Curt Doolittle

Source: Original Site Post

  • GODS

    GODS

    —“Earlier in the year, around Richmond event, you posted something to the effect that God had imbued us with special chosenness and with the divine mandate to lead the rest of the world kicking and screaming out of poverty, ignorance etc. And that parasitism, tolerance, and civ collapse is the price we pay to the universe for these gifts. Did I understand your thoughts clearly?”—

    You understood correctly (or at least closely enough) because I was speaking in the language and grammar of inspirational theology: wisdom. In my work I am not working in the language and grammar of inspirational theology, but of juridical decidability: science.

    It’s not that I”m incapable of inspirational prose. It’s that it’s not the problem that needs solving because every appeal to inspiration that affects any faction of the right will alienate the rest of the factions of the right. So, I just use truth and policy under the presumption that rational self-interest in self-preservation will eventually eclipse shallow demand for emotional inspiration.

    That said, I absolutely positively agree with what I said to you. It’s just that my concept of God, which you take as anthropomorphic is considerably more complex and the difference between the Semitic god and my understanding is a bit like the difference between arithmetic and geometric transformations in n!-dimensional manifolds so to speak. So we can only, and therefore must, imagine ‘god’ as what we are capable of imagining and understanding. And we all must hold onto the presumption that there are those more capable of understanding than we, and that at some point others more capable than them.

    If the universe can calculate something it will, and will do so when and where it must, and not where it can’t and mustn’t. The challenge for man is that god does not care for man, and the universe is not made for us, but we for it, and we are being constructed over eons to fulfill the universe’s purpose – as are others like and unlike us too – because most of us will fail. The stories of the gods are made by men to make our ‘utility’ bearable.

    So my words are spoken in the context that in retrospect it is rather evident that we HAVE dragged mankind out of his condition as animal into at least some potential for godhood ourselves – to act as the hands of the gods on their behalf.

    The truth is, that all evidence is that the universe and the gods care nothing for us, other than what they must in order to achieve their ends. This is why I prefer the pagan gods. They are equal fictions but at least they do not lie, and they were not invented by men to deceive men to profit or manipulate, control, or govern, or comfort men but to EDUCATE THEM.

    We are, at least in potential, sort of like neo to the architect: the exception that proves the rule. The outliers.

  • Evolution: It’s not that Europeans were under more pressure but different pressure.

     

    —“KMac, in his last book, talked about how we evolved under extremely challenging environmental circumstances. And that even though so did northern Asians, they are tribal and as blind to their tribalism as is the chosen people. I don’t recall how he reconciled these divergent outcomes. Maybe he didn’t – maybe he just acknowledged them. Then you picked up the thread, if memory serves, and attributed it to the divine. True or false?”—

    I don’t want to get into the position of criticizing KM because it’s nit picking on mentors, allies, and peers. But try to understand his specialization versus mine. His original presumption was that it was genetic more than cultural. Duchesne’s more cultural than genetic. Mine more institutional than cultural, and probably even with genetic. So I KNOW what caused our uniqueness. It’s not a question. The data is in. We know genetics, institutional and cultural, linguistic, technological, and most of all we know how impervious group strategy is to change, and how language contains the group strategy.

    Also, I don’t attribute anything to the divine unless I’m trying to reach people across the isle, speaking on their terms, or engaging in poetic expression.

    It’s not that Europeans were under more pressure but different pressure. Pressure from African diseases is different from pressure from cold. Pressure from competitors is different from competition by nature. Social demands from population density in river farms, vs social demands from scarce population among people constantly on the move. Social competition in warm open climates different from huddling with animals in cold winter longhouses.

    Similar for east Asians(few genetic competitors). Very different for south Eurasians (many genetic competitors), and more so for Africans (zillions of genetic competitors)

    The correct order is probably: Climate, Neoteny, Demographic distribution, first institution, competitors, the sequence of revolutions vs sequence of conquests.

    Net is the most recent race is ancient north Eurasians, and Europeans are the result of a chain of hybridization events as the east Asians moved north and west, and the north Eurasians moved west and south. Our people bypassed the religion-river-farmer stage and went right to steppe herding. That group spread west to conquer the farmers in Europe, and formed a conquering and ruling class, and yes, largely replaced them – organizing an entire polity to adopt the metaphysics of superiority.

    Genghis Khan learned that it was better to rule the Chinese and tax them than slay them, and likewise the steppe herders learned it was better to enslave and rule to pay for their expansionary militarism.

    The original steppe herders were far closer to the spartans than the Athenians. And in retrospect, it’s obvious where spartan habits came from. And its to the spartans we can look for cultural memory, and the romans only slightly less so. The athenians modernized more quiclky – because naval people do so more than territorial army people do (just like anglos vs germans).

    The fall of the Spartans, like us, being the incremental accumulation of political power by women until all the wealthiest landholders were women. why? men died a lot and women could inherit. So women married to accumulate land from aristocracy that was likely to die off. (really).

  • Evolution: It’s not that Europeans were under more pressure but different pressure.

