Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Do U.s. Americans Give False Comments Of Appreciation?

    America is a high trust society. We allow people to perform below their capacity, or even fail, as long as (a) they try hard, (b) they are honest.

    When an american says something complimentary he is saying, ‘you can trust me to act in your interests even if you are imperfect or fail’, or ‘as long as you are honest and trying hard we will not criticize you, and will only offer advice if asked’.

    In other words, we cannot fix everthing, education of others is costly, education of others may be unwanted, and people getnerally will learn on their own. If you’re adding benefit to something, it is not our place to create more benefit. It is our place only to prevent harm. By preventing harm, most people will achieve success at their own rates, and learn to be independent.

    By this process we “Teach Men to Fish” at their own pace, at their own choice, and we ‘eliminate’ the people who (a) dont try hard (b) aren’t honest. If we instruct people then they learn only to obey commands.

    FWIW: Most of our charity work in the world has caused more harm than good. It is not clear that aside from teaching literacy, and providing health care, that we do any good at all. Although in retrospect, bringing christianity rather than islam has been one of the great achievements of western civilization. Christianity builds commerce and literacy, and islam creates illiteracy ignorance and poverty.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-U-S-Americans-give-false-comments-of-appreciation

  • What Is The Foreign Policy Of The United States Of America In The Western Hemisphere?

    The postwar policy of the United States has been consistent and unwavering:

    1. We are the last survivor of the world wars, and the reconstruction was something we paid heavily for, and invested heavily in, and which became our purpose for existence.
    2. The world wars were exacerbated by world communism – the undeveloped civilizations counter-revolution against modernity.
    3. We must never have another world war because man may not survive it.
    4. To prevent world wars we will force nations to:
      (a) observe the peace of Westphalia that requires states to prevent non-state actors from engaging in conflicts between states,
      (b) maintain their borders and prohibit expansion of territory, preventing military conflict between states,
      (c) force states to grow only economically, not militarily, by extending human rights ( property rights), and investing in human capital, under the assumption that middle class consumer societies gain more from cooperation than from conflict and warfare.
    5. Presuming that:
      (a) Emphasis on institutions, rule of law, human rights, and consumer capitalism will produce middle class societies.
      (b) Middle class societies will create demand for democracy;
      (c) Democratic societies will produce commercial societies.
      (d) Commercial societies will avoid war.

    Unfortunately:

    1. Democracy is not good, but a short term luxury order resulting from economic windfalls that is unsustainable because it leads to politicization, endemic parasitism, and fragility. Instead the world has abandoned democracy, abandoned republicanism, and evolved to state corporatism: the management of the state as a business that serves consumers (citizens).
    2. When let loose under democracy, societies choose governments that reflect their level of social development (maturity), and this means socialistic in the christian world, and authoritarian in the Chinese world, despotic in the Muslim world, and of every flavor in the African World.
    3. That we have paid the high cost of transforming western civlization, Orthodox civilization, Sinic civilization, and Christian and pagan African civilization out of the medieval era – at very high costs to ourselves – and that we are failing at the transformation of the Muslim world, at a time when we no longer possess the disproportionate wealth that we did in prior eras against communism, socialism, and our own internal attempt at the soft communism of democratic socialist secular humanism.
    4. The unfortunate economic importance of oil – (similar to tin and copper in the Bronze Age) – which people rarely grasp is on par with the importance of sunlight in the Agrarian age, and its concentration in cheaply obtainable form between the Red and Kara Seas. And because of that concentration the possibility that the Totalitarian Orthodox, and Totalitarian Muslim would develop a bourse and instead of forcing oil into market prices, maximized rents against the rest of the world – a terror for developed civilization worse than another world war.

    And worst of all:

    1. Americans advocate the promissory side of their policy, but they do not make statements about the threat of punishment: “You may choose your own government in pursuit of joining the civilized consumer capitalist societies of the world. But if you choose poorly, and put into place a government that violates the these terms established by the ‘Postwar Law of the American Empire’, we will punish your government and as a consequence you, by acts of first economic, then financial, the communications, then military warfare until you no longer choose poorly.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-foreign-policy-of-the-United-States-of-America-in-the-Western-Hemisphere

  • What Is The Foreign Policy Of The United States Of America In The Western Hemisphere?

