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14:45 This also pertains to psychological reprogramming.
Consider a situation that makes you angry automatically, like getting stuck behind a left lane camper. Every time it happens, all the stimulus associated with that situation results in a direct activation of your amygdala. Every time it happens, that path becomes easier to activate as the associated neurons grow more dendrites and axonal terminals. The more often you get angry about it, the easier it is to be angry about it.
To undo that path to your limbic system, you have to build paths in your cerebrum: rational instead of emotional. However, being IN the situation makes it difficult to THINK about it. Fortunately, the brain is designed to virtualize reality (process what is happening) AND simulate reality (imagine). Imagining being in a situation is not as strong a stimulus as actually being in the situation itself. So THINK about being stuck behind somebody camping in the left lane when you aren’t driving.
It’s like being in the situation is the Olympic competition, and thinking about the situation is training in the gym for that competition. Trying to deal with your anger IN THE MOMENT is like constantly going to competitions.
As you IMAGINE (train) being in a situation, you are now in a less emotional state that allows you to explore it. To explore…just ask questions. Ask every question you can think of. Answer those questions and come up with more questions. Questions and answers exist in the cerebrum, away from the limbic system. So as you keep asking and answering questions about a situation you are imagining, you are literally building new neuronal pathways in your CEREBRUM. Just like constantly getting angry about something, the more you imagine (train) the more those cerebral neurons grow.
Finally, once those cerebral pathways are trained up, the next time you find yourself in that situation, you mind doesn’t automatically go straight down the only path it knows. It now has many more paths besides the amygdala to go down giving you a conscious choice to be emotional or rational. The more you choose to be rational, the more the path to the amygdala withers as those neurons activate less and receive fewer resources. Eventually, those neurons will have to find purpose elsewhere as you “forget” how to get angry about being stuck behind left lane campers.
Personally, I began imagining that the people camping in the left lane where my parents or friends, and by making THAT connection in my cerebrum, I was able to put my mind in a place where I would think, “I wouldn’t flip my parents off. I wouldn’t cut them off. I wouldn’t tailgate my parents. I wouldn’t get in front of them and brake check them.”
Even though they weren’t my parents, the amazing thing about the brain is that I was able to imagine the situation as if they were.
Muscles or neurons, it doesn’t matter. Your body AND mind are designed to adapt and overcome…if you let them.
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5:30 “You have no idea what Mr. Rosenbaum was thinking.”
That’s a non-sequitur. Nobody has any idea what anybody is thinking. Just like the prosecution has no idea what Mr. Rittenhouse was thinking when all I of this happened.
This guy makes being a lawyer seem easy.
10:00 I would like to point out that in the chaos of the riots and being surrounded by dozens of bystanders, Mr. Rittenhouse hit ONLY three people: the three who were obviously attacking him. Furthermore, he had enough wherewithal to wing the one guy who tried to brandish his firearm. An argument could be made that the two he killed did not give him enough time to aim non-lethally, while the third offered him enough time to take more careful aim.
Lastly, regarding the “shot to the back.”
“Dr. P. Douglas Kelley of the Milwaukee Medical Examiner’s office determined that Rosenbaum suffered one gunshot to the groin that fractured his pelvis, another to the back which perforated his right lung and liver, another to the left hand, a superficial gunshot wound to his lateral left thigh, and a graze wound to the right side his forehead.”
The one shot that entered his back hit his right lung AND liver. The lung is above the liver. The only way a single shot hit both is if the shot entered below the rib cage to pass through the liver and into the lung, or down past the clavicle through the lung and into the liver. Those trajectories imply that Mr. Rittenhouse was shooting up at Mr. Rosenbaum, or shooting down at him, or they were both laying on the ground, or Mr. Rosenbaum was leaning forward at the waist and Mr. Rittenhouse was in front or behind him.
Considering the placement and entry of the other shots that were all fired in rapid succession, What seems the most likely is that Mr. Rittenhouse was bring the barrel up from a safe position and fired in a rapidly rising angle as Mr. Rosenbaum was reaching: thigh, groin, hand, forehead, upper back. The first few shots stopped the forward momentum of Mr. Rosenbaum’s LOWER body while his more massive UPPER body maintained forward momentum while also pitching forward and falling exacerbating the lunge for Mr. Rittenhouse’s weapon.
No videos show Mr. Rittenhouse firing any other shots at Mr. Rosenbaum other than those in the initial burst. Mr. Rittenhouse did NOT get on the ground and fire into Mr. Rosenbaum’s prone body into the anterior or posterior, nor was one flying above the other at any time. No videos show Mr. Rosenbaum bending over in front of Mr. Rittenhouse (based on prior criminal records, Mr. Rosenbaum is generally behind the minor who is bending over).
This case already served its purpose. Biden was placed in office, and “racism” helped people who normally don’t vote to cast their ballots for a demented old man who barely showed up to campaign. When you get a ballot in the mail, and you normally wouldn’t be bothered to go to a polling place, what do you do to make a quick decision?
Check social media…the same ones plastering out information networks with “Orange Man racist!!”
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I had an epiphany last night, born from decades of addressing my flaws.
1. Pain and suffering are not the same thing.
2. Suffering only exists as one of two consequences for desire.
3. Desiring someTHING is the first step towards suffering, but aspiring to achieve leads to greatness.
4. The happiness in aspiration is not in the goal of achievement and perfection but in the journey to get there.
5. An honest SACRIFICE (not begrudgingly) to somebody or something (God) is not for their benefit but for yours.
6. An honest sacrifice is the understanding that a desire for things that you cannot control (anything within the universe/reality) is foolhardy and causes suffering if you fail.
7. Therefore, the road to Heaven (nirvana, TRUE happiness, rapture, etc.) IS honest sacrifice because you are free from the clutches of desire-induced eternal suffering which is what Hell is desribed as.
8. God does not ask you to sacrifice for Him, rather, he asks you to sacrifice for yourself to free yourself from suffering.
P.S. I’m struggling to stay agnostic as things are becoming clearer in my old age, and I used Christianity, mainly, because I was raised Catholic. I am most familiar with it. I still do not feel anything divine (I do feel psychological weights being lifted), per se, but some of the arguments against Christianity seem trivial in the illumination that hit me last night. Even if you remove God from the explanation, neurobiology even agrees with the assessment of desire, suffering, sacrifice, and happiness.
The more energy you spend desiring something and not having the object of your desire, the more robust those neuronal circuits become making those feelings easier to activate. This is a positive feedback loop where the more you desire, the easier it becomes to feel that desire...and suffering. Sacrifice is the cognitive admission that that desire is destructive and is the root of your suffering; of your personal Hell.
Not a sermon. Just a thought.
I was listening to Rule #7, and your discussion about sacrifice was the final piece of a decades long adventure into myself. It rang a bell with me when it reminded me of a conversation I tried to strike up in regards to “gratitude” in regards to government welfare. As it was my first discussion in Facebook Poltiics, I wasn’t fully prepared for the back lash. I never had an opportunity to explain that “gratitude” is inconsequential to the benefactor (a true benefactor, not one seeking accolades), as the benefactor’s motive isn’t to illicit gratitude.
Gratitude is for the beneficiary. It is a signal that society is not evil. It is a confirmation that people are good. Without understanding this, the beneficiary will remain trapped in the personal hell of resentment, entitlement, desire, and suffering of their own design. Hell isn’t a tangible place, it is an abstract concept that exists only within the mind.
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@busylivingnotdying Here’s what materialists don’t understand about reality…
A rock has ONE set of material (physical) attributes: size, weight, hardness, shape, color… However, it has MULTIPLE ideal (metaphysical) purposes: projectile, container, wall, ballistic, bludgeon, cutting-edge.
Conversely, a cup has ONE purpose: contain a fluid. However, it can be instantiated with MULTIPLE materials: rock, wood, glass, metal, plastic, and you can even cup your hands at a river (contain water) or around your mouth or ears (contain air).
Reality has a reciprocal ONE to MANY relationship between MATERIAL and PURPOSE. It is this lack of understanding that Materialism fails in resulting in a loss of value for some particular material. That value is determined by the IDEAL purpose; not its material attributes. A rock is more valuable for every purpose it is given depending on the circumstances.
What “socialism” does is it limits what people can imagine a material object CAN be used for by dictating what a material object IS used for.
A free market isn’t about the ends of wealth accumulation. It is about the innovations required to stay competitive for that wealth.
That’s not even the fundamental issue with “socialism.” The fundamental issue is that socialism WORKS IF EVERYONE IS A WILLING PARTICIPANT. The moment you make it mandatory is the moment it begins to degrade.
Freedom is always the heart of these conversations, and that’s why both sides get it wrong. Socialism is JUST the communal ownership of capital (“means of production” is the same thing; it was coined to give it a positive connotation when applied by the state). That communal ownership is completely possible, and even beneficial, within a free market.
So the actual argument is about whether individuals willingly come together and collectively manifest socialist ideals WITHOUT forcing it on unwilling participants: Actual Socialism versus NATIONALIZED Socialism.
And I hope everyone is familiar with the outcome of NATIONALIZED Socialism. Most Jews do, I am sure.
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@atheistangel007 What relevance does our designer’s designer have on what we design within the constraints we were designed within?
Can we design Universes?
If so, that’s a pretty damn good argument that ours was mostly likely designed.
Was it designed by any particular “god” depicted in any of the various religions that have arisen?
Most LIKELY NOT, but we have no way of determining that which exists outside of our realm of existence any more than a self-aware subroutine in a program can determine the make and model of the computer it’s “Universe” is running on. Moreover, we can’t affect anything in that reality to affect our own, so there’s no real point in trying or arguing to attempt it.
You seem to think that me arguing for the high probability that our Universe was intelligently designed has any bearing at all on how I view the Universe. Whether it was or wasn’t IDed, we have PLENTY to learn about, explore, and create to be overly concerned about that which we cannot prove not affect.
If the natural processes that we observe were part of an intelligent design, or some unfashionable “accident”, the fact still remains, we we observe those processes and strive to understand them. There is NOTHING about ID that stipulates “science is useless.” Science and ID are NOT mutually exclusive.
Open your mind a bit, mate.
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@LilyGazou The problem is that we have this neat new invention called the internet that allows people to find others who think like they do. Once you find those people, don’t waste time “liking” their comments: move together into the same neighborhood.
If everybody that you trust with firearms, your life, and your children don’t all live within walking distance of you, you’re doing it wrong.
America was designed to allow every individual the opportunity to build EXACTLY the society that they want WITH the people who already AGREE with them. This whole, “well, if you like Switzerland, move to Switzerland” crap is exactly wrong. If you think Switzerland does it right, find the other million or so who believes the same and BUILD a Switzerland in America. Do NOT vote to turn ALL of America into Switzerland.
Politics has a single purpose: to force one side into compliance with the other side. You don’t need laws to force people to do the things they already agree to do.
If everybody moved based on their preferred tax rate, then taxes disappear. It’s not a tax if everybody in your area agree to VOLUNTARILY CONTRIBUTE the same amount.
The thing is, the Right COULD have already been doing this and created vastly superior societies where their citizens have a 90% participation rate in their own well-regulated militias designed to protect their schools and their streets from violence which would tremendously relieve LAW ENFORCEMENT officers from day-to-day PEACEKEEPING duties. Imagine Red cities with open carrying militia members who meet and train with each other on a regular basis patrolling their streets and manning sniper nests in their water towers. What violent crime would be possible? What argument could a Blue City make AGAINST a well-armed citizenry RESPONSIBLY exercising their FULL Second Amendment Rights?
Democrats have disarmed, provided poor education, provided poor economic opportunities, redlined, over-legislated, over-policed, over-sentences, and crammed their minorities into slums for decades. The only “systemic racism” in America is the at which was perpetrated in Blue Cities and States for DECADES.
If Democrats can’t rid their cities of “systemic racism,” why would anybody believe that they could do it at the national level?
Because the Left was conditioned to believe that larger government is the solution to the problems they caused while the Right wastes time arguing with them and not articulating the issues correctly or building the actual societies America was meant to build.
What America needs instead of laws that people get incarcerated for is rules that people get exiled for. You establish rules to live by in your town, and if you break those rules, you get forced out instead of forced into a cell.
If you think smoking weed is fine, then move out of the city that says it isn’t instead of trying to convene everybody that it is fine. If somebody is caught smoking weed in a town that outlawed it, kick them out. This allows them to maintain MOST of their freedom. You don’t have to waste resources incarcerating them. You don’t have to break families up. You don’t have to force anybody to live differently than they want to live.
Except, that would drastically impact the revenue stream for industrial for profit prisons…
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@falion2850 Your loop is a product of society determining what abstract construct equates to success.
Your limbic system is tied directly to success: achieving it or avoiding failure. If you do not take the time to understand those processes, you will be forced to follow societal programming.
You ever wonder why tuition costs keep skyrocketing despite knowledge being practically free on the internet? It’s because you are driven by abstract goals with no real clear path to attain them. Because you do not see the path, you rely on people you will never meet to determine that path for you.
Video games are so addictive because it harnesses your limbic system’s drive for success by metering it on different levels. Short term goals give you just enough dopamine to keep you coming back daily while long term goals give you that asynchronous jolt to keep you looking further ahead.
Life is exactly the same way. You need immediate goals to keep you getting up every morning, but you need long term goals to keep your short term goal meaningful.
Life was a video game before video games were invented. People who THINK the the sky is actually “blue” do not understand that the sky is “blue” only because they THINK it is.
“Blue” does not exist. It is a psychological manifestation of a particular pattern of neuronal activations. It is imaginary.
Just like in video games.
So, take your successes at “video games” and translate that to “life.” Once you understand that short-term and long-term goals are the same in higher abstract levels, then you will understand that they are the same no matter what situation you apply them to.
Twenty years ago, my physics professor proposed this scenario: you have a large army with which you need to conquer a castle. There are eight paths to this castle, but each path has a bridge which will crumble under the eight of your army.
What do you do?
While he let us think about that, he explained another situation: radiation therapy consists of targeting a tumor with highly ionizing radiation. This creates a conundrum: a beam strong enough to destroy cancer cells is also strong enough to destroy healthy cells.
What do you do?
Both situations are different instances of the same abstract situation which means they have the same abstract solution that manifests as two different material instances of that solution.
Simply put: you split your army/beam and direct them down different paths to converge on the castle/tumor at the same time thereby keeping the bridges/healthy cells relatively intact.
As you get older, seeing how to abstract multiple material instances into the abstract realm will become easier because that is what your brain is designed to do…if you allow it. The more instances of reality that you experience, the more your mind is able to abstract the common features between different situations. Synaptic pruning is the main process behind this operation, and it is the basis for mastery in any skill.
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I believe the problem with some mathematical conventions are the similarities between terms.
i is used to denote “imaginary” or root(-1). All it really means is that we are defining the existence of a value outside of a single dimension in which it does not exist. When we process a vector (one dimension) with another vector (one dimension) that is defined with parameters that do not exist for the first vector, we add another dimension to our understanding of each vector to create a space in which we can parameterize both vectors. This higher dimensional understanding comes with newer processes that are similar to processes in a single dimension. This process leads to naming each new dimension with basis vectors called i-hat, j-hat, k-hat, etc.
The use of i to denote a new dimension outside of the real number dimension is the same thing as using j-hat to extend understanding from i-hat. It is clunky to use i in one context to denote a SECOND dimension while using i-hat to denote the FIRST dimension in another context. On top of all that, we also use x, y, and z to denote one, two, and three dimensional physical spaces as well as analytical spaces that are visually represented by graphs.
After many years, I’ve become accustomed to pivoting/translating/rotating/dimensionally dilating ( 😂 we even have different terms for doing the same thing depending on the context of the conversation) based on the topic that I am consuming. The relationships between different fields of study offers ways to enhance each field based on the understanding of similar ideas within other fields. I think we have too many focused on single fields (vectors of study) and not enough agile enough to understand multiple fields who can project (transformation) one field (vector) on to another (vector) to translate understanding from one to the other.
It’s a shame, really, since our brains are designed to do just that and humans have had a predilection for that process for millennia. We have similes, metaphors, analogies, allegories, parables, fables, mnemonic devices, symbolic representations, graphical representations, colors, sounds, odors, flavors, tactile perception, feelings, and emotions that all do the same thing: provide a translation from one understanding to another to build a larger framework of understanding.
This is why I enjoy your videos and wish I had more time to help you with your work. You translate your understanding to provide understanding to those with different perspectives.
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@atheistangel007 There actually is a good reason to believe it was “intelligently designed.”
Understanding the design processes allows us to create our own universes. You cannot create without first understanding the medium you wish to create with.
The first time we see God and Man in The Bible:
“God created Man in His image.”
1. God is a creator.
2. Man was created in His image.
3. The image of a creator is a creator.
4. Humans are creators.
Creation requires free thinking, which Zealots of any ideology (including The Church of Science) have relinquished to their authority figures. INSTEAD of developing free market solutions that their political opponents would willingly buy into, useful idiots vote for strangers to buy “solutions” from the same corporations that sold the “problem” in the first place.
“Well, not sure how you could possibly prove that…”
Computer generated models are procedurally generated, exactly as the Universe was. An Algorithm (Physical Laws) are applied to a Seed defining initial conditions (the Big Bang Singularity), and out pops the program. We have examples of simple programs that apply basic rules to different types of pixels. Many of these generate “life-like” patterns, processes, and movements. Now, unless you want to argue that self-aware computer programs are an impossibility, then it stands to reason that a procedurally generated program COULD manifest self-aware subroutines. These subroutines would only be able to interact within the constraints of the algorithm’s determined programming. This means that their “universe” which can “seem” 3D in the same we we perceive VR programs as 3D; they would experience “forces” which would actually be collision detection routines; and many other aspect of “reality” that we perceive BECAUSE the brain is a reality virtualized AND a simulator all rolled into one.
Feel free to assume that the Universe was NOT intelligently designed, but it would be IMPOSSIBLE for you to model such a Universe because, by definition, models are intelligently designed. We can model intelligently designed Universes all day every day, but you’ll never be able to model an “accidental Universe.”
So, if you wish to be an unthinking parasite on life voting for strangers to build society backwards from the top-down, you’re absolutely free to do so.
As an agnostic, I prefer to lean towards an intelligent designer who wants to see His creations make creations of their own. I have no children if my own, but I imagine any loving parent would want certain things for their children: independence because they won’t always be around for them; and the creativity to create solutions for any problems they come up against. Watching your child create something “new” (even if it is only mew to the child) must be an exhilarating feeling for a good parent.
“No good reason to take the claims of theists seriously.”
Again, regarding scientific matters, there isn’t a whole lot I refer to The Bible for. Despite being raised Catholic and going through multiple evolutions to end up an agnostic (which is the fundamental idea for the basis of science), I can honestly say that many of the stories I learned growing up have a different meaning for me after some light studies in. neuroscience. My ability to reassess what I’ve learned as a child regarding new knowledge I acquired as an adult makes me far more scientific than you. I don’t dismiss entire ideologies wholesale just because of a few or even many discrepancies. Rather, I break all ideas down into components which I judge in isolation from the others. This is the same process of genetic evolution extended into neurology where instead of ideas being encoded into more robust DNA strands, ideas are encoded in more plastic neuronal patterns.
This is why we evolved technologically far faster than we did genetically leading to clashed like the “sweet tooth” driving obesity and diabetes.
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What does being “offended” mean?
Does the level of offense a person feels determine the truth in the “offensive” comment?
If Hilltler screamed “2+2=4” along with every “offensive” slur, and Einstein calmly and eloquently explains to you that 2+2=5 along with handing you a briefcase will a million dollars, which comment is true?
A comment has two main components: emotional intent and rational content. You can only have one conscious thought at a time, so you cannot process the emotion you CHOSE to associate to certain words AND the information presented. If you truly love yourself, you won’t let people define you with their words; you will define yourself. This confidence allows you to disregard the emotional intent of the comment.
A bad intent will be ineffectual against your confidence, and a good intent will be superfluous. In both cases, irrelevant. With the emotional intent irrelevant, you are freed from the shackles of useless emotions and are able to discard that part of the comment.
Once that emotional component is discarded, all you are left with is an idea: the only real relevant component of the comment. Considering the comment, you can judge whether it is true or not, and then you act accordingly.
As you see, getting offended is completely useless. Stop doing it.
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@raspas99 I thought the same about the “conflict of interest” comments, but, I don’t agree with your assessment of replicants. There wasn’t just ONE version of replicants. That’s like saying there was only one version of iPhones over. Do you think that research and innovation just stopped for some reason?
The wiki even details a couple of these versions, and from the sounds of it, Rachel was SUPPOSED to bear Tyrell’s kids since he was such a wanker, but Roy fixed that, and Deckard REALLY fixed that.
Tyrell and Wallace seem to have this god complex wherein they think that biology determines personhood rather than thought.
The opposite view in aliens was that the synthetics, being more machine, was considered life by their creator, Weyland.
Roy Batty wanted to be seen as a son, and Weyland wanted to be seen as a father. It’s like Weyland and Tyrell should have swapped creations. 😂
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@tylrpearson3165 Just remember to start with your annoyances first. Those are your five pound dumbbells. Once they no longer annoy you, move up to more annoying issues. To get a good idea of what you are doing, list EVERYTHING that annoys you, offends you, irritates you, angers you, frustrates you, and enrages your. Put each one on an index card. Then sort them out by considering two of them and deciding which you’d rather deal with over the other. Once you have them all organized from least annoying to most rage inducing, you have your training all planned out.
By dealing with the smallest struggles first, you have a higher chance of success which leads to a positive feedback loop encouraging you to take on bigger struggles.
Good luck and Godspeed, Brother.
Cheers 🍻
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Invalid Opinion Our minds do not exist in reality, our brains do. Minds are a psychoLOGICAL construct manifesting the organization of physical neurons.
It is similar to the difference between the physical structure of a computer network and the logical structure determined by translated information.
Sound, color, taste, smell, texture do not exist in reality. They are all psychological representations of neuronal activation patterns.
Saying that color exists in reality is the same thing as saying a video game avatar exists in reality.
The brain is merely the interface between tangible reality and psychological reality. A physical process stimulates a sensory nerve. That nerve sends an electrical impulse through the Peripheral Nervous System to the Central Nervous System. The patterns of neuronal activations within the brain are translated into psychological representation in a heuristic process to reconcile the massive amounts of information and the ability to make conscious decisions.
Can you imagine processing the information from every cone shaped photo-receptor cells from each eye to determine the frequency of electromagnetic radiation that activates each cell? You would have to process how many of each of three types of cell to determine the relative intensity of those three colors. So, not only do colors not exist, we only perceive three frequencies of light; not the millions that you THINK you do.
To wrap this up, synesthesia is direct evidence that psychological perception of physical sensory information is merely translation of signals in reality to consciously processable representations in the mind. If color exists as a physical reality, then seeing sounds should be impossible. However, if psychological translation of information is a virtual process, then the auditory information meant for your temporal lobe can be translated by the occipital lobe resulting in some people being able to see sounds.
Can you imagine the patterns of compression waves in the air vibrating the different lengths of cilia in your ear sending patterns of electrical impulses to the brain to create a visual representation of what you hear?
Neurobiology aside, the main problem in this thread really comes down to a difference political ideology. This is a problem that confederacy was supposed to address, but federalism has intensified. The problem with psychological diversity in the perception of reality and the physical existence of that abstract existence of the mind is that “entitlement,” “benefit,” and “freedom” are constantly conflated. Freedom within individual minds give rise to conflict within shared realities.
The ability to move to an environment more conducive to your perception of reality or create such environments with like minded individuals was the point of a Democratic Republic and a confederate style nation. The more decisions that are made at the federal level, the fewer decisions that are made locally, leaving even less for the individual. As one party gains power, legislation the other party disapproves of is realized. When the pendulum swings the other way, more legislation is created that the first party disapproves of. Just as in The Pit and the Pendulum, the shift in power is inevitable just as the weight of the pendulum pulls it ever closer to completely severing the body in twain. Regardless of the party in power, the Federal government takes more decisions away from the whole nation.
It doesn’t have to be that way. If this video teaches you anything, it should teach you that being a human is what we have in common, but it is our ideological differences that allow various functions to be fulfilled. What the video doesn’t explain is that every person is responsible for how they interpret reality within their own mind, and legislating how people should interpret reality is a very dangerous path that should be tread lightly.
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@jerrymason7887 In this video alone, Neil makes the assumption that there should be an inherently equal representation of men and women in government and that some “patriarchy” is preventing that from occurring today.
Since he isn’t a psychologist or a neurologist, he doesn’t understand that men and women have different proclivities one of which is an exaggerated competitive spirit in men that women typically don’t have. That trait alone keeps women from climbing most corporate structures including companies, government, and military service. So a smaller number of women even willing to compete means an even smaller number able to compete with the much larger number of men who not only want to compete, but thrive on it.
The worst part is, Neil isn’t an economist so he completely misses the issue that politics is the antithesis of economics which is why the larger the government, the less stable, less efficient, and more corrupt it becomes.
I won’t speak for anybody else, but I can definitely follow his arguments. Partially because I’ve read history and partially because I used to think like him. Having gone through the process of replacing incorrect ideas in my own mind, I’m able to spot the laws in his logic quite easily and quickly.
Neil is a cog who is unable to think for himself with no courage to do so. He’s comfortable with government doing all his thinking for him which is what makes him such a useful Establishment shill.
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@busylivingnotdying 😂 I meant specifically how the brain is organized. 😂
Lower order neurons are represented by higher order neurons in a 10-10,000:1 relationship. That is a fractal pattern that repeats through higher orders of neurons. Using 100 as the base…
a 2nd order neuron will represent 100 1st order neurons;
a 3rd order neuron will represent 100 2nd order neurons and 10,000 1st order neurons;
a 4th order neuron will represent 100 3rd order neurons; 10,000 2nd order neurons; and 1,000,000 1st order neurons.
and so on…
All these groups of neurons are ideologically segregated but integrated with each other through higher order neurons.
If humans did the same thing…
100 adults with greater than 95% ideological agreement would create a 1st order community. They would send 5 representatives to a 2nd order community to live there 3 months of the year. This second order community is composed of 5 representatives from 20 neighboring communities of 100 adults. WITHIN each community, there is a 95% ideological agreement, but BETWEEN each community there is a 90% ideological agreement. So, this 2nd order community represents 2,000 adults. And you pest the process, like the brain…
1st order community: 100 adults
2nd order community: 2,000 adults
3rd order community: 40,000 adults
4th order community: 800,000 adults
5th order community: 16,000,000 adults
6th order community: 320,000,000 adults
This organization leads to far less law enforcement since you only need to enforce laws on people that disagree with them. Taxes all but disappear because taxes are an imposition upon those who disagree with them. If you live with the people you agree with, laws become “house rules” that visitors/immigrants must abide by or get kicked out, and taxes become voluntary contributions.
ALL decisions made by representatives DIRECTLY affect those representatives for 9 months of the year because they eat, sleep, work, play, live, and die with the people they represent. Those representatives are DIRECTLY held responsible and to account by those they represent. This is in contrast to the system of thousands and millions of citizens represented by abject strangers that pass laws that nobody is faintly aware of.
With less law enforcement, there is FAR less incarceration since anybody who breaks a house rule is exiled rather than incarcerated. The “offender” doesn’t lose 99% of their freedom; their family need not be broken up; and the “offended” community need not WASTE resources incarcerating a non-productive member of the community.
All this is possible through deliberate ideological segregation where individuals MOVE to LIVE with people they agree with instead of the antithetical paradigm of “forced inclusion” which results in the mass incarceration we see today.
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@sururhis7175 If I may, let me help you out as I watch this video:
8:30 They are discussing CRT being taught in elementary school. Ana claims that it is not happening. Ben claims a boiled down version is being taught in elementary schools AND he even states the text being used as well as the author of that text.
If that topic is too complicated for you to understand, perhaps relating it to another subject you probably don’t understand might help.
Math is taught in elementary school. It is a boiled down version of the math taught in middle school, high school, and college. You see, Mr. “I hate echo chambers,” the brain is a decentralized society of neurons that work together to record reality. From the record, connections are made to understand it. Records are distinct bits of information where relationships exists in the spaces between those bits. Those relationships become new bits which create new spaces. Each layer of understanding is built on a layer of simpler ideas beneath it. EVERY complex idea has a basis in very simple ideas. This includes calculus and CRT.
Following so far?
A child is busy establishing many basal layers of knowledge and understanding revolving around basic navigation around reality. This is why children have the highway learning curves in their earliest years and why they have such a high energy requirement: mastering new ideas is resource intensive. During these formative years, laying down foundations is critical. Foundations laid in this period allow for easier conditioning of the complex ideas they build up to.
Synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning are amazing processes which combine with the decentralized nature of the brain results in some astounding feats of cognition.
Unfortunately, self-proclaimed “progressives” believe and advocate for a regression back to centralization which includes indoctrination regarding class/race/gender/sex/ideological warfare so that citizens are stuck arguing instead of progressing society.
When a citizen believes “voting for the most popular and least qualified among us” is a valid solution, that citizen is neither an adult OR fit to dictate how others should live. Fortunately, America was designed to be decentralized, much like the brain. Unfortunately, socialists (the actual socialists that control our information networks; not the useless idiots that vote everybody’s rights and responsibilities away) have convinced the useless idiots that centralized government is best, as they convinced the useful idiots to waste time arguing with the useless idiots.
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@colinsmith3093 He actually shot FAR less than he needed to. He gave his attackers far more chances than he was legally obligated to, but his humanity overrode what he COULD have legally done.
Other than that slight disagreement, I completely agree with you.
And if I may, I’d like to highlight something I don’t see many people bring up which annoyed me to no end every time Binger tried to paint Kyle as the aggressor for openly carrying a rifle.
In order of most occurrences to least: what category everybody was in….
Murders by pistol: Grossgruetz, rioters
Murders by natural weapons: Rosenbaum, mob
Murders by bludgeoning weapons: Rosenbaum, Huber
Murders by rifle: Kyle, militia
Kyle was the LEAST likely to murder anybody that night, while EVERYBODY else was more likely to murder Kyle.
It bears repeating: people with rifles kill float fewer people than those with pistols, and slightly less than people using fists, feet, and blunt objects.
Thank you for serving, and Cheers 🍻
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@Fyne17 Here’s a simple idea that occurred to me a decade ago…
When I was in school, my upbringing made me ambiverted: I could function just fine in large crowds; and I functioned even better when I am able to ponder things in solitude. This lead to a natural love for mathematics because 2+2 would always equal 4, but “yes” didn’t always mean “yes.” While people were prone to lying to me or giving me incorrect ideas; math NEVER lied to me. If math gave me a wrong answer, I understood that it wasn’t the math that was wrong; it was me. One of the greatest things about being human is the ability to make a mistake based on incorrect information and adjust your conditioning to accommodate a correction. Math is a great judge of truth.
Despite my early love for math, I distinctly remember classmates in middle school whining about “what would even use this for in real life?” Aside from all the particular examples our teachers gave, I distinctly remember NONE of them saying, “Everything. You use problem solving for everything.”
When that revelation hit me, something else became clear to me: society doesn’t solve problems the way they were taught to in they government provided educational systems. When I was taught to solve math problems, it revolves around remaining calm so rational thought (cerebrum) could be employed; ignoring irrelevant information (mostly applicable to word problems where 90% of the problem was narrative); breaking the problem down into more manageable constituent portions; assembling the tools required to manipulate those portions; assembling a complete solution from the constituent solutions; checking the work against the original problem; adjusting as necessary.
What I do not remember was using outrage (limbic system) to shut down rational thinking (cerebrum) resulting in constituent solutions including, but not limited to: protesting the textbook; canceling the teacher; calling some classmates “racist”, flipping your neighbor’s desk and dumping their book bag all over the floor; lighting the chalk board on fire; or rioting in the hallways.
We DEFINITELY did NOT vote for the most popular and least qualified student to solve everything by taking everybody’s lunch money.
Yet what does nearly all of “civilized society” do to “solve problems”?
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@atheistangel007 You might want to define “data” if you want to subscribe to the claim made by MIT..
“Procedural generation is two big words for one simple thing: the creation of data by computers.” - MIT
“Are you suggesting reality is a computer simulation/program?”
First, our perception of reality DEFINITELY Is.
Second, what is the difference between how the Universe evolved from a Singularity and a program evolves from a Seed?
What’s the difference between either of those and a seed evolving into a tree?
What is the difference between a computer that uses water, punch cards, vacuum tubes, transistors, magnetic particles, optical pits on a piece of plastic, qubits, DNA, or neurons? I doubt you spent much time considering the difference between the physical and metaphysical aspects of an object, so these concepts will be a little tough to struggle with at first. I did.
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@busylivingnotdying The reason there is a power dynamic in the first place is BECAUSE companies INCORPORATE and implant naturally superior hierarchies than the typical citizen that does not congregate based on similar ideological beliefs.
20 individuals reporting to a single individual creates a difference in consciousness/perspective. In a business corporation, this is a work group where 20 associates report to a SUPER-VISOR (super meaning higher; visor meaning view) the associates are conscious of their individual tasks whereas the supervisor is conscious of the summary from each associate AND the higher level view within the company.
In a community, (villages, communes, neighborhoods), the same concept applies. A supervisor isn’t one that commands. They are the ones that see further. As a community grows, the more levels of supervisors (representatives) you need to consider the summarized information from all their subordinates (not inferiors) and apply it to their broader perspective.
Otherwise, you have millions of individuals all trying to understand those broader perspectives which is absolutely impossible. That’s why the brain is designed the way it is. That’s why computer networks are designed the way they are. That’s why large companies are designed the way they are. That’s why riots and branches grow the way they do. All these systems evolve the SAME way because it is the most efficient way to organize large populations of…anything.
Democracy is tyranny, no matter how you slice it. If the answer to disagreement is to force the minority faction into compliance, that is the very definition of tyranny. These concepts are simple, and they apply at any level of magnitude you consider them at.
“Not wild “jungle freedom”…”
I’m beginning to feel like you are reading to respond, rather to understand.
It seems you are equating “wild “jungle freedom”” with anarchy.
If you feel the necessity to restrain the economy for fear of corporations ruling everything (which, ironically, is exactly what democracy is for: handing the reins of power to those who can manipulate unthinking populations), then do so IN YOUR community of like-minded individuals. Then those corrupt companies will take advantage of more free communities, and those freer communities will see the folly of their ways.
Or you will.
When you make that decision for everybody, you lose the ability to isolate what is actually leading to the corruption and inefficiency. When you allow smaller and smaller communities to try all the different ways to run a society, you’ll see exactly which ideas work and which ones don’t.
Your method is basically: when ever you don’t feel good, take an aspirin. It doesn’t matter why you feel I’ll, just resort to the same solution every time. Would you go to a doctor that has limited options? If so, then democracies are your thing. Allow everyone to have a say in what other people can and cannot do.
“People tend to cooperate when they see the benefit of it…”
When they SEE something they have no time to look at because I everybody is busy living an individualist lifestyle. What percentage of pages in the legal code have you read? You’re responsible for 100% of it no matter what your answer is.
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@PickleRickSanchez Red flag laws are a Sate’s right to pass. If you don’t like it, MOVE. Then, wherever you move, push to get mandatory gun laws passed like mandatory ownership, training, certification, and militia service.
Do you know who will NOT move into your state with those laws?
People who hate the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment, and the Bill of Rights, were a concession to a few colonies that worried about a central government that was too powerful. So they offered up the Bill of Rights to appease those colonies by LIMITING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Why would colonies want Constitutional amendments that limited THEIR OWN powers? When each colony has their own individual Constitutions anyhow?
Read about your history and THINK about it some. America was designed to give AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE the ability to governs themselves however they wish. If you have one group of people who do not want private ownership of firearms in THEIR societies, who are you to demand that they have to abide by YOUR ideals?
You have no right to tell them that they cannot have a society without private ownership of firearms JUST AS THEY have no right to tell you that you cannot have guns in your society.
Self-governance, the idea America was actually founded on, REQUIRES that people who AGREE with each other LIVE together and determine how their society is to be, and those who DISAGREE live apart so they are not fighting over government power to force each other to live a particular way.
If you love your guns, stay out of “gun-free” states, AND make sure YOUR state is too abhorrent for gun-haters to move into.
When Dr. Jordan Peterson says “clean your room before fixing the world,” this is exactly what he means. Focus on YOUR local society, and leave others to fuck THEIR local societies up however they wish.
And here’s the simple reason why each state should determine their own gun laws…you cannot convince people with words as well as you can with examples, which is why America was designed to be the way it was.
If a “gun-free society” is “right,” then they’ll prove it to you. If it’s “wrong,” then they prove it to themselves. Leave them alone and stay away from them.
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@lostandfound5145 I’m glad somebody else can benefit from my years of self-reflection!!
Another thing to think about is “empathy.”
Many people like to brag about being empathetic, but it seems few really understand it.
For one, it is a neutral value character trait. Knowing how somebody feels is important to the philanthropist as much as it is important to the narcissist or torturer.
Secondly, you have to actually know what somebody else is feeling, and most people confuse projecting how they would feel in somebody else’s situation with actually knowing how somebody else is feeling in that situation.
Lastly, feeling empathy doesn’t mean a person does something good for others. People think “sharing pain” is somehow beneficial to the person going through a struggle or for themselves. What good does it do to a starving man to feel starvation with him? Even after getting past the “sharing the pain” issue, a small-minded person would opt to give that man a fish. While empathy SHOULD motivate action, one still has to be wise enough to act in the most rational manner. In the very worst case, somebody’s empathy leads them to VOTE for strangers to deal with other peoples’ issues rather than taking on the responsibility of helping those people directly. You cannot legislate philanthropy, and taking other peoples’ wealth through taxes is no proxy for charity.
People don’t understand my empathy because I have gone through my own struggles to know how they feel. That past pain is meant to help me avoid those struggles and future pain. With that knowledge, I can offer my life experience for others going through similar struggles to give them a hint on what to do. All I can share is what I went through and where I am now: at peace.
No one person can experience the totality of the human condition, but communication allows us to have a glimpse of the mortal coil we may never experience, or will experience with the benefit of somebody else blazing a trail through the rough patches for us.
This leads me to “failure.”
People fear failure because they despise ridicule.
I learned to ignore ridicule after going to seven different elementary schools, so I do not fear failure. More importantly, I learn the most from failure so I actually love it. People should be grateful for other peoples’ failures. Without those sacrifices, we would all have to learn the hard way.
Instead, thank somebody who fails because they saved you the growing pains. Laugh, and then shake their hands sincerely. The laugh is to help them learn to laugh at themselves. The handshake is to acknowledge their sacrifice. If you REALLY want to show your appreciation, share one of your failures and what you learned from it.
It’s easy to share in each other’s successes.
It’s better to share in each other’s failures.
Cheers 🍻
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They all had hang-ups to overcome.
Roster’s was sacrificing the mission for his squadron, and uncertainty.
H_ngm_n’s was sacrificing his squadron for the mission, and certainty.
At the end of the movie, they overcame their hangups and acted opposite of how they would have at the beginning of the film. Even though H_ngm_n’s screen time was short, they managed to kill of a complete character arc for him.
Even Bob got a taste of glory during Dogfight Football as he was lifted onto everybody’s shoulders despite being socially invisible guy at the beginning of the movie.
Even Cyclone finally accepted that, not only was he the best trainer for this mission, but also that Maverick was the best team leader for the mission.
Just about every character had a fairly obvious character arc.
By comparison, very few of the characters in the new Star Ruin trilogy even had a character blip. Of the ones that did, Poe went from ware hero to clown, and Finn went from reformed Storm Trooper with a hint of the Force to… other clown. They even put Luke back to the beginning of his original arc which made him look like… another clown.
They basically took The Three Stooges, a couple blasters and lightsabers, and mixed it all up…
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@commandpro4492 EXACLY!!
You’re headed in the right direction, but you’ve got a long train of thought to examine ahead of you. When you have time, think about what EVERY significant word means.
Let’s start with “prison.” Prison is the culmination of many steps leading up to it. It is a constant drain on society’s resources for what purpose, exactly? Well, there’s two: the overt one that the general population THINKS it serves; and the subtle on it actually serves.
A prison is for people who break the law, but what is a law? A law is the arbiter in a disagreement between two visions of society. In society today, it FORCES those who disagree with it to go against their nature which is a strain on themselves till they break the law, then it becomes a strain on society as it wastes resources to contain them. Laws are only necessary when people who live together in a particular area disagree.
Now imagine if you live with the people you ALREADY agree with. Then, laws are no longer an imposition upon anybody in THAT locality. It only serves as “house rules” for anybody who wishes to enter that locality. Break the law, you get kicked out. This would have the effect of forcing people to live with the people they already agree with instead of wasting time an effort resisting the social environment they are in.
Imagine, INSTEAD of incarceration, localities used expulsion. INSTEAD of stripping an individual of nearly all their rights, you strip them only if the right to live in a small area. INSTEAD of breaking a family apart, families have the option of relocating with the “villain” to an area where they are NOT a villain. INSTEAD of wasting resources continually incarcerating more and more individuals, you send them to a location that would welcome them and allow them to be a contributing member of the new society rather than a drain on the old one. Imagine that INSTEAD of tyranny, we chose liberty…
The state of society was caused by allowing people with different ideas about life to live right next to each other. That started during the industrial revolution when people started leaving their cultures behind to join the melting pots of large cities. It has been accelerated today with the push for forced inclusion. All that this ideological mixing does is force people to relinquish their responsibility to build society from the ground-up to a faceless government system that builds it from the top-down.
Society would be so much better off if it only continued the pattern established in the brain: like-minded individuals living as a single body; a single corporation. That corporation then becomes an individual among other individual corporations that can create even larger corporations, and so on. Just like how thousands of first level neurons are represented by a single second order neuron, and thousands of second order neurons are represented by a third order neuron; humans can follow the same pattern by building small ideologically coherent communities represented by a few of their members. Those members are DIRECTLY related to those they represent because any decisions they make in the second order community has a direct impact on themselves while they are held directly accountable by the people they live with most of their life. Today, we have a million+ to one ratio of individuals to representatives that allow the “representative” to make decisions that do not affect themselves but drastically affects those that they “represent.”
It is IMPOSSIBLE to represent thousands of conflicting ideas so tyranny is the end result for everyone whose ideas are NOT represented.
The members of a village work, play, eat, bleed, cry, live, and die together. We have lost our villages. It takes a village to raise a child. We have lost our villages, and now we are losing our children…
So, everybody in these comments section complaining about various things in society have only themselves to blame. If they do not take responsibility for building society themselves, then corporations will do it through the government The People pay very little attention to.
Everybody has a different idea about what is “normal”, and laws are their way of imposing their “normal” on everybody else. It is childish and tyrannical.
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@keithbell9348 keep in mind, depth perception requires two DIFFERENT perspectives. Each eye, optical nerve, and hemisphere of the brain only understands in two dimensions. To understand reality better, you require a third dimension, and higher dimensional understanding requires perspectives that offer different information.
Science is all about finding data that cannot be explained in the dimensionality we currently understand things. Once those discrepancies are discovered, a new dimension that encompasses multiple prior dimensions of understanding is required. You see the same thing even in theoretical physics when in String Theory, 10 spatial dimensions enabled the combination of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (the astronomical) and Quantum Mechanics (the vanishingly tiny). The conundrum was that 10 dimensions generated thousands of viable solutions. It was not until somebody proposed an 11th dimension which resulted in M-Theory, and the explanation that all the solutions in 10 dimensions were merely the same solution from different 11-dimensional perspectives.
Even at the neuronal level, the brain evolved to accumulate information and after multiple iterations of similar situations, relevant information is synaptically reinforced while irrelevant information is synaptically pruned. That is the basis of bias, conditioning, prejudice, assumptions, and worldview which all describe the same thing: an individual’s logic.
The universe is filled with so many fascinating phenomena that it is truly sad that humans allow political discourse to cast a shadow on all that glory.
I apologize for bloviating, but my own personal journey has left me more idealistic than when I was far Left in my 20s, and more pragmatic when I was far Right in my 30s. I see purpose in everything, and I want to see other planets. 😂
It’s just nice to meet other open-minded people when bumping heads with closed-minded bigots is par for the course. 😂
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When you went to school, did wanting to solve a word problem result in solving the word problem?
Or did you learn about techniques and how various concepts defined the problem, then rationally and methodically rationalize your way through the problem toward the desired end point?
Everybody’s personality has a basis in how neurons function individually and collectively.
Think of neuroscience as all the different trees and psychology as the forest. Understanding both will help you understand yourself. That understanding will help you prune that which needs to pruned and that which needs to be planted and tended to.
Nature is fractal. The dysfunctions we see in society are mirrored in dysfunctions we see neurologically.
There are hyper rational people who believe emotions are unnecessary while there are hyper emotional people who believe emotions are innate and part of being a human.
I have been both, and I have learned how to reconcile those two perspectives. That’s what existence isn’t about: reconciliation.
Your eyes understand the world in TWO dimensions. They see DIFFERENT perspectives. People are used to conflicting ideas creating cognitive dissonance where both ideas cannot be true at the same time. Except, through reconciliation, the brain has learned to accept the viewpoints of both eyes which results in something amazing: understanding the world in THREE dimensions.
That is the key to understanding; to wisdom.
Knowledge is the discrete ideas that represent experience, whereas Wisdom is the relationships between those ideas. Groups of neurons represent ideas. The difference between neurons and magnetic particles on a hard drive is that neurons are living organisms. So while they work to maintain their relative positions between each other to represent that which you have experienced, they also have the ability to explore the spaces between those ideas. Neurons, in their ever amazing ability to explore, are what offers us the ability of insight and intuition; the ability to understand on top of knowing.
If you have a movie that you could watch over and over again, you may notice that you understand something differently every so often. This is because you have changed. When people change, their perspective changes. When perspective changes, you see things from a different angle. As you evolve through time, your perspective will change, and in learning something new about something old, your perspective changes just a little again.
A few years ago, movies like “Boondock Saints” and “Fight Club” were those movies for me. Then, one day I realized that my most favorite movie was my own life. As I began my journey into understanding myself, I repeatedly learned something new about my past. Every time I learned something new about one era in my life, it allowed me to learn things about other eras. That cascade of understanding brought with it clarity and peace like I have never known, and all I want to do is share it with as many people.
That’s the thing about spending forty years digging though a mountain of coal. Someday you find a diamond and you want to share it with everybody around you.
Unfortunately, the world is such that people are taught to focus on superficial aspects of their life and use that to judge theory’s around them. This motivates them to try and force change in the world even though the only thing you are ever truly guaranteed to be able to change… is your own perspective.
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@Jessc1992 That’s not true. I was very much a socialist when I was twenty.
Then I learned about history, evolution, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, politics, engineering, manufacturing, economics, and a few other things.
Once you get a broader perspective, things seem much more clearer.
Cheers 🍻
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@ServantBerserkerZero Just remember to check up on what you read from two people arguing. I’ve been burned taking somebody else’s word for face value.
Always look at conversations as a way to look at something from different angles, and always make sure both sides of the argument are looking at the same thing. I can spin things better than most people, but I try my best not to. I always appreciate it when somebody corrects me even if it takes a day or two for the correction to sink in. 😂 Just ask my business partner. He gets frustrated sometimes, but he sticks to his guns until I come around. Sometimes his expertise takes him down wrong assumptions until he sees what I’m talking about.
Ultimately, it comes down to what your goals are. Mine are to solve problems, not prove that I’m “right.” The way that I prove that I’m right is by realizing a solution, not by using words.
I’m already developing things to address what that other dude is whining about, and it does NOT involve government. My solutions ALL involve freedom of choice. I strive to solve multiple problems with a single solution, and it’s easy to develop those ideas you do NOT disregard what other people say. I might disagreed with that other guy’s assessment, but I don’t disregard it.
Anyhow, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps you and I will work on a solution together someday. Cheers 🍻
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@GonzoTehGreat Our experience of this universe is 100% simulation.
Colors, flavors, sounds, odors, textures, feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, words, letters, numbers, math...NONE of that exists in “reality.” ALL of that exists only in a mind.
She, conveniently, left that out of her arguments which makes her seem like the religious one basing her claims on faith. 😂
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@lostandfound5145 The thing about being “selfish” is that the good kind leads to personal enlightenment and empowerment. When you have become enlightened and empowered, you are more able to help those around you.
Unarguably, a person’s mind is THE most important thing in their life. It is truly astounding just how little time everybody spends learning about it.
Much of what you say is true, but try not to adhere to the negative connotations attributed to “selfishness” because it, like most things, require context before ascribing value to their meanings.
Is it valuable to society to give a man a fish?
Sure.
However, it is MORE valuable to society to TEACH that man to fish. Now two people know how to fish which means two MORE people can be taught. When you GIVE to somebody, you provide a linear value to society by making that other person dependent upon you. When you TEACH somebody, you provide an exponentially growing value to society by malting that other person INDEPENDENT upon you.
More pertinent to you:
“Teach a child, they learn for a day.
Show a child how to seek Knowledge and Wisdom, they learn for a lifetime.”
I went to college. I got an Associates’ in Math and Physics. I have learned more about myself and the world around me OUTSIDE of college. I already had a thirst for Knowledge and Wisdom. All College did was hold me back by telling me WHAT to think and not HOW to think.
Count it as a blessing that you don’t have to unlearn systemic paradigms conditioned by government funded educational systems. 😃
Cheers 🍻
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@lostandfound5145 Personally, I feel that purpose has a generational aspect. When a great social atrocity exists, a generation steps up to address it. When there is no great atrocity, one is imagined so that purpose can be manufactured.
Comfort strips an individual of purpose that only struggle can provide. One born in a land of opportunity loses the ability to see those opportunities because life is so easy. That’s why first generation immigrants to America tend to value freedom over the tyranny of NATIONAL socialism. Their offspring cannot appreciate what their forebears went through to get to America, so they do not understand the dangers of voting their responsibility to society away to absolute strangers who may be agendas of corruption, incompetence, or both.
Modern society is designed to make the individual “comfortable” so they lose the understanding that having a village-like support structure is important for any civilization. America was designed to be a country of SELF-governed individual who do not seek to impose their ideas of society upon an entire nation of people they will never meet. Federal elections became a avenue for self-important children to feel like they make a difference as they pay “lip-service” to the troubles they “champion” while doing little else past voting for strangers.
I slightly disagree with you about “abusive and authoritative parents.” Regardless of their intent to be abusive and authoritative, that is the exact environment where the strongest people are molded. Take Madame Curie, for example. That woman had one of the most difficult lives I can imagine. While her family wasn’t abusive, the rest of her life was. Fortunately, she was able to to take that abuse and use it to forge her into the woman she was.
“Hard times make strong men.
Strong men build easy times.
Easy times make weak men.
Weak men build hard times.”
This is a cycle easily seen through history. At some point, civilization will have to understand that pattern so that it can incorporate simulated “hard times” so that each generation is raised to be strong. If not, humans will continue wallowing the in that cycle.
My mother was and still is extremely abusive. My father let it happen. Now I hear her chastise home nearly every day over some of the stupidest things, and he seldom ever talks back. She has a problem that she is too proud to admit, much less seek help for, but she also made me strong enough that it no longer affects me. I don’t struggle enough BECAUSE of my forging in her child-rearing, actually. The things I feel I should do, I do not because apathy not only affects how I address negativity from others, but it also affects my motivation to do meaningful things. I even joined “The Flow Research Collective” for $5,000 to try and build up that motivation to act that I have missed all my life because I was conditioned to think due to my oppression.
Anyhow, I truly do appreciate the rational discussion that I almost never engage in. We definitely see many of the same problems, and it is absolutely refreshing to meet someone interested in exploring the reasons for those societal failings. That reminds me of the other main issue at large: exponential growth of distractions.
Suffering is only possible when you are aware of something “better.” If you made $20,000, but you are only aware of people who make between $15,000 and $25,000 a year, you will not have as much empathy for those who have slightly less or as much envy of those who have slightly more. However, when you are inundated with images of the billion dollar lifestyles and abject poverty of third world countries, you begin developing those emotions. Unfortunately, the difference between $20,000 a year and starving to death covered in flies or extreme decadence of a billion dollar lifestyle is so great, that it is nearly impossible to see the path between those three lifestyles. When you cannot see a path (solution), you outsource the solution to politicians… who are controlled by those billionaires.
That’s why empathy without wisdom is so dangerous. People will INTEND to do good, but they will foolishly choose the easiest path that leads to more destruction.
Nothing of value comes easy, and building a just society should be difficult because it is so valuable. Voting is the easy way out… so that’s why we see what we see.
Lastly, I see the lack of empathy in baby boomers less dangerous than the faux empathy in the younger generations.
