Foolishness:
You don’t have the false-dichotomy of ( Support_the_Government || Helpless_Apathy ),
you HAVE also the ability to compete-against the people who are ruining things!!
Yes, political-process prefers/selects-for DarkTriad types, but it’s still possible to compete against the bullshit.
( & old grouches like Jeff Tiederich ( sorry if misspelt ) & me can clarify things, for many, in this age of pseudojournalism : )
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Give it a robot that can read your handwriting, & write snail-mail lettres to it?
d :
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“Why is the USA attacking Iran?”
Trump’s insecurity:
By associating with “biblical” Netanyahu’s “Israel”, he gains “validity”.
By bombing someone, he gains “authority”.
By pretending that his-regime’s actions benefit the protestors in Iran, he gains “humanitarian credibility”, while warring against the people living in the US’s own Democrat states.
By doing all this NOW, he deflects from his being an Epstein-associate who’s on evidence for crimes against women, & girls.
See the PATTERN, not just some single-aspect of it, & then it makes more sense.
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They’ll never understand unless you SHOW them, not tell them: they need to understand through their eyes, not their ears.
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Spot-on commentary.
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( I consistently supplement with choline, when vegan, because the choline-deficiency is bluntly a kind of chronic-fatigue-syndrome, & I’m fed-up with health-problems. Eating eggs corrects the choline-deficiency, but blocks me from reaching better-quality meditations, which also is aweful/wrong )
the dosages recommended by the pushers of products are consistently waaay too high, whether laundry-detergents or health-supplements. I use less than 1/2 of the scoop-size, when supplementing with the stuff, because I can feel how wrong it makes my biochemistry when taking the amount they want me taking.
always trust your body’s healthsense over what the label pushes you to do, & remember that your-biochemistry may well be incompatible with some “fixes” that pushers are profiting from.
Sorry to be cynical, but that’s what evidence has convinced me of.
Whether creatine damages kidneys would be dependent on dosage, obviously.
Apparently the doctor claiming it damages kidneys doesn’t consider dosage important?
That’s as bogus as the supplement-industry’s pretense that the same dosage is right for all different sizes of people, of all metabolisms, of all sexes/genders/hormonal-balances: pseudoscience, absolute.
Proper dosages are when you calibrate to units-per-kg-of-<type-of-animal>.
So, for me, it might be that taking ( 75 / 10 / 4 )g/day of creatine per 75kg of bodyweight, might be right.
Or something like that.
I know from Gershon’s book “The Second Brain”, that glutamine-supplements FRY the nervous-system of the gut, as nicotene does…
& that’ll never get well-known in the supplement-industry, because of how it’d gimp easy-profits…
Some things are just too outside natural-chemistry to do any good ( like chemically-pure glutamine ), & sometimes it’s the insane dosages, compared with normal food, that’s the problem…
but it isn’t logical to claim that there is no safe dosage for creatine, since dosages can go down to infinitesimal: that isn’t logical.
There has to be a safe level for it, unless it’s intrinsically harmful, in its pure form.
I’m certain that the pushed dosages will harm kidneys, though.
So, seen in that light, yeah: if taking what the pushers want you taking, then yes, that’ll probably damage your kidneys.
There’s a limit to what they can deal-with…
I knew a guy who’d worked in a hospital, & he told me he 1 time had to watch a patient destroy their own life by overdosing with vitamin-C: they crushed their kidneys from the inside, with stones.
They wouldn’t listen, & that was that: they kept overdosing until they died.
Didn’t get deemed valid by the megadose-vitamin-C crowd, obviously…
but how could any organ in our body possibly deal with insane quantities of some single-chemical that they aren’t evolved-for, you know?
I just looked at PubMed:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=creatine+kidney
& glanced into the 2nd item I saw, & it stated plainly that unless someone has a kidney condition, it’s safe, as far as evidence-based-medicine is concerned.
hth,
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The Austrian-school got 1 thing right, fersure:
the less someone has, the greater the difference 1 currency-unit is going to make to them.
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I’m coming at this from another angle, & your being stuck in an MS-Surface may break it, but please try UbuntuStudio, on something: it augments Ubuntu-family with an entire sea of fixes for creatives.
I’ve no idea how to get a kernel patched to work with such hardware, sorry.
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Combined-Arms:
EVERY dimension you can stack, syncopating between them, so that whichever leverage works for you, it’s dismantling the unconscious-mind entrenched non-knowing you’re working on displacing.
