Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Maybe living in Farmville meant I was on another planet from the rest of the cou

    Maybe living in Farmville meant I was on another planet from the rest of the country – despite living on the route to Woodstock. But as far as I can remember, pretty much everything between 1968 and 1978 was a pretty freaking horrible time to be alive. I don’t care if wages have stagnated. That time period was just tragic. Between johnson, the great society, the ghetto movements, Vietnam and Carter, it was like everything Americans had done through 1963 was systematically being burned to the ground. Television, music, movies pretty much all sucked. cars sucked. news sucked. the economy sucked. everything sucked.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 13:46:00 UTC

  • We had such a good reaction on TRS to mixing man-talk and philosophy that I wish

    We had such a good reaction on TRS to mixing man-talk and philosophy that I wish I had a weekly show to do in that format.

    I can’t possibly manage that kind of thing. But the idea of picking a topic and drilling down on it with normal (intelligent) folks is pretty attractive.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 13:02:00 UTC

  • I know it sounds like bullshit but I write and code better from a terrace, porch

    I know it sounds like bullshit but I write and code better from a terrace, porch, balcony, restaurant or coffee shop than I do in offices.

    Good oxygen. White noise.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-24 07:05:00 UTC

  • A lot of the cultural difference here is that he women aren’t infantilized, and

    A lot of the cultural difference here is that he women aren’t infantilized, and so by the time they’re 21 they’re adults.

    American culture (at the behest of the left) has infantalized our generations to the point where the milennial’s will not reach adulthood until their late thirties or early forties.

    Most of this was accomplished by the postwar boom’s economic expansion, in a period of luxury for the usa, where we had no competition, and we moved our lower classes in to a position where they had middle class jobs, middle class consumer power, voting rights, could pay university tuitions and act as useful idiots for the leftists – all wthout adopting the ‘conservative values’ which are in fact the western aristocratic values adopted by each emergent member of the middle class: “you are not a liability”.

    And how do we know you are not a liability?

    – you can earn enough to pay for a home

    – you can afford a spouse and offspring.

    – you can participate in civic society’s norms.

    – you can uphold the law. not just obey but uphold it.

    – you can serve in the militia (and for women, hospitaliers)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-24 06:26:00 UTC

  • ( Sure, you’re average Slavic male looks more than a few cc’s deficient in crani

    ( Sure, you’re average Slavic male looks more than a few cc’s deficient in cranial volume. But damn. The ordinary girl at the bus station is still just amazing. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 14:52:00 UTC

  • European elites understand that without a single government they cannot create a

    European elites understand that without a single government they cannot create a military, political and trade power and exit American dependence.

    They apparently haven’t figured out the alternative, by continuing the western tradition, of breaking america into small regional states, so that they can exit american influence. Nor that it will take the combined population and economies of europe, north america and austrialia to maintain any semblance of control over the terms of trade .

    The solution isn’t a united states of europe.

    The solution is instead, to reduce america to a set of european states, so that we return to our historical relatoinship of competing states that must cooperate for shared defense using professional warriors.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 12:42:00 UTC

  • (oops. I just hit a few friend requests instead of accepting friends requests. S

    (oops. I just hit a few friend requests instead of accepting friends requests. Sorry. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 08:44:00 UTC

  • (British comedy doesn’t work for me – well, really, none does. Except maybe for

    (British comedy doesn’t work for me – well, really, none does. Except maybe for Dennis Milller. But in sarcasm it’s elegant And in the insults department, it’s a treasure trove of wit.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 08:42:00 UTC

  • The fact that the analytic movement in philosophy was a dead end, and that I’m c

    The fact that the analytic movement in philosophy was a dead end, and that I’m criticizing mathematics on constructivist grounds is really the same criticism: there isn’t enough information there to say what you are saying about it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 02:06:00 UTC

  • Propertarian and Testimonial arguments are a bit like math or programming in tha

    Propertarian and Testimonial arguments are a bit like math or programming in that it’s really helpful to have pencil and paper (or keyboard and screen) because youre really trying to construct a proof, and it’s pretty hard to do off the top of your head.

    Proofs are symbolically wordy things. Programs are wordy things, propertarian and testimonial arguments are wordy things, and contracts are wordy things. All for the same reason: testability and operation construction.

    So if it’s hard, its understandable.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 02:04:00 UTC