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@DemigodoftheSea 😂 Your socialist ideas really aren’t not your ideas. Do you really think large corporations hate “your” ideas?
They are the ones pushing them, genius. 😂
EVERY government regulation is inherently a burden on all businesses. You said it yourself: large corporations can shrug off those burdens. Small businesses cannot. Your ideas do nothing but kill competition in the cradle.
In every facet of existence, competition drives progress through innovation and increased industry. This has been so for billions of years. How are you going to ignore billions of years of evolution by thinking centrally planning an entire economy is beneficial in some way? 😂
EVERY single industry that is either heavily regulated and/or subsidized sees far faster growth in costs than inflation. EVERY single one: education, books, healthcare, childcare, food, housing.
Those industries left untouched by government: rapid decline in costs and rapid innovations: TVs, automobiles, electronics, clothing.
Let’s talk about a huge racket: government housing. The short-sighted and myopic stop paying attention once “poor” people get a roof over their head. They fail to acknowledge that those people receive absolutely no equity ensuring that the racket continues. All the wealth goes to land owners, property owners, and rent seekers. To add injury to injury, that subsidization ALSO drives housing costs up. Your bleeding heart drives you to do EXACTLY what socialist oligarchs want: extract wealth from the middle class directly through taxes and indirectly through manipulating the housing market.
The EXACT same thing happens in education and health industries. Hell, the book industry is kept in life support through the college industry by way of mandating the use of freshly printed textbooks with minimal updates in successive editions.
All these oligarchs need to do is say that for letter F-word, and you go blind with stupidity.
That’s not an insult.
That’s a PSA.
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@YouTubeSucksCoxks I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and, as usual, the benefit was disregarded.
You couldn’t handle simple concepts, so I doubt your “positions” would have been any more different than the same tired positions I’ve challenged before.
MGTOW is a sentiment birthed in ignorance and foolishness even though it was right in spirit. It represents what individual neurons are designed to do leading to the plasticity responsible for babies learning to see colors, amputees feeling limbs that no longer exist, tinnitus, and people seeing sounds. It’s a concept that drives a neuron to migrate to find work and learn to code when they have become obsolete. It leads to a properly functioning society created by layering multiple layers of representation upon one another resulting in a decentralized government that manages 100 BILLION neurons when humans can’t even get past 100 MILLION citizens without starving and/or heavily oppressing large swathes of the population.
Ideological segregation is a concept as old as life, yet people refuse to learn about it despite its vast success rate. Nearly 8 BILLION people on this planet and EACH one has the blueprints to the greatest society ever locked in their skulls, and I’m the egotistical one for presenting what Nature had already figured out billions of years before man came around to slap words on things and claim to be its inventor.
You can’t get past Kyle being 18, so what hope do you have of understanding most of the answers people seek are literally within them and had been developed billions cheats ago? I seek wisdom wherever I can by addressing WHAT was said; not WHO said it, HOW they said it, or WHY they said it.
Here you are considering Kyle’s age, the connotations of my words, and the assumption that I was offended by something you said which led to some general offense you have no interest in learning about because if you did, you’d find that your assumption was wrong.
At this point, I’m just talking AT you in the event somebody else comes along and learns from YOUR mistakes. Socrates proved the folly of emotional rhetoric as he sacrificed his life to prove the superiority of rational discourse.
When you’ve learned to address the words that ere said instead of HOW they were said, I’ll be around…
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Education is the more salient issue, not schooling.
Schools are just institutionalized education. There are many more forms, avenues, and modalities besides formal and institutionalized education.
It doesn’t matter what your zip code is, practically everybody has access to nearly the totality of human knowledge; quite literally in their hands, in many cases. In the Age of Information, where knowledge is practically free and instantaneous, schooling still manages to far out pace most all other market sectors pretty consistently for the past 40 years.
That’s akin to living on a fresh water lake with millions of gallons of water, yet you still decide to drive into town to buy bottled water for $100 a liter.
Teach a man something, he learns for a day.
Teach a man to seek knowledge, he learns for a lifetime.
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I will concede that I have pondered the issue you have presented for nearly two decades, so I don’t disagree that it is a problem.
It’s just it isn’t an equal opportunity problem; it is an equal wisdom problem.
Understanding that, I altered how I looked at the problem and began developing a solution that fits the current givens. Given that we have a society that spends less time philosophizing and more time escaping from reality, it stands to reason that incorporation of philosophical concepts into their mode of escapism would be the best course.
Neurologically speaking, ALL experience molds a person; regardless of conscious acknowledgment or otherwise. With this as the main focal point, I posit that the video game industry would be the best course to pursue.
Video games can be broadly broken down into two main components: function (gameplay) and aesthetics (graphics, sound, setting, story). Technical knowledge can be easily incorporated into the function of the game. The aesthetics of the game can incorporate more broader knowledge as well as philosophical concepts.
Despite the disparity between a dysfunctional family’s child’s desire to excel at a game and their desire to excel at school, games can be harnessed to eradicate that disparity. I am not talking about making educational games. I am talking about building knowledge and philosophy elements into commercial games.
I am also talking about a partnership with this game and the school system. A synergy where good test scores or physical achievements translates directly to stronger in-game avatars. Spell casters and engineers become more intelligent the better a child scores on tests and overall class performance. Physical character get stronger the more pushups or the longer/faster they run.
This will also have another possible beneficial effect: teamwork between conventional clique stereotypes. Nerds will need jocks to tank, jocks will need nerds to provide higher DPS. The game will provide a conceptual common enemy to replace the enmity between disparate cliques.
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0:01 Tyler Durden wasn’t evil. He was Chaos. Jack was Order. Neither is Good when balanced, but both are Evil when taken to the extreme.
Ultimate Order means everything is the same, and when everything is the same, nothing has a meaning and no progress can be made.
Ultimate Chaos means nothing is the same, and when nothing is the same, meaning has no meaning and nothing can be built upon.
Order is the foundation that Chaos can use to reach new heights.
3:45 By further extension, he is disillusioned with society as a whole, ergo the storyline.
8:30 It isn’t that Tyler is taking liberties with Jack’s mind. It’s that Tyler is the the right hemisphere of their brain while Jack is the left hemisphere. The left/right dichotomy has been considered for quite some time in that the left hemisphere controls the right half of the body, and it is mostly considered with order and reason. Meanwhile the right hemisphere controls the left half of the body, and it is concerned with chaos and passion.
In a typical brain, the corpus callosum integrates the two halves into a composite personality with one half being dominant over the other. A society that pushes order everywhere results in left hemisphere -dominant citizens. This leaves the bulk of creativity and pioneering to right hemisphere-dominant individuals.
In Jack’s mind, society has grown soft in too much Order, and it needs some Chaos to get its humanity back.
10:00 Existence is a struggle. Society needs fighters and pioneers to tame and control the chaos and impose just enough order to build from.
10:40 The problem is the lack of motivation to change the status quo which is based in the fear of failure. By fighting and experiencing a visceral form of failure and pain, it helps to refocus the mind on what is important rather to remain in the hazy existence of consumerism.
Fighting wasn’t a band-aid. It was Therapy to treat the ever-permeating apathy of “civil society.” That apathy is what turn people into complacent NPCs who vote “to solve problems” instead of addressing the problems directly.
11:00 Jack needs to destroy the persona Society molded for him so he is able to reshape Society. Socialization is the conditioning applied to turn citizens into non-thinking workers who are unable to resist the Establishment. Philosophy is the optimization process that removes unnecessary ideals. Philosophical evolution for an individual can be achieved many ways. Testing oneself to see where the mints are is an important one. “Crossing the Rubicon” was Caesar’s test that would result in losing or gaining everything. It is existential risks like that which propel individuals and even societies forward. Comfort is the lie told to the mind to keep it doing nothing of value. Struggle builds strength and leads to progress.
11:00 There’s also the aspect of a physical versus a metaphysical death. Every moment is a decision between sacrificing who you are today for who you should be tomorrow or sacrificing who you should be tomorrow for who you are today. Remaining the same is comfortable and leads to atrophy and death. Changing oneself is a struggle and leads to strength and life.
12:15 Conversely, nothing is more dangerous to an apathetic and degrading society than a revolutionary willing to risk all to achieve progress.
America was Founded by men and women like these…
12:30 You missing the fact that Jack was personifying Corporatism and Consumerism when he was listing off what he wanted to destroy. It was that acknowledgment of what modern ‘civil society’ was doing to the planet that he decided to tear it down and start over with a better perspective on how to live with the planet rather than mindlessly living on it.
13:30 What you fail to realize is that a small group of people are ALREADY making decisions for the whole world. You should read more about Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave.”
14:15 You posted this video 5 months ago; months AFTER such rioting occurred for almost a year based on a lie. 😂 The rioting instigated by corporate whims went greatly unnoticed while you lecture a movie character on his tactics. 😂
I’m not advocating for an extreme financial collapse, but I am working toward one in a more subtle manner that gradually wakes people up. I’m just remarking on the blatant disregard of current events brought on by globalism while you chastise individualism.
The riots you allude to reveals a cynical view of society during an actual crisis whereas Tyler/Jack have a more optimistic view of humanity. Why do you look down on humans so much?
18:30 First, you are presuming that a crash in the financial system would result in many deaths, and it is a possibility. However, it isn’t a certainty. You forget that Project Mayhem built, not only warriors, but builders. Members learned how to build smaller self-sufficient communities. That knowledge doesn’t just go away with the destruction of a single building.
Secondly, you mentioned all the damage being done to the Earth and just glossed over it while championing modern society and how it should be preserved…at the cost to the planet.
It seems that you have the same split personality that is driving your own ineffectual life. You keep saying that there’s nothing wrong with wanting to change the world, but you are incorrect. Everything is wrong with WANTING to change it and doing nothing to do so. You end up being a useless nag of hot air forever complaining until an adult fixes the problem for you, only for you to hand the keys to Society to Corporate Oligarchs that draft the laws you ever read and signed by politicians you never meet.
Again, I’m not advocating for Tyler’s version of a revolution, but I am certainly not advocating for your brand of apathy either.
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0:01 Because people grow up with safety nets that allow them to think things they wouldn’t otherwise put into practice.
The best way to prove to someone whether their ideas are true or not is to let them realize their own ideas. In other words, restrict their ability to force their unproven ideas on people they’ll never meet. This will force people to find like-minded individuals who will work towards the same vision, and it will deprive them of the excuse of “well, government didn’t do it right.”
1:30 What Dawkins failed to realize was that genes merely encode ideas which are passed on through replication. An idea is just meaning applied to a physical pattern. As such, ideas can be represented by DNA, neuronal groups, magnetic particles, transistors, or even grooves on a vinyl disk.
DNA is a very stable bit slow form of idea storage and execution. Neurons are a more chaotic form of idea storage and execution. Genetic evolution occurs over centuries, while ideological innovation can happen in the blink of an eye. Most psychological disorders are the consequence of slow genetic evolution engaging in rapid technological innovation.
Our bodies and brains do not keep pace with the technologically rapid evolution of the environment. We have a sweet tooth because high calorie foods were “good” when food was scarce. Now that food is plentiful and life is less active, high calorie foods are “bad”. Our sweet tooth is a consequence of our genetically programmed biology coding for a food scarce environment we no longer exist in.
2:00 Genes code for ideas. The idea of a larger claw, or stronger legs, or faster wings, or longer beak all existed before we had brains to virtualize those ideas for rapid simulation and adaptation.
2:45 The Free Market has replaced the Natural Wild. Genetic patterns evolve in the latter, and neuronal patterns evolve in the former.
GOVERNment is the antithesis of evolution because evolution requires natural SELECTION and the freedom to make a selection as those selections compete with one another. GOVERNment removes selection and the competition that drives evolution.
5:50 Mass mailing ballots to people who normally wouldn’t vote was the actual fraud. The idea that America is supposed to be a democracy was the justification. Not only should ballots NOT have been mailed, but people should not be resorting to voting their ideas into each other as a FIRST resort. Voting should be the LAST resort.
6:30 When somebody signs an affidavit, they are under threat of punishment for lying.
So, when you have one group of people believing hundreds of signed affidavits, and another group of people believing “unnamed sources” that say President Trump called veterans “suckers and losers,” I think I’ll stick with the affidavits.
We can also toss in the fact that Soros installed DAs are responsible for handling voter fraud cases… so, there’s that on top of the same DAs playing catch-and-release with violent criminals.
So, yeah. There’s a bit more to the “memes” than you are presenting.
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@Fyne17 “what is free market?”
Here’s a simple example: you own two houses and you need money. Two people have money, but they each want a house. So, you put up ONE of your houses for sale in a free market (one where all participants are free to offer whatever they wish in trade for whatever they d desire limited only by the subjective value each participant places on the items for trade) while the other two participants enter their money into the free market. Obviously, you would take all the money they have, so they wouldn’t put all of their money into the market for trade.
This is your basic economic setup. One side of resources is scarce (1 person with a house) while the other side is in surplus (2 people with money). Whenever there is an imbalance creating a surplus on one side, that side has to COMPETE for the limited resources on the other side. In this case, the two with money will offer slowly increasing amounts of money as they competitively try to outbid each other while you sit back and enjoy the show. How much is that house worth to you? As much as you can get for it. How do you get as much as you can for it? Enter a market with a scarcity of the item you wish to sell.
So, that’s how you increase the subjective value of a house. How do you decrease it, one may ask? Well, if making that resource scarce INCREASES its value, it stands to reason that making it UNSCARCE (create a surplus) would DECREASE its value. Is that what happens? Let’s change the thought experiment.
Now, you and somebody else both out a house on the market, but there is only ONE person buying. Houses being equal in all regards, the only thing that will determine how much they are worth is how much you are willing to part with your house for versus how much the other person is willing to part with theirs for. So, now the house side is in surplus, the money side breaks out the popcorn as they watch the homeowners COMPETE for the limited resource of money. So the homeowners start offering to sell their respective houses for more and more money in competition for the one person’s wealth. When do they stop? The moment the SECOND offer is made because unless the buyer is mentally deficient, they wouldn’t accept a HIGHER amount of money to buy one of two houses. The only thing a single buyer would do is get as much as they can by trading as little as their money as they can as the sellers try to get as much money as they can while also competing to be the one the buyer agrees to trade with.
Let’s throw some government and laws into the mix!!!
Let’s say TWO people are selling houses, and TWO people are buying houses. Neither side is in surplus, so no competition is necessary…
But wait!!!
Here comes government to help!!! They bring along with them a poor person that everybody in the free market believes should have a home, but NONE of them are willing to contribute their own resources, much less offer to take them into their own home. That’s where government comes in!!! Government is there for people who say they have a problem with something, but aren’t motivated enough to take care of it themselves!!
THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE A LAZY NARCISSIST, GOVERNMENT!!!
(We can discuss the ease with which incompetence and/or corruption can infect large governments that individuals have no time or expertise to monitor for and address that incompetence and/or corruption at a later date)
So, now we have three people looking for a place to live, but there’s only two houses. A surplus of demand arises but not a surplus of money. What does THAT do? Well, the homeowners obviously aren’t going to donate the house, and taking a house from somebody would be seen as as theft!!! What about taking a little bit of money from a lot of people? Surely nobody would consider that theft; especially when it’s for a good cause!!! So let’s pass some welfare laws!!!
Now, everybody in the free market (those who have something to trade; not the poor person) has just a little bit less wealth. That money is then offered to one of the people with a house to sell taking that hose off the market. However, nobody is competing with government; they have most of the guns. (Not really; they just somehow have the authority to use those guns on whomever they please while everybody else has to put the owe hands up…almost kinda like muggers in a “gun free zone” hmmmmmmm…) so, the government takes a house and a person demanding a house off the market, leaving us with the original two buyers (but with less money) and only ONE of the original sellers (who didn’t have any money when the law kicked in!!! Hooray!!! Dodged a bullet!!) which means we are in a surplus of buyers situation again. Referring up to the rule we established earlier, we find that the buyers have to compete NOW since government stepped in to help. When they would have gotten a house for less money, they now have to compete against each other by offering more than they would have before government helped. Remember, they also have less money to compete with, so in a natural surplus situation, the seller would have had more money offered than when the government helped.
The seller accepts an offer, and makes the exchange…
…then government says, “You thought you could get away with stealing your money back from us? HAH!!! SALES TAX!!”
That’s a lot of drama in the not-so-free market, aye? It so much drama, in fact, that most people tend to forget about that poor person and the guy the government agreed to pay rent to. What’s that? Pay rent to? They didn’t just BUY the house from the seller? Why doesn’t the seller get to seek his house like the guy in the free market did?
Because he really isn’t a seller. He’s the large corporation that drafted all those laws that interferes with the free market. When the government allocates Section 8 funding for rental properties to house the “poor”, who has equity in that rental property?
The taxpayers who funded the transaction?
The government that passed the laws and regulated the transaction?
The poor person benefitting from large corporations’ legislation nobody bothered to read?
Nope. Nope. Nope.
The only one that has equity in those rental properties is the large corporation that drafted those bills that national socialists DEMANDED be passed “for the good of poor people.” What did the poor person get? Shelter, and that’s it. They received nothing to help them generate their own wealth which means that as long as that “poor” person stays “poor”, those benevolent laws the corporations drafted for our legislators states that those benevolent corporations will receive a steady flow of income from people in the free market to care for the “poor” person.
Neat, huh?
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Jesus…Joe…
It’s simple economics and biology. Why are you struggling so hard?
Humans developed a cerebrum to overcome basal instincts like relaxing as much as possible; eating sweet foods all the time; and banging the most “socially successful mates.” Polygamy is, by and large, an animalistic instinct. Reintroducing that into a society that WAS moving toward enlightenment will have repercussions.
Children need to learn to control their sexual urges both so that a minority of guys aren’t banging every chick they get aroused by and so the minority of guys not banging any chick don’t fall into the idea that their self-worth is determined by how many chicks they bang. It’s not rocket surgery, son.
7:00 You are quite myopic. You keep ranting about how the one guy might not want to have children. We are talking about coupling, so the issue involves ALL the women he is banging as well. If that ONE guy and ALL the women he bangs do not want to have children, then there is no problem. “Incels” should not be interested in those kinds of women anyhow if they are legitimately interested in starting a family.
However, if some of those women DO want to have children, that ONE guy just banging all of them IS bad for society. Ultimately, it just comes down to everybody seriously contemplating what it is they want in life and being honest with the people around them about it. If you just want to fuck, then do so and make sure the partner knows that it’s just fucking. If you want an intimate and exclusive relationship, be honest about it. If you want an intellectual relationship, put your cards on the table. If you want to start a family, be honest about it. If you just want a sugar-mamma or daddy, announce it.
THEN, work towards your goals WHATEVER they are, and make sure that your goals are something you can live with for the rest of your life and that they won’t leave you feeling empty once you achieve them.
9:00 Now you want to equate banging chicks with sports and successful business deals. You’re free to do so, but don’t be surprised at the outcome. Dr. Peterson keeps reiterating that children will suffer the most from unbalanced child-rearing. You keep trying to justify the animalistic instinct to bang everything coupled to the cognitive drive to steer clear of being responsible for children and you have a hard time under the consequences of mixing basal instincts and enlightened societies?
12:00 Polyamory leads to cucking. That’s a surprising revelation to you? 😂
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Supply and demand.
The internet has, arguably, created an easily accessible and large supply of information, yet college education has skyrocketed since the advent of the internet. Basic economics would suggest that there’s something more to college education. There is. Colleges provide TWO services: dissemination of knowledge AND certification of retention of that knowledge.
Therefore, the supply of knowledge increasing suggests that it is actually the cost of certification that has skyrocketed as the cost of knowledge dropped.
That simple bit of logic seems to elude most self-styled “enlightened” individuals which results in a backwards orientation of discussion topics.
“Who should pay for college?” should be discussed AFTER “Why is college so expensive?” Solving the latter makes the former a much easier conversation to be had and solved.
Unfortunately, the benefit of specializing in a certain subject occludes the myopia that develops. Science is about learning about things, but it is sorely lacking in applying that knowledge in a useful manner for society. You talk about the hope you had for the internet, but you missed or neglected what it should have done to the cost of education.
That EXACT same narrow-minded myopia plagues the “global warming” discussion.
What you don’t understand about knowledge is that it has two main purposes in regards to the cerebral cortex: projection of history through the present to imagine many possible futures; and to develop a path from the present to the best possible future imagined. To be so mired in the effort to “prove the other side wrong,” robs you of the ability to process the second purpose of knowledge: formulating solutions. This results in the lazy act of voting for government to coerce change in society in lieu of society taking the time to create solutions.
The cerebral cortex evolved for the same reason that bifocal vision evolved: depth of perception. Bifocal vision allowed depth of spatial perception, and the cortex allowed for depth of temporal perception. Society has neglected that ability far too long while they reveled in the wonder of the internet.
So, most of what you say is true, but you don’t seem to understand the full implications of everything you said. I don’t either, but it seems I’ve considered further reaching implications than you have.
If I sound arrogant, that’s because I’m using the same tone and language that you are using in your disingenuous narrative implying that people you disagree with are wrong. I don’t have to communicate this way, and I actually prefer not to. However, discussions tend to be like a tennis match, and, more often than not, the ball is returned in the same manner it was served.
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0:15 A common misconception about “empathy” is that it is actually a neutral value character trait. It merely means understanding how other may feel. The greatest torturers know how people experience pain which is how they know the best ways to inflict it.
The negative aspect of empathy aside, it’s still only a motivational tool. The larger issue with empathy is that it is commonly paired with foolishness.
A foolish and empathic person gives people fish.
A wise empathic person teaches people how to fish.
The former is a narcissist that requires others to need them so their existence is justified.
The latter understands that there will be a time when they are unable to provide fish to others, so they seek to make themselves obsolete by passing on their wisdom.
Formal education falls under the former from society’s perspective which is how those in power were able to fool multiple generations into standardizing and subsidizing public school and university systems.
2:00 That’s why you think language changes?
Have you never read “1984”?
7:00 And there’s the fundamental error with psychiatry: it treats symptoms.
Happiness is determined by the social conditioning of the surrounding community. Individuals are programmed with ideas of “good” and “bad” such that when an individual is in a “bad” circumstance, they are unhappy.
For instance, a child who has never rated candy will NEVER scream about not getting candy in the grocery store. A child who has had tasted candy will. They will “suffer” when they do not receive the dopamine hit from the sweet tastebuds just as an adolescent will “suffer” not being “cool” or an adult will “suffer” over finances.
“Suffering” is the consequence of existing in a state different than the state considered “good.” Those states are processed in the cerebrum which acts as triggers for the emotional responses that lead to suffering.
Psychiatry deals with the response; not the trigger.
Unless you practice more CBT-based psychiatry, but those treatments don’t have the same immediate effects as pharmaceuticals. Psychiatrists also lack the ability to explain the difference between pharmaceutical treatments (symptoms) and CBT-based treatments (underlying causes) or their relative importance. CBT is the actual cure. Drugs are just a bandaid.
8:00 You also want all the instruments organized instead of haphazardly strewn across the stage. There’s even acoustical science behind stage design.
Ironically, the brain is a blueprint for the most efficient and moral COMMUNITY known to humans, while humans use that blueprint to build their own communities in the exact opposite manner.
When I studied neuroscience to fix myself, I became enthralled with its simplicity despite the numerous individual neurons and their thousands of connections.
Nature is fractal in that it will repeat successful patterns at ever increasing levels of magnitude. The pattern starting at first order neurons an continuation all the way up to the connection of both hemispheres through the corpus callosum and every subcritical region culminating into the prefrontal cortex SHOULD continue past the individual human as humans build society from the bottom-up instead of government building society from the top-down.
The problem when you would from the top-down is that you tacitly limit where the top is.
Building from the bottom-up has no pre-established limits to break.
8:45 That wouldn’t be awesome at all. Haven’t you see “Serenity”?
That’s why science needs religion. Smart people don’t tend to be wise as well. You’ll endeavor to discover what can be known without considering what that knowledge will lead to. Similarly, you’ll think a particular end is “good” based on an embarrassingly small scope of understanding.
This has lead to scientism which has replaced theism. In both cases, zealots will parrot the words of their leaders with no real understanding of their meaning. There are too many scientifically illiterate people making decisions based on what “experts” tell them rather than actually understanding what they were told. This fine as long as those decisions impact ONLY themselves, but when you combine scientism with politics, you end up with people voting to execute Socrates.
9:00 Good luck with your channel. I see the same problem here as I do on other channels: sycophants in the comment section “ooohing” and “aaaahing” in fake understanding while missing all the relevant ideas that the presenter does.
Cheers 🍻
12:30 I decided to go a little further…
“…something wrong with themselves.”
Christ. The HUBRIS… not to mention the lack of self-awareness. It’s pretty narcissistic to declare that somebody else has something “wrong” with themselves.
This is why democracy is evil and Socrates proved it over 2,000 years ago. It wasn’t “normal” to advocate for rational discourse over emotional rhetoric…
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@codzboy74 <gets more crayons>
If you have two people looking to buy a house, and one person selling a house, who is competing? Which side is in SURPLUS? The surplus side competes…by offering MORE money to buy the ONE house. The value of the house compared to currency goes UP.
Now flip it. Two house being sold and only one person is buying. Now the houses are in surplus which creates COMPETITION. Now the value of the houses relative to the currency goes DOWN.
Let’s toss in some government, shall we?
There are two houses and two buyers. Government takes wealth from the buyers and purchase one of the houses to give it to an entitled useless person, let’s call them Meera. Now we are back to one house for two buyers, BUT those buyers have less money because of muh government. So, not only is the middle class having wealth taken from them, but they also have to compete for fewer resources.
What about that house that government paid for? Who has equity in it? The government? Nope. The tax payers? Nope. Meera? Nope.
The owner of that house retains ownership so that as long as Meera remains useless, they will ALWAYS have a main line to middle class wealth.
AND, they can sell their other house for MORE since government artificially depleted the supply.
But “muh social Darwinism” right?
You don’t care about the actual economics as long as you feel good about having government take wealth from people you never meet to make sure you have your “right” to have a roof over your head.
The house owners? Well, they LOVE more government because they make out in the end because YOU are too stupid to understand something that has been around for billions of years: economics.
“Living wages”, you say?
About eight years ago, Walmart I’m North Dakota was hiring off the streets at $17/hr. Was it minimum wage laws? Nope. Was it a union? Nope.
It was good old free market.
You see, little one, an oil boom had oil companies go to North Dakota and completely depleted the unskilled labor pool. The economic equations were a surplus of jobs and a scarcity of laborers. Do you remember what happens when one side is in surplus? COMPETITION!!!
So all the local jobs had to COMPETE for labor. How did they do that? They raised their starting wages.
I hate NATIONAL government involvement because nothing NATURALLY evolves TOWARD centralization, dipshit.
Nature spent billions of years developing the best form of government which organizes 100 BILLION neurons connected by 100 TRILLION synapses. It uses a hierarchy of mesh networks connected in a DECENTRALIZED government.
Humans can’t get past 100 MILLION citizens without starving and/or severely oppressing large swathes of the population. 😂
You got the blueprints for the best government structure in your skull, and you choose to remain stupid and foolish. 😂
YOU couldn’t live in Hong Kong, because you don’t offer enough value to anybody to justify a wage commensurate with Hong Kong’s cost of living.
Believe me, I can definitely afford to live in Hong Kong.
The thing that you don’t understand is that America allows you to have as much socialism as you want… LOCALLY. What do you think cities are, genius? You can build centrally planned localities within a free market NATION, but you cannot build free market localities within a centrally planned NATION, dipshit.
The solution, as it has always been, was to allow people to congregate based on their PERSONAL ideological beliefs so that they were free to build whatever society they wanted to without resistance or coercion.
You want a 90% income tax? Great. Live in a city, county, or state with a 90% income tax along with everybody else who thinks that’s a good idea. Then people who believe in 85% lives in another area, and so on.
ABRA CADABRA!!!
Taxes disappear. It isn’t a tax if people all contribute exactly what they believe should be contributed. EVERYBODY is free to live in the society that they believe is best.
Your problem is that you think I am advocating for any particular law when I’m not. I’m just saying stop forcing your stupid ideas on everybody else.
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@codzboy74 And you are anti-cop until you get mugged. 😂 😂 😂
Keep responding. I know your type. You’re not here to learn. You’re here to justify being useless so that government can solve all your problems.
Tell me, if the Left had so many good ideas, why is most of the “systemic racism” coming from the cities that they have been in control of for decades?
If they can’t even run a city, in what rational world does it make sense that they could run an entire country?
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I’m not responding TO you, kid. I’m responding AT you, kid.
My comments are for other people who won’t know how to respond to your corporate sponsored talking points. Maybe even a few who think like you, but might begin to understand that NATIONAL governments are an efficient way for a large corporation to take control of a market.
Of all the things that are censored, why do you think large companies like Amazon and FB allow your idiotic drivel?
It’s because they know that you people are irresponsible voters who just vote away everybody else’s actual rights and responsibilities that they EASILY co-opt from ONE group of politicians.
IF you were a rich evil person, would you rather buy ONE government body or hundreds? I don’t know about you, but one FEDERAL government just seems far easier and more efficient to buy out than fifty state and hundreds of local governments.
I only majored in math, so I tend to look at numbers, not useless platitudes. 😂
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James JamesBond From a 2010 Harvard study...
Summary of Key Results
• Of the 185,445,103 listed registration records in the United States, 16,130,325 are estimated to be invalid.
• Aside from invalid records, in the typical state 1 in 65 records is duplicative, meaning that the same registrant is listed multiple times.
• 1 in 25 records contains a mailing address that is likely to be undeliverable because of a typo, a street that no longer exists, or poor penmanship on registration applications.
• In the typical state, 1 in 40 counted votes in the 2008 general election cannot be matched to a registrant listed as having voted.
• 1 in 100 listed registrants is likely to be deceased.
• 1 in 7 records does not have a listed birthdate, and for many voters who do have a
listed birthdate, the date entered is inaccurate.
• 1 in 25 registration records is estimated to be deadwood, because of registrants who have not voted in a very long time, have moved elsewhere and re-registered, or are thought to be deceased.
• 1 in 60 registrants do not have a date of registration associated with their record, and and implausibly large number of registrants who do have a registration date (1 in 50) are listed as registering on January 1st.
• Measures of registration quality are uncorrelated; states that perform well on some measures perform poorly on others. States cannot be reasonably ranked on overall performance quality.
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@graceg3250 Empathy is dangerous without wisdom.
People use “empathy” as an excuse to do nothing about the problems they complain about. Voting for complete strangers to take other strangers’ wealth to “help” other strangers is the epitome of laziness, narcissism, and foolishness.
I see a lot of people not understanding what empathy actually is in a mad rush to prove how “good” they are despite the useless actions they take to embody that “empathy.” Society is full of people pointing their fingers at each other while believing that they hold the moral high ground.
What children also lack is the ability to self-reflect. Anybody who spends more time blaming others is just as developed as children in their obvious lack of time spent looking inwards.
As a child, I spent my time bullied at seven different elementary schools; dealing with it with self-deprecating humor; punished by teachers for disrupting class as I dealt with the bullies the only way I knew how; am punished at home after teachers sent letters to my parents about my disruptive nature.
As I grew older, I started to laugh at how all the “adults” in my life failed to see any correlation between going to seven different elementary schools and my disruptive behavior. I laughed, and I learned to deeply appreciate it because STRUGGLE builds strength.
“Spare the rod, spoil the child” is a very important lesson for adults. The rod isn’t JUST the one held by parents. It includes the rod held by everyone else in society. Sparing children from the rod of bullies makes them emotionally weak. You don’t empower children by justifying their victim mentality. You empower them by explaining the situation. Sure. Stop the bullying when you see it, but take the opportunity to enlighten the children so they aren’t victims when you are NOT around.
Empathy without wisdom leads to narcissism. When people seek to remove obstacles for others, they fail to see the danger they put those people in. By doing for others instead of teaching them to do for themselves, the “empath” creates a perpetual justification for their existence as the recipient becomes dependent upon the narcissist. A TRULY wise empath would understand that the only one who will always be available to help someone is that same person. The truly wise empath understands they cannot be around all the time, and there may come a point when they’ll never be around ever again. It is THOSE times that the truly wise empath works to rectify. They do this by making themselves obsolete; unnecessary; unneeded.
Public education does the exact opposite.
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Michael King
Sorry. I forgot to reread the thread to see what I had said already. You can skip to the star line for the newer response.
That year I tutored a mother of five who had her own business in college algebra to help her get her business degree. Later that year I tutored a teenage girl in high school calculus. I have had no formal teaching education, and I hadn’t taken a math class in almost two decades. They both succeeded. As I reflected on those interactions, I saw that they had two very different personalities that required very different teaching methods because they both learned in different ways. Not only did they have to learn algebra and calculus, respectively, but I had to learn how they learned.
Not to get into too much neuroscience, but I had to figure out their neural pathways to see what ideas were preventing them from understanding mathematical concepts and which neural pathways I could build off of.
Think of it like opposite banks of a river. One one bank stood my student. The bank is different for each person. Because of the constituent make up of the bank, it requires different foundational architecture to build a bridge. On my side of the bank, I also require a certain foundational architecture to build from my side.
My students already had an arduous task of learning math, so it only made sense for me to adjust how I interacted with them to facilitate that learning. By taking the time to learn how they learn, I could adapt what I knew to the way their brain worked. I could build the bridge while they concentrated on learning the math.
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The same thing works in the opposite direction. When I was transferred from one department to another, I had to learn from a cable splicer with 35 years of experience. I started in fiber optics 12 year prior, so I had little experience in the older electronics connected by copper pairs. My tutor was pretty set in her ways, so instead of her learning how I learn, I had to adapt how I learn to how she taught.
It takes two important ingredients for somebody to teach and learn: the passion to do so; and the ability to understand the other person. I learned both at a very early age. Going to seven elementary schools, I was able to repeat the process of dealing with bullies and making friends seven times. That’s like playing form the same save point in a game until you get good at it. I had to learn how to read people and the best ways to interact with them to survive. I was also disruptive in class when doing so, so I was disciplined a lot. Living in my imagination led to my desire to fill my head with ideas and knowledge because nobody could ever take that away from me.
Then there’s my coworker who has also moved onto the new department. He struggles learning from the same technician, so for him, I explain how the brain works and that a person’s inability to adapt their teaching methods can be mitigated by adapting his learning methods. He’s about my age, and whip smart. What holds him back was never finishing high school (got his GED). He never got the knack for institutional education and only learned what he had to to survive, and things he finds interesting on podcasts and documentaries. He’s quick in an argument, so I focus on that. I explain to him that his mind is plenty logical to hem me up in a debate (which is no easy task) so he has plenty of ability and adaptability to allow him to adapt the way he learns to the way she teaches.
I read an article on meta learning, and I believe that’s how I was able to understand this whole concept. How somebody teaches and how somebody else learns is important for education. This is why I am no big fan of institutionalized education. It’s bad enough a child has to learn new concepts, but they are also forced to learn a certain way that may not be conducive for their success. On the other side, teachers are not given appropriate skills and tools to facilitate the need for them to learn how their students learn to adapt teaching methods pertinent to each student.
Peterson and Harris know what they know, respectively. The bridge (medium as you put it; I could build the same analogy using communication concepts like fiber optics or metallic digital signaling of twisted pair or RF over coax or wireless technologies) they have to build so they understand each other has to be built before they can communicate with each other. They have to have the passion and the ability to build that bridge. One of them could build the bridge to the other, or they could build the bridge toward each other.
The main difference that I saw between them was their respective intents for the conversation. Peterson has always seemed like my childhood self in that he wants to be heard and understood, but he also seems like my 40 year old self because his desire to be heard is driven by his desire to help people find peace. Harris seems like my 20 year old self who wants to prove superiority.
It’s difficult to find a Harris fan that isn’t always preening about how Harris “owned” his opponent, and Harris seems to feed on that energy. Harris and his fan base seemed more preoccupied over being “right” rather than seeking understanding. Peterson’s fan base is mainly built on those who he has helped find peace, helping the downtrodden is where Peterson gets his energy. It’s only when Peterson cannot help somebody do you see him get drained and frustrated.
So, neither seem to want, or be able, to build that bridge (or find that common medium to open communication: Peterson may be using old copper pairs while Harris is using 802.11 g). However, their difference in intent seems to be the bigger barrier.
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@brosephdudebro2537 My thoughts are, America was designed to allow every individual to realize their preferred society by congregating with those who think the same way.
The Federal government was only ever supposed to ensure that every state didn’t interfere with any other state. If everybody who believed in a monarchy lived in one area, they should be free to live with that government style. Same for socialists, communists, anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-monarchists, minarchists, or whatever other government structure people can think of. As long as the INDIVIDUAL can freely participate in any of those structures, that’s all that really matters.
Personally, I fully approve of communism at the smallest scales with some socialism layered on top of that. At the city wide level, republicanism would be wonderful so as to allow as many differing ideals to live next to each other without infringing on each other.
As for anarcho-monarchism, I’d have to read up a little bit on it before I can give a thoughtful answer.
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@ServantBerserkerZero Also, keep in mind that in America, people are free to come together based on their ideology to make their communities as socialistic/communistic as possible. The Amish do it. Democrats tend to flock to large cities. Republicans tend to settle in rural areas. This is why you see extremely high taxes in Blue areas and lower taxes in Red areas. Just the way it should be.
As you’ll notice, states tend to start Red and shift Blue as Blue citizens get sick of their Blue policies and move to Red areas only to vote in the same crap they left.
Oregon used to be Red until Commiefornians migrated there and turned it hard Blue. Now parts of Oregon want to secede to a Red Idaho. Texas is fighting off waves of Blue migrants from Commiefornia as well. Even immigrants from other countries leave whatever $hit hole they came from and lean heavily Red because they see what socialism and communism is about. Then a generation or two later, their children (who didn’t grow up in the $hit hole their parents/grandparents left) vote Blue because they don’t have a good perspective of reality. All they know is how awesome it is in America, and how it could be “better.”
Also, take note of the fact that everything that Democrats complain about happens in the cities that they already run: “police brutality,” “poverty,” unemployment, “racism,” red-lining, “greedy capitalism.” If they can’t even get it right in their cities and states, why would we want their solutions at the Federal level?
Answer: we don’t.
Leave states/cities to be as Red or Blue as they want, and leave the whole country free at the Federal level. Just the way the Founders planned it. No being forced to live a certain way by people you’ve never met before.
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@just4deez The only issue I take with your statements is that it applies only to current scientific understanding. Other than that, I completely agree.
The fact is those nutrients found in animal flesh are still based off of basic chemical processes despite the level of complexity in their formation. Humans do have the capacity to synthesize those chemical structures at some point even if it isn’t now.
Our CURRENT inability to manufacture equivalent, or even superior, nutrient sources should not preclude our drive to attain that level of understanding.
I do respect all life, but I also understand that each serves a purpose. We CAN produce animal-based foods far more humanely than we currently do, and we CAN develop better alternative methods of producing those foods.
I’ve had the same discussion over sunlight versus “synthetic light” regarding normal human activity. As far as I have seen, aside from the conventional visible spectrum we use to navigate, there are only two other non-visual wavelengths that humans require for standard functions: UV-A and blue light. The former you only need a small dose per day to aid in Vitamin D production, and the later is for proper circadian rhythm. With that knowledge, humans can operate normally across all periods of the day in any locality whether it is near the poles, underground, or on vessels found under the sea or in space.
As with all problems, knowing the current state and the desired state is essential for developing every possible path between those two states. Refusing to explore all paths results in solutions never developed which will be unavailable for other possible situations.
Lastly, modern-day humans are still closely related to ancient humans in regards to things like the “sweet-tooth” precisely because certain functions evolved biologically based on those ancient circumstances. Humans evolve technologically far faster than we do biologically which is why neuronal circuits that tied our “sweet” tastebuds to our dopamine pathways still exist DESPITE our evolving past the food-scarce situations of our cave-dwelling days.
Personally, I’m all for people experimenting with synthetic foodstuffs as long as this choices are not forced on the unwilling. If those people wish to conduct long term experiments on themselves to prove whether their synthetic foods will have any long term generational effects on health and neurology, I’m all for it. One should always strive to try new things even if failure could be catastrophic. Failure is the greatest teacher, and we should never fear it because it is part of evolution: biologically and ideologically.
Freedom of choice leads to competition and competition leads to evolution and progress. These discussions really only come down to one thing for me: individual choice.
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@BlakFootSamurai Anger is a response generated by your limbic system (amygdala). However, it requires a trigger from the cerebrum. Anger is like a skill: the more you do it, the easier it becomes. The less you do it, the harder it is to do.
People say to count to ten when something angers you, but that’s a reactive approach. The proactive approach is to train it out of yourself, and you do that like you train for anything else.
Just like you wouldn’t train for a competition during the competition, you don’t train out your anger during a situation that makes you angry. How it works is, ideas in your cerebrum create pathways to your amygdala so that whenever that idea is activated, so is your amygdala. This is also how “offensive” language works. Words that are connected to the amygdala are the words that piss you off. If you weaken those connections, then words won’t piss you off.
First thing, list everything that annoys you all the way up to enrages you. Next sort them out by severity of emotions with annoyances from 1-3, angers from 4-7, and enrages from 8-10. Put 2-10 away. Level 1 annoyances are your 10 pound dumbbells.
Next you imagine your Level 1 annoyance and you ask questions about it. Then you answer those questions. Then you ask more questions, and more answers. When you do this, you are creating a network of ideas that are connected to that annoyance so that when ever that annoying thing actually occurs, your consciousness has all those other ideas to go to rather than straight to your amygdala. It’s like building runaway truck ramps on a highway, or installing pressure relief valves on a boiler.
Just like your 10 pound dumbbells, once that Level 1 annoyance no longer annoys you, move on to the next annoyance. By working your way up the list of annoyances ordered by severity, you give yourself easy wins which keep you motivated and you lessen the risk of hurting yourself emotionally.
If you find yourself in an angering situation, before you have trained for it, LEAVE. Just like you wouldn’t go straight to 100 pound dumbbells until you have trained for them, don’t engage in situations you have not trained for.
A quick example is when I worked on my road rage. If I passed somebody camping in the passing lane, I started imagining it was my parents that were driving. I would ask myself if I would tailgate my parents or flash my high beams at them or flip them the bird. I would not. So I started imagining that all the annoying people on the road were my parents, and I found myself less angry as I drove.
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@BlakFootSamurai The whole idea of connecting more ideas to the idea that angers you is scalable. Those ideas need not be in your own mind, and most cases they aren’t. It’s called camaraderie. Surround yourself with people who think like you do and who goes through what you have. When people who share a common problem get together, they naturally collaborate. Even though you may think a lot alike, you are not the same people, and that’s important. As each of you figures something out about the problem, you can immediate share the discovery When one succeeds, you all succeed.
The only thing Government did right was train you to depend on the brother or sister beside you in battle.
That is also the problem. That kind of connection is sacred, and it is traumatic to lose it. So when you come back to civilian life WITHOUT that same community, you suffer. They train you to be useful at one thing only to be useless in a society at peace…
…or is it useless?
If society used the Second Amendment responsibly, they would have developed well-regulated militias. Aside from all the other benefits, a huge benefit would be for the returning vets.
Not only could you have a part-time barracks to maintain those relationships you had during deployment, but you could be training your community in combat tactics important for keeping the community safe. Kids not knowing what to do with their lives could enlist in the local militia and learn from vets about the horrors of war and the importance of freedom…and maintaining that freedom responsibly.
Communities need peace keeping forces more than they need law enforcement. Imagine a more active militia presence in a community. They could have militia guard posts around schools to protect them from active shooters. They could patrol high crime streets to prevent violence. This is not to be confused with enforcing laws. The only purpose is to ensure people can travel safely through their neighborhoods.
The local militia can also train in civil engineering so that when martial services are not needed, the militia could be building up the community.
There are many things that one can do to find purpose, and returning vets find themselves lost and confused because society “thanks” then for their service, but they never offer their services to vets.
Maybe one day you’ll see what I’m talking about if I can start building it soon.
Peace be with you.
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@lostandfound5145 There is very little you can do regarding people who have been conditioned to engage a conversation emotionally rather than rationally. Each person is responsible for their own emotions. When that ceases to be the case, very bad things happen.
What you have to do is determine how much time you are willing to spend teaching somebody to converse rationally. There are far too many to teach by yourself, so you have to be more discerning in who you share your gifts with.
A verse in The Bible is most apropos in this regard: “Do not cast your pearls before swine.”
Although the imagery is a bit harsh, the point is still valid. People who seek to words that “feel good” instead of seeking words that speak truth are, generally, not worth your time.
If you sincerely wish to share ideas (giving as well as receiving), you have to find others who seek the same.
As for sources: I derive most of my perspectives from Socrates’ life and execution. It is a prime example of the dangers with emotional rhetoric. Sophists convinced a majority of 500 citizens that Socrates was an imminent danger to Athenian existence to the point that a majority voted him guilty and deserving of execution.
His crime: teaching people the value of rational discourse.
If you wish to reach more people who are prone to projecting their insecurities onto you, I believe the best course is to create something of tangible value that attracts those kinds of people. When they seek answers to how you created something of such value, they have very little reason to doubt. This could be a town full of citizens living in harmony and productivity or a company that operates above reproach while still generating large amounts of wealth. Very few people are swayed by rational discourse; words. Almost everyone can be swayed with an example.
“If you build it, they will come.”
Ultimately, you want to speak to find those who already agree or are willing to listen, THEN you build something WITH those people to attract the naysayers, contrarians, and the irrational.
Moreover, building something based on your ideas proves those ideas to yourself…
Short version: YOU do not make anybody feel a certain way. Every individual makes themselves feel a certain way.
I would also suggest stoicism as a resource for replacing emotional rhetoric with rational discourse.
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Heuristics analyzes available data that has been weighted, through emotion, so as to motivate actions toward a certain goal.
Prehistoric times saw humans constantly seeking sustenance with no guarantee of success. This resulted in our “sweet-tooth.” Because fruits and honey contained vast amounts of high-energy carbohydrates, the body evolved to place a high importance of such foods. It did this by associating the sensation of “sweet” to the dopamine system. When “sweet” is registered, this triggered an associated “good feeling” that a dopamine release triggers. This prompts humans to gorge on sweet foods allowing them to store high amounts of energy in preparation of any shortages of sustenance.
Humans have evolved sociologically and technologically far faster than genetically. Now that we have a more stable supply of food, our “sweet-tooth” is now a detriment. This is what makes obesity such a tough struggle in this era. We have an ancient drive to load up on calories in the new era of easily obtainable food.
Many such dichotomies have become apparent. One could even say that they have begun to cause dysfunction. Our amygdala evolved to empower us during situations of extreme peril like confronting lions, tigers, and bears. However, we have tamed our environment to such a degree that the amygdala is no longer required for those circumstances. Just like our ancient “sweet-tooth,” our amygdala now exists in an era unlike the one in which it evolved. The amygdala is going to do what it was designed to do, but it has to by applying itself to other concepts. The amygdala has replaced lions, tigers, and bears with mean words, finances, and disdain for horrible drivers.
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So, that’s the basis for WHY we make decisions, and a little on HOW we make them.
The Value System: you need to understand two different values on a particular spectrum to favor one and avoid the other. In the first couple years of life, these are mainly sensory values. Once a language is learned, there is a large shift toward conceptual values. Besides the value assigned to determinants, there is a more subtle factor of normalization.
In the womb, you become “aware” of a single value on many spectrums. You are normalized to a certain textural (temperature, mainly), audible, visual, olfactory, and satiation value. Once you breach, you learn your first set of DIFFERENT values. You learn what colder air feels like; what bright light feels like; what loud sounds feel like; what hunger feels like. They all suck to the normalized value. Your lizard brain motivates you to re-establish your normalized state. You do not know how to achieve that. You are forced to garner the attention of somebody who can solve your problems. You cry.
The difference between your normal state and your current state is the basis for emotion. I am agnostic, but as I learned about neurobiology, I began to re-evaluate what I understood about the Christian Bible. In the beginning, God commanded Adam and Eve to not eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I was taught, and it seems that is a general conception, that God was testing their obedience. Knowing what I know about emotions, and how severe emotions can lead to suffering, I began to see God’s command as more of a warning. Much like a parent telling a child to not touch a hot burner, God did not want to see us suffer. To experience an emotion, you have to know what two different states feel like: Knowledge of Good and Evil.
By knowing the difference between Good and Evil, which I take more broadly as what feels good versus what feels bad, one is now susceptible to suffering. You cannot suffer over something you do not desire. You cannot desire something you have no knowledge of. So suffering comes directly from knowing of the existence of a state better than the one you are currently experiencing. By experiencing life, we develop a database of values: The Good and The Evil.
God didn’t desire to see their pain, but they are curious creatures, so their pursuit of knowledge leaves them open to suffering.
That’s enough commentary on that, even though the other half of the story was just as profound for me: Jesus’ sacrifice.
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15:00 Jack is your quintessential man-child: completely bereft of self-awareness exacerbated by the echo chamber he grifted people into joining.
He is more interested in people agreeing with him than agreeing wot good ideas. This makes him invested in his ideas so deeply that if you attack the idea, he feels attacked.
I used to be part of his cult.
He’s some dude that started by writing a book about how so many Democrats voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.
He started a MGTOW-like group called “The Liminal Order.” I paid the fee to join in November of 2019, and so was summarily booted for hurting some members’ feelings.
No refund.
What did I do, you might ask.
Well, jack got into the cult’s private chat and asked for suggestions for topics for his upcoming appearance on Dave Rubin’s show. Many suggestions were political in nature, and I wrongly assumed that this group was about BUILDING a better America directly instead of continuing the political game. After one member made yet another suggestion about a political topic, I responded directly to that person, “Or you can talk about more useless politics.”
Next day, all my accesses are shut down and Jack tells me he is going to talk to me directly about it.
The talk never happened, and a year after my initial payment, another payment was deducted. To his credit, he did credit that second payment back to me, but that was it. No, “Hey, how are you,” or anything.
I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but he seems more and more like he’s just fame and power hungry.
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@clem.3894 No. What I describe is NOT democratic at all.
Neurons in one cortex do not impose their existence upon the neurons in other cortices through the prefrontal cortex. Each cortex is a distinct, ideologically segregated entity that is highly integrated with all other cortices.
What I described is a confederation of distinct local communities that cooperate on issues they agree upon while going their separate ways on issues they do not agree upon. There is VERY little democracy, if any, involved as democracy is predicated on the tyranny of forcing ideas from the majority on to the minority.
The fundamental issue with human society is the lack of communal coherence. BECAUSE people do NOT live with the people they MOST agree with, they rely on forcing their ideals upon each other through government.
A human society that more resembles a neuronal society would be ideologically segregated and organized in the same way. For example, everybody who believes in 90% income taxes should live together. This would eradicate that tax. Taxes are an imposition upon those that disagree with them, so if people made the RATIONAL choice of living with the people they agree with, those “taxes” become VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Refusing to live with the people you are with the most = tyranny.
Living with the people you agree with the most = liberty
Marxist-Leninist theory is predicated on the ideal that INDIVIDUAL PERSON collectivism be forced upon everyone through the state (federal government).
The rational and NATURAL option is ideological segregation such that all the Marxist-Leninists live together, the libertarians live together, the conservatives live together, the Christians live together, the Muslims live together, the White supremacists live together, the Black supremacists live together, etcetera, etcetera.
You don’t force laws and taxes upon those who AGREE with you.
Ultimately, it does NOT matter how well I understand Marxist-Leninist ideals, or any other ideal you can think of. The WHOLE POINT of SELF-governance is that everybody who agrees with any particular ideal LIVES together and manifests their shared ideal collectively.
Furthermore, building your ideal society with the people you agree with will accelerate the manifestation of your ideal which will serve as the example that proves or disproves your ideals. Very few are convinced with words these days, leaving tangible examples as the only means by which convincing anybody is possible.
If you have to force your ideas on others, they probably aren’t that good to begin with.
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1:00 You put “Socratic Method” in the title and used a Modern day Sophist as an example?
Christ. Talk about tone-deaf irony.
You do understand that “remaining calm” while twisting the facts isn’t Socratic. It’s emotional manipulation. Remaining calm while triggering others is the exact opposite of Socratic.
Perhaps you meant stoic? 😂
4:15 Seriously?
Welcome to the the modern era, son.
The purpose of questions in the Corporate Media World is to generate sound bites.
Your problem is you are taking isolated incidents and judging each one in a vacuum instead of seeing the entire mural these people paint. One media personality gets a target to say something so that other media personalities can turn it into a meme by taking it completely out of context.
