Paragone
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- Comment on The jokes write themselves... 6 hours ago:
I think that Retraction Watch needs to do an institution leaderboard, to highlight which are the most, & least, corrupt institutions, because corruption’s a cultural thing, not merely an individual-thing.
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- Comment on Is creatine safe? 6 hours ago:
- creatine-supplementation measurable improved the memory if vegans, in some experiment … I think that was in Australia, some years ago…
( I consistently supplement with choline, when vegan, because the choline-deficiency is bluntly a kind of chronic-fatigue-syndrome, & I’m fed-up with health-problems. Eating eggs corrects the choline-deficiency, but blocks me from reaching better-quality meditations, which also is aweful/wrong )
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the dosages recommended by the pushers of products are consistently waaay too high, whether laundry-detergents or health-supplements. I use less than 1/2 of the scoop-size, when supplementing with the stuff, because I can feel how wrong it makes my biochemistry when taking the amount they want me taking.
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always trust your body’s healthsense over what the label pushes you to do, & remember that your-biochemistry may well be incompatible with some “fixes” that pushers are profiting from.
Sorry to be cynical, but that’s what evidence has convinced me of.
Whether creatine damages kidneys would be dependent on dosage, obviously.
Apparently the doctor claiming it damages kidneys doesn’t consider dosage important?
That’s as bogus as the supplement-industry’s pretense that the same dosage is right for all different sizes of people, of all metabolisms, of all sexes/genders/hormonal-balances: pseudoscience, absolute.
Proper dosages are when you calibrate to units-per-kg-of-<type-of-animal>.
So, for me, it might be that taking ( 75 / 10 / 4 )g/day of creatine per 75kg of bodyweight, might be right.
Or something like that.
I know from Gershon’s book “The Second Brain”, that glutamine-supplements FRY the nervous-system of the gut, as nicotene does…
& that’ll never get well-known in the supplement-industry, because of how it’d gimp easy-profits…
Some things are just too outside natural-chemistry to do any good ( like chemically-pure glutamine ), & sometimes it’s the insane dosages, compared with normal food, that’s the problem…
but it isn’t logical to claim that there is no safe dosage for creatine, since dosages can go down to infinitesimal: that isn’t logical.
There has to be a safe level for it, unless it’s intrinsically harmful, in its pure form.
I’m certain that the pushed dosages will harm kidneys, though.
So, seen in that light, yeah: if taking what the pushers want you taking, then yes, that’ll probably damage your kidneys.
There’s a limit to what they can deal-with…
I knew a guy who’d worked in a hospital, & he told me he 1 time had to watch a patient destroy their own life by overdosing with vitamin-C: they crushed their kidneys from the inside, with stones.
They wouldn’t listen, & that was that: they kept overdosing until they died.
Didn’t get deemed valid by the megadose-vitamin-C crowd, obviously…
but how could any organ in our body possibly deal with insane quantities of some single-chemical that they aren’t evolved-for, you know?
I just looked at PubMed:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=creatine+kidney
& glanced into the 2nd item I saw, & it stated plainly that unless someone has a kidney condition, it’s safe, as far as evidence-based-medicine is concerned.
hth,
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- Comment on Hillary Clinton derides her Epstein deposition as GOP ‘political theater’ 7 hours ago:
No, she didn’t deride her deposition as political theatre, she derided the sham “accountability” oversight committee which won’t have Trump testify under oath, as political theatre.
Wapo’s false-framing it.
The actual text of her deposition was on some imgur image-set, & it was well-considered, intelligent, & accurate.
couldn’t find it on imgur, here’s the ONLY copy I could find through either DuckDuckGo or Google:
reddit.com/…/hillary_clinton_shares_her_opening_s…
how “wonderful” it is that internet-search keeps making crucial-history unfindable…
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- Comment on Astrophysics turned upside down by unique ‘inside out’ planetary system 1 day ago:
I think they’re missing something fundamental:
the outer rocky-planet could well have formed closer, but been lobbed out, by gravitational-interaction.
There’s NO reason to believe that every body in a current solar-relative-position “always” was there.
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- Comment on Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul 1 day ago:
I read about a fuckup in the 911-phone-system in some jurisdiction, some years ago:
they had blaring-siren hammer any phone which dialed 911, & someone who was hiding-from a house-invader dialed it, … thereby blowing their concealment.
PLEASE get them to understand that they NEED to make their alarm-system NOT override any emergency-services-hotline call, for the sake of people in such situations.
It wouldn’t kill many people per year, but I’d rather have that be none, than few, right?
( I’m not Aussie, & have zero clue who’d need to be informed of the risk )
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- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 1 day ago:
Not quite:
There’s a grain of truth in “progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of”, & that is that naive-communism is something that people who’ve HAD TO find-out just how different people are, ought be all treated the same.
What’s required is a level-playing-field, hard-walls for limiting corruption/criminality, AND the ability to earn one’s own success, but not disproportionately ( at the expense of the ones doing the majority of the work that the success is made-of ).
That differentiation isn’t something that the instinct of the young groks.
It’s like the fact that neurotypical-children younger than 4-yo simply don’t understand that some people you have to give-up-on: it doesn’t compute.
Identically, the communist “nobody-ever-contributes-more-than-any-other” braindeadness only owns the young/immature, not the people who’ve had to fight-for their own mental-potential.
The old saw about "in a ham & eggs dinner, the hen’s involved but the pig’s committed … " holds true.
“skin in the game” is another way of saying the same thing.
