Curt Doolittle

Theme: Deception

  • Dissent in Russia: Putin’s Propaganda Machine (video)

    https://news.vice.com/video/silencing-dissent-in-russia-putins-propaganda-machine-full-length?utm_source=vicenewstwitterSilencing Dissent in Russia: Putin’s Propaganda Machine

    (video)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-02 05:58:00 UTC

  • IS A WESTERN PECULIARISM. ASIANS USE DECEIT. MIDDLE EASTERNERS USE DENIAL

    http://romaninukraine.com/175-year-old-account-of-russians-being-proud-of-lying/TRUTH IS A WESTERN PECULIARISM. ASIANS USE DECEIT. MIDDLE EASTERNERS USE DENIAL.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-27 13:01:00 UTC

  • Bayer: What drives Russian propagandists

    http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/alexei-bayer-what-drives-russian-propagandists-387173.html?utm_campaign=traqli&utm_source=traqli&utm_medium=traqli&source=traqliAlexei Bayer: What drives Russian propagandists

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-27 08:53:00 UTC

  • (While the USA may not be helping ukraine ENOUGH, any impression that the USA is

    (While the USA may not be helping ukraine ENOUGH, any impression that the USA is not helping Ukraine at all, is falsified by the absurd number of young, fit, extremely muscular men in fatigue pants ordering beef at local restaurants talking about their travel plans to and from US military bases. Made a little more obvious by the few nerdy older guys running around with DOD secret stickers on laptops. And made even more obvious by their ignorance.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-24 05:40:00 UTC

  • EVIL IS NOT STUPID (movies) The Butcher (2014) is a pretty good innovation on Se

    EVIL IS NOT STUPID

    (movies)

    The Butcher (2014) is a pretty good innovation on Seven. Pretty impressed. Hadn’t seen it. Just got it over here where the only way to see English movies is by downloading them.

    I had this discussion with Steven J. Woron back in the early 80’s, I think, when he was working on a script. And of course, I hadn’t grown up in comic-culture so I didn’t understand Steve’s mythos. I grew up in a world where evil was a real thing I had to deal with: stronger, smarter, faster and more powerful in every respect.

    And as I read it I kept saying to myself that “evil isn’t stupid and brutal”. Just the opposite. Any evil to be feared is cunning. And you can see that in the economic failure of scripts that don’t follow that, and the overwhelming success of scripts where evil humiliates us with its genius. The great villains are not stupid, they are brilliant.

    I always think it is a childish disservice, and completely counter to the western mythological tradition, to position villains as impulsive brutes with childlike self interest. I can’t really ever enjoy pop villains brought to screen for this reason. They are paper maché masks worn by bunny rabbits, at a victorian costume party.

    The western aristocratic tradition is quite simple: be wary of hubris, for there are gods. They are evil. And that are cunning.

    There is evil in the world and it is not defeated by deus ex machina. It is not defeated my supermen. It is defeated by the swallowing of terror by men of courage; the use of their wit; and the bearing of great costs, at great personal risk, to defeat it, for the common good.

    The devil is not obvious. There is more evil in as mundane a criminal as Nancy Pelosi than in all the demons of literature. There is more brutality in a Barak Obama’s creation of a power vacuum that can only be filled by world war. There is more immorality in a Google algorithm to suppress dissent than in the arguments of any violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 08:50:00 UTC

  • NO HE DIDN”T LIE. NOT HIS CHARACTER. BUT WHAT DOES THAT TELL US? This frustrates

    NO HE DIDN”T LIE. NOT HIS CHARACTER. BUT WHAT DOES THAT TELL US?

