Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • So the germans haven’t been far out of aristocracy, they had developed the first

    So the germans haven’t been far out of aristocracy, they had developed the first professional bureaucracies in Europe, and had them before democracy.

    So they never rebelled against the aristocracy, and trust their government.

    The French rebelled against aristocracy and church.

    The English against the continent in general and did not have the fracture or diversity of the French, and the Americans against the aristocracy but not the church.

    So the “Demand for Authority” took very different routes across the european plain given the path to modernity.

    But (as Candice Mary is trying to get to) the maternalism (heavy in France, less so in Germany, non-existent in the slavic lands, and still dominating the south, …. that demand is constant over time.

    And was constant in old (south eastern) Europe in antiquity since they had the least admixture from the north…. ok. ok. I can start to see how this works now.

    (Why is it that you, more than anyone, point me in the right direction when I am off?) thank you.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-19 13:06:00 UTC

  • The Darkness of The Abrahamic Dark Ages

    by Daniel Gurpide According to the Dutch economist Anguss Maddison, Europe suffered through zero economic growth in the centuries from 500 AD to 1500. Maddison shows that for a millennium there was no rise in per capita income, which stood at an abysmally low $215 in 1500. Further, he estimates that in the year 1000, the average infant could expect to live to roughly the age of 24 years—and that a third would die in the first year of life. French historian Fernand Braudel, writing about the pre-18th-century era, points out, for instance, that although France was, by standards of the day, a relatively prosperous country, it is nevertheless believed to have suffered ten general famines during the 10th century; twenty-six in the 11th; two in the 12th—and these are estimates that do not even count the hundreds and hundreds of local famines. European sewage and sanitation regressed back to primitivism during this era. Human waste products were often thrown out the window and into the street or simply dumped in local rivers. With the streets strewn with garbage and running with urine and feces—and with the same horrifying conditions permeating the rivers and streams from which drinking water was drawn—vermin and germs multiplied, and disease of every kind, untreatable by the primitive medical knowledge of the day, proliferated. Between 1347 and 1350, for example, the bubonic plague—the infamous “Black Death”—spread by the fleas that infest rats, ravaged Western Europe, obliterating roughly 20 million people, fully one-third of the human population. Norman Cantor, the leading contemporary historian of the Middle Ages, states: “The Black Death of 1348–49 was the greatest biomedical disaster in European and possibly in world history.” Finally, the early Middle Ages witnessed a stupefying decline in levels of education and literacy from the Roman period. In the endemic warfare of the period, human beings lost the skill of writing and, largely, of reading. For example, during the 8th century, Charlemagne maintained that even the clergy knew insufficient Latin to understand the Bible or to properly conduct Church services. A related disaster was that Classical learning was largely lost in the West. The loss of literacy in Greek was catastrophic for civilization, for it meant the simultaneous loss of philosophy, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and science. Andrew Coulson, a researcher in the field of educational history, points out that whereas the Greeks were fascinated by the natural world, taking pioneering steps in such sciences as anatomy, biology, physics, and meteorology, the Christians replaced efforts to understand the world with an attempt to know God; observation-based study of nature was, accordingly, subordinated to faith-based study of scripture. A decline in learning consequently afflicted every cognitive subject. What limited medical knowledge had been accumulated by Greek and Roman physicians was supplanted by utter mysticism. For example, St. Augustine believed that demons were responsible for diseases, a tragic regression from Hippocrates. Scientific work, in general, declined as interest in the physical world did. W. T. Jones, the 20th century’s leading historian of philosophy, succinctly captured the essence of the decline, and of Christianity’s causal role in promoting it, when he stated: “Because of the indifference and downright hostility of the Christians almost the whole body of ancient literature and learning was lost. This destruction was so great and the rate of recovery was so slow that even by the ninth century Europe was still immeasurably behind the classical world in every department of life. This, then, was truly a ‘dark’ age.” — Daniel Gurpide: The quotations and data are extracted from an article by Andrew Bernstein: “The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages. A Critique of Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason”.

