Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • EUROPE BEFORE MUSLIM SLAVERY AND COLONIZATION

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_182282971&feature=iv&src_vid=c7y2LRcf4kc&v=qNdwekMcr2EEASTERN EUROPE BEFORE MUSLIM SLAVERY AND COLONIZATION

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 18:54:00 UTC

  • In 586 BCE, the forces of the Babylonian Empire conquered the Jews, destroying t

    In 586 BCE, the forces of the Babylonian Empire conquered the Jews, destroying their Temple and carrying off a proportion of the Jewish population into exile. The captives consisted especially of educated and upper-class people as well as the royal family. This “Babylonian captivity” lasted almost fifty years. In 539 BCE the Persians, under the leadership of the Achaemenid King Cyrus, conquered Babylon, and in 538 Cyrus issued a decree stating that the Jews would be allowed to return to their homeland. Not only were the Exiles released, but Cyrus, and to some extent his Achaemenid successors, also supported the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus’ policy was motivated not only by his religious tolerance (he also encouraged other, pagan peoples to maintain their own religions) but by statesmanlike wisdom; people treated generously are less likely to rebel.

    But not all the Jews wanted to go home. In the years of Exile, the adaptable Jewish people had established themselves in Mesopotamia, settling there and engaging in business and even politics. Many Jews, while remaining devout Jews, did not go back to their homeland. They carried on their lives in their new home, and as the Persian Empire consolidated its rule, some Jews even rose to high positions of service in the imperial court.

    It was during the end of the Exile, among the Jews now living in the Persian Empire, that the first significant contact was made between the Jewish and Iranian cultures. And it is evident in the Bible that Jewish thinking changed after the Exile. The question is then: are these changes the result of the cultural meeting of Jewish and Iranian thinkers, or are these changes due to the shock of Exile? During the Exile, Jews had to change not only how they worshipped, since they no longer had their temple or the animal sacrifices which had been at the center of their faith, but also how they thought about God. The Jewish concept of God as their tribal protector, who would save them from being conquered or exiled, had to undergo revision.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 13:08:00 UTC

  • (great paragraph from ch1) ***We teach history as the record of achievement and

    (great paragraph from ch1)

    ***We teach history as the record of achievement and invention, and this is all well and good. But when we teach history as the record of firsts, we rarely focus on the most important first: those who are fastest. Or the opposite: who are the slowest. Or worse, who declines and why. Most of human history consists of seeking opportunities at actionable human scale. However, in the current era, our greatest opportunities are those provided not by innovation, but the elimination of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 11:53:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Sanguine (@SanguineEmpiric): Marx was just Anglo-capitalisms primary d

    Retweeted Sanguine (@SanguineEmpiric):

    Marx was just Anglo-capitalisms primary diagnostician. He was observing their culture’s capitalism’s tendency. Capitalism’s have form too.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-21 04:10:00 UTC

  • AT THE PREVIOUS MUSLIM INVASIONS OF EUROPE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7y2LRcf4kcLOOK AT THE PREVIOUS MUSLIM INVASIONS OF EUROPE

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 14:59:00 UTC

  • CURT AND MURRAY SELL ON CULTURAL DIFFERENCES —“The Chinese [primary method of

    CURT AND MURRAY SELL ON CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

    —“The Chinese [primary method of decidability] is stability – [non-conflict]. Chinese history is tumultuous so everything must be done in the name of maintaining equilibrium and stability in the nation state(which is seen as a collective entity).

    The American [primary method of decidability] (until very recently) is reason – [negotiation]. Maintaining that people will ultimately do what’s right for themselves in the end and will act in their own self interests.

    (CURT INTERJECTS: Chinese prevent conflict through denial, delay, and deceit. westerners attempt to expose conflicts and resolve them quickly. europeans regulate heavily to prevent legal conflicts later. Americans provide very precise legal rules so that limited regulation is necessary except in those cases where the exceptions have failed. These are three methods of insurance against conflict. The Chinese delay and deceive and deny until ‘matters solve themselves’. The continental method of regulate in order to limit conflicts. And the anglo method: provide clear rule of law so that those conflicts that do arise are decidable.)

    It’s probably why our greatest weapon has been unleashing chaos into societies (weaponized culture)in order to drive events in a way that serve America’s greater interests.

    (CURT INTERJECTS: Americans have followed the anglo enlightenment, peace of Westphalia(States are responsible for all agents within), and Postwar Consensus (human rights and fixed borders), that the world will remain peaceful through economic cooperation rather than territorial expansion. So americans seek to raise in to ‘adulthood’ every nation, so that it can participate in a meritocratic international market. This is ok, except that every nation may not have the human capital to compete successfully, and may try to circumvent that meritocratic competition by other means (islam).)