     

    —“KMac, in his last book, talked about how we evolved under extremely challenging environmental circumstances. And that even though so did northern Asians, they are tribal and as blind to their tribalism as is the chosen people. I don’t recall how he reconciled these divergent outcomes. Maybe he didn’t – maybe he just acknowledged them. Then you picked up the thread, if memory serves, and attributed it to the divine. True or false?”—

    I don’t want to get into the position of criticizing KM because it’s nit picking on mentors, allies, and peers. But try to understand his specialization versus mine. His original presumption was that it was genetic more than cultural. Duchesne’s more cultural than genetic. Mine more institutional than cultural, and probably even with genetic. So I KNOW what caused our uniqueness. It’s not a question. The data is in. We know genetics, institutional and cultural, linguistic, technological, and most of all we know how impervious group strategy is to change, and how language contains the group strategy.

    Also, I don’t attribute anything to the divine unless I’m trying to reach people across the isle, speaking on their terms, or engaging in poetic expression.

    It’s not that Europeans were under more pressure but different pressure. Pressure from African diseases is different from pressure from cold. Pressure from competitors is different from competition by nature. Social demands from population density in river farms, vs social demands from scarce population among people constantly on the move. Social competition in warm open climates different from huddling with animals in cold winter longhouses.

    Similar for east Asians(few genetic competitors). Very different for south Eurasians (many genetic competitors), and more so for Africans (zillions of genetic competitors)

    The correct order is probably: Climate, Neoteny, Demographic distribution, first institution, competitors, the sequence of revolutions vs sequence of conquests.

    Net is the most recent race is ancient north Eurasians, and Europeans are the result of a chain of hybridization events as the east Asians moved north and west, and the north Eurasians moved west and south. Our people bypassed the religion-river-farmer stage and went right to steppe herding. That group spread west to conquer the farmers in Europe, and formed a conquering and ruling class, and yes, largely replaced them – organizing an entire polity to adopt the metaphysics of superiority.

    Genghis Khan learned that it was better to rule the Chinese and tax them than slay them, and likewise the steppe herders learned it was better to enslave and rule to pay for their expansionary militarism.

    The original steppe herders were far closer to the spartans than the Athenians. And in retrospect, it’s obvious where spartan habits came from. And its to the spartans we can look for cultural memory, and the romans only slightly less so. The athenians modernized more quiclky – because naval people do so more than territorial army people do (just like anglos vs germans).

    The fall of the Spartans, like us, being the incremental accumulation of political power by women until all the wealthiest landholders were women. why? men died a lot and women could inherit. So women married to accumulate land from aristocracy that was likely to die off. (really).

  • Examples of Cultural Relativism Around the World

     

    —“Curt: What are some examples of cultural relativism around the world?”– quora user

    1) Bride Kidnapping (actions)

    Just to pick a controversial one. While less than two hundred years have passed, we have lost cultural memory of the reason women wanted to be married: independence. It is better to be in command of your own house over your own children than under command of your parent’s house in the service of your brothers and sisters. And to begin insuring you would have children to care for you in your old age. Sex and affection were a perk. A family meant economic independence, social status, and investment in the future.

    In primitive societies, particularly those of horse culture (raiders), of steppe, tundra, and desert, children are part of the household workforce. So husbands must (a) ‘compensate’ parents for the loss of the labor, (b) demonstrate the capacity to provide income for the daughter on the other. (c) provide insurance in case the marriage fails and the family must support the daughter and her children.

    However, in these same societies (i) banditry is heroic and in the family interest (in their world bravery), so is (ii) deception (in their world cunning), and (iii) some parents seek unreasonable prices for their daughters. (iv) some daughters are forced to care for their parents (like slaves) at their own expense.
    So when negotiation is impossible the boy’s family can arrange a kidnapping, and the women of his family will try to convincer her to join their family (she can refuse).

    Or couples who are interested in each other, can arrange a kidnapping, to escape the extraordinary demands of the girl’s parents, or disapproval of her parents, sometimes for reasons against her interests.

    And of course, girls from hostile tribes can be kidnapped, captured and raped at which point, they are ‘unmarketable’, and will escape or stay.

    So, this is why :

    … i) MORALITY is universal: Morality is always decidable, and consists of self-determination, by personal sovereignty, and interpersonal, social, and political reciprocity.

    … ii) Moral NORMS differ in different places at different times because the constitution of moral actions requires accounting for many conditions.


    2) Corruption (Actions)

    In germanic civilization above the Hajnal line (or rather in germanic civilization alone) Europeans practiced bipartite manorialism from about 700AD onward. This had a dramatic effect on the behavior of the population, by limiting access to farmland to young marrieds who had demonstrated good character and suppressing the reproduction (and increasing the starvation and disease) of those who were not. It meant that peasantry was literally children of the manor under legal rule of the manor, until they had their own land at which point they were subject to common law like adults. And if you could somehow through achievement join the trading class, nobility, or god forbid, aristocracy, you would gain legislative influence over your trade, over your territory, or over the nation. In much of european history we see this same pattern: child-slave, teen-serf, adult-freeman, responsible-citizen, accomplished-sovereign. And everyone knew the requirement for moving up that pyramid.

    And that pyramid was jealously guarded with skepticism, demanding you perform successfully to climb it. (all though not to fall from it). And while your rights were individual, your membership was to an insurer. That insurer was your family, or your church community, or the manor, or the state.

    Corruption in this world was only suppressed above that line in Europe and in japan. The rest of the world is notoriously corrupt, from the Italian church to the french bureaucracy to the european Mediterranean, to Russia, India, china. But worst of all in the middle east, where they still cannot form a bureaucracy or an army because the ethic is purely familial and tribal. India suffers from the same devotion to family and village-tribe. China of course, has a long history of disregard for human life, and it’s civility is contrived purely as posturing.