  • The Darkness of The Abrahamic Dark Ages

    by Daniel Gurpide According to the Dutch economist Anguss Maddison, Europe suffered through zero economic growth in the centuries from 500 AD to 1500. Maddison shows that for a millennium there was no rise in per capita income, which stood at an abysmally low $215 in 1500. Further, he estimates that in the year 1000, the average infant could expect to live to roughly the age of 24 years—and that a third would die in the first year of life. French historian Fernand Braudel, writing about the pre-18th-century era, points out, for instance, that although France was, by standards of the day, a relatively prosperous country, it is nevertheless believed to have suffered ten general famines during the 10th century; twenty-six in the 11th; two in the 12th—and these are estimates that do not even count the hundreds and hundreds of local famines. European sewage and sanitation regressed back to primitivism during this era. Human waste products were often thrown out the window and into the street or simply dumped in local rivers. With the streets strewn with garbage and running with urine and feces—and with the same horrifying conditions permeating the rivers and streams from which drinking water was drawn—vermin and germs multiplied, and disease of every kind, untreatable by the primitive medical knowledge of the day, proliferated. Between 1347 and 1350, for example, the bubonic plague—the infamous “Black Death”—spread by the fleas that infest rats, ravaged Western Europe, obliterating roughly 20 million people, fully one-third of the human population. Norman Cantor, the leading contemporary historian of the Middle Ages, states: “The Black Death of 1348–49 was the greatest biomedical disaster in European and possibly in world history.” Finally, the early Middle Ages witnessed a stupefying decline in levels of education and literacy from the Roman period. In the endemic warfare of the period, human beings lost the skill of writing and, largely, of reading. For example, during the 8th century, Charlemagne maintained that even the clergy knew insufficient Latin to understand the Bible or to properly conduct Church services. A related disaster was that Classical learning was largely lost in the West. The loss of literacy in Greek was catastrophic for civilization, for it meant the simultaneous loss of philosophy, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and science. Andrew Coulson, a researcher in the field of educational history, points out that whereas the Greeks were fascinated by the natural world, taking pioneering steps in such sciences as anatomy, biology, physics, and meteorology, the Christians replaced efforts to understand the world with an attempt to know God; observation-based study of nature was, accordingly, subordinated to faith-based study of scripture. A decline in learning consequently afflicted every cognitive subject. What limited medical knowledge had been accumulated by Greek and Roman physicians was supplanted by utter mysticism. For example, St. Augustine believed that demons were responsible for diseases, a tragic regression from Hippocrates. Scientific work, in general, declined as interest in the physical world did. W. T. Jones, the 20th century’s leading historian of philosophy, succinctly captured the essence of the decline, and of Christianity’s causal role in promoting it, when he stated: “Because of the indifference and downright hostility of the Christians almost the whole body of ancient literature and learning was lost. This destruction was so great and the rate of recovery was so slow that even by the ninth century Europe was still immeasurably behind the classical world in every department of life. This, then, was truly a ‘dark’ age.” — Daniel Gurpide: The quotations and data are extracted from an article by Andrew Bernstein: “The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages. A Critique of Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason”.

  • POISONING THE UNATTENDED WELLS by William L. Benge Hegel’s role was to poison th

    POISONING THE UNATTENDED WELLS

    by William L. Benge

    Hegel’s role was to poison the unattended wells of native peoples who left hearth and home to attend by invitation a festival hosted by Hegels brothers; a feast that ended up a lifeless affair with no food, no drink, nothing to celebrate.

    Antifa has drunk those death-dealing bitter waters, whose place and life may be forfeit now. The very real risk of loss of real property and life property is at play. Poisonous lies, death follows.

    (CD: William’s prose is increasingly beautiful)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-18 13:24:00 UTC

  • ”…childhood was believing Vlad the Impaler was the villain – adulthood is unde

    —”…childhood was believing Vlad the Impaler was the villain – adulthood is understanding he was the hero….”— Thorsten Stuart Norgate

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-18 11:50:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030784032714498053

  • “It’s time to stop asking what Jesus would do and start asking what Vlad would d

    —“It’s time to stop asking what Jesus would do and start asking what Vlad would do.”— James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-18 11:45:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030782646761259009

  • ”…childhood was believing Vlad the Impaler was the villain – adulthood is unde

    —”…childhood was believing Vlad the Impaler was the villain – adulthood is understanding he was the hero….”— Thorsten Stuart Norgate

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-18 07:50:00 UTC

  • “It’s time to stop asking what Jesus would do and start asking what Vlad would d

