Theme: Civilization

  • My ancestors conquered this continent, and England before it, and Normandy befor

    My ancestors conquered this continent, and England before it, and Normandy before it.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 17:47:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765243568793481216

    Reply addressees: @JaimelHemphill @pdamra @dmataconis @mmurraypolitics

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765233836896595968


    IN REPLY TO:

    @JaimelHemphill

    @curtdoolittle @pdamra @dmataconis @mmurraypolitics Go back you your tiny, useless, barren rocks & leave us be.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765233836896595968

  • I’m Puritan from New England’s founding fathers.The southerners are Scotts-Irish

    I’m Puritan from New England’s founding fathers.The southerners are Scotts-Irish. You’re insulting my heritage.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 13:27:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765178117979856897

    Reply addressees: @dmataconis @mmurraypolitics

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765177554961506304


    IN REPLY TO:

    @dmataconis

    @curtdoolittle @mmurraypolitics Utter nonsense. Take your neo-Confederate crap elsewhere, I don’t want to hear it.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765177554961506304

  • CIRCUMPOLAR CIVILIZATION

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/08/24/new-video-circumpolar-civilization/REPOST: CIRCUMPOLAR CIVILIZATION


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 11:28:00 UTC

  • CURT: DOES CIVILIZATION GIVE US HIGHER PURPOSE? (short answer, no) —does the i

    CURT: DOES CIVILIZATION GIVE US HIGHER PURPOSE?

    (short answer, no)

    —does the introduction of civilization produce another algorithm, one in which the goal is to satisfy human desires and intentions more than a biological imperative?—

    It sure looks as though at some point we stop reproducing more out of security and simply consume more out of luxury.

    I think the domestication of man produces far more productive results, and that we have an endless appetite for consumption.

    I don’t see anything other than that. If any human behavior can be expressed as an attempt at acquisition, consumption, and persistence, then that behavior provides us with decidable causality. And we need not try to invent falsehoods to comfort ourselves that anything else is going on here.

    We enjoy each other because operation at low cost and entertainment at low cost are good algorithms. Enjoyment is the body’s reward for saving, obtaining, consuming, or inventorying calories.

    Our emotions are all reducible to changes in property. All of them.

    It’s …. kind of painful to understand it.

    But we do get to enjoy the ride our genes take us on. 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 07:42:00 UTC

  • Q&A: CURT: CAN WE SHAPE CAPITALISM OR IS IT JUST DEMOGRAPHICS? —Do you think t

    Q&A: CURT: CAN WE SHAPE CAPITALISM OR IS IT JUST DEMOGRAPHICS?

    —Do you think that national culture can shape capitalism to be an effective force without the downward shift of consumer choice tending toward mass culture, and government corruption? Or does it all come down to demographics?—

    It’s just demographics and redistribution. Better demographics, more homogenous demographics greater redistribution lower personal consumption for the purpose of signaling.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 06:33:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “IMPORTANCE OF ARISTOTLE?” —“Hi, Curt. Currently going through your readi

    Q&A: “IMPORTANCE OF ARISTOTLE?”

    —“Hi, Curt. Currently going through your reading list. Trying to make myself the best propertarian I can so I can help spread the message. There are plenty of libertarians and conservatives who would take to propertarianism if they got the message. My question is to you what do you think the significance of Aristotle’s work is from a propertarian perspective?”—

    Well, Aristotle is as close as we come to the first ‘scientist’, Social: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Smith and Hume, Jefferson, Darwin, Spencer, Durkheim. -vs- physical: Archimedes, Galileo, Copernicus, Davinci, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

    Now, the way I use natural law was a product of the Stoics, not of Aristotle. And I tend to see the greek era as a combination of spartan aristocracy in law rationalized by the Romans, and Aristotelian intellectuals rationalized by the stoics.

    I would say that Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Smith, Hume and Jefferson, Darwin, Spencer, Durkheim, and Hayek, represent the attempt (and near failure) to make the case that natural law, discovered by judges by trial end error, is what constitutes social science. And that economics is an empirical branch of that science, as are evolutionary biology, and cognitive science. But those are explanatory fields, whereas natural, judge discovered, common law is a purely empirical field.

    And this is why I think of my work as uniting philosophy, morality(Ethics), science, sociology, psychology, and law, into a single universal language – as locke suggested – reducible to statements of the voluntary or involuntary transfer of property defined as that which humans demonstrate as property.

    So to summarize, I would say Aristotle is the father of western thought in this sense, and that between Aristotle’s idealism, stoic reason, and roman pragmatism, and finally English empiricism, we developed a chain of reasoning that nearly came to fruition in the last century – but Hayek, Popper, Mises, Brouwer, and Bridgman simply failed. Just as the conservatives failed to produce a competitor to cosmopolitan pseudosciences.

    And they failed because they subconsciously had to work around the truth: they were not benevolent Christians, but self-justifying Aryans (elites), and middle-class capitalism like middle-class voting, was a net negative for the simple reason that the success of the western model is reducible to truth, but that as a consequence our political system is reducible to benevolent domestication of animal man. And that was inconceivable to classical liberals so proud of their defeat of the aristocracy that had made their prosperity possible.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-14 13:55:00 UTC

  • Regardless of revenue, you are a small business until you must rely on policies

    Regardless of revenue, you are a small business until you must rely on policies and procedures.

