Curt Doolittle

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  • What makes one a Christian is not what he believes but what he does not believe:

    What makes one a Christian is not what he believes but what he does not believe: other majority religions.

    What makes one a member of the right is that he does not believe in the moral claims of the left.

    NRX does not believe that democracy is possible.

    The alt right does not believe that reconciliation or compromise is possible.

    In my work I do not believe that anarchy is possible, that the institutions of the past are recoverable, or that consensus building is possible without escalation to insurrection.

    Everything positive one advocates or believes is a mere theory among bedfellows of disbelief.

    The particular dream we each have is irrelevant. It is that which we no longer believe is possible that forms these movements.

    Why?

    A lack of innovative solutions.

    People diversify and embrace the questionable for the simple reason that they have nothing positive to rally around.

    Hence why we work on substantive solutions while the extremists rail at the heavens.

    So this criticism while true does not matter because it criticizes the obvious: desperate claims given the absence of achieve able goals.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 14:02:00 UTC

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  • (actually I’m jealous as hell about my time. I use every minute of it.)

    (actually I’m jealous as hell about my time. I use every minute of it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 10:17:00 UTC

  • (thoughts) A woman (or man) who is very ‘unpleasant’ to you is very difficult to

    (thoughts)

    A woman (or man) who is very ‘unpleasant’ to you is very difficult to ‘get over’. You don’t really realize that you’re effectively being terrorized, you just take life as what it is. Security outweighs the emotional hardship. The uncertain devil you don’t know is more fearful than the devil you know.

    I understand that I am an unstoppable force AND an immovable object. But I’m also extremely tolerant, and flexible. And that it has hurt the women I have left. And that you can still love someone very much – but have different goals the conflcit between which cannot be resolved. (two of my most precious relationships). And sometimes you just cannot make the other person safe enough to be happy (another relationship). And sometimes you are not enough for the other person (another relationship) and she/he leaves you.

    It is much easier to ‘get over’ those who you love and work well with, than those who you try to love and do not work well with, and those who you try desperately to work well with but terrorize you one way or another.

    It is one thing to miss someone who you enjoyed, and try shake off the memories of someone who made you stressed often. Some people never recover.

    The math is about right. It takes about a year per four years of relationship.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 08:19:00 UTC

  • REGARDING ANTI-WHITISM IN AMERICAN CINEMA —“..or they could do a movie about t

    REGARDING ANTI-WHITISM IN AMERICAN CINEMA

    —“..or they could do a movie about the 1st American slave owner, a black freeman named Anthony Johnson, but they don’t want to tell that part of American history.

    ..or tell how during the slave days, out of 28,000,000 white Americans, a small % of 1.4% approximately 350,000 very very rich white guys owned slaves, but, but approximately 3,500 free black men owned black slaves, some of them the richest, and the cruelest, but that story won’t be told either.

    Let’s totally ignore, even though at the time of slavery, the vast majority of white Americans did not own slaves, the vast majority of the 700,000 slaughtered to stop it in the Civil War were white, and poor.

    Black Africans, and even black Americans were 100% in hunting down blacks, delivering them to the beaches to sell to slave ships, ran by captains of all skin colors, blacks owned black slaves, sold black slaves, bred black slaves, and some of them even fought on the Confederate side to keep their black slaves.

    No, it is better for our Rich White masters that own, and run everything, keep us poor whites, and poor non-whites fighting each other, while we make them richer buying their movies.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 07:12:00 UTC

  • FEELINGS (worth repeating) (quotable) —“as far as feelings go, the truth of th

    FEELINGS

    (worth repeating) (quotable)

    —“as far as feelings go, the truth of them are perceived only over time and never in the moment. At a time of clarity, that is when an emotional response ‘runs clear’ because it has already been through several wave cycles, then truth can be perceived. The body senses truth, the conscious mind observes that process. The observed universe is male. The system is binary as far as I can tell. A 0 and 1. The 1 or male cannot be perceived without the female.”— Lesley Drabble

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 06:23:00 UTC

  • GOOD MUSIC? DEFINE GOOD? (worth repeading) Good music is judged like all good ar

    GOOD MUSIC? DEFINE GOOD?

    (worth repeading)

    Good music is judged like all good art: (a)craftsmanship(materials and processes), (b)design (aesthetic appeal), (c) symbolism.

