Theme: Education

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    (FB 1544289678 Timestamp) HOW TO TEACH BOYS THE RIGHT WAY https://www.facebook.com/HistoryBuzz/videos/785359615144630/

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544380555 Timestamp) FYI: updated the reading list, to: 1 – Included more amazon links. 2 – Made the link to our digital (free) library more noticable 3 – Added section on Western Way Of War in prep for class. 4 – Integrated Jayman and HBD Chick’s reading list. But didn’t re-allocate it down later in the list)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544380555 Timestamp) FYI: updated the reading list, to: 1 – Included more amazon links. 2 – Made the link to our digital (free) library more noticable 3 – Added section on Western Way Of War in prep for class. 4 – Integrated Jayman and HBD Chick’s reading list. But didn’t re-allocate it down later in the list)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544380410 Timestamp) STUFF I’M WORKING ON – Religion’s Debt Economy – Making the Genetic and Intuitive explicit. – Finishing the “Everything you need to know about religion” section. (Hard) – Finished first two classes in ART: Art Theory and History.(Easy). Editing it. – Working on Script for first classes in LAW: The Grammars (Hard) – Working on research for the first classes in WAR (Yes, really, and you will love it). – Removing Ads from the web site thanks to Patron. – Installing and Configuring the institute’s Site and Courses. – Updating the Constitution but need to break it into another two pieces. – Haven’t been able to write much in the Book for a few weeks now because I’m stuck on how to communicate something technical. Writing the course ware helps me distill it down. So should get back to it shortly after. Courses are much easier, and there is greater demand, so that’s what I’m putting time into. – A few hours here and there on our product since there are things I have to do there also. – Normal human things like … life….. lol
    – And working with you folks. 😉

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544541068 Timestamp) ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THE COURSES —“Hey Curt, I saw your post about “young men searching for answers” and I’m interested in the courses. 1) —“Do you think these courses will be accessible to someone like me, or should I wait a while and try to learn a bit more first?”— I have worked very hard to make them accessible, by handing out the ideas one at a time, in incremental fashion. I don’t think you will need to know anything much prior. And the discussions (as you can see from participating in my feed) will often compensate for differences. 2) —“How much will these courses cost?”— It depends upon the number of people who register for a course. We are not trying to make money at this, just cover costs. (a) When courses roll out they will be at a discount. (b) After that they will increase. They will increase further when (if) we obtain Accreditation (USA).
    (c) We will probably use Purchasing Power Parity to price the courses since not everyone lives in western economies, and we want worldwide students. (d) The courses will be either 3 or 6 credits. We don’t have the same issues as physical universities, so instead of breaking first year courses in two, we will teach them as one six credit course. A 3 credit course must consist of 45-48 hours of class time, and a six credit, (two semester) course double that. (e) Accredited University courses of this nature are usually in the $500+ Range for three credits at a community college and $3000 in a proper liberal arts college. Which is obvious something we cannot do, do not need to do, and is not in our long term interest to do. We are targeting 100-200 for these courses. And we will reduce the price if more people take them. It’s a matter of paying for time, equipment, and servers. (f) there is some behavioral tendency we need to deal with, which is that it if isn’t expensive enough we won’t filter for the right people – those who are truly interested in working thru it. One way or another we will find a way for everyone who wants to, to study together. 3) —“How much time/week do you think would be needed to take them?”— Believe it or not there are recommended time allotments for different courses. So there are some general rules. And they are roughly about the same as the credit hours. ie: 3 hrs per week per class. That includes ‘think time’. Most classes require you read a few wiki or SEP articles, and then answer a few questions. Then critique others in the forums. Mostly so that I can judge whether you’re onboard or not. So far we are aiming at classes consisting of one weekly one three hour ‘class’ that may or may not be broken into two or three sections. These courses do not have to be completed all at once. And I don’t use due dates so to speak. So if you need to take longer it’s fine. You either complete the course, and do so successfully or you don’t. I am not, and the university is not, testing whether you will make a good employee. We are teaching you to be a contemplative judge of the Truth and the Law. —“4) Do you have any idea when the economics course will be available?”