Curt Doolittle

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  • Indian Diffusion in to SE Asia

    October 14th, 2018 2:37 AM

    —–The history of Southeast Asia, or perhaps more accurately the quasi-history of Southeast Asia since so many of the records are from China and elsewhere, indicates strong Indian influence in the period before 1000 AD. The standard model is that this is cultural diffusion. And by and large Southeast Asian peoples are are mostly indigenous. But, a non-trivial minority of their ancestry is recent, but pre-colonial, gene flow from the Indian subcontinent. Additionally, the imprint is easier to see in the Y chromosome than the mtDNA. The legends of marriages between Indian Brahmins and native princesses in places like Cambodia probably do reflect something real in the dynamics of the early Indianization.—

  • African Civilization

    October 14th, 2018 1:13 PM AFRICAN CIVILIZATION [I] dunno man. We clearly have different understandings of africans. They are, by and large, the most optimistic, pro-social, least ideological people on the planet right now. They’re like the youngest child that learned from all the mistakes of their older siblings, and is determined not to repeat them. If the british had not interfered we would have seen a west african consolidated empire, and they would be at least at the level of south americans by now. If you look at the questions I get from around the world it’s Africans and South Americans that are least likely to believe nonsense, and most likely to simply judge mankind empirically Why? They have not lost sight of humanity up-close-and-personal, and are not fooled by propaganda, false history, and cults because of it.

  • War Before Civilization by Keeley

    October 14th, 2018 2:26 AM https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195119126/

  • The antithesis of equality is not inequality. It is quality.

    October 14th, 2018 10:04 AM

    —“The antithesis of equality is not inequality. It is quality.” — Oswald Spengler

    (h/t:Josef Kalinin)

  • Men and Women

    October 14th, 2018 9:16 AM

    —“If a man/woman says that s/he’s too damaged for you (or too neurotic, or too anything) just take his/her word for it.”—

    Translated : “I have to monitor myself when I am with you and I do not believe I will be able to maintain this behavior indefinitely because it’s exhausting.”

    —“If you’re bored out of your mind at a venue, you’re probably not going to meet anyone there who you will want to date. Go where others are that you aren’t bored.”—

    (My Market: Any Art Classes. Artsy girls are best. ) Most important reason? You find mates where you aren’t looking for them. So find something to do (primary) so that overzealousness doesn’t force you to see what isnt there.

    –“Sometimes significant others have little annoying habits.”-

    If you learn to love them, or accomodate them, that will work, but you cannot learn to tolerate, or ignore them. Doesn’t work.

    –“Slutty behavior by either gender is a recipe for marital failure, and marital falure is far worse for your life than bankruptcy or business failure or losing multiple jobs.”–

    Just the data. People who professionalize ‘shopping, trying out, and moving on’ develop the habit for life.

    —“Alcohol and Drugs Do Not Improve With Age”—

    Sorry. Just is. Everyone goes to college and tries. Those who don’t stop trying are always a problem. Cellular damage accumulates.

    —“Find someone you feel very lucky to be with. the men who are ‘Players’ who commit do so because they found a woman worth commiting for: they can’t believe they got her. Women are different. They don’t want to think they have married down.”—

    One party or the other must be totally committed no matter what. Men are loyal and women are devoted. There is a difference.

    —“Men cheat for the sole purpose of sex, or because they are married to a nag, harpie, complainer. Women cheat to discover if they can trade up.”—

    —“The current order where men and women are ‘equal’ poses a problem for women who want first tier men. The reason is that once you are successful, younger women who demand fewer compromises are always and everywhere preferable to older women to continue to privatize and monopolize your opportunities.”—

    —“The current order where women are more fungible in the work force poses a problem for men: if you are a house husband or the equivalent you better stay (a) fit, (b) groomed, (c) interesting, and (d) involved in some activity with other males (e) save your own money overseas.”—

    —“In general, all men should save their own exit money overseas”—

    Just some life lessons…..

  • “Equality is just a feeling”

    October 14th, 2018 4:49 PM

    —“I rescued myself from egalitarianism by thinking in OO and really got hooked on your posts bc you where “light years” ahead in the direction I was already independently going. I started telling women who were open that equality is just a feeling… and they agreed.”— Brendan Hegarty

  • —“Who Is a Conservative?”—

    October 14th, 2018 3:16 PM —“WHO IS A CONSERVATIVE?”— (From Marginal Revolution) Avoiding the marxist-postmodern love of verbal sophistry: CONSERVATISM CONSISTS IN: – Empiricism as a defense against hubris. – Meritocracy as a defense against hubris. – Private Property as a defense against hubris. – Markets as a defense against hubris. – The common (natural) law of tort as a defense against hubris – The Jury-of-requisite-scale as a defense against hubris. – Late Marriage as a defense against hubris. – Intergenerational lending as a defense against hubris – Taking no action for which one cannot perform restitution(Reversal) as a defense against hubris. – Competition between the Scientific, Legal, Philosophical, and Theological as a defense against hubris. – Small Nation States as a defense against hubris. – Militias as a Defense against Hubris. (That should be enough to get the point across.) Not that Dunning-Kruger’s universal law, or the French Revolution, or all of continental philosophy, or the pseudosciences of Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Adorno; or the innumeracy of the general theory’s change of economics from measurement by balance sheet to measurement by income statement; or the sophisms of Derrida through Rorty and Rawls …. none need explaining to a Conservative. 😉

  • Constant Relations with Reality and Ability

    October 14th, 2018 2:48 PM

    —“Humans have great agency within certain bounds (space/time/domain). The west was successful because it built a social web of boundaries, that closely aligned one’s freedoms, and responsibilities with one’s ability/agency.”—Dagmar Schmitt

    CONSTANT RELATIONS WITH REALITY AND ABILITY

  • Communist Rules for Revolution

    October 14th, 2018 2:12 PM FWIW: This is an interpretation of Communist Strategy produced at the end of WW2. We do not in fact know the author. But it was first published in the USA. The fact that communists don’t own up to it, doesn’t mean it isn’t the plan. Like “The Protocols” these are western articulations of the operational objectives of Abrahamic, Communist and now Postmodern and Feminist speech. So “Communist Denialism” of a QUOTE, isn’t the same as the operational description of Communist Tactics spoken in Abrahamic (Sophist) Code. —Communist Rules for Revolution–

    1. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.

    2. Get control of all means of publicity.

    3. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and other trivialities.

    4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

    5. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

    6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

    7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

    8. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

    9. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

    10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.

  • Disambiguation provides commensurability across grammars

    October 14th, 2018 5:03 PM by Bill Joslin

    Note: Grammars of ambiguation, each obscures calculation. Grammars of disambiguation clarify calculation and the boon being commensurability when available. Ambiguity-disambiguation provides commensurability across grammars – a quality measure of a grammar —- CD: Bill is there. I am no longer alone in the universe. lol 😉