Curt Doolittle

Theme: Ethnoculture

  • WHY THE NORDICS ARE ALTRUISTIC: KIN SELECTION. THE REASON IS THAT FINLAND, like

    WHY THE NORDICS ARE ALTRUISTIC: KIN SELECTION.

    THE REASON IS THAT FINLAND, like the nordics, is small F(5M people), homogenous, lutheran, population that is one of the least diverse, most outbred, and most docile, in the world, and like the English, Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes live on a virtual ISLAND. The dutch and the english occupy both sides of the english channel and are surrounded by kin. Germany is the only other european culture to preserve the island behavior at scale, with competing neighbors. THis is because germany had both north sea trade, and continental trade through the alps TO the north sea peoples. All other cultures that have achieved universalism have been island peoples or virtual island peoples who can make use of extending kin selection behavior (truth telling and altrusim) witohout funding competitors. Humans do not fund competitors. They compete with, wall off, fight or kill them. And if they don’t they will be exterminated. (and they all have been wherever they did not).

    Finland, norway, sweden, denmark, scotland and irland barely make a good sized american city each. If you broke the USA in to 5M person regions, with the ability to exclude people they dont want (parasites) then the vast majority of those areas would rapidly demonstrate thebehavior of 5M homogenous protestant peoples.

    YOU CANNOT CHANGE THIS: Kin selection is a genetic bias that all humans demonstrate. THe difficulty for all populations is that they must crush corruption, and small populations are better at crushing corruption. The smaller the population the easier it is to crush corruption.

    Parasitism (forced redistribution across non-kin) is universally intolerable, and corruption increases and factionalism increases if you try to do it.

    PERIOD. END OF STORY. YOU HAVE SMALL HOMOGENOUS PROTESTANT POLITIES PRACTICING THE ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR FAMILY OR YOU DO NOT HAVE LIBERTY

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 09:41:00 UTC

  • Answer by @curtdoolittle to Why do Nepalese Maoists want ethnicity-based federal

    Answer by @curtdoolittle to Why do Nepalese Maoists want ethnicity-based federalism in Nepal? Will ethnicity-based pā€¦ http://qr.ae/DT6NP

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 22:41:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/525054285097472000

  • RETURNS AS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL SYSTEM – BUT WHY? NUCLEAR WEAPONS? It appears

    http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepal-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-the-country-in-the-long-run/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1NATIONALISM RETURNS AS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL SYSTEM – BUT WHY? NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

    It appears that the universalists program advocated by the enlightenment is unsuccessful and that nationalism (tribalism at scale), will return to its historical status as the dominant political ideology.

    This is in part because the value of scale in obtaining credit necessary to finance war has been nearly eliminated by the (strange) influence of nuclear weapons. If a country can afford nuclear weapons it does not need to engage in large scale defense projects, because its boundaries are secure. Conversely (as Mr Putin has demonstrated) a country without nuclear weapons cannot claim sovereignty.

    SO just as credit, conscription, and ‘total war’ defined the past five hundred years, it appears that nuclear weapons, and small scale nationalism which better serves the interests of citizens, will replace empires and military-credit-industrialism.

    Hence, oddly enough, nuclear weapons end up having produced intuitive political orders.

    Strange but true.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 18:41:00 UTC

  • Why Do Nepalese Maoists Want Ethnicity-based Federalism In Nepal’s New Constitution? Will Ethnicity-based Politics Do Any Good To Nepal In The Long Run?

    ETHNO-NATIONALISM
    Ethnically homogenous polities, and particularly SMALL ethnically homogenous polities demonstrate higher tolerance for high taxation and high redistribution because of our biological preference for kin selection.

    People often advocate the scandinavian model, but these are very small countries where all individuals are near-relations, where cousin-marriage is prohibited, and where the absolute nuclear family is practiced along with individual property rights meaning children are responsible for themselves and their economic survival, and do not stay home with parents.  They are also well educated, genetically lower in impulsivity, enjoy hard work, and speak in germanic languages in which duty and hierarchy are metaphysical givens.  As such these countries have very high cultural resistance to corruption.

    Given the great transformation that Nepalese must go through this coming century, a more homogenous culture means less competition for political power that is useful for seeking and distributing rents, and less opportunity and incentive for organized political corruption. 

    However, given traditional nepalese family structures, and nepalese poverty levels, it is unlikely (much like india) that corruption will be eliminated from government and it may even be expanded. 

    Conversely, it is less likely that the degree of corruption that the nepalese will engage in will cause political infighting or a resistance to taxation and redistribution (if only into investment in the commons: infrastructure), if the polity is homogenous. 

