Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions. POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation. CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.
    May 25, 2018 10:07am

  • —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions. POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation. CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.
    May 25, 2018 10:07am

  • “How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”— SOCIETY

    —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions.

    POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation.

    CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-25 10:07:00 UTC

  • The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All

    It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva). Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles). Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony. The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.
    May 24, 2018 2:01pm

  • The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All

    It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva). Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles). Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony. The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.
    May 24, 2018 2:01pm

  • THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL It’s just a fact that the

    THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL

    It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos.

    This is inescapable.

    There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva).

    Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles).

    Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony.

    The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 14:01:00 UTC

  • At Some Point the Middle Class Seeks Profit at The Expense of The Nation

    —“So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass, how before long the golden age, and how long before the descendants destroy what their ancestors built? Can they do it on their own or do they always import/strengthen an underclass?”—A Friend ^Exactly the problem. That’s right. At some point The middle class seeks profit at the expense of the nation (polity, or genetic distribution). National Socialism was an attempt to change this – unfortunately it was stated in german prose rather than english and as such moral rather than scientific – and that curse has harmed national socialism ever since. So the problem is constraint of the middle class just as much as constraint of the upper class and the underclass – which is only possible with full accounting under the natural law of reciprocity. We never wrote a ‘bible’ of natural law. And it’s time we did. 😉

  • At Some Point the Middle Class Seeks Profit at The Expense of The Nation

    —“So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass, how before long the golden age, and how long before the descendants destroy what their ancestors built? Can they do it on their own or do they always import/strengthen an underclass?”—A Friend ^Exactly the problem. That’s right. At some point The middle class seeks profit at the expense of the nation (polity, or genetic distribution). National Socialism was an attempt to change this – unfortunately it was stated in german prose rather than english and as such moral rather than scientific – and that curse has harmed national socialism ever since. So the problem is constraint of the middle class just as much as constraint of the upper class and the underclass – which is only possible with full accounting under the natural law of reciprocity. We never wrote a ‘bible’ of natural law. And it’s time we did. 😉

  • “So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass,

    —“So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass, how before long the golden age, and how long before the descendants destroy what their ancestors built? Can they do it on their own or do they always import/strengthen an underclass?”—Ahila Livingston

    ^Exactly the problem. That’s right.

    At some point The middle class seeks profit at the expense of the nation (polity, or genetic distribution).

    National Socialism was an attempt to change this – unfortunately it was stated in german prose rather than english and as such moral rather than scientific – and that curse has harmed national socialism ever since.

    So the problem is constraint of the middle class just as much as constraint of the upper class and the underclass – which is only possible with full accounting under the natural law of reciprocity.

    We never wrote a ‘bible’ of natural law. And it’s time we did. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-23 12:16:00 UTC

  • by Bob Moran —“Those groups that successfully culled their underclasses throug

    by Bob Moran

    —“Those groups that successfully culled their underclasses through prosecution (killing), manorialism (starvation), urbanization (plague), and warfare (hunting of other humans), today have the highest standards of living.”—CurtD

    Puts into perspective all our “progress”.

    – Removed capital punishment pretty much everywhere;

    – Built an industry of distributing food to the underclasses;

    – Pushed back against plagues, leaving urban environment as an IQ grinder;

    – Switched to economic and informational warfare.

    Oh, and we don’t even wait for the consequences, we import underclasses from elsewhere to speed up the process.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-22 15:52:00 UTC