There have been culture shocks fairly regularly.
    Just since the Constitution:
    1 – The almost-revolutionary war where the North wanted to secede.
    2 – The North-South conflict from the very beginning.
    3 – The Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War that resulted from the South wanting to secede (which would have meant that the new territories joined the South not the North).
    4 – The immigrant shocks in the late 1800’s and then the underclass immigration shocks prior to 1929.
    5 – The shocks of converting from an agrarian to industrial society – just as farming became enjoyable.
    6 – The shocks of the Depression and the Second World War.
    7 – The shocks of the ‘little pink houses’ where soldiers were reintegrated.
    8 – The shocks of (temporary) postwar wealth (That everyone thought would last)
    9 – The shocks of the underclass revolution (Civil Rights Movement)
    10 – The shocks of Johnson’s attempt to imitate the soviets with the Great Society movement – and its catastrophic (like the Soviets) failure.
    11 …. I mean… there is at least one shock every decade.

    https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-biggest-culture-shock-the-US-has-ever-faced

  • What Would Happen To The Us Economy If (scenario 1) The Top 5% Unleashed All Their Savings Or (scenario 2) Put Away Gradually More Into Savings?

    THE FULL ANSWER

    I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision:
     
     *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use, mostly in home and business real estate – providing home ownership that could not exist otherwise.

    Why? Fiat currency inflation makes it impossible to save. You have to put your money to work just to try to preserve value. Why fiat currency inflation? Because we try to artificially increase employment by artificially stimulating consumption, by artificially discounting the price of credit, by artificially producing ‘money’ by simply debiting and crediting treasury and bank accounts.

    The Cathedral (Academy – Media – State complex that replaced the military industrial complex ) quite intentionally misrepresent the fact that owning (controlling) money, is different from having (storing) it.

    For the (a) voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, to evolve into (b) patterns (networks) of specialization and trade, and into (c) markets that provide continuous adaptation to demand, shocks, innovation, and continuously reduce prices money(wealth, capital) must be organized into a pareto distribution (20% of the population must control at least 80% of the capital), and within that pareto distribution’s 20% another pareto distribution, and so on. (Really, it has to be so. It’s just math and incentives.)

    The reason goods get cheaper is that people at the top of any distribution (and at every level under it) seek signals. We can virtue signal (words), we can membership signal (dress), we can status signal (consumption).

    People at the tops of distributions pay for research and development in signals, that then decrease in cost and increase in ownership. Hence why Gucci bags, and Ferrari’s (neither of which are expensive to produce) are so expensive: to make them scarce, and therefore to preserve their signal value. (Hence why iphones can be so profitable for apple: signal value.)

    Because really, all we all do is chase status signals like mice, hamsters, rats , and squirrels, in the squirrel cage wheel.

    The greatest subconscious fear of humans is ‘being left behind’.

    Hence: status signals.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-the-US-economy-if-scenario-1-the-top-5-unleashed-all-their-savings-or-scenario-2-put-away-gradually-more-into-savings

  • Do You Think That Postmodernism Has Had A Negative Or Positive Effect On Education, Especially In Literature Classes?

    Postmodernism can be best understood in the context of a revolt against science and reason, that is a repetition of the enlightenment revolt against empiricism, and the ancient world’s revolt against reason.

    THE GENERATIONAL REVOLTS AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH

    4 – The Revolt Against Science – Using Publishing and Major Media (19th-20th)
    Marxism/Freudianism/Boazianism(Pseudoscience) > Cultural Marxism(Propaganda) > Postmodernism (Pseudo-rationalism: denial of reality, logic, science and truth.)

    3 – The Revolt Against Empiricism – Using the Printing Press (17th-18th)
    Rousseau(Literary) > Kant(Rationalism) > Continental Philosophy(“Moral Fictionalism”) – the attempt to recreate Germanicized Christianity in secular prose.

    2 -The Revolt Against Reason – Using Writing and Pulpit (1st-7th)
    The reaction to greek idealism and adoption by Rabbinical Judaism (Revolt against the rationality and aristocracy) > Christianity(undermine from within) > Islam (conquer). The revolt of the pastoralists against the Agrarians.

    1- The Revolt Against The Invention of Aristocracy – Using “Writings of the Gods” (~1500bc)
    The European vs Indo-Iranian divide and the invention of scriptural religion.

    So, we see the same process of destruction of Western Civilization, by the same means the the great civilizations of the ancient world were destroyed by Christianity (western roman empire), and Islam (Byzantium, North Africa, Persia, and Levantine – creating the Abrahamic Dark Age.

    POSTMODERNISM IS A REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH. SO, HOW CAN IT BE ANYTHING BUT AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE ANOTHER DARK AGE?

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-postmodernism-has-had-a-negative-or-positive-effect-on-education-especially-in-literature-classes

  • –“Why Doesn’t A High Iq (Alone) Mean You’re Smart?”–

    –“WHY DOESN’T A HIGH IQ (ALONE) MEAN YOU’RE SMART?”– I’ll give you the correct answer. 1 – Measured Intelligence, or Intellectual Capability is equivalent to a personality trait. There is such a high correlation between openness to experience and intelligence that this idea will go mainstream in the next decade if it has not already. Intelligence may be the most important personality trait. 2 – The remaining personality traits, (five or six factors, and ten or twelve dimensions) and their predictable gender biases, affect the application of intelligence. So like Anna Karenina’s “all healthy families are the same, and all unhealthy families are different”, or like the domestication of animals, which requires a certain combination of behaviors are present, demonstrated intelligence requires not only its presence as an ability, but the absence of traits that interfere with its expression. In other words, many things must go right, and if any one goes wrong, we do not demonstrate that intelligence (or at least do not demonstrate it beneficially). 3) So, demonstrated intelligence depends upon the following: a) What we call ‘g’, or general intelligence (which has many components but all scale together), which is a loose measure of the rate at which you accumulate information and identify patterns – the obvious differences being the female verbal and the male spatial biases in brain structure. Despite claims as far as I know, it is not possible to alter it. b) What we call ‘short term memory’ – the ability to preserve states over time (I do not possess this and am constantly aware of it) As far as I know, despite claims, it is not possible to alter it. c) General Knowledge – the totality of knowledge (information and experience) that we can draw from in identifying opportunities for patterns. (Hence why being well read and are the best things that you can do to improve your demonstrated intelligence. ) d) What we call “personality traits” that do not negatively interfere with the expression of one’s intellectual capacity/measured intelligence/g. e) And the wildcard of “beliefs and wants”. One can increase the correspondence of one’s thoughts with the universe, or one can decrease the correspondence of one’s thoughts with the universe. If you want something that is impossible, or you believe something is false, you will constantly err, and accumulate errors. The more false and impossible beliefs and wants, the more error you will accumulate. As I currently understand mankind, our primary drive is status, whether shelf image or reputation, or behavior of others toward us despite our self image and reputation. And the majority of failures of intelligence are caused by the inability to develop, or lack of training in, the mindfulness (stoicism) to judge one’s value in the markets for communication, association, friendship, productive cooperation, reproduction(family), commons production, political production, and military production. So many of us wish the world were different, and go slightly foolish, anxious, depressed, or entirely mad, because we cannot tolerate a self image that corresponds with reality. Meaning, we cannot develop a self image that accurately describes our market value to others: Our Status. Otherwise, trauma causes similar dysfunctions, since trauma forces us to work constantly to avoid activating parts of our memories ( minds, brains), via association. This becomes exhausting. Which is why hallucinogens work so effectively at allowing us to observe experiences rather than feel them, and therefore create alternative pathways and weights that allow us to circumvent those traumas (land mines). Cheers.