Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • IS IT TRUE THAT WEALTH MAKES A PEOPLE STUPID AND OF NECESITY SELFISH? I’m strugg

    IS IT TRUE THAT WEALTH MAKES A PEOPLE STUPID AND OF NECESITY SELFISH?

    I’m struggling with this problem. What we call enlightenment individualism is important in the sense that we must have several private property in order to have individual incentives to act, and out of self interest, to act in the interest of extra-familial “others”.

    But the wealth that results from these incentives to produce gives us freedom to buy the luxury of spatial freedom. And with it, the luxury of freedom from daily compromise with others.

    Society requires information systems that compensate fir our limited perception, knowledge and comprehension. The first is interpersonal compromise. the second is the market. The third is money. The fourth is accounting.

    This is society.

    But without interpersonal compromise. Can we in fact maintain those dependent institutions.

    I am not yet sure.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 00:26:00 UTC

  • TAKING GREATNESS FIR GRANTED. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. they complain about the meani

    TAKING GREATNESS FIR GRANTED.

    I LOVE THIS COUNTRY.

    they complain about the meaningless and fail to understand that it just isn’t better than this. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-21 17:54:00 UTC

  • WESTERN CIV: IT’S THE CHURCH. THE CONTENT OF CHRISTIANITY LOOKS IRRELEVANT. The

    WESTERN CIV: IT’S THE CHURCH. THE CONTENT OF CHRISTIANITY LOOKS IRRELEVANT.

    The west is unique for reasons that appear to be entirely the product of aristocracy.

    The church was weak. The tribes were strong. It is the administrative relationship between them that created western culture’s unique attributes: a responsible monarchy.

    The actual content of the bible is pretty much a set of analogies that could be applied to circumstance. But it reflected rather than created the west.

    Aristocracy is more important than Christianity.

    Never imagined that would be the case.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-17 13:35:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO ME IN MY ADULT LIFE if there is a heaven.

    UKRAINE IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO ME IN MY ADULT LIFE

    if there is a heaven. It looks like Ukraine.

    These are the most wonderful people on earth.

    White people in their natural habitat. With a government that has abandoned them.

    It’s beautiful.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-09 19:40:00 UTC

  • ENGLISH SUPERIORITY “Relative to other groups from Britain, Puritans were not ou

    ENGLISH SUPERIORITY

    “Relative to other groups from Britain, Puritans were not outbred. Yet they are more idealistic and altruistic. That may have something to do with them being from the most Danish part of Britain. It certainly is to do with them being economically advanced. A market economy only works where there can be basic trust between unrelated people. And the British are the descendants of the economically successful. -(Clark)”

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-08 06:59:00 UTC

  • CAN YOU HAVE CHIVALRY WITHOUT ARISTOCRACY? The west is synonymous with Christend

    CAN YOU HAVE CHIVALRY WITHOUT ARISTOCRACY?

    The west is synonymous with Christendom. Christendom is synonymous with Aristocracy. Aristocracy with chivalry. Chivalry with the means by which males seek status by service. Aristocracy is synonymous with property ownership. Because aristocracy is private government. The unstated property of the western high trust society is the break with paternalistic familial-ism: universal-ism by outlawing cousin marriages and therefore outlawing tribal property, tribal inheritance, and tribal political power. Status in this environment can only be obtained by actions.

    The high trust society is a product of chivalry, aristocracy, property, without which males have no means of status seeking.

    (I’m still working on this. But the basic problem is that Ferguson’s six killer apps aren’t enough of the story.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 08:09:00 UTC

  • Demographic cliff too….., (HT Cowen)

    http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/11/29/u-s-birth-rate-falls-to-a-record-low-decline-is-greatest-among-immigrants/A Demographic cliff too…..,

    (HT Cowen)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 17:25:00 UTC

  • LINCOLN FILLED THE SLAVES It had nothing to do with moral conviction

    http://www.dickmorris.com/how-lincoln-freed-the-slaves-dick-morris-tv-history-video/HOW LINCOLN FILLED THE SLAVES

    It had nothing to do with moral conviction.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-24 11:26:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: DAILY MOTORCADE every morning they shut down Sahaidichnoh

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: DAILY MOTORCADE

    every morning they shut down Sahaidichnoho street so that the presidential motorcade does not sit vulnerably in traffic.

    Then six or seven cars pass in formation.

    The people I talk to seem to think its a privilege. But the taxi drivers who have served in the military know the reason: the cheapest and easiest way to kill a politician is in a car with an RPG.

    It’s my daily reminder that a government should fear its people. Not people fear their government.

    And that politicians should not give them reason to.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-21 03:38:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: (UPSETTING) DIETS AND HUNGER I have met an absurd number

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: (UPSETTING) DIETS AND HUNGER

    I have met an absurd number of people here, and it may be the circle of people I’m meeting, that eat only once a day, and compensate with cigarettes and coffee.

    Now, I’m pretty thrilled at the physical appearance of men and women here, even if the smoke is brutal on my lungs. But if these random observations are backed by some kind of confirming data (not the BS that we get in the states) then it’s just painfully sad.

    I mean, in the states, most of us try to avoid obesity. Our poor especially. But here, they eat less, what they eat is less processed, they walk, and they smoke. It’s no wonder they’re so fit. Seriously.

    I heard another story the other day about a couple with a child who only eats once a day so that they can afford clothes for the kid. And if you watch the lunch counter lines even here downtown, it’s suspicious how little food, and how cheap it is, that a lot of people put on their plates.

    In the states we see people bring lunch to work. That makes sense. But usually it’s so that they can save up for something like a house or car. Or because it’s just so offensive when you add up what you spend for lunches, compared to your entire food budget for the family. I can understand those things. Or maybe you just want to eat healthy, which is impossible even in the most socially conscious cities.

    These people are not so much preyed upon by corruption, as the corrupt ignore them and let them either leave the country or hunger.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-17 06:00:00 UTC