People have to be able to work-for the unique-potential that G-D/karma/Universe put in them, XOR that potential starts atrophying at whole-society-level ( part of what sunk the Soviet Union ).
Communism puts a lid on individual-validity, individual-contribution, individual-accomplishment, for sake of homogenousness.
& that is delusion.
But that is delusion that the young often believe-in, because they’ve not-yet experienced having their unique-potential systematically-snuffed by “the party”, for sake of homogenousness.
I was “lucky”, & lived in Ottawa, Canada’s equivalent to Washington D.C., so I got to have the condescention, the gaslighting, the machiavellianism of committee “help” snuffing my potential without living within any communist country.
A … Dutch? shelled-moluscs scientist, eye-blind, he “sees” through his fingers … identified that in communism, nobody takes care of anything, because nobody owns anything.
& then, decades after reading his book, discovered that Marx’s delusion was that in communism, everybody would be owning everything, together, in wholistic & happy fraternity.
IOW the opposite of what the evidence actually proved to be true: the essence of communism is brutalism.
So, all this to say that yes, there is a fundamental-difference between young-naive-wokeness & old-objective-wokeness, so there is a grain of truth in that saying, but to pretend that that statement is “true” is defective.
& many reject the naive-left/progressive position & go instead to fascism, of course, with its simplistic “thinking” & its “alphaness” proving its “validity” ( according to its simplistic-standards )…
That doesn’t prove that it’s “more mature” than naive-progressivism: it’s only a reaction against the original naiveness, is all…
It’s when one outgrows the whole category of ideology, then one truly is getting somewhere.
That makes things difficult, of course, as now EVERYTHING requires considered-reasoning, & NOBODY wants some asshole who holds that the entire-category of ideology, including their ideology need be tested with rigorous-thinking…
but integrity’s worth more than belonging, for some of us.
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- Comment on A village in Maharashtra is now ‘caste-free’. Soundala's journey from separate wells to shared meals 1 day ago:
That’s wonderful if they can make that stick, even in the coming polarizations in the Regional Consolidation Time that begins when Trump torches civilrights, & ALL the “dominoes” begin going down, fast …
I hope they can make that stay.
Everywhere things are going to be swinging HARD into ideological-polarization, & it’d be good to have some wellspring of LivingSpirit, somewhere, on Earth, left…
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- Comment on Social media may be messed up, but it helped us know [who the/how] bad person is 1 day ago:
Too bad it has to butcher the growing-up mental-health of millions of children, in order for it to be “profitable”, isn’t it?
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WHEN DarkTriad incorporated “persons” enforce a social-process on a population, THEN it isn’t likely to be truly-beneficial to the population it’s preying-on.
( the internet was originally not-for-profit, & that difference is fundamental to what it does now, vs what it did when it was academic )
& the rude fact that social-media PUSHES narcissism, on instagram, & ideology, in filter-bubbled platforms, helps divide-&-vanquish human-viability, on this world, too.
No matter: the next tippingpoint will be when Trump rips the rug out from the pseudo-democracy of the US of A, & then launches his All Americas Wars, for his “Great” empire, & if anybody thinks that the Great Firewall of China is remarkable, then just wait until Trump’s equivalent is in-play…
< bitterness >
See past the symptoms: see the undertow that’s about to drown humankind’s life, through social-media’s torque.
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- Comment on The lack of enforcement of the law when it's broken by the president 2 days ago:
I think you’re framing it backwards, in the title.
Nonaccountability is assumed to be a “right” intrinsic to authority, & the greater the authority, the greater the non-accountability.
THAT is the problem.
NOT that the most-authority has the least-accountability, but the WHOLE MECHANISM of accountability-only-for-the-bottom-nonauthorities.
Class-decadence in the upper levels is the same mechanism.
Privilege means “inherent” nonaccountability, according to group-animal politics ( herds, packs, political-parties: it’s all the same social-mechanism ).
The ONLY method I can see for correcting this fundamental-political-fact ( of both left & right ), is to remove accountability from political-“will”, & put it in some automatic ( like decision-trees, or something ) mechanism, that doesn’t obey ANY social-pressure: it enforces against integrity-violations automatically.
There is no alternative: human-nature simply doesn’t have any spine/uprightness, therefore accountability has to be intentionally placed in automatic-mechanism, instead.
- Comment on Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocide 2 weeks ago:
I think it is well-past-time for people who go 'round genociding, in the armed-forces of other countries, to simply be AUTOMATICALLY removed from citizenship:
they can go get citizenship in the country they were committing crimes for.
Political-discretion obviously GROWS the Epstein-class.
We need high-integrity-systems that ACTUALLY & RELIABLY WORK, not more enforced-feudalism bullshit.
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- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 2 weeks ago:
utterly-bullshit snowflakes…
Grow a pair!!
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE!
Idiocy.
- Comment on Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007 2 weeks ago:
But the Epstein-crowd doesn’t get arrested…
Ah: he isn’t as white as the Epstein-crowd, that must be why he got arrested…
( seriously: they murdered girls, burying corpses out back, of wherever that place’s “back” was,
& he had others do it, in order to prove themselves to him??
& THAT gets protected-from-prosecution by our world’s ruling-class+systems??
it looks like Ghislaine murdered someone for him, for “her husband”…
the 2-facedness of the Rule of “Law” is kinda spectacularly-blatent, nowadays…
I think MLK Jr told us about “there comes a point when not-acting is complicity” or something like that, & … it’s absolutely-true. )
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- Comment on Mexico commits to make yearly water deliveries to US after tariff threats 2 weeks ago:
WHEN dictator-Trump has used the Insurrection Act to eradicate all checks+balances, & purged the gov’t of all who have been frustrating him,
THEN Trump’s war on Mexico will be fully on.
