Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING —“Animal sacrifice as virtue signalling.”— Adam V

    BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING

    —“Animal sacrifice as virtue signalling.”— Adam Voight

    (true. genius)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-18 11:05:00 UTC

  • “Privileging the Meaningful Over the Truthful Allows One to Discount the Declara

    “Privileging the Meaningful Over the Truthful Allows One to Discount the Declarative and Secure the Opportunity to Lie.”

    by Bill Joslin

    (genius)

    In Ganz’s terms, Generative Anthropology is idiomatic and ostensive (also speculative) whereas Propertarianism is imperative and declarative.

    What allows for the apparent contradictions is not accounting for the inquisitive (questions as a distinct set opposed to a subset of the imperative).

    Identifying what question one attempts to answer distinguishes the meaningful from the truthful and why these are not always interchangeable.

    Privileging the meaningful over the truthful allows one to discount the declarative and secure the opportunity to lie.

    (color me awed)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-18 09:53:00 UTC

  • SUMMERS ON THE CANCER OF RUNAWAY R-EXPRESSION —“Society is yet another biome –

    SUMMERS ON THE CANCER OF RUNAWAY R-EXPRESSION

    —“Society is yet another biome – an ecosystem. Even vultures have an important role to play. It’s when the /r tries to replace (or successfully overruns) the apex /K that we get system imbalance and social cancer.”—Anne Summers

    I hadn’t thought of that analogy but yes, cancer is uncontrolled hyper consumption growth that breaks the balance between cells and the host. So yes, r overringing K is simply the sociological expression of cancer by behavioral information rather than genetic information.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-18 09:46:00 UTC

  • 88% of Prime Age Men that Are out Of the Work Force, Are so Because of Health or Choice.

    —“Some new research on our of the labor force prime age men: Inactive, Disconnected, and Ailing: A Portrait of Prime-Age Men Out of the Labor Force (ht Noah Smith) This report is intended to enrich our understanding of who these prime-age “inactive” men are. It summarizes evidence from past research and fills out our picture of these men, providing some details about their past and present social and emotional lives. We introduce an under-utilized dataset little-known to economists and sociologists, the “National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III,” or NESARC-III. Consistent with other survey data, the NESARC-III indicates that in 2013, 11 percent of prime-age men were outside the labor force. Roughly 45 percent of them indicate that their current situation involves illness or disability. Roughly 15 percent of inactive men are in school, 5 to 10 percent are retired, and another 5 to 10 percent are homemakers or caregivers. About a quarter of prime-age inactive men do not fit any of these categories. Contrary to the common view that most of these men have “dropped out” of the labor force after becoming discouraged by the job market, few prime-age inactive men indicate this to be true, and only 12 percent of able-bodied prime-age inactive men indicate in household surveys that they want a job or are open to taking one. We confirm research by other scholars that a large number of inactive men are unambiguously and seriously sick or disabled. We provide new information, showing that many inactive men have poor physical health, poor mental health, or both. Over one-third of them (and nearly three in five disabled inactive men) are in the bottom quarter, nationally, of both physical and mental health. Inactive men have fewer skills than employed men and live in poorer homes, often relying on public safety nets to get by. Two-thirds of inactive men personally received government assistance in the preceding year. One-third of inactive men have been incarcerated (including nearly half of disabled inactive men). Along with other evidence presented here on mobility-impeding behavior, such high incarceration rates suggest employment challenges.”— Read more at https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing.html#vGZ3m1Ip2sUtCWot.99

  • 88% of Prime Age Men that Are out Of the Work Force, Are so Because of Health or Choice.

    —“Some new research on our of the labor force prime age men: Inactive, Disconnected, and Ailing: A Portrait of Prime-Age Men Out of the Labor Force (ht Noah Smith) This report is intended to enrich our understanding of who these prime-age “inactive” men are. It summarizes evidence from past research and fills out our picture of these men, providing some details about their past and present social and emotional lives. We introduce an under-utilized dataset little-known to economists and sociologists, the “National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III,” or NESARC-III. Consistent with other survey data, the NESARC-III indicates that in 2013, 11 percent of prime-age men were outside the labor force. Roughly 45 percent of them indicate that their current situation involves illness or disability. Roughly 15 percent of inactive men are in school, 5 to 10 percent are retired, and another 5 to 10 percent are homemakers or caregivers. About a quarter of prime-age inactive men do not fit any of these categories. Contrary to the common view that most of these men have “dropped out” of the labor force after becoming discouraged by the job market, few prime-age inactive men indicate this to be true, and only 12 percent of able-bodied prime-age inactive men indicate in household surveys that they want a job or are open to taking one. We confirm research by other scholars that a large number of inactive men are unambiguously and seriously sick or disabled. We provide new information, showing that many inactive men have poor physical health, poor mental health, or both. Over one-third of them (and nearly three in five disabled inactive men) are in the bottom quarter, nationally, of both physical and mental health. Inactive men have fewer skills than employed men and live in poorer homes, often relying on public safety nets to get by. Two-thirds of inactive men personally received government assistance in the preceding year. One-third of inactive men have been incarcerated (including nearly half of disabled inactive men). Along with other evidence presented here on mobility-impeding behavior, such high incarceration rates suggest employment challenges.”— Read more at https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing.html#vGZ3m1Ip2sUtCWot.99

