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I wonder what Leo will name the book. ”Rats in a labcoat” maybe lol. Or “Rat wars” hehe

I’d disagree that people are too dumb for liberal democracies. Being uneducated is an issue for democracies though. Because when people’s needs don’t get met they get resentful and then low consciousness actors manipulate that resentment with a false narrative as to why their needs are getting met. And then radicalisation and extremism emerges. I take this view from Jason Stanley (Yale/ Toronto prof). Yes better education helps because it allows people to better understand why their needs aren’t getting met and therefore makes a population less vulnerable to manipulation. However, you don’t always need to fix educational levels to resolve radicalism. You can also work on meeting people’s needs better so that those resentments don’t arise. And therefore low consciousness actors have less to fuel to feed their manipulations. For example, I know Ian Shapiro (Yale polsci prof) argues that the radical politics since 2016 is the result of long term employment insecurity. So, according to Ian Shapiro, the focus ought be to fix employment insecurity in order to resolve the radical post 2016 politics. Note how there is no need to fix peoples level of education because it fixes the source of resentment.

(This is more me just thinking as I type, but I will share nonetheless) Various Green folk trigger me in part because they often do a sort of an educational half step. They educate themselves to understand roots problems better. But then don’t educate themselves on how to effectively bring about the necessary events to resolve the root problems. Or even think that this is something they ought to do. And then they end up being part of the problem and subscribe to green group think or become ideological about why their solutions don’t work. Personally I feel I’m still pretty noobish when it comes to pol sci but at least I understand it’s important for me to learn about political strategy. And so in that aspect I think I have yellow thinking, and when greens are ignorant/ dismissive of it I get frustrated. I think Yellow will get most annoyed at Green out of anyone because lower stages are uneducated and primal in many ways. In that fulfilment of their base needs drive a lot of their worldviews. So they are not so relatable. Where as Green shares various values with yellow, such as non-judgement (to a large degree at least). And there is this shared sense of wanting to help everyone in society flourish. However, yellow sees how green both takes responsibility for making this change and also negates their responsibility. They do the former by trying to bring about societal changes and what not. They do the latter when they blame blue and orange for resisting their ability to make changes. And in doing so ignore how they failed to be strategic enough. And I think this annoys yellow a lot.

I’m not really sure I understand what issue you are finding with his reply. Can you help me understand?

I am doing the ‘What impact could have in the world that would be deeply meaningful to me?’ exercise. And am struggling with what to pick. I have done probs a few hours of contemplating on this so far. And am just wondering how to pick my answer. Like I guess I’m sort of waiting for an ‘aha!’ answer to come and have clarity. But that hasn’t happened yet, and I am panicking a little lol. So was hoping for some pointers please @Leo Gura :). If anyone else wants to share their perspective I’d be grateful too!

I think Carl was just kidding around haha

@Majed Solution is that earning that capital becomes part of your life purpose.

But my lil rat brain likes these gimmicks 😝

@samijiben Haha thanks!

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Content versus structure

I think things seem worse than they are. I think it’s partly because of this talk of ‘post truth politics’. This talk of post truth politics is misleading because it makes it seem like this right wing rejection of truth and favouring of self serving narratives is something new. It is not new. This is just propaganda in the modern day.

Ooooo intriguing answer imo

Yes please good sir

@gettoefl @Norbert Somogyi Thank you guys ❤️

Anyone have a lecture series they can recommend regarding the Israel/ Palestine conflict please?

Bro imo you are engaging, to some degree, in all or nothing thinking. It may not possible to do everything you want to do at the moment. But you can still implement some of these self actualization habits imo.

“The wrong way home” by Deikman M.D. A book about the cult behaviours in American society. Isn’t that such a fucking good way of describing cults? The wrong way home. Man I swear I have so much admiration for the intelligence of that book title. What is a book title that you guys think is awesome? And/ or really intelligent?

Meeeee. I’m 1200. What are you?

We should hold an actualized.org chess tournament

Thanks. Lets say describing the sport of football. I like your idea of asking yourself further questions.

@kavaris @Princess Arabia Actually, I will change my question to two different questions. 1.) How should I think when describing something abstract? Ie describing what law is 2.) How should I think when describing something I am observing? Ie a game of tennis.

Great share imo! I really like Dr K’s content myself. I think his content is a really good compliment to Actualized.org actually. Especially for folks dealing with mental health stuff.

Epistemic Terrorist Someone who tears down the epistemic foundations of another person’s beliefs without adequate consideration of the destabilising effect it will have on them. Example 1: Leoella: Omg! I’ve just tried this thing called Cbt therapy. It has solved my two year long depression. I can’t believe it. Lionel: Pffffff… Cbt therapy that is such nonsense. Everyone knows there is no foundation to rationality. So any cognitive distortion you identify is arbitrary. Bradley Martin: Yoooo Lionel bro. You’re a goddamn epistemic terorrist.

Fair points