Trump will insist that Mexico provide all that all agreements offered the US, while the US is actively bombing Mexico.
Putin & Trump … once the tippingpoint is crossed, they will be the same in the way they work.
Prep, if you can.
3-fronts war:
- northward, taking Alberta, annexing Canada, & using Greenland to snuff EU-lifeline
- Civil War Part2: final extermination & confederate vengeance
- southward, on Latin America, … all of it.
Should last into the 2030’s.
See it for what it actually is.
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- Comment on Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy 3 weeks ago:
But nobody’s suing the schools for their textbooks-with-needless-“updates” extortion-rings?
OPEN TEXTBOOKS EXIST, & school-systems ought be legally-obliged to either use those, XOR justify coercing students into economic-abuse for sake of fancier ones.
OpenStax.org
LibreTexts.org
etc.
This SHOULD be cutting both-ways: lawsuits going up AND lawsuits going down.
Since it’s only axe-chopping-down, then … obviously, then the people doing the “representing” are NOT representing the citizens in their ridings, but rather the established-special-interest-groups who’re profiting from the extortion students are currently subject-to.
Fundamentally, beyond all copyright-law, platform-exclusivity, etc, fundamentally, IF G-D put immense LivingPotential in a life, THEN it’s our obligation to be honoring that LivingPotential.
NOT to be snuffing it unless money is concentrated to a particular class, or pseudoperson, or cartel, or institution:
It isn’t that “information wants to be free”, rather, it is that LEARNING ought be free, for upright, proper, honest learning ( not evil/abuse/similar ).
The Scandinavian system whereby nobody can buy their way into higher-education: it’s merit-ONLY, & the public-education-system cannot be bypassed by money/status, THAT is more right, but I’ve no idea how they do learning-materials/textbooks.
Further, it ought be that learning & certification are decoupled: one ought be able to get learning at any institution, or even on one’s own, & then get certification independently of that-school’s-institution.
“Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption” is a good rule for understanding why learning & certification need to be segregated, to break the cartel-system from education.
( that does, of course, require standardization of required-learning-for-specific-certifications, & many might balk at that, but if driver’s-licenses & pilot’s-licenses can be standardized, then I’m willing to bet that degrees can be standardized, in many subjects, too. )
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- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
ttbomk, emojis are legal function-names in both Swift & Julia…
The Swift example was damned incomprehensible, & … well, it was Apple stuff, so making it look idiotic might have been some kind of cultural-exclusivity intention…
The Julia stuff, though, means that you can use Greek symbols, etc, for functions, & get things looking more like what they should…
Also, I think emojis are actually better than my all-text style, for communicating intonation/emotion ( I’m old: learned last century ), & maybe us old geezers ought to adapt a bit, to such things…
That does NOT mean that cartoon “code” is good-enough, whether it’s cartoonish in plaintext or in emojis, though…
I’m just trying to keep the cultural-prejudice & the code-quality being distinct-categories of judgement, you know?
( & cultural-prejudice is an actual thing, though it’s usually called “religious wars”, isn’t it, in geekdom? )
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- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
TheRegister had an article, a year or 2 ago, about using AI in the opposite way: instead of creating the code, someone was using it to discover security-problems in it, & they said it was really useful for that, & most of its identified things, including some codebase which was sending private information off to some internet-server, which really are problems.
I wonder if using LLM’s as editors, instead of writers, would be better-use for the things?
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- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 5 weeks ago:
I once saw, on TV, a Brooklyn comedian ask his audience
“any of you went to a Catholic school?”
a few hands went up…
“You remember the names of the nuns?
Lefty?
Knuckles?”
they did.
IIRC, the sister in the grade-school I was in, broke a boy’s arm, when she flipped his desk on him, for backtalk.
It was a Catholic school.
She … hated children?
Angry, endless anger, in her…
damned odd way of choosing someone for being a teacher…
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- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 5 weeks ago:
“IF you want something done RIGHT, THEN you do it yourself!”
that is nearly-right.
the true essence is that if you want something done right, you have to have the right instinct doing it.
Delegation is entirely-possible, but it cannot be delegation to anybody, any institution, any ANYthing, that has wrong-instinct, for that work.
You can’t put dogs in charge of protecting cat-nature, because they’ll “protect” it, instead, displacing/snuffing it, replacing it with dog-nature.
That is natural, & automatic.
You can’t have men protecting female-validity, because female-validity ISN’T OF men, it is of women!
You can’t have people tone-deaf protecting ( preserving through mastering & playing ) music, can you?
You can’t have people who don’t know, understand, or value, precision, protecting precision, can you?
That’s the same in government, business, NGO’s, legislation, regulation, innovation, etc.
IF you want integrity, THEN integrity has to be the instinct which wins the roles.
Politics is the wrong selector, the wrong contest, to produce that result.
We’re seeing our world drowning in the consequences of letting political-game rule our world.
Political-game is the enemy of our lives.
Against most lives, it will win.
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- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 5 weeks ago:
The collective-unconscious-mind that is driving this shit wants to “prove” its ego-myth.
To make history know how “important” it was.
& if it has to destroy the entire planet’s life, it will do everything required to enforce that, for sake of its ego.
that is why the “checks” and “balances” are showing that they are only fake.
They’ll sit on their hands, until it’s too-late.
Then they can pretend that they are “victims”, when they assisted in the destruction, while being in roles where they were obliged to oppose/counter it.
