Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • 21) Yes, you are referencing O’keefe etc. border, location, place, hex, spaces.

    21) Yes, you are referencing O’keefe etc. border, location, place, hex, spaces. Ok. 22) all memory fragments are stored where they care calculated (disambiguated). 23) better to back restate past rather than try to fit present into it. 24) Yes, but it’s ACTION in space.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-16 06:41:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173487098973868032

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    @Semiogogue 19) Yes, so better to leave behind the philosophy (pseudoscience) and just work within the scientific paradigm that universally converges on one paradigm. 20) very easy to convert this speech into scientific speech and the underlying neurology.

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    @Semiogogue 19) Yes, so better to leave behind the philosophy (pseudoscience) and just work within the scientific paradigm that universally converges on one paradigm. 20) very easy to convert this speech into scientific speech and the underlying neurology.

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  • 15) signs are evidence of action (change in state). how do geological difference

    15) signs are evidence of action (change in state). how do geological differences, animal scent markers, human mark making differ (intent, choice). 16) space is correct, since all memories are associated by spatio-temporal indices, and it is these space,location,time indices…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-16 06:28:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173483866935480320

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    @Semiogogue 11) In art we study “mark-making”. 12) there is a relationship between illiteracy and symbolism because of costs 13) Logos(Brands) are decorative standard of weight and measure 14) we are visually dominant, but 20% of people have no internal vision same for internal voice.

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    @Semiogogue 11) In art we study “mark-making”. 12) there is a relationship between illiteracy and symbolism because of costs 13) Logos(Brands) are decorative standard of weight and measure 14) we are visually dominant, but 20% of people have no internal vision same for internal voice.

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  • 1) Indices 2) We remember novelties, novelties with more associations. 3)Trying

    1) Indices 2) We remember novelties, novelties with more associations. 3)Trying to justify the frame and rationalist interpretation of it rather than the science. 4)Inventory and categorize signs and symbols as indices to narrative components instead.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-16 06:17:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173480946634502144

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    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173432585344757760

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    The second is from a talk at Leiden University. I’ll be happy to share what I’ve written on the subject as well, if it happens that all this, as I suspect, will be of interest to you. I need to get these ideas out in front of the right eyes. 6/6

    https://t.co/B5KdltPcWY

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173432585344757760

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 9

    One of the first insights that struck me when I came across your work was your insight about the 3 different instinctive group strategies, where individuals tend to fall into one of the 3, what you call the tripartite division of cognitive labor – in other words, there are 3 types of people politically, 3 groups with different political instincts, and each of these 3 groups has a different time horizon that they place priority on. (Female-Left-short time horizon-consume, Young Male – Libertarian – medium time horizon – produce, Mature Male – long time horizon – conserve civilizational assets.) Can you talk to us about that?

    Well there are three means of coercion. (Female-left-Gossip, Young Male – libertarian – Incentives, Mature Male – conservative – Force) We have elites that specialize in one or more of them We have institutions led by elites that specialize in one or more of them We demonstrate by voting that we ourselves favor one of those strategies, means of coercion, and elites over the other – although except for liberals, we tend to be Neapolitan ice cream – meaning a little of all three, just prioritizing them differently. If you look at moral biases you see that we favor pretty much expected clustering in a priority stack of those differences. If you look at personality traits, say using the big five or six or seven model if you include intelligence – then you find that despite having this number of traits, (a) each trait can be subdivided and when we do that we see gender differences in each of those traits. (b) that sets of traits cluster around three personality types, and that those types are the same clustering as moral biases, and three coercive strategies. And it’s quite obvious that those three strategies are the reproductive strategies of females (socialism), ascendent males(libertarianism), and established males(conservatism). And so you have clustering of short term female consumption, medium term ascendant male returns, and long term conservative male preservation, and we literally perceive and value events according to these genetic biases that evolved out of necessity. And so instead of pushing the very false narrative of equality I push compatibilism where we are, just like other species with specialized body types, dividing the time frame of cognition as well as the reproductive and productive labors. And how do you solve differences in perception, value, labor and advocacy? Through trade. In other words, voluntary exchange is the way we calculate just like a computer, just like evolution does, the cumulative knowledge of our people into a set of demands that produce a nash equilibrium under which nothing is optimum for anyone but optimum for everyone. While at the same time we produce a pareto distribution or a power distribution of utility to one another, meaning that people at tthe top are tremendously influential and at the bottom not, but that everyone benefits. So while we all have divergent optimum via-positiva demands, we have the same via-negativa demands: reciprocity within the limits of proportionality – and proportionality is important because it is the limit beyond which reciprocity is still insufficient to reaming cooperating in the same polity. And it is this condition that has put us in our current state: we are sufficiently irreciprocal and disproportional and as such we are no longer suitable for coexistence in the same polity. It is in there interests of the top and the bottom to have their own polity which is the standard of all of history, while it is in the interests of whites, who CAN produce a middle class high trust high commons polity to separate and produce what we desire. Now I want to clarify that I’m not a christian or libertarian pacifist. And neither are my brothers on the right. And that while we offer peaceful coexistence throughs separation, any resistance to that peaceful coexistence through separation means that we have moral license to return to our historical business of domesticating the animal man for fun and profit, and that if we wish to do so nothing can stop us. So I’m offering a solution that is possible, but it doesn’t mean it’s preferable. One to three percent of us will easily drag western civilization into a condition where the unfit cannot survive, our enemies seize world power, and we rebuild as we want from the ashes after the bloodiest civil war in human history. So I’m saying ‘this constitution and this change – or else’ I’m not begging. I’m offering a peaceful settlement of a war that is already in process, a war created on purpose by the left, and one engineered to repeat the jewish christian and muslim destruction of the ancient world.

  • Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 9

    One of the first insights that struck me when I came across your work was your insight about the 3 different instinctive group strategies, where individuals tend to fall into one of the 3, what you call the tripartite division of cognitive labor – in other words, there are 3 types of people politically, 3 groups with different political instincts, and each of these 3 groups has a different time horizon that they place priority on. (Female-Left-short time horizon-consume, Young Male – Libertarian – medium time horizon – produce, Mature Male – long time horizon – conserve civilizational assets.) Can you talk to us about that?

    Well there are three means of coercion. (Female-left-Gossip, Young Male – libertarian – Incentives, Mature Male – conservative – Force) We have elites that specialize in one or more of them We have institutions led by elites that specialize in one or more of them We demonstrate by voting that we ourselves favor one of those strategies, means of coercion, and elites over the other – although except for liberals, we tend to be Neapolitan ice cream – meaning a little of all three, just prioritizing them differently. If you look at moral biases you see that we favor pretty much expected clustering in a priority stack of those differences. If you look at personality traits, say using the big five or six or seven model if you include intelligence – then you find that despite having this number of traits, (a) each trait can be subdivided and when we do that we see gender differences in each of those traits. (b) that sets of traits cluster around three personality types, and that those types are the same clustering as moral biases, and three coercive strategies. And it’s quite obvious that those three strategies are the reproductive strategies of females (socialism), ascendent males(libertarianism), and established males(conservatism). And so you have clustering of short term female consumption, medium term ascendant male returns, and long term conservative male preservation, and we literally perceive and value events according to these genetic biases that evolved out of necessity. And so instead of pushing the very false narrative of equality I push compatibilism where we are, just like other species with specialized body types, dividing the time frame of cognition as well as the reproductive and productive labors. And how do you solve differences in perception, value, labor and advocacy? Through trade. In other words, voluntary exchange is the way we calculate just like a computer, just like evolution does, the cumulative knowledge of our people into a set of demands that produce a nash equilibrium under which nothing is optimum for anyone but optimum for everyone. While at the same time we produce a pareto distribution or a power distribution of utility to one another, meaning that people at tthe top are tremendously influential and at the bottom not, but that everyone benefits. So while we all have divergent optimum via-positiva demands, we have the same via-negativa demands: reciprocity within the limits of proportionality – and proportionality is important because it is the limit beyond which reciprocity is still insufficient to reaming cooperating in the same polity. And it is this condition that has put us in our current state: we are sufficiently irreciprocal and disproportional and as such we are no longer suitable for coexistence in the same polity. It is in there interests of the top and the bottom to have their own polity which is the standard of all of history, while it is in the interests of whites, who CAN produce a middle class high trust high commons polity to separate and produce what we desire. Now I want to clarify that I’m not a christian or libertarian pacifist. And neither are my brothers on the right. And that while we offer peaceful coexistence throughs separation, any resistance to that peaceful coexistence through separation means that we have moral license to return to our historical business of domesticating the animal man for fun and profit, and that if we wish to do so nothing can stop us. So I’m offering a solution that is possible, but it doesn’t mean it’s preferable. One to three percent of us will easily drag western civilization into a condition where the unfit cannot survive, our enemies seize world power, and we rebuild as we want from the ashes after the bloodiest civil war in human history. So I’m saying ‘this constitution and this change – or else’ I’m not begging. I’m offering a peaceful settlement of a war that is already in process, a war created on purpose by the left, and one engineered to repeat the jewish christian and muslim destruction of the ancient world.

  • Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition. And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence. Why? Because while the division of labor provides discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people. The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them. The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature. Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting. The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common. Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity. Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor. The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency. The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth. It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin. There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes. We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition. (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

  • Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition. And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence. Why? Because while the division of labor provides discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people. The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them. The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature. Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting. The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common. Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity. Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor. The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency. The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth. It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin. There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes. We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition. (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

  • RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions

    RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE

    The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence.

