Curt Doolittle

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  • “For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute mo

    —“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world, or to become a Tsar. Stalin embodied both criminal and Tsar russian archetypes.”—Igor Rogov The origin of our differences: Limited to Reciprocity vs Unlimited by Reciprocity.

  • Argumentative Weaponry

    —“I know it’s public, but I thought it’d still be polite if I asked. Would it bother you if I used a specific comment you made on one of your statuses in a conversation? You make some really good points.”— A Friend  Look. Here is how this deal works. I get to use the public as a testing ground, and in exchange (a) you get to learn how to argue, and (b) you get to use my work products as you see fit. My job, our job, is to create argumentative weaponry in order to provide libertarians and aristocrats (conservatives) a post-moralizing (and therefore scientific) means of argument against the pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, and outright lying of leftists. It’s a good deal for both of us. 😉

  • Argumentative Weaponry

    —“I know it’s public, but I thought it’d still be polite if I asked. Would it bother you if I used a specific comment you made on one of your statuses in a conversation? You make some really good points.”— A Friend  Look. Here is how this deal works. I get to use the public as a testing ground, and in exchange (a) you get to learn how to argue, and (b) you get to use my work products as you see fit. My job, our job, is to create argumentative weaponry in order to provide libertarians and aristocrats (conservatives) a post-moralizing (and therefore scientific) means of argument against the pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, and outright lying of leftists. It’s a good deal for both of us. 😉

  • Aristotle’s Ethnocentrism

    —“Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and Aristotle’s own attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be “a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants”.—

  • Aristotle’s Ethnocentrism

    —“Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and Aristotle’s own attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be “a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants”.—

  • Curt Doolittle shared a link. SCARY AS HELL: THE FEMALE PSYCHOPATH via Candice M

    Curt Doolittle shared a link.

    SCARY AS HELL: THE FEMALE PSYCHOPATH
    via Candice Mary

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 00:11:42 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-10 22:26:00 UTC

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    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/07/politics/steve-fitzgerald-kansas-candidate-barbarism-comments/index.html

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-10 22:26:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. RUSSIAN VARIATION ON FREEDOM(from) AND LIBERT

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    RUSSIAN VARIATION ON FREEDOM(from) AND LIBERTY(to)
    By Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for Soviet propaganda”

    If you are a Westerner and talk to us Russians about freedom, you need to know that we understand freedom quite differently from you.

    In English, there are two complementary words for the topic: “freedom” and “liberty”.

    We also have a pair, “svoboda” and “volya”. But the complementary meaning for the second one is quite different from “liberty”.

    “Volya” also means “the will”. Yes, yes, like in the Nazi’s Triumph des Willens. In other words, it’s the ability to do what you want, to impress your will on whatever you have.

    Vólya also forms the stem of another word, very pleasant to the Russian ear, privólye (an open space, an uncluttered expanse with no unwanted obstacles).

    This perception of freedom is also worth keeping in mind when you come across all the passionate Russian postings about the yoke of political correctness and stifling liberal oppression that you Westerners must suffer every passing day.

    For us, having to take into consideration other people, with their annoying habits, pesky demands and petty pretenses is also a form of non-freedom. It is often more oppressing because you can hide from police and taxmen when you really need to. But other people, they are always around! They haunt you everywhere!

    As our national poet has said, “There is no happiness, but there’s peace and volya”.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-10 22:18:45 UTC

  • “All “humility” should be via-negativa removal of hubris, that is ego-flattering

    —“All “humility” should be via-negativa removal of hubris, that is ego-flattering deceit and cowering away from the discovery of truth.”— Brendan Hegarty

    (omg. that parsimony got me excited…)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-10 20:48:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1016786365462339586