Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • The Quality of Parenting Is Determined by Values

    —“I don’t think there is any non-material advantage that high-IQ brings to raising children. The advantages to IQ are all endogenous. Working-class folks with excellent values are going to out-parent upper-middle class couples who are non-present and ‘compensate’ via indulgence. The quality of parenting is determined by values.“— Aaron Kahland

  • I think the author’s point is that people of good character tend to pass on good

    I think the author’s point is that people of good character tend to pass on good things independently of their intelligence. I try to teach people that intellience should be considered a personality trait and it is that collection of traits that together compose the person

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 15:53:43 UTC

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  • “It’s almost like we *are* animals, with an extra hunting tool known as the pref

    —“It’s almost like we *are* animals, with an extra hunting tool known as the prefrontal cortex”— Tyler Scott

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 12:07:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1009044918734655488

  • THE TRUTH IS FOR OURSELVES – NOT YOU. We don’t use the Truth to convince you. Yo

    THE TRUTH IS FOR OURSELVES – NOT YOU.

    We don’t use the Truth to convince you. You are immoral, dishonest, dysgenic and lack the agency to use the Truth. We use the Truth to convince ourselves, who are moral, honest, eugenic, and possess of agency, that it is right, just and moral, to separate from you – and if not, then conquer, kill, enslave, en-serf, and subjugate you in self defense – not only of ourselves, but of all we have made, and the future of mankind yet unmade.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 11:15:00 UTC

  • NO, EQ IS NOT A THING, BUT…. WHEREAS Intelligence is a Thing Personality Trait

    NO, EQ IS NOT A THING, BUT….

    WHEREAS

    Intelligence is a Thing

    Personality Traits are a Thing. (Conscientiousness and Agreeableness and Neuroticism in particular)

    The Solipsism vs Empathy vs Autism spectrum is a Thing.

    Class Behaviors are a Thing.

    As such it’s (EQ) a questionable proxy for personality traits rather than intelligence. And (I am in the camp) that we should treat intelligence as a personality trait.

    AND WHEREAS

    Higher IQ people are demonstrably more moral than Low IQ people – yes. Although (a) they can afford to be, and (b) they are also less likely to have other defective personality traits and cultural/class behaviors.

    THEREFORE

    So the problem is that people who argue scientifically know EQ is not a thing but pseudoscience that attributes an equality to intelligence to behavioral properties, when in general even intelligence should be classified as a personality trait, and it is personality traits in toto that determine behavior.

    AND THEREFORE

    So what is going on when we criticize use of EQ, is fighting a common problem we deal with in leftism, whether or not one is actually arguing a leftist position, but using the pseudoscientific language of leftists.

    IN OTHER WORDS

    Either learn to use the relevant personality traits or at least recognize you are talking in pseudoscientific nonsense terms.

    Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 10:37:00 UTC

  • SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS —“Most of us are naturally sheep. Some of us are capable o

    SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS

    —“Most of us are naturally sheep. Some of us are capable of accepting such a reality. The comparison of humans to sheep is as old as written history, or older. It wasn’t always an insult. It was once the mark of a good and connected ruler to be called a shepherd. The archetype of shepherd and father/patriarch was synonymous.”— Anne Summers

    —“The sheep/shepherd model describes a minority upper class ruling a majority underclass with virtually no middle class. in fact, the abundance of a middle class disrupts the stability of this model and naturally, the upper class would prefer to eliminate this instability.”—- George Hobbs

    (Pastoralism vs Agrarianism and Domestication)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 09:41:00 UTC

  • “It’s almost like we *are* animals, with an extra hunting tool known as the pref

    —“It’s almost like we *are* animals, with an extra hunting tool known as the prefrontal cortex”— Tyler Scott

