(FB 1546445205 Timestamp) Fascinating how the depression affected families differently. My mother’s (French) lived in a large custom built home on a huge farm, with typical parlor, living room, dining, kitchen, porches, and four or five bedrooms. But they were devastated by the depression, and despite the number of lawyers and professors on my mother’s side I’m not sure they’ve yet recovered. On my father’s side they were business owners and during the depression bought vast tracks of land at rock bottom prices – and frankly lived off the incremental sale of that land as well as their inheritances – until my father’s generation they kept the original investments and did not draw upon them. This is how intergenerational families are created – demand for behavior driven by demand for inheritance of not only wealth but opportunity and prestige. However, through the excessive inflation that wealth (which was rather absurd at the in the early 20th century) it was obvious to my by the 80’s that it is nearly impossible to hold wealth between generations at these rates of inflation, unless it is in land (really: proximity to discounted opportunity costs) that has some chance of appreciating. That said my father’s people are businesspeople independent of land and soldiers and a few politicians, while my mother’s people are business people dependent upon land, with politicians, and lawyers, and academics. What has happened to both sides of the family is that they have been taxed and conquered through immigration, while the only people that profit from taxation and immigration are the financial sector and the state.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546464457 Timestamp) —“Curt, is your field (philosophy) art or science?”— Francesco Principi As I understand my work, given that science is an extension of the law, these are the three options: 1) Law, Sciences(Logics/Mathematics), Measurements. -vs- reality, competition, and testimony w/ warranty THE TRUE (EXISTENTIAL/REAL) – I consider this a ‘a science’. -vs- 2) Philosophy, Literature, History, -vs- sophism, justification, and deceit w/o warranty THE IDEAL – I consider this an ‘art’. -vs- 3) Theology, Scripture, Mythology -vs- supernaturalism, authoritarianism, and deceit w/o warranty THE FANTASY(IMAGINARY) – i consider this a ‘fraud or deceit’ In other words, I am not sure that the old versions of these terms have any meaning. I consider philosophy that which is yet unsolved in the narrow sense, OR the imagination of possible worlds (fantasy literature) in the broader sense. So in the narrow sense I see philosophy closed (completed), and what was philosophy of ‘the big questions’ are solved. In the broad sense of imagining and reconstructing relations that we might prefer or that might be good, there will never be an end to that category of philosophizing. As far as I know theorizing about the true and possible has replaced philosophizing, and theorizing completely under testimonialism has replaced the limited theorizing of the 19th and 20th century sciences. So I tend to say I am a philosopher of natural law because it is all people can understand in the historical context of the available term. But, technically speaking, what I understand that I am doing is the science of the law. Which in itself I think is what natural law must eventually mean. Where natural law and the laws of nature are separated only by conscious choice. And so I don’t see any difference between science and law other than warranty. And as we have seen, science without warranty of due diligence is largely pseudoscience. and pseudoscience is just another term for fraud. So as I understand it, truth = law, and all else are sub-grammars of that law if that is all that is required to solve that problem, or deciets that violate that law. 1) The Physical Laws (invariability), 2) the Natural Law (decidability), 3) History, and Literature (meaning), … … are the only non-false domains and methods of inquiry remaining. Drug addicts defend their habits. There are many ways of drugging the mind. Lies are the most common of them. And stoicism, family, oath-feast-festival, and our nation of all those that came before, all those that are, and all those that are yet to be, are the cure for that addiction.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546440685 Timestamp) I am going to enjoy increasing the scope of my reputation by gutting Taleb’s pseudoscience, and in doing so explain why a certain tribe commits so much evil.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546445205 Timestamp) Fascinating how the depression affected families differently. My mother’s (French) lived in a large custom built home on a huge farm, with typical parlor, living room, dining, kitchen, porches, and four or five bedrooms. But they were devastated by the depression, and despite the number of lawyers and professors on my mother’s side I’m not sure they’ve yet recovered. On my father’s side they were business owners and during the depression bought vast tracks of land at rock bottom prices – and frankly lived off the incremental sale of that land as well as their inheritances – until my father’s generation they kept the original investments and did not draw upon them. This is how intergenerational families are created – demand for behavior driven by demand for inheritance of not only wealth but opportunity and prestige. However, through the excessive inflation that wealth (which was rather absurd at the in the early 20th century) it was obvious to my by the 80’s that it is nearly impossible to hold wealth between generations at these rates of inflation, unless it is in land (really: proximity to discounted opportunity costs) that has some chance of appreciating. That said my father’s people are businesspeople independent of land and soldiers and a few politicians, while my mother’s people are business people dependent upon land, with politicians, and lawyers, and academics. What has happened to both sides of the family is that they have been taxed and conquered through immigration, while the only people that profit from taxation and immigration are the financial sector and the state.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546440685 Timestamp) I am going to enjoy increasing the scope of my reputation by gutting Taleb’s pseudoscience, and in doing so explain why a certain tribe commits so much evil.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546385281 Timestamp) In 1996, Allora and I were travelling the UK. And I caught what was an epidemic level flu of either A(H1N1) or A(H3N2). I lost 30 pounds in a very short period of time. Partly because I did what seems to work for me, which is to bundle up and walk as much as I can. So I trundled around London and Canterbury, and Dover in layers under a Brooks Brother’s wool overcoat, scarf, wook cap, in the bitter cold, with the flu, with Allora as usual dragging me along. I have no idea why it is one of my fondest memories.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546377649 Timestamp) AGILE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT = STOICISM —“I’m starting a private group to discuss adapting Agile Software Development into Agile Personal Development in an attempt to inject #antifragility into lives, and thus the world.”—Jonathan Wilson Its stoicism. —-“Very similar, yes! I’d love some examples you can think of where Agile’s manifesto sounds like Seneca. @tferriss will be interested in this thread.”— Jonathan Wilson Agile manifesto simply tech application of universal frame. not unique. Common before industrialization. Continuous recursive progress with immediate feedback eliminates error early and cheaply, reinforces early and cheaply, and merely restates normal life’s epistemology. Expanding worldwide demand for stoicism. Abrahamism done as political religion. Only buddhists and Stoics solved mindfulness. Only stoics without mysticism. Iterative self authoring of goals and virtues substitute for ritual. But personal responsibility for it harder than public. ( fyi: Noah J Revoy )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546385281 Timestamp) In 1996, Allora and I were travelling the UK. And I caught what was an epidemic level flu of either A(H1N1) or A(H3N2). I lost 30 pounds in a very short period of time. Partly because I did what seems to work for me, which is to bundle up and walk as much as I can. So I trundled around London and Canterbury, and Dover in layers under a Brooks Brother’s wool overcoat, scarf, wook cap, in the bitter cold, with the flu, with Allora as usual dragging me along. I have no idea why it is one of my fondest memories.