Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • ancient world was full of travel and trade

    http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2015/05/scotlands-coasts-and-beaches-carry.htmlThe ancient world was full of travel and trade.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-27 14:42:00 UTC

  • myth of the immobile European slowly evaporates under the heat if science. Our b

    http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2015/05/high-female-mobility-in-bronze-age.htmlThe myth of the immobile European slowly evaporates under the heat if science.

    Our better classes outbred like hell.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 05:25:00 UTC

  • The colonies return to…. That’s a spin I haven’t heard

    http://thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-re-colonization-future-orientation.htmlOuch. The colonies return to….

    That’s a spin I haven’t heard.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 05:20:00 UTC

  • YES, MY POINT OF VIEW (MY VALUES) ARE WESTERN: SCIENTIFIC. BUT THAT IMPLIES BIAS

    YES, MY POINT OF VIEW (MY VALUES) ARE WESTERN: SCIENTIFIC. BUT THAT IMPLIES BIAS AND RELATIVITY NOT TRUTH. SO WHY AM I SO INTERESTED IN TRUTH?

    (h/t Karl )

    My point of view *IS* western; meaning: scientific. That is correct.

    Operations named can indeed be used as narrative for meaning. That is correct. Although that says nothing about the truth of the meaning inferred from the operations..

    Other cultures do not use rule of law, as such do not require logic in decision making. Yet liberty is only logically possible under rule of law. Other cultures don’t desire liberty. They desire consumption (as do most people in our culture as well). At present, liberty is a cultural preference of aristocratic civilization. But that just means that aristocratic civilization is scientific in function.

    I don’t generally make moral arguments except for ‘fun’ – I make AMORAL arguments. That’s the beauty of this logic: it’s not loaded. So, if one seeks to use this logic to create any possible political order, one can do so. But one need not (and cannot) resort to deception to do it.

    What isn’t obvious is that if you use this logic you can create non-monopoly social orders in a heterogeneous polity assuming that the rulers (monarchy) persists in maintaining rule of law, common organic law, property en toto, decide-able by the requirement for fully informed, productive, warrantied, voluntary exchange.

    Unlike unlimited free-associationists (advocates of the heroism of science) I am not interested in furthering free association – I don’t think it can be furthered. I’m only interested in preventing bias, propaganda and deceit. I am not even that concerned with error.

    Just as christianity was used to destroy western religion and thought, pseudoscience as used to destroy western law and thought.

    Rule of law is our religion. Virtue is our religion. Nature is our religion. Commons are the produce of our religion. And truth is our most precious commons.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 03:54:00 UTC

  • The middle east was the product of the failure of ottoman civilization to modern

    The middle east was the product of the failure of ottoman civilization to modernize on european or Chinese lines, and therefore it was possible for the western powers to colonize it.

    When we withdrew colonies from the world, we sent them into tragic wars to fill power vacuums.

    The USA stabilized the middle east for two reasons: to prevent the spread of communism and the use of oil as a weapon of communism; and consequently to prevent the use of oil as a strategic economic weapon – as Russia has just demonstrated is so simple to do.

    It is not logical to continue to prevent the restructuring of the middle east along national (cultural and genetic) lines. Oil is no longer an issue for us, and the rest of the world no longer lacks the technological basis for suppressing expansionary empires.

    Any nation that possesses nuclear weapons can maintain its territorial integrity.

    Our problem is in re-nationalizing states. Not just in the middle east BUT HERE IN THE WEST AND IN AMERICA MOST OF ALL.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-24 03:56:00 UTC

  • Marx Freud Cantor Boaz Lewontin Frankfurt Krugman, Stiglitz, De Long Mises, Roth

    Marx

    Freud

    Cantor

    Boaz

    Lewontin

    Frankfurt

    Krugman, Stiglitz, De Long

    Mises, Rothbard, Caplan

    Neocons:

    Fritz Lens 1930 Important Geneticist Evolution in the North by hard environment. Group competition wasn’t important. Selected for problem solving, not for aggression. Individualism is part of western uniqueness. (non aggression). High investment in children. Mating on Affection and personal attraction. Personal compatibility. Physical attractiveness. (not cousin marriage). Paternal Involvement. Uniquely tended toward monogamy. Sexual selection for blonde hair and blue eyes. (finer skin) more hair and eye color diversity: personal attraction. Less selected for fearing outsiders. Women have higher status in than in higher cultures.