    The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness.

    The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action.

    The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real demands instead of status competition.

    And while the stoic METHOD – today’s cognitive behavioral therapy (training) – is superior to all others, the Epicurean objective is superior to all others. And this is in part why the anatolian, syrian, middle eastern fought so hard to destroy western heroism and it’s status competition by demonstrated action, sacrifice to earn the franchise, truth and duty to preserve the franchise: because all of these demands force us to obtain status through contribution to the commons (farmers and men ), rather than hyperconsumption of any available commons (shepherds and women), and emotional self indulgence.

    Why? Because while the division of labor provides

    discounts on production, status provides a discount on opportunity. So if can construct high status (sexual, social, economic, political, or military market value) we obtain more and better opportunities with more and better people.

    The innovation in abrahamic religion was to provide competition against aristocratic stoicism, truth, duty, and contribution to the commons, with self indulgence, justification of cowardice, and elimination of contribution to the commons – which is what we see in communism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism: how to consume the commons rather than contribute to them.

    The structure of this religion is dependent upon your learning to lie in the face of reality in exchange for denial of that reality, denial of truth, duty, commons. It is a narrative structure that recreates the nepotism and insularity of the wandering shepherds who have no land, but live off common lands, and preserve insularity and non-defection in a condition of permanent competition against others of the same ilk, rather than the forces of nature.

    Our gradual domestication of this religion the purpose of which was to undermine the aristocracy, by converting it’s women and underclasses, who could not obtain status in the meritocratic order in that era where industrialization and gunpowder had not yet produced multiples of force, and all was still dependent upon military participation and fighting.

    The demand for mindfulness is largely a demand for means of training our demand for status. As the division of labor increases, the classes diverge in ability, productivity, and interest, and as power distance between bottom and top increases, we find those with the least agency seeking status by alternative means, and a caste of ‘talkers’ providing status (success) by alternative means – where are alternative does not refer to production contribution to the commons, or defense of the private and common.

    Gods provide a means of obtaining approval without competing in the sexual, social, political, economic, and military markets for status and therefore opportunity.

    Mythical Archetypes, heroes (masculine pagan markets), gods and saints (feminine abrahamic monopoly), provide a diversity of heroies and interests as suits those with agency in a division of knowledge and labor.

    The monotheistic archetype creates an anti-hero, in which the victim who suffers for his lack of ability and agency is somehow heroic. But the purpose of this anti-hero is the undermining of those who demonstrate innovation, excellence, competitiveness, production, and contribution to the commons, that increases the division of knowledge and labor, increases competitiveness, increases power distance, and decreases opportunity for status in those lacking ability, training, and agency.

    The jesus hero is a contribution to the heathen (ancestors, nature) pagan (heroes, archetypes) when one of many. But a disaster, like mohammed, and the jews when a monopoly – for we are only equal in ignorance, lack of agency and poverty. We are always unequal in knowledge agency, and wealth.

    It is not that we didn’t need the jesus hero, since there is no equivalent of the feminine archetype in the european pantheon. and the teaching of forgiveness and love in christianity is commercially optimum for all peoples. Unless it is applied (as do christians) beyond our kith and kin.

    There is no better method of training our emotions and intuitions other than the stoic method. There is nothing better to seek in life than the epicurean. And just as we domesticated christianity into a germanic folk religion, and just as we manufactured chivalry to direct aryan men to christian ends. These are the needs of the many ordinary men, while nietzsche, aristotle, alexander, jefferson, and frederick are examples for those of us who are not ordinary men. And it is only aristotelianism, heathenism, paganism , and christianity together that produce a religion for all the classes.

    We have always been an aristotelian (natural law), heathen (nature and ancestor) and pagan (heroes and tribes) people. With competition between the martial, magical,literary, and rational in competition.

    (Note: I have made a mistake by not putting time, opportunity, and status, at the top of the demonstrated property hierarchy. life is just time. time opportunity. opportunity experience.)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-15 12:03:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle’s Via Positiva Strategy

    Over the course of my lifetime I slowly evolved a social strategy that helped me overcome my natural aspiness and social anxiety. This evolved into a personal philosophy.

