Curt Doolittle

Source: Original Site Post

  • “Truth is temporal, not absolute”— Try to say that without appealing to platon

    —“Truth is temporal, not absolute”— Try to say that without appealing to platonism. You wont be able to. Why? If you can’t state the means of a things existence without the verb to be, then you do not know of what you speak. Reliance on the verb to-be (is, are, was, were etc) violates strict grammatical construction in our high precision, low context language. When you say that rules of logic include a litany of fallacies, again, you refer to violations in the compatibility of semantic content and the deflationary grammars (logics) with which we test commensurability of states (statements). In other words: word games. Let me state it better for you (as I did in the opening sentence) The information (semantics: consisting of networks of constant relations) we rely upon, must of necessity include symbols (referrers, terms, words), that serve as categories (general rules of arbitrary precision), that as such categorical aggregates, exclude (disambiguate) our experience of the universe. Ergo: our knowledge remains incomplete. And our language remains imprecise – including ignorance, error bias, and deceit. So in any attempt at testing one’s testimony, we must test the constant relations in each perceivable dimension of reality, and across all dimensions of perceivable reality. And to do so we require multiple grammars (rules of continuous disambiguation). So when you speak of logic(words) and science(actions) and sympathetic tests of rationality (rewards), you speak of the three (and only three) categories of grammatical tests we can employ in order to speak without ignorance error, bias, and deceit: truthfully. We speak (testify) truthfully or we do not. WORDS(LOGIC) 1.1- Categorical: We may testify to tautology and in that case must speak THE truth. We have no alternative. 1.2 – Logical: We may testify to internal consistency within a given grammar. As such we speak truthfully if and only if argument (formula, proof) is (exists as) internally consistent (consisting of constant relations between states). ACTIONS(SCIENCE) 2.1 – Empirical: We may testify to external correspondence if and only if we find external correspondence, sufficiency and parsimony. 2.2 – Operational: we may testify to the existential possibility of sequence of operations only if we can describe changes in state of constant relations due to a sequence of operations. RATIONAL (INCENTIVES) 3.1- Rational: We may testify to the rationality of choice if and only if we sympathetically test the incentives under sufficiency and parsimony. 3.2 – Moral: we may testify to the morality (Crime, ethics, morality) of any action or its consequences by tests of the productive, fully informed, voluntary, (and warrantied) transfer of that which individuals have acted to obtain an interest. We cannot know the Truth (the most parsimonious speech possible) We can know Truthfulness (survival of due diligence in the dimensions of perceivable reality. And we do that by the production of grammars that force us to continuously disambiguate our categories of perception into those categories that disambiguous describe reality. Slowly we get there….

  • What’s The Biggest Culture Shock The Us Has Ever Faced?

    There have been culture shocks fairly regularly.
    Just since the Constitution:
    1 – The almost-revolutionary war where the North wanted to secede.
    2 – The North-South conflict from the very beginning.
    3 – The Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War that resulted from the South wanting to secede (which would have meant that the new territories joined the South not the North).
    4 – The immigrant shocks in the late 1800’s and then the underclass immigration shocks prior to 1929.
    5 – The shocks of converting from an agrarian to industrial society – just as farming became enjoyable.
    6 – The shocks of the Depression and the Second World War.
    7 – The shocks of the ‘little pink houses’ where soldiers were reintegrated.
    8 – The shocks of (temporary) postwar wealth (That everyone thought would last)
    9 – The shocks of the underclass revolution (Civil Rights Movement)
    10 – The shocks of Johnson’s attempt to imitate the soviets with the Great Society movement – and its catastrophic (like the Soviets) failure.
    11 …. I mean… there is at least one shock every decade.

    https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-biggest-culture-shock-the-US-has-ever-faced

  • What Is The Average Iq Of An Nra Member?

    Since republicans are smarter than democrats, and since NRA members tend to have above average incomes, it’s most certainly above average.

    Remember: the media prefers to use college degrees as a proxy for intelligence. However, this doesn’t account for the fact that the vast majority of women take gut courses, (psychology, sociology, education), and their male peers do not go to college but instead find gainful employment.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-IQ-of-an-NRA-member

  • What Would Happen To The Us Economy If (scenario 1) The Top 5% Unleashed All Their Savings Or (scenario 2) Put Away Gradually More Into Savings?

