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.

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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…

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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.

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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?

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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 ).

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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!

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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?

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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…

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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“21 Days to Resilience” and “Gaslighting” are books I’d recommend, to build psychic muscle & immunity…

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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 ).

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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!

1. absorbing-experiencing ( correlates with Kegan’s unconscious-mind-development stage 3 )
2. pushing-out-meaning-violating-one’s-identity ( correlates with Kegan’s stage 4 )
3. systems-of-systems unconscious-mind-development, ( stage 5 )
4. letting-go, dissolving & making-do, preparing for going into dissolution…

IF one were to pretend that some lives spend 3 decades in each condition, THEN one would have a “crayons” picture of human-life, an oversimplified-cartoon…

But even an oversimplified-cartoon can communicate enough to help people orient, right?

So, while Kegan identified that many never leave the absorbing-meaning stage, until they die, of old age… so there’s NO law making people go into the next stage…

but knowing that each phase is going to last decades, not mere-years…

that is important.

IF someone is in the absorbing-meaning phase, THEN pushing them to be “alpha” is pushing them to be what they aren’t: they’re supposed to be experiencing all kinds of meaning, to discover what’s in them!

Once one gets into the pushing-meaning-out phase, THEN pushiness becomes natural.

The whole domineer+doormat “relationship” which is traditional, a Kegan4 with a Kegan3, isn’t as “wonderful” as it pretends to be.

( Kegan doesn’t index the states the way I do: he names them all.

I’m fed-up with zillions of psychology-dimensions all needing individual-names, so I’m only indexing them, now.

Kegan0-7, in my system, Kahneman1-2, etc… )

Domineer+doormat is only ego-food for the domineer, really…

Diversity-of-experiencing. That is what the young adult-minds need: finding which meanings within one are worth cultivating, see?

& if one gets to Kegan6, which Robert Kegan never identified, but it’s obvious, if one is experiencing it, self-conquering: all the advantages of Kegan4 & Kegan5, together…

Life, then, becomes … self-inherently better.

There was a man in Auschwitz, who became a world-renouned psychologist…

don’t remember his name, sorry,

he realized that the guards had physical-liberty, but their minds were trapped by ideology.

He had no physical-liberty, but he was free.

THAT is the kind of freedom which can get one through what’s coming, alive, but it takes guts & renunciation, both, it takes intelligence & wisdom, both, it takes LivingSpirit relationship & it takes getting the evil & harm forced into one, OUT from one, so one can have living within one’s own self ( opposite of PTSD ).

IOW, I’m recommending that one be inherently-living, instead of ideologically-“living”, as a means of surviving the coming Republican dictatorship, until it implodes, next decade.

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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…

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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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It’s really just exclusive-validity identity politics, which has roots DEEP in many mammal-species…

Here https://www.amazon.com/Immunity-Change-Potential-Organization-Leadership-ebook/dp/B004OEILH2/ you can read the beginning of a book which explains how our unconscious-minds fight off any growing-up, fighting-off change…

In it, it describes 3 unconscious-mind-development-stages, which I call Kegan3, Kegan4, & Kegan5, simply because there are SO many different systems-of-stages-or-dimensions to keep mindful-of, like Kahneman+Tversky-1 & Kahneman+Tversky-2 ( imprint->reaction system, lower-forebrain, the ideology/prejudice/trained-expertise system, vs considered-reasoning, upper-forebrain, much exercised in programming )

… that it’s idiocy to NOT index all such things, now…

Here, if you scroll down a little, you can see a table describing the different unconscious-mind-development stages, ALL of them, that their-kind know about ( the stage after Kegan5 is the self-conquering-stage, which they never saw or identified, because our world’s process sabotages/prevents it )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self

Now think about herdbeasts, which don’t have Kegan5’s systems-of-systems stage…

They do have Kegan3, which is the upper-limit that cows are allowed to, by bulls, & they have Kegan4, which the bulls level-off in…

Kegan3 is wanting to be liked, it is associating-with validity ( hence the power of “influencers”, among the younger humans in any time ), it is, fundamentally, ( & I’m not certain that Robert Kegan understood this ) the absorbing experience stage of one’s life, living more in feelings & social-“reality”…

Kegan4, on the other hand, is what I call “BullingBOSS mode”, where validity is zero-sum game: it is exclusive and that is exactly the way bulls work: it is limbic-brain, in basis, so it should hold throughout most mammals!