    That’s because in most primitive civilizations deceit and theft is in the family interest. As civilizations evolve, corruption is in the family and regional interest. And for unique reasons, Europeans specialized in the development of commons which were in everyone’s interest. But it’s only because the prosecution of ‘cheats’ was so severe, and the privilege of access to land, freedom, and law, so precious, and that the bureaucracy evolved from the military not state or priesthood.

    Corruption is expected family behavior in most of the world. And it’s expected family behavior not to in the west.

    3) Truth (Words)

    Might as well stick with another controversial topic: **truth before face** (western egalitarianism), **face before truth** (eastern harmonialism), and **face by deceit** is honorable (Middle Eastern and African familism-tribalism). This spectrum describes truth as serving the political interests of everyone (western), the social interests of everyone (eastern), and the familial interests of everyone. This is because heterogeneity produces tribalism, and homogeneity not. Europe and East Asia provided cutural homogeneity. Africa and the Middle east didn’t. The middle east didn’t because Islam solved only the problem of disempowering the chieftains, but not the problem of tribalism – it only exacerbated it.

    Those two are all I have time for although they are excellent examples of the problem.

  • Examples of Cultural Relativism Around the World

     

    —“Curt: What are some examples of cultural relativism around the world?”– quora user

    1) Bride Kidnapping (actions)

    Just to pick a controversial one. While less than two hundred years have passed, we have lost cultural memory of the reason women wanted to be married: independence. It is better to be in command of your own house over your own children than under command of your parent’s house in the service of your brothers and sisters. And to begin insuring you would have children to care for you in your old age. Sex and affection were a perk. A family meant economic independence, social status, and investment in the future.

    In primitive societies, particularly those of horse culture (raiders), of steppe, tundra, and desert, children are part of the household workforce. So husbands must (a) ‘compensate’ parents for the loss of the labor, (b) demonstrate the capacity to provide income for the daughter on the other. (c) provide insurance in case the marriage fails and the family must support the daughter and her children.

    However, in these same societies (i) banditry is heroic and in the family interest (in their world bravery), so is (ii) deception (in their world cunning), and (iii) some parents seek unreasonable prices for their daughters. (iv) some daughters are forced to care for their parents (like slaves) at their own expense.
    So when negotiation is impossible the boy’s family can arrange a kidnapping, and the women of his family will try to convincer her to join their family (she can refuse).

    Or couples who are interested in each other, can arrange a kidnapping, to escape the extraordinary demands of the girl’s parents, or disapproval of her parents, sometimes for reasons against her interests.

    And of course, girls from hostile tribes can be kidnapped, captured and raped at which point, they are ‘unmarketable’, and will escape or stay.

    So, this is why :

    … i) MORALITY is universal: Morality is always decidable, and consists of self-determination, by personal sovereignty, and interpersonal, social, and political reciprocity.

    … ii) Moral NORMS differ in different places at different times because the constitution of moral actions requires accounting for many conditions.


    2) Corruption (Actions)

    In germanic civilization above the Hajnal line (or rather in germanic civilization alone) Europeans practiced bipartite manorialism from about 700AD onward. This had a dramatic effect on the behavior of the population, by limiting access to farmland to young marrieds who had demonstrated good character and suppressing the reproduction (and increasing the starvation and disease) of those who were not. It meant that peasantry was literally children of the manor under legal rule of the manor, until they had their own land at which point they were subject to common law like adults. And if you could somehow through achievement join the trading class, nobility, or god forbid, aristocracy, you would gain legislative influence over your trade, over your territory, or over the nation. In much of european history we see this same pattern: child-slave, teen-serf, adult-freeman, responsible-citizen, accomplished-sovereign. And everyone knew the requirement for moving up that pyramid.

    And that pyramid was jealously guarded with skepticism, demanding you perform successfully to climb it. (all though not to fall from it). And while your rights were individual, your membership was to an insurer. That insurer was your family, or your church community, or the manor, or the state.

    Corruption in this world was only suppressed above that line in Europe and in japan. The rest of the world is notoriously corrupt, from the Italian church to the french bureaucracy to the european Mediterranean, to Russia, India, china. But worst of all in the middle east, where they still cannot form a bureaucracy or an army because the ethic is purely familial and tribal. India suffers from the same devotion to family and village-tribe. China of course, has a long history of disregard for human life, and it’s civility is contrived purely as posturing.

    That’s because in most primitive civilizations deceit and theft is in the family interest. As civilizations evolve, corruption is in the family and regional interest. And for unique reasons, Europeans specialized in the development of commons which were in everyone’s interest. But it’s only because the prosecution of ‘cheats’ was so severe, and the privilege of access to land, freedom, and law, so precious, and that the bureaucracy evolved from the military not state or priesthood.

    Corruption is expected family behavior in most of the world. And it’s expected family behavior not to in the west.

    3) Truth (Words)

    Might as well stick with another controversial topic: **truth before face** (western egalitarianism), **face before truth** (eastern harmonialism), and **face by deceit** is honorable (Middle Eastern and African familism-tribalism). This spectrum describes truth as serving the political interests of everyone (western), the social interests of everyone (eastern), and the familial interests of everyone. This is because heterogeneity produces tribalism, and homogeneity not. Europe and East Asia provided cutural homogeneity. Africa and the Middle east didn’t. The middle east didn’t because Islam solved only the problem of disempowering the chieftains, but not the problem of tribalism – it only exacerbated it.