    —“It’s time to stop asking what Jesus would do and start asking what Vlad would do.”— James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-18 07:45:00 UTC

  • Notes: Who We Are and How We Got Here. (Required Reading)

    Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Pastby David Reich (Author) (REQUIRED READING) –Collected Comments– IT”S NOT SO MUCH OUT OF AFRICA BUT RECOMBINATORY the elegantly simple account of humanity unidirectionally branching out from central Africa to the rest of the globe is overly simple, that it was more like multiple vines intertwining in some places, and even doubling back to Africa after the Neanderthal branch had become extinct. “Human Genetic History Is Analogous to a Trellis Not A Tree.” (SEVEN GENERATIONS OF DIRECT INHERITANCE, INFINITE NUMBER OF KIN INHERITANCE) -The number of genes you have is finite – about 20,000, based on current estimates. You get an almost equal number from both mom and dad, but for ancestors prior to your parents, the random shuffling of recombinant dna make it unlikely you will have exactly 25% of your genes from each of your four grandparents. Still, the odds are very high that you will inherit at least some genetic material from everyone in your direct ancestral line back to about seven generations.(you are kin back seven generations). – Beyond the seventh generation, however, the odds of your having genetic material from any one specific remote ancestor rapidly diminishes, until by the time you get back to the fifteenth generation of your genealogical ancestry, there is only about a 3% chance you are related to any one of them genetically. (Unless you have a lot of cousin marriage in your tree). There really can be dramatic divergences between human populations in a short amount of time. (Ashkenazi Jews and Amish are only several hundred years old.) (RACES EXIST) -The BIG PICTURE is this: Peoples come, peoples go. These groups can be done-in by natural disasters, diseases, famine, war, or some combination of the above. Old races merge together, creating new races. Races sometimes die out, or are subsumed into larger groups which are themselves the result of previous mixings of earlier races. And, yes, according to the author there are such things as biologically distinct races, though they are mutable and blendable over time. (RACES BRING TECHNOLOGICAL/BEHAVIORAL CHANGE) -The succession of early modern human cultures in Europe after 37,000 BC (Aurignacian, Gravettian, and Magdalenian) represent events in which culture changed because the underlying racial or ethnic population substantially changed. (Demographics are more likely the cause of archeological change than technologies – i.e.: replacements are more common than adaptations.) RACE AND IQ ARE TIED race and IQ. The author goes through more pages than he needed to to talk away what it’s pretty obvious. (RACIAL CONQUEST IS A NORM) -The genetic history of modern people indicates that throughout history and prehistory there have been many warlike events in which one group of people conquers another. The men from the losing side are typically killed, and their women are often taken as wives or concubines by the leaders of the victorious side. These leading men produce an outsized number of children relative to other men. The evidence shows up clearly in our genome. Total or near-total population displacement has been much more common than the more benign model of populations slowly assimilating and melding. Population replacement is something that is neither a rarity nor a miracle. ( All of this anguished hand-wringing about the population replacement of Native Americans in the United States at the time that the first European settlers colonized it is really misplaced. And that’s because the Native Americans who were displaced at that time themselves just displaced someone else some number of centuries earlier. The melodramatic screeching of Arabs