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This is why relying on “political will” to enforce accountability is incompetent.

You’ll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren’t…

Politically-based “accountability” is accountability-to-power’s-narcissism, only, in the end.

It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.

It had to be automatic that he couldn’t even be eligible for election, instead of “saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented” kind of thing.

DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.

Society-wide.

No “political” alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.

So, to your question “is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out”, no: it’s too late.

Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.

Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.

“a penny’s worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure” is still true.

But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call “armageddon”, these next 6-decades, will be significant…

Once the tippingpoint’s crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance … will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.

About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.

The problem isn’t them: the problem is humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s ego-games, its “apocalypse” “proving its ego’s IMPORTANCE”, that “nothing is more god than ego’s TANTRUM/POGROM is!!”.

So, fundamentally, it’s The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to “beat god and make god obey!!”.

Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy … that’s only “makeup”.

The communist-party’s imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as “fascist” in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.

The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn’t make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.

Party-imperialism’s murdered millions.

What’s the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?

the well-accomplished-sociopathy’s the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.

So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??

As ideologues consistently do.

It’s foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE’s expense.

But they’re only 2 of many representatives of that “church”.

See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it’s global, the forces are implacable, & humankind’s positioned to … not do well, this century.

Unless someone massively changes humankind’s viability…

which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too “outlier” )

So, humankind is “walking the plank”, now.

Other paths were possible…

Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov’t there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!

& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.

No other path could have worked.

Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice’s perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn’t work!

It’s the same in the US.

It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.

It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.

The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.

The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).

the problem isn’t local: it’s racial. Whole-species.

Humankind’s fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-“reasoning”, ideology, prejudice, & ideological-“morality”.

& about 9/10 of humankind’s on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.

Trump’s a symptom, not a cause.

The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance’s fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.

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There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.

YOU try writing good dialogue!

Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn’t easy, & people who don’t even understand Shawn Coyne’s point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see “The Story Grid” for that ), is something that most story-writers don’t understand properly.

Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.

Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?

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I’d recommend having a banner/sign which explains why you are doing-so, so that you won’t be accused/convicted of what others assume you to have been meaning.

It’s nearly-impossible to get people to understand what one means, when one’s motivation isn’t identical with theirs.

& discovering how their-motivation is fundamentally-different from one’s-own has to happen before one can have ANY chance at dismantling miscommunication.

& miscommunications now can have years-in-prison attached to them.

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FreeDOS 1.0

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Cultures/conventions are assumption-rivers, aka “religions”.

Toxic-culture’s a habit, an ideology, a “religion”, a self-reinforcing-feedback-mechanism, & a kind of “food” for ones who want that particular substance.

Once entrenched, it’s nearly-impossible to change a culture.

Chaning a culture generally requires focus+action both at the top AND grass-roots.

Without both, nothing’ll change, usually.

( without grassroots, nothing’ll change, no matter what the leader wants/does )

& Reddit’s CEO has paid himself $1/8B IN A SINGLE YEAR, while Reddit wasn’t in profit, so DarkTriad’s their corporate-culture, fersure, in my opinion.

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“normal” for what culture?

I mean family culture, not national-culture.

It seems to me that they’re insecure, & committed to using you for their-own validation, & crowbarring you into remaining subjugated to that scam/game/manipulation.

( I had to go no-contact with both parents, for years at a time, for my survival: parental machiavellianism doesn’t have to be conscious machiavellianism. I don’t blame them, but did need to protect my life against their forcing-me-towards-breaking/failing, with all the personal-power I could muster. )

The oversimplification of “the 5 love languages”, the oversimplification being that people are somehow “exclusively 1 XOR another”, instead of being some mixture on a 5-dimension set-of-continuums/spectrums…

It seems your mother’s means of showing-love is verbal, & she felt need to have verbal-expression-of-love for her.

The “5 love languages” thing… when I found-out that some people NEED exchanging-of-things to feel loved, or to express love … WTF??

TOTALLY not the way I’m wired.

Never EVER would have dawned-on-me that some people actually were wired that way.

But… I’ve seen some people I knew who were wired that way!

Diversity-of-wiring’s a thing, right?

So, I think it was you mom being wired for verbal emotional-meaning, AND her trying to manipulate you into being what protected/fed her established-when-she-was-growing-up dysfunction-habit, AND I wouldn’t put 1 single cent on her being “to blame” for it, if she’s never dug into conquering her own unconscious-mind. I think it was probably the result of the growing-up she lived in, just repeating, in variation.

