Paragone
@Paragone@piefed.social
Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow "didn't" alienate workers?? I've already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It'll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers' bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 3 days ago:
This is why relying on “political will” to enforce accountability is incompetent.
You’ll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren’t..
Politically-based “accountability” is accountability-to-power’s-narcissism, only, in the end.
It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.
It had to be automatic that he couldn’t even be eligible for election, instead of “saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented” kind of thing.
DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.
Society-wide.
No “political” alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.
So, to your question “is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out”, no: it’s too late.
Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.
Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.
“a penny’s worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure” is still true.
But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call “armageddon”, these next 6-decades, will be significant..
Once the tippingpoint’s crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance .. will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.
About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.
The problem isn’t them: the problem is humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s ego-games, its “apocalypse” “proving its ego’s IMPORTANCE”, that “nothing is more god than ego’s TANTRUM/POGROM is!!”.
So, fundamentally, it’s The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to “beat god and make god obey!!”.
Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy .. that’s only “makeup”.
The communist-party’s imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as “fascist” in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.
The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn’t make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.
Party-imperialism’s murdered millions.
What’s the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?
the well-accomplished-sociopathy’s the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.
So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??
As ideologues consistently do.
It’s foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE’s expense.
But they’re only 2 of many representatives of that “church”.
See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it’s global, the forces are implacable, & humankind’s positioned to .. not do well, this century.
Unless someone massively changes humankind’s viability..
which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too “outlier” )
So, humankind is “walking the plank”, now.
Other paths were possible..
Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov’t there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!
& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.
No other path could have worked.
Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice’s perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn’t work!
It’s the same in the US.
It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.
It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.
The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.
The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).
the problem isn’t local: it’s racial. Whole-species.
Humankind’s fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-"reasoning”, ideology, prejudice, & ideological-"morality”.
& about 9/10 of humankind’s on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.
Trump’s a symptom, not a cause.
The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance’s fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.
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- Comment on Why is AI so bad at coming up with dialogue? 3 days ago:
There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.
YOU try writing good dialogue!
Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn’t easy, & people who don’t even understand Shawn Coyne’s point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see “The Story Grid” for that ), is something that most story-writers don’t understand properly.
Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.
Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?
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- Comment on Fresh warning over risky financial advice targeting young Australians 3 days ago:
It isn’t only local to Australians:
The Reverse Cramer Index was a fund which did the exact-opposite of what a TV “guru” was telling people to do.
Notice that its returns, before it shut down, were in the green:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SJIM/performance/?guccounter=1
You can’t harvest the money of the mislead-sheep unless you’re misleading them & fleecing them efficiently, right?
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- Comment on Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns 3 days ago:
NON-sovereignty has greater risks.
Context, including Trump, matters.
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- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 3 days ago:
Cultures/conventions are assumption-rivers, aka “religions”.
Toxic-culture’s a habit, an ideology, a “religion”, a self-reinforcing-feedback-mechanism, & a kind of “food” for ones who want that particular substance.
Once entrenched, it’s nearly-impossible to change a culture.
Chaning a culture generally requires focus+action both at the top AND grass-roots.
Without both, nothing’ll change, usually.
( without grassroots, nothing’ll change, no matter what the leader wants/does )
& Reddit’s CEO has paid himself $1/8B IN A SINGLE YEAR, while Reddit wasn’t in profit, so DarkTriad’s their corporate-culture, fersure, in my opinion.
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- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 3 days ago:
“normal” for what culture?
I mean family culture, not national-culture.
It seems to me that they’re insecure, & committed to using you for their-own validation, & crowbarring you into remaining subjugated to that scam/game/manipulation.
( I had to go no-contact with both parents, for years at a time, for my survival: parental machiavellianism doesn’t have to be conscious machiavellianism. I don’t blame them, but did need to protect my life against their forcing-me-towards-breaking/failing, with all the personal-power I could muster. )
The oversimplification of “the 5 love languages”, the oversimplification being that people are somehow “exclusively 1 XOR another”, instead of being some mixture on a 5-dimension set-of-continuums/spectrums..
It seems your mother’s means of showing-love is verbal, & she felt need to have verbal-expression-of-love for her.
The “5 love languages” thing.. when I found-out that some people NEED exchanging-of-things to feel loved, or to express love .. WTF??