Here’s an example from a different context, so you can see how the “game” plays us…
Epstein.
People of “less important” class associated with him, in order to hobnob with the “more important”, see?
What happened when they clued-in that things were wrong?
Then they’re in a conflict-of-interest…
IF they whistleblow, THEN the class-validity-people they’d been hobnobbing with, would as a class turn on them, & their LIFE would be damaged, for their holding-to-principle, violating group/gang/“family”/belonging.
Principle & gang are 2 different loyalties, & they contradict.
So, they silenced principle, & held-to group-loyalty & class-loyalty, “winning”, but … rotting their meaning.
Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption.
& you’ve probably noticed that in THIS world, many cultures put group/family/gang loyalty WAAAY above loyalty-to-Truth, or loyalty-to-Rightness…
Now glance at the electorate, in their obscene privilege, & their protecting of their class against accountability, but then Trump gets, in near future, to become dictator…
They are in conflict-of-interest between their privilege-class vs their civil “obligation”.
& it is playing-out exactly as it ought.
Political-motivation is the wrong filter to select leaders from.
So is narcissism.
So is machiavellianism.
So is ideology.
So is sociopathy.
So is disintegrity.
but all of these things INCREASE one’s likelihood of getting elected, not decrease.
We WON’T filter-out the wrong people!
Well, if we won’t filter-out the wrong people, then … we will be ruled by the wrong people.
Now turn it on us, ourselves.
Who ought rule the flying of an airliner?
The majority, the passengers? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified pilots?
Who ought rule the operating of a government?
The political? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified?
“you have no right to prevent enemies from ruling our country: that’s infringement-of-rights!”
That’s deranged.
YOU censor which cells express their meaning, within your body, right?
YOU censor cancer, covid, rabies, etc, by either not allowing them in, or stomping them outright, if you catch them, right?
That, the equivalent to that, HAS to happen with authority-roles, throughout civilization.
Until that happens, then humankind’s going to continue destroying its life & viability, for political & other ego “rewards”.
ONLY the responsible can be permitted authority. ONLY the ACCOUNTABLE Responsible.
What has that principle got to do with any political-system??
Nothing!
Political-systems & accountable-responsibility are mutually-exclusive systems, it looks like.
& so, if humankind WON’T grow-up, THEN … DarwinAward, aka The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this century.
It’s part of our souls’ growing-up!
Your soul experiences this life, it learns a little layer of ITS meaning…
it experiences others ( I’ve accidentally earned soul-memories of other-lives: the religions of India weren’t delusional, they were reporting fact, & that is what blew-up all the Abrahamic religions for me, back when I was Catholic ), & it learns more little-layers of its IMMENSE meaning…
People don’t understand just how incomprehensibly-immense their own souls are…
Have a 100 human lives, & that MAY fill your soul with its knowing its whole meaning.
It’s something like that.
Exactly as you CANNOT experience your whole-life’s meaning if you lived only for 1 minute, the same, a soul cannot experience ITS whole meaning in any duration so tiny as a single human-category life.
To hold that universe recycles only matter, is daft: meaning is an energy, & it makes things like engineering, culture, etc, real.
It modifies the behavior of matter spectacularly, and that proves it is a real substance.
So, what happens when a few billion souls are “going through a phase”??
Say a few billion souls are going through a “nonaccountable-authority” phase?
Among a world…
Well, that’s their choice, isn’t it?
The lives in THAT world have to sort it out.
& if the growing-up lives in THAT world are outnumbered 9:1, then … it’s going to be hell, until it’s finished.
The tougher the challenge, the more-profoundly it’ll change you, if you survive its transformation, right?
Think of it this way:
Souls having the wrong attachments, can get caught in lives which bash-on, hurt, damage, mutilate, & harm their lives, unil they change what their attachments are…
So, they can be attached to class-status, or whatever, going in,
but when experience smashes & mashes them enough ways, then they become attached to “things that they CAN take with them”, things of the inner-world, right?
That’s what this-world is in the process of experiencing.
Force-changing-of-attachments, though experience.
& if 9/10 of the world won’t learn, won’t grow-up, & won’t tolerate inner-values to live, then … it’s a world deathmatch, then,.
But unconsciousness won’t-move until it’s too-late.
won’t grow-up, won’t learn, won’t change … until it’s forced.
& that principle explains everything, now, about the world’s pervasively choosing the wrong-answers.
Why is it that ClimatePunctuation is trashing entire-regions, & we’re caring less & less about our making it get worse, faster?
unconscious-mind couldn’t care.
Same with corrupt/wrong government.
Same with deformity-of-civilrights.
Couldn’t care.
& by the time that this century is finished, all the souls who can’t care, won’t be able to incarnate in human lives, here ( because there won’t be any lives configured to accommodate them, left ),
& if the LivingSpirit-loyal ones evolve enough, far enough, quickly enough, deeply enough, complexly enough, … then they will be able to have lives, next century.
Not many: I don’t expect there to be more than 100-150-million alive ( Daniel predicts 100,000,000 who are purified, but presents them as killed, & I’m seeing stuff completely different: roughly same number, but survivors of this-century ).
what’s different from our current time, than from all the times recorded in the Abrahamic religions’ scriptures?
What’s different from the Hindu history stuff?
Human nature hasn’t changed that much, has it?
It’s the same thing it always was!
There’s another angle, which is important, too:
The force required to MAKE an unconscious-mind grow-up, is equal to its force-of-ignorance.
I’m autistic.
