Curt Doolittle

Theme: Deception

  • What Do You Think About People Who Withhold Information To Get Ahead?

    We all act in our interests at all times, given the balance between costs and benefits. There are many costs and benefits. Physical, emotional, intellectual, social, political, legal, material. We are exceptionally good at calculating those benefits and making use of them.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-people-who-withhold-information-to-get-ahead

  • Do You Know Of Any Shootings Committed By White People That Are Not Reported In The Main Stream Media?

    I ANSWER UNPLEASANT QUESTIONS AS TRUTHFULLY AS POSSIBLE

    You know, I answer controversial topics, because that’s my job, and I know the data. And so I’ve ended up being one of the people that counter-signals anti-everything.

    So I sort of get angry now when I get asked to respond to questions like this, only to have my posts redacted by someone *helping to preserve ignorance and deceit* under the guise of protecting people from uncomfortable truths. In other words, protecting their market for falsehoods from correction. Because that is what all of us do. We all seek information that confirms our priors, because our priors reflect our age, gender, class, ethnic, racial evolutionary strategies. And it would be against evolution’s interests for us to seek the truth, rather than whatever is in the interest of our reproductive strategy

    The main stream media tells stories that advance the postmodern (anti-aristocratic, meaning paternal, meaning anti-western, anti-meritocratic ) narrative. There are very good economic reasons for doing so. There are very good secular religious reasons for doing so.

    There are a lot of self defense shootings, perhaps daily, but they media doesn’t report it so that they aren’t seen as advancing the use of violence.

    Black on white hate crime is rarely reported. White on black hate crime is over-reported. The media tries to cast mass killers as conservative, yet as far as I know, all mass killers are liberals. The media tried to report that conservatives were less intelligent. This turns out to be an artifact of the population sizes, not reality. (There are a lot of self-identifying conservatives, and few self identifying liberals). For example, republicans are smarter than democrats, but liberals are smarter than conservatives. Libertarians are the smartest of all. THey’re just statistically insignificant.

    I would go into the reasons for this but that’s for another time.

    Research “False Consensus Bias”, and all the other social cognitive biases.

    1. The business (like Quora, FB, Google,), the media, academy(including schools) and the government produce ‘stories’ that sell. Not truths. BEcause they all have ‘customers’ to satisfy by ‘marketing’. And in exchange for producing that marketing, they obtain ‘power’. Economic power, academic power, and political power.
    2. There is a greater market for comforting falsehoods than uncomfortable truths.
    3. It is much cheaper to produce comforting falsehoods than produce uncomfortable truths.
    4. Cheap and comforting falsehoods spread faster than expensive and uncomfortable truths.
    5. It is (usually) prohibitively expensive to falsify (reverse) desirable falsehoods with undesirable truths.

    But for some of us, out of statistical consequence, uncomfortable truths are precisely what advance our reproductive strategies. And so we soldier onward, as does everyone else.

    And those of us who understand science, economics, and history are forever the victims of the many who understand none of them.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-know-of-any-shootings-committed-by-white-people-that-are-not-reported-in-the-main-stream-media

  • Is There Any Country In The Industrialized World That Has More Students (per Capita) Whose Parents Have Been In The Criminal Justice System As Does The Us?

    Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.

    The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.

    We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.

    And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).

    If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )

    These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US

  • Production, Distribution and consumption of desirable falsehoods is far cheaper

    Production, Distribution and consumption of desirable falsehoods is far cheaper

    Production, Distribution and consumption of desirable falsehoods is far cheaper than refuting them with undesirable truths. We want not truth, but discounts. #Trump #RevolutionComes https://t.co/jONwGS5SLu

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-13 17:31:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/940997730884882432

  • How do you like the shiny beads? #Trump #RevolutionComes

    How do you like the shiny beads? #Trump #RevolutionComes

    How do you like the shiny beads? #Trump #RevolutionComes https://t.co/HpTLimwSKb

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-13 17:28:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/940996738680348672

  • Dec 11, 2017, 2:06 AM

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/us-is-engulfed-in-the-most-corrupt-event-in-its-history-and-all-roads-lead-back-to-former-president-obama/Updated Dec 11, 2017, 2:06 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-11 02:06:00 UTC

  • Guest post by Joe Hoft While the mainstream media (MSM) focuses on the fake news

    Guest post by Joe Hoft While the mainstream media (MSM) focuses on the fake news Trump-Russia collusion farce, the US is engulfed in the most corrupt event in its history and all roads lead back to former President Obama. As a matter of fact, the fake Trump investigation is a major piece in the atte…

  • Guest post by Joe Hoft While the mainstream media (MSM) focuses on the fake news

    Guest post by Joe Hoft While the mainstream media (MSM) focuses on the fake news Trump-Russia collusion farce, the US is engulfed in the most corrupt event in its history and all roads lead back to former President Obama. As a matter of fact, the fake Trump investigation is a major piece in the atte…