Pimsleur is the standard for making language automatic.
The problem is that it doesn’t show you how your form the sounds ( may not be your problem, definitely is a problem with more-foreign-languages, for me ).
yt videos in the other languages, showing both simple-basics & social-situations, or whatever it is that you want to be watching ( maybe high-school science would be more interesting to watch than social-drama/stuff ).
Flashcards for getting the has-to-be-imprinted stuff, like verb-tenses, automatic…
intentional-socializing: asking some specific friend/group to help one learn…
Tandem, where you pair-up with someone for sake of learning: you help them learn, & they help you learn…
In short, use every angle/leverage you can, & keep applying them, until the ignorance yields, leaving language-facility in its place.
Young-people are essentially learning-sponges, so this perspective makes no sense for them, but for old people, this is how it works.
Oh, & learn songs, too: they’re learned by one’s non-linguistic hemisphere ( right, for 85% of the population ), so that’s another angle/lever to be using in learning language, too.
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A post which seems to have disappeared, linked to this:
https://selfh.st/apps/?alternative=Discord
Backups/copies can be a Good Thing™.
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rather slow tempo, to be called industrial, Hoomin…
wobbly, it is.
equally at a loss as to what to call it…
doomer-ambient, or something?
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I once saw, on TV, a Brooklyn comedian ask his audience
“any of you went to a Catholic school?”
a few hands went up…
"You remember the names of the nuns?
Lefty?
Knuckles?"
they did.
IIRC, the sister in the grade-school I was in, broke a boy’s arm, when she flipped his desk on him, for backtalk.
It was a Catholic school.
She … hated children?
Angry, endless anger, in her…
damned odd way of choosing someone for being a teacher…
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“IF you want something done RIGHT, THEN you do it yourself!”
that is nearly-right.
the true essence is that if you want something done right, you have to have the right instinct doing it.
Delegation is entirely-possible, but it cannot be delegation to anybody, any institution, any ANYthing, that has wrong-instinct, for that work.
You can’t put dogs in charge of protecting cat-nature, because they’ll “protect” it, instead, displacing/snuffing it, replacing it with dog-nature.
That is natural, & automatic.
You can’t have men protecting female-validity, because female-validity ISN’T OF men, it is of women!
You can’t have people tone-deaf protecting ( preserving through mastering & playing ) music, can you?
You can’t have people who don’t know, understand, or value, precision, protecting precision, can you?
That’s the same in government, business, NGO’s, legislation, regulation, innovation, etc.
IF you want integrity, THEN integrity has to be the instinct which wins the roles.
Politics is the wrong selector, the wrong contest, to produce that result.
We’re seeing our world drowning in the consequences of letting political-game rule our world.
Political-game is the enemy of our lives.
Against most lives, it will win.
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The collective-unconscious-mind that is driving this shit wants to “prove” its ego-myth.
To make history know how “important” it was.
& if it has to destroy the entire planet’s life, it will do everything required to enforce that, for sake of its ego.
that is why the “checks” and “balances” are showing that they are only fake.
They’ll sit on their hands, until it’s too-late.
Then they can pretend that they are “victims”, when they assisted in the destruction, while being in roles where they were obliged to oppose/counter it.
Here’s an example from a different context, so you can see how the “game” plays us…
Epstein.
People of “less important” class associated with him, in order to hobnob with the “more important”, see?
What happened when they clued-in that things were wrong?
Then they’re in a conflict-of-interest…
IF they whistleblow, THEN the class-validity-people they’d been hobnobbing with, would as a class turn on them, & their LIFE would be damaged, for their holding-to-principle, violating group/gang/“family”/belonging.
Principle & gang are 2 different loyalties, & they contradict.
So, they silenced principle, & held-to group-loyalty & class-loyalty, “winning”, but … rotting their meaning.
Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption.
& you’ve probably noticed that in THIS world, many cultures put group/family/gang loyalty WAAAY above loyalty-to-Truth, or loyalty-to-Rightness…
Now glance at the electorate, in their obscene privilege, & their protecting of their class against accountability, but then Trump gets, in near future, to become dictator…
They are in conflict-of-interest between their privilege-class vs their civil “obligation”.
& it is playing-out exactly as it ought.
Political-motivation is the wrong filter to select leaders from.
So is narcissism.
So is machiavellianism.
So is ideology.
So is sociopathy.
So is disintegrity.
but all of these things INCREASE one’s likelihood of getting elected, not decrease.
We WON’T filter-out the wrong people!