    Those two are all I have time for although they are excellent examples of the problem.

  • COVID LOCKDOWN CONSEQUENCES —“i think people are just sick of it ( not judging

    COVID LOCKDOWN CONSEQUENCES

    —“i think people are just sick of it ( not judging not observing) and governments are hesitant to lockdown again”—

    Correct.

    At some point the people will, in fact, prefer opening the economy, especially because the vector is NARROW: elder care, health care industries, to home transmission, spread thru entertainment(gatherings), and limiting isolation to those groups, combined with criminalization can work.

    At present, trait-(dis)agreeablness determines tolerances (genetics). But all tolerance for these conditions has a half-life.

    If the duration continues more than another 12-18 months,then:

    a) Entertainment will never recover. Neither will education or commercial real estate.
    b) Educational reform by conversation to software gaming, esp at the expense of the teacher’s union.
    c) University education too is unnecessary dead weight on reproduction and economy, forcing immigration.
    d) commercial real estate worthless, and
    e) car travel to those locations waste.

    Large democratically controlled, immigrant, and underclass cities were already killing the country one city at a time.

    But without need for commercial real estate and without the need for wasted commute time, economic concentration in cities will redistribute geographically. all commute will be limited to idustrial production – at least until all industrial production is eliminated by automation.

    If risk continues longer (land is with us long term) then this is just a short list of the major consequences. Most of which are GOOD, and will cause necessary and beneficial ecnomic reforms without need for political consensus or political action.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-10-28 01:40:25 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105109862800546236

  • The Choice – Episode 0029 – The Prosecution. No, Jews Are Not American

    No, Jews Are Not American – They Are Anti-American Like They Have Been Anti-Every Country Ever Hosting Them. But How Do We Fix The Problem Without Bloodshed?

    —‘This does not end well, ever. jewish Americans are Americans. #judaism Is not a nationality. “—

    It’s called ‘demonstrated behavior”. Judaism is a nationality because all Jews behave as a nation – it’s just a diasporic nation rather than a landed one – like the Gypsies and Muslims. Judaism is an Ethnicity (Jewish Race), a Nationality (Jewish diaspora, and lsraeli), and a religion (Jewish religion). The question you must answer is why can they not build a nation-state and why do they require host peoples like Gypsies and Muslims to survive? Why can’t the Jews and Gypsies create their own nation-state, and why do the Muslims destroy and reduce to ignorance and dysgenia every people they touch?

    Anti Semitism is a world universal, but the current trend started in America when postwar eastern European Jews arrived, continued their group strategy with advocacy of non-integration, commercial hedonism, a-moralism, socialism, cosmopolitan universalism. And with Columbia’s hosting of the Frankfurt School. they set about systematically undermining our constitution. our culture, our civilization, and even yes, demographics by design. And they repeated their traditional crimes yet again – and still do daily – in every walk of life.

    it seems never to occur to the Jews that they have been systematically prosecuted by every host civilization for very good reason: they institutionalized the female strategy of undermining, profit from baiting into hazard, lying, rent-seeking, and concentration of capital for the purposes of extraction, rather than engaging in reciprocity and production. Jews specialize in the professions of undermining: organized crime, prostitution, pornography, usury, financial crimes, insurance schemes, gossip (commentary, news, opinion, entertainment], undermining western group strategy and heroic mythology (movies, television, academy], separatist ethics, separatism, non-integration,
    nepotism, conspiracy against the people, conspiracy with the state against the people, and buying access to power.

    Jewish non-integration ends badly because Jews act badly in every host country that they have been exported from. Especially England and the Russian Empire.

    Jewish Americans are demonstrably NOT Americans, but Anti-Americans: They have intentionally maintained Separatism, in a country whose cost of entry was integration into rule of law of reciprocity, truthful speech, individual productivity, nuclear family, and commons before self. They didn’t integrate-they instigate.

    Jewish Marxism was invented to undermine relations between the classes, Jewish Feminism to undermine the compromise between the genders. Jewish postmodernism to undermine our integration of groups, Jewish Deniaiism of our genetic differences and necessity of merit markets to compromise. The Jewish sponsorship of johnson’s Great Society imitation of the Soviets that destroyed African American culture and its emerging middle class, and Jewish sponsorship of laws that undermine the constitution, and Jewish sponsorship of immigration to obtain by immigrating dependent third world underclasses to destroy our American ‘third way’: a middle-class society of those who choose to prosper by their efforts. Jews undermine, and profit from causing conflict and decline – it is their group strategy and has been since they discovered usury in Babylon. Why do you think Jesus threw over the tables? Because Jews were doing to Jews what must only be done to enemies.

    So Stop Lying. Denying. Virtue-Signaling And Conspiring, And Fix The Problem Of Jewish Undermining Every People That Host Them.

    How? Make the Jewish, and Female, method of undermining illegal again. How? Easily.

    • 1) Restore Strict Defamation regardless of harm by Gossip, Libel, Slander, whether directly stated or suggested by inference. or obscurantism;
    • 3) Extend the defense of the informational commons to academic, scientific, economic, commercial, legal, and political speech;
    • 4) Require truthful, testifiable, reciprocal, warrantied speech under realism, naturalism, operationalism, rational choice, and reciprocity in matters to the public on matters public.
    • 5) encumber everyone with involuntary warranty in the chain of causality meaning everyone in every organization is liable for the defense of truthful, testifiable, reciprocal, speech above all other obligations.

