Curt Doolittle

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  • Have We Passed Peak Human?

    PEAK HUMAN? [O]MG. What if we have passed ‘peak human’ already? What if it is not possible to improve upon late hunter-gatherer genetics, and that urbanization has produced increasingly aggressive, less intelligent, more impulsive peoples? What if inbreeding, low IQ, higher aggression, and higher reproduction are a superior evolutionary strategy? Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Suicidal Tendencies

    [C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die.

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Suicidal Tendencies

    [C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die.

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?

    [W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. 2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places. 4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.) 3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’. 5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating). (h/t paul)

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?

    [W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. 2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places. 4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.) 3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’. 5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating). (h/t paul)

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Explained: The Christian Idea

    [T]he Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation.

    By attributing status to the extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate the possibility of gaining status by ‘cheating’ in favor of the family or tribe. Although this means that many Mediterranean Catholics practice low trust chirstianity by retaining familial insurance and kin selection. While protestant Christians eliminate even familial insurance via the absolute nuclear family.

    This behavior is necessary for the development of an advanced economy. And it separates the west and Japan from the rest.

    [T]his high trust behavior is also the opposite of the Levantine religions which advocate dualist, polylogical ethics by exacerbating kin selection at the tribal level even while eliminating it at the familial level. So we can see lowest-trust Islam, next-lowest trust Judaism, low trust catholicism, and high trust Protestantism. And when we order them this way we see that this order reflects the number of territorial competitors.

    It is also (probably) true that westerners are less genetically biased against outsiders (due to more circumpolar hunter-gatherer evolutionary pressures) and less aggressive (lower testosterone) and more able to take advantage of it (higher average verbal IQ).

    But all that means is that westerners are more fertile genetic ground for extension of kinship love to non-kin.

    The church outlawing cousin marriage in order to break up the great families was equally influential.

    So it is one thing to acknowledge the central subtle principle of Christianity, and to grasp its dramatic economic and political benefits, and quite another to conflate the dogma, rules and justifications as other than primitive law.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Explained: The Christian Idea

    [T]he Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation.

    By attributing status to the extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate the possibility of gaining status by ‘cheating’ in favor of the family or tribe. Although this means that many Mediterranean Catholics practice low trust chirstianity by retaining familial insurance and kin selection. While protestant Christians eliminate even familial insurance via the absolute nuclear family.

    This behavior is necessary for the development of an advanced economy. And it separates the west and Japan from the rest.

    [T]his high trust behavior is also the opposite of the Levantine religions which advocate dualist, polylogical ethics by exacerbating kin selection at the tribal level even while eliminating it at the familial level. So we can see lowest-trust Islam, next-lowest trust Judaism, low trust catholicism, and high trust Protestantism. And when we order them this way we see that this order reflects the number of territorial competitors.

    It is also (probably) true that westerners are less genetically biased against outsiders (due to more circumpolar hunter-gatherer evolutionary pressures) and less aggressive (lower testosterone) and more able to take advantage of it (higher average verbal IQ).

    But all that means is that westerners are more fertile genetic ground for extension of kinship love to non-kin.

    The church outlawing cousin marriage in order to break up the great families was equally influential.

    So it is one thing to acknowledge the central subtle principle of Christianity, and to grasp its dramatic economic and political benefits, and quite another to conflate the dogma, rules and justifications as other than primitive law.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?

    BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“

    The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so that the government can enact any law that it desires. The american system was designed to make it HARD to pass laws, so that the government could do as little as possible.  And presidents, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have undermined that constitution whenever possible.

    Americans historically operate under the anglo saxon principle of voluntary order: “I will allow the government certain actions for our common good, and disallow the government all other actions. If the government violates those actions I will replace it with a government that does not.”

    https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-American-obsession-with-the-constitution-come-from

  • Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?

    BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“

    The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so that the government can enact any law that it desires. The american system was designed to make it HARD to pass laws, so that the government could do as little as possible.  And presidents, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have undermined that constitution whenever possible.

    Americans historically operate under the anglo saxon principle of voluntary order: “I will allow the government certain actions for our common good, and disallow the government all other actions. If the government violates those actions I will replace it with a government that does not.”

    https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-American-obsession-with-the-constitution-come-from

  • The Law Evolves as Science Evolves: By Reaction

    [A]ll progress in truth, like all progress in law, is a reaction to progress in imagination, error, bias, deception and propaganda. The reason we could not suppress the left, is because we did not yet understand Truth. Now that we understand Truth, we can criticize, suppress and punish the left as the liars and thieves that they are.