Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Unsolicited advice" channel.

  1. Many jokes are grounded on fallacies in reasoning and cognitive biases, and many of these jokes are politicians. 🙂
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  2. The accusation "That's pseudoscience!" is a cheap argument, and a means of deflection by individuals who often don't want to bother finding out why they don't like what they are hearing, and can't refute or counter it.
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  3. More relevant than ever.
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  4. Thank you. Please do a segment on divide-and-rule. It is the oldest and cheapest, yet most effective technique to subject entire regions, and entire continents to the whims of a few, and it starts with the own nation and the own people who must be set up against each other first.
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  5.  @Vernon-gn9wb  "Bias" is neutral. The GOLDEN RULE determines "right/wrong" or determines the "bias".
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  6. Noam Chomsky: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." The scope of arguments should not be limited by the limitations of other people's spectra. Why? "In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice." - John Foster Dulles (one half of the sibling psycho duo, together with Allen Dulles) "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." ― Edward Bernays The end goal is simple. "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey They use mind tricks. It's not rocket science figuring it out. The ruling class wants YOU to believe the exact opposite of what is really happening is "truth", today as well as in the past.
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  7. Lies and hypocrisy are a dead giveaway of a divide-and-rule strategy. A strategy of divide-and-rule does not intend to be "fair", but sets out to impose unfair "rulings" top-down... The USA/collective West can only "win" if the rest of the world "loses" (zero sum reality of the globalized world). The group that can divide all other groups, and avoid them from uniting into larger entities, will rule over all the others. Such "rulings" like the order to "arrest Putin" while Netanyahu walks free is a clear indication of "favoratism," and favoratism another dead giveaway of an active policy of divide-and-rule.
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  8. They are two different premises. If you flip the lever, you can argue that you've "become a savior of lives," because you've saved more people than you've ki!!ed. Hiroshima anybody? The "we killed in order to save MORE people than we actively ki!!ed."-narrative. Doing nothing is a cognitive bias Outcome Bias. Definition: "The outcome bias is an error made in evaluating the quality of a decision when the outcome of that decision is already known. Specifically, the outcome effect occurs when the same "behavior produce[s] more ethical condemnation when it happen[s] to produce bad rather than good outcome, even if the outcome is determined by chance."[1] While similar to the hindsight bias, the two phenomena are markedly different. Hindsight bias focuses on memory distortion to favor the actor, while the outcome bias focuses exclusively on weighting the outcome heavier than other pieces of information in deciding if a past decision was correct. " (wiki) Since the outcome of not acting is already known in this scenario, NOT acting becomes difficult to defend. Similar to NOT saving a drowning man, if it was in the power of the observer to do so.
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  9. Doublespeak was not invented in 1984. "Just helping our friends" = supporting some poor nation to do our bidding for us. "Give us the tools and we will fight" = If you have to beg for support, you ARE already "the tool" for another power... And these overlords? In the end, they always "run off with all the effin money" (quote George Carlin, explaining how divide-and-rule works). Because that is what the lords did when the Empire folded. They took their own money to the tax havens they had invented for themselves in the meantime, and left the average citizen to pull the cart out of the rut... This will repeat.
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  10. The end goal of all the deception is simple. "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey All states, also the western style "liberal democracies" and therefore the "good states" have set up non-elected agencies which are outside of the control of any voters, and therefore the collective wisdom and moral values of humanity. The resulting system is that of pyramidal shaped systems of gain in which power and wealth is funnelled to the top. These pyramidal shaped systems of gain called "capitalism" and "politics" have the stated goal of removing opposition, proudly recognized as being a "dirty game". They are designed by nature to attract fellow human beings with aggressive and even psychopathic tendencies (see footnote). A large portion of our fellow human beings perceive these as valid traits to achieve the own political and personal priorities. "Might is right", and "end justifies the means" are still axioms of so-called superiority. There is also no reason to believe that any other system which promises power, will not attract similar numbers of bullies and psychopaths. Reality: "Liberal democracies" and "capitalist gain models" attract psychos like moths to the flame, and most human beings wouldn't be able to spot a psycho even if their lives depended on it. Most human beings living in symbiosis of systems either don't have the skill to recognize bad actors, nor the inclination to remove them since it is tangentially beneficial to own favoured systems, or have become directly entrapped by the "gain models" (pyramids of power/wealth) lead by such bad actors. An example of this would be the case of Oliver North, whose psychopathic dealings were rewarded by "the system" with a highly paid management position (NRA). Based on observation such behaviour is only given a "slap on the wrist" (ineffective punishment), and therefore continues eternally... -------- Footnote: Studies have shown that models based on "intent of gain", like capitalism, have rates of people with psychopathic tendencies as high as 20%. Compare that reality to the average for a normal societies, or of non-gain models of cooperation, or mutually agreed upon cooperation, which is around a "1% psycho saturation rate". There is no reason to believe other models of "intent of gain" (like politics) do not have similar high rates of psychos. These bad actors and deceivers play games with their own inhabitants, telling them things like "all we want is peace", whereas in reality there are elements pushing for eternal war which benefits the systems they represent. Key words for further research (copy/paste into the preferred search engine): 1) 21 percent of CEOs are psychopaths 2) Lobaczewski's definition of pathocracy 3) The dark triad of malevolent personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism
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  11. The end goal is simple. "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey They use mind tricks. It's not rocket science figuring it out. The ruling class wants YOU to believe the exact opposite of what is really happening is "truth", today as well as in the past. Divide-and-gain. If not. Divide-and-control. If not. Divide-and-rule. If not. Divide-and-conquer. If not. Divide-and-destroy. One of the oldest tricks is to use others to achieve own gains (proxies and other paid "chosen ones"), so that you don't confront your enemy directly, but rather achieve gains by employing/enabling others to "catch a snake" by using "your enemy's hand." (Persian proverb/strategy of power)
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  12. @ Yes, that is how divide-and-rule works, because at the very bottom tier, it works with human emotions and human nature (incl. the dark side of human nature). cheers
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  13. @ There is no "interpretation" of the "Golden Rule". It start with the "own shoes". It means not supporting a political action if it means that one would not support it if "done onto" the own systems by outsiders. It is in fact very simple, and beyond misinterpretation, unless by the most corruptible human beings: it is therefore also a clever way of determining deceivers within the own ranks.