    Western hunter gatherers (ice age >10K years ago). 7K yerars ago, farmers. more influential in the south. white but more dark skinned. indo europeans 4500 years ago as a military elite. Hunter gatherers are more egalitarian and select leadership. Northern europeans are pretty much that kind.

    Westerners travel the world to take care of others. But no one else does that. This empathy isn’t based upon kinship.

    His argument is genetic.

    (Loneliness)

    Individualism. associated with creativity. (hofstad’s index of patents).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 14:19:00 UTC

  • different vision of european settlement

    http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2015/05/large-scale-recent-expansion-of.html?m=1A different vision of european settlement

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 08:14:00 UTC

  • (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion) I had a couple of convers

    (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion)

    I had a couple of conversations this morning on the German Secret, and I still don’t think I get it.

    Just why is it that Germany has managed to create ‘mindfulness’ out of duty? How is it taught, instilled, socialized, institutionalized, and maintained?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 07:05:00 UTC

  • SOME CULTURES SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM WTH MARRIAGE AND THE LONG TERM PROBLEM OF

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14419.htmlHOW SOME CULTURES SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM WTH MARRIAGE AND THE LONG TERM PROBLEM OF DYSGENIA – AND HOW OTHER CULTURES DON’T

    (profound) (#hbd)(marriage)

    Marriage (monogamy and pairing off), is not an evolutionary advantage unless at the same time we limit the reproduction of the lower classes (which at this point begins at 95, but I think will soon more visibly occur at 105 or so. ) So the reason for the rapid rates of western evolutionary progress despite their distance from the source of civilization, is (a) selection by attraction / women’s liberty (b)manorialism – which delays reproduction, increases the skills of women, and suppressed the lower class reproduction. Warmer climates must rely upon war and disease for selection, and the competition between so many eurasiatic tribes creates incentives for inbreeding. What it DOES select for is aggression.

    So marriage is a good thing, iff and only iff, it is accompanied by reproductive suppression of the lower classes, and penalties for the upper classes for not reproducing. Every other possible scenario is dysgenic.

    We don’t need to engage in evil medicine. We can simply redistribute only to those with one child who cannot produce, and heavily tax those who produce but do not reproduce. In four generations – one century – your civilization dramatically increases its potential far more than any other technological or social advantage.

    —-Here we test this theory experimentally by comparing whether populations with histories of strong versus weak sexual selection purge mutation load and resist extinction differently…..Lineages from populations that had previously experienced strong sexual selection were resilient to extinction and maintained fitness under inbreeding, with some families continuing to survive after 20 generations of sib × sib mating. By contrast, lineages derived from populations that experienced weak or non-existent sexual selection showed rapid fitness declines under inbreeding, and all were extinct after generation 10.—-

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 04:15:00 UTC

  • Territorial, Institutional, Normative,  and Technological Competitive Value

    (profound) [I]’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and conquered and exploited two new continents. And that what we see is the new normal. There aren’t enough asymmetries to exploit any longer to maintain the prior asymmetry of wealth.

    Or rather, normative asymmetries (institutions) are terribly productive and last for generations if maintained, territorial asymmetries are almost as productive, and can last for generations if trade routes are maintained, while technological asymmetries are decreasingly durable. Or as technologists tend to say: “technology is not a competitive advantage” because it is so easily neutralized. Conversely, territorial, trade route, and normative asymmetries produce for the long run. Hence my (and Taleb’s) concern about fragility. And my concern that the progressive fantasy of technology as savior, and norm as inhibitor is backwards.

    Source: Curt Doolittle