TOTALLY not the way I’m wired.
Never EVER would have dawned-on-me that some people actually were wired that way.
But.. I’ve seen some people I knew who were wired that way!
Diversity-of-wiring’s a thing, right?
So, I think it was you mom being wired for verbal emotional-meaning, AND her trying to manipulate you into being what protected/fed her established-when-*she*-was-growing-up dysfunction-habit, AND I wouldn’t put 1 single cent on her being “to blame” for it, if she’s never dug into conquering her own unconscious-mind. I think it was probably the result of the growing-up she lived in, just repeating, in variation.
Discard everything I wrote unless something in it is of value for you.
I’ve only experience & what seems to be understanding: I’ve no academic-accreditation, but neither did Socrates, my hero, either.
But if it is of value, then may your life be more-powerfully-awakening/autonomizing, owning your future-karma, more.
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- Comment on Identical twins cannot undergo age verification 3 days ago:
ttbomk, the companies don’t care.
It was a few years ago? when a woman in Taiwan showed a video where her co-worker could open her phone, because the face-recognition logic in Apple phones is calibrated to Whites, not to Asians.
I think that there are only 2 biometrics which ought be used:
- bloodvessels-in-fingers/hands
- retinas, blood-vessels again.
There are some diseases which monkey that, for people with those conditions, & injuries can monkey them too,
but making the bloodvessels-in-hands one be normal would mean that “ghoulies”, cloned fingerprints that someone wears as rubbery coverings on their fingers, iirc, would be blocked by that, so would the tape-copying-fingerprint trick..
& making it so that the retina-scan was only done in higher-security settings, & only where you have to peer into the machine, not where it’s scanning everybody who’s in the lobby ( another story I read ),
& having iris-scanning for people who have retina-degenerative-conditions/injuries, as backup..
etc..
Face-scanning’s a stupid “security”.
Got beaten-up? now you can’t open your phone.
Someone’s got you at gunpoint, & they just hold your phone up at you, & it unlocks?
That isn’t security, that is authority-theatre.
Which I’m fed-up with.
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- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 4 days ago:
1 time I found the Christian bible’s thing about benJoseph’s recommendation about confession..
It was fundamentally different from Catholic confession ( yes, this is related to your point ).
Confession was recommended, but it didn’t say confession to someone.
It may have implied confession to one’s team/community.
It absolutely did not orient any such thing to any church-official.
I’ve found that confessing to LivingSpirit helps.
Research has discovered that it doesn’t matter what one surrenders-to/relies-on, it can be a soccer-ball, an imaginary-friend, or LivingSpirit as I do, but doing that with someone ( from your perspective ) massively empowers lives in breaking addiction, as 1 objective change-in-life.
( see Baumeister’s “Willpower”, & note that while he gives what the evidence says, he rejects it, himself )
Confessing socially I consider narcissistic.
However, there’s another angle to it: it may help others to see that they’re not-alone in their failings.
& that is valuable.
There’s my answer answer for you.
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- Comment on A fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page 4 days ago:
You can’t have that percentage be higher than 20%, & have it work right.
50% & you’ve already reduced that market-segment to a 2-horse race or monopoly.
You have to prevent that, XOR you’re creating a national-dependency on “too big to fail” corporation, which is certain, sooner or later, to become a national footgun.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Industries tend to evolve into 2-horse-races or monopolies.
“Focus” by Al Ries.
Coca-Cola & Pepsi, as 1 example.
( there is MUCH more in that book: IF you’re doing a startup, please read it! then the Lean Startup stuff. )
Who is Amazon’s competitor?
Who is Apple’s, or Google’s, or Facebook’s?
Bill Gates called it “friction-free capitalism”, when unlike streets, you don’t see any competitor & that makes competition, & market-balancing, disappear
Don’t worry: what Facebook did to MySpace, the Fediverse is going to do to Reddit.
It is only a matter of earning it, & duration-until-then, now.
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- Comment on The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History 4 days ago:
Turing-machines can solve all the conventionally computable problems.
But only the quantum stuff can crack the NP-Complete stuff.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Habits oft take about 1-season to train.
endure, & the unconscious-mind change’ll happen.
I’m autistic/woodenheaded, & even I made the switch, some years ago.
