Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

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    (FB 1545485240 Timestamp) Nice Parsimony: —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced by consciousness (itself a constant stream of a personal narrative) evolved by event-driven memory in spacetime to optimize decision-making in a socio-cooperative hierarchy.”— Nick’s Reason

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    (FB 1545485176 Timestamp) —“Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, timid, violent and vicious.”—Anne Summers This is not so much a statement about cats, as about humans. 😉

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    (FB 1545484362 Timestamp) James is one of those guys you get into a negotiation with, and you just stop and say ‘damn you are good’. And you appreciate your opponent’s use of the art form. This is not uncommon between competitors. It actually makes the competition enjoyable – unless you’re the victim of that competitor because you can’t play the game at that level.

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    (FB 1545482848 Timestamp) People like woo. Woo provides the mind lacking in resources the promise of an undiscovered valley (new hunting ground). Minds need to be busy. they will find something to be busy with. And unfortunately, what they are capable of being busy with varies a great deal from the bottom to the top of the spectrum – and there is significant room for bad choices everywhere along that spectrum.

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    (FB 1545418085 Timestamp) The general argument that I rely upon is that consciousness exists for the purpose of social interaction by observing, empathizing, sympathizing, negotiating, and cooperating, avoiding, or conflicting. Otherwise it is too expensive (brains are really expensive). In other words, the returns on cooperation are high enough for all that individual humans can afford expensive brains. Consciousness exists like language exists – to negotiate cooperation.

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    (FB 1545588824 Timestamp) THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM by Rosenborg Predmetsky Cultural Marxists are all structural and no agency (perhaps a good propertarian description of “all talk and no walk”). I find it very telling that the advocates of structuralism and post-structuralism tended to be utterly degenerate and depraved idiots — the most obvious examples are Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Both purely r-selected and also totally obsessed with the idea that humans in general lack agency and that human subjectivity is nothing but a function of some antecedent (linguistic or social) structure. They are projecting their own constitutional, biological lack of agency onto humanity at large. When a post-structuralist says “humans lack agency,” I say “speak for yourself, hypo-frontal-cortical wojack!” I see cultural Marxists as high openness to experience with its attendant divergent thinking + dopaminergic sensation seeking + Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS, intense negative effect), and so they are driven by their passions like a kite in a hurricane, lacking anything like authentic agency, and they just project their own pathology onto the rest of humanity. Sensation seeking + intense negative affect + high verbal IQ = quasi-bonobo degenerate reader of Derrida / Foucault. Hyper-feminine, articulate but garrulous, schizophrenia-spectrum, borderline personality with unstable sense of self (which they project onto others), borderline psychotic, highly diffuse and chaotic thought patterns, histrionic, a desire to be seen and desired rather than a desire to create and/or conquer through brilliance or authentic power wrought of discipline.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545588824 Timestamp) THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM by Rosenborg Predmetsky Cultural Marxists are all structural and no agency (perhaps a good propertarian description of “all talk and no walk”). I find it very telling that the advocates of structuralism and post-structuralism tended to be utterly degenerate and depraved idiots — the most obvious examples are Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Both purely r-selected and also totally obsessed with the idea that humans in general lack agency and that human subjectivity is nothing but a function of some antecedent (linguistic or social) structure. They are projecting their own constitutional, biological lack of agency onto humanity at large. When a post-structuralist says “humans lack agency,” I say “speak for yourself, hypo-frontal-cortical wojack!” I see cultural Marxists as high openness to experience with its attendant divergent thinking + dopaminergic sensation seeking + Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS, intense negative effect), and so they are driven by their passions like a kite in a hurricane, lacking anything like authentic agency, and they just project their own pathology onto the rest of humanity. Sensation seeking + intense negative affect + high verbal IQ = quasi-bonobo degenerate reader of Derrida / Foucault. Hyper-feminine, articulate but garrulous, schizophrenia-spectrum, borderline personality with unstable sense of self (which they project onto others), borderline psychotic, highly diffuse and chaotic thought patterns, histrionic, a desire to be seen and desired rather than a desire to create and/or conquer through brilliance or authentic power wrought of discipline.

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    (FB 1546093264 Timestamp) Wisdom is not law, not command, just wisdom: advice, and choice. Darwin disapproves if we hinder one’s self-selection out of the gene pool.

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    (FB 1546043826 Timestamp) Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic Screening examination. The results showed that, on the average, a) pain tolerance decreases with age; b) men tolerate more pain than women; and c) Whites tolerate more pain than Orientals, while Blacks occupy an intermediate position. When the results of this study are compared with earlier work, it appears that, with increasing age, tolerance to cutaneous pain increases and tolerance to deep pain decreases.”—

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    (FB 1546037060 Timestamp) —“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” ― Robert Heinlein