Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • US MILITARY COSTS One of my ancestors was responsible for auditing the ‘military

    US MILITARY COSTS
    One of my ancestors was responsible for auditing the ‘military industrial complex’ for Eisenhower. His assessment was that it was over stated. And present investigations find plenty of folly but generally, no it’s what it’s intended to be: innovation, production, and preservation of capacity – including as a jobs program. Because we cannot scale up and down skills on demand. We have relied too much in private industry which has to manage risk by making the govt pay for lack of stability. China, Russia, And Israel do a better job. With Israel the example we should follow, but with a mixed economy like the chinese and russian.
    Most military cost in the USA is because we actually pay soldiers. And from my estimates the recruiting problem is due largely to continuing to underpay them given the technical needs of the jobs. In other words, virtually ethnonationalizing the military through just paying better would serve us well.

    Reply addressees: @Helium_He3

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-11 14:57:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667908815931449346

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  • THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF “RELIGION” IS NOT SUPERNATURAL – BUT EXPLANATORY AN

    THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF “RELIGION” IS NOT SUPERNATURAL – BUT EXPLANATORY AND ADVISORY.
    The correct interpretation is that all civilizations require a narrative that explains non-aggression, distributes rules of non-aggression, provides personal and public rituals to reinforce non-aggression (not equality), and as such, provides a means of mindfulness.

    The evidence is rather obvious that given the spectrum of present and historical religions(Abrahamic, Hindu, Buddhist), natural religions (Shinto) and pseudoreligions (Confucianism), and replacements for religion (European stoicism), secular humanism, nationalism, and communism, that there is no need for supernatural religion.

    There is instead, just a need for an intuitionistic means of achieving mindfulness despite the alienation that first arose in the agrarian age over ten thousand years ago. But we are past the agrarian age. And our Christian religion,d despite coming to terms with natural law failed to reform, producing an equivalent without the superstition.

    Reply addressees: @junkodama10 @MrAtheistPants @MsMelChen @michaelshermer

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 19:41:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667255617440960516

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  • We know the first principle of the universe. We only have known it for a few yea

    We know the first principle of the universe.
    We only have known it for a few years.
    (a) under pressure the universe will evolve any possible ability to condense energy, regardless of the density and pressure. In other words, the universe isn’t tuned.
    (b) the result of the ability to release pressure by spin and velocity, vibration, and transmission is evolutionary computation of all existence.
    (c) it appears that the universe is eternal, but at the zero point, time is extremely slow, so slow in fact eternity may not have anything to do with experienced time at our gravity and velocity. Time may not in fact exist for other than matter.

    Reply addressees: @ricm2 @justuseapen

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 18:15:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667233862059958278

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  • CITIES: ANOTHER EXAMPLE HETERODOX ECONOMISTS WERE CORRECT. It kind of s*cks to j

    CITIES: ANOTHER EXAMPLE HETERODOX ECONOMISTS WERE CORRECT.
    It kind of s*cks to join the heterodox club, and its worse if (like me) it’s not just in one field, but in math, logic, physics, economics and law.

    We have known for a very long time that big cities, like big governments, and big empires, are not a good thing. That ‘smaller is better’. If for no other reason than people CAN understand, agree, and take responsibiilty for the small.

    The problem is, that cities produced irresponsible people with irresponsible beliefs and ideas, and we don’t want the cancer of their bad (progressive) ideology to infect the rest of the country.

    https://t.co/J8eU0A2XhC

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-08 20:06:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666899514727227414

  • WHY ARE THE WOMEN IN OUR MOVEMENT “KEEPERS”? All the women who are somehow attac

    WHY ARE THE WOMEN IN OUR MOVEMENT “KEEPERS”?

    All the women who are somehow attached to our movement are ‘keepers’. And one thing is obvious when you spend time with them: they aren’t looking for approval or validation. They have it in themselves. They are looking for association.

    But how do we mass produce such agency in women – when doing so in men is rather easy: we fear one another.

    Now I know, we know, for certain, that christianity ‘works’ for suppression of feminine neuroticism and hypersubjectivity to attention, validation, and approval.

    But only when it is a product of family and social discipline.

    However, like any ‘good’ it can be overindulged, overapplied, and lead to the very mental illness it was designed to overcome.

    We made the mistake of the naturalistic fallacy that people would behave as did our christian ancestors without the continous reinforcement from family, church, and society. All civilizations make this mistake – we aren’t special. The church taught the most important discipline of all: emotional self regulation, suppression of aggression, and insulation from dominance, status, and virtue signals.

    Then we threw these children in vast numbers into the education system which sought to train workers for citizenship, business industry, and government – a political rather than social and moral ambition.

    And we abandoned physical fitness, self regulation, maners, ethics, morals, grammar, logic, rhetoric, and the necessity of obedience when in groups of any scale, given the behavior of mobs.

    But instead education evolved into an alternate religion without the pretense of superstition, but instead adopted genetic, cultural, and behavioral pseudoscience, and utopian idealism: the result is the “fragile snowflakes”.

