Curt Doolittle

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  • Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power

    Jan 27, 2020, 6:07 AM

    —“I struggle with Agency… Someone who goes to the gym regularly because they want to be buff and ripped would be said to be exercising agency. An alignment of desire and rational action / persistence. However, is a gambler exercising agency when they gamble on the daily? Or is agency simply contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”– Gary Knight

    In simple terms:

    —“contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”–

    Yes. Although, in most cases, gambling regularly is a form of self medication, it is true that people win, and you can’t play if you don’t win. And it’s simply an expensive means of entertainment. And whether entertainment or medication can lead to addiction, which is the very opposite of agency. Agency is the sum total of that which leads you to independent action in fulfillment of your ambitions – overcoming (‘overman’) the physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, social, economic, political, military, and knowledge, impediments to a desired end. Will to power is an inspiration. Agency is its demonstration. Omniscience and Omnipotence are it’s ends. The transcendence of man into the gods we imagine.

  • The Psychological Function of Religion

    Jan 27, 2020, 6:24 AM —“Notes on religion from “Willpower” by Roy F. Baumeister (Willpower Stabilized/Sense of Place) “Less obvious benefits included the finding that religion reduces people’s inner conflicts among different goals and values.” (Practice Habit-Forming) “Religious believers build self-control by regularly forcing themselves to interrupt their daily routines in order to pray.” (External Accountability/Internal Consistency) “Religious people tend to feel that someone important is watching them. That monitor might be God, a supernatural being who pays attention to what you do and think, often even knowing your innermost thoughts and reasons, and can’t be easily fooled if you do something apparently good for the wrong reason.”—Todd E. Magnusson —“(Willpower Stabilized/Sense of Place) Less obvious benefits included the finding that religion reduces people’s inner conflicts among different goals and values.”— Mindfulness. This is a neurological necessity. The fact that we are infinitely adaptive does not mean that we not infinitely stressed by infinite adaptation. The stoic method with Epicurean objectives achieves this best. —“ritual”— yes. continuous programming of stable state despite continuous exposure to life. Stoic ritual is superior. –” that someone important is watching them”– Yes. Again, stoic ritual, casts that person as ‘you’, giving you agency and knowledge of it. The general argument so far is that ritual religion of slaves is necessary for the bottom, that stoicism an epicureanism for the middle, and stoicism and aryanism for the top.

  • The Psychological Function of Religion

    Jan 27, 2020, 6:24 AM —“Notes on religion from “Willpower” by Roy F. Baumeister (Willpower Stabilized/Sense of Place) “Less obvious benefits included the finding that religion reduces people’s inner conflicts among different goals and values.” (Practice Habit-Forming) “Religious believers build self-control by regularly forcing themselves to interrupt their daily routines in order to pray.” (External Accountability/Internal Consistency) “Religious people tend to feel that someone important is watching them. That monitor might be God, a supernatural being who pays attention to what you do and think, often even knowing your innermost thoughts and reasons, and can’t be easily fooled if you do something apparently good for the wrong reason.”—Todd E. Magnusson —“(Willpower Stabilized/Sense of Place) Less obvious benefits included the finding that religion reduces people’s inner conflicts among different goals and values.”— Mindfulness. This is a neurological necessity. The fact that we are infinitely adaptive does not mean that we not infinitely stressed by infinite adaptation. The stoic method with Epicurean objectives achieves this best. —“ritual”— yes. continuous programming of stable state despite continuous exposure to life. Stoic ritual is superior. –” that someone important is watching them”– Yes. Again, stoic ritual, casts that person as ‘you’, giving you agency and knowledge of it. The general argument so far is that ritual religion of slaves is necessary for the bottom, that stoicism an epicureanism for the middle, and stoicism and aryanism for the top.