Now, IF one’s identity & validity are rooted in zero-sum game, then anyone else having any validity reduces one’s own validity!!

Narcissism also works this way, you’ll notice, so now there are 2 fundamental-causes for such instinct, in-play…

Here you will find a book which explains the 5 LEVELS of culture-process, from competitive-nihilism’s culture-level-1, to LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME!!'s culture-level-5: https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Revised-Leveraging-Organization-ebook/dp/B006IDG1K6/

Here is the dumbed-down TED Talk about their years-of-research: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

Culture-level-2 produces conspiricism! Subject-to-narcissism is therefore strategically-cancerous!

Now, what happens if your culture glorifies exclusive-validity identity, and, in so doing, produces a glass-ceiling on one’s culture, which prevents culture-level-4 & culture-level-5…??

One ends-up devaluing, dehumanizing, others, & wanting them butchered, in order to validate one’s culturally-grown prejudice!

IOW, it isn’t just-the-Republicans, the nazis did it, I’m certain that much of the time the Romans did it, different Chinese cultures have done it, same with the Japanese, etc…

It expresses different ways, depending on the identity-anchors of the “valid”, vs the “nonvalid”…

As Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright noticed, you can walk into ANY hospital in North America, with the exception of 1, which outgrew that cultural-glass-ceiling, & if you walk-in looking both professional & self-confident, the junior staff won’t meet your eyes, because the narcissism-culture of the doctors has destroyed their human-validity.

THAT is evidence-based knowing!!

The vignette that Logan gives, in that TED Talk is on that specific section of their book, but doesn’t give enough of it.

Both my parents were medical-professionals, Dad was a medical researcher and doctor, and that researcher bit was significant … because the narcissism-culture of White medicine definitely saturated them both, but his science-culture overrode that, intellectually … for which there ought be no limit to my gratitude, for that gift…

( doesn’t mean I didn’t go no-contact with both of them, though: the narcissism, the exclusive validity that doesn’t include me is toxicity/cancer, in any “family” or “community” )

( btw, the personal-stuff is only so that you understand the experience-induced-understanding: it isn’t just theory, it’s earned understanding. There’s no reason to care about it, otherwise: it’s just context/perspective, so leave me out from any “care” or “concern”. )

Now when you’ve made your culture narcissistic, AND you’re glorifying Kegan4’s BullingBOSS mode…

…AND you add-in non-accountable authority’s rule … then sociopathy’s the result, isn’t it?

It is produced by this configuration of culture-forces!!

( definitions: psychopathy means incapable of empathy, because one’s mirror-neuron-system, or something, just doesn’t function, so other-lives are just meat-marionettes…

sociopathy isn’t brain-intrinsic, it is psychologically-produced analogue-of-psychopathy, through systematic imprinting ( that Kahneman1 imprint->reaction system ), until the programming produced it. )

So, anybody here who wants to read just how evil “normal” can be, please read some of Angela Davis’s “Women, Race, & Class” book … https://www.amazon.com/Women-Race-Class-Angela-Davis-ebook/dp/B0054KKRKY

& you will begin understanding just how spectacularly wrong our assumptions are, re human-culture-produced-outright-evil, from the utterly stomach-turning historical-facts she’s putting into that…

& then you will begin understanding that when prejudice is the ruling-religion, then the nazis were normal, in evil.

So, really it all comes down to specific identity-forces:

• Kegan4, unconscious validity-narcissistic BullingBOSS-mode, being glorified,
• culture being ruled by narcissism, systematically, with an invisible “glass ceiling” preventing culture-level-4 from being known within their culture, &
• nonaccountable-authority garrotting evolution
• our unconscious-mind’s innate mechanisms for preventing growing-up, fighting growing-up off, as “Immunity to Change” identifies, & it gives us simple methods, that work, for getting past the unconsciously-manufactured-obstacles we grow, to block our evolution.
• entirely possibly more, that I’m not aware-of, or not remembering now…

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Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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Learned-helplessness: IF you keep battering a population from some principle, using incorporated-sociopaths, or bots,

THEN they’re going to yield from principle, because organisms AREN’T machines, & machines crush organisms, including minds.

