Curt Doolittle

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  • NO ONE IS LETTING RUSSIA WIN, AND OTHER SILLY NONSENSE –“Russia is winning beca

    NO ONE IS LETTING RUSSIA WIN, AND OTHER SILLY NONSENSE
    –“Russia is winning because it is militarily, industrially and diplomatically stronger than the US, which has been weakened by decades of neoliberal/neoconservative politics and economics.”–

    Peter Donalson, you are a nut or a clown.
    0) The USA’s weakness is due to opening the world to free trade at the cost of thhe working classes, and in particular in the hope that china would join the civilized world as a fellow player in maintaining the postwar consensus. That bet failed. We are currently repatriating industry as fast or faster than we ramped up for world war two. That weakness can be solved by continuing repatriation of industry here, closing the borders and repatriation of people to their place of origin, and ending the race-marxist program by purging our academy and schools, and reforming a subset of laws so that they return to their origiinal intentions.
    1) Russia’s military industrial complex was in Ukraine along the don river basin, because that’s where (a) coal was (b) food was (c) cheap water transport was. First they sent trucks in under pretense of humanitarian aid, to pull out the equipment necessary for military manufacture ack to russia, then second, they turned it into a wasteland.
    2) russia has no industrial complex which is why they can’t manufacture anything of material need, and are buying ammo, drones, and missiles from the few countries that have soviet era arms, or the minimum tech to build drones.
    3) Russia’s economy is smaller than that of Texas or Italy, yet it’s territory is over eleven time zones, most of which has limited single-season fertility, low population density, and this is why only Moscow and St Petersburg recieve funding for any kind of development whatsoever.
    4) Russia’s economy is low value add (as was the soviet) meaning that they produce food and petroleum, so they have food, energy, and little to no other trade, so the government lives off the proceeds of the petroleum industry from which half of the revenue is produced.
    5) Russia’s only tactic so far is the traditional russian tactice of pulling peasants and underclases from the remote regions and using human wave attacks, consuming vast volumes of imprecise artillery shells, and mining the daylights out of miles and miles of territory to slow the Ukrainians down.
    6) The USA+UK+NATO strategy is for Ukraine to continue to drain the military supplies, drain the available population , and cause the RU Govt to start to pull from Moscow and St Petersburg, to continue the war. A present RU is preserving it’s only remaining military asset – it’s airforce – which is it’s only means of defense remaining.
    7) The current pretense that the USA won’t fund Ukraine in to the future is a two-fold strategy. First, the republicans are holding it hostage against the democrats in exchange for closing the southern border, and second the government, is still attempting to pressure europe to carry more of the burden, and ramp up their military complex.
    8) The pretense that a trump election victory is going to work against Ukraine is also a propaganda position, Trump always preseves his ability to negotiate with the leadership of foreign powers so that handshake deals can be made, and the bureaucracy can’t screw up the process. His statement is that he would force them both stop is correct. The most likely outcome is that UA would have to give up Crimea in exchange for the return of the other territories – which are too expensive to reconstruct now anyway. But this would preserve UA capacity to maintain it’s economic viability by access to the black sea ports, and make use of its best agrarian land (most of which will be de-mind and returned to mass industrial farming instead of it’s previous lower performance. Meanwhile RU would not be deprived of it’s only warm water port, and not have to relocate all it’s investment to the east shores of the black sea.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @PDWriter @TheStudyofWar

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 18:42:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744791762294489088

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1736407573446754531

  • THE TERM ‘LOGOS’ IS AMBIGUOUS FOR A REASON 😉 Of course, I understand the concep

    THE TERM ‘LOGOS’ IS AMBIGUOUS FOR A REASON 😉

    Of course, I understand the concept as originally intended, as the universal law by which all things follow. But…the term ‘logos’ has evolved over history from ancient Greek, to Christian, To later philosophical thought. (The same way the left ‘appropriated and abused other terms).

