Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • “The two parties in America [preceeding the civil war] were the pro-slavery Demo

    –“The two parties in America [preceeding the civil war] were the pro-slavery Democrats and the ‘We’re too smart to agree on anything’ Whigs.”–

    😉
    Southern Scotts Irish vs Nothern Anglo Puritans.
    … or today:
    Northeast (coastal) Urban Liberals vs Southern and Central (Territorial) Conservatives.

    Simple answer, is that ‘the federation is fine but the powers of the central government to determine the cultural policy of the states is behind the scope of its ability here in the states, just as it is in the failing experiment in Europe.

    The progression of civilization like that of the individual is pervasive conflict (infancy), city-states (childhood), empires (teens), and federations of independent nation states (adults).

    Time for a government of grownups.
    There is to much advantage to territorial integrity of north american – avoiding the conflict of the ‘world island’ of eurasia.

    But within that north american continent we can devolve the federal government back to its original designs as a variation on the holy roman empire of 1000 years, with many small states and a weak central government, that gives freedom of culture to each state, and only resolves conflicts between states.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-30 13:23:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685642222782365696

  • The genetics, the metaphysics, the culture, the intellectual tradition, the prox

    The genetics, the metaphysics, the culture, the intellectual tradition, the proximity of people with the same of each, and pursuing an end together, in a spatial and temporal context. Ergo why it takes 800 years to cook a philosopher, and three generations to produce bethoven or…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-29 20:58:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685394424975474688

    Reply addressees: @FarajRashi93307 @mysteriouskat

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685390254121881600

  • CULTURAL DIFFERENCES CAN BE SOLVED It’s easy to misunderstand my purpose when cr

    CULTURAL DIFFERENCES CAN BE SOLVED
    It’s easy to misunderstand my purpose when criticizing other cultures (I certainly criticize my own): it’s largely to point out that metaphysical (implied but unstated) cultural differences are anchored in ancient (very) group strategies, and that these differences produce different understandings of the world – so that cultures that deviate from the natural law are not aware that what they perceive as good (and might have been three to five thousand years ago) was only the best they could do, and were not good then and certainly not now.

    Do you think Yuval Harari has the intention to spread harm by his nonsense-history? Stephen J Gould in his denial of human differences? Freud and Boaz just ‘making it up’? Did Cantor, Bohr, and Einstein know that they were including pseudoscience? What about Ian McGilchrist trying to ‘fit’ Christianity into his neuro science? No. We all carry cultural logics with us and we are often both unconscious of them, and unconscious that these are arbitrary, and that there are alternatives. So we are stuck with them until trained out of them.

    Why? Because all logical consistency is eventually processed by our intuition. So we must train or re-train our intuition to correspond to the physical, natural, evolutionary, and formal laws. This is why some cultures produce no science, some pseudoscience, and some (very rarely) science.

    Because what is science other than testimony to consistency with the four sets of laws of nature?

    What if you’re wrong about the laws of nature? What if your culture is wrong about what’s ‘good’?

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-29 20:56:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685393793543966720

  • CULTURAL DIFFERENCES CAN BE SOLVED It’s easy to misunderstand my purpose when cr

    CULTURAL DIFFERENCES CAN BE SOLVED
    It’s easy to misunderstand my purpose when criticizing other cultures (I certainly criticize my own): it’s largely to point out that metaphysical (implied but unstated) cultural differences are anchored in ancient (very) group strategies, and that these differences produce different understandings of the world – so that cultures that deviate from the natural law are not aware that what they perceive as good (and might have been three to five thousand years ago) was only the best they could do, and no good then and certainly not now.

    Do you think Yuval Harari has the intention to spread harm by his nonsense-history? Stephen J Gould in his denial of human differences? Freud and Boaz just ‘making it up’? Did Cantor, Bohr, and Einstein know that they were including pseudoscience? What about Ian McGilchrist trying to ‘fit’ Christianity into his neuro science? No. We all carry cultural logics with us and we are often

    stuck with them until trained out of them.

    Why? Because all logical consistency is eventually processed by our intuition. So we must train or re-train our intuition to correspond to the physical, natural, evolutionary, and formal laws. This is why some cultures produce no science, some pseudoscience, and some (very rarely) science.

    Because what is science other than testimony to consistency with the four sets of laws of nature?

    What if you’re wrong about the laws of nature? What if your culture is wrong about what’s ‘good’?

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-29 20:56:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685391909957574656

  • Today’s One Topic Chat: European vs Semitic Metaphysics and how small difference

    Today’s One Topic Chat:
    European vs Semitic Metaphysics and how small differences, in large numbers, over long periods produce vast differences.
    Example: Semitic vs European Magic. Spells. Language as spells vs absence of spells. 😉
    Fascinating subject.
    https://youtu.be/ZBYF_Cpyj3g

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-29 20:36:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685388890641756161

  • Today’s One Topic Chat: European vs Semitic Metaphysics and how small difference

    Today’s One Topic Chat:
    European vs Semitic Metaphysics and how small differences, in large numbers, over long periods produce vast differences.
    Example: Semitic vs European Magic. Spells. Language as spells vs absence of spells. 😉
    Fascinating subject.
    https://t.co/vd0xPP9C4J

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-29 20:36:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685388890566180865

  • RT @TheMcMullan: @EVERALDATLARGE We built a modern civilisation that they were n

    RT @TheMcMullan: @EVERALDATLARGE We built a modern civilisation that they were never going to. The two options were, be dragged out of prim…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-28 20:37:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685026655704662016

  • RT @curtdoolittle: The Faustian Spirit: –“Thou shalt not rest or be content, no

    RT @curtdoolittle: The Faustian Spirit:

    –“Thou shalt not rest or be content, no matter what thy accomplishments. Thou must strive all the…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-27 15:58:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1684594121858506754

  • Thoughts – The Laws of Civilizational Organization and Adaptation

    Thoughts – The Laws of Civilizational Organization and Adaptation https://youtu.be/P0WpFm_zBw0

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-27 07:31:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1684466636672098306

  • RT @curtdoolittle: @BronzesolTiger @FischerKing64 “Q: Curt: “What does it mean f

    RT @curtdoolittle: @BronzesolTiger @FischerKing64 “Q: Curt: “What does it mean for the ‘Protestant Work Ethic’ that Mercedes and BMW both c…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-26 01:15:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1684009593096077313