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Monday, March 11, 2024
Filler for fun... Ballerina
Practical Pirates of an Improbable Penzance …
My mother, with whom I had a totally lousy relationship, always swore that half of my problem (refusing to adopt her paranoid and superstition driven “Tail Gunner Joe” mentality about things) was that she’d “allowed” me to read Atlas Shrugged at to young an age. Sorry mom, but no, that wasn’t what blew your cover (it was your panic over the US and the USSR standardizing the docking rings on their spacecraft did that, but that’s another story). Anyway.
Monday, December 4, 2023
Third Reality of Man Ch 12: Second and Seven
You get four tries, most of the time you'll use three of them and if in three tries you haven't made a ten yard advance to win a new set of downs you'll use that fourth go to give the ball to the other team as far away from the goal you defend as your kicker can accurately punt it. There are times though when you will use that fourth try, the saying "go for it on fourth" meaning do or die on one last try… when you only need inches, when the time clock says now or never, when pride and desperation say it's time for the boys of today to stand forth and aspire to the august company of yesteryear's hero revered for enforcing a noble defense of the greater glory of and blah blah blah. That sort of thing. What we American's call "Football" that I've heard the world calls "Grid Iron." Rules of the game, a bit of flavor and tactics from the game.
So you see, a second (down) and seven (yards to go) is about as common a situation as you're likely to run into. When the focus is a work such as this rather than mock combat posturing as athletics a second and seven translates to mean "Ok, theory holds and it works on paper… so what do you have by way of evidence for any of this? Anything? Or is this just hot air sans balloon?"
I'm not complaining, that's pretty much how it has to be even though for those who dare put forward an idea those seven yards can elongate into a lifetime of uncertainty. It's the price you pay to step out on the field of thinkers in the first place.
Monday, November 27, 2023
You Don't Say 001...
You Don't Say... a new series of considered commentary inspired by
quality journalism on contemporary subjects found floating through the
digital universe.
Title: Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-american-dream/676051/
My reply:
Not a bad offering… particularly for The Atlantic… many pertinent points well taken, but as a “Why” explainer article I don’t see the last pieces of a full picture. There is a HUGE factor left utterly unmentioned, and it is a factor still very much in play today. It is an evolved factor, one mostly ignored in high places and misunderstood in low places. The demise of the United States economy is a consequence of the socio-economic evolution that went on everywhere on Planet Earth (as the planet was recovering from the Second World War) except… huge exception!… in the two champions of the Cold War!!!
The war is over, all our industries are beat to hell and gone… everyone is weary and weak… and we’re not sure those two idiots (US/USSR) are done fighting. The world as was. To survive that world where the United States was an oversize bumbling bully as a producer of consumer goods required the other industrial entities (working quietly beneath the rattling sabers of the cold war), to learn a cooperation never attempted before. Net result? The evolution of the Corporate Neo-Fascist, the current chapter of that organization being the second if not third generation descendants of the leadership of the industrial coalition formed to compete with the post WW2 Americans!
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Not according to Hoyle...
Murphy's Law Chapter 2 Section 13: Every job has at least one bitch bolt. |
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Third Reality of Man Ch.11: Vorpal Blade Gone Galumphing
Swords are usually involved in grim things, matters of conflict,
matters of war. Not the happiest of
subjects. The focus of the series has migrated into one of only a few realms commonly
as grim as the reality of a sword: the realms of mental aberration and illness,
the realms of insanity. I'm not sure it
is possible to speak about what is insane without sounding crazy. Not like that's anything new around here, but
still, this chapter is probably going to seem a bit off center even for me.
Sorry, but at this point I'm afraid it's unavoidable. Like Sarge said: "saddle up and stay
sharp, we're movin' forward."
What brought the expedition to such scary terrain was realizing the possibility, approaching probability in many cases, that an awakening CE could be or would rapidly become vulnerable to the same sort of mental problems that afflict the individual humans upon which its' life is hosted. Considered in light of the previously discussed circular and symbiotic relationships between the humans and the CE this presents a distinct problem.
Such a group awakened as history had them positioned would be very much a community of motherless children, feral children given the assumed nature of their awakening, children in desperate need of being parented in point of fact. One of evolutions major challenges, and certainly its' first survival test, is that each truly new thing… as self aware collective entities most assuredly would be, the technology to support their level of life is not half a century old… has no parent to teach it how to survive.
