Curt Doolittle

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  • The First Rule of Education: The Production of Agency

    —“To be of a sound mind for logical reasoning requires control of emotions. This control of the emotions begins with control over the body. Control of the body is obtained by fitness: stresses, trial, and error. The sequence by which we develop our agency is physical>emotional>mental.”— John Mattison

  • The First Rule of Education: The Production of Agency

    —“To be of a sound mind for logical reasoning requires control of emotions. This control of the emotions begins with control over the body. Control of the body is obtained by fitness: stresses, trial, and error. The sequence by which we develop our agency is physical>emotional>mental.”— John Mattison

  • The Shift from physical constraint, to economic constraint, to credit constraint, to informational constraint.

    We always have had prisoners (prisons), slavery(military), serfdom(labor), freedom(middle class), liberty (professional class), and sovereignty(political class). We still have all those things. We have just shifted them from physical constraint, to economic constraint, to credit constraint, to informational constraint. All that changes is that it is far cheaper to rule people by each generational evolution of incentives, and they work far harder with each iteration of incentives.

  • The Shift from physical constraint, to economic constraint, to credit constraint, to informational constraint.

    We always have had prisoners (prisons), slavery(military), serfdom(labor), freedom(middle class), liberty (professional class), and sovereignty(political class). We still have all those things. We have just shifted them from physical constraint, to economic constraint, to credit constraint, to informational constraint. All that changes is that it is far cheaper to rule people by each generational evolution of incentives, and they work far harder with each iteration of incentives.

  • “Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance p

    —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—

  • “Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance p

    —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—

  • The Chinese Created Their Cultural Revolution with Violence and Political Intent

    THE CHINESE CREATED THEIR CULTURAL REVOLUTION WITH VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL INTENT. WE DID IT WITH A SELF ORGANIZING MARKET – WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THAT DIFFERENCE? Their ‘Cultural Revolution’ involved granting liberal tolerance to defectors, then rounding them up and brutally killing them in the streets. A uniquely Chinese degree of practical political violence. Their difference in value of individual human life, and intra-cultural trust is evident. A difference we have only attributed to competitive outsiders and religious defectors. Our ‘Cultural Revolution’ (means of identifying defectors, and those with in-group defects) is a free market where the defectors and defective are self-identifying by self-organizing. Where the Chinese exterminated to maintain homogeneity, we can merely politically separate. *Revolt. Separate. Prosper. Speciate.* Look at the current crisis – genocide against our people – as an opportunity to voluntarily exit from the gene pool those costly genes that impede our transcendence into Overmen (gods). Where we could struggle for another thousand years or more to produce a eugenic meritocratic, aristocratic, high trust, high commons, order – we can instead, radically separate not only others, but our own, and make a rapid leap in evolutionary progress. Revel in our time. Few men have the opportunity to leave a mark not only on history – but on the transcendence of mankind. This is the greatest opportunity since the failed construction of Roman Walls. Again – the Chinese succeeded where we have failed; for the simple reason that they use extraordinary violence to produce a hierarchical monopoly, where we use the violence necessary to produce a market of voluntary cooperation. This insight helps us understand not just the Chinese method, but how our method differs, and where it is stronger (innovation and velocity) and where it is weaker (markets make one vulnerable to greed that consumes genetic, cultural, institutional, behavioral, and knowledge capital.)

  • The Chinese Created Their Cultural Revolution with Violence and Political Intent

    THE CHINESE CREATED THEIR CULTURAL REVOLUTION WITH VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL INTENT. WE DID IT WITH A SELF ORGANIZING MARKET – WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THAT DIFFERENCE? Their ‘Cultural Revolution’ involved granting liberal tolerance to defectors, then rounding them up and brutally killing them in the streets. A uniquely Chinese degree of practical political violence. Their difference in value of individual human life, and intra-cultural trust is evident. A difference we have only attributed to competitive outsiders and religious defectors. Our ‘Cultural Revolution’ (means of identifying defectors, and those with in-group defects) is a free market where the defectors and defective are self-identifying by self-organizing. Where the Chinese exterminated to maintain homogeneity, we can merely politically separate. *Revolt. Separate. Prosper. Speciate.* Look at the current crisis – genocide against our people – as an opportunity to voluntarily exit from the gene pool those costly genes that impede our transcendence into Overmen (gods). Where we could struggle for another thousand years or more to produce a eugenic meritocratic, aristocratic, high trust, high commons, order – we can instead, radically separate not only others, but our own, and make a rapid leap in evolutionary progress. Revel in our time. Few men have the opportunity to leave a mark not only on history – but on the transcendence of mankind. This is the greatest opportunity since the failed construction of Roman Walls. Again – the Chinese succeeded where we have failed; for the simple reason that they use extraordinary violence to produce a hierarchical monopoly, where we use the violence necessary to produce a market of voluntary cooperation. This insight helps us understand not just the Chinese method, but how our method differs, and where it is stronger (innovation and velocity) and where it is weaker (markets make one vulnerable to greed that consumes genetic, cultural, institutional, behavioral, and knowledge capital.)

  • Rule of Law Produces Trust, and Trust Produces Opportunity for Risk

    —“Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America’s asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

  • Rule of Law Produces Trust, and Trust Produces Opportunity for Risk

    —“Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America’s asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,