Curt Doolittle

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  • My Version of The Socratic Method: Competition

    [I] teach by creating games that men will compete in. This is how men are best taught. Instead of asking questions I start arguments. Instead of preaching an angle, I attack a proposition and force others to defend it. Instead of assuming equality I play king of the hill and bait them into attacking me. Instead of writing essays of appeal I write arguments to criticize.

  • Post Formatting and Syntax

    “CURT: WHAT DOES YOUR |?????| >>> SYNTAX MEAN?”

    —“Can you help me understand the syntax you use? What does the vertical bar ” | ” mean? And this ” > “?”— Eric Grose

    Great Question: | DIMENSION | start limit > step > step > step > end limit. Where >, <, <-, and ->, state the direction. So you will see me use < < <, or > > >, or < < <- center -> > > depending upon the direction. It’s a “Dimension” definition, meaning an ordered range of values that are permissible for use in a property of a Class (definition). It defines the LIMITS (start and end) and COMPLETENESS (range of values), in PARSIMONIOUS FORM, thereby satisfying Testimonialism’s demand for both LIMITS and FULL ACCOUNTING for any warranty of due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit. Given a Class (Table), consisting of (a) Properties(Attributes) and their Values (data), (b) Relations (references), and (c) Methods (internal operations), and (d) functions (external operations), a Dimension provides the range of values permissible for a property. It’ is a geometric (linear, serialize) method of defining a dimension (table of values). So we convert: |TEACHING| Reading to > Lecturing > Socratic Teaching > Running a grad seminar > Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) > Running a Competitive Game > Military Training. Into: Define TEACHING: id: int, str: category. Insert TEACHING: | TEACHING | 1, Reading to 2, Lecturing 3, Socratic Teaching 4, Running a grad seminar 5, Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) 6, Running a Competitive Game 7, Military Training (a tiny bit of the relational calculus) WHY? Because the grammars allow us to produce an N-Dimensional geometry of ‘meaning’. But that is not something I am going to put into this series of the work. It’s like putting equations in to it. So I’m using the Series instead. OK? Cheers

  • That’s cause Y’all didn’t know your data and your history. Revolution Comes.

    [S]o the military says they can’t send overstretched troops to the mexican border and the left seems to think that in the coming revolution will be settled by the state, and the right thinks the state will intervene. Like I said, this is the most fragile empire in history. There are only two cities with police forces capable of maintaining any semblance of order. The military will eitner not act, or act insufficiently. This is why the Federal Government armed everyone that they could in the bureaucracy. Because they knew it was coming. If revolutionaries publish their demands and they are reasonable, it very hard to see the police and the national guard or the military disagreeing with them. Again. remember when Y’all said you couldn’t believe it would happen? That’s cause Y’all didn’t know your data and your history. Revolution Comes.

  • My Version of The Socratic Method: Competition

    [I] teach by creating games that men will compete in. This is how men are best taught. Instead of asking questions I start arguments. Instead of preaching an angle, I attack a proposition and force others to defend it. Instead of assuming equality I play king of the hill and bait them into attacking me. Instead of writing essays of appeal I write arguments to criticize.