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Why is it that now no government really cares about mitigating the still-accelerating ClimatePunctuation??

Learned-helplessness.

Why is it that the popuation in Argentina didn’t vote-out Millei?

Learned-helplessness.

Why did sooo many younger voters not vote against Trump?

Learned-helplessness.

Why do privacy-raping apps now happen to be the norm?

Learned-helplessness.

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this means that ANY abuse will win, given enough battering of the minds of the majority, if only it keeps hammering away to win.

it can also be INcorrect most of the time!!

ANY mind “educated” by ingesting the internet … isn’t going to be high on accuracy!!

People NEED to understand that getting parts of reddit out of LLM’s proves its untrustworthiness!!

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Forgot, sorry: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-in-time

The 1st one, above, is the key to developing right-instinct in one’s understandings,

this one is key to understanding complex-unfoldings based on actual-historical-evidence of human-behavior & reactions.

Both recommended.

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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/superforecasting

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1. pull-paradigm, &
2. combined-arms.

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One. pull-paradigm: don’t do what you hate: you’ll stop returning to it!!

Find exercise you LOVE doing, & then MAKE it have regular-place in your life, see?

Two. combined-arms: combine the same pull-paradigm in your diet, your fitness-practices, your friendships, you HEALING, see, and make there be sooo-many dimensions in your pulling-your-life-into-healing, that you can’t help but be healing/becoming more!

( :

For the depression, get outside-in-daylight for at-least 30-mins every day, if you can ( or use a SAD light, when it’s gloomy ).

I had to live “in a lightbox”, with 500-watts of fluorescent daylight lighting, in my room, to keep me functioning at all, after I ditched the anti-depressants…

but it worked.

Make your waking-up alarms be lights, which are silent, instead of noisemakers:

warm-white, 1st, then a 2nd timer, 5+mins later, with daylight: it alters your melatonin balance ( the researchers who discovered that yes, in fact, light does alter melatonin, in spite of them not having accepted that as true…

shone lights in behind people’s knees, & even without “light receptors” in the skin there, the effect kept being measured.

Light is THE wakeup-input that people SHOULD be using, not noise! )

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The details that you put on those 2 principles, are your details, but getting those-2-principles right massively improves your odds of holding-to-it for the entire-season it takes to gain usable-momentum.

Wishing you well,

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1. Consider perspectives that are DRASTICALLY different, in roots, from what you were culturally-formed in.

You mentioned Alan Watts, please read this book, which he called his “I TOLD you so!” reference, written by a woman who was exploring the far-East back when women didn’t have legal-personhood…

https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/download/Buddhism-Philosophy-and-Doctrine/en/Alexandra David-Neel - The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects.pdf

There is a truth in that book, in one of the footnotes, which David-Neel gave only half of:

There are 2 kinds of people in the world:

• moderate-path realizers, &
• steep/savage-path realizers.

IF you are a moderate-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the savage-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly poison ( her term ) for you.

IF you are a savage/vertical-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the moderate-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly-poison for you.

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Cultures work differently, & the lives born-into different cultures get formed into those cultures, so that lives born into “macho” cultures cannot value female-validity as equally-valid, because the culture prohibits that…

( there is a 6-year-shorter male-lifespan in fragile-masculinity cultures, btw: it may make for some cultural “male-supremacy”, but it abuses women AND it kills men: a lose-lose condition )

I may have mentioned these to you, before, but again, they are SO fundamental, for understanding our world, that once you see the world through understanding’s eyes, you cannot go back to the “blind” condition you were living-in, before…

Lanier’s book “Foreign to Familiar” explains WHY president Carter spent literally-days talking family with the Arab Middle-East leaders he was meeting, before getting down to brass tacks…

Hofstede’s “Exploring Cultures” explains how all cultures fit-together through his cultural-dimensions theory…

& gives examples of the different-kinds-of-reactions that people formed in other cultures do,

and once one sees those examples, then one can better-understand other people, from other cultures, throughout the rest of our world.

