Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • DEFINING AND MEASURING THE QUALITY OF ARTS High art contains moral judgments. Th

    DEFINING AND MEASURING THE QUALITY OF ARTS

    High art contains moral judgments. This is one of the reasons Marxists proposed ‘design’ (Rothko for example) replace ‘art’.

    For example, Monet’s Water Lillies are a technological innovation (which we understand today in scientific terms), and is due its place in history for that reason as good art.

    However, his subject matter lacks moral judgments. And therefore lacks the status of high art. Jackson Pollock again, produces design, not art. His design may quality as an innovation, but it is still design, not high art.

    Some of the driving force for design over art was the increase in the size of the population that desired to possess art, which meant that more had to be produced to fill demand, and that the price had to drop. The rest is attributable to the change in content which was a marxist initiative, and remains so. Value judgements are an impediment to universalism and socialism.

    But how can we objectively analyze art?

    LETS LOOK AT HOW TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF ART.

    1) Craft (narrative, representation)

    2) Design (poetry, aesthetic pleasure)

    3) Innovation (novelty, innovation, )

    And finally:

    4) Content (Mythology, Human experience, ‘truth’, political, judgments)

    Let us set the center to 0, and the limit 255 on each axis.

    Then lets assign R, G, B to Craft, Design, and Innovation, then luminosity to Content.

    If we plot each work of any category of art using relative comparisons (point-testing) on that axis, and connect the four dots, we will be able to generate a sort of ‘surface area’ of the art that can be represented not only in the units covered, but also as an RGB color.

    Now the problem in this analysis is whether the content is ‘true’ (aristocratic) or ‘false’(socialist). There are multiple means of handling this such as using only the RGB/Craft,Design,Innovation axis and making axis 4 vertical “up” for aristocracy, and “down” for content.

    So, now we can create a sort of six sided diamond with white as the maximum socialist(feminist and equalitarian) or aristocratic(familialist and egalitarian) ethics.

    And yes, it is possible to do this pretty easily if you use enough samples of art.

    (I have, I know – as anyone who has used SCRUM will tell you, with enough samples relative indexing becomes very easy and accurate.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 12:24:00 UTC

  • A PROHIBITION ON TRUTH They are prohibiting truth. They made our ignorance somet

    A PROHIBITION ON TRUTH

    They are prohibiting truth.

    They made our ignorance something to celebrate.

    They made our passions something to surrender to.

    They made freedom of speech and virtue of opinion morally superior to speaking the truth and only the truth.

    They buried us in pseudoscience

    They have manufactured a moral prohibition on truth, and a mandatory license for lies.

    They say ‘what harm are these little lies?’.

    They declared war on the people who speak the truth. When our only cultural advantage is that we speak the truth.

    Is truth teh domain of warriors, and all else deception?

    The, truth, property, insurance, militia : aristocracy

    Devious

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 04:19:00 UTC

  • ARMIES OF LIES INSTEAD OF ARMIES OF MEN : WAR AT DISCOUNT There are always malev

    ARMIES OF LIES INSTEAD OF ARMIES OF MEN : WAR AT DISCOUNT

    There are always malevolent people in the world. They simply lack the means of acting. Raising an army is actually quite hard. But we dont need to raise armies any longer.

    We celebrated the benefits of literacy. But we celebrated literacy among our culture of truth telling. We did not account for the misuse of literacy, the misuse of printing, the misuse of education, the misuse of radio, television, and film to construct elaborate lies. The most important was, to justify lying.

    The abuse of information systems whether it be the pricing system, or the education system, or the media, has been just as damaging as any war or plague – perhaps more so. We have survived the thirty years war. The world war. But we did not survive I suspect, a century and a half of lying (pseudoscience).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 03:39:00 UTC

  • DEAR MICROSOFT : SELLING TRUTH I have never been able to get you to take my advi

    DEAR MICROSOFT : SELLING TRUTH

    I have never been able to get you to take my advice. Nor have most of the major advertising agencies succeeded in getting you to take their advice. We all fail because you think you are smarter than we are. Thats why we all agreed a long time ago to give you what you want until you fail, and become desperate enough to listen to us.

    Good advertising is the truth, spoken succinctly and elegantly. There are many other kinds of advertising, on which to ride your brand, but while beer can sell with something as simple as sex, and snacks with farcical humor, the more complex, expensive and serious the product or service, the more important is selling the ‘truth’.

    The truth is that Microsoft products help you get your work done. And if you want to make a living, then you need to know how to use them. Everyone else is selling cheap entertainment. You can’t play in the entertainment space unless you sell hardware, and even if you sell hardware, to take advantage of your brand, you must market to serious people doing serious things.

    There is margin in business products that can NEVER exist in consumer products. So stop trying to be fashionable for consumers, and be excellent for people who want to have a job, get work done at their job, associate with people who have jobs and get work done. And enjoy life with people who have jobs and get work done.

    The way to succeed is to tell this truth and trivialize all other products on the market. The global recession continues and will continue since the world economy has rebalanced its labor pools and today we live in that ‘normal’ state which we will live in for a very long time to come.

    As such, Microsoft products are for people who REALLY want a better life, and everyone else’s products are for people who want to pretend they have a better life – for a few moments at least.

    You would fare much better with TV ads showing EMPLOYED young people and unemployed people using non-microsoft products. Because honestly, that’s the truth.

    So please stop making a fool of yourself. You succeeded. You’re now IBM. So sell to grownups on the one hand. Sell to gamers on the other. Because those two audiences you can speak the truth to.