— Economics course consists of defining economics as a discipline divided into a spectrum of levers, and then stating the problems with economics as it sits today, and how to repair it. Then teaching it through that ‘corrected lens’. Which involves Austrian (legal), Micro (standard micro), Chicago (insurance), Beckerian (human capital), and Macro (Levers of policy) with less emphasis on keynesian/Post-keynesian macro equilibria, and more on specific attempts to manage the spectrum of capital in the polity. From what I understand at this moment this will be 12 credits, or two 6 credit courses over two years. It is not meant to teach mathematical economic analysis, but political economy – understanding sufficient for rendering legal judgements on disputes over economic conflicts and proposals. —“Good to see the progress you’re making with this kind of thing, glad my patreon shekels aren’t going to waste.”— Your shekels are much appreciated. We do have costs. And it’s very helpful when you help us cover them. And it makes a big difference (especially in my stress level). And I’m forever grateful that you’re making Propertarianism and the White Law possible.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544541068 Timestamp) ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THE COURSES —“Hey Curt, I saw your post about “young men searching for answers” and I’m interested in the courses. 1) —“Do you think these courses will be accessible to someone like me, or should I wait a while and try to learn a bit more first?”— I have worked very hard to make them accessible, by handing out the ideas one at a time, in incremental fashion. I don’t think you will need to know anything much prior. And the discussions (as you can see from participating in my feed) will often compensate for differences. 2) —“How much will these courses cost?”— It depends upon the number of people who register for a course. We are not trying to make money at this, just cover costs. (a) When courses roll out they will be at a discount. (b) After that they will increase. They will increase further when (if) we obtain Accreditation (USA).
    (c) We will probably use Purchasing Power Parity to price the courses since not everyone lives in western economies, and we want worldwide students. (d) The courses will be either 3 or 6 credits. We don’t have the same issues as physical universities, so instead of breaking first year courses in two, we will teach them as one six credit course. A 3 credit course must consist of 45-48 hours of class time, and a six credit, (two semester) course double that. (e) Accredited University courses of this nature are usually in the $500+ Range for three credits at a community college and $3000 in a proper liberal arts college. Which is obvious something we cannot do, do not need to do, and is not in our long term interest to do. We are targeting 100-200 for these courses. And we will reduce the price if more people take them. It’s a matter of paying for time, equipment, and servers. (f) there is some behavioral tendency we need to deal with, which is that it if isn’t expensive enough we won’t filter for the right people – those who are truly interested in working thru it. One way or another we will find a way for everyone who wants to, to study together. 3) —“How much time/week do you think would be needed to take them?”— Believe it or not there are recommended time allotments for different courses. So there are some general rules. And they are roughly about the same as the credit hours. ie: 3 hrs per week per class. That includes ‘think time’. Most classes require you read a few wiki or SEP articles, and then answer a few questions. Then critique others in the forums. Mostly so that I can judge whether you’re onboard or not. So far we are aiming at classes consisting of one weekly one three hour ‘class’ that may or may not be broken into two or three sections. These courses do not have to be completed all at once. And I don’t use due dates so to speak. So if you need to take longer it’s fine. You either complete the course, and do so successfully or you don’t. I am not, and the university is not, testing whether you will make a good employee. We are teaching you to be a contemplative judge of the Truth and the Law. —“4) Do you have any idea when the economics course will be available?”— Economics course consists of defining economics as a discipline divided into a spectrum of levers, and then stating the problems with economics as it sits today, and how to repair it. Then teaching it through that ‘corrected lens’. Which involves Austrian (legal), Micro (standard micro), Chicago (insurance), Beckerian (human capital), and Macro (Levers of policy) with less emphasis on keynesian/Post-keynesian macro equilibria, and more on specific attempts to manage the spectrum of capital in the polity. From what I understand at this moment this will be 12 credits, or two 6 credit courses over two years. It is not meant to teach mathematical economic analysis, but political economy – understanding sufficient for rendering legal judgements on disputes over economic conflicts and proposals. —“Good to see the progress you’re making with this kind of thing, glad my patreon shekels aren’t going to waste.”