Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • As soon as Obama was elected there was this wonderful benefit of black men feeli

    As soon as Obama was elected there was this wonderful benefit of black men feeling that they’d arrived. And I sensed all this amazing reduction of stress. I remember getting in elevators with black men and that ‘thing’ wasn’t there. It was sort of gone. It was awesome.

    But then he had to go and screw it up. Instead of governing cautiously and wisely he pulled off the obamacare scandal, and then played the anti-white-civilization card all day long. And look at where we are now. dammit.

    Yeah, I like living in a neighborhood with ‘my people’ watching my tribe regenerate every generation. But I got nothin’ but love for people who do the same in their neighborhoods.

    The market doesn’t care what color we are. The government, by saying we are all the same even outside the market, has made us care.

    And when we avoid integration into the anglo saxon model of contractualism, high trust, nuclear family, common language, common religion, common holidays and common mythology, we force us into either conflict or castes.

    And it sucks. We had it right under monarchy. We had quarters to live in, and a common law outside of them, and without access to political power the market was our only power.

    Democracy is a cancer.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-09 20:09:00 UTC

  • wisdom: the experience required to make judgements teleolgically (by outcome) ra

    wisdom: the experience required to make judgements teleolgically (by outcome) rather than deontologically (by rule) or by virtue (sentiment).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-08 21:44:00 UTC

  • HINT: ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS ARE LIES, JUST AS ALL RELIGIOUS TERMS ARE LIES. HU

    HINT: ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS ARE LIES, JUST AS ALL RELIGIOUS TERMS ARE LIES. HUMANS SEEK TO ACQUIRE IN FURTHERANCE OF THEIR REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY. EVERYTHING ELSE IS POSTURING AND NEGOTIATION.F

    The only thing that differs is our reproductive strategy: Gender, Class, Age, Race.

    Jessa Faya Alexander

    —“How about: Empaths seek connection, Sociopaths seek power; your results may vary”—

    Curt Doolittle

    To experience the feeling of “connection: is a impulsive MEANS to an evolutionary END. That women tend to be incognizant of the ends that they pursue by seeking their emotions is simply to say that they are less human and more animal than men. A sociopath(ends) like an empath(means) can pursue either moral ends or immoral ends. There is no moral difference between immoral sociopaths(ends) and immoral empaths (means). Just as there is no moral difference between moral sociopaths(ends) and moral empaths(means). The difference lies only in animal impulse and lying about, and human reason and telling the truth of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-07 12:22:00 UTC

  • How Humans Adapt More Than Evolve

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  • How Humans Adapt More Than Evolve

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  • JA BERENS ON STOICISM AND SCALE —“Stoicism functions as a tool for limiting th

    JA BERENS ON STOICISM AND SCALE

    —“Stoicism functions as a tool for limiting the scope of human cognitive processes (cognition & responses to perceived changes in state) to the consequential (actionable at individual scale).

    The scope of man’s cognitive processes evolved under tribal/local scale with limited complexity.

    Under more complex systems, like those of post-industrial societies, information surpasses the scale of individual actionability, yet because of our innate cognitive biases we respond to, perceive and approach information as if it were consequential.

    Complexity and the [perceived] randomness of events eliminate the feedback/information man receives from his actions. That is, as complexity increases, the difficulty of calculating the consequences of a given action or set of actions increases. Thus the need for stoicism as a mental instrument for goal-directed action in an increasingly complex world.

    It is no surprise, then, that much in the way that Doolittle and Taleb attack pseudoscience via operationalism and probability theory, respectively, we see a resurgence of stoicism guided by operational and probabilistic thinking. In respect to the former, we decrease uncertainty and launder our thoughts of error, bias, [self] deceit and wishful thinking; and, in respect to the latter, under uncertainty, through the investment and coordination of action to produce a convexity of returns/results (anti-fragility): investment in portfolios with limited down side and unlimited upside.”— James Augustus Berens

    SAME PROBLEM FACING THE GREEKS.

    Scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 18:32:00 UTC

  • People don’t have ideas. Ideas occupy people

    People don’t have ideas. Ideas occupy people.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 18:16:00 UTC

  • TEACHING OTHERS: LEAPS VS STEPS My general philosophy is to produce and generate

    TEACHING OTHERS: LEAPS VS STEPS

    My general philosophy is to produce and generate interest. I don’t like to ‘direct’. I love answering questions. But I prefer each of us makes his own journey out of recognizing and acting on his own opportunities. I have found over my life that if I try to structure learning for others that I fail because the way I learn myself is too different from the way the majority learn. There are some of us who intuit great leaps between seemingly unrelated concepts then try to learn how to fill in the steps between them. But most of us learn by taking one step at a time. The kind of people who make great leaps also, only need content, and for me to answer a few questions. The kind of people who learn step by step are harder for me to reach. In part because I reach the ‘steps’ at the end of my journey – not the beginning. So I can’t really ‘think backward’ until I’ve thoroughly solved the problem.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 15:41:00 UTC

  • The purpose of Stoicism and Buddhism is to end our rule by emotion: meaning “ani

    The purpose of Stoicism and Buddhism is to end our rule by emotion: meaning “animal instinct” so that we might, with effort, become humans. Albeit Stoicism provides an objective and masculine, action oriented solution within reality, and Buddhism provides a subjective and feminine means of disconnecting from reality, both achieve mindfulness by similar means.

    So no. We are only ruled by emotion because we fail to CHOOSE NOT to be.

    There is a very great difference between a domesticated animal, and a human being. A domesticated animal has been trained to cause little damage despite its impulses. A human no longer is governed by impulses.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 13:07:00 UTC

  • I THINK THIS POST MIGHT BE IMPORTANT – TRY SHARING IT WITH WOMEN. I’ve been gett

    I THINK THIS POST MIGHT BE IMPORTANT – TRY SHARING IT WITH WOMEN.

    I’ve been getting a lot of private messages from women over this post – all with the central theme of ‘yeah… that’s about right’. I’d like to see how it does on the men’s movement sites (I always seek criticism).

    It positions the problem women face, I think correctly. It positions the problem men face, I think correctly. And I think that the combination of birth control, employing too many women in the work force, un-mothering our children, industrializing child care and education, making marriage dissolution easier and more preferable, and undermining the institution of marriage itself has led to catastrophic late age misery, and harmful early age stresses.

    Men must be men if we wish women to be women. Women must be women if we wish men to be men. the only people that benefit from gender neutrality are those who are outside the norms. The only appeal of serving those outside the norms is created by the feeling of fragility we have created by destroying the compromise between the sexes that we call relationships and marriage for the purpose of intergenerational persistence of our lines. By overcompensating for the bottom we have further empowered the top and destroyed the middle.

    But women have a much harder problem: What Men Can They Trust? (Almost none)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 11:02:00 UTC