Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • FOLLOWERS: STEP IN. (For long time followers: Actually, it is extremely importan

    FOLLOWERS: STEP IN.

    (For long time followers: Actually, it is extremely important to me that you (and others) take over arguments. (a) it makes us a stronger brand, (b) it builds your skills, and (c) it distributes the cost of our communication campaign. So don’t feel timid about stepping in. And don’t feel timid if I supply additional info. Most of the time you will basically help filter and educate, and if you get a real thinker like you are (it’s rare) that’s a better use of my time. only advice is: rely on propertarianism, not some bastardization of it. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 12:25:00 UTC

  • The contract of the initiatic brotherhood of warriors. Heroism: the redirection

    The contract of the initiatic brotherhood of warriors. Heroism: the redirection of violence to the production of commons. The militia for the defense of the commons. Small, skilled, numbers, Advanced Technology, and Maneuver Warfare – keeping enemies at a distance. The common law of sovereign men (natural law), and the Jury. All of which require reporting: testimonial truth: empirical, observable, description, of existential events.

    That is the origin of the west and its difference from the rest. Everything that is unique and superior in the west derives from that sequence of dependencies. And the slow manufacture of agency, and then sovereignty, through demonstration of agency, in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of polities, and production of justice and defense.

    Everything else is the church, state, academy taking credit for what is the product of truth, contract, and trade among men who personally insure themselves and one another against any alternative other than trade.

    The church is a disicipline of liars. The west evolved differently from the rest in spite of the lies of the church, by preserving the aristocratic religion of western man.

    heroism, militia, meritocracy, sovereignty, truth, and jury.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 10:17:00 UTC

  • contractualism existed at before christianty, and its origin is in the intiatic

    contractualism existed at before christianty, and its origin is in the intiatic brotherhood of warriors. That takes us back at least to the Yamna.

    Maneuver warfare (raiding) > the oath > contractualism > heroism/sovereignty > common law/jury > ….

    Christianity takes credit but it is rarely if ever a cause. The church used a monopoly on literacy, and enforced superstition, to assist in administration of impoverished people after the collapse, after the romans had destroyed celtic civilization.

    The Jews did nothing despite being the most literate people in europe. The church imprisoned people in ignorance by preserving a monopoly on literacy. The church like the jews allied with the state to suppress the people.

    It was literacy – the breaking of the church monopoly on literacy – the empiricism of the common and roman law – and the restoration of greek knowledge that led the west out of ignorance imposed by the east upon the west.

    Because literacy restored sovereignty to the mind, to western man, to his polity, and his achievements.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 10:06:00 UTC

  • Differences: Epistemology and Human Reason

    EPISTEMOLOGY AND HUMAN REASON –“the question for me is what role does epistemology play in the desire for cooperation over reason?”—- To frame this question a bit better: Epistemology refers to that discipline in which we attempt to understand the means by which we eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, and therefore produce what we call knowledge: that which improves our agency (ability to act). There is however only one method of obtaining knowledge: 0) investigation (observation) 1) experience (perception) 2) free association (identity) 3) wayfinding (hypothesis) (or possibility) 4) criticism (theory) 5) survival in the market for its use (law) 6) integration (adoption into ‘metaphysical’ assumptions) It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about a scientific theory, an engineering problem, a method of production, taking a product to market, the affect of policy on capital at different points in time, or the exploration of various mathematical relations at increasingly complex causal densities. Most of our work has been in epistemology has been in the identification of methods of criticism (measurement) both instrumental(tools) and mental (logical). Most of my work has been in formalizing this process by completing the program that the philosophers of science in the 20th century failed to. Humans don’t practice epistemology. Humans simply do the only thing possible: stumble upon an idea through free association, and then incrementally remove their ignorance until it fails, or … is at least sufficient to obtain what it is that they seek. Now to answer this question … –“the question for me is what role does epistemology play in the desire for cooperation over reason?”—- I am not sure what you are asking. My understanding is that people act rationally with the information available given their agency (abilities), the demand, risk and reward before them. GIven that it is very hard to circumvent punishment by other humans for free riding, parasitism, predation, and extermination – and given the extraordinary returns on cooperation at least over time, what we see is that unless there is a windfall available (you gain enough that no future cooperation can do better than the act of immorality) people tend to favor cooperation in almost all circumstances. This does not apply for people who have been subject to trauma , the victims of genetic defect, developmental disorders, or brain damage. And this looks like ‘the evil 3%’ of the ‘white’ population. But as a general rule, excepting outliers, then yes.