  • Problems the Police Face

    Jan 27, 2020, 7:19 AM (1) police are expensive and patrol large territories in expensive vehicles with expensive equipment. (2) because police are expensive they do not travel in groups, and do not practice european policing of de-escalation- europe is small and densely populated. (3) Therefore officers rely on manipulation, deception, intimidation, and force, to subdue an individual and ‘drag him into the system’. Whereas you or I only need to break contact, they have to bring people into the system. The reason is that they don’t have discretionary power (as do sheriffs and judges.) This is because they can get sued if they are forgiving but you do something stupid. So their only defense is to get you into the system. (4) Revenue for a police department and justice system is funded by taxes, tickets and fines, and worst of all, property seizures. This has produced the malincentives we predicted. (5) Police are in a position of high risk, high responsibility, and under multiple conflicting incentives for which they can lose job and pension for any normal human error. This is a no-win situation for them. So they tend to develop procedures that are the safest for them and their careers, by choosing processes that put the officer in the position of making THE FEWEST DECISIONS. This is the problem. (6) The police do not control the bad laws that they operate under. Their job is to bring people into the system and let the system and system processes do the work – thereby (mostly) using time and isolation for heated afraid or excited people to calm down. (7) The data is what it is and the cops know the data: Black americans are disproportionately impulsively violent and will run, drug users are disproportionately unpredictable and dangerous even with bodily fluids or needles, and hispanic americans are disproportionately involved in gangs and dangerous, and white americans are disproportionately cunning and dangerous. (8) Police will not stay in the job if they have IQ’s over 105, so they hire average people for the job, because frankly it’s a lot of paperwork, and a lot of putting up with unpleasant people, and a lot of very high stress followed by very boring procedure. So for an average guy it’s a high income high status job – with decision making above his pay grade. (9) Some police forces are run well and others not, and there is no requirement that police come from the area nor stay in an area and learn the ‘crook book’ for the area. Instead, better police forces hire and train better officers, who then take positions that pay more money in less ‘prime’ territories. So there are just a lot of things going on. Where instead, we should probably have three classes of officers, at three pay grades, the top being criminal lawyers (proto-judges), the middle being today’s armed officers, and the bottom being de-escalation officers, and we should try to use numbers rather than concentration of force to deescalate and bring people in.

  • Problems the Police Face

    Jan 27, 2020, 7:19 AM (1) police are expensive and patrol large territories in expensive vehicles with expensive equipment. (2) because police are expensive they do not travel in groups, and do not practice european policing of de-escalation- europe is small and densely populated. (3) Therefore officers rely on manipulation, deception, intimidation, and force, to subdue an individual and ‘drag him into the system’. Whereas you or I only need to break contact, they have to bring people into the system. The reason is that they don’t have discretionary power (as do sheriffs and judges.) This is because they can get sued if they are forgiving but you do something stupid. So their only defense is to get you into the system. (4) Revenue for a police department and justice system is funded by taxes, tickets and fines, and worst of all, property seizures. This has produced the malincentives we predicted. (5) Police are in a position of high risk, high responsibility, and under multiple conflicting incentives for which they can lose job and pension for any normal human error. This is a no-win situation for them. So they tend to develop procedures that are the safest for them and their careers, by choosing processes that put the officer in the position of making THE FEWEST DECISIONS. This is the problem. (6) The police do not control the bad laws that they operate under. Their job is to bring people into the system and let the system and system processes do the work – thereby (mostly) using time and isolation for heated afraid or excited people to calm down. (7) The data is what it is and the cops know the data: Black americans are disproportionately impulsively violent and will run, drug users are disproportionately unpredictable and dangerous even with bodily fluids or needles, and hispanic americans are disproportionately involved in gangs and dangerous, and white americans are disproportionately cunning and dangerous. (8) Police will not stay in the job if they have IQ’s over 105, so they hire average people for the job, because frankly it’s a lot of paperwork, and a lot of putting up with unpleasant people, and a lot of very high stress followed by very boring procedure. So for an average guy it’s a high income high status job – with decision making above his pay grade. (9) Some police forces are run well and others not, and there is no requirement that police come from the area nor stay in an area and learn the ‘crook book’ for the area. Instead, better police forces hire and train better officers, who then take positions that pay more money in less ‘prime’ territories. So there are just a lot of things going on. Where instead, we should probably have three classes of officers, at three pay grades, the top being criminal lawyers (proto-judges), the middle being today’s armed officers, and the bottom being de-escalation officers, and we should try to use numbers rather than concentration of force to deescalate and bring people in.

  • The European Social Order

    Jan 27, 2020, 9:25 AM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL ORDER The european social order is consistent from prehistory across all of europe with the variation caused by adaptation of the underlying social order (aristocratic egalitarianism, tripartism, sovereignty) to whatever economy was available. It’s these three civilizational strategies that make it so easy for a middle class, and middle class rule to emerge in european civilization and so hard in so many others. Read more history that’s not the “mythology of rebellion against the indo european aristocracy” because that’s the purpose of a christian > liberal > marxist > postmodernist education and it always has been – resistance. JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Eric H. Cline: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation John Keegan: A History Of Warfare Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Victor Davis Hanson: The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited. Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West Victor Davis Hanson: Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam The Athenian Constitution Roman Law The Anglo Saxon Codes Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law. Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law. Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