    In other words: just restore our law.

  • The Choice – Episode 0029 – The Prosecution. No, Jews Are Not American

    No, Jews Are Not American – They Are Anti-American Like They Have Been Anti-Every Country Ever Hosting Them. But How Do We Fix The Problem Without Bloodshed?

    —‘This does not end well, ever. jewish Americans are Americans. #judaism Is not a nationality. “—

    It’s called ‘demonstrated behavior”. Judaism is a nationality because all Jews behave as a nation – it’s just a diasporic nation rather than a landed one – like the Gypsies and Muslims. Judaism is an Ethnicity (Jewish Race), a Nationality (Jewish diaspora, and lsraeli), and a religion (Jewish religion). The question you must answer is why can they not build a nation-state and why do they require host peoples like Gypsies and Muslims to survive? Why can’t the Jews and Gypsies create their own nation-state, and why do the Muslims destroy and reduce to ignorance and dysgenia every people they touch?

    Anti Semitism is a world universal, but the current trend started in America when postwar eastern European Jews arrived, continued their group strategy with advocacy of non-integration, commercial hedonism, a-moralism, socialism, cosmopolitan universalism. And with Columbia’s hosting of the Frankfurt School. they set about systematically undermining our constitution. our culture, our civilization, and even yes, demographics by design. And they repeated their traditional crimes yet again – and still do daily – in every walk of life.

    it seems never to occur to the Jews that they have been systematically prosecuted by every host civilization for very good reason: they institutionalized the female strategy of undermining, profit from baiting into hazard, lying, rent-seeking, and concentration of capital for the purposes of extraction, rather than engaging in reciprocity and production. Jews specialize in the professions of undermining: organized crime, prostitution, pornography, usury, financial crimes, insurance schemes, gossip (commentary, news, opinion, entertainment], undermining western group strategy and heroic mythology (movies, television, academy], separatist ethics, separatism, non-integration,
    nepotism, conspiracy against the people, conspiracy with the state against the people, and buying access to power.

    Jewish non-integration ends badly because Jews act badly in every host country that they have been exported from. Especially England and the Russian Empire.

    Jewish Americans are demonstrably NOT Americans, but Anti-Americans: They have intentionally maintained Separatism, in a country whose cost of entry was integration into rule of law of reciprocity, truthful speech, individual productivity, nuclear family, and commons before self. They didn’t integrate-they instigate.

    Jewish Marxism was invented to undermine relations between the classes, Jewish Feminism to undermine the compromise between the genders. Jewish postmodernism to undermine our integration of groups, Jewish Deniaiism of our genetic differences and necessity of merit markets to compromise. The Jewish sponsorship of johnson’s Great Society imitation of the Soviets that destroyed African American culture and its emerging middle class, and Jewish sponsorship of laws that undermine the constitution, and Jewish sponsorship of immigration to obtain by immigrating dependent third world underclasses to destroy our American ‘third way’: a middle-class society of those who choose to prosper by their efforts. Jews undermine, and profit from causing conflict and decline – it is their group strategy and has been since they discovered usury in Babylon. Why do you think Jesus threw over the tables? Because Jews were doing to Jews what must only be done to enemies.

    So Stop Lying. Denying. Virtue-Signaling And Conspiring, And Fix The Problem Of Jewish Undermining Every People That Host Them.

    How? Make the Jewish, and Female, method of undermining illegal again. How? Easily.

    • 1) Restore Strict Defamation regardless of harm by Gossip, Libel, Slander, whether directly stated or suggested by inference. or obscurantism;
    • 3) Extend the defense of the informational commons to academic, scientific, economic, commercial, legal, and political speech;
    • 4) Require truthful, testifiable, reciprocal, warrantied speech under realism, naturalism, operationalism, rational choice, and reciprocity in matters to the public on matters public.
    • 5) encumber everyone with involuntary warranty in the chain of causality meaning everyone in every organization is liable for the defense of truthful, testifiable, reciprocal, speech above all other obligations.

    In other words: just restore our law.

  • The Autistic Experience Increases Demand For Mindfulness

    (Forwarded by a friend)

    The power of hyper perception

    The “beautiful minds” of the “autists” are the absolute forefront of a conflict to “reconstruct reality”, since collective perception of what is real has been deliberately subverted over a long period of time. Autists have the easiest perception of what is truly happening, and are the least susceptible to propaganda and emotional appeals. We are the most resistant to being “hived off”.

    This is rooted in how we process information, as described in “When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception” by Elizabeth Pellicano and David Burr: “We suggest specifically that attenuated Bayesian priors – ‘hypo-priors’ – may be responsible for the unique perceptual experience of autistic people, leading to a tendency to perceive the world more accurately rather than modulated by prior experience.“

    The idea of a “hypo-prior” is that you only have a weak attachment to existing beliefs when filtering incoming data. I will explore this in more detail below. Philosophers like Jiddu Krishnamurti have referred to this sense of “suspending evaluation” (to see things how they really are) as the “freedom from the known”. It is both an innate capability, and a skill that can be developed.

    Note that intelligence has many facets, and that there is nothing innately superior or inferior to having (or lacking) this specific perceptual bias. It comes with costs as well as benefits. My own sense is that non-autists are more adept at working “within paradigm” (filtering things fast that do not fit the expected reality), whereas autists seem better at going “cross paradigm” (deferring choices of relevance).

