Year: 2016

Of all the skills we can be taught the Trivium is the most important. It is the art of testimony – of teaching all children to judge the truth or falsehood of statements. Why would you no longer teach Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric? Unless you wanted children to lie? The Trivium Gives Us Skills in…

I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only…

—“A revolution is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership. and government activity and policies. Revolutions are thus to be distinguished from insurrections, rebellions, revolts, coups, and wars of independence. A coup d’etat in itself changes only leadership and…

Sometimes we must make hard choices. Because there are no easy choices left to make. When we do, that which we valued above all the day before, we may not value the day after. I am as much a fool as any other fellow. My folly is in things that others find trivial. Just as…

“[D]ear Leftists. You are not safe. You never were. You never can be. That is your greatest folly. We have been patient. But we will come for you. And when we come for you, we will have no mercy.

1) Ideas required of Philosophers, Prophets and Kings. 2) Strategy required of Leaders. 3) Plans required of Organizers. 4) Belief is required of Followers. —“Your list is complete, because the reverse is true.. If you have ideas, you become a philosopher If you have a strategy, you become a leader If you produce plans, you…

(h/t Eli Harman) Note: it is against the geneva convention to kill a someone engaged in war on the behalf of a state. To say that we will not kill the family of a terrorist is to say that we are in fact at war with them. But the purpose of the geneva convention is…

(VERY IMPORTANT PIECE) (h/t: eli harman) [P]ilpul is a craft. It is ‘the art of lying’. It is one of the oldest written arts. The art of justifying anything. The art of loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion. The art of constructing loaded relations in the mind so that a justification for for a desired action…

[W]here we speak of god as an anthropomorphic representation of natural law, and physical law, he is a pedagogical device. Where we speak of gods as anthropomorphic representations of the virtues we aspire to, they are pedagogical devices. Both provide us with analogies to experience that we require for learning, while informing our moral intuitions…

( Dear idiot. Actually, I work. I work every freaking day. I work hard. I work harder than most men have the ability to, or can comprehend working. I gave up everything in my life to do this work. I mastered my craft. With that craft I have made an art. I am fully aware…

[I]f you want to bitch about others I have no time for it. Each group pursues its group evolutionary strategy. It is as foolish to criticize a gypsy, jew, or muslim as it is to criticize a cow or an ape. They know no better. The problem is not them. The problem is US. If…

[I] will insure the liberty of any man of any race in any territory, by use of art and arms, who will insure my liberty in return by use of art and arms. This is Paternalism. Sovereignty. Nobility. Aristocracy. To raise mankind from beast to god – one generation, one father, at a time.

[I] am not a racist. I am a truth-ist. A class-ist. A national-ist. A universal-ist. A Human-ist. Every family, tribe, nation can be sacred because it can be raised into divinity over generations by disciplined fathers of families, tribes and nations. Whether Father, King, or Emperor; we have but one purpose if we are to…

Bitching about others is just a way to excuse yourself for doing nothing. Solve problems. Lead. Take direction from those who solve problems. Act. Follow others who are solving problems. Be a mob. A militia. An army. A nation. As an individual who complains you are just a woman with a dick that’s engaging in…

Lean esto y lloren. Curt dicta cátedra de filosofía en sólo unas líneas. Pregunta y respuestas: “Sr. Curt Doolittle, ¿es el misticismo cristiano una aproximación funcional o estructural a las cosas? [B]ueno, ésa es una pregunta interesante. “Funcional”, “Estructural”, y “aproximación a las cosas” son términos problemáticos. Si clarificamos la terminología, lo cual es el…

–“or put another way “But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them”.— [L]aurence, (Danny), Exactly. I tend to describe this problem as the Point of View in the grammar of testimony. (my emphasis being…

[O]bjective Morality consists of prohibitions on the impositions of costs upon others that would provide a disincentive for cooperation. We produce many norms that we treat as morality, just as we produce political commands that we treat as law. But norms are not necessarily moral, and legislation is rarely law. We also conflate heroism with…

Note: the O’henry ending is that given the alternatives why would you claim monotheism was not wrong except for immoral ends? How can you prove monotheism wrong, Mr. Doolittle? [W]ell that depends upon your concept of Gods. If you say that there is one set of optimum laws of man and nature then I would…

–“Curt: Political power ultimately originates from Economics or exchange, right?”— [I] am not sure I understand this question. There are three methods of power: 1) force, 2) payment, 3) gossip. One can use those three methods exclusively or in combination to band together into groups or hierarchies, and the focus the group’s efforts on the…