Curt Doolittle

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  • I had a friend whose philosophy was very similar to christian science. Although,

    I had a friend whose philosophy was very similar to christian science. Although, as he practiced it: a disciplined mind, and a disciplined body, it was a well done art, not an excuse to avoid the physician and hospital. But I would not enter into that discussion with him. Ever. And he would not bridge it with me. He did not know he was a stoic. And that is what he’d sought.

    Most men do not know that what they seek is a personal philosophy of stoicism, a political philosophy of soveriegnty, and transcendent philosophy of heroic literature.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 06:26:00 UTC

  • “Your success has made you weak”. This is aristocratic man’s recurring problem

    “Your success has made you weak”.

    This is aristocratic man’s recurring problem.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 06:18:00 UTC

  • (You say ‘eugenics’ like it’s a bad thing, and imply dysgenics is a good thing.)

    (You say ‘eugenics’ like it’s a bad thing, and imply dysgenics is a good thing.)

    Anyway,

    1) personality traits evolved as an intersection between gender strategy and prey drive. The prey drive consists of five physical systems. These systems are altered by gender and neotonic selection (success at extending immaturity).

    2) The personality traits which most influence lifetime success are intelligence, industriousness, and conscientiousness.

    3) Intelligence is categorizable a personality trait, appears to be the most important trait, appears to be largely a function of neoteny, size, and verbal ability.

    4) It’s controversial but I’ve talked to Lynn about it, and he’s adamant that we’ve lost 15pts of aggregate IQ in the past century, even if we’ve seen flynn effects from (a) ending developmental nutrition problems, and (b) the power of training in general (scientific) rules vs specific case rules. World IQ is dropping precipitously.

    5) the most important feature that determines the standard of living (and political stabiity) of a polity is IQ.

    Net is, 20th c was a disaster.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-24 21:37:00 UTC

  • ASYMMETRY IN DUELS I took fencing in my 20’s got reasonably good despite the fac

    ASYMMETRY IN DUELS

    I took fencing in my 20’s got reasonably good despite the fact that I have the wrong build for it. And here is the thing. The average person with very little training can point-shoot successfully to the point where differences are marginal. This is why the aristocracy was overthrown. The difference between skilled swordsmen without armor is much greater. The difference between skilled warriors with swords and armor much greater. The difference between skilled fighters without weapons even greater. My opinion on these things is that we solve the difference with numbers as we always have (go to court) if we cannot find a reasonable compromise between our size and ability. And as such, as long as ‘court’ is one of the available options, dueling is simply rational.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 10:20:00 UTC

  • THE THING MEN KILL FOR Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control studied ov

    THE THING MEN KILL FOR

    Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control studied over 10,000 female deaths in 18 states from 2003 to 2014 and found that 55 percent of them were related to disputes between intimate partners.

    More than 98 percent of the women who were killed were said to have died at the hands of men.

    A majority of them were under the age of 40, with 15 percent being pregnant or recently giving birth. Over 50 percent were shot to death.

    When it comes to male murder victims, an estimated 5 to 7 percent were killed by intimate partners, according to earlier reports.

    As for the overall murder count, black women were the most likely to be killed — followed by Native American women, Hispanics, whites, and Asians.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 21:43:00 UTC

  • Well, there are teachers and there are judges, there are scientists and there ar

    Well, there are teachers and there are judges, there are scientists and there are prosecutors. And my view is that it is the competition between the via positiva (peterson) and the via negativa (law) that leaves truth remaining. Because we do not know the truth, we can never know it. We can only know what is false and not yet false. As such, it is up to some to imagine and others to falsify. And for everyone in the market for knowledge to participate in the game. This is contrary to our intuitions because we want the cheap route to truth. But there is no other way to calculate it than by trial and error. And therefore no way to improve our pursuit of it other than to prohibit falsehoods. I don’t know any substantial thinkers that are accessible. It is up to followers and advocates to make the inaccessible accessible.

