Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • Suicidal Tendencies

    [C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die.

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Suicidal Tendencies

    [C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die.

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?

    [W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. 2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places. 4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.) 3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’. 5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating). (h/t paul)

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • PEAK HUMAN? OMG. What if we have passed ‘peak human’ already? What if it is not

    PEAK HUMAN?

    OMG. What if we have passed ‘peak human’ already? What if it is not possible to improve upon late hunter gatherer genetics, and that urbanization has produced increasingly aggressive, less intelligent, more impulsive peoples?

    What if inbreeding, low IQ, higher aggression, and higher reproduction are a superior evolutionary strategy?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 04:38:00 UTC

  • CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Ever play the computer

    CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

    Ever play the computer simulation ‘life’? what happens as the rate increases? Patterns emerge that were previously imperceptible. Cities themselves are temporary infrastructure.

    —-“the U.S consists of old and new cities. New cities such as Las Vegas have less “crumbling infrastructure” because the capital stock was built in the last 30 years. Older cities such as Detroit and Cleveland and even Los Angeles have an older public capital stock (roads, sewer pipes, airports). As more people move to new cities, the old cities have fewer Congressmen representing them and this leads to less pork flowing to such places. Spatial cross-city political economy is an important subfield that political scientists should be working on.”—- ibid

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:18:00 UTC

  • IS A SUBURBAN NATION (WE ARE WEALTHY) —“we are a suburban nation. If suburbani

    http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2015/06/durable-but-crumbling-urban.htmlAMERICA IS A SUBURBAN NATION (WE ARE WEALTHY)

    —“we are a suburban nation. If suburbanites pay the bulk of the taxes but the but bulk of the infrastructure is located in the crumbling center cities, then do suburbanites view these investments as spatial redistribution? I realize that suburbanites do travel to center cities but more and more suburbanites live and work in the suburbs and have little contact with the center city. Read Glaeser and Kahn 2004. “—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:16:00 UTC

  • CHRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADV

    CHRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE – SUICIDAL

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression.

    Expand or die.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:12:00 UTC

  • WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE? Well it does really. You can se

    WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE?

    Well it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period.

    But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China.

    2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places.

    4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.)

    3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’.

    5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating).

    (h/t paul)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:09:00 UTC

  • THE CHRISTIAN IDEA The Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinsh

    THE CHRISTIAN IDEA

    The Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation.

    By attributing status to extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate status by ‘cheating’ in favor of the family or tribe. Although this means that many Mediterranean Catholics practice low trust chirstianity by retaining familial insurance and kin selection. While protestant Christians eliminate even familial insurance via the absolute nuclear family.

    This behavior is necessary for the development of an advanced economy. And it separates the west and Japan from the rest.

    This behavior is also the opposite of the Levantine religions which advocate dualist, polylogical ethics by exacerbating kin selection at the tribal level even while eliminating it at the familial level. So we can see lowest-trust Islam, next-lowest trust Judaism, low trust catholicism, and high trust protestantism. And when we order them this way we see that this order reflects the number of territorial competitors.

    It is also (probably) true that westerners are less genetically biased against outsiders (due to more circumpolar hunter-gatherer evolutionary pressures) and less aggressive (lower testosterone) and more able to take advantage of it (higher average verbal IQ).

    But all that means is that westerners are more fertile genetic ground for extension of kinship love to non-kin.

    The church outlawing cousin marriage in order to break up the great families was equally influential.

    So it is one thing to acknowledge the central subtle principle of Christianity, and to grasp its dramatic economic and political benefits, and quite another to conflate the dogma, rules and justifications as other than primitive law.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 02:48:00 UTC

  • Five Axis of Intertemporal Production

    (from elsewhere) [T]here are five necessary axis of inter-temporal production:

    1) The individual, the family, and the church (the production of generations) 2) The partnership, the corporation, the bank, the treasury. (The production of goods and services. 3) The local government, state government, and the federal government. (the production of commons) 4) The judiciary (the resolution of disputes) 5) The Militia and the Military (the preservation of the monopoly rules of order, allocations of property, and commons.) Our founders, as innovators, lacked sufficient understanding how to safeguard each – because they could not imagine the future so radically different after 1830, and particularly after 1914.