Curt Doolittle

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  • “CURT: HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND STOICISM?”— Well there are a number of implied que

    —“CURT: HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND STOICISM?”—

    Well there are a number of implied questions in there.

    1) Do you mean so that you understand why I say it is superior to religion for the purpose of building mindfulness?

    2) Do you want to learn how and why it functions scientifically?

    3) Do you want to improve your own view of life (very hard to imagine anyone who follows me has that kind of issue, but maybe)

    4) Do you want to solve a problem in your life or others?

    So, here is a series that takes you through the ‘Adult Version” from scientific through literary, to statistical.

    BOOK LIST

    SCIENTIFIC VIEW “Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy ” This is the closest book to the science of stoicism that I know of: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Psychotherapy/dp/1855757567

    CURATIVE (NEGATIVE) VIEW “Build Your Resistance” This takes the idea and puts it into practice: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Resilience-Survive-Situation/dp/1444168711/

    AMPLYFYING (POSITIVE) VIEW “A Guide to the Good Life” https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/0195374614

    BIOGRAPHICAL (EXAMPLE) VIEW: Everyone recommends reading The Meditations of Aurelius as EVIDENCE that a great and powerful man used the practice every day in his diary. The alternative to (or supplement to) reading his book is THINK LIKE A ROMAN EMPEROR: https://www.amazon.com/How-Think-Like-Roman-Emperor/dp/1250196620 which walks you thru the great man’s life and puts context to his writings. For me it was actually The Letters of Michel de Montaigne (a christianized jew) that gave me an intellectual role model. So I recommend that as well.

    POLITICAL VIEW: Same for Machiavelli’s “The Prince” which i consider the first book on political science precisely because it is a work of stoic mindfulness.

    STATISTICAL VIEW: While it isn’t positioned this way, both BLACK SWAN (Unpredictable Outliers are Far More Important Than Daily Noise) and ANTI-FRAGILE (“That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and stronger, and stronger”) are effectively works on Stoicism for smart people.

    ==== COMMENTARY ===

    So, if you’re a high-iq aspie you’re a stoic by nature. Why? Um. We don’t have all those social fears because we frankly can’t feel any of them. lol. And we kind of think they’re silly. However, we are often ‘ostracized’ when young and have to find out how to fit in. So we have the opposite problem. My family – at least on my mother’s side (french) is just naturally stoic. So my interest in stoicism is political, and because of that scientific.

    So, I can recommend books to normies, but for geeks who need the scientific approach (who are naturally predisposed to resist suggestion) it’s actually pretty hard find a book to recommend – because most stoic reading is framed as self help.

    Stoicism isn’t framed as “Hey, between stoicism and nature, hero, deity worship (‘thanks’), and public ritual and festival (safety in the pack or herd), this set of practices was the collective constitution of our ancient religion”. It’s just that we didn’t IMPOSE that religion as did the monotheists, and didn’t write it down as a LAW. Same for our entire philosophy of western civilization (which is what I have tried to do.)

    We didn’t say: “Military service, particularly in formations, requires you develop stoicism in order to survive and thrive under the stresses of it all”. So between the necessity of military mindfulness, and the utility of applying that mindfulness to the even more chaotic social order our aristocratic ancestors converted the techniques into a standard method of education. They didn’t call it religion but philosophy.

    So there are people who want self-help so that they can self author (Develop Mindfulness). And there are people who want to understand WHY self help (self authoring) serves the function of rational self training vs the rituals and myths of the supernatural in GROUP form.

    Stoicism consists of cognitive behavioral therapy in the negative sense, and simply education and training in the positive sense. I consider it ‘self authoring’. but that is because it is taught as an individual discipline rather than a ‘we’ as is religion. I find stoicism to be reducible to ‘don/t’ take it personally, Do your best, Tell the Truth. Keep your word’. The problem is that there are bigger human questions that we need mental defense against. Some people need a guide. Some people are self guided. Some people need to follow the herd as their guide. one way or the other CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) to discipline the mind (Train) works.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-24 14:29:00 UTC

  • NOT JUST DENSITY BUT COST OF DEFENSE OF COMMONS Does residential sorting explain

    https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.44PublishedIT’S NOT JUST DENSITY BUT COST OF DEFENSE OF COMMONS

    Does residential sorting explain geographic polarization?