Discard everything I wrote unless something in it is of value for you.

I’ve only experience & what seems to be understanding: I’ve no academic-accreditation, but neither did Socrates, my hero, either.

But if it is of value, then may your life be more-powerfully-awakening/autonomizing, owning your future-karma, more.

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Interesting point…

Maybe we should all have Spring Cleanup, where we get our instances to be configured to better settings, to keep tuning-up the fediverse?

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1 time I found the Christian bible’s thing about benJoseph’s recommendation about confession…

It was fundamentally different from Catholic confession ( yes, this is related to your point ).

Confession was recommended, but it didn’t say confession to someone.

It may have implied confession to one’s team/community.

It absolutely did not orient any such thing to any church-official.

I’ve found that confessing to LivingSpirit helps.

Research has discovered that it doesn’t matter what one surrenders-to/relies-on, it can be a soccer-ball, an imaginary-friend, or LivingSpirit as I do, but doing that with someone ( from your perspective ) massively empowers lives in breaking addiction, as 1 objective change-in-life.

( see Baumeister’s “Willpower”, & note that while he gives what the evidence says, he rejects it, himself )

Confessing socially I consider narcissistic.

However, there’s another angle to it: it may help others to see that they’re not-alone in their failings.

& that is valuable.

There’s my answer answer for you.

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Nature says: IF you want the current regime ( in any ecology! ) displaced,

THEN displace it!

Don’t like Facebook’s monopoly? Displace it.

Don’t like political-parties’ railroading our world into ideological cuckery?

Displace it!

Etc.

For effectiveness, it’d require leaders, which the anarchists prohibit from their world, so they’re not going to help displace the organized-idiocy.

Communist & fascist imperialism will do EVERYTHING IT CAN to break any threat to their eventual-totalitarian-world-dominion.

Concentration-of-wealth-archy/oligarchy won’t tolerate any such thing, either.

& worst is the rude fact that as people’s contexts change, THEY change, so it has to be lead by people who’ve earned self-conquering, who aren’t malleable in principles or integrity, no matter how much force they are plied with, or how relentlessly they are plied with that force.

The people who felt class-elevated to be hobnobbing with Epstein kept their mouths shut when they shouldn’t have, simply because they’d be knocked lower down the social-status-hierarchy if they broke-ranks, & that social-pressure was sufficient to protect the entire Epstein-Class for decades.

That mechanism is in all of us.

It can be broken, through years of relentless pushing oneself into facing-karma, & breaking one’s unconscious-mind’s ignorance-dominion on one’s life.

Just identifying some of the key forces/factors that have to be dealt-with, in order for global-grass-roots-revolution to work, among the populations who are educated well/correctly enough to value critical-thinking.

In all the regions where education did what Leninism & Fox do, prevent that ( remember how the Republicans eradicated critical-thinking from all their territory after Trump won his 2nd term? ) … thos regions are no-longer recoverable, in WW3’s next 6-decades.

One has to accept that only a fraction of humankind will fight-off ideology-displacing-reason, & that saving the rest, thanks to education, isn’t possible.

Basic principle that Sunzi/Sun Tzu/Master Sun identified, 2.5 millenia ago: IF one is outnumbered, either defend, if one is strong, or evade, if one is weak.

Critical-reasoning is, globally, weak.

We either deal-with-that XOR we hand victory to the ideologues.

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Industries tend to evolve into 2-horse-races or monopolies.

“Focus” by Al Ries.

Coca-Cola & Pepsi, as 1 example.

( there is MUCH more in that book: IF you’re doing a startup, please read it! then the Lean Startup stuff. )

Who is Amazon’s competitor?

Who is Apple’s, or Google’s, or Facebook’s?

Bill Gates called it “friction-free capitalism”, when unlike streets, you don’t see any competitor & that makes competition, & market-balancing, disappear

Don’t worry: what Facebook did to MySpace, the Fediverse is going to do to Reddit.

It is only a matter of earning it, & duration-until-then, now.

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Habits oft take about 1-season to train.

endure, & the unconscious-mind change’ll happen.

I’m autistic/woodenheaded, & even I made the switch, some years ago.

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Diversity exists in all kinds of dimensions, even values.

That is what the human-category of life is for: exploring interactions between different kinds of human-category-meanings, including values.