5:15 Why in the world didn’t you use Dr. Peterson for this video? He is far and away a far better example than the Sophist you chose. I don’t agree with his politics, but politics isn’t his forte so I don’t hold it against him.
Trevor specializes in taking things out of context and lies of omission, and he was your example? He’s basically Cathy Newman bit with better articulation and quicker thinking. Cathy is an interrogator disguised as a journalist, and Trevor is a partisan hack disguised as a satirist.
5:30 Socrates didn’t probe for inconsistencies. He proved to get a better understanding of another’s viewpoints. Inconsistencies just happen to manifest in their own. If you are actively looking for inconsistencies, you are not arguing in good faith. You are arguing with an agenda.
5:45 Nice clipping of different conversations to avoid providing context.
Then, as Trevor completely misrepresents “capitalism”, you quickly cut to explaining the “Socratic Method.” What are you doing? 😂
6:15 He’s famous, but people don’t understand why. I doubt you’ll mention that it was emotional rhetoric and democracy that stripped him of his Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. I also have a feeling that you feel the Electoral College should be done away with because it stands in the way of democracy. If I am correct in my assumptions, the you championing the Socratic Method AND democracy is more tone-deaf irony.
7:00 You are arguing to appeal to people’s emotions. You know that, right? You are arguing for people to be justified in listening to people they like and ignoring people they don’t like.
THAT is emotional manipulation, and it is the basis of emotional rhetoric.
Good god. YOU are a modern day sophist taking Socrates’ name in vain.
9:00 An echo chamber, in and of itself, isn’t bad. When you combine it with politics, it becomes a tool for tyranny. Echo chambers justifies one’s feeling of moral superiority in forcing their echoes ideas into people who disagree with them.
Trevor doesn’t argue to prove he is right. He argues to justify the laws passed in his name and applied to the people he is arguing with.
That is as far from Socratic as you can get.
10:00 The simplest way to engage in the Socratic Method is to hold a single value above all else: Liberty.
Anybody who claims to be exercising the Socratic Method to justify tyranny through laws is a Sophist pretending to be moral while aiming to vilify those who would argue against the laws you feel are moral.
10:30 Words do not prove veracity.
Examples do.
If you are arguing to be right or to get it right, you are arguing for the wrong reasons.
I’m sure n my final stage of evolution wherein I do not argue to prove that I am right.
I argue to find others who are willing to help me build what I envision for a more perfect society. When I “argue” it’s really an explanation of WHAT I am doing and WHY I am doing it. When I finish my life’s work, THAT will be my argument.
To that end, I would say Jesus would have been a far better example of the Socratic Method. For one, He met His end in the EXACT same manner: Sophists used emotional rhetoric to convince a democratic vote for his execution. Why? Blasphemy and corruption of the youth.
Today, scientism is the new theism, and people are chastised and ridiculed by zealots of this new religion who are all but scientifically illiterate as they chant “follow the science.”
10:45 The problem with trying to avoid attacking people by addressing their ideas is that people are so invested in their ideas that they will still feel attacked when you begin breaking down their ideas.
11:30 My suggestion to you is to study the brain and work towards seeing individual neurons as individual people. If you do that, you’ll begin to see why human societies become so dysfunctional. A large portion of my belief system revolving around liberty came about as I studied neuroscience. If Nature figured out how to organize 100 billion neurons resulting in such a high degree of harmony that consciousness manifests; while humans can’t get past 100 million people without starving and/or severely oppressing large swathes of the population; you’ll have to excuse my deep regard for the blueprints for the most efficient and moral society know to humans being locked in every one of the billions of peoples’ skulls on this planet we share.
My arguments have billions of examples AND billions of years of evolution supporting it.
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@johnnk3256 😂
Sir, I would LOVE to buy you a drink of whatever beverage you prefer. Bra-f-cking-vo.
What I find the funniest about these arguments is that immigrants, both legal and illegal, (I’m speaking just of those seeking freedom) are MORE American than just about every native-born American today.
The WHOLE point of America IS SELF-governance. For SELF-governance to work, an individual must be surrounded by like-minded individuals. This means codifying your common beliefs and preventing anybody who disagrees those beliefs from entering your community. This applies to every ideology; even racial supremacists.
If every white supremacist lived in one area, guess where non-white people should avoid…
If every black supremacist lived in one area, guess where all non-blacks should steer clear of.
If everybody who believed in 90% income taxes lived in one area, guess where everybody who doesn’t believe in 90% income taxes should live. Not with them. If you do that for every level of taxes imaginable, then something magical happens…
TAXES DISAPPEAR.
A tax is an unwilling contribution. If you are willing it is a VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION.
Neat, huh?
And all that needs to be done is what EVERY immigrant does: MOVE TO BE WITH PEOPLE WHO THINK LIKE YOU.
Immigrants will risk everything and brave the dangers of walking, swimming , flying, or crawling into America because they believe in the idea of freedom.
Natural-born Americans won’t even move to a different zip code to be with the people they agree with. Worse than that, Americans will consciously move to another zip code full of people who disagree with them… only to change the laws of their new homes to be more like the laws of the home they left. These are the same laws that created the environment they ran away from. Oregon turned Blue because of this infectious phenomenon. Washington state is turning Blue. And now more states will turn Blue after the mass Exodus in 2020 that saw many Blue states losing house seats while Red states gained them.
Blue voters whines about it while Red voters cheered about it thinking it would affect House dynamics. What they didn’t understand was that Blur ideology had dispersed from densely populated cities, like a pore cloud, to infect even more of America.
That was ALWAYS the plan.
What has the Left been conditioned to whine about regarding national elections?
Voter turnout and… the electoral college.
Those were the two main roadblocks to turning America into a democracy.
The electoral college was designed to prevent population dense cities from dictating how population sparse states should live.
So, in 2020, what happened?
Voter turnout: mass mail out ballots with negligee security features and even less attention to counting votes.
Electoral college: created environments that motivated Blue voters to leave cities en masse…
•unrestrained riots
•economic shutdowns
•catch and release with violent criminals
•vilified cops
•calls for defunding the police
•legalization of crimes like shoplifting
•New York even changed their bail laws in 2019 to eliminate consideration of society’s safety when determining bail.
•murdering thousands elderly in their senior care facilities by exposing them to an upper respiratory disease. ANY communicable upper respiratory disease is lethal to the elderly. As a former field tech, we were not allowed into senior care facilities if we had any symptoms. It’s been like that for decades…
Wanna know something else, neat?
Rent control laws were expiring in 2015, but current tenants were locked in to their controlled rent levels. The ONLY way rent could be raised was on new tenants. Tenants also couldn’t be forced out of their residences.
But…
Governors, like Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, and Murphy, could make living in those areas a literal hell…
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@johnnk3256 “I’ve never chosen a side.”
As an American, you’re not supposed to.
America was founded on ideological segregation.
What people don’t understand is that segregation is supposed to occur at multiple levels.
I use what I call an “Ideological Sieve.”
Have EVERYBODY list ten of the most important political issues to them and how they would have each addressed.
The First most important issue determines their largest community. Within that community, their Second determines their sub-community. You continue the process until you are with the people who MOST think like you politically.
That is your Second order community. EVERYTHING you collectively believe should define society is enforced amongst yourselves: if your society flourishes, then it is your EXAMPLE that proves your words rather than your words proving an example should be built.
EVERY complex system that grows, grows in this same manner of associating like with like and branching off when disagreement occurs. Very few systems actively suppress one option over another instead of letting the environment determine where resources are spent: roots, limbs, roadways, utility distribution, computer networks, neurons and synaptic connections.
Nature flourishes under a DECENTRALIZED and SELF-GOVERNING model. It is the human concept of CENTRALIZED GOVERNANCE that is unnatural, unstable, and prone to catastrophic failure.
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@rugbyguy59 It’s interesting that you fail to give a single example of the Socialism you speak of while claiming Marx and his followers sought voluntary collectivism. Especially since The American Constitution was designed to allow it.
If there were so many voluntary socialists, they would have built cities by now.
Alas, we are left with involuntary socialism at every level of government all the way up to the Federal level which resulted in things like Biden’s Crime Bill that incarcerated so many non-violent black criminals, and the argument from Kamala’s office to deny a federally mandated early release program for those same criminals so California wouldn’t lose its $2/hr fire brigade.
I firmly believe in voluntary socialism, communism, and individualism. I just do not see many instances of it, but I do see more and more ideas, like CRT, popping up to help keep us divided.
If there is an actual disparity in the SYSTEMATICALLY racist application of enforcement (not SYSTEMICALLY racist application of laws; see, I called it), then everybody who believes so is free to construct a town, city, or state that is free of it.
There certainly seem to be plenty who believes in the myth of contemporary systemic/systematic racism to build more than a few cities designed to be free of it. The ironic thing is that these people seem to live in the large blue cities that are the biggest offenders of these claims.
Why is it that the Democrats are always calling for a reformation of cities they have controlled for decades by suggesting their ideas be implemented at the Federal level?
It’s because ideas like CRT trick then into believing that more government is how you solve corrupted government.
You seem to understand that larger government is a problem, but you fail to understand that they are merely tools for those who push ideas that keep The People divided and fighting with each other over which perspective is “right” instead of looking forward and capitalizing on their different perspectives and the understanding that can be garnered from the reconciliation of those differences.
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@rugbyguy59 First off, my world view has changed drastically since my teens. I was far left; far right; raised Catholic; became militant atheist, did a year as a Pentecostal; been agnostic for almost two decades; heavily into math and physics while hating arts and social studies; shifted into philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology; did five years of Facebook politics thinking it meant something; and currently engage people to collect ideas and perspectives.
There is almost NOTHING you can do to phase my world view because your myopia has no way of fathoming my world view. Do you realize that Nature had developed “electric” motors over four billion years ago and perfected virtual reality before humans even uttered their first word? Did you know that a single average neuron is far more complex than a single average person? Did you know that decentralized government coupled with ideological segregation has been successful for a community of nearly 100 billion, and humans can’t get past 100 million without starving and/or oppressing large portions of society?
As for President Trump:
I got out of politics after Comey presented a litany of codes that Hillary broke just before he suggested not pursuing prosecution. The. They did not. So, I did not even pay attention to politics for the first three years of President Trump’s term in office.
When I did start paying attention, I noticed a pattern of propaganda only possible after society had been conditioned to have an attention span sufficient for a one week news cycle.
I saw news reports go on for weeks and months before the rest of the story had come out, and when the rest of the story did come out, it was in articles instead of visceral videos. I saw a teenager get smeared for weeks, with barely an apology after the truth came out. I saw another teenager presented as a victim putting his hands up asking not to be shot for months before it silently came out that that narrative was a lie. I saw a man with a knee in the back of his neck for months, but almost nobody saw the 10 minutes of severe hysteria before hand. I saw people claiming mass mail-in voting was fine despite Democrats as far back as Carter and as recent as Obama saying it was a horrible idea. I saw people blaming President Trump for five DEMOCRAT governors exposing senior homes to COVID for a month; when told about it people called it fake news; when the news reported on Cuomo for a week in February people acted surprised; then the story shifted to his indiscretions with female staff…for another week, now nobody is talking about at all. I saw President Trump speak out against the Lockdowns which led directly to the largest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich ever in history as Amazon nearly doubled in value and Bezos almost tripled in worth. I saw people grab their torches and pitchforks in 2018 over Bezos and hear nothing g bit crickets after his huge pay day. I saw all the other billionaires who are responsible for our information that constantly painted the ONE billionaire anti-Establishment President as “racist” while those same oligarchs amplify horrible ideas like BLM, the manufactured problem with police brutality, “systemic” racism, CRT, white fragility, Intersectionality; Antifa not an actual organization; Proud Boys are terrorists, “1/6 insurrection, “mostly peaceful protests.” Nobody talking about the legalization of industrial hemp when President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill. People freaking out about literal WWIII with the NorKs one month then in the very next month chastising President Trump for “kissing up” to Un. People talking about a “living wage” without establishing what that even is, or how it would affect the economy.
Yeah. President Trump was mostly a distraction despite his best efforts to put America first. He was a distraction to keep the Left and Right fighting each other instead of coming together and ideologically segregating as the Constitution intended; as the brain exemplifies ill ions of times over.
So, feel free to “rock my worldview.”
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I crunched the numbers for 2014 emission rates and applied it to hemp growth rate and sequestration rate. A hectare of hemp can sequester 22t of C in one crop; a crop takes roughly 100 days; I calculated for 2 crops per year (I don’t see why 3 crops wouldn’t be feasible). To sequester 2014’s amount of combusted CO2 emissions would require a bit over 3 million square miles of land.
That the start of the discussion. Ancillary to that would be used for hemp fiber, and there are plenty of burgeoning technologies along those lines: hemp plastics, hemp wood, hempcrete, among others. Another consideration is moving hemp agriculture underground which could also be applied to other industries. Imagine moving factories, warehouses, and various other large construction to subterranean environs which would allow Nature to begin reclaiming the surface.
As for why aren’t countries not adopting it?
Because people are short-sighted and only care about short explanations, quick fixes, and feeling good aboutbtheir thought processes. People are only bothered to take a discussion as far as they need to to “accept a plausible opinion” without taking the time to fully understanding the problem. If you don’t fully understand the problem, you can’t develop the best solutions. This results in people BELIEVING that there is a problem by acquiescing to authority figures then voting for OTHER people to solve the problem.
EVERYBODY has a brain designed specifically for solving problems, but society has relinquished that ability to emotional rhetoric and personal greed.
Humankind doesn’t need government to solve problems. They have everything they need. The only thing they lack is the drive to dream. That’s the downside of being an adult: you stop dreaming about the important things. Imagining a future is the easy part. Imagining the path to get there is the difficult but exciting part.
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A solution is developed by solving a series of functions:
Problem: Too much CO2 >
What to do?: sequester CO2 >
With what?: hemp >
What do we do with hemp?: manufacture everything possible and store blocks of it for future manufacturing
A large supply of hemp would, necessarily, crash the cost of manufacturing with it dramatically (supply and demand). Even if the supply of hemp fiber is much higher than the demand for manufacturing with it at this point, the large supply would also make research & development of hemp technologies cheaper, accessible, and happen far quicker. Once the technologies and manufacturing demands catch up with the supply, it’s just a matter of slowly replacing current products with ever increasingly advanced hemp-based material products.
In essence, a subterranean hemp agricultural system would be like an artificial lung for Earth.
Extrapolating even further into the future, this would be a precursor to terraforming technologies necessary for space exploration/colonization.
Problems have multiple aspects, consequently, solutions do to. Freeing yourself from the mundane and pointless arguments of common discourse allows your brain to do what it is designed to do: explore possibilities.
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Marxism: the State above all.
Original works are successful because they reflect the human condition of struggle, achievement, failure, perseverance, and evolution. These traits instill upon people the tools necessary to become independent and interdependent with each other in meaningful relationships. Everything antithetical to being dependent upon the state.
So, when the children who grew up on these ideals learned from works they hold dear to them consume bastardized versions of these works, cognitive dissonance sets in, and conflict erupts.
This is all planned. Pop culture is the Trojan Horse for ideas: good and bad. Marxists have co-opted popular culture to stoke conflict between citizens creating more need for government.
So, whining about the content being produced will do nothing because it’s the conditioning that is important, not the profit. America has too many lines wealth feeding into China for them to be concerned with turning a profit through Hollywood, so until America gets its $hit together, this will keep happening.
I’ve no doubt that producers are intentionally hiring writers who hate the original works to cause all this conflict. I’ve also no doubt that they are ordered to do so for the outcomes we are seeing today. They’ve been doing it for nearly two decades, so we are long past the point where they are merely “making a mistake.”
This is all 💯 intentional and deliberate.
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@samuelaritan3766 It’s not often I get to enjoy a well-thought and articulated response. Thanks for the read, and spot on.
Cheers 🍻
Fundamentally, everybody has a “god.” “God” is merely the collection of all things a person considers “good” while the “devil” is everything a person considers “evil.” The brain isn’t good at remembering lists of abstract ideas. It functions better in “story mode” so combining all those ideas into stories and amalgamating them into personifications allows these ideas to applied to one’s own life much easier. Children are especially prone to anthropomorphizing things, so creating stories out of abstract ideas makes those ideas more palatable for a young mind.
Whether supernatural deities and demons exist or not, they exist in our minds as patterns of neurons. Those patterns serve as a template. The pantheons of old are replaced by new gods in Tolkien’s works, and comic books, and movies.
So everybody is religious watery they admit it or not. It’s just that some people haven’t created a framework for their morals that can be easily passed on.
The issue isn’t theism or atheism.
The issue is blind and mindless zealotry where zealotry only requires an ideology. Whether it be theocratic or atheistic, it does not matter. Moreover, the old religions are being replace by a new one I call Scientism. Scientism is a religion devoutly followed by scientifically illiterate zealots who chant mantras like, “Follow the science,” and “Most scientists agree,” and “Studies show.” You can tell they are scientifically illiterate when they “cite” their sources and you read those papers only find that they don’t say what the zealot thinks it says. I’ve done it so many times that I now go straight to the summary and highlight phrases like “suggests…”, “leads us to believe…”, and “further research is necessary to…” These are all phrases that do not describe “settled science” which doesn’t stop article authors from claiming so anyways.
People are lazy and don’t have the time to really understand the things they parrot, so they rely on article titles and academic paper titles to “rest their case.”
While I’m no expert in any one subject, I think critically enough to be able to parse an academic paper to understand it, and I have the internet to look things up I’m not yet familiar with. Even then, what I know and understand does not give me the right to force my ideas on others through government and politics. Scientifically illiterate people have even less right to do so.
Ultimately, the best thing society could do is emulate a far larger, more complicated, efficient, and successful society: the brain. The brain is a society of 100 BILLION living creatures with the same basal drives as any human, and they have learned to live together in societies that are fractal in nature; repeating at ever increasingly larger scales of magnitude.
Humans can’t even organize properly enough with 100 MILLION without starving and/or heavily oppressing large swathes of the population…
Hell, nature even beat us to rotary motors by over a billion years.
Nature gets a lot of things right after billions of years of trial and error. We would do well to learn from it.
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@samuelaritan3766 You know, Luke’s character assassination has been beat to death, and it is sad it happened.
As a nerd, what got me immediately after I saw it in theaters was Holdo’s Kamikaze Manure: UTTER shite!
If such a maneuver was possible, large constructions, like the DEATH STAR, would be rendered immediately obsolete. After Alderaan was destroyed, all they would have to do is gather up some of the largest chunks of the planet; paint “Alderaan’s Revenge” on the front; slap hyperdrives on the back; and send the Death Star to it’s explosive fate.
They used an idea based on Real-space physics applied to Hyperspace physics without thinking about the incompatibility of the two frameworks. The whole premise of HYPER space is that you are traveling in a completely different set of dimensions “above” conventional dimensions. This means matter in one dimensionality shouldn’t be interacting physically with matter in the other dimensionality.
I can even explain interdictor starships using String Theory in that gravitons, hypothetically, exist in dimensions above the ones we travel in. Moreover, gravity is so weak because most of the graviton exists in those other dimensions diluting their strength in ours.
So, while matter will not interact with each other between Realspace and Hyperspace, gravitational effects can be felt between them.
There was no justification for the Manure in Star Wars physics or Real Physics.
Then there’s the issue of Episode VIII just being a lazy reversed copy of Episode V…
Instead of escaping FROM Hoth, the “Rebels” escaped TO Hoth… so stupid. 😂
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He’s some dude that started by writing a book about how so many Democrats voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.
He started a MGTOW-like group called “The Liminal Order.” I paid the fee to join in November of 2019, and so was summarily booted for hurting some members’ feelings.
No refund.
What did I do, you might ask.
Well, jack got into the cult’s private chat and asked for suggestions for topics for his upcoming appearance on Dave Rubin’s show. Many suggestions were political in nature, and I wrongly assumed that this group was about BUILDING a better America directly instead of continuing the political game. After one member made yet another suggestion about a political topic, I responded directly to that person, “Or you can talk about more useless politics.”
Next day, all my accesses are shut down and Jack tells me he is going to talk to me directly about it.
The talk never happened, and a year after my initial payment, another payment was deducted. To his credit, he did credit that second payment back to me, but that was it. No, “Hey, how are you,” or anything.
I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but he seems more and more like he’s just fame and power hungry.
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14:45 “Commies are destroying comedy.”
I thought this guy was just a clown the other two ON TOP OF THE VIDEO (how convenient that they placed themselves in a superior position to their target, aye?), but he dropped a truth bomb.
If people are laughing at each other, they aren’t fighting with each other.
If people aren’t fighting with each other, then the State has no purpose.
Socialism/Communism (nationalized; I love the voluntary versions) requires that the individual place the State ABOVE all others (refer to the placement of the participants in the video). The State is superior to community, coworkers, friends, family, and even the self; for the greater good.
15:00 “When somebody mocks you, how do you of that person is hateful or not toward you?”
REALLY good question.
I would love to hear YOUR and Pakman’s answer to that after your target gives his honest answer.
Ten bucks says neither of you do.
15:20 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Look at that White Knight wishing he was mainlining pumpkin spice Ativan right now.
🤣😂😂😇😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂
16:00 Mockery and hatred, take two.
Here’s a hint, “doc.” If the person mocking you punches you in the face to underscore the mocking, that’s about as close as you’ll get to determining whether they hate you or not. Trying to ascertain the metaphysical manifestation of “hate” based on metaphysical constructs like words is about as close to hocus pocus as you can get. Even getting punched in the face is not a 100% indicator that somebody hates you, let alone hates you for a metaphysical label.
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19:00 “None of this is staged.”
Except for your virtue. Stop signaling that which you do not have, son.
19:20 “Some people in your audience think this has to be staged.”
Only the short-attention span Biden voters.
A real smug elitist who believes he is the only one who could possibly understand Jimmy.
20:20 “People made fun of you, you didn’t like it, but that’s life.”
Uh…yeah. That’s exactly what life is. 😂
20:45 “Do you think that, as a kid, you would prefer it if they didn’t make fun of you?”
So now you are saying that “adults” who get “offended” are emotionally stunted? 😂
See, I can play Cathy Newman too!!! 😂
21:05 “You gotta be able to hold your own.”
And THAT is the bread and butter of the narcissist.
If people cannot take care of themselves, the narcissist has to swoop in and take care of them. Without victims, White Knights would have no purpose. Unfortunately, White Knights aren’t always around, so what is a victim to do?
A true saint would teach people to not be victims so that they will not be dependent upon the “good graces” of the White Knight.
21:10 “So you kinda grew up?”
Yes. That’s what adults do. They learn how to deal with adversity at which point they become sovereign. Children NEED others for emotional support. Adults do not.
It is no coincidence that animals and children have sever impulse issues. For animals, they lack the hardware (cerebrum) to build complex mesh networks that can override basal instincts. Children have under-developed hardware as well as simple programming.
Adults have the fully developed hardware, and SHOULD have the requisite programming to be self-sufficient emotionally.
If they did, therapists would have no purpose. Kinda makes you wonder why they seem to want people to “embrace their emotions,” aye?
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When I explain that Nature had invented “virtual reality” long before humans existed, people rage about it and call me crazy. They are used to their perceptions being “reality” that they do not understand that perceptions are a representation of reality.
Light (electromagnetic wave) exists. Colors do not. Reality ends at the sensory neurons. Light ceases to exist the moment it is absorbed by the pigments in your conical photoreceptors. They become patterned of neuronal activities that are coded and encoded as it travels up through multiple layers of hierarchy until it reaches the prefrontal cortex and you PERCEIVE color.
We have THREE different conical receptors. Can only SENSE three different wavelengths of LIGHT. By comparing and contrasting trillions of bits of information, our prefrontal cortex is able to PERCEIVE MILLIONS of COLORS.
Every sense and perception is like this. Variances in atmospheric pressure exists; sounds do not. Chemicals exist; odors and flavors do not. Pressure and heat exist; texture, “hot and cold” do not. Damage to tissues exist; pain does not. Beneficial biological processes exist; pleasure does not.
The dichotomy between the physical and the metaphysical is touched upon in the Divided Line and by Hegel.
A “cup” does not exist. It is a metaphysical function applied to physical object. This is why “cups” come in many different sizes, shapes, and materials. You can even turn your hand into a cup.
While you can a single function to multiple materials, the converse is also true. A rock can be used as a paper weight, a door stop, a projectile, a bludgeon, a hammer, a nail, a cutting implement…
People are unique in that they can apply functions to themselves while inanimate objects cannot. People can be parents, children, teachers, educators, indoctrinators, doctors, snake oil salesman, politicians, lobbyists, Freedom Fighters, Tyrants, useful idiots… The ability to define oneself is a sacred right which is usurped when we teach kids that “words have power.”
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Alternately,
[2] ^3^ = <8>
read: base 2, power 3 = value 8
<[2] ^3^> = 8
read: the value of base 2, power 3 = 8
[2] <8> = ^3^
read: base 2, value 8 = power 3
^[2] <8>^ = 3
read: the power of base 2, value 8 = 3
<8> [2] = ^3^
read: value 8, base 2 = power 3
^<8> [2]^ = 3
read: the power of value 8, base 2 = 3
<8> ^3^ = [2]
read: value 8, power 3 = base 2
[<8> ^3^] = 2
read: the base of value 8, power 3 = 2
^3^ [2] = <8>
read: power 3, base 2 = value 8
<^3^ [2]> = 8
read: the value of power 3, base 2 = 8
Within an expression:
x + ^[2]<8>^ = 45
read: x plus the power of base 2, value 8 = 45
x + 3 = 45
x = 42
or
<^x^[3]> - 27 = 54
read: the value of power x, base 3 - 27 = 54
<^x^[3]> = 81
read: the value of power x, base 3 = 81
^x^[3] = [3]^4^
read: power x, base 3 = power 4, base 3
^x^ = ^4^
read: power x = power 4
x = 4
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@Weazla- Since I just explained what actual Libertarianism is to someone else, I’ll just copy/paste it here: live with the people you agree with because I you don’t force laws and taxes on those that agree with you…
“ “spreading correct information and preventing misinformation is important nonetheless.”
Incorrect.
Those concepts are subjective. The information that YOU deem correct should be the foundation of YOUR society. Those who do not agree with you use different information for the basis of their own society.
For instance, you claim nothing is wrong with smoking weed. You should live in a town who believes the same as you. Those who disagree should live in another town. In today’s paradigm, we believe that codifying ONE of those TWO beliefs at the national level is “good,” so we end up with millions in prison for what many believe shouldn’t even be illegal. In today’s system, someone caught smoking weed in that second town would be incarcerated losing nearly all of their freedoms. Their families would be broken up. Society would lose a productive member. That society would constantly lose resources keeping that “offender” incarcerated. The only people to benefit from such a system would be those that facilitate the processes leading to incarceration.
In the RATIONAL process, anybody caught smoking weed in the second town would just be exiled/banished. That “offender” would lose only the freedom to live in that town. Their family would not need be broken up. YOUR town would gain a productive member of society. The second town would spend far less resources on “offenders” either through the process or through incarceration. The only people to lose out would be those in the Prison Industrial Complex.
So, no. Do not waste time and resources “combatting misinformation.” Use that time and those resources to build your own society. Then, IF your viewpoints are correct, then YOUR society will flourish.
The change though collective effort that I suggest is through the collection of people who already agree with you.
The rich have all the power because “activists” keep wasting their time trying to convince people to vote for strangers every four years. Imagine you are a rich oligarch. Would it be easier to buy thousands of local politicians or a single group of national politicians? This is why America was NEVER meant to be a democracy, and we are far from a “representative democracy” because a small group of people cannot represent thousands of different viewpoints.
As for living “independently.”
That’s stupid.
60 people living in a 2,400 sqft home making $8/hr can pay off a $360,000 mortgage in FIVE YEARS. In the time it takes to pay off a standard 30yr mortgage, those 60 people could OWN SIX 2,400 sqft houses. These individuals would live far better than any family making $120,000/yr household salary.
The “system” is the one people limit themselves to.”
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@Weazla- “Whether you are comfortable or not is irrelevant.”
That’s the most relevant aspect for change to occur. 😂
As for your pathetically incomplete analysis of the American economy…
Let’s suppose you own a home. Let’s suppose you work 50 hours/wk (includes travel time to and from). While you are at work, your house goes unused. While you are asleep, most of your house goes unused. While you’re in one room, the rest of your house goes unused. When you are not at home, asleep, or doing some else, your internet service goes unused.
If you list all your possessions and things you rent/lease, list how much you spend/spent on them, and multiplied how much you actually use those things during the time you have them, you’ll find that you WASTE well over 90% of your resources.
Even THREE families living in the same house on different shifts immediately save 67% of their resources. Just a few thousand families doing this would immediately crash the housing market that Blackrock artificially inflated to accumulate wealth through Section 8 allocations in the wake of Leftists flooding out of Democrat States decimated by Democrat policies and into the Red Sunbelt areas further diluting Republican ideals in their own states.
You look at numbers in the aggregate which means you don’t see how our “representative democracy” is co-opted by the very same rich people you are whining about. All the problems you are crying about are tie direct result of voting more power to the national government, Cupcake.
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The thing is, Trump STILL dominated both of them. Trump really needs to play that up in the next one.
For his first two, and only two minutes...
“What are you gonna do, Joe? You and Chris couldn’t handle me last debate. How are you gonna handle Putin? You won’t have a moderator to fix the ‘rules’ for you, Joe. China and Russia are going to take turns eating your lunch, Joe. Even Kim Jung Un will take your cocktail, fruit.
Nobody wants a weak president, Joe. Look at the last time we had one. Obama started how many new wars, Joe? You almost need to take your socks and shoes off to count them. How many did I start, Joe? How many countries did I start wars with, Joe? Like...six? Oh wait...that’s how many countries I got to sit down for historic peace talks, Joe.
I didn’t start wars, Joe. I got Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to talk to Israel, Joe. I got Kosovo and Serbia to talk to each other, Joe. Only strong leaders can do that, Joe. I am a stronger leader than Obama ever was with his Pander World Tour.
Obama is a beta compared to me, Joe. Your a beta compared to Obama, Joe. You know what that makes you to me, Joe? Nothing.
Go home. Get in your basement. Go to sleep. Wake up. Look out the door. If you see your shadow, that means you’ll have four more years of Trump, Joe.
Good night.”
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1:15 You did a great job conflating unrelated video clips, so far…
3:00 Nice lead in with Master Ken. Are we to take it that “Master Ken” (Matthew Page) is also a fake martial artist? How about you be blunt with what you are saying: “Master Ken” is fake and doesn’t know martial arts.
I mean, that’s your whole premise, right? Two fakes doing a video together? Which means…everybody who does a video with Master Ken is a fake. Didn’t you do a video with Master Ken? 😂
Sucks when you don’t take your point to their logical conclusions, aye? 😂
4:00 Interesting. You disclose Dale Brown’s real name but not Matthew Page’s real name?
5:30 “Getting paid to teach them shit that will get them killed.”
Can’t wait to see the statistics regarding all the people that were killed using his tactics. You got those numbers coming up, right? I mean, he’s been doing this since before you were born, so there has to be a pile of bodies somewhere, right?
6:15 “How how to on how to get shot in the face.”
Which would be how many people to date? How many people have been shot in the face who have trained under Dale? Where’s your statistics, son? You argue like a Lefty, you know that? 😂
7:25 “You’ll notice a pattern…”
What would that be? You displaying fake dead people instead of actual dead people? 😂 CNN should be calling you with a job offer soon, kid. 😂
9:00 So…you’re saying Detroit is full of criminals with Purple Belts? 🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣
I’m not sure what your specialty is, but is sure as flock at rational discourse. 😂
Better idea…why don’t YOU challenge him? You’ve done a pretty good job of implying girls are weak. 😂
10:30 My opinion: can’t say. I haven’t researched him enough to give an informed opinion.
Coincidentally, neither did you. You relied on internet video clips. You know who else relies on that? All the morons rioting because of an iPhone video of an addict overdosing under a cop’s knee.
Congratulations: you’re as smart as a “mostly peaceful protester.” Take your trophy 🏆, scrub. 😂
I doubt there’s anything redeeming in the last bit of your video, so I’ll leave with this…
What do YOU do for Detroit citizens dealing with high rates of crime? You hide in your safe little basement making videos? I don’t know because this is the first video I have seen if yours, and I believe it’s fitting to judge you based on a video. 😂
Cheers 🍻
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@dvonzosch461 😂
They are there to slow the constant encroachment of Oligarchy through Federal Government.
Again, if these ideas are so great, then people would choose to incorporate them in their STATES AND CITIES.
When you create regulations at the FEDERAL level, you remove that choice.
Here’s a simpler explanation:
Suppose you have a problem, and there are 20 viable solutions. What are the chances that a centralized government will choose the best ONE?
1 out of 20... 5%
Now, what are the chances that any of the FIFTY states chooses the best solution? If, out of fifty states, all options are tried,...
20 out of 20 ... 100%
Ruling over everybody by committee to push your delusions on everybody else because you THINK you are wiser is the height of hubris, and that is what killed Socrates which led to Plato developing republics.
You’re focused on a skewed perception of recent history, while I’m going back billions of years and learning how NATURE organized nearly 100 BILLION neurons comprising nearly 100 TRILLION connections.
Humans can barely get past 100 MILLION with out crime, wars, and starving large chunks of their population. So, I’ll side with NATURE over petulant children who THINK they know better any day.
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@TheCommonS3Nse You COULD argue that, but the fact still remains that unregulated economies are, by far, the most efficient.
What “governments, shady business owner and taxes” exist within your brain?
“That’s why I’m confident saying they will always be there in the future.”
You have not even explained how they exist in your brain to even extrapolate their existence into the future.
“If we are all autonomous systems operating independently in a social setting as we are, then we need some structure to organize those social interactions.”
What structures would those be in your brain?
“For example, your organs operate independently, but in order for your body to survive, they must operate together. The system that regulates their interactions with each other is the central nervous system.”
You were ALMOST there, with that analogy. Where your analogy breaks down is that the CNS is a hierarchical system with multiple layers of direct representation found nowhere in human governments. The CNS has a, relatively, small portion acting as the executive branch for the entire body: the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex provides no direct commands to all those organs. Instead, the PFC handles EXTERNAL considerations, not INTERNAL considerations are handled by DECENTRALIZED subcortical regions.
The PFC does not handle welfare for individual cells as YOUR design would entail.
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@TheCommonS3Nse Neurons are attracted to neurotransmitters like humans are attracted to commodities. As such, neurons will build connections to gather more neurotransmitters. Those connections are what manifests as ideas. The more “valuable” an idea is, the more those neurons activate creating more neurotransmitters. The more neurotransmitters they create, the more neurons are attracted to that idea.
JUST LIKE the more useful an idea a business has, the more employees and customers it attracts because the ideas generate as value in the form of neurotransmitters.
The reason they are related is because when you ABSTRACT both situations, you end up with the SAME MATHEMATICAL MODEL.
The reason we have math is so that we can apply models to different things. It is the foundation for synthesizing new ideas which we call “innovations.”
Considering the efficiency the brain exhibits, the ECONOMIC TRANSACTIONS it utilizes make for a great model for HUMAN transactions.
Now, that same model is replicated in root systems, roads, utility transmission/transport, computer networks, object oriented programming, an every other large and complex system with thousands of elements.
The ONLY system that does not follow that decentralization is human government which explains why human governments are so unsayable, inefficient, and immoral.
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2:00 Laws do not grant rights. They grant negative rights to government preventing them from infringing on the natural rights conferred from existing.
A law can grant privileges and entitlements which in locked infringing on the rights of others, but you cannot grant that which already exists within an individual.
The Bill of Rights are negative rights applied to the FEDERAL Government prevents if it from infringing on individual and State’s rights. Some people think it rational to apply “incorporation” from the 14th A to claim that the Bill of Rights apply to the States, but that is incorrect both in the context of which it was drafted and signed and in the morality and rationale.
2:15 “Property rights backed by law…” meaning laws restricting government from infringing on already existing rights.
2:30 Incorrect. Socialists only speak about those things. Nothing, in a free society, is stopping them from actually doing something about them. Government is just a tool to feel moral in doing nothing for their neighbor while acting as a scapegoat when that nothing is made evident by government corruption and/or ineptitude.
2:45 EXACTLY. Socialists want power consolidated because it’s easier to usurp it that way. If you were a nefarious billionaire, would you rather buy one sent of national politicians OR thousands of politicians across thousands of local governments?
3:15 Another good point. Socialists can’t even agree on or articulate exactly what it is they want. IF they could, they would just build it themselves by pooling resources with those who think like they do. Unfortunately, they do NOT know exactly what it is they want, so they rely on their vaguely states demands to be correctly interpreted by politicians they’ll never meet who sign bills they’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists they’ll never see.
Ask a socialist how many pages of the thousands we are all obligated to honor as we empower absolute strangers to sign those contracts in OUR names.
Imagine authorizing a complete stranger to sign a million dollar mortgage in your name, but you never see that stranger, the contract, or who drafted the contract in the first place. The only thing you know is the name of the signer and the title of the contract.
Western civilization averages about 1,000 sqft of residential space PER CAPITA. An individual needs less than 40. That means those who “champion” the disenfranchised have plenty of resources to take them in and provide for them themselves. However, they would never consider the idea of sharing what they have with absolute strangers. What they will fight for is sharing OTHER strangers’ wealth to do what they could do themselves.
They think they can except size charity by outsourcing it from other citizens through government. It’s extremely infantile: whine about a problem until an adult solves it.
5:30 It’s a shame he shares a surname with Joseph Fourier…
The reason you don’t want a SINGLE anything is because you have no competing example to judge it against. Evolution in nature is driven by natural SELECTION, and without a choice, no selection can be made.
These ideas are from people who study nothing but their own bellybutton lint and the ramblings of others they do not fully understand.
Competition drives industry and evolution/innovation. It always has. It always will.
Remove competition, and you all but halt progress.
6:00 😂 😂 😂 First he wants to remove competition in the free market but instill it within a single business?
Either the man cannot reconcile two different ideas because he doesn’t understand the fractal nature of reality, or he’s an outright shill for oppression. It is more difficult to oppress people directly through monarchy, imperialism, oligarchy, corporatism, or any other centralized government structure than it is to convince them to oppress themselves through democracy.
20:00 I think you should mention that what each class would answer is irrelevant within the context of which class is in surplus and which is in scarcity. A surplus of workers moves wages toward the boss’s answer while a surplus of bosses moves wages toward the workers’ answer.
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@carlruppert7324 I NEVER said that verbal abuse was right.
See? THIS is what happens when children don’t learn to master their own emotions: they grow into adults with poor comprehension skills as they emotionally consider ideas, rather than rationally.
<gets crayon out>
If you do NOT teach children to be hurt by words, they will NOT be victims of verbal “abuse.”
There are three areas involved in “words have power”: the cerebrum in general; the Wernicke’s Area; and the limbic system. Those three areas have to be connected for “words have power” to be true. Connecting different areas of the brain is known as LEARNING or CONDITIONING.
Unfortunately, society is mindless, so they just repeat what they are told. Fortunately, the brain is very plastic so any dysfunctional ideas taught can be untaught.
In the future, try understanding the argument BEFORE claiming it is dumb. All you’ve managed to do was exhibit poor reading and comprehension skills.
“willfully hurting another person…”
Pain is a psychological manifestation of physical damage. It exists ONLY in the mind that manifests it. If you don’t train a mind to manifest emotional pain, then it will not manifest that emotional pain.
It is people, LIKE YOU, who teach children that they should be hurt by words. It is people, LIKE YOU, who are responsible for children hurting themselves with the words they hear.
The MOST important thing about adults learning to control their OWN emotions is when they have the power to vote their ideas onto others. If a person cannot control their own emotions, then they are susceptible to OTHER people controlling their emotions. When you control someone’s emotions you control how they act which includes voting. Such things have lead to the greatest atrocities in history such as Socrates’ execution, Jesus’ execution, wars, and the Holocaust.
You don’t want people to accept ideas because they like someone or they like HOW they presented the idea. You want people to accept ideas because they actually make sense. Otherwise you get a society full of adult children who accept bad ideas they like to hear and reject good ideas they don’t like to hear.
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@jessiedickey3650 “If all we do is kick people out who break the law, all that will happen is we create areas designated for devastation.”
1: Pure speculation.
2. Do you honestly believe that pot smokers are THAT destructive/unproductive?
3. Do you really believe that people who sell loose cigarettes should be arrested?
4. We already have many cities with large swathes of devastation, so your argument is already wrong considering nobody is kicked out for breaking laws, and the devastation ALREADY occurs.
“…won’t suddenly start experiencing empathy.”
1. Empathy isn’t required to do the “correct” thing. Many people who know me think I’m a good person for always sacrificing for others. Picking strangers up on the street to give them a ride home and slipping a $20 in their groceries so I want be around when they find it makes some people think I’m empathetic.
I’m not.
I solve problems. Picking up somebody carrying bags of groceries is the same as thinking “four” when I see “2+2” on a piece of paper.
2. Empathy is destructive without wisdom.
People will solve other peoples’ problems depriving them of the opportunity to learn how to do it themselves. All this does is make that person dependent on others which leads to destruction when nobody else is around.
Helicopter parents ruin their children by not preparing them for a world where they aren’t always their looking out after them. It is narcissistic to give without teaching because it creates an endless supply of purpose and praise for the “benefactor.”
I KNOW I won’t always be around for the people I care about, so I do my best to give them just enough of a hard time so that their life will be just a little easier when I’m gone.
“Law and punishment are designed to manage the selfish and irrational side of the human…”
1. What was the last ACTUAL law that you read?
2. How much money is spent on Law Enforcement, Lawyers, Judges, and the prison industrial complex? You do understand that privatized prisons operate to produce a profit, right? More prisoners; more profit.
3. Do you understand where wealth, that is allocated to the welfare system, goes? It does NOT go TO welfare recipients. It goes THROUGH welfare recipients TO large corporations. The welfare system is a scam that producers a direct line from middle class wealth to rich people’s bank accounts.
Who has equity in a Section 8 property?
The recipient?
The taxpayer funding it?
The government facilitating the transaction?
No. No. No.
That would be the property owner who will have a steady stream of income for as long as those recipients remain in “poverty.”
Blackrock can buy properties up in bulk at lower interest rates than you can acquire for a standard mortgage, they can pay them off in five to ten years with the Section 8 subsidized rent they collect.
Then they buy more.
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This is just a tiny portion of how government drains society of resources while the rich get richer.
All because people are too lazy to build society themselves caused by empathy-driven inaction. People tend to say they care about something only to vote for an absolute stranger to take care of it for them.
You cannot be charitable with other peoples’ wealth. Philanthropy cannot be executed through government.
“Like intentional murder…”
Of course you’d go straight to the one offense just about everybody thinks is wrong and only constitutes a small portion of the inmates incarcerated.
3.2% Homicide, Aggravated Assault, Kidnapping
45.2% Drug offenses.
If you’re going to make an argument, try using a more prevalent statistic.
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@seleuf “…humans being a highly social species…” is a basal drive of which we many that we are conditioned to suppress. How do you choose which drives to suppress and which to fall victim to?
Secondly, what are “fellow humans, a pet, a plant, or an inanimate object” to a person?
“Mental and emotional abuse are abuse…” How? It’s one thing to make a claim about a process, and it is a completely different thing to explain it. I CAN explain it, and it involves how the brain processes certain aspects of perception. Your comments suggest that you don’t understand the difference between basic ideas like light and color.
Also, the situation described sounds far more severe than simply…” How is it more “severe”? What is going on in the brain that makes it more “severe”? How is it the “severity” is subjective wherein some people will break down while others will not be phased? What regions of the brain are involved, and how do they differ across the population such that “severity” is judged differently between individuals? Isn’t the variability in reaction proof that “mental and emotional abuse” isn’t determined by the source but by the recipient? If two people of the same demographic hear the same “offensive slur”, but only one is offended, doesn’t that prove that offense originates in the mind of the offended and not the one being offensive?
If a tree falls in a mime in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does the mime make a noise? All joking aside, it is a relevant question, and the answer is “no.” Can you explain why?
You see, I’ve spent A LOT of time thinking about all these things because society is full of contradictory values. I spent four years of my life studying the brain on my own time for my own purposes of understanding my emotions. In the process, I learned many things and was able to answer these different questions.
Have you?
All you’ve done is make claims with nothing supporting them OR an explanation of what goes on in the brain to manifest all the outcomes you claim occur.
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@cathpalug1221 How has forced inclusion worked so far?
Should I be allowed to move into your house, then FORCE you to abide by different rules just because moving in to your house allowed a majority to change your ways?
Or, if I fail to change your rules, but I decide to break them anyways, are you just going to lock me up in the basement and feed me until I get parole?
Or, wouldn’t you just say, “my house, my rules, or get out.”?
Doesn’t it make more sense to just allow pot smokers to live in cities that have no problem with that than to lock them up in a prison if they happen to get caught in a city that outlawed it?
The thing you aren’t considering is that disagreements in opinions leads to laws. Laws lead to incarceration.
What you are arguing for is the justification for the mass incarceration that plagues America as the prison industrial complex drains society of resources just because a couple million people wanted to take drugs.
You see it as “alienation” because you don’t follow your ideas to their natural conclusions.
Besides, ideological segregation is how your brain is organized. So your single example is pretty insignificant to the billions of examples existing today in each of our skulls.
Find me a community as successful as the 100 billion neurons in your brain, and I’ll reconsider my position. Ideological segregation is the NATURAL evolution of a functional society. Forced inclusion is the flawed and artificial form of society.
I’ll take my cures from nature and its billions of years of natural selection, thanks.
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@cathpalug1221 I missed your oh so relevant example of murder. Before I address it, I would like to know why you would address a crime that represents about ONE PERCENT of the prison population while ignoring the victimless crime of taking drugs which represents almost HALF of the prison population?
As for your scenario, why would you let some stranger ALL the way into your house and offer them absolute trust before vetting them? I wouldn’t have nailed you as pro- border security, but I find people can’t extrapolate from personal perspectives to national perspectives without running into all kinds of inconsistencies. So are you for completely open borders considering your scenario pretty much epitomizes that stance while, at the same time, reveals how ridiculous open borders are? You certainly opened a can of worms with that example.
So, in the case of allowing strangers into my house, I would definitely have safety precautions in place including, but not limited to: superior numbers; firearms use and safety training; and various contingency plans. I would also have a NEIGHBORHOOD of individuals who have spent decades working, playing, and living with me so that the likeliness that they are a murderous psychopath is far less than a complete stranger.
Honestly, it feels like you just pulled the first worst-case scenario out of the Arthur and hoped to hide your lack of thought in the nebulous situation. If you really want detail, not only would my immediate neighbors have my back because they have such a high degree of agreement with me about life; but the neighboring communities would have very nearly the same bison for society that they understand that to protect our personal ideology, it behooves us to commune as a larger community based on our common ground: both literally (because we live on adjacent properties) and figuratively.(because we share highly similar, but not exactly the same beliefs). In such a situation, there would be very little reason for a complete stranger o come to any of our houses, and such an irregular act would put the community on a higher alert level.
Should I go on?
“Also no, segregation is actually not part of natural selection.”
Really? You have plenty of evidence showing cats and dogs successfully creating offspring? 😂
We can get even more basic and personal than that.
Your gut microbiome consists of THOUSANDS of alien microbial species that, if left to mingle with the rest of the cells in your digestive tract; blood stream; or airways would cause some drastic changes in your cellular community.
How about you take all the matter in your intestines containing those genetically different organisms and spread it around the is die if your body instead of in your arguments, and let me know how it goes? Actually, don’t do that. Find a gastroenterologist, and ask them to explain what mingling genetically different organisms together would do to your body.
“Yes, it is part of your natural colonialism educated brain but unfortunately not in nature as DNA evidence suggested that homo sapiens have other hominin species DNA…”
This is a GREAT point!!!
Maybe COLONIALISTS should NOT have invaded lands with people of vastly different ideologies!!!
THANK YOU!! YOU REST MY CASE!!!
Obviously, I’m being facetious because whether through bloody conquest or slow assimilation, less advanced cultures will always be subsumed into more advanced cultures. Considering your seeming hatred for Western Civilization, which invented the idea of “multi-culturalism” (seriously, how can you argue FOR an idea invented by people you seem to despise? 😂) I might add, you seem to be selective in your hatred as you enjoy the internet, social media, and technological platforms that power those things which Western Civilization made possible for you: O would think that engaging with the fruits of Western Civilization would turn your stomach so bad that you would shudder even THINKING about using these technologies.
I kind of feel that it would be best for your mental and emotional well-being if you avoided all traces of Western Civilization. America set aside reservations for people with such reservations. You may be able to apply for membership in their (by your standards) superior civilization.
But back to your main point about genetically SIMILAR species sharing enough commonality that they could successfully create offspring. Again, whose case are you trying to make? I have been doing nothing but explaining that ideologically similar people should intermingle which is the metaphysical equivalent of the physical example you just gave.
Of EVERY genetic species alive during the time you reference, what percent did those particular species represent in that total genetic environment? Let’s throw you a bone and say TEN species out of what? MILLIONS? BILLIONS? Human ideological diversity can’t even come CLOSE to that level of diversity. Yet you think isolating a percent of a percent of a percent of the entire genetic population of life on Earth is proof against ideological segregation?
The amount of self-contradicting examples you are providing is seriously causing me to question my own sanity. Unless you are intentionally providing such erroneous examples because this conversation is actually just a big joke, then BRAVO!!! Ya got me!!! 😂
If not, the alternatives are quite a bit less desirable: I’m crazy or you’re crazy.
Unfortunately, people seldom self-diagnose as crazy, so we are in a slight quandary. I’m willing to accept the mantle of crazy since you aren’t the only person I’ve discoursed with that exhibited the same level of sincere inconsistency, so me being the common denominator would imply that I’m the crazy one…
Although, the sane man in an insane world would appear, even to himself, as the insane one. It’s a bit reminiscent of Plato’s Allegory of The Cave. Wonderful story that has been recast many times in popular culture; even by those claiming to be “woke” as they vote for more of the system that controls their lives… 😂
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@austinkinney2548 Consider a citizen paying $100 up to the IRS; the IRS sends it to the Department of Education; the DoE sends it to that citizen’s state; the state sends it to a county; the county sends it to a school district; the school district sends it to the school 3 miles down the street from that citizen.
Considering ONLY the transactions, you automatically need to deduct for wage labor and information infrastructure to authorize, facilitate, track, and audit EACH transaction TWICE: once for reception on one side and transmission on the other side.
That is the INHERENT waste of a centrally planned economy. Now add in waste from corruption either through malevolence and/or incompetence.
Add all that up, and how much of that $100 went to that citizen’s local school versus if they just walked that $100 to the school?
It is a fact that ALL other large and complex system in nature, society, and technology are highly decentralized and follow the same organizational structure. This is because decentralized systems are more efficient, stable, and less prone to corruption.
Government workers may be naive, but they are still part of the problem.
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2:00 “Social media has a deep impact on the real world…”
Which is how you subtly subvert an election. When you play hours of still photos of a white teenager wearing a red MAGA hat “smirking” at a Native American WITHOUT showing the group of ADULT Black Israelites haranguing a group of school kids, only to “retract” the story with an article buried on a website nobody reads to posture like due diligence was done to rectify the slander, the damage has already been done.
Human perception of reality is roughly 80% visual. Reading words is far less visceral to an individual than constantly seeing the same image and hearing “racist.”
My proposal regarding “free press” is that however much time and effort is spent defaming an individual, an equal or greater amount of time and effort must be spent rectifying the iniquity ON TOP of any monetary damages awarded.
If photos/videos were used two hours a night during prime time news time slots for a month, then a “legal retraction” would involve photos/videos in good light of the person damaged should be aired for two hours a night in the exact same time slots for a month.
The punishment should include making the damaged individual whole, and an individual’s public image can approach being made whole by expending the same effort that damaged it in the first place. Aside from any monetary damages awarded, this extra ETHICAL effort would put a strain on any “free press” agency’s bottom line that it would deter further such actions while providing a healthier public perception.
You could also apply it to reports of claims of “racism.” To maintain standing as a “neutral news source,” any report of a third party making claims of “racism” must be balanced by third parties of equal standing denying those claims. It is devious to hide behind, “we are just reporting what other people said,” just to defame an individual.
Lastly, if being called “racist” leads to defamation of character and actual financial damages, can a defamation suit be filed? If not, why not? Society has developed a propensity for attacking people’s livelihood through unprovable allegations of “racism” and other such assertions, that it has adversely affected free speech. When the most “offended” person gets to decide what is “offensive,” civil society begins to erode. Any person too immature to control their own emotions should not be allowed to interact with public society, discourse, or politics. They should only be allowed to interact with similarly underdeveloped individuals.