Well, if we won’t filter-out the wrong people, then … we will be ruled by the wrong people.
Now turn it on us, ourselves.
Who ought rule the flying of an airliner?
The majority, the passengers? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified pilots?
Who ought rule the operating of a government?
The political? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified?
“you have no right to prevent enemies from ruling our country: that’s infringement-of-rights!”
That’s deranged.
YOU censor which cells express their meaning, within your body, right?
YOU censor cancer, covid, rabies, etc, by either not allowing them in, or stomping them outright, if you catch them, right?
That, the equivalent to that, HAS to happen with authority-roles, throughout civilization.
Until that happens, then humankind’s going to continue destroying its life & viability, for political & other ego “rewards”.
ONLY the responsible can be permitted authority. ONLY the ACCOUNTABLE Responsible.
What has that principle got to do with any political-system??
Nothing!
Political-systems & accountable-responsibility are mutually-exclusive systems, it looks like.
& so, if humankind WON’T grow-up, THEN … DarwinAward, aka The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this century.
It’s part of our souls’ growing-up!
Your soul experiences this life, it learns a little layer of ITS meaning…
it experiences others ( I’ve accidentally earned soul-memories of other-lives: the religions of India weren’t delusional, they were reporting fact, & that is what blew-up all the Abrahamic religions for me, back when I was Catholic ), & it learns more little-layers of its IMMENSE meaning…
People don’t understand just how incomprehensibly-immense their own souls are…
Have a 100 human lives, & that MAY fill your soul with its knowing its whole meaning.
It’s something like that.
Exactly as you CANNOT experience your whole-life’s meaning if you lived only for 1 minute, the same, a soul cannot experience ITS whole meaning in any duration so tiny as a single human-category life.
To hold that universe recycles only matter, is daft: meaning is an energy, & it makes things like engineering, culture, etc, real.
It modifies the behavior of matter spectacularly, and that proves it is a real substance.
So, what happens when a few billion souls are “going through a phase”??
Say a few billion souls are going through a “nonaccountable-authority” phase?
Among a world…
Well, that’s their choice, isn’t it?
The lives in THAT world have to sort it out.
& if the growing-up lives in THAT world are outnumbered 9:1, then … it’s going to be hell, until it’s finished.
The tougher the challenge, the more-profoundly it’ll change you, if you survive its transformation, right?
Think of it this way:
Souls having the wrong attachments, can get caught in lives which bash-on, hurt, damage, mutilate, & harm their lives, unil they change what their attachments are…
So, they can be attached to class-status, or whatever, going in,
but when experience smashes & mashes them enough ways, then they become attached to “things that they CAN take with them”, things of the inner-world, right?
That’s what this-world is in the process of experiencing.
Force-changing-of-attachments, though experience.
& if 9/10 of the world won’t learn, won’t grow-up, & won’t tolerate inner-values to live, then … it’s a world deathmatch, then,.
But unconsciousness won’t-move until it’s too-late.
won’t grow-up, won’t learn, won’t change … until it’s forced.
& that principle explains everything, now, about the world’s pervasively choosing the wrong-answers.
Why is it that ClimatePunctuation is trashing entire-regions, & we’re caring less & less about our making it get worse, faster?
unconscious-mind couldn’t care.
Same with corrupt/wrong government.
Same with deformity-of-civilrights.
Couldn’t care.
& by the time that this century is finished, all the souls who can’t care, won’t be able to incarnate in human lives, here ( because there won’t be any lives configured to accommodate them, left ),
& if the LivingSpirit-loyal ones evolve enough, far enough, quickly enough, deeply enough, complexly enough, … then they will be able to have lives, next century.
Not many: I don’t expect there to be more than 100-150-million alive ( Daniel predicts 100,000,000 who are purified, but presents them as killed, & I’m seeing stuff completely different: roughly same number, but survivors of this-century ).
what’s different from our current time, than from all the times recorded in the Abrahamic religions’ scriptures?
What’s different from the Hindu history stuff?
Human nature hasn’t changed that much, has it?
It’s the same thing it always was!
There’s another angle, which is important, too:
The force required to MAKE an unconscious-mind grow-up, is equal to its force-of-ignorance.
I’m autistic.
Nearly 60 years old, & it’s ONLY NOW that I’m finally making this brain be accommodating what I want to mean.
Neurotypicals may earn equivalent life-meaning when they’re in their 20’s, or 30’s.
I’m retarded.
