Curt Doolittle

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  • LIKE ALL THINGS, THE COST OF TEACHING LIES INCLUDES THE UNSEEN AS WELL AS THE SE

    LIKE ALL THINGS, THE COST OF TEACHING LIES INCLUDES THE UNSEEN AS WELL AS THE SEEN.

    I wonder what would happen to boy’s performance in school if we stopped forcing them to memorize, and telling them lies, and instead forced them to repeatedly solve model-problems, and taught them the truth?

    Sure, girls mature faster than we do, are more interested in pleasing others, are more verbally inclined, and more comfortable sitting still. Sure, boys mature more slowly, are less interested in pleasing as they are discovering limits, are more spatio-physically inclined and it appears that they are brain damaged by sitting still so much.

    In other words, *boys are more expensive to teach*.

    But, when we account for outcomes, what is the cost of teaching obeyance, lies, memorization, and sitting still, compared to the cost of teaching how to form hunting parties, the truth of the word, learning by doing, and engaging in action.

    We all know the answer intuitively – that we have made our western aristocracy into scribes and water-carriers for a deceitful priesthood conducting a genetic, cultural, and territorial war under the ruse of ‘care’ – when it’s just dysgenics warfare.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-26 03:25:00 UTC

  • THE ACADEMY ISN’T A GOOD FILTER Many revolutionary thinkers in history have not

    THE ACADEMY ISN’T A GOOD FILTER

    Many revolutionary thinkers in history have not written from inside the academy. Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hume, Marx, Rousseau, Darwin, Spencer. Sure Aristotle, Plato, Smith, Kant. But the issue is one of time to write not occupation. It’s just that teaching makes it a bit easier to make time for writing.

    I regret not joining the philosophy department but I kind of doubt I would have come to these conclusions from within the discipline.

    Maybe others. But not these.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 14:58:00 UTC

  • IRONY Steve Schneider just pointed out the irony that Marx wrote in the British

    IRONY

    Steve Schneider just pointed out the irony that Marx wrote in the British museum and I write in Ukrainian coffee shops. There is something ironic in that reversal.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 14:48:00 UTC

  • We have finally lost our guilt and regained our confidence. The postwar era is o

    We have finally lost our guilt and regained our confidence.

    The postwar era is over.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 14:27:00 UTC

  • 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

  • INTELLECTUALS ARE WRONG MORE THAN THE COMMON MAN FOR A REASON When we combine an

    INTELLECTUALS ARE WRONG MORE THAN THE COMMON MAN FOR A REASON

    When we combine anchoring, with intellectual investment, with the status benefits, and with the high cost of changing frames, it’s not rational to expect intellectuals to act otherwise.

    What we find is this: intellectuals who specialize in very narrow domains and are current with the data tend to be very good. Whenever intellectuals try to work on generalizations it at least appears that we do better asking people on the street.

    this is why economists supposedly disagree: most economic knowledge of any discreet topic is almost always counter-intuitive. So if you ask a thousand economists a question you will get terrible results, but if you as the top 12 in any niche you will get awesome results.

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

  • QUESTION: Why is the quality of argument going up so much of late? Have we got p

    QUESTION: Why is the quality of argument going up so much of late? Have we got past the point where it’s just me and Eli? Is it that enough people have had enough experience that it’s affecting their thinking? Are we attracting more better people? Is it that individual confidence in the change of state of the world over the past six months means we argue more rationally and with more confidence and with less desperate emotion? What’s going on?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 13:15:00 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

  • Intelligence is like happy families and domesticatable animals: a lot of things

    Intelligence is like happy families and domesticatable animals: a lot of things have to go right, and a lot of things can’t go wrong. That’s why intelligence is a difficult property to breed for.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 10:27:00 UTC

  • NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS My reading list is at www.propertarianism.com/reading-

    http://www.propertarianism.com/reading-listFOR NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS

    My reading list is at www.propertarianism.com/reading-list

    My glossary (which admittedly lags a bit) is at www.propertarianism.com/glossary

    Our librarian Ramsey Mekdaschi keeps most of it in digital form for people who register with the web site.

    (Yes if you know of something I’ve probably read it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 10:12:00 UTC