    I feel like this idea failed with the Middle Eastern destabilization program of the obama administration. The realization that people are literally wired differently from the western mind I feel is a revelatory moment of catharsis for western neoliberal thinkers. Universalism is a generic lazy way of seeing collective groups of people on earth. I have watched lectures on YouTube from the army war college stating that it doesn’t really matter if we technically “lose” wars with other nation states (fail to hold territory). As long as we utterly destroy your nation and knock it back a century in its progress we have technically won against our opponent because they can’t develop a civilization strong enough to challenge us on our own territory. The third world is aware of this and some folks theorize that we are in a multigenerational asymmetric conflict with the devolving world using our own principles and mass migration (another form of warfare) against us…”— Murray Sell

    (CURT INTERJECTS: agreed)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-20 13:22:00 UTC

  • Apparently (Thankfully) I don’t make the Alt Right Hit List. I’ll stick with ari

    Apparently (Thankfully) I don’t make the Alt Right Hit List.

    I’ll stick with aristocracy, and universal nationalism thanks. Let’s save every family, tribe, nation and race from The Jewish-Puritan Pseudoscientific Religion. Saving our own does not exclude saving all the others too.

    #NewRight.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 13:23:00 UTC

  • THE DESTRUCTION OF MOTHERHOOD —“Curt you said something a long time ago….”–

    THE DESTRUCTION OF MOTHERHOOD

    —“Curt you said something a long time ago….”—

    Yes… that western women are losing the art of motherhood and parenting which was transferred intergenerationally through direct experience, just like the military responsibility of men. Women may no longer have either the knowledge or the confidence to mother children. So not only have we destroyed the family, not only have we infantilized our children for multiple generations, but we have destroyed motherhood, fatherhood, responsibility for the commons and the nation. So are we nothing more than decreasingly civilized, decreasingly domesticated, irrelevant individual animals herded by the government for tax revenue? And for what purpose? So that women could enter the workplace and increase the scope and scale of government? so that we could delay entry into the workplace and lengthen retirement out of it? So that we must immigrate hordes of the undomesticated underclasses and commit genocide against our people? To undo all western civilization for no other purpose than to justify a school system and tax system that serves as little more than socially and developmentally destructive day care?

    The alternative is simply to restore ourselves to rulership, specialize in rulership, and breed in the luxury of rulership.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 12:45:00 UTC

  • We have to be honest with ourselves, just as were the Spartans, and accept that

    We have to be honest with ourselves, just as were the Spartans, and accept that if we let the Helots or the women participate in the franchise they will revert to barbarism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 12:37:00 UTC

  • KIN, CLASS, CASTE: MODELS AND FUNCTIONS Kinship System (oligarchy)(small nation

    KIN, CLASS, CASTE: MODELS AND FUNCTIONS

    Kinship System (oligarchy)(small nation states),

    Class System (informal institution – markets) or

    Caste System (formal institution – religion and laws),

    exist universally in all nations, states, and empires. Without exception. It’s arguable the entire world operates as a caste system with whites arguably the minority aristocracy, followed by east Asians, then Hindus, then steppes, then Arabs, then the darker races. The data in every walk of life agrees with it. Just how it is.

    We see it in the patterns of relations in every walk of life. Why? because of (a) kin selection, (b) reproductive desirability, (c) commercial desirability (d) political desirability.

    kinship systems show the least diversity, class the next most diverse.

    Now, is a caste system superior or inferior to a class system? Well it depends upon the problems of managing the size of the underclass. The smaller the underclass the more useful kin and market orders. the larger the underclass the more useful the authoritarian and caste orders.

    All the warm climate states have the problem of the inability to reduce the relative size of the underclass and therefore create a voluntary organization of production using the proceeds of whatever they can produce. This means that any warm climate people unable to cull the lower classes will have permanent favelas and slums, and northern climes that eliminate lower classes will continue to prosper.

    There is a strange economics to the use of air conditioning.

    The hindus are … unnecessarily limited by the cast system and will do much better with the class system in the market order. However, it will mean (likely) degeneration into more Muslim frameworks more tolerable by leadership from the underclasses.

    Islam is suitable for rule of the ‘evil 80’s.’ Hinduism preserves the ability for a class to prevent expansion of rule by the evil 80’s.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 11:50:00 UTC