Any life which doesn’t get the equal-and-opposite-force to its own unconscious-ignorance … if it got too-little, then it didn’t grow-up, or if it got too-much, it broke, or died.
See the problem?
IF there’s no system of matching unconscious-ignorance-destroying-force to unconscious-ignorance, then HOW could individuals, let-alone entire-populations, have complete growing-up?!
Nature used to force growing-up, but of course it killed many, young, too.
Our industrial-revolutions eradicated Nature’s significance on our lifes: it isn’t what forces us, now.
Now, we have made “boot camp” for some to experience force changing their unconscious-mind, but … not purely, livingly, destroying-ignorance, rather, it is installing institutional-ego & institutional-bullying…
A shoddy replacement.
& the culture of coddling … won’t tolerate growing-up.
Now, with software, or checklists & good people, or something systematic, it is POSSIBLE to make it so that intellectually-bullying children get the intellectual opposite-force required to enforce THAT potential’s growing-up.
Every dimension: physical, emotional, relational, intellectual, etc…
Each person has their own potential in each dimension, & THAT potential requires ITS required-force, ITS required-prompting, ITS challenges, etc.
The idiotic manufactory-style “education” which obliterates sooo much potential from sooo many lives, by over-pushing flimsy potential, & underpushing too-strong potential…
that is part of what made our kind incapable of holding to truth…
IF you’ve never experienced self-conquering, how can you help others make it in themselves?
Ah, Beaurocratic Rot, another principle:
IF you’ve got 1st-rate people in a company, & they hire other 1st-rate people, THEN the company stays embodying excellence…
But what happens when 2nd-rate people get in?
& the feel inferior to 1st-rate people ( I’m meaning integrity, not skill or intellect, though our society maps everything to class or status )
So, since they don’t want to feel inferior, what do they do?
They hire 3rd-rate people.
& 3rd-rate people hire 4th-rate people.
Soon all the excellence-valuing people LEAVE, because they have been ganged-up-on by the ones who hate the threat of integrity, of excellence.
Once you allow beaurocratic-rot in, it wins.
But that all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule XOR rot-drops-everything choice, that either-or, that apparently sinks ALL societies.
Rome sunk that way…
India’s in the process of doing it…
The West’s doing it, everywhere…
all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule is the ONLY principle which can get the required results.
& it is the only principle that NO country has allowed to rule.
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The comment by Wilco@lemmy.zip is right, but isn’t complete…
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too…
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short…
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc…
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of “inherent” confidence, on average, that most don’t, simply because the way others relate to their body’s “status” programmed that into them…
Some lives are born with “teflon” preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with “glue” making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump’s life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn’t.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn’t allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but … politics won’t tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that’s what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it’s karma.
His continuum/soul’s previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and … his soul’s future is not anything I’d want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn’t possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans…
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has “teflon” protection against accountability doesn’t prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe’s action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a “fortunate” life which consumes all one’s good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then … railroading one’s own soul’s future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them…
shrug
Action-reaction’s real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn’t.
It’ll learn, same as all souls learn…
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of … 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won’t make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody’ll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It’s educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one’s unconscious-presumption of “belonging” based “validity”.
But … speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it’s worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it’s false/lies, because it’s of “me”.
& that’s proper!
Exactly as it’s proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump’s kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn’t normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn’t YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is … NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-“validity”, the class-based-“validity”, the muscle/body/height-based-“validity”, the money-based-“validity”, etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-“validity”.
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I’m woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
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My perspective is that it’s going to get hella worse, before it gets better: an addict who isn’t ready to fight addiction is going to go deeper into it, & when they try turning against it, then their own unconscious-mind will trash their life, maybe even kill them, to protect what their unconscious-mind is holding-onto, you know?
& naive making-believing isn’t help, it is “help”.
So, I recommend investing in the fundamentals of enduring decade-long Civil War:
the psychological leverages identified in Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, a book on our unconscious-mind’s stages-of-development, & its fighting-off of growing-up…
IF one allows one’s unconscious-mind to fight-off growing-up, THEN one is more likely to be abuses beating-on-toy, AND one is more likely to be dead, without earning one’s underlying life-potential.
Therefore, learning how to get one’s unconscious-mind to help one grow-up, is one of the more powerful leverages.