Nearly 60 years old, & it’s ONLY NOW that I’m finally making this brain be accommodating what I want to mean.
Neurotypicals may earn equivalent life-meaning when they’re in their 20’s, or 30’s.
I’m retarded.
Any life which doesn’t get the equal-and-opposite-force to its own unconscious-ignorance … if it got too-little, then it didn’t grow-up, or if it got too-much, it broke, or died.
See the problem?
IF there’s no system of matching unconscious-ignorance-destroying-force to unconscious-ignorance, then HOW could individuals, let-alone entire-populations, have complete growing-up?!
Nature used to force growing-up, but of course it killed many, young, too.
Our industrial-revolutions eradicated Nature’s significance on our lifes: it isn’t what forces us, now.
Now, we have made “boot camp” for some to experience force changing their unconscious-mind, but … not purely, livingly, destroying-ignorance, rather, it is installing institutional-ego & institutional-bullying…
A shoddy replacement.
& the culture of coddling … won’t tolerate growing-up.
Now, with software, or checklists & good people, or something systematic, it is POSSIBLE to make it so that intellectually-bullying children get the intellectual opposite-force required to enforce THAT potential’s growing-up.
Every dimension: physical, emotional, relational, intellectual, etc…
Each person has their own potential in each dimension, & THAT potential requires ITS required-force, ITS required-prompting, ITS challenges, etc.
The idiotic manufactory-style “education” which obliterates sooo much potential from sooo many lives, by over-pushing flimsy potential, & underpushing too-strong potential…
that is part of what made our kind incapable of holding to truth…
IF you’ve never experienced self-conquering, how can you help others make it in themselves?
Ah, Beaurocratic Rot, another principle:
IF you’ve got 1st-rate people in a company, & they hire other 1st-rate people, THEN the company stays embodying excellence…
But what happens when 2nd-rate people get in?
& the feel inferior to 1st-rate people ( I’m meaning integrity, not skill or intellect, though our society maps everything to class or status )
So, since they don’t want to feel inferior, what do they do?
They hire 3rd-rate people.
& 3rd-rate people hire 4th-rate people.
Soon all the excellence-valuing people LEAVE, because they have been ganged-up-on by the ones who hate the threat of integrity, of excellence.
Once you allow beaurocratic-rot in, it wins.
But that all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule XOR rot-drops-everything choice, that either-or, that apparently sinks ALL societies.
Rome sunk that way…
India’s in the process of doing it…
The West’s doing it, everywhere…
all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule is the ONLY principle which can get the required results.
& it is the only principle that NO country has allowed to rule.
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- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 5 weeks ago:
The comment by Wilco@lemmy.zip is right, but isn’t complete…
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too…
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short…
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc…
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of “inherent” confidence, on average, that most don’t, simply because the way others relate to their body’s “status” programmed that into them…
Some lives are born with “teflon” preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with “glue” making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump’s life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn’t.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn’t allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but … politics won’t tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that’s what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it’s karma.
His continuum/soul’s previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and … his soul’s future is not anything I’d want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn’t possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans…
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has “teflon” protection against accountability doesn’t prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe’s action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a “fortunate” life which consumes all one’s good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then … railroading one’s own soul’s future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them…
shrug
Action-reaction’s real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn’t.
It’ll learn, same as all souls learn…
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of … 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won’t make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody’ll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It’s educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one’s unconscious-presumption of “belonging” based “validity”.
But … speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it’s worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it’s false/lies, because it’s of “me”.
& that’s proper!
Exactly as it’s proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump’s kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn’t normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn’t YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is … NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-“validity”, the class-based-“validity”, the muscle/body/height-based-“validity”, the money-based-“validity”, etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-“validity”.
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I’m woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
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- Comment on How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US? 5 weeks ago:
My perspective is that it’s going to get hella worse, before it gets better: an addict who isn’t ready to fight addiction is going to go deeper into it, & when they try turning against it, then their own unconscious-mind will trash their life, maybe even kill them, to protect what their unconscious-mind is holding-onto, you know?
& naive making-believing isn’t help, it is “help”.
So, I recommend investing in the fundamentals of enduring decade-long Civil War:
the psychological leverages identified in Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, a book on our unconscious-mind’s stages-of-development, & its fighting-off of growing-up…
IF one allows one’s unconscious-mind to fight-off growing-up, THEN one is more likely to be abuses beating-on-toy, AND one is more likely to be dead, without earning one’s underlying life-potential.
Therefore, learning how to get one’s unconscious-mind to help one grow-up, is one of the more powerful leverages.
Next is Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 CultureLevels ( they call them “stages”, but caterpillar->moth is stages, irreversible, & frozen/liquid/steam isn’t stages, it is states or modes, because they aren’t 1-way. The CultureLevels only become irreversible at 4 & 5, among some people… anybody bashing around among the lower-3 levels, can go down or up, endlessly )
Five: Positive-Sum Game, Win-Win Alliance culture Four: WE are awesome, THEY are not culture Three: Zero-Sum Game: competitive-narcissism culture, like doctors ( go walk into any normal hospital, & see how the junior-staff won’t look you in the eye, if you walk-in wearing a professional’s clothes & manner: their validity/dignity has been obliterated in the narcissism of medical-culture. Look around for somebody whose bodylanguage REEKS of narcissism: that’s going to be a doctor. It’s comically bad: acting-schools should be using clinics & hospitals for studying that bodylanguage! The book-authors aren’t as cynical about it as I am: dad was a medical-researcher & doctor, & I ended up going no-contact with both parents, for years-at-a-time, to undo the butchery they put in my mind… Not their fault, but … I hope this world changes ) Two: “MY life sucks”, subject-to-narcissism culture One: Negative-Sum Game, Competitive Nihilism. mass-shooters, dictators who’re destroying as much lives as they can, racking-up some kind of “high score”, before they die. Netanyahu & Putin seem to be doing that now, & Trump seems bent on outclassing all of them, soon.
