Curt Doolittle

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  • Parallels and Differences Homeric and Semitic

    Common themes in the Bible and Homer.

    adamvoight.wordpress.com By Don Miguel (Must read) You are correct about how fundamental Homer’s work was to the classical worldview. If you read the Platonic dialogue “Ion”, it is clear that the Greeks say Homer as a conduit of divine scripture. My only criticism is that in my view the parallels between the Biblical and Homeric metanarratives are many, strong, adn far more important than the differences. Some of these similarities are discussed in my below-linked blog post. The main difference is that in the Bible, God promises to give the protagonists possession over the land of the antagonists 500 years earlier for no apparent reason and the antagonists are not characters in the drama other than as “the bad guys”. In the Illiad, both sides are seen as good and heroic in their own way and the war is just a by-product of an ultimately meaningless conflict among the gods. In my view, this is the main difference between them. Which of these two are more relevant to our current situation? I think it’s the former, since our enemies have no real claim to equality with us; our conflict with them is not just a misunderstanding or bad luck as it is in the Illiad. Most the Norse myths also lack a villian who is wholly “other”- for example Loki cannot even tell a lie when he is trapped by Thyrm. The giants are just the impersonal forces of nature or chaos. In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas and the Kauravas are both relatives and both end up meeting in heaven. The Canaanites, Philistines, Judas and the Synagogue of Satan are not noble like Priam and Hector. That is the main difference between them in my view. Our struggle at this late point in history is for higher stakes. We are no longer at the level of “may the best man win”. https://adamvoight.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/common-themes-in-the-bible-and-homer/

  • Parallels and Differences Homeric and Semitic

    Common themes in the Bible and Homer.

    adamvoight.wordpress.com By Don Miguel (Must read) You are correct about how fundamental Homer’s work was to the classical worldview. If you read the Platonic dialogue “Ion”, it is clear that the Greeks say Homer as a conduit of divine scripture. My only criticism is that in my view the parallels between the Biblical and Homeric metanarratives are many, strong, adn far more important than the differences. Some of these similarities are discussed in my below-linked blog post. The main difference is that in the Bible, God promises to give the protagonists possession over the land of the antagonists 500 years earlier for no apparent reason and the antagonists are not characters in the drama other than as “the bad guys”. In the Illiad, both sides are seen as good and heroic in their own way and the war is just a by-product of an ultimately meaningless conflict among the gods. In my view, this is the main difference between them. Which of these two are more relevant to our current situation? I think it’s the former, since our enemies have no real claim to equality with us; our conflict with them is not just a misunderstanding or bad luck as it is in the Illiad. Most the Norse myths also lack a villian who is wholly “other”- for example Loki cannot even tell a lie when he is trapped by Thyrm. The giants are just the impersonal forces of nature or chaos. In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas and the Kauravas are both relatives and both end up meeting in heaven. The Canaanites, Philistines, Judas and the Synagogue of Satan are not noble like Priam and Hector. That is the main difference between them in my view. Our struggle at this late point in history is for higher stakes. We are no longer at the level of “may the best man win”. https://adamvoight.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/common-themes-in-the-bible-and-homer/

  • The Reasons SJWs Infect Organizations

    Jan 24, 2020, 9:55 PM

    —“An institution’s ability to perform its primary function is inversely proportionate with the level it’s infested with social justice.”—James Louis LaSalle

    The reasons SJWs infect organizations are (a) that we don’t separate via-positiva devotional organizations, from via-negativa enforcement organizations, (b) we don’t ALWAYS structure either form of organization as empirical technocracy – all successful bureaucracies are indepdendent and are independent because they’re purely empirical and technocratic. The moment they become sentimental or redistributive they fail.

  • The Reasons SJWs Infect Organizations

    Jan 24, 2020, 9:55 PM

    —“An institution’s ability to perform its primary function is inversely proportionate with the level it’s infested with social justice.”—James Louis LaSalle

    The reasons SJWs infect organizations are (a) that we don’t separate via-positiva devotional organizations, from via-negativa enforcement organizations, (b) we don’t ALWAYS structure either form of organization as empirical technocracy – all successful bureaucracies are indepdendent and are independent because they’re purely empirical and technocratic. The moment they become sentimental or redistributive they fail.