    You are a family until you need norms.

    Your are a tribe until you need law.

    You are a collection of tribes until you combine resources to produce physical commons.

    You are a village until you have a market with standard weights and measures.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-14 09:15:00 UTC

  • Because we stopped parenting the tribe and nation, and women stopped parenting c

    Because we stopped parenting the tribe and nation, and women stopped parenting children. Instead, we spent 100 yrs spending our inheritance.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-14 09:14:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/764752070062768128

  • Because we stopped parenting the tribe and nation, and women stopped parenting c

    Because we stopped parenting the tribe and nation, and women stopped parenting children. Instead, we spent 100 yrs spending our inheritance.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-14 05:14:00 UTC

  • THE SUBTLE CAUSE OF DIFFERENCES IN RACES AND TRIBES The ethnically Dutch are def

    THE SUBTLE CAUSE OF DIFFERENCES IN RACES AND TRIBES

    The ethnically Dutch are definitely the ‘master tribe’ by any empirical measure. The ethnically north sea (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and North Germans) are an obvious distance behind.

    If for no other reason than there is greater territorial distance between them and the less evolved people (resistance to invasive genes), and the difficulty of surviving long winters ( selection ), and the combination of late marriage, voluntary mate selection, and near breeding (selection), culling (hanging, starvation, and war).

    The celts ( my mother’s relations, and that of most of Britons ) get to ride-along like the Franks, and the eastern Europeans. But its pretty simple really: Selective breeding over longer periods of time with less of the genes from the sunshine latitudes.

    Evolution progresses upward under lower population density and dysgenia spreads in high population density. This is fairly obvious but that there should be a balance in order to preserve the human condition is something that limits us, and we dislike it.

    Someone sent me a map the other day, that showed genders of western Europeans (r1b, r1a) to be about equally attractive on average(forests: cattle farmers), eastern European females on average to be more attractive than males (Polish Ukrainian Russian), and, along with the increase in black hair, southeastern europeans to be less attractive on average, and middle easterners (turks, iranians, Jews, and Arabs) to be much less attractive on average. This assessment does not include north Africans, black Africans, the caucasian people of India, or the east and southeast Asians.

    But if I look at it as a very simple question of (a) degree of sexual immaturity or maturity, (b) degree of sexual dimorphism, then these two axes reflect both differences in testosterone and estrogen, and differences in sexual maturity.

    – Southeast Asians have lower sexual maturity, lower sexual dimorphism that’s slanted female. High inequality of desirability between women and men.

    – East Asians have lower sexual maturity and lower sexual dimorphism, slanted female. High inequality of desirability between women and men.

    – Eastern and Southern Slavs have lower sexual maturity, (hence the jawline), and higher female dimorphism. Women slightly more desirable than men.

    – Germanic Whites have lower sexual maturity (prolonged adolescence) and higher sexual dimorphism. Men and women equally desirable.

    – The Iranian/jewish branch (vs the celt/germanpolish/ukrainian

    branch), and the arab and berber branches, have higher sexual maturity but level sexual dimorphism. (male emotionalism, females with strong male features). Men more desirable than women.

    – The black africans have very high and fast sexual maturity, superior strength and agility. and masculine slanted sexual dimorphism. High inequality of desirability between women and men.

    CAN TWO AXIS EXPLAIN ALMOST EVERYTHING?

    Lets illustrate using two well-understood extremes: female solipsism and male autism. Women tend toward the solipsistic and men the autistic. Men tend toward the spatio-physical(models and systems), and women to the verbal (individuals and experiences). Rates of maturity reduce time in childhood and adolescence for learning. Rates of maturity increase impulsivity. Search for novelty increases

    THE DATA

    We see this in the desirability of mates on dating and social sites from around the world, and we have such enormous amounts of data now from demonstrated preferences that these questions are no longer hypothetical, but now require refutation that will be difficult to determine.

    WHY DO WE SELECT FOR THESE TRAITS?

    Women select poorly by instinct, and men are not terribly selective at all. Women are attracted to that which they understand, men what visual signs of fertility that they can observe. Marriage and reduction of insurance by the tribe force men and women to mate on long-term survival grounds, rather than on our sexual impulses – which at least for women, do not assist us in collecting desirable traits in civilization. And men are not discriminate enough to select without marriage.

    Taller, more symmetrical, fairer, and all other signs of ‘health’ like hair, skin, head size. But we have to be able to survive our environments with those traits. Africa and high conflict areas need masculine traits, some ver hot areas smaller size, and the polar regions feminine traits are more beneficial, and survivable.

    It’s no secret any longer that there is a difference between how we perceive aspirational beauty (tall blondes) and reproductive frequency (petite brunettes). The petite brunettes have more offspring. And they appear to be far more loyal. And men are more willing to work for them.

    THE RESOURCE CURSE

    The discovery of fossil fuels for the purpose of creating electricity has been a quality of life improvement, but expanded dysgenia in cold climates to match that in warm climates.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Somewhere on planet earth.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-14 04:30:00 UTC