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1:30 My first impression is that the puzzle would be easier on a donut since it is the same topographically as a mug…
20 minutes later, after drawing a torus on a piece of paper:
Red 1: due South across the bottom, North up the back, inside, connect to top of H1.
Red 2: head East North East, on the mug but stay inside handle, connect to bottom right of H2.
Red 3: follow same path of Red 2, connect to right of H3.
Yellow 1: follow Red 3, connect to right of H3.
Yellow 2: North West to H1.
Yellow 3: due North, connect to bottom of H2.
Blue 1-3: enter the handle from the South, exit handle from the North, connect to successive houses.
I did it again by drawing a rectangle with the North and South edges being continuous and the East and West edges being continuous. Same result, just easier to draw than a torus.
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All this talk and the fundamental issue is that nobody discusses what “depression” actually is. The fact that everybody experiences it to some degree over the course of their lifetime means it is a natural process for some particular reason.
The reason depression evolved was to safeguard the psyche from existential ideological conflict. The fact of the matter is that EVERYTHING is represented as an idea in the mind. Yes, an apple exists, but your experience of an apple is as an imagined virtual representation of reality based on the various dimensions of measure your body has evolved to process.
It takes awhile for ideas to crystallize in the brain as myelin secures neurons in particular patterns to maintain well established ideas over a long period of time.
The idea of a “good person” is represented by one set of neurons while the people you know are represented by a different set of neurons. Thinking a particular person is a “good person” involves associating those two groups of neurons. If you integrate those ideas over a long period of time, the idea that somebody is a good person becomes firmly established in the brain.
Then that person betrays you, and now the ide of that person is associated to the idea of a “bad person.” That association creates a cognitive dissonance as “good person” and “bad person” compete for the idea of the person. Betrayal is so powerful that creating connections between that person and “bad person” is immediate and strong.
The only way to break connections between ideas is to motivate the connecting neurons to break their connections, BUT the mere act of thinking about an idea motivates those neurons to remain connected. Neurons have a nasal drive to connect and stay connected to highly active networks. These are ideas that are accessed frequently either by constant access or being part of many other ideas.
The only way to motivate a neuron to break a connection is to refrain from thinking about the idea WHILE offering new ideas for those neurons to be part of. One shortcut is replacement or more commonly called “rebounding.” You find somebody who can replace the idea of the other person by finding somebody with many similar characteristics.
The more permanent solution is to undo all the connections and start fresh, but how do you stop thinking about somebody that is integrated into most of your memories from the last two decades?
Depression.
Depression lowers activity throughout the brain which provides to motivation to break connections, BUT you have to provide new ideas to make those severed connections stick. That is why most treatments are a combination of pharmaceuticals (lower brain activity) and CBT (create new ideas. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical component is immediate while the CBT component requires much effort.
We are lazy creatures. We want the quick solution which is masking the underlying issue with drugs. There are plenty of reports of patients and clients failing the CBT portion of their therapy, but I never see anybody explain to those people why.
Psychological issues are, by and large, caused by cognitive dissonance between what society teaches a person colliding with reality. Kids are subjected to so many ideas today that they cannot properly integrate them in their brain, and they end up basing their personality on worldview that are in complete at best and flawed at worst.
When you keep repeating things like, “our democracy is under attack,” you give the impression that democracy is good. It is not. It is tyranny with lipstick. Socrates proved, with his life, the definitive evil of democracy, but two thousand years later, large portions of the population believe democracy is the path to freedom.
People on the Right suffer from that misconception nearly as badly as the people on the Left. While they may say that America is not supposed to be a democracy, they don’t really understand what that means. It’s actually ironic that this comment started with neuroscience because even neuroscience explains a far better society than a democratic one: the brain.
There are 100 billion living organisms living together in the most complex, efficient, and morally superior society in every single human skull on the planet. It incorporates a multi-tiered hierarchy of representational government founded on neurons segregating based on ideological dispositions.
The fact is, laws and taxes are impositions upon those that disagree with them. If you LIVE with the people you agree with, just like neurons live with the neurons they share a high level of commonality with, laws become “house rules” that define who can move into your community, and taxes become VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
“Libertarians” almost have it right, they just don’t understand libertarianism well enough to actually implement it.
The full circle: sociology is psychology on a higher level. Dysfunctions in one are directly mirrored in the other. The mania of rigidly maintaining particular ideas and refusing to evolve is directly mirrored by government subsidizing old ideas that need to be replaced. Companies going out of business is directly mirrored by somebody forgetting something. Both involve a decline in resources for the company in the macro and the neurons that represent an idea in the micro.
People should live ins small communities of 100 or so members where everybody has an intimate relationship with others in that community and elect a few members to represent them just like 1,000 to 1,000 neurons will all function as a unit by reporting to a few higher order neurons. Those representatives then live in a second community composed of representatives of neighboring ideologically compatible communities part of the time. This creates an invested interest in the base community so that the representatives are directly held accountable by the people they represent AND LIVE WITH. Then that second order community elects represent them in a third order community, and so on.
It only takes seven levels of representation to handle 300 million citizens, and eight levels to represent billions.
The fact that we have upwards of 1,000,000:1 ratio of representation by representatives that have absolutely no meaningful connection to those that they “represent” is exactly why America, and the world, is so dysfunctional.
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0:45 First off, humans haven’t figured out how to use the internet and social media wisely, and you think VR is gonna be all peaches and cream?
I have a lot of respect for what VR could and should be, but don’t be so flippant towards the general foolishness of society with new technologies when they haven’t learned to use older technologies wisely.
6:00 Mid-forties is not “boomer.” 😂
We’re Gen-X, mate. Gen-X runs from 1965 to 1982ish. That’s 40 to 57 years old. I’m not sure when maths were changed, but I went took linear algebra and diff eq in 2000, and arithmetic was still the same then. 😂
Remember, Boomers are from the analog era of hard work and personal responsibility and Gen-Y is from the digital era of entitlement. Gen-X straddles both eras so we have a pretty balanced perception of both.
Just taking the piss outta ya, mate. Just helping bust myths about the myths you’re busting.
8:00 I’m just speculating, but I assume the camera lenses have iris controls to dilate them for preventing such damage. The viewing lenses obviously do not.
10:00 Flat out bans for “hurtful words” is far from the only solution. It’s justification for censorship. There are PLENTY of tools to allow PERSONAL moderation of one’s own interactions. If you are weak against certain words, create a private profile that allows you to auto-mute anybody that uses words that hurt your feelings.
This type of centralized social engineering is far worse than people who aren’t adult enough to moderate their own emotions.
You JUST finished explaining that it takes a bit to CONDITION yourself out of motion sickness, and immediately excuse people from CONDITIONING themselves out of being hurt from words.
I’m thinking a little bit of light studying into psychology and neuroscience can give you better understanding of this topic. The bad ideas you are perpetuating while “busting” myths is worse than the myths you are “busting.”
13:00 I might vehemently disagree on some points, but I NEVER disregard. I’ll learn something from people I disagree with regardless of their closed mindedness. It comes with the desire for the highest level of freedom for all.
Cheers 🍻
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0:01 Blue still doesn’t exist. It’s a symbol for particular wavelengths of light.
1:30 Color is psychologically perceived, not physiologically.
3:30 Perception of reality is driven by distinction. Distinction is codified in language so that perception can be shared in a meaningful way.
An example of this is two people watching the same move will most likely perceive it differently based on their respective histories. A person who is a technician will notice utility equipment. A gear head will notice details about automobiles. A nutritionist will notice the types of food in every scene. Their respective backgrounds determine what they CONSCIOUSLY perceive.
The same can even be said about opportunities. People born in America have a difficult time seeing opportunities because they don’t have the same background as an immigrant from a third world nation who may see hundreds of opportunities.
Babies LEARN to see color in the first two months of life. Color doesn’t exist until we have the neurology required to represent the patterns of electromagnetic vibrations that interact with the photoreceptors in our retinas.
Color is a language like any other language you speak, read, or hear. It just a language that the visual cortex communicates with the prefrontal cortex with.
7:45 It is impossible to determine if any two individuals perceive any color in the same way. The number of neurological connections between the photoreceptors in the retina and the prefrontal cortex is so large and the variations of those connections exponentially greater than the number of connections, it is highly unlikely that no two people perceive any light the same way.
As a matter of fact, synesthesia even cause some people to perceive light as sound when visual information is sent to the auditory cortex; or sounds as blue when auditory information is sent to the visual cortex.
12:15 As I noted earlier, it takes babies two months to LEARN to see color. You cannot determine what a person has learned to see just from their physiological remains. That is like saying you know what people thought from the remains of their brain.
Is that what you are suggesting?
17:00 That’s a lot of speculation about what ancient people actually thought. Saying, “he could have meant” os not proof that he didn’t actually mean what he literally said. Was he being poetic. Most likely. His state of mind may have also COLORED his perceptions.
You could be right or wrong, but that only means you may or may not actually be “debunking” anything.
23:30 You probably should have started with this as a foundation since it is foundational to any discussion about color.
24:15 Think about what you are saying when you say “subtractively.” I assume you mean that it “reflects” the wavelength that you sense, but you are missing what “reflection” is.
Light is a spherical wavefront. As it interacts with charged particles, like electrons, it induces an oscillation in those charged particles. Those oscillating particles then create their own spherical wavefronts which radiates in all directions including back towards the original source of light.
So objects DO generate their own light. It’s just that their chemical makeup determines which wavelengths of light the valence electrons will be induced to vibrate at.
24:45 No. The sky is no color because color only exists in the brain.
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@keithbell9348 I had an “argument” with my five year (at the time) old niece one day. After a round of “Sorry” (the board game), she asked if we could watch some YouTube. I said sure. She requested “Ryan’s Toys.” After a quizzical look at my sister-in-law, she explained that it was a kid that just played with new toys and millions of other children watched him.
That didn’t sit well with me at all.
Instead of saying “No” outright, I urged her to explain to me why she wanted to watch “Ryan’s Toys” instead of “Sesame St.” To make it kind of like a game, I slowly pulled up her requested episode for each explanation that was more thoughtful than “because.”
When we reached the point where she said that she liked Ryan (whom she’s never met) because he had toys and she liked toys, I explained a few things to her with some thought experiments.
I held up one of her toys and asked her to imagine that it was her cousin. Then I picked up another one and asked her to imagine it was her other cousin. Then, I said that she and her first cousin had toys so they played with each other, but her second cousin had no toys, so they didn’t play with him. I asked her how she thought he would feel?
She looked at me blankly, which was expected since children usually aren’t capable of projecting themselves into somebody else’s situation. So I rearranged the scenario a bit and made it so that her cousins had the toys and she didn’t. I asked her how she would feel. She pushed out her lower lip and gave me a thumbs down. I said, “Yeah. So what is more important: having toys or who plays with you?”
Then I went on to explain that you won’t always get the toys that you want, and even if you do, it can be stolen, lost, destroyed in a fire, or even taken away from you as punishment. To tie your happiness to something that you may need get or lose if you do only makes you feel miserable, BUT the things that you learn are always in your head. You can collect as much as you want for free, and nobody can ever take them from you.
Just as I was about to hit play on an episode of “Ryan’s Toys,” she dolefully acquiesced and said she would watch “Sesame St.” Fifteen minutes later she was sound asleep on my lap. My sister-in-law was amazed that she was asleep at that time of day when she would normally fuss about going to sleep.
I said, “Have you met me? Who do you know can argue with me without getting exasperated.” 😂
A week later I apologized to my brother for over-stepping my bounds as an uncle, and imposing my will on his daughter. He asked, “What? Are you taking about Ryan’s toys? No. That was perfect. She hasn’t asked to watch that show since that day.”
While I have strong convictions about my beliefs, I would rather somebody willingly accept the ideas on the idea’s merit and not because of who I am. I do not want my nieces trusting what I say because I am their uncle. I want them to question everything and trust in their own ability to critically think.
I had no allusions that she would understand many of the concepts I shared with her that day, but I knew planting seeds is only the first step of a very long process. I only hope to be around long enough to tend to those seeds which is why I quit smoking cold-turkey on her first birthday. She will be eight this Christmas, and I have not smoked a cigarette since that day.
In the long run, our brains developed to be able to hold conflicting ideas in order to weigh them against each other and choose the best of the two. In that sense, evolution has left the natural world and entered the conceptual world. It is no longer survival of the fittest genetic code, but of the best ideological construct. DNA takes centuries to progress toward a beneficial change. Synaptic connections can change at the speed of thought. The freedom to choose IS the new natural selection, and removing that choice through government mandate hinders, halts, or even reverse progress.
I would not go as far as “materialism was the height of stupidity,” though. The material is the sandbox that our minds play within. Without it, we would lack the experience required to learn. Unless he meant submitting to the material at the cost of losing your ability to impose your immaterial will upon the material, then I would agree. I do not know the context within which he made that statement, but even the most intelligent in one area of expertise can be quite ignorant in others. I can respect his ability to imagine concepts science was not able to demonstrate during his time, but I will not just give him a pass on EVERYTHING he says. 😂
Existence requires distinction. Without it, it is impossible to assign meaning. Materialism is meaningless without Idealism, and Idealism is meaningless without Materialism. We need both, but in equal measures. The problem that I have with Marxism is that they completely forgo half of existence by disregarding Idealism for a purely Materialistic mind-set. Quite ironic considering that their ideology exists within the ideological realm. 😂
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@zspark14gamesnquips22 “Fodder for the wealthy”
😂 😂 😂 😂
Do you even realize that government housing is a scam to funnel middle class wealth to property owners and rent seekers? Of course you don’t, because you stop watching the money trail as soon as “poor” people have a roof over their head.
Not only do the “poor” get zero equity in these properties forever keeping them useful idiots to justify middle class wealth extraction, but the subsidization of the housing industry keeps home prices artificially inflated which hits the middle class a second time.
And do you really think rich oligarchs hate regulations? 😂 😂 😂 Keep telling yourself that, buttercup, as more and more small business die off because they cannot handle the government burden than large corporations easily avoid, step over, or absorb.
People benefit when there’s competition, but when you push for regulations that kills competition, you get things like designed obsolescence, price fixing, and every other thing you people whine about.
Your attention span is too short and your perspective is too narrow which makes you easily led by those who control all the information.
Remember in 2018 when you rocket surgeons whined about Amazon “not paying their fair share”?
Why are you so quiet now that they’ve doubled in value in less than a year?
By leading you kids by the nose from outrage topic to outrage topic, you never settle into the calm rational state of mind conducive to problem solving. Instead, your “solution” is to vote for the most popular and least qualified among us to “solve” the “problems.” 😂
I swear. Future generations are going to look back and have a difficult time distinguishing what’s a Monty Python skit and what isn’t. 😂
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@BraddahSpliff Good on you for not talking shit to your nephew, and good on you for despising EA.
My six year old niece asked if she could watch a YouTube channel called ‘Ryan’s Toys.’ Not having kids of my own, I wasn’t privy to such trash content.
I didn’t hate on her, but I did have a discussion with her about the difference between toys and having people to play with. I also explained the difference between learning things that can never be taken from you because they are in your mind, and toys that can be lost, destroyed, or taken from you as punishment.
I never told her she couldn’t watch it, but I did make it a game where every time she answered a question about why she wanted to watch it, I would get closer to playing the episode she wanted. By the time I was about to hit play on the video, she conceded and agree to watch Sesame Street instead… old school Sesame Street.
15 minutes later she was dead asleep on my lap.
I knew she didn’t understand all the high level concepts at the time, but I knew she was smart enough to figure out the foolishness of consumerism as she got older. I never said no, so she never got upset. She still trust me as an uncle, and she knows that I will never lie to her.
I apologized to my brother for imposing my will on his daughter, but he thanked me because he hated that show too. 😂 So so scored some cool uncle points!!!
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Tim, Wallace asked Trump about White Supremacists and militias in the SAME question. It’s a psychological tactic called “priming.” He primed Trump to say “yes” about White Supremacists even though “yes” would have been unconstitutional for militias.
What Trump should have done was throw it back at Wallace BEFORE answering. He should have broken it down to the public that Mainstream media THRIVES on out of context sound bites, video clips, and pictures.
“First of all, Christopher Wallace. White supremacists and militias are not the same thing. They have different answers, Christopher Wallace. Are you implying that black people shouldn’t have Second Amendment Rights, Christopher Wallace? Why don’t you want Blacks to defend themselves as is their Constitutional Rights, Christopher Wallace?”
Once the question is reframed more honestly by separating the two very distinct ideas, and framing it to imply that Christopher Wallace is the racist, Trump can proceed to answer the question. By repeatedly saying Wallace’s name, he can condition the audience to see HIM as the racist. All he would be doing is explaining the Media Industrial Complex’s tactics and reflecting it back at them. You need to treat these people like dogs. As soon as they do something disingenuous, you explain why it is disingenuous and do it right back.
As soon as they crap, you shove their noses in it.
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@RatusMax “Right now the mind isn’t capable of processing all possible outcomes.”
The brain is merely a small sample of a fractal existence which humans are currently interrupting. On average, 1,000 lower order neurons will report to a higher order neuron. What a single order neuron is aware of is 1,000 times less than the neuron above it. So a First Order neuron is aware of a set of DATA that it processes and sends up INFORMation to its Second Order neuron which receives it as DATA. That Second Order neuron repeats this process to the Third Order neuron, and so on. At each level, awareness and consciousness grows exponentially. The final stage of awareness and consciousness amalgamation is between both hemispheres of the brain through the corpus callosum. Each hemisphere IS a distinct personality very much like you and are I distinct personalities. The difference between two hemispheres and two humans is the level of and duration of communication. When humans spend more and more meaningful time with each other, they begin to develop similar neuronal patterns to the point where they begin finishing each other’s sentences or can wordlessly accomplish complicated tasks in tandem. Now if many humans come together, they begin to form the same patterns formed in the brain. Lower order individuals process the DATA that they are aware of, and they communicate that INFORMATION to a higher order individual as DATA. You see these structures in organizations like clubs, groups, businesses, military, and any other highly organized corporation. Corporations are the amalgamation of multiple individuals into a single entity just as “you” are an amalgamation of 100 billion neurons.
Where humans fail is in general society.
Let’s consider an individual adult; a close group of adult friends; or a family unit (two adult parents) as a First Order community. Let’s say 100 adults of First order communities come together as a Second Order community. This community selects 5 representatives who spend three months of the year in a Third Order community composed of five representatives of 19 neighboring Second Order communities; another. This would be a 100 adult community that receives DATA from their respective Second Order communities.
So we have, again, an increasing level of awareness and consciousness repeating the pattern started in the brain. Continuing this pattern of 5 representatives of 20 Lower Order communities moving up to a Higher Order community creates an exponential growth of population and awareness.
•Third Order community is composed of 2,000 adults;
•Fourth order of 40,000 adults
•Fifth Order of 800,000 adults
•Sixth Order of 16,000,000 adults
•Seventh Order of 320,000,000 adults (national)
•Eighth Order of 6,400,000,000 adults (planetary)
•Ninth Order of 128,000,000,000 adults (star system)
•Tenth Order of 2,560,000,000,000 adults (local group)
•Eleventh Order of 51,200,000,000,000 adults (local cluster)
•Twelfth Order of 102,400,000,000,000 adults (galactic sector)
•Thirteenth Order of 2,048,000,000,000,000 adults (galactic region)
•Fourteenth Order of 40,960,000,000,000,000 adults (galactic empire)
How do we get there?
That’s one piece of my life’s work: Theta Wave. Theta Wave is an AI designed to create meaningful connections between individuals and promote the congregation of individuals based on deeply held philosophical and political beliefs much like it’s namesake brainwave does for seemingly unrelated neuronal clusters (“ideas”) in the brain. The brain naturally organizes related ideas because each “idea” creates a brain wave that is harmonious with similar brainwaves from other “ideas.” This is the fundamental mechanism behind epiphanies and brilliance. When writer’s block hits, it is the theta wave that makes that leap of logic which breaks through that block.
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“We’ll probably see free will lost by the end of our lifetimes…”
Ten years ago, I struggled with freedom until I finally realized that my body is WHAT I am. It is defined by genetic patterns, and it is at the mercy of the physical world. My mind is WHO I am. It is defined by neuronal patterns, and it is mine to control as I see fit. You can lock me in a dungeon for the rest of my life, and all that would be accomplished is locking me away in the world I have spent decades building IN MY MIND.
Free will is not about what you can do in the physical realm of the Universe but what you dare to do in the metaphysical realm of your Mind. Remember, the first hammer existed in the mind before it existed in the Universe…
The Mind is, at the same time, the consequence of the laws of the Universe AND the mechanism for the ordered transformation of the Universe. The Mind is a corporation of smaller minds, and The Mind grows as the smaller minds organize themselves.
So, free will can never die as long as minds are free to gather data and transform it into information for a larger group mind. The trick is to show those smaller group minds that they can and should continue the fractal pattern started in each one of their own brains.
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@RatusMax “If I say this is what I truly believe, they’ll reject it…”
Do you have any idea how Platonic that is?
Plato saw Socrates’ execution and how it came about. Socrates spoke truth DIRECTLY and OPENLY to power. Power doesn’t like truth, so it had him executed. Plato still spread the truth, but he put it into a work of fiction called “Republic” wherein the protagonist was a dead man. Since the source of truth was a work of fiction, Plato was free of persecution.
This is called encapsulation: a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. Encapsulation has multiple uses. Aside from the one already mentioned (hiding from The Shadow Puppet Masters in The Cave), encapsulation allows ideas to get into a person’s subconscious much like a Trojan Horse. This is your stated purpose for sci-fi. Another use is to plant the seed of an idea that is not sufficiently mature enough to process it yet. This is seen in such works as Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Jesus’ parables, and Aesop’s Fables.
Because life is fractal, everything has an abstraction. It is in those abstractions that patterns are recognized. Once a pattern is recognized, it can be instantiated into a new form.
Existence has two components: physical and metaphysical. A rock has a SINGLE physical aspect: hardness, color, density, shape. However, it has MULTIPLE metaphysical purposes: a projectile, a hammer head, a bludgeon, a blade, a fortification, a ballistic, a weight. Conversely, a cup has a SINGLE metaphysical purpose: to contain. A cup can be instantiated with MULTIPLE physical materials: wood, glass, plastic, metal, you can cup your hands at a river (water) or around your mouth (send sound) or around your ear (receive sound), or a magnetic field (plasma).
So the duality of existence is composed of a one-to-many relationship between the physical and the metaphysical OR between the metaphysical and the physical. This relationship requires an intelligence to make the application. Inanimate objects are subject to an animate object’s assigned purpose. Animate objects can assign other animate objects purpose. The true nature of freedom is when an animate object assigns its own purpose within the constraints of its field of influence. This is the fundamental basis for Stoicism which mastery of emotions is a prime tenet and necessity for manipulating the physical realm based on one’s own will.
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@AlexDeLarge2022 Democrat Governors and COVID
https://youtu.be/KKWOMQSy8-I - Scalise on Fox
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york
https://youtu.be/X2zJHMFgrjI - assaulted 75 y/o veteran
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/07/27/detroit-nursing-home-beating-victim-dies-nephew-says/5518824002/ - 75 y/o veteran dies
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/06/editorial-newsom-falters-as-covid-19-nursing-home-cases-soar/ Governor Newsom of California
“Kevin Bledsoe said his uncle suffered four broken fingers, broken ribs and a broken jaw as a result of the attack.”
COVID DEATHS in top TEN States as of 10/8/2020
D - New York 33,219
R - Texas 16,528
D - California 16,266
D - New Jersey 16,147
R - Florida 14,767
R - Massachusetts 9,538
D - Illinois 9,085
D - Pennsylvania 8,223
R - Georgia 7,229
D - Michigan 7,161
D = 90,101
R = 48,062
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-covid19-deaths-us-by-state/
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_governors
Number of deaths per 100,000 people as of 10/9/2020
D - New Jersey 182
D - New York 171
R - Massachusetts 138
D - Connecticut 127
D - Louisiana 120
D - Rhode Island 106
R - Mississippi 102
D - District of Columbia 89
R - Arizona 78
D - Illinois 72
Mainstream News downplaying COVOD
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/24/hypocritical-media-downplays-wuhan-virus-for-weeks-then-critiques-fox-news-for-shifting-rhetoric/
WHO classified COVID as “possibly” airborne in July.
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions
Trump’s travel restrictions.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/presidential-proclamation-coronavirus.html
Gamechamp36O https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york
age: deaths
0-17: 14
18-44: 746
45-65: 4,309
66-74: 4,748
75+: 9,398
Death spike began on March 14, 2020.
Death spike peaked on April 13, 2020.
Death spike ended about June 1, 2020.
As per you: NYS implemented the policy March 25th and reversed it May 10th. This coincides with the spike, and the emergency bedding implemented and not used as well as the under utilization of conventional hospital beds reported at around the same time.
Furthermore, the lead up to this period was inundated with news agencies downplaying the pandemic as many asserted that the flu was more serious. All this went on while Trump initiated multiple travel restrictions and quarantine protocols for incoming repatriating citizens for which he was called xenophobic for doing so.
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activated its Emergency Operations Center(EOC) on Monday, January 20, 2020 in order to support public health partners in responding to the outbreak caused by a novel (new) coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.”
https://emergency.cdc.gov/recentincidents/
The first case of COVID was reported that same day.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0516_article
As of 11/20/2020
COVID UNDER 55
Deaths: 18,857
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Cases: 11,720,000
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Survival rate: 99.84%
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Light Artorias If society learned to solve societal problems like they used to solve math problems in school, they may find out some very interesting things.
For example, you need to fully define a problem before you can begin to solve it. For things as complex as societal issues, you need multiple perspectives to define it from every angle. This requires opposing viewpoints to share their perspectives, not bludgeon each other with them.
After that, you need to gather all the components necessary for the solution. Again, opposing viewpoints bring different components to the table. Why justify ignoring somebody when they could have a critical component to the solution you require.
Lastly, you got to put all the components together and present it to the rest of the class.
How many math problems did you solve by protesting?
How many math problems did you solve by getting emotional?
How many math problems did you solve by voting for the most popular and least qualified classmate to solve the problem?
How many math tests did you take where the teacher gave it to you one problem at a time? Once you finish reading the problem, she takes it from you and gives you the next one. She repeats this for all the problems, and starts again with the first problem. She present the problem to you just long enough to read it, but not solve it. Now imagine that something in the problem outrages you. Something that doesn’t even matter to the solution, but it prevents you from defining the problem.
That’s what mass media does to society. It cycles through all the outrage topics until they hit every topic, then cycle right back through them. People don’t stay angry very long, and if society calms down, they may actually solve the problem. However, if that problem is solved, we no longer need government, and mass media has one less outrage to exploit.
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Jack Tryin Actually, it’s mostly Audible. I have a one hour commute in the morning and afternoon. So between Warhammer books, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, innovation, Marie Curie, Henry Ford, Napoleon Hill, two of Dr. Levitin’s books, Barbara Corcoran’s autobiography, Elon Musk’s biography, some Jordan Peterson, and small business books, I learned more than JUST YouTube. 😂 😂 😂
You did fairly well till the conclusion. 😂
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@intuitionz1198 The limbic system processes emotions, but emotions require cerebral triggers making the cerebrum the moderator of emotions.
Since the myelin sheath isn’t fully developed until about 25, people, especially children, have severe issues moderating their emotions.
The medulla, which includes the limbic system, is the oldest region of the brain, and much smaller than the cerebrum. This makes sense because emotions tie you to the here and now, so they require plenty of processing power to override those primal instincts.
Take your “sweet tooth” for example.because resources were scarce during our spear-chucking days, it behooves us to load up on high calorie foods: sugars.
Now that food is plentiful, that limbic response is counterproductive leading to obesity and diabetus.
Humans do not evolve genetically anywhere as fast as we evolve cognitively. Our genetics have not normalized to the new physical environment that our brains have created.
This disparity in genetic versus mnemetic evolution also leads to anxiety disorders since our cerebrums are designed to solve problems which people don’t utilize when they are conditioned to hate the lives they have. It creates a feed back loop of:
limbic system: do something, I’ll juice you up.
cerebrum: I can’t.
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@jasonmoran5152 If you were a founding father you’d impose YOUR idea of a civil society on everyone?
That’s tyranny, Cupcake . Not only is it tyranny, but it’s the exact opposite of how large, complex, stable, and efficient systems are designed.
You do realize that it was a democratic system that had Socrates executed, right? That’s the fundamental reason America was designed to allow the individual to self-govern. The problem is, self-governance only works when you live with the people you agree with, and people are too immature to congregate based on ideology.
Do you know what happens when everybody who believes that contributing 90% of your income to the common social pool lives together? That contribution is VOLUNTARY, and not a TAX. Taxes and laws are impositions upon those who disagree with them.
The concept even works for vaccines…
Had everybody who believes the vaccines should be mandatory LIVED together, then everybody they came in contact with would be vaccinated, AND NONE OF THEN WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED. Then all the rational people would live elsewhere. This, coincidentally, would have been the SCIENTIFIC way to have handled the vaccine argument. Then everyone would have seen the results of a fully vaccinated society versus a society of free-thinkers.
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@jasonmoran5152 It’s right on the Wiki for “mRNA vaccines” with citations you can check out for yourself, child.
“The first human clinical trials using an mRNA vaccine against an infectious agent (rabies) began in 2013.[37][38] Over the next few years, clinical trials of mRNA vaccines for a number of other viruses were started. mRNA vaccines for human use have been studied for infectious agents such as influenza,[39] Zika virus, cytomegalovirus, and Chikungunya virus.[40][41]
In March 2022 Moderna announced the development of mRNA vaccines for 15 diseases: Chikungunya virus, COVID-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Dengue, Ebola virus disease, HIV, Malaria, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever, Severe fever with Thrombocytopenia syndrome, Tuberculosis and Zika.[42][43]”
Literally took 60 seconds to look up, and copy/paste the relevant information. I’ve already checked the citations, so I’ll leave that to you.
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@jasonmoran5152 6. Free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 interactions
When a vaccinated cell dies or is destroyed by the immune system, the debris may release a large amount of Spike proteins and protein fragments (free-floating Spike proteins).
It is well known that SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 as a Trojan horse to invade target cells. Thus, interactions between free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 of other cells are highly plausible mechanisms. As recently demonstrated for adenovirus-vectored vaccines, Spike proteins produced upon vaccination have the native-like mimicry of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein's receptor binding functionality and prefusion structure [41].
The native-like conformation of the Spike protein produced by vaccines has the potential to interact with ACE2, promote ACE2 internalization, and its degradation [42]. Of note, such phenomenon has been also observed in platelets [43]. Zhang and co-workers found that SARS-CoV-2 induced a time-dependent decrease in ACE2 levels in platelets, indicating the degradation of ACE2 upon ACE2 activation [43]. Spike protein induces a dose-dependent enhancement of platelet aggregation and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) release [43]. The subuni 1 of the Spike protein, but not subunit 2, is that binds to ACE2 of platelets thereby triggering platelet aggregation (Fig. 2 ) [43].
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Effects on platelets of the interaction between ACE2 and free-floating Spike proteins (see text for details).
The loss of ACE2 receptor activity from the external site of the cellular membrane, as mediated by the interaction between ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins, leads to less angiotensin II inactivation and less generation of antiotensin1–7 [44, 45]. The imbalance between angiotensin II overactivity and of antiotensin1–7 deficiency may trigger inflammation, thrombosis, and other adverse reactions (Fig. 1) [44, 45]. In this context, it is not clear whether the interaction between free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 may favor such imbalance and influence the potential adverse events following vaccination (Fig. 1).
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@jasonmoran5152 From an academic paper published by the NIH dot GOV website.
6. Free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 interactions
When a vaccinated cell dies or is destroyed by the immune system, the debris may release a large amount of Spike proteins and protein fragments (free-floating Spike proteins).
It is well known that SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 as a Trojan horse to invade target cells. Thus, interactions between free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 of other cells are highly plausible mechanisms. As recently demonstrated for adenovirus-vectored vaccines, Spike proteins produced upon vaccination have the native-like mimicry of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein's receptor binding functionality and prefusion structure [41].
The native-like conformation of the Spike protein produced by vaccines has the potential to interact with ACE2, promote ACE2 internalization, and its degradation [42]. Of note, such phenomenon has been also observed in platelets [43]. Zhang and co-workers found that SARS-CoV-2 induced a time-dependent decrease in ACE2 levels in platelets, indicating the degradation of ACE2 upon ACE2 activation [43]. Spike protein induces a dose-dependent enhancement of platelet aggregation and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) release [43]. The subuni 1 of the Spike protein, but not subunit 2, is that binds to ACE2 of platelets thereby triggering platelet aggregation (Fig. 2 ) [43].
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Effects on platelets of the interaction between ACE2 and free-floating Spike proteins (see text for details).
The loss of ACE2 receptor activity from the external site of the cellular membrane, as mediated by the interaction between ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins, leads to less angiotensin II inactivation and less generation of antiotensin1–7 [44, 45]. The imbalance between angiotensin II overactivity and of antiotensin1–7 deficiency may trigger inflammation, thrombosis, and other adverse reactions (Fig. 1) [44, 45]. In this context, it is not clear whether the interaction between free-floating Spike proteins and ACE2 may favor such imbalance and influence the potential adverse events following vaccination (Fig. 1).
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@Fractured_Unity “I’d say a direct or representative democracy would work better than what the US has, a Republic.”
First, what, exactly do you mean by “direct” and “representative”?
How many constituents are you imagining have a direct connection to their representative? A dozen? 100? 10,000? 1,000,000? How direct can that repression be without a meaningful relationship with their “representative”?
As for “representative”… how do you represent 1,000,000 people with thousands of conflicting ideas about how society should be? Do you take turns with each ideology so each group gets a taste of their ideal society, if only for 8 hours a year (assuming am extremely low ball estimate of a 1,000 distinct ideologies split over 355 days)? Or, perhaps, you take a little from each ideology and create a mishmash that no ideology is really ever realized?
The most likely outcome is exactly what America has today: everybody arguing ever four years over people they’ll never meet who sign thousand page bills they’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists they’ll never see.
The system is simple to understand when you take yourself out of it and observe everything. People are placated with words like “representative” when that word is applied to a person that doesn’t deserve it.
If you wanna see how a society should be run, spend a couple years studying the brain and how neurons interact with each other. It helps to remember that neurons are living organisms because their motivations and actions are fundamentally the same as a human being in the abstract. So, if Nature, through billions of years of trial and error, can develop a society of 100 billion individuals with anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 meaningful and DIRECT connections providing ACTUAL representation, then humans should probably take heed of the blueprints for the best society humans have ever seen locked in their skull.
The answer is, quite literally, within each one of us, but we are too arrogant to believe that Nature can design such things as moral societies that do not rely on tyranny to operate.
I mean…Nature even beat humans to rotary motors by a couple billion years, and almost everybody I’ve mentioned that to is completely oblivious to that fact even though scientists have known it since the 1970s.
Humans are always trying to reinvent something Nature already invented, but they do their damnedest to do it the worst and least efficient way possible. 😂
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@Captain1nsaneo I agree with some of what you said, but I feel like I should inform you that you have the best form of government in your skull.
Thousands of 1st order neurons report to a single 2nd order neuron.
Thousands of 2nd order neurons report to a 3rd order neuron.
That pattern repeats going INTO the prefrontal cortex from the afferent nervous system (sensory) and OUT of the prefrontal cortex to the efferent nervous system (motor). Every neuron is ideologically segregated from one another and act as a cohesive unit to accomplish such tasks as repressing ideas of various complexities. Ideologically different neurons don’t just go floating around trying to convince other neurons to be like them or pleading to the prefrontal cortex (federal government) to force the entire brain to be more like them. They stick with “like-minded” neurons and get shit done.
Instantiating that concept for human societies would go a little like this:
1) Use an ideological sieve to establish who should live together. Everybody lists their top ten ideological tenets from most important to least important. Everybody who has the same top tenet creates a “state.” Within that “state”, people are again segregated based on their second most important ideological tenet. Then the third for the “county”; fourth for the “district”; fifth for the “city”; sixth for the “town”; seventh for the “community”; eighth for the “neighborhood”; ninth for the “block”; tenth for the “house.”
This leaves people living with those they have the highest degree of agreement and next to groups with a slightly less degree of agreement. That is the basis for building a system from the bottom-up as any functional system is designed, as opposed to the top-down process of a centralized government which no functional system uses. So if you wanna know why large centralized governments are so dysfunctional, that’s why: they are the antithesis of a naturally growing and evolving system.
Now for ACTUAL direct representation.
To make the number easy to manage, let’s say the highest level of agreement results in 1st order communities of 100 adults. They elect five members of their community to live part time in a 2nd order community. This 2nd ores community is composed of five representatives from 19 of the neighboring communities of 100 adults each. This 2nd order community represents a total of 2,000 adults.
Repaying this is an exponential fractal process. Each higher order community represents another factor of 20 such that:
1st: 100 adults
2nd: 2,000 adults
3rd: 40,000 adults
4th: 800,000 adults
5th: 16,000,000 adults
6th: 320,000,000 adults (about twice the size of the US)
7th: 6,400,000,000 adults (about twice the population of the world)
If this system seems familiar, it is. It is exactly how the brain is organized.
Now EVERY representative has a direct and meaningful connection with the people they represent which means they are subject to any decisions made during their tenure in the higher order community when they cycle back to their home community. They eat, sleep, work, play, cry, laugh, live, breath, and die with the people they represent which allows for the highest form of vetting and accountability. It puts our current systems of “representation” to absolute shame.
Where individual agree, they pool an agreed upon amount of resources for that shared endeavor. Where they disagree, they go their separate ways. Where individual communities agree, they pool an agreed upon amount of resources for their shared endeavors, and where they disagree, they go their separate ways.
Laws and taxes are ONLY for those that disagree with them. When people disagree with a law but reluctantly abide by them, they need time to renormalize to the new state of society. Too many new laws too fast will push individuals past their threshold for tyrannical abuse faster than renormalization can compensate.
That’s why when you examine the evolution of the legal code in a compressed time scale, it’s almost inconceivable how we got from the Founding to our current state. But an individual’s consciousness seldom travels more than a year or two forward and backwards in time let alone the thousands backwards necessary to learn from mistakes so you don’t repeat them as you look thousands of years forward in time to plan accordingly: with today’s corporate information systems, peoples’ attention span has shrunk to the length of one, maybe two news cycles resulting is such hilariously tragic inconsistent arguments that one begins thinking of we are just avatars in a computer game. 😂
Anyways. I learned about the brain because I had anger issues, and I’m a sucker for understanding how things work because I’m a troubleshooter at heart. What’s more important than your own brain, right?
And we don’t even have the time to spend an hour or two studying the most important things in our lives. I studying how to fix my thought processes, I learned how people can use that knowledge to control others. Then I realized why there is absolutely no push for individuals to really understand their own brains. That knowledge leads to a mastery which allows an individual to control their own minds which precludes control from others.
I know that’s a lot to chew on, but that’s about as concisely as I can summarize about five years of personal studies in neuroscience and psychology.
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@Captain1nsaneo It’s a process that can be initiated now without government involvement save for your house rules.
Let’s say you have a room for rent, and you rent it out for 10% of the current market value, BUT to take advantage of this sweet deal, the renter has to agree to some very specific rules. If you are pro-2nd Amendment, they have to go with you to the gun range and practice gun operation and safety with you two hours a week. For every ideological tenet important to you, you create a house rule that manifests it. Then you add a couple chores that need to be taken care of to offset the lower rent. If they get a job, then they can pay a higher rent to be excused from the chores.
A single 10’x10’ bedroom can accommodate two bunks, and people only need 8 hours to sleep so you can rent out to 12 people who have a high degree of agreement about society with you. Where once there was 1 of guy, there are now 13. Because of the high level of agreement, social cohesion will the the greatest which allows more effort to go toward resource gathering rather than arguing. 13 people can gather enough resources to purchase the house next door and repeat the process by renting out to another 12 tenets to live under the same house rules. Then another 24. Then another 48. And so on. The more everybody agrees on the direction society should go, the more efficient their resource gathering becomes if that is part of their ideology. If it is not, this society will not grow as fast as the one that does.
So, without FORCING a single law upon anybody, you created an imaginary border with house rules that attract like-minded individuals and REPEL unlike-minded individuals. Like colonizers, you have begun growing a society based on your shared ideological beliefs without resorting to tyranny.
The MOST important thing is that you know have a concrete example of your theories which words are powerless against. Once you build your beliefs, they will come.
The whole idea of codifying your belief system BEFORE dissidents move in and undo your social fabric is why Oregon turned do Blue to the point eastern counties wanted to secede to Idaho. Had they codified their Red ideals, Blue voters would never have considered moving there. A small group of Blue voters can’t do much, but once they establish a beach head, then more will follow; all because Red voters didn’t make their society repellent to Blue voters.
There’s a lot to be said about viruses spreading infections the same way ideas spread. It only takes a single person with an idea to attract others with the same idea…if they are wise enough to collectively defend their ideals TOGETHER.
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@Captain1nsaneo The way a baby learns to see color proves they are tabula rasa. Learning to see color REQUIRES exposure to light of different wavelengths. Without those lights, a baby WILL NOT learn to see color.
So, even something as fundamental and physical as seeing color being a learning process based on your environment, then something as abstract as ideology and beliefs are also laid out on a blank slate as determined by the ideological environment they are in.
The brain is so plastic that large portions can be retrained to handle information for other sources when their primary source is cut off like when a person loses their eyes. As long as it is a physics logical dysfunction, the neurology behind it will adapt… or die. Neurons literally have to migrate and learn to code within another network if their current networks fail, like when an arm is severed and the neurons responsible for touch in the primary somatosensory cortex responsible for sensations in the hand no longer receive signaled from neurons that no longer exist. Without an input, they cannot generate an output. If they do not generate an output, they receive no resources and die.
In most cases, the neurons in the PSC that handle information from the hand are mapped right next to the ones that handle information from the face (see: sensory homunculi). So, when the hand neurons lose their jobs, they will begin searching for new jobs. At least in one case, the nearest active network they found was the cheek neurons in the network next door. When the hand neurons attached to and learn to code for the information coming from the cheek, both the hand and cheek handlers in the PSC would activate. However, the out put for the hand handlers were still attached to the same port in the prefrontal cortex. This means that when a water drop rolled down the patient’s cheek, the patient felt the water roll down their cheek…AND their hand that no longer existed. Moreover, the exact mapping was the top of the cheek to the wrist neurons and the bottom of the cheek to the back of the hand, so that when the phantom hand was “down” theater rolled down from the wrist to the back of the hand. However, when the patient was told to raise their “hand”, that water rolling down the cheek felt like water rolling UP from the wrist to the back of the hand.
Now, imagine if you had to consciously rewire all your neurons to make sure they survived the loss of so many jobs all at once. You can’t because your brain is decentralized, and it’s a good thing otherwise you’d have to consciously process millions of bits of data three times a second (P300 wave) while also sending commands to every muscle fiber in your legs and jaw so you could walk and chew gum at the same time.
Your brain isn’t designed like that because centralization is highly inefficient and severely prone to error.
That’s why society should not be designed like that either.
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@Captain1nsaneo You’ve got the right idea about pioneering and colonization.
As for “freedom for people to choose where they wanted to live and see where they chose to go…”
That’s a problem I’ve been mulling over and began designing an actual social networking platform that handles that and a few other things. I call it “Theta Wave” after the brain waves that do the same thing for ideas in the brain. My hypothesis is that neuronal groups that represent ideas produce specific brain wave patterns that when activated, that pattern is sent back through the brain in the theta wave range. Much like AM Radio waves, theta waves are long range. So when that pattern activates another group of neurons with similar patterns, a feedback loop is created such that the neurons along the path between those two groups build a trace. That’s when an epiphany or a stroke of brilliance occurs.
“Theta Wave” does much the same thing by compiling user inputted self-descriptions that allow deeper connections to be made across all conceivable dimensions. The problem with current social networking platforms is that they create a virtual village where people feel like part of something yet they never take the next steps of coming together and building what they collectively envision. “Theta Wave” would provide the tools to create visualizations of their ideas and motivate actual congregation. It would provide planning resources to help with choosing locations, resource contributions and allocations, time management, and so on.
America wasn’t designed to be turned into other countries, like many believe based on their voting habits of focusing more on national rather than local elections. I’m fairly certain that was planned after the initial design. What people were supposed to do was turn their localities into the nations they felt were best. If 10 million people thing Scandinavian governments were best, they were supposed to come together and build a Scandinavian government IN America, not slowly turn America INTO a Scandinavian country. Unfortunately, modern society is designed to make people disregard their ideological beliefs for most of the time between national elections so that they would disperse and find it more difficult to build their idea of a perfect society because they don’t live with the people who share that ideal.
If you are familiar with tensor mathematics or Einstein’s Field Equations specifically (I’m just familiar with its applications, mostly), it seems like you could define a set of field equations based on a person’s personal value matrix such that plotting each person on a map of the US, and applying vectors to them based on similar ideals acting as attractors and opposing ideals acting as repellers, you could visualize how people would migrate based on ideology rather than consumerism.
My goal isn’t to convince people how America is supposed to be. My goal is to motivate people to prove their ideas by building them. Nobody knows what that best society is, but I can tell what it isn’t: a chaotic mishmash of ideas codified at the national level to obscure the ulterior plans from corporations. It’s always boggles my mind how people on all sides can agree on one thing: the federal government is corrupt. Yet, they feel like more of it will fix everything.
It’s like treating cancer with more cancer.
I mean, look at the housing situation. It’s kind of obvious that housing supply is heavily manipulated by Blackstone and Blackrock as they bought up chunks of single family homes in areas they need people would be rushing to after all the rioting, economic shutdowns, catch and release of violent criminals, calls for defunding the police, decriminalizing shop lifting, and exposing the elderly to a contagious upper respiratory disease that would have wracked the elderly population regardless of what contagious upper respiratory disease they used. All of these things happened shortly after rent control laws expired in the same type of places: Democrat controlled cities.
Democrats have always complained about two things every four years: voter turnout and the Electoral College. The two things standing in the way of turning America into a democracy.
So they implemented mass mail-in voting because people who normally wouldn’t bother going to the polls to vote wouldn’t thing twice about checking some boxes and mailing it in. Which is exactly why you don’t want a democracy because most people don’t even think once.
And for the Electoral Vote… all the situations I mentioned earlier all happened in 2020 which resulted in multiple Blue states losing one or two House Seats while Red states gained them. That shows the heavy migration of Blue voters into Red areas. The EXACT OPPOSITE of coming together based on ideology. They basically took the California infecting Oregon situation and applied it to the whole country.
All of this was possible because Blue localities create policies that repel citizens after societal disintegration while Red areas pass policies that attract anybody regardless of their ideals. DeSantis is moving in the right direction by passing laws that are repellent to Blue voters, but it won’t be enough, and not enough Red States are following suit.
So, that’s how unthinking Americans are so easily manipulated into rushing to areas that don’t agree with their politics and that corporations have bought up single family homes for Section 8 rentals effectively taking those homes off the market and artificially reducing supply in key locations.
Imagine if everybody doubled up for a while drastically increasing the housing supply. That would crash the housing market that Blackstone and Blackrock artificially manipulated to force people into perpetual government-funded rental situations.
Unfortunately, people don’t know how to build meaningful and lasting relationships leading to ideologically coherent communities so those manipulations will continue happening.
I mean, if Nathan Rothschild could convince an entire nation that Napoleon won at Waterloo and cause a mass sellout of war bonds almost a day before official news of Napoleon’s loss reached Britain allowing him to buy those bonds up at a drastically cheaper cost, its really not surprising what billionaires can do when they own all the information systems society uses to form their perceptions.
It all sounds like a work of fiction which is why people have a hard time believing it, but proof is everywhere and people don’t like connecting dots. 😂
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Botafogo A.F. Yes. Dismantling many institutional bureaucracies is actually a good thing. However, that discussion requires more than just a vague comment. Personally, his executive order banning CT-based training is tremendous.
For the rest of your rants, I find them of little consequence to what he is actually working towards. I’ve had this discussion with my brother. He leans the same direction you do. I told him the same thing: any theory used to implement policy needs to be backed up with science before it is just accepted as beneficial.
We can talk about “systemic racism” or, more accurately, “systematic racism,” but the fact is, that conversation is played out. Each side cherry picks which statistics to look at while ignoring the 100s of other variables that contribute to the problem.
So, it’s up to you. Set aside current events for now, and discuss some fundamental concepts first to work toward actual solutions, or waste your time arguing about who is “right” with somebody else.
As for me, I’m working on solutions, and I only comment to see who else is interested in working on actual solutions.
Ball is in your court, and if you respond with some current “issue,” it will be the last comment of this conversation. If you respond, with genuine interest, about contemplating these issues on a deeper level for the sake of finding solutions, I’ll stick around.
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@bjhcvuaerpigfy Did you see me argue that the world was flat?
It isn’t me that is muddled.
It is your projection of who you think I am with who I actually am that’s muddled.
How about you stick to what I actually said, and ask for more explanations rather than inserting your own explanations for MY words?
Trust me. I can play the “misrepresentation” game too. I’m good at it, but I prefer rational discourse over flame wars any day.
Ball is in your court. Try again.
Besides, it isn’t ME winning the arguments, kid. It’s me explaining what Nature has already developed long before humans even existed. So, if you wanna have a go, you better have a decent understanding of evolution, natural selection, neuroscience. networking, computer programming, and computer engineering.; toss on some physics and chemistry, and you’re good to go.
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@ashleykathryn9038 Society has a problem with false dichotomies because they have been conditioned to ignore the fundamental principles of building a society: meaningful connections.
If you have children (or imagine that you do for this exercise), of the 100 houses nearest to you, how many of them would you send your children to if you and your partner are both working, and your children were let out of school early on short notice?
I average less than 1 when I ask people that. Some people know three or four neighbors fairly well. Even fewer would trust their neighbors with their lives. None would say 50-100% of those houses.
It takes a village to raise a child. We forgot how to build villages; we have lost our villages; and now we are losing our children. That is OUR fault as a society; not as individual parents.
As we developed technologically, we slowly let go of the concept of specialization and delegation. We used to have to carry loads of laundry down to the river; and scrub; haul the much heavier wet load back; hang them; and take them down. Now we each have machines that do this for us allowing us to do more chores faster…as individuals.
And yet, we used to have more time to think and talk to each other when we had less creature comforts. Why?
Because instead of 100 adults building a tightly knit community based on a shared ideology, we decided it would be best to surround ourselves with abject strangers. Instead of:
30 of those adults working in the outside economy (hunters and gatherers);
5 doing all the landscaping;
5 doing all the laundry;
5 doing all the groceries and cooking;
5 doing all the house maintenance;
5 doing all the housecleaning;
5 doing all the automobile maintenance;
5 doing all the bureaucratic paperwork;
5 EDUCATING all the children;
5 pursuing higher education to land higher paying jobs;
And here’s the most important…
5 living in another community for 3 months of the year composed of 5 representatives of 19 other nearby communities with a slightly lower degree of ideological agreement BETWEEN communities but the same high degree of agreement WITHIN their respective communities with the responsibility of making decisions of common interests between all 20 communities.
This is the most important because NOW every individual has a DIRECT and meaningful connection to their representatives. Any decision made by those representatives affects them as much as the community they come from and represent. Those representatives eat, sleep, work, play, eat, cry, laugh, and die with those they represent AS IT SHOULD BE but is not. Those 100 representatives represent a higher order community of 2,000 adults. This process is fractal and exponential. You create another community above that one composed of 5 representatives of nearby 2nd order communities of 2,000 adults creating a 3rd order community representing 40,000 adults; 4th order community of 800,000 adults (“county”); 5th order community of 16,000,000 adults (“state”); 6th order community of 320,000,000 adults (“nation”)…
WITHIN each community, people have a high level of agreement that laws become “house rules” that determines who can join the community, and taxes become “voluntary contributions. The fundamental truth about laws and taxes are that they are forced upon those who disagree with them. What people don’t understand is that IF you live with the people you agree with, laws and taxes become unnecessary WITHIN the community because you don’t have to force people who agree with you to do the things you both agree should be done.
The concept is so simple, Nature used it to design the brain.
So, the false dichotomy about “education” as that it isn’t “public schools” versus “home schools.” There is a complete spectrum of possibilities between those book ends. “Community schools” have Mike options to develop. A single 1st order community can educate all their children. Neighboring communities can delegate education based on subject level such that one community handles early education, anther handles middle education, a third handles high education; and multiple others handle higher education in specialized subjects.