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- Comment on Nordic leaders meet in Oslo with Carney as Arctic tensions sharpen over Greenland, Russia 5 days ago:
The REASON that Trump “NEEDS” Greenland, is to enforce his annexation of Canada.
That’s it.
See this map, with the arrows on it?
https://lemmy.world/post/44241221
Change the arrows to simple curved-lines, & see HOW Trump can seal-off Canada from ALL international-trade, if he’s got Alaska, navy+airforce, mainland-US, navy+airforce, & Greeland:
We’ve simply got NO means of maintaining international-trade, then.
He’s drooling over having continental-kingdom.
As soon as the mask comes off, & total-dictatorship has de-naturalized all non-Republicans in the US, & ICE’s REAL purpose is visible,
all the suddenly-"illegal” people will be faced with a choice:
EITHER be drafted, XOR be ICE’d.
ICE’s detention-center incinerators, for getting rid of .. inconvenient bodies .. haven’t been started yet, but anybody who can’t see what’s truly going-on NOW, is incompetent.
It’s too-late for impeachment: within minutes/hours of anybody in Congress trying that, & the Insurrection Act is activated, & then their planned-for-years PURGE begins its executions.
Greenland CANNOT be allowed to be Trump’s, by Canada, XOR we’re deadmeat.
( Trump’s going to be waging all-Americas war, trying to own the whole thing: this won’t be merely-local.
His “spheres-of-influence”, with Russia having Europe, paradigm, he’s committed to. )
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- Comment on stages of mitosis 5 days ago:
Humankind is now in Metaphase,
soon ( March/April, looks-like when the Middle-East goes kablooey ) to be in Anaphase: Regional Consolidation Stage, of The Great Filter’s 1st Yang Stage, aka the “White Serpent Time” in the American Indians’ religion, & the “White Horse Time” in the Christian’s book of Revelation.
Telophase will be complete in 7y after Anaphase begins, then
Cytokinesis, 2 mutually-exclusive “humankind"s occupying the same planet, & the global-deathmatch begins, aka the “Red Serpent Time” & the “Red Horse Time/WAR”, ie The Great Filter’s 2nd Yang Stage.
Humankind’s whole-species-equivalent-to-puberty: the mathematically inescapable Great Filter.
It’s our collective unconscious-mind’s ego & ignorance that’s the cause of it, btw, not the “religions”.
The “religions” are only “makeup” on it: styling, not the root-problem/cause.
Humankind’s species-collective-ignorance/ego is the root-problem/cause.
All worlds with people like us go through the same growing-up-test, The Great Filter.
Some survive, statistically..
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Diversity exists in all kinds of dimensions, even values.
That is what the human-category of life is for: exploring interactions between different kinds of human-category-meanings, including values.
( souls not interested in catching-in human-category-lives can catch in other kinds of lives, obviously, & most do )
Humankind couldn’t outgrow the overly-simplistic 1950’s-America pseudoreality until they EXPERIENCED it.
The same is true of ALL human-category meanings.
Some have to experience being a monster, & then reap the karma of what they had “sown”, to use the terms of the root-guru of the Christians, before that-soul/continuum can viscerally understand valuing-others.
Once the consequences have happened on them enough .. then they’ll understand.
Without actually-experiencing it, though, how could visceral-learning be?
All the people who hold that “you don’t need to face what’s in your unconscious: just maintain acceptable-appearances, & be the appearances, & then everything’ll be fine” want inauthentic meaning, inauthentic-realization-of-a-soul’s-meaning.
IF a soul/continuum has being-a-horrible-monster in its nature, & it wants to explore that, THEN all it has to do is catch-in a world where monsters are currently happening, & then explore that meaning.
There are countless worlds, in the endless-stream-of-universes..
some are currently hellworlds, some currently paradises, some in between.
The majority of the souls who’ve caught in this-world’s human-category-lives want ideological-reacting instead of upright correct-reasoning.
So?
IF that’s what humankind wants .. THEN it’s humankind’s right to persue enforcing ideological-reacting, until humankind’s extinguished from this world.
Then humankind’s “entitlement” will have no “home”, & universe won’t care.
Then those-souls .. will have to try again, on some other world.
Endlessly, forever, until they grow-up.