    The price of attachment to objective reality

    The autist gifts of hyper focus and hyper perception come with a VERY painful side effect in our present cultural and geopolitical situation: you are often isolated from the mainstream, and are forced to watch everyone else being psychologically abused by those in power, which itself is traumatising. Furthermore, the deliberate corruption of meaning by the media, religion, education turns an already difficult task of “fitting in” for high-functioning autists much harder, since the “baseline” social consensus has been moved so far away from any objective reality.

    The enemy is conducting a form of attrition warfare on the information battlefield, and the press gaslighting, mask wearing, TV propaganda, etc is designed to break down their opposition. Whilst those of the light are winning against the darkness, it comes at a huge price: “Autists have a proverbial burnout from too much data, too much empathy, too much knowing the darkest things and many times, when we rest from that, we get the anxiety and the sorrow of losing the calming hyperfocus this journey provides. Too much stimulation and too much vicarious pain.”

    Battle fatigue for autists during information war

    The nature of being an “autist” is poorly understood not just by the mainstream, but by those “on the spectrum” themselves. Luckily I have encountered an autist whose obsession is to describe and define her own condition, to the benefit of us all. Here I share what I have learned from her:

    ​Caetextic

    “Autists” are “context blind”, and struggle to deal with multiple contexts and changes of context, especially in the social. So for me dealing with lots of consulting clients and customers at once is very hard work. Once something is in my head, I cannot stop thinking about it and trying to solve the client’s problem. Compartmentalisation of context is hard and everything is connected across contexts. (CD: Yep. And it’s impossible.  So I don’t fight it – I try to figure out how to use it. It produces mindfulness instead of frustration.)

    ​
    OCD for information congruence

    Because of the struggle to manage ambiguity, conflicting data, and multiple variables and contexts, there is a basic need for “autists” to model the world in order to be able to make choices and function. Without this conceptual “scaffolding”, normal life becomes impossible. This can be seen in my essays; it is me trying to reconcile the data for my own sake, so I can proceed “logically” without inner chaos. As a collateral benefit, other people find the “maps” and “models” I make extremely useful. I am an accomplished systematiser because I have no alternative.​  (CD: Correct: Systematizing is necessary.  So again, I”m going to make the argument that evolution provided human groups with a division of not only labor, but sensory-perception and cognition and our role as autists is error detection on the edges.)

    Inertia and monotropism

    We find it hard to get into a task, but once in it are absolutely focused on it (monotropism), but then find it hard to move on. So I can’t just sit down and decide to write an essay; I will freeze with anxiety. I have to wait until I feel calm and ready, then I can blast out all my thoughts in flow. Sometimes I can be very productive, but a simple task like tax admin can take me all day as the inner resistance is so high, and I will procrastinate endlessly.​  (CD: My technique is to keep a set of projects going so that I always have something to work on but never have to force myself to work on anything. This ends up like working a monumental painting where you keep five paintings going and work on what inspires you at the moment. Otherwise, i just get angry with myself if I can’t focus on what my brain doesn’t want to.)

    Divergent preference for inputs

    The “genius” aspect of high-functioning Aspie types comes from a wild associative memory and hyper perception of everything. This is because the usual filters that make people delay sense-making of most inputs are missing. My photography reflects this, as I notice tiny details other people would not perceive. Everything sparks off a train of thought, and there is no off switch. It is quite exhausting. (Yes. I tell people I have to protect myself from certain kinds of ideas and situations because there is no off switch and my brain will work on the problem until it’s solved even if I don’t want it to.)

    ​Inside/outside cognitive focus

    We autists struggle to integrate the inner and outer worlds, but can consciously switch between the two [inner and outer worlds]. I noticed this around 2008, when my then partner (who was a business school professor) noted how I could disassociate at will when most could not. The downside is that this imposes a lot of draining cognitive cost to choose where to focus.​

    Super-empath

    The lack of sensemaking filters also applies in the emotional. We are “sponges” for the feelings of others. It can seem like being a little remote or cold at times, as there is a need to distance oneself from the distress of others for self-protection. I cannot watch horror movies, for example, as there’s no way for me to tell myself it is “only acting”.  (CD: Omg this is so true.)

    Window of tolerance

    Autists have a “window” between “hyper stimulation” and “hypo stimulation” where we can function. This window can widen or narrow depending on circumstances. (My present circumstances with endless deplatforming are narrowing it.) If we go “hyper” we risk a “crash” and end up semi-catatonic. The resulting “duvet days” that are like depression, but from neurological overload.​ (CD: Exactly)

    Stimming and soothing

    To maintain focus we “self-stimulate”; I wore out the left shift key and aluminium casing of my old laptop from the repeated tapping and rubbing. I am a visual self-stimulator more than physical, so I do photography walks as a mental health activity. This is also a form of self-soothing of my overstimulated nervous system. It is not just because I fancy doing “art”; it is basic and necessary self care.​ (CD: I see this as getting control of auto association – in my behavior I seek to write because writing controls my context. If not I just try to sleep.)

    Demand avoidance

    Part of the condition is a wish to drive activity from inner self, and not from the outer world. So the torrent of correspondence I am receiving from being a public figure is particularly exhausting. Scheduled events are demands, too. The corporate world is hell for the autist, since it is demand-driven, which is why I’ve probably switched to being an artist. I like to have my days free from time constraints and specific commitments. I still work hard, just it has to be driven by interest to be “affordable” neurologically.​ (CD: Completely agree.)