    Truth works, always and everywhere.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 01:41:00 UTC

  • Truth is Enough

    [I]t isn’t necessary to construct formal and informal institutions to control the goodness of man. Such a thing requires no constraint. A government, a law, a philosophy, an ideology, a religion, and a mythos need only be constructed to constrain in bad in man: that which seeks to avoid meritocratic contribution to production. So any system of government, system of law, philosophical framework, ideological moralism, religious doctrine, mythical narrative must acknowledge the ill in man, and how to put his ill to good as does the market in converting self interest to the service of others. Any system that assumes the good in man, rather than the incentives for ill in man then, is but a system of deception in which those who would do ill, seek to corrupt the people and the society that do not. Utopianism is always and everywhere a cover for criminal, unethical and immoral action. Without exception. If the truth is not enough, then all that remains is deception. Truth is enough.

  • Truth is Enough

    [I]t isn’t necessary to construct formal and informal institutions to control the goodness of man. Such a thing requires no constraint. A government, a law, a philosophy, an ideology, a religion, and a mythos need only be constructed to constrain in bad in man: that which seeks to avoid meritocratic contribution to production. So any system of government, system of law, philosophical framework, ideological moralism, religious doctrine, mythical narrative must acknowledge the ill in man, and how to put his ill to good as does the market in converting self interest to the service of others. Any system that assumes the good in man, rather than the incentives for ill in man then, is but a system of deception in which those who would do ill, seek to corrupt the people and the society that do not. Utopianism is always and everywhere a cover for criminal, unethical and immoral action. Without exception. If the truth is not enough, then all that remains is deception. Truth is enough.

  • TRUTH IN INSTITUTIONS It isn’t necessary to construct formal and informal instit

    TRUTH IN INSTITUTIONS

    It isn’t necessary to construct formal and informal institutions to control the goodness of man. Such a thing requires no constraint. A government, a law, a philosophy, an ideology, a religion, and a mythos need only be constructed to constrain in bad in man: that which seeks to avoid meritocratic contribution to production. So any system of government, system of law, philosophical framework, ideological moralism, religious doctrine, mythical narrative must acknowledge the ill in man, and how to put his ill to good as does the market in converting self interest to the service of others.

    Any system that assumes the good in man, rather than the incentives for ill in man then, is but a system of deception in which those who would do ill, seek to corrupt the people and the society that do not.

    Utopianism is always and everywhere a cover for criminal, unethical and immoral action. Without exception.

    If the truth is not enough, then all that remains is deception.

    Truth is enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 07:29:00 UTC

  • TRUTH TELLING American culture, like english culture, was organized to enforce t

    TRUTH TELLING

    American culture, like english culture, was organized to enforce truth telling, truth telling alone will enforce private property rights. The goal of the Progressive (socialist) Intellectuals (new yorkers) was to assault the culture of truth telling, as provincial, since it imposed a threat to their evolutionary strategy.

    We focus on property rights encoded in law, such that we defend ourselves from the state. But Truth Telling if it is the law that prevents violence, alone prevents involuntary transfer, by outlawing the means of involuntary transfer – whereas Intersubjectively verifiable property rights and relativism allow for the perpetuation of multiculturalism (lying and stealing).

    In other words, it is not property rights but truth telling that forms the basis of moral society that depends upon property rights.

    Enforcement of IVP property rights is insufficient for the formation of a polity that respects property rights. Instead, such a polity must enforce truth telling, expressed as property rights.

    (Damn. I didn’t expect to come to that conclusion.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 04:22:00 UTC

  • Truth Telling Forms The Basis Of A Moral Society That Depends Upon Property Rights

    [A]merican culture, like english culture, was organized to enforce truth telling, truth telling alone will enforce private property rights. The goal of the Progressive (socialist) Intellectuals (new yorkers) was to assault the culture of truth telling, as provincial, since it imposed a threat to their evolutionary strategy. We focus on property rights encoded in law, such that we defend ourselves from the state. But Truth Telling if it is the law that prevents violence, alone prevents involuntary transfer, by outlawing the means of involuntary transfer – whereas Intersubjectively verifiable property rights and relativism allow for the perpetuation of multiculturalism (lying and stealing). In other words, it is not property rights but truth telling that forms the basis of moral society that depends upon property rights. Enforcement of IVP property rights is insufficient for the formation of a polity that respects property rights. Instead, such a polity must enforce truth telling, expressed as property rights. (Damn. I didn’t expect to come to that conclusion.)

  • Truth Telling Forms The Basis Of A Moral Society That Depends Upon Property Rights

    [A]merican culture, like english culture, was organized to enforce truth telling, truth telling alone will enforce private property rights. The goal of the Progressive (socialist) Intellectuals (new yorkers) was to assault the culture of truth telling, as provincial, since it imposed a threat to their evolutionary strategy. We focus on property rights encoded in law, such that we defend ourselves from the state. But Truth Telling if it is the law that prevents violence, alone prevents involuntary transfer, by outlawing the means of involuntary transfer – whereas Intersubjectively verifiable property rights and relativism allow for the perpetuation of multiculturalism (lying and stealing). In other words, it is not property rights but truth telling that forms the basis of moral society that depends upon property rights. Enforcement of IVP property rights is insufficient for the formation of a polity that respects property rights. Instead, such a polity must enforce truth telling, expressed as property rights. (Damn. I didn’t expect to come to that conclusion.)