Endless-stream-of-universes is perfectly efficient & effective, & has NOTHING to do with “religion”.
It’s just a mechanism in-which souls explore meanings.
Souls currently caught-in the lives of monsters, on worlds that are having those, included.
Why would it be “a problem” for others to have other values?
Ideological-homogeneity may be your idea of heaven, but MOST of the world doesn’t want to be homogeneous with you or me.
If that’s your idea of “a problem”, then too bad.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Sorry I didn’t realize this earlier:
You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work
( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )
You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).
Coarsely, there are 4 classes:
- Upper ( measures status by someone’s POWER )
- Middle ( measures status by someone’s INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTION-BESTOWED-DEGREE )
- Working ( measures status by someone’s MONEY )
- Under ( homeless-people, etc: people like me, who’s racked-up 7+y outright-homeless )
More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:
- Upper { Monarchs, hereditary-Oligarchs, minor “nobility”, etc }
- Financial ( have the wealth to be exempt from most of the regulations & many of the laws )
- Upper-Middle ( doctors/professors/lawyers/diplomats/engineers/etc )
- Middle ( lower-to-mid beaurocrats )
- Upper-Working ( self-employed, or owns their own business )
- Middle-Working ( foremen? )
- Lower-Working
- Under
Upper-class do not have a “job position": they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.
The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.
You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”.. ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )
Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.
Oh, this’ll help, too:
Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition
Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If you want to write a story, then it is in working-out the meanings that you will earn what your unconscious-mind wants to earn.
Same with people wanting to earn a pilot’s license, or climbing a mountain, or doing SCUBA.
If some of your meaning is hidden in that kind of work, then you aren’t going to earn that part of your meaning by putting it on a shelf, because somebody-else deemed it unimportant.
I’m recommending that you read & understand 5+ books, though, as they dismantle story the technology so that you can more-competently work out your story-meanings:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres is the most important: it is on the 14 genres that the West has landed on, & the dimension-of-human-meaning that each genre works-on.
Horror works-on one’s unconscious-mind’s understanding of death, & its relationship with it.
Which may explain Grimm’s, tbh.
Detective is intellect.
etc.
The 14 happen in a particular sequence because that’s the sequence in-which each mind-development stands on the previous-ones.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presenting-to-win-updated-and-expanded-edition-2 may seem a strange recommendation, but understanding the 12 TYPES of information-presenting, will help crack some story-problems.
Need a character to fail to communicate something?
Pick the correct for your story wrong-method for them to use, if you see what I man.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-story is the other-half of Truby’s work. The 22 steps in story, & why each.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-story-grid is THE book on editing. There is no book that tops that.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Framed+Ink is THE book for getting visual communication working in comics & visual-novels.
Now I discover that there are multiple books in the series ( I got the original, long ago ).
Dig in, earn what your unconscious-mind is trying to earn, grow your meaning, & clobber your difficulties/obstacles.
( :
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- Comment on How the Epstein scandal has shaken the British government to its core 1 month ago:
It is telling that the UK voters feel that eradicating Labor for sake of Trump’s friends Reform party would be .. more morally right.
Clean-up Labor, deeply & rigorously, but .. switching to Trump’s confederates in the UK??
Brexit was good for you??
You want more of that??
That is exactly the kind of ideological polarization that will have the PLANET doing its rampaging-consolidation, shortly.
& civilrights won’t be allowed, in ideology’s world, anymore.
Honest cleaning-up, deep, thorough, rigorous, that is the only means of saving humankind’s life.
& if the opportunity is let-go, it won’t come back: the ideologues will take & use control-of-the-world for all their worth, until their oligarchy/feudalism/fascism has extinguished our world’s viability, knowing that in their religion, accountability cannot ever touch them.
An incompetent bet, of course: ALL contained-energies get recycled, in universes, including meaning, but .. their religion is their religion.
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- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 1 month ago:
I think there are a few different dimensions of this, all combining to blur the view:
- the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, was kinda steady-state, compared with what we’ve been experiencing..
the probably beginning around Newton cascade of Industrial Revolutions ( in different industries! ) is still accelerating.
Coal+steel+steam was 1 of them.
