Curt Doolittle

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  • THE FRAGILITY OF CURRENT STOIC RESTORATION MOVEMENT —“Curt, it looks like the

    THE FRAGILITY OF CURRENT STOIC RESTORATION MOVEMENT

    —“Curt, it looks like the Daily Stoic has taken a Left Turn. Can you take a look?”—

    One of my followers has complained about what she perceived as a ‘turn to the left’ by the Daily Stoic. She asked if I would investigate, since I am advocating the restoration of stoicism as required education – a restoration of our ancient personal religion so to speak.

    My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because they already practice the habits under indirect guise. Their interest and mine is political, economic, and evolutionary. The cognitive discipline (habits) Stoicism provides, produces superior polities.

    Those polities are superior because they are less dependent upon falsehoods to govern. So the direction of the Stoic Restoration has more than trivial importance to me, and to them.

    But what troubles me when I survey your (collective) approach, which is the imbalance between defensive self help and detachment – the trap fallen into by the Buddhists – and disciplined self-authoring in the excellences (‘virtues’), and in achieving one’s life’s goals (change).

    In other words, without the COMPETITION between rational distance from your emotions, and pursuit of achievements in life, all one does is recreate abrahamic and buddhist detachment from reality. This produces no excellences, only defenses – submission to circumstance.

    Western civilization was unique in that we developed Heroism, Individual Sovereignty, Truth and Duty, The Natural Law (of tort), and Markets in all aspects of personal, academic, intellectual, commercial, civic, and political life – avoiding theocratic or bureaucratic monopoly.

    It was this set of traits that allowed us to develop all the paradigms (disciplines) all of which were united only by those few criteria above. This meant that law > jury > reason > empiricism > science > technology > medicine could evolve …

    … and with them we could – in the ancient and modern if not medieval worlds – drag mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, child mortality, early death, tyranny, and the victimization by uncaring nature.

    The means by which we achieved all of this was competition (markets). And the means by which the stoic virtues can be achieved without causing the same catastrophe that reverses the western achievement, is by both increased independence from our animal intuitions, and …

    … application of that mind, emotions, and body, freed of those limits, to achieve the heroic at whatever scale of heroism the individual is able – no matter how large or small. To make the most of the one life we have available to us, in a manner must desirable to us.

    Leaving this competition between unsaid, is to leave stoicism incomplete. And to fall into the errors we have seen in prior eras, which slowly cause a people to descend into what is emotionally comforting but in demonstration of consequence indifferent from nihilism.

    In Sincerity and With Affection

    Curt Doolittle,

    The Propertarian Institute.

    ( From twitter stream: https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1068232096496390144)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 14:55:00 UTC

  • “Aren’t the Meds the founders of western civ?”—Dominic Leyva Well, it’s the Ya

    —“Aren’t the Meds the founders of western civ?”—Dominic Leyva

    Well, it’s the Yamna east, and corded ware west that founded western civilization’s uniqueness. It’s the greeks and romans that produced it’s scale. Whether the greeks were european is still in dispute. Itals (romans) are danubian (germanic). we still don’t know if the greek aristocracy was european, old european, or anatolian. (north south, or east west). There aren’t enough bodies for DNA yet, and the bodies we do have are all from outside the aristocratic classes. We need a few tombs or burians with DNA. The greeks, like the hittites appear to be european in social organization, language, and religions. Whether they were blue eyed and fair hair or brown eyed and black haired is only discernible from the literature, not from DNA yet. I suspect that the hellenes were europeans that invaded causing the bronze age collapse, or invaded to take advantage of the bronze age collapse.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:33:00 UTC

  • “Emotions are a tool. The skill of their use can be developed like any other ski

    —“Emotions are a tool. The skill of their use can be developed like any other skill or it can be neglected. Don’t blame the tool for a user’s lack of skill.”—Luke Weinhagen

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:29:00 UTC

  • Anglos had Thought Right. Germans had Man right. Russians had Others right. Fren

    Anglos had Thought Right.

    Germans had Man right.

    Russians had Others right.

    French had everything wrong.

    Ashkenazi had malicious intent.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:20:00 UTC

  • by Bill Joslin “The commons” was initially used (or at least at the time of corp

    by Bill Joslin

    “The commons” was initially used (or at least at the time of corporatism in Germany) to mean the people. We are a product of the commons and a part of the commons – the primary part – the core.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:18:00 UTC

  • “We are men, we do not live in the world of lies.”— Anonymous SAS Officer Conv

    —“We are men, we do not live in the world of lies.”— Anonymous SAS Officer

    Conversely, those who live in a world of lies, are not men.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:17:00 UTC

  • ART: THE CRAFTING OF THE COMMONS (updated) (Information Association) 1. Craftsma

    ART: THE CRAFTING OF THE COMMONS

    (updated) (Information Association)

    1. Craftsmanship (Craft) (Physical information)

    … Materials

    … Technology

    … Skill

    2. Design (Design) (Sensory information)

    … Pattern (Sensory Aesthetics, Order)

    … Depth (Complexity, Hand of man)

    … Decoration (form vs function)

    3. Content (Art) (Meaningful information)

    … Capturing

    … … Utility vs

    … … the Experience, vs

    … … the Moment, Time, or Era (good and bad) vs

    … … the Culture or Civilization, (good and bad) vs

    … … the Eternal Condition of Mankind

    … ie: Value Judgements

    And

    4. Beauty (The Presence of Resources)

    … Intention to Make Art (Investment in the commons)

    … Hand (Time) of Man, Degree of Investment

    … Scale (decoration to monument)

    … Innovation (Mastery)

    … Scarcity, Uniqueness, “One-ness”.

    … Signal Value

    And

    Measurement by Triangulation

    And

    … Literature

    … The Play

    … Movies

    … Music

    … Crafts

    … Fashion (technically a craft)

    … Painting, Print, (2d)

    … Sculpture, (3d)

    … Architecture (4d)

    … Monuments (5d)

    And

    … You. You and your experiences.

    Like reading text, the content you experience is a combination of your memories, with the art. ( Opera is an acquired taste. )

    —“Is this a breakdown of why art is not merely subjective?”—

    Yes. Like many things our ‘taste’ consists of personal associations (subjective) to objective measures. We can measure the quality of art. “Your taste is a measure of you, not art.” So like vocabulary, or manners, or style, or other opinion, we retain some constant values, but learn to improve our taste: a skill.

    PHYSICS IN EVERYTHING = ECONOMICS IN EVERYTHING

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:14:00 UTC

  • “Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—G

    —“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—Georg Ios

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:10:00 UTC

  • Religion is just law … in fictional form. DEFLATION: Literature, History, Phil

    Religion is just law … in fictional form.

    DEFLATION: Literature, History, Philosophy, Economics, Law, Science, and Mathematics

    -vs-

    CONFLATION: Semitic Religion.

    There is nothing in the law that cannot be taught by deflationary means (truthfully) rather than conflationary means (untruthfully).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:08:00 UTC

  • (You cannot imagine what it means to me to spend so many years on this work and

    (You cannot imagine what it means to me to spend so many years on this work and watch so many of you learn from it, benefit from it, master it, take it on and make it your own, and now, in some cases surpass me in it. Other than my children, nothing else has given me this degree of meaning in life. Building companies – especially the one company I am very proud of – lives on only in those people who spun off to create new businesses of their own; the work itself was merely plying a trade. But touching people’s lives in one way or another is more rewarding than all the wealth and recognition that comes from commercial achievement. So yeah, I love you all. Thanks for sharing the journey.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 12:30:00 UTC