Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • Selling Degrees vs Indulgences

    —“Academia is the modern priesthood.”— Bill Anderson  It should be. The academy evolved out of the church instead out of the greek and roman upper middle class and aristocracy. And who filled the void of the church when the church failed to adapt to modernity? The church-in-waiting. However, the church and it’s selling of Indulgences had NOTHING on the academy selling degrees that are meaningless. I mean, the academy is the greatest scam since monotheistic religion.

  • Requirements of A Religion – Transfer Not Stasis

    —“How do we sacralize (keep static) our value system, outside of religion? Christianity was the container, and will be again. We can modify which values are contained in it, but we need : 1. A value system 2. A way to transmit it to all classes (myth, feasts, spectacles) 3. A way to keep the value system static (canonized)(burning heretics at the stake) Its obvious to me that this requires a monopoly institution. The only market for choosing between the monopolies is war. There can be no market for a sacralized value system. We allowed that and we got modernism.”—Bill Anderson SINCE WHEN IS STASIS A GOOD THING? it may be obvious to you but looking around the world (a) our value system isn’t from the church its from the having a commercial middle class, education, and the law, (b) man has discovered just about every imaginable way of training us into mindfulness. (c) we train with fairy tales, historical novels, bibliographies, histories, and the sciences. We have been through many waves of conquest by truth (reason) using deflationary grammars and conquest by lies (religion) using inflationary and conflationary grammars. Deflationary we innovate and prosper, conflationary we stagnate and suffer. So it doesn’t really matter what you intuit, because you are infected by the disease so to speak. Falsify those ideas by searching the world and you will find through the comparison of civilizations (japan being my favorite example in belonging, and switzerland being my favorite example in civic order). Your ideas cannot survive falsification. They can’t. Assuming one has intellectual honesty. Myth(commensurability on strategy), Ritual(mindfulness), Feast(calm belonging), Festival(excited belonging) and Markets (daily cooperation) work. They do. There is no evidence people need lies, they need commensurability so that they can cooperate with the least fear and doubt and insecurty, and the greatest optimism and trust. Conversely, primitive peoples were forced to compete with much more advanced peoples but they lacked commensurability due to tribalism, and lacked commerce due to primitivism. It’s not complicated. The problem is STATIC MEANS DEAD. And so it’s not that we must be static via positiva, but that we must be static VIA NEGATIVA (law). The very quest for the static as commensurability via positiva vs the dynamic as commensurability via negativa is the reason abrahamism was so stagnating under judaism, stagnating under christianity, and stagnating destructive and devolutinary under islam. Be careful what you value, for what you value may be simply ‘taking it easy’ such that you stagnate and devolve. THE RED QUEEN NEVER STOPS. Abrahamic religions, or any static religion, lets the red queen win.

  • Requirements of A Religion – Transfer Not Stasis

    —“How do we sacralize (keep static) our value system, outside of religion? Christianity was the container, and will be again. We can modify which values are contained in it, but we need : 1. A value system 2. A way to transmit it to all classes (myth, feasts, spectacles) 3. A way to keep the value system static (canonized)(burning heretics at the stake) Its obvious to me that this requires a monopoly institution. The only market for choosing between the monopolies is war. There can be no market for a sacralized value system. We allowed that and we got modernism.”—Bill Anderson SINCE WHEN IS STASIS A GOOD THING? it may be obvious to you but looking around the world (a) our value system isn’t from the church its from the having a commercial middle class, education, and the law, (b) man has discovered just about every imaginable way of training us into mindfulness. (c) we train with fairy tales, historical novels, bibliographies, histories, and the sciences. We have been through many waves of conquest by truth (reason) using deflationary grammars and conquest by lies (religion) using inflationary and conflationary grammars. Deflationary we innovate and prosper, conflationary we stagnate and suffer. So it doesn’t really matter what you intuit, because you are infected by the disease so to speak. Falsify those ideas by searching the world and you will find through the comparison of civilizations (japan being my favorite example in belonging, and switzerland being my favorite example in civic order). Your ideas cannot survive falsification. They can’t. Assuming one has intellectual honesty. Myth(commensurability on strategy), Ritual(mindfulness), Feast(calm belonging), Festival(excited belonging) and Markets (daily cooperation) work. They do. There is no evidence people need lies, they need commensurability so that they can cooperate with the least fear and doubt and insecurty, and the greatest optimism and trust. Conversely, primitive peoples were forced to compete with much more advanced peoples but they lacked commensurability due to tribalism, and lacked commerce due to primitivism. It’s not complicated. The problem is STATIC MEANS DEAD. And so it’s not that we must be static via positiva, but that we must be static VIA NEGATIVA (law). The very quest for the static as commensurability via positiva vs the dynamic as commensurability via negativa is the reason abrahamism was so stagnating under judaism, stagnating under christianity, and stagnating destructive and devolutinary under islam. Be careful what you value, for what you value may be simply ‘taking it easy’ such that you stagnate and devolve. THE RED QUEEN NEVER STOPS. Abrahamic religions, or any static religion, lets the red queen win.