  • Differences: Epistemology and Human Reason

    EPISTEMOLOGY AND HUMAN REASON –“the question for me is what role does epistemology play in the desire for cooperation over reason?”—- To frame this question a bit better: Epistemology refers to that discipline in which we attempt to understand the means by which we eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, and therefore produce what we call knowledge: that which improves our agency (ability to act). There is however only one method of obtaining knowledge: 0) investigation (observation) 1) experience (perception) 2) free association (identity) 3) wayfinding (hypothesis) (or possibility) 4) criticism (theory) 5) survival in the market for its use (law) 6) integration (adoption into ‘metaphysical’ assumptions) It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about a scientific theory, an engineering problem, a method of production, taking a product to market, the affect of policy on capital at different points in time, or the exploration of various mathematical relations at increasingly complex causal densities. Most of our work has been in epistemology has been in the identification of methods of criticism (measurement) both instrumental(tools) and mental (logical). Most of my work has been in formalizing this process by completing the program that the philosophers of science in the 20th century failed to. Humans don’t practice epistemology. Humans simply do the only thing possible: stumble upon an idea through free association, and then incrementally remove their ignorance until it fails, or … is at least sufficient to obtain what it is that they seek. Now to answer this question … –“the question for me is what role does epistemology play in the desire for cooperation over reason?”—- I am not sure what you are asking. My understanding is that people act rationally with the information available given their agency (abilities), the demand, risk and reward before them. GIven that it is very hard to circumvent punishment by other humans for free riding, parasitism, predation, and extermination – and given the extraordinary returns on cooperation at least over time, what we see is that unless there is a windfall available (you gain enough that no future cooperation can do better than the act of immorality) people tend to favor cooperation in almost all circumstances. This does not apply for people who have been subject to trauma , the victims of genetic defect, developmental disorders, or brain damage. And this looks like ‘the evil 3%’ of the ‘white’ population. But as a general rule, excepting outliers, then yes.

  • Pursuit of Happiness In Social Orders

    HAPPINESS IN SOCIAL ORDERS Humans in general, are generally happy if they are working to produce gains, not to forestall losses. It does not take a great deal of income to do that. Most of what we spend is on status signaling to ourselves and others. Food, clothing, shelter, heat, water, electricity, appliances, air conditioning, children, family, friends. But we need be insulated from ‘the evil people’ who are unsatisfied with such – so we pay heavily to keep away from them. We pay even more heavily to be with people who are better than us, that we can learn from, and gain from the opportunities of proximity. If you truncate your lower classes, occupy your mischievous young males with physical labor in support of the commons, occupy your young women with children, and invest heavily in commons, most of us will be able to live very well, and the few that make our living-well possible will live far above us in signals – as they should. We have economics all wrong. We need multiple economies both martial(slave), public works (underclass), syndicalism(labor), and capitalism( middle, upper middle, and upper) And we do not need this hamster wheel of continuous consumption. We need only eradicate immigration except for the very best of the upper classes, eradicate through constraint on reproduction the lower classes, and eradicate the ability for non-kin to compete with us for control over the production of commons, and the status signals that are the reward for assisting in the production of those commons. Unfortunately we have not learned to constrain the impulses of women to satisfy the need to give (free endorphins for redistributing the production of others), and we have not learned to constrain the impulses of all (as did the communists) to satisfy the need to feel ‘above’ someone, or that they are not the low rung on the ladder, (free endorphins for false status signals), or the need to demonstrate status through conspicuous consumption (endorphins for possessing that which others do not), or the need to virtue signal (free endorphins for empty talk or gossip). Other societies, including ours, in much of our history, have suppressed unearned signals as a form of theft. It seems like this more than anything, combined with democracy that let it loose, has been the reason we are not happy. The hamster wheel of consumption is merely selling us the curse of Sisyphus by the promise of a utopia, the same way a drug dealer sells drugs, a fast food chain sells sugars and fats, a dietary supplement manufacturer sells ‘vitamins’ an advertiser sells status, a politician sells socialism or communism, or priest and his prophet sells life after death or some number of virgins. They’re all lies. Happiness is simple. Working to produce gains, not to forestall losses. And we can only forestall losses if we have the inventory that is sufficient to live off our gains.