Next is Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 CultureLevels ( they call them “stages”, but caterpillar->moth is stages, irreversible, & frozen/liquid/steam isn’t stages, it is states or modes, because they aren’t 1-way. The CultureLevels only become irreversible at 4 & 5, among some people… anybody bashing around among the lower-3 levels, can go down or up, endlessly )
Five: Positive-Sum Game, Win-Win Alliance culture Four: WE are awesome, THEY are not culture Three: Zero-Sum Game: competitive-narcissism culture, like doctors ( go walk into any normal hospital, & see how the junior-staff won’t look you in the eye, if you walk-in wearing a professional’s clothes & manner: their validity/dignity has been obliterated in the narcissism of medical-culture. Look around for somebody whose bodylanguage REEKS of narcissism: that’s going to be a doctor. It’s comically bad: acting-schools should be using clinics & hospitals for studying that bodylanguage! The book-authors aren’t as cynical about it as I am: dad was a medical-researcher & doctor, & I ended up going no-contact with both parents, for years-at-a-time, to undo the butchery they put in my mind… Not their fault, but … I hope this world changes ) Two: “MY life sucks”, subject-to-narcissism culture One: Negative-Sum Game, Competitive Nihilism. mass-shooters, dictators who’re destroying as much lives as they can, racking-up some kind of “high score”, before they die. Netanyahu & Putin seem to be doing that now, & Trump seems bent on outclassing all of them, soon.
Notice how manufacturing CultureLevel1 “justifies” police-state, which enforces CultureLevel1 even more?
Notice that Trump’s manufacturing homelessness as fast as his regime can?
Once he finally crosses the tipping-point, he’ll just de-naturalize everybody who won’t vow allegiance to him, & everybody else suddenly is “illegals”, & that is what ICE really is for: Civil War 2.
Now is just “appatizer”.
So, becoming competent in making one’s CultureLevel be 3 or 4 or 5 becomes a survival-means, see?
All this is of the “The kingdom of establishment, without, is inferior to the kingdom of G-D, within: one’s meaning, one’s Soul” paradigm.
“21 Days to Resilience” and “Gaslighting” are books I’d recommend, to build psychic muscle & immunity…
Fundamentally, one has to have help, though: grow your relationship with LivingSpirit.
Not this, or that, “religion”, but with universal, endlessly-healing, LivingSpirit.
All the religions which put themselves in G-D’s place, with their “it isn’t G-D that is The Only Savior, it is OUR RELIGION-REGIME that is The Only Savior”, or you can substitute the word “Way” for “Savior”, & it’ll still be the same thing: putting itself in G-D’s place…
That isn’t universal.
It doesn’t really work.
LivingSpirit’s universal.
Grow relationship with it, however many years it takes to get the hang of something so subtle ( unlike the junk/distractions/addictions of this world ), but it IS real, & it DOES grow healing in one, the more one’s … weaving into it, or weaving it into one, or something like that ( embracing, or weaving, … something like that ).
Ah! Know, also, that there is a cycle of 4 stages of life, & it makes sense to be doing one’s-own stage, not what others are telling one to be!
IF one were to pretend that some lives spend 3 decades in each condition, THEN one would have a “crayons” picture of human-life, an oversimplified-cartoon…
But even an oversimplified-cartoon can communicate enough to help people orient, right?
So, while Kegan identified that many never leave the absorbing-meaning stage, until they die, of old age… so there’s NO law making people go into the next stage…
but knowing that each phase is going to last decades, not mere-years…
that is important.
IF someone is in the absorbing-meaning phase, THEN pushing them to be “alpha” is pushing them to be what they aren’t: they’re supposed to be experiencing all kinds of meaning, to discover what’s in them!
Once one gets into the pushing-meaning-out phase, THEN pushiness becomes natural.
The whole domineer+doormat “relationship” which is traditional, a Kegan4 with a Kegan3, isn’t as “wonderful” as it pretends to be.
( Kegan doesn’t index the states the way I do: he names them all.
I’m fed-up with zillions of psychology-dimensions all needing individual-names, so I’m only indexing them, now.
Kegan0-7, in my system, Kahneman1-2, etc… )
Domineer+doormat is only ego-food for the domineer, really…
Diversity-of-experiencing. That is what the young adult-minds need: finding which meanings within one are worth cultivating, see?
& if one gets to Kegan6, which Robert Kegan never identified, but it’s obvious, if one is experiencing it, self-conquering: all the advantages of Kegan4 & Kegan5, together…
Life, then, becomes … self-inherently better.
There was a man in Auschwitz, who became a world-renouned psychologist…
don’t remember his name, sorry,
he realized that the guards had physical-liberty, but their minds were trapped by ideology.