The cool thing about this natural paradigm is that every parent knows exactly what is being taught, not only because they live with the people they agree with, but also because they have far more time to be invested in their children’s education. Remember, these adults are handling dozens of chores individually anymore. They are now benefiting from BOTH division of labor AND modern technology.
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@itskitt3237 That’s probably because you are projecting.
What, exactly, makes me appear that I am upset? Can you see my micro expressions? Can you detect my heart rate and respiration through the internet? Are you detecting any pheromones I am releasing?
“I do know experience and that’s what I commented on.”
You do realize that’s the basis for religion and superstitions, right?
“We observe the Sun disappearing. It must be some unseen force…we’ll call it ‘god’.”
You see, teacher, observations and conclusions based on correlation is NOT scientific. It is lazy.
If you can’t explain the process, observations and hypotheses are useless. Contrary to popular belief, statistics and consensus is not science.
By the way, I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or a neuroscientist either: I am a man who used to have certain mental issues, and I took advantage of a new technology to learn about myself down to the level of neurons. I have a day job, but I find that understanding my own brain is the most important thing in my life. If I don’t understand how my brain works, then I cannot master it. If I cannot master my own brain, others will.
You should look inwards some time, and learn about your own brain. It’s amazing…
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@itskitt3237 Much better. Society has devolved in their ability to articulate complete ideas due to an increased amount of stimulus and decreased amount of time to integrate it.
Here’s one fundamental issue with education today: it does NOT evolve.
Without going into too much detail (and you can ask for more if you wish) evolution/innovation is driven by necessity established by environment and is facilitated by natural SELECTION. A selection implies the freedom to choose. GOVERNment is the antithesis of freedom to choose. As more laws are passed, the fewer freedoms and choose we have to make.
Where evolution occurs is in a free environment. Today, this would be the free market. So, let’s look at the primary competition with education for a child’s attention: entertainment.
Entertainment, being in the free market, rapidly evolves. Movies attain higher definition, better special effects, and competition to drive each one to be better than the last. Video games evolved by leaps and bounds as first, electronics evolved, then as communications evolved. All these things excel at the one thing schools do not: novelty. Do you know what novelty is to an individual neuron?
A job.
A neuron has specific tasks to accomplish to receive the nourishment it requires to survive AND thrive. They have to collect raw data; process that data into information; then transmit that information to a higher order neuron that receives it as raw data to repeat this process. Lower order neurons can report to a single higher order neuron anywhere between a 10:1 up to a 10,000:1 ratio. This pattern repeats until it reaches the prefrontal cortex to manifest heat we consider “You.” “You” are the aggregation of billions of lower levels of consciousnesses organized in a hierarchical and decentralized design. Each individual neuron is only aware of the neurons it is directly connected to so that no single neuron receives dictates from a centralized governing group of neurons; what we would liken to as a national government. This means, each individual neuron is free to decide where to explore and what neurons to connect with. This freedom is the basis behind the process of babies LEARNING to see color within the first two months after birth. As neurons are created, they immediately begin to seek out particular sources of “food” that lead to a build up of charge and a subsequent discharge. A neuron that fails to charge and discharge receives no resources. As living creatures, they are driven to ensure that they accomplished these tasks which normally involves being connected to other neurons that provide the chemicals needed to trigger a discharge: neurotransmitters.
Neurotransmitters are basically currency neurons trade to one another to fulfill their tasks. A network that activates often (an idea that is used a lot) will produce excess neurotransmitters that attract other neurons to that network much like a successful business generates a surplus of wrath that attracts more employees.
In the abstract, a neuron’s job is to help represent “ideas.” So, the more ideas a neuron is apart of or the more utilized an idea is, the associated neurons will grow from the excess resources. Neurons that are apart of ideas rarely used will frantically search for more useful ideas to be apart of, and when they do, they let go of the useless idea. This is why when a student is forced to learn a subject well enough to pass a test but never apply once the class is passed, they begin to lose that knowledge because those “jobs” are seen as obsolete to the brain which puts a lot of neurons out of work.
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The point of all this is that “boredom” is the brain’s version of a recession where neurons are desperate to be a part of useful ideas. “Distraction” is the brain’s version of a job fair where neurons are busy trying to find jobs to justify the resources they receive.
So, when a child is distracted, it is because they are bored due to the lack of useful ideas their neurons require to remain alive. When I say “useful”, I mean from the perspective of the child’s brain. “Education” fails more today because children find more jobs for their neurons in a rapidly evolving free market than they do in an “educational” environment that is prevented from evolving.
Public education and free market entertainment compete for the exact same resource: attention. Like the dinosaurs of old, public education should go extinct; replaced by far better methods utilizing the current technology AND neurological processes we now understand. The knowledge about the brain we have accumulated so far all point to a simple idea that Plato uttered over two thousand years ago: a child coerced to learn will be less successful than a child who plays.
“Playing” is the “scientific method” practiced by neurons in the brain. As some neurons are assigned the role of establishing the rules of a game and the “win condition”, it is primed to conduct experiments after experiments to find the path (solution) between their current state and the “win” state. Children play because in testing all those possibilities, they innately learn what their capabilities are and how best to work around their weakness while utilizing their strengths to great effect.
What society did was they took all the rules of the game and put them into government run institutions, while allowing the experimentation aspect to run free in the free market. Children struggle to learn today because their brains are failing to find the relevance for all the rules they lean in textbooks. They are unable to develop that relevance because they have no outlets to experiment with those rules.
They have no way to play with the knowledge they are forced to learn because their free time is now taken up with all the knowledge they want to learn. A century ago, kids had chores to look forward to after class. Today they have a cornucopia of knowledge available after class, and their minds are free to explore as is its primary function all the way down to the individual neuron.
Neurons and magnetic bits on a computer hard drive serve the same purpose: organize into patterns to represent ideas. Where they differ is that neurons are living creates to explore the spaces BETWEEN ideas. When two ideas explore and find one another, their connection creates a new, more complex idea. Three ideas is one more job than two ideas, and the more jobs neurons have, the more secure they are in the community.
What forced and standardized education does is it creates chasms between ideas that children are taught not to explore either directly by being told they are wrong or indirectly by giving them so much information their neurons do not have the time to explore those spaces.
I do not say all of this to disparage the educators. Their ignorance in how the brain works isn’t entirely their fault. They, too, so not have the time to study such important matters, so they will have a more difficult time seeing the glaring flaws in standardized education.
My criticism is more towards the government that creates these cognitive environments and the society that allowed it to happen in the best case and demanded it in the worst case.
The system is obsolete, and it is destroying a child’s ability to be an individual as they are conditioned with WHAT to think rather than HOW to think.
Fortunately, in studying the brain, I have also learned that being angry or upset at this knowledge is useless. It is that detachment that makes people believe I am cold and emotionless; psychopathic.
The exact opposite is true.
Knowing something is wrong demands rational thought to develop a solution; not emotional responses that lead to inaction (complaint) or incorrect action (voting for the most popular and least qualified to solve the problems for us). I control my emotions because I WANT to actually solve it.
ME.
Not some person I’ll never meet who’ll sign thousand page bills that I’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists I’ll never see.
The person that should solve the problems I see is ME.
Children complain until someone else solves the problem.
Adults solve the problem.
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6:50 Genders for objects that don’t have distinguishing traits, like males and females do, don’t require gendered distinctions. Humans, on the other hand, do have quite important distinctions. It’s a false equivalence to say inanimate objects are the same as humans that are quite drastically genetically different.
Language’s sole purpose is to transmit an idea from one location to another by encoding the idea into a physical pattern that is decided at the destination. This process only works if the source and the destination agree to the terms used. This means language has been around for as long as a living organisms have been able to present simple ideas to other living organisms. This evolved to the point the neurons in your brain encode meaning into patterns of electrochemical reactions from one neuron to the next. The interactions created by a particular wavelength of light impinging on the photoreceptors in the retina trigger a cascading pattern of electrochemical reactions that culminate in the prefrontal cortex such that particular patterns are understood as various “colors.”
Light is the physical experience, and color is the symbolic language that describes it.
So, transmitting ideas is the sole purpose of language, and any word that doesn’t convey novel information with respect to the words around it, it is superfluous and a waste of resources. Conversely, words can be lacking in information making communication “blurry”.
Gendered pronouns to describe one of two, or more, people that have a distinguishing characteristic, such as their sex, would offer value by imbedding information about their sex in a monosyllabic pronoun: his/her towel…
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Alternately,
[2] ^3^ = <8>
read: base 2, power 3 = value 8
<[2] ^3^> = 8
read: the value of base 2, power 3 = 8
[2] <8> = ^3^
read: base 2, value 8 = power 3
^[2] <8>^ = 3
read: the power of base 2, value 8 = 3
<8> [2] = ^3^
read: value 8, base 2 = power 3
^<8> [2]^ = 3
read: the power of value 8, base 2 = 3
<8> ^3^ = [2]
read: value 8, power 3 = base 2
[<8> ^3^] = 2
read: the base of value 8, power 3 = 2
^3^ [2] = <8>
read: power 3, base 2 = value 8
<^3^ [2]> = 8
read: the value of power 3, base 2 = 8
Within an expression:
x + ^[2]<8>^ = 45
read: x plus the power of base 2, value 8 = 45
x + 3 = 45
x = 42
or
<^x^[3]> - 27 = 54
read: the value of power x, base 3 - 27 = 54
<^x^[3]> = 81
read: the value of power x, base 3 = 81
^x^[3] = [3]^4^
read: power x, base 3 = power 4, base 3
^x^ = ^4^
read: power x = power 4
x = 4
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15:00 Teaching boys to be “more sensitive” (emotional) strips them of one of their best features: rational thought.
It isn’t emotional men that build skyscrapers, work on oil rigs, collect garbage, clean sewers; climb utility poles, join the military, or defend their communities.
Also, being emotional is what creates incels and simps, players and sexual predators, violent criminals and devious ruffians.
A man has the power to destroy but the wisdom to build, defend, provide, and protect instead.
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2:30 I’m interested to know when the bail consideration leaving out public safety was enacted.
I wonder if it is related to the expiration of rent control laws.
Considering rent control law expiration grandfathers in any CURRENT tenant, the only way a landlord can capitalize on those expirations is on NEW tenants which requires CURRENT tenants to leave without coercion from the landlord.
HOWEVER, if negligence of the local government COERCES current tenants to leave through unjust economic shutdowns, unrestrained riots, decriminalization of crimes against others (shoplifting), and catch&release with violent criminals…well…
You would get a mass exodus from these locations. I wonder if there’s a way to track migration trends between localities. Say, a census used to determine House of Representatives Seat allocations…
Edit: I took a stroll over to Google, and wouldn’t you know it? The relaxation of bail consideration happened in 2019… 4 years after rent control laws began expiring, AND ONE YEAR BEFORE UNRESTRAINED RIOTS happened throughout 2020.
Coincidence?
Just for fun, look into who was buying up homes and Section 8 rental properties in areas these people fled TO. I’m sure BLACKROCK and BLACKSTONE will pop up in your search. If you look a little deeper, you’ll see a name (Stephen Schwarzman) that is associated with both BLACKSTONE and LEHMAN BROTHERS; the firm that went bankrupt after the subprime loan crisis.
8:00 If YOU don’t want him in jail, YOU feel free to post his bail, YOU take him into your home, and YOU make sure he gets his medication.
There are 41 victims who have a completely different viewpoint based on their “lived experience”, so who are you to say they should have to deal with your irresponsible words advocating for release into the public of a dangerous person?
8:30 You’re worried about imprisoned teenagers, but not the ones in the streets that have done nothing wrong? 😂
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@nikkijack911 Public schools are a completely flawed concept.
The BEST way to educate children is to FIRST congregate based on ideology. Next, you delegate responsibilities in that community so that a smaller portion of the adults work in the outside economy (hunters/gatherers), and the rest specialize in various tasks in their communally owned resources: groceries/cooking, landscaping, maintenance, laundry, paperwork, EDUCATION.
Public schools fail because the teacher cannot be fully invested into so many individual students. It requires a relationship, which cannot be built in two semesters, for a teacher to fully care and for a student to fully trust. Then there’s the issue of authority over the child which no public school teacher will ever really have.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have homeschooling which requires more attention from a parent who also has to do all the chores around the house. This only works IF the other parent generates enough income in their occupation to sustain the entire household on their own. Then there’s the issue of dependence upon a single income source which is one situation away from catastrophic collapse.
In a VILLAGE, the teacher is part of the child’s life in a more meaningful manner which grants them the authority required to make their lessons stick and the concern for the child’s well being to do they best they can for the child’s entire schooling. The entire community has a diversified income source meaning that any one or two losing their job doesn’t lead to immediate disaster and offers a chance for members to find no means of generating income. Then there’s the shared resources like appliances and such. What sense does it make for 50 families (100 adults) to own 50 lawnmowers, 150 TVs, 50 sets of kitchen appliances, 50 different internet services, and so on? What sense does it make to own so many things that just site idle for most of the time they own them? Why not just have 5 washing machines and dryers instead of 50 and have 10 people do everybody’s laundry? Why not have 5 ovens instead of 50 and have 10 people do all the cooking? Why not have 10 adults instead of 50 educate all the children? Why not have a set of textbooks that just get passed from child to child rather than paying for the latest edition through taxes that only have a few changes from the last edition? Furthermore, if there are a few changes, why by an entirely new edition when in the free market that concept is so ridiculous that they, instead, produce errata ti make any changes?
People think that it’s either public services or rugged individuality that are the only two choices when the actual NATURAL choice is communal.
Villages, tribes, kibbutzim, communes, gangs…they are all the same thing: individuals coming together for a common cause. Individuals CANNOT come together in multiple common causes in LARGE groups, but they can do so in smaller groups. Those smaller groups can come together in less common causes in small groups. Those larger groups can come together…and so on.
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@amazem7817 So, to say it plainly, we shouldn’t have national laws, right?
Besides, everybody has a “god.” “God” is merely all the things that a person classified as “good.” The “Devil” is everything that a person considers “evil.”
You don’t have to believe in the same “god” that Christians do to have your own “god.” You just don’t go the extra step of associating all those ideas of “good” into the single idea of “god.” The only reason people did that, whether they understood it or not, is because the brain is a pattern-seeking abstraction machine that attempts to relate ideas together through episodic storytelling or personification. Encoding different ideas into a story or a personality is nothing more than gluing those ideas together in a collage that is easy to remember.
It’s easier to remember a list of ideas if they are associated in some meaningful way.
Your hangups about religion is infantile. Zealotry is the real problem, and zealotry doesn’t require religion. It only needs an individual who doesn’t exercise their ability to think critically. For example, ridiculing people who believe in a “god” when you can’t even explain what an idea or the mind is. “Gods”, “ideas”, and the mind all exist in the same place: in the metaphysical. They are all tools, and tools are either to be mastered, or they can cause injury or death.
There are neuroscientific concepts in The Bible that I wasn’t even aware of till after 15 years of being an agnostic. It’s just difficult to explain them to people who are so closed-minded about things, so I don’t expect many to even contemplate it.
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Michael King I have been having discussions about this sort of thing recently. My conclusions are based on my experience tutoring a mother of five daughters in college algebra and tutoring a high school girl in high school calculus after a concussion from a swimming accident.
What I have come to realize that it was important for these two individuals to succeed. Not just because they needed the classes, but because I LOVE understanding new things. Because I LOVE understanding new things, I project that feeling on others so I enjoy helping people understand new things.
However, desire is not enough. To accomplish something you need to plan. Strangely enough, I had innate skills of communication that helped me subconsciously develop this plan. Looking back, I understand what happened in my mind.
First, humanity’s GREATEST invention was language. That was what gave us the ability to transit ideas from one mind to another. Arhat is its only purpose. Awe abuse it though. Language is the next stage of evolution after the Corpus Callosum. You see, split brain experiments have shown that our personality is the amalgam of two separate personalities derived by each hemisphere of the brain. As the Corpus Callosum evolved and become more efficient, the two hemispheres enjoyed much better communications resulting in the consciousness we experience today.
Language allows two minds to do the same thing that the Corpus Callosum does with two hemispheres: creates an amalgamated consciousness. The better two minds can connect through language, the better the amalgam. However, it’s not just the words, it’s also how the words are patterned. Everybody uses language differently, and that difference is what creates cognitive dissonance between two minds.
Because I have a deep desire to understand and just as deep of a desire to be understood, I subconsciously learn things. I learn how other people learn. I learn how other people speak. I learn how other people understand. While they are trying to learn about math, I am trying to learn about how they learn. Their success in math is contingent on my success in understanding them.
Once I am successful, I can adapt what I know to how they beat learn. A mother of five who runs her own business has a vastly different personality than a teenager with low-self esteem. I had to knock the ego down on one, and build the ego up on the other.
The mother was so sure of her abilities that she convinced herself that her mind wasn’t made for math. I convinced her otherwise. I started by telling her of articles that I read which alleged that women were actually better at math than men. She had a high regard for my mathematical abilities, so telling her that she was probably better at math than me gave her the hope that she didn’t know herself as well as she thought. She finished her business degree, and later said she considered going for a math degree to become a math teacher. I stated with a grown woman who hated and feared math, and accidentally created a math monster. 😂
The teenager required a different tactic. With her, I showed her that she could do math problems correctly while her tutor could get them wrong. I didn’t do it on purpose, I just took advantage of the situation. I would do a couple problems with her at the end of a section then have her do some on her own. While she worked them out on paper, I did them in my head. Anytime we got different answers, I’d ask her how she got her answer. Sometimes she would talk through it and figure out what she did wrong. Sometimes she would explain the whole process then get frustrated over not seeing what she did wrong. Then I would tell her that I got the answer wrong, show her what I did wrong so she could learn from my mistakes, and she would smile so broadly. I explained that she should have SOME respect for the people teaching her things, but she needs to have MORE respect for her ability.
If you have a different idea than an AUTHORITY figure, don’t give your idea up just because they are “superior.” Examine your idea until you see where it is wrong. If you can’t find where you went wrong, examine their idea...you just may find where THEY went wrong.
In conclusion, it comes down to this: how important is UNDERSTANDING to you? If being “right” is more important than than UNDERSTANDING, then you won’t care about communication issues.
However, if UNDERSTANDING is important to you, you’ll do your best to make sure communications are good. You can only change yourself. If you can change the way YOU communicate so THEY can understand, do that. Do it for the sake of communications. Put forth the extra effort to understand the other person so that you know how to present your ideas so they can understand you.
If neither try, then neither care to be understood or to understand the other. They only care about being “right.”
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1:00 Infinity isn’t for the single mind just as seeing color isn’t for the single neuron. People are at the precipice of understanding the organization Nature perfected in the human brain, but they are constantly trained to believe the exact opposite societal design is better.
The answer to many of Life’s great questions are literally within us. 100 billion neurons with an average of 1,000 MEANINGFUL connections resulting in consciousness as we know it while humans can’t get past 100 million without starving and/or heavily oppressing large swathes of the population.
Billions of years of trial and error, and humans constantly fail at inventing a square wheel…
6:00 This is less a history lesson than it is an explanation of the thinking process.
Modern “education” is too focused on “correct” answers which detracts from the more important lesson of arriving at an answer. Personally, I learned most high school lessons by listening and thinking. I developed absolutely no note-taking skills. Instead of memorizing formulas, I memorized how to derive the formulas. I created a kind of mental map to go from one formula to the next. So when I took tests, I spent a little time at the beginning deriving the relevant formulas which (I now know) created a subconscious algorithm that allowed me to work out answers in my head quicker than classmates could on paper. It also allowed me to develop my own tricks and shortcuts. So instead of memorizing distinct ideas separately, I built a mural in my mind.
Unfortunately, college courses were faster paced, and I would work 60-80 hours while taking a full course load. So, I didn’t have the time to memorize how to derive formulas which left me gaps during my tests. I used to take this as a failure on my part until I started applying my gift for dissecting systems on society in general. The fault wasn’t mine or any student that didn’t fall in line with a standardized “education” system. The fault was with society assuming individuals are standard.
This isn’t to say that standardized education doesn’t have its benefits. We do need mindless workers to do the menial jobs… or do we? Personally, I don’t think anybody should have their role assigned to them based on their ability to take tests. Especially when the act of failing would sear some ideas into my head better than 20 hours of studying. Unfortunately, the “education” system doesn’t factor in what you learn after failing a test as if people are static creatures.
“No man can enter the same river twice. For he is not the same man, and it is not the same river.” - Heraclitus.
15:15 I didn’t panic and act irrationally based on claims by people I don’t know and amplified by corporate media conglomerates.
When a “tragedy” occurs, there’s a good way to assess the likelihood that it was a naturally occurring process (hurricane) or a manufactured one (“pandemics”): follow the money. Whoever became richer from the tragedy is a good candidate for being a party to its manufacture. When multiple “tragedies” produce the same results (the same people becoming wealthier), you can start establishing a pattern to predict who will become richer during the next “tragedy.” Then you just do what they do to cash in on the game.
OR
Work against the system to undo it.
OR
Cash in on the game, and use the resources to undo the system.
Choices…
19:00 That’s because two truths, at the same level, creates an understanding at a higher level. Two eyes create two images that are different, and their differences result in depth perception.
It’s basic triangulation where two points can establish a third.
People tend to have difficulty accepting more than one idea as true, so their limit their own depth-perception of the abstract. However, TWO people can maintain their individual ideas good enough for an amalgamated third idea to form.
Like conceptual sexual reproduction!!! Neither parent idea is eradicated while a child idea is formed. Once the child idea matures, it can replace both parent ideas.
21:30 In his defense, color is a fiction of the mind as well.
26:00 I, Plato, and Nature all disagree with the modern form of “education.” Formal education is designed to constrain imagination within particular parameters to arrest synthesis of new ideas. This results in few people innovating and more people building what is already known.
This is the fundamental cause for stagnation in wage growth. More employees than employers forces employees into competition by accepting less pay then their competitors. More employers than employees forces employers into competition by offering more pay.
That basic concept of supply and demand has been in effect for billions of years, and one of the first major transitions in biology was when CO2 was converted to O2 enough to force a new kind of life into existence to join photosynthesizers: metabolizers.
And back to the original point: the best way to educate…
Babies LEARN how to see color in the first two mint after birth. This is a subconscious process that humans counter with standardized teaching practices that assumes all students are sufficiently conditioned with the ideas conducive to more conditioning. Standardized education teaches students WHAT to think, and not HOW to think.
Nature found a better way: play.
Even Plato understood this over 2,000 years ago, while neuroscience has all but confirmed it, as consumerism profits off of it.
27:00 “A lot of students are pressed for time at college and university.”
Imagine that.
Quick lesson: the brain has two main modes of operation: collection and integration (as in connecting collected ideas together in meaningful patterns; not the opposite of differentiation).
Our consciousness runs in a serial process so when you collect a set of ideas that are intricately connected, serial collection of those ideas at a rapid pace reduces the chances of the full network of connections to manifest neurologically. Imagine describing a TV image a single pixel at a time to another person, and what image they would form in their mind from this process.
Integration of ideas occur subconsciously through parallel processing of ideas by allowing them to make natural connections with each other. This is best done when the beta waves of conscious thought are at a minimum and theta waves of subconscious thought are at a maximum. This state is found in trance-like states such as REM sleep or day dreaming.
I read an article summarizing a study showing that learning before sleep was more effective than learning after waking. In the current educational system, kids go to school, then ingest more information on top of the Information collected at school resulting in less coherent collections of ideas which are more difficult to integrate during REM.
Then there’s the issue with high-intensity blue light prevalent in electronic screens. I can only imagine a parent’s relief from the chaos of parenthood when an electronic device placates their children. Unfortunately, most parents are ignorant of the effect of blue light on the circadian rhythm.
So, not only is disjointed information crammed into a child’s brain stressing the natural process of ideological integration, but we have parents unwittingly ruining their children’s sleep habits and quality with excessive use of electronic screens within four hours of slumber.
28:15 I believe “history” is being conflated with ”evolution.” The absolute timing of when the events occurred is irrelevant. What’s important is the relative timing between events.
It’s like taking a classic story and modernizing it. As long as the relevant themes (relationships) are present, anybody can tell when a Romeo and Juliet story is being told, or any of the many instantiations of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is projected on to the large screen. From “They Live” to “The Matrix”, everybody is familiar with the concept of an unconscious society controlled by a small group of shadow puppet masters.
The brain functions off of patterns, which is why gods and legends were created. It’s easier to remember a set of “good” traits when they are integrated into a single personification within an episodic story than it is to remember a list of ideas and why they are “good.” The brain is multidimensional because neurons have the freedom to explore the spaces between ideas to synthesize new ideas in the connection between two existing ideas.
29:00 One if the greatest ironies about education is that it treats ideas as concrete when ideas are literally abstract. Math is the ultimate abstraction. This is what allows it to be applied in innumerable ways as the abstract pattern is instantiated into reality.
A cup is an abstraction defined by the purpose it serves. The “cup” does not exist, but you can instantiate it with wood, glass, plastic, metal, stone, or even your hands at a river, around your mouth or behind your ears.
With all the amazing things in the universe, the first hammer existed in a mind before it existed in the Universe. This happened because purpose is an abstraction that only resides in the mind.
Gods, math, colors, ideas, words, thoughts, emotions, pain, flavors, odors, sounds, textures, and every bit of your reality resides in your mind which is a product of neurons virtualizing and simulating reality by abstracting the patterns it finds in the data around us and applying that abstraction in new instances and in new ways.
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0:30 It seems this discussion is going to be myopically focused on physical arguments while leaving computational models completely out of the discussion.
6:30 She should stick to physics because her broken analogies suck.
7:30 The irony is that in creating more detailed simulations, self-aware subroutines will manifest and observe the program within which they reside eventually asking,” Is there a Multiverse, and will we ever be able to test for its existence” while not realizing that their existence was a consequence of beings in a different reality creating their reality in an effort to answer the same question.
Electric field: collision detection
Position matrix: space/Planck Length
Program loop iteration: time: Planck Time
Laws of Nature: Procedural Program
Big Bang Singularity: initial condition seed
The fact that we can algorithmically model our Universe hints at the possibility that our Universe was similarly programmed. If we ever simulate a Universe that manifests self-aware subroutines, we will have established the very real possibility that we are the result of a similar process.
So, remember, the harder you try to simulate a Universe the closer you will come to proving the very real possibility that ours was the result of Intelligent Design.
30:30 If a theory has to be directly testable, how do you test that something is in a superposition state when the mere act of testing immediately collapses that superposition to a single definable state?
In that regard, quantum mechanics, even if it is extremely accurate, is no more testable than Multiverse theories.
36:45 Here’s a conundrum for you: model a Universe that does not require an Intelligent Designer.
39:00 It’s a good thing that Science isn’t driven by consensus.
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@brendanclark1058 I only engage in broad brushing with political team sports. Individually, if a person is willing to exhibit some original thought instead of group think (@Waffles is displaying Right wing group think which is why I am treating him like a child), I will engage accordingly.
If you REALLY want to have a discussion, I’ll give that too you, but you have to be willing to consider some hard truths without resistance.
As for broad-brushing the Left: the Kyle Rittenhouse debacle is a firm example of how the Corporate Media amplified Left pushed the idea that the child molester and other ex-cons were the “victims” and the minor was the aggressor for over a year when videos showing this was obviously not the case were available within a day of the incident. Then to find out that the FBI had HD surveillance footage of the entire incident which was NEVER used to prosecute the rioters much less exonerate Kyle, is a huge stain on the Federal government. If you watched the trial, the witness after the autistic witness said the most profound thing in that entire case: “I was there hoping to get footage of a rioter so that prosecutors could do their jobs.” (paraphrased)
This whole incident was the culmination of a year of Soros planted activist DAs playing catch and release with violent criminals. Those DAs were installed over the last five years. Do you k ow what else happens five years ago? Rent control laws expired. Current residents were still protected, but any new residents were going to be subject to higher rent. However, what motivation is there to move in with unchecked riots, zero prosecutions, persecution of cops, defunding police, economic shutdowns, and a general miasma of poorly governed cities?
Meanwhile, corporations, like Blackrock, had been quietly buying up homes in suburban and rural areas at above market prices. This has two main effects. First, people fleeing urban centers will be forced to RENT these homes. Second, current homeowners in theses areas will be forced to pay higher property taxes.
To step back and look at the confluence of ALL these situations, and more (don’t forget mass mail-in voting; social media oligarchs making huge gains, Amazon doubling in market value in less than a year; Bezos and Dorsey stepping down; China threatening Japan with nuclear annihilation if they interfere with Taiwan’s reclamation; Australia suffering under tyranny since they sold their guns to the government two decades ago…), it’s difficult to believe that ANY of it, let alone ALL of it, was just some massive coincidence.
So, if you want a discussion, I have plenty to give…
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@wafflesmcgallagher934 I’m absolutely sure, and I’ve had therapists and psychologists support my conclusions. You see, son, after a decade of hard self-reflection, I sought out multiple second opinions to compare notes with.
Who’s opinions do you think have more validity:
*some random stranger on a YT message thread who has no determinable skills outside of regurgitating simple ideas and showing a blatant inability to look up words they don’t understand.
*the person who spent years studying philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience while conducting deep self-reflection. The person who is privy to 40+ years of their own life.
*Professionals who spent years studying these things and who engage in open, direct, and honest dialogue with that person.
I don’t know about you, but your flimsy attempts insulting me disguised as psychoanalysis really doesn’t hit as hard as you think it does, son.
To answer your question more directly: no. I am not over-compensating. I am fully expressing who I really am after years of hiding how much more I understand than those around me. I hid all of that to spare people the feelings of inferiority that people tend to feel around people they deem superior in some way. My years of being bullied in elementary school taught me that perspective AND empathy. I didn’t rush up to turn my tests in 15 minutes before the nerds in my classes. I put my hoodie up, my headphones in, and I listened to Black Sabbath until half the class turned their tests in. I knew how smart I was, but I never needed to flaunt to to others.
I save the flaunting for obvious imbeciles who have an over-inflated sense of superiority. I don’t care what you say TO me because I’m only responding AT you so that others who are too timid to speak up can see how to deal with loud-mouthed imbeciles.
You’re not an interlocutor, son.
You’re a wad of toilet paper I used to teach others how to deal with $hit.
<munches popcorn> Now, proceed with your elementary school level insults as the rest of us laugh at the the fact your parents were related BEFORE marriage. 😂 😉 😂
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@brosephdudebro2537 In between working and arguing, I did manage to read a couple blog posts on the matter. Reconciling the different takes on anarcho-monarchism, I see it as how the United States was originally designed to be but substituting the elected national government with a monarch. Neither were meant to enforce any particular law on the national as a whole, but to limit itself to addressing common issues such as outside threats and inter-state conflicts. America was SUPPOSED to be as close to an anarchy at the national level as possible, but it has strayed way too far off course.
The problem lies in modern life obscuring the benefits of modern life creating a sense of hectic wandering which includes no attention to government. We have the illusion of choice because we put ourselves into it.
Think about 100 years ago when you had to carry your laundry to the river, scrub them for hours, hang them to dry, then take them back down. Then you had to cram in a bunch of other chores. The ONLY way to accomplish all of these tasks was through delegation. As more people did larger amounts of fewer tasks, they excelled at those tasks. What one person could do over and over again was far greater than multiple people doing that and many other tasks over and over again. Specialization is how we advanced.
Fast forward to today, and chores, like laundry, take a fraction of the time, yet we have LESS time to do other things? That’s because replaced delegation of chores with technology which created a wash. We have the same amount of time to do things as 100 years ago because we gave up our villages. Everybody, even “collectivists,” sought individualist lifestyles losing the benefits of LOCAL collectivism. With LOCAL collectivism tossed aside, would-be “collectivists” fight to replace it with NATIONAL collectivism. Meanwhile, the “individualist” have eroded their ability to affect national politics by also giving up LOCAL collectivism.
The Left AND the Right gave up LOCAL collectivism which has led to fighting about NATIONAL collectivism.
The same would have happened in an archo-monarchy if the monarch couldn’t adequately promote LOCAL collectivism. Furthermore, Tolkien’s version implies absolutely NO government at any level which is practically impossible. Even a man/woman, in their own house, acts as governor/ness as the head of the government in their own house. Where two or more people interact, a government will form.
A company is run by a government. An HOA is run by a government. Clubs are run by governments. Even a group of children playing will create a government. The trick is to allow as many different forms of government to allow the individual to choose which one best fits their ideals.
“Anarchy” really comes down to the level of government you consider. A nation composed of a thousand different governments can be anarchic at the national level, while at lower levels, there are a thousand different forms of government.
In conclusion, the most logical form of anarcho-monarchism is not too different than a Constitutional Republic, like America. The only difference being that the overseeing government is run by a plurality that is supposed to represent various constituencies rather than a single person attempting to represent a vast variety of ideological beliefs. In truth, the President of the United States, the Congress, and the Supreme Court all act in the three main roles of a monarch.
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@wafflesmcgallagher934 What you don’t understand is that I can relate to just about anybody on Earth, while you have an extremely narrow perspective. I can live on the streets with a couple blankets, my dog, and some paper to design things on. I can live in a mansion filled with everything you’ll never imagine. I can live on a sub hot racking to save space. I can live 60 people to a house. I can live alone in a log cabin in the woods with nobody around me for miles. I can flip burgers. I can play a supporting role in a musical. I can paint. I can design better solar panels. I can plan for space exploration. I can design rapid selective evolution to cater flora and fauna to hostile exoplanetary environments. I can imagine talking to ancient historical figures. I can imagine conversing with fictional characters that personify archetypes common to all cultures. I can be the least of all humanity fighting to raise everybody above me. I can be the best of humanity encouraging others to take me down.
I can do all the things you can’t because I don’t limit my imagination to JUST my lives experiences. I find purpose in all things in any way I can because that’s what God gave me: a mind to be a creator.
Your problem is that you’d rather whine about what is instead of designing what could be.
I really don’t care if you understand me or not, you’ve already proven that you aren’t here to discuss ideas. You’re here to prove you are superior to the gays, the trans, the autists, the women, the foreigners, and everybody else who isn’t YOUR brand of lame.
I don’t care that your feelings got hurt. You brought it on yourself, son. Grow up, or keep hurting yourself.
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@wafflesmcgallagher934 Wrong. I’ll die with all my knowledge poured out into books, videos, 3D designs, diagrams, bird games, video games, and every bit of media you can and can’t imagine. I’ll be in everything, but you won’t see it because I’m not doing it for fame, glory, money, or even recognition.
I’m doing it because I enjoy solving problems.
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@brendanclark1058 ““my people” consists of so many different nationalities, colors, races, and more.””
Now take those categories and tell me which are IDEOLOGICAL.
The point is you don’t force laws onto people you agree with, so if you LIVE with the people you IDEOLOGICALLY agree with, there is far less need for laws, law enforcement, and punishment.
If you think the Left is “generally right on social issues,” why has the Left disarmed, shoved into slums, provided poor schooling, over policed, mass incarcerated, and redlined minorities worse than the Right has? It is the Left that has been running the large cities where all these atrocities occur, yet the Left blames the Right for the mess they’ve made.
Sorry, but you still seem inured with group think, as your surface level assessments are way off.
Yes. Segregate everybody the same way they’ve segregated themselves on line.
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@brendanclark1058 I can’t sell something g you don’t understand.
You ever design a complex system before? Do you understand what decentralization is? Do you have any idea how the brain, with 100 BILLION neurons is structured?
If not, then I doubt I can explain it in simple terms for you.
Another route might be: how many of the thousands of pages of bills that are signed every year do you read? Do you know who drafts those bills? Have you ever met any of the politicians that sign those bills? It’s the same thing as allowing somebody you’ll never meet sign a loan out in your name for things you have no idea the loan will be used for. Does that seem AT ALL logical to you?
I’m not trying to “sell” you anything. I’m explaining why the system is wrong, and why THE LEFT did most of it. Y’all can’t even run your cities right, and you think you can handle a whole country? Almost all of that “systemic oppression” occurs in cities ran by DEMOCRATS and the LEFT for decades.
Traditional marriage is actually a net positive for an individual. From there, a community, then a town, then a city, then a state, THEN the country. You build from the bottom up, not the top down.
So, yes. Your SURFACE LEVEL assessment is why this country is falling apart. You’ve never built anything in your mind or in reality, but you think you can run things better.
Look up where “red-lining” occurred: northern cities ran by Democrats.
Look up who disarms minorities: Democrats.
Who puts minorities in city slums? Democrats.
Where is all the over policing and mass incarceration? Democrat run cities.
You people like to look at NATIONAL statistics when it is LOCAL governments that inflict the most harm.
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@brendanclark1058 Congratulations. You and Waffles care more about your hurt egos than learning anything new.
Learn to moderate your emotions like a fully functional adult instead of trying to be “right” all the time. I don’t care if you, or anybody, thinks I’m an idiot; a know-it-all; a genius; or just a nobody. This isn’t about ME.
This is about SOCIETY.
The limbic system is designed to MOTIvate you with eMOTIons. The cerebrum is designed to accumulate knowledge; integrate that knowledge into higher level understandings; and create new versions of reality to build towards. A conversation about solving problems is hampered by emotions, and I don’t care to sugar-coat my words for people who care more about being “polite” than exploring new ideas.
I don’t care about your emotions because they are YOUR responsibility. Don’t use them to justify remaining ignorant and foolish.
I don’t care if an actual genius talks down to me AS LONG AS they are providing me new knowledge and understanding. Matter of fact, I will intentionally rile a know-it-all JUST so they “prove their superiority” by revealing what they know that I do not.
So, it’s your choice to focus on your emotions rather than exploring new ideas, and if you’d rather focus on your hurt ego, I really don’t care if you don’t engage. I’m already working on things, and this is about finding other people who want to undo the damage done by politics.
So, move on. This isn’t your safe space, son.
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@brendanclark1058 Why are you worried about “rude”?
What does “rude” have to do with a conversation?
What is “petty”? What does “pettiness” have to do with a conversation? If somebody was explaining the cure for cancer, are you going to ignore them because they didn’t use the words you wanted them to?
YOU choose whether to address WHAT I’ve said or HOW I said it. I don’t care which. I’m
fully aware that EVERYONE is offended by something or some choice of words, and I have chosen NOT to waste time cataloguing EVERY possible way someone can be “offended.”
I don’t decide how people take the words I use. THEY do. Offense is taken and never given.
Simply put: WHAT is said is far more important than WHO said it, HOW they said it, or WHY they said it. Coddling a society conditioned to process EMOTIONAL rhetoric is exactly why politics is a reality. It is not a NECESSARY reality, however. This is about how to minimize politics. If you see that as an impossibility, then this will be a short and pointless conversation indeed. I don’t care about SURFACE LEVEL critiques like “that’s just the way it is.” If you aren’t willing to examine WHY it is that way; HOW it got that way; and WHAT can be done to reverse it, then I don’t care what you are interested in.
You believe passing more and more laws that not EVERYBODY agrees with is the way it should be, and I do not agree with that. I’m not telling you whether socialism, communism, or free market capitalism is the best system. I’m saying people should congregate and segregate based on their INDIVIDUAL ideas in which system is the best so that they are free to realize that system without forcing that system in others.
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@brendanclark1058 “I’m sure there’s a country somewhere…”
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
EXACTLY.
We don’t NEED to move to ANOTHER country to engage in the societies we deem proper when America was designed so that we could build the societies that we want…IF we segregated NASED on those IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES.
This is what happens when you read to respond. You accidentally rest my case, BABE. 😂
How many people in America do you think believe America should have a social system like Norway or Sweden? INSTEAD of voting for people they HOPE will move America in that direction, they are supposed to move together WITHIN America and build those systems for themselves.
“I don’t want to imprison people…it’s called breaking the law…”
Wait. Are you saying that the more laws there are there will necessarily be more LAW BREAKERS? If not, then that’s what your “common sense” SHOULD be telling you. Instead of making weed illegal to smoke NATIONALLY, leave it up to LOCAL decision. Anybody who cares about the border, move to the border and defend it. Anybody who wants to let every illegal immigrant in, move to the border and handle it.
You’re just an elitist who would rather government “fix” things only to complain about it when they don’t because a DEMOCRACY is a slow descent into tyranny which Socrates proves over 2,000 years ago with his life…
COINCIDENTALLY, so did Jesus Christ, who, BY THE WAY, never said anything about the gays, so why you think that it’s a “CHRISTian FUNDAMENTALIST” stance to take is beyond me.
It’s pretty telling you’re more interested in saying “it’s pretty telling” when all your “rebuttals” have no basis in logic or rationality. You’re a despicable human being who wants laws imposed on everybody but then wants law ENFORCEMENT defunded. The Left is completely ridiculous at this point, and the Right isn’t too far behind them.
If you have a “brilliant” idea for a law, how about you find others who agree with you, and inflict that law on yourself before infecting all of America with it?
Answer: you’re too lazy, too foolish, and too good to get your own hands dirty.
You’re too precious to put your money where your mouth is.
My “feigned superiority” is only in the fact that I do t believe in forcing g my ideas on everybody through federal law. YOU, on the other hand, want people incarcerated or move to another country.
But hey…you love every song me law on the books, including the ones that allow the 1% to get away with paying no taxes because IT’S THE LAW. 😂
So stupid…
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@brendanclark1058 You short attention span kids will praise Soros for putting in activist DAs four years ago, then two years later call it a conspiracy “theory.”
Soros funding DA elections
DAs decide who to let go after arrests. All the rioters that were let go we’re due to activist DAs.
DAs also handle voter fraud in their localities.
Look at the States that Soros planted DAs in: PA, GA, WI, IL, MO, FL, TX, and more...
https://youtu.be/RVWIGoTSt20 : Tucker Carlson
https://youtu.be/xBP6461C0PA : HuffPo
https://youtu.be/N9c4aHGG_kI : Vice
DAs decide who to let go after arrests. All the rioters that were let go we’re due to activist DAs.
The one week outrage news cycle has killed your ability to remember the past which is essential for solving problems. Social media just exacerbated the issue by using Pavlovian conditioning with “Like” buttons so that thousands of “Likes” on a stupid comment will just motivate you to continue making stupid comments.
All so you’ll just keep voting in more of the same as the country, and world, slides into a tyrannical dystopia because you kids are too good to actually solve any problems.
Pathetic.
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@Tedgieee You see, the problem isn’t which side ARGUES rationally.
The problem is that they argue at all.
People argue, every four years, over people they’ll never meet who sign bills they’ll never read drafted corporate lobbyists they’ll never see.
It’s like that by design. The people we elect are the shadow puppets in Plato’s Cave. We stare stultified at shadow puppets while ignoring those who are behind us controlling those puppets.
NEITHER side is rational regardless of who makes the more rational argument.
The rational person understands that people aren’t convinced by words, but by example. Of people LIVED with those they agree with, then nothing is stopping them from building the society they envision. THAT society that they build IS the proof of their arguments.
Unfortunately, the industrial revolution caused everybody to intermingle ideologically so that the only way to realize your version of reality is through democracy, and Socrates proved, with his life over 2,000 years ago, that democracy is evil.
Trevor Noah is the modern day Sophist that would emotional rhetoric to convince his mindless sycophants to hate people who think differently; to execute them on social media and cancel them.
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The brain processes what you give it, and it extrapolates that information into the future creating an expectation. When input differs from expectation, you experience COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. This is the basis behind art of all forms.
A story that diverges from an expectation creates tension until that tension is released in the climax...unless the climax involves leaving the audience in more tension. This is episodic dissonance.
Vision has similar characteristics with patterns generated by the frequency of light creating harmonies and dissonance based on their relative positions to on (white) and off (black). Complimentary colors contrast greatly because they are created by pairing one color with the two 120 degrees away on the color wheel. Those two colors 120 degrees apart combine to form the color opposite the first color. All three colors combined achieve unity; white, 1. The caveat being we are talking about light/additive colors and not pigments/subtractive colors.
That is all a function of having three different conical photoreceptors in the retina. When all of them fore equally, the brain translates it as white. When complimentary colors are shown next to each other, one type of cone is active and the are two are not in one region of the retina while those cones are reversed in the other region.
Attention is held easier when you have distinct differences in stimulation. The brain is designed to move less relevant information to the subconscious so the consciousness can deal with more information. This constant cycle of experience (knowledge) and understanding (wisdom) is the basis behind the brain’s purpose. The brain needs to predict the future accurately in order to survive. When it experiences something it did not expect, it creates tension which is merely the subconscious effort to rearrange synaptic connections in order to better model the reality outside of it. Once it adjusts, the cognitive dissonance is relieved, and the consciousness is ready to handle more cognitive dissonance.
Just like muscles require down time to repair and and rebuild in order to handle new situations requiring more strength, the brain needs down time to reconfigure in order to make sense (impose order) of new experiences (chaos).
The brain’s sole purpose is to extract order from chaos, and we call that learning. The brain atrophies if we remove chaos from it because if it has no chaos to bring order to, it shuts down.
Lesson of the day: always learn because that’s what your brain is designed to do. Boredom is the result of a lack of cognitive dissonance not being brought to order. Anxiety is the over-abundance of cognitive dissonance not brought to order. The brain needs to reciprocate between chaos and order to function properly leading to profound happiness instead of superficial happiness.
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I think you are leaving out vestiges of echolocation that our brains may be employing. The "horizontal" plane has far more objects for the sound to bounce off of that your auditory complex can use to help triangulate the source of a sound. The "vertical" plane has fewer objects. Try your experiment with trees growing horizontally and see which plane is easier to discern useful information from.
The brain does a lot of subconscious processing that is useful for the prefrontal cortex. This is why driving a manual transmission may begin with watching for visual cues like your tachometer, but slowly transitions to auditory cues like the pitch of your engine. You may not be consciously attending to the pitch of the engine, but your auditory cortex is always processing it.
"Mastery" is nothing more than providing your brain a series of data points which it then determines which data points are common to each set and which data points are variable. After thousands of hours, it has conditioned the neurons associated with the task while pruning all the neurons that are superfluous from the task. Take the first time you learn to add 2 + 2. The first time you hear that idea, you hear, see, smell, taste, feel, and think about millions of other things at the same time. Most of your brain cannot distinguish what is pertinent to "2 + 2", but after working through it some more, your brain can begin to break the connections irrelevant to that idea.
You can also look at it like resolving an image. Pixels that cannot be differentiated are "blurry." Each successive viewing of a scene helps provide more information about that pixel. Eventually, that pixel can be resolved after a certain amount of passes into what value it actually holds.
A little reminiscent of quantum mechanics, no? The probability that a particular neuronal path is pertinent to an idea becomes more collapsed the more times that idea is processed. The certainty with which your brain determines the actual state of a system is greater after many passes of that instance.
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@drmadjdsadjadi Cool. I appreciate the grace in accepting my apologies. That is quite rare these days.
I agree that the First Amendment, as most of the others in the Bill of Rights, is a negative right imposed upon the government to restrict it from infringing upon unalienable natural rights that we have as a consequence of existing. That said, Freedom of Speech is a concept protected from the government by the First Amendment. I contend that this is a direct and indirect protection from the government.
The infringements you refer to are direct infringements that most people discuss. The indirect infringements that I refer to are the ones made possible by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which was designed for ideologically neutral platforms that many early social media applications were.
Today, Social Media does not act in an ideologically neutral platform capacity, therefore they should be held liable for libel/slander that they CHOOSE to publish. Section 230 of the CDA is meant for PLATFORMS, not PUBLISHERS.
The government conferring protections upon a company that infringes on Free Speech is, therefore, infringing upon Free Speech, by proxy, though these private companies.
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2:20 It’s a tad disingenuous to chalk it up to the “pandemic,” when it was actually the lockdowns that did it. Government took away individual choice to keep business and jobs alive which resulted in this massive transfer of wealth.
However, because of a “pandemic” with a better than 99% survival rate for WORKING CLASS citizens, the only ones really in danger were the same ones that are ALWAYS in danger during a season of contagious respiratory diseases: the elderly.
You know, the same elderly that Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, Wolf, and Murphy had exposed to COVID by ordering COVID positive patients into nursing homes for over a month?
It was pretty basic knowledge that you don’t even entertain the idea of visiting a nursing home when you had a flu or cold, yet here was FIVE DEMOCRAT governors doing the complete OPPOSITE for over a month.
I’m wondering... are you intentionally playing ignorant, or do you really not know what was done in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California?
<hits play>
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@neutrino78x “No one who wants desalination would are that we should not recycle out waste water. Of course we should.”
Yet, here YOU are saying that I am doing just that DESPITE NONE of my comments even remotely implying I am against desalination OR nuclear energy; fusion OR fission.
How about you let ME be responsible for what I believe in, rather than YOU acting like a flaming lunatic Lefty and telling me what I think? How’s that’s sound?
I could do the same and say I’ve talked to enough tyrants online to know YOUR type. You like thinking you know what’s better, so you vote for politicians you’ll never meet who sign thousand page bills you’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists you’ll never see.
Got news for ya, chump. Socrates proved, with his life, that democracy is tyranny with lipstick. Democracy is for those too lazy to have a rational conversation and choose to exert their ideology on others through government.
<face desk>
“It would be far more expensive to get H3 (I was talking about deuterium, H2; don’t know why you keep bringing up tritium; H3) from the Moon…”
No $hit, Sherlock. It WOULD be more expensive if you planned on staying on Earth forever. Guess what, cupcake. I’m talking about much farther out when we are exploring the solar system. When we are out that far, WHY WOULD I WANT TO LIMIT THE POPULATION, you ret@rded f-ck?
I swear. I’m calling stolen valor because I don’t want to believe such incompetence disgraced our military.
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3:00 These lack of considerations are the heart of politics. Politics thrives on citizens not having the time to do diligent research much less think about the correct questions to ask.
Take racial disparities in crime rates, for example. In absolutely none of the conversations/debates I have had or papers I have read, has it been addressed that the number of laws in a locality directly impacts the number of crimes committed. Nor has the fundamental differences between urban and rural environments been addressed in that, similar to chemistry, the closer reactants are to one another, toe more often a reaction occurs.
Those two factors alone would result in urban areas having a higher number of reaction modes (laws) as well as a much higher reaction rate (criminals, victims, witnesses, and law enforcement in much closer proximity to one another). With those considerations in mind, it is little wonder what demographics will be affected by high rates of incarceration more.
4:50 It seems like you’d just create a chain function with each consideration represented by a separate formula in the chain.
12:00 And that’s why emotional rhetoric is so dangerous. Emotions are the antithesis of reason, so politics is dangerous when you can control what people think by the language used.
When listening to “Thinking Fast and Slow”, I distinctly remember thinking, “My, how dangerous this book would be in the hands of a few as they could control an entire nation with just a few words. How powerful it would be if everybody learned from this book so that they could control themselves rather than letting Sophists control them.”
13:00 From a neurological standpoint, the probability that a particular conclusion will be reached will be determined by how developed each neuronal group that represents each ideas is. An idea tied to the limbic system will weigh that idea more than those that are not tied to the limbic system. Ideas that evoke an emotional response will bias a conclusion towards or away from that idea. New information is automatically oppositely biased to any emotionally held beliefs.
This is why it is difficult to communicate with emotional people. You have their emotions to overcome on top of the logic relating all ideas presented.
Moreover, neurons survive by being a part of an idea. It is against their best interest to disassociate with neighboring neurons to dissolve an idea UNLESS new ideas are offered for those neurons to become apart of. That’s the balance between rigid authoritarian knowledge and fluid individual wisdom. You need to think inside the box to BUILD, but you need to think outside the box to CREATE.
13:30 Those counter points are missing the point. All Dr. Kahneman and his colleague is saying is that MULTIPLE factors will affect the probability of something being true. Adding any other considerations merely support their claims. For each consideration addressed, Bayes’ Theorem becomes that much more complex. This is why I mentioned chain formulas at the beginning.
The brain is a highly decentralized community of neurons which is designed to handle these multi-variate situations through parallel processing. The problem is that the decentralized and parallel structure of the subconscious is more adept at this process than the centralized serial processes of the conscious mind.
This is why writer’s block is resolved by going into a trance-like state by taking a walk, day dreaming , or REM cycles in sleep. It’s like the difference between the read/write head of a hard drive (conscious) and RAM (subconscious).
14:30 Considering our cerebrum’s developed after and much larger than our limbic system, it stands to reason that one of its main purposes is to override the near instantaneous heuristic analysis of the limbic system with a more deliberate and considerate cerebrum offering more of the past as a resource; more of the present as a foundation; and more possibilities of the future to build towards.