Notice how manufacturing CultureLevel1 “justifies” police-state, which enforces CultureLevel1 even more?
Notice that Trump’s manufacturing homelessness as fast as his regime can?
Once he finally crosses the tipping-point, he’ll just de-naturalize everybody who won’t vow allegiance to him, & everybody else suddenly is “illegals”, & that is what ICE really is for: Civil War 2.
Now is just “appatizer”.
So, becoming competent in making one’s CultureLevel be 3 or 4 or 5 becomes a survival-means, see?
All this is of the “The kingdom of establishment, without, is inferior to the kingdom of G-D, within: one’s meaning, one’s Soul” paradigm.
“21 Days to Resilience” and “Gaslighting” are books I’d recommend, to build psychic muscle & immunity…
Fundamentally, one has to have help, though: grow your relationship with LivingSpirit.
Not this, or that, “religion”, but with universal, endlessly-healing, LivingSpirit.
All the religions which put themselves in G-D’s place, with their “it isn’t G-D that is The Only Savior, it is OUR RELIGION-REGIME that is The Only Savior”, or you can substitute the word “Way” for “Savior”, & it’ll still be the same thing: putting itself in G-D’s place…
That isn’t universal.
It doesn’t really work.
LivingSpirit’s universal.
Grow relationship with it, however many years it takes to get the hang of something so subtle ( unlike the junk/distractions/addictions of this world ), but it IS real, & it DOES grow healing in one, the more one’s … weaving into it, or weaving it into one, or something like that ( embracing, or weaving, … something like that ).
Ah! Know, also, that there is a cycle of 4 stages of life, & it makes sense to be doing one’s-own stage, not what others are telling one to be!
- absorbing-experiencing ( correlates with Kegan’s unconscious-mind-development stage 3 )
- pushing-out-meaning-violating-one’s-identity ( correlates with Kegan’s stage 4 )
- systems-of-systems unconscious-mind-development, ( stage 5 )
- letting-go, dissolving & making-do, preparing for going into dissolution…
IF one were to pretend that some lives spend 3 decades in each condition, THEN one would have a “crayons” picture of human-life, an oversimplified-cartoon…
But even an oversimplified-cartoon can communicate enough to help people orient, right?
So, while Kegan identified that many never leave the absorbing-meaning stage, until they die, of old age… so there’s NO law making people go into the next stage…
but knowing that each phase is going to last decades, not mere-years…
that is important.
IF someone is in the absorbing-meaning phase, THEN pushing them to be “alpha” is pushing them to be what they aren’t: they’re supposed to be experiencing all kinds of meaning, to discover what’s in them!
Once one gets into the pushing-meaning-out phase, THEN pushiness becomes natural.
The whole domineer+doormat “relationship” which is traditional, a Kegan4 with a Kegan3, isn’t as “wonderful” as it pretends to be.
( Kegan doesn’t index the states the way I do: he names them all.
I’m fed-up with zillions of psychology-dimensions all needing individual-names, so I’m only indexing them, now.
Kegan0-7, in my system, Kahneman1-2, etc… )
Domineer+doormat is only ego-food for the domineer, really…
Diversity-of-experiencing. That is what the young adult-minds need: finding which meanings within one are worth cultivating, see?
& if one gets to Kegan6, which Robert Kegan never identified, but it’s obvious, if one is experiencing it, self-conquering: all the advantages of Kegan4 & Kegan5, together…
Life, then, becomes … self-inherently better.
There was a man in Auschwitz, who became a world-renouned psychologist…
don’t remember his name, sorry,
he realized that the guards had physical-liberty, but their minds were trapped by ideology.
He had no physical-liberty, but he was free.
THAT is the kind of freedom which can get one through what’s coming, alive, but it takes guts & renunciation, both, it takes intelligence & wisdom, both, it takes LivingSpirit relationship & it takes getting the evil & harm forced into one, OUT from one, so one can have living within one’s own self ( opposite of PTSD ).
IOW, I’m recommending that one be inherently-living, instead of ideologically-“living”, as a means of surviving the coming Republican dictatorship, until it implodes, next decade.
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- Comment on Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them? 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re missing the point, actually…
( I’m autistic, & simply don’t buy that ideology is ever going to make a good world, communist, fascist, corporatist, moneyarchist, religion-regime, any of them )
There is a fundamental problem in human economies, in that it is initiative which starts companies ( obviously ) & if initiative is allowed to concentrate wealth/rights/privilege, it will, until you don’t have civilrights, anymore.
Therefore, there needs to be a kind of civil-harnessing…
At the other end, collectivism snuffs innovation & diversity & initiative, fairly automatically…
The root-problem is that BOTH are needed, but the economy has to somehow cultivate individual-initiative & group-initiative ( which work differently ) AND give the good innovators ( not the criminal ones ) both freedom & leverage & resources to get their contribution going, which is something that collectivity tends to snuff…
Another misframing is that monopolies shouldn’t even be allowed in the 1st place, because they are, in the long-term, economic hostage-takers, or economic suicide ( a country putting all its eggs in a single basket, & pretending that that’ll work forever ).
