Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Do You Think That Brazil Can Be In The Same Position That The U.s. Occupies Now? What Is The Future Of Brazil?

    Demographically and economically that looks impossible. It is much more likely that the USA will decline to the same condition as we find in Brazil. Why? Demographics.

    It doesn’t matter how good your ‘best’ classes are, because your worst classes are far more destructive than your best classes can compensate for. (Really).

    The size of the underclass in central and southern america is simply too large for the upper middle and upper classes to compensate for. And by pursuing socialism in the catholic countries, they missed the opportunity to build more advanced economies before the rest of the world neutralized all competitive advantage of having european traditions.

    So I see the USA turning into brazil, and brazil turning into India.

    Ad the Japanese and Koreans are the only ones working to prevent the same from happening to them.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-Brazil-can-be-in-the-same-position-that-the-U-S-occupies-now-What-is-the-future-of-Brazil

  • Should Poland Apologize To Russia For Invading Russia In 1919–1920?

    I think russia has more apologizing to do than any other existing country, so lets not get into this kind of thing. Either you are advancing one another’s economic interests in the present or you are not. There is nothing else to be discussed.

    Blame your family and friends. Grownups conduct trades in a market. And if you are considering blame in international affairs you are too immature to be holding the discussion.

    https://www.quora.com/Should-Poland-apologize-to-Russia-for-invading-Russia-in-1919–1920

  • What Is The Biggest Mistake Ever Made By The American People?

    Participation in the World Wars. German was in the right both times. If we did anything at all, it should have been to fight alongside the germans to defeat the Russians, and to defeat the Chinese. Pretty much, the USA is always wrong. Always has been. Puritanism, social democracy, and Communism share the same origins.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-biggest-mistake-ever-made-by-the-American-people

  • Can The Usa Become A Third World Country?

    GOOD QUESTION, AND THE ANSWER IS “EASILY”.

    Quite easily. Statistically it is very close to a certainty. Why? Becuase (uncomfortable truth) the difference between first world and third world countries is the size of the underclass. First world countries, during the medieval period, were successful in reducing the underclasses through aggressive use of law, war, malthusian crop yields, and disease.

    Today’s third world countries cannot produce goods and services of sufficient value to compete on the world’s markets. Ergo there is no means of organizing a voluntary organization of production (consumer capitalist economy).

    In painful terms, the reality is that as a nation’ s IQ drops below 100, the ability to compete on the world stage is increasinlly difficult, and as far as I am able to determine, that number will only increase over time.

    If you add to that problem, a regressive religion, or a familial low trust culture, or a tendency for corruption, or the ‘resource curse’, then the problem is impossible to overcome.

    As far as I know, south africa and brazil are the most likely futures available to the western world.

    Americans have imported vast numbers of third world underclasses who are breeding at rates far above those with superior genetic markers. So as far as I can see, there is no way of fixing this problem now.

    The only prudent peoples on the planet today are the swiss and the japanese.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-the-USA-become-a-third-world-country

  • Can The Usa Become A Third World Country?

    GOOD QUESTION, AND THE ANSWER IS “EASILY”.

    Quite easily. Statistically it is very close to a certainty. Why? Becuase (uncomfortable truth) the difference between first world and third world countries is the size of the underclass. First world countries, during the medieval period, were successful in reducing the underclasses through aggressive use of law, war, malthusian crop yields, and disease.

    Today’s third world countries cannot produce goods and services of sufficient value to compete on the world’s markets. Ergo there is no means of organizing a voluntary organization of production (consumer capitalist economy).

    In painful terms, the reality is that as a nation’ s IQ drops below 100, the ability to compete on the world stage is increasinlly difficult, and as far as I am able to determine, that number will only increase over time.

    If you add to that problem, a regressive religion, or a familial low trust culture, or a tendency for corruption, or the ‘resource curse’, then the problem is impossible to overcome.

    As far as I know, south africa and brazil are the most likely futures available to the western world.

    Americans have imported vast numbers of third world underclasses who are breeding at rates far above those with superior genetic markers. So as far as I can see, there is no way of fixing this problem now.

    The only prudent peoples on the planet today are the swiss and the japanese.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-the-USA-become-a-third-world-country

  • More than another country, Switzerland’s ethos is centered around preparing for

    More than another country, Switzerland’s ethos is centered around preparing for civilizational collapse. All around Switzerland, for example, one can find thousands of water fountains fed by natural springs. Zurich is famous for its 1200 fountains, some of them quite beautiful and ornate, but it?….

