Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “In the wide swath of history, we went from church and state as bedfellows, to s

    —“In the wide swath of history, we went from church and state as bedfellows, to statutory corporations and state as bedfellows, from veritable theocracy to fascism, with a small window of Enlightenment in-between.”—Angus Jameson Sock

    —“As a side note, statutory shielding of personal liability for stockholders, officers, and boards of directors is just as bad of an idea as clergy being personally immune from the broader actions of the church.”—Angus Jameson Sock

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-06 21:16:00 UTC

  • THAT WE NEEDED PROOF, BUT … INBREEDING. —“We found significant decline in ch

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196914/NOT THAT WE NEEDED PROOF, BUT … INBREEDING.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196914/

    —“We found significant decline in child cognitive abilities due to inbreeding and high frequency of mental retardation among offspring from inbred families. The mean differences (95% C.I.) were reported for the VIQ, being −22.00 (−24.82, −19.17), PIQ −26.92 (−29.96, −23.87) and FSIQ −24.47 (−27.35, −21.59) for inbred as compared to non-inbred children (p>0.001). The higher risk of being mentally retarded was found to be more obvious among inbred categories corresponding to the degree of inbreeding and the same accounts least for non-inbred children (p<0.0001). We observed an increase in the difference in mean values for VIQ, PIQ and FSIQ with the increase of inbreeding coefficient and these were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). The regression analysis showed a fitness decline (depression) for VIQ (R2 = 0.436), PIQ (R2 = 0.468) and FSIQ (R2 = 0.464) with increasing inbreeding coefficients (p<0.01).”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-06 20:56:00 UTC

  • Not that We Needed Proof, But … The Cost of Inbreeding.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196914/ —“We found significant decline in child cognitive abilities due to inbreeding and high frequency of mental retardation among offspring from inbred families. The mean differences (95% C.I.) were reported for the VIQ, being −22.00 (−24.82, −19.17), PIQ −26.92 (−29.96, −23.87) and FSIQ −24.47 (−27.35, −21.59) for inbred as compared to non-inbred children (p>0.001). The higher risk of being mentally retarded was found to be more obvious among inbred categories corresponding to the degree of inbreeding and the same accounts least for non-inbred children (p<0.0001). We observed an increase in the difference in mean values for VIQ, PIQ and FSIQ with the increase of inbreeding coefficient and these were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). The regression analysis showed a fitness decline (depression) for VIQ (R2 = 0.436), PIQ (R2 = 0.468) and FSIQ (R2 = 0.464) with increasing inbreeding coefficients (p<0.01).”—

  • Not that We Needed Proof, But … The Cost of Inbreeding.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196914/ —“We found significant decline in child cognitive abilities due to inbreeding and high frequency of mental retardation among offspring from inbred families. The mean differences (95% C.I.) were reported for the VIQ, being −22.00 (−24.82, −19.17), PIQ −26.92 (−29.96, −23.87) and FSIQ −24.47 (−27.35, −21.59) for inbred as compared to non-inbred children (p>0.001). The higher risk of being mentally retarded was found to be more obvious among inbred categories corresponding to the degree of inbreeding and the same accounts least for non-inbred children (p<0.0001). We observed an increase in the difference in mean values for VIQ, PIQ and FSIQ with the increase of inbreeding coefficient and these were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). The regression analysis showed a fitness decline (depression) for VIQ (R2 = 0.436), PIQ (R2 = 0.468) and FSIQ (R2 = 0.464) with increasing inbreeding coefficients (p<0.01).”—

  • “Several studies of the IQ of Gypsies have found average IQs ranging from 70 to

    –“Several studies of the IQ of Gypsies have found average IQs ranging from 70 to 83. The average IQs of Gypsies in different countries have been stated to be 85 in Slovenia, 83 in Slovakia, 70 in Serbia, and 60 in Romania.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-06 13:13:00 UTC

  • Hence Why Europeans Need Their Empire of Nation States Under Our Own “White”: Natural Law

    —“Our field’s fixation on the Westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states … In fact, it is a very distorted view of even the Westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. Almost all of the emerging European states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… Ironically, it was the European empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world…”— Burbank and Cooper

  • Hence Why Europeans Need Their Empire of Nation States Under Our Own “White”: Natural Law

    —“Our field’s fixation on the Westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states … In fact, it is a very distorted view of even the Westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. Almost all of the emerging European states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… Ironically, it was the European empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world…”— Burbank and Cooper

  • Somebody save Britain

    http://yournewswire.com/london-churches-mosques/

    Somebody save Britain

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-05 12:55:00 UTC

  • “There used to be a brief period when Mao and Stalin were more or less Heaven’s

    —“There used to be a brief period when Mao and Stalin were more or less Heaven’s sons and spiritual brothers destined to change the world, with Stalin being an elder one, but it quickly deteriorated after Stalin’s death; with China seeing Khrushchev as an degenerate idiot, and Khrushchev seeing maoists as a spoiled children of the revolution needing a lesson. Tensions continued to escalate during Brezhnev rule which resulted in a military incident on a border. … After Perestroika there were many voices in the top echelons of Russian government to adopt Chinese way of development and learn from Chinese administration, which would make Russia directly subordinate to China in every possible way, but instead the current politicking allows a slow, creeping assimilation of far Russian regions by Chinese settlers and similarly creeping subordination of the trade relations and economy, while keeping a brave fake appearance of utterly independant, maverick Putinist state.”– Igor Rogov

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 23:07:00 UTC

  • Peak Human?

    —“Are there any morphological differences between the brain of a highly intelligent person and a person with average intelligence?”— Three positive factors: 1 – greater neurogenesis 2 – greater neural density 3 – greater white matter (reduced friction) Three negative factors 4 – Lack of defect in biochemistry (or other illness) 5 – Lack of defect in personality trait (brain structure and chemistry) 6 – Lack of defect due to trauma (of any kind). And one less obvious: 7 – False knowledge or beliefs (non-correspondence). Certain sets of ideas are incredibly attractive but entirely destructive to our ability to think. We should note that so far, (as most of us expected) a) intelligence is influenced by a very large number of genes. b) unfortunately most influences are negative not positive. HOWEVER That means: c) that potential intelligence does not require we increase any substantial capacity. d) that potential intelligence can be incrementally increased by cumulative, specific, genetic corrections. AND f) Ot seems likely that intelligence then developed a long time ago by accident but through reproduction we have not been able to produce dominance in intelligence without controlled reproduction (like we do with animals), OR g) Or the innate possibility was there originally and we have actually devolved from it. This hypothesis isn’t as strange as it originally sounds. Its entirely possible that the rapid increases in our ability to communicate produced greater selection pressure on verbal ability than it did intelligence, and we began to function more as a collective (social) intelligence than individually intelligent agents who imitated each other. The relationship between brain size and intelligence isn’t linear but it exists, and we have smaller (less expensive) brains than both Neanderthals and Cro Magnon’s for example. In other words, we might have passed peak genetic ability in the past but because of verbal communication reduced the cost and size of our brains, and as such, increased the survival of our weakest. We don’t know yet.