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  14. @ No you won't since you don't have the power. When your masters call on you to do something else but "protect your family", how will you respond?
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  15. At its core level, the theory of UNITY vs. DIVISION states that throughout history there were two opposing forces in action when it comes to the concept of gain. All other human interaction when it comes to the topic "gain" are subject to this. There are only two main forces at work, those who wish to create unity, and those which wish to foster division. Every single struggle for power ever, every single crisis about a man-made system ever, and every single war ever, has arisen out of these two opposing forces (causality). Anybody may of course try to find exceptions to this rule, and will find none, unless one engages in typical human behavioral patterns. Name the struggle, I'll point out whether it arose out of the attempt of creating unity, or division. Note: words have definitions and meanings and context matters, not only when it is beneficial for the own standpoint. These forces are not the commonly held truism as being the forces of good vs. evil, but rather those forces which wish to unite, using a variety of techniques, and those forces which gain from division, using a variety of techniques of power. Stage 2 is then the friction, which is created as these opposing forces collide, then fosters the emergence of narratives of good and evil, by providing the catalyst (human nature). Every single "good vs. bad"-narrative ever, has arisen from this very simple axiom. Since good and evil are easily spotted by most human beings, it then masks the forces which gain from divisions. Such forces at play use strategies to achieve means and ends. Dozens of such struggles can be included in the theory, and every reader may (if desired) set out to discover for themselves how their own world fits into the revealed reality, in other words include a personalized number of completely different tiers of power, regions of the planet, involved parties, individual actors, cultures, languages, etc. Note however, that your brain shards information, like a computer (database sharding), and is therefore predisposed to favor DIVISIVE forces at work from the own standpoint. That means that the own brain automatically favors own unity (ingroup) whilst decrying the unity of others (outgroup). Personal opinions and standpoints can then be studied from a neutral position, revealing the operation of the limbic system and cognitive-emotional attempts at sidelining, of the originator of dissent. They will point at the effects of their own policies, and point fingers.
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  16.  @Big_Tough_Guy  Thank you for responding. No, it is not a bad analogy. It is an excellent analogy 👍 The "lawn" signifies a "status quo" (unity) on a timeline which the "terror" of the "lawnmower" (outside power) seeks to destroy using brute force (division). The system steering the lawnmower can then impose its own desires onto the overpowered status quo of the old system.
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  17. ​ @RasputinRussiano  The biggest danger to the world are ideologically indoctrinated systems, filled to the brim with "usefull innocents/idiots" which have always wanted to rule the world. Search the term ideology in a dictionary. It is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. ALL of these, need vast amounts of support in order to break out of the theory level of things, towards a real existing form of POWER. It is is easy to become the tools, of ideologues. These power players preach from their "soap boxes" called "TV" and millions bow down to them, and these power players have got millions to believe they should lie and kill for their ideology, and become ideologically indoctrinated warriors. When the ideology they openly and proudly flaunt kills millions, their leaders say that the death of 500,000 children was "worth it" (Madeleine Albright), and there are no repercussions at all. Millions look at such deaths, and don't even bat an eye. They carry on with their lives. Millions cheer and cherish their ideologues and dear leaders. The ideology their ideologically indoctrinated leaders openly state they should send soldiers to kill for, is democracy in marriage with corporatism, and the slogan they have chanted since World War 1 is "Make the world safe for democracy". The greatest example of doublespeak ever: it was actually always the intention to "make the world safe for corporations" as Smedley-Butler already revealed 100 years ago. Strange, that the Bible these ideologues hold dear, says not to "lie, steal, and kill", but their leaders call upon them to kill to spread democracy. One of these axioms, must be wrong.
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