Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Bill Joslin: —“In looking deeper into the Anglo-American alliance and those wh

    Bill Joslin:

    —“In looking deeper into the Anglo-American alliance and those who planted the seeds for that possibility – many a consipracy are confirmed

    HOWEVER, when one takes in a FULL ACCOUNTING of costs and benefits AND their motivations it stops being a fist waging “those bastards” narrative. I owe this progression to Kevin Cole.

    Anger at the elites for their historical shenanigans, from the elite perspectice, slots in a the underclass resistence to being domensticated. From the underclass prespective (conspiracy theory) them arguing for their reproductive (liberty, safety) and socio-economic position. The conflicting narratives are valuable in a market place of narratives.

    The conclusion for me – underclasses need to be refranchised(made to feel apart of the tye whole as a necessary component) and shenanigans by elites destroys trust (and thus why the underclasses are disenfranchised.)

    If we got on the same page, which is what “weaving the fabric of the english polity” was about (forming the strategies you outline above) we could work toward a common goal. But backroom deals and institutional leveraging for social change destroyed trust.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-17 10:49:00 UTC

  • DOES ANY ANGLO PHILOSOPHY ACTUALLY EXIST? The German philosophers conflate every

    DOES ANY ANGLO PHILOSOPHY ACTUALLY EXIST?

    The German philosophers conflate everything. Their only difference from levantine mystics is that they use platonism, pseudorationalism instead of mysticism and theology. And the jewish philosophers avoided deism and used pseudorationalism, pseudolegalism, and pseudoscience – trying to one-up the Germans. (Really, that’s what actually happened.)

    The anglo model asks that we deflate: law of nature (physical laws), informational laws (logic), natural laws (cooperation), history, literature, mythology, and theology – and we ignore the dreams.

    To this extent, no anglo PHILOSOPHY exists – or has in a very long time. Anglos practice the Deflationary Law of Information. Possibly for no other reason than their long history with the common law.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-17 10:43:00 UTC

  • BREXIT FUTURES (from the uk mirror) The USA+UK collectively preserve the interna

    BREXIT FUTURES

    (from the uk mirror)

    The USA+UK collectively preserve the international system of defense, law, finance, and trade that was created over 500 years by the British Empire.

    In retrospect, Britain’s attempt to suppress german expansion on the continent rather than to cede the continent to Germany, and retain the international system of finance and trade all seems to have been a mistake.

    And that the Continued ANGLO civilization, the restoration of empire by military and financial and trade means (rather than direct rule) is a superior solution for all english speaking countries.

    The UK/US combination still constitutes the majority military, legal, and financial (and even scientific and empirical) function in the world economy. And that is why the stock (usa) and bond (uk) markets favor both countries.

    In the long term our interests are more aligned than the UK’s with Europe.

    Together we have ruled Europe for a century and all it has done is create world wars and allow Europe to commit demographic, economic, and political suicide.

    So its perhaps time to recognize the errors of our past. And for the naval powers (UK/USA) and the island cultures (USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND) to let the continental go their way.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-17 10:28:00 UTC

  • ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC? Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previou

    ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC?

    Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previously but isn’t it the case that city states will be amalgamated into empires again and again? History repeats? So whilst we live with empires today, by implementing market gov and creating 1000s of city states we will just be back on the repeat train, no?”—-

    GREAT QUESTION!

    We can form various forms of empires. This list is not exhaustive but the spectrum will serve as the framework for all possible answers.

    1) Military denial (the empire performs no other function than to deny external conquest of any member state. [Greeks]

    2) Commercial denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing weights, measures, property, contract, and dispute resolution.) [Romans]

    3) Civic denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing language, rituals, traditions, myths) [Chinese and current western democratic humanism]

    4) Productive Denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing production or some significant part of it) [communism/authoritarianism/soviet-chinese socialism].

    5) Migratory or movement denials (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating the movement of individuals) [serfdom]

    6) Associative or Reproductive denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating associations, reproduction, and family structure). [slavery]

    7) Total denial (the empire also performs the function of total management of the individual independent of his choice) [chattel slavery]

    8) Life denial (the extermination of all life for the purposes of obtaining a territorial monopoly on all future potential).

