Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I rea

    I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I read scientists. The principal purpose of reading philosophy is that once you’ve mastered the basics of the the major logics and sciences, you may want to know ‘how to do it wrong’ -so you can avoid it. Because that’s what philosophy means: how to do it wrong.

  • I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I rea

    I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I read scientists. The principal purpose of reading philosophy is that once you’ve mastered the basics of the the major logics and sciences, you may want to know ‘how to do it wrong’ -so you can avoid it. Because that’s what philosophy means: how to do it wrong.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 18:02:00 UTC

  • I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I rea

    I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I read scientists. The principal purpose of reading philosophy is that once you’ve mastered the basics of the the major logics and sciences, you may want to know ‘how to do it wrong’ -so you can avoid it. Because that’s what philosophy means: how to do it wrong.

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 17:59:00 UTC

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

  • Review: A Waste Of Photo Paper

    “At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East ” Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts Wesleyan University Aside from three or four shots that showed insight into stereotypical russian working class archetypes – which I found insulting as I assume they would – the work is worse than student quality – so much so that the viewer is left not pondering the image, but pondering why one would select such images other than for their lack of composition, content, and insight. Seriously. I know the art world has been a relative wasteland since the dawn of the digital age, and americans lack the culture and acculturation necessary to produce high arts. And I know the ‘new inspirationless and aspiration-less primitivism’ is meant to appeal to the rising anti-western underclasses now aspiring to upper middle class decor. So, why don’t we just rename Art in America, (New) American Painter, Art News, … the whole lot of them to “Proletarian Decoration in Western Civilization”? I have literally not seen a gallery show in over a decade that didn’t insult my intelligence and my aesthetics. God. What A Wasteland Aesthetics Has Become.

  • REVIEW: A WASTE OF PHOTO PAPER “At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New Ea

    REVIEW: A WASTE OF PHOTO PAPER

    “At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East “

    Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art

    Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm

    Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts

    Wesleyan University

    Aside from three or four shots that showed insight into stereotypical russian working class archetypes – which I found insulting as I assume they would – the work is worse than student quality – so much so that the viewer is left not pondering the image, but pondering why one would select such images other than for their lack of composition, content, and insight.

    Seriously. I know the art world has been a relative wasteland since the dawn of the digital age, and americans lack the culture and acculturation necessary to produce high arts. And I know the ‘new inspirationless and aspiration-less primitivism’ is meant to appeal to the rising anti-western underclasses now aspiring to upper middle class decor.

    So, why don’t we just rename Art in America,

    (New) American Painter, Art News, … the whole lot of them to “Proletarian Decoration in Western Civilization”?

    I have literally not seen a gallery show in over a decade that didn’t insult my intelligence and my aesthetics.

    God. What A Wasteland Aesthetics Has Become.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 17:37:00 UTC

  • Review: A Waste Of Photo Paper

    “At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East ” Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts Wesleyan University Aside from three or four shots that showed insight into stereotypical russian working class archetypes – which I found insulting as I assume they would – the work is worse than student quality – so much so that the viewer is left not pondering the image, but pondering why one would select such images other than for their lack of composition, content, and insight. Seriously. I know the art world has been a relative wasteland since the dawn of the digital age, and americans lack the culture and acculturation necessary to produce high arts. And I know the ‘new inspirationless and aspiration-less primitivism’ is meant to appeal to the rising anti-western underclasses now aspiring to upper middle class decor. So, why don’t we just rename Art in America, (New) American Painter, Art News, … the whole lot of them to “Proletarian Decoration in Western Civilization”? I have literally not seen a gallery show in over a decade that didn’t insult my intelligence and my aesthetics. God. What A Wasteland Aesthetics Has Become.

  • Defining Existence Versus Experience

    Existence = Persistence Experience = Non-Persistence 1) We must construct experiences in real time from a combination of brain structure (Vitruvianism), Memory(prior Perception and Association), and Perception(senses), and Association (the measure of which we have no means yet other than IQ to determine). 2) Existence persists independent of experience. 3) Some patterns (categories, relations, values) will always be experienced by human minds. 4) Human minds are indifferent in perception to the degree patterns are indifferently identified. 5) Cooperation is possible because of indifference in perception, indifference in incentives (acquisitions), and indifference in mirroring (sympathy and empathy).