— Your shekels are much appreciated. We do have costs. And it’s very helpful when you help us cover them. And it makes a big difference (especially in my stress level). And I’m forever grateful that you’re making Propertarianism and the White Law possible.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544450153 Timestamp) BOOK LIST (IN ORDER) – PROPERTARIAN INSTITUTE COURSE IN WAR Victor Davis Hanson: – The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. – The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece – Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture John Keegan: – A History Of Warfare Martin Van Creveld: – The Culture of War – The Rise and Decline of the State – Pussycats – Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West – The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz William S Lind:
    – 4th Generation Warfare Handbook Various – Revolutionary, Insurrectionist, War of man against man. Martin Van Creveld: – A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind Curt Doolittle – (Essay) Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Prussianism, and The Militia – Why strategy must be taught as a balance to morality. Why the Church (child), Academy (Youth), and Military (Adult) provide tripartite competition that prevents failure by moralization.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544450153 Timestamp) BOOK LIST (IN ORDER) – PROPERTARIAN INSTITUTE COURSE IN WAR Victor Davis Hanson: – The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. – The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece – Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture John Keegan: – A History Of Warfare Martin Van Creveld: – The Culture of War – The Rise and Decline of the State – Pussycats – Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West – The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz William S Lind:
    – 4th Generation Warfare Handbook Various – Revolutionary, Insurrectionist, War of man against man. Martin Van Creveld: – A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind Curt Doolittle – (Essay) Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Prussianism, and The Militia – Why strategy must be taught as a balance to morality. Why the Church (child), Academy (Youth), and Military (Adult) provide tripartite competition that prevents failure by moralization.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544623589 Timestamp) PARSIMONY IS MORE WORK THAN IT SOUNDS: I DO THE BEST I CAN BUT THERE ARE LIMITS…. —Paraphrased: “I think Curt is more obscure than he needs to be, and we need to make his work accessible.”— Let me see if I can answer this objection because there is truth in it, but explanation to be had. I am working in public like a street smith. I do not claim to have an answer until I have an answer so to speak. I just work through the problems one at a time in a painfully organized fashion. I do this because I don’t have a classroom at a university to test my ideas on students in organized form. Nor is there a method of running tests on people better than working through problems together. As most know I understand that thing we call religion today, and I know how to repair the institution, but I am still working on the content of it. But I have followed this process across the intellectual spectrum. So I am WORKING with the online group. In the classes I will TEACH them. There is a difference between research and development (my online work) and teaching (book and courses). Now to answer the question: First, yes, I add a certain degree of inferential or deductive demand in those cases where direct statement would remove me from the platform. If I stated some things directly deplatforming would follow. Second is the Great Change i’m trying to force, and the vast difference in the shift from the ideal (meaning) to the real (testimony). And I am working on this Great Change as a means of creating the Law that would end the means by which my (our) people have been deceived by false promises, straw manning, sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism. For example, this is a short version of the dependency chain I work with: |SPIKE| Demand for Acquisition > Evolutionary(Adaptive) Velocity > Agency > Operational Definitions > Series/Tables of Operational Definitions > Divisions of Labor > Equilibrations(Competitions, Markets) > Arguments > Aphorisms. I KNOW that chain of reasoning from physics through cognition. And so I defend that chain of reasoning from error. And I defend my words from others’ ‘cheats’ (descent in to ideal types and normative usage’) that is the reason for fuzzy deduction from fuzzy definitions: fuzzy (justificationary) thinking. There is no way to explain that to people in all its depth when everyone we know, solves for their current investment in the current frame. I write in sentences that are closer to software statements and mathematics than ordinary language, and because of that closer to