Curt Doolittle

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  • Locke(english) Vs Kant(german)

    by Daniel Gurpide See the contrast between Locke’s and Kant’s modern approaches to the education of children (a long term strategic project). On the themes of:

    • 1/ MOTIVATION: education as DUTY (Kant) versus education as delight (Locke).
    • 2/ DISCIPLINE: education for OBEDIENCE (K) versus education for liberty (L).
    • 3/ CHARACTER: education via IMPOSED discipline (K) versus education by setting an INSPIRED example (L).

    Obedience is the fundamental for Kant, connecting all the way back to overcoming the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: disobedience. Duty is primary, we should do things because we are supposed to, not because we want to: that is the key life lesson. Of course, kids will be kids and so often disobedient. Every transgression in a child is a want of obedience, and this brings punishment with it: school as a place that quenches any joy you might have.

  • Agency = Potential Energy

    AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY by Simon Ström Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s

  • Agency = Potential Energy

    AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY by Simon Ström Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s

  • Dimensions of Art Criticism

    Four years of art criticism. The primary rule of which was ‘no empty words’. One had to make thoughtful compliments and thoughtful criticisms. It sticks with you. DIMENSIONS: 1) Craft Scale (Craftsmanship(presence of resources)) 2) Design Scale (Aesthetics (presence of resources)) 3) Content (“Meaning” (presence of resources)) Scale (Population) 4) Monument Scale (Capital (Presence of resources)) Using triangulation you can rate any of ‘art, craft, or design’, by these measures. Value remains subjective but capital remains objective. Sorry, just how it is. But what I like to shock people with, is that beauty = fertility: the presence of resources. We judge art like we judge fertility in each other. It really is that simple.

  • Dimensions of Art Criticism

    Four years of art criticism. The primary rule of which was ‘no empty words’. One had to make thoughtful compliments and thoughtful criticisms. It sticks with you. DIMENSIONS: 1) Craft Scale (Craftsmanship(presence of resources)) 2) Design Scale (Aesthetics (presence of resources)) 3) Content (“Meaning” (presence of resources)) Scale (Population) 4) Monument Scale (Capital (Presence of resources)) Using triangulation you can rate any of ‘art, craft, or design’, by these measures. Value remains subjective but capital remains objective. Sorry, just how it is. But what I like to shock people with, is that beauty = fertility: the presence of resources. We judge art like we judge fertility in each other. It really is that simple.

  • We Must All Find A Method of Mindfulness

    WE ALL MUST FIND A METHOD OF MINDFULNESS – IT’S COMPUTATIONALLY NECESSARY —“”Atheism is unnatural. People are not evolved for secular epistemic purity but rather for survival through cooperation through language. A major way that people cooperate through language is by taking part in a community of faith. Searching for the truth apart from myth is also one, but one which is not a significant part of our evolutionary environment.The fact that there are actually “communities” (I use that term loosely)of atheists who actually share their values and search for the truth is just a by-product of the fact that certain successfull faith groups tolerate our presence and find us useful. Atheism is may be factually correct, but it is not natural. Atheists are extremely unnatural; about as unnatural as homosexuals and feminists.We should never be surprised is someone reverts to type and converts from atheism to a religion, especially when they get old, have kids, decide they want kids, decide they want to find a good spouse, or any other life milestone that has to do with our supreme purpose on earth, reproduction of fit offspring.”—Adam Voight Perfect. And, I love this quote: —“People are not evolved for producing statements of secular epistemic purity but rather for survival through cooperation through language. “— The limit to the evolutionary value of language is its utility in cooperation – cooperation which decreases all costs (and increases certainty). This is probably why our brains are smaller, yet we demonstrate far greater achievement than our predecessor species: we distributed “computation” into a network through language, whereas other species had only (largely) distributed sense-perception through ‘calls’. If I can hope to contribute to your post, it would be that mindfulness is ‘computationally’ necessary for the simple reason of cost-savings. And that one simply *MUST* find a method of obtaining mindfulness that he can physically, mentally, and emotionally tolerate. Unfortunately, the evidence is, that mindfulness (like hypnosis) is easier achieved by the simple than the intelligent. And that as one’s intelligence increases, one must seek it by incrementally more abstruse means. Hence why stoicism is the most effective and universal means of universal mindfulness: it requires one pay a physical cost of effort, rather than a cult-cost of believing a falsehood as the price of entry, and price of mindfulness.

