Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • MORE ON GEOGRAPHIC IGNORANCE Interesting offline conversation about american ign

    MORE ON GEOGRAPHIC IGNORANCE

    Interesting offline conversation about american ignorance. Yes, we are ignorant. But ignorance is a geographic necessity. Yes we are ignorant of our policies. But then, we have the best disinformation system in the world making the truth opaque to us. Yes we are ignorant, because we have a tragic education system that values eliminating the problem of diversity that preserves the political system over the education of a labor force capable of competing in a post-european world.

    Our geographic ignorance is forgivable – it’s not valuable. Our policy ignorance is something that should make us angry – it is valuable. Our educational ignorance is something that should cause us to revolt – it’s necessary for our survival.

    What we have that no one else has is total saturation in entrepreneurship, innovation, the scientific method, and heroism.

    This is enough to allow the upper classes to compete against the rest of the world, but it is not enough to allow our middle forces and labor forces to compete against the rest of the world.

    We need better education or we need to start impaling everyone in the administration of public education on spikes until we run out of bodies. I’ve been to both the Northwest and Canada. We’re never gonna run out of spikes.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 11:41:00 UTC

  • BRITISH FLIGHTS OF FANCY —More than 50 percent of Britons believe that polygam

    BRITISH FLIGHTS OF FANCY

    —More than 50 percent of Britons believe that polygamy is legal in the United States; in fact, it is illegal in all 50 states. Almost one-third of Britons believe that Americans who have not paid their hospital fees or insurance premiums are not entitled to emergency medical care; in fact, such treatment must be provided by law.

    Seventy percent of Britons think the United States has done a worse job than the European Union in reducing carbon emissions since 2000; in fact, America’s rate of growth of carbon emissions has decreased by almost ten percent since 2000, while that of the EU has increased by 2.3 percent.

    Eighty percent of Britons believe that “from 1973 to 1990, the United States sold Saddam Hussein more than a quarter of his weapons.” In fact, the United States sold just 0.46 percent of Saddam’s arsenal to him; Russia, France, and China supplied 57 percent, 13 percent, and 12 percent, respectively.

    The majority of Britons believe that since the Second World War, the United States has more often sided with non-Muslims than with Muslims. In fact, in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the United States has sided with Muslims and/or Arabs.

    Indeed, a new opinion poll finds that British attitudes towards the United States are governed by ignorance of the facts on key issues such as crime, health care, and foreign policy. The survey was commissioned by America in the World, a London-based group that hopes to push back against rampant anti-Americanism in the United Kingdom by dispelling widely held myths about the United States.—-

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:52:00 UTC

  • THE FRENCH LOVE MCDONALDS!! —The French, of course, are famous for heaping sco

    THE FRENCH LOVE MCDONALDS!!

    —The French, of course, are famous for heaping scorn on American fast food. But France’s dirty little culinary secret is that one out of every two French people visit McDonald’s at least once a year. In fact, McDonald’s is so popular in France that the country is now McDonald’s second-biggest moneymaker in the world after the United States. (McDonald’s success is spreading throughout the rest of Europe, too, where sales growth is outpacing that in America. McDonald’s is now one of the biggest private-sector employers on the continent, with a workforce of some 300,000.)—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:51:00 UTC

  • Why Are Americans So Proud Of Their History When The Usa Has A Shorter History Compared To Some Other Countries In The World?

    (a) Because we invented a new form of culture: a purely commercial one, absent of hierarchy.
    (b) Because we invented a new form of constitution and government by adapting the British to this new commercial culture.
    (c) Because we did not fall to the european suicide by internecine warfare (even if the brits suckered us into both world wars).
    (c) Because we are disproportionately productive compared to the rest of the world.
    (d) Because of our disproportionate productivity and size, we have disproportionate wealth and global influence.
    (e) Because we used our wealth and influence to drag humanity kicking and screaming out of colonialism, out of the world war, out of socialism and communism, and right now we’re trying to drag what’s left out of ignorance and mysticism and poverty.

    Now, personally I’m pretty anti-american for an american, because I feel that our conquest of Europe has only exacerbated western (germanic) suicide, by allowing europeans to develop an absurd, immoral, unscientific, and unsustainable economy and political system that can only be perpetuated through suicide by immigration of third world peoples unable to adapt to northern european the high trust nuclear family, truth telling, suppression of free riding, and protestant work ethic.

    Unfortunately, americans aspire to commit the same suicide.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Americans-so-proud-of-their-history-when-the-USA-has-a-shorter-history-compared-to-some-other-countries-in-the-world

  • Why Are Americans So Proud Of Their History When The Usa Has A Shorter History Compared To Some Other Countries In The World?