    Masking

    Autists have to put an unconscious effort into pretending to fit into the normal social world and how most people relate. This is called “masking”, and takes yet more energy. I was good at it in my 20s and 30s, and am getting less good with time… which brings us to…  (CD; I get exhausted on stage but I got good at socialization and I love it. So again, this can be overcome, You just have to choose to bear the pain of training yourself, for the future benefits despite the present stress. )

    Ageing

    As “autists” age we get “more autistic”. I used to be able to go to movies, but now it is totally overwhelming for my senses, for example. I am 50 next year, and I’m finding it harder to “mask”. I get better and better at the few things I am brilliant at, and less and less good at those aspects of life I rarely practise now. Don’t ask me to do DIY jobs, it will take forever to complete.  (CD: My experience has been the opposite. I have mindfulness. As I get older I have developed more mindfulness. I think this is the problem. All people need a means of mindfulness, and autists especially. The problem is ‘intrusive thoughts and intense experience’ that occurs when I’m tired. It’s doubly exhausting.)

    Sensory overload and torture

    The bottom line of all this is that sensory overload becomes frequent. This is kind of torment — literally experienced as torture. Too many demands, contexts, inputs, distractions, incongruencies… leading to meltdown. It is exactly what they do in dungeons of “black site” prisons to break people. This is particularly excruciating in a world where you can perceive the perception failures of other people, due to having extended cognition they lack.​  (Again this is the reason for learning mindfulness – by whatever method you can that’s not woo woo.)

    Lifelong Trauma

    There is a strong correlation between being an “autist” and PSTD. We are all super-sensitive people traumatised by our society, and forced into a variety of often unhelpful and unhealthy coping strategies. One medical study tried to recruit untraumatized autistic people, and they couldn’t find any.   (CD: yes I have trauma symptoms. the fact is that the situations were traumatic for anyone. But I’m competitive and did them anyway. So I paid a higher traumatic price.)

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  • The Autistic Experience Increases Demand For Mindfulness

    (Forwarded by a friend)

    The power of hyper perception

    The “beautiful minds” of the “autists” are the absolute forefront of a conflict to “reconstruct reality”, since collective perception of what is real has been deliberately subverted over a long period of time. Autists have the easiest perception of what is truly happening, and are the least susceptible to propaganda and emotional appeals. We are the most resistant to being “hived off”.

    This is rooted in how we process information, as described in “When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception” by Elizabeth Pellicano and David Burr: “We suggest specifically that attenuated Bayesian priors – ‘hypo-priors’ – may be responsible for the unique perceptual experience of autistic people, leading to a tendency to perceive the world more accurately rather than modulated by prior experience.“

    The idea of a “hypo-prior” is that you only have a weak attachment to existing beliefs when filtering incoming data. I will explore this in more detail below. Philosophers like Jiddu Krishnamurti have referred to this sense of “suspending evaluation” (to see things how they really are) as the “freedom from the known”. It is both an innate capability, and a skill that can be developed.

    Note that intelligence has many facets, and that there is nothing innately superior or inferior to having (or lacking) this specific perceptual bias. It comes with costs as well as benefits. My own sense is that non-autists are more adept at working “within paradigm” (filtering things fast that do not fit the expected reality), whereas autists seem better at going “cross paradigm” (deferring choices of relevance).

    The price of attachment to objective reality

    The autist gifts of hyper focus and hyper perception come with a VERY painful side effect in our present cultural and geopolitical situation: you are often isolated from the mainstream, and are forced to watch everyone else being psychologically abused by those in power, which itself is traumatising. Furthermore, the deliberate corruption of meaning by the media, religion, education turns an already difficult task of “fitting in” for high-functioning autists much harder, since the “baseline” social consensus has been moved so far away from any objective reality.

    The enemy is conducting a form of attrition warfare on the information battlefield, and the press gaslighting, mask wearing, TV propaganda, etc is designed to break down their opposition. Whilst those of the light are winning against the darkness, it comes at a huge price: “Autists have a proverbial burnout from too much data, too much empathy, too much knowing the darkest things and many times, when we rest from that, we get the anxiety and the sorrow of losing the calming hyperfocus this journey provides. Too much stimulation and too much vicarious pain.”

    Battle fatigue for autists during information war

    The nature of being an “autist” is poorly understood not just by the mainstream, but by those “on the spectrum” themselves. Luckily I have encountered an autist whose obsession is to describe and define her own condition, to the benefit of us all. Here I share what I have learned from her:

    ​Caetextic

    “Autists” are “context blind”, and struggle to deal with multiple contexts and changes of context, especially in the social. So for me dealing with lots of consulting clients and customers at once is very hard work. Once something is in my head, I cannot stop thinking about it and trying to solve the client’s problem. Compartmentalisation of context is hard and everything is connected across contexts. (CD: Yep. And it’s impossible.  So I don’t fight it – I try to figure out how to use it. It produces mindfulness instead of frustration.)

