Curt Doolittle

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  • What Is The Underlying Psychological Reason For Racism? Looking Different Is A Part Of It, But There Must Be More To It.

    THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1. the evolutionary necessity of the social dominance hierarchy.
    2. the primacy of status in that dominance hierarchy above all other values. Our loss aversion to status is our highest sensitivity after loss of access to mates. Any creature that cannot compete in its dominance hierarchy will see its pool driven to extinction.
    3. the primacy and necessity of kin selection (any kin group that does not will be driven to extinction.)

    Give up on equality. It’s an evolutionary dead end. Make the best of what you have to work with. We are wealthier than at any point in history, but each of us is less important than we ever have been in history. This lowers our risk but provides us near zero status rewards that are under our control other than consumption signals.

    which is why people are driven to consumption.

    and it is why the poorer you are the more driven to consumption you are.

    which is why the buddha and the stoics taught what they did.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-underlying-psychological-reason-for-racism-Looking-different-is-a-part-of-it-but-there-must-be-more-to-it

  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change

  • What Is The Underlying Psychological Reason For Racism? Looking Different Is A Part Of It, But There Must Be More To It.

    THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1. the evolutionary necessity of the social dominance hierarchy.
    2. the primacy of status in that dominance hierarchy above all other values. Our loss aversion to status is our highest sensitivity after loss of access to mates. Any creature that cannot compete in its dominance hierarchy will see its pool driven to extinction.
    3. the primacy and necessity of kin selection (any kin group that does not will be driven to extinction.)

    Give up on equality. It’s an evolutionary dead end. Make the best of what you have to work with. We are wealthier than at any point in history, but each of us is less important than we ever have been in history. This lowers our risk but provides us near zero status rewards that are under our control other than consumption signals.

    which is why people are driven to consumption.

    and it is why the poorer you are the more driven to consumption you are.

    which is why the buddha and the stoics taught what they did.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-underlying-psychological-reason-for-racism-Looking-different-is-a-part-of-it-but-there-must-be-more-to-it

  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change

  • Why Do Some Americans Call Europeans “communist”?

    A lot of answers, but americans actually don’t know why everything european sounds ‘communist’.

    1. europeans trade opportunity for certainty. Americans and people who come to America trade certainty for opportunity.
    2. America was invented in modern language as a ‘third way’, between the aristocracy(authority) and the church(communism), by creating a middle class (entrepreneurial) order consisting of nothing but markets.
    3. American law, and our culture, and much of how americans think ‘differently’ is because we view exchanging certainty for opportunity as ‘limiting our freedoms’. All our wealth goes to people who are entrepreneurs (look it up, its the highest paying occupation). Anyone can become an entrepreneur here and everything is set up to assist you.
    4. In particular, our law is back-loaded. Meaning that there is nothing to constrain you up front, and we handle exceptions (failures) through litigation (expensively). This is one of the primary reasons for rates of american innovation. (It is nearly impossible to do business in europe compared to america. I still have a UK company and it’s one hundred times more expensive and difficult for absolutely no reason.) Continental law is front loaded in the old (French) tradition, and this, and the heavy taxation serve as a barrier to innovation – especially technical innovation. In this sense, European law evolved out of bureaucracy and into high capital which is possible to organize in the Germanic countries.
    5. Everyone talks about medical care and this is chimera. The problem is that we haven’t modernized our laws to prevent medical bankruptcy, and provided catastrophic care. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET IT HERE FAST instead of waiting, and we don’t want to lose that. We have medicaid and medicare and EVERYONE can get health care. Our medicine is more expensive because there is more of it, it is faster, it is better. We don’t want to lose that. (Spoken as someone who has endured the arcane british system). So we need to revise our laws, and increase catastrophic care. But supplying more of an expensive good leads to its abuse and overconsumption.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Americans-call-Europeans-Communist

  • Do You Think Medicare And Social Security Are Programs That Transcend Elimination Or Are They Susceptible To Elimination?

    As far as I know, they cannot persist in current form. There are not enough multipliers in the economy given forward demographics for it to be sustainable.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-Medicare-and-Social-Security-are-programs-that-transcend-elimination-or-are-they-susceptible-to-elimination

  • Why Is Saul Alinsky An Important Figure In The Progressive Movement?

    He was the person responsible for the political success of organizing the underclasses to Vote, Protest, and Rebel, and engage in violence, yes. He was the most effective marxist.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Saul-Alinsky-an-important-figure-in-the-progressive-movement

  • What Are Physically Strongest And Weakest Races In The World?

    That is a great question, but I don’t know … hmm.. Certainly Africans have the physique that evolved in harshest conditions requiring the greatest durability, and in all tests in the real world they are certainly the most durable. Certainly some native south americans have extraordinary cardiovascular capability. And as far as I know they are the strongest per cm of height. Certainly southeast asians appear to be the smallest and finest other than the Pygmies. I’ve seen massive strength from every gene pool. The greatest weight lifting isn’t a good measure because it appears to be a matter of training. And the training requires a certain kind of mind, and those minds are produced by cultures. So I would expect that definition of strength to come from ethnic anatolians-persians or ethnic germans-scandinavians-slavs. Arabs have been breeding with africans since they diverged from indo-iranians. But given their extreme poverty and lack of military tradition we haven’t seen them in the ranks of competitors.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-physically-strongest-and-weakest-races-in-the-world