    THE DECLINING ADVANTAGE OF SCALE

    Scale is no longer as valuable to an economy as is a reliable currency. 

    It appears that the universalists program advocated by the enlightenment is unsuccessful and that nationalism (tribalism at scale), will return to its historical status as the dominant political ideology.

    This is in part because the value of scale in obtaining credit necessary to finance war has been nearly eliminated by the (strange) influence of nuclear weapons.  If a country can afford nuclear weapons it does not need to engage in large scale defense projects, because its boundaries are secure.  Conversely (as Mr Putin has demonstrated) a country without nuclear weapons cannot claim sovereignty.

    So just as credit, conscription, and ‘total war’ defined the past five hundred years, it appears that nuclear weapons, and small scale nationalism which better serves the interests of citizens, will replace empires and military-credit-industrialism.

    Hence, oddly enough, nuclear weapons end up having produced intuitive political orders.

    Strange but true.

    Cheers

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepals-new-constitution-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-Nepal-in-the-long-run

  • Why Do Nepalese Maoists Want Ethnicity-based Federalism In Nepal’s New Constitution? Will Ethnicity-based Politics Do Any Good To Nepal In The Long Run?

    ETHNO-NATIONALISM
    Ethnically homogenous polities, and particularly SMALL ethnically homogenous polities demonstrate higher tolerance for high taxation and high redistribution because of our biological preference for kin selection.

    People often advocate the scandinavian model, but these are very small countries where all individuals are near-relations, where cousin-marriage is prohibited, and where the absolute nuclear family is practiced along with individual property rights meaning children are responsible for themselves and their economic survival, and do not stay home with parents.  They are also well educated, genetically lower in impulsivity, enjoy hard work, and speak in germanic languages in which duty and hierarchy are metaphysical givens.  As such these countries have very high cultural resistance to corruption.

    Given the great transformation that Nepalese must go through this coming century, a more homogenous culture means less competition for political power that is useful for seeking and distributing rents, and less opportunity and incentive for organized political corruption. 

    However, given traditional nepalese family structures, and nepalese poverty levels, it is unlikely (much like india) that corruption will be eliminated from government and it may even be expanded. 

    Conversely, it is less likely that the degree of corruption that the nepalese will engage in will cause political infighting or a resistance to taxation and redistribution (if only into investment in the commons: infrastructure), if the polity is homogenous. 

    THE DECLINING ADVANTAGE OF SCALE

    Scale is no longer as valuable to an economy as is a reliable currency. 

    It appears that the universalists program advocated by the enlightenment is unsuccessful and that nationalism (tribalism at scale), will return to its historical status as the dominant political ideology.

    This is in part because the value of scale in obtaining credit necessary to finance war has been nearly eliminated by the (strange) influence of nuclear weapons.  If a country can afford nuclear weapons it does not need to engage in large scale defense projects, because its boundaries are secure.  Conversely (as Mr Putin has demonstrated) a country without nuclear weapons cannot claim sovereignty.

    So just as credit, conscription, and ‘total war’ defined the past five hundred years, it appears that nuclear weapons, and small scale nationalism which better serves the interests of citizens, will replace empires and military-credit-industrialism.

    Hence, oddly enough, nuclear weapons end up having produced intuitive political orders.

    Strange but true.

    Cheers

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepals-new-constitution-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-Nepal-in-the-long-run

  • ARISTOCRACY PROVIDES THE ONLY NECESSARY EQUALITY Aristocracy is geographically p

    ARISTOCRACY PROVIDES THE ONLY NECESSARY EQUALITY

    Aristocracy is geographically portable. It’s the lower classes from which diversity creates ‘Bads’.

    Aristocracy can think independently of context (yes, we can measure it). But the lower classes depend upon shared knowledge, shared ethics, shared morality, to act. And it is those differences which cause conflict.

    Aristocracy is marginally indifferent in these matters.

    So the logical consequence is that the ‘family’ or ‘tribe’ of aristocracy work together for the betterment of their tribes, just as parents in a village work together for the betterment of their children.

    Equality divides us. Aristocracy unites us.

    It may be counter intuitive, but it’s true.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 02:45:00 UTC

  • CURIOUS: CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS As a CEO my style is very American: meaning liber

    CURIOUS: CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    As a CEO my style is very American: meaning libertarian in management: I try to create as much of a bottom-up organization as possible with as little management as possible, and to attract the best talent possible, because the best talent wants to demonstrate creative expression – in a country where creative expression is a competitive value.

