Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • I”m Doing What I Said I Would Do – Albeit Slowly

    Jan 26, 2020, 3:17 PM

    —“What is your Response to people now 24 who said they knew about you since they were 12 but you accomplished nothing? (not my opinion) What is your response to the same nihilists who say the Virginia rally accomplished nothing and the grassroots rights will sit around as their country gets overtaken by the left as their rally was meaningless?”—

    Well, let’s see. I started a site in 09. I went public in 12-13. Eli is the only person I know of that’s been with me that long. Hmm… So it’s possible I guess. What does accomplished nothing mean? What was I supposed to have accomplished? I set out to produce a value neutral language of ethics and politics; then to express the history of my people in those terms; then to create a constitution of natural law; and I promised a set of deliverables: (a) a moral license (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition, and (d) a means of insurrection. And I said I would only take a leadership role if other leadership didnt emerge. I’m either doing or have done all those things. Just over a year ago we started the institute on one hand, and john’s videos on revolution on the other. We have about a dozen people capable of using or building upon P. if we double that we’ll have the number I was shooting for, and if we get to 100 we’ll have certainly achieved our goals. Conversely, what has anyone else done except bring us the catastrophe of c’ville, get deplatformed, and learned the painful lesson I warned them about in ’16 when they went down the identitarian message, rather than revolution and rights messages? Where are all those people now? Their toast. What did Hoppe or Rothbard or the Mises institute or CATO do? Absolutely nothing. What about the Conservatives? Nothing. Why? Thy had the wrong f—king answer. There is only one solution and that is war. And there is only one way of avoiding war, and that is to make the horror of it so certain that the other side prefers to separate rather than lose two thirds of its numbers. Y’all want to move mountains on impulse. You’re filled with rage and fear. You’re first movers like me. But you are not strategic planners like me. I am an engineer. I’m doing what I said. And the Overton window is moving at exactly the rate I predicted it would. We will get our revolution when there is the least resistance from our own. And that will be shortly. Go read about the IRA and about Mao, and then study what ISIS did to fund itself. I think shit thru. That’s why I take time. And if other leadership emerges that’s fine with me. Someone just has to do it. I don’t need it. I can be happy with one woman, a computer, a sports car, and a few friends. The only reason I do this is because I love my people, it needs doing, and everyone else is doing it even worse than I am.

  • I”m Doing What I Said I Would Do – Albeit Slowly

    Jan 26, 2020, 3:17 PM

    —“What is your Response to people now 24 who said they knew about you since they were 12 but you accomplished nothing? (not my opinion) What is your response to the same nihilists who say the Virginia rally accomplished nothing and the grassroots rights will sit around as their country gets overtaken by the left as their rally was meaningless?”—

    Well, let’s see. I started a site in 09. I went public in 12-13. Eli is the only person I know of that’s been with me that long. Hmm… So it’s possible I guess. What does accomplished nothing mean? What was I supposed to have accomplished? I set out to produce a value neutral language of ethics and politics; then to express the history of my people in those terms; then to create a constitution of natural law; and I promised a set of deliverables: (a) a moral license (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition, and (d) a means of insurrection. And I said I would only take a leadership role if other leadership didnt emerge. I’m either doing or have done all those things. Just over a year ago we started the institute on one hand, and john’s videos on revolution on the other. We have about a dozen people capable of using or building upon P. if we double that we’ll have the number I was shooting for, and if we get to 100 we’ll have certainly achieved our goals. Conversely, what has anyone else done except bring us the catastrophe of c’ville, get deplatformed, and learned the painful lesson I warned them about in ’16 when they went down the identitarian message, rather than revolution and rights messages? Where are all those people now? Their toast. What did Hoppe or Rothbard or the Mises institute or CATO do? Absolutely nothing. What about the Conservatives? Nothing. Why? Thy had the wrong f—king answer. There is only one solution and that is war. And there is only one way of avoiding war, and that is to make the horror of it so certain that the other side prefers to separate rather than lose two thirds of its numbers. Y’all want to move mountains on impulse. You’re filled with rage and fear. You’re first movers like me. But you are not strategic planners like me. I am an engineer. I’m doing what I said. And the Overton window is moving at exactly the rate I predicted it would. We will get our revolution when there is the least resistance from our own. And that will be shortly. Go read about the IRA and about Mao, and then study what ISIS did to fund itself. I think shit thru. That’s why I take time. And if other leadership emerges that’s fine with me. Someone just has to do it. I don’t need it. I can be happy with one woman, a computer, a sports car, and a few friends. The only reason I do this is because I love my people, it needs doing, and everyone else is doing it even worse than I am.

  • Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power

    Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/agency-is-a-demonstration-of-successful-will-to-power/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:11:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264982322383896577

  • Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power

    Jan 27, 2020, 6:07 AM

    —“I struggle with Agency… Someone who goes to the gym regularly because they want to be buff and ripped would be said to be exercising agency. An alignment of desire and rational action / persistence. However, is a gambler exercising agency when they gamble on the daily? Or is agency simply contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”– Gary Knight

    In simple terms:

    —“contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”–

    Yes. Although, in most cases, gambling regularly is a form of self medication, it is true that people win, and you can’t play if you don’t win. And it’s simply an expensive means of entertainment. And whether entertainment or medication can lead to addiction, which is the very opposite of agency. Agency is the sum total of that which leads you to independent action in fulfillment of your ambitions – overcoming (‘overman’) the physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, social, economic, political, military, and knowledge, impediments to a desired end. Will to power is an inspiration. Agency is its demonstration. Omniscience and Omnipotence are it’s ends. The transcendence of man into the gods we imagine.

  • Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power

    Jan 27, 2020, 6:07 AM

    —“I struggle with Agency… Someone who goes to the gym regularly because they want to be buff and ripped would be said to be exercising agency. An alignment of desire and rational action / persistence. However, is a gambler exercising agency when they gamble on the daily? Or is agency simply contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”– Gary Knight

    In simple terms:

    —“contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”–

    Yes. Although, in most cases, gambling regularly is a form of self medication, it is true that people win, and you can’t play if you don’t win. And it’s simply an expensive means of entertainment. And whether entertainment or medication can lead to addiction, which is the very opposite of agency. Agency is the sum total of that which leads you to independent action in fulfillment of your ambitions – overcoming (‘overman’) the physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, social, economic, political, military, and knowledge, impediments to a desired end. Will to power is an inspiration. Agency is its demonstration. Omniscience and Omnipotence are it’s ends. The transcendence of man into the gods we imagine.

  • The Bicameral Mind Is the Result of Two Hemispheres Needing to Time Their Moveme

    The Bicameral Mind Is the Result of Two Hemispheres Needing to Time Their Movements https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/the-bicameral-mind-is-the-result-of-two-hemispheres-needing-to-time-their-movements/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:05:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264980928121585664

  • The Bicameral Mind Is the Result of Two Hemispheres Needing to Time Their Movements

    Jan 27, 2020, 10:10 AM A rather strange bias we see in archaeology tries to explain everything they don’t undrestand as mystical or religious in origin. We watch horror movies and tell campfire stories, and we enthrall each other with suspension of belief and woo woo, but that does not mean we are not eminently practical in real life. While reading the ancients – even though it is very difficult – it’s very clear that they thought as rationally and practically as we do while still ‘going all woo woo’ over the same nonsense. In fact, most letters are pretty tedious and could have been written a century ago. It’s one thing to read the iliad today in translation and another to hear someone recite it in its rhyme and tempo. When you hear that tempo and rhyme you realize that homer whether one person or many, and shakespeare are the same man. The difference that we cannot imagine today is the pervasive violence in everyday life of the ancient world,and how dependent we were upon family structures for mere survival, and how terrifying it was to be left along without their support – ostracization was a death sentence. As for the general bicameral mind, this story has not played out well against the evidence. It’s true that each of us varies in cognitive agency, and we may even say that what differs most between us is agency (or ‘executive function’). It’s true that all language is a means of calculation and the more precise and non-false the terms and complete the linguistic transactions the more we are able to devote the processing power of our frontal cortex to yet another iteration of thought. So it’s more that language and knowledge increase the radius in time, space, population, and permutation of our thinking, just as prices assist us in imputing, and managing our resources and time. But my understanding is that the wooo wooo apparent in ancient myth is just a tool for holding attention under suspension of disbelief so that the narrative is accompanied by sufficient emotional novelty that the story is remembered. That does not mean that a tribe of warriors conducting a raid or a set of 10k bc flint miners were doing or thinking any differently than we are. I am old enough to remember that class of our fellow white men that could not read. They did not think any differently. They simply had less accumulated knowledge, and less confidence in their knowledge. So you know, I don’t buy the whole thing because I see that there are woo woo people and empirical people in every generation across time. As far as I know language will eventually emerge in any creature with sufficient cognitive capacity (neural density in relation to body weight), that has a body that can move through space (because that is the origin of consciousness – spatial modeling). Once you have language it is such a fucking competitive advantage every competitor is screwed. So the bicameral mind is the result of two hemispheres needing to time their movements using the cerebellum. But in our brains the corpus callosum especially in women ensures that the hemispheres are working on concert. The major difference is that men are more longitudinally connected (fast, limited info, and time) and women more horizontally (slow, lots of info, in present moment). And even as such these are only limited biass not complete differences.