  • Geography and Ethics

    GEOGRAPHY and ETHICS

    FORESTLANDS: Aristocratic Ethics: What will someone not retaliate against even if we agree to it?(rulers/teleological ethics:outcomes) The ethics of warriors who must hold territory. This is a very high cost strategy because while professional warrior aristocracy is militarily superior, smaller numbers mean threats must be constantly suppressed when small, as soon as identified. (Profiting from the domestication of man) BORDERLANDS: Cosmopolitan(Jewish) Ethics: What will someone consent to Regardless of future resentment and retaliation? (borderland/subculture/deontological ethics:rules) The ethics of diasporic, migrating traders, or herding peoples who can prey upon the locals who hold territory. This is a very low cost (parasitic) ethics that avoids all contribution to the host commons, but requires preserving the ability to exit (migrate). It is the raider strategy by systemic and verbal rather than physical means. STEPPELANDS: Russian(Orthodox) Ethics: What can I get away with now by negotiation and subterfuge, and hold by force later? (steppe raiders) The ethics of steppe people surrounded by competitors, always hostile and unpredictable. This is a difficult and expensive but only possible strategy, when one is surrounded by hostile opportunity seekers. While seemingly expansive, it’s actually a fearful one – aggression as the only possible means of controlling defensive positions across open territory. FERTILE CRESCENT LAND: (Profit from the subjugation of man) (cyrus was lost). RIVERLANDS: Chinese Ethics: What can I get away with now, but over time make impossible to change later? The ethics of long term ruling bureaucratic class. Sun Tzu strategy, and Confucian hyper familism. This is an exceptionally cost-effective strategy if one possesses a territorial resource (heartland), and can fortify that heartland. Riverlands strategy defends against Steppland and Desertland strategies. (Profiting from the domestication of man) DESERTLANDS: Muslim Ethics: (I am still working on this one because I don’t get that it’s causal, but opportunistic.) What can I justify now in order to make this minor advance now? And thereby accumulate wins by wearing down opponents over long periods. The ethics of opportunism. As far as I can tell islam is just an excuse for justifying opportunism. We can consider this the combination of religion and justifying opportunism – a long term very successful strategy becuase it’s very low cost. HOSTILELANDS: African Ethics (pre-christian). Africa is akin to the Desertlands because of the sheer number of competitors, the hostility of the disease gradient, the plethora of wildlife, combined with the primitiveness of the available technologies. This is the only possible strategy until one or more core states can evolve, and create sufficient stability in some regions. (this is occurring now). CIVILIZATIONS NOT STATES It is a mistake (always), to consider conflicts within states over local power (capital allocation), as of the same consequence as conflicts between civilizations over borders. Because the former is a kinship conflict over priorities, while the latter is a genetic conflict over group evolutionary strategies.

  • That’s cause Y’all didn’t know your data and your history. Revolution Comes.

    [S]o the military says they can’t send overstretched troops to the mexican border and the left seems to think that in the coming revolution will be settled by the state, and the right thinks the state will intervene. Like I said, this is the most fragile empire in history. There are only two cities with police forces capable of maintaining any semblance of order. The military will eitner not act, or act insufficiently. This is why the Federal Government armed everyone that they could in the bureaucracy. Because they knew it was coming. If revolutionaries publish their demands and they are reasonable, it very hard to see the police and the national guard or the military disagreeing with them. Again. remember when Y’all said you couldn’t believe it would happen? That’s cause Y’all didn’t know your data and your history. Revolution Comes.

  • Geography and Ethics

    GEOGRAPHY and ETHICS

    FORESTLANDS: Aristocratic Ethics: What will someone not retaliate against even if we agree to it?(rulers/teleological ethics:outcomes) The ethics of warriors who must hold territory. This is a very high cost strategy because while professional warrior aristocracy is militarily superior, smaller numbers mean threats must be constantly suppressed when small, as soon as identified. (Profiting from the domestication of man) BORDERLANDS: Cosmopolitan(Jewish) Ethics: What will someone consent to Regardless of future resentment and retaliation? (borderland/subculture/deontological ethics:rules) The ethics of diasporic, migrating traders, or herding peoples who can prey upon the locals who hold territory. This is a very low cost (parasitic) ethics that avoids all contribution to the host commons, but requires preserving the ability to exit (migrate). It is the raider strategy by systemic and verbal rather than physical means. STEPPELANDS: Russian(Orthodox) Ethics: What can I get away with now by negotiation and subterfuge, and hold by force later? (steppe raiders) The ethics of steppe people surrounded by competitors, always hostile and unpredictable. This is a difficult and expensive but only possible strategy, when one is surrounded by hostile opportunity seekers. While seemingly expansive, it’s actually a fearful one – aggression as the only possible means of controlling defensive positions across open territory. FERTILE CRESCENT LAND: (Profit from the subjugation of man) (cyrus was lost). RIVERLANDS: Chinese Ethics: What can I get away with now, but over time make impossible to change later? The ethics of long term ruling bureaucratic class. Sun Tzu strategy, and Confucian hyper familism. This is an exceptionally cost-effective strategy if one possesses a territorial resource (heartland), and can fortify that heartland. Riverlands strategy defends against Steppland and Desertland strategies. (Profiting from the domestication of man) DESERTLANDS: Muslim Ethics: (I am still working on this one because I don’t get that it’s causal, but opportunistic.) What can I justify now in order to make this minor advance now? And thereby accumulate wins by wearing down opponents over long periods. The ethics of opportunism. As far as I can tell islam is just an excuse for justifying opportunism. We can consider this the combination of religion and justifying opportunism – a long term very successful strategy becuase it’s very low cost. HOSTILELANDS: African Ethics (pre-christian). Africa is akin to the Desertlands because of the sheer number of competitors, the hostility of the disease gradient, the plethora of wildlife, combined with the primitiveness of the available technologies. This is the only possible strategy until one or more core states can evolve, and create sufficient stability in some regions. (this is occurring now). CIVILIZATIONS NOT STATES It is a mistake (always), to consider conflicts within states over local power (capital allocation), as of the same consequence as conflicts between civilizations over borders. Because the former is a kinship conflict over priorities, while the latter is a genetic conflict over group evolutionary strategies.