    (a) Because we invented a new form of culture: a purely commercial one, absent of hierarchy.
    (b) Because we invented a new form of constitution and government by adapting the British to this new commercial culture.
    (c) Because we did not fall to the european suicide by internecine warfare (even if the brits suckered us into both world wars).
    (c) Because we are disproportionately productive compared to the rest of the world.
    (d) Because of our disproportionate productivity and size, we have disproportionate wealth and global influence.
    (e) Because we used our wealth and influence to drag humanity kicking and screaming out of colonialism, out of the world war, out of socialism and communism, and right now we’re trying to drag what’s left out of ignorance and mysticism and poverty.

    Now, personally I’m pretty anti-american for an american, because I feel that our conquest of Europe has only exacerbated western (germanic) suicide, by allowing europeans to develop an absurd, immoral, unscientific, and unsustainable economy and political system that can only be perpetuated through suicide by immigration of third world peoples unable to adapt to northern european the high trust nuclear family, truth telling, suppression of free riding, and protestant work ethic.

    Unfortunately, americans aspire to commit the same suicide.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Americans-so-proud-of-their-history-when-the-USA-has-a-shorter-history-compared-to-some-other-countries-in-the-world

  • The Demographics of Gun Ownership

    A CORRELATIVE ANSWER, THEN THE CAUSAL ANSWER

    The Correlative Answer: Part 1: Social Structure
    Northern Europeans above the Hanjal Line (The North Sea Peoples who successfully out-bred) sometimes referred to as the Protestant Peoples) retain an ancient set of traditions requiring all men to obtain legitimacy and honor (equal status) through participation in the militia, and the purpose of the militia is to deny all men power over all other men. This is preserved most strongly in the anglos dutch and less so in the germans, who were anglicized.

    The Causal Answer: Part 2 Tradition
    There are a small number of underlying heroic traditions that carry the western Aristocratic (meritocratic) Egalitarian (enfranchisement to all who fight) tradition – and that tradition is the cause of the rapid rate of western development compared to all other civilizations, both in the ancient, and modern eras. These are:
    1) Heroism (purchase of enfranchisement and status through sacrifice)
    2) All property is private (all property is earned)
    3) Every man is his own legislator over his domain.
    4) The common law and independent judiciary permit the resolution of differences between equals without appeal to authority.
    5) The rule of law, the common law (organic law, natural law) applies to all men equally. 
    6) Hierarchy is necessary for decision making in war, the resolution of conflicts, and for the suppression of free riding.

    The value in this structure is that the common law can evolve with the first judicial ruling, and therefore both transaction cost and risk are reduced, and the chance of free riding, parasitism, fraud and predation are eliminated before they can be institutionalized. The market for law suppresses parasitism as fast as innovations in parasitism are created. In turn, innovation in products, services and ideas can progress with the least resistance from predators. Costs: The consequence for the underclasses is that while they benefit from the rapid innovation, they are more aware of the difference between those who are less productive and those who are are more so.

    The Causal Answer: Part 3 : Incentives
    As population destiny increases, all effects increase by approximately 20% for every doubling of the population. 
    The incentives for people in rural areas where all men bear a high cost of policing the commons, is more restrictive than the incentives for people in urban areas where few bear the cost of policing the commons.

    In general, people in areas of dense population discount the cost of policing commons and norms because opportunity, transaction and policing costs are lower.

    The Causal Answer Part 4: Diversity.
    Diversity decreases trust, increases political divisiveness and decreases economic velocity. Urban areas can afford immigrating diversity. Rural areas cannot.

    It’s all rational really.

    WHAT IS HAPPENING
    The effort to expand ownership has been successful and once people have limited skill with, and ownership of guns, it tends to transfer like all traditions between families.

    The greater the effort to suppress gun ownership the greater the passion with which gun owners preserve the tradition.

    We have roughly tripled gun sales under this administration. Demographically the argument is over and the pro gun movement has won. (surprisingly)

    The supreme court has learned a tragic lesson from Roe v Wade: that the court should not solve social matters until they are first resolved by the states. That decision has nearly destroyed the court. “The Democratic Process Must Do Its Work” is the phrase we hear from the court.

    The general consensus is that we have a problem controlling mental illness, and urban poverty, and not a problem with firearms.

    So as far as I understand, the matter is settled for at least the next generation.

  • BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST —The general Marxian theory of “universal hist

    BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST

    —The general Marxian theory of “universal history,” to the extent that it has any empirical content, seems to me disproved by modern historical and anthropological investigation.—

    —Marxian economics seems to me for the most part either false or obsolete or meaningless in application to contemporary economic phenomena. Those aspects of Marxian economics which retain validity do not seem to me to justify the theoretical structure of the economics.—

    —Not only do I believe it meaningless to say that “socialism is inevitable” and false that socialism is “the only alternative to capitalism”; I consider that on the basis of the evidence now available to us a new form of exploitive society (which I call “managerial society”) is not only possible but is a more probable outcome of the present than socialism….—

    —On no ideological, theoretic or political ground, then, can I recognize, or do I feel, any bond or allegiance to the Workers Party (or to any other Marxist party). That is simply the case, and I can no longer pretend about it, either to myself or to others.—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 14:02:00 UTC

  • LIBERALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF WESTERN SUICIDE —Burnham’s thesis is straightfor

    LIBERALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF WESTERN SUICIDE

    —Burnham’s thesis is straightforward. “.Liberalism,” he writes, “is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism-the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future-falls into place. Implicitly, all of this book is merely an amplification of this sentence.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 13:53:00 UTC

  • NEEDS The institutional needs of individuals, families and tribes at different l

    NEEDS

    The institutional needs of individuals, families and tribes at different levels of maturity, differ. We do not mature at the same rates (as individuals) and we have not matured at the same rates as tribes, nations and races. For the simple reason that we encountered different geographic pressures.

    I am not sure why this is so complicated. High attention parenting, high investment parenting and their opposites, produce different results. Western methods of child-raising are a trade off. But we are also born with different impulses, and we can measure them, and have measured them.

    Equal rights to life and property, do not require that we mature at identical rates.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 11:51:00 UTC

  • DEMOGRAPHICS OF GUN OWNERSHIP: A CORRELATIVE ANSWER, THEN THE CAUSAL ANSWER The

    DEMOGRAPHICS OF GUN OWNERSHIP: A CORRELATIVE ANSWER, THEN THE CAUSAL ANSWER

    The Correlative Answer: Part 1: Social Structure

    Northern Europeans above the Hanjal Line (The North Sea Peoples who successfully out-bred) sometimes referred to as the Protestant Peoples) retain an ancient set of traditions requiring all men to obtain legitimacy and honor (equal status) through participation in the militia, and the purpose of the militia is to deny all men power over all other men. This is preserved most strongly in the anglos dutch and less so in the germans, who were anglicized.

    The Causal Answer: Part 2 Tradition

    There are a small number of underlying heroic traditions that carry the western Aristocratic (meritocratic) Egalitarian (enfranchisement to all who fight) tradition – and that tradition is the cause of the rapid rate of western development compared to all other civilizations, both in the ancient, and modern eras. These are:

    1) Heroism (purchase of enfranchisement and status through sacrifice)

    2) All property is private (all property is earned)

    3) Every man is his own legislator over his domain.

    4) The common law and independent judiciary permit the resolution of differences between equals without appeal to authority.

    5) The rule of law, the common law (organic law, natural law) applies to all men equally.

    6) Hierarchy is necessary for decision making in war, the resolution of conflicts, and for the suppression of free riding.

    The value in this structure is that the common law can evolve with the first judicial ruling, and therefore both transaction cost and risk are reduced, and the chance of free riding, parasitism, fraud and predation are eliminated before they can be institutionalized. The market for law suppresses parasitism as fast as innovations in parasitism are created. In turn, innovation in products, services and ideas can progress with the least resistance from predators. Costs: The consequence for the underclasses is that while they benefit from the rapid innovation, they are more aware of the difference between those who are less productive and those who are are more so.

    The Causal Answer: Part 3 : Incentives

    As population destiny increases, all effects increase by approximately 20% for every doubling of the population.

    The incentives for people in rural areas where all men bear a high cost of policing the commons, is more restrictive than the incentives for people in urban areas where few bear the cost of policing the commons.

    In general, people in areas of dense population discount the cost of policing commons and norms because opportunity, transaction and policing costs are lower.

    The Causal Answer Part 4: Diversity.

    Diversity decreases trust, increases political divisiveness and decreases economic velocity. Urban areas can afford immigrating diversity. Rural areas cannot.

    It’s all rational really.

    WHAT IS HAPPENING

    The effort to expand ownership has been successful and once people have limited skill with, and ownership of guns, it tends to transfer like all traditions between families.

    The greater the effort to suppress gun ownership the greater the passion with which gun owners preserve the tradition.

    We have roughly tripled gun sales under this administration. Demographically the argument is over and the pro gun movement has won. (surprisingly)

    The supreme court has learned a tragic lesson from Roe v Wade: that the court should not solve social matters until they are first resolved by the states. That decision has nearly destroyed the court. “The Democratic Process Must Do Its Work” is the phrase we hear from the court.

    The general consensus is that we have a problem controlling mental illness, and urban poverty, and not a problem with firearms.

    So as far as I understand, the matter is settled for at least the next generation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 11:23:00 UTC