Curt Doolittle

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  • Trying to understand the migration of indo European pronunciation to Balto-Slavi

    Trying to understand the migration of indo European pronunciation to Balto-Slavic to Slavic.

    How did they flip the vowel to the back like that?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 09:12:00 UTC

  • Moral authority to punish or kill speakers of untruths will be the most importan

    Moral authority to punish or kill speakers of untruths will be the most important reformation of religion since the protestant reformation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 08:02:00 UTC

  • My mother raised me properly. I am friendly. I am kind. I am generous. I am obse

    My mother raised me properly.

    I am friendly. I am kind. I am generous.

    I am observant. I compliment often.

    I try to be a gentleman. Chivalry lives.

    But, don’t be flattered,

    And no, I’m not flirting with you.

    I’m like this with everyone. Really.

    It just means my mother raised me properly.

    And, it demonstrates my status.

    Especially when you do not demonstrate yours. 😉

    Chivalry is not an appeal for attention.

    It’s a challenge to inferiors.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 06:18:00 UTC

  • Like a rose: Women are as beautiful. They smell as heavenly. They feel as soft a

    Like a rose:

    Women are as beautiful.

    They smell as heavenly.

    They feel as soft as the petals.

    But a man must be careful with them,

    beceause they have thorns.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 06:10:00 UTC

  • PSYCHOHISTORY vs NATURAL LAW and HUMAN LAW (reposted for archival purposes) Natu

    PSYCHOHISTORY vs NATURAL LAW and HUMAN LAW

    (reposted for archival purposes)

    Natural Law is that which is necessary for cooperation.

    But there are other Human Laws of behavior. Whether we categorize these as natural laws as well is a matter of demarcation for the purpose of clarity.

    I tend to avoid all psychologism, and I see psychohistory as damaged by freudianism.

    But the concept that there are regular laws or cycles to human behavior seems a fertile ground for Human Laws.

    I believe all these human laws can be expressed as property, acquisition, defense, and retaliation, and thereby escape the universalism, monopoly, and totalitarianism of freudian framing.

    As such I see the basis of what is called psychohistory as correctable and arguable as objective and distributed, rather than subjective and divergent from fallacious monopoly norms.

    When David introduced me to the subject I was only thinking in terms of incentives of each generation in the generational cycle.

    But we can combine human, cultural, generational, and technological incentives into a hierarchical set of dependencies that should at some point of precision produce a predictable (within limits) set of trends in human behavior.

    At present I think we are coalescing on the general theory that man’s behavior actually changes very little, that he adapts to incentives, and that all we have done is increase the information content of collective memory until we are able to produce general rules of action.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 04:35:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS A friend says to me yesterday “I begin to understand how d

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    A friend says to me yesterday “I begin to understand how different we are from Americans. You have time to think of silly things. … there are many crazy americans. We have no time here. We work to survive. We are always busy.”

    I say, “Yes, you are poor, but you still struggle. Americans have the luxury of time. Others have time but do not struggle. But I am not sure that your way is not better. People are not crazy and lonely here. Most americans by contrast seem crazy and lonely. And a lot of Japanese seem crazy and lonely. A lot of western europeans are crazy and lonely. Because wealth makes it possible to think ideologically rather than empirically – practically. This is why I am struggling with the question of redistribution and contribution to the commons. If all we buy is signals, and all we do with those signals is destroy mind, happiness and family, then how does that square with liberty?”

    America’s favorite sport is status signaling by political moralism. Ukrainian’s favorite sport is simple celebration with family and friends.

    I am sorry but these folk do it better. If they had better commons they would have a better world than we do. In no small part because they are homogenous as hell despite being from dozens of different balto-slavic-german tribes, they are one people.

    After 60k income (5K per month) you do not get happier. It’s just what it is. the rest is buying retirement, affording a house too expensive for the underclasses, and a car to insulate yourself from them within.

    So why don’t we just make it easier to insulate yourself from the underclasses? Would that increase tolerance for contribution to the commons?

    I think so. Evidence sure looks like it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-14 02:22:00 UTC

  • ABSOLUTELY GOLDEN —“Anyone can be “brothers” in the sense that they can make a

    ABSOLUTELY GOLDEN

    —“Anyone can be “brothers” in the sense that they can make a reciprocal exchange of kinship trust, and/or kinship altruism.

    But the less akin they actually are, the more difficult and costly it will be to authenticate, to certify, and to guarantee that this exchange is a worthwhile exchange to make, and so the less likely it is to occur.

    The purpose of “anti-racist” rhetoric is to force this transaction, either without reciprocity, or without warranty, so that it becomes, not an exchange, but a parasitic imposition”— Eli Harman

    You See. I don’t lay it out there. Eli Does. Beautifully. Damn.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-13 11:16:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-13 09:00:00 UTC

  • ( My next personal assistant is going to be male. Just gotta find the right guy.

    ( My next personal assistant is going to be male. Just gotta find the right guy. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-13 06:56:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHY = ADVERTISING AND MARKETING I dunno. If you say your a political phil

    PHILOSOPHY = ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

    I dunno. If you say your a political philosopher, I just assume you’re a crook. If you say your a political economist, then at least you’re starting from the right presupposition.

    The philosophy of the west is law: common law, natural law, physical law, oath, and testimony.

    Everything else is advertising and marketing.

    Seriously.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-13 06:49:00 UTC