    In Greek philosophy:
    1) Heraclitus conceived of logos as the universal law which all things follow.
    2) More generally, Logos referred to the rational principle that governs the universe and as associated with divine wisdom or reason.
    3) The Stoics used logos to refer to the animating power of the cosmos.

    In Christianity:
    1) Logos (λόγος) is translated as “Word” in the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
    2) In that context, it Jesus as the divine Word/Wisdom of God through which all things were created. It connects Jewish conceptions of Wisdom with Greek notions of Logos. (cd: herein lies the problem)
    3) Early Christian theologians like Justin Martyr equated Jesus as the incarnation of the Logos or divine Reason that orders the universe.

    In philosophy:
    1) Logos refers to reasoned discourse or meaning-laden language.
    2) Platonic philosophy contrasts logos (reasoned speech) with mythos (myth/story).
    3) Logos later became associated with logic and the rational deductive mode of thinking.

    So in summary, logos has evolved from universal law,
    to rational order, to divine wisdom, to meaningful discourse, by the attempt to bridge rational philosophy and divine revelation (cd: ack!), to rational deductive thinking and logic.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 03:21:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744560062511607808

  • Two Races Not One: Genetics Falsifies the Category “Caucasian” There are two dis

    Two Races Not One: Genetics Falsifies the Category “Caucasian”
    There are two distinct populations, European (spain to urals), and West Asian (or South Eurasian, or Southwest Eurasian, consisting of North Africa, the Middle east)

    –“The West Eurasian splits into European and West Asian. The latter is labeled as such (rather than the usual Middle-Eastern-North-African) because this ancestry component likely originated in West Asia before spreading to North Africa via an ‘into Africa’ return migration.”–

    I use the term “South eurasian” I adopted from Lynn instead of “west asian” for clarity.

    Now, technically speaking, that group still consists of at least the north africans, the middle easterners (see below), the iranic-caucasians, and the iranic-indians. And sometimes we include the turkic people (iranic-turkic) of central asia because they are also muslims.

    So despite west islamic civilization consisting of north africa, the levant, the arabian peninsula, mesopotamia, anatolia, iran, and the central asian countries, and the west indus countries captured as pakistan, and parts of afghanistan, we, in the west genrally just group all of islamic civilization into the term “Middle East”.

    Disambiguation
    In General this terminology helps disambiguate:

    Islamic Civilizations: (West Islamic Civilization or MENA > (Semitic (North African < Middle Eastern) > IndoEuropean( Iranic > Indo-Iranic) > Turkic(Iranic-Turkic(central asia, anatolia)) > East Islamic Civilization (Indonesia, Malasia, Brunei, parts of Phillipines and Thailand))

    The Middle East?
    What is the correct name for that territory between the mediterranean, the black sea, the caspian sea, the indus river valley, the persian gulf, the arabian sea, the gulf of aden, and the red sea – in other words, that area that is the arabian peninsula, iraq, syria, lebanon, israel, jordan etc. We call it the middle east but isn’t there a more specific name for that subregion?

    The region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and surrounding areas, is commonly referred to as the Middle East.

    However, the term “Middle East” is broad and can be used to include a wider area extending into parts of North Africa and Central Asia.

    MENA (middle east, north africa) generally includes Iran but not necessarily all Iranic peoples, especially those outside the Middle Eastern and North African region.

    There isn’t a universally agreed-upon name that is more precise than “Middle East,” but there are a few terms that are sometimes used:

    Near East: Historically, this term was used by Europeans to describe the region closer to them, including the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, but also extending to the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant. Over time, its usage has become less common, and it has largely been replaced by “Middle East.”

    Levant: This term specifically refers to the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and sometimes extending to parts of Turkey and Iraq. It’s a more precise term for the eastern Mediterranean part of your described area.

    Mesopotamia: This historical term refers specifically to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey. It’s well-known as a cradle of civilization.

    Arabian Peninsula: This term specifically denotes the large peninsula in Western Asia that includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

    Fertile Crescent: This is a historical term that describes a region that includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and parts of Turkey and Egypt. It’s known for its historically fertile land and is considered the birthplace of agriculture and early civilizations.