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Deborah Jeanne
COVID DEATHS in top TEN States as of 10/8/2020
D - New York 33,219
R - Texas 16,528
D - California 16,266
D - New Jersey 16,147
R - Florida 14,767
R - Massachusetts 9,538
D - Illinois 9,085
D - Pennsylvania 8,223
R - Georgia 7,229
D - Michigan 7,161
D = 90,101
R = 48,062
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Tim, Wallace asked Trump about White Supremacists and militias in the SAME question. It’s a psychological tactic called “priming.” He primed Trump to say “yes” about White Supremacists even though “yes” would have been unconstitutional for militias.
What Trump should have done was throw it back at Wallace BEFORE answering. He should have broken it down to the public that Mainstream media THRIVES on out of context sound bites, video clips, and pictures.
“First of all, Christopher Wallace. White supremacists and militias are not the same thing. They have different answers, Christopher Wallace. Are you implying that black people shouldn’t have Second Amendment Rights, Christopher Wallace? Why don’t you want Blacks to defend themselves as is their Constitutional Rights, Christopher Wallace?”
Once the question is reframed more honestly by separating the two very distinct ideas, and framing it to imply that Christopher Wallace is the racist, Trump can proceed to answer the question. By repeatedly saying Wallace’s name, he can condition the audience to see HIM as the racist. All he would be doing is explaining the Media Industrial Complex’s tactics and reflecting it back at them. You need to treat these people like dogs. As soon as they do something disingenuous, you explain why it is disingenuous and do it right back.
As soon as they crap, you shove their noses in it.
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Barbara Rigell
COVID DEATHS in top TEN States as of 10/8/2020
D - New York 33,219
R - Texas 16,528
D - California 16,266
D - New Jersey 16,147
R - Florida 14,767
R - Massachusetts 9,538
D - Illinois 9,085
D - Pennsylvania 8,223
R - Georgia 7,229
D - Michigan 7,161
D = 90,101
R = 48,062
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Barbara Rigell Since you obviously aren’t reading the material that I took the time to find for you...
“On Friday, January 31, President Trump signed a proclamation suspending entry into the United States of aliens who were physically present in the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, within the 14 days preceding entry or attempted entry into the United States. The proclamation took effect Sunday, February 2. This action followed the declaration of a public health emergency in the United States related to the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China.
On Saturday, February 29, President Trump signed a second proclamation suspending entry into the United States of aliens who were physically present in Iran within the 14 days preceding entry or attempted entry into the United States. This proclamation took effect as of Monday, March 2.
On Thursday, March 11, President Trump signed a third proclamation suspending entry into the United States of aliens who were physically present in any of the 26 countries that make up the Schengen Area within the 14 days preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States. The Schengen Area consists of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. This proclamation is in effect as of 11:59 p.m., March 13, 2020.
On March 14, President Trump signed a fourth proclamation that restricts travel to the United States of foreign nationals who were physically present in the United Kingdom and Ireland within the 14 days preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States. This proclamation is in effect as of 11:59 p.m. eastern daylight time on March 16, 2020.”
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So, here’s the problem with the “Right.”
You recognize that NATIONAL socialism is destructive, but you conflate that with socialism in general. The same goes for communism. The “Right” has just a bad of a problem with this conflation that it results in arguments about whom is “right” instead of discussions about actual solutions.
So far, I have seen no evidence of anybody truly understanding what America actually is. Seemingly everybody here is saying “If you want socialism, leave America.”
THAT is NOT what America is about.
The correct response is, “If you believe in socialism, gather with others who believe the same, and build it yourselves without forcing it on others.”
Everybody grows up with socialism and communism, so it’s no surprise that some do not grow OUT of it. In a conventional household, one parent gathers resources, while the other maintains the house. THAT is socialism. Children are treated equally and are provided for equally. THAT is communism.
So, everybody who thinks socialism and communism are bad do not sincerely believe in the idea of a nuclear family or a village.
Everybody who thinks national socialism and communism are good, are also incorrect.
NATIONALLY, we are a free country. We should NOT have as many laws at the Federal level as we currently have. LOCALLY, we can be just as free IF we do what these migrants are doing: cut roots and migrate to the locality that best represents our individual ideology.
This constant bickering about whose ideology is correct is only occurring because all the ideologies are intermingled instead of segregated.
THAT was the whole point of having fifty states to begin with.
THAT was the whole point behind the First Amendment. It wasn’t JUST so you could voice what you thought. It was so you could use that voice to fine others that thought the same way so that you could ASSEMBLE. Once people of a common ideology ASSEMBLE, there is far less need for higher level laws.
The “Right” doesn’t understand that at all which is why those who create all these arguments get away with things like killing thousands of elderly citizens in nursing homes then calling for massive mail-in ballots for a national election and economic shutdowns that resulted in Amazon doubling its value in less than a year.
ALL of that happened because YOU think the problem is with the “Left” when it’s actually those who benefit the most from the “Right” and the “Left” fighting over manufactured issues.
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@magnum1118 Democratic policies have resulted in the mass incarceration of non-violent black men, shoving black people into slums, providing black children horrible education, providing black people poor opportunities, and stripping black people of the right to defend themselves with firearms.
Wanna talk about “redlining” and where it mostly occurred?
Democrat run cities in the NORTH.
Let’s talk about the economy in general, shall we?
What is driving the rise in cost of major market sectors like education, textbooks, healthcare, and housing?
Government. More specifically, Democrat policies.
Who legalized crime, played catch-and-release with violent criminals, and shut down the economy in 2020 leading to thousands of businesses closing for good and millions of jobs lost WHILE Jeff Bezos doubled in net worth?
Who exposed the elderly in senior citizens homes to contagious upper respiratory diseases while claiming a pandemic was the cause of so many deaths at the beginning of 2020?
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9:00 Because people work towards owning vehicles.
More importantly, central planning removes the natural economic forces from the decision making process. Today, the road construction companies are subsidized. Tomorrow, the foot transit construction companies will be subsidized. Then whatever special interest group is subsidized.
This is not how evolution works. Using emotional rhetoric to convince people that something is “good” removes the natural evolutionary forces that results in lower costs and higher rates of innovation that you see in the free market.
Take a look at the real cost of every commodity from food, education, healthcare, housing, and everything else stagnating in government programs to electronics, automobile, clothing, and everything else COMPETING in the free market.
Competition has been the primary (by far) force behind innovation and industry, while GOVERNment smothers FREE market COMPETITION from driving evolution and industry.
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The actual interesting thing about colors (yes, I’m American) is that colors themselves are actually a language that the visual cortex “speaks” to the prefrontal cortex to describe the electromagnetic radiation that interacts with the photoreceptors in the retina.
Languages existed long before humans did, and neurons have been establishing languages with each other long before we learned our own interpersonal languages. Every neuron from the photoreceptors to the prefrontal cortex established a language between themselves in the first two months after birth as babies LEARNED to see colours (I can transition between both spellings; I’m no language snob 😂).
5:30 Why use a letter (e) for a phonetic sound already signified by another letter (a)? Just use one letter to signify ‘ ā ’ instead of cluttering the mind with superfluous rules.
6:00 Funny you skipped ‘a’ since you prefer ‘e’ in ‘gray’. 😂 In the telecom industry, there is no ‘gray’. It is referred to as ‘slate’. It took months, to my mentor’s chagrin, for me to replace ‘gray’ in my lexicon with ‘slate’.
A further irony about skipping ‘a’ and going to ‘b’ is that ‘aqua’ is used in the telecom industry color code.
Blue
Orange
Green
Brown
Slate
White
Red
Black
Yellow
Violet
Rose
Aqua
Rose (pink, if you want to annoy older techs) and Aqua (light blue, again, if you want to harass older techs) were added fairly recently.
6:30 We aren’t surrounded by any colors because only exist in the mind. What surrounds us is vibrations in the electromagnetic field.
The same is true about sound. Sound only exists in the mind. What surrounds us is compression waves in the air.
So, if a tree falls in a mime in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, no sound, in fact, exists. The tree creates compression waves in the air, but without an observer to process those patterns, a sound is not produced.
Further considerations for people struggling with the concept are dreams, hallucinations, synesthesia, and tinnitus: the ‘existence’ of sound within an absence of compression waves in the air.
13:00 Nice. That explains why purple is the color (I tried to go with ‘colour’, but autocorrect denied the attempt) of royalty.
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@bradyanacker7 This COUNTRY was founded on SELF-GOVERNANCE.
Tell me, do you allow complete strangers to walk into your home armed?
Or, like a rational human, do you establish HOUSE rules for who can enter your home at all, much less armed?
Now extrapolate that to your neighborhood, your community, your town, your country, and your state.
The MOST unAmerican thing you can say is, “if you disagree with me, get out of the country.”
You know who says that?
Tyrants.
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L D Firstly, experience does not equate to skill or wisdom. You can do the same thing wrong repeatedly, and that is still years of experience.
The better metric is the ability to learn from mistakes so as to not repeat them.
Now, in today’s situation, politics do not reflect what politics should be and has had a far better chance of being in the past two decades.
The divisive nature of presidential elections, and to a lesser extent all the other elections, would be far less drastic if society realized that they do NOT need government to force half the population to grudgingly do what the other half wants. Then, when the pendulum swings, roles are reversed, and the former half has to grudgingly do what the latter half wants. As that pendulum swings, more laws and regulations are created regardless of who is in power pulling the pendulum down after each swing.
America is the prisoner strapped to the table at the bottom of the pit as this bladed pendulum of government swings back and forth, inexorably working towards splitting the prisoner in half.
No. You don’t want “experienced” politicians driving that pendulum down even further by doing the same irresponsible things that they have been doing for decades.
You want somebody who understands the benefits and deficiencies of opposing concepts. Conservatives and Progressives have different viewpoints and skills. It is pointless arguing over who’s viewpoint describes the elephant in the room better. It’s wiser to amalgamate both viewpoints to define the elephant better. Arguing who is “right” for the sake of justifying who to vote for to solve problems society could and should solve for itself is why political discourse is so dysfunctional and dangerous today.
You want somebody who understands the various paradigm shifts across many aspects of society, and these shifts are happening at an increasing rate:
•Paradigms regarding practical wisdom of older generations and theoretical knowledge of the newer generations.
•Paradigms regarding the transition from concrete application in the analog era and conceptual innovation in the digital era.
•Paradigms concerning truth to power and the erosion of the Fourth Estate evidenced by the corrupted journalistic integrity that society once demanded and its devolution to profiteering emotional rhetoric devoid of corroborating and verifiable sources. This is further exacerbated by a society with an ever decreasing attention span for social concerns propagated by the constant cycling of enraging news stories designed to keep society in a constant state of outrage.
•Paradigms involving technologies that have teased of a new level of enlightenment for our species, yet were abused and taken for granted by small-minded people. Communication is, strongly arguably, the most important ingredient for EVERYTHING. The internet is, by far, the most important and powerful invention since language in the history of humanity. What do we use it for? Sharing petabytes of intellectually non nutritional garbage and arguing with strangers about who is “right” instead of eradicating the cost of higher “education” and collaborating with strangers on actual solutions.
•The paradigm involving the loss of respect for the actual privilege people have: the capacity to think critically. That is the only true privilege anybody has, and society has killed the acknowledgment of that fact. It is our ability to see what is wrong and devise a solution for it that is stripped from us by an ever growing crescendo of proclamations that “government will solve it for us.”
So, “experience” isn’t what you should look for. Wisdom is the ACTUAL defining factor of a good and just society that will produce wise politicians. And it is those wise politicians who will ceaselessly and selflessly endeavor to provide and sustain a national environment that sustains a wise society.
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@atheistangel007 “it boils down to “follow the evidence.””
Christ…you STILL don’t understand the scientific method. It isn’t about reciting facts/evidence. It’s about EXPLAINING THE MECHANISMS which result in that evidence.
“And science is indeed based on what the evidence tells us…”
Correction: what the evidence tells scientists to tell Zealots.
“Nothing is science is “settled” as every their is open to be challenged.”
EXACTLY. Which is WHY you don’t use SCIENCE as a justification for tyranny. SCIENCE does not determine morality.
You don’t have to tell ME that science is never settled. I actually understand and LOVE that about science. YOU need to explain it to the ZEALOTS who use SCIENCE as a moral bludgeon on those that disagree with “consensus”, which, again, consensus is also NOT SCIENCE.
““What the hell are you talking about? Not everything about science is in “units.””
So, science isn’t based on “empirical evidence”? Good to know. Just because YOU can’t support your flimsy arguments exposing your vague understanding of what science actually is, it does not mean that I am “flailing” my arms like a crazy person. Science is about answering questions about what “is” and your inability to explain “morality” in scientific terms is a YOU problem; not a ME problem.
“More intellectual dishonesty…what else do we use besides our mind and our ability to reasons and come to a consensus?”
A consensus on “unsettled science”, which, by definition, all science is unsettled. Why would you force everyone into a consensus based on something unsettled? The answer is narcissistic delusions of grandeur based in the people you choose to BELIEVE…The Church of Science.
Look, kid. Pointing out that there are millions of people who just take a bunch of strangers word for something is NOT the same thing as saying Science is useless or bad. Science is a TOOL, and, like all tools, should be used by those that have spent more time mastering it which does NOT include nearly all of the voting population.
Science used to learn: GOOD.
Science used to justify tyranny: BAD.
Ironically, this is not rocket surgery.
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@mrkiky Ok…you got some terminology bass ackwards.
Perception occurs in the brain.
Detection occurs at the physical/metaphysical interface where your afferent neurons interact with physical reality and convert the data they collect into cascades of electrochemical interactions which have had meanings assigned to them as the nervous system evolved.
Light, pressure waves, chemicals, and pressure are material aspects of reality: physical.
Color, sound, odor, flavors, and textures are symbolic languages your neurons use to summarize MILLIONS of bits of data per second into useful information used to make decisions: metaphysical.
We all experience perceptions based upon how our neurology evolved over time. This is why it is impossible to explain “blue” to someone who has been blind their whole life. They lack the neuronal patterns necessary to translate “words” into “colors”: two completely different symbolic languages.
A representation of a circle is not a circle.
“You really need to define what consciousness is to go any further.”
Yes. The “mind/body problem” is usually touched upon in the first chapter of most neuroscience texts.
“So far we define consciousness as an entity’s ability of being aware and sentient.”
Now we need to define “aware” and “sentient.” Subcortical groups (subconscious) are fully aware of their inputs regardless of our prefrontal cortex being aware of their outputs (unconscious). As I stated before, decentralization is the NATURAL evolutionary course for all large, complex, stable ,and efficient systems. This means “our” consciousness is the amalgam of millions of other less complex consciousnesses. The next level of consciousness below “ours” are the ones manifested by each hemisphere of the brain.
By your definition of “awareness” and “sentience”, the brain is composed of millions and millions of constituent consciousnesses.
“Nothing without a brain has ever been observed to show interactions so complex as to make us draw the conclusion that it’s conscious.”
That would ENTIRELY depend on your definitions for “conscious”, “awareness”, and “sentience.”
A large corporation exhibits ALL those characteristics and it doesn’t have a “brain.” Unless you want to define what a “brain” is next…then by your definition, a large corporation might actually have a “brain.”
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@atheistangel007 “Well, if there was, then science as a whole would agree with you, but of course you are convinced there is some big conspiracy against your “designer”…
A: Science is a tool. It doesn’t “agree” with anything. Did you mean your authority figures in your Church of Science?
B. Your Authority Figures DO agree, they just don’t understand it. EVERY time they model a “natural” process, they are implicitly proving that the process was intelligently designed. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to intelligently design the model for it.
Humans are prideful. They want to feel unique in a Universe that created rotary motors, virtual reality, and simulation LOOOOONG before humans were even a twinkle in Nature’s eye. Humans have a knack for “inventing” something less efficient than Nature did, then slapping a name on it to claim the copyright.
Then you meander off into a string of arguments that imply “The Designer” absolutely thinks like we do.
If a team of scientists and computer programmers modeled a very intricate Universe that resulted in a simulation that produced TRILLIONS of self-aware subroutines, do you think that they have the capacity or the desire to involve themselves in each subroutine’s “life”?
Your snarky attitude doesn’t do a good job hiding your obvious lack of consideration on any of these ideas. It was bad enough you resigned yourself to quoting “MIT” about Procedurally Generated Programming instead of looking further into it so you wouldn’t be flailing around right now.
I get it. Your conditioned responses didn’t prepare your for all these new ideas. The solutions isn’t to be petulantly dismissive because you are afraid to rearrange a few million neurons to accommodate new information.
The correct response is to try your best to understand an idea so you can integrate it into your current collection of ideas.
TLDR: you’re way too closed-minded which is exactly what standardized formal “education” is INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED ( 😂 sorry) to do. You’re meant to build what you’re told to build by your Authority Figures instead of creating like you were designed to do.
You see, the economy has one fundamental dynamic that most people never discuss: the ratio of creators (innovators/entrepreneurs) to builders (wage labor). As with all economic transactions that have been occurring fir billions of years, the relative supply between two commodities determines their “value” (also a subjective determination not measurable by science). The side in surplus loses value as it must compete for the side in scarcity. So when you have a surplus of available workers (unskilled or college “educated”), they must COMPETE for the jobs provided by the innovators/entrepreneurs. This competition involves becoming more marketable through acquisition of skills or taking lower compensation than their rivals.
However, a surplus of innovators/entrepreneurs forces the other side to compete which drives wages up and increases benefit packages to entice workers in a shallower pool of candidates.
So, what would large corporations prefer from standardized formal “education” institutions: teaching students WHAT to think to produce more wage employees; or teaching students HOW to think creating more innovators/entrepreneurs?
Do large corporations want a surplus of wage employees or more competition?
If you can answer that honestly, then you can answer this: would large corporations want the Federal government to subsidize these institutions, or not? Remember, corporate lobbyists have FAR MORE influence on lawmakers you know nothing about and even less about the thousands of pages of laws they pass which results in millions of pages of regulations…
But it’s ok, because you trust your authority figures, don’t you?
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@JonyRotten You have failed to provide an example of “pseudoscience” while claiming I “talk so much excrement.”
The competition for who is “superior” is pointless, son. Let’s assume that I am superior. The best way to rectify that, is to ask questions so that I give you that which makes me superior resulting in neither of us being superior.
Let’s assume that I am not superior…then why are you so concerned with it? If your ego is so wounded that you MUST prove that you are superior, then the act of proving that superiority provides ME with that which made you superior…again, making us equal.
So, if neither of us is superior, there’s nothing to worry about. If one of us is superior, and it isn’t good to have that dynamic, then it doesn’t take much to rectify the situation.
So, as I started this comment, I shall finish it…
What, exactly, is pseudoscientific about the video? Be specific so we can clarify things for you.
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Mrgramzo96 Look into Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Admiral James B. Stockdale, Representative Dan Crenshaw.
If you want to get more scientific, read up on neurobiology. If you want to go spiritual, Christianity pulls heavily from Stoic philosophy as does Buddhism.
It all comes down to the difference between running fire drills and not. If you run drills, then you know what to do during an actual fire, and panic does not occur. Without running drills, you are left with an extreme emotion driving you to do SOMETHING that you haven’t learned to do.
You cure panic by learning more about the past, more about your present situation, so that you can imagine more possible futures. Once you open yourself up to more possibilities, you now have control over which one to choose from.
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@yona1478 Just stick with the descriptor label and stop associating them with “dysfunction.”
Also, back in the caveman days we didn’t have glasses for people with poor eye sight and we had a scarcity of food that evolved our “sweet tooth” which we still have today despite the abundance of food we now have. “Sweet” meant sugar which meant high calorie content which was conducive to living minute but minute when we lived in caves. “Sweet” was “good” because it triggered our dopamine centers. In today’s society “sweet” is now “bad” even though our subconscious still triggers like it is “good.”
So, you can talk about social norms, psychology, and evolution all you want, but your limited knowledge in each precludes you from seeing the larger picture. Even with my broad range of knowledge and understanding, I don’t understand all of it. What I do understand is that “good” and “bad” is dependent upon the point of view taken. Just like to some, it is “good” to stop a bully from saying “mean” words to a victim, but they do not consider the time when they won’t be around to stop the bully making the victim permanently victimized. While others see the time when they won’t be around so they spend their time teaching the target of bullying how not to be a victim.
My distaste for the terminology used isn’t an emotional concern regarding the recipient of the label. It is a rational concern regarding a flippant society’s dismissive mess of that which is DIFFERENT. By singling out certain mental states as divergent, it automatically establishes a “norm” everybody should strive for. This isn’t to say that an individual can strive for the “norm” if they wish, but we shouldn’t be conditions people to believe that that is the best choice for everyone.
For those that see their uniqueness as a superpower, it is best to not convince them otherwise through mindless language “normal” people spend next to no time thinking about.
I am not “normal” BECAUSE I am not mindless. I’m more mindful than anybody I have never met. It provides me with, not only a wider range of perspectives, but also the ability to quickly change my perspective to one I have never taken before. I was heavily oppressed as a child, and one of the most important things I gained from that time in my life is the ability to detach from myself to see the world through other peoples’ eyes. It’s a wonderful gift to desire understanding other people, but it comes with a great responsibility. For, if you know how a person thinks, you know how to control them.
I share what I know PRECISELY because I don’t want anybody to be controlled. I share what I know so people can control themselves instead of being controlled by others: by other individuals or society in general. However, all I can do is offer what I know. I won’t force it on anybody.
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@Cherrysmith2809 First, neither statistics or consensus is science no matter how much a scientifically illiterate zealot wishes them to be.
Second, I don’t know how many times somebody declared something as “settled science” only to provide me an academic paper they obviously didn’t read because the summary is full of words like “suggests” or “leads me/us to believe.”
The “bias” of a source is irrelevant if the CONTENT is true.
Credentials do not matter because people are fallible, biased, and corruptible, not to mention the accreditation process is just as fallible, biased, and corruptible. Anybody can be an expert in a subject regardless of a piece of paper stating whether they are or not. Matter of fact, the higher educational system people place so much faith in has a major flaw by integrating the educational process WITH the accrediting process. If somebody spent 4 years and $100,000 to achieve the same mastery as somebody who spent 12 years and $20,000, then a third party testing system will easily reflect this while scrubbing any bias a particular institutions certificate would provide.
All you are doing is listing excuses to not think for yourself.
2+2=4 no matter who says it, what their bias is, what credentials they have, what methodology they used, or any of your myriad ad hominem based logical fallacies that you use to circumvent rational discourse.
If you are going though all this trouble to decide whether something is true or not, you definitely shouldn’t be voting your unthought out ideas into other people. If you wish to employ heuristics to make decisions, make those decisions for YOURSELF; not for society.
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@acctsys I trust nobody.
I trust critical thinking.
“Basic knowledge may be the territory of academics…”
Which, again, isn’t true or relevant. What is true is that people who do deal with policy, problem solving, and action appeal to the academics’ “authority on knowledge” to justify those policies, solutions, and actions. The problem is the mindless zealotry of the scientifically illiterate who just parrot the titles of academic papers because they don’t understand the paper itself.
“I for one trust people in business more than academics, looking at what they do, not what they say, because they are incentivized to keep customers and clients happy.”
Who do you think drafts our laws? What do you think “citizens” are to “government”? Customers and clients. When private business does it, it’s called profit. When government does it, it’s called surplus. When a business fails, it goes bankrupt… or should. When a government fails, they just raise taxes to “fix it.”
Do you wanna see the result of a society that judges SOURCES before it judges IDEAS? Look up “chart of the century” and see what government regulations and subsidies (Red lines) do to industry versus what a free market (Blue lines) does for industry.
What do you think about welfare? Because THAT is a prime example of useful idiots being fed statistics to make decisions which enrich the wealthy, erode the middle class, and creates more poverty. Tax revenue doesn’t come FROM the rich and go TO poor people. Tax revenue comes FROM the rich THROUGH the poor TO the rich. However, because The People relinquish their responsibility to build society from the bottom-up to a government that builds it from the top-down, they don’t pay attention to people they’ll never meet whom they vote for every four years to sign thousand page bills they’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists they’ll never see. The thousands of business and economics experts out there, and NONE of the more vocal ones explain any of this? It’s almost like the people who don’t want that basic knowledge own the information networks we use… oh wait. They DO!!!
Over $700 BILLION in collective wealth by 10 people who own/run corporate social media convinced a majority of voters that President Trump was “racist.” THEN, they convinced those same people that mass voting by mail was secure even though it had NEVER been conducted in America before…but we got it right the first time. Right?
If the state of politics is outside your realm of experience, we can discuss the obvious design obsolescence in solar panels, if you wish? Wanna discuss vapor deposition, band gaps, and perovskites instead? Or how about just the basic facts of efficiency regarding IR (heat) being 40% of the 1,000 watts per square meter bouncing right off the panels and back into the atmosphere; or how MOST of the spectrum produces excess heat because band gaps are defined by quantum mechanics meaning only ONE specific wavelength will be converted 100% to an electrical current while the rest of the spectrum either passes through to be absorbed by other materials and converted to heat or absorbed by the semiconductor and the excess energy converted to heat?
Or, perhaps you would like to discuss just how little humans understand ALL the systems that contribute to the state of the climate? Wanna discuss how the CO2 from carbon emissions is doing nothing more than replacing the CO2 that was once in the carbon cycle in the first place? How about stomatal density versus CO2 concentration? Wanna discuss the effects of the Sun’s magnetic field on the Earth’s magnetic field which directly affects the ions in Earth’s mantle and outer core?
Or how’s about something really basic like vaccines are therapeutic, NOT prophylactic even though part of the population was lead to believe that vaccines, somehow, prevented spread and contraction?
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@acctsys Incorrect.
A government, just like a business, serves their clients. Politicians are SUPPOSED to be public servants. The problem is almost NONE of the public has an intimate relationship with their servants.
The better path is to build communities of about 100 adults with a high degree of agreement on ideological concerns such that the five representatives they send to a higher order community of 100 adults composed of the representatives of the neighboring 19 communities actually represent their home communities. This higher order community is composed of 2,000 adults. 20 of those communities send 5 representatives to a third order community which constitutes 40,000 adults;
4th order for 800,000;
5th order for 16,000,000;
6th order for 320,000,000.
In this more NATURAL organization, EVERY person (which includes an individual and all INCORPORATIONS of individuals; people make the mistake that corporations only involve private businesses) have a direct and intimate relationship with their representatives such that those representatives who spend 3 months of the year in congress with the representatives of neighboring communities spend 9 months living in their communities subject to the EXACT same policies agreed to in the congress. Those representatives are held in direct account because they eat, sleep, play, cry, bleed, sweat, live, and die with those they represent.
Those representatives actually serve their communities rather than themselves. This is the best form of protection against corruption and:or ineptitude; far, far better than what we currently have, at least.
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@acctsys Let’s analyze the “live with the people you agree with” paradigm (the exact same one neurons utilize) from a different perspective: mass incarceration.
An inmate is incarcerated because they broke a law. They broke that law because they disagreed with it. Had they lived with the people they agreed with, there would have been no law to break.
In the paradigm I describe, you will have two towns that are differentiated by their belief about drugs (about 50% of all inmates are convicted on drug related charges). One town has no problem with drug use, and the other deems it bad.
In today’s system, somebody caught using drugs in the second town loses 99% of their freedom; their families are broken up; they become non-productive; and worse they become a drain on the society incarcerating them.
In the natural paradigm, somebody caught using drugs in the second town is exiled. This results in the “convict” losing 1% of the tie freedom; their family need NOT be broken up; they may become a productive member of a different society; and they definitely do NOT become a drain on the original society.
More disagreements results in more laws results in more criminals results in more prisons where the ONLY winners are those running and participating in a system that thrives on unnecessary enslavement.
Not only is ideological segregation more efficient (no loss of productivity AND no wasted resources for law enforcement, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration) it is far more moral (far less loss of freedom) than the forced inclusion being forced on society now.
Laws should be more like house rules: you can come in, if you abide. If you break them, take a ride. Besides, living with the people you agree with also means taxes disappear. They become voluntary contributions. 😃
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@ThisNameIsNotOriginal “I just read you like a book.”
Before it was
“TOO LONG! DIDN’T READ!!”
😂
Everybody can see the change, you angry little child. You went from short little comments to these long paragraphs the moment I said you’re trying too hard.
Your response…
TRY HARDER 😂
Christ. It is a slog getting through your whining. You would learn a lot more if you’d stop complaining. I gave you plenty of examples, and your only response has been “NUH UH!!”
“I like democracy because I like freedom…”
That’s a good indicator that you have no clue what you are talking about. 😂
Socrates was executed because of a Democratic vote of 500 citizens, genius. That’s why Plato invented “The Republic.” What’s the Republic, you say? It’s a more decentralized form of government that protects the individual from mobs of raging lunatics, like you, so that they are free to speak without fear of being put to death.
The United States Constitution is a DIRECT descendant of these historical precedents. The first two amendments come directly from those events.
Why was Socrates executed?
Well, little one, it was because Sophists used emotional rhetoric on voting aged toddlers that couldn’t take responsibility for their emotions. They, too, were “amused” by the smell of their own farts. 😂
Oh Christ almighty… are you seriously using THOSE examples? 😂 Aztec sacrifices for the “greater good” was your first choice? 😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Germanic tribes were superior? They were a group of mostly autonomous tribes. Where are you getting “centralized” out of that? You think separate tribes coming together for a common cause is centralization? 😂
Egyptians? You think slavery is superior? 😂 Fuck me!! 😂
Then, you refer to “Europeans” as if Europe was one single nation. 😂
What are you smoking?
I will concede that the Roman Empire was a decent attempt, but they incorporated many Republican themes toward the end that led to the American Republic which led to unprecedented advances across multiple fields. The fact that we are talking about all this and that anybody from anywhere can join in is proof positive of the evolutionary capabilities of a decentralized and parallel processing system of sharing of ideas.
So, for all your bluster, you have still failed to name a single example even CLOSE to 100 BILLION neurons in every single brain. Humans can’t get past 100 million citizens without severely starving and/or heavily oppressing large swathes of the population, and you THINK you proved something?
EVERY other subject moves toward decentralization and parallel processes: computers, networking, warfare, business, natural evolution, technological evolution, commerce, sports, video games, electronics.
Look up “chart of the century” to see what centralization does to an economy.
Let’s sum up. You ignored all my previous point forcing me to reiterate them and provide more, while YOU countered with sacrifice and slavery.
<slow clap>
Well played. 😂
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@alexscott6095 “Not sure what your idea of centralized government is.”
Government concentrated in a single corpus.
Why would you have a single committee, regardless of their origination, make decisions for the entire country? If you haven’t noticed, such hard-lined standardization leads to things like “no child left behind.”
Ultimately, competition is what drives evolution and progress, and people do not understand basic economics well enough to apply it to what is going on. EVERY economic transaction is the exact same process. There are two sides of the equation, and whichever side is scarce determines the valuation of the capital in trade.
More home sellers makes it a buyers market allowing buyers to set the cost of the house. More home buyers make it a sellers market allowing sellers to set the cost of the house.
More jobs than workers makes it an employee’s market allowing the employees to set wage levels. More workers than jobs makes it an employer’s market allowing employers to set the wage levels.
Relying on government to slap bandaids on these issues is what leads to the rise in cost of EVERY market that the government subsidizes. Every single one.
Meanwhile, the free market has seen rapid advances in consumer electronics resulting in the first large screen TVs starting at $15,000 in 1997 ($22,000 adjusting for inflation) and a comparable sized screen for less than 5% the cost and 10,000% higher value. In less than 20 years, the free market did that.
Meanwhile, the cost of tuition continues to grow far faster than inflation despite most subjects barely changing from year to year. Most first and second year math courses have remained relatively static in content, yet it is somehow more costly to teach it?
People are asking “WHO should pay for tuition?” When they should be asking “WHY is it so expensive?”
If you address the latter, the former becomes far easier to answer.
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@alexscott6095 “As far as free market innovation, large corporations stifle it too…”
Which is why you need to UPLIFT small businesses and small competitors; not big them down by broadly scoped legislation crafted specifically to look like it hurts large corporations but have plenty of loopholes for them to slither out leaving their competitors vulnerable to death in their infancy.
“We will have to sign it to see what’s in it.” - N. Pelosi on Obamacare.
It is amazing how many times they signal that they have complete control over your perceptions that they boldly flaunt how they do it. Lobbyists craft thousand page legislation; and politicians sign it. Society is placated by the title of the Bill. Corporations act like victims to your face and cash checks behind your backs.
These people have the time and resources to make plays you could never hope to match, and you think what you see in the news is the WHOLE picture.
I assure you, it is not.
If Amazon nearly doubling in value in a year when they were the villains in 2018 doesn’t send up red flags, I don’t know what else it will take.
They even blatantly tell us, “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
Well look where we are: people losing jobs, businesses, and houses over a “pandemic” with a better than 99% survival rate for those under 65. The people who work were safe. The people who were most vulnerable had COVID shoved on them by Cuomo (NY), Whitmer, (MI), Wolfe (PA), Murphy (NJ), and Newsom (CA).
It is a miracle that shutdowns were not nationalized. Imagine how large Amazon would have been then.
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@alexscott6095 If you look anywhere, a better understanding is achieved through comparing differences; not suppressing one set of ideas.
Bifocal vision works on that premise.
String Theory > M-Theory works on that premise.
Gaining the high ground works on that premise.
Society (not politics) works on that premise.
Like you said before, I made certain systems out to be simpler than they actually are. That is the most salient point in this discussion. It is so complicated that even committees cannot account for everything and everybody.
As I investigated and studied many of these things, I developed a system in which 60 people working 40 hr/wk and $8/hr could pay off a $360,000 > 2,400 sqft house in five years. These people would have two 7’x7’ jacuzzis that convert into 8 shower stalls; two gigabit internet circuits; $120/mo cable service; a fleet of 7 vehicles on a five year replacement cycle; $100/mo for 401k AND health insurance. While they are paying the mortgage, they each save about $5,000 a year and about $7,000 a year after it is paid off. 48 of them actually work at $10/hr in the workforce while 12 of them stay home and do all the house chores and chauffeuring. Everybody works 40 hours a week and when they are not working, it is ALL free time.
Five more years, and they can pay off a second house. Five more years, a third house. Within 20 years, they would have 4 houses that they OWN and 15 living in each house.
By incorporating three shifts and hot racking, there is absolutely no overcrowding as 500 sqft of space is strictly sleeping quarters and the other 1,900 sqft accommodates all other needs.
That is how you practice collectivism BEFORE forcing collectivism on everybody else.
What we have now is a system that is so granular that the graduations between assistance levels are so great that there is more incentive to stay at the level you are than luck into a large enough upgrade in economic status to justify upward movement out of welfare.
My system allows for any configuration between 1 and 60 people in a single home. The step between 60 to 59 is so small that just about anybody can make that transition whenever they want to.
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@alexscott6095 “…it’s hard to focus on what to be outraged about…”
I owe you two drinks, sir!!!! 🍻 Cheers
When you took a math test, did your teacher give it to you one question at a time? Moreover, did she take the previous question from you just as you were about to take notes and give your the next one? Did she cycle through the whole test this way and give you the first problem to start the whole cycle over?
How could you ever hope to solve any of those problems, let alone remain calm enough to do so?
After all, which part of the brain do you use to solve problems?
The medulla/lizard brain/limbic system/emotional part of the brain?
Or
The cerebrum/rational portion of the brain?
How is a constantly outraged society going to solve any problems?
They don’t.
Did you vote for the most popular and least qualified classmate to solve all the math problems in class?
If not, why do it in real life?
Because Corporations want you to think that government will “solve” the “problems” they manufactured.
An economy is nothing more than two people swapping solutions. You want money. I want a house. We swap. Our problems are solved.
So, to make money, there HAS to be problems. If there are no problems, manufacture them. On top of that, offer to “solve” the “problem” by not actually solving it so you can continue selling the “solution.”
The absolute BEST solutions come from society, not governments. Nature has gifted us with the absolute BEST problem solving equipment ever.
Do you realize you learned geometry and calculus before you learned to read? How do you suppose you were able to place one foot in front of another or throw a ball at a target? That is pure math and physics learned by thousands of repetitions.
The brain is designed to crystallize relevant information and prune irrelevant information. That is how you learn to shift gears by the sound of the engine pitch when you learned to watch the tachometer. Even though your conscious awareness was focused on the tachometer engaging your visual cortex, through the power of decentralization, your auditory cortex was processing all those sounds all the time. It was able to associate the engine sounds to the motor cortex network associated to shifting gears WITHOUT YOU THINKING ABOUT IT.
It is f@:cking wild what the brain does if you feed it right.
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1:00 We do have those characteristics within ourselves. Our brains are composed of 100 billion neurons; living creatures with desires just as any living creature does. Their role is to be be part of a group to define an idea. The problem is that the individual neurons are not aware of the idea that they represent. This makes us gods to 100 billion unaware living creatures with the responsibility of providing good ideas for these neurons to be apart of.
Some people hate and despise God for being inattentive and unloving while blissfully unaware of the same inattentiveness and lack of love they show for their own neurons. HP Lovecraft described Azathoth: the Blind Idiot God. If God is guilty of being inattentive to us, we are just as guilty of being inattentive to the 100 billion neurons in our brain.
If you want a loving and compassionate god, BE a loving and compassionate god.
Nature is fractal. It tends to repeat successful patterns at every larger scales. The greatest society known to humans is the human brain. The way it is organized is exactly how humans should organize: layers of hierarchical communities in a 1 to 1,000+ relationship between a higher order neuron and thousands of lower order neurons. Neurons only interact with neurons directly below, beside, and above them.
We should have small, well-defined communities of like-minded individuals. Those communities should send representatives to a second order community to live part-time with the representatives of neighboring communities. That second order community should send representatives to a third order community, and so on. This is an exponential process where a first order community sending five representatives to the second order community to commune with the representatives of 19 neighboring communities would create a second order community of 100x20, or 2,000 citizens. Each layer would increase the community size by a factor of 20 so that the third order community would be composed of 40,000 citizens; 4th of 800,000; 5th of 16,000,000; 6th of 320,000,000, and 7th of 6,400,000,000 citizens.
This would mean that everybody’s representatives would be subject to the decisions made in the higher level community and be held accountable to those decisions by 95 of their fellow citizens whom they live with most of the year.
This is in stark contrast to the mish-mash of ideological chaos all represented in a million+ to one ratio that leaves most ideas half realized, or not realized at all through impositions of a government that represents almost nobody.
Live with the people you agree with, and laws become unnecessary to those living in the communities and taxes become voluntary contributions.
When people decide where to live, they are making a second, PRIMARY, and unconscious decision: live with people I disagree with and resort to tyranny to impose my will on them; OR live with people I agree with and embrace freedom for yourself and those around you.
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@heregoes8839 Capital is input to generate resources.
An electrical motor is capital.
Bacteria have had motors billions of years ago. They have sensors to let them know which way to move. They have a membrane to protect the resources they gather…
A company has motors to move things. They have analysts to inform the company on which direction to move in the market. They have buildings to protect their resources.
Animals have all kinds of capital that facilitates their ability to gather resources. The competition for resources is what drives the evolution of capital: faster feet, longer beaks, stronger wings, sharper claws…
Shuffling of resources is all that an economy is, and life has been doing that for billions of years. Economists do not understand that because their focus is too narrow. When I explain it, cognitive dissonance prevents them from really absorbing what I am saying.
If you look around, you will see people protect their “intellectual property.” Intellectual property is a psychological construct that exists nowhere as a physical entity, yet it is still considered capital. People insure body parts that are critical to their ability to gather resources (make an income). Musicians will insure their hands, etc….
The loose definitions that are accepted for “capital” allow for all the same things that have existed long before humans have existed, yet people want to believe that humans are more special than they actually are. They are special, but not that special.
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@Edruezzi Impressive dissertation on why university is great for specialization.
Now explain what specialization is good for.
Or, if you’d rather, I’ll explain it.
It is good for making an individual more valuable to somebody else’s plans.
You see, the brain is a fine construction of specialization (various brain regions) and generalization (the prefrontal cortex). Society has the same dynamic, but the ratios are becoming skewed due to naive choice predicated on a submission to authority.
The specialist provides the “how do you do something,” while the generalist provides the “what do we do”?
The more specialist that we have, the less valuable each individual becomes. Without the generalists to create things for the specialists to manufacture, you create a generalist’s market. In other words, the job creators set the wages.
With a surplus of generalists, it becomes a specialist’s market which allows the wage earners to set the wages.
Some time ago, Walmart was hiring off the street at $17/hr.
Why?
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@Edruezzi While my nerd friends took the SAT multiple times starting all the way back in our junior year, I took the very last one scheduled our senior year.
I scored the highest in my school despite graduating 32nd in a class of about 250, and second highest in the county.
As I walked out of the testing center, it struck me that I answered three wrong on the math section and I knew what the answers were. Had I proofed my test instead of taking a nap like I always do, I would have had an 800 on the math portion instead of the 780. With a 1510, I would have had the highest in the county.
Must have been my Asian genes. 😂 The Mexican genes made me take a siesta. 😂
Anyhow, I did get an invitation to MIT, but my scores came back well past the deadlines for scholarships.
Hagerstown Junior College did allow me to skip Calc I and English Comp I my first year though…so, hooray?
The point is, I missed opportunities for various reasons, but had I become the theoretical physicist that I wanted to be, I would have had that myopic view that I have been explaining. I would not have the broader perspective that I have today that allows me to synthesize solutions that are attractive to the LEFT and the RIGHT.
Ultimately, every polemical issue we have falls under one parent class: conflict between ideologies. Every one of my designs solves that meta issue first before solving the tangible issues people fight about. When you treat every problem like a math problem, you begin to see where problems from different viewpoints actually intersect; sometimes at multiple points.
Those intersections remove the need for conflict by replacing it with opportunities for cooperation and collaboration. THOSE solutions remove the dependence on government that society has found itself in today, which has created this divisive environment we are now in.
Edgar Poe’s “The Pit and The Pendulum” is actually a great analogy for the political situation we now find ourselves in.
The prisoner is America. The Pit is politics. The Pendulum is government. Each swing symbolizes the party in power. At the founding, the Pendulum is high above the country, light with federal regulations. After every election cycle, each side adds regulations the other side does not like. After over almost a quarter of a century, the party in power fluctuated, but one thing remained constant: government grew after each swing. Now the pendulum is so heavy that the country is being sliced in half.
It was never meant to be that way. If you study neuroscience and Plato’s “Republic,” you’d see how the original design of the country was the closest sociological approximation to the human brain.
Anyhow. I really got to jet.
My “conspiracy theories” are separate ideas from the solutions that I am designing.
Try not to dismiss people over a single idea out of the millions we each have rolling around in our heads. That’s how we remain divided. People are more alike than Corporate Media likes to obfuscate as it amplifies our differences. However, difference in perspective is what makes depth perception possible.
Cheers 🍻
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@Edruezzi 😂 My FORMAL background is in physics and math. Regardless, you do not need the math to understand the underlying concepts behind how a process works.
I don’t need to know the equations behind air pressure and and velocity to understand how an airfoil works and the reason why a black-tailed prairie dog builds some of the entrances to their burrows up while leaving others flat. Now, if I were, let’s say, designing an underground infrastructure that would be impervious to high energy meteorological phenomena and that could extract that energy with subterranean wind turbines, I would need to know those equations to determine the air velocity of the air column moving down through the structural shafts built into that structure. With those numbers, I could determine how much those wind turbines could generate.
Besides, if those partial derivatives (signified with a ‘∂’) were relevant to anything in this discussion or to anything that I am working on, I can just look them up. Until then, I do not need those functions.
As for 12 Rules for LIFE (I do not remember typing 12 Rules of Power); it is self-help, BUT Dr. Peterson does explain some neurological concepts within it. You’d be surprised what you can learn outside of a textbook. Maybe some day you’ll learn to seek knowledge on your own instead of relying on somebody to spoon feed it to you. You’ll enjoy life more when you do, son.
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@Edruezzi I am going to let you in on a little secret.
Our main difference in this “conversation” is that I process WHAT you are saying BEFORE I remark on your cognitive deficits.
You process WHO I am BEFORE you process WHAT I am saying.
That kind of logical fallacy is what will make you no more useful than a cog in society. You will forever be stuck needing to be told what to do.
That is a fine existence, for sure. Many are like that.
However, your attitude is pure $hit and it is not conducive to societal progress. Stay in your lane, son. If you have nothing constructive to offer to a conversation, sit down, shut up, and do what you are told since that is all you want out of life.
If you treat any other dreamer like you tried to treat me and you kill somebody’s passion to do something great, you are the epitome of human trash.
I am impervious to your pseudo-intellectual attempt to prove some faux superiority, and the only reason I stuck it out this long was to make an example out of you for any other dreamer that may happen upon this conversation.
I was not attempting to teach you. I do not waste time on the closed-minded.
I was teaching others.
I offered you a tiny bit of my credentials to lure you in and give you a chance to act like a human being, but you decided to act like a petulant child this whole time.
Congratulations. You acted like an NPC so you were treated accordingly.
Good luck being worthless human trash, son. I truly hope you decide to extract your cranium from your rectum because we need cooperation and collaboration; not faux superiority.
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@Edruezzi How about instead of playing Cathy Newman, you define the words that you are using?
What do YOU mean by “natural” and “super natural”?
Generally, scientists describe “natural” as things that can be measured and quantified.
Neuroscience is the study of the physical operation of the brain, but a neuroscientist will stop just short of consciousness regarding functionality. As a matter of fact, some (of not most) scientists that work in that field make a distinction between the physical brain and the psychological manifestation of the mind. In that sense, the brain is the physical/natural component and the mind is the metaphysical/super natural component. Stanislas Dehaene mentions it in his book “Consciousness and the Brain.”
Artificial Intelligence is an offshoot of Neural Networks when they attempted to create a computer model of the brain’s functionality. Needless to say, it was difficult to program something as complex as a brain with well over 100 trillion synaptic connections. Recently, there is talk that a single neuron was far more complex than originally understood in that even neurons conduct a certain amount of computational processes than merely sending a signal if enough neurotransmitters were received. Considering neurons average around 1,000 synaptic connections, it seems highly plausible that neurons do, in fact, operate like routers by actively directing signals themselves.
So, whatever you want to call it, you will find no scientist claiming they can read minds because coding and encoding conducting by 100 trillion synaptic connections is far more complicated than reading DNA.
DNA is physically linear whereas a synaptic network is multidimensional. We haven’t even figured out DNA sequences, let alone the epigenetic processes that were recently discovered. So, don’t hold your breath for a complete understanding of neuroscience that underpins psychology.
You can think of it as neuroscience is to psycoLOGY as computer science is to computer programming. Neuroscience studies the hardware while psychology studies the software.
Does an NPC in a video game exist? If so, where? How is it measured by standard natural metrics? How much does an NPC weigh? Does it exist only when the game is running? Does it exist only when the game is running that particular algorithm? Does it exist when the computer is off? Does it exist only on the storage medium the game is saved on? Does it exist in the CPU? Does it exist in the RAM? Does it travel through the CPU bus? Does it exist on the screen?
Perhaps you should stick to simpler things like engineering instead of asking stupid loaded questions like “is it supernatural” or “is it spiritual”?
You have been intellectually dishonest this whole conversation, so when you ask loaded questions like that, I will treat you like an idiot every time.
If you are seriously interested, try using neutral language so I know you aren’t playing some stupid “gotcha” game.
The mind is a metaphysical construct because you cannot measure colors but you can measure a light’s wavelength. You cannot measure odor, but you can measure the chemicals that react to your olfactory senses. You cannot measure flavor, but you can measure the chemicals that react with your gustatory senses. You cannot measure sound, but you can measure the amplitude and frequency/wavelength of the longitudinal wave of gaseous compressions and rarefactions. You cannot measure texture, but you can measure the shape and size of physical objects.
If you can measure it with a device, it has a material existence. If you cannot measure it with a device, it has an immaterial existence.
If you want to equate material with real/natural/physical/“mortal” and immaterial with imaginary/supernatural/metaphysical/“spiritual” that is up to you.
If you want to continuously act like an idiot, I will start treating you like one.
If you want to act like an adult, I will reciprocate.
You can start at any time, and I will adjust accordingly.
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@Edruezzi 😂😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂
I have never seen somebody use so many words to say, “You’re right. I was wrong.”
Your claims on my capabilities are actually pretty irrelevant. What do you hope to accomplish by trying to convince somebody else that they are incapable of EVER accomplishing something?
Is it, perhaps, to salve your bruised ego in the hopes you convince them to not even try? It takes a very pathetic soul to not want somebody else to succeed.
I spent two days educating you, and anybody else who may come across this conversation, because I see possible value in everybody despite any current state of near uselessness.
Most people, I firmly believe, grow out of that useless narcissism by forty, so you got about 20 years to shift course.
Don’t take this as a loss. Take this as a learning experience that you do not know and understand as much as you think you do, and university cannot teach everything…nor does it even come close. The fact that you haven’t learned how to use your “massive intellect” for anything more productive than attempting to tear somebody else down instead of teach speaks volumes for the trash education that you received.
You are pathetic.
Your education is $hit.
And you better hope I never catch you pulling this $hit on anybody else who may not be able to defend themselves, or you’ll see a completely different side of me, son.
My self -esteem has been impervious to words long before you $hit your last diaper. All you are managing to accomplish is revealing how petulant and grossly under-developed you are.
<grabs popcorn> Since I took the time to teach you something, how about you reciprocate and teach me something useful?
I have allocated some time to learning the basics of civil engineering. Perhaps you can gain a little of your honor back and sharing your knowledge.
If not…
<props up feet, munches popcorn>
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@Edruezzi You know what’s funny about remarking on the subjects that I jump around between so easily?
It disproves your idea that I google shit.
Which is it? I know a little about a lot? Or I Google everything?
If you think I can carry on a conversation so easily without skipping a beat by just googling everything, then you also prove the pointlessness of college education’s supremacy.
The fact that you have been unable to refute ANYTHING that I have said, despite YOUR mad attempts to Google for something that discredits anything that I have said, should tell you something.
Even IF you managed to drop ONE piece of contradictory bit of knowledge, you have no idea of the depth of the number of links that I have at my disposal because I have googled all of this stuff…just, I did it years before this conversation.
So, do you honestly think that I had enough prescience to Google so many disparate ideas in anticipation of having such a stupid conversation with an obvious dipshit, or is it perhaps it is because I am fed up with self-righteousness that drives people to relinquish their duty to fix social issues by dumping their problems on government to “fix”?
Somebody who is actually interested in solving problems would be sharing ideas and not using their share of knowledge to browbeat strangers for some PERCEIVED (you are welcome for neuroscience lesson in the difference between SENSATION and PERCEPTION 😂) notion that you are intellectually superior to them.
What does it gain you to think the other person is “just a burger flipper” only to wipe his ass with every single regressive idea that you have? You can maintain the idea that you KNOW more than I do, but your focus on one subject has proven how little you UNDERSTAND.
When I brought up “parity” regarding learning processes, you had to fall back into the only subject matter in which you applied the concept to: digital communications.
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS!!! 😂
The one thing I have a professional mastery over, and you thought you could test me in THAT?
Son, I stayed AWAY from digital communications because it would not have been fair for you. You decided to go there anyways. 😂
That’s a crack you shouldn’t have pulled your finger out of. You ain’t prepared for the flood waiting for you on the other side of my restraint. 😂
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@psikeyhackr6914 Here’s a simple explanation of economics for you…
Two people are selling a house, one is buying. The side in surplus (houses) have to compete for the side in scarcity (money). Competition on one side increases the value on the other side. The value of houses go down as less money is required to purchase one. Good?
Now, one person is selling and two people are buying. Now the economic forces have shifted such that money now has to compete for the one house. The value of the money deflates relative to the value of the house, and the value of the house inflates relative to the value of the money. Inflation/deflation is all relative because value is subjective and established by the parties involved. Following?
Now, there’s two houses for sale, and two buyers. The market is in equilibrium…until government taxes the buyers to take one of the houses off the market to give to a person in “poverty.” Now we are back to a scarcity of houses AND less money to compete with.
On top of that, who has equity in the house that the government removed from the market causing a scarcity? The government? The taxpayers? The welfare recipient?
Nope. Nope. Nope.
It is Blackrock and Black Stone who bought single family homes up in bulk in key areas around the country in anticipation of Blue States coercing residents to flee en masse. Not only did they buy in bulk, but they bought these homes at 200% market value. Why would they do that?
Well, the value of a house is determined by recent market activity, so all current homeowners now have higher property TAXES even if the tax RATE didn’t change.
Then there’s Section 8 allocations which are based on “fair market value” which large corporations had just artificially inflated…which, coincidentally, also made purchasing a home by those fleeing Blue States pretty near impossible in the wake of the economic shutdowns forces on citizens of those states.
