Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • REQUIREMENTS OF A RELIGION – TRANSFER NOT STASIS —“How do we sacralize (keep s

    REQUIREMENTS OF A RELIGION – TRANSFER NOT STASIS

    —“How do we sacralize (keep static) our value system, outside of religion? Christianity was the container, and will be again. We can modify which values are contained in it, but we need :

    1. A value system

    2. A way to transmit it to all classes (myth, feasts, spectacles)

    3. A way to keep the value system static (canonized)(burning heretics at the stake)

    Its obvious to me that this requires a monopoly institution. The only market for choosing between the monopolies is war. There can be no market for a sacralized value system. We allowed that and we got modernism.”—Bill Anderson

    SINCE WHEN IS STASIS A GOOD THING?

    it may be obvious to you but looking around the world (a) our value system isn’t from the church its from the having a commercial middle class, education, and the law, (b) man has discovered just about every imaginable way of training us into mindfulness. (c) we train with fairy tales, historical novels, bibliographies, histories, and the sciences.

    We have been through many waves of conquest by truth (reason) using deflationary grammars and conquest by lies (religion) using inflationary and conflationary grammars.

    Deflationary we innovate and prosper, conflationary we stagnate and suffer.

    So it doesn’t really matter what you intuit, because you are infected by the disease so to speak. Falsify those ideas by searching the world and you will find through the comparison of civilizations (japan being my favorite example in belonging, and switzerland being my favorite example in civic order).

    Your ideas cannot survive falsification. They can’t. Assuming one has intellectual honesty.

    Myth(commensurability on strategy), Ritual(mindfulness), Feast(calm belonging), Festival(excited belonging) and Markets (daily cooperation) work. They do. There is no evidence people need lies, they need commensurability so that they can cooperate with the least fear and doubt and insecurty, and the greatest optimism and trust.

    Conversely, primitive peoples were forced to compete with much more advanced peoples but they lacked commensurability due to tribalism, and lacked commerce due to primitivism. It’s not complicated. The problem is STATIC MEANS DEAD. And so it’s not that we must be static via positiva, but that we must be static VIA NEGATIVA (law).

    The very quest for the static as commensurability via positiva vs the dynamic as commensurability via negativa is the reason abrahamism was so stagnating under judaism, stagnating under christianity, and stagnating destructive and devolutinary under islam.

    Be careful what you value, for what you value may be simply ‘taking it easy’ such that you stagnate and devolve.

    THE RED QUEEN NEVER STOPS.

    Abrahamic religions, or any static religion, lets the red queen win.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-08 10:39:00 UTC

  • You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide b

    You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide behind authoritarian religions is so that they don’t have to negotiate with other people on existential terms. In other words, it’s a form of isolation despite public appearances.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 21:07:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993598309523771393

  • RELIGIOSITY AS A MASK You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principl

    RELIGIOSITY AS A MASK

    You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide behind authoritarian religions is so that they don’t have to negotiate with other people on existential terms. In other words, it’s a form of isolation despite public appearances.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 17:07:00 UTC

  • “Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.” Now

    “Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.”

    Now to balance this anti-abrahamism out the truth is that you will be happier serving the interests of others than any other pursuit in life. It’s just true. Sorry. There are very few of us who are wired oddly enough to live happily alone without succumbing to it.

    Random acts of kindness. Deliberate acts of charity (service). Resistance of the political. Deliberate contribution to kin.

    These are the things that will make you happy.

    But do not ask for acknowledgement in return.

    That is the the dark side of charity.

    It isn’t charity if you want appreciation.

    It comes with time.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 16:36:00 UTC

  • Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.

    —“Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.”—

  • Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.

    —“Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.”—

  • “An Unchristian Strategy”

    by Ely Harman 1) Eradication of the hatable or hateful from human societies. 2) The extension of kinship love only as far as distant kin with concentric circles of decreasing trust outside of that. 3) Tit for tat (reciprocity) with forgiveness (to break cycles of recrimination) unless we’ve had enough of forgiving someone in particular.

  • “An Unchristian Strategy”

    by Ely Harman 1) Eradication of the hatable or hateful from human societies. 2) The extension of kinship love only as far as distant kin with concentric circles of decreasing trust outside of that. 3) Tit for tat (reciprocity) with forgiveness (to break cycles of recrimination) unless we’ve had enough of forgiving someone in particular.

  • “An Unchristian Strategy” by Ely Harman 1) Eradication of the hatable or hateful

    “An Unchristian Strategy”

    by Ely Harman

    1) Eradication of the hatable or hateful from human societies.

    2) The extension of kinship love only as far as distant kin with concentric circles of decreasing trust outside of that.

    3) Tit for tat (reciprocity) with forgiveness (to break cycles of recrimination) unless we’ve had enough of forgiving someone in particular.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 11:12:00 UTC

  • “Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social

    —“Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 10:40:00 UTC