( IOW, you’ll have significantly-less miscommunication with these 2 books IN you, than not.

You decide if altering your life that-way is worth something to you, & if it is, then invest, please. )

IF you’re from North America, THEN please read Paul Fussell’s book on the North American Class System, & see how the reactions/prejudices he identifies seep-through, & shape, EVERYthing in this continent…

& then also read Woodard’s “American Nations”, to understand-better what’s really going-on!!

The US has been highjacked by the confederates: what the corporates call a “reverse takeover”.

The clearer you underestand what’s going on, in the world, the more likely you are to survive it, right?

Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, is on the 2 thinking-systems in our brains ( see the book “Top Brain / Bottom Brain” for evidence that Kahneman & Tversky’s “System 1”, the imprint->reaction system, is actually lower-forebrain,

& their “System 2”, the considered-reasoning system, is actually upper-forebrain. The recent discovery that programming is upper-forebrain, instead of Broca’s & Wernicke’s areas, the language centers, doubly-backs this )

& when you understand Kahneman’s book THEN you will understand that the imprint-reaction-system, which is what all ideologies/prejudices/assumption-river-“religions”, etc, ARE, is highjacking the world, throwing-from-the-world both objectivity & correct-reasoning, THEN you will see that it doesn’t matter which ideology wins:

IF ideological-REACTING wins, THEN … the world’s lost.

Objectivity & correct-reasoning MUST win, or humankind’s incapable of surviving ClimatePunctuation, this century.

Finish waking up, iow!!

“The Elements of Journalism” is an important book, for understanding the process of your doing journalism, of your making-peace with the different balances between quick-understanding vs rigorously-correct-understanding…

& why for-profit journalism isn’t trustworthy, because it’s propaganda, not journalism: it’s gaslighting, fundamentally…

The book “Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines” is sooo good a parenting book, that a hippie-woman & mother whom I loaned my copy to, years ago, told me she “wished I’d read that years ago”.

Read it & do your life a favor!

Henry Cloud’s book “9 Things You Simply Must Do” is important, too.

GET THE CORE UNDERSTANDINGS INTO YOU, & then YOU own your life more, understand?

The more-competent your core-understandings are, in more dimensions, the greater your life’s freedom, in choosing its/your own path.

The whole “education” ( with the falsifying-quotes ) in the West is actually patterned on the lower caste Hindu “education”, engineered to prevent autonomous-capability…

John Taylor Gatto, who destroyed his teaching-career in his acceptance-speech for the New York State Teacher-of-the-Year Award, discovered this, in his later research…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto#Main_thesis

IF children in school KNOW they’re loved, KNOW they’re valid, KNOW they’ve rights, … THEN how could the institution possibly manipulate them, to make the institution look good??

However, WHEN the institution has broken validity, self-certainty, etc, from the children in its power, THEN it can use PROVISIONALLY-bestowed ‘validity’ to make the children into the puppets it needs … ( I’m only being slightly more bitter-in-phrasing than Gatto himself was, btw, … this concept HE caused me to be understanding… )

US education was engineered to PREVENT any more Lincolns or Franklins, to make the population into the corporate-acceptable “consumable human-resources” that such operations wanted…

It was the coal industry who paid-for the establishment of education, in the US, according to Gatto.

That only makes-sense when you understand that it didn’t want any more interference/disruption, it wanted workers who obeyed, & “education” taught obeying…

( I’m self-educated: don’t even have North American grade-11, which is equivalent to European grade-10. Decades of force-mitigating literal-brain-decimation, 7+ years of homelessness, etc, didn’t stop me: understanding-stuff’s MY addiction.

Wisdom can be an addiction. Self-evolution can be an addiction. Addiction’s just a technology: it’s neutral, itself.

What it is that one happens to be addicted-to, that makes it either bad or good. : )

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Anyways, I think it was your previous post that I replied-to, before…

If so, then I’m now adding this:

I’m not going to be giving you such recommendations if I see a 3rd post of yours: either you invest in learning, undoing the encultured-blindnesses, XOR you’re on your own, now.

