Curt Doolittle

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  • “Curt needs to read [ insert here ]”

    —“CURT NEEDS TO READ [INSERT NOVELS, ESSAYS HERE].”—

    Sci Fi? I read Herbert (Both Dune, and the White Plague – which I bet you haven’t) and Heinlein, and Clarke, and Asimov, and Bova and Ellison, and Bear, Anderson, and Pohl, and NIven, and Lem and Crichton, and Lem, and Forward, and Weber, and Saberhagen, and Steakley, and le Guin and Moorcock, and Lieber, Ballard and del Ray, and Stephenson and Sterling and and Gibson and Dick, and the Anthologies, and subscribed to Galaxy, and Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction, and Creepy, Eerie, Epic, 1984, Heavy Metal Magazines, and everything in the Splatterpunk Movement, saw 2001, silent running, star wars, alien, aliens, blade runner and dune in the theaters on first run. And I played the (and wrote) the first generations of video console games, computer games, and had a Z80, a commodore 64/128, a tandy color computer (still my favorite), a heavy-to-carry compaq portable computer, an IBM PC (Original). I played Wizardry when it came out, the Bard’s Tale, Doom, Quake, Unreal, and Counter-Strike. I didn’t even touch Horror and Mystery, or Military FIction, or Spy novels in that list. I also read pretty much everything in the top 100 books of literature, the majority of the Great Books Series, (in hardcover), every encyclopedia (Britannica is best), Roget’s thesaurus, multiple dictionaries, history, science, most everything ever written in and on artificial intelligence, software design, programming, and only began to look at philosophy through the philosophy of science (popper and kuhn) which led me to Hayek, and economics, and that combination was ‘the key’ to my understanding ‘what had gone wrong’ in intellectual history during the 20th century. I only read philosophy to falsify it. My Recommended Reading List contains books and papers I have read. But only a FRACTION of them. Even today I sift through volumes of information (Mostly papers) and the odd book (almost all books in the sciences are as predictable now, as are books of fiction), as well as produce thousands of words of output myself. I process information. Yeah. I’m THAT GUY with six books under his arm, reading at every possible moment, that thinks every other person is a fucking moron, and barely domesticated (dangerous) animal (zombie, or what we call an NPC now), and that teachers and professors largely fill the function of keeping them in a corral we call the class room, and few are worth the air they breathe. The difference is I was in fights on a regular basis, back when things were ‘what boys do’ – particularly in farm towns. I am, to my knowledge, other than what I learned in art theory, self educated – entirely. School, university, library, bookstore, and the internet are simply nice places to consume information without worrying about the peasantry doing something too stupid. Unfortunately, the optimum means of protecting yourself from Zombies is to run a business, accumulate capital and revenue streams, and surround yourself with humans. This is the problem for my ‘kin’. They are not allowed to create voluntary disassociation to protect themselves from the zombies. and so unless they can earn enough money to do so they are exposed to the zombies and cannot create safe spaces we call ‘neighborhoods’ and ‘civil society’.

  • Will You Act?

    [E]uropeans built the only high trust labor, working, middle, and upper middle classes in the world. The american experiment was an attempt to give the high trust classes their own government without the church or state parasites of all of history. The left’s objective has been to hollow out that high trust middle class and produce another small upper class and vast governable underclass. And it’s been working. The only question is whether you will join with others to do something in order to change it, and reverse the conquest of the THIRD WAY.

  • Preserve the church and change the dogma

    “[T]he People Protect the Church like they protect home and school, but not it’s dogma. New and better dogma arises regularly. Preserve the church and change the dogma to sovereignty, truth, duty, reciprocity, and charity and use history instead of fiction.”

  • The Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope.

