Curt Doolittle

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  • People define the word philosophy differently: My first year of college my philo

    —People define the word philosophy differently: My first year of college my philosophy professor defined it as “the rational appropriation of conscious subjectivity.” Would you comment on this definition?”—Joe Cooley

    1) Philosophy consists of the act of REASONING by attempting to produce paradigms (sets of constant relations) of understanding (decidability) in the absence of sufficient measurements (observations) to do so, because of logical(cognitive) and physical(human scale) and technological(mechanical and logical), and economic (cost) limitations. For this reason, all disciplines started as branches of philosophy until they evolved into sciences (measurements) consisting of constant relations in paradigms(networks).

    2) We create WISDOM LITERATURES using Mythology(supernormal), Literature (fiction), History, Science, Mathematics, and produce at least the following by conflation:

    ( a ) Religion: (Emotional) false history, fictional literature, pseudoscience, occult, and fictional law (fictions)

    ( b ) Philosophy: (Verbal) Sophisms (arguments)

    ( c ) Pseudoscience and Practical Knowledge (utilities):

    Note the Physical>Emotional>Intellectual(verbal) scope of those literatures, and the fictional means we have created to claim pretense of knowledge using them.

    3) While Aristotle began with a hierarchy of categories by which to divide knowledge – the categories of philosophy we still used – he lacked knowledge of how to do better than he did. Today we can include metaphysics(grammars), psychology(aesthetics), sociology(ethics), the sciences(epistemology), testimony(speech), law(cooperation), economics(production), politics(commons), group strategy(competition/evolution).

    Note that Socrates practiced Criticism(Critique), Plato practiced Justification(Pilpul), only Aristotle Practiced Testimony (due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit).

    4) As far as I know I’ve completed Testimony (epistemology) by converting it to a science (truth) – although we must wait a few decades to see if I’m correct (its very very unlikely that I err). That means that all measurement (“Truth”) is now a question of the sciences. That means that philosophy now consists of the study of CHOICE. Not the true, but the MEANINGFUL, PREFERABLE and the GOOD.

    5) Until we solved the problem of epistemology, we lack a most parsimonious paradigm (truth) – meaning a set of constant relations across the entire spectrum of knowledge from the physical, to the emotional to the intellectual, and could not separate philosophy into truth, good, preference, and meaning. There is only one most parsimonious paradigm (truth) but there are an infinite number of paradigms that provide us understanding(meaning), preference(choice), and good (collective).

    So the domain of philosophy is at present – if not always – the use of fragmentary information in kaleidic (unpredictable) time, to reason out paradigms (networks of constant relations) that help us understand (Meaningful), how to choose how to achieve the Preferable and the Good.

    As such philosophy, as meaning, preference, and good, like creativity, will never end.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 14:00:00 UTC

  • KEYNES, MARX VS CLASSICAL: THE ART OF LYING Once you look at his notes, and unde

    KEYNES, MARX VS CLASSICAL: THE ART OF LYING

    Once you look at his notes, and understand Keynes converted Marx’s ‘dialectic’ (sophism) into Keynesian ‘innumeracy’ (ludic fallacy), you suspect his malincentives.

    But once you learn Rule of Law(Classical) vs Arbitrary Rule (Keynes), you realize that pseudoscience (Marx) and innumeracy (Keynes) are the only two methods by which to distract you from the underlying conflict: Rule of Law and Arbitrary Rule. Just as the marxists and the postmoderns have distracted us with Capitalism (Rule of Law) versus Socialism (Arbitrary Rule). The success of the Keynesian method is predicated on dialectic (loading, framing, and obscuring) rather than measurement.

    Why? What capital (that which we forgo opportunities or expend the results of opportunities to) invest in. So what Keynesianism achieves by innumeracy (fraud) is what Marx achieves by dialectic (sophism): the intentional distraction from the measurement of changes in capital to the measurement of the results of the consumption of it: including genetic, normative, traditional, knowledge, and institutional capital. And why did we (Hayek and others) fail?

    Because under democracy one cannot stop the mob from raiding the accumulated capital of millennia, nor the pseudo-intellectual class, and the political class from profiting from the sale.

    The Chicago school attempted to preserve rule of law and markets but the left has been too successful, the economists too well rewarded, and the financial industry, academy, and the state too well rewarded for doing so.

    Hence why Athens spent all the silver from the mine they discovered; and why Spain spent all the gold it took from the new world in failed wars against the Netherlands; and why Americans spent all the income from conquest of a continent and selling it off to genetic middle classes from Europe. … Until they ran out of middle classes.

    SOPHISM IS EVERYWHERE.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 13:35:00 UTC

  • (repost) Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to comm

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    Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost.

    Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes.

    For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption.

    So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital.

