Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • EUROPEANS INBRED ESP. DURING THE MEDIEVAL MIGRATION PERIOD. Findings: 1) Admixtu

    http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(15)00949-5WESTERN EUROPEANS INBRED ESP. DURING THE MEDIEVAL MIGRATION PERIOD.

    Findings:

    1) Admixture within Europe tended to fall within the European Migration Period

    2) West Eurasian genetic structure today is likely to have been maintained by admixture

    –“recent admixture is ubiquitous across West Eurasia, with the majority of populations showing evidence of population mixing. Dating of these admixture events demonstrates that the Medieval Migration Period was a key period in establishing the current West Eurasian genetic landscape”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-25 13:38:00 UTC

  • HAPPENED TO GERMAN CULTURE IN AMERICA?

    http://www.unz.com/isteve/whatever-happened-to-germa-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whatever-happened-to-germa-americaWHAT HAPPENED TO GERMAN CULTURE IN AMERICA?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-25 07:42:00 UTC

  • Eric Field on Metaschools (from elsewhere) Broadly speaking there are three meta

    Eric Field on Metaschools

    (from elsewhere)

    Broadly speaking there are three metaschools of historiography for defining “Western” civilization.

    1. Classical, which takes the classical Mediterranean from the Greco-Roman civilization as being the origin and nucleus of what has become Anglo-American civilization.

    2. Medievalist, which views the rise of Christianity, usually the rise of the Church after the fall of Rome as the foundation of our current civilization.

    3. Or the sort of Nordic model that Oswald Spengler advocated that asserts that the northern Indo-Europeans (Germanic and Celtic tribes, but later Balts and Slavs as well) came south, smashed into Rome, destroying Classical civilization, but ultimately absorbing the remnants into their own culture.

    Academic elites in the West tended to use a mixture of theories 1 and 2. The United States is semi-unique amongst westerners for relying on a much bastardized version of theory two, which places Christianity as the defining role. I’m partial to the third model, but I am an ethnic German, and I think it does a great job reconciling Anglo-American frontier experience with a larger Northern European pattern of migration that goes back to at least the Völkerwanderung.

    The Point I’m trying to make with this really autistic unsolicited history lecture is of the three historiographical schools of western civ, Americans (especially the rightwing) tend to be shaped by a version that considers Christianity the central defining feature of this civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-25 00:22:00 UTC

  • ITS ABOUT LYING BY RUSSIANS AND UTOPIANISM BY AMERICANS I don’t disagree with Ru

    ITS ABOUT LYING BY RUSSIANS AND UTOPIANISM BY AMERICANS

    I don’t disagree with Russian strategy in the sense that more civilized peoples should both protect themselves from less civilized people, support strong rulers if they must, rule them if they must, and reduce them to servitude or barbarism if they must.

    I disagree that Russians are more civilized than eastern europeans – they’re objectively not: the degree of suppression of free riding (imposed cost, parasitism) is the objective measure of the inferiority or superiority of any people.) By this measure Russians regress civil societies.

    And even more, I disagree with their constant lying about themselves, and what they’re doing. Lying is not a sign of strength. It is an admission of weakness. It is an admission of failure. The strong need not lie.

    If Russians came out and said the truth: that they are surrounded on the south and east by vast numbers of barbarians even less civilized than themselves, and that they must either rule them or parent them into modernity, then most of us would agree with them – it’s just true by every single objective measure. I don’t understand why Russians shouldn’t parent their neighbors into modernity or at least contain them through strong rule.

    If they came out and said the truth: that western democracy has handed over civilization to barbarians both old and new, due largely to the destructive impulses of women, then that also would be true. If they came out and said that they must create a diverse economy, increase their native population, expand rule of law and crush corruption, and that they need oil revenues captured by the state to do so, we would understand.

    But, they lie. If Russians are really strong and brave and in the right. then why are all the lies necessary? Because they know the opposite is true: Russia is weak, has always been weak, and Moscow has overstretched its capabilities beyond those of its population, economy, and institutions – just like the Mongols did. Russians still are the product of mongol invasion. They never developed a militia, a middle class, professional managers, chivalry, rule of law, or the enlightenment, or the dream of an aristocracy of everyone.

    Conversely, westerner’s don’t lie you know. We vary from the Continentally optimistic, to the anglo idealistic, to the american christian utopian. Americans actually believe their utopian ideology and its marxist and christian origins. That’s what is wrong with America and the west. They believe the fallacy of equality.

    The truth is in the middle: between Russian Paternalism and Western Truth Telling. And exclusive of Russian nihilistic lying and Western utopianism. And it is the truth that will unite us.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-24 05:01:00 UTC

  • BTW: ON BEING A “DANDY” Before homosexuals took control of mens fashion, there w

    BTW: ON BEING A “DANDY”

    Before homosexuals took control of mens fashion, there was a social space between what we consider gay, metrosexual, and formal (cary grant), called ‘dandy’.

    —Dandy: a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self.—

    In other words, a non-martial aristocrat.