    Each of these terms captures a part of the area but not the entirety. The lack of a single, more specific term is partly due to the region’s complex history and the fluidity of its geographic and political boundaries over time. “Middle East,” despite its vagueness, remains the most commonly used term for the entire region.

    It’s about time we forced the federal government to separate european and south eurasian populations in surveys so that our data is learer and we don’t confate peoples.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-09 00:44:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744520435096555520

  • IS NATO IMPERIAL OR FEDERAL? Remind me again how long the Czech people resisted

    IS NATO IMPERIAL OR FEDERAL?
    Remind me again how long the Czech people resisted the Germans, then the Hungarians, then the Russians, then the soviets? For a time the country ceased to exist. In 1968 it only took the soviets seven days. And how would the people resist them today? Or resist anyone else for that matter? And so, what is the ‘price’ for the privilege of the sovereignty the Czech people have today? And what is the social, economic, political, and strategic value of EU and NATO participation vs those who lack it?

    While you are correct that the Enemy rides on the postwar institutions, that does not mean the the postwar institutions are flawed, or that there is a superior alternative, other than an a compulsory EU military and the higher taxes to pay for it, it only means we have not (yet) ended the capacity of the enemy to undermine our people and our governments (which is our organization’s mission.)

    The global anglosphere, and the continental germanosphere would much prefer not having to carry the burden of ‘poor europe’ but, and France would love to contain Germany as the dominant power over the continent, just as would Russia. So an EU military with USA levels of funding and participation, would radically benefit the USA and the Anglosphere whose only concerns are naval and air, and have nothing to do with land wars. The problem is the total EU military spending at 200 billion is 1/4 of the US spend of 800 billion, despite the EU population being 510 million versus the US only 425 million, and the EU gdp of 19.x Trillion almost equal to the US’s 20.x Trillion. So why is europe riding on american people when the postwar agreement was for the purpose of rebuilding europe into a peer again? Only to have it be the child that stays at home and pays no rent?

    So, fight the right enemy. Federation and the cost of federation is the only possible means of both retaining identity, sovereignty, and self determination within the limits tolerable by other members of the federation – which usually means defection to aide a foreigh power, or engaging in trade with foreign powers at the expense of members of the federation.
    After all that is the value of federation: shared defense, shared trade policy, shared insurance against disaster and crisis, and credit capacity to insure all the above.

    I want our people to live in safety and prosperity, and to end the second abrahamic destruction fo europe and if necessary contain it forever as the indians, russians, and chinese seek to do. That does not include however throwing babies out with the bathwater because of internl failures that can be corrected more easily than the entirety of the system can be replaced if lost.

    Reply addressees: @AutistocratMS

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-08 01:01:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744162423618072577

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744148044642181613

  • OUR SOLUTION TO ENDING PATERNAL CHILD SUPPORT EASILY, AND ENDING THE HATE MACHIN

    OUR SOLUTION TO ENDING PATERNAL CHILD SUPPORT EASILY, AND ENDING THE HATE MACHINE OF FAMILY COURT

    In 2021, the child support program in the United States collected a total of $32.7 billion. That $32 billion represents approximately 0.47% of the U.S. federal budget for the fiscal year 2021, which was about $6.8 trillion. This indicates that the total child support collected is a relatively small fraction of the overall federal budget.

    Our recommended solution? Cut the Department of Ed, and use it’s $79.6B budget to directly pay alimony and child support. It is the most destructive federal institution. End the endless court battles and family crisis, and let the voter’s decide. And let the budget pressure cause the governmet to take responsibility for the crisis it created by intervening in an ancient institution that is necessary for human capital formation and worse- giving us common interests, because as families we have almost everything in common but as individuals we have almost nothing in common but self interest.

    FEDERAL BUDGET
    – Discretionary Spending: About $1.5 trillion, with a significant portion allocated to defense.
    – Mandatory Spending: Around $4.6 trillion, driven largely by Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
    – Military Spending: Included in discretionary spending, the defense budget was about $753 billion.