    This frustrates the heck out of me. I know these people. There is no way these people lied. They believed it, just as surely as you believe what you know very little about but are threatened by, and assume you understand. Based upon Iraqi propaganda meant to intimidate the Iranians, based upon fragmentary information, based upon limited on-the-ground intel, and self-interested informants, both historical evidence, rational motives, limited intel, and informants agreed. These are normal conservatives, with high sensitivity to threats, interpreting information within their own system of cognitive biases. They are moral men who were tragically mistaken, and worse, misunderstood the culture they were dealing with: lying, deception, fraud, boisterous nonsensical empty words of a competing tribal people. Caught with a catastrophic error they justified it to themselves and us. What we have since learned is that much of the world is not ready for democracy, and in fact, democracy as we know it, may be a temporary luxury unique to western people in periods of extraordinary prosperity that occur only once every millennium.

    Does Nancy Pelosi believe her daily lies? I suspect she does in her own twisted way. Does Barak Obama understand that in his effort to reverse US interference in the world, that he is creating the power vacuum that world wars and falls of civilisations are caused by? I think not. We are all fools, constantly the subject of the pretense of knowledge, the pretense of understanding, fitfully trying to justify our priors.

    Of course people had to lie if they made such a ridiculous mistake. But then, everyone who calls them a liar makes the same mistake: propositions made in ignorance in light of hindsight.

    Bush may have been many things, but dishonesty is not part of his character. He believes with full and certain faith that history will vindicate him. I suspect he errs. He errs in that there was any possible solution except punishment. Correction and modernization were beyond our abilities, because they were beyond Muslim capabilities.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-22 07:19:00 UTC

  • THE REFORMATION SIGNPOST: – NO ANGLO EQUALITARIANISM WANTED – NO GERMAN JUSTIFIC

    THE REFORMATION SIGNPOST:

    – NO ANGLO EQUALITARIANISM WANTED

    – NO GERMAN JUSTIFICATIONISM WANTED

    – NO JEWISH OBSCURANTISM WANTED

    WE ONLY PRACTICE TRUTH TELLING HERE

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-22 04:16:00 UTC

  • Against The Boomer-Academy’s Sale of Indulgences – A Charter for The New Reformation

    (good arguments for your use.)

    Myths About Attending College Debunked
    [C]hristopher, This self-serving post is disingenuous at best. As far as we know, right now, students learn almost nothing in university that is used in life. University largely performs a filtering and indoctrination service. So students are filtered out of the workforce by extremely expensive procedural gymnastics. They are not taught anything that helps them in the workforce. They are only taught the work discipline that was not provided to them in public k-12. We can test this argument fairly easily by employment and productivity comparisons of other northern European education systems and ours – which expensively educate far fewer, but impose far greater discipline in k-12. The empirical and honest analysis, which has been provided by economists for years now, is to (a) perform output rankings of colleges by the performance of students, giving no weight to capital resources, (b) to measure how much of the revenue capture is devoted to undergraduates and teaching professors, versus how much of the revenue is spent on dead weight (administration), profiteering (the physical plant and endowment), and graduate programs (profiteering). (c) how much retention there is of the freshman class through graduation(test of honesty rather than entrapment). (d) how much is diverted for publicity and status purposes (sports). The empirical test of education is this: If (1)overhead was capped at 15%, and (2) all but an additional 10% was required to stay within the departments that performed the teaching, and (3) if teaching and research departments were separated, and (4) if graduate programs had to be self-funding, and (5) if universities were only able to collect a percentage of income from their graduates for a period of 30 years, and so if graduates could not earn, then universities could not collect income, then what would universities teach, and how would they teach instead? That is the reform that is required. As far as we know, educational institutions since at least 1963 have provided a means of privatizing public wealth that parents could have saved for their retirements, and we have now a generation about to retire that has been sold a defective product without warranty, at the expense of their retirements, for no marginal increase in the employability of their offspring. This is era has been one of the most massive misappropriations of public wealth in western history – equal to that of the church’s selling of indulgences, and the reason for the protestant reformation against the church. The military industrial complex at very least, is a net break even for Americans because of the petro-dollar, and the regulatory capture we impose on world politics, finance and trade. But the academy literally sells indulgences: fraudulent, underperforming products without warranty, insulated from claims against warranty by the state, and the outcome of which produce seriously damaging externalities for our economy, culture, and civilization. Those are the facts. The boomer-generation’s Academy has not only been a bastion of pseudoscience in the social sciences, instituted a permanent degradation of the western canon, and has been a bastion of financial privatization on a scale we have not seen since the late middle ages. We should note that all of the sources you quote are paid interests, and that none of the sources you list are independent economists specializing in education, nor advocates of education reform. We are conservatives. We are supposed to be the people that tell the truth. Postmodern deceits, pseudoscience, statistical deception, propagandism, and reality-by-chanting are tactics of, and mastered by, the left. There is no room in conservatism (aristocracy) for foolery and deceit. Civilization is too important a craft to be left to the foolish and corrupt. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Against The Boomer-Academy’s Sale of Indulgences – A Charter for The New Reformation