In this case where evolution has moved away from the chemistries of biology to work where the initial building blocks of the new life form are the tech-connected psych elements of the individual humans? The first element evolution would need to refine into some common level of compatibility would be the basic properties of its' new primary raw material. Which, just for the record, would be the psychological structures and responses of you, and me. You know, the places where you and I judge sane from crazy by habit as much as by thought.
Given the big picture of evolutions' rate of success and failure? Light heartedly I'd say "therapist" should be a stable career field for the foreseeable future, even though that's a fool's optimism. The parameters given assure us the shrinks will be every bit as crazy as their patients, quite possibly more so by today's standards. Shrinks present sanity as something compliant with, if not defined by, the norms of society as much as anything and the conjecture here is the reference standard of sanity maintained by society gone dysfunctional corrupt.
Gentle reader, these… are scary thoughts. Examine them at full potential in full perspective and they are easily seen as a fully terrible thought quite comparable to another terrible thought oft seen in the modern world: the idea of the ecosphere of Planet Earth shifting beyond what is survivable by the humans… whose activities were what caused the lethal change in the first place.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Third Reality of Man Ch. 10: Free and Clear to Navigate
The question opened two chapters ago still hangs open: how many, if any, of the psychological foibles and failings inherent to the individual human persona might be or have been inherited into the functional awareness of the newly awakened Collective Entities? Is it possible for a collective life form to suffer what in an individual would be called a mental illness?
After some serious skull spelunking on the subject my answer is yes.
If I am going to say an element of society can awaken as a Collective Entity within the pixel forest of mankind's digital footprint, a unique and living thing in its' own right, then it would be the ultimate case of wishful thinking to assume, or presume, such entities would of necessity be creatures of God-like perfection. Particularly when I know that both the component cognitive nodes (the individual humans who provide a "time share" brain) and the (social) architecture of said nodes that give shape and structure to a collective entity are ultimately the work of fallible mortal humans. By the definitions involved cause and effect reasoning demands the answer be "yes, such inheritances are, because they must be, a very possible thing."
A very possible thing. Sometimes? Sometimes I do not like working downstream from me. Possible? Chickens are possible. Eggs are possible, even pre-chicken. A lot of things are possible, including circular reasoning accelerating into an ever tightening death spiral of sobriety going down life's drain. And yet, the question had to be asked, and once asked if you try and dodge your own answer it's time to give up on philosophy and take up competition drinking. Whiskey, of course.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
The 'Tardation Study: Five by Five
Tardation: a manufactured and artificially installed psychological malady emulating an addicted state of life where irrational political beliefs are deliberately sublimated into a life as the working counterbalance for the equally deliberate creation of a dysfunctional psychology within the victim.
With another federal election cycle bearing down on America now is a good time to return to this series. After all, from the get-go the concept of 'Tardation has been that it is a very deliberate and generations long effort, an effort crafted by ethically challenged members of the mental health profession working the will of amoral political power players who always desire (and apparently have acquired!) a reliable mechanism to enforce their will on the thought processes of the electorate that empowers them.
Essentially 'Tardation resolves as an attack on democratic self rule, a weapon of Covert Cultural Warfare attacking freedom where true freedom begins: between the ears of the electorate.
Beyond the insult to Democracy, attempting social control on such a scale is a very dangerous thing, it really is. The long term collateral damages such a weapon might cause in the fabric of society are both massive and beyond accurately predicting. Even with the most dystopian efforts of modern digital technology no weapon of covert cultural warfare can be targeted accurately enough to not produce deep and lasting damages well beyond the original intent of the weapon. The diluted and distorted forms of the weapon that will inevitably spread friend to friend, pastor to flock, professor to class and, most critically, parent to child set this much closer to fact than assertion.
Just how bad is the situation? From all evidence floating my 'best guess' is that between five and eight percent of the current population has been exposed to, and is heavily influenced approaching functionally controlled by, the mechanisms of 'tardation. Where that is a best guess number it is not a WAG (wild ass guess) number.
Those who know no more social statistics than I do know it is not likely to have been an accident when the good old bell curve… that thirty years ago represented a normal distribution of political attitudes and orientations … now shows the perfectly symmetrical polarization seen on the American political scene. The chances for such polarization to accidentally remain so close to balance are approaching zero.