  • via Michael Churchill Ken Wilber: Multiculturalism is highly evolved … but won

    via Michael Churchill Ken Wilber: Multiculturalism is highly evolved … but won’t admit it. Wilber has a fabulous breakdown of the ethical knots the left gets into by embracing multiculturalism as an end in itself. In Wilber’s model of human development, elite democrats are at a higher stage of evolution than garden-variety republicans. Generally speaking, the elite left sees that there are multiple valid perspectives, whereas the middle-brow right tends to focus on the Truth of just one perspective. The former is more evolved … BUT there is a huge caveat to this. Wilber makes his case eloquently on pages 171-173 of A Brief History of Everything: 1) ACHIEVING the multiculturalist worldview (i.e grasping the validity of diverse viewpoints and cultures) is a very rare, difficult and elite accomplishment. 2) While you yourself may have evolved from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and see that everyone deserves equal opportunity, few of the people you treat with your universalist consideration SHARE your universalism. They are not as evolved as you are — they are still egocentric or ethnocentric. You are extending universalist courtesy to people who absolutely won’t extend the same courtesy to you. This creates multiple contradictions for the multiculturalist: * The multiculturalist claims to be non-elite, but the mere capacity for worldcentric pluralism is a rare, elite accomplishment. (Only 10% of Americans have achieved it.) “So multiculturalism is a very elite stance that then claims it is not elitest.” * The multiculturalist confuses his highly evolved stance with the fact that getting to that high stance is a very rare and difficult accomplishment. * The multiculturalist claims we must treat all individuals and movements the same (no hierarchies) … and thus has no language to argue why some movements can or should be shunned. [In theory this leaves the multiculturalist in a position where he has to accept the KKK and Nazis as valid positions, but in reality he gets around this by claiming that only white supremacy is bad. Thus the ethnocentric movements of other races get a free pass.] At the core, the multiculturalist cannot allow for superior and inferior stances because he denies distinctions between stances altogether. Because the multiculturalist cannot defend the contradiction in this position, he is forced to become completely intolerant of anyone who disagrees. The result is censorship of dissenting opinions. “And so off we go with vicious intolerance in the name of tolerance, censorship in the name of compassion, with we-know-best thought police and mindless political correctness — with a bunch of elitists trying to outlaw everybody else’s elitisms … They have an elite stance that denies its own elitism — and they are lying about their actual identity. They have a false self system. And that is an identity crisis.” “The American universities have been hijacked by it. All that is doing is contributing to the retribalization of America.”

  • via Michael Churchill Ken Wilber: Multiculturalism is highly evolved … but won

    via Michael Churchill Ken Wilber: Multiculturalism is highly evolved … but won’t admit it. Wilber has a fabulous breakdown of the ethical knots the left gets into by embracing multiculturalism as an end in itself. In Wilber’s model of human development, elite democrats are at a higher stage of evolution than garden-variety republicans. Generally speaking, the elite left sees that there are multiple valid perspectives, whereas the middle-brow right tends to focus on the Truth of just one perspective. The former is more evolved … BUT there is a huge caveat to this. Wilber makes his case eloquently on pages 171-173 of A Brief History of Everything: 1) ACHIEVING the multiculturalist worldview (i.e grasping the validity of diverse viewpoints and cultures) is a very rare, difficult and elite accomplishment. 2) While you yourself may have evolved from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and see that everyone deserves equal opportunity, few of the people you treat with your universalist consideration SHARE your universalism. They are not as evolved as you are — they are still egocentric or ethnocentric. You are extending universalist courtesy to people who absolutely won’t extend the same courtesy to you. This creates multiple contradictions for the multiculturalist: * The multiculturalist claims to be non-elite, but the mere capacity for worldcentric pluralism is a rare, elite accomplishment. (Only 10% of Americans have achieved it.) “So multiculturalism is a very elite stance that then claims it is not elitest.” * The multiculturalist confuses his highly evolved stance with the fact that getting to that high stance is a very rare and difficult accomplishment. * The multiculturalist claims we must treat all individuals and movements the same (no hierarchies) … and thus has no language to argue why some movements can or should be shunned. [In theory this leaves the multiculturalist in a position where he has to accept the KKK and Nazis as valid positions, but in reality he gets around this by claiming that only white supremacy is bad. Thus the ethnocentric movements of other races get a free pass.] At the core, the multiculturalist cannot allow for superior and inferior stances because he denies distinctions between stances altogether. Because the multiculturalist cannot defend the contradiction in this position, he is forced to become completely intolerant of anyone who disagrees. The result is censorship of dissenting opinions. “And so off we go with vicious intolerance in the name of tolerance, censorship in the name of compassion, with we-know-best thought police and mindless political correctness — with a bunch of elitists trying to outlaw everybody else’s elitisms … They have an elite stance that denies its own elitism — and they are lying about their actual identity. They have a false self system. And that is an identity crisis.” “The American universities have been hijacked by it. All that is doing is contributing to the retribalization of America.”