latin grammar. In fact I have considered writing in a formal language like software, and tried it a few times, but this is what makes formal logic and symbolic mathematics inaccessible. I DO create a degree of inferential demand yes. I do this to prohibit MISINTERPRETATION. This is part of the ‘trick’. In other words, you will not undrestand incorrectly only correctly. In other words, you will either not understand or you will correctly intuit and eventually correctly understand. I create partial arguments, and work with themes right out in public. I run dozens or hundreds of tests with these arguments. Until I can distill their causal relations into operational definitions in series. (Produce a supply demand graph of multiple dimensions over time). And thien weave them into an historical explanation. And then reference them with aphorisms. Then I weave all these ideas together in different patterns to educate on the relations between phenomenon that appear unrelated, or which are artificially unrelated by the differences in nonsense language between the disciplines. I search for aphoristic form as the ‘index’, ‘end point’, or ‘entry point’ of an idea.. I think the combination of ‘memorable’ aphoristic form, use of series and equilibria, and the operational (software) form produce an incremental hierarchy that makes misinterpretation difficult. And I do so by a great deal of repetition so that the newbies who come along can learn, as the others have, by ‘drip-feeding’. The Web is a One Room School House (that frequently descends into a locker room). The hard part is the series of terms. Once you have that, you can largely understand it. I publish those series often. I have a glossary. Although once you have a series the glossary seems largely superfluous. So you find that (a) people with the requisite knowledge of multiple fields recognize it but struggle to use it – although you can see from the groups that spun off, that they could learn within a few months – but pursued more elitist (absolutist) objectives because of it; (b) people who intuit ‘something is right there’ work to obtain that knowledge, (c) as more people obtain that knowledge the community rate of understanding expands, and (d) people begin to develop interest simply because they see that others do – and this reduces my cost of educating others. Others are better suited to bring it to the masses than I am. And I have invested so heavily in training others (all of you) for this reason: both to reduce the burden on me, and to compensate for my inadequacy – and frankly, disinterest. I am extremely confident (frighteningly so) that can defeat any intellectual at my level that’s living. And I am keenly aware that it is those people I must defend against attacks from over time. And while I care deeply for, and enjoy the company of, I cannot however sufficiently empathize with the cognitive framework of those much further down the curve than I am, unless in a one-on-one conversation. I do not have their frame to work with. Nor the time and energy to retrain minds working entirely by habituation with limited understanding of what they do vs the possible alternatives that we all CAN do. Others gain their status and experience training those minds. And together we train a people. So it is quite possible that it can be done better. But this is the best I can do while trying to produce a formal law closed to interpretation and therefore abuse, while at the same time explaining the historical narrative of our people, restoring our people’s confidence in our civilization, providing a constitution that restores our civilization, a strategy and tactics for forcing its imposition, and creating a ‘college’ to institutionalize teaching it at some scale, prior to its gradual transformation into a religion. It is that ‘religion’ that will transform our people.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544623589 Timestamp) PARSIMONY IS MORE WORK THAN IT SOUNDS: I DO THE BEST I CAN BUT THERE ARE LIMITS…. —Paraphrased: “I think Curt is more obscure than he needs to be, and we need to make his work accessible.”— Let me see if I can answer this objection because there is truth in it, but explanation to be had. I am working in public like a street smith. I do not claim to have an answer until I have an answer so to speak. I just work through the problems one at a time in a painfully organized fashion. I do this because I don’t have a classroom at a university to test my ideas on students in organized form. Nor is there a method of running tests on people better than working through problems together. As most know I understand that thing we call religion today, and I know how to repair the institution, but I am still working on the content of it. But I have followed this process across the intellectual spectrum. So I am WORKING with the online group. In the classes I will TEACH them. There is a difference between research and development (my online work) and teaching (book and courses). Now to answer the question: First, yes, I add a certain degree of inferential or deductive demand in those cases where direct statement would remove me from the