    THE FULL ANSWER

    I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision:
     
     *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use, mostly in home and business real estate – providing home ownership that could not exist otherwise.

    Why? Fiat currency inflation makes it impossible to save. You have to put your money to work just to try to preserve value. Why fiat currency inflation? Because we try to artificially increase employment by artificially stimulating consumption, by artificially discounting the price of credit, by artificially producing ‘money’ by simply debiting and crediting treasury and bank accounts.

    The Cathedral (Academy – Media – State complex that replaced the military industrial complex ) quite intentionally misrepresent the fact that owning (controlling) money, is different from having (storing) it.

    For the (a) voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, to evolve into (b) patterns (networks) of specialization and trade, and into (c) markets that provide continuous adaptation to demand, shocks, innovation, and continuously reduce prices money(wealth, capital) must be organized into a pareto distribution (20% of the population must control at least 80% of the capital), and within that pareto distribution’s 20% another pareto distribution, and so on. (Really, it has to be so. It’s just math and incentives.)

    The reason goods get cheaper is that people at the top of any distribution (and at every level under it) seek signals. We can virtue signal (words), we can membership signal (dress), we can status signal (consumption).

    People at the tops of distributions pay for research and development in signals, that then decrease in cost and increase in ownership. Hence why Gucci bags, and Ferrari’s (neither of which are expensive to produce) are so expensive: to make them scarce, and therefore to preserve their signal value. (Hence why iphones can be so profitable for apple: signal value.)

    Because really, all we all do is chase status signals like mice, hamsters, rats , and squirrels, in the squirrel cage wheel.

    The greatest subconscious fear of humans is ‘being left behind’.

    Hence: status signals.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-the-US-economy-if-scenario-1-the-top-5-unleashed-all-their-savings-or-scenario-2-put-away-gradually-more-into-savings

  • Do You Have A Problem With Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs, In Psychology (or Philosophy)?

    It’s ‘fanciful freudianism’ that makes sense the same way horoscopes make sense.

    That said it can be stated scientifically as humans, like every other organism, seek to acquire. As they accumulate near term satisfactions they increasingly seek to accumulate longer term satisfactions – for the simple reason that we constantly seeks satisfactions no matter what level of satisfaction we currently possess.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-have-a-problem-with-Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs-in-psychology-or-philosophy

  • Do You Think That Postmodernism Has Had A Negative Or Positive Effect On Education, Especially In Literature Classes?

    Postmodernism can be best understood in the context of a revolt against science and reason, that is a repetition of the enlightenment revolt against empiricism, and the ancient world’s revolt against reason.

    THE GENERATIONAL REVOLTS AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH

    4 – The Revolt Against Science – Using Publishing and Major Media (19th-20th)
    Marxism/Freudianism/Boazianism(Pseudoscience) > Cultural Marxism(Propaganda) > Postmodernism (Pseudo-rationalism: denial of reality, logic, science and truth.)

    3 – The Revolt Against Empiricism – Using the Printing Press (17th-18th)
    Rousseau(Literary) > Kant(Rationalism) > Continental Philosophy(“Moral Fictionalism”) – the attempt to recreate Germanicized Christianity in secular prose.

    2 -The Revolt Against Reason – Using Writing and Pulpit (1st-7th)
    The reaction to greek idealism and adoption by Rabbinical Judaism (Revolt against the rationality and aristocracy) > Christianity(undermine from within) > Islam (conquer). The revolt of the pastoralists against the Agrarians.

    1- The Revolt Against The Invention of Aristocracy – Using “Writings of the Gods” (~1500bc)
    The European vs Indo-Iranian divide and the invention of scriptural religion.

    So, we see the same process of destruction of Western Civilization, by the same means the the great civilizations of the ancient world were destroyed by Christianity (western roman empire), and Islam (Byzantium, North Africa, Persia, and Levantine – creating the Abrahamic Dark Age.

    POSTMODERNISM IS A REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE, REASON, AND TRUTH. SO, HOW CAN IT BE ANYTHING BUT AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE ANOTHER DARK AGE?