Mollycoddling disempowers lives.

If you want to be given everything, instead of earning it, then I ought fuck-off, outright.

If you want to know what to dig into, the others in these posts are identifying stuff, & so am I.

Pick something & DO it, honestly…

Elephants dissipate, when one is living honestly enough, from one’s room, right?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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IF you ask LivingSpirit ( whatever you call it: labels are irrelevant, attitude & relationship are the whole substance that matters : )

to bring them back into connecting with you,

AND you let-go, letting LivingSpirit do the work,

THEN you may, in future, find actual result of that.

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Some people find that it works best when they write the request on paper, & after meditating/concentrating on it for … say 1.5h … then releasing it into flames, works best…

You have to let-go & trust, though: so long as you’re torquing/dragging-around LivingSpirit, it can’t do its work right, see?

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I just realized: Trump’s religion includes Apartheid.

& he thinks the white-nationalist gov’t of bygone South Africa is good…

That has implications, for what his plans are, & how he reacts, throughout the next near-decade…

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There are psychological-thresholds that have to be met, or that when-crossed, are tipping-points…

3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel, or social-site community, as existing,

4x / week is the minimum-threshold to grow it.

It’s actually identical to our fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health.

Going significantly above that doesn’t make much ( if any ) positive difference, it seems…

( there are other thresholds, like keep just-connecting videos to 3-mins, which I learned on the ProVideoCoalition forum, a decade or 2 ago…

Also, one has to avoid becoming a 1-trumpet “band”, right? )

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Please consider that there are differen sub-populations of humanity, & some think visually ( which I never would have imagined ), some think kinesthetically, some auditorially, some in abstract-shapes.

The book “Collaborative Intelligence” … can’t remember the authors’ names, sorry, is on 3 of those, & how to accomplish stuff, for one’s own cognition-type…

But remap that basic-concept … onto the posts:

IF all your posts are appealing-to, or geared-to, the same subset-population ( whether in cognition-type or in any other way of dividing-populations-up ), … then that’s overtaxing that 1 subset, and not tapping the others, see?

So, find what dimensions of diversity that you care about, & intentionally make the posts more diverse in those dimensions, so as to include more potential-people!

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The book “Command Attention” … by a former USMC officer, sorry, don’t remember the guy’s name, is also pertinent…

He pointed-out that if he wasn’t reading “Ebony” magazine, etc, then his office’s stuff would be too white.

The producer-of-content needs to be consuming-diversity-in-their-content-diet, too, see?

( that book contains that as 1 single little point, in the whole thing:

it’s an awesome basic-training course for marketing, if you want such competence : )

Please consider the book by Dib, or Dibb, “The 1-Page Marketing Plan”, as it’s sooo to-the-point, for growing a product or service…

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Could you make ( I’ve never been in that community, so if I’m botching how it works, sorry in advance ) a weekly poll about what the most-interesting new polls would be?

Harvesting new ideas, you know?

or semi-monthly, at the very least ( don’t go monthly: that’s institutional-inertia’s pace )

Use the input to spark ideas?

& possibly, have a weekly silliest-poll item, & the funniest poll from that gets done as a proper poll ( Silly Saturday? )?

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I hope something in this helps, whether directly or indirectly,

People who’re actually doing contributing to community deserve support, see?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933

6-7 million lives exterminated seems significant, to me.

Holodomor was a significant part of that, targetting Ukraine.

The same Ukraine that Putin’s trying to genocide to “de-nazify”.

Evil’s evil, & tends to have the same kind of intent, recurringly.

Time your move right, & consider Canada.

Fair warning, though: I consider it inevitable that Trump is going to be declaring war on Canada, because Canada won’t make itself his personal sycophant/property.

The reason he wants Greenland is so as to cut-off all Atlantic trade with Canada, same as Alaska allows him to cut-off all Pacific trade, & then he can more-easily crush/destroy our lives.

However, he’ll be fighting war on 3 fronts: to the south, civil-war, AND Canada, & so therefore we’ll have a fair chance to outlast him.

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