Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

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    (FB 1543516384 Timestamp) —“Aren’t the Meds the founders of western civ?”—Dominic Leyva Well, it’s the Yamna east, and corded ware west that founded western civilization’s uniqueness. It’s the greeks and romans that produced it’s scale. Whether the greeks were european is still in dispute. Itals (romans) are danubian (germanic). we still don’t know if the greek aristocracy was european, old european, or anatolian. (north south, or east west). There aren’t enough bodies for DNA yet, and the bodies we do have are all from outside the aristocratic classes. We need a few tombs or burians with DNA. The greeks, like the hittites appear to be european in social organization, language, and religions. Whether they were blue eyed and fair hair or brown eyed and black haired is only discernible from the literature, not from DNA yet. I suspect that the hellenes were europeans that invaded causing the bronze age collapse, or invaded to take advantage of the bronze age collapse.

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    (FB 1543515612 Timestamp) Anglos had Thought Right. Germans had Man right.
    Russians had Others right. French had everything wrong. Ashkenazi had malicious intent.

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    (FB 1543532315 Timestamp) TESTING THE THEORY FALSIFIES IT —“Jesus and his Philosophy are the Foundation of Western Civilization, not Christianity.”—Dan Cox They are the foundations of christianity and that is all. If that were not the case, other christian sects would produce the same categories of outputs and conditions that western peoples do. Christian communities tend to produce higher trust. That’s true. THat’s all. And for the reasons I’ve stated.

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    (FB 1543515299 Timestamp) ART: THE CRAFTING OF THE COMMONS (updated) (Information Association)

    1. Craftsmanship (Craft) (Physical information)
      … Materials
      … Technology
      … Skill

    2. Design (Design) (Sensory information)
      … Pattern (Sensory Aesthetics, Order)
      … Depth (Complexity, Hand of man)
      … Decoration (form vs function)

    3. Content (Art) (Meaningful information)
      … Capturing
      … … Utility vs
      … … the Experience, vs
      … … the Moment, Time, or Era (good and bad) vs
      … … the Culture or Civilization, (good and bad) vs
      … … the Eternal Condition of Mankind
      … ie: Value Judgements

    And

    1. Beauty (The Presence of Resources)
      … Intention to Make Art (Investment in the commons)
      … Hand (Time) of Man, Degree of Investment
      … Scale (decoration to monument)
      … Innovation (Mastery)
      … Scarcity, Uniqueness, “One-ness”.
      … Signal Value

    And Measurement by Triangulation And … Literature … The Play … Movies … Music … Crafts … Fashion (technically a craft) … Painting, Print, (2d) … Sculpture, (3d) … Architecture (4d) … Monuments (5d) And … You. You and your experiences. Like reading text, the content you experience is a combination of your memories, with the art. ( Opera is an acquired taste. ) —“Is this a breakdown of why art is not merely subjective?”— Yes. Like many things our ‘taste’ consists of personal associations (subjective) to objective measures. We can measure the quality of art. “Your taste is a measure of you, not art.” So like vocabulary, or manners, or style, or other opinion, we retain some constant values, but learn to improve our taste: a skill. PHYSICS IN EVERYTHING = ECONOMICS IN EVERYTHING

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543516384 Timestamp) —“Aren’t the Meds the founders of western civ?”—Dominic Leyva Well, it’s the Yamna east, and corded ware west that founded western civilization’s uniqueness. It’s the greeks and romans that produced it’s scale. Whether the greeks were european is still in dispute. Itals (romans) are danubian (germanic). we still don’t know if the greek aristocracy was european, old european, or anatolian. (north south, or east west). There aren’t enough bodies for DNA yet, and the bodies we do have are all from outside the aristocratic classes. We need a few tombs or burians with DNA. The greeks, like the hittites appear to be european in social organization, language, and religions. Whether they were blue eyed and fair hair or brown eyed and black haired is only discernible from the literature, not from DNA yet. I suspect that the hellenes were europeans that invaded causing the bronze age collapse, or invaded to take advantage of the bronze age collapse.

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    (FB 1543515495 Timestamp) by Bill Joslin “The commons” was initially used (or at least at the time of corporatism in Germany) to mean the people. We are a product of the commons and a part of the commons – the primary part – the core.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543515299 Timestamp) ART: THE CRAFTING OF THE COMMONS (updated) (Information Association)

    1. Craftsmanship (Craft) (Physical information)
      … Materials
      … Technology
      … Skill

    2. Design (Design) (Sensory information)
      … Pattern (Sensory Aesthetics, Order)
      … Depth (Complexity, Hand of man)
      … Decoration (form vs function)

    3. Content (Art) (Meaningful information)
      … Capturing
      … … Utility vs
      … … the Experience, vs
      … … the Moment, Time, or Era (good and bad) vs
      … … the Culture or Civilization, (good and bad) vs
      … … the Eternal Condition of Mankind
      … ie: Value Judgements

    And

    1. Beauty (The Presence of Resources)
      … Intention to Make Art (Investment in the commons)
      … Hand (Time) of Man, Degree of Investment
      … Scale (decoration to monument)
      … Innovation (Mastery)
      … Scarcity, Uniqueness, “One-ness”.
      … Signal Value

    And Measurement by Triangulation And … Literature … The Play … Movies … Music … Crafts … Fashion (technically a craft) … Painting, Print, (2d) … Sculpture, (3d) … Architecture (4d) … Monuments (5d) And … You. You and your experiences. Like reading text, the content you experience is a combination of your memories, with the art. ( Opera is an acquired taste. ) —“Is this a breakdown of why art is not merely subjective?”— Yes. Like many things our ‘taste’ consists of personal associations (subjective) to objective measures. We can measure the quality of art. “Your taste is a measure of you, not art.” So like vocabulary, or manners, or style, or other opinion, we retain some constant values, but learn to improve our taste: a skill. PHYSICS IN EVERYTHING = ECONOMICS IN EVERYTHING

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543511773 Timestamp) IMPERIALISM VS COLONIALISM (from elsewhere) I don’t make mistakes. It’s my job. It’s a dirty job policing sophists. But someone’s gotta do it. im·pe·ri·al·ism

    [imˈpirēəˌlizəm]

    NOUN a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. co·lo·ni·al·ism

    [kəˈlōnēəˌlizəm]

    NOUN the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543587328 Timestamp) INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND CIVILIZATIONS FILL EVERY NICHE |FEED|: Herd > Pack > Solitary Hunter > Scavenger > Kleptoparasite > Parasite. Mammals cover the full range. Humans cover the full range. Civilizations cover the full range.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1543587328 Timestamp) INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND CIVILIZATIONS FILL EVERY NICHE |FEED|: Herd > Pack > Solitary Hunter > Scavenger > Kleptoparasite > Parasite. Mammals cover the full range. Humans cover the full range. Civilizations cover the full range.