    In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 12:47:00 UTC

  • TWO FALSEHOODS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT – SO TO SPEAK. TERM INFLATION (LOADING AND FRA

    TWO FALSEHOODS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT – SO TO SPEAK. TERM INFLATION (LOADING AND FRAMING) IS JUST FALSEHOOD

    (Wiki blocked me for this comment. Stating that I’m trying to downplay the misrepresentation, rather than simply do my ordinary job of correcting ALL such misrepresentations)

    I specialize in Testimony (particularly scientific testimony), and so I’m sensitive to misrepresentation by term inflation (Loading and Framing).

    Misrepresentation: 1-Forgery(crime), 2-Counterfeit(Crime), 3-Fraud(crime), 4-Hoax(Attention Seeking or Practical Joke), 5-Fictionalism(pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, supernatural) 6-Propaganda(Loading, Framing, Obscuring), 7-Fiction(Entertaining Inflation or ‘Gossip’)

    – A Forgery must misrepresent authorship of for the purpose of profiting from the premium in an exchange due to that authorship.

    – A Counterfeit must misrepresent it’s identity (trademark, weight and measure) for the purpose of obtaining a premium on its exchange.

    – A Fraud must misrepresent information by word, act or implication for the purpose of profiting from an exchange.

    – A Hoax must create physical misrepresentation by suggestion for the purpose of gathering attention (marketing), providing entertainment, or humor (practical joke).

    – A Fictionalism must make use of pseudoscience (failure of due diligence) or magic, idealism or sophistry, and/or the supernatural or occult.

    – Propaganda must provide information of a biased or misleading nature, to promote or publicize a political objective.

    – A Deceit (“deceit or gossip”) must used to load, frame, suggest, or obscure causality for the purpose of avoiding or creating harm.

    – A Fiction must only entertain by coloring the information without necessarily engaging in deception.

    For example:

    – Michelangelo began his sculpting career by misrepresenting his early marble sculpture, Sleeping Eros as a Roman original so he could sell it at a premium – first by burying it and then digging up and ‘discovering’ – That was a Forgery.

    – Alves Dos Reis forged a contract from the Banco de Portugal so that he could acquire banknotes from official printers – meaning his notes were identical to the state’s. That was a Forgery followed by Counterfeiting.

    – Feed the Children and Bernie Madoff. People donated money to this religious organization with the intention of helping starving children, but it was privatized. People gave money to Bernie Madoff to invest but he create created the biggest pyramid scheme in history. These are famous frauds but not counterfeiting, or Forgery or Hoaxes.

    – The Voynich Manuscript was produced (as far as we know) as a Hoax or a Fraud – but not propaganda or fiction.

    – The Protocols of Zion are clearly a Hoax, and clearly Propaganda – and the most currently famous.

    – The vast body of mathematics is constructed upon mathematical idealism (platonism) in which some mathematical reality exists. This is a bad habit held over from antiquity, whereas all of mathematics (measurement by positional names) consists of correspondence and a small number of rudimentary operations. That a Fictionalism.

    – The founding books of the three abrahamic religions are both propaganda and fictions – and the most universal.

    – Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead is a fictional account attributed to Ibn Fadlan – it is a fiction(entertainment), but not propaganda, hoax, or fraud.

    – History and Record: out of necessity, histories and records are constructed by framing the complex so that it is comprehensible.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 12:44:00 UTC

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. PUTIN: BORDERS, RELIGION(Tradition), MESSIANI

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    PUTIN: BORDERS, RELIGION(Tradition), MESSIANIC ROLE

    –“Putin assigned the following three books to Russia’s regional governors:

    1) The Philosophy of Inequality, by Nikolai Berdyaev

    2) The Justification of the Good, by Vladimir Solovyov

    3) Our Tasks, by Ivan Ilyin

    What is the common theme linking these works? The main message of these authors is Russia’s messianic role in world history, preservation and restoration of Russia’s historical borders and Orthodoxy.”—

    Of course, I agree with borders, role and tradition.

    Russia does not have western europe’s traditions so religion is more important there than here. We have superior traditions which is why we have superior trust. Unfortunately, while our ‘hundreds of years together’ have been catastrophic for both orthodox, catholic, protestant, and pagan (scientific-legalistic), russia has purged itself of (((foreign))) effect more so than the west has. Only because the germans failed.

    And only careful analysis exposes that germans were, in the turn of the century, on the verge of not only the second technical-industrial revolution, but on the verge of ridding western civilization of (((foreign))) influences both ancient (christian) and modern (cosmopolitan).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 11:54:37 UTC

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. We don’t need to increase our rates of reprod

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    We don’t need to increase our rates of reproduction so much as separate. Separation will provide the economic and cultural incentive to maintain population.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 11:31:06 UTC