If the entire curve (median value) shifted one way or another along the axis of that attitude I'd say it was a naturally occurring phenomenon… but to accidentally hold such a balance while increasing the intensity of the extremes? Kurtosis like that is not very likely to be accidental, not at all. That five to eight guess is a thumb against the horizon estimate (I've not run the numbers, if you've the ability please feel free to improve my accuracy) of how many individuals would be needed to produce what is seen.
No, the evidence indicates the work of an external force impacting on the system, and more… use of that force has to be equally available to the leadership representing BOTH polarities for their competition to be stalemated to the point of such a balance enduring for the length of time observed! The fact of the endurance of the situation is solid circumstantial evidence that the force does not originate from within the system. If one side or the other had originated that force their "first move" advantage would have broken the balance some time ago and the situation, the polarization, would now be reversing back towards a normal, even if heavily shifted, distribution.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Captain oh captain, this one is strange even for me…
I was browsing on me favorite tabloid blog today and came across something that simply begged for a paranoid conspiracy theorist comment. Of course, being a legitimate paranoid conspiracy theory buff there was no way in a bikini clad Viking hell I was going to fill in all the blanks to post the comment where I saw the article, c’mon. But being a loyal citizen of me native land I figured I’d post one here and let our black hat spy vs. spy guys get the laugh instead of theirs, and anyway, no need for the Department of Mental Manipulation to waste tax money finding me twice.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Phaedra and the Pheromones
Some years ago science confirmed the existence of human pheromones, chemical messengers carrying the current state of life on a scent so subtle it is rarely if ever recognized by the waking mind for what it is. Of course the cologne industry jumped on this new knowledge, the retailers and singles bars incorporated it into their offerings, it ran wild for a bit and then faded into general knowledge. But one place I've never heard of it being considered was in how the subject effects the children who are equally exposed to these messengers (yes, mommies and daddies produce them just like everyone else) in the development of their personality.
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Juris... Prudence?
Monday, August 7, 2023
Purely non-partisan Political... or...
...concerning Propaganda and the
current state of affairs.
I saw something today I never thought I'd see… someone
defending the word "propaganda."
To be honest, she was right, the word is quite slandered compared to
its' original meanings. Anyhow, on what
she said I posted up a little comment saying I'll be kind to propaganda (as a
word) hoping if I make a peace offering
by going first maybe the world might not
be so quick to automatically translate "conspiracy believer" into
"conspiracy theorist" and then snigger. Yea, I know. But it doesn't hurt to
hope. Then, a bit later in the day, I
saw another posting (from CBS of all people, link below) that just kicked both
subjects, propaganda and theory work, firmly in the tail: I had to speak a bit
candidly on that subject. Since what I
said pretty well covers my opinions on a LOT of things I'll repost it here just
for the record.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-jan-6-opinion-poll-2023-08-06/
Fresh come from the article defending propaganda my thoughts on the article above went like this:
Seems like the subject of “propaganda” went by a little earlier in the day.
One of the better, perhaps not the best but better, ways of dispensing and
installing a belief structure to benefit the minority at the expense of the
majority (contemporary weaponized propaganda) is to misdirect the target’s
focus onto some other and advantageous point of focus (from the villian's
perspective) and away from the real threat/attack… and this so that it is
possible to easily shift the blame (for the people’s lack of stewardship and
due diligence) that allowed attack_1 to succeed over onto what, if the campaign
is successful, will allow attacks_2 through attack_n to succeed as well!
Read the above, again, please, and then look at our current situation where
we have corruption flying wing for senility matched against neurotic treachery
consuming the fears of the displaced like a death eater living in a mortuary! CAN
ANYONE GIVE ME A MORE PERFECT SCENARIO to keep America focused on the wrong
thing and looking in the wrong direction while the attacks scheduled for the
near future totally destroy freedom where freedom begins, which is
ultimately between the ears of the electorate!
There is an easier way to say “Propaganda supported by modern technology
utilizing modern psychological methodologies was more than the electorate could
turn back, they were assimilated into the Borg with little trouble.” You simply
say “the farcebookers got ’em,” get your affairs OFFLINE, and then make sure
you’re not where you were and look to your survival supplies… and yes, a gun is
on that list, but if you’re serious it’s like in the number 10 to 15 range.
Them who think a gun should be number one won’t last all that long.
Needless to say, I’m solidly part of that last 20% the article mentions, the ones ya’ll are supposed to be keeping an eye on. Doin’ my best to make it easy for you.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
A Sermon set Sideways…
Flower of an Unknown Land |
Monday, July 24, 2023
It isn't one word?... or...