    So civilizations can form, empires can form, but the question is which type of empires do we permit to form?

    “Bibles” limit a state.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 20:43:00 UTC

  • I LOVE THE IDEA THAT MY ANCESTORS HELPED PAY FOR MONT ST MICHELLE —“Radulphus

    I LOVE THE IDEA THAT MY ANCESTORS HELPED PAY FOR MONT ST MICHELLE

    —“Radulphus de Dolieta, Testemonio: For forgiveness of misdeeds of himself and his predecessors and successors he grants in the time of William, King of England, to the Monks of St. Michael for the brotherhood and the prayers of St. Michael and the Monks, his servants, all the dues on his lands, etc. [Recorded in original charters in archives of La Manche, Abbey of Mont St. Michael for Benedictine monks in Diocese of Avranche, France, A.D. 1085-1087. ]”—-

    No idea what he did for this. But it happened AFTER he was supposed to be in England.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 14:03:00 UTC

  • EPISTEMOLOGY AT CIVILIZATIONAL SCALE James Augustus Berens —“The relationship

    EPISTEMOLOGY AT CIVILIZATIONAL SCALE

    James Augustus Berens

    —“The relationship between investment and return on exploration is non-linear (negative-convexity/concavity): we see increases in our ROI up to the vertex of our function, where additional investment begins to yield diminishing returns.

    I was thinking about non-linearities in information, exploration and discovery a few weeks ago:

    1) “During the Age of Discovery, the acquisition of knowledge and territory produced high return to investment ratios. However, given the limits of human perception and cognition and available territory, we’ve observed diminishing returns.

    It is now costly, and highly unlikely, though not impossible, that we can make consequential scientific discoveries that produce the returns observed in the early scientific period. Similarly, humans have populated all habitable areas of planet earth, so territorial expansion is costly and rarely pursued.

    With these two changes we observe a corresponding shift from ‘discovery,’ the low-cost identification and capitalization of opportunities, to scientific criticism (high-cost identification + optimal calculation via negativa) of available, and known choices/opportunities.”***

    And

    2) “Testimonialism, Truth & Uncertainty

    Negative Convexity of Information:

    Dependent variable (y): consequential knowledge

    Input (x): information

    Function (f): human cognition

    Justificationism and rationalism only hold when (a) the relationship between (y) and (x) is linear, and (b) when assume the correspondence of (y).

    But, f(x) is nonlinear [negative convexity]: an increase in the input (x) will yield more of (y) until the the limits of the function are approached; after which an increase in the input (x) will yield diminishing returns to scale.

    Because of uncertainty, we cannot identify the optimal input of (x) for the given function. However, we can test* (y) [via negativa] and conclude with a higher degree of certainty if the output is non-correspondent.

    Testing (y) allows us to calibrate our inputs and function to yield higher returns (optimal computation via algorithm).

    Testimonialism—as performed warranty of due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, deception and fraud—increases the objectivity of (y) through the reduction of subjective inputs (cognitive bias).

    *Tests (criticism)

    i. identity (category)

    ii. internal consistency (logic)

    iii. external correspondence (explanatory power)

    iv. existential possibility (existence proof)

    v. limits (falsification) (parsimony)

    vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias)

    vii. morality (consisting of voluntary transfers)

    Ultimately, we can never be fully certain of truth. We can, however, prove possibility (truth candidacy) and incrementally decrease the probability of speaking/testifying falsely.

    That is, we advance knowledge through subtraction (via negativa)—not justification (via positiva).”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-14 12:15:00 UTC

  • “In the Second World War, Imperial Japan dropped thousands of plague-infested fl

    —“In the Second World War, Imperial Japan dropped thousands of plague-infested fleas on Chinese cities.

    Developed at its covert “Unit 731” biological and chemical warfare facility, these attacks are believed to have killed around 400,000 civilians.