    Jeffrey Tucker is a dandy, I am a bit of a dandy – although much less so in eastern Europe where it attracts female parasites. A lot of us have artistic backgrounds and appreciate beauty.

    Unfortunately the gay community has appropriated this space for their own signaling, and made it nearly impossible for straight males to use as signaling. So we have to tone it down a bit.

    So those who might criticize tucker merely do not grasp the signaling problems of the highly aesthetic. We all signal our excellences. Taste is an excellent signal. Knowledge is an excellent signal. Discipline is an excellent signal. Manners are an excellent signal. IN fact, they are all excellences. If combined with martial sacrifice, and entrepreneurial success (or at least survival) it is probably the ultimate expression of middle class achievement.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-20 07:22:00 UTC

  • EXPLAINING AMERICAN DIRECTNESS AND VOLUME TO FOREINGNERS —“The speaking volume

    EXPLAINING AMERICAN DIRECTNESS AND VOLUME TO FOREINGNERS

    —“The speaking volume in the United States for most conversations is very loud, which in many other countries would be considered rude. … Also, business people in the United States use very direct language and tight time management when communicating and running meetings, which people from many other countries might find off-putting.” –Raj Patel

    ON VOLUME

    It’s counter-intuitive, but our volume is an expression of high trust: that if I can be said, it can be said in public, and with confidence or it should not be said. Or conversely, quiet people who speak in whispers may have other nasty habits.

    ORIGINS

    It is beneficial to remember that Anglo and Germanic civilizations only split in 1830, and that america was founded by pre-1830 anglos, and that the majority of white americans are at least of partial german decent. America is an english speaking germanic country. That is what separates English speaking America from english speaking Britain, Canada and Australia. (This insight is rather profound and you will find that it explains many american cultural peculiarities. America is a Tudor,German, Civilization with english institutions, law and language).

    We can also recall that the world now operates Military, Aircraft, and Seas in English (germanic english) using English commands and manners, because we found out that the rest of the world operates on face (lying), hierarchical(untrue), indirect(untrue), and permissive (untrue), language suitable for village life but not for running DANGEROUS environments where truth, clarity, and directness save lives.

    But the question is, why did germanic anglos invent this kind of direct language?

    BECAUSE WESTERNERS WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THE MILITIA. German evolved as an aristocratic, martial, language. And westerners have been practicing decentralized (militia) warfare for over 5000 years – at least since they invented the Chariot.

    So even today, the first thing you are taught in basic training is to speak clearly, loudly, confidently, and TESTIMONIALLY (truthfully), regardless of the social impact of your speech – because otherwise PEOPLE DIE.

    Americans and Germans retain (Germans more so) this military culture in daily life: speak directly, clearly and truthfully. Quiet speech means you are not to be trusted, and not a fully mature adult.

    Until the last few generations, we were taught GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC (public speaking) as a requirement.

    COMPARISON FOR HINDUS

    You are correct in stating that this directness eliminates cooperative economic friction, decreases the necessity of developing trust (it’s assumed) and increases the use of litigation when it fails. That is because america does not regulate what we do, it punishes what we do if we fail. (This is profound difference between the napoleonic ‘parental and permission” model of law.

    It is not obvious but while we have very similar genetic origins, and while we both have inherited the common law, that the reason India is so pervasively corrupt, is that it is not a high trust society that has succeeded in creating a universal militia independent of class, tribe and family biases. (and the decline in truth telling in favor of political correctness and postmodern argument in all walks of life is the reason for increasing corruption in america.)

    The west has been through a 5000 year meat grinder military service and the relative success of the west in all fields – science, commerce, and law – is because we tell the testimonial truth regardless of cost to anyone. Because as a martial people, doing so is your path to status and enfranchisement. And because in a martial people, the truth means people live in battle. And martial people were led by martial aristocracy.

    It has only been since the enfranchisement of women that these requirements for disciplined truth telling have been systematically undermined. And just as martial truth-telling (testimony) is the secret of the west’s evolutionary velocity compared to older civilizations, the secret of our downfall is the decline of this tradition of martial truth telling due to the inclusion of women in the electorate. (Look at the voting data. Look at today’s voting data. American white men vote red everywhere other than main and Seattle.)

    And that’s pretty scary really.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-16 05:56:00 UTC

  • Thought I’d shared this with you a moment ago – apparently I haven’t. On Relativ

    Thought I’d shared this with you a moment ago – apparently I haven’t. On Relativism and its effect on Western Culture.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-15 08:39:00 UTC

  • PANDORA HERSELF WAS IN THE BOX! Property succeeded in caging pandora. And civili

    PANDORA HERSELF WAS IN THE BOX!

    Property succeeded in caging pandora. And civilizations were the result. We had no idea that when we gave women the vote that we let her out of the box, and her destruction of property and civilization immediately ensued.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-15 05:56:00 UTC

  • tensions between Germanic-Celtic and Baltimore-Slavic populations

    http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/09/from-europes-ancient-divide-tensions.htmlAncient tensions between Germanic-Celtic and Baltimore-Slavic populations

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-14 11:49:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html?smid=fb-share

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 17:45:00 UTC