    Gregory J. Martin (a1) and Steven W. Webster (a2)

    https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.44

    Abstract

    Political preferences in the United States are highly correlated with population density, at national, state, and metropolitan-area scales. Using new data from voter registration records, we assess the extent to which this pattern can be explained by geographic mobility. We find that the revealed preferences of voters who move from one residence to another correlate with partisan affiliation, though voters appear to be sorting on non-political neighborhood attributes that covary with partisan preferences rather than explicitly seeking politically congruent neighbors. But, critically, we demonstrate through a simulation study that the estimated partisan bias in moving choices is on the order of five times too small to sustain the current geographic polarization of preferences. We conclude that location must have some influence on political preference, rather than the other way around, and provide evidence in support of this theory.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-24 07:36:00 UTC

  • 800 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE LIST: Fourth Crusade(1200) > Aristotelian Restoratio

    800 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE LIST:

    Fourth Crusade(1200) > Aristotelian Restoration(1200-1500) > Literacy (1440)> Reformation (1517-1648) > Scientific Revolution 1543-1687) > French/German/Russian Enlightenment(Counter-Revolution)(1700-1800) > Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) > Darwinian Revolution (1850-1920) > Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Pre-Raphelites thru Nietzsche (Pagan Restoration) (1750-1900) With WW1/2 and the Jewish Counter-Enlightenment (Marx /Freud /Boas /Cantor /Frankfurt /Mises /Rand /Rothbard > French second counter-enlightenment (postmodernists).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 18:54:00 UTC

  • IT’S NOT JUST THE 19TH – HERE IS HOW THEY DESTROYED OUR CIVILIZATION BY DESTROYI

    IT’S NOT JUST THE 19TH – HERE IS HOW THEY DESTROYED OUR CIVILIZATION BY DESTROYING OUR UNIQUENESS: MERITOCRATIC, HIGH TRUST NORMS, LAWS, AND INSTITUTIONS.

    THIS IS HOW IT WAS DONE:

    They:

    1) increased the voting pool, then

    2) used immigration, to sink the pool, then

    3) used the sunk voting pool to stack the court (left), then

    4) funding selected cases before the courts to overthrow the constitution by legislation from the bench – what could not be achieved by pursuading the population to vote.

    5) Added women to the work force, then consumed all female generated taxes for redistribution, and forcibly redistributed middle class reproduction to the lower classes, underclasses, and third world immigrants.

    6) Using forced integration (immigration act), and then forced relocation (johnson,clinton,obama), and then unregulated immigration to undermine the high trust norms developed over centuries.

    7) This is before we address the financialization of the economy and the extraction of retirement and reproduction from the middle classes, or both spending down accumulated intergenerational capital, and borrowing against future production within the same (Boomer) generation.

    VOTING

    1 – *white single women are the only defectors from any group*

    2 – *if women had never had the vote, we never would have had a liberal president*

    3 – *women originally defended against marxism (male labor), but were converted by postmodernism (female labor)*

    4 – *white single women are the primary customers of the Postmodern Academy (pseudosciences and literature), Market Economy via Hyper Consumption of signals (70% of consumer spending), and Virtue Signaling (political) marketplaces.

    WHY IT MATTERS

    Without white women exclusively defecting, none of the cultural divisiveness would have occurred, and the end of western civilization as the only high trust policy outside of east asia – and the only civil society to survive.

    THE LEFT’S SCRIPT

    They followed the soviet script for moving low trust russians into baltic, eastern european and european high trust populations in order to undermine the high trust norms of europeans such that they would be obedient as Russians who had only been free of serfdom (slavery) for a generation, had no middle class, no middle class norms, and no traditions necessary for the voluntary organization of innovation, investment, production distribution and trade, thereby generating DEMAND FOR STATE CONTROL of every aspect of society.

    UNDERMINING THE AMENDMENTS

    The 14th (Federal Dominion over States)

    The 15th (Race color condition – eliminating segregation)

    The 17th (Senators by popular vote – eliminating state government power)

    The 19th (By Sex – eliminating the male-female compromise of the meritocracy of one family one vote )

    The 24th (By Poll Tax – eliminating even the lowest contribution and and property requirements)

    The 26th (By 18 yrs – eliminating all life experience requirements.)

    UNDERSTANDING THIS LIST OF ‘LEGISLATION FROM THE BENCH IN MATTERS OF NORMS’

    https://en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_landmark_court…

    AND IN PARTICULAR

    Brown v. Board of Education (1954) “Separate is not equal”

    Cooper v. Aaron (1958) Holding: States cannot nullify decisions of the federal courts.