The correct policy is simply to use the tax-system to make it more costly to have fewer competitors, such that there is an optimal number of competitors in any industry, & they are actually competing.
That makes it less-profitable to extinguish your competitors through machiavellianism, see? The fewer competitors, the higher the tax rate… suppressing monopoly, rather than accommodating it, & then having the problems it created, & then having fights about how to mitigate those problems…
Do understand that I think worker-owned business is the ideal configuration, but it has to be earned-place, not just inertia, institution, or seniority that grants ownership, it has to be contribution ( “Slicing Pie Handbook” is the best book for the concept, for startups: how to allocate shares/equity in the startup ).
I’ve heard about … in the Basque region, … cooperatives … it takes years to earn a share in the company, and the loyalty AND drive are both excellent, & the companies were robust & did well…
That’s the right sort of thing.
No “you exist, therefore you have institution-rights, but no responsibility/accountability, because our institutionality/union/class/wealth prevents that” … kind of idiocy…
Rather, real earning-of-equity…
interesting…
I just realized that this makes-obvious that people with no interest in earning equity, they only want to do the minimum, get paid, & go do non-work things … are incompatible with that kind of company/operation,
therefore there HAVE to be 2 ( or more ) different phases of the economy: companies with worker-equity & companies where nobody is invested in the company except the owners/managers, because that’s an actual significant-portion of the population’s mode…
that makes it … more difficult to find an optimal single-set-of-rules for an economy, because the motivations don’t mesh…
So, apparently a set-of-rules is required for each system-of-motivations?
looks like it…
interesting…
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- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 5 weeks ago:
At the event-horizon, you’re moving at the speed of light.
So, you can’t have any awareness of duration, anymore.
You slam into the black-hole, from your perspective, instantaneously, then.
No machine could be “fast enough” to notice any duration pass by, between the event-horizon & the smashing-to-strings/quarks/whatever.
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- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t understand what a memoir was, until … I think it was John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres”, & he explained that it was specific to a person’s experience of some kind, it wasn’t just their biography,
so one might have the memoir of someone’s invovement in some project, or something…
Only then did it make sense that they could be interesting…
( if I could go 50-some years without knowing this, then others could, too. Only explaining because some “memoirs” … aren’t memoirs, so the definition seems to be needing to be made explicit )
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- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 3 months ago:
It’s really just exclusive-validity identity politics, which has roots DEEP in many mammal-species…
Here www.amazon.com/…/B004OEILH2/ you can read the beginning of a book which explains how our unconscious-minds fight off any growing-up, fighting-off change…
In it, it describes 3 unconscious-mind-development-stages, which I call Kegan3, Kegan4, & Kegan5, simply because there are SO many different systems-of-stages-or-dimensions to keep mindful-of, like Kahneman+Tversky-1 & Kahneman+Tversky-2 ( imprint->reaction system, lower-forebrain, the ideology/prejudice/trained-expertise system, vs considered-reasoning, upper-forebrain, much exercised in programming )
… that it’s idiocy to NOT index all such things, now…
Here, if you scroll down a little, you can see a table describing the different unconscious-mind-development stages, ALL of them, that their-kind know about ( the stage after Kegan5 is the self-conquering-stage, which they never saw or identified, because our world’s process sabotages/prevents it )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_S…
Now think about herdbeasts, which don’t have Kegan5’s systems-of-systems stage…
They do have Kegan3, which is the upper-limit that cows are allowed to, by bulls, & they have Kegan4, which the bulls level-off in…
Kegan3 is wanting to be liked, it is associating-with validity ( hence the power of “influencers”, among the younger humans in any time ), it is, fundamentally, ( & I’m not certain that Robert Kegan understood this ) the absorbing experience stage of one’s life, living more in feelings & social-“reality”…
Kegan4, on the other hand, is what I call “BullingBOSS mode”, where validity is zero-sum game: it is exclusive and that is exactly the way bulls work: it is limbic-brain, in basis, so it should hold throughout most mammals!
Now, IF one’s identity & validity are rooted in zero-sum game, then anyone else having any validity reduces one’s own validity!!
Narcissism also works this way, you’ll notice, so now there are 2 fundamental-causes for such instinct, in-play…
Here you will find a book which explains the 5 LEVELS of culture-process, from competitive-nihilism’s culture-level-1, to LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME!!'s culture-level-5: www.amazon.com/…/B006IDG1K6/
Here is the dumbed-down TED Talk about their years-of-research: www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership
Culture-level-2 produces conspiricism! Subject-to-narcissism is therefore strategically-cancerous!
Now, what happens if your culture glorifies exclusive-validity identity, and, in so doing, produces a glass-ceiling on one’s culture, which prevents culture-level-4 & culture-level-5…??
One ends-up devaluing, dehumanizing, others, & wanting them butchered, in order to validate one’s culturally-grown prejudice!
IOW, it isn’t just-the-Republicans, the nazis did it, I’m certain that much of the time the Romans did it, different Chinese cultures have done it, same with the Japanese, etc…
It expresses different ways, depending on the identity-anchors of the “valid”, vs the “nonvalid”…
As Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright noticed, you can walk into ANY hospital in North America, with the exception of 1, which outgrew that cultural-glass-ceiling, & if you walk-in looking both professional & self-confident, the junior staff won’t meet your eyes, because the narcissism-culture of the doctors has destroyed their human-validity.
THAT is evidence-based knowing!!
The vignette that Logan gives, in that TED Talk is on that specific section of their book, but doesn’t give enough of it.