    In other words, we must invest much more heavily in creating ‘basic human competence’, as did our ancestral religions, and less so in feminine, leftist, irresponsible, political ideology.

    Education is costly. But the sh—t education we perform today is far more costly in consequence.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-08 14:02:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666808018741366790

  • “Q: Didn’t Rome do well as an Empire?”– Rome did well as an Empire for just und

    –“Q: Didn’t Rome do well as an Empire?”–

    Rome did well as an Empire for just under 200 yrs, from 27BC to the Antonine plague from 165AD to the reign of Commodus in 180 AD, then failing with the Imperial Crisis AD 235–284AD, and succumbing to Christianity and barbarians from 406 to collapse in 476AD, and eradication by the Justinian Plague in 541–549 AD, Which is one of the worst periods in human history.

    America did well for just over 140 so far.

    While the american separation from england, and the separation of eastern and western empires were caused in no small part by the slow pre-industrial speed of communication. And while climate and migrations paid a price in rome. We no longer have a communication problem, even if we do have a migration and reproduction problem.

    But as I’ve stated many times, there is a vulnerability to the group strategy of western civilization that feeds overexpansion and genetic decline that reverses the natural selection of western civ’s aristocratic demand for maximizing responsibility to increase our numbers, and decrease our cost of commons.

    IQ is necessary for western empires.

    Reply addressees: @Chris_Hafer101 @kanukistani

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-07 03:09:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666281209733758977

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  • “Q: What would post-globalism look like?”– The failure of the western sovereign

    –“Q: What would post-globalism look like?”–

    The failure of the western sovereign and federal age of free trade and human rights, and the restoration of Imperial age of subjects and dependents, restoring the conflict of civilizations(races) and their weak imperial dependents. That is what the world is trying to bring about. And we are trying to prevent it.

    We tried to end the wars of empires – and we did for a short time. But without technological, economic, and population superiority we cannot do so. It was a good experiment. If we had not constrained ourselves at the end of WW2, completed china and russia then we would have been fine. If we had not allied against germany’s attempt to restore their historical HRE, and ended RU we might have been a little less fine.

    But are we in the worst of all possible worlds now? Sure looks like a fall of Rome.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-07 00:12:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666236659468230657

  • “Q: WHY DO YOU WANT MONEY?” The reason for ‘f u’ money is so that you can say ‘f

    “Q: WHY DO YOU WANT MONEY?”

    The reason for ‘f u’ money is so that you can say ‘f u’, and therefore be subject only to your own ignorance error bias and self-deceit rather than the ignorance, error, bias, deceit, corruption, and self-deceit of others. Once limited to your own folly alone there are no frictions to your joy other than your own ability, agency, and competence.

    Personally, if you own a condo in a decent location, drive a Ferrari (anything fun to drive), engage in politics that’s worth your time, engage in business you enjoy that’s worth doing, have friends worth having, date women worth dating, take care of your self in fitness food and stress, then it pretty much doesn’t get better than that.

    And, yes, a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into. But sometimes there are holes we enjoy enough to throw money into. 😉

    If you’re trying to get money to escape this world rather than master it, then you won’t do either.

    Follow Max. The worst that will happen is still something good. 😉

    Cheers 😉

    Reply addressees: @themaxstoic

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-06 18:51:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666155776170156032

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  • All Astrology is nonsense. That said: (a) there is minor variation in human temp

    All Astrology is nonsense. That said:
    (a) there is minor variation in human temperament (personality0 given the season of birth, because of the remaining biological variation in hormones given our ancestry of fall mating and summer birth. (b) there may be some seasonal behavior caused by mothers bodies during different seasons, and some effect of the birth season on initial formative infant experience, (c) There is no other behavioral difference we are aware of other than that cause. (d) Yes the rest is coincidence because there is a well understood human cognitive bias to see patterns where they do not exist.

    Reply addressees: @GoodTexture

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-06 18:08:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666145003834310666

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  • FUTURE OF RELIGION RE: “I think religion…” IMO religion as we understand it is

    FUTURE OF RELIGION
    RE: “I think religion…”

    IMO religion as we understand it is dead except for the underclasses. And the underclasses are the greatest threat to civilization at present. So, we must find a non-false ‘religion’, and how to migrate from existing religions to it.

    I think we know it. I am not sure it’s a universalist religion – any more than any other religion has been. Why? Religion = Group Strategy = Civilization = Race = Geography under agrarianism. All extant major civilizational religions are agrarian.

    I’m not sure that post-agrarian religion will be all that similar to agrarian. I mean, marxism/leftism is just a reformation of Judaism. Secular humanism a reformation of Christianity. Islam hasn’t had its reformation. Nor have Hinduism or Buddhism. Naziism was the most modern european religion.

    We haven’t really seen any equivalent of European Stoicism – I thought Peterson was heading there but his illness ended his ability to tolerate that project.

    So that’s a huge intellectual project.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-06 16:26:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666119486536024066