To summarize, corporations used the laws they designed to force large numbers of citizens into rental situations funded by the taxes they structured to house the “poor” because socialists thought voting for absolute strangers they’ll never meet to sign thousand page bills into law that they’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists they’ll never see.
You see, CAPITALISM is what makes EVERY other economic framework function. It is the system that has been around for billions of years before humans got around to slap a name on it, and it has been the engine powering industry and innovation ever since the first replicating proteins started gathering together and building homes for themselves out of phospholipid bilayers.
Thomas Sowell is correct, not because he has studied economics. He is correct because economics is older than the human race, and all he is doing is explaining that system. Studying human economic models merely gave him insight in to the more general processes he might not even be aware of.
Simply put: economics drives industry and innovation, and politics is the antithesis of economics.
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0:30 “People feel like they screwed up.”
That’s because college “education” is sold as the sole path to “success.” Then government spends billions sustaining a bad idea making it difficult to replace it.
Mental illness today is rooted in bad ideas perpetuated by society. Things like “words have power” is a lie perpetuated by Sophists to control people with words through their emotions. By reducing people to emotional creatures, you are able to motivate them towards foolish things. If Socrates and Hitler aren’t enough reasons to demolish the idea of emotional rhetoric, then I don’t know what to tell you.
People suffer mentally because society conditions them with conflicting ideas if not outright WRONG ideas.
1:40 You finally accidentally said something that is absolutely correct, but you don’t apply it universally.
The more you get angry or hurt over words, the more you reinforce the connection between the Wernicke’s Area and the amygdala. So, the more you let a word hurt your feelings, the more it will hurt in the future AND the less control you will have over it. You do a great disservice painting people as sociopaths because they don’t take responsibility for OTHER people’s emotions when a main attribute for a fully functional adult is the ability to moderate their OWN emotions.
2:20 That sounds like a horrible paper fraught with vague language and very little basis on neuroscience OR philosophy pertaining to the social fabric that generates “incels.”
You’ll argue that people hurt by words is a valid use of emotions while treating “incels” like their failings are mostly their own. If you provide lies like “words have power” and “your feelings are relevant” of course you’ll create a bunch of under-developed adults who don’t know how to deal with rejection and failure.
3:00 Society is designed to condition children to maximize their emotions stat at the cost of their rational thinking stat.
Why?
Because emotional people are MUCH easier to control. If you know the right words, you can get whatever you want out of an irrational person. Teaching kids that “words have power” just primes them for emotional manipulation.
3:30 I see people wasting much more time AND wealth going to college for four years.
7:00 Again, you mention the “missed milestone” thought and what it LEADS to, but you fail to trace out everything that LED to that thought.
You’re basically diagnosing symptoms rather than the disease.
8:00 Hedy Lamarr patented frequency hopping encryption when she was a dishonored actress with no formal education in electrical engineering at the age of 28.
Society conditions people to make excuses and take no responsibility leading to the feelings you are discussing. It’s called a “victim mentality.”
9:00 “Deliberate practice” does not, necessarily, imply conscious deliberation on a desired skill. The brain is 100% symbolic. It is a constant process of assigning meaning to a physical pattern. It is the process of abstraction.
One can deliberately practice “paint the fence” for hours and do so emotionally to heighten the execution of the skill WITHOUT being conscious of the fact that you are learning martial arts.
This concept of encapsulation has been used for centuries by peasants who were not allowed to practice martial arts or own weapons. They would obscure training within dance routines, and practice fighting with farm implements.
Encapsulating education within another form is used to hide truth from the power structure, teach a consciously resistant mind, or allow an underdeveloped mind absorb more complex ideas.
With your background in neurobiology, it’s astounding that you don’t express any of this.
10:00 Another adage is, “It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than to be a gardener in a war.” I think it’s usually attributed to Sun Tzu.
This is also the basis behind a Republic versus a Democracy. People that have the ability to vote away another’s wealth should know how to create wealth first. Then they would not be so inclined to vote in such a manner.
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1:15 Now look up “Chart of the Century” and see if you can figure out the difference between the economic sectors in RED versus those in BLUE.
Hint: one is heavily regulated/subsidized by the central government and the other operates within a more free market.
1:50 You think “capitalism” is a messed up idea at its core while, ironically, not understanding that the neurons in your brain operate within a free market capitalist framework.
2:00 Then you move on to a pure straw man to describe what YOUR understanding of capitalism is which does not take into account the multitude of definitions for “capital” strewn throughout college textbooks.
Good job…
2:20 “Profit.”
Let me clue you in on your use of emotionally charged words that taint your rational processing of extremely simple concepts.
“Capital” (individualist connotation) and “means of production” (collectivist connotation) are the EXACT SAME THING. Connotation is just added to give the impression that individuals are less virtuous than the state.
“Profit” (individualist connotation) and “surplus”(collectivist connotation) are the exact same thing. Again, excess resources when an individual achieves it (“profit”) is less virtuous than when the state does it (“surplus”).
You should refrain from engaging in emotional rhetoric if you truly want to have a rational discussion. Using emotions to convince people is childish and dangerous when you also give people power over others though a democracy. Ask Socrates, tyrant.
2:30 You aren’t keen on starving, so you trust the state to grow your food for you because enterprising free citizens are “evil” in your eyes?
Ask the Russians how well that works out…
Leadership isn’t about lording power over others. It’s about understanding the broader picture and being able to make rational decisions about the future based upon that understanding. Private citizens that generate an EXCESS of resources (profit/surplus depending on the connection you wish to use) is good for EVERYONE. It is far better than a state that runs at a SCARCITY of resources.
2:45 Elon’s decisions matter more because it is HIS wealth that HE is risking. If you feel you can do better, feel free. Some “intellectual” who has built nothing is far from qualified to explain what does or does not work. Your words will never prove the veracity of your claims. Only the examples that YOU BUILD will do that.
2:50 “I think democracy should apply to the economy.”
You are more than welcome to build a company based on that precept. Once you have successfully build one such company, build some more. Once you’ve amassed the requisite wealth to do so, build an entire community that uses your ideas about democracy within your community’s internal economy. Should you prove to be successful in THAT endeavor, keep growing and expanding.
This process requires absolutely no STATE interference whatsoever.
ALL that it requires is the strength of your convictions; the power of your imagination; and the tenacity of your physical effort to manifest your ideas.
Failing to build it yourself, you lack any valid argument for your ideals.
3:00 “Natural consequence…”
You probably shouldn’t use words like “natural” when you have failed to provide ONE actual example produced in the past couple billions of years that NATURE actually evolved through.
I can provide more examples of successful outcomes of a free market capitalist system in Nature than you can of a tyrannical system in the past couple thousand years of humans constantly failing at them.
3:15 “When competition is ruined, not bet something that the state necessarily did…”
Then you proceed to show Amazon which more than doubled in size during a SINGLE YEAR when government forced economic shutdowns which killed THOUSANDS of competing small businesses.
Good job killing your own case.
3:20 “Whether they got that monopoly on their own or through the state, it doesn’t matter.”
WHAT?!?
You’re arguing for a state run economy while arguing that a state derived monopoly doesn’t matter regarding your arguments against “capitalism” derived monopolies?
Christ…I haven’t made it 25% of the way through your video yet…
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@Floatacious The problem with Rand’s understanding of “concepts” is that they can only be understood if the system used to encode the concept is the same system that decides it.
A simpler example, than concepts in the brain, is that of a computer program. Objectively, the computer program is a physical pattern of magnetized particles/optical pits/transistor states/etc. However, the meaning of those patterns can only be extracted by the operating system for which it was programmed for. You cannot put a program designed for iOS into a PC and expect anything meaningful to happen. That’s because the meanings (concepts) encoded within those objective physical patterns are subjective to the operating system that scans the physical pattern.
If you want to get neurological, there’s a pattern of neuronal activations within your brain (physical, objective) that represents the color “blue” (metaphysical, subjective). If that pattern is moved to a different cortical region, then that pattern will be understood to be something else based on the cortical region it was transplanted to. Even moving that pattern to another brain but in a similar region (visual cortex) is unlikely to be read the same as in your brain.
Babies take 4-8 weeks to begin LEARNING to see color. That’s because color is a metaphysical subjective representation of partial wavelengths of visible light (physical, objective). Through millions of iterations of interactions, the photoreceptors in your eyes produce neurotransmitters which attract neurons in the optic nerve which begins a chain reaction of neurons along that optical pathway in which neurons release neurotransmitters and the next neuron consumes those neurotransmitters. This mechanism is not unlike a free market where neurons are people and neurotransmitters are currency which drives transactions. So, the more active a circuit is, the more neurotransmitters are produced and secreted, the more other neurons are attracted. It is like circuits (groups of neurons that represent concepts) are like businesses. The more active/successful the circuit/business is, the more neurotransmitters/currency is generated, the more neurons/employees-customers are attracted, the larger the circuit/business grows.
All the brainlets on this comment thread that have absolutely no idea what capitalism actually is, will find it difficult to understand how their very own brains function to produce ideas. It is that lack of understanding of what an original thought is that will relegate them to being nothing more than a cog in someone’s machine; whether they are directly working for some large corporation or indirectly through taxes extracted and sent to those large corporations; these children will never figure out how to break the chains keeping them shackled in Plato’s Cave.
For some reason, they believe relinquishing their responsibility to build society from the bottom up, like rational beings, to complete strangers to build society from the top-down like the irrational tyrants that they are.
These fools don’t realize that the NATIONAL COLLECTIVISM that lead to the NAZI party is exactly what large corporations want. So they flood the “educational” system with ideas like “eat the rich” so they willingly vote their rights and responsibilities away.
The best kind of slavery is that which the enslaved begged for.
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@TheNewblade1 The sky is not blue. Blue doesn’t exist. Light with a wavelength around 600 nm exists, So, you don’t even understand that. 😂
TVs are cheaper because of surplus. Yes, that is a very basic concept of any economic transaction. More companies manufacturing TVs results in their cost dropping due to competition for resources: consumer wealth.
You were acting like you understood things, so why would so bother explaining it?
However, that’s not the only way TVs compete. They compete by evolving: more colors, deeper colors, more vibrant colors, higher resolution, dater refresh rates, lighter, more energy efficient, you can mount them on the wall, and you can even connected them to multiple advice and even the internet.
Competition drives up value and lowers cost, all the time; every time in a FREE market.
When you have Corporations fooling morons into voting their freedoms away, you begin getting Corporatism, which is NOT a free market; it is a regulated market. When you have Corporations fooling morons into voting their responsibilities away, you get government subsidies that artificially controls supply which INFLATES cost and kills innovation.
Look up “chart of the century” if you need pretty colors to help you understand.
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I went to seven different elementary schools.
Bullies created me.
I learned that putting people down doesn’t feel great: empathy. I recently learned that empathy is a neutral value judgment and that psychopaths use empathy as much as humanitarians: you have to know how pain feels to inflict it on others. So, I know how to psychologically break down bullies and build up weaker people.
I learned that putting myself down in front of others has certain psychological effects: self-deprecating humor. What is a bully going to say that I hadn’t already said? How threatening is a clown to regular or weaker kids? What starts as laughter AT me can easily evolve into laughter WITH me.
Words do not define me, I define me: sticks and stones. Emotions ARE inherent, but their triggers are not. Prehistoric humans had lions, tigers, and bears that required amygdalic functions; modern humans do not. Although we no longer have many of the tangible threats that required fight or flight, we still have the nervous system circuits for that reaction. Brain regions evolved for various reasons, and biological evolution is much slower than environmental evolution. We have replaced the tangible (lions, tigers, and bears) threats with intangible (words, reputation, virtue, finances) threats. Those threats are merely groups of neurons in the cerebral cortex. Every idea, whether it be a letter or a word or a complete novel, is nothing more than an ensemble of neurons connected to other ensembles of neurons. If an ensemble is connected to the amygdala, then any time that ensemble activates, it activates the amygdala. The OTHER connections to that idea CAN be reinforced so that the connection to the amygdala can be pruned over time. Facing your fears is nothing more than reinforcing the cortical connections to the fear trigger by way of reinforcing the neutral/positive outcome ideas with more more neutral/positive outcomes. The brain is a complex computer specialized in statistical analysis. This is why pattern recognition and development is so strong in our species. One traumatically negative experience will unbalance the statistical analysis of that experience; it adversely affects the weighted balance stored within your brain. As more experience is had, the average evens out.
Once I knew (intuitively, then scientifically) what emotions were, I started to realize that words, although non-existent, had two main components: rational and emotional. Allowing the emotional (irrational) component to occupy my consciousness disallows my consciousness from processing the rational component. It is the rational component that is evaluated for truth, not the emotional content. WHAT a person says is where RATIONAL discourse begins, and WHY, HOW, or WHO says what they said is where rational discourse ends and IRRATIONAL discourse takes over.
Dealing with bullies and making friends with self-deprecating humor led to disrupting class; writing sentences instead of recess; reports back home; and punishment at home. I had to learn to deal with bullies without help from teacher or family. I learned to rely on friends. When I couldn’t play with my friends during recess, I learned to rely on the last person left: myself.
Only I can take care of me. Only I am responsible for my thoughts and emotions because they are in MY head. I cannot control what is said or done to me, but I can control what I think about it. The more I learn, the more I can understand what I am thinking about. Only I can take the initiative to make my imaginations reality; to express what I’ve learned about myself and the world around me; to reach out and find those who haven’t realized that they’ve learned the same things and seen the same patterns; to reveal the new patterns possible with the things they’ve already learned.
Only I can imagine up my better and make that imagination a reality.
“The first step to building a better world is imagining a better world.”
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The Second Amendment does NOT apply to states, counties, cities, communities, or homes.
It, like the rest of the American Constitution, applies to the FEDERAL government.
You WANT states and cities expressing such tyrannies so that the rest of the country sees how they turn out. If you do not like such infringements, GET OUT of those cities and states.
More importantly, keep those kinds of people out of gun friendly cities and states by implementing the exact opposite: mandate firearm ownership, training, and membership in a local militia.
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Of all our senses, our visual sense accounts for up to 80% of our impressions. We can garner many types of information which is conducive to survival and propagation. We are, quite literally, visual learners. And this is the basis of racism: our dependence on visual information. exacerbating the issue is emotional responses. Because survival is heavily tied to immediate action to imminent dangers, heuristics creates many subconscious responses.
As I mentioned before, heuristics is the processing of our value matrix, and our value matrix is the result of personal and second hand experiences. Our existence has become, primarily, social in nature, which would make social biases more powerful. Social perception values are tied to physical tangible values to provide us a complicated heuristic analysis that can be biased in multiple ways.
Personally, I love learning and ideas, so my personal bias tends to shut down my senses when engaged with somebody. Since I am focused on their ideas (conceptual), I am less likely to pay attention to their physical traits (tangible). Everybody is different, so their biases will be different.
Basing your biases on sensory input will result in physical biases. Basing your ideas on conceptual stimulation will result in intangible biases. These biases will naturally change over time through both ACTIVE conscious EFFORT or PASSIVE subconscious ABSORPTION.
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Last thoughts on racism: how many racists have been cured through derision and getting them fired? I am seriously interested in that number because I’d love to compare it to Mr. Daryl Davis’ numbers. A man with little formal training in sociology, philosophy, psychology, or any other pertinent subject, has managed to cure over TWO HUNDRED white supremacists of their racism and has convinced them to denounce and rescind their membership with the KKK.
Somehow, Mr. Davis intuitively understood the power of open and honest communication for the sake of understanding (Socrates Dialectic) which resulted in the necessary EXPOSURE to truthful experiences that eroded old biases. By approaching these people with respect, they had little cause to put up their cognitive defenses which would have protected their idea of supremacy.
Racism is a cognitive disease. It has a cure. The medicine is logic and reason, not emotional rhetoric and action. Truth is the medicine that cures racism, and a spoonful of it taken consistently over time will undo the biases of racism.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
Mr. Davis is the only person I have ever felt inclined to cast my vote for in regards to Sainthood. With race being a powerful wedge in society, right now, Mr. Davis’ method would do society much good.
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3:00 All ideas are metaphysical. Have you ever seen or weighed an idea before?
12:30 Instill haven’t heard a good explanation of why it’s perceived as a particle “choosing” what state it is in.
Suppose you have a system of particles in which the particle you are measuring is a member of. Even though you haven’t measured it yet, all particles within that system “know” each other’s states. So, before you measure, YOU consider the partial in a superposition state while particle #2 (P2) knows particle #1’s (P1) state is Down.
Now, when you measure that P1’s state, does it really “choose” down even though P2 already knows it is down?
What I like to do is use a variation of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity for quantum states in that particles in a system are in the same quantum frame of reference meaning all members of that system know each other’s quantum states. However, particles in a different quantum frame of reference perceived that first system of particles as being in a state of superposition UNTIL a part oval in one system interacts with a particular in the other system thereby converging both quantum frames of reference into a single quantum frame of reference.
The way people treat these experiments is that the experimenter are ant in a quantum superposition state even though, from the measured particle’s quantum frame of reference, the scientist is in a quantum superposition state.
It’s ALL relative.
Another way to put it is integrating particles converge into the same quantum frame of reference.
13:39 So, basically, two particles within the same quantum frame of reference?
14:39 That’s like saying if I have a coin in one of two closed hands, and you pick a hand to be opened that upon seeing an empty hand, my other hand “chose” to have the coin in it.
No.
19:00 Yes. Wave functions don’t describe reality. They describe knowledge of reality. The equations produce superpositions because our knowledge of a particle is in a superposition.
However, if the wave function collapses for me meaning I now KNOW the reality, that just lites me in the same quantum frame of reference as those particles as we now have a mutual and reciprocal knowledge of each other while you, still in a different quantum frame of reference, have knowledge of neither the particle’s state OR knowledge of my knowledge of that particle’s state.
19:15 Quantum mechanics gives the probability of what a property IS which reflects you KNOWLEDGE of what IS and not of what actually IS.
Reality IS.
Our knowledge of what IS is in a superposition state of knowing it is one state or knowing it is in the other state.
20:15 Quantum Mechanics describes knowledge of what IS. It doesn’t not explain what IS.
It’s like a person never reading or hearing about Einstein. Does that person’s lack of knowledge mean Einstein really didn’t exist?
Or, is his knowledge of Einstein in a superposition state of existing and not existing which collapses into existing the moment he reads about Einstein?
Einstein had always existed in a different quantum frame of reference UNTIL knowledge of his existence converged that person’s quantum frame of reference with Einstein’s quantum frame of reference.
22:45 Pink exists as symbolic representation transmitted to a particular part of the prefrontal cortex normally associated with the visual cortex.
This is why people can see pink in the absence of light (hallucinations, synesthesia) or not see it in the presence of light (blindness, color-blindness).
Light is reality.
Color is knowledge of that reality.
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Johnson Li Jesus…I can tell you haven’t thought about what you are talking about.
You are literally calling for more government to solve a corrupted government.
That’s like asking for more cancer to cure cancer.
Name ONE other system that centralizes as it grows larger and more complex.
I’ll name plenty that don’t: roots, tree limbs, roadways, waterways, electrical grids, telecommunications networks, the internet, companies, militaries, taxonomy, object oriented programming, the human body, the brain.
All this systems are far more functional and stable than a centralized human government.
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@NothingSerious...2 Your problem is my use of the term “village” where I merely mean a group of people that adhere to a common ideology.
A modern “village” would still be free to be invest in modern tools and equipment.
I’m sure you’re picturing a group of people living in mud huts. 😂
Your arguments are directed at a centralized governing structure which I ALSO argue against, which is why I went with the village format for n which villagers answer directly to their chief, and their chief a directly answerable to their villagers. The chief acts as the village’s consciousness, much like the prefrontal cortex acts as the entire brain’s consciousness. THAT is what I mean by INCORPORATING…or coming together to act as a single consciousness.
Once a group of people INCORPORATE, their “heads,” acting as the consciousness, can then come together with other “heads” of other villages incorporating into a “super” village. This process is fractal able to continue in perpetuity.
This is how EVERY large complex system evolves, from the cells in your body, to the neurons in your brain to the limbs on a tree to a military to a large corporation.
You understand some of the concepts which leads you to prove my case and n certain points while failing on others.
As for your farmers…
Are you saying EACH farmer should cobble his own shoes, build his own house, care for his own horses, defend his own land against all invaders?
You’re saying that that paradigm is superior to ONE individual cobbling everybody’s shoes, another studying veterinary, and a small group training for defense,l?
You obviously don’t understand how we evolved from hunter-gatherer to agrarian to modern society.
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As for your factory example, are you saying that each worker is doing the exact same task, or are they differentiated doing different tasks in a single process?
Individualism would dictate that each person builds one product from scratch which is patently far less efficient than specializing in a particular task.
Yes, failure of one individual in that setup would crash the entire system JUST LIKE any number of your Ryan’s would cause you to die if they failed at their task. You seem to be conflating efficiency with redundancy.
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@pk7056 “did I use as many insults as you…”
You didn’t and cannot use any insults on me; because nothing insults me; because I take responsibility for my emotions like a fully-developed adult should.
What “insects” centralize? What mammals with alphas is a large system? 😂 I’m referring to systems that have grown to millions and billions of independent individuals, and you name a wolf pack with a couple DOZEN?
You really should try thinking more BEFORE responding. 😂
“Who makes these house rules”
The people who have come together based on a high degree of agreement about ideological beliefs.
“What kind of system is this?”
Communal.
“I said hypothetical not hypocritical.”
Linguistics lesson: typos.
Typos, short for typographical error, is due to a misapplication of typing equipment. Originally this happened when printing presses required type setting, and the person who was setting the type placed the wrong character. Later on, this would manifest as a finger inadvertently striking an adjacent key to the one intended; colloquially called “fat-fingering.” In modern times, fat-fingering has been exacerbated with AI algorithms predicting incorrect words.
That’s useful to know when applying CONTEXT CLUES as you read other peoples’ comments.
“A single person is not a government I think it takes more than one.”
Yes, and if you LIVE with the people you agree with, DEMOCRACY is unnecessary because your shared common ideals will dictate each individual’s SELF-GOVERNANCE. If EVERYBODY who believes in 90% income taxes lived in ONE area (as opposed to spread out among all other taxation beliefs), then it ceases to be a TAX and it becomes a VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION because each individual’s moral fiber will motivate them to contribute the same agreed upon amount.
“What about the inside hitlers n stalins skull?”
Yes. The same organizational STRUCTURE within their skull is exactly the same as yours: thousands of lower order neurons reporting to a single higher order neuron, as thousands of those higher order neurons report to a single higher order neuron above them. This is a DIRECT representational structure where each individual interacts ONLY with those one level above or below them in the hierarchy with meaningful and robust connections AS OPPOSED TO the millions to on relationship between a federal representative and their constituents predicated on a nearly meaningless relation where neither really knows the other.
Tell me: do you make a habit of empowering a complete stranger to sign a thousand page mortgage out in your name? Because THAT is exactly what you do when you vote every four years for somebody you’ll never meet to sign thousand page bills you’ll never read drafted by corporate lobbyists you’ll never see.
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@dottiegentry4786 Personally, I respect everyone’s ideas, but you have large corporations conditioning people to not respect other’s ideas.
Oregon used to be Red until Democrats from
California moved up there and turned it Blue. It’s so bad, 11-15 eastern counties are going through the steps to secede to Idaho.
After 2020, enough people moved out of Blue states? Like California and New York and into Red states like Texas and Florida. How many do you think brought there ideas with them?
All I am saying is, if YOU don’t take steps to prevent those things from happening to YOUR state, YOUR children will lose YOUR way of life too. The days where you could be left alone to live how you like are going away, so you better adapt or lose it. Be a discerning adult and not a naive child.
Also, I learned to think for myself after going to seven different elementary schools. I’m so good at it, that O even spend time thinking for others, like you. I don’t need saving, because I love life and accept whatever I can’t change while changing what I can.
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@clem.3894 “There is no version of capitalism that respects competition.”
Well, at least it’s safe to say you don’t have a firm understanding of evolution or neuroscience.
“Capitalism will always devolve into corporatism…”
Agreed…WHEN citizens foolishly vote for abject strangers to “represent” them in government.
You should seriously diagram any large complex system with millions of individuals constituents: the internet, an army, a large corporation, the brain. There’s a reason why those incorporations are efficient, stable, and resistant to corruption while human societies are not: a fractally growing hierarchy of organized constituencies into larger and larger groups.
A quick breakdown of the organization of the 100 billion neurons in your brain…
1,000-10,000 lower order neurons report to single higher order neuron. This pattern repeats multiple times such that
1,000 1st order neurons report to a 2nd order neuron.
1,000 2nd order neurons report to a 3rd order neuron.
1,000 3rd order neurons report to a 4th order neuron.
And so on.
This results in:
A 2nd order neuron representing 1,000 1st order neurons.
A 3rd order neuron representing 1,000,000 1st order neurons.
A 4th order neuron representing 1,000,000,000 1st order neurons.
And this exponential pattern continues all the way up to the prefrontal cortex which acts as the executive center of the brain which would be synonymous to the federal government of a republic.
In this arrangement, EVERY constituent has a direct and meaningful connection to its representative as opposed to the million+ to one ratio found in modern republics where it is impossible for a single “representative” to adequately represent a million+ constituents.
Your mention of local groups forming still leaves out all the necessary levels of representation required for a true republic to form. Individuals should form families; families into blocks; blocks into neighborhoods; neighborhoods into towns; towns into cities; cities into counties; counties into states, and states into a single nation. EACH scale of entity uses a direct and meaningful representation no greater than a 20:1 ratio between a lower order group to a higher order group.
The reason why corporations derive so much power in a free market is because citizens don’t incorporate the same way corporations do. Incorporating manifests greater power through the specialization through delegation as well as the efficiency derived through collective ownership of resources.
People don’t live collectively while demanding that the country be treated as a collective only to foolishly relinquish government power to a centralized entity that non of the hundreds of millions of individuals have the time or resources to oversee.
Summary: the sociologists that you rely on to do your thinking for you, ironically have absolutely no understanding of how the most complete society is organized which allows them to think their silly thoughts in the first place.
Billions of people on this planet have the blueprints for the most efficient, stable, and corruption-resistant society ever known to humans, and most of them are convinced that a completely different organization is better. Nature has proven these large complexity societies work the best billions of times over millions of years while humans constantly fail at centralized systems century after century.
The answers are LITERALLY within you, and you allow “intellectuals” to flood your mind with flawed ideas.
The irony would be readily apparent to you if you studied just ONE type of large complex system that has proven which organization works the best, but you’d rather remain willfully ignorant just to be “right” in your own mind.
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@clem.3894 “You’re not better than anyone else…”
CORRECT!! Which is why I don’t believe in FORCING my ideas on anybody else through a farcical democratic process.
“You’re not more inventive…”
CORRECT again!! I didn’t invent the social structure that neurons organize into.
Wow. You’re doing great!!!
“The theories you’re posing? All of them have roots in the musings of some socio-economic theorist…”
SUPPOSE that that is true, then that would mean that they inadvertently described the social structure of neurons because, as far as I know, NONE of them studied neuroscience.
“Everything that your posting now has some strain of “intellectual”…”
Maybe, but only if, as I stated previously, some prior “intellectual” inadvertently stumbled upon the social organization found in the neurons in your brain.
I’m gonna skip a bit of your enraged rantings…
“Also, on the topic of homogeny, when communities are separated based on ideology in general, it’s going to lead to a state where people aren’t as exposed to the diversity of ideas…”
Source? Examples?
Because I can easily provide examples of the opposite: the BRAIN.
Seriously. You are speaking completely out of your ass at this point because you are basing your responses upon the musings of socio-economic “intellectuals” who have NOT studied large complex systems. Do you truly believe that the ideologically segregated communities of neurons in your brain lack the INTEGRATION of which you speak? You obviously don’t understand what the theta waves are for and how trance-like states of mind accomplishes EXACTLY the process you erroneously believe the NATURAL organization of a large complex system is unable to achieve.
Besides, ASIDE from the fact that SEGREGATION does NOT mean ISOLATION (you should brush up on your vocabulary), what makes you think that people segregated from one another in houses achieve absolutely NO INTERACTIONS? What are you smoking?
Not only can ideas be shared face to face…we have the damn internet. We obviously don’t have the same level of understanding about existence as each other resulting in vastly different opinions on how human society should be, but, SOMEHOW, we are able to exchange ideas. There’s this neat new invention that came out a couple decades ago. It’s called “the internet.” It’s an Al Gore invention that you should check out sometime.
“It will literally divide us as a species…”
<face desk> we are ALREADY divided, genius.
I know I’m going to regret this, but…what is easier to treat: a SINGLE large cancerous tumor, or the same number of cells dispersed throughout your body? What do you think PRISONS are for? 😂 When LAWS are established to DICTATE what ideologies are “acceptable” or not, what happens when you have individuals…MINORITIES…who disagree with those laws?
YOU IDEOLOGICALLY SEGREGATE the dissidents from the rest of society who IDEOLOGICALLY agreed with or tolerated those laws. YOUR perspective is what caused the mass incarceration of Blacks in America, so when you mention FASCISM, you better damn well acknowledge the FASCISM that you support that leads to the mass incarceration of NON-VIOLENT Black “offenders.” Nearly 50% of the prison population has had their freedoms stripped because of drug offenses that NOT EVERYONE believes should be illegal….
So, imagine, if you will, two towns: one that believes smoking weed is bad, and one that does not…IDEOLOGICALLY SEGREGATED on the issue of smoking weed…
In YOUR system, the system that WE have, somebody caught smoking in either town is incarcerated which strips the “offender” of most of their liberties; that society loses a productive member of society;breaks up his family; puts a drain on society’s resources to fund the legal system and the Prison Industrial Complex; and enriches those who run society from the top-down.
NOW…in the RATIONAL and more NATURAL society, the “offender” in the first town is EXILED FROM THAT TOWN. The result: the “offender” loses FAR FAR less of his liberties; one community loses a productive member as another gains one; his family need not be broken up; the first community doesn’t waste resources though repeated criminal processing and constant incarceration; and (the ONLY downside) the Prison Industrial Complex does not constantly enrich those who fool the public into believing forced ideological inclusion is the best way to organize society.
Hell, if the cells in your body followed your ideas on how to organize society, not only would your gut micro biome infect every system in your body wreaking havoc everywhere; you wouldn’t even have SYSTEMS to have havoc wrought upon them. All your cells would be in one big jumbled and chaotic mass which wouldn’t last for more than a few seconds. Your BRAIN wouldn’t even function if your neurons followed your ideals for a disheveled population of nearly no order save for the imposed order of a centralized system if government which heavily restricts the diversity of ideas that you think you are championing.
YOUR idea actually results in LESS diversity as you force MORE AND MORE citizens to be LESS and LESS diverse in thought as you FORCE them to CONFORM to a LARGER AND LARGER set of ideological restrictions.
You seemingly decry fascism while, simultaneously, defending the process by which it manifests, takes roots, and flourishes.
So, I suggest you study ANY OTHER large complex system before making such erroneous and unsubstantiated claims based on the musings of flawed “intellectuals” who have ignored billions of years of natural evolution and thousands of years of human innovation.
“Like at this point you just sound like one of those extremely racist separatists I encountered years back.”
Fancy that…we are discussing IDEOLOGICAL segregation, and you attempt to devolve the discussion into one of BIOLOGICAL segregation. Besides…I AM NOT the one championing the mass incarceration of racial minorities predicated on forced ideological inclusion within society leading to forced ideological segregation via the Prison Industrial Complex.
How often does your race baiting back-fire on you like that, son?
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@clem.3894 As for your misconceptions about being able to cooperate on certain issues while going separate directions on others…
Suppose you have ten communities that agree on most things, such as public transportation within their shared areas so that they all contribute toward paving roadways. HOWEVER, they have a 50/50 disagreement on how resources should be spent regarding security and defense. Let’s say half believe in putting up a fence around the entire community and the other half believe in acquiring firearms and training with them. INSTEAD of them FORCING (it takes more resources to force others into compliance) they go their separate ways on THAT issue. Half of the communities invest in a semi-permeable membrane around the entire community, while the other half get to work in acquiring/manufacturing weapons and training with them…
Coincidentally, THESE communities accept the rationale behind the Second Amendment which would place them in a State that is friendly to such ideals, while those who are irrational about the Second Amendment live in ANOTHER state…IDEOLOGICAL segregation. You see, I can actually agree to disagree with irrational people WITHOUT FORCING them to agree through democracy.
…so, not only will less resources be used on forcing people in disagreement into compliance, natural delegation into specializations will occur. Those who believe in the semi-permeable membrane approach will work diligently to ensure that their idea proves to be as valuable as they argue it is just as those who disagreed with them do so for their ideas. HOWEVER, if you allow people into those communities who disagree with semi-permeable membranes for the collective communities and/or utilizing the Second Amendment as intended, then those people will be forced to participate through taxes imposed upon them for ideas they do not agree with OR they infect those communities with enough of their irrational ideas that neither ideal is realized.
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@clem.3894 As a side note: IF you chose neuroscience as your large complex system to study, you may also learn how to manage your emotions so you don’t feel inferior about your lack of knowledge. Knowing and understanding more than you doesn’t make me more superior to you, but you being upset about it will prevent you from rectifying that disparity. Being wrong is ok as long as you can acknowledge it; accept it; and do something about it, but you’ll never evolve as a person by holding onto fallacious ideas with no basis in reality. If I thought you were inferior, I wouldn’t be wasting my time sharing what I’ve learned. Unfortunately, your more concerned with being “right” than solving actual problems, that you, ironically, zealously advocate for the very same fascism you thought you were decrying which leads to all the problems that we see in society.
I understand the flaws in your arguments because I THOUGHT like you did when I was younger. I also appealed to authority, as you do now. I’ve just grown out of that and learned to think for myself by studying other subjects and drawing conclusions from a broader perspective than you or your “intellectuals” do.
Learn to manage your emotions. Learn some Stoicism to understand the importance of mastering your emotions, and learn some neuroscience to understand how to master those emotions.
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@clem.3894 Checked out your video regarding “capitalism versus corporatism.”
What a SHIT SHOW. 😂
Here’s my comments on the first quarter of the video that I watched…
“1:15 Now look up “Chart of the Century” and see if you can figure out the difference between the economic sectors in RED versus those in BLUE.
Hint: one is heavily regulated/subsidized by the central government and the other operates within a more free market.
1:50 You think “capitalism” is a messed up idea at its core while, ironically, not understanding that the neurons in your brain operate within a free market capitalist framework.
2:00 Then you move on to a pure straw man to describe what YOUR understanding of capitalism is which does not take into account the multitude of definitions for “capital” strewn throughout college textbooks.
Good job…
2:20 “Profit.”
Let me clue you in on your use of emotionally charged words that taint your rational processing of extremely simple concepts.
“Capital” (individualist connotation) and “means of production” (collectivist connotation) are the EXACT SAME THING. Connotation is just added to give the impression that individuals are less virtuous than the state.
“Profit” (individualist connotation) and “surplus”(collectivist connotation) are the exact same thing. Again, excess resources when an individual achieves it (“profit”) is less virtuous than when the state does it (“surplus”).
You should refrain from engaging in emotional rhetoric if you truly want to have a rational discussion. Using emotions to convince people is childish and dangerous when you also give people power over others though a democracy. Ask Socrates, tyrant.
2:30 You aren’t keen on starving, so you trust the state to grow your food for you because enterprising free citizens are “evil” in your eyes?
Ask the Russians how well that works out…
Leadership isn’t about lording power over others. It’s about understanding the broader picture and being able to make rational decisions about the future based upon that understanding. Private citizens that generate an EXCESS of resources (profit/surplus depending on the connection you wish to use) is good for EVERYONE. It is far better than a state that runs at a SCARCITY of resources.
2:45 Elon’s decisions matter more because it is HIS wealth that HE is risking. If you feel you can do better, feel free. Some “intellectual” who has built nothing is far from qualified to explain what does or does not work. Your words will never prove the veracity of your claims. Only the examples that YOU BUILD will do that.
2:50 “I think democracy should apply to the economy.”
You are more than welcome to build a company based on that precept. Once you have successfully build one such company, build some more. Once you’ve amassed the requisite wealth to do so, build an entire community that uses your ideas about democracy within your community’s internal economy. Should you prove to be successful in THAT endeavor, keep growing and expanding.
This process requires absolutely no STATE interference whatsoever.
ALL that it requires is the strength of your convictions; the power of your imagination; and the tenacity of your physical effort to manifest your ideas.
Failing to build it yourself, you lack any valid argument for your ideals.
3:00 “Natural consequence…”
You probably shouldn’t use words like “natural” when you have failed to provide ONE actual example produced in the past couple billions of years that NATURE actually evolved through.
I can provide more examples of successful outcomes of a free market capitalist system in Nature than you can of a tyrannical system in the past couple thousand years of humans constantly failing at them.
3:15 “When competition is ruined, not bet something that the state necessarily did…”
Then you proceed to show Amazon which more than doubled in size during a SINGLE YEAR when government forced economic shutdowns which killed THOUSANDS of competing small businesses.
Good job killing your own case.
3:20 “Whether they got that monopoly on their own or through the state, it doesn’t matter.”
WHAT?!?
You’re arguing for a state run economy while arguing that a state derived monopoly doesn’t matter regarding your arguments against “capitalism” derived monopolies?
Christ…I haven’t made it 25% of the way through your video yet…”
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@lyrebirdinusa Churches ALSO need an open mind to flourish.
Jesus was actually anti-dogmatic which is what got him killed in much the same manner Socrates met HIS fate. They both challenged the social dogma of their time, and they were silenced for it.
Today, science is the accepted dogma, and people are, again (albeit less lethally) being silenced yet again. Only today, they learned that killing the messenger only makes them more powerful as martyrs (Obi Wan Kenobi was modeled after this concept) because “Life” is NOT material. It is immaterial. Kill the body, and the ideas still persist. Those that had a hand in killing Socrates, Jesus, and Obi Wan Kenobi may have lived a few more years than their victims, but those people are barely footnotes (except Darth Vader) in their victims’ stories. We still speak Socrates’ and Jesus’ name today, over 2,000 years later. We still speak their ideals of rationality and liberty today, over 2,000 years later.
Because they understand this, they changed their tactics from executing the body (body) to assassinating their character (immaterial).
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@chrispycryptic Scientists are PAID to support the need for a market sector, like fossil fuels or “Green Energy” or pharmaceuticals.
How valuable would a scientist who publishes negative results about their sponsor’s products be to other sponsors? How long do you think totally objective scientists would last if their work and livelihood is dependent upon a third party, whether it be directly from a corporation or a corporation-controlled government?
We see all the “successful” predictions about “global warming”, and I mean “successful” in the fact that they “prove” global warming is an imminent existential danger caused mainly by human industry. How many “failed” predictions were produced that gave wildly crazy outcomes, or, Heaven forbid, no imminent and existential threat?
I saw a graph, once, that showed global temperatures lagging behind atmospheric particulate concentration. When I went back to look for it for a discussion, I found graphs that were exactly the same in color, scale, and values sans the the line showing atmospheric particulate concentration.
It was almost like they wanted CO2 and ONLY CO2 to be the cause of drastic climate changes, and not a medley of mechanisms that contribute in thousands of different ways and that could not be effectively modeled in their suites of already heavily parameterized (fancy word for best guesses) models which can’t even model cloud cover accurately which is crucial since the Earth’s albedo has a significant effect on solar radiance reaching the surface.
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@chrispycryptic “We can’t peer into the future.”
Spoken like somebody who doesn’t understand what gravity assist is and how scientists and engineers are able to launch a relatively tiny probe relatively astronomical distances to pick up gravitational acceleration MULTIPLE times from Venus at different parts in its orbit.
So, yes. We CAN peer into the future to calculate such a flight path when the system is simple and ALL the major mechanisms are known and understood.
Would you like to make a comparison between climate “modeling” and gravity assisted flight paths?
Or, if you like, we can discuss the more recent “pandemic” and discuss how there was very little discussion about the actual SCIENCE behind the mRNA vaccines which were on the verge of being mandated despite being completely experimental.
Do you know how difficult was it was to research all the relevant mechanics involving ACE2 receptors, ANG2 proteins, bare spike proteins, sugar-coated spike proteins on the actual virus, and all the tissues that contain ACE2 receptors such as epithelial cells within smaller blood vessels, like capillaries, and the blood cells that travel through the more congested vessel.
As for your claim that we need “more accurate” assessments of an “existential crisis” that nobody who believes in it can agree on because I all anyone has is vague notions on an “impending doom.”
Yes. I actually understand that there far more mechanisms involved than just CO2 concentrations and albedo. I just mentioned a mechanism we aren’t even close to being able to model with ANY degree of accuracy. Did you know stomatal density INCREASES on plants directly caused by a higher CO2 concentration. In other words, PLANTS (unconscious life forms) ADAPT to changing conditions because that’s what life does.
Then there’s the effect the Sun magnetosphere has on the Earth’s magnetosphere which affects the thermal energy of the ions in Earth’s mantle. Very, very little research done in that field. If you want to understand that mechanism more, look up “induction heating.”
The more concerning issue with your argument is the “necessity” for more “accurate” predictions. The Earth has dodged multiple catastrophic predictions which seems to imply that predictions are pointless without actual solutions. So why are we authorizing more “research” on prediction “accuracy” when the people who already believe it aren’t going to believe it more, and those that don’t believe won’t believe in it more either. Have you really noticed any major shifts in beliefs regarding “climate change”? Outside of generations being raised by fear-mongering growing into voting-aged children, I don’t see many people changing their minds in either direction.
So, this begs the question: IF “climate change” is believed to be a legitimate existential threat by millions of people, why is their only “solution” to vote for absolute strangers to pass laws nobody reads drafted by corporate lobbyists that work for the corporations that spent billions selling the “problem” in the first place?
We can move past THAT argument and look at the more popular “solutions” like solar panels. Would you like to discuss the obvious planned obsolescence in the design of solar panels which drives the necessity for continuous manufacturing and strip mining for raw materials because the overly complex manufacturing process which include vapor deposition of different PV materials to achieve higher efficiencies and longer lifespans by slightly decreasing the thermal degradation of excess radiant energy above the band gap range within those materials?
“But there is plenty of data out there o observe, learn, and derive a conclusion of your own if you like.”
Do you have any clue how many bits of data your afferent nervous system collects and processes every second? MILLIONS. Do you know how that data is processed? Through a decentralized hierarchy of neuronal groups arranged in multi-tiered arrangement not unlike the organization found in large corporations or computer networks. Each layer is responsible for converting raw data into a more concise summary that the next level can process as data into another leaves of compression and summary until the final summary is presented to the prefrontal cortex in one of the various symbolic languages that we grow up learning as the “five senses.” Color doesn’t exist. It is a symbolic representation of the millions of calculations initiated by a vibration in the electromagnetic field which triggers the first of many electrochemical reactions in one of millions of photoreceptors in the retina.
Why is all of this relevant?
Because a single person can barely process the millions of bits of data their sensory cells collect, but you think people can analyze the quadrillions of interactions that occur every second of every day for decades or even centuries to come up with any useful conclusions? Even with our best computers running their algorithms can’t handle all that processing. Then you have the butterfly effect where even the slightest deviation from reality anywhere on the model’s timeline will create a cascade of errors the longe r you run the simulation. These researchers have to have JUST the right “parameters” to run a simulation with just the right results to be employed by whomever is finding them to corroborate the necessity of the “solution” they are ready to sell the government.
If people ACTUALLY believed it was an existential threat, they wouldn’t be wasting resources and time on more “accurate” modeling. They would be working DIRECTLY on the “problem” instead of pretending “influencer” is a legitimate “profession.”
“And derive a conclusion of your own.”
I have, and I am developing actual free-market solutions to “global warming/climate change.” I’m not doing it because I believe that there is an existential threat. I am 100% skeptical on the whole discussion: w have neither the full understanding of EVERY mechanism that contributes to the planetary climate, NOR do we have the computing power to adequately model what little we do know. We cannot say one way or the other.
What I CAN say with 100% certainty is that centralized governments are antithetical to industry and innovation. So “solving” the “climate crisis” isn’t my motivation. Solving the meta-problem of useless people voting for the least qualified and most popular among us to buy the “solutions.”
While most of my diatribe is aimed squarely at the Left in their useless and paralyzing fear, I have major issues with the Right for bothering to waste their time arguing with the Left while corporations take over government in the confusion. If the Right were more wise, they would see that neither side is going to convince the other, and it’s just a matter of time when the generation growing up in all of this will be conditioned to accept that the “climate crisis” narrative, and the more dangerous issue of believing the best solution is government. If they realize those few things ,then they can just move on to, “Assuming it is true…”
Then it’s a matter of competing correctly with government to develop actual solutions that people on both side as would be willing to pay for VOLUNTARILY within the free markets. This would lead to very positive consequences:
1. The Right builds bridges with the Left by solving their “problem.”
2. The Right can teach the Left how to actually solve problems.
3. The alright wins back some of their liberty by taking the “solution” out of the government’s hands.
4. They get rich by yanking the market Green Energy corporations spent billions establishing. Nothing is sweeter than capitalizing on a snake oil salesman’s advertising to undercut their “solutions”. By selling cheaper ACTUAL solutions.
So, this video is correct in its depiction of a confused society that relies heavily on ad hominem and appeal to authority to make decisions based on science that do not understand.
Children whine about a problem until an adult solves it for them.
An adult just solves the problem.
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@whimpypatrol5503 While your comment has a lot of fine points, the main difference between a single computer (single core) and Nature is that a single computer runs these permutations in serial, while Nature runs them in parallel. To match what Nature can produce algorithmically, a computer would have to be able to run at the same level of parallelism as Nature can. Until we have the computing power to accomplish such a feat, we won’t be able to model reality sufficiently to run an algorithm as complex as the one determining our reality.
We can run simpler algorithms which produce simpler self-organizing entities that have life-like behaviors, so I’m fairly confident that self-organization is a natural occurrence. Hell, stars and planets are the result of self-organizing in which the complexity of the organization is inversely proportional to the size of the organization. As you go down in scale, smaller and smaller instances of self-organization manifest, and those instances integrate into larger instances of organization.
It is not like the self-organization that occurred on Earth resulted in less entropy in the Universe, or even within our solar system. It is fallacious to consider the decreasing entropy just on Earth when it is part of a larger system which loses entropy overall. You can decrease entropy locally anywhere in the Universe, and the Universe will still increase in entropy overall. The Earth receives massive amounts of energy from the Sun which allows entropy to decrease on Earth while entropy increases on the Sun.
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@chrisgriffiths2533 😂 You do understand that Nature is fractal, aye?
You have small communities of about 100 citizens. They send out five members to create a second community with the representatives of 19 other communities. Now you have a 2,000 member community. Then, that second order community sends five representatives to a third order community along with representatives from 19 other second order communities creating a community of 40,000.
Then a fourth order community of 800,000.
Then a fifth order community of 16,000,000.
Then a sixth order community of 320,000,000.
How about you study pen of the following: business management, taxonomy, object oriented programming, water systems, computer networking, or neuroscience BEFORE talking about complex systems.
That way you won’t exhibit your utter lack of understanding between centralization decentralization?
Just some friendly advice, kiddo.
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@mackmckinney5206 As opposed to your ideas about DE-evolving.
Look, boy. America was founded on natural evolutionary principles even if the Founders didn’t explicitly state it or even realizing what they had done. Evolution is driven by a decentralized process of allowing ideas to remain segregated and allowing each individual idea to compete with others.
GOVERNment precludes an idea’s ability to remain intact which removes the ability for intact ideas to compete. By resorting to a vanishingly smaller proportion of a population to dictate for an ever increasing number of people to DICTATE what the “best” ideas are, you directly subvert natural evolutionary processes.
For example, subsidizing colleges makes it impossible for better ideas to replace an obsolete educational system. This is the direct cause for inflating tuition costs AND steady decline in the value of each individual diploma. The problem is that your, and everybody else’s, pride in their “education” precludes your ability to address the flaws in that “educational” system. The “flaws” you do address only compound when you apply your “solution”: more government.
If people, like you, actually cared about the problems “tools”, like CRT, expose, then you wouldn’t spend more time pretending to understand the problem than actually solving it.
Government is NOT a solution. Government is merely a sanitizing process by which people can absolve themselves of actually working on a problem while patting themselves on the back for outsourcing the solution. It also allows people to feel charitable with OTHER peoples’ wealth. It’s not charity when you take other peoples’ wealth at gunpoint, and it isn’t charity to contribute wealth to a solution you have no direct involvement with.
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Everybody freaking out about the Electoral College doesn’t understand that this country was designed for ideological segregation.
Let’s take BLM, for instance. Would it be better for EVERY locality to have the exact same kind of police force as determined by Federal statute? Or, perhaps, every locality would understand its own needs far better than a distant government and that paying taxes UP to the Federal level only to have it sent back DOWN to the local level is far less efficient than allowing localities to fund their own programs?
Let’s take it straight to today’s issues. What is preventing Democratic Cities and States from implementing Law Enforcement reform to cater to BLM? Why do these localities HAVE to wait for Federal statute to be implemented?
More abstractly, why does everybody INSIST on forcing others to live as they see fit by spending so much effort carving out powers at the Federal level that erodes freedoms of the individual?
You know, if you intellectuals knew how to govern yourselves at the local level, who was President would matter far less. You see, the Federal governess designed to move slowly. You don’t want emotionally driven change at the Federal level because once it is in, and everybody calms down, they don’t realize the damage they did to their freedoms.
You want fast societal changes? Do it locally. Experiment with your own community. If you succeed, other communities will follow. If you fail, it’s only your community failing. Failing at the Federal level means we ALL fail together.
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Wait. One case of a father and daughter dying is grounds for decriminalizing illegal crossings?
Open the borders wide and welcome the strongest and bravest from the country they are fleeing. Yay for those people. Boo for their country. Now their home country is lesser for losing those brave souls. Now what? Those countries breed more and send them this way? How do people not understand that that is not a solution?
Got a better idea: build the wall. Build large water mains into it (research The Great Man Made River in Libya), construct desalination plants on both costs, cultivate kelp forest farms at sea, construct railroads by the wall, slap solar panels on the wall, construct subterranean hemp farms, trench out a large moat in front of the wall.
What do we have?
Fresh water, electricity, kelp meal fertilizer, hemp fiber for hempcrete, hemp wood, and hemp plastics (be a great way to sequester carbon along with the kelp forest farms, eh?), a railway system for terrestrial transport and a canal for freight liner transport. We have everything asylum seekers need to build agricultural communities to settle south of the wall until citizenship is attained. If they were brave enough to make the journey, they’ll be industrious enough to become profitable in no time. At that point, they can begin paying for the raw material as well as offsetting the construction of the wall.
Endgame: Democrats win because we are no longer turing peopl away. Republicans win because we are no longer letting non-citizens all the way into the country. Asylum seekers win, because they have successfully escaped their plight and have been given an opportunity to flourish. Trump wins because he got his wall, and “Mexico” (actually what ever country the asylum seekers came from, but who cares at this point?) paid for it. American economy wins, because we now have a newer canal from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. AGW alarmists win because we have started a sustainable and profitable means of carbon sequestration. AGW deniers win because they don’t have to waste time and energy fighting a pointless battle with the alarmists. Eco warriors win because we are initiating subterranean hemp (and other produce) farms to decrease logging demands, and returning the surface back to nature.
As a bonus, we can instill American values (Constitution and Bill of Rights) in the asylum seekers, train them in well regulated militias to defend themselves, and, perhaps, give them the option of going back to their homeland, and allow them their revolution.
Is all this viable? Probably not, but it is possible. That possibility should be enough to inspire people to look at the bigger picture, broaden their horizons, and seek solutions that do not require a lot of infighting.
All this technology we have, the internet, the centuries of philosophy to pull from, and we still can’t find common, SLIGHTLY compromising solutions?
Stop the pointless back and forth and discuss actual solutions people. Christ.
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@KiithnarasAshaa I don’t disagree with anything you have said, (except, perhaps, that you aren’t a conservative; you definitely seem like you want to conserve the Constitutional principles this country was founded upon), so this is merely commentary. This isn’t arguing anything you’ve said.
“Victim” implies that somebody else is the source of your predicament. This is the realm of children and others of similar levels of foolishness. It is the antithesis for responsibility. Somebody who constantly uses words like “victim” is somebody who refuses to take responsibility for their own lives.
Mr. Rittenhouse was not a “victim” PRECISELY because he took responsibility for his own safety.
These same people would label the preteens Rosenbaum molested “murderers” as well if one of them managed to successfully defend themselves.
