Curt Doolittle

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  • CURT AND MURRAY SELL ON CULTURAL DIFFERENCES —“The Chinese [primary method of

    CURT AND MURRAY SELL ON CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

    —“The Chinese [primary method of decidability] is stability – [non-conflict]. Chinese history is tumultuous so everything must be done in the name of maintaining equilibrium and stability in the nation state(which is seen as a collective entity).

    The American [primary method of decidability] (until very recently) is reason – [negotiation]. Maintaining that people will ultimately do what’s right for themselves in the end and will act in their own self interests.

    (CURT INTERJECTS: Chinese prevent conflict through denial, delay, and deceit. westerners attempt to expose conflicts and resolve them quickly. europeans regulate heavily to prevent legal conflicts later. Americans provide very precise legal rules so that limited regulation is necessary except in those cases where the exceptions have failed. These are three methods of insurance against conflict. The Chinese delay and deceive and deny until ‘matters solve themselves’. The continental method of regulate in order to limit conflicts. And the anglo method: provide clear rule of law so that those conflicts that do arise are decidable.)

    It’s probably why our greatest weapon has been unleashing chaos into societies (weaponized culture)in order to drive events in a way that serve America’s greater interests.

    (CURT INTERJECTS: Americans have followed the anglo enlightenment, peace of Westphalia(States are responsible for all agents within), and Postwar Consensus (human rights and fixed borders), that the world will remain peaceful through economic cooperation rather than territorial expansion. So americans seek to raise in to ‘adulthood’ every nation, so that it can participate in a meritocratic international market. This is ok, except that every nation may not have the human capital to compete successfully, and may try to circumvent that meritocratic competition by other means (islam).)

    I feel like this idea failed with the Middle Eastern destabilization program of the obama administration. The realization that people are literally wired differently from the western mind I feel is a revelatory moment of catharsis for western neoliberal thinkers. Universalism is a generic lazy way of seeing collective groups of people on earth. I have watched lectures on YouTube from the army war college stating that it doesn’t really matter if we technically “lose” wars with other nation states (fail to hold territory). As long as we utterly destroy your nation and knock it back a century in its progress we have technically won against our opponent because they can’t develop a civilization strong enough to challenge us on our own territory. The third world is aware of this and some folks theorize that we are in a multigenerational asymmetric conflict with the devolving world using our own principles and mass migration (another form of warfare) against us…”— Murray Sell

    (CURT INTERJECTS: agreed)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 13:22:00 UTC

  • THERE IS NOTHING TO FIND IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONARY PROPHETS BUT INFANTILI

    THERE IS NOTHING TO FIND IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONARY PROPHETS BUT INFANTILISM.

    —“It seems that, in Genesis, God has legs, and doesn’t know the answers to the questions he asks. It confirms my inclination to the Marcionite Heresy.”—

    There is nothing there to find.

    We have our fairy tales, and myths.

    We have our origin story: the Iliad and the odyssey

    We have books of great literature.

    Books of great ideas (moral literature).

    Books of great history.

    Books of great science.

    Books of great law.

    Books of great war.

    We have imitation of kin for infants.

    We have heroic imitation for children.

    We have virtue ethics for the adolescent.

    We have rule ethics for the adult.

    We have outcome ethics for the mature.

    CONFLATIONARY SIMPLICITY vs DEFLATIONARY COMPLEXITY

    The attractiveness of religious parable is that it’s conflated (all the disciplines are conflated into a single narrative). And the simple beast in each of us prefers to call upon one ‘unit of measure’ (method of deciding).

    But what separates man from animal is reason, and human from man, is deflation: the ability to compare multiple dimensions.

    So while we harbor in us a romantic childish animal that wants to save the burden of learning and cognition by relying on the reductive, conflation of simple ideal types, virtues, and parables, rather than identities, measurements, spectra, equilibria, and models, we merely infantilize ourselves by returning to infantile means of conflationary measurement.

    THERE ARE NO ANSWERS IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONISTS.

    End the lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 13:03:00 UTC

  • TERROR ALERTS AS MERE BLAME CIRCUMVENTION FOR FAILURE —“Of course there are po

    TERROR ALERTS AS MERE BLAME CIRCUMVENTION FOR FAILURE

    —“Of course there are potential “terror alerts” over Thanksgiving. That’s how the state keeps you in perpetual fear. It’s all bullshit.”—

    Its actually how they attempt to circumvent blame by issuing warnings all the time so that even though people get murdered, they can claim they were not caught unawares – even though they were. Since ‘awareness’ requires ‘actionability’ to have any meaning.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 12:41:00 UTC

  • “Western men need moral permission to do something. The moral permission to act

    —“Western men need moral permission to do something. The moral permission to act in a traditionally masculine & self-interested way has been systematically removed from Western society over the last 50 years. It must only be restored.”—Steve Schneider

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 21:29:00 UTC

  • “Yes, men are indoctrinated to negotiate first, rather than to take by force fir

    —“Yes, men are indoctrinated to negotiate first, rather than to take by force first, and negotiate, or compensate last. Many, maybe most men, have this problem. But once you set down the framework, give them the “It’s not your fault” reframing, and give them some contract examples and case studies — without fail they say, “fuck I knew that!” or “fuck I used to do that!” or “fuck, I used to be like that!” And they revert quickly, usually with massive success.”— James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 20:58:00 UTC

  • SHIFTS (FINALLY). 🙂

    https://fee.org/articles/10-reasons-to-rethink-the-narrative-about-trump-s-success/TUCKER SHIFTS (FINALLY). 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 18:37:00 UTC

  • MORITZ BIERLING NAILS IT: —“It’s rather simple really. Once you see costs beyo

    MORITZ BIERLING NAILS IT:

    —“It’s rather simple really. Once you see costs beyond prices, and returns beyond profit, what we previously thought to be simply parasitic extraction is revealed as payment for participation in the market created by the aristocracy and maintained by the militia.

    It’s all about the accounting.”— Moritz Bierling

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 18:21:00 UTC

  • “I do not have it in me anymore to put in efforts to counter Marx-shit ideas. I

    —“I do not have it in me anymore to put in efforts to counter Marx-shit ideas. I just want to burn them and be done with it.”— Manu Agrawal

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 10:23:00 UTC

  • “We can follow Pinker in the characterization of Intelligence itself as a heuris

    —“We can follow Pinker in the characterization of Intelligence itself as a heuristic of sorts devised by evolutionary processes. The cost of specialization in terms of individuation is simply too costly, so a general set of cognitive dispositions that can adapt is of greater benefit to the species in question.”—Skye Stewart

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 19:34:00 UTC

  • “Aristocracy creates sovereignty*: the prevention of monopoly by the enforcement

    —“Aristocracy creates sovereignty*: the prevention of monopoly by the enforcement of markets.”— James Augustus Berens

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 13:44:00 UTC