(FB 1542218957 Timestamp) WOTAN GIVES US A HARD HEART (worth repeating) “âWotan placed a hard heart in my breast,â is what an old Scandinavian saga says: the poet who said this caught correctly what springs straight from the soul of a proud Viking. Such a type of man is proud of the very fact that he has not been made for compassion: which is why the hero of the saga adds in warning, âIf a man does not have a hard heart when young, it will never hardenâ. The noble and the brave who think like this are the furthest from that morality that sees the badge of morality precisely in compassion or in doing things for others or in désintéressement; oneâs faith in oneâs self, oneâs pride in oneâs self, a basic animosity and irony towards âselflessnessâ belongs just as definitely to noble morality as a mild contempt and wariness towards compassionate feelings and the âwarm heartâ”— Nietzsche, from the Genealogy of Morals.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542218957 Timestamp) WOTAN GIVES US A HARD HEART (worth repeating) “âWotan placed a hard heart in my breast,â is what an old Scandinavian saga says: the poet who said this caught correctly what springs straight from the soul of a proud Viking. Such a type of man is proud of the very fact that he has not been made for compassion: which is why the hero of the saga adds in warning, âIf a man does not have a hard heart when young, it will never hardenâ. The noble and the brave who think like this are the furthest from that morality that sees the badge of morality precisely in compassion or in doing things for others or in désintéressement; oneâs faith in oneâs self, oneâs pride in oneâs self, a basic animosity and irony towards âselflessnessâ belongs just as definitely to noble morality as a mild contempt and wariness towards compassionate feelings and the âwarm heartâ”— Nietzsche, from the Genealogy of Morals.
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(FB 1542218822 Timestamp) HEROISM AND COSTS by Luke Weinhagen Heroism is the application of virtue where that application has a potential direct cost to you. It is hard to train for directly because people interpret virtue so subjectively but training the foundation, overcoming inaction in the face of costs, is something anyone can do. Expose yourself to situation where you have a strong possibility to fail. Fail. Get back up. It is best if your parents do this for you as young as possible, but nowadays most parents don’t. So it is likely up to you. Find something you are motivated by (so you have a reason to get back up) that also offers you the likelihood of initial failure and overextend yourself into it (ideally not something that will kill you is you are just beginning to embrace failure).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542218822 Timestamp) HEROISM AND COSTS by Luke Weinhagen Heroism is the application of virtue where that application has a potential direct cost to you. It is hard to train for directly because people interpret virtue so subjectively but training the foundation, overcoming inaction in the face of costs, is something anyone can do. Expose yourself to situation where you have a strong possibility to fail. Fail. Get back up. It is best if your parents do this for you as young as possible, but nowadays most parents don’t. So it is likely up to you. Find something you are motivated by (so you have a reason to get back up) that also offers you the likelihood of initial failure and overextend yourself into it (ideally not something that will kill you is you are just beginning to embrace failure).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542215679 Timestamp) by Brandon Hayes Life is only suffering for those with no (low and developing) agency. It’s the only frame that motivates them to face it (life; the suffering). One must have (develop) the capacity for heroism to withstand tragedy as a plausible noble outcome. The world “just happens” to those that lack real consciousness. Thus they can’t perceive the responsibility they must bear.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542215679 Timestamp) by Brandon Hayes Life is only suffering for those with no (low and developing) agency. It’s the only frame that motivates them to face it (life; the suffering). One must have (develop) the capacity for heroism to withstand tragedy as a plausible noble outcome. The world “just happens” to those that lack real consciousness. Thus they can’t perceive the responsibility they must bear.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542215191 Timestamp) DRAGGING THROUGH THE SALES FUNNEL by Luke Weinhagen Our current parasite supporting system turns this agency sales funnel into a tractor pull. Every step of the way you have to carry more a burden. You have to recognize the costs being imposed upon you by the parasites are there because you are allowing them to be. Right now the funnel is not for weak engines not the faint of heart. “Fuck it, let’s just impose it” becomes a relief. If we can get to where we can start to suppress the parasites, this funnel opens up to more and more people. We get to that wider audience.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542215191 Timestamp) DRAGGING THROUGH THE SALES FUNNEL by Luke Weinhagen Our current parasite supporting system turns this agency sales funnel into a tractor pull. Every step of the way you have to carry more a burden. You have to recognize the costs being imposed upon you by the parasites are there because you are allowing them to be. Right now the funnel is not for weak engines not the faint of heart. “Fuck it, let’s just impose it” becomes a relief. If we can get to where we can start to suppress the parasites, this funnel opens up to more and more people. We get to that wider audience.
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(FB 1542214591 Timestamp) THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR You know, it’s so much a part of my cognition that I forget to mention it. But this book framed my thinking about social science more so than any other. I think in the Becker model. Ostrom just helps with extending the Becker model into commons. The “minds” that I imitate (make use of constantly) are Becker, Hayek, Hoppe, Popper, Turing-Chomsky, (the outlier is Hoppe (property) which is what the rest are missing), with Jeff Hawkins’s work on intelligence ( already having come true), and Baron Cohen’s so obvious, it’s coming true daily in the research. The Nietzsche I rely on is Birth of Tragedy. Someone will skewer me for this but his fundamental insight was produce there, and all else is application of it. Step back to the beginning again, and grasp that I studied history, art history, and military history first before any of this, and the sequence of aggregate behavior down to neurological processing is a completely coherent and consistent series of ideas. https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Approach-Human-Behavior/dp/0226041123
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1542214591 Timestamp) THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR You know, it’s so much a part of my cognition that I forget to mention it. But this book framed my thinking about social science more so than any other. I think in the Becker model. Ostrom just helps with extending the Becker model into commons. The “minds” that I imitate (make use of constantly) are Becker, Hayek, Hoppe, Popper, Turing-Chomsky, (the outlier is Hoppe (property) which is what the rest are missing), with Jeff Hawkins’s work on intelligence ( already having come true), and Baron Cohen’s so obvious, it’s coming true daily in the research. The Nietzsche I rely on is Birth of Tragedy. Someone will skewer me for this but his fundamental insight was produce there, and all else is application of it. Step back to the beginning again, and grasp that I studied history, art history, and military history first before any of this, and the sequence of aggregate behavior down to neurological processing is a completely coherent and consistent series of ideas. https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Approach-Human-Behavior/dp/0226041123