Theme: Education

  • QUESTION: How successful are the french and german educational systems in perfor

    QUESTION: How successful are the french and german educational systems in performing class sortition ostensibly by demonstrated merit?


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-24 09:09:00 UTC

  • TEACHING HUMAN HISTORY IS EASY IF… Statists and Priests love to teach the hist

    TEACHING HUMAN HISTORY IS EASY IF…

    Statists and Priests love to teach the history of governments to give them legitimacy. But just as mathematics ought to be taught as a sequence of historical problems humans had to overcome, and we would understand it very easily, if we taught human history as the evolution of how our tribes evolved and expanded (now that we can teach it) we would find a very different world that was much easier to understand. And we would be a lot more concerned with peoples than corporate governments.

    Human history is not a very long period to cover. It’s a few thousand years. if you study land masses at geologic time, it’s easy to understand. If you study the solar system at galactic time, it’s easy to understand. If you study man at tribal time, it’s easy to understand. If you study technologies at technological time, it’s easy to understand. But if you teach these things all as a cacophony of unrelated events without a surrounding narrative it’s confusing as hell.

    Our myths make history seem long, mystical and confusing. But history of man’s evolution once we develop domestication is pretty simple. Before that it’s actually trivial, because it’s such a slow process.

    What humanists won’t like is that each wave of increasingly aggressive human wiped out the previous wave of less aggressive people.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-20 08:22:00 UTC

  • Reflections on our Progress

    (reflection) (important) (possible change in strategy) [L]ook at the past two years of posts by Eli Harman and Michael Philip, and look at the change in their sentence structure, length, and chain of causal relations. I’m very conscious of these things. So I see it. Johannes is a bit of a character, but at least offline, he is loosely stringing very long chains of causal explanation together and is perhaps best at constructing analysis by a chain of unloaded incentives. Look at the change in the confidence of argument of Haille Mariam-Lemar. Roman usually conducts his arguments elsewhere but he is the best at enfranchising the other side. Look at what we’ve seen from Jesse Bjorn and Mike Enoch in understanding and applying testimonial truth and propertarianism. It’s beautiful. But what is most beautiful, is the confidence that’s emerging. One of the things I wanted to do was increase the aggressiveness of the debate so that we spoke with confidence and conviction. I wanted to create a moral high ground that we weren’t afraid to argue without guilt, and with conviction. Truth is that moral high ground. And if we create a moral high ground to demand, we can stop complaining about the status quo, and work toward institutional change. We can demand institutional change. Revolt for institutional change. While it’s a phenomenal amount of work, I can see a future where we can train people to speak truthfully the same way we trained people to speak scientifically-morally instead of ratio-morally, and instead of religio-morally. Where we conduct exchanges rather than impose majority rule. Where we treat tribes like younger and older families rather than people to defeat or resist. But I’m still failing in some of my ambitions. I want to change the debate from criticism of multiculturalism and racism to advocacy of familialism and aristocracy. From genetic differences to differences in distributions. From equality and inequality to aristocratic success and failure. From corporate nation-states to private tribal families. From ratio-moral argument to scientific-truthful argument. Wherein each of us helping parent our tribes into a positive future for mankind. Each of us working to suppress error, bias, wishful thinking, deceit and outright lying. Each of us building not just the truthful society, but a truthful mankind. And with that we future we create the aristocracy of everybody we intuit that is possible, dream that is possible, but can only be achieved by diligent pursuit. We discovered truth. We discovered testimony. We discovered the jury and the common law and rule of law. We discovered high trust. And with them we discovered science, medicine and technology and with it and them, built the civil commons as a competitive evolutionary strategy, and by consequence the civic society and the economic velocity that comes with it. But while it may take a particular people at a particular time in a particular place to invent a technology – it is also truth that all people at later times and in various places, can adopt that technology and gain the benefits of it. But truth and trust are hard and expensive. They are however, the most important capital for the production of innovation and prosperity for all. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine. July 19, 2015
  • Reflections on our Progress

    (reflection) (important) (possible change in strategy) [L]ook at the past two years of posts by Eli Harman and Michael Philip, and look at the change in their sentence structure, length, and chain of causal relations. I’m very conscious of these things. So I see it. Johannes is a bit of a character, but at least offline, he is loosely stringing very long chains of causal explanation together and is perhaps best at constructing analysis by a chain of unloaded incentives. Look at the change in the confidence of argument of Haille Mariam-Lemar. Roman usually conducts his arguments elsewhere but he is the best at enfranchising the other side. Look at what we’ve seen from Jesse Bjorn and Mike Enoch in understanding and applying testimonial truth and propertarianism. It’s beautiful. But what is most beautiful, is the confidence that’s emerging. One of the things I wanted to do was increase the aggressiveness of the debate so that we spoke with confidence and conviction. I wanted to create a moral high ground that we weren’t afraid to argue without guilt, and with conviction. Truth is that moral high ground. And if we create a moral high ground to demand, we can stop complaining about the status quo, and work toward institutional change. We can demand institutional change. Revolt for institutional change. While it’s a phenomenal amount of work, I can see a future where we can train people to speak truthfully the same way we trained people to speak scientifically-morally instead of ratio-morally, and instead of religio-morally. Where we conduct exchanges rather than impose majority rule. Where we treat tribes like younger and older families rather than people to defeat or resist. But I’m still failing in some of my ambitions. I want to change the debate from criticism of multiculturalism and racism to advocacy of familialism and aristocracy. From genetic differences to differences in distributions. From equality and inequality to aristocratic success and failure. From corporate nation-states to private tribal families. From ratio-moral argument to scientific-truthful argument. Wherein each of us helping parent our tribes into a positive future for mankind. Each of us working to suppress error, bias, wishful thinking, deceit and outright lying. Each of us building not just the truthful society, but a truthful mankind. And with that we future we create the aristocracy of everybody we intuit that is possible, dream that is possible, but can only be achieved by diligent pursuit. We discovered truth. We discovered testimony. We discovered the jury and the common law and rule of law. We discovered high trust. And with them we discovered science, medicine and technology and with it and them, built the civil commons as a competitive evolutionary strategy, and by consequence the civic society and the economic velocity that comes with it. But while it may take a particular people at a particular time in a particular place to invent a technology – it is also truth that all people at later times and in various places, can adopt that technology and gain the benefits of it. But truth and trust are hard and expensive. They are however, the most important capital for the production of innovation and prosperity for all. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine. July 19, 2015
  • TWO BOOK THIS SPRING ON THE NORTH SEA-BALTIC PEOPLE’S (reading lists) Lots of cr

