Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change

  • What Is The Underlying Psychological Reason For Racism? Looking Different Is A Part Of It, But There Must Be More To It.

    THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1. the evolutionary necessity of the social dominance hierarchy.
    2. the primacy of status in that dominance hierarchy above all other values. Our loss aversion to status is our highest sensitivity after loss of access to mates. Any creature that cannot compete in its dominance hierarchy will see its pool driven to extinction.
    3. the primacy and necessity of kin selection (any kin group that does not will be driven to extinction.)

    Give up on equality. It’s an evolutionary dead end. Make the best of what you have to work with. We are wealthier than at any point in history, but each of us is less important than we ever have been in history. This lowers our risk but provides us near zero status rewards that are under our control other than consumption signals.

    which is why people are driven to consumption.

    and it is why the poorer you are the more driven to consumption you are.

    which is why the buddha and the stoics taught what they did.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-underlying-psychological-reason-for-racism-Looking-different-is-a-part-of-it-but-there-must-be-more-to-it

  • Why Do Some Americans Call Europeans “communist”?

    A lot of answers, but americans actually don’t know why everything european sounds ‘communist’.

    1. europeans trade opportunity for certainty. Americans and people who come to America trade certainty for opportunity.
    2. America was invented in modern language as a ‘third way’, between the aristocracy(authority) and the church(communism), by creating a middle class (entrepreneurial) order consisting of nothing but markets.
    3. American law, and our culture, and much of how americans think ‘differently’ is because we view exchanging certainty for opportunity as ‘limiting our freedoms’. All our wealth goes to people who are entrepreneurs (look it up, its the highest paying occupation). Anyone can become an entrepreneur here and everything is set up to assist you.
    4. In particular, our law is back-loaded. Meaning that there is nothing to constrain you up front, and we handle exceptions (failures) through litigation (expensively). This is one of the primary reasons for rates of american innovation. (It is nearly impossible to do business in europe compared to america. I still have a UK company and it’s one hundred times more expensive and difficult for absolutely no reason.) Continental law is front loaded in the old (French) tradition, and this, and the heavy taxation serve as a barrier to innovation – especially technical innovation. In this sense, European law evolved out of bureaucracy and into high capital which is possible to organize in the Germanic countries.
    5. Everyone talks about medical care and this is chimera. The problem is that we haven’t modernized our laws to prevent medical bankruptcy, and provided catastrophic care. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET IT HERE FAST instead of waiting, and we don’t want to lose that. We have medicaid and medicare and EVERYONE can get health care. Our medicine is more expensive because there is more of it, it is faster, it is better. We don’t want to lose that. (Spoken as someone who has endured the arcane british system). So we need to revise our laws, and increase catastrophic care. But supplying more of an expensive good leads to its abuse and overconsumption.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Americans-call-Europeans-Communist

  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • Do You Think Medicare And Social Security Are Programs That Transcend Elimination Or Are They Susceptible To Elimination?

    As far as I know, they cannot persist in current form. There are not enough multipliers in the economy given forward demographics for it to be sustainable.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-Medicare-and-Social-Security-are-programs-that-transcend-elimination-or-are-they-susceptible-to-elimination

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change

  • Why Is Facebook Racist And Why Does It Make Life More Difficult?

    —-”Why is Facebook racist and why does it make life more difficult?”—-

    1 – Mark is a left wing outsider from NY.
    2 – Media people treat gossip as a skill and virtue and good, and are draw to media occupations. They are outsiders in productive industries.
    3 – FB hires mostly young inexperienced people and in particular benefits from immigration of people who are outsiders.
    4 – FB is a bit of a cult (as are Google, Amazon, certainly wikipedia and the academy.)
    5 – Once you consume the upper classes (he originally did) you can only expand the scope of people in your company by creating increasingly safer information environments for lower and lower (more easily offended) people from information that they disagree with.
    6 – In other words, it’s personal, cultural, and economic incentives.

    BUT WHY?

    Facebook, Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Quora, and the Academy, the School System, the government bureaucracies, and in particular leftist politicians, all have greater incentives to serve inoffensive, bias-confirming, Dunning-Kruger-satisfying, mythology to their customers.

    People rarely want the truth. They want an excuse to feel their status is higher than it demonstrably is given market conditions. The human accounting system of self work is status. Self perceived, and other perceived. In fact, much of television and advertising exists to appeal to this vulnerability. Marxism Postmodernism as well as the Abrahamic REligions, all appeal to this weakness of desiring to be more genetically, reproductively, socially, economically, and politically ‘higher’ than they are. This is why hyperconsumption works. We do not teach people piety in the abrahamic sense, or mindfulness in the ‘woo’ sense, or stoicism in the scientific sense.

    When Marxism (The myth of the equality of the classes) was no longer intellectually possible by the 1950’s or 1960’s – despite the pseudosciences of Marx, Freud, Boaz, and the Frankfurt school, the Postmodernists (largely the French under Derrida and Americans like Rorty) changed the propaganda (“Institutional Narrative”) from Classism as the means by which the underclasses could not change their status due to (nonexistent) oppression, to Identity and Racism as the means by which the underclasses could not change their status due to (nonexistent) oppression.