    Reasoning
    1) the state enacted a) no fault divorce b) ending liabilty for interference in a marriage, c) child support d) alimony. This has created the incentive for women to divorce for a long list of reasons from boredom to grass-is-greener magical thinking with women vastly overrepresented in initiating divorce.
    2) The primary economic benefit of marriage is the shared cost of household cost and maintenance. So divorced or single parent households of necessity impoverishes both parties, but more importantly impoverishes men.
    3) women are no longer disadvantaged in the workplace but advantaged in the workplace, because of the gradual transformation to a service economy. And women are no longer disadvantaged in income making more than males until males mature into later age.
    4) Men mature later, occuply riskier professions, accumulate more cellular damage, and weaken and die earlier, with shorter possible work lives. As such men are being impoverished, unable to obtain new marriage and care and rates of suicide continue to escalate.
    5) Men are evading marriage out of economic fear of legal impoverishment whenever possible and women are delaying marriage to maximize attention and consumption.
    6) Single motherhood has become endemic, and while it’s politically sensitive to say so, single motherhood is a principle cause of social externalities – and surprisingly men are better single parents than women – and for reasons we’ve just begun to undersetand. Women infantilize offspring to maintain control via manipulation. Men seek to make children independent (adults),
    7) The reason for the decrease in household income is largely due to the delay in marriage, delay in childbirth, reduction of children born to below replacement (sustainable) levels necessary to maintain redistribution, medicare, medicaid, social security.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-07 03:33:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743838349641572352

  • Not a big fan of Aaronson but he does a better job at communicating computationa

    Not a big fan of Aaronson but he does a better job at communicating computationalism in physics and what it all means for us than Wolfrom. He gives a series of examples, but the last twenty seconds where Kuhn. summarizes, gets the point across.

    In my work the legacy of mathematics and its limits vs the lessons of computation is one of the most problematic metaphysical presumptions affecting the intellectual world.

    https://t.co/nGaBUmSg8g

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-05 08:31:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743188354429079553

  • SIMPLE LOGIC OF WHY EMPIRES VS FEDERATIONS When you can’t trust each other, you

    SIMPLE LOGIC OF WHY EMPIRES VS FEDERATIONS
    When you can’t trust each other, you consider the state the nation. When you can trust each other, you consider the people the nation. This is the difference between Russia, China, the Middle East versus the West. First, they are empires, not nations. Second, They are low-trust societies. So, their diversity creates low trust, and their low trust generates demand for authority which then justifies itself. And, the enemy has been undermining our trust from inside us for over a century by claiming oppression rather than domestication and the rule of law so that we can trust one another despite our inequality.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-05 08:01:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743181008315301888

  • I’m an epistemologist, scientist, and operationalist. Defining “supernatural,” “

    I’m an epistemologist, scientist, and operationalist.

    Defining “supernatural,” “supernormal,” and “natural” as a sequence involves understanding these terms in relation to the extent to which they conform to, exceed, or deviate from established laws of nature.

    Here’s a breakdown:

    1. Natural
    Definition: The term “natural” refers to phenomena that occur within the laws of nature and the observable universe. These are processes or events that can be explained by scientific understanding, including physics, chemistry, biology, and other natural sciences.
    Characteristics: Natural phenomena are consistent with the laws of nature as we understand them. They can be observed, measured, and often predicted using scientific methods.
    Examples: The growth of plants, the orbit of planets, weather patterns, and animal behavior.

    2. Supernormal
    Definition: “Supernormal” refers to phenomena or abilities that are beyond (or above) the typical range of human experience or scientific explanation but are not necessarily outside the realm of what could be natural. These might include extraordinary human abilities or occurrences that are rare but not inherently impossible or contradictory to natural laws.
    Characteristics: Supernormal phenomena stretch the boundaries of our current understanding of the natural world but do not explicitly violate natural laws. They might be subject to scientific investigation and potential explanation.
    Examples: Exceptional human memory, extreme physical endurance, unexplained recoveries from illness, or phenomena that are on the edge of scientific understanding but not entirely outside it.