...is there a Research Psychologist in the house?
Ok, it's an old bigotry that got surfaced and, to a degree. broken. I think I was maybe seven or eight before I figured out that "touchyfeelydamnedidiots" is not one word. The way my father pronounced the phrase in relation to posturings and intrusions on your personal space the sensualist folks call appropriate made it an easy error for a child. Nope, not one word. A phrase. Ok. (*lol* and Pandora in it's infinite sarcasm serves up Robert Plant's "Ship of Fools". Nope. Random play is not random, it's fate's jester).
But truth told it has been more of a power player for the last couple of years than it should have been in relation to the boy Beam (third roommate and youngest buddy) who I've been mentoring for five years or so. What popped the ancient bias was a thought that crosses a lot of territory, from current events to current technology to deep psychology. Let me report a bit of current events to put a frame around this thought.
In essence for the last three months I've been committed 24/7 to crewing a loonie bin in my living room for one patient with one other hand on staff (his mom). It's been a rough period, I'm pulling from the combat reserves as often as not.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Me and Jimmy Durante
Sunday, June 11, 2023
The Tardation Study: What Rocks Will Eventually Roll
It’s a great old song, jukebox fave for many decades running, good chance you know it well.
“Good golly Miss Molly
Sure like to ball,
When you’re rockin' and a rollin’
Can’t hear yo’ momma call…”
Even now I’ll turn it up and grin. What’s an open guess is if you know the colloquial meaning of the lyrics. Yup, you guessed it. In America of the nineteen fifties rockin’ and rollin’ was a most literal description of just what it sounds like… good old fashioned enthusiastic get down get after it sex. Barely twenty years later "rock and roll" was a well recognized genre of music. America went through quite a change across those two decades, and the music of the times reflected them all. Here it is fifty years later and there is still debate on the what's and whys.
Changes… and the consequences associated. Some accidental, some deliberate, some destructive and some benign. The focus today is the creation of some tool, some convention, to standardize a realistic risk assessment on what comes out the bottom of the machine. Since most of what will be going in the top to be systematically examined will be things involving some form of change it seems a good time to take note of the concept of "change" as a risk factor.
Very few thing happen instantaneously. There is always a bit of time involved in any change. From a great many directions it is known the two key factors in the stress associated to any given change is the degree of change... and of equal importance how quickly it happened. You can change the orbit of a planet if you do it slowly enough, you can break a jet fighter if you ask it to change directions to quickly.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Bucket definition… The Three Faces of Love
Monday, May 8, 2023
Drop the B…
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Chapter Nine: Round, like a Circle in a Spiral...
The title of this chapter is taken from the lyrics of the theme song to a fine movie, the Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway version of "The Thomas Crown Affair." If you've not seen the movie ( I recommend it for a slow Saturday night to be accompanied by a high quality light intoxicant… perhaps a brandy, or a light sativa… pick your poison of preference ) I'll kibbutz this much… it is essentially a case study in the psychology of success… and boredom.
The trajectory of this exploration has brought us to consider the internal psychology of the various collective entities. The question now in focus is how many of humanities quirks and kinks running out to full blown psychosis might have been inherited by these entities? It is a pertinent question given the relationship between the humans and the CE's. As fares one so fares the other, and as is well known to the mental health profession prolonged contact with any serious degree of mental illness is a risk. Crazy can be contagious.
Not surprisingly, these are same folks who will assert to you a good size chunk of humanity is, well, somewhat less than rational sane stable… to put it politely. But I'm afraid it would be fool's errand to ask them what sort of emotional environment the CE's might know or create for themselves. Why? Because for them to acknowledge the idea of CE's, and then consider the potentials for a less than benign circular reinforcement with their clients, their host base? That… would be a run of thought likely to discredit about half of what they think they know about the human side of the equation. For them that would be an utterly unacceptable risk to the emotional security provided by the academically cultivated certainty that allows them to work in the first place. Empathy gives they'd not likely be much help and very likely to attempt a squelch and suppress.
Seriously, put such a question in front of them and all you can really expect is to watch them buck like a rodeo bronc sidestepping and sunfishing at any and every opportunity while condescendingly vilifying whoever inflicted the discomfort on them with such a question. They know (admitted or not) just like you do that when you step into circles turning in spirals dizzy is to be expected, and dizzy is not something they can afford to be. So no.