    …

    There are antibiotics available to counter the disease, but they are ineffective if not administered within a day of the onset of symptoms. With most doctors having little experience of the disease, it is unlikely it would be identified before it’s too late.

    And given the symptoms are easily mistaken for that of a common flu, he said it was imperative a vaccine is developed.

    The window for antibiotic treatment is very narrow, so it is usually between 20 – 24 hours after the appearance of the symptoms of the disease. If you delay the treatment then you will still see people dying.

    A HISTORY OF PLAGUE AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON

    Given the virality of the plague, history is littered with instances of it being used as a biological weapon.

    Historical accounts from the far east describe it being used by the Mongols, Huns and rampaging Chinese armies to infect adversaries.This involved catapulting infected animals or corpses of plague victims into besieged cities, or dumping them into water supplies to infect enemies’ drinking water.

    During the Second World War, Imperial Japan pioneered warheads filled with disease-ridden rats, mice, clothing and fleas which it dropped on Chinese civilians.The disease had been developed at the so-called “Unit 731” facility in northeast China, which was the site of some of Japan’s most horrendous war crimes. An estimated 250,000 people were subjected to experimentation at the site.

    Following the war, both the US and Russia harnessed the technology – much of which was based on Japanese and German research – to use plague as a weapon.Studies have since revealed the USSR focused on developing “aerosolized” forms of the disease – thereby removing the need for it to be transmitted via infected fleas or animals.And despite being a signatory to a convention banning the development of such weapons, Russia was found to still be creating the weapons as late as the 1990s when former USSR microbiologist Ken Alibek defected to the US.

    The plague is physically transmitted, just like Ebola, so therefore simple quarantine measures are effective. If this scenario was to actually work, then we would have seen epidemic level plaque outbreaks after the dark ages when we learned it was spread by microbe infected rats and fleas. There have not been any of that type of outbreak that wasn’t quickly quarantined.

    “—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-13 21:43:00 UTC

  • Americans talk about food all the time because eating all the time is all they h

    Americans talk about food all the time because eating all the time is all they have in common – the anti-social society, thanks to the left’s attack on ‘integration’.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-13 13:37:00 UTC

  • James Augustus Berens: —“Heroic Man, by necessity, is uncultured—more precisel

    James Augustus Berens:

    —“Heroic Man, by necessity, is uncultured—more precisely de-cultured. He seeks the destruction in himself of that which is untrue, dishonest, lowly. For industrialized mass culture is driven by values produced and consumed by the herd, those domesticated masses so enthralled with their own mediocrity that their sheepishness eludes them.

    Indeed an honest observer would risk little to note that common man, that tame, soft fellow seems almost incapable of grasping even the most basic of truths about his fundamental condition.

    But mans collective mastery over nature subsumes with it the elimination, nay the distancing, of the contest; and as such, the ultimate test of that which he values. It has come to pass that we are so free of our original burden—the shrill and unforgiving mistress we call nature—that we actively hold anti-values as the highest of all values, and the consequences for our mis-valuations are so far removed from the immediately perceptible that it takes a mad man or a genius to see the necessary course of subsequent events (most likely one must suffer through both).

    But Heroic Man gives easily to his own restlessness and distaste of common values. And as such seeks values of the highest degree, only those tested by time, his enemies and nature. And where the random course of events fails to deliver a satisfactory test, the Hero—to the bewilderment of the domesticated herd—most paradoxically tests all that is himself by confronting that primordial principle that governs all of existence, including his own. That is, the law of entropic decline, disorder, decay.

    Only at the edge of near-death, does our Hero re-affirm his values, does he say yes to himself and yes to the world. It is, in this particular manner—the test, crucible & contest—that the Hero transcends mere man, that he aligns himself with The True, The Beautiful & The Good.

    For nothing is more True than Survival.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 22:36:00 UTC

  • CURE FOR LEFTISM – AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION (TRUTH)

    https://propertarianism.com/2015/01/18/the-cure-for-propaganda-and-western-civilization/THE CURE FOR LEFTISM – AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION (TRUTH)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 13:15:00 UTC