Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Only Landed People Create Monuments and Art

    UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM


    [C]alifornia. A very desirable geography. The best other than France. In both cases the geography is a natural resource exploitable by the state.


    As I said to Ron Manners: natural resources make you a slave because States must defend them. Diasporic peoples avoid these high costs at the expense of permanent insecurity. The golden mean (happy median) is Liberty – prevention of the state while also holding land.

    Only landed people create monuments and art.   And Europe is a vast, open air museum. 

  • Exorcising Guilt Over Cultural Criticism


    [Y]ou know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a bunch of cattle-raiders produced by accident of telling the truth out of martial need, and then greedily protecting their well earned sovereignty by a division of responsibility and fear of authority instead of falling into the ‘civilization trap’ of ‘efficient organization’ that is anything but efficient.


    Germans mostly get it right, but invented a new way to lie. Anglos really did get it wrong, but did it without lying. I won’t mention the french and the jews for obvious reasons. The Chinese do what works for them, although breaking up china would be the best thing that ever happened to the world – Mao was wrong. And breaking up India is the only way to fix corruption.
    The only thing scale does is allow you to conduct war.


    Reversing the Warfare State by converting to small countries with nuclear weapons solves a lot of problems.

  • Exorcising Guilt Over Cultural Criticism


    [Y]ou know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a bunch of cattle-raiders produced by accident of telling the truth out of martial need, and then greedily protecting their well earned sovereignty by a division of responsibility and fear of authority instead of falling into the ‘civilization trap’ of ‘efficient organization’ that is anything but efficient.


    Germans mostly get it right, but invented a new way to lie. Anglos really did get it wrong, but did it without lying. I won’t mention the french and the jews for obvious reasons. The Chinese do what works for them, although breaking up china would be the best thing that ever happened to the world – Mao was wrong. And breaking up India is the only way to fix corruption.
    The only thing scale does is allow you to conduct war.


    Reversing the Warfare State by converting to small countries with nuclear weapons solves a lot of problems.

  • Propertarianism Doesn’t Require Cunning – Just Effort and Honesty

    [P]ropertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning.

    Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t.

    Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive strategies we demonstrate, and the different group evolutionary strategies we demonstrate, you can pretty much explain all human political activity.

    And this is different from the physical sciences in the sense that we don’t know the first principles of the universe, but we do know the first principles of man: acquire, defend, cooperate, divide labor, develop information systems for extending cooperation – and justify our reproductive strategies constantly for the purpose of negotiating our cooperation.

    Man is simple it turns out.

  • Propertarianism Doesn’t Require Cunning – Just Effort and Honesty

    [P]ropertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning.

    Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t.

    Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive strategies we demonstrate, and the different group evolutionary strategies we demonstrate, you can pretty much explain all human political activity.

    And this is different from the physical sciences in the sense that we don’t know the first principles of the universe, but we do know the first principles of man: acquire, defend, cooperate, divide labor, develop information systems for extending cooperation – and justify our reproductive strategies constantly for the purpose of negotiating our cooperation.

    Man is simple it turns out.

  • Looking Into The Future: Doolittle, Haidt, Hawkins, Dennett

    [W]illiam L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it.

    I think if you watch Hawkin’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see the future : we act more like a set of hives than the individually rational actors proposed by the greeks and the enlightenment.

    Doolittle
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNg4NpDTxM

    Haidt
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

    Hawkins
    http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing

    Dennett
    http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness?language=en

  • Looking Into The Future: Doolittle, Haidt, Hawkins, Dennett

    [W]illiam L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it.

    I think if you watch Hawkin’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see the future : we act more like a set of hives than the individually rational actors proposed by the greeks and the enlightenment.

    Doolittle
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNg4NpDTxM

    Haidt
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

    Hawkins
    http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing

    Dennett
    http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness?language=en

  • Why Do White People Have Cargo?

    [A] lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by Jews, Asians and Blacks in particular. But I have a lot of options within my tribe. So it’s an outlier condition. But it begs the question: Why don’t others have so many options within their tribes? Why isn’t opportunity in white organizations an outlier?

    Or as Yali ((Guns Germs and Steel)) asked: why do white people have cargo?


    Note: The answer is “Trust”.

  • Why Do White People Have Cargo?

    [A] lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by Jews, Asians and Blacks in particular. But I have a lot of options within my tribe. So it’s an outlier condition. But it begs the question: Why don’t others have so many options within their tribes? Why isn’t opportunity in white organizations an outlier?

    Or as Yali ((Guns Germs and Steel)) asked: why do white people have cargo?


    Note: The answer is “Trust”.

  • CULTURAL CRITICISM – EXERCISING GUILT You know I feel guilty criticizing culture

    CULTURAL CRITICISM – EXERCISING GUILT

    You know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a bunch of cattle-raiders produced by accident of telling the truth out of martial need, and then greedily protecting their well earned sovereignty by a division of responsibility and fear of authority instead of falling into the ‘civilization trap’ of ‘efficient organization’ that is anything but efficient.

    Germans mostly get it right, but invented a new way to lie. Anglos really did get it wrong, but did it without lying. I won’t mention the french and the jews for obvious reasons. The Chinese do what works for them, although breaking up china would be the best thing that ever happened to the world – Mao was wrong. And breaking up India is the only way to fix corruption.

    The only thing scale does is allow you to conduct war.

    Small countries with nuclear weapons solves a lot of problems.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 14:09:00 UTC