Well, with the professional crew sidelined to a serious conflict of interest what is left for the do it yourself crew to work with? Well, what we always have of course, which are questions to test the limits of understanding so we know where to start looking for answers that might match.
Monday, May 1, 2023
LIfe Hack: Jello
Ok, so it went down like this: the little guy wanted some Jello. Now, he's not really all that good about asking for some things like treats (and to good about being a pest asking for other things, but that's a different story). If he thinks he can get it for himself he'll just growl and go for it most of the time. Anyhow, even though he's watched me make the Jello at least three dozen times the whole two cups of boiling water, stir in the Jello and then add two cups of cold water just hasn't quite clicked in for him yet. I arrived in the kitchen just in time to see the big box of Jello go into four cups of cold water. He was stirring furiously (splashing Jello for 18 inches in all directions) when I interrupted his endeavor.
The old chem plant days kicked in by reflex. Jello is great stuff, and it is in it's essence a super saturated solution kind of thing. Two cups of water just will not hold the big box in solution unless it's right on boiling, and the Jello won't really go into solution even in four cups of cold water, most likely a fair amount of it will remain a fine particle suspended in the cold water. Translation? Soupy Jello flavored water at best. The missing ingredient? Enough heat to get the whole mess into solution so it could do the whole jelly-ing thing as the solution chilled down in the fridge.
The experiment that amazingly worked? Into the microwave it went for about three minutes. The logic? Water by itself is slow to heat in a microwave, but the tiny suspended Jello particles? Maybe, just maybe they'd get hot fairly quickly, heat the water around them and finish going into solution. At the three minute mark the tubber of Jello-juice was close the same temp as when the two cups of cold hit the two cups of hot. I stirred like crazy with the whisp for about thirty seconds, put the lid on the whole mess and put it in the bottom of the fridge. I told the kid, who had just returned to the kitchen to find out if he was really in that much trouble, we had one chance in twenty for it to turn into Jello by morning, and ran him out of the kitchen so his mom could cook some dinner.
He... is a lucky little fart. Come dawn? Perfectly set Jello. Now, I fully and totally recommend following the instructions on the box, but, in a case of cold water duress? Worth giving it a try. Good luck.
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Chapter Eight: What goes on Behind Closed Doors
“There are things known,
and there are things unknown,
and between are the doors of perception.”
__Aldous Huxley
There is, also, a great old country song revolving around how no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors. Regardless of which quote fits the moment for the collective entities a great deal depends on no one looking through the sort of doors Huxley was talking about. For the CE's even more than a wandering lover keeping those doors of perception firmly closed is an absolute necessity for survival.
Why would that be so? Why would reality dictate that the humans remain ignorant of the relationships between the CE's and themselves? When the situation is examined in depth several very good reasons present which impact on both sides of the equation.
To open this chapter I'll ask you to contemplate that in objective fact the relationship between any given CE and the individual humans (who are component nodes hosting its' life-force) is a very straightforward exchange of value: the CE acquires sustenance from the individuals in the form of their loyalty, their compliance and enactment into physical reality the definition which is the foundation of any given CE, in exchange that CE provides to the individuals some component of the self definition which is absolutely critical for a human's psychological survival within a complex society. Quite an easily seen symbiosis. So simple and so easily seen as to be easily ignored.
However like most things that seem simple and straightforward when some minor degree of asymmetry or conflict created by that simplicity gets amplified by it's very ubiquitous nature then what is found is a complexity of daunting proportions. Witness that all of life is crafted from just six self replicating di-nucleic acids arranged in various patterns of complexity.
It is in that complexity of minor conflicts between what defines and separates similar CE's one from another that the CE's compete for survival and dominance. It is in the foibles of the human personality … the ego and the insecurities, the arrogances and the fears… interacting with those differences where the CE's find the tools and the weapons of their struggle for survival.
A CE is literally a social creature, and life as a purely social creature is rough. The situation is complicated enough when only the respective CE's are aware of the full dynamic in play. Let any significant percentage of the human nodes become fully aware and the individual psychologies would be influenced by that complexity. The situation would almost instantly becomes quite untenable from the perspective of both players.
Since there will be several CE's defining any individual human any conflict or contradiction between those CE's (particularly if the node has fully internalized them) assures those contradictions are echoed into that individual's psychological structures. Should the node be aware it was the CE's that provided him not only the components of his self definition but equally the source of the conflicts that trouble him the conflict count would go up significantly, particularly as the factors of human physiological emotion enter the mix.