  • More “Life’s Potential Energy (capital)”

    —“Everyone is born with X amount of potential (genetic, cultural, material and technological capital). If they do nothing or pursue a hedonic lifestyle, that potential will be consumed and then one dies. Most people barely sustain it, maybe increase it marginally. Exceptional people increase it exponentially, and that’s why we have pareto distributions of success. The people that take advantage of the most opportunities and put their potential/capital to work gain the most potential/capital in return. Simple.”— @Yannis Kontinopoulo ( h/t: Simon Ström )

  • “Civilizations differ radically among themselves. From civilization to civilizat

    —“Civilizations differ radically among themselves.

    From civilization to civilization, however, the few civilized men acknowledge each other with a discreet smile.”—Nicolas Davila via Ahmed Reda

    Absolutely. A few of us converge on the truth of it all. The only difference is the drag of our demographics and institutions…. lol

    And some of us are dragging some serious dead weight… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-08 13:30:00 UTC

  • SELLING DEGREES VS INDULGENCES —“Academia is the modern priesthood.”— Bill A

    SELLING DEGREES VS INDULGENCES

    —“Academia is the modern priesthood.”— Bill Anderson

    It should be. The academy evolved out of the church instead out of the greek and roman upper middle class and aristocracy.

    And who filled the void of the church when the church failed to adapt to modernity? The church-in-waiting.

    However, the church and it’s selling of Indulgences had NOTHING on the academy selling degrees that are meaningless.

    I mean, the academy is the greatest scam since monotheistic religion.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-08 10:27:00 UTC

  • BRINGING PSYCHOLOGY TO ITS FINAL CONCLUSION —“Curt Doolittle I noticed MBTI ha

    BRINGING PSYCHOLOGY TO ITS FINAL CONCLUSION

    —“Curt Doolittle I noticed MBTI has turned into a sort of religion for a-lot of people. Unfortunate how this always happens.”—Candice Mary

    As I’ve said elsewhere sixteen (4×4) with archetypal names, is about as complex as the average person can manage to ‘calculate’ with.

    I would much rather have people use MBTI and understand that we have different categories, relations and values, than to attempt to use the freudian model to dominate them into a uniform ideal, by casting everything as a ‘disease’ that doesn’t conform to that ideal. Freudianism is freaking evil.

    MBTI and Jung are crayons and fairy tales yes, but like fairy tales they contain a lot more than a grain of truth. Among my clan of people so to speak, big 5/6 factors and underlying dimensions we get greater precision but with the same empathy at the cost of losing the utility of archetypes.

    If you understand my work you lose empathy completely, and see people as clockworks, lacking nearly all agency.

    Then you are faced with having to just love people for the joy of it, and not blame them for their failings.

    Which is the optimum understanding that the very wisest of us (particularly catholics) eventually arrive at, and is one of the reasons the very top scholars in the world cease their irreligiosity while the public intellectuals preserve atheism.

    Hence my multi-year quest to understand how to produce a religion that free of abrahamic sophism, deceit, and immoralism, but achieves what we all desire from religion: the peace of mind and frequent elation that comes from surrender to running with the pack.

    It is wolves and dogs running in packs in the wild we should study – because it is precisely that emotion of safety in belonging and the sharing of perception and understanding by nothing but body language that we verbal and rational creatures long for.

    Domesticated wolves are our friends for this reason. Just as the wolfman is a subconscious archetype: we are the apes who hunt like wolves. We simply had the advantage of two feet and opposable thumbs, and extraordinary heat dissipation so we could pass those wolves and domesticate ourselves.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-08 10:16:00 UTC

  • by Bill Joslin I’m reminded of something Stephen Davies said in a lecture. The e

    by Bill Joslin

    I’m reminded of something Stephen Davies said in a lecture.

    The enlightenment thinkers (Anglo) had a focus on “improvement”. Look at what worked and didn’t in the past and incrementally improve the product. Its focus was on the past as a resource.

    The counter-enlightenment (continental) had a focus on “progress”, that being an ideal state in which their efforts “progressed toward”. And this delineates the two. The later accompanies some vision of eutopia or equivalent. It rejects the past as something to run forward away from.

    To.me this shift to “progress” in the later parts of the 18th century through the 19th century was when the best social innovations (crystallization of a long organic development in England) where twisted in one themselves.with idealized arguments which we are now seeing the consequence.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 22:10:00 UTC

  • “Historians are apologists for the human race.”— Charles Martel ( I thought th

    —“Historians are apologists for the human race.”— Charles Martel

    ( I thought that was particularly good. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 20:39:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993591294202179585

  • “The Emperor is the happiest character in the Star Wars universe. He’s always la

    —“The Emperor is the happiest character in the Star Wars universe. He’s always laughing.”— Cary Morris

    See? What he said. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 19:49:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993578465134874624