Terell Kirby

@Talinn thanks for sharing your experience. It's tough seeing this in our politics. I couch that with saying the US has made significant progress on the subject of trans rights, relative to other less advanced societies. Still many more decades of progress to be made.

This ban doesn't come remotely close to Jim Crow- society is way too advanced to have anything comparable to that. We have to be careful with false equivalency-

Great observation. Yeah-but it's essentially targeting a marginalized group. Lacks empathy for trans, and sets a pretty egregious precedence.

Richard Nixon’s views on homosexuality : Here’s another one: I hesitate to call these low perspectives, as the 1960s were a different time relative to today- but I note that Nixon’s perspective is based on a belief in various absolutes truth claims about gays and their impact on society/culture. He also interprets historical facts/figures to reinforce these truth claims-possibly misattributing causality of homosexualitys role in the collapse of Greek and Roman empires- all in an effort to buttress his worldview.

@Leo Gura excellent work. I’d much rather use the methods of deconstruction to get higher truths about the nature of reality, than to do so for the sake of postmodernist ideology. In summary: Postmodernism without a recognition of the Absolute, is yet another fantasy-which there are an infinite number. Looking forward to Part 3

Even more value in becoming conscious of how the Bible is imaginary.

Hope everyone out in LA is safe: Of course- it wouldn’t be right if President Elect Trump didn’t use this as an opportunity for political gain for himself in some fashion:

Haven’t contemplated the pre modern yet. whats interesting is modern is correct in that there is a “universal” truth, but it’s not at the level of abstract concepts and belief systems. It needs to acknowledge relativity to go beyond this.

Timely quote given the recent episode on Post Modernism. Points out how being stuck in endless philosophical abstractions and caught up in relativity, can get lead one to being out of touch with the realities of human survival.

Modern: It is, despite what I think it is. Post modern: I think it is, therefore it is.

@Vynce .. maybe Kanye is the stable one

Amazing. And if all political pundits and commentators used this study to ground what's included in the news cycle, we'd be a much different place right now.

Hi

High perspective: It's good to understand the linguistic maneuvers and style of speech of demagogues-maneuvers that they are not even conscious of. Good analysis of how Trump's style of speech sways the ignorant masses: Feature: non partisan, objective, based in science/empirical analysis, comes from a place of deep study & expertise.

This is a great lesson for all of us- Finding that it’s important to be aware of how my past trauma and childhood experiences are being projected onto others I am angry or resentful at. It is extremely challenging in the heat of passion to be aware of such things. Thank you @Leo Gura & all the mods for all that you do for the forum ! I get tons out of it.

Trump is a poster child for low perspectives but the bottom of the barrel. Believe it or not-there are even low perspectives that are way more evolved than Trumps BS.

Low perspective: Although very articulate and thoughtful, Jordan Peterson doesn’t fully acknowledge Christ and the historical narrative of Christ as a social construct. Makes appeals to belief systems without acknowledging relativity and subjectivity of interpretation. Feature: absence sense of construct awareness, absence of context awareness, dismisses relativity of perspective.

I remember when I’d used to be so pressed for Leo to release more content- now it’s so much I’m finding it hard to keep up .

I’ll be 3 years sober from alcohol next week. Best decision I made in my life. Wouldn’t be able to get all the juice from Actualized teachings without it.

Agree-My thing is-If the price of eggs moved you to vote for a neo facist with an anti democratic bend, then it’s just as worse epistemic rot from social media algorithms and populist group think. Both actions, and rationale behind them, are politically irresponsible on the same level of coming from a low perspective.

The bald officer is world class at giving this offender a clear run down of the law (before putting her in cuffs):

Low perspective: Rachid Hammami's egregious straw man against Isalm. Completely ignores historical context, and is full of bias. This is classic ego projection, a refusal to take seriously how one's worldview might be self deceived. Feature: Gross over-generalizations, Hypocrisy, double standards, cherry picking historical facts for confirmation bias, straw manning (x1000).

Lmaoo

High perspective: Jordan Peterson on friendship. I miss this version of him-before he got caught up in the intellectual dark web: Feature: growth-oriented, facilitates development, practical, uses real life examples, clear & concise.

Example of how US democratic institutions are impacted by low perspectives corrupted by post truth politics: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/24/nx-s1-5250264/unemployment-rate-cpi-inflation-census-bureau-labor-statistics Features: disregards facts, does not value expertise/expert analysis or data, post truth in sense making, lack of systems thinking, magical thinking in place of objective facts and raw data.