Once we evolved sentience we required a fanciful positive incentive in order to deal with the fact that the universe is hostile to us, does not care about us, and will exterminate us in a heartbeat if we cease the struggle. And that our collective consciousnesses in each tribe constitute the god we speak to so that together we maintain the illusion that there is some ‘hope’ for us. So some cultures look to the past(china, japan), some to the future(the west), and some to fantasy (Islam, Christianity, but most certainly Hinduism), and some to the rejection of reality altogether (Buddhism). That describes all possible extremes of present-avoidance available to man. I did not say that spirituality provided what is good for man. In fact, other than Stoicism, I think all cults in history are as destructive in some sense while constructive in another (But why does Christianity create prosperity?) But they all provide the same escape from stresses in the present through membership in a virtual ‘pack’ or ‘herd’ that we can appeal to through direct subjective introspection of the patterns in that system of thought. All of which is largely an external consequence of sentience without the ‘internet’ equivalent of constant communication from mind to mind that seems to occur between pack and herd animals. Individual thought comes at a high price. As an aside: stress is created by what psychologists call ‘neuroticism’. So some personalities feel this need greatly, and some personalities feel it very little. If we combine this with intelligence, we see some people have a trust issue because of dunning Kruger effects (they cannot tell whether someone lies or not). So if we combine intelligence vs neuroticism we get a pretty obvious way of graphing different populations and societies.Westerners have higher creativity, and this seems to be correlated with the fact that we have higher neuroticism. It may be that either higher demand for individualism produces higher neuroticism or the inverse.
Theme: Civilization
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Graphing Societies By Neuroticism and Individualism
Once we evolved sentience we required a fanciful positive incentive in order to deal with the fact that the universe is hostile to us, does not care about us, and will exterminate us in a heartbeat if we cease the struggle. And that our collective consciousnesses in each tribe constitute the god we speak to so that together we maintain the illusion that there is some ‘hope’ for us. So some cultures look to the past(china, japan), some to the future(the west), and some to fantasy (Islam, Christianity, but most certainly Hinduism), and some to the rejection of reality altogether (Buddhism). That describes all possible extremes of present-avoidance available to man. I did not say that spirituality provided what is good for man. In fact, other than Stoicism, I think all cults in history are as destructive in some sense while constructive in another (But why does Christianity create prosperity?) But they all provide the same escape from stresses in the present through membership in a virtual ‘pack’ or ‘herd’ that we can appeal to through direct subjective introspection of the patterns in that system of thought. All of which is largely an external consequence of sentience without the ‘internet’ equivalent of constant communication from mind to mind that seems to occur between pack and herd animals. Individual thought comes at a high price. As an aside: stress is created by what psychologists call ‘neuroticism’. So some personalities feel this need greatly, and some personalities feel it very little. If we combine this with intelligence, we see some people have a trust issue because of dunning Kruger effects (they cannot tell whether someone lies or not). So if we combine intelligence vs neuroticism we get a pretty obvious way of graphing different populations and societies.Westerners have higher creativity, and this seems to be correlated with the fact that we have higher neuroticism. It may be that either higher demand for individualism produces higher neuroticism or the inverse.
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We Imposed Truth On An Unwilling World
Aryanism -> Aristocracy -> Christanity -> Puritanism -> Imperialsm -> American Hegemonialism -> …..???? Do we evolve Aryanism once again, and do we return to our ancient ‘industry’ of domesticating and transcending man? Or do we fall into another dark age? Or do we disappear from the earth? No other civilization has done this. It is possible no other can. Is there any higher purpose that a man can be called to fight for? I can’t think of any. We discovered truth. We imposed it on an unwilling world. It was profitable.
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We Imposed Truth On An Unwilling World
Aryanism -> Aristocracy -> Christanity -> Puritanism -> Imperialsm -> American Hegemonialism -> …..???? Do we evolve Aryanism once again, and do we return to our ancient ‘industry’ of domesticating and transcending man? Or do we fall into another dark age? Or do we disappear from the earth? No other civilization has done this. It is possible no other can. Is there any higher purpose that a man can be called to fight for? I can’t think of any. We discovered truth. We imposed it on an unwilling world. It was profitable.
