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The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All
It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the…
Stoicism Is Even More Important for Women than It Is for Men
—“Stoicism has cleared my thinking dramatically. Its so naturally easy for us women to get sucked into our emotions and feminism has made it so we can’t be held accountable. So women are in the mind set that they can’t control their emotions, where stoicism teaches you that you can. I heard that Stoicism was…
An Informational Approach to Stoicism.
by Moritz Bierling from December 2, 2016 (repost) An Informational Approach to Stoicism Stoicism is essentially a software fix to a hardware fact: humans tend to emphasize or experience negative thoughts more strongly by roughly a factor of 2. Daniel Kahneman’s research into what is now codified under the term “behavioral economics” has shown this…
Um, Underclass Reproduction Is Oppression of The Entire Polity.
—“The classes were not oppressed, but domesticated through the use of organized violence, manorialism, and religion to cull sufficient numbers from the population that only those not a drag on the rest of humanity remained.”—Curt Doolittle —“Um since when does this so-called “domestication” not count as oppression?”—Ian Heckman, PhD student in philosophy. I think most…
–“curt What Do You Make of High Iq White Male New Englanders Voting Blue?”–
—“Curt what do you make of high IQ white male New Englanders voting blue? I’ve heard you argue it’s signaling for status but is it reducible entirely to that?”—Tim Spillane It’s actually pretty simple: Connecticut: Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, Fairfield County (Essentially Long island in ct), dead-manufacturing( old GM, current United Technologies.) Irish, Italian, puerto rican.…
At Some Point the Middle Class Seeks Profit at The Expense of The Nation
—“So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass, how before long the golden age, and how long before the descendants destroy what their ancestors built? Can they do it on their own or do they always import/strengthen an underclass?”—A Friend ^Exactly the problem. That’s right. At some point The middle class…
Pilpul Is as Easily Identifiable as Its Negative: Critique
—“I am somewhat curious as to why you blocked me from your timeline. …… You do come across as an intellectual, being an educated philosopher, I am just very surprised that an intellectual would have such a disdain for a fluid free flow of dialogue even if it does come from a position that might…
Why Is (was) Psychology a Pseudoscience?
—“You said Psychology is not a science. Can you explain this argument as you have done with Marxism? Thanks”—Jamie Watson PSEUDOSCIENCE (AND RELIGION – THE FEMININE) (a) based entirely upon projection – with no empirical content (meaning ‘no system of measurement’), (b) framed as authoritarian (monopoly) demand for homogeneity as its system of measurement (c)…
Can a Science of Psychology Exist?
(only if it is demarcated from therapy) —“Do you think there can be any valid or empirical discipline called “psychology”?”—-Gearóid Walsh Great Question. At present I undrestand psychology (as a science) as the study of cognitive biases and limits, in the perception and cognition of information. At present I understand it is possible to integrate…
Scientism Is Shaming Unless You Mean Positivism – I Don’t. I Do Testimonialism.
—“I may be mistaken here, but your thinking on economics, identity politics, making choices, is based on Scientism.”—Mark Goodkin Well, that’s just name calling unless we can operationalize that as a test of truth, contingency, or falsehood. As far as I know we continuously converge on increases in precision using logical and physical instrumentation (science),…
—“Why Isn”t Marxism Taught Outside of Philosophy and Literature”—
Um. BECAUSE ITS FALSE (Actually it’s pseudoscientific nonsense). In fact, it’s the subject of ridicule in economics precisely because it is false (pseudoscientific nonsense). It’s false on the premises: 1) Value is subjective and marginal, and determined at the point of sale. period. 2) Value is created by the use of incentives to produce a…
The ghastly crimes the Jews had been committing against Ukrainians under the guise of ‘Bolshevism’.
—“The Ukrainians started rounding up Jews and killing hundreds, probably thousands, of Jews by clubbing them to death in the streets really the minute the Germans entered their lands. Not because of ‘irrational hate’, but because of the ghastly crimes the Jews had been committing against them under the guise of ‘Bolshevism’. The ‘holocaust’ saga…
The So-Called Trans Atlantic Alliance
FALSE FRAMING 1: It’s not an alliance. The core state of Europe is and was Germany, and Germany(Sparta/Army) was conquered and has been a client state of Anglo civilization(Athens/Navy). USA Can no longer afford Client States without the Petrodollar to fund policing world trade. FALSE FRAMING 2: The reasons Europe can virtue signal opposition to…
The Grammar of Pseudoscience
(Sorry for interjecting on your post but it’s such a great example of psychologism versus incentives, it’s hard to let the opportunity pass.) INTERSECTIONALITY: The study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it the study of formal and informal institutions,…
The Atlantic’s 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits.
Retweeted Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer): Here are demographics of “The Atlantic’s” 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits. I found backgrounds of 48.5 of the 50: 96% white 82% male 50% ethnically Jewish 23% ethnically R Catholic 20% ethnically Protestant 3% Armenian 2% black 1% Hisp 2% Muslim https://t.co/O8JMvNw3wj
No, Philosophy(choice) Is Subordinate to Science (truth)
Again, economics and law, defeat philosophy, religious tradition, and moral justificationism. Demonstrated vs Reported. Always and everywhere. —“Philosophy is more fundamental than economics. The notion of making choices, based on rewards and punishment, implies some form of ethics, which itself is a branch of philosophy. Economics is not a floating abstract, disconnected from ethics or…
There Is No Neutral Territory for Gods
The strong do not start from the position of equality, or of desire for cooperation, but from the presumption that either you and yours create value via a productive exchange, or one’s you and yours are better punished, enserfed, enslaved, imprisoned, or killed. We deprive enemies of boycott. Either trade productively or die. Otherwise you…
Every Woman Is Pandora, and We Are the Guardians of The Box.
Love women. Do not debate women. Never debate women over preference or good, only possible or impossible. Women cannot tolerate refutation of their emotions. This is what deprives them of agency. They cannot tolerate being at fault in the minds of others – only when they fault themselves. Women’s “Intuitions (impulses)” are almost unbearable, and…
Intelligence and Political Affiliation: Scale Causes Regression To The Mean
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-intelligence-average-IQ-test-scores-any-calculated-metric-of-the-average-American-conservative/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=54709e6f&srid=u4Qv ALL THREE OF THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE (And obvious.) 1) Libertarians(7%) are smarter than Liberals(25%). 2) Republicans(26%) are smarter than Democrats(29%). 3) Liberals(25%) are smarter than Conservatives(36%). Why? Increases in size of groups regresses to the mean. (Again, obvious). Smaller groups of educated people will test higher than larger groups. PROBLEMS WITH ALL SUCH…
Monogamy Is Eugenic, Not Polygamy.
—“Monogamy is eugenic, not polygamy. That seems counterintuitive, because elite men can be much more reproductively successful under polygamy. And they are, with lower quality women, because that’s the only way elite men can have several, by mating down. So low status women are reproductively more successful under polygamy and high status women relatively less…