  • Dec 12, 2017, 10:37 PM

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/switzerland-prepared-civilizational-collapse.htmlUpdated Dec 12, 2017, 10:37 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-12 22:37:00 UTC

  • More than another country, Switzerland’s ethos is centered around preparing for

    More than another country, Switzerland’s ethos is centered around preparing for civilizational collapse. All around Switzerland, for example, one can find thousands of water fountains fed by natural springs. Zurich is famous for its 1200 fountains, some of them quite beautiful and ornate, but it?….

  • If The Usa Is The Leade Of The ‘free World’, Who Is The Leader Of The ‘muslim World’ Now?

    The current battle for leadership, if not the historical battle for leadership, is between the Saudis and the Iranians. The west’s preferences for leadership were 1) A Secular Turkey that led by commercial growth, 2) A Secular Iran that led by political power, 3) an expansion of the arab monarchies in the Saudi model that would reflect the old european monarchies.

    What the west did not want was the spread of communism, or the spread of fundamentalism.

    At present, Turkey has decided to abandon it’s secularization program, iran has sought imperial status by unification of syria, iraq, iran, and to compete on the world stage as a fundamentalist hostile power.

    So at present we see The Monarchies/Israel/the USA, against Iran/Turkey/Russia.

    All civilizations require at least one core state to limit the danger exposed by their own on the world stage, while defending their own on the world stage.

    The last civilization to ‘mature’ is islam, because it was the farthest developmentally behind AND had a devolutionary religion to preserve that backwardness.

    Africa was technologically farther behind, and economically more disadvantaged, but they are not held back by an institutionalized religion bent on preserving it’s power over society.

    https://www.quora.com/If-the-USA-is-the-leade-of-the-Free-World-who-is-the-leader-of-the-Muslim-world’-now

  • “How is the “killer app” of seeking truth an “accidental discovery?” You just as

    —“How is the “killer app” of seeking truth an “accidental discovery?” You just assert that? Lots of this quality of so-called accidents originate in the West. Evolutionary trait? Great read, thank you.”—SmashCulturalMarxism‏ 1 – This is a great question. A (a) genetic cause, (b) geographic cause (c) competitive cause, (d) technological clause, (e) institutional cause, or (f) consequence of one or more of the above? 2 – There are very clear factors: geography, production, competition, technology. 3 – The open question is genetics. Are we cause or consequence of circumstances? Or are we the product of it? Or both? 4 – I suspect that it’s “all of the above”. But the fact remains, we did. 5 – Just because we invented truth it mean others can’t adopt it? (Maybe.) All civilizations that survived ‘the great transformation’ from tribes and bands to collections of them (cities and tech or resistance to cities and tech) retained their traditions and norms (strategies) of prior state. And are a bit ‘frozen’ in that model. River valleys concentrated production, produced surpluses, and could be ruled by a concentrated force because of it. Ranchers and farmers less so. Steppe and desert could not concentrate capital. Jungles could not make it happen because of predators and disease. If we look at the history of man as attached to bodies of water, and then the means of survival around their body of water, we see that they all developed the necessary traditions to do so. Including social, political, economic, and military. So ‘whites’ started out as farmers and cattle raiders. Like piracy, this is a very ‘entrepreneurial’ social order. With the advent of bronze, wheel, and horse, families could pool resources and invest in the entrepreneurship of cattle raiding Concentration of capital occurred at the entrepreneurial level, and wasn’t possible to concentrate at the top. Production was entrepreneurial and distributed. But took metalsmithing, and agrarian production, and organization for competitiveness. But like raiding, piracy, viking, exploring, this process remained entrepreneurial. And the battle tactics (Ooda Loops) which remain the west’s tactics today, (maneuver, and combined arms), required adherence to contract (loyalty) to the plans, even if that put one at risk. The long history of ‘reporting’ (speaking empirically in matters of war) spread through the entire social fabric for obvious reasons: access to entrepreneurship opportunities, or participating in them in a division of labor. From there everything follows. Debate, reason, science. No other people were able to ‘freeze’ their strategy as such. We are in the process, as under christianity, of the second attack on our strategy. (truth)