  • “CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find: proper

    –“CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find:  propertarianism.com/2018/03/16/11386/

  • Short Course: Does Might Make Right (or Rights)?

    –“DOES MIGHT MAKE RIGHT? (IT MAKES RIGHTS)”–

    —“Hello Mr. Doolittle, what if might doesn’t make right? Any thoughts or previous writings?”— A Friend

    “Wrongs Exist. Right Is That Which Is Not Wrong.” propertarianism.com/2018/01/23/wrongs-exist-right-is-that-which-is-not-wrong/ Might makes rights. https://propertarianinstitute.com/2018/08/07/might-makes-rights/ “Might Makes Right By Righting Wrongs: A Declaration” propertarianism.com/2016/11/02/might-makes-right-by-righting-wrongs-a-declaration/ “Violence and Virtue vs Morality and Fraud” propertarianism.com/2011/03/04/violence-and-virtue-vs-morality-and-fraud/ “The Virtue Of Violence” propertarianism.com/2010/04/23/the-virtue-of-violence/ “The Necessity, Virtue And Morality Of Organized Violence” propertarianism.com/2013/09/07/6480/ “Liberty And Violence” propertarianism.com/2012/03/01/liberty-and-violence/ “Violence Is A Beautiful Word” propertarianism.com/2010/04/23/violence-is-a-beautiful-word/

  • Do You Know The Difference?

    Religion Vs Ideology Vs Philosophy Vs Logic Vs Mathematics Vs Science A RELIGION consists of any set of ideas of justification which require belief in, testimony to, or action according to, one or more falsehoods as a cost of inclusion and use. AN IDEOLOGY consist of any set of ideas that agitate, motivate, or inspire achievement of political ends under majoritarian (monopoly) democracy. An ideology need not be internally consistent externally correspondent, or existentially possible. It need only motivate individuals to act in furtherance of policy. A PHILOSOPHY consists of any set of internally consistent ideas of decidability which justify pursuit of personal preferences or group goods. A LOGIC consists of any deflationary grammar of decidability that assists in the falsification by competition of one or more constant relations between states. (Note that one proves nothing logically other than internal consistency, because all premises of external correspondence are forever contingent.) MATHEMATICS consists of a deflationary grammar of decidability consisting of competition between positional names under the preservation of ratios providing a single axis of decidability: position – but in N dimensions; thereby providing commensurability between any set of positional relations of any number of dimensions. A SCIENCE consists of any set of ideas that provide decidability independent of personal preference or group goods, by the systematic elimination of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit, by the use of measurement and record of actions – demonstrations versus words. NATURAL LAW of RECIPROCITY (Tort), was produced scientifically (empirically) by trial and error, through the resolution of disputes across personal preferences, group goods, norms, traditions, and intuitions, cumulating always and everywhere that decidability is provided by property, and property consists in the demonstrated investment of human action or inaction anything whether genetic, material, behavioral, or informational.