Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism” Increases in wealth under manorialism an

    “Libertarian Moral Diversity Denialism”

    Increases in wealth under manorialism and the forcible ban on intermarriage, forced a shift from kindreds to lineages, which in turn forced a shift towards nuclear families. As a side effect there was a delay in marriage and reproduction, more assortive mating (romance), the extension of the kin ethic to all potential family members.

    Property is inseparable from the nuclear family. Because property gives males control over breeding. You can add women to the economy. You either can add them to the voting pool, OR you can undermine the nuclear family and assortive mating, through child support, alimony, and redistribution. But you can’t do both and keep property rights. Property is the antithesis of the female reproductive strategy. The feminists are right, which is why the feminists and the socialists are allies. Or rather, the feminists give the socialists ethical air cover.

    But if women can vote to control their reproduction and at the same time control the productivity of males through political expropriation, then you will NEVER EVER have the institution of private property. EVER.

    Property was created by the application of organized violence. It put reproduction in control of the male. And eventually led to eugenic reproduction.

    If there is anything that puts a stake in the heart of libertarian hyper-individualism (moral diversity denial) then that’s it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 14:26:00 UTC

  • COUNTERING THE NOBLE SAVAGE MYTH (QUICK LIST OF CITATIONS) (Pinker put a stake i

    COUNTERING THE NOBLE SAVAGE MYTH

    (QUICK LIST OF CITATIONS)

    (Pinker put a stake in that postmodern vampire.)

    ^ Pinker, Steven. “1 A Foreign Country -Human prehistory”. The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined. New York: Viking. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3. “In a century that began with 9/11, Iraq, and Darfur, the claim that we are living in an unusually peaceful time may strike you as somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. I know from conversations and survey data that most people refuse to believe it.”

    ^ Chagnon, N.A. (1996). .Bock, G.R & Goode, J.A. (eds.), ed. Genetics of criminal and antisocial behaviour. Chichester: Wiley. pp. 202–231. ISBN 0471957194.

    ^ Keeley, Lawrence H. (1996): War Before Civilization New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195119126

    ^ Martin, Debra L., and David W. Frayer, eds. Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1997

    ^ “The fraud of primitive authenticity”. Asian Times. 4th of July, 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2013.

    ^ Wade, Nicholas (2006). Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (4th print. ed.). New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 1-59420-079-3.

    ^ Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (5th print. ed.). London: Vintage. pp. 155–292. ISBN 0-09-930278-0.

    ^ Eisner, M. (2003). “Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime”. Crime and Justice 30: 83–142. Retrieved 22 July 2013.

    ^ Lindström, Dag (2009). Body-Gendrot, S. & Spierenburg, P., ed. Violence in Europe. pp. 43–64.

    ^ Pinker, Steven. The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-05 18:26:00 UTC

  • IDENTITY: FROM ENGLISH TO BRITISH TO AMERICAN TO DISASPORIC – TO EXTINCT. (Re-Po

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2012/01/13/changes-in-identity/CHANGING IDENTITY: FROM ENGLISH TO BRITISH TO AMERICAN TO DISASPORIC – TO EXTINCT.

    (Re-Post)

    I made an unfortunate choice of terms when I started working on this theme. The idea I was trying to communicate was that the corporeal states that we have made with our extended family – our ‘race’ of the English people, have become the instrument of our extermination as a nation, a culture, a tradition, a people, a collection of tribes, and an extended family.

    We are subjects of various corporations. We are property. Farm animals. But we are no longer a people in the sense that we have the fortress of a nation state that we use to advance the interests of our extended family.

    Instead we are prisoners of the monstrous empires our family created. Those empires have become, as all empires must, corporations – organizations of financial rather than genetic interest. And that set of corporations is slowly forcing our extinction as a people in order to perpetuate the interests of the employees of the corporation itself.

    At the time I used the term ‘englishman’, the loading of which I didn’t really understand. I meant that I wanted to return to my rights as an Englishman, in the ancient sense of the word. Meaning: personal sovereignty: meaning property rights to myself and my possessions.

    And by sovereignty, I mean that I don’t want to be a farm animal. I am willing to sacrifice for my family. For my extended family. For my tribe. For my people. For my culture. That is always in my interest.

    But I am not wiling to be farmed for the benefit of a corporation at the expense of my genetic and cultural heritage.

    This is nothing more than killing off a herd to feed another herd.

    Nothing more.

    The state is the instrument of our extermination. What is the difference between a Death Camp and the American or British Governments except the time frame that they use to cause our extinction?

    There isn’t any.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-04 05:53:00 UTC

  • HOW MANY GREAT BOOKS ARE THERE? I think Adler’s list was too short, and it was a

    HOW MANY GREAT BOOKS ARE THERE?

    I think Adler’s list was too short, and it was an apologia for democracy. The aristocratic list I’ve been keeping is somewhere around 200, but it has a broader range of interest and it requires more books to alter the direction of the enlightenment than to confirm it with selected confirmation biases.