    The postwar policy of the United States has been consistent and unwavering:

    1. We are the last survivor of the world wars, and the reconstruction was something we paid heavily for, and invested heavily in, and which became our purpose for existence.
    2. The world wars were exacerbated by world communism – the undeveloped civilizations counter-revolution against modernity.
    3. We must never have another world war because man may not survive it.
    4. To prevent world wars we will force nations to:
      (a) observe the peace of Westphalia that requires states to prevent non-state actors from engaging in conflicts between states,
      (b) maintain their borders and prohibit expansion of territory, preventing military conflict between states,
      (c) force states to grow only economically, not militarily, by extending human rights ( property rights), and investing in human capital, under the assumption that middle class consumer societies gain more from cooperation than from conflict and warfare.
    5. Presuming that:
      (a) Emphasis on institutions, rule of law, human rights, and consumer capitalism will produce middle class societies.
      (b) Middle class societies will create demand for democracy;
      (c) Democratic societies will produce commercial societies.
      (d) Commercial societies will avoid war.

    Unfortunately:

    1. Democracy is not good, but a short term luxury order resulting from economic windfalls that is unsustainable because it leads to politicization, endemic parasitism, and fragility. Instead the world has abandoned democracy, abandoned republicanism, and evolved to state corporatism: the management of the state as a business that serves consumers (citizens).
    2. When let loose under democracy, societies choose governments that reflect their level of social development (maturity), and this means socialistic in the christian world, and authoritarian in the Chinese world, despotic in the Muslim world, and of every flavor in the African World.
    3. That we have paid the high cost of transforming western civlization, Orthodox civilization, Sinic civilization, and Christian and pagan African civilization out of the medieval era – at very high costs to ourselves – and that we are failing at the transformation of the Muslim world, at a time when we no longer possess the disproportionate wealth that we did in prior eras against communism, socialism, and our own internal attempt at the soft communism of democratic socialist secular humanism.
    4. The unfortunate economic importance of oil – (similar to tin and copper in the Bronze Age) – which people rarely grasp is on par with the importance of sunlight in the Agrarian age, and its concentration in cheaply obtainable form between the Red and Kara Seas. And because of that concentration the possibility that the Totalitarian Orthodox, and Totalitarian Muslim would develop a bourse and instead of forcing oil into market prices, maximized rents against the rest of the world – a terror for developed civilization worse than another world war.

    And worst of all:

    1. Americans advocate the promissory side of their policy, but they do not make statements about the threat of punishment: “You may choose your own government in pursuit of joining the civilized consumer capitalist societies of the world. But if you choose poorly, and put into place a government that violates the these terms established by the ‘Postwar Law of the American Empire’, we will punish your government and as a consequence you, by acts of first economic, then financial, the communications, then military warfare until you no longer choose poorly.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-foreign-policy-of-the-United-States-of-America-in-the-Western-Hemisphere

  • Which Ethnic Group, Among Caucasoid, Is The Most Neotenic?

    Show me where this is known. East asians most by far. Europeans next. Africans least. And everyone else in between. Europeans selected for more feminine traits resulting in thinner skin and the diversity of hair and eye color. But by every measure, of which testosterone (and penis size) is the most obvious, whites are second to east asians in neotenic (pedomorphic) selection.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-ethnic-group-among-Caucasoid-is-the-most-neotenic

  • Which Ethnic Group, Among Caucasoid, Is The Most Neotenic?

    Show me where this is known. East asians most by far. Europeans next. Africans least. And everyone else in between. Europeans selected for more feminine traits resulting in thinner skin and the diversity of hair and eye color. But by every measure, of which testosterone (and penis size) is the most obvious, whites are second to east asians in neotenic (pedomorphic) selection.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-ethnic-group-among-Caucasoid-is-the-most-neotenic

  • Why Is It So Popular To Drink Beverages Using A Straw In Us?

    Like many things american:

    1. Sterility
    2. “Extra Care”
    3. “Signaling”

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-popular-to-drink-beverages-using-a-straw-in-US

  • How Would You Restructure The United States?

    The current conflict is occurring because the regions have matured from settled territories into genetically, culturally, economically, separate nations, each of which resists the genetic, cultural, and economic differences of the others. In other words, the federal government is a domestic empire as well as a global empire.

    People don’t like empires. For good reason.