    Remember that Marx, Boaz,Freud, and Frankfurt School – and even Cantor, are Pseudoscientific movements that fed the classes of previous farm labor and domestic service, newly-risen to consumers by the industrial (capitalist) revolution, a vast set of lies, in order to drown out the rather obvious work of Maxwell, Darwin, Weber, Pareto, Durkheim, Spencer, Nietzsche. And they used the same techniques as did the Abrahamic religions (Islam was a heresy of Christianity, and Christianity a Heresy of Judaism, and Judaism a reaction to the invention of reason) to form an counter-revolution against the aristocratic, legal, and scientific revolution provided by the Romans, Greeks, and Persians. So the first dark age was created by Magical Religion, and the second dark age will either be created by reemergent Magical Religion or by Magical Knowledge we call “Pseudoscience”.

    Instead, we are —quite empirically — more or less desirable as mates, friends, coworkers, members of a polity, and citizens in a state, because we are more or less sociable (costly/rewarding), we are more or less reproductively desirable, more or less useful to one another in daily life, we are more or less useful to each other in production, more or less useful in organizing people to produce commons, and place more or less costs upon each other in social, economic, and political organization.

    In particular, in humans, the more symmetric, pedomorphic, aquiline, features are more desirable regardless of race, subrace, and for very good evolutionary reasons: easier detection of superior biology, easy detection of longer life, easy detection of more amenable termperaments, because of longer time for mental and social development, by the delay of sexual development, and lower depth of sexual development. In other words, greater pedomorphism and lower impulsivity and higher trust, and longer development cycles, create greater opportunity for cooperation, and the outsized returns of cooperation versus even the most capable individual.

    And among the Races, Subraces, Tribes, Clans, Families, we some have been more successful at eliminating the underclasses and thereby ‘domesticating’ themselves as we have domesticated animals. And some have been less successful at eliminating the underclasses, and have not domesticated themselves as we have domesticated many animals. As such the size of the underclass is much larger, and the median much lower, and therefore the institutions, traditions, morals, ethics, norms, habits, and manners are those that are suitbile to the majority.

    And this manifests itself largely in the ability to learn (which decreases rapidly at every seven to ten points of IQ, and in the ability of people to cooperate on increasingly complex divisions of labor while forgoing opportunities for self reward.

    And you can’t find evidence anywhere in the human world to contradict this that isn’t merely economic necessity among the most destitute and lonely.

    This is reality.

    So basically all companies, states, and religions that are not regulated by laws against the spread of falsehood, will harm a population by spreading falsehoods and feelgoods in interest of attracting revenues (companies), votes and taxes(states), and bodies(religion).

    ( Thankfully it is possible, at least in the near future to limit falsehoods and truths about mankind. Just as we limit what can be said about products and services. )

    End the lies.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Facebook-racist-and-why-does-it-make-life-more-difficult

  • Why Do Some Americans Call Europeans “communist”?

    A lot of answers, but americans actually don’t know why everything european sounds ‘communist’.

    1. europeans trade opportunity for certainty. Americans and people who come to America trade certainty for opportunity.
    2. America was invented in modern language as a ‘third way’, between the aristocracy(authority) and the church(communism), by creating a middle class (entrepreneurial) order consisting of nothing but markets.
    3. American law, and our culture, and much of how americans think ‘differently’ is because we view exchanging certainty for opportunity as ‘limiting our freedoms’. All our wealth goes to people who are entrepreneurs (look it up, its the highest paying occupation). Anyone can become an entrepreneur here and everything is set up to assist you.
    4. In particular, our law is back-loaded. Meaning that there is nothing to constrain you up front, and we handle exceptions (failures) through litigation (expensively). This is one of the primary reasons for rates of american innovation. (It is nearly impossible to do business in europe compared to america. I still have a UK company and it’s one hundred times more expensive and difficult for absolutely no reason.) Continental law is front loaded in the old (French) tradition, and this, and the heavy taxation serve as a barrier to innovation – especially technical innovation. In this sense, European law evolved out of bureaucracy and into high capital which is possible to organize in the Germanic countries.
    5. Everyone talks about medical care and this is chimera. The problem is that we haven’t modernized our laws to prevent medical bankruptcy, and provided catastrophic care. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET IT HERE FAST instead of waiting, and we don’t want to lose that. We have medicaid and medicare and EVERYONE can get health care. Our medicine is more expensive because there is more of it, it is faster, it is better. We don’t want to lose that. (Spoken as someone who has endured the arcane british system). So we need to revise our laws, and increase catastrophic care. But supplying more of an expensive good leads to its abuse and overconsumption.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Americans-call-Europeans-Communist

  • Why Is Saul Alinsky An Important Figure In The Progressive Movement?

    He was the person responsible for the political success of organizing the underclasses to Vote, Protest, and Rebel, and engage in violence, yes. He was the most effective marxist.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Saul-Alinsky-an-important-figure-in-the-progressive-movement