If there are too many contradictions to resolve the individual will suffer, as will the associated CE's. How could it be otherwise? From the fate of one the fate of the other is derived, as one fares so fares the other. It is not such a stretch to understand that the ultimate well being of both sides of the symbiosis is quite dependent on minimizing the incompatibilities, and the first and simplest tactic to accomplish that end is for the nodes to remain ignorant of CE's in the first place.
And yet, such a thought just introduces another layer of complication into these exploration. By the definition offered each CE would… just as does it's humans hosts who set the original template of their lives… have the instinct for personal survival, not to mention an ego self, and self importance that mandates the desire to grow and become stronger.
From the CE's perspective these things are a serious conundrum: those differences which create the dangerous conflicts within the common host are, to them, the very differences that define them as unique living creatures.
For a, any, CE to achieve a significant degree of security would demand that any moral or ethical differences (at the host level) between that CE and the foundation definitions of the other CE's present (within their common host) had been eliminated. The net effect would be to effectively collapse the society of Collective Entities to its' most primal levels… a population diminished several orders of magnitude. By example, ceReligion might survive, but ceProtestant and all of her daughters most certainly would not.
At the time of this writing it is a very open question just how much of this conundrum is actually acknowledged by the CE's. Just how self aware are they?
Judging by the behavior of social forces which show every evidence of defining a major CE they are just as resistant to entertaining such concepts as are the humans whereon their lives are hosted, and for reasons that would run closer to parallel than otherwise. It may well be the humans are not the only creatures hiding behind doors of perception kept most deliberately closed.
If there is truth to such a thought then another set of concepts must be introduced into the relationship between the humans and the CE's, the recently technology-awakened societies: what happens if the Collective Entities inherit any or all of the psychological deformities which plague the human hosts from whence they derive their template of existence?
A terrifying possibility to be examined in the forthcoming chapter "Round, like a circle in a spiral…"
...to be continued...
Child's Play, or …
Social Recon Droid |
Take this for a fact: way more than half of what created the wide awake millennial snowflake mandatory head-case set degrading the American culture has to do with the play they knew growing up. Or, to be a bit more succinct, the lack of real play they suffered being as how their play was usurped and ruined by damaged adults taking part in the war Empire Academia's Kingdom of Psychology (EAKP, for brevity's sake) prosecutes against any element of humanity not addicted to their power play of pathos perpetuated.
An adult cannot play with a child. Not really. Play is the child interacting with other children at a child's level of understanding. Only the child knows, certainly intuitively but still an understanding, his exact position on the multiple curves of personal maturation involved with achieving a sane and stable adulthood, ergo only the child can accurately pick where and what and with whom to play.
Any adult who attempts to "play" with a child brings an adult's level of understanding, and that understanding destroys the child's opportunity to test and integrate what has been learned to date. The more the adult attempts to interact at the perceptual level of the child the more false and ingenuous the adult appears to the child.
A fact, long established: children will by instinct do a better job of observing the adult (as an example to model) than the adult is capable of doing where the child is concerned! The child always has and always will notice the falsehood, and the consequences are obvious, and inevitable.
The child is left to conclude that the state of adulthood is undesirable, it is to be deceptive and disingenuous, parameters in direct contradiction of any and every ethical foundation offered by any of the world's cultures. Of even more damage potential the child is likely to conclude they themselves must be damaged and defective in some manner because they do not understand why the adults have brought a deformed demeanor to their play and assume, as an example seen, that they must attempt the same!!!
Pathos perpetuated, much to the power and profit of EAKP's campaign to rule the world by forcibly exporting their lens of mandatory mental illness as the foundation state of the human condition.
This one? This one is very actionable. Counterattack by acting politically to take the schools away from EAKP, teach skills not attitudes, and kick the kids out on the playground three times a day for a total of two hours a day. Observe from a distance for safety, but do not intervene in their play. That's theirs, and they desperately need it.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
An Accidental God... or...
Many a true word is spoken in jest. I'm not normally one to pay much attention to cute little panels published on the internet, normally they share a lot in common, to much in common, with some carcass off-gassing the politically correct toxin that ended up killing the creature. But when one is walking along practicing modern mindfulness by being grateful for being up-wind of what is rotting on the downhill downwind side of the path? When fate sees to it that right about then something hits ignition temperature and all that reeking methane becomes a fireball throwing a flaming face into the sky right through the hide of the steer who died a week ago? Well, yes. That is something to take note of, file it under "omens I've witnessed" category and keep right on truckin'. This little psuedo-meme landed in that category things tying up a huge loose end pointing out an obvious I'd overlooked.
