Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • Getting Un-Lost: It’s All of the Above: Genetic, Cultural, Institutional, Territorial

    [I] think I have lost a bunch of you. It seems we get truth. It seems we get the high trust society. It seems we get the western model of truth and trust produce economic velocity. It seems we get the reproductive division of perception and cognition. It seems we get that the anglo saxon and classical liberal model could not tolerate the enfranchisement of women and the loss of the church as a separate house of government. It seems we get the century of mysticism, pseudoscience and propaganda caused by the Jewish century – now at an end.

    But now that I venture into history in search of motivation to restore or sense of kin selection, it seems like everyone wants a single axis of causation: genetic, cultural, institutional, territorial. But it’s all of them. Not one.

  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.

  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.

  • Grid of Cultural Tactics

    1) TRUTH AND DECEIT,
    2) MASCULINE AND FEMININE,
    3) HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS.

    ———————TRUTH——————————
    MASCULINE————————-FEMININE
    —————————————————————-
    TEXAS………..GERMAN…………BRITISH 
    …………………..JAPAN…………….FRENCH
    ……………………………………………LATIN
    AMERICAN………………………….HINDU
    …………………..CHINA…………………………..
    ISLAM……….. RUSSIA……………JUDAISM
    —————————————————————
    ——————DECEPTION—————

    Note that the american/hindu line represents “idealism” more so than deception.
    Latins and french are pragmatic.  Anglos and Germans ‘truthful’.

    More later. Just capturing the idea while I’m thinking of it.

    Source: (3) Curt Doolittle

  • Grid of Cultural Tactics

    1) TRUTH AND DECEIT,
    2) MASCULINE AND FEMININE,
    3) HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS.

    ———————TRUTH——————————
    MASCULINE————————-FEMININE
    —————————————————————-
    TEXAS………..GERMAN…………BRITISH 
    …………………..JAPAN…………….FRENCH
    ……………………………………………LATIN
    AMERICAN………………………….HINDU
    …………………..CHINA…………………………..
    ISLAM……….. RUSSIA……………JUDAISM
    —————————————————————
    ——————DECEPTION—————

    Note that the american/hindu line represents “idealism” more so than deception.
    Latins and french are pragmatic.  Anglos and Germans ‘truthful’.

    More later. Just capturing the idea while I’m thinking of it.

    Source: (3) Curt Doolittle

  • Universalism: The Love of Man

    [S]orry all, but while I argue to advance my tribe, I also seek to advance all tribes through aristocratic egalitarianism (meritocracy), testimonial truth, and propertarianism. My political solution is very simple: non-parasitism, voluntary exchange, rule of law, common law, jury and truth telling. Truth is enough to restore our civilization to greatness by a radical innovation in the construction of commons. And to do the same for any other civilization if they are able to learn truth telling.

    I’ve been very consistent in my position: the only material differences between the races of man are caused by (a) differences in distributions of reproductive desirability and (b) differences in distributions of intelligence, aggressiveness, and impulsivity. And that these differences are caused by different rates of reproduction of the different classes. There are exceptional people in all races and tribes. There are more exceptional people in the white tribe because we invented truth, because we suppressed the reproduction of the lower classes, and because we are less aggressive and impulsive – we have a lower time preference. A population’s abilities determine the quality of it’s informal and formal institutions, and that those institutions are tragically imprisoning when combined with a population whose median is below 106. So the problem facing EVERY tribe is how to get its population above a median of 106. And in the future, that number might be even higher. ANTI-PARASITISM, PREFERENCE FOR KIN-SELECTION, and SEPARATISM are not the same thing as NON-COOPERATION. Our meritocratic aristocracies are marginally indifferent, and easily can cooperate, because they are not reliant on kin for information, signals, production, reproduction, and cooperation. It is not our similarities that cause conflict. It is the dissimilarities between our lower classes that cause us conflict. I will sacrifice for my kin. I refuse parasitism by non-kin. I refuse to shift reproductive velocity from the upper to the lower classes no matter how profitable it is. I refuse to take the one truth telling civilization on earth and reduce it to yet another group of parasitic liars. I refuse to limit humanity’s future by surrendering our people to dysgenia. But I also refuse to blame others for our failures. I refuse to abandon cooperation with other tribes. And I refuse to abandon the rest of humanity to the predation of parasitic elites. Aristocracy cannot include everyone but it can serve everyone. Aristocracy for everyone, if not of everyone. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Universalism: The Love of Man