    3. Supernatural
    Definition: The “supernatural” encompasses phenomena or entities that are believed to exist outside of and not constrained by the laws of nature. These are occurrences or beings that cannot be explained by natural laws or scientific understanding.
    Characteristics: Supernatural phenomena are beyond the scope of natural laws and scientific explanation. They often involve elements of mysticism, spirituality, or divine intervention.
    Examples: Miracles, deities, ghosts, and other phenomena or entities that are typically associated with religious, spiritual, or mystical contexts.

    Sequence Summary
    Natural → Supernormal → Supernatural: This sequence moves from phenomena that are fully explainable by science and natural laws (natural), through those that are extraordinary but potentially within the realm of an expanded scientific understanding (supernormal), to those that are considered completely outside the scope of natural laws and scientific explanation (supernatural).

    Reply addressees: @dbabbitt

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-04 23:27:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743051628662472704

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743033065570488749

  • The capacity to learn is hereditary, but all animals except a very few at the ma

    The capacity to learn is hereditary, but all animals except a very few at the margin can be trained. Even humans. It’s just that the cost increases with the decrease in neotenic evolution and or class.

    @ThruTheHayes
    Please contribute one of your dog vs human training examples here. Not just for this fellow but so I can save it and quote you given that this false objection comes up all to regularly.

    Manners are imitation. The rest is intelligence. Even kids with 60IQ’s can be taught exceptional manners. In fact, that’s about all that’s necessary for them to successfully survive in society despite their deficits.

    The same is true for dogs. To train a Siberian Husky ,which is not all that dissimilar from a house cat, is possible, it’s just a LOT more work than training a golden or labrador retriever.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @bleahhhhhhhhh1

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-03 22:17:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1742671428854407168

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1742669862692884734

  • WHY ARE MEN AND WOMEN IN SUCH CONFLICT – AND WHY ARE WE FAILING AS A CIVILIZATIO

    WHY ARE MEN AND WOMEN IN SUCH CONFLICT – AND WHY ARE WE FAILING AS A CIVILIZATION BECAUSE OF IT?
    We have attempted to reverse the totality of human evolutionary history by the comingling of men and women outside of their spheres of perceptua-valuative-cognitive-emotional capacities. Until very recent times, men and women lived very different lives, with men spending most of their time with men, women with women and children, in a division of labor necessary to insure the care of both as they age – even more, necessary for a woman to exit the servitude of her parents which doomed her to poverty in old age. And for men to find care and comfort of ‘the nest’ when men absorb the majority of cellular damage on behalf of the polity.

    This experiment is failing – and hard. Women are incapable of the adversarial conditions necessary for economic, political, and strategic competition sufficient to preserve comparative advantage regardless of scale. in other words, women, at least at other than the margin – are incapable of the cognitive and psychological demands of continous self regulation of emotion, impuse, and thought by exercise of reason and dependence upon material facts, to not only preserve but advance adverstarial competition, and in particularly to organize adversarial compeitive networks at industrial, political, and strategic scale.

    The opposite occurs: we are declining in competitive comptency by every measure with every influence of teh feminine temperament in organizations larger than a knitting circle – and certaily beyond the Dunbar number.

    Women are petty creatures so that they can empathize with and train children more petty than they, just as men are far less petty creatures so that they can empathize and LIMIT the pettiness of women such that aversarial competition can ‘compute by trial and error’ the defeat of the dark forces of others, time, and ignorance in the endless evolutionary battle to discover increasing means of energy conversion per capital that we call ‘ongoing prosperity’. There is no stable state that women so desperately seek. There is only the hamster wheel of time which we must outpace or return to the poverty of our past.

    This isn’t a moral statement. It’s just the results of the physical sciences, of which we are all expressions. Sorry.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation

    Reply addressees: @keyladelslay @nenelahot @NoahRevoy

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-03 16:36:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1742585669757628416

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