  • The European Social Order

    Jan 27, 2020, 9:25 AM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL ORDER The european social order is consistent from prehistory across all of europe with the variation caused by adaptation of the underlying social order (aristocratic egalitarianism, tripartism, sovereignty) to whatever economy was available. It’s these three civilizational strategies that make it so easy for a middle class, and middle class rule to emerge in european civilization and so hard in so many others. Read more history that’s not the “mythology of rebellion against the indo european aristocracy” because that’s the purpose of a christian > liberal > marxist > postmodernist education and it always has been – resistance. JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Eric H. Cline: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation John Keegan: A History Of Warfare Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Victor Davis Hanson: The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited. Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West Victor Davis Hanson: Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam The Athenian Constitution Roman Law The Anglo Saxon Codes Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law. Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law. Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

  • Why You Shouldn’t Be Imprisoned, Enslaved, Enserfed, Ostracized or Hung?

    Jan 27, 2020, 9:58 AM Me and mine who pay for the commons because commons produce extraordinary returns, want to know why you shouldn’t be imprisoned, enslaved, enserfed, ostracized or hung for obtaining the benefits of our commons without paying for them. Why should we permit you any freedom or liberty at all? Why is it that we don’t hang you? What’s your reason? (The difference between capitalizing commons, common infrastructure that improves trade, and redistributive consumption that is not a commons – I assume is rather obvious.)

  • Why You Shouldn’t Be Imprisoned, Enslaved, Enserfed, Ostracized or Hung?

    Jan 27, 2020, 9:58 AM Me and mine who pay for the commons because commons produce extraordinary returns, want to know why you shouldn’t be imprisoned, enslaved, enserfed, ostracized or hung for obtaining the benefits of our commons without paying for them. Why should we permit you any freedom or liberty at all? Why is it that we don’t hang you? What’s your reason? (The difference between capitalizing commons, common infrastructure that improves trade, and redistributive consumption that is not a commons – I assume is rather obvious.)

  • The Bicameral Mind Is the Result of Two Hemispheres Needing to Time Their Movements

    Jan 27, 2020, 10:10 AM A rather strange bias we see in archaeology tries to explain everything they don’t undrestand as mystical or religious in origin. We watch horror movies and tell campfire stories, and we enthrall each other with suspension of belief and woo woo, but that does not mean we are not eminently practical in real life. While reading the ancients – even though it is very difficult – it’s very clear that they thought as rationally and practically as we do while still ‘going all woo woo’ over the same nonsense. In fact, most letters are pretty tedious and could have been written a century ago. It’s one thing to read the iliad today in translation and another to hear someone recite it in its rhyme and tempo. When you hear that tempo and rhyme you realize that homer whether one person or many, and shakespeare are the same man. The difference that we cannot imagine today is the pervasive violence in everyday life of the ancient world,and how dependent we were upon family structures for mere survival, and how terrifying it was to be left along without their support – ostracization was a death sentence. As for the general bicameral mind, this story has not played out well against the evidence. It’s true that each of us varies in cognitive agency, and we may even say that what differs most between us is agency (or ‘executive function’). It’s true that all language is a means of calculation and the more precise and non-false the terms and complete the linguistic transactions the more we are able to devote the processing power of our frontal cortex to yet another iteration of thought. So it’s more that language and knowledge increase the radius in time, space, population, and permutation of our thinking, just as prices assist us in imputing, and managing our resources and time. But my understanding is that the wooo wooo apparent in ancient myth is just a tool for holding attention under suspension of disbelief so that the narrative is accompanied by sufficient emotional novelty that the story is remembered. That does not mean that a tribe of warriors conducting a raid or a set of 10k bc flint miners were doing or thinking any differently than we are. I am old enough to remember that class of our fellow white men that could not read. They did not think any differently. They simply had less accumulated knowledge, and less confidence in their knowledge. So you know, I don’t buy the whole thing because I see that there are woo woo people and empirical people in every generation across time. As far as I know language will eventually emerge in any creature with sufficient cognitive capacity (neural density in relation to body weight), that has a body that can move through space (because that is the origin of consciousness – spatial modeling). Once you have language it is such a fucking competitive advantage every competitor is screwed. So the bicameral mind is the result of two hemispheres needing to time their movements using the cerebellum. But in our brains the corpus callosum especially in women ensures that the hemispheres are working on concert. The major difference is that men are more longitudinally connected (fast, limited info, and time) and women more horizontally (slow, lots of info, in present moment). And even as such these are only limited biass not complete differences.