( souls not interested in catching-in human-category-lives can catch in other kinds of lives, obviously, & most do )

Humankind couldn’t outgrow the overly-simplistic 1950’s-America pseudoreality until they EXPERIENCED it.

The same is true of ALL human-category meanings.

Some have to experience being a monster, & then reap the karma of what they had “sown”, to use the terms of the root-guru of the Christians, before that-soul/continuum can viscerally understand valuing-others.

Once the consequences have happened on them enough … then they’ll understand.

Without actually-experiencing it, though, how could visceral-learning be?

All the people who hold that “you don’t need to face what’s in your unconscious: just maintain acceptable-appearances, & be the appearances, & then everything’ll be fine” want inauthentic meaning, inauthentic-realization-of-a-soul’s-meaning.

IF a soul/continuum has being-a-horrible-monster in its nature, & it wants to explore that, THEN all it has to do is catch-in a world where monsters are currently happening, & then explore that meaning.

There are countless worlds, in the endless-stream-of-universes…

some are currently hellworlds, some currently paradises, some in between.

The majority of the souls who’ve caught in this-world’s human-category-lives want ideological-reacting instead of upright correct-reasoning.

So?

IF that’s what humankind wants … THEN it’s humankind’s right to persue enforcing ideological-reacting, until humankind’s extinguished from this world.

Then humankind’s “entitlement” will have no “home”, & universe won’t care.

Then those-souls … will have to try again, on some other world.

Endlessly, forever, until they grow-up.

Endless-stream-of-universes is perfectly efficient & effective, & has NOTHING to do with “religion”.

It’s just a mechanism in-which souls explore meanings.

Souls currently caught-in the lives of monsters, on worlds that are having those, included.

Why would it be “a problem” for others to have other values?

Ideological-homogeneity may be your idea of heaven, but MOST of the world doesn’t want to be homogeneous with you or me.

If that’s your idea of “a problem”, then too bad.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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Sorry I didn’t realize this earlier:

You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work

( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Paul Fussell"?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).

Coarsely, there are 4 classes:

• Upper ( measures status by someone’s POWER )
• Middle ( measures status by someone’s INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTION-BESTOWED-DEGREE )
• Working ( measures status by someone’s MONEY )
• Under ( homeless-people, etc: people like me, who’s racked-up 7+y outright-homeless )

More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:

• Upper { Monarchs, hereditary-Oligarchs, minor “nobility”, etc }
• Financial ( have the wealth to be exempt from most of the regulations & many of the laws )
• Upper-Middle ( doctors/professors/lawyers/diplomats/engineers/etc )
• Middle ( lower-to-mid beaurocrats )
• Upper-Working ( self-employed, or owns their own business )
• Middle-Working ( foremen? )
• Lower-Working
• Under

Upper-class do not have a “job position”: they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.

The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.

You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”… ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )

Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.

Oh, this’ll help, too:

Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

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That principle is important.

In any system where goods ( of some kind ) are not owned by the people using them, then you have to make those goods near-impossible-to-break, which is part of where communist Brutalism aesthetic comes from.

There was a book by a shelled-moluscs scientist who was born blind: he sees through his fingertips.

He’s the one who pointed that principle out, having lived in communism for part of his life, & once the principle’s understood, it can’t be unseen.

Know somebody who cares for their tools like jewelry?

They’d all be destroyed, pronto, in communism.

That’s the price that gets paid when nobody owns what they’re using.

And THAT principle, means that it then becomes possible to design means-sharing-systems that can work.

The e-scooter rental systems that many cities now have, is 1 example: idiotproof, indestructible, & they enable significant improvement in the city.

But consider contractors who need to be able to get anywhere, with their tools…

public transport may break their work.

Rurally, not having a vehicle’s … often suicide.

& if the city’s designed like US cities, towns, & villages, where they engineer it to break any other form of transport, then you cannot get to the supermarket without a car, from many locations.

It takes much more whole-systems orientation, to get it right, than what the US has been doing…

< shruggeth >

just some perspectives, is all…

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If you want to write a story, then it is in working-out the meanings that you will earn what your unconscious-mind wants to earn.

Same with people wanting to earn a pilot’s license, or climbing a mountain, or doing SCUBA.

If some of your meaning is hidden in that kind of work, then you aren’t going to earn that part of your meaning by putting it on a shelf, because somebody-else deemed it unimportant.