    (good arguments for your use.)

    Myths About Attending College Debunked
    [C]hristopher, This self-serving post is disingenuous at best. As far as we know, right now, students learn almost nothing in university that is used in life. University largely performs a filtering and indoctrination service. So students are filtered out of the workforce by extremely expensive procedural gymnastics. They are not taught anything that helps them in the workforce. They are only taught the work discipline that was not provided to them in public k-12. We can test this argument fairly easily by employment and productivity comparisons of other northern European education systems and ours – which expensively educate far fewer, but impose far greater discipline in k-12. The empirical and honest analysis, which has been provided by economists for years now, is to (a) perform output rankings of colleges by the performance of students, giving no weight to capital resources, (b) to measure how much of the revenue capture is devoted to undergraduates and teaching professors, versus how much of the revenue is spent on dead weight (administration), profiteering (the physical plant and endowment), and graduate programs (profiteering). (c) how much retention there is of the freshman class through graduation(test of honesty rather than entrapment). (d) how much is diverted for publicity and status purposes (sports). The empirical test of education is this: If (1)overhead was capped at 15%, and (2) all but an additional 10% was required to stay within the departments that performed the teaching, and (3) if teaching and research departments were separated, and (4) if graduate programs had to be self-funding, and (5) if universities were only able to collect a percentage of income from their graduates for a period of 30 years, and so if graduates could not earn, then universities could not collect income, then what would universities teach, and how would they teach instead? That is the reform that is required. As far as we know, educational institutions since at least 1963 have provided a means of privatizing public wealth that parents could have saved for their retirements, and we have now a generation about to retire that has been sold a defective product without warranty, at the expense of their retirements, for no marginal increase in the employability of their offspring. This is era has been one of the most massive misappropriations of public wealth in western history – equal to that of the church’s selling of indulgences, and the reason for the protestant reformation against the church. The military industrial complex at very least, is a net break even for Americans because of the petro-dollar, and the regulatory capture we impose on world politics, finance and trade. But the academy literally sells indulgences: fraudulent, underperforming products without warranty, insulated from claims against warranty by the state, and the outcome of which produce seriously damaging externalities for our economy, culture, and civilization. Those are the facts. The boomer-generation’s Academy has not only been a bastion of pseudoscience in the social sciences, instituted a permanent degradation of the western canon, and has been a bastion of financial privatization on a scale we have not seen since the late middle ages. We should note that all of the sources you quote are paid interests, and that none of the sources you list are independent economists specializing in education, nor advocates of education reform. We are conservatives. We are supposed to be the people that tell the truth. Postmodern deceits, pseudoscience, statistical deception, propagandism, and reality-by-chanting are tactics of, and mastered by, the left. There is no room in conservatism (aristocracy) for foolery and deceit. Civilization is too important a craft to be left to the foolish and corrupt. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • “A further problem is that a person recognizing a lie perceives no personal cost

    —“A further problem is that a person recognizing a lie perceives no personal cost as a consequence – after all he was not a victim of deception. He who is deceived also perceives no cost because, rather than feeling deceived, he instead feels more enlightened. The relative absence of cost makes deception very profitable.”— Aaron Kahland

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 10:34:00 UTC