Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE NORMAL WORLD VS THE ABNORMAL HIGH TRUST WEST —“Japanese are basically as irreciprocal and asymmetric as jews – but with a twist. In that, while they don’t like cheating, defrauding, lying, and stealing, etc. that would cause retaliation, they are always asking the question “is it good for japan?” the way jews ask “is it good for jews?” India does that too – the question is always “is it good for india? And they are very clear on ingroup vs outgroup in everything – and not just race, but family. There are different pronouns for things like mother, father, our company, your company, etc. depending on how you are talking to and your relative position. The Vietnamese language is same way. In vietnam its blatantly clear that everything inside is from your fathers side: patriarchy.”– James

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    CONTINUING YOUR EXISTENCE
    by Bill Joslin In three generations (150 years), pretty much all people on the planet will not only be dead – but forgotten. People – average Joe’s – who lived 150 years ago are pretty much forgotten. What impact will you have on the world, during your life, which will still be relevant or even just remembered in 150 years? The point at which the impact of your life upon the world becomes irrelevant and forgotten marks the point where your existence ends. Unless you leave a mark on history, you’re life remains inconsequential, arbitrary and irrelevant – it makes no difference… So, this adds a new dimension to why having kids is meaningful – if you can’t affect an impact on the world via action, you can continue your existence via reproduction.

  • hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignor

    … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:38:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061025344369684480

    Reply addressees: @HumanProgress

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

    IN REPLY TO:

    @HumanProgress

    In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

  • Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sover

    Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation ….

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:37:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061024959512961024

    Reply addressees: @HumanProgress

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

    IN REPLY TO:

    @HumanProgress

    In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061022623168167936

  • “The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the

    —“The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”—

    — Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 38 “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 20:47:00 UTC

  • THANKFUL FOR OUR GIFTS by James Santagata I woke up at 3 am. Dry throat. I flipp

    THANKFUL FOR OUR GIFTS

    by James Santagata

    I woke up at 3 am. Dry throat. I flipped on a light switch, used the flushing toilet, washed my hands with soap and clean water, had a drink of potable water, checked to make sure my TV was office, that the refrigerator and freezer doors were closed, that my induction heating stove and appliances were off, and that my wife had set the “scheduler” button for our front loading washing machine and dryer to room.

    I plugged in my smart phone to recharge it, and closed the front window when I heard a motorcycle scream by.

    Then I got on my knees and thank my White Male Ancestors for all of these gifts, the thousands of inventions and unveiling of basic science to produce each of these products – the basic science and tech involved in a taken for granted automobile is mind blowing as is the people who invented or unveiled those secrets.

    It is not a social construct but an intergenerational baton pass of cultural and cognitive curiosity and ability underpinned and informed by genetics.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 18:52:00 UTC

  • THE GREEK CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY NOT PERSONAL RELIGION In his book on the subject,

    THE GREEK CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY NOT PERSONAL RELIGION

    In his book on the subject, Did the Greeks Believe Their Myths?, Paul Veyne writes:

    —“Myth is truthful, but figuratively so. It is not historical truth mixed with lies; it is a high philosophical teaching that is entirely true, on the condition that, instead of taking it literally, one sees in it an allegory.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 17:59:00 UTC

  • THE GODS GAVE US FIRE, BUT WE MAD OURSELVES GODS WITH METAL. As far as I know (a

    THE GODS GAVE US FIRE, BUT WE MAD OURSELVES GODS WITH METAL.

    As far as I know (and I may be wrong) gods gave us fire via Prometheus, but man invented metal. And while Hephaestus is a god of Smiths (and I am not sure how many civilizations have such a thing other than Thor and Hephaestus) the gods did not give man metal. We made our solves gods by discovering it, and bending it to our will. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 17:48:00 UTC

  • YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting R

    YES, THANK YOU WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    —“The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster. In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.”–humanprogressorg

    Yes. Yes. Thank you.

    Thank you Western Civilization, for high trust people, heroism, individual sovereignty, rule of law, truth-jury-and-judiciary, markets in association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, and polities; reason, empiricism, science; freedom from poverty, starvation ….

    … hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.

    Thank you Western Civilization, The Evil White Male, The Oppressor, The Colonialist, the Bringer of ending human suffering and the privilege of ridiculing those to whom your entire station is but a debt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 17:41:00 UTC

  • lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. Yo

    lesson of rome. If you’re going to do it. You do it like you did to carthage. You do not do it like you did to greece and judea.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 13:49:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060892115209732099