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-postmodernism-has-had-a-negative-or-positive-effect-on-education-especially-in-literature-classes

  • What Is The Difference Between Civil Society And Social Movements?

    CIVIL: ACTIVISTS PAY FOR COMMONS, SOCIAL: ACTIVISTS FORCE OTHERS TO PAY FOR COMMONS.

    Civil: Personal Choice. The Civil Society (meaning voluntary organization of commons) Activists Pay.

    Civil society is the “aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens.”

    Social: Political Force. The political society (meaning involuntary organization of commons by political, military means.) Political activism. Activists Make Others Pay.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-civil-society-and-social-movements

  • What’s The Biggest Culture Shock The Us Has Ever Faced?

    There have been culture shocks fairly regularly.
    Just since the Constitution:
    1 – The almost-revolutionary war where the North wanted to secede.
    2 – The North-South conflict from the very beginning.
    3 – The Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War that resulted from the South wanting to secede (which would have meant that the new territories joined the South not the North).
    4 – The immigrant shocks in the late 1800’s and then the underclass immigration shocks prior to 1929.
    5 – The shocks of converting from an agrarian to industrial society – just as farming became enjoyable.
    6 – The shocks of the Depression and the Second World War.
    7 – The shocks of the ‘little pink houses’ where soldiers were reintegrated.
    8 – The shocks of (temporary) postwar wealth (That everyone thought would last)
    9 – The shocks of the underclass revolution (Civil Rights Movement)
    10 – The shocks of Johnson’s attempt to imitate the soviets with the Great Society movement – and its catastrophic (like the Soviets) failure.
    11 …. I mean… there is at least one shock every decade.

    https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-biggest-culture-shock-the-US-has-ever-faced

  • What Is The Average Iq Of An Nra Member?

    Since republicans are smarter than democrats, and since NRA members tend to have above average incomes, it’s most certainly above average.

    Remember: the media prefers to use college degrees as a proxy for intelligence. However, this doesn’t account for the fact that the vast majority of women take gut courses, (psychology, sociology, education), and their male peers do not go to college but instead find gainful employment.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-IQ-of-an-NRA-member

  • What Would Happen To The Us Economy If (scenario 1) The Top 5% Unleashed All Their Savings Or (scenario 2) Put Away Gradually More Into Savings?

    THE FULL ANSWER

    I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision:
     
     *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use, mostly in home and business real estate – providing home ownership that could not exist otherwise.

    Why? Fiat currency inflation makes it impossible to save. You have to put your money to work just to try to preserve value. Why fiat currency inflation? Because we try to artificially increase employment by artificially stimulating consumption, by artificially discounting the price of credit, by artificially producing ‘money’ by simply debiting and crediting treasury and bank accounts.

    The Cathedral (Academy – Media – State complex that replaced the military industrial complex ) quite intentionally misrepresent the fact that owning (controlling) money, is different from having (storing) it.

    For the (a) voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, to evolve into (b) patterns (networks) of specialization and trade, and into (c) markets that provide continuous adaptation to demand, shocks, innovation, and continuously reduce prices money(wealth, capital) must be organized into a pareto distribution (20% of the population must control at least 80% of the capital), and within that pareto distribution’s 20% another pareto distribution, and so on. (Really, it has to be so. It’s just math and incentives.)

    The reason goods get cheaper is that people at the top of any distribution (and at every level under it) seek signals. We can virtue signal (words), we can membership signal (dress), we can status signal (consumption).

    People at the tops of distributions pay for research and development in signals, that then decrease in cost and increase in ownership. Hence why Gucci bags, and Ferrari’s (neither of which are expensive to produce) are so expensive: to make them scarce, and therefore to preserve their signal value. (Hence why iphones can be so profitable for apple: signal value.)

    Because really, all we all do is chase status signals like mice, hamsters, rats , and squirrels, in the squirrel cage wheel.

    The greatest subconscious fear of humans is ‘being left behind’.

    Hence: status signals.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-the-US-economy-if-scenario-1-the-top-5-unleashed-all-their-savings-or-scenario-2-put-away-gradually-more-into-savings