from Jordan over what they have confabulated to be their “ancestral homeland” in what-is-now-Israel is also extremely inappropriate. And that’s because they themselves displaced somebody who was probably there before.) (COINCIDENCE OF EVENTS CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR RACIAL EXPANSION AND CONQUEST) -A supervolcano in southern Italy (Campi Flegrei) massively erupted about 39,000 years ago, and the resulting multi-year-long winter was probably the ultimate cause of neanderthal extinction, as well as that of the first wave of early-modern Europeans. (The decimation of the population coincided with the later invasion by early moderns.) (LOST RACES – RACIAL ARTIFACTS EXIST) “Ghost populations”, which are common ancestors of mutiple ethnic groups living today but which themselves are neither intact nor preserved in any cultural or archeological manner outside of residual DNA. And more specific facts about populations today and in the past. (THE WHITE RACE IS 5000 YEARS OLD) -After the end of the last Ice Age, farmers from Anatolia expanded into Europe, largely replacing the earlier hunter-gatherers, especially in the south. Mixing between the two groups occurred gradually in the north, so that by about 5,000 years ago most Europeans were primarily descended from Anatolian farmers, with a lesser degree of ice-age hunter gatherer ancestry. -It was not until after 5,000 years ago that the European genetic mix began to resemble modern populations. This was the result of a massive Indo-European migration into Europe from the eastern steppes. A combination of diseases (including Bubonic Plague) and warfare resulted in a huge replacement of the first farmers by the invading Indo-Europeans , especially in the north: a 90% turnover in Britain, a 70% turnover throughout Central Europe (The Corded Ware Culture), and a 30% turnover in Iberia. The evidence from this time also indicates a significant influx of Indo-European bloodlines throughout India, especially in the north. (CHINESE AND WHITES ARE RACES, INDIA AND ARICA MULTI-RACIAL) -China and India are two Asian countries with huge populations, but they have vastly different genetic population dynamics. In China, there tends to be one vast, relatively undifferentiated population pool, whereas in India, there is no one Indian population at all, but rather a huge number of small caste and sub-caste populations which have seldom intermarried for the past 4,000 years, and each of which have developed their own unique genetic signatures and set of genetic proclivities, including diseases and other health problems. North Indians have far more Central Asian farmer ancestry than South Indians – these differences have been preserved for thousands of years due to the strict Indian caste system that favored Northern Indians. India is the same size that it has always been, and so the people there solidified into cast a long time ago and may have stayed that exact same thing for thousands and thousands of years. China is someplace that has expanded a great deal over the last 20 centuries, and one of their tactics for conquering people has been to interbreed with them. And so the people have been mixing freely for that entire amount of time, and the genetic bottlenecks are nowhere comparable to what are found in India. (Incidentally, those genetic bottlenecks are several times stronger than the genetic bottleneck for Ashkenazi Jews.) THE JAPANESE ARE 80/20 KOREAN/AINU -It appears the Japanese people are the result of an 80/20 blend of Korean and Ainu bloodlines. But don’t tell them that. NATIVE AMERICANS CONSIST OF TWO POPULATIONS For Native Americans one learns that there was an earlier crossing by early humans before the land bridge was fully formed and thus there were two ancient people who compose all of native North and South American people. (As far as I know the latter all but exterminated the former) Aug 17, 2018 10:39am