  • Definitions: Human Organizations

    Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city, with an economy primarily of agricultural, crafts, or light industry. City: A large human settlement in a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks, and possessing a financial center for the organization of capital. Quarter: a part of a town or city having a specific character or use. *Ghetto(Aliens): a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. *Enclave(Aliens): a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. *Colony(Alien): (a) a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country. (b a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.) Estate (Proto Plantation): an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. *Plantation (Proto Fief): a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cash crops, including cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. Manor: (especially in England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants. (Today: a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.) Fief(proto-state): an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. Demesne (land): land attached to a manor and retained for the owner’s own use. Protectorate (military): a state that is controlled and protected by another. State(politics): a territory with an organized political community under one government. Country (territory): A state, with a government, occupying a particular territory. Nation(Ethnicity): a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Nation-State(Ethnicity): a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. Federation(politics): a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs. Confederation: a more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority. League: a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose, typically mutual protection or cooperation. Empire(politics): an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. Civilization: the largest organization of humans with common race, ethnicity, history, culture, religion and often language.

  • Definitions: Human Organizations

    Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city, with an economy primarily of agricultural, crafts, or light industry. City: A large human settlement in a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks, and possessing a financial center for the organization of capital. Quarter: a part of a town or city having a specific character or use. *Ghetto(Aliens): a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. *Enclave(Aliens): a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. *Colony(Alien): (a) a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country. (b a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.) Estate (Proto Plantation): an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. *Plantation (Proto Fief): a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cash crops, including cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. Manor: (especially in England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants. (Today: a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.) Fief(proto-state): an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. Demesne (land): land attached to a manor and retained for the owner’s own use. Protectorate (military): a state that is controlled and protected by another. State(politics): a territory with an organized political community under one government. Country (territory): A state, with a government, occupying a particular territory. Nation(Ethnicity): a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Nation-State(Ethnicity): a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. Federation(politics): a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs. Confederation: a more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority. League: a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose, typically mutual protection or cooperation. Empire(politics): an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. Civilization: the largest organization of humans with common race, ethnicity, history, culture, religion and often language.

  • Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’….

    Jan 25, 2020, 8:44 AM Um. Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’ – that’s like saying a soldier can’t fight in the revolution because he fought for the state. Truth? There are as many stupid overconfident morons on the right as there are on the left. The difference? The left shows up. So show up or shut up. OK? Good. I’m glad we got that straight. Now man up.

  • Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’….

    Jan 25, 2020, 8:44 AM Um. Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’ – that’s like saying a soldier can’t fight in the revolution because he fought for the state. Truth? There are as many stupid overconfident morons on the right as there are on the left. The difference? The left shows up. So show up or shut up. OK? Good. I’m glad we got that straight. Now man up.

  • Do You Think in Military or Moral Terms?

    Jan 25, 2020, 9:07 AM I studied history, military history, military technology, technological history, political history, engineering, drafting, and art history. I built businesses in art supplies, business supplies, legal research, and technology consulting, marketing consulting, strategy consulting, greenhouse gas measurement, product development, and I touched private and public organizations almost every sector of the state and economy – and built most of those businesses through about half acquisition and half organic growth. I ran those organizations as intelligence agencies. And I did that while being on the short side, being on the aspie spectrum, and battling cancer and its effects for most of my adult life. But lets be clear: I think in military (maneuver, logistics), and economic (incentive) terms, and like Napoleon who should be studied for his methods if not his character or ambitions – in intelligence terms. Sun Tzu and Machiavelli are not teaching you strategy or tactics. They’re giving you a warning that morality is the result of the domestication of warfare into productive ends – but that war outside of those ends is not moral whatsoever, and you must not become “submissive” to morality because the majority merely habituate rather than comprehend when moral internal and amoral external means of decision making apply.

  • Do You Think in Military or Moral Terms?

    Jan 25, 2020, 9:07 AM I studied history, military history, military technology, technological history, political history, engineering, drafting, and art history. I built businesses in art supplies, business supplies, legal research, and technology consulting, marketing consulting, strategy consulting, greenhouse gas measurement, product development, and I touched private and public organizations almost every sector of the state and economy – and built most of those businesses through about half acquisition and half organic growth. I ran those organizations as intelligence agencies. And I did that while being on the short side, being on the aspie spectrum, and battling cancer and its effects for most of my adult life. But lets be clear: I think in military (maneuver, logistics), and economic (incentive) terms, and like Napoleon who should be studied for his methods if not his character or ambitions – in intelligence terms. Sun Tzu and Machiavelli are not teaching you strategy or tactics. They’re giving you a warning that morality is the result of the domestication of warfare into productive ends – but that war outside of those ends is not moral whatsoever, and you must not become “submissive” to morality because the majority merely habituate rather than comprehend when moral internal and amoral external means of decision making apply.