Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • The Academy Like Hollywood Produces Worse Work Products than Individual Craftsman in Either Industry

    Um. helps to keep in mind that the academy provides funding for thought and obviously subsidizes bad thought. Whereas thought leadership in history did not come from the academy but from wealth sufficient for literacy and time for study. In other words, it is not clear that the academy produces better intellectual work products than individual craftsmen, any more than Hollywood produces better art products than individual craftsmen. And the evidence appears overwhelmingly the opposite: that the academy, entertainment industry, media, and democratic state, produce higher volumes of bad quality everything.

  • The Academy Like Hollywood Produces Worse Work Products than Individual Craftsman in Either Industry

    Um. helps to keep in mind that the academy provides funding for thought and obviously subsidizes bad thought. Whereas thought leadership in history did not come from the academy but from wealth sufficient for literacy and time for study. In other words, it is not clear that the academy produces better intellectual work products than individual craftsmen, any more than Hollywood produces better art products than individual craftsmen. And the evidence appears overwhelmingly the opposite: that the academy, entertainment industry, media, and democratic state, produce higher volumes of bad quality everything.

  • yes. classes. soon. 😉 first book almost there. classes after

    yes. classes. soon. 😉
    first book almost there.
    classes after.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-25 18:30:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1011315744829779968

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    @NothingTheGreat

    @curtdoolittle Any new videos on the horizon planned for the Propertarian Institute page? Need muh fixxxx

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  • The Fallacy of Liberal Academic Achievement

    —“What I always tell people who cite more “educational achievement” among liberals, besides what this article said about how universities are really indoctrination centers, is that there is a repolarization at the top that mirrors the 50/50 split amongst the general population. Intelligence is a predictor of leftist leanings until you hit the the top one or two percent. “They don’t know what they don’t know” is basically another way of saying “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” They get to the point of questioning preconceived notions, realizing they’re not wholly rational, but not even scratching the surface of why we developed those instincts to begin with.”– Brian McQuiston “…Not questioning why we developed those instincts to begin with…” or why a central tenet of western and eastern civilization is the warning by Icarus against hubris. Why? It counters (a) that idealism and reason can somehow compete with a market for demonstrated results, and (b) that we are unequal in every possible way and that markets are the only means of calculating coincidences of wants and needs, and (c) that because of “b”, many people are dead weight or deleterious to the group as a whole.

  • The Fallacy of Liberal Academic Achievement

    —“What I always tell people who cite more “educational achievement” among liberals, besides what this article said about how universities are really indoctrination centers, is that there is a repolarization at the top that mirrors the 50/50 split amongst the general population. Intelligence is a predictor of leftist leanings until you hit the the top one or two percent. “They don’t know what they don’t know” is basically another way of saying “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” They get to the point of questioning preconceived notions, realizing they’re not wholly rational, but not even scratching the surface of why we developed those instincts to begin with.”– Brian McQuiston “…Not questioning why we developed those instincts to begin with…” or why a central tenet of western and eastern civilization is the warning by Icarus against hubris. Why? It counters (a) that idealism and reason can somehow compete with a market for demonstrated results, and (b) that we are unequal in every possible way and that markets are the only means of calculating coincidences of wants and needs, and (c) that because of “b”, many people are dead weight or deleterious to the group as a whole.

  • The Tragedies of Achilles(m) and Jesus(f) Are the Stories of Our Demigods.

    Why is it that you are taught only one? Or none?

  • The Tragedies of Achilles(m) and Jesus(f) Are the Stories of Our Demigods.

    Why is it that you are taught only one? Or none?

  • —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

    —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I would never have been ‘permitted’ to develop Propertarianism (Natural Law) in the academy. The simple reasons that (a) interdisciplinary phd’s are nearly impossible, (b) taking 10+ years to solve a hard problem is unacceptable. (c) publishing along the way to a solution only serves to anchor you in a falsehood. (d) the academy forces presumptions (paradigms) that are false due to its market incentives to produce educational products rather than truth (in other than the physical sciences).

  • —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

    —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I would never have been ‘permitted’ to develop Propertarianism (Natural Law) in the academy. The simple reasons that (a) interdisciplinary phd’s are nearly impossible, (b) taking 10+ years to solve a hard problem is unacceptable. (c) publishing along the way to a solution only serves to anchor you in a falsehood. (d) the academy forces presumptions (paradigms) that are false due to its market incentives to produce educational products rather than truth (in other than the physical sciences).

  • SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE? by Aaron Kahland I am going to play Devil’s advoca

    SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE?

    by Aaron Kahland

    I am going to play Devil’s advocate here. Perhaps there is little problem with single mothers per say. After all, countless German boys were raised by single mothers after both WW1 and WW2 – it did not result in high crime rates, drug use and educational problems. The same can likely be said for multiple other countries who lost large numbers of their men – e.g. France post-WW1.

    If so, then the problem is cultural. The culture that has unleashed the contemporary single mothers onto us – specifically in the West. Perhaps they are single for the same reason that they are poor parents – they are simply undesirable – indelibly tainted by both their own upbringings (boomer parents) and the societal environment in which they live.

    Further, the absolute nuclear family simply is most probably super-fragile. It cannot withstand male losses in wartime anymore than it can resist the effects of male losses in welfare-time.

    Young boys having lost fathers in previous periods were enveloped in an environment dominated by grandfathers, surviving uncles, male schoolteachers, male leaders. Today, those boys have none of those and it is to their great detriment. Boys need tribes, instead they get incompetent mothers and television.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-20 16:32:00 UTC