Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE GREEK UNDERSTANDING OF GODS —“Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods
    all sorts of things which are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery and mutual deceit.
    But if horses or oxen or lions had hands or could draw with their hands and accomplish such works as men,
    horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and the oxen as similar to oxen,
    and they would make the bodies
    of the sort which each of them had. (frag. 15)”—Xenophanes

  • Mercy is for kin

    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.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    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. 😉

  • THIS IS HOW Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanit

    THIS IS HOW
    Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanites in order to ‘save their civilization’ from ‘decline’.
    What? You think it’s gonna require ‘demonstrations in the streets?’

    no.

    But it’s not novel or difficult

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-08 17:59:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060592549927247878

  • Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanites in order

    Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanites in order to ‘save their civilization’ from ‘decline’.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-08 17:55:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060591532330369024

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060590065884131328

    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @curtdoolittle Interestingly in rural areas you have a germ of the militia. Most of the US rural space has volunteer fire depts. A bunch of guys that own guns, trucks, and know each other, how to use radios, the local terrain, and how to work under a command structure in difficult conditions.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060590065884131328

  • “If you’re nice and lose, you’ll be recorded in history as the worst form of evi

    —“If you’re nice and lose, you’ll be recorded in history as the worst form of evil. If you’re evil and win, you just write history and make yourself the good guy. Since human perception is the only method of recording reality over time: winning is good, losing is evil.”—Steve Pender

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-08 15:16:00 UTC

  • Mao’s strategy.

    THIS IS HOW
    Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanites in order to ‘save their civilization’ from ‘decline’.
    What? You think it’s gonna require ‘demonstrations in the streets?’ no. But it’s not novel or difficult

  • Mao’s strategy.

    THIS IS HOW
    Mao’s strategy. Collect the rural men, to defeat the coastal urbanites in order to ‘save their civilization’ from ‘decline’.
    What? You think it’s gonna require ‘demonstrations in the streets?’ no. But it’s not novel or difficult

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: So at what point is civilization destroyed ? What do you th

    QUESTION OF THE DAY:

    So at what point is civilization destroyed ? What do you think? What constitutes a civilization, and what would constitute its destruction?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-07 15:53:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060198686356070400

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: So at what point is civilization destroyed ? What do you th

    QUESTION OF THE DAY:

    So at what point is civilization destroyed ? What do you think? What constitutes a civilization, and what would constitute its destruction?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-07 10:53:00 UTC