Curt Doolittle

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  • THE OTHER GREEK INNOVATION: TRAGEDY —“Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tr

    THE OTHER GREEK INNOVATION: TRAGEDY

    —“Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into the abyss of human suffering and affirming it, passionately and joyously affirmed the meaning of their own existence. They knew themselves to be infinitely more than petty individuals, finding self-affirmation not in another life, not in a world to come, but in the terror and ecstasy alike celebrated in the performance of tragedies.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 13:10:00 UTC

  • WOTAN GIVES US A HARD HEART (worth repeating) “‘Wotan placed a hard heart in my

    WOTAN GIVES US A HARD HEART

    (worth repeating)

    “‘Wotan placed a hard heart in my breast,’ is what an old Scandinavian saga says: the poet who said this caught correctly what springs straight from the soul of a proud Viking. Such a type of man is proud of the very fact that he has not been made for compassion: which is why the hero of the saga adds in warning, ‘If a man does not have a hard heart when young, it will never harden’. The noble and the brave who think like this are the furthest from that morality that sees the badge of morality precisely in compassion or in doing things for others or in désintéressement; one’s faith in one’s self, one’s pride in one’s self, a basic animosity and irony towards ‘selflessness’ belongs just as definitely to noble morality as a mild contempt and wariness towards compassionate feelings and the ‘warm heart’”— Nietzsche, from the Genealogy of Morals.

    <thanks to Freyr Björnsson>

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 13:09:00 UTC

  • They Talk About Ideals, and We Talk About Reals – The Difference Is Costs – We A

    They Talk About Ideals, and We Talk About Reals – The Difference Is Costs – We Account for Costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 13:07:00 UTC

  • HEROISM AND COSTS by Luke Weinhagen Heroism is the application of virtue where t

    HEROISM AND COSTS

    by Luke Weinhagen

    Heroism is the application of virtue where that application has a potential direct cost to you.

    It is hard to train for directly because people interpret virtue so subjectively but training the foundation, overcoming inaction in the face of costs, is something anyone can do. Expose yourself to situation where you have a strong possibility to fail. Fail. Get back up.

    It is best if your parents do this for you as young as possible, but nowadays most parents don’t. So it is likely up to you.

    Find something you are motivated by (so you have a reason to get back up) that also offers you the likelihood of initial failure and overextend yourself into it (ideally not something that will kill you is you are just beginning to embrace failure).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 13:07:00 UTC

  • by Brandon Hayes Life is only suffering for those with no (low and developing) a

    by Brandon Hayes

    Life is only suffering for those with no (low and developing) agency. It’s the only frame that motivates them to face it (life; the suffering). One must have (develop) the capacity for heroism to withstand tragedy as a plausible noble outcome.

    The world “just happens” to those that lack real consciousness. Thus they can’t perceive the responsibility they must bear.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 12:14:00 UTC

  • PETERSON IS AN INDIVIDUALIST NOT SOVEREIGNTARIAN (a) Individual Sovereignty = In

    PETERSON IS AN INDIVIDUALIST NOT SOVEREIGNTARIAN

    (a) Individual Sovereignty = Individualism in LAW (in fact) not in ‘sentiment’ or ‘moralism’. Because only individuals can act.

    (b) The purpose of policy is the service of the INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY, and NOT the individual.

    This is the hole in Classical Liberalism, Liberalism and LIbertarianism, for the simple reason that “one man one vote’ meant ‘one family with property one vote’ or ‘one business man one vote’ or ‘one familial corporation one vote’, and not ‘ one individual without demonstrated ability to produce one vote’.

    The priority of western civilization was and if it is to survive, must consist, in the combination of individual normative heroism, individual legal sovereignty, and the policy that gives all possible advantages to each individual intergenerational family, in its production of individual sovereigns.

    The word “individualism” masks this difference.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 12:13:00 UTC

  • DRAGGING THROUGH THE SALES FUNNEL by Luke Weinhagen Our current parasite support

    DRAGGING THROUGH THE SALES FUNNEL

    by Luke Weinhagen

    Our current parasite supporting system turns this agency sales funnel into a tractor pull. Every step of the way you have to carry more a burden. You have to recognize the costs being imposed upon you by the parasites are there because you are allowing them to be. Right now the funnel is not for weak engines not the faint of heart. “Fuck it, let’s just impose it” becomes a relief.

    If we can get to where we can start to suppress the parasites, this funnel opens up to more and more people. We get to that wider audience.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 12:06:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR You know, it’s so much a part of my cognitio

    https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Approach-Human-Behavior/dp/0226041123THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR

    You know, it’s so much a part of my cognition that I forget to mention it. But this book framed my thinking about social science more so than any other. I think in the Becker model. Ostrom just helps with extending the Becker model into commons.

    The “minds” that I imitate (make use of constantly) are Becker, Hayek, Hoppe, Popper, Turing-Chomsky, (the outlier is Hoppe (property) which is what the rest are missing), with Jeff Hawkins’s work on intelligence ( already having come true), and Baron Cohen’s so obvious, it’s coming true daily in the research. The Nietzsche I rely on is Birth of Tragedy. Someone will skewer me for this but his fundamental insight was produce there, and all else is application of it. Step back to the beginning again, and grasp that I studied history, art history, and military history first before any of this, and the sequence of aggregate behavior down to neurological processing is a completely coherent and consistent series of ideas.

    https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Approach-Human-Behavior/dp/0226041123

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 11:56:00 UTC

  • JOHN MARK: MEASURING OTHERS’ PROGRESS IN THE JOURNEY That spectrum/journey is th

    JOHN MARK: MEASURING OTHERS’ PROGRESS IN THE JOURNEY

    That spectrum/journey is the journey from hope in the ability to teach/shame/influence people into acting in a responsible and beneficial (reciprocal) manner (in accordance with natural law), to realizing that only the law (violence or threat of it) can do that.

    Now that I see it, I see it everywhere. So often I see people saying things like “The solution is for people to realize that (xyz)…” or “The solution is we have to teach people that (xyz)…” I recognize instantly that they are not far enough along on the spectrum/journey. –John Mark

    — He’s Referring to this —

    THE ARISTOCRATIC (RESPONSIBILITY) SALES FUNNEL

    All of the people who start out edgy, tend to move back up the sales funnel (wider audience) because they perceive they are doing more good with wider reach, by driving more people into the sales funnel.

    Everyone has to move thu the ‘sales funnel’ from well meaning fool to man of agency.

    I did it and it sure seems like most other men do.

    “Nice Person” > Social Democracy > Classical Liberalism > Libertarianism > anarcho capitalism > Neo Reaction > Propertarianism > (some version of , fuck it, let’s just impose it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 11:40:00 UTC

  • I just want to thank my Patrons again. I don’t talk about it much. I am not real

    I just want to thank my Patrons again. I don’t talk about it much. I am not really trying to make an income stream out of it. But we do have some expenses here at the Institute and it matters.

    We prefer small monthly donations that you can maintain. it helps us commit to bearing regular costs.

    And again I want to thank Robert for paying the cost of removing ads from our website. (now if I can just get the time to do it.. lol)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 11:34:00 UTC