The thing about “victims” is that you can convince them to do anything, even relinquish their own sovereignty. So it is in the System’s (the same one that is the source of “systemic racism,” ironically) best interest if most of society feels victimized; remains children. Even in their ability to vote based on some arbitrary number like age, these children will always willingly relinquish their rights AND responsibilities required to build a civil society so that somebody else can do it for them.
The same people that rioted over a man that was stealing a car and kidnapping children from his ex, whom he sexually assaulted (what happened to the poundMeToo movement?),because cops wouldn’t let him retrieve a knife, are now cheering on the assault of a minor during one such riot.
Less than ten people with a collective wealth of over $700 BILLION controls nearly all of our information dissemination. It is no coincidence that they keep people emotional by suppressing certain information and amplifying others. Information like that which paints a minor as the aggressor, and the I’m molester as the sainted “victim.”
Mr. Rittenhouse is not the first minor they did this to. People need to learn about the limitations to the First Amendment. It does NOT protect slander or libel, so people need to start suing when people throw out words like “racist”, “sexist”, or “bigot.”
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Alternately,
[2] ^3^ = <8>
read: base 2, power 3 = value 8
<[2] ^3^> = 8
read: the value of base 2, power 3 = 8
[2] <8> = ^3^
read: base 2, value 8 = power 3
^[2] <8>^ = 3
read: the power of base 2, value 8 = 3
<8> [2] = ^3^
read: value 8, base 2 = power 3
^<8> [2]^ = 3
read: the power of value 8, base 2 = 3
<8> ^3^ = [2]
read: value 8, power 3 = base 2
[<8> ^3^] = 2
read: the base of value 8, power 3 = 2
^3^ [2] = <8>
read: power 3, base 2 = value 8
<^3^ [2]> = 8
read: the value of power 3, base 2 = 8
Within an expression:
x + ^[2]<8>^ = 45
read: x plus the power of base 2, value 8 = 45
x + 3 = 45
x = 42
or
<^x^[3]> - 27 = 54
read: the value of power x, base 3 - 27 = 54
<^x^[3]> = 81
read: the value of power x, base 3 = 81
^x^[3] = [3]^4^
read: power x, base 3 = power 4, base 3
^x^ = ^4^
read: power x = power 4
x = 4
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197 down votes from fringe lunatic loud mouths, trying to win elections by calling the thousands of silent upvoters “racist” and trying to get them fired for being “racist.”
Calling people “racist” last election backfired, and you decide to triple down by going after jobs and rioting?
😂 Enjoy the 2020 election, you infantile, Freedom of Speech hating scrubs.
You wanted to silence the opposition? Congratulations, you’ve succeeded.
You’ve succeeded in silencing the majority and swelling it’s ranks with the likes of Tim Pool, and #WalkAway.
Thank you, race-baiting snowflakes. Thank you for illustrating the power of FREE SPEECH with your attack upon it.
Expressing your opinions may have “consequences “in your worldview, but it pales in comparison to the actual consequences of your oppressive tactics.
<the slowest, most grateful clap ever, in the history of FOREVER>
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@yashamaga13 Do you understand ANYTHING about Congress; specifically how House seats are delegated to the states? If so, explain to me what it means when California, New York, and few more Democrat states LOSE a house seat and Texas/Florida GAIN House Seats?
Have you been under a rock for the past 2 years? Don’t you remember what has been happening in those dense Blue Cities?
Rioting, economic shutdowns, senior citizens murders in nursing homes, vilification of cops, defunding police, decriminalisation of shoplifting, Soros planted DAs playing catch-and-release with violent criminals, homeless people legally and literally crapping on the sidewalks and streets.
I don’t care how Blue you are, you’ll get the F out like any sane person would.
The only question is, will they bring their politics with them?
Yes. Yes they will because you won’t keep Blue ideologies out of your States.
Congratulations on knowing absolutely nothing of what has been going on, kid.
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@beastmode-vc6kk Now. I am always open for a amy kind of discussion: theological, technological, neurological, physical, chemical, biological, philosophical, psychological, political, sociological, or whatever. The thing about what I’ve learned and all the conversations I’ve had is that I have begun to see how they are all connected, related, reciprocal, and different expressions of the exact same concepts.
I love sharing what I’ve learned and learning from others, but I do little of either from closed-minded arrogant children.
The moment you decide to act like an adult, I will do the same. Until then, I will laugh at you like the joke your present yourself to be. 😂
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@Justabugguy6262 If you think “forcing” is how propaganda works, then you need a refund on your public schooling.
Regardless of what YOUR math teacher taught you (and when is more important than where, since post-modernism has been surfacing in the past decade more and more), you are attempting to refute anecdotal evidence with anecdotal evidence.
You don’t get to decide for other people what the issues and non-issues are. Therefore, you don’t have the moral authority to force those determinations on people through government.
The Earth is spheroid because it is wiser around the equator and flatter at the poles. Get more refund. Or are you going to say that I knew what you meant, and that you don’t have to be absolutely correct; just correct enough to make a point? Sounds an awful lot like the global warming argument. Much of the population doesn’t accept the “climate change” argument, and there is no definitive evidence that it is a drastic change OR that humans are a significant factor in it. What we do have is a tenable understanding of a FEW systems out of the multitude of systems that contribute to the climate that has existed for over four billion years, AND insufficient computing power to accurately model it to the same precision required to send a satellite into deep space using multiple gravity assists from multiple celestial bodies or a single body multiple times.
We DO have a better understanding of celestial motion. Celestial bodies are simple to calculate. We can calculate bodily motion in our solar system to a high degree of accuracy and precision going forwards OR backwards in time.
The biggest lie of public schools is teaching kids how to solve math problems only to condition them to solve societal problems in the EXACT OPPOSITE manner.
As for what SHOULD be taught: whatever the economy demands in combination with what society believes in. The problem is people think society should be one monolithic glob of ill-defined ideas instead of what should actually be: a well organized grouping of people based on their ideological beliefs.
Imagine organizing an orchestra the same way society is organized; or the colors in a painting. Imagine everybody had a color assigned to them based on their ideological beliefs; the color of their character, if you will. Now plot ALL those colors on a map of America. Generally, you’ll get reddish and bluish areas, but when you look locally at a place with a mixture of ideologies, you get drab colors like gray and brown. This results in government to force different aspects of different ideologies on everybody within a political area: just enough laws to appease most people so they don’t move out, but too many for anybody to really see the society they want.
If you want a society as close to perfect as you can get, try studying the brain some. Not only will you see the many flaws in public and higher “education” (because the the methods employed aren’t conducive to the brain’s natural operating states), but you’ll see how to organize 100 billion LIVING creatures when humans can’t get past a few million without starving and/or heavily oppressing large swathes of the population.
It’s funny that you brought up geology and whether we should teach it when the better class to teach would be neuroscience. Just a basic understanding of the brain would empower more children than ANYTHING else you could teach them. If a child cannot control their own mind, then they will always be controlled by those that do understand the mind.
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@Justabugguy6262 No. It was an illustration of how the people who always say “follow the science” don’t do that at all.
The people who say that are zealots who don’t actually understand the science.
If I was pretentious, it’s only because I was mocking the church if scientism.
Also, if you’re an engineer, and you base your calculations on pi equaling 3.14, stick to designing playground equipment.
Yes, if a flat-Earther doesn’t want their children taught that the Earth is SPHEROID, then it is their right to teach their children as they please as long as it doesn’t lead to direct harm.
I’ve worked with a couple flat-Earthers. Their beliefs about the shape of the planet had NO impact on the jobs they did. Just like your job, most likely, doesn’t require a basic understanding of geology.
The problem with Flat-Earthers isn’t that they believe the Earth is flat. It’s that other people have inadequate understandings of physics or geometry to properly explain what it’s a spheroid. A scientifically illiterate society that believes the world is spheroid is more dangerous than the vanishingly small percent of people who believe it is flat.
However, scientism zealots are PRETENTIOUS in PRETENDING they know the Earth is spheroid, hence my previous comment. You just didn’t like the pretentiousness directed at your comments.
However… SO WHAT?
Are you going to use my tone to decide whether you have the conversation or not? That is irrational.
TLDR: You focused on the example and missed the point. Congratulations.
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@Justabugguy6262 Let’s start with your background: software developer and mathematician.
Are you familiar with object oriented programming, or are you strictly procedural?
Assuming you have a basic understanding of OOP, how would you program objects to represent people based on ideology? The class system with its inheritance and child/parent relationships should give you a better idea of how the brain is designed and how society SHOULD be designed.
Start with something called an Ideological Sieve. Establish for every individual what their primary political concern is, and how they would have it solved. Then, you determine their second, third, fourth, and so on. The first level determines the “state” they live in. The second determines the “county” they live in; third-city; fourth-town; fifth-community; sixth-neighborhood;seventh-block; eighth-house; ninth-room. That is the end state for society if freedom is the top priority because the secondary purpose of government is to force laws on the citizens to address disagreements. Laws at the highest levels reduce the possible societies at the lowest levels.
However, if you live with the people you already agree with, laws becomes rules to live by if you want to move into a particular community, and taxes become voluntary contributions.
Every individual has one fundamental decision to make regarding society: freedom (live with the people you agree with) or tyranny (everybody forcing their bad ideas on each other).
As a software developer, how would YOU design a nation based on a diversity of ideas?
Procedurally generated programming would result in a far more stable and morally just society than humans have mashed together. It would design a society much like the society of 100 billion neurons in your brain.
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@Justabugguy6262 Brief explanation of beta and theta waves.
Beta waves are higher frequency short distance waves, much like FM radio. They connect the prefrontal cortex with each conscious idea; ideas already firmly established. This is one of the primary waves present during conscious thought. This is for those that build based off established ideas or those actively learning new ideas.
Theta waves are shorter frequency long distance waves, much like AM radio. They permeate the whole brain, but have difficulty connecting ideas together in new ways when beta waves are prevalent. This is for creatives.
So, “writer’s block” is a consequence of writers consciously (beta) trying to CREATE stories, and they resolve the issue by stepping away and engaging in low-cognitive tasks like walking or taking a shower.
Coincidentally, this is also why people learn faster when playing.
Beta waves (active thinking) is energy intensive since individual ideas have to be orchestrated directly from the prefrontal cortex. This is similar to micromanaging in an office where individual associates have to report directly to the manager often and never interacting with fellow associates. Information goes UP to the PFC, the PFC processes, sends information DOWN to another neuronal group, that group processes, then sends information back UP to the PFC, and so on. Theta waves allow the lower processes to build direct lines of communication with each other so their collective processes occur below the PFC: SUB-consciously. This form of execution requires far less energy, AND it frees up the PFC to deal with more of the external environment.
The brain is designed to delegate repeated conscious tasks to subconscious execution so that attention can be paid outwards to deal with a variable environment.
The structure looks much like a river delta or a lightning feeler before a strike. Ten to 10,000 first order neurons report to a single second order neuron. 10-10,000 second order neurons report to a single third order neuron, and so on. Each individual neuron deals only with the neuron directly above it and the neurons directly below it. If humans did the same thing, you’d have a community of people who are nearly in complete agreement about society, and they would elect five or so representatives to live part time in a second order community composed of the representatives of 19 other communities. The second order community elects five representatives to live part time in a third order community, and so on. This process is exponential so it only takes 7 levels to represent a nation the size of America, and 8 levels to represent everybody on the planet.
Every representative is directly tied to the community they represent so they are affected by every decision they make and are held accountable by those they represent.
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The social media platform: Theta Wave
As briefly as I can explain it, Theta Wave would do what theta waves do in the brain: connect physically non-local people based on similar ideological definitions. Then, it would enable those people to congregate and begin building the society they envision.
Why?
Because laws are immoral and are only necessary when people who live together disagree.
A town bans weed. A neighboring town does not.
In today’s society, somebody smoking weed in the first town gets incarcerated. They lose most of their freedoms. Their family is broken up. That town loses resources to maintain a “humane” prison system.
In a moral society, the weed smoker gets EXILED instead of INCARCERATED. They maintain MOST of their freedoms except the freedom to live in the first town. Their families need not be broken up. The first town doesn’t have a constant drain on resources JUST because ONE person disagreed with everybody else.
Forced inclusion is the reason societies fail. It is unnatural. Nature groups like with like, and it builds off of that organization.
So Theta Wave can be summarized as “Match dot com” on rocket fuel. It would collect characteristics of anybody who uses the system, then with multiple controls, it allows the user to publish as much of their personality as they wish to find whomever they are looking for. It has multiple other components that can stand alone to serve other purposes, but the main function is to enable people to bluefin building villages with like-minded people; and villages to build towns of like-minded towns; and so on.
You don’t force laws on people you agree with, so the choice is stay out and use tyranny to get your way, or relocate and find your tribe.
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@Justabugguy6262 What hallucinogens do is amp theta waves to drown out beta waves so that you remain conscious, BUT non-local ideas begin connecting.
Problem-solving is a creation process. DMT amps the creation process. Who do you think loses out if The People start solving problems instead of government?
The corporations that control public perception, and, consequently, the government.
A problem like “global warming” isn’t a problem because we may or may not be directly at fault for what may or may not be a catastrophic change in climate.
The actual problem is beyond that: people arguing about it.
Economics is nothing more than two people swapping the solutions to each other’s problems. You have two houses, but no money. I have money, but no houses. Your problem isn’t a problem to me anymore than my problem is a problem for you. We do not agree on what the problem is because we see things differently. This doesn’t mean that we cannot solve each other’s problems. I give you money. You give me a house. Economics.
Politics is the antithesis of economics. It is people refusing to solve each other’s problems and going to government to do it.
If the Left TRULY thought climate change was an issue, they wouldn’t be incessantly arguing about it with people who won’t change their minds. They would be wolfing directly on the problem to the point they don’t rely on “expert opinion” because they become the experts. I, a skeptic, should not know more about the climate and more viable solutions than all the pundits and scientifically illiterate citizens voting for other government to “solve” the “problem” by buying the “solution” from the people who sold the “problem” in the first place.
If the Right was wiser, they too wouldn’t be incessantly arguing with people that won’t change their minds. Instead, they would take advantage of the billions spent on the advertisement campaign to sell the problem of “climate change.” They would just accept that other people view different problems than they do, then CAPITALIZE.
If the Right got involved in the solution, the following would occur:
•they get rich from selling actual solutions.
•the corporations controlling everything would lose the market they tried to create.
•people would get more freedoms back as they make government obsolete.
•the Right would build bridges with the Left.
The problem is the arguing over what problems exist and/or how to solve them.
If you want done something right, do it yourself…don’t vote for the most popular and least qualified among us to solve those problems for the rest of us.
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@Justabugguy6262 “We would be overestimating our importance…”
Are you familiar with “No Man’s Sky”?
Imagine that game a decade, fifty, or a hundred years into the the future ran on far more sophisticated systems. The game, now, boasts quadrillions of distinct planets. Now imagine self-aware subroutines in that future iteration of the game. Imagine one of them surmising that they are in a simulated environment. Would it be overestimating their importance to realize that their reality was created for some other person’s enjoyment?
You are absolutely correct about Plato’s forms. You’ve never seen a circle because it is an abstract idea. It doesn’t exist in the physical realm. All ideas do not exist in the physical realm.
Color is a symbolic language spoken by the visual cortex to the prefrontal cortex. It is a language established in the first two months after birth. Neurons literally talk to each other because they use encoding.
Language is a meaning encoded into a physical pattern. This is true whether you are talking about physical patterns of air compression waves; vibrations in the electromagnetic field, or various chemicals interacting with receptors in your nose and mouth.
Compression waves, electromagnetic waves, and chemicals exist.
Sound, color, odor, and flavor are the symbolic languages we use to make sense of what exists.
Ever heard of synesthesia? That’s perception of color based on the detection of compression waves by the inner-ear; or any of the other hallucinated perceptions based on an atypical sensory input. It’s like plugging an analog video cable into a speaker and hearing a bunch of nonsensical noises. That’s because your audio equipment is translating visual information.
Or tinnitus? That’s a type of hallucination caused by the lack of sensory input in a particular frequency. The neurons responsible for that frequency HAVE TO migrate and learn to code in some nearby network, or die. Since the transmission end of their process is intact, the reception end picks up signals from some other group of neurons and it results in that frequency of sound being heard constantly.
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Back to overestimating out importance…
Every individual has to decide whether the world around them determines their worth, or to determine their own worth.
Even if I’m a game asset that is self-aware, I get to decide my relevance within THIS part of that “game.” Determinism and free-choice is a pointless argument, though fun, when we can choose to believe that we have been determined to have free choice.
Suffering over what is or peacefully accepting what is, is a choice.
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@Justabugguy6262 Close.
We all live in our own personal simulations, at least. Even before considering whether “reality” is a simulation, our minds are a virtualization of the environment around us coupled with simulation capabilities that allow us to consider possible futures.
An apple may exist, but our brains do not interact with it directly. Reality ends at our sensory organs. After light is absorbed in the retina, a cascading pattern of electrochemical reactions flow to the prefrontal cortex to be understood as color.
It is that personal simulation crafted by our brains to manifest our minds that our computer technologies are a pale shadow of. VR headsets are so effective because the technology is modeled after our own virtualizing capabilities.
As for what we choose to do with the ideas that we may be game assets, a creation of a careless god, or a happy-ish consequence of natural chaos receding into order and fading back into chaos; it doesn’t matter compared to the purpose we give ourselves…or purposes we accept from others.
We cannot know which of those, if any, are true, so don’t base your life on any of it. Focus on who you are and what you can do around you.
Honestly, after my personal studies into neuroscience, I began seeing Biblical stories from a different perspective. Though I was raised Catholic and have since become agnostic, I’ve found concepts in the Bible that are explained by modern science.
It’s an odd revelation because it supports the idea that God and science are NOT mutually exclusive despite most peoples’ drive to keep them separate.
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@Justabugguy6262 The underlying differences between a brain and a computer chip/drive is that neurons are living and magnetic particles/transistors are not. Neurons, magnetic particles, and transistors ALL represent ideas based on their patterns, but neurons are able to explore the spaces between those patterns to create newer larger patterns.
We don’t have to fully simulate a brain to organize humans into a brain-like structure. Neurons are motivated by neurotransmitters. For the most part, synapses contain those neurotransmitters between the two connected neurons. However, over stimulation causes some spillage of neurotransmitters which creates a signal for another neurons to chase after.
So, when an idea is constantly thought of (something you are passionate about), the excess neurotransmitters floating around the neurons that represent that idea attracts neurons from other ideas. It’s like a beacon.
So, as you learn more ideas, they will tend to associate themselves, somehow, with the ideas you are passionate about. On a small scale, ideas in different parts of the brain combined into a larger skill set (like all the motor and sensory functions required to drive a manual transmission), constantly activating those ideas in close temporal proximity causes them to attract each other and create more direct connections.
The initial pathway between two ideas initially unrelated (letting off the gas and pushing in the clutch) is a V-shape: motor neurons responsible for the left foot, up to the PFC, motor neurons responsible for the right foot. As you repeat that process, that V-shape begins to smooth out into a straight line between the motor neurons for the left foot and the motor neurons for the right foot. As that path straightens out, less conscious effort is required to execute that task.
Neural net programming does a good job of illustrating this with its weighted nodes evolving over time after each iteration.
On a larger scale, humans just need systems to create more direct connections with each other while facilitating their relocation physically to empower each other.
If you are familiar with tensor mathematics and Einstein’s Field Equations, then you can actually model a “human field equation” where the “forces” are ideological dispositions. For instance, people who are afraid of firearms would repel those who aren’t, while those who are neutral on the matter are affected by neither stance. If you create a coordinate system based on geography, and the force vectors based on ideology, then each individual is a particle that will move based on what ideas attract them and what ideas repel them. Eventually you’ll see ideological segregation and a better definition of the various viewpoints on life.
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@Justabugguy6262 You got me much better than most on social media. Your open-mindedness is quite refreshing.
One way to look at it is the difference between the physical and the metaphysical.
A rock has a single set of physical properties (physical). However, it can have multiple purposes (metaphysical) as defined by a person: projectile, weight, weapon, cutting implant, hammer, construction, ballistic missile…
Conversely, a cup is an object with a single purpose (metaphysical) that can be instantiated by multiple materials (physical). It can be made of stone, wood, glass, plastic, metal, and you can even “cup” your hands at a river, your ears to gather sound waves, or your mouth to amplify your voice. You can even make it out of a magnetic field to contain charged plasma.
The physical object is in a one to many relationship with its possible established metaphysical purposes, just as a metaphysical purpose is in a one to many relationship with the physical materials it can be made of.
The cool thing is, inanimate objects are limited to the purposes it is given, while animate objects have the power to give other things purpose: even other animate objects.
Most importantly, animate objects can assign themselves purpose. Anybody can be, at the same time, a child, a parent, a sibling, a spouse, a leader, a follower, a teacher, a student, or any of the thousands of roles one can assume.
Value is derived by the purpose something is given, and the only thing you need to do to increase an object’s value is apply more and more purposes to it. Making oneself “marketable” exemplifies this concept. The more you know, the higher the chance somebody or multiple people will value you.
Neurons operate the same way in that the more useful ideas a particular neuron is apart of, the more resources it will receive. So, neurons are driven to be as useful as they can be to increase their chances of survival. In their success, the whole network succeeds. In the network’s success, the whole community of cells succeeds. In the body’s success, the whole community of people succeeds… and so on.
Life is fractal in that it repeats successful patterns at larger and larger scales. The brain is the successful pattern for a large community, and it its design, humanity will find their next step in evolution.
Side note: the idea of stacking purpose onto a single physical object is the basis for the first patent application I filed last September. 😂
With your background in OOP, you can easily see the similarities between the concept of physical object and it’s metaphysical purpose in the objects and their methods that you program.
I enjoyed what little I learned of OOP because of its similarities to reality. 😂
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@Justabugguy6262 Crytpto…
Most likely not in the manner you are thinking. When I hear “Crypto”, I generally think “Currency.”
Cryptography is basically moderated communication through obscuring the relationships between meaning and physical patterns. In that sense, I am interested in the social patterns controlled by those with the means to do so. I am also interested in disrupting that control. The Traveler in Plato’s Cave, if you will.
I firmly believe that Plato was referring to Socrates in that allegory as a sort of chastising society for executing his friend and master. Plato learned from Socrates’ mistake by encapsulating his truth in a work of “fiction.” By writing “Republic,” Plato effectively repeated Socrates’ words but in a manner that made it less threatening by immortalizing Socrates as a character in his work. The thing is, the body may always be mortal, but the mind is not a physical object. Meaning is not some “thing” that science can measure. However, that meaning can be used to replicate physical patterns as long as a codec exists to apply meaning to multiple physical patterns.
Socrates may have lived a few decades less than those who had a hand in executing him, but his ideas are more real to us 2,000 years later, while his executioners are barely a footnote in HIS life.
Immortality isn’t something we can physically achieve easily, but we can achieve metaphysical reality through the lives we touch. We are all amalgams of the people we interact with. The scale of that interaction determines how much of them we download. The more you learn about somebody else, the less there is of “you” there can be. As amazing as the brain is, the number and arrangement of connections are finite. The more of those connections that are the same as somebody else’s, the more like them you become.
You are, quite literally, what you think.
TLDR: if we do only have the illusion of choice, the possible permutations of 100 billion neurons and how they are connected is so vast, it really doesn’t matter in a scale as short as our lifetime. Even over the scale of the entire life span of the known universe, all the possible arrangements would be impossible to achieve in a billion lifetimes.
There are too many possibilities to get hung up on creationism versus evolution versus creationism through evolution (why can’t God have developed the procedural program and ran a seed through it?) OR free will versus determinism versus determined free will. (two concepts that seem in conflict on one level may make sense in a higher level: bifocal vision, String Theory into M-Theory, color vision…)
I love exploring these ideas, but the most important thing I get out of them is the strength to determine who I am in the face of what the world wants me to be. That is true freedom. It exists even if you are shackled to a wall in a cave.
Socrates wasn’t free because he could move his body anywhere. He was free because he could move his mind anywhere…and any time. 😂
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5:00 Insults are taken, never given. If words can make you emotional, you have no business being in politics; either as a politician or a voter.
6:30 I kind of figured you’d refer to the semantics of “baby versus fetus.”
So, let’s get some details. Besides the “technical distinction” of either being in the womb (fetus) or outside of it (baby), what is the actual difference?
Is it “viability”? If so, then isn’t “premature baby” synonymous with “fetus”?
If “unborn babies”, then why do some areas (California) consider the murder of a pregnant woman a double homicide if “a fetus does not have personhood”?
7:30 More semantics people really don’t think about.
“It wouldn’t be their money in the minds of a socialist or communist.”
Just like words aren’t offensive except in the mind of the offended.
8:00 It’s a “cheap tactic” to assume certain a priori ideas that most people hold as true? If the opponent has a contention with the assumption, it is THEIR responsibility to remain rational enough to challenge the premise.
What you are failing to explain is that EVEN IF he was challenged on the “snuck premise,” Ben would deal with the challenge anyways. So, you are not only engaging in a “snuck premise,” by your definition, but you are committing it against someone who cannot respond to you. You CLAIM he was making an attempt at a “cheap win,” but you have no way of proving what his intent is.
8:15 I naturally avoid “snuck premises,” but I get accused of over-explaining ideas. You really cannot win against emotional people. The real answer is for EVERYBODY to engage in rational discourse by setting aside their own biases and EMOTIONS.
I am constantly asking for a specific definition for relevant words, and I get accused of being “pedantic,” “obtuse,” or attempting to play “gotcha.”
People just aren’t interested in actual discussion to find answers.
They just want to be “right.”
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@gsesquire3441 More people who were weird: Dr. Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Socrates, Jesus Christ, Clark Kent, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Irene Curie, Pierre Curie, Hedy Lamarr, Ludwig von Beethoven, Daryl Davis, Henri Ford, Luke Skywalker, Old Ben Kenobi...
The list goes on and on all through history and fiction. None of it is relevant in your framework of conformity; your confusion of conformity. 😂
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@obijuan3004 “Then (Dr.) Peterson thinks everyone should be the same religion as him.”
Until you provide proof of that claim, that is absolute rubbish. If you said it knowing it’s rubbish, you’re a liar. If you’re confused about what he is saying, you’re just an arrogant idiot.
Besides, even IF he wanted that, he is NOT advocating for it to be codified into law.
You’re still the tyrant here, who thinks people should be arrested for selling LOOSE CIGARETTES.
Let me explain “God” to you the way Dr. Peterson understands it.
Take EVERYTHING that YOU think is good and that a good person would say and do.
THAT is YOUR GOD.
EVERYBODY has a “GOD.” When people force their ideas of “good” on others, that is them forcing their religion on others. Tyrants who force their ideas on others is them remaking the world in THEIR GOD’S image.
The most moral way to worship your own “God” is to do it with the people who worship the SAME “God.”
In other words, LIVE with the people you agree with because, THEN, laws become “house rules” that visitors must abide by, and taxes become VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
You do NOT force laws on taxes on people who agree with them…
The logic is so f-cking simple, yet simpletons think “education” results in understanding. It does not. “Education” only results in knowledge.
Besides, plenty of secular rule has resulted in quite a bit of human atrocity and suffering. Perhaps you should learn the difference between a thing and its purpose…
A thing has no inherent purpose. It requires a sentient being to give it purpose.
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@obijuan3004 If you look at the growth of tuition costs versus inflation, guess where they begin to diverge…
1965.
You don’t seem to understand how evolution works. Which is hilarious since you keep whining about centrally planned “education.”
Let’s try a different approach, shall we?
The basic economic equation is based on the relative amounts of two things: supply and demand. What schools don’t teach you kids is that “supply” and “demand” are relative.
If you own two houses and have little money, but two other people have no houses and lots of money; we have a surplus of houses on one side and a surplus of money on the other. To YOU, the demand is money. To the OTHER PEOPLE, the demand is houses. So forget the terms “supply and demand” because all it does is confuse you kids.
INSTEAD, just pay attention to the relative amounts of goods on both sides. From YOUR perspective, houses are in surplus while money is scarce. This means houses have a lower relative value to money for YOU. On the other side, it’s the opposite, however, the OTHER difference is that the other side has a higher number of suppliers (of money)/demanders (of houses). The side that has MORE individuals will have to COMPETE for the scarce resources from the other side of the equation. So, the value of your houses relative to their money goes UP, as they COMPETE with each other for one of your houses.
Now, if you and another person both had a house and no money while the other side has a single person with no house and lots of money, YOU will have to compete with the other house trader forcing the values of your houses to go DOWN.
Without crayons, that’s as simple as I can explain the basic economic equation that has been in operation since the dawn of life. That process has been around for billions of years before humans even existed; just like rotary motors (bacterial flagellar motors) and solar panels.(the retina of the eye). Humans have invented less than they believe they have, and it’s that hubris that keeps kids, like you, from understanding anything.
Now, on to the cost of education and the value of diplomas.
Colleges have a single purpose: accumulate wealth. They do this by industrializing training (not education) so that large corporations have a SURPLUS WORKFORCE to compete for the SCARCITY of jobs. If 100 students with the same degree only have 50 jobs to employ them, who do you REALLY think gets the most benefit of a centrally planned training system? Then, let’s toss in migrant students, and it now becomes 200 students competing for those 50 jobs.
More importantly, let’s look at “education.”
Do you HONESTLY believe that the university-style “education” system is the pinnacle of education systems? Consider this: it takes a baby TWO MONTHS to LEARN how to see color. What college do you know can teach a person how to see color? Not only does it take two months, but the prefrontal cortex governs no aspect of that learning process.
Why would you champion an obviously deficient system to “educate” people?
Moreover, why would you empower government to strip away COMPETITION so that university remains the sole source of higher “education”? You see, kid. What happens is that when you SUBSIDIZE an outdated system, it makes it more difficult for BETTER systems to replace them. By subsidizing “education” and using the certification system (the true value of the “education”) to gatekeeper who gets what jobs, you negatively impact natural evolution because NATURAL SELECTION requires the FREEDOM to choose between DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
If you cut federal funding of education (through loans) right now, what would happen? Colleges can’t stay in business if nobody can afford them. They would either have to lower costs and/or become far more efficient with resources. MEANWHILE, the technology we currently have can spawn far greater educational systems on an even playing field with an obsolete university-style “educational” system.
For billions of years, COMPETITION has driven industry and evolution/innovation.
GIVERNment is the antithesis of that industry and evolution/innovation by way of limiting competition.
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@obijuan3004 “I don’t think you have a clue that Blue states federal taxes fund most of the Red states. Look it up.”
Kid, not only have I been aware of that fact going on a decade and a half, I also took basic math.
It’s the same as the previous comment distinguishing between relative versus a split numbers, then hiding facts in whichever comparison you choose to make.
SECONDLY, which states get the most government contracts? Have you bothered looking that up as well? While you limit the scope of your argument to JUST welfare subsidies, you leave out the much greater portion of the discussion: contracts.
THIRDLY, how many welfare recipients actually receive wealth from the welfare system? That’s probably a confusing question for an NPC, so let’s hash it out a bit, shall we?
<breaks out crayons>
Who has EQUITY in a Section 8 property?
The welfare recipient residing in it?
The government that facilitated the transaction?
The taxpayer funding it?
The hyper-partisan unemployed NPC championing the redistribution of middle-class wealth to the upper-class?
No.
No.
No.
No.
Who has equity in those properties?
THE EXACT SAME WEALTHY PEOPLE YOU HATE, D!P$H!T.
Tax payer wealth doesn’t go TO the poor.
Tax payer wealth goes THROUGH the poor TO the rich.
While you’re busy whining about inequality and inequity, corporations are busy drafting the laws to give you what you THINK you want while funneling middle-class wealth to themselves.
THIS is what happens when you only ACT like you care about things but OUTSOURCE the solution to people you’ll NEVER meet.
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@obijuan3004 “What are you saying? That we should have no laws?”
No, CATHY NEWMAN.
What I was saying was codify YOUR belief system LOCALLY with the people you ALREADY AGREE WITH.
Think of it in smaller terms, since you like to conflate multiple scales of magnitude…
When your daddy says, “my house, my rules” is he implying that if you break the rules, he’ll lock you up in the basement? OR… does he mean that if you want to live by your OWN rules (self-governance), MOVE OUT and find your OWN PLACE.
Then, once you have that concept firmly in mind…take it up a level: HOAs. If you want to live in that community, abide by the by-laws or get a ride.
You see, kid. Life is fractal. It repeats successful patterns at ever increasing scales of magnitude. This pattern that I just described goes all the way down to the single neuron and repeats multiple times before reaching the prefrontal cortex.
You’ll have to excuse me if I trust Nature’s design over man’s…
So, here is the structure of the brain applied to human societies…
First community: the nuclear family, or a close group of friends, or an individual.
Second order community: composed of 100 adults in the First order type. This community has a high degree of ideological cohesion across multiple dimensions.
Third order community: composed of 100 adults. These are 5 adults from each of 20 nearby First order communities that have slightly less ideological agreement than within each community. These representatives will live three quarters of the year in their home community, and one quarter in the higher level community. This creates a Third order population of 2,000 adults.
Every successive community follows this pattern creating an exponential growth of a DIRECTLY represented population…
Fourth order population: 40,000.
Fifth order population: 800,000.
Sixth order population: 16,000,000.
Seventh order Population: 320,000,000.
In this organization. EVERY individual has DIRECT access to their representatives. Those representatives are not only accountable TO those they represent; their mutual cohabitation of the area they represent means they are subject to the exact same laws agreed upon at the higher order community.
The OTHER huge benefit of this form of organization is FAR FAR less incarceration. Since each community determines the “house rules” of their community, anybody breaking the rules are kicked out.
So, INSTEAD of a “criminal” being thrown into prison…
•the “criminal” keeps most of their freedoms, losing only the freedom to live with the people they disagree with.
•the “criminal’s” family need not be broken up.
•the community doesn’t have to waste resources incarcerating the “criminal.”
•the community the “criminal” joins benefits from the addition of a productive member of their community.
The paradigm you religiously hold on to forces somebody who is a “criminal” in one locality to be incarcerated for a act that is NOT a crime in another locality. THAT is why you do not want a massive CENTRALIZED government to replace a collection of DECENTRALIZED and LOCALLY SELF-GOVERNED communities.
It really isn’t rocket surgery, kid.
So, it is NOT “no laws.”
It is MORE laws at the LOCAL level.
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@obijuan3004 “I don’t care much about who gets what or what corporations pay for, or how the rich influence the government.”
Followed directly by…
“I care about how the government works.”
<blinks>
You really need to proofread your comments BEFORE hitting “send.” 😂
“If you vote against other people having access to education…”
The only way that is possible is if people vote to directly remove a person’s access to information.
The unless you meant “a person’s access to a system that conditions them to process information a certain way….”
Then, yeah. I would definitely vote against that.
“You can’t complain about the wealthy running the government, if you are voting for a Billionaire to run the government.”
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Ok, “stock investor.”
1. The American government is designed SPECIFICALLY to prevent any ONE person from running it. Basic civics, son.
2. Have you ever bothered to check President Trump’s net worth BEFORE and AFTER serving as President? Have you done so with ANY politician?
That’s rhetorical, kid. It’s obvious you had not.
For extra credit, look up the collective net worth for the tech oligarchs that own/control our social networking platforms. While doing so, keep in mind how they were all skewed when determining who to censor and what stories were censored during the 2020 campaign.
F-ck me. You don’t know about ANYTHING. 😂
“That’s like voting for a dictator.”
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Oh f-ck. I hope their are more intelligent people paying attention.
Presidents are part of the EXECUTIVE branch. They do not DICTATE anything except for what goes into executive orders. You know…like that time President Trump tried to do an end-around by forcing citizens to take a highly experiential vaccine through an OSHA mandate?
News flash, kiddo: it’s the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH that DICTATES. They are the ones that send the bills to the President to be signed. Even then, a Presidential Veto can be overturned by Congress. The government was designed PRECISELY to limit how many laws are passed Federally because America was never meant to be a democracy, or anything close to it.
Live with the people you agree with, and pass your own laws locally. Don’t f-ck things up LOCALLY then push for NATIONAL legislation to fix what you did to yourselves only to create a slave labor force…
High crime rates in DEMOCRAT run cities lead to Biden’s Crime Bill which lead to California implementing three-strike laws which lead to the mass incarceration of non-violent minorities which lead to those same non-violent minorities being “offered” a $2/hr job to fight forest fires created by government mismanagement of forests which lead to Kamal Harris arguing AGAINST President Trump’s FIRST STEP ACT that promoted early release of NON-VIOLENT criminals because it would adversely affect their $2/hr fire fighting brigade.
You are LITERALLY arguing for codified slavery, genius.
Then, you tried to blame it on President Trump.
😂 😂 😂 😂
What the actual, literal, and metaphorical f-ck?
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@obijuan3004 “Moat red states (mostly southern states) take in more money from the federal government than they pay into the Federal Government.”
Yeah. JUST like if one person pays $1 into a pot and another pays $1,000 into that pot, and the first person takes $2. Except, more accurately, the first person puts $1 into ten different pots; the second person puts $1,000 into those same ten pots; BUT the first person takes $2 out of one pot, and the other person takes $1,001 out of the other nine pots.
I used smaller numbers for you to process, so you understand just how little you actually understand about a multi-trillion dollar budget.
If you insist on putting your non-existent math skills on display, I am more than willing to use you as an example for others to learn from.
“Every dollar West Virginia pays into the Federal Government, they get back $2.36…”
And THEN what? The money just sits in the state Treasury? How about you consider the COMPLETE flow of wealth rather than stopping at the state level?
Think about this…
If you have a local school five miles from your house, here are the two main options:
1) YOUR option: send $100 to the IRS. They send it to the DoE. They send it to various states. Those states send it to various districts. Those districts send it to various schools. Those schools spend it…
Except that IT ($100) is not the same IT after each transaction, is IT? You need resources to Babel EVERY transaction, so EVERY transaction reduces that $100 till $10 gets to the school five miles from your house. YOU brilliant idea is is to send money the LONGEST way possible to get to the local school you claim to advocate for.
2) The RATIONAL option: send your $100 DIRECTLY to the school. Hell, you could make an afternoon of it by WALKING the cash directly to them.
But, no. Because you don’t really understand anything, you think the LEAST efficient use of wealth is the better idea because you are too lazy and full of yourself to be bothered to deal with things directly and locally.
It is a good f-cking thing you people had no say in designing the brain. I am SOOOOO glad Nature did it the way she did: natural selections within a decentralized parallel processed system. It’s just too bad you have a say in forcing society into the exact opposite paradigm…
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@obijuan3004 The BILLIONAIRE President that was worth $3.7 BILLION going into office and $2.4 BILLION coming out.
Even a kindergartner understands that 3.7 is MORE THAN 2.4. Why don’t YOU understand it it? 😂
For get smarter than a fifth grader. You can’t even compete with a six year-old. 😂
“Because of his incompetence in handling the pandemic.”
Finally. A point we agree on. I sincerely believe he failed as a president when he didn’t bring Democrat governors up on charges of treason when they MURDERED thousands of elderly by exposing them to a a contagious upper respiratory disease. It’s been basic f-cking protocol to NOT expose the elderly to contagious upper respiratory diseases FOR DECADES, yet here was Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy, and a couple others putting COOF positive patients and healthcare workers INTO nursing homes for FIVE MONTHS.
News flash, child. The president has no authority over how states handle their citizens. What he DOES have control of is the BORDER and ingress into the country. However, remember when he initiated the FIRST of MULTIPLE travel restrictions? What person, in their right mind, would restrict travel to the SOURCE OF THE DISEASE? Obviously it’s “xenophobic” as the current sock puppet in charge said. Apparently it wasn’t “xenophobic” when he initiated travel restrictions to OTHER nations when outbreaks were reported.
MEANWHILE, Nanny Pelosi is HUGGING people in Chinatown to prove she isn’t racist, like the president.
Wanna discuss the vaccine President Trump promised BY THE END OF 2020? Remember how the experts said that it would be “impossible” because the fastest a vaccine was developed was FOUR YEARS for the mumps? THEN, when he delivered as promised, the LEFT SCREECHED “It’s dangerous. He rushed it!!” as if he was wearing the lab coat… Cuomo said he didn’t trust it WMAL wouldn’t give it out. The. President Trump said, fine, we’ll send it to states that want it. THEN, AFTER THE ELECTION… ABRACADABRA!!! The vaccine is safe, and you’re an anti-vaxxer if you refuse to take it!! No, wait. Miriam-Webster says that if you are against government mandates and policies regarding vaccines, you are, in fact, an anti-vaxxer.
It’s neat what people choose to remember, isn’t it. And when they don’t care to remember, they’ll just change the definitions of words to suit their hypocrisy and psychosis.
As for the billionaires that doubled their wealth…
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
The ONLY way somebody can double their wealth from “tax cuts” is if they were getting taxed at 50% and ALL their taxes were cut. Is THAT what you are alleging that happened? 😂
Or maybe…
All the economic shutdowns in DEMOCRAT controlled cities and states FORCED people to buy online INSTEAD of at LOCAL businesses. You know… LIKE AMAZON? Then there’s all the new data circuits to handle homeschooling and telecommuting. Trust me, I know. I installed some of them at schools and government buildings while my fellow Serb techs upgraded residential services for families now sequestered to their homes. Oh, and remember Amazon? NOT ONLY did they get a bump in online sales, but they got an EVEN LARGER BUMP for their online services.
Yep. In four years, President Trump lost $1.3 BILLION while Bezos GAINED $100 BILLION…
And do you REALLY think those tech oligarchs where friends of President Trump? Do you HONESTLY think that the same people who did lol they could to smear him and hide what pieces of utter trash Biden and Harris were are in “cahoots” with President Trump?
HOLY
F-CK
YOU
ARE
STUPID.
😂
Seriously. Stop introducing things you obviously have no idea about because I will run circles around your avalanche of billsh-t all day long.
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@Mathologer I went to seven different elementary schools, and I learned just how inconsistent society can be. Yes sometimes meant no and sometimes meant maybe. Things were were true because “I said so.”
But math. Math never lied to me, and it always explained why something was true without resorting to “I said so.” Math was truly my first love. I fondly remember classmates whining about “when are we ever going to use this in real life?” Two decades later, I realised what the answer to that question was.
EVERYTHING.
You use problem solving for everything.
I used to hate trying to understand how society works and what politics was good for. After my two decades of political evolution, I finally went back to my roots.
Every problem can be abstracted, and math is the highest level of abstraction. Politics is merely an excuse to neglect solving society’s problems. When I learned how to do math, the process was always the same.
•Remain unemotional and rational.
•Distill every problem down to its basic elements and discard any extraneous information (word problems were 95% extraneous information).
•Establish what the solution is for.
•Gather the tools necessary to solve the problem.
•Use logic to step through the development of the solution.
•Check the solution to see if it made sense.
•Adjust as necessary.
What I did not learn was to get emotional; flip my desk over; protest the textbook; vilify the teacher; light the chalkboard on fire; riot in the hallways; and I definitely did not learn to vote for the most popular and least qualified classmate to solve everybody’s problem by buying the solution from the people who sold the problem in the first place.
Politics is antithetical to the naturals order of things, and Nature is fractal in that it repeats successful patterns at ever larger scales. I think you would be interested in studying how neurons in the brain are organised because if their pattern continued into human society, things would be much different; more efficient; and more moral.
If you got through my rant, I would like to say thank you for your work in making math a living thing that people who already didn’t love it could experience it from a new perspective.
You mentioned that we should get a refund form our schools twice in this video. There wouldn’t be a need for a refund if government didn’t handle “education” in the first place. Think about this: babies LEARN to perceive colours within the first two months after birth. This is a subconscious process because neurons are designed to create networks to fulfil their basic needs. Those networks represent ideas, and this process occurs without any direction or coercion from the prefrontal cortex. It is completely subconscious; the most natural way to learn. We even learn trigonometry before we learn to walk as stereoscopic vision manifests from calculating the differences between two distinct images.
Can you think of a man-made learning institution that can teach a blind man how to perceive colours?
Plato had it right over two thousand years ago: free play is the best form of education.
The way you present math is a form of free play. You are educating the correct way, sir, and I salute you.
Cheers 🍻
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You missed a pertinent aspect of memory creation and recall: neural networks.
Not only do synaptic links grow stronger through repeated activations (axonal terminal and dendritic growth leading to lower activation potentials), but the network of clusters associated with memories consist of elemental ideas tied together in an intricate web. For each aspect of a memory involved in that web, more chances that each individual connection is activated. Ideas like “window” are connected to what it is, it’s shape, it’s characteristics, what the word that represents it looks like, what all the letters in the word looks like, how the word sounds when you hear it, how you control your mouth, lungs, and esophagus when you say it, and all the specific instances involving windows which includes emotions of fear, anger, and relief.
With such a vast network of ideas all tied together to create memories, overlapping is a certainty. A posh gentleman like The Monopoly Man would exist in the same sphere as the Peanut Man and all other “Rich Gentlemen” that are associated with wearing monocles.
Memories are shaded by all stimuli during the experience. Emotions just happen to be one of the most vibrant shades. Emotions cause a large amount of electrical activity which affects all other brain functions to varying degrees. It’s basic Signal to Noise effects where the actual events as perceived by your senses (Signal) is subjected to the static of emotions (Noise).
The brain has very few basic functions: sensory, processing, storage, recall, statistical analysis, strategize, execute. Statistical analysis involves all data stored as well as their relationships to each other. It is the dance between “what is” and the relationships between “those that are” that allows us to synthesize new thoughts to create solutions for problems. Sometimes that ability to rapidly put previously unassociated ideas to innovate.
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1:15 Now look up “Chart of the Century” and see if you can figure out the difference between the economic sectors in RED versus those in BLUE.
Hint: one is heavily regulated/subsidized by the central government and the other operates within a more free market.
1:50 You think “capitalism” is a messed up idea at its core while, ironically, not understanding that the neurons in your brain operate within a free market capitalist framework.
2:00 Then you move on to a pure straw man to describe what YOUR understanding of capitalism is which does not take into account the multitude of definitions for “capital” strewn throughout college textbooks.
Good job…
2:20 “Profit.”
Let me clue you in on your use of emotionally charged words that taint your rational processing of extremely simple concepts.
“Capital” (individualist connotation) and “means of production” (collectivist connotation) are the EXACT SAME THING. Connotation is just added to give the impression that individuals are less virtuous than the state.
“Profit” (individualist connotation) and “surplus”(collectivist connotation) are the exact same thing. Again, excess resources when an individual achieves it (“profit”) is less virtuous than when the state does it (“surplus”).
You should refrain from engaging in emotional rhetoric if you truly want to have a rational discussion. Using emotions to convince people is childish and dangerous when you also give people power over others though a democracy. Ask Socrates, tyrant.
2:30 You aren’t keen on starving, so you trust the state to grow your food for you because enterprising free citizens are “evil” in your eyes?
Ask the Russians how well that works out…
Leadership isn’t about lording power over others. It’s about understanding the broader picture and being able to make rational decisions about the future based upon that understanding. Private citizens that generate an EXCESS of resources (profit/surplus depending on the connection you wish to use) is good for EVERYONE. It is far better than a state that runs at a SCARCITY of resources.
2:45 Elon’s decisions matter more because it is HIS wealth that HE is risking. If you feel you can do better, feel free. Some “intellectual” who has built nothing is far from qualified to explain what does or does not work. Your words will never prove the veracity of your claims. Only the examples that YOU BUILD will do that.
2:50 “I think democracy should apply to the economy.”
You are more than welcome to build a company based on that precept. Once you have successfully build one such company, build some more. Once you’ve amassed the requisite wealth to do so, build an entire community that uses your ideas about democracy within your community’s internal economy. Should you prove to be successful in THAT endeavor, keep growing and expanding.
This process requires absolutely no STATE interference whatsoever.
ALL that it requires is the strength of your convictions; the power of your imagination; and the tenacity of your physical effort to manifest your ideas.
Failing to build it yourself, you lack any valid argument for your ideals.
3:00 “Natural consequence…”
You probably shouldn’t use words like “natural” when you have failed to provide ONE actual example produced in the past couple billions of years that NATURE actually evolved through.
I can provide more examples of successful outcomes of a free market capitalist system in Nature than you can of a tyrannical system in the past couple thousand years of humans constantly failing at them.
3:15 “When competition is ruined, not bet something that the state necessarily did…”
Then you proceed to show Amazon which more than doubled in size during a SINGLE YEAR when government forced economic shutdowns which killed THOUSANDS of competing small businesses.
Good job killing your own case.
3:20 “Whether they got that monopoly on their own or through the state, it doesn’t matter.”
WHAT?!?
You’re arguing for a state run economy while arguing that a state derived monopoly doesn’t matter regarding your arguments against “capitalism” derived monopolies?
Christ…I haven’t made it 25% of the way through your video yet…
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Darkseany “socialize properly” is pretty vague. The only failure in proper socialization is the failure to understand the importance of communication.
Take Daryl Davis, for example. He had an innate understanding of the importance of communication that allowed him to sneak past the cognitive barriers of those who saw him as inferior because of the color of his skin. One black man managed to cure over TWO HUNDRED white supremacists of their racism which resulted in their denouncement of quitting of the KKK.
While “failure to socialize” may have resulted in their racist views, it was the exposure to Daryl Davis that corrected it. This also highlights the “failure to socialize” on the part of SJW who constantly seek to berate everybody who is “morally inferior” to them. While SJWs seek to socially chastise at their best and doxx, harass, and attack people’s jobs at their worst, Daryl Davis does the exact opposite.
When you say “properly socialize” with no real explanation, I’m left to assume the most common use for the phrase: to explain the “moral deficiencies” of others.
Cancel Culture has been steadily growing and tragically plaguing society, so it is that prevalent facet of modern society that I associated with “proper socialization.” Socrates had it right over 2,000 years ago. Engage in discussion honestly and purposefully to seek understanding. Do not use it as a means to establish superiority. To do so means to gain tho other’s perspective, not to reject it, but to add it to your awareness. Just like needing both the left and right points of views of each eye to determine an entirely different dimension of perception, understanding other’s perspectives allows the determination of an entirely perception of life.
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@fredwelf8650 “The main issue that you seem unaware of is that in a democratic, at all levels, the individual may vote, and say ‘no’ to the decisions arrived.”
Ok. I appreciate you answering something that I did not ask. So I’ll ask again.
In a democracy, AFTER A VOTE HAS BEEN CAST, what is an individual’s resource for disagreement with the vote?
I’ll answer it for you, this time.
In a nation: punishment. Outside of punishment, there’s escape from the nation: emigration.
In a company run by a board, the individual is fired or quits.
So, when a majority votes to have you killed or your possessions taken or for your silence, what is your recourse for refusing to comply?
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Christ. Your penchant for misrepresentation earned you his disdain. You focused on two words, and ran with it. Here’s a quick lesson on the history of the phrase “red flag.”
Buried utilities. Whenever any excavation is to be done in an area with buried utilities, somebody has to come out and mark those locations. Each utility type has a color code: orange for communications; blue for water; yellow for gas; green for sewage; and RED for power. On paved surfaces, paint is used, but on grass/dirt surfaces FLAGS are used. So when a company is excavating, if they see RED FLAGS, they know to use hand tools until the cables are exposed. RED FLAGS don’t mean “remove the power cables.”
Unfortunately, when “red flag” was adopted for political rhetoric, somebody attached “confiscation” to the phrase. So, now people think “confiscation” and immediately get angry. In the course of threat assessment and management, confiscation/incarceration are NOT the only management options. From the inception of the idea to do harm to the act of attacking, there are multiple points to manage AFTER the point of confiscation/incarceration.
Incessantly whining about “shall not be infringed” is useless in this conversation. If that is your only contribution, you have firmly made yourself part of the problem and not part of the solution.
“Shall not be infringed.” I’m down with that. I agree with that. However, there’s more to the conversation that an empty platitude that people barely understand. More pertinent to the conversation is “a well regulated militia.”
Where are they? Where are the militiamen stationed in guard houses on school property? Where are the militia patrols during school hours? Where are the toddlers whining about their 2nd Amendment protections while conveniently shirking their 2nd Amendment responsibilities? You don’t want government protecting your communities, then protect them yourself. It is not rocket surgery.
Lastly, it’s the SECOND Amendment because the First Amendment is more important. Sharing ideas in open communication is how this country was designed and built. There was constant back and forth, as well as a deep desire to make sure every word that was used was FULLY understood. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were carefully constructed to be as clear as possible to the people and future generations. Conversation was enshrined in the First Amendment, and you shame it by playing victims; showing anger and resentment; and refusing to join in conversation.
You lot are as entitled as the left is with welfare.
It is exasperating.
It is pathetic.
It is a waste of time and energy.
It is dishonest.
It is detrimental.
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