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The Next Great Leap
( edited by William L. Benge ) THE NEXT GREAT LEAP 🙂 “The next great leap in human civilization is not technology. it’s morality and law: truth telling. It will be as great a leap as science has been.” THE BAD AND THE UGLY — BUT NOT THE GOOD “And likewise I am quite certain that just as the mystics fought reason tooth and nail, and just as the religious and theological fought empiricism tooth and nail, and just as the spiritual fought darwin tooth and nail, and those who practice theology, rationalism, and pseudoscience, and justificationary deception will fight tooth and nail.” WHY? “Because, each of these groups profits from their lies.” THERE’$ LITERALLY NO EXCU$E FOR ALL THE GREAT LIE$ THEY CONTINUE TELLING TO MI$LEAD AND BILK MANKIND “But how many fundamental truths are there? (we have estimates in the range of a few hundred to less than two thousand). Why is it that people should be lied to and not taught truth, or spoken to, but not spoken to truthfully, or speak, and not speak truthfully? Why do we have any more right to pollute the informational commons than we do the other commons of air, water, and land? Why can we cause informational harm out of ignorance, yet we are prohibited from economic and criminal harm out of ignorance or not? What was the cost of literacy? What was the cost of creating rule of law? What was the cost of western high trust?” TOLERANCE FOR LIES IS COMPLICITY, FRAUD “Tolerance is an excuse to conflate convenience (cost) with conviction, in exhcange for false status signals, fraudueltly obtained, by the pretense of charity versus the evasion of the tax necessary for the preservation of a high-trust society and its benefits. The tolerant so to speak are just engaged in fraud and nothing more.” -
The Next Great Leap
( edited by William L. Benge ) THE NEXT GREAT LEAP 🙂 “The next great leap in human civilization is not technology. it’s morality and law: truth telling. It will be as great a leap as science has been.” THE BAD AND THE UGLY — BUT NOT THE GOOD “And likewise I am quite certain that just as the mystics fought reason tooth and nail, and just as the religious and theological fought empiricism tooth and nail, and just as the spiritual fought darwin tooth and nail, and those who practice theology, rationalism, and pseudoscience, and justificationary deception will fight tooth and nail.” WHY? “Because, each of these groups profits from their lies.” THERE’$ LITERALLY NO EXCU$E FOR ALL THE GREAT LIE$ THEY CONTINUE TELLING TO MI$LEAD AND BILK MANKIND “But how many fundamental truths are there? (we have estimates in the range of a few hundred to less than two thousand). Why is it that people should be lied to and not taught truth, or spoken to, but not spoken to truthfully, or speak, and not speak truthfully? Why do we have any more right to pollute the informational commons than we do the other commons of air, water, and land? Why can we cause informational harm out of ignorance, yet we are prohibited from economic and criminal harm out of ignorance or not? What was the cost of literacy? What was the cost of creating rule of law? What was the cost of western high trust?” TOLERANCE FOR LIES IS COMPLICITY, FRAUD “Tolerance is an excuse to conflate convenience (cost) with conviction, in exhcange for false status signals, fraudueltly obtained, by the pretense of charity versus the evasion of the tax necessary for the preservation of a high-trust society and its benefits. The tolerant so to speak are just engaged in fraud and nothing more.” -
Q&A: “British civilization viz a viz the ancient Greek civilization?”
Q&A: “Curt: How would you compare the merits of the British civilization viz a viz the accomplishments of the ancient Greek civilization?” The Aegean vs The North Sea Reason vs Empiricism Slave-hold Manors vs Manorialism Athens/Sparta vs England/Germany Rome vs the United States Bronze vs steel Trireme vs warship In other words, there isnt any difference. Athens and sparta exahusted each other leaving rome like england and germany exhausted each other leaving america. The question is whether we spend another thousand years trying to restore our civilization, or we do it today.
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Q&A: “British civilization viz a viz the ancient Greek civilization?”
Q&A: “Curt: How would you compare the merits of the British civilization viz a viz the accomplishments of the ancient Greek civilization?” The Aegean vs The North Sea Reason vs Empiricism Slave-hold Manors vs Manorialism Athens/Sparta vs England/Germany Rome vs the United States Bronze vs steel Trireme vs warship In other words, there isnt any difference. Athens and sparta exahusted each other leaving rome like england and germany exhausted each other leaving america. The question is whether we spend another thousand years trying to restore our civilization, or we do it today.
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August Quotes
—Part of being a man of good character is killing those that need killing for the sake of your family, tribe, and nation.”—Curt Doolittle –“The truth is the truth no matter who speaks it.”— David Mondrus —“I see the alt-right as the difference between morals and virtues. Morals being simply a set of rules that people follow and see as good, and virtues being good qualities within yourself, such as truth telling. The Alt-right is the first political movement in generations to have Virtue at its core. Because we’re the first political movement in generations to tell the truth.”—Dylan Bailey —” 1) The old republican party:evangelicals 2) The democratic party:anarchists (violence) 3) The new republican party:disenfranchised males “— Curt Doolittle —“Members of good families want nationalism, members of bad families universalism – in other words, they want a better family than made them.”–Curt Doolittle —“God is a hedge by the irresponsible against the failures of the self, providing absolution consistent with time preferences, and an excuse not to go seek achievement of their capacity.”— John Jost —“The politicians do not want us to tell the truth about Economics, politics, morality, and ethics. Because if we do they will be hung. There is no value in scale any longer. If polities are in conflict then separation is desirable. Different people need different norms and laws, and institutions to suit their levels of genetic distribution (development). This would decrease their power. We must always seek to decrease political power.”—
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August Quotes
—Part of being a man of good character is killing those that need killing for the sake of your family, tribe, and nation.”—Curt Doolittle –“The truth is the truth no matter who speaks it.”— David Mondrus —“I see the alt-right as the difference between morals and virtues. Morals being simply a set of rules that people follow and see as good, and virtues being good qualities within yourself, such as truth telling. The Alt-right is the first political movement in generations to have Virtue at its core. Because we’re the first political movement in generations to tell the truth.”—Dylan Bailey —” 1) The old republican party:evangelicals 2) The democratic party:anarchists (violence) 3) The new republican party:disenfranchised males “— Curt Doolittle —“Members of good families want nationalism, members of bad families universalism – in other words, they want a better family than made them.”–Curt Doolittle —“God is a hedge by the irresponsible against the failures of the self, providing absolution consistent with time preferences, and an excuse not to go seek achievement of their capacity.”— John Jost —“The politicians do not want us to tell the truth about Economics, politics, morality, and ethics. Because if we do they will be hung. There is no value in scale any longer. If polities are in conflict then separation is desirable. Different people need different norms and laws, and institutions to suit their levels of genetic distribution (development). This would decrease their power. We must always seek to decrease political power.”—