    Engel v. Vitale (1962) Holding: School initiated-prayer in the public school system violates the First Amendment.

    Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) Holding: Colleges and universities have a legitimate interest in promoting diversity.

    New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) Holding: In order to prove libel, a public official must show that what was said against them was made with actual malice.

    Zelma v. Simmons-Harris (2002) Holding: Certain school voucher programs are constitutional.

    UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION:

    Who, on this earth, other than property owning western males, has the agency to preserve nomocracy (rule of law)? What evidence do we have that ANYONE ELSE has the agency to produce or preserve rule of law?

    NO ONE.

    AGENCY IS A SCARCITY AND ONLY WESTERN MAN PRODUCED IT. BECAUSE ONLY WESTERN MAN WAS REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE MERIT AND SPEAK THE TRUTH REGARDLESS OF THE COST TO THE DOMINANCE HIERARCHY.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 16:48:00 UTC

  • Just… just BARELY getting over the hump with understanding the relationship be

    Just… just BARELY getting over the hump with understanding the relationship between the people and the orthodox church vs the people and the catholic church, vs the protestant religion and each-other. So you know, when someone is religious in Orthodoxy (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia at least) it means something very different to them than it does to us in the west. So I don’t have the same ‘objection’ to their support as I do western use of the church as means of argument. in that sense western religious folk are more fundamentalist and eastern more traditionalist.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 16:05:00 UTC

  • Phrase Of The Day: —“Oak Tree Nationalism.”— Andrew Gribble (noose pike and

    Phrase Of The Day:

    —“Oak Tree Nationalism.”— Andrew Gribble

    (noose pike and pyre.)

    lolz 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 16:02:00 UTC

  • THE CHALLENGE OF ACTING AS PROSECUTOR —I may seem like kind of an asshole but

    THE CHALLENGE OF ACTING AS PROSECUTOR

    —I may seem like kind of an asshole but my REAL problem is generally not going hard enough. I give people too much benefit of the doubt. I give them too many chances. As a result. They hurt others.”— Ely Harman

    —“People confuse you being right with you being an asshole.”— Alba Rising

    We don’t need prosecutors to be nice. We need them to produce justice: Restitution, Correction, and Prevention.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 15:56:00 UTC

  • Nationalize a Majority Interest in Youtube, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, leavin

    Nationalize a Majority Interest in Youtube, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, leaving them to operate but operate within the same parameters as other UTILITIES.

    It’s gonna happen.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 15:42:00 UTC

  • ORIGINS OF MILITIA OBLIGATION ***The origins of military obligation in England a

    ORIGINS OF MILITIA OBLIGATION

    ***The origins of military obligation in England and can be traced to the ‘common burdens’ of the Anglo-Saxon period, among which was service in the fyrd, or army.***

    There is evidence that such an obligation existed in the Kingdom of Kent by the end of the 7th century, Mercia in the 8th century and Wessex in the 9th century, and the Burghal Hidage of 911–919 indicates that over 27,000 men could have been raised in the defence of 30 West Saxon boroughs. In the late 10th century, areas began to be divided into ‘hundreds’ as units for the fyrd. The obligation to serve was placed on landholders, and the Domesday Book indicates that individuals were expected to serve for approximately 60 days.

    The Norman conquest of England in 1066 brought with it a feudal system which also contained an element of military obligation in the form of the feudal host. This system supplemented rather than replaced the fyrd, which continued to be deployed until at least the beginning of the 12th century. The Assize of Arms of 1181 combined the two systems by dividing the free population into four categories according to wealth and prescribing the weapons each was to maintain. The first category corresponded to the feudal host, the next two corresponded to the old fyrd and the last to a general levy. The Statute of Winchester in 1285 introduced two more non-feudal categories to impose a general military obligation on all able-bodied males, including non-free, between the ages of 15 and 60, and updated the prescribed weaponry in the light of developments in warfare at the time.[2][3]

    Because it was not practical to call out every man, King Edward I introduced a system whereby local gentry were authorised to conduct commissions of array to select those who would actually be called for military service

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 15:27:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING THE PRUSSIAN ORDER AS OUR NATIVE ORDER Militia First > Market in S

    UNDERSTANDING THE PRUSSIAN ORDER AS OUR NATIVE ORDER

    Militia First > Market in Service of The Militia > Family in services of Market, State, and Militia. It is a MILITARY order of MARKETS.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-23 15:23:00 UTC