    1. Try to make every person you meet your friend or at least predisposed to friendliness. (It’s actually not very difficult.)
    2. Try to help every person you meet even if it’s something minor like complimenting, appreciating, or commiserating.
    3. Try to make every person you meet, at least once in a while, remember you. This isn’t terribly hard if you (a) smile a lot, (b) find something nice to say, like an observation of something they do well.
    4. Preen. It’s not complicated. Look like you TRY. Groom, dress, speak. Learn how to speak clearly in complete sentences, read a few books, and dress conservatively within your class and cultural boundaries. This means you are reliable.
    5. Upgrade friends, associates, work position as frequently as you find utility in doing so. The good friends will remain, those that are holding you back must not.
    6. Pick a set of conditions in life you would be happy with achieving. Not one ideal, not one favorite, but a spectrum that you would be happy with from low cost to high cost to you.  Try to advance whatever will bring about most of them whenever you can.  And make sure it doesn’t depend on anyone giving you attention. That’s the curse. Need for approval and attention. You don’t want to get hooked on it.
    7. Make very few promises. And if you do make a promise don’t commit to a time frame. If you commit to a time frame only commit to doing your best and do your best and document that you have done so. If you must commit to a time from and promise then make sure you have enough money to pay others to get it done.
    8. Work harder than everyone else at achieving that condition.
    9. Suppress your urge to consume and acquire anything that is not both excellent, useful, and beautiful. It is better to have a few very good things than many not good things.
    10. Buy a heavily depreciated used luxury car for cash if you can, and maintain it.
    11. Acquire all assets that you can that you can’t spend.
    12. Take on no debt that doesn’t get you an asset you can’t spend.
    13. Marry early and well, or late and well, but do not marry without evidence of the person you’re marrying succeeding in the social, economic, and political marketplaces.  This is the most expensive
    14. The stock market is for gamblers with inside information and suckers. And it’s going to get worse as the boomers pull their money out and the millennials and underclasses cannot produce goods and services of sufficient multipliers to replace it.

    Most personal philosophies are means of insulating yourself from lack of control over the universe.  This philosophy is a means of taking control of yourself within that universe. Successful, healthy, wealthy, happy people use time, and laying one brick of success at a time because they enjoy laying those bricks.  Some of us are exceptional and can outwork everyone else socially, physically, mentally and emotionally. If you are one of those people you are already doing these things.  For most mortals you will not win your dreams by accident. You will build them over time.  Or not. The current era is organized to destroy you and your dreams. Help me change that. Propertarianism. The Natural Law of Reciprocity. Rule of Law under it. De-politicization, de-financialization, re-familialization.

  • Curt Doolittle’s Via Positiva Strategy

    Over the course of my lifetime I slowly evolved a social strategy that helped me overcome my natural aspiness and social anxiety. This evolved into a personal philosophy.

    1. Try to make every person you meet your friend or at least predisposed to friendliness. (It’s actually not very difficult.)
    2. Try to help every person you meet even if it’s something minor like complimenting, appreciating, or commiserating.
    3. Try to make every person you meet, at least once in a while, remember you. This isn’t terribly hard if you (a) smile a lot, (b) find something nice to say, like an observation of something they do well.
    4. Preen. It’s not complicated. Look like you TRY. Groom, dress, speak. Learn how to speak clearly in complete sentences, read a few books, and dress conservatively within your class and cultural boundaries. This means you are reliable.
    5. Upgrade friends, associates, work position as frequently as you find utility in doing so. The good friends will remain, those that are holding you back must not.
    6. Pick a set of conditions in life you would be happy with achieving. Not one ideal, not one favorite, but a spectrum that you would be happy with from low cost to high cost to you.  Try to advance whatever will bring about most of them whenever you can.  And make sure it doesn’t depend on anyone giving you attention. That’s the curse. Need for approval and attention. You don’t want to get hooked on it.
    7. Make very few promises. And if you do make a promise don’t commit to a time frame. If you commit to a time frame only commit to doing your best and do your best and document that you have done so. If you must commit to a time from and promise then make sure you have enough money to pay others to get it done.
    8. Work harder than everyone else at achieving that condition.
    9. Suppress your urge to consume and acquire anything that is not both excellent, useful, and beautiful. It is better to have a few very good things than many not good things.
    10. Buy a heavily depreciated used luxury car for cash if you can, and maintain it.
    11. Acquire all assets that you can that you can’t spend.
    12. Take on no debt that doesn’t get you an asset you can’t spend.
    13. Marry early and well, or late and well, but do not marry without evidence of the person you’re marrying succeeding in the social, economic, and political marketplaces.  This is the most expensive
    14. The stock market is for gamblers with inside information and suckers. And it’s going to get worse as the boomers pull their money out and the millennials and underclasses cannot produce goods and services of sufficient multipliers to replace it.

    Most personal philosophies are means of insulating yourself from lack of control over the universe.  This philosophy is a means of taking control of yourself within that universe. Successful, healthy, wealthy, happy people use time, and laying one brick of success at a time because they enjoy laying those bricks.  Some of us are exceptional and can outwork everyone else socially, physically, mentally and emotionally. If you are one of those people you are already doing these things.  For most mortals you will not win your dreams by accident. You will build them over time.  Or not. The current era is organized to destroy you and your dreams. Help me change that. Propertarianism. The Natural Law of Reciprocity. Rule of Law under it. De-politicization, de-financialization, re-familialization.