Curt Doolittle

Theme: Responsibility

  • “Did you ever read Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon”? Some things can only be learned by su

    —“Did you ever read Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon”? Some things can only be learned by suffering–enduring the consequences of your agency.”—Chip Sills

    This kind of conflation of heroic effort with suffering is a christian mental disease. if it is some kind of suffering for you then you are mentally, physically, emotionally unfit or inferior…

    its just work.

    cancer, serious illness, pain, divorce, loss, this is not suffering but endurance.

    suffering is loss regardless of action. all else is work.

    If you make the choice it may be Work to achieve or Tragedy to fail to achieve, but Suffering is due to that which is beyond your actions.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-16 08:27:00 UTC

  • THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF INFANTILIZATION VS RESPONSIBILITY @jordanbpeterson #

    THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF INFANTILIZATION VS RESPONSIBILITY
    @jordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson https://t.co/nyqCPdqDZV

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 14:08:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062708847771553792

  • HEROISM AND COSTS by Luke Weinhagen Heroism is the application of virtue where t

    HEROISM AND COSTS

    by Luke Weinhagen

    Heroism is the application of virtue where that application has a potential direct cost to you.

    It is hard to train for directly because people interpret virtue so subjectively but training the foundation, overcoming inaction in the face of costs, is something anyone can do. Expose yourself to situation where you have a strong possibility to fail. Fail. Get back up.

    It is best if your parents do this for you as young as possible, but nowadays most parents don’t. So it is likely up to you.

    Find something you are motivated by (so you have a reason to get back up) that also offers you the likelihood of initial failure and overextend yourself into it (ideally not something that will kill you is you are just beginning to embrace failure).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 13:07:00 UTC

  • JOHN MARK: MEASURING OTHERS’ PROGRESS IN THE JOURNEY That spectrum/journey is th

    JOHN MARK: MEASURING OTHERS’ PROGRESS IN THE JOURNEY

    That spectrum/journey is the journey from hope in the ability to teach/shame/influence people into acting in a responsible and beneficial (reciprocal) manner (in accordance with natural law), to realizing that only the law (violence or threat of it) can do that.

    Now that I see it, I see it everywhere. So often I see people saying things like “The solution is for people to realize that (xyz)…” or “The solution is we have to teach people that (xyz)…” I recognize instantly that they are not far enough along on the spectrum/journey. –John Mark

    — He’s Referring to this —

    THE ARISTOCRATIC (RESPONSIBILITY) SALES FUNNEL

    All of the people who start out edgy, tend to move back up the sales funnel (wider audience) because they perceive they are doing more good with wider reach, by driving more people into the sales funnel.

    Everyone has to move thu the ‘sales funnel’ from well meaning fool to man of agency.

    I did it and it sure seems like most other men do.

    “Nice Person” > Social Democracy > Classical Liberalism > Libertarianism > anarcho capitalism > Neo Reaction > Propertarianism > (some version of , fuck it, let’s just impose it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 11:40:00 UTC

  • THE ARISTOCRATIC (RESPONSIBILITY) SALES FUNNEL All of the people who start out e

    THE ARISTOCRATIC (RESPONSIBILITY) SALES FUNNEL

    All of the people who start out edgy, tend to move back up the sales funnel (wider audience) because they perceive they are doing more good with wider reach, by driving more people into the sales funnel.

    Everyone has to move thu the ‘sales funnel’ from well meaning fool to man of agency.

    I did it and it sure seems like most other men do.

    “Nice Person” > Social Democracy > Classical Liberalism > Libertarianism > anarcho capitalism > Neo Reaction > Propertarianism > (some version of , fuck it, let’s just impose it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-14 10:35:00 UTC

  • ( Personal: Because I am divorced, and unmarried, I am single. But that does not

    ( Personal: Because I am divorced, and unmarried, I am single. But that does not mean I am available. I do not expose my female significant others to bearing the cost of my public persona. The folks who went after my daughter taught me not to. My ex-wife put a clause in our divorce agreement because she was prescient. And I suspect that as I increasingly peel back the layers of the onion of my work these proxy attacks will only accelerate. I *THRIVE* on attacks. It energizes me. That does not mean that those around me feel the same. 😉 So, don’t even think about calling me an incel. Charismatic men garner female attention merely by paying attention (i don’t pay attention much really). And there are plenty of women attracted to smart, dominant, charismatic males – and it only improves with age, as more and more men ‘fall behind’ by not maintaining their market value. I generated a reputation for being a bit of a player for the purpose of brand building by demonstrating charisma – despite my stature. But, the truth is that I am a dedicated monogamist, who treats my significant other as my best friend and center of my universe. I’m a TRAD MALE at home. And I suppose it’s purely genetic. Cheers.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-13 09:35:00 UTC

  • So, the issue now is just actuarial – what are the chances you expose others to

    So, the issue now is just actuarial – what are the chances you expose others to harm.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-12 23:45:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062129235970670592

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  • THE ENEMY DOESN’T REQUIRE INTENT, ONLY FAILURE OF DUE DILIGENCE by John Mark Thi

    THE ENEMY DOESN’T REQUIRE INTENT, ONLY FAILURE OF DUE DILIGENCE

    by John Mark

    This is *massively* important.

    Being sincerely wrong because you didn’t do due diligence (you didn’t study and question your priors sufficiently) is *just as destructive* as being malicious. And it allows you to be a useful idiot tool in the hands of those who would destroy all we value.

    This is why I have started telling civnats that still believe in the false religion of equality, “You are my enemy, because you are unwittingly working for my enemy, and until you fix that, I must treat you as an enemy.”

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-11 14:26:00 UTC

  • As eli so thoroughly demonstrates, we don’t prosecute you on your intentions alo

    As eli so thoroughly demonstrates, we don’t prosecute you on your intentions alone, but on your failure to perform due diligence. This eliminates the ((())) model under which one can claim innocence of intent under conditions of creating moral hazard, which one then benefits from.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-11 13:00:00 UTC

  • WHY ISN’T NEGLIGENT GENOCIDE A CRIME? by Eli Harman If “negligent homicide” is a

    WHY ISN’T NEGLIGENT GENOCIDE A CRIME?

    by Eli Harman

    If “negligent homicide” is a thing? Why not “negligent genocide?”

    It’s possible that some misguided fools genuinely believe that a world teeming with “crossbreeds” with no identity and no culture is a good and beautiful thing. I never thought of it that way.

    I always appreciate the historical accomplishments of Western, meaning white, civilization and mourned their possibly inevitable future loss. I say “possibly inevitable” because when I gave my loyalty to individualist principles, similar to Jordan Peterson’s, I didn’t see any way to prevent it. Nothing to do but make that leap and hope for the best.

    But we have all the evidence we need now to banish hope. Not one great, city, nation, or civilization has been improved by the inclusion of dependent, third world, hordes. And everywhere the process has gotten suitably advanced is a total disaster.

    London used to be capital of a great empire. Now it’s the capital of acid attacks. Detroit used to be an unmatched industrial center. Now it’s rotting back into the weeds.

    Multiculturalism doesn’t lead to “Star Trek.” It leads to Brazil or South Africa. But it turns out that preventing that is a simple matter of abandoning unworkable and undesirable individualist principles. If any fools still don’t understand, it’s because they are willfully ignorant. That is not a valid excuse any longer. All the evidence one needs is readily available.

    But some of our would-be genociders are not ignorant, misguided, nor foolish.

    They are deadly serious.

    For them, “Star Trek” was never the point.

    Only the destruction of Western Civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-11 12:55:00 UTC