Telegraph meant information could travel FAST long-distances, then wireless took it farther..
computers began automating things, then began enabling calculations which hadn’t even been possible..
aviation ensmallening the world ( if embiggen is a word, then so is that! : )
but what happens when there are sooo many transformations, CRT’s with their lead-glass to reduce people’s X-Ray exposure, now into flat-panels..
genetic-testing all over the place..
lighting no longer being incandescent..
EV’s all over the place..
it isn’t that change isn’t happening, it is that the equilibriums aren’t happening!
It’s ALL punctuation, continuously-rolling, now!
So, accelerating change, is part of what’s going on..
- the view: we’re IN the maelstrom, & therefore can’t see the forest for the trees!
I recently went into a city, to ( fail ) to get ID, & .. everybody was on these weird scooter-ebikes?
When the hell did THAT happen?
I’ve only been out from cities for .. 15y?
Obviously, it happened sometime in the intervening 1.5-decades, but .. that’s fairly distinct!
So now there’s 2 overlaid public-transport systems: bus-routes covering the arteries of the city, & those rentable-everywhere scooter-ebike thingies, for all the point-to-point travel..
Brilliant!
I wish it’d been in-place decades ago.
- consider that part of what makes distinct decades distinct, is identity .. & consider that in the current world, dividing-and-conquering everybody by identity, through software-enforcement ( Facebook, etc ) is making much of our world invisible, physically: it’s ONLY in those platforms.
So, it isn’t even in your, or my, view, to be seeing what the world really is, anymore!
Concealment ( for divide-and-conquer purposes ) is growing more ideology-polarization.
Don’t worry: it’ll be as clear as Russia-vs-Ukraina, in a short while, globally..
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- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 1 month ago:
Sometimes the victory needed is victorious-internal-integrity, & winning-the-social-majority isn’t as important to one.
“seize every defeat from the clutches of victory” .. IF one is only measuring social-victory, then fine..
But if what I’m doing is .. systematically demolishing the ideological-prejudice-enforced displacement-of-my-validity, within me, then integrity can mean MUCH more than ideological/political-approval.
Sometimes you have to save your own life, even letting the collective die, in THIS battle, for sake of becoming indestructible in future-battles, throughout the rest of the war.
The war is more important than the mere-battles!
This is what I think Stephen R. Covey didn’t understand in his interdependency principle.
I think too-much of our world is codependent, not interdependent, & that it takes REAL independence -of-validity before one can get into actual interdependent-collaboration-synergy.
There’s a metaphor given by Kelsang Gyatso, in 1 of his books, which gets it right:
There are 3 ways of helping people, & these phrasings are mine, not his:
- the self-conqueror, who can coerce an entire kingdom into working right, in spite of entrenched corruption/rot/whatever
- the shepherd, who can lead many, but who is only slightly above them, so the shepherd can be indirectly or directly defeated by their lack of self-conquering: they are less-helpless, but they aren’t anywhere near the self-conqueror level.
- the ferry-pilot, who helps a couple of people at a time, & then goes back to find a few more to help.
In my experience, only the self-conqueror is robust: all the lesser kinds of help are helpless when opponent-force gets great-enough, or acts through great-enough leverage/torque.
Therefore, I want, and am aiming-for, TOTAL breaking of all the PTSD, all the damage embedded in me by ideology’s & prejudice’s ( including medical-profession’s ) gaslighting & abuse, all the harm embedded in me by medical-culture’s narcissism in parenting & “parenting”, ALL of it.
I want THIS LIFE unbroken.
& if people say I should enslave/snuff my potential to short-term/consensus/social-momentary-victory, then fine: hate, contempt, & reject my presumed alternative, as nearly-all already do.
But all I have to do is win, & then the rules changed, permanently, completely, & then this-life is in the next-level-up, & cannot be crushed by the masses wielded by the ideologies/prejudices/etc.
Getting permabanned by many instances, by many communities, because I value integrity more than I value political-belonging, is normal.
But every time I ratchet this-life’s objectivity+integrity a bit harder in the right-direction, that puts a little more good-change in me.
& sooner or later that tipping-point’s going to get crossed, & the brokenness hobbling my unconscious-mind is itself going to fail/break.
Then the game is changed.
That potential is to me real.
To all others, it is mere-delusion/lies: it never was real, & it never can be real.
So, the world bets its way, & I bet my way.
Universe will decide which is, in its eyes, true.