  • We Must All Find A Method of Mindfulness

    WE ALL MUST FIND A METHOD OF MINDFULNESS – IT’S COMPUTATIONALLY NECESSARY —“”Atheism is unnatural. People are not evolved for secular epistemic purity but rather for survival through cooperation through language. A major way that people cooperate through language is by taking part in a community of faith. Searching for the truth apart from myth is also one, but one which is not a significant part of our evolutionary environment.The fact that there are actually “communities” (I use that term loosely)of atheists who actually share their values and search for the truth is just a by-product of the fact that certain successfull faith groups tolerate our presence and find us useful. Atheism is may be factually correct, but it is not natural. Atheists are extremely unnatural; about as unnatural as homosexuals and feminists.We should never be surprised is someone reverts to type and converts from atheism to a religion, especially when they get old, have kids, decide they want kids, decide they want to find a good spouse, or any other life milestone that has to do with our supreme purpose on earth, reproduction of fit offspring.”—Adam Voight Perfect. And, I love this quote: —“People are not evolved for producing statements of secular epistemic purity but rather for survival through cooperation through language. “— The limit to the evolutionary value of language is its utility in cooperation – cooperation which decreases all costs (and increases certainty). This is probably why our brains are smaller, yet we demonstrate far greater achievement than our predecessor species: we distributed “computation” into a network through language, whereas other species had only (largely) distributed sense-perception through ‘calls’. If I can hope to contribute to your post, it would be that mindfulness is ‘computationally’ necessary for the simple reason of cost-savings. And that one simply *MUST* find a method of obtaining mindfulness that he can physically, mentally, and emotionally tolerate. Unfortunately, the evidence is, that mindfulness (like hypnosis) is easier achieved by the simple than the intelligent. And that as one’s intelligence increases, one must seek it by incrementally more abstruse means. Hence why stoicism is the most effective and universal means of universal mindfulness: it requires one pay a physical cost of effort, rather than a cult-cost of believing a falsehood as the price of entry, and price of mindfulness.

  • Eventually We Run Out

    Eventually we ran out of local flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of new regions of flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of arable land. Eventually (soon) we will run out of resources. Eventually (later) we will run out of a capacity to transform energy. We are never free of the universe’s limits. We are never free of the limits of energy transformation in this universe. We have only one medium term problem in mankind. The malthusian population of the underclass. We have only one medium-long term in mankind: The malthusian population of the middle and upper classes. We have only one long term problem in mankind: eventually we will hit the malthusian limit of energy transformation.

  • Eventually We Run Out

    Eventually we ran out of local flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of new regions of flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of arable land. Eventually (soon) we will run out of resources. Eventually (later) we will run out of a capacity to transform energy. We are never free of the universe’s limits. We are never free of the limits of energy transformation in this universe. We have only one medium term problem in mankind. The malthusian population of the underclass. We have only one medium-long term in mankind: The malthusian population of the middle and upper classes. We have only one long term problem in mankind: eventually we will hit the malthusian limit of energy transformation.

  • Never Has An Empire Been So Fragile

    NEVER HAS AN EMPIRE BEEN MORE FRAGILE There is no natural gas, electrical, or electronic infrastructure that can survive a magazine of steel core 7.62 ammunition. There are no transformers that can survive a collision with a pickup truck. There are no poles that can survive a man with a chainsaw. There is no physical infrastructure than can sustain loss of water pressure and five gallons of gasoline, and a match. There are no railways that cannot be stopped by simple removal of rails. There are no drivers willing to transport goods under threat of snipers, road spikes, and hijacking. America is vast and dependent upon energy and that is its weakness. THE RULE OF THREES Three seconds without blood, three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food, three months without commerce, three quarters without government. It takes about three weeks to a month to collapse a country. Because people fall of their own weight, economies fall of their own weight, countries fall of their own weight. Empires fall of their own weight. Civilizations fall of their own weight. SMALL ACTIONS IN ENOUGH NUMBERS PRODUCE VAST CONSEQUENCES It takes a few hundred if not a few thousand men to conduct a revolution. and all retaliation against those few hundred, or thousand men, by opposition or the state, will accomplish is acceleration. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.