Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • SOCIAL CAPITAL : THE CONSERVATIVES : HOMOGENEITY=TRUST The conservative vision o

    SOCIAL CAPITAL : THE CONSERVATIVES : HOMOGENEITY=TRUST

    The conservative vision of man, is that he is a wild beast that must be tamed through constant training, and adhere to social structures that encourage his good behavior – particularly marriage. In the Mormon community for example, I have often heard is “An unmarried male between 17 and 22 is a threat to society.”

    But this is incorrect really. It’s the negative statement, not the positive. The positive is provided by Fukuyama (better than all others I think) “..shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships..”

    Again, that’s still distracting, because it doesn’t address the behavioral issue that they mean to develop: TRUST. Social capital is the set of shared norms, values, habits, traditions that facilitate cooperation by increasing TRUST. Trust meaning predictability of taking risk with persons outside of your family group, without fear of loss attributable to one party taking advantage of the other through deception (fraud, lying) or asymmetry of information (fraud by omission).

    The west is a high-trust society. It is actually the ONLY high trust society. It is so because westerners have outbred (protestants at least) such that they actually were an extended family, with very rigid norms, and as such adaptation to norms demonstrated trustworthiness and avoidance of them untrustworthiness.

    There is nothing different about trust in any given society other than how far it extends outside the family.

    SO, conservatives, although they cannot articulated it, are constantly engaged in the process of fighting to maintain the homogeneity of the absolute nuclear family, and a set of conformative rules around the absolute nuclear family, and particularly prevention of free riding and cheating, because these ‘bad behaviors’ reduce trust and the ability to form dynamic and frictionless relationships for cooperation and mutual benefit.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-10 05:39:00 UTC

  • WEST IS LOSING FAITH IN ITS FUTURE Told ya so. Wait til 2020

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2661d1ca-60c3-11e3-b7f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2n1NGJxxZTHE WEST IS LOSING FAITH IN ITS FUTURE

    Told ya so. Wait til 2020

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-09 18:14:00 UTC

  • Just wanted to add something to your analysis. And that is, that the disadvantag

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/12/03/would-absorbing-ukraine-make-russia-a-superpower-no/Mark,

    Just wanted to add something to your analysis. And that is, that the disadvantage of an aging population is one of perspective. It’s pretty hard to argue that keeping people active and working, even in simple jobs, very late in life, is better for them then paying them to stay home waiting to die, given that the alternative is immigration from less advanced societies that place extraordinary political and social burdens on that society.

    Just beasue social democracies have chosen to treat the state as a corporation rather than as the administration of a nation – an extendeed family and culture, does not mean that there are not other ways. Japan, Russia, China, South Korea have intentionally chosen the NATION (people), rather than the STATE(corporation) model.

    When Putin makes this statement in his own language, he is not making an artificial claim. He, Russians, Chinese, South Koreans and Japanese as well as western conservatives, would prefer to remain a NATION – a family, rather than a CORPORATION.

    And this is not an irrational, emotional, or ignorant position. This is what middle america wants too. It is what middle England wants. It is what conservatives in Germany want.

    To act in furtherance of their family and culture, not the corporate state.

    And it is very hard to argue against this point of view as anything other than conquest and exploitation of those people who prefer the system of intergenerational cooperation we call ‘family, savings, and interest’, than the system of intergenerational redistribution we call ‘social security’, when it is dependent on the consumption of the gene pool and the culture and millennia of history to support it.

    The neo-cons were wrong of course. The world did not need another Rome. Just the opposite. But conservatives do underestand the value of moral capital, and the reproductive structure of the family as inseparaable and inalienable from the high trust society. I would have thought differently, but I my work has led me to appreciate Emmanuel Todd’s findings on the nature of the family in relation to political structures. And without the absolute nuclear family that was a required method of conformity into the American system, the american high trust society cannot persist. Period.

    Russians aren’t stupid. They don’t have a high trust society, So they don’t take cooperation for granted. They have to work at it.

    We take it for granted. that’s why we’re losing it.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-09 08:12:00 UTC

  • This is my experience. Every day. Civil people. Like we used to be

    http://bassanoweb.tv/index.php/bmag/curiosita-dal-web/975-il-video-russo-che-sta-commuovendo-il-mondo-interoRUSSIANS

    This is my experience. Every day. Civil people. Like we used to be.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 06:41:00 UTC

  • So, basically, freeing up women by redistribution essentially recreates diversit

    So, basically, freeing up women by redistribution essentially recreates diversity (tribalism) in any society.

    If you do that you’re dead. And that seems to be what the data tells us for any civilization that fully employs its women.

    Ack.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:56:00 UTC

  • “Ukraine is part of Europe geographically, but for the demonstrators and their s

    “Ukraine is part of Europe geographically, but for the demonstrators and their supporters the concept of “Europe” has the resonance of a vision, vivid and frustratingly out of reach. To them, Europe implies genuine democracy, trustworthy police and sincere respect for human rights.” —

    (lost the source)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 16:47:00 UTC

  • The Jewish Way : Insular Communities that survive in host countries. The Christi

    The Jewish Way : Insular Communities that survive in host countries.

    The Christian way : Use religion as a resistance movement

    The Pre-Christian Way : Violently impose freedom.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 09:38:00 UTC

  • MY UKRAINIAN FRIENDS The past 1000 years: the of conquerors of Ukraine

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f54_1337075813FOR MY UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

    The past 1000 years: the of conquerors of Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 08:31:00 UTC

  • “FAMILY IS MOST IMPORTANT. FAMILY IS EVERYTHING HERE” That is why women here are

    “FAMILY IS MOST IMPORTANT. FAMILY IS EVERYTHING HERE”

    That is why women here are so amazing. So worthy of your utter devotion. Because family is everything here. And women are the center of the family.

    In other words, women’s first priority is not feminism here. It is family.

    And the state is evil and oppressive and corrupt. Not ‘white men’.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 07:16:00 UTC

  • An awful lot of Ukraine is like mexico. Its tragic. All of this horrible post so

    An awful lot of Ukraine is like mexico. Its tragic. All of this horrible post soviet decaying brick, concrete, and sheet metal.

    No people were ever so poor with such nobility and grace. I love them.

    Especially the old guys with bug russian hats. ;).

    The middle of america is hollowing out. But the relative decline is being filled with the third world.

    We do not decay as gracefully.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-05 06:19:00 UTC