    In my opinion people will understand the constitution and what they will obtain in exchange for the cost of it. They will understand the value of truth even at the expense of the burden of it. But I doubt many people will understand the rest, or need to, other than the judges who use it to administer the law, and those legislators and lawyers who which to construct contracts of the commons that we currently call ‘legislation and regulation’.

    All along our mission has been the same: I am not a populist. I am providing the answer to Abraham, Augustine, Kant, Marx, Derrida and Rorty. Continuing the work of Aristotle, The Stoics, Roman Law, Machiavelli, Bacon, Smith, Hume, Darwin, Menger, Poincare, Weber, Pareto, Popper and Hayek.

    It is up to men of good conscience to be the distributors. I’m just the manufacturer.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 19:41:00 UTC

  • “CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”— My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So

    —“CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”—

    My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So I use heroism, duty and loyalty. I achieve mindfulness through working toward goals. I achieve security by trying to make or join an ‘army’.

    We all need philosophies that reflect our abilities. Not everyone finds joy in constant competition and the high cost of achievement and frequent failure. I find my philosophy difficult if not painful, but it is in that difficulty I find my power, conviction, and immunity from criticism. I do not consider it ‘suffering’ in the Nietzschean sense but Stress that makes you stronger in the sense Taleb means “anti-fragile”.

    But stoicism is a common person’s way of achieving the same thing. Stoicism is a self-directed philosophy of continuous improvement within the world, and aristocracy is a philosophy of continuous achievement through transformation of the world. However, in both models, you cannot be criticized, guilted, shamed, ridiculed by others. Both Martialism and Stoicism make you immune.

    To a lesser degree The Four Agreements Quotes by Miguel Ruiz are a far less sophisticated version that I have found overly sensitive women benefit from.

    And the meditation in buddhism is a less rationalistic way of achieving the same ends. I dont like it because it’s not action oriented.

    What really I don’t like is the prayer-and-rutual way of achieving it because you’ve actually abandoned reality at that point.

    But what you can see from that list is a hierarchy from the most empowered to the least empowered. And from what I can see buddhism is about as far as people should go in withdrawing from the world.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 11:19:00 UTC

  • (Why? Because in the end, the people who will fight ideas, fight arguments, figh

    (Why? Because in the end, the people who will fight ideas, fight arguments, fight people, and fight institutions are the people who matter. That which does not lead to action has no value.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:55:00 UTC

  • THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM –“I cannot even begin to i

    THE UTILITY OF FAITH AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY STOICISM

    –“I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to live on this planet and not have faith.. Faith to me is my belief in something I can’t see, hear or touch.. Its my ” gray ” area and it gives my life meaning and purpose…”— Anon

    I think I could restate that as, “I feel a deep need for a narrative against which to measure my status, and to judge my self worth in life, because outside of the hunter-gatherer tribe of pre-history, where we had directly knowledge of one another, and direct understanding of our status and self worth, that in all other eras – modernity, medieval, and ancient – my judgement of my status and self worth is beyond my ability to intuit, guess, reason, or calculate.”

    I view this as a feminine or beta-male understanding of the world. But it is the most common understanding of the world that I know of.

    The question is, whether confident male, less confident male, or cautious female, we can learn to use the stories of history, reason, and in fact, science, to achieve the same.

    In fact, now that we understand stoicism scientifically, there appears to be no other ‘religion’ that compares to it.

    Where stoicism seeks to make you immune to ridicule, guilt and shame; and to hone your positive virtues, thereby assisting you in changing the world. Faith seeks to make you fear guilt, and punishment, if you offend the world.

    Hence why countries with much faith stagnate in poverty and those with reason leave the rest behind. (china, the west)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 08:17:00 UTC

  • There is no ‘must’ or ‘may’ for the Sovereign man. Only ‘can’ and ‘choice’

    There is no ‘must’ or ‘may’ for the Sovereign man. Only ‘can’ and ‘choice’.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 12:02:00 UTC