    But lets say that the list requires 250 books, just to pick a number. And lets say that every 15 points of IQ requires a DIFFERENT book in order to communicate the basic principles to each audience. You’d need say, 5 books total, or perhaps 6 including the original idea. So, that’s a library of 1500 books.

    Now, I’m talking non-fiction here. And you can add fiction to that list, and I have, and I was surprised how few survived scrutiny.

    Any given person would need to read 250 books targeted to his or her reading level, and then the great literature in order to ‘taste’ every time period. (without the narrative it is very difficult to grasp the past in any meaningful way.)

    Even if you only read one book a month that would only take twenty years. If you read two books a month, that would take you only ten years. If we taught reading, writing, math and basic physics through age seven, and then the great books, I’m not really sure there is a lot of wiggle room in education.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-02 03:30:00 UTC

  • NEW MORAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE POST INDUSTRIAL ERA? What was the last moral princip

    NEW MORAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE POST INDUSTRIAL ERA?

    What was the last moral principle that humans discovered? Think about that for a bit. Because I have been. And, I think I understand the evolution of NECESSARY moral principles as well or better than anyone.

    And, while I’m not positive (because I haven’t read every word ever written in this world) I think I might have discovered the first new NECESSARY moral principle of the post-agrarian era.

    When I first wrote about it a few years ago, I didn’t think about it as novel. It was just a necessary constraint for suppressing fraud at scale. And I think it transitions an existing MORAL principle to an ETHICAL principle. (In the sense that Moral principles are those where your actions are entirely anonymous, and ethical actions are where your actions are not anonymous but you possess asymmetric knowledge.) So the ethical constraint enforces the moral objective.

    We tend to view norms as sacrosanct. But while instinctual morality remains constant (at least within kin) descriptive morality (morality in practice) varies with the structure of the reproductive unit and the structure of the means of production. Our ‘savage’ ancestors would not practice our moral codes nor we theirs. Mostly because the ‘momentum’ of production that we call ‘scarcity-productivity’ is so much higher now that we can afford to take risks that they couldn’t.

    We are’t so much morally superior by choice as we are superior by advent of technologies of cooperation and production. And those material advantages allow us to treat increasing numbers of people as kin – by raising our standard of violence in pursuit of calories. to the point now where we rarely need violence for material matters, and most violence occurs over mates or status – which in practice may be the same thing.

    At this point in our development, we have forbidden all violence, theft and fraud, and we suppress it well, by forcing all competition into the market for goods and services. HOwever, our ORGANIZATIONS are terribly immoral both in private and public senses. The private are subject to competition so their immorality is just suppressed quickly, and they cannot calcify the way government does, into predatory bureaucracies and survive for long. Whereas the government can devolve in to predatory bureaucracy almost from the formation of a bureaucratic organization.

    To make matters worse, we can privatize almost everything that a government does and cure most of the problem. But we cannot privatize everything, because when we say ‘privatize’ we mean tat we o pen it to competition. But in any competition there are losers, and you cannot build the commons willingly if there is a chance that any given participant will ‘lose’. And that is why, whether my libertarian friends like it or not, some form of ‘government’ will always exist: to produce commons in lieu of competition (loss).

    As such, what can we do to prevent corruption in the commons? What is the one institutional, ethical principle that we could adhere to in order to prevent all the forms of theft of commons that occur in every bureaucracy?

    Humans engage in violence – largely for status and mate seeking reasons. Humans engage in Theft, largely for petty entertainment, or drug use. Humans engage in fraud for many reasons, but usually as a means of income. Humans engage in fraud by omission as a matter of course. And Humans free-ride whenever and wherever possible outside of ascetic protestantism. IN fact, that is what differentiates ascetic protestantism – the prohibition on free riding.

    Where there is an organization that they can seek rents, humans engage in rent seeking (‘limited monopoly’, ‘loyalty fees’, ‘charity’, privatization of gains,socialization of losses) whenever possible.

    Where they are In organizations, humans engage in interpersonal corruption, rent seeking, privatization of gains, and systemic corruption.

    Where they are in control of organizations they engage in systemic theft, systemic fraud, war and conquest.

    Humans have an ethical portfolio with just one, one-note song we call competition in the free market. But they have a symphony of immoral options available to them. So it’s no surprise that when we give people incentives to act to steal, that they do so.

    We are fascinatingly creative creatures really.

    Curt Doolittle

    (c a l c u l a t i o n: maintaining causal relations by prohibiting pooling and laundering.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-02 03:12:00 UTC

  • CONTINENTAL COMPETITION BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND ASIANS? So Northern Europeans were

    http://universitypressaudiobooks.com/detail.php/281THE CONTINENTAL COMPETITION BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND ASIANS?

    So Northern Europeans were the First Americans, and were wiped out by the First Nations who invaded from Asia? Then Europeans returned and reconquered the Asians? Now the Asians are re-invading north america and re-conquering the Northern Europeans?

    Europeans arrive in 20,000 and are Exterminated by: (8,000 years)

    Asians who arrive in 12,000 and are Conquered by: (10,000 years)

    Europeans who arrive in 1500 who are Conquered by: (700 years)

    Asians/North-Africans who arrive in 2000 conquered by ? (?)