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 08:07:00 UTC

  • THE QUALITY OF PARENTING IS DETERMINED BY VALUES —“I don’t think there is any

    THE QUALITY OF PARENTING IS DETERMINED BY VALUES

    —“I don’t think there is any non-material advantage that high-IQ brings to raising children. The advantages to IQ are all endogenous. Working-class folks with excellent values are going to out-parent upper-middle class couples who are non-present and ‘compensate’ via indulgence. The quality of parenting is determined by values.”— Aaron Kahland

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-19 07:13:00 UTC

  • The Benefit of The Cognitive Load of “enough” Family

    by Collin Turney I worked door-to-door selling educational books for families that helped from learning ABC’s to SAT college prep. I met a total of aprx 3000 families, and here is my analysis: 1 kid – highly stressed parents and child as a by product of the psychological stress that comes with the “all the eggs in one basket” mentality. This means strict grade requirements, strict curfews and other things that are small but total up to a large amount of stress on the child because he feels like it is his duty to never fail at anything. 2 kids: assuming tbe kids are close in age, aprx 8 years or less, creates a “versus” mentality in the family. One child is always against the other. This often will pit parents against each other as well as the kids are always trying to earn the favor of whichever parent likes them more. The younger child has a high propensity to be a polar opposite of their older sibling as they are so often compared to their older sibling and feel as if they are living in someone’s shadow and will become different out of spite to build their own identity. 3 kids: Nearing the breaking point. Not many negatives other than the youngest often can get away with murder and the middle one feels he has no identity as he is neither the oldest nor youngest. 4+ children: the parents at this stage are fully occupied with raising the kids and stop giving a crap about their own personal problems and just do what needs to be done to keep everyone fed. Also, they will just let kids be kids and not worry so much about if they are wrestling in the house or coloring on the walls or other petty things because the parents reach a point where they realize if they care to much about each individual thing the kids are doing they would go insane in less than a week. Also, at 4 or more kids the dynamic in the kids is such that the older kids often assume a part in raising the younger ones and everyone is held to the same standard rather than the “vs” mentality of the 2 kids family and the “baby, directionless middle child, and oldest most mature child” mentality of the 3 kids family. The chillest family I met had 8 kids under the age of 10 and the kids were in the middle of what seemed to be the toddler version of MMA in their front yard and the parents gave no hecks.

  • The Benefit of The Cognitive Load of “enough” Family

    by Collin Turney I worked door-to-door selling educational books for families that helped from learning ABC’s to SAT college prep. I met a total of aprx 3000 families, and here is my analysis: 1 kid – highly stressed parents and child as a by product of the psychological stress that comes with the “all the eggs in one basket” mentality. This means strict grade requirements, strict curfews and other things that are small but total up to a large amount of stress on the child because he feels like it is his duty to never fail at anything. 2 kids: assuming tbe kids are close in age, aprx 8 years or less, creates a “versus” mentality in the family. One child is always against the other. This often will pit parents against each other as well as the kids are always trying to earn the favor of whichever parent likes them more. The younger child has a high propensity to be a polar opposite of their older sibling as they are so often compared to their older sibling and feel as if they are living in someone’s shadow and will become different out of spite to build their own identity. 3 kids: Nearing the breaking point. Not many negatives other than the youngest often can get away with murder and the middle one feels he has no identity as he is neither the oldest nor youngest. 4+ children: the parents at this stage are fully occupied with raising the kids and stop giving a crap about their own personal problems and just do what needs to be done to keep everyone fed. Also, they will just let kids be kids and not worry so much about if they are wrestling in the house or coloring on the walls or other petty things because the parents reach a point where they realize if they care to much about each individual thing the kids are doing they would go insane in less than a week. Also, at 4 or more kids the dynamic in the kids is such that the older kids often assume a part in raising the younger ones and everyone is held to the same standard rather than the “vs” mentality of the 2 kids family and the “baby, directionless middle child, and oldest most mature child” mentality of the 3 kids family. The chillest family I met had 8 kids under the age of 10 and the kids were in the middle of what seemed to be the toddler version of MMA in their front yard and the parents gave no hecks.