  • Notes: Who We Are and How We Got Here. (Required Reading)

    Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Pastby David Reich (Author) (REQUIRED READING) –Collected Comments– IT”S NOT SO MUCH OUT OF AFRICA BUT RECOMBINATORY the elegantly simple account of humanity unidirectionally branching out from central Africa to the rest of the globe is overly simple, that it was more like multiple vines intertwining in some places, and even doubling back to Africa after the Neanderthal branch had become extinct. “Human Genetic History Is Analogous to a Trellis Not A Tree.” (SEVEN GENERATIONS OF DIRECT INHERITANCE, INFINITE NUMBER OF KIN INHERITANCE) -The number of genes you have is finite – about 20,000, based on current estimates. You get an almost equal number from both mom and dad, but for ancestors prior to your parents, the random shuffling of recombinant dna make it unlikely you will have exactly 25% of your genes from each of your four grandparents. Still, the odds are very high that you will inherit at least some genetic material from everyone in your direct ancestral line back to about seven generations.(you are kin back seven generations). – Beyond the seventh generation, however, the odds of your having genetic material from any one specific remote ancestor rapidly diminishes, until by the time you get back to the fifteenth generation of your genealogical ancestry, there is only about a 3% chance you are related to any one of them genetically. (Unless you have a lot of cousin marriage in your tree). There really can be dramatic divergences between human populations in a short amount of time. (Ashkenazi Jews and Amish are only several hundred years old.) (RACES EXIST) -The BIG PICTURE is this: Peoples come, peoples go. These groups can be done-in by natural disasters, diseases, famine, war, or some combination of the above. Old races merge together, creating new races. Races sometimes die out, or are subsumed into larger groups which are themselves the result of previous mixings of earlier races. And, yes, according to the author there are such things as biologically distinct races, though they are mutable and blendable over time. (RACES BRING TECHNOLOGICAL/BEHAVIORAL CHANGE) -The succession of early modern human cultures in Europe after 37,000 BC (Aurignacian, Gravettian, and Magdalenian) represent events in which culture changed because the underlying racial or ethnic population substantially changed. (Demographics are more likely the cause of archeological change than technologies – i.e.: replacements are more common than adaptations.) RACE AND IQ ARE TIED race and IQ. The author goes through more pages than he needed to to talk away what it’s pretty obvious. (RACIAL CONQUEST IS A NORM) -The genetic history of modern people indicates that throughout history and prehistory there have been many warlike events in which one group of people conquers another. The men from the losing side are typically killed, and their women are often taken as wives or concubines by the leaders of the victorious side. These leading men produce an outsized number of children relative to other men. The evidence shows up clearly in our genome. Total or near-total population displacement has been much more common than the more benign model of populations slowly assimilating and melding. Population replacement is something that is neither a rarity nor a miracle. ( All of this anguished hand-wringing about the population replacement of Native Americans in the United States at the time that the first European settlers colonized it is really misplaced. And that’s because the Native Americans who were displaced at that time themselves just displaced someone else some number of centuries earlier. The melodramatic screeching of Arabs from Jordan over what they have confabulated to be their “ancestral homeland” in what-is-now-Israel is also extremely inappropriate. And that’s because they themselves displaced somebody who was probably there before.) (COINCIDENCE OF EVENTS CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR RACIAL EXPANSION AND CONQUEST) -A supervolcano in southern Italy (Campi Flegrei) massively erupted about 39,000 years ago, and the resulting multi-year-long winter was probably the ultimate cause of neanderthal extinction, as well as that of the first wave of early-modern Europeans. (The decimation of the population coincided with the later invasion by early moderns.) (LOST RACES – RACIAL ARTIFACTS EXIST) “Ghost populations”, which are common ancestors of mutiple ethnic groups living today but which themselves are neither intact nor preserved in any cultural or archeological manner outside of residual DNA. And more specific facts about populations today and in the past. (THE WHITE RACE IS 5000 YEARS OLD) -After the end of the last Ice Age, farmers from Anatolia expanded into Europe, largely replacing the earlier hunter-gatherers, especially in the south. Mixing between the two groups occurred gradually in the north, so that by about 5,000 years ago most Europeans were primarily descended from Anatolian farmers, with a lesser degree of ice-age hunter gatherer ancestry. -It was not until after 5,000 years ago that the European genetic mix began to resemble modern populations. This was the result of a massive Indo-European migration into Europe from the eastern steppes. A combination of diseases (including Bubonic Plague) and warfare resulted in a huge replacement of the first farmers by the invading Indo-Europeans , especially in the north: a 90% turnover in Britain, a 70% turnover throughout Central Europe (The Corded Ware Culture), and a 30% turnover in Iberia. The evidence from this time also indicates a significant influx of Indo-European bloodlines throughout India, especially in the north. (CHINESE AND WHITES ARE RACES, INDIA AND ARICA MULTI-RACIAL) -China and India are two Asian countries with huge populations, but they have vastly different genetic population dynamics. In China, there tends to be one vast, relatively undifferentiated population pool, whereas in India, there is no one Indian population at all, but rather a huge number of small caste and sub-caste populations which have seldom intermarried for the past 4,000 years, and each of which have developed their own unique genetic signatures and set of genetic proclivities, including diseases and other health problems. North Indians have far more Central Asian farmer ancestry than South Indians – these differences have been preserved for thousands of years due to the strict Indian caste system that favored Northern Indians. India is the same size that it has always been, and so the people there solidified into cast a long time ago and may have stayed that exact same thing for thousands and thousands of years. China is someplace that has expanded a great deal over the last 20 centuries, and one of their tactics for conquering people has been to interbreed with them. And so the people have been mixing freely for that entire amount of time, and the genetic bottlenecks are nowhere comparable to what are found in India. (Incidentally, those genetic bottlenecks are several times stronger than the genetic bottleneck for Ashkenazi Jews.) THE JAPANESE ARE 80/20 KOREAN/AINU -It appears the Japanese people are the result of an 80/20 blend of Korean and Ainu bloodlines. But don’t tell them that. NATIVE AMERICANS CONSIST OF TWO POPULATIONS For Native Americans one learns that there was an earlier crossing by early humans before the land bridge was fully formed and thus there were two ancient people who compose all of native North and South American people. (As far as I know the latter all but exterminated the former) Aug 17, 2018 10:39am