  • The Bicameral Mind Is the Result of Two Hemispheres Needing to Time Their Movements

    Jan 27, 2020, 10:10 AM A rather strange bias we see in archaeology tries to explain everything they don’t undrestand as mystical or religious in origin. We watch horror movies and tell campfire stories, and we enthrall each other with suspension of belief and woo woo, but that does not mean we are not eminently practical in real life. While reading the ancients – even though it is very difficult – it’s very clear that they thought as rationally and practically as we do while still ‘going all woo woo’ over the same nonsense. In fact, most letters are pretty tedious and could have been written a century ago. It’s one thing to read the iliad today in translation and another to hear someone recite it in its rhyme and tempo. When you hear that tempo and rhyme you realize that homer whether one person or many, and shakespeare are the same man. The difference that we cannot imagine today is the pervasive violence in everyday life of the ancient world,and how dependent we were upon family structures for mere survival, and how terrifying it was to be left along without their support – ostracization was a death sentence. As for the general bicameral mind, this story has not played out well against the evidence. It’s true that each of us varies in cognitive agency, and we may even say that what differs most between us is agency (or ‘executive function’). It’s true that all language is a means of calculation and the more precise and non-false the terms and complete the linguistic transactions the more we are able to devote the processing power of our frontal cortex to yet another iteration of thought. So it’s more that language and knowledge increase the radius in time, space, population, and permutation of our thinking, just as prices assist us in imputing, and managing our resources and time. But my understanding is that the wooo wooo apparent in ancient myth is just a tool for holding attention under suspension of disbelief so that the narrative is accompanied by sufficient emotional novelty that the story is remembered. That does not mean that a tribe of warriors conducting a raid or a set of 10k bc flint miners were doing or thinking any differently than we are. I am old enough to remember that class of our fellow white men that could not read. They did not think any differently. They simply had less accumulated knowledge, and less confidence in their knowledge. So you know, I don’t buy the whole thing because I see that there are woo woo people and empirical people in every generation across time. As far as I know language will eventually emerge in any creature with sufficient cognitive capacity (neural density in relation to body weight), that has a body that can move through space (because that is the origin of consciousness – spatial modeling). Once you have language it is such a fucking competitive advantage every competitor is screwed. So the bicameral mind is the result of two hemispheres needing to time their movements using the cerebellum. But in our brains the corpus callosum especially in women ensures that the hemispheres are working on concert. The major difference is that men are more longitudinally connected (fast, limited info, and time) and women more horizontally (slow, lots of info, in present moment). And even as such these are only limited biass not complete differences.

  • Public Duels Between Sexes Provide Psychological Release

    Public Duels Between Sexes Provide Psychological Release https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/public-duels-between-sexes-provide-psychological-release/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:01:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264980043425624064

  • Public Duels Between Sexes Provide Psychological Release

    Jan 28, 2020, 9:39 AM

    —“The man fights while in a hole and the woman gets a weapon as a handicap for a fair duel. I imagine the comedic value alone of such an event was often enough to diffuse a situation lol”—John Papadopoulos

    The truth of this statement, regarding pitting, dunking, stocks, and hangings, can’t be overstated. Public exorcism of frustrations is about as good as it gets for humans.