Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

  • INTERESTING: WHICH MOVIES? Just as there is a difference betwen fiction and lite

    INTERESTING: WHICH MOVIES?
    Just as there is a difference betwen fiction and literature, there is a difference between a good movie – entertaining and interesting, and a good mythology – deep and meaningful across time. Or what those of us in the last generation educated in the high arts call ‘high art’: mythology.

    And, I can’t really identify many.

    Certainly:
    2001 (new divinity, infinity)
    Blade Runner (life)
    Its a Wonderful Life (moral choice)
    Gone With The Wind (love amidst chaos)
    The Godfather (loyalty)
    Lawrence of Arabia (grand heroism)
    (ie: long time preference)

    And Maybe:
    Gladiator / Kingdom of Heaven (honor)
    Count of Monte Christo (dedication over time)
    Dances with Wolves (simplicity)
    Apocalypse Now / Saving Private Ryan / Full Metal Jacket / Platoon (war)
    No Country for Old Men (evil, the devil, temptation)
    (ie: aristocracy)

    And Not:
    I’ve come to understand the ‘mythology’ of 20th century literature, perhapse going back as far as Dickens, is largely the work of seditions by sympathizers with communism and socialism in their hatred of modernity – and not a contribution to western literary history. Just as the woke movement has destroyed western myth, literature, and entertainment since 2009. So while I want to recommend many other films, such as Citizen Kane as a work of cinematic innovation – thats all those otherwise great works might be.

    As in many things, this is a class thing. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 01:06:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639433645994680324

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639401219281281024

  • RT @whatifalthist: Previous societies were able to experience far greater physic

    RT @whatifalthist: Previous societies were able to experience far greater physical hardship than ours while ours is breaking down since the…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 00:24:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639422852351905793

  • THE AMERICAN POSTWAR STRATEGY: FREE TRADE (the end of empires and colonies, and

    THE AMERICAN POSTWAR STRATEGY: FREE TRADE
    (the end of empires and colonies, and reason for world wars)
    Please watch this so that I don’t have to explain it twenty times a day to an american especially, but world public ignorant of who made the modern world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgsHI6sW9Q…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-25 00:21:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639422326126067713

  • RT @dr_duchesne: Whereas other races remained in a state of lethargy in the same

    RT @dr_duchesne: Whereas other races remained in a state of lethargy in the same place, Whites built nations across all the continents of t…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 23:04:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639402921426055170

  • I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the y

    I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the younger fellows the digital sphere is more interesting. But you can’t really understand the world through that rather hopeful lens alone.
    Please follow:
    @VelenskiMeir for short, quick, accurate daily updates.
    @MaxStoic at @Stoic_Media for longer, deeper, and more ‘critical’ form – that probably aligns with your intuitions.
    @nobody: I don’t really recommend any of the few people who do deep dives on the financial sector, because most of it’s hype, or noise, not signal. (I watch them anyway but it’s not that important).
    @PeterZeihan for daily updates on the end of the american global free trade order and its intersection with population collapse from over-incorporation of women into the workforce at the expense of children. 😉
    @EconomicsEx for deep dives on understanding economics.
    @CaspianReport for geostrategic takes – absent western bias.
    @WhatifAltHist for historical context – you really can’t understand my work without at least the general knowledge he provides – for free.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:54:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639279566962188288

  • I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the y

    I know my audience has a libertarian and conservative bent, and that among the younger fellows the digital sphere is more interesting. But you can’t really understand the world through that rather hopeful lens alone.
    Please follow:
    @VelenskiMeir for short, quick, accurate daily updates.
    @MaxStoic at @Stoic_Media for longer, deeper, and more ‘critical’ form – that probably aligns with your intuitions.
    @nobody: I don’t really recommend any of the few people who do deep dives on the financial sector, because most of it’s hype, or noise, not signal. (I watch them anyway but it’s not that important).
    @PeterZeihan for daily updates on the end of the american global free trade order and its intersection with population collapse from over-incorporation of women into the workforce at the expense of children. 😉
    @EconomicsEx for deep dives on understanding economics.
    @CaspianReport for geostrategic takes – absent western bias.
    @WhatifAltHist for historical context – you really can’t understand my work without at least the general knowledge he provides – for free.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:54:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639279567155130370

  • Rudyard Lynch of @Whatifalthist fame is an intuitive thinker. Last night I got a

    Rudyard Lynch of @Whatifalthist fame is an intuitive thinker. Last night I got a chance to discuss a bit of how he works through understanding different civilizations. I wanted that insight, because there is an implicity moral frame he presumes when he discusses history – and I wanted to understand it.

    And, it’s an intersection of analytic and empathic. He has such a grasp of history, geography, and environmental conditions, that he can step into the shoes of almost any people in any culture in all of history and deeply empathize with their human feelings, wants, needs, and perspective on the world – as if he’s there with them.

    And this is why he seems so balanced in his judgements, empathic in his understanding, and positive about mankind in general – he can see the ‘good’ in just about everything. And ‘reasonablness’ in how humans consistently approache the uncertain world we evovled in. man feelings, wants, needs, and perspective on the world – as if he’s there with them.

    So it’s not just that he’s smart, not just that he’s mastered history, not just that he learned and TESTED theories of history partly through adversarial competition in historical strategy games, and by proposing alternate histories. But because he empathizes with people. And that’s because he’s fundamentally a very good human being down to his core.

    And that’s what we see in his work.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:35:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639274851209715714

  • Rudyard Lynch of @Whatifalthist fame is an intuitive thinker. Last night I got a

    Rudyard Lynch of @Whatifalthist fame is an intuitive thinker. Last night I got a chance to discuss a bit of how he works through understanding different civilizations. I wanted that insight, because there is an implicity moral frame he presumes when he discusses history – and I wanted to understand it.

    And, it’s an intersection of analytic and empathic. He has such a grasp of history, geography, and environmental conditions, that he can step into the shoes of almost any people in any culture in all of history and deeply empathize with their human feelings, wants, needs, and perspective on the world – as if he’s there with them.

    And this is why he seems so balanced in his judgements, empathic in his understanding, and positive about mankind in general – he can see the ‘good’ in just about everything. And ‘reasonablness’ in how humans consistently approache the uncertain world we evovled in. man feelings, wants, needs, and perspective on the world – as if he’s there with them.

    So it’s not just that he’s smart, not just that he’s mastered history, not just that he learned and TESTED theories of history partly through adversarial competition in historical strategy games, and by proposing alternate histories. But because he empathizes with people. And that’s because he’s fundamentally a very good human being down to his core.

    And that’s what we see in his work.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 14:35:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639274851390173184

  • The only solution is fighting. Yes. But then the ‘global elite’ are on their las

    The only solution is fighting. Yes. But then the ‘global elite’ are on their last legs. And we are returning to normal with civilizational and perhaps just national elites. Americans won’t and probably can’t maintain the free trade system they created that raised the world out of…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 11:08:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639222736781209600

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639221909362491398

  • ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPS OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLES I can’t remember where I saw these maps p

    ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPS OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLES
    I can’t remember where I saw these maps posted across Ukraine – I think it was in government buildings and maybe in hotels. This is a map of the 1919 borders of Ukraine. But the one that shows where Ukraine was spoken goes even further… https://t.co/6hB6OMVuyN

    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-24 01:10:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639072205186162690