For some time now I've been preaching the idea that Empire Academia's Kingdom of Psychology (EAKP, for brevity's sake) is a major and quite covert force operating in the political affairs of mankind, a force playing both ends against the middle, a force which has an agenda of its' own in play.
It's obvious EAKP is moving into the social power vacuum that was created as the religions, Christianity in particular, began to lose their potency in the affairs of men. It is equally obvious that EAKP desires the immense social power Religion once commanded… the power to grant or withhold a universally recognized social certification of acceptably moral behavior. Watch the world with eyes that see it is quite plain the Empire does not desire to be the power behind this throne, or that throne, they want power over any and every throne.
Not hard to see, and not an acceptable solution in my book. Fools we'd be to trade Peter for Paul. Paul never met Jesus, but he was steeped in the mechanisms of Roman civic and political organization, he was a tax collector the way I heard the story. He'll stick to what he knows, just like EAKP's shrinks, whose forte is understanding mental illness, are showing every indication of trying to rule the world viewed through their original lens.
A serious allegation I'm quite willing to defend, and yet measured against my own standards as gm-ct a thought I've never quite signed off as complete. From time to time, in this scenario or some other, when I've thrown that thought into service it still returned a bit of that… itch… that indicates an incomplete thought, a thought with one angle left open and weak. As is usually the case when such itches show up the cause is something inside the self, some blind spot bias shadowing the needed line of thought.
Mea culpa, and on more than one front. You have to confess your mistakes if you're to claim your victories, and the hole I'd never filled involves how the general public could be duped into allowing such a trade-Peter-for-Paul power play in the first place. That never made sense to me.
To wit? If superstition is truly fading then why do they accept what Empire Academia offers, which to an objective view displays all the same properties as the Religions? Particularly since it's not hard to see that accepting the Empire's claims is still an act of faith… there are ninety-nine people who believe in science for every person who actually understands any part of the science the others believe in. How does this work? It's obviously working, but how?
Religion bases its' authority on the concept of a, any, God or Deity, and in point of fact those entities are spectacularly absent everywhere but in the thoughts and judgment parameters of a believer. Through EAKP's lens though this must translate somewhere close to believing the propensity for delusional thinking, magical thinking they call it, is very widespread.
Eh, probably… but moot to the point because as the meme shows? There is a force already up and running to take the place of the God(s) those joining the Empire had to reject in the process of rejecting the Religions the Empire competes with.
Yup. The issue of human beings needing to believe in something bigger than their own lives to avoid all those painful philosophical positive feedback loops of pure humanism was neatly resolved. And it didn't take EAKP two shakes of a donkey's tail to realize that they had the inside track. That's what the internet is for. After all, The Internet as it is called did escape from Empire Turf back in the day, Empire Academia selling to the United States military to be specific. EAKP was there then, of course they were and that means they had a very good chance of understanding how to play it to their own advantage right from the get go. Kind of resolves a couple of developmental chronology issues, you know? Yup. It fits.
And, on a slightly more sarcastic and maybe even comical note? From that same little meme it is pretty obvious the new religions forming around the new God are already fragmenting into divisions, Protestant and Catholic as it might be called. Only took a couple of decades where in Christianity it took over a thousand years. The new God and affiliated Religion is obviously not nearly as stable as the one it proposes to replace. How do I know this? Because I was taught to pray (to that deity I DO NOT pray to) in the name of the Modem, the Router, and the Holy Packet… not the Holy Signal.
Monday, July 25, 2022
To those who are closing in on the causes…
To the article mentioned:
https://isom.ca/article/dopamine-excess-and-or-norepinephrine-and-epinephrine-deficiency-in-autistic-patients-due-to-prenatal-and-or-postnatal-deficiency-of-dopamine-beta-hydroxylase/
When Theories Collide...
*brought forward by new evidence/experience
pertinent to the subject involved...*
I may well be full on full bore crazy. If I’m not then there’s some heavy, heavy things in play that will define the future of the human race for the foreseeable future. Nope, no bullshit, the rosebushes are going to have to scrounge for dinner, I’m serious. Please, please read what follows with an open mind, this thought needs to get out there.