He had no physical-liberty, but he was free.
THAT is the kind of freedom which can get one through what’s coming, alive, but it takes guts & renunciation, both, it takes intelligence & wisdom, both, it takes LivingSpirit relationship & it takes getting the evil & harm forced into one, OUT from one, so one can have living within one’s own self ( opposite of PTSD ).
IOW, I’m recommending that one be inherently-living, instead of ideologically-“living”, as a means of surviving the coming Republican dictatorship, until it implodes, next decade.
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I think you’re missing the point, actually…
( I’m autistic, & simply don’t buy that ideology is ever going to make a good world, communist, fascist, corporatist, moneyarchist, religion-regime, any of them )
There is a fundamental problem in human economies, in that it is initiative which starts companies ( obviously ) & if initiative is allowed to concentrate wealth/rights/privilege, it will, until you don’t have civilrights, anymore.
Therefore, there needs to be a kind of civil-harnessing…
At the other end, collectivism snuffs innovation & diversity & initiative, fairly automatically…
The root-problem is that BOTH are needed, but the economy has to somehow cultivate individual-initiative & group-initiative ( which work differently ) AND give the good innovators ( not the criminal ones ) both freedom & leverage & resources to get their contribution going, which is something that collectivity tends to snuff…
Another misframing is that monopolies shouldn’t even be allowed in the 1st place, because they are, in the long-term, economic hostage-takers, or economic suicide ( a country putting all its eggs in a single basket, & pretending that that’ll work forever ).
The correct policy is simply to use the tax-system to make it more costly to have fewer competitors, such that there is an optimal number of competitors in any industry, & they are actually competing.
That makes it less-profitable to extinguish your competitors through machiavellianism, see? The fewer competitors, the higher the tax rate… suppressing monopoly, rather than accommodating it, & then having the problems it created, & then having fights about how to mitigate those problems…
Do understand that I think worker-owned business is the ideal configuration, but it has to be earned-place, not just inertia, institution, or seniority that grants ownership, it has to be contribution ( “Slicing Pie Handbook” is the best book for the concept, for startups: how to allocate shares/equity in the startup ).
I’ve heard about … in the Basque region, … cooperatives … it takes years to earn a share in the company, and the loyalty AND drive are both excellent, & the companies were robust & did well…
That’s the right sort of thing.
No “you exist, therefore you have institution-rights, but no responsibility/accountability, because our institutionality/union/class/wealth prevents that” … kind of idiocy…
Rather, real earning-of-equity…
interesting…
I just realized that this makes-obvious that people with no interest in earning equity, they only want to do the minimum, get paid, & go do non-work things … are incompatible with that kind of company/operation,
therefore there HAVE to be 2 ( or more ) different phases of the economy: companies with worker-equity & companies where nobody is invested in the company except the owners/managers, because that’s an actual significant-portion of the population’s mode…
that makes it … more difficult to find an optimal single-set-of-rules for an economy, because the motivations don’t mesh…
So, apparently a set-of-rules is required for each system-of-motivations?
looks like it…
interesting…
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At the event-horizon, you’re moving at the speed of light.
So, you can’t have any awareness of duration, anymore.
You slam into the black-hole, from your perspective, instantaneously, then.
No machine could be “fast enough” to notice any duration pass by, between the event-horizon & the smashing-to-strings/quarks/whatever.
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I didn’t understand what a memoir was, until … I think it was John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres”, & he explained that it was specific to a person’s experience of some kind, it wasn’t just their biography,
so one might have the memoir of someone’s invovement in some project, or something…
Only then did it make sense that they could be interesting…
( if I could go 50-some years without knowing this, then others could, too. Only explaining because some “memoirs” … aren’t memoirs, so the definition seems to be needing to be made explicit )
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Reincarnation can be significant.
Oh, & genetic-testing is notoriously inaccurate, unless one is paying-for 1000x oversampling…
100x oversampling is the bare-minimum I’d consider useful.
The reincarnation thing: my “home” is what my soul/continuum remembers as “home” from some life as a buddhist Himalayan monk, many centuries ago.
To say that I don’t fit this modern world well is understatement.
Wrong values, wrong instincts, wrong frame-of-reference, wrong reactions, wrong everything.
Once I undertood it, then … life made MUCH more sense.
My unconscious has been trying to make my world fit its memory of my ( previous-incarnation’s ) world, & that’s impossible.
Once that became understood, then adapting & outgrowing-the-problem could begin.
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