    [S]orry all, but while I argue to advance my tribe, I also seek to advance all tribes through aristocratic egalitarianism (meritocracy), testimonial truth, and propertarianism. My political solution is very simple: non-parasitism, voluntary exchange, rule of law, common law, jury and truth telling. Truth is enough to restore our civilization to greatness by a radical innovation in the construction of commons. And to do the same for any other civilization if they are able to learn truth telling.

    I’ve been very consistent in my position: the only material differences between the races of man are caused by (a) differences in distributions of reproductive desirability and (b) differences in distributions of intelligence, aggressiveness, and impulsivity. And that these differences are caused by different rates of reproduction of the different classes. There are exceptional people in all races and tribes. There are more exceptional people in the white tribe because we invented truth, because we suppressed the reproduction of the lower classes, and because we are less aggressive and impulsive – we have a lower time preference. A population’s abilities determine the quality of it’s informal and formal institutions, and that those institutions are tragically imprisoning when combined with a population whose median is below 106. So the problem facing EVERY tribe is how to get its population above a median of 106. And in the future, that number might be even higher. ANTI-PARASITISM, PREFERENCE FOR KIN-SELECTION, and SEPARATISM are not the same thing as NON-COOPERATION. Our meritocratic aristocracies are marginally indifferent, and easily can cooperate, because they are not reliant on kin for information, signals, production, reproduction, and cooperation. It is not our similarities that cause conflict. It is the dissimilarities between our lower classes that cause us conflict. I will sacrifice for my kin. I refuse parasitism by non-kin. I refuse to shift reproductive velocity from the upper to the lower classes no matter how profitable it is. I refuse to take the one truth telling civilization on earth and reduce it to yet another group of parasitic liars. I refuse to limit humanity’s future by surrendering our people to dysgenia. But I also refuse to blame others for our failures. I refuse to abandon cooperation with other tribes. And I refuse to abandon the rest of humanity to the predation of parasitic elites. Aristocracy cannot include everyone but it can serve everyone. Aristocracy for everyone, if not of everyone. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • How To Repair The Western Press?

    [R]oman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state. Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers.

    And it’s much easier for a ‘journalist’ to report on someone’s feelings, and speech than it is to report on facts and incentives. It’s much easier to create moral outrage or high ground with verbalism that obscures incentives, rather than the incentives themselves. To report ‘scientifically’ is possible with propertarian incentives and testimonial truth. We can systematically criticize what people say, and report on their incentives rather than their propaganda. But that means retraining a lot of ‘journalists’ and eliminating the perverse incentives that we have produced with the popular press. And the press, who free rides on destruction of the informational commons, may not like carrying the burden. On the other hand, we would have a lot fewer ‘journalists’ and they would be highly respected – and highly paid. And I think that’s something all of us would like.

  • How To Repair The Western Press?

    [R]oman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state. Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers.

    And it’s much easier for a ‘journalist’ to report on someone’s feelings, and speech than it is to report on facts and incentives. It’s much easier to create moral outrage or high ground with verbalism that obscures incentives, rather than the incentives themselves. To report ‘scientifically’ is possible with propertarian incentives and testimonial truth. We can systematically criticize what people say, and report on their incentives rather than their propaganda. But that means retraining a lot of ‘journalists’ and eliminating the perverse incentives that we have produced with the popular press. And the press, who free rides on destruction of the informational commons, may not like carrying the burden. On the other hand, we would have a lot fewer ‘journalists’ and they would be highly respected – and highly paid. And I think that’s something all of us would like.

  • Choice: Truth vs Lies

    [W]E HAVE A CHOICE: Truth and Trade (propertarianism) -versus- Lies and Takings (progressivism) Source: (2) Curt Doolittle