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    OCD for information congruence

    Because of the struggle to manage ambiguity, conflicting data, and multiple variables and contexts, there is a basic need for “autists” to model the world in order to be able to make choices and function. Without this conceptual “scaffolding”, normal life becomes impossible. This can be seen in my essays; it is me trying to reconcile the data for my own sake, so I can proceed “logically” without inner chaos. As a collateral benefit, other people find the “maps” and “models” I make extremely useful. I am an accomplished systematiser because I have no alternative.​  (CD: Correct: Systematizing is necessary.  So again, I”m going to make the argument that evolution provided human groups with a division of not only labor, but sensory-perception and cognition and our role as autists is error detection on the edges.)

    Inertia and monotropism

    We find it hard to get into a task, but once in it are absolutely focused on it (monotropism), but then find it hard to move on. So I can’t just sit down and decide to write an essay; I will freeze with anxiety. I have to wait until I feel calm and ready, then I can blast out all my thoughts in flow. Sometimes I can be very productive, but a simple task like tax admin can take me all day as the inner resistance is so high, and I will procrastinate endlessly.​  (CD: My technique is to keep a set of projects going so that I always have something to work on but never have to force myself to work on anything. This ends up like working a monumental painting where you keep five paintings going and work on what inspires you at the moment. Otherwise, i just get angry with myself if I can’t focus on what my brain doesn’t want to.)

    Divergent preference for inputs

    The “genius” aspect of high-functioning Aspie types comes from a wild associative memory and hyper perception of everything. This is because the usual filters that make people delay sense-making of most inputs are missing. My photography reflects this, as I notice tiny details other people would not perceive. Everything sparks off a train of thought, and there is no off switch. It is quite exhausting. (Yes. I tell people I have to protect myself from certain kinds of ideas and situations because there is no off switch and my brain will work on the problem until it’s solved even if I don’t want it to.)

    ​Inside/outside cognitive focus

    We autists struggle to integrate the inner and outer worlds, but can consciously switch between the two [inner and outer worlds]. I noticed this around 2008, when my then partner (who was a business school professor) noted how I could disassociate at will when most could not. The downside is that this imposes a lot of draining cognitive cost to choose where to focus.​

    Super-empath

    The lack of sensemaking filters also applies in the emotional. We are “sponges” for the feelings of others. It can seem like being a little remote or cold at times, as there is a need to distance oneself from the distress of others for self-protection. I cannot watch horror movies, for example, as there’s no way for me to tell myself it is “only acting”.  (CD: Omg this is so true.)

    Window of tolerance

    Autists have a “window” between “hyper stimulation” and “hypo stimulation” where we can function. This window can widen or narrow depending on circumstances. (My present circumstances with endless deplatforming are narrowing it.) If we go “hyper” we risk a “crash” and end up semi-catatonic. The resulting “duvet days” that are like depression, but from neurological overload.​ (CD: Exactly)

    Stimming and soothing

    To maintain focus we “self-stimulate”; I wore out the left shift key and aluminium casing of my old laptop from the repeated tapping and rubbing. I am a visual self-stimulator more than physical, so I do photography walks as a mental health activity. This is also a form of self-soothing of my overstimulated nervous system. It is not just because I fancy doing “art”; it is basic and necessary self care.​ (CD: I see this as getting control of auto association – in my behavior I seek to write because writing controls my context. If not I just try to sleep.)

    Demand avoidance

    Part of the condition is a wish to drive activity from inner self, and not from the outer world. So the torrent of correspondence I am receiving from being a public figure is particularly exhausting. Scheduled events are demands, too. The corporate world is hell for the autist, since it is demand-driven, which is why I’ve probably switched to being an artist. I like to have my days free from time constraints and specific commitments. I still work hard, just it has to be driven by interest to be “affordable” neurologically.​ (CD: Completely agree.)

    Masking

    Autists have to put an unconscious effort into pretending to fit into the normal social world and how most people relate. This is called “masking”, and takes yet more energy. I was good at it in my 20s and 30s, and am getting less good with time… which brings us to…  (CD; I get exhausted on stage but I got good at socialization and I love it. So again, this can be overcome, You just have to choose to bear the pain of training yourself, for the future benefits despite the present stress. )

    Ageing

    As “autists” age we get “more autistic”. I used to be able to go to movies, but now it is totally overwhelming for my senses, for example. I am 50 next year, and I’m finding it harder to “mask”. I get better and better at the few things I am brilliant at, and less and less good at those aspects of life I rarely practise now. Don’t ask me to do DIY jobs, it will take forever to complete.  (CD: My experience has been the opposite. I have mindfulness. As I get older I have developed more mindfulness. I think this is the problem. All people need a means of mindfulness, and autists especially. The problem is ‘intrusive thoughts and intense experience’ that occurs when I’m tired. It’s doubly exhausting.)

    Sensory overload and torture

    The bottom line of all this is that sensory overload becomes frequent. This is kind of torment — literally experienced as torture. Too many demands, contexts, inputs, distractions, incongruencies… leading to meltdown. It is exactly what they do in dungeons of “black site” prisons to break people. This is particularly excruciating in a world where you can perceive the perception failures of other people, due to having extended cognition they lack.​  (Again this is the reason for learning mindfulness – by whatever method you can that’s not woo woo.)

    Lifelong Trauma

    There is a strong correlation between being an “autist” and PSTD. We are all super-sensitive people traumatised by our society, and forced into a variety of often unhelpful and unhealthy coping strategies. One medical study tried to recruit untraumatized autistic people, and they couldn’t find any.   (CD: yes I have trauma symptoms. the fact is that the situations were traumatic for anyone. But I’m competitive and did them anyway. So I paid a higher traumatic price.)

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