Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • How did Mao do it?

    Dec 10, 2019, 12:48 PM From Twitter

    —“A necessary prerequisite to any hot civil war is an economic collapse. As long as the average person can care for themselves and family, they have too much to lose to take up arms. Now if we have an economic collapse in your timeframe, then anything’s possible.”—

    It’s interesting when people make claims without evidence. How did Mao do it? Your Errors: Because you don’t understand you assume others don’t. Because you don’t know how to “Mao” assumes others don’t. Because you don’t know how to CAUSE the collapse, you assume others don’t. Some of us are capable of profound things, and achieve them. Others are not – because they cannot imagine doing them. Why? Because they cannot imagine getting a core of others to follow them. Why? Because they have no strategy, no plan, and lack the knowledge to do so. Study Mao.

  • How did Mao do it?

    Dec 10, 2019, 12:48 PM From Twitter

    —“A necessary prerequisite to any hot civil war is an economic collapse. As long as the average person can care for themselves and family, they have too much to lose to take up arms. Now if we have an economic collapse in your timeframe, then anything’s possible.”—

    It’s interesting when people make claims without evidence. How did Mao do it? Your Errors: Because you don’t understand you assume others don’t. Because you don’t know how to “Mao” assumes others don’t. Because you don’t know how to CAUSE the collapse, you assume others don’t. Some of us are capable of profound things, and achieve them. Others are not – because they cannot imagine doing them. Why? Because they cannot imagine getting a core of others to follow them. Why? Because they have no strategy, no plan, and lack the knowledge to do so. Study Mao.

  • Everyone should ….

    Dec 12, 2019, 1:26 PM Everyone should – be taught public manners – begin working by age twelve at the latest. – work in a restaurant on tips or retail on commission. – have to perform maintenance of the commons – serve in the military (men), hospital (women), and local emergency services. Every one of those things is more important than school.

  • Everyone should ….

    Dec 12, 2019, 1:26 PM Everyone should – be taught public manners – begin working by age twelve at the latest. – work in a restaurant on tips or retail on commission. – have to perform maintenance of the commons – serve in the military (men), hospital (women), and local emergency services. Every one of those things is more important than school.

  • Manners

    Dec 12, 2019, 6:15 PM by Luke Weinhagen Manners are (were) a way to signal trust. We (responding to dysgenic social pressures) have shifted away from family derived forbearance (active) and into socially derived tolerance (passive). This has eliminated the familial incentive to practice manners so as not to lose the leeway and momentum one’s family name provides (forbearance being the a family’s way to assist you over mistakes, bad judgement calls and rough spots of life), leaving a handful of courtship incentives (that are mostly mocked by the same groups pushing us away from forbearance) and a few market incentives (the customer service example). The push for equality and tolerance have cost us trust and the effected the resulting loss of signal strength of manners.

  • Manners

    Dec 12, 2019, 6:15 PM by Luke Weinhagen Manners are (were) a way to signal trust. We (responding to dysgenic social pressures) have shifted away from family derived forbearance (active) and into socially derived tolerance (passive). This has eliminated the familial incentive to practice manners so as not to lose the leeway and momentum one’s family name provides (forbearance being the a family’s way to assist you over mistakes, bad judgement calls and rough spots of life), leaving a handful of courtship incentives (that are mostly mocked by the same groups pushing us away from forbearance) and a few market incentives (the customer service example). The push for equality and tolerance have cost us trust and the effected the resulting loss of signal strength of manners.

  • University = Secular Theology.

    Dec 18, 2019, 12:01 PM You want to know the source of the disease in this era of pseudoscience, sophism, and denial. Harvard and Stanford hide overhead vs instructional salaries. MIT’s financial report is Soviet in its obscurantism. Yale doesn’t. Yale is ~50% overhead and 50% instructor salaries. Here is Harvard’s business plan: “Undergrad: Who is most likely to contribute to endowment?. Grad: Who is going to cost us the least to serve as a research workforce?”. Harvard is a 4B a year industry

  • University = Secular Theology.

    Dec 18, 2019, 12:01 PM You want to know the source of the disease in this era of pseudoscience, sophism, and denial. Harvard and Stanford hide overhead vs instructional salaries. MIT’s financial report is Soviet in its obscurantism. Yale doesn’t. Yale is ~50% overhead and 50% instructor salaries. Here is Harvard’s business plan: “Undergrad: Who is most likely to contribute to endowment?. Grad: Who is going to cost us the least to serve as a research workforce?”. Harvard is a 4B a year industry

  • History Clarifications

    Dec 25, 2019, 2:57 PM

    1. It’s not clear our ancestors in europe practice anything resembling religion until the agrarian migration. We can walk religion back to burial (debt,credit), feast (credit), sacrifice (debt,credit)) and myth. And we understand where the utility of religion evolved from those. The etymology of the word “god” is “pour” meaning “pour some for the gods” (sacrifice), which is an anthropomorphization of ‘sharing’ with others (probably alphas), thus not incurring guilt (debt).
    2. It sure appears that migratory hunters (following herds) and settled hunters (wetlands), both existed.

    HUNTER GATHERERS LIVED IN SETTLEMENTS IN WETLANDS 2. It’s not true that hunter gatherers were constantly mobile. In the three locations I understand clearly (south central african marsh, marsh arabs, anatolian-marshes, black sea marshes, britain-doggerland-german-scandinavian marshes, there were fixed houses (many of them) and in the north of england some of these houses were used for more than five hundred years.

  • History Clarifications

    Dec 25, 2019, 2:57 PM

    1. It’s not clear our ancestors in europe practice anything resembling religion until the agrarian migration. We can walk religion back to burial (debt,credit), feast (credit), sacrifice (debt,credit)) and myth. And we understand where the utility of religion evolved from those. The etymology of the word “god” is “pour” meaning “pour some for the gods” (sacrifice), which is an anthropomorphization of ‘sharing’ with others (probably alphas), thus not incurring guilt (debt).
    2. It sure appears that migratory hunters (following herds) and settled hunters (wetlands), both existed.

    HUNTER GATHERERS LIVED IN SETTLEMENTS IN WETLANDS 2. It’s not true that hunter gatherers were constantly mobile. In the three locations I understand clearly (south central african marsh, marsh arabs, anatolian-marshes, black sea marshes, britain-doggerland-german-scandinavian marshes, there were fixed houses (many of them) and in the north of england some of these houses were used for more than five hundred years.