    TWO BOOK THIS SPRING ON THE NORTH SEA-BALTIC PEOPLE’S

    (reading lists)

    Lots of criticism of Pye’s writing ability (North Sea). But the fact that the book exists is still a sign of momentum.

    North’s book (Baltic) doesn’t have any feedback yet and I can’t get my hands on it yet.

    But I have high hopes that the two books form a good basis, along with a history of the Hanseatic league, of the central thesis:

    **The North Sea / Baltic Kingdoms were the product of trade routes. And that, like the Aegean, trade, contract, trust, truth gave rise to reason and science.**

    So it appears to me that mankind faces a terrible choice: to develop writing first and authoritarian rule, or to inherit (adopt, import) writing, and develop commercial (civic) rule.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:30:00 UTC

  • What’s on my mind? Money and economy, politics and war. But pretty frustrated to

    What’s on my mind? Money and economy, politics and war.

    But pretty frustrated today. I want to remain accessible. But I really can’t afford to invest in training people without some knowledge of the Philosophy of science. Mathematicians and computer scientists, physicists and to some degree economists are relatively easy. Although in retrospect it is pretty clear that economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation but how to force productivity.

    And so I am frustrated by conversations with conservatives a

    Just as readily by libertarians. And so I am having one of those down days where I think I am wasting my time. :(.

    On another note:

    Josh Jeppson said something smart last night: that Propertarianism isn’t conservative (reactionary) but innovative. That’s true.

    QUESTION:

    But then, how do I position it?

    ANSWER:

    —“You don’t want to go back to something (maybe some things but not all), so you’re not a reactionary, you don’t want to conserve what we have so you aren’t a conservative, and you don’t want to take what we have further, so you aren’t a progressive. You are (gasp) a revolutionary”—Adam Felix


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 04:42:00 UTC

  • Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories

    [P]riceless

    —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance. Unfortunately, when policymakers embrace blindly their untested conventional wisdom, the consequences can be far worse.”—–

    I could not have done this work in the Academy.  It wouldn’t have been possible.  You can’t really assemble degree in this kind of philosophy, this kind of economics, this kind of politics. The system is the problem. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Universities are Repositories for Discarded Theories

    [P]riceless

    —“Universities may see themselves as bastions of knowledge and intellectualism, but they have long since forfeited this role. Instead, they have become repositories for theories long since discarded in the region and which bear little resemblance to reality today. The more professors prioritise theory over fact, the more they will condemn themselves to irrelevance. Unfortunately, when policymakers embrace blindly their untested conventional wisdom, the consequences can be far worse.”—–

    I could not have done this work in the Academy.  It wouldn’t have been possible.  You can’t really assemble degree in this kind of philosophy, this kind of economics, this kind of politics. The system is the problem. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Civic Evolution

    (important idea) (very interesting)

    [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions:

    1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)
    2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)
    3) ————->BANK(adds production)?
    Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?)

    I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union.

    But what if your credit union also offered education?

    Individual + Family + Education + Credit Union + Insurance.
    Individual + Partnership + Banking + Investing + Treasury.
    Individual + Unit + Regiment + Militia.
    Individual + House + Government + The Law.

    (Is the central bank the central force prohibiting the conversion of Credit Unions into the central means of producing a civic order?)

    I think this is my big idea for Q3 2015.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute.
    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Civic Evolution

    (important idea) (very interesting)

    [T]he Ancestry of Cooperative Institutions:

    1) TEMPLE(adds cooperation)
    2) —–>CHURCH(adds education)
    3) ————->BANK(adds production)?
    Were the templars the highest political order we achieved? (yes?)

    I have been fairly certain that the most important recent institutional development has been the Credit Union.

    But what if your credit union also offered education?

    Individual + Family + Education + Credit Union + Insurance.
    Individual + Partnership + Banking + Investing + Treasury.
    Individual + Unit + Regiment + Militia.
    Individual + House + Government + The Law.

    (Is the central bank the central force prohibiting the conversion of Credit Unions into the central means of producing a civic order?)

    I think this is my big idea for Q3 2015.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute.
    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source: Curt Doolittle