I’m recommending that you read & understand 5+ books, though, as they dismantle story the technology so that you can more-competently work out your story-meanings:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres is the most important: it is on the 14 genres that the West has landed on, & the dimension-of-human-meaning that each genre works-on.

Horror works-on one’s unconscious-mind’s understanding of death, & its relationship with it.

Which may explain Grimm’s, tbh.

Detective is intellect.

etc.

The 14 happen in a particular sequence because that’s the sequence in-which each mind-development stands on the previous-ones.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presenting-to-win-updated-and-expanded-edition-2 may seem a strange recommendation, but understanding the 12 TYPES of information-presenting, will help crack some story-problems.

Need a character to fail to communicate something?

Pick the correct for your story wrong-method for them to use, if you see what I man.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-story is the other-half of Truby’s work. The 22 steps in story, & why each.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-story-grid is THE book on editing. There is no book that tops that.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Framed+Ink is THE book for getting visual communication working in comics & visual-novels.

Now I discover that there are multiple books in the series ( I got the original, long ago ).

Dig in, earn what your unconscious-mind is trying to earn, grow your meaning, & clobber your difficulties/obstacles.

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I think there are a few different dimensions of this, all combining to blur the view:

1. the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, was kinda steady-state, compared with what we’ve been experiencing…

the probably beginning around Newton cascade of Industrial Revolutions ( in different industries! ) is still accelerating.

Coal+steel+steam was 1 of them.

Telegraph meant information could travel FAST long-distances, then wireless took it farther…

computers began automating things, then began enabling calculations which hadn’t even been possible…

aviation ensmallening the world ( if embiggen is a word, then so is that! : )

but what happens when there are sooo many transformations, CRT’s with their lead-glass to reduce people’s X-Ray exposure, now into flat-panels…

genetic-testing all over the place…

lighting no longer being incandescent…

EV’s all over the place…

it isn’t that change isn’t happening, it is that the equilibriums aren’t happening!

It’s ALL punctuation, continuously-rolling, now!

So, accelerating change, is part of what’s going on…

TWO. the view: we’re IN the maelstrom, & therefore can’t see the forest for the trees!

I recently went into a city, to ( fail ) to get ID, & … everybody was on these weird scooter-ebikes?

When the hell did THAT happen?

I’ve only been out from cities for … 15y?

Obviously, it happened sometime in the intervening 1.5-decades, but … that’s fairly distinct!

So now there’s 2 overlaid public-transport systems: bus-routes covering the arteries of the city, & those rentable-everywhere scooter-ebike thingies, for all the point-to-point travel…

Brilliant!

I wish it’d been in-place decades ago.

THREE. consider that part of what makes distinct decades distinct, is identity … & consider that in the current world, dividing-and-conquering everybody by identity, through software-enforcement ( Facebook, etc ) is making much of our world invisible, physically: it’s ONLY in those platforms.

So, it isn’t even in your, or my, view, to be seeing what the world really is, anymore!

Concealment ( for divide-and-conquer purposes ) is growing more ideology-polarization.

Don’t worry: it’ll be as clear as Russia-vs-Ukraina, in a short while, globally…

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Sometimes the victory needed is victorious-internal-integrity, & winning-the-social-majority isn’t as important to one.

“seize every defeat from the clutches of victory” … IF one is only measuring social-victory, then fine…

But if what I’m doing is … systematically demolishing the ideological-prejudice-enforced displacement-of-my-validity, within me, then integrity can mean MUCH more than ideological/political-approval.

Sometimes you have to save your own life, even letting the collective die, in THIS battle, for sake of becoming indestructible in future-battles, throughout the rest of the war.

The war is more important than the mere-battles!

This is what I think Stephen R. Covey didn’t understand in his interdependency principle.

I think too-much of our world is codependent, not interdependent, & that it takes REAL independence -of-validity before one can get into actual interdependent-collaboration-synergy.

There’s a metaphor given by Kelsang Gyatso, in 1 of his books, which gets it right:

There are 3 ways of helping people, & these phrasings are mine, not his:

• the self-conqueror, who can coerce an entire kingdom into working right, in spite of entrenched corruption/rot/whatever
• the shepherd, who can lead many, but who is only slightly above them, so the shepherd can be indirectly or directly defeated by their lack of self-conquering: they are less-helpless, but they aren’t anywhere near the self-conqueror level.
• the ferry-pilot, who helps a couple of people at a time, & then goes back to find a few more to help.