Both my parents were medical-professionals, Dad was a medical researcher and doctor, and that researcher bit was significant … because the narcissism-culture of White medicine definitely saturated them both, but his science-culture overrode that, intellectually … for which there ought be no limit to my gratitude, for that gift…
( doesn’t mean I didn’t go no-contact with both of them, though: the narcissism, the exclusive validity that doesn’t include me is toxicity/cancer, in any “family” or “community” )
( btw, the personal-stuff is only so that you understand the experience-induced-understanding: it isn’t just theory, it’s earned understanding. There’s no reason to care about it, otherwise: it’s just context/perspective, so leave me out from any “care” or “concern”. )
Now when you’ve made your culture narcissistic, AND you’re glorifying Kegan4’s BullingBOSS mode…
…AND you add-in non-accountable authority’s rule … then sociopathy’s the result, isn’t it?
It is produced by this configuration of culture-forces!!
( definitions: psychopathy means incapable of empathy, because one’s mirror-neuron-system, or something, just doesn’t function, so other-lives are just meat-marionettes…
sociopathy isn’t brain-intrinsic, it is psychologically-produced analogue-of-psychopathy, through systematic imprinting ( that Kahneman1 imprint->reaction system ), until the programming produced it. )
So, anybody here who wants to read just how evil “normal” can be, please read some of Angela Davis’s “Women, Race, & Class” book … www.amazon.com/…/B0054KKRKY
& you will begin understanding just how spectacularly wrong our assumptions are, re human-culture-produced-outright-evil, from the utterly stomach-turning historical-facts she’s putting into that…
& then you will begin understanding that when prejudice is the ruling-religion, then the nazis were normal, in evil.
So, really it all comes down to specific identity-forces:
- Kegan4, unconscious validity-narcissistic BullingBOSS-mode, being glorified,
- culture being ruled by narcissism, systematically, with an invisible “glass ceiling” preventing culture-level-4 from being known within their culture, &
- nonaccountable-authority garrotting evolution
- our unconscious-mind’s innate mechanisms for preventing growing-up, fighting growing-up off, as “Immunity to Change” identifies, & it gives us simple methods, that work, for getting past the unconsciously-manufactured-obstacles we grow, to block our evolution.
- entirely possibly more, that I’m not aware-of, or not remembering now…
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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- Comment on Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated 3 months ago:
The narcissism of anthro-centrism is endless, isn’t it?
They’re still phrasing some of this stuff as-if it’s doubtful, WHILE giving multi-millenia times between the artwork was created, vs when homo-sapiens appeared…
1 item they list is over 70-k years old…
There should be ZERO doubt.
There should have been zero doubt once radio-isotope dating put even ONE “black swan” on the map.
A woman pointed-out in New Scientis, decades ago, that the Neanderthals had 1 significant disadvantage, compared with us: worse brain-cooling.
Given 10s of millenia, that could well be a natural-selection force-to-be-recon’d-with…
Other than that, I don’t think they were at any obvious-to-us-now disadvantage, given that the artwork seems equally-advanced, & that is something that takes mental capability
( work-through Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, to experience for yourself what the sentience-shift feels-like, when one gets out from education-pushed language/reductionism mode into wholistic mode…
I’m autistic, so it didn’t take a few days to reach that, it took 3 years, before my 1st experience of the sentience-shift.
It’s real.
The horrid scrawlings in New Scientist Magazine were done by somebody who’d never experienced it in their entire adult-life.
Here’s a before-that-book’s-training / after-that-book’s-training, with the book’s author, in her “killer class”, gallery, of some of her students: see the mind-healing in the expressions of these people: www.drawright.com/before-after )
The egotism of our view won’t die, though: “God revolves around Man”, “The universe of God revolves around the world of Man”, “only we have souls”, “only we ever had human-sentience”, “only we inhabit the galaxy/universe”, on & on & on…
( all of the “only OUR religion is valid, in God’s eyes” narcissism by lots of different populations also goes in that same bin, obviously )
some day, some evidence is going to poke our racial-ego in the eye, with a “pointed stick” of evidence, and it may well spark global rioting, given the ideological distortion our ego maintains…
I wish that our habit of presuming that we are the center of validity, & that center is somehow “exclusive” of all other lives, had already been intentionally “put down”, before I’d got to school.
How awesome it’d have been, to grow-up with schoolbooks which showed that we had equally-valid kin…
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- Comment on How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky? 3 months ago:
Learned-helplessness: IF you keep battering a population from some principle, using incorporated-sociopaths, or bots,
THEN they’re going to yield from principle, because organisms AREN’T machines, & machines crush organisms, including minds.
Why is it that now no government really cares about mitigating the still-accelerating ClimatePunctuation??
Learned-helplessness.
Why is it that the popuation in Argentina didn’t vote-out Millei?
Learned-helplessness.
Why did sooo many younger voters not vote against Trump?
Learned-helplessness.
Why do privacy-raping apps now happen to be the norm?
Learned-helplessness.
this means that ANY abuse will win, given enough battering of the minds of the majority, if only it keeps hammering away to win.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 3 months ago:
it can also be INcorrect most of the time!!
ANY mind “educated” by ingesting the internet … isn’t going to be high on accuracy!!
People NEED to understand that getting parts of reddit out of LLM’s proves its untrustworthiness!!
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- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 3 months ago:
Forgot, sorry: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-in-time
The 1st one, above, is the key to developing right-instinct in one’s understandings,
this one is key to understanding complex-unfoldings based on actual-historical-evidence of human-behavior & reactions.
Both recommended.
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