  • September 19th, 2018 7:30 AM —“Abraham’s false claim of his intent to sacrific

    September 19th, 2018 7:30 AM

    —“Abraham’s false claim of his intent to sacrifice his son Isaac was peak virtue signalling. “— Howard Van Der Klauw

  • September 18th, 2018 6:54 PM —“Look at the veneration and mythic aspect of the

    September 18th, 2018 6:54 PM

    —“Look at the veneration and mythic aspect of the founders and other heroes of American history. Some even have what we could call temples. Especially Washington, Jefferson, (maybe Franklin, though there seems to be something more human about how we remember him), Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Patton, JFK, maybe even Reagan, although I think the gleam is wearing off his spirit as we realize the fraud perpetrated by many who used the vehicle of his name. Whether we agree with them all or not, they’re figures in a sort of American pantheon, and to at least some segment of society or other, they all represent certain archetypal, ideal qualities.”– Eric Best

    Correct. 😉

  • September 18th, 2018 2:47 PM 88% OF PRIME AGE MEN THAT ARE OUT OF THE WORK FORCE

    September 18th, 2018 2:47 PM 88% OF PRIME AGE MEN THAT ARE OUT OF THE WORK FORCE, ARE SO BECAUSE OF HEALTH OR CHOICE.

    —“Some new research on our of the labor force prime age men: Inactive, Disconnected, and Ailing: A Portrait of Prime-Age Men Out of the Labor Force (ht Noah Smith) This report is intended to enrich our understanding of who these prime-age “inactive” men are. It summarizes evidence from past research and fills out our picture of these men, providing some details about their past and present social and emotional lives. We introduce an under-utilized dataset little-known to economists and sociologists, the “National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III,” or NESARC-III. Consistent with other survey data, the NESARC-III indicates that in 2013, 11 percent of prime-age men were outside the labor force. Roughly 45 percent of them indicate that their current situation involves illness or disability. Roughly 15 percent of inactive men are in school, 5 to 10 percent are retired, and another 5 to 10 percent are homemakers or caregivers. About a quarter of prime-age inactive men do not fit any of these categories. Contrary to the common view that most of these men have “dropped out” of the labor force after becoming discouraged by the job market, few prime-age inactive men indicate this to be true, and only 12 percent of able-bodied prime-age inactive men indicate in household surveys that they want a job or are open to taking one. We confirm research by other scholars that a large number of inactive men are unambiguously and seriously sick or disabled. We provide new information, showing that many inactive men have poor physical health, poor mental health, or both. Over one-third of them (and nearly three in five disabled inactive men) are in the bottom quarter, nationally, of both physical and mental health. Inactive men have fewer skills than employed men and live in poorer homes, often relying on public safety nets to get by. Two-thirds of inactive men personally received government assistance in the preceding year. One-third of inactive men have been incarcerated (including nearly half of disabled inactive men). Along with other evidence presented here on mobility-impeding behavior, such high incarceration rates suggest employment challenges.”—

    Read more at https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing.html#vGZ3m1Ip2sUtCWot.99

  • September 18th, 2018 11:05 AM BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING —“Animal sacrifice as

    September 18th, 2018 11:05 AM BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING

    —“Animal sacrifice as virtue signalling.”— Adam Voight

    (true. genius)

  • Regarding Exercise

    September 18th, 2018 10:37 AM REGARDING EXERCISE
    (response to recently released study) [W]e are, like all herd and pack animals, but unlike solitary hunters, evolved to conserve energy and save it for movement with the pack and herd toward opportunity and away from risk. Herds will seek safety in the herd, and continuously move to new territory. Pack animals will patrol their territory together. Solitary hunters will patrol their territory alone. This is why it is harder to domesticate, foxes than wolves, and easiest to domesticate herds. This is why team sports are so important for those with lower industriousness, and why the ‘high’ from exercise is so important to form an addiction to for solitary exercise. It is also why boys need dominance play in sports or hunting in order to stay fit. Training ourselves to do other than conserve energy takes incentives and often quite a bit of effort. Running worked for me despite my asthma because the high was addictive. Lifting weights at home while watching the news every morning was addictive. But nothing was more addictive than wrestling despite the autists disgust at sweaty male bodies.