    —“Christianity, historically speaking, has been anything but a unified phenomenon; to get to the bottom of it as a faith in its own right, one must look to its source, to the Bible, which means – one must already accept the Protestant turn. And I strongly suspect that when one does so, one does not find the glory to which the Christian faith has at times lent itself. When many on the Right defend Christianity, I suspect they are actually defending the Church. But the Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope. The Church of Vatican II, of John and Paul, of a Ratzinger who resigns to make way for this Jesuit of a Bergoglio and his pandering to the Third World hordes – what can one expect from this Church, and how is one to seriously anticipate a spiritual shift within it?”—John Bruce Leonard

  • Yes, via Negativa Reasoning Is the Hardest Habit to Learn

    —“I would say via negative appears counter-intuitive to most. And that’s part of the problem: reliance on intuition (or counter intuition) for navigation and problem solving”— Micah Pezdirtz

    [Y]es, the via-negativa is the hardest habit to develop. In economic terms, via-negativa consists of just looking for the equilibrating force, and so it’s all just the application of economic (equilibration) and science (falsification) to what we traditionally treat as moral questions (justification). It’s so much part of our language, and culture, and literature… and history. It’s just like learning the earth isn’t the center but an irrelevant little bit of dust in the galactic suburbs – and that man isn’t designed just an accident of evolutionary experimentation.

  • Will You Act?

    [E]uropeans built the only high trust labor, working, middle, and upper middle classes in the world. The american experiment was an attempt to give the high trust classes their own government without the church or state parasites of all of history. The left’s objective has been to hollow out that high trust middle class and produce another small upper class and vast governable underclass. And it’s been working. The only question is whether you will join with others to do something in order to change it, and reverse the conquest of the THIRD WAY.

  • Elections – Well, Time to End Them.

    1) A rotating system of individual elections is far easier to manipulate since forces (coercion) can be concentrated on one election at a time, where under simultaneous voting, it is extremely difficult to coerce every race without nearly infinite funds. 2) With the advent of communication there is no reason for representatives any longer, whatsoever, nor for the houses of congress. There is every reason for either devolution of all power to the states, or direct democracy (equidistribution) or direct proportional democracy (by contribution). [There isn’t any reason for one single currency for all purposes any longer either. Nor is there any reason for distribution of liquidity through the financial sector and the credit system. In fact, that’s the source of the economic problem we face today.] 3) Because it it is far too easy to influence politicians whether they are elected incrementally, through rotation en mass (as now), or all at once (in the athenian method). 4) The purpose of scale whether at the jury, state representative, or federal representative level, is to increase the cost of bribery. Ergo it is time, given our wealth, to increase scale from representatives to the entire populace, since that bribery is impossible for OTHER than the state. (As for ‘comparison of legislatures to juries, the evolution of the legislature being Thang 12, 20, 100, or more, depending on the severity of the matter) > The Jury > Senate > Multiple Houses > Direct Democracy, is … well you’d have to be relatively ignorant of the origin of the western tradition and its roots in the sovereignty of individual men, leaving the Thang (Jury) as the ONLY POSSIBLE means of choice, and the Headman, Chieftain, King, Monarch, as a Judge of Last Resort.) Cheers

  • Preserve the church and change the dogma

    “[T]he People Protect the Church like they protect home and school, but not it’s dogma. New and better dogma arises regularly. Preserve the church and change the dogma to sovereignty, truth, duty, reciprocity, and charity and use history instead of fiction.”

  • The Script Is Playing Out. One Day at A Time.

    [D]emocrats will take House, double down on Trump, Trump will stick with his promises, the overton window will shift, and we will have our revolution. And that revolution will make the Civil War and the French Revolution look like minor disputes at the dinner table. It’s elegant in its predictability. Demography is Destiny. Revolution Comes. Revel in our time!

  • The Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope.

    —“Christianity, historically speaking, has been anything but a unified phenomenon; to get to the bottom of it as a faith in its own right, one must look to its source, to the Bible, which means – one must already accept the Protestant turn. And I strongly suspect that when one does so, one does not find the glory to which the Christian faith has at times lent itself. When many on the Right defend Christianity, I suspect they are actually defending the Church. But the Church today can hardly be looked to with a great deal of hope. The Church of Vatican II, of John and Paul, of a Ratzinger who resigns to make way for this Jesuit of a Bergoglio and his pandering to the Third World hordes – what can one expect from this Church, and how is one to seriously anticipate a spiritual shift within it?”—John Bruce Leonard