Curt Doolittle

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  • Had to miss the space conference on the isle of man this weekend. Sadly. Best wi

    Had to miss the space conference on the isle of man this weekend. Sadly. Best wishes to my friends who could make it a success. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-10 21:49:00 UTC

  • is no “we” in USA. The USA is not a superpower country it is an empire in declin

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/155585/americans-confidence-television-news-drops-new-low.aspxThere is no “we” in USA.

    The USA is not a superpower country it is an empire in decline.

    These numbers as well as the loss of confidence in the government are reflections of the loss of common purpose, and the insufficiency of shared reality.

    There is no “we”.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-10 18:07:00 UTC

  • people are almost always members of the middle class who build businesses and ma

    http://business.time.com/2012/07/05/how-the-rich-got-rich/Wealthy people are almost always members of the middle class who build businesses and make windfalls from capital gains when they sell all or part of them.

    Very few people are at the top for more than one or two years. Those that are, are insignificant outliers.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-05 14:09:00 UTC

  • AQUANTIVE BUST At the time, I viewed it as an act of executive desperation. It w

    http://business.time.com/2012/07/03/microsoft-writes-off-most-of-its-2007-6-3b-ad-business-bet/MICROSOFT’S AQUANTIVE BUST

    At the time, I viewed it as an act of executive desperation. It was.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-05 05:38:00 UTC

  • Question: From the GSH perspective, does a woman have the right to bear a child

    Question: From the GSH perspective, does a woman have the right to bear a child that she cannot support, thus mandating transfers, and sacrifices, from others to her? The reason I ask is that while protestant christianity certainly contains content that is absurd, the effect of its “chinese room” (see Searle) is a prohibition on involuntary transfers, and a requirement for responsible independence. Democratic Secular Humanism appears rational, but encourages involuntary transfers. Christianity implies inequality is natural. DSH advocates (at least statistically) believe that humans are equal. So, there is madness on both sides. Or, would you suggest DSH as a political movement is separate from GSH as a personal philosophical movement?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-04 09:01:00 UTC

  • WATCH See? It’s not just me. Williamson weighs in and calls krugman a self promo

    http://newmonetarism.blogspot.ca/2012/07/macroeconomic-thought-is-driven-by.html?m=1KRUGMAN WATCH

    See? It’s not just me. Williamson weighs in and calls krugman a self promoter that demonizes straw men.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-01 15:15:00 UTC

  • “The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The g

    “The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.”

    THERE IS NO WE. AN EMPIRE IS NOT A NATION.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-30 09:38:00 UTC

  • BELONGING We want to belong to the group. Some of us less or more than others. B

    BELONGING

    We want to belong to the group. Some of us less or more than others. But few of us want to ostracized from it.

    We can that sense of belonging through empathy if we are similar, and duty if we are not. Empathy through shared interpretation. Duty through shared action in pursuit of mutually beneficial ends.

    Women vary less. They sense more. At least, on average, they tend to belong through empathy. Men vary more. They sense less. They are action rather than perception oriented.

    Dominance is the corollary of empathy. We must learn to use our dominance against the physical world, and in defense of life and property, and not as a means of self expression or control of others.

    Misused empathy is just as dangerous as misused dominance. The damage we have done to the world by our supposedly charitable activities is as great as the damage we have done by war.

    We have lost the ancient understanding of our dual natures.

    To cohabitate and to cooperate politically we must master both empathy and dominance in relation to how we possess them.

    And in doing so create belonging by both empathy and duty.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-30 07:04:00 UTC

  • BEING SICK IS NOT GOOD FOR ONE’S WRITING I haven’t produced anything substantial

    BEING SICK IS NOT GOOD FOR ONE’S WRITING

    I haven’t produced anything substantial in the past two weeks. Thank god I’m getting closer to getting it under control. I can understand a novelist or a poet still trudging onward, but philosophy is just too steep a hill to climb when your head doesn’t want to cooperate.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-29 10:09:00 UTC

  • WE GRANT OUR VIOLENCE TO THE STATE IN EXCHANGE FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS And should th

    WE GRANT OUR VIOLENCE TO THE STATE IN EXCHANGE FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS

    And should the state no longer preserve those rights, we may deem the contract broken, and put our violence to other uses that will obtain us those rights.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-28 15:17:00 UTC