    The solution is:

    1. Universal right of secession and confederation on a county by county basis. Universal right of association and disassociation on an individual basis.
    2. County-by-county choice of political affiliation with bordering counties, to form new regions. The result will look something along the lines of the Nine or Eleven Nations of North America, with the six (large) immigrant cities as island plantations amidst the rest of the territories.
    3. Devolution of the powers of the federal government by limiting them only to Insurer of last Resort: Military, Common Treasury, Disaster Relief, Judge of Material Property conflict.
    4. Reservation of the powers not specifically granted to the insurer of last resort to the regions – specifically property and contract.
    5. Reservation of the powers of individual,interpersonal, family, labor to the county – specifically education, norms, holidays, traditions and information – to the county.

    This will accomplish:

    1. The division of the continental united states into a european -style polity with different cultures and norms, but who are protected by a large and powerful military.
    2. It will end the era of USA imperialism world wide.
    3. And it will create the greatest economic boom and the greatest level of experimentation since the enlightenment.
    4. And we can stop hating each other.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-restructure-the-United-States

  • Is White Male Privilege Distinct From White Female Privilege?

    This question and all questions regarding ‘privilege’ should be banned from Quora as pseudoscientific hate-baiting.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-white-male-privilege-distinct-from-white-female-privilege

  • Is America Becoming More Tribalist/racist?

    ( PREFACE: My position is that all race questions on Quora should be banned. The reason being that false and comforting answers pass editors, and truthful but unpleasant answers do not. Therefore Quora contributes to harmful propaganda by permitting these questions. On the other hand as one of the experts on this subject, people ask me to answer, and I do.)

    Endemic racism hasn’t changed in the USA and never will, bcause it doesn’t cahnge anywhere except when there is absurd wealth that alleviates competition. But racisim is becoming more severe because of the political influence of immigration (invasion) by large numbers of hispanics who do not integrate, and the recent expansion of islam and its lack of self-policing, it’s hostility to modernity, hostility to science, and hostility to integration.

    As long as a minority consists of less than 5% of a population there seems to be little conflict. Above 5% and when minorities congregate in neighborhoods, cities, or regions we see (universally) their attempt to seek political power in order to obtain by political means that which they cannot obtain by market means. There are no conditions under which this is false.

    The USA is worse off than say the UK, France and Germany because we have no ‘culture’ other than commerce and rule of law. And due to activism in the 1960s, we have lost all our ‘norms’. So it is no longer possible to achieve what we could prior to 1963: indoctrination into the protestant work ethic, the absolute nuclear family, some variation of christianity, and a meritocratic social hierarchy.

    So we lack a culture, lack norms, lack normative institutions, and therefore all conflict is ‘free for all’ and forced into politics.

    At present the ‘war’ is between the six immigrant cities, and the rest of the country.

    What I suspect is that this conflict cannot be resolved through any solution other than either civil war, secession, or the devolution of normative law from the federal to the regional governments in line with the “11 Nations” of North America, and relegating the federal government to roles only of insurer of last resort (war, retirement, health, property conflict.)

    What I suspect will continue to occur in the six major immigrant cities is reversion to type: the evolution of a caste system like we see in india and south america. The reason being that the median genetic ability of individuals in each tribal and racial group will produce castes as we have seen elsewhere.

    All political action is a proxy for violence. There is no circumventing of that reality.

    When political action is no longer a sufficient proxy for violence – man universally returns to violence.

    And no civilization has ever been as fragile as ours.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-America-becoming-more-tribalist-racist

  • How Close Are We To A Constitutional Crisis? Does The Current Admin Really Care About Our Rights?

    You don’t have any rights intrinsically. You can’t have them. You can aspire to possess them. No other statement is true or possible. We create governments to create legal rights by denying each other choices.

    At present many people possess legal privileges not legal rights. These privileges come at the expense of others rights and privileges.

    The people who do ‘everything’ (the working and middle class) are tired of losing rights in order that other people may have privileges.

    What differentiates a right from a privilege? A Right consists of a prohibition upon the imposition of costs upon that which you have born costs to obtain. A privilege consists of an imposition of costs upon others that you have not born a cost to obtain.

    So you must know the difference between a right and a privilege. What has occurred is that the government has attempted to grant as many privileges as possible in order to maintain social harmony in order to maintain the economy and society despite having dismantled our history, our traditions, our culture, our law, and our families.

    We tolerate governments so long as the pain of the status quo is less than the pain of revolution.

    People have begun to care about their rights, and care less about other’s privileges. This is because the emphasis on immigration and free trade, and globalization has put an undue cost on the ‘moral’ working and middle classes.

    This will end badly.

    https://www.quora.com/How-close-are-we-to-a-constitutional-crisis-Does-the-current-admin-really-care-about-our-rights