  • Pursuit of Happiness In Social Orders

    HAPPINESS IN SOCIAL ORDERS Humans in general, are generally happy if they are working to produce gains, not to forestall losses. It does not take a great deal of income to do that. Most of what we spend is on status signaling to ourselves and others. Food, clothing, shelter, heat, water, electricity, appliances, air conditioning, children, family, friends. But we need be insulated from ‘the evil people’ who are unsatisfied with such – so we pay heavily to keep away from them. We pay even more heavily to be with people who are better than us, that we can learn from, and gain from the opportunities of proximity. If you truncate your lower classes, occupy your mischievous young males with physical labor in support of the commons, occupy your young women with children, and invest heavily in commons, most of us will be able to live very well, and the few that make our living-well possible will live far above us in signals – as they should. We have economics all wrong. We need multiple economies both martial(slave), public works (underclass), syndicalism(labor), and capitalism( middle, upper middle, and upper) And we do not need this hamster wheel of continuous consumption. We need only eradicate immigration except for the very best of the upper classes, eradicate through constraint on reproduction the lower classes, and eradicate the ability for non-kin to compete with us for control over the production of commons, and the status signals that are the reward for assisting in the production of those commons. Unfortunately we have not learned to constrain the impulses of women to satisfy the need to give (free endorphins for redistributing the production of others), and we have not learned to constrain the impulses of all (as did the communists) to satisfy the need to feel ‘above’ someone, or that they are not the low rung on the ladder, (free endorphins for false status signals), or the need to demonstrate status through conspicuous consumption (endorphins for possessing that which others do not), or the need to virtue signal (free endorphins for empty talk or gossip). Other societies, including ours, in much of our history, have suppressed unearned signals as a form of theft. It seems like this more than anything, combined with democracy that let it loose, has been the reason we are not happy. The hamster wheel of consumption is merely selling us the curse of Sisyphus by the promise of a utopia, the same way a drug dealer sells drugs, a fast food chain sells sugars and fats, a dietary supplement manufacturer sells ‘vitamins’ an advertiser sells status, a politician sells socialism or communism, or priest and his prophet sells life after death or some number of virgins. They’re all lies. Happiness is simple. Working to produce gains, not to forestall losses. And we can only forestall losses if we have the inventory that is sufficient to live off our gains.

  • #Trump REPEAT: We have, for the first time, the grassroots organization of media

    #Trump REPEAT: We have, for the first time, the grassroots organization of media equal to that of the left. USE IT. USE THE BASE.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 13:25:00 UTC

  • ***Love thyself, love thy kin, then thy neighbor, then mankind. Because it is th

    ***Love thyself, love thy kin, then thy neighbor, then mankind.

    Because it is through this love we redistribute and bear the costs of persistence, and through constraint of our own against the parasitism upon others that we bear the costs of transcendence.***

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 12:05:00 UTC

  • I support universal nationalism, tribalism, and familialism, so that families, t

    I support universal nationalism, tribalism, and familialism, so that families, tribes and nations can produce the commons that are most helpful to their families tribes and nations.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 11:32:00 UTC