In my experience, only the self-conqueror is robust: all the lesser kinds of help are helpless when opponent-force gets great-enough, or acts through great-enough leverage/torque.

Therefore, I want, and am aiming-for, TOTAL breaking of all the PTSD, all the damage embedded in me by ideology’s & prejudice’s ( including medical-profession’s ) gaslighting & abuse, all the harm embedded in me by medical-culture’s narcissism in parenting & “parenting”, ALL of it.

I want THIS LIFE unbroken.

& if people say I should enslave/snuff my potential to short-term/consensus/social-momentary-victory, then fine: hate, contempt, & reject my presumed alternative, as nearly-all already do.

But all I have to do is win, & then the rules changed, permanently, completely, & then this-life is in the next-level-up, & cannot be crushed by the masses wielded by the ideologies/prejudices/etc.

Getting permabanned by many instances, by many communities, because I value integrity more than I value political-belonging, is normal.

But every time I ratchet this-life’s objectivity+integrity a bit harder in the right-direction, that puts a little more good-change in me.

& sooner or later that tipping-point’s going to get crossed, & the brokenness hobbling my unconscious-mind is itself going to fail/break.

Then the game is changed.

That potential is to me real.

To all others, it is mere-delusion/lies: it never was real, & it never can be real.

So, the world bets its way, & I bet my way.

Universe will decide which is, in its eyes, true.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.

Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.

( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.

John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,

hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed…

so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.

They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.

They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.

That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.

Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??

Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.

Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )

Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” was on this, & mind.

Either self-consistency XOR completeness.

You can’t have both.

IF self-consistent, THEN incomplete.

IF complete ( completely-matching-universe ) THEN self-inconsistent.

.: self-consistent theory ONLY can describe a limited subset of universe.

Period.

( Hofstadter later identified, in his revised version of the book, in its preface, that his work was also on the nature of mind.

He claimed that nobody got it.

He obviously had no Buddhist friends.

When his illustrative-vignettes with the Tortoise & the Hare showed that you can present evidence to a formal-system ( represented by the Tortoise ), & it’ll say “oh, yes, of course that’s valid”, the next thing it’ll do, is demonstrate that it ignores all such evidence.

That is characteristic of ideologies, prejudices, “religions”, & formal-systems.

It’s the same “we only accept what is self-consistent with our belief, NOT what contradicts it” as formal-systems embody.

As a grotesque remapping, imagine being tasked with proving that mothering is meaningful, but you’re only permitted to use arithmetic, for proving it?

Well, you can’t, then, can you?

Mothering’s meaning ISN’T knowABLE within arithmetic: it’s in a different-kind of reality!

But people who insist that ONLY their-schema be allowed to measure “what is valid” … are all doing exactly the same scam that Hofstadter called-out in his absolutely-brilliant book, decades ago.

Anyways, Susskind has identified that “Time as a Fractal Flow” fits reality well, but he apparently hasn’t clued-in that if Time is fractal, … then isn’t Space also fractal?

The implications of Space being fractal … kinda nuke much of our whole physics-paradigm: continuum is completely-bogus, then.

Anyways, it all comes down to inapplicability:

Each model ISN’T applicable outside its applicability.

… isn’t Dunning-Kruger, or something, rooted in that?

People mistaking chess-competence for universal-competence?

Arithmetic isn’t universally-applicable.

Even something as specific as probability-calculus, with its “the difference between a tribe of 150 reduced to 149 is “IDENTICAL” with a tribe being reduced from 1 down to 0, because the ONLY difference is subtraction-of-1”…

that’s categorically wrong:

Reducing a tribe from 150 down to 149 is an ARITHMETIC difference of 1, but reducing it from 1 to 0, means the tribe’s continuity has been broken: it’s extinct now.

Using the wrong model makes one incapable of understanding true-meaning.

Based on what I earned from that book by Hofstadter, I’d say the thing is that we’re prone to applying models waaay outside of their applicability, & therefore we’re being bogus, while believing that we aren’t.

& THAT is problem.

Models are limited in their applicability.

& we are … perhaps wired … to ignore that.

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There are 2 dimensions of it, at-least:

• strategic, long-view, sustainable, AND
• creating resilience, creating better-framing, creating robust-healing.

So, MAKING time, daily, for positive/healing practice, & doing it, is the opposite of self-harm.

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