    My dear Amanda hated (and I assume still hates) white people with a passion. I kind of think that in the end, white people lose. ‘Cause technology is very useful for a small group to use to keep the hordes at bay, or to conquer the hordes. But over time, he who breeds wins, and we don’t breed much. It’s that simple.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-26 04:34:00 UTC

  • CHINESE NATURAL EUGENICS – AND THE BRITISH PARALLEL “…although just 1 percent

    CHINESE NATURAL EUGENICS – AND THE BRITISH PARALLEL

    “…although just 1 percent of American high-school graduates each year have ethnic Chinese origins, surname analysis indicates that they currently include nearly 15 percent of the highest-achieving students, a performance ratio more than four times better than that of American Jews, the top-scoring white ancestry group.”

    “…the enormous population growth of recent centuries had gradually caught up with and overtaken China’s exceptionally efficient agricultural system, reducing the lives of most Chinese to the brink of Malthusian starvation; and these pressures and constraints were believed to be reflected in the Chinese people. For example, Stoddard wrote: … Winnowed by ages of grim elimination in a land populated to the uttermost limits of subsistence, the Chinese race is selected as no other for survival under the fiercest conditions of economic stress. At home the average Chinese lives his whole life literally within a hand’s breadth of starvation. Accordingly, when removed to the easier environment of other lands, the Chinaman brings with him a working capacity which simply appalls his competitors.”

    LIKE WE USED TO BE

    Manorialism was little different from the Chinese experience. But within 150 years we have redistributed our median IQ from being equal to that of the Ashkenazim to the mean.

    The puritan ethic was the natural product of needing to demonstrate fitness in order to gain access to land. And access to land meant access to reproduction.

    We not only have no criteria for reproduction now. We have inverted it so that the lower the criteria the more we can reproduce. And worse, that we have eliminated the criteria for voting.

    QUOTES

    “During the second half of the 20th century, ideological considerations largely eliminated from American public discourse the notion that many centuries of particular circumstances might leave an indelible imprint upon a people. But with the turn of the new millennium, such analyses have once again begun appearing in respectable intellectual quarters.

    “The most notable example of this would surely be A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark’s fascinating 2007 analysis of the deep origins of Britain’s industrial revolution, which was widely reviewed and praised throughout elite circles, with New York Times economics columnist Tyler Cowen hailing it as possibly “the next blockbuster in economics” and Berkeley economist Brad DeLong characterizing it as “brilliant.”

    “Although Clark’s work focused on many different factors, the one that attracted the greatest attention was his demographic analysis of British history based upon a close examination of individual testaments. Clark discovered evidence that for centuries the wealthier British had left significantly more surviving children than their poorer compatriots, thus leading their descendents to constitute an ever larger share of each generation. Presumably, this was because they could afford to marry at a younger age, and their superior nutritional and living arrangements reduced mortality rates for themselves and their families. Indeed, the near-Malthusian poverty of much ordinary English life during this era meant that the impoverished lower classes often failed even to reproduce themselves over time, gradually being replaced by the downwardly mobile children of their financial betters. Since personal economic achievement was probably in part due to traits such as diligence, prudence, and productivity, Clark argued that these characteristics steadily became more widespread in the British population, laying the human basis for later national economic success.”

    (FROM: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-social-darwinism-made-modern-china-248/)

    YOU GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

    You just get all the consequences along with it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-25 12:01:00 UTC

  • REMEDIAL ENGLISH IN COLLEGE “In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and G

    REMEDIAL ENGLISH IN COLLEGE

    “In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.” – Joe Sobran

    DATA

    % of population with 4 year degree :

    in 1910: 2.7%

    in 2010: 31%

    Every 15 points is one standard deviation in IQ.

    You need 115 points to COMPREHEND college material.

    That means 15% of the population can actually obtain an education, and that all other eduction is remedial, dumbed down to the non empirical, or wasted, and not in fact college education level material.

    If we educate 50% of the population with some level of college, that means that we are wasting education on 35% of the population who should, as in the GERMAN MODEL GET APPRENTICESHIPS where they can learn by observation and imitation rather than abstraction and inference. Even at this, it appears, that all universities do is sort us by IQ, and improve departmental selection of slave labor for graduate programs – and we learn very little there.

    IQ IS NOT ENVIRONMENTAL, ITS GENETIC, AND IT’S MEANINGFUL IN LIFE. Aside from impulsivity and physical symmetry is the most important genetic attribute, and all that you can teach your kids is good manners, and how to not do anything terribly stupid.

    QUOTE

    “There is no magic point at which a genuine college-level education becomes an option, but anything below an IQ of 110 is problematic. If you want to do well, you should have an IQ of 115 or higher. Put another way, it makes sense for only about 15% of the population, 25% if one stretches it, to get a college education. And yet more than 45% of recent high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges. Adjust that percentage to account for high-school dropouts, and more than 40% of all persons in their late teens are trying to go to a four-year college — enough people to absorb everyone down through an IQ of 104” – Murray

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-25 07:01:00 UTC

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from