Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • A Goal of Educating ‘men’ so That We Rule by Reason Rather than Wishful Thinking?

    Bill Joslin,
    Seems minor but is the hardest problem of training a core: what do men need to learn to change from hopeful and moral, to resigned and legal frames. YOu stated your change of frame. I watched it happen. How can we EXPLICITLY state this objective as a goal of educating ‘men’ so that we rule by reason rather than wishful thinking? Thanks.

  • Becoming Real

    SEEING THE DICHOTOMY AND TEACHING IT
    by John Mark Now that I see this dichotomy between hopeful-moral-wishful thinking and resigned-legal-realistic thinking, I see it everywhere. Leftists, obviously moral/wishful. Libertardians, “principled conservatives”, classical liberal, and Civnats are still moral/wishful. Even my wife, after Dems took the House, was emotionally upset. I said, “I’ve been telling you democracy is false hope for a long time now. Even if we’d won the House it would mean nothing in the long run.” “Yeah, but it’s just so upsetting (moral rant as she works through the emotions).” It is hard to have your hopes shattered. High-openness right-wingers have it a bit easier because we immediately probe for outside the box solutions, that’s what we do. Low-openness folks have it harder because change is less comfortable for them in general. It’s amazing watching the Right catch up to us slowly in real time. TheConservativeTreehouse (boomer civnat site) comment section on midterms night had many people saying “this was the nonwhites”. A new dynamic for them, normally signal hard against any race talk. The site proprietor said he just wanted to go fishing. (Emotional/wishful/hopeful thinking being shattered into realism.) Becoming more aspie/scientific/realistic is emotionally difficult for most people, it usually only happens through the trauma of reality slapping them in the face brutally, and even then humans show a remarkable capacity to resist it. But any individual or group that embraces it (classic example Western Civ) to a greater extent than others has a tremendous advantage. So the question is vital: How do we train it? –John Mark (CD: The Law is Easy to Teach)

  • A Goal of Educating ‘men’ so That We Rule by Reason Rather than Wishful Thinking?

    Bill Joslin,
    Seems minor but is the hardest problem of training a core: what do men need to learn to change from hopeful and moral, to resigned and legal frames. YOu stated your change of frame. I watched it happen. How can we EXPLICITLY state this objective as a goal of educating ‘men’ so that we rule by reason rather than wishful thinking? Thanks.

  • True story. Seattle area. 90’s. Lotsa chatter because MSFT used strange question

    True story. Seattle area. 90’s. Lotsa chatter because MSFT used strange questions to test applicants. Friend was inventing similar questions for our company.

    Asked me two:

    1) “2000 years from now what would aliens notice?”

    Easy answer: Highways.

    2) “What is the greatest achievement of western civilization?”

    Easy answer: “a united states marine”.

    The first one made him think but agreed. The second one floored him.

    I mean it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-06 15:55:00 UTC

  • RATIONALITY REQUIRES THE COMMONS (core concept) —“I think, on one hand, people

    RATIONALITY REQUIRES THE COMMONS

    (core concept)

    —“I think, on one hand, people cannot become rational without a quality commons (education, exposure to ideas, enriched environment etc.) On the other, it’s very difficult to create quality commons without rational people.”— Bill Joslin

    (genius)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-06 15:39:00 UTC

  • INTELLECTUAL CATASTROPHE OF SPECIALIZATION (and the import of a universal langua

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/10/04/the-intellectual-catastrophe-of-specialization-and-the-cure-for-it-in-education/THE INTELLECTUAL CATASTROPHE OF SPECIALIZATION

    (and the import of a universal language of testimony)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-06 09:01:00 UTC

  • “Literacy: means ‘capable of reading and writing’. Being “Illiterate’ means inca

    “Literacy: means ‘capable of reading and writing’.

    Being “Illiterate’ means incapable of reading and writing.

    Being “Literate” means ‘Well Read’ OR ‘he can read and write’.

    This is another one of those terms where we need a demarcation to prevent conflation.

    illiterate “can’t read” > literate – “can read” > “literate – well read”.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-06 08:55:00 UTC

  • TO THE TEACHING OF RULE RATHER THAN SUBMISSION (important idea) |RULE| Self > Fa

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/03/24/education-returning-to-the-teaching-of-rule/RETURN TO THE TEACHING OF RULE RATHER THAN SUBMISSION

    (important idea)

    |RULE| Self > Family > Commons > Polity > Nation > Civilization > Mankind > Universe

    WE HAVE A CHOICE OF STRATEGY:

    Submission(Left-Female-Outcast Male) <-> or,

    … Consumption(libertarian- Ascendant Male) <-> or,

    … … Rule (Right-Established Male).

    ARISTOCRACY IS THE ULTIMATE PHILOSOPHY

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-06 07:43:00 UTC

  • Rationality Requires the Commons

    (FB 1541536782 Timestamp) RATIONALITY REQUIRES THE COMMONS
    (core concept) —“I think, on one hand, people cannot become rational without a quality commons (education, exposure to ideas, enriched environment etc.) On the other, it’s very difficult to create quality commons without rational people.”— Bill Joslin (genius)

  • Rationality Requires the Commons

    (FB 1541536782 Timestamp) RATIONALITY REQUIRES THE COMMONS
    (core concept) —“I think, on one hand, people cannot become rational without a quality commons (education, exposure to ideas, enriched environment etc.) On the other, it’s very difficult to create quality commons without rational people.”— Bill Joslin (genius)