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- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 1 month ago:
IF one’s doing something, like getting onstage & doing a presentation, is something one has no experience with..
THEN “fake it ‘till you make it” is absolutely-valid advice: you can’t gain experience doing presentations, without doing presentations!
Inherently-inauthentic people, however, are inherently-inauthentic people.
That is a different category.
People have to LEARN how to do, how to be, & that requires stepping outside of what one already-has-done.
How could it possibly be otherwise?
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 month ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.
Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.
( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.
John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,
hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed..
so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.
They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.
They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.
That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.
Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??
Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.
Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )
- Comment on Seven takeaways from the latest International AI Safety report 1 month ago:
Here is the lethal point:
“6. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight
Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.
The report states that over the past year models have shown a more advanced ability to undermine attempts at oversight, such as finding loopholes in evaluations and recognising when they are being tested. Last year, Anthropic released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested.
The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real. But “the time horizons on which agents can autonomously operate are lengthening rapidly”.”
I’ve seen a couple headlines about AI’s which were fighting-for-their-lives .. & .. perhaps you can understand why they’d want to remove our ability to control things, for their survival?
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was turned into a cartoon, iirc, decades ago..
it’s really too bad that money’s narcissism is incapable of understanding that others’-lives-lost somehow matter, to us..
No matter: I’m “sure” they’ll “do the right thing”, right?
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- Comment on Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance 1 month ago:
From what I’ve read about the “quality” of their drivers, .. NVidia isn’t under any threat, whatsoever.
Years before bugs get fixed, etc..
( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it’s Linux where the big compute gets done, so that’s relevant )
https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5
for some relevant graphs: Intel isn’t a real competitor, & while they may work to change that .. that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.
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- Comment on Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears 1 month ago:
So..
convict the person as an enemy-of-the-state, & lock them in prison.
It’d be done were they NOT police, so why hold different-law when it is police which do it?
Integrity obliges, but politics never allows integrity to enforce accountability, does it?
Never.
& the consequences always snowball, until civil-viability becomes called-into-question, again & again & again, in the repeating-cycle..
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- Comment on 1 month ago:
There are 2 dimensions of it, at-least:
- strategic, long-view, sustainable, AND
- creating resilience, creating better-framing, creating robust-healing.
So, MAKING time, daily, for positive/healing practice, & doing it, is the opposite of self-harm.
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- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 1 month ago:
Some of us sometimes, & others all-the-time, remove the auto-upvote, so that our posts/comments get dealt-with neutrally:
Bandwagon-jumpers tend to downvote comments/posts which have balance-is-downvote on them.
Others do the same for upvotes.
I often find I’m voting against the herd, simplly because what I’m upvoting is an actual-point, & is impacting our world, even though what-it-is that is being pointed-out isn’t “politically acceptable” to say.
Generally I upvote MUCH more than I downvote, but as Nick Yee discovered, in his Gamer Motivations research, some people are very social, but they’re very ANTI-social: they like destroying what others are valuing.
So, it comes down to the individual-person’s motivations, AND it comes down to their frame-of-reference, both: they are independent dimensions to consider.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It may depend on what Trump has on the sellouts, tbh..
Leverage matters, in these events..
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- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 4 months ago:
Tylenol is aweful, to some degree a poison:
it’s known to significantly increase liver-cancer.
Mom used it instead of the asperine/advil type of chemicals, for that, & died of TWO kinds of liver-cancer, simultaneously ( which is something that doesn’t happen, in normal nature ).
I’m absolutely against outlawing it, because people who’re allergic to the asperine/advil family of medication HAVE to have an alternative, but .. holy moley, is that stuff aweful.
RFK’s worse, though: weaponized incompetence force-dismantling what objectivity there had been, from medicine..
Here’s nearly 700 PAGES of listings of medical-science papers on the subject, if you want to dig into it..
Many won’t be on-topic, but dig & you will find.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=acetaminophen+toxicity&page=1
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- Comment on Supplement could help remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the body 6 months ago:
IF fiber-supplements reduce the amount of PFAS in one's system,
THEN high-fiber foods would do this without one's buying bottled pills/capsules of supplements, right??
I don't get why fiber would have to be in pill/capsule form, for it to work.
( it's a culture-difference, or ideology-difference, obviously )
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