    The general thinking in the states is that employees know customers the best and so we need to empower them to serve customers. We get profits from helping them serve customers. The more we help them the more profits we make. The increase in credit capacity and the petro dollar has not been good for us in this respect, because it has given consumers a lot of free money to inflate the economy while reducing our discipline. In Europe consumers are much ‘poorer’ by every possible measure and so companies must fight for their attention. Conversely, people are much more patient with companies and regulations and rules than americans would be. So the culture tolerates the business climate and visa versa.

    But where this shows up is lack of rotation in Europe, and less radical innovation, while we get better engineering out of germans (again, who I think ‘do it right’) in education at least – if not in an oppressiveness that is beyond my comfort. And without the humor that my anglo peers survive on. šŸ™‚

    I wonder how Oversing will play in european countries? Will europeans be able to handle(tolerate) that much transparency? That much honesty? That much measurement? That much social rather than hierarchical feedback? That much customer service? Or will just young competitors make use of such a product? Or will more hierarchical companies turn off the transparency and use it as command and control? Young people get it. Technology people worldwide seem to get it. Ukrainian’s get it. Russians get it. South American’s get it.

    Hmmm…. What else….

    In the states we try to push independent thinking farther down the chain than is possible. And we don’t train the bottom to be capable. We pretend everyone can become a member of the middle (or upper middle) class and fail the majority by doing so. (we have the world’s most absurd education system in that regard. for the upper half it’s awesome. but for the lower half its a tragedy.)

    Germany does it about right. They focus on making the lower half excellent and so the upper half has better assets to work with that way. And it shows. Maybe Finland does it better. But they have a more homogenous society to work with so they can create a better universal educational system. But Finn’s are too timid in business. Germans are the most honest after americans. I notice that it’s actually easier to deal with germans than other americans and I have to stop myself from couching everything inoffensively when talking.

    I don’t really understand the UK system. And I have had very bad experiences there. So maybe I’m biased. People turn out more literate. The middle turns out pretty well and the top excellent. But the bottom is… not as bad as the states in incompetence, but worse than the states in rent seeking behavior. Our bottom end can’t find work but they don’t try to avoid it. I don’t understand the class in the UK that seeks to avoid labor at all costs, and do the minimum whenever possible. It could be that class exists all over Europe but I only have access to it in the UK and Canada. And it’s really visible to me in both the UK and Canada.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 11:53:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UK VS USA (worth repeating) I always want to smack Brits

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: UK VS USA

    (worth repeating)

    I always want to smack Brits for incompetence. But their view of competence is pleasing the boss, while our view is pleasing the customer while making sure the boss merely gets his cut.

    —

    It’s very interesting how much pride Americans take in customer service, and how they treat rules other than those about money as guidelines, and that rigorous attention to rules is a sign of incompetence.

    Whereas for Brits, rigorous adherence to rules is not only a civic duty, a moral mandate, but a matter of pride.

    These differences are expressions of American distaste for hierarchy and Continental fear of a vacuum of it.

    It also reflects American risk taking ( the stock market in the USA) versus British (the bond market in London .)

    And the difference in proactive rules in Europe, and reactive rules in the States.

    It explains American use of lawyers to resolve conflicts rather than European rules and processes to prevent them occurring.

    Everything is easier in the states by orders of magnitude for this reason.

    You will feel safer in Europe. You can get rich in the states just by working hard.

    It’s fascinating really.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 09:50:00 UTC

  • people and corruption: that’s why

    http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/opinion/columnists/Martinuk+Audit+reveals+many+First+Nations/10195873/story.html?relIndigenous people and corruption: that’s why.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 09:33:00 UTC

  • Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious: – The Turks LOOK fo

    Why do the turks run the restaurants in Ukraine? So obvious:

    – The Turks LOOK for something to do. (Just like european americans)

    – The Ukrainians wait until something MUST be done.

    – The Russians ONLY do things that they they were told to, and can’t get away with not doing. (Unless it involves shoving or hitting someone, which is an opportunity never to be missed).

    Any place that is clean is not run by Turks, Ukrainians or Russians – probably americans, or in the cases I’ve seen, people from western ukraine (less russified) that have seen enough of the world to want to bring the same standards here.

    Although I gotta say that americans here, in general, annoy the hell out of me. (it’s the ideology). But they work hard and are obsessively honest, and that’s still so rare and wonderful no matter where on earth you find it.

    I keep running into Brits that are such catholic-marxists in atheistic robes that I want to make them disappear in the night to save these people from them.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 11:10:00 UTC