    The more capital in each a,b,c, the better. The more durable the capital the better (the longer it remains in the vernacular)

    After all, that is what beauty means to mankind: the presence of resources.

    And especially if we add additional ‘resources’ by way of innovation (invention).

    Some works are well crafted, well designed, and symbolically immoral.

    Craftsmanship refers to dept and complexity.

    Aesthetics to the emotional associations it evokes through the use of properties of sound.

    Symbolism (meaning, content) refers to the narrative in correspondence with the other two.

    So deeply crafted, emotionally experiential, poetically deep.

    And in all three dimensions: inventive.

    I could compare a series of reasonably well known songs that use very simple techniques reliant upon just the voice, in increasing complexity. I would consider all of these songs objectively good, despite their range.

    Greensleves – Anon.

    Scarborough Fair – simon and garfunkle

    Hallelujia – jeff buckley

    Cursum Perficio – Enya

    Fiddle and Drum (a capella) – Perfect Circle

    O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) – Carl Orf.

    Hallelujia Corus – Handel

    We refer to these as hymns (ballads to god-nature) or ballads (hymns to love).

    In the pop genre we know how to create the ‘perfect song’, of which my favorite: “smells like teen spirit” is I think the current place holder. The staying power of Knickelback is that they have systematized if not industrialized the process of producing this category of songs.

    Lets take another series and explore the border between hymn and anthem:

    Canon in D minor – Pachelbel.

    Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

    Sober by Tool.

    Passive by Perfect Circle.

    ( could go on forever here )

    Most of the history of rock consists of Coming of Age Music (Celebration Music) – the joy of opportunity.

    Strangely it’s hard to find a lot of great stuff in there.

    I mean, we can go thru every movement in music and do the same. And yes, I like chick pop also. I just understand that it’s novelty, not art.

    It’s hard to Beat bach, but Mozart and Beethoven are still more popular. Why? Applied to joy and celebration rather than to … you know. That churchy stuff.

    It is hard sometimes to separate a great VOICE or a great RECORDING, from great music. The usual example is one of my favorite recordings: Gimme’ Shelter, which is really a great recording but you can’t really repeat the experience again. And any number of female vocalists can sing anything, and its beautiful because they have a great voice, but it is not the music that matters so much as their production of it.

    I have a thing for the voice, key, harmony, tempo, volume changes, and the use of silence. Possibly because I was in Chorus through I think 6th grade or so. And because of singing in church. But my taste dissipates rapidly without them, so a lot of dance/house rap music is uninteresting tom me while interesting to some other aficionados. I consider their work a technical investigation, but like the philosophy of language, a dead end.

    Most advancement in music over over the past 40 years has been happening in sound for film and video games. Not in popular music.

    I think that in retrospect we evolved new distribution models: phonograph/club, am radio/car, fm radio/stadium, videos/television, portable digital and spectacular film.

    And that as the quality of the recording and playback increased, so did the richness of the material. ie: 50s/60’s sounded good on shit equipment. 70’s/80’s a little better. We got to late seventies and they started to mix loud. WE got to punk and they started to vary volume, we got to nineties and they started to combine everything. And since then the movement has been in the great movies and gaming, not so much the consumer space – which has produced a set of race-class-driven formulas for the satisfation of identities. And it’s not really collectively innovative any longer.

    I suggest, operationally speaking, the era of ‘unity’ that we saw under the advent of the universalist movements made possible by mass media, will break into mini-markets and stay that way.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukriane

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 05:24:00 UTC

  • ELI STATES LOVE USING TESTIMONIALISM —“I love you” means “I promise that if yo

    ELI STATES LOVE USING TESTIMONIALISM

    —“I love you” means “I promise that if you test the hypothesis that my happiness depends on your own, against my actions, that you will not find it untrue.”— Eli Harman

    priceless.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 04:16:00 UTC

  • ELI EXPLAINS THE CHALLENGE IN DESCRIBING LOVE (worth repeating) —“Love (noun)

    ELI EXPLAINS THE CHALLENGE IN DESCRIBING LOVE

    (worth repeating)

    —“Love (noun) refers to the condition in which one’s happiness depends on another’s. And therefore to love (verb) must mean to act in a manner consistent with this condition prevailing. If we adopt these as our definitions, then it becomes obvious, upon cursory examination, that we can never accurately describe actual “love” (either the noun or the verb) as either universal or unconditional for long.”— Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 03:29:00 UTC