platform. If I stated some things directly deplatforming would follow. Second is the Great Change i’m trying to force, and the vast difference in the shift from the ideal (meaning) to the real (testimony). And I am working on this Great Change as a means of creating the Law that would end the means by which my (our) people have been deceived by false promises, straw manning, sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism. For example, this is a short version of the dependency chain I work with: |SPIKE| Demand for Acquisition > Evolutionary(Adaptive) Velocity > Agency > Operational Definitions > Series/Tables of Operational Definitions > Divisions of Labor > Equilibrations(Competitions, Markets) > Arguments > Aphorisms. I KNOW that chain of reasoning from physics through cognition. And so I defend that chain of reasoning from error. And I defend my words from others’ ‘cheats’ (descent in to ideal types and normative usage’) that is the reason for fuzzy deduction from fuzzy definitions: fuzzy (justificationary) thinking. There is no way to explain that to people in all its depth when everyone we know, solves for their current investment in the current frame. I write in sentences that are closer to software statements and mathematics than ordinary language, and because of that closer to latin grammar. In fact I have considered writing in a formal language like software, and tried it a few times, but this is what makes formal logic and symbolic mathematics inaccessible. I DO create a degree of inferential demand yes. I do this to prohibit MISINTERPRETATION. This is part of the ‘trick’. In other words, you will not undrestand incorrectly only correctly. In other words, you will either not understand or you will correctly intuit and eventually correctly understand. I create partial arguments, and work with themes right out in public. I run dozens or hundreds of tests with these arguments. Until I can distill their causal relations into operational definitions in series. (Produce a supply demand graph of multiple dimensions over time). And thien weave them into an historical explanation. And then reference them with aphorisms. Then I weave all these ideas together in different patterns to educate on the relations between phenomenon that appear unrelated, or which are artificially unrelated by the differences in nonsense language between the disciplines. I search for aphoristic form as the ‘index’, ‘end point’, or ‘entry point’ of an idea.. I think the combination of ‘memorable’ aphoristic form, use of series and equilibria, and the operational (software) form produce an incremental hierarchy that makes misinterpretation difficult. And I do so by a great deal of repetition so that the newbies who come along can learn, as the others have, by ‘drip-feeding’. The Web is a One Room School House (that frequently descends into a locker room). The hard part is the series of terms. Once you have that, you can largely understand it. I publish those series often. I have a glossary. Although once you have a series the glossary seems largely superfluous. So you find that (a) people with the requisite knowledge of multiple fields recognize it but struggle to use it – although you can see from the groups that spun off, that they could learn within a few months – but pursued more elitist (absolutist) objectives because of it; (b) people who intuit ‘something is right there’ work to obtain that knowledge, (c) as more people obtain that knowledge the community rate of understanding expands, and (d) people begin to develop interest simply because they see that others do – and this reduces my cost of educating others. Others are better suited to bring it to the masses than I am. And I have invested so heavily in training others (all of you) for this reason: both to reduce the burden on me, and to compensate for my inadequacy – and frankly, disinterest. I am extremely confident (frighteningly so) that can defeat any intellectual at my level that’s living. And I am keenly aware that it is those people I must defend against attacks from over time. And while I care deeply for, and enjoy the company of, I cannot however sufficiently empathize with the cognitive framework of those much further down the curve than I am, unless in a one-on-one conversation. I do not have their frame to work with. Nor the time and energy to retrain minds working entirely by habituation with limited understanding of what they do vs the possible alternatives that we all CAN do. Others gain their status and experience training those minds. And together we train a people. So it is quite possible that it can be done better. But this is the best I can do while trying to produce a formal law closed to interpretation and therefore abuse, while at the same time explaining the historical narrative of our people, restoring our people’s confidence in our civilization, providing a constitution that restores our civilization, a strategy and tactics for forcing its imposition, and creating a ‘college’ to institutionalize teaching it at some scale, prior to its gradual transformation into a religion. It is that ‘religion’ that will transform our people.