Author: CurtD59

Jan 9, 2020, 4:04 PM Missed this, but omfg, yes it’s that simple. I am a Stoic if: 1) I live in accordance with natural law and reason; 2) I avoid fallacy of sunk costs in everything; 3) I limit my attention to what is actionable; 4) I am never a victim of circumstances as…

Jan 9, 2020, 5:03 PM RECIPE A Heroic Narrative of Truth, Duty, Oath and Contract, Heroism, Excellence, Achievement, Mindfulness and The direction of dominance expression to the production of commons. Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, The universal military as the polity, The individual as the subject of Law and the Family as the subject of Policy Aristotelianism: Realism,…

Jan 10, 2020, 12:02 PM The problem is, that as neoteny increases so apparently does possibility mental illness, and ‘the pill’ increases possibility of mental illness – so the masculine brain (autism spectrum) is the only defense against the two sides (agency, mental illness) of neoteny (slowing and limiting rate and depth of maturity). Ties…

Jan 10, 2020, 12:57 PM by Brandon Hayes Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth; it’s 2020. Take a good look at it. Look at it again. If you don’t like it, there’s a single way to change it; accept it and modify it along the lines of natural law; reciprocity; and make something…

Jan 10, 2020, 2:48 PM Competitiveness isn’t always a good thing to wish in yourself. For those of us that are hyper competitive, the warfare – so to speak – is more enjoyable than the loot that comes from winning it. I don’t like internal conflict but I love external competition. All of us that…

Jan 10, 2020, 4:01 PM —“At the risk of getting you started 🙂 , what is your take on Integral politics, philosophy, or whatever?”—?Frank Chandler I love it that you asked the question honestly. lol. Wilber’s Integral theory, much like say, MBTI vs Big5/Moral Foundations is a pseudoscientific framework for a rather obvious empirical pattern,…

Jan 10, 2020, 4:23 PM by Scott De Warren European democracy (a rare and delicate bird) was exclusively aristocratic from ancient Hellas down to modern times. The French counter-enlightenment spread the obvious lie of human equality to justify the proletarian revolution (overthrow of demonstrated excellence in governance) through the universal franchise. When leftists conflate the…

Jan 11, 2020, 10:47 AM I’m on the aspie borderline enough that as a child it was very stressful, as an adult an extraordinary competitive advantage, and as a mature adult a superpower. And so, it is far easier to learn social graces and small talk than to learn to master subject after subject after…

Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim…

—“Colonial Slavery was Cultural Appropriation from Islam”–

Jan 12, 2020, 4:08 PM —“Curt Doolittle there is objective truth. Not sure the reasoning to say otherwise.”—Tim Abbott Well, that’s ’cause you’re taking advantage of a weakness in english (and most) grammar. This allows you the confidence to claim you understand something when you don’t. 1) Try to say that without the verb to-be.…

Jan 13, 2020, 3:25 AM What are you talking about? IQ is the most studied, most empirical, most accurate, and most consistent subject in psychology? The 60’s and 70’s were the scientific dark ages as the pseudoscience of marxism and sophistry of postmodernism had their largest affect on soft sciences. We combine IQ with Bi5…

Jan 13, 2020, 3:54 PM —“I wasn’t sure where to ask these questions. If it’s easier to just give me a link to read answers, then please do.  1) Who does get to vote? 2) Do we retain a representative republic? If not, what replaces it?”— A Friend To answer those questions clearly I have…

Jan 13, 2020, 4:42 PM Sorry by “Parasitism”, “Rent Seeking”, and “Free Riding” are demonstrably the universally preferable behavior (UPB). It takes a majority middle class for demand for reciprocity. Man is amoral, not moral. Morality is just advantageous because we’re superpredators – and dangerous.

Jan 13, 2020, 5:17 PM —“… government under p-constitution”— Most people talk about government rather than law and economics because they understand the triviality of decision by majority (voting). But the solution to ‘government’ isn’t government it’s law so that any government can succeed dependent upon the scale of the polity. And once we fix…

Jan 13, 2020, 5:21 PM In the division of sensory, perceptual, cognitive, preferential, labor, men and women are compatible, not equal. We are not equal in any meaningful way, because ‘meaningful’ means ‘exceptional’. Stop thinking of people as ideals (that’s a monotheistic evil cancer of the mind) and think of us as extended families with…

Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties becasue of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due distrespect or even punishment if we do not…

Jan 13, 2020, 6:11 PM Humans require agency. A masculine cognitive bias favors agency. I am not sure the world would populate very successfully with exclusively male-minded females. My present understanding is that women evolved to carry a very heavy emotional cognitive load necessary for rearing multiple children. Agency appears to develop in women as…

Jan 14, 2020, 11:13 AM —“so is ok for a person who has made a lot of money to loan it out to people who need money for a fee? That is capitalism baby.”— ^Non logical. Investment in production vs rent seeking on consumption. Every half truth in libertarianism obscures a greater lie. The function…

Jan 14, 2020, 12:19 PM by John Mark Curt, 3 questions/clarifications: QUESTION 1. Do I understand correctly that each state can choose who gets to vote (depending on what system they choose from the options presented) BUT only citizens can vote – and because the bar for citizenship is so high, most people will not…

—“Millennials today are 19th century Russian serfs, in a gig economy – they don’t own anything, or have any kids … because the public is intentionally economically ignorant … they’ve destroyed the middle class.”— Steve Bannon (today)

Jan 15, 2020, 1:04 PM —“Could you please explain what you mean by “the problem of hard currency”?”—Niklas Wagner 0) Money Proper means Commodity Money (a commodity used for monetary purposes in exchange. It must be light and of limited volume, and indexed (with a measurement), and either scarce by it’s limited existence in the…

Jan 15, 2020, 1:25 PM —“Thank you! I guess I have to unlearn the libertarian notion that fiat currencies are always some kind of fraud or manipulation game. Would there be bailouts for banks under the propertarian government?”— Niklas Wagner Great question. 1) Fiat currencies are an exception innovation in monetary technology as is digital…

Jan 15, 2020, 3:06 PM No. Because with large corporations we need via-negativa in courts to be able to correct bad behavior. And the state (politicians) are too easily (and frequently) bought. Furthermore they are too economically illiterate to comprehend the choices, and left-economists too dominant as consultants. (Obama only asked left wing jewish economists:…

Jan 15, 2020, 3:10 PM Agricultural goods, construction, and housing are efficient. Is that a good thing? Food other than meat is almost free. Why shouldn’t we drive up the cost of agricultural goods, construction, and ‘materials production’ (steel etc) and housing as the returns we can produce? In other words, at what point are…