Fleetinglife

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  1. What is this phrasing by CNN? ''Russian-led'', like in to sneak in quick propaganda, the psychological trick for shaping the perceptions of its targeted audience for the future and in the upcoming possible events in that country that will follow while reporting on them live. Russia is yes the founder and the largest military within the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization), but it can be said that it directly leads it, there is a council where chairman from different countries rotate, as in the same way that it cannot be said that the US directly leads NATO, rather it considers treaty nations its strategic allies under the terms of that shared agreement while also being the most overall most powerful member of it in militarily and economically wise. Also, the Kazakhstani government is also part of the CSTO so it's not that this organization (I would not even call it a standard military alliance hatched between these 6 countries) is going into a non-member entity as questionable as to its intentions, motives, and reasons for it doing so now and in the following hours and days, it may be.
  2. Fair enough, you supplied from my current POV a valid description and explanation in so far as I am seeing, I could be very off, and wrong I am just again trying to get slowly and steadily into the SD model to modify and improve my interactions with people and with my living reality in general. Thanks for the heads up on what might be some of my errors in approaching. Personal Note: I don't live an SD Green overall culture and wider environment given my countries, when looking it through and/or using the SD theoretical model/WVS on assessing my country dvlp overall and its dvlp areas and regions, I can only compare and contrast to examples I've seen in my own environment, be it the short term University one or elsewhere through on/off contacts I have and had. Correct, I apologize for that if it was interpreted that it was phrased and written that way, it was late last night and I was responding to some other threads on the forum and I was tired probably and have written it in a hurry before going to sleep, so I apologize for that if I came off rude or persecutory on my part. Was in a reactive mode last night due to some stuff that has happened family-related and I have probably written response in a hurry with a lack of emotional intelligence at that moment. I can usually sense when I am coming off aggressive, uncharitable, or rude to other people, but not at that moment so I sincerely apologized for that if it came off that way directed at you specifically. Sorry, MB I had some emotional vehicle expression issues and outburst problems during the last few days so that probably desensitized me as a result, not that I wanted to let off steam to a random or specific forum user online specifically in some sort of psychopathic manner but rather I really wanted to quickly refute what I perceived as exaggerations and adulations of what are women with college/university degrees like as it relates to SD terms that I quickly read in that quickly and broadly written simplistic compare and contrast binary comment in relation to men without any degrees, from my own life and living experiences, be it in the past in the immediate or broader family or my interactions with them in University from my own POV, personal experiences, interpretations, and knowledge of them up until that point. So I again apologize if I came off with negative intent or rude towards you in my attempt of a rebuttal of what I perceived and mentally conceptualized of what was being communicated.? Didn't see at that moment this thread as coming off from a certain stage, Blue/Orange stage specifically as you said, just briefly interested in the questions being posed in it and arguments discussed since I have heard of them before in some media I briefly glanced on YT but nowhere did in detail see them specifically laid out so I got curious to see the sides regarding it since I've heard one version of it mostly in University but not completely the other, though it was mentioned in the forms of Charles Murray criticism of the ''nanny'' welfare state and the so-called underclass, structural functionalism, social biologism, and theory of labeling, stigma and social deviationism, etc. and not by the apocalypticist, moral panic, and connotations title and seeming intent behind the phrasing of it in the unfortunate way that it was. I agree it seems, that it was a poor allocation of communal resources on my part, and I apologize for that also, due to the affective and reactive way in which it seems I phrased my response, sorry again for that and I deeply apologize if I caused you deep emotional turbulence and harm that way as if you are being persecuted and attacked that way, I assure that was not my intention, and wasted your time in replying and responding to me. As they say, what unintentionally goes around and comes around might happen to me at some other seemingly unrelated post here or place these next few days. Karmic punishment I don't dismiss it nor deny it nor think that is useless or invalid if it was perceived intent that it was coming that way with way I phrased it, on the contrary, I have read some excerpts before from Angela Davis Theory on Intersectionality and the intermingling and interrelationships between oppressed groups and identities and the different layers of their oppression in regards to the status and identities they hold and that are defined as such by the societies that they are in (for the most famous classic example the intersection of various other oppressions existing within US society for black women in the feminist movements in contrast to white women or for POC women in the LGBTQ movement) for each to simplify it from the time that has passed since I read it and attended that course which featured the history of the waves of feminism and the feminist movement starting from the UK, Europe up to the US for some of my exams. But to sum it up, there is a big value to such theories for college/University-educated women if taken to heart and embodied as a lifestyle and life principle, dare I say might have near future revolutionary potential here, in a deeply mostly stage Blue patriarchic, nationalist, religious traditionalist society taken as a whole for the population, where patriarchy is sometimes often heard used in positive connotations and qualifying value-judgemental sense in sentences of some people, especially for our own POC women in impoverished, mostly ghetoized and segregated Roma/Gypsie communities (which distinct national flags are also rarely featured in all the communities that they are located within the Balkan countries, though some famous public and popular figures that have risen out of their communities are in their own way popularizing for that to start more and more to change and shift around so they can proudly display and feature their own ethnic/national flag within the nation states on the Balkans where they are present as minorities) of which as reports surface achieve a remarkable feat of getting a college degree despite their conditions and mutiple layers of oppression and discrimination that they face in their own mostly stage Red/Blue male-dominated heavily patriarchal communities and outside society because of the qualifying of their status and identity by those same forces in a normative, oppressive and hegemonic manner. I understand your perspective regarding that I fit into that type the way it came off that way in my originally badly phrased post. I agree in the current system here, where these famous public figures with no less Herculean feat and commitment and faith in themselves arise coming from those aforementioned racially, socially, and heavily economically discriminated in the start and in a lot of cases heavily impoverished and segregated minority communities in the ethnically majoritarian nation-states here, especially in a stage blue environment, this also seems like the only currently possible way forward, especially with the support of their communities living elsewhere in more progressive European states connected with this postmodern diversity and inclusivity advocacy and tolerant international commercial capitalistic popular culture as a great room and opportunity for their advancement which they can use the platform as those famous public figures to advocate against discrimination, and for more state economic help and boosting of them, justice and opportunities for the communities from whence they came and would also serve as great role models and representatives of those communities in order to reinforce a more broad and positive, and less stereotypically and discriminatory majority public perception of them.
  3. I am from time to time seeing much loose use of SD theory in a generalizing qualifying manner as a rule and not as an exception on the forum in arguments for some people to justify their own idiosyncratic assessments of their own personal worldviews, living experiences, and accordant ideologies that they feel that most resonate with their own formed political 'self' to stage one-upmanship on those that they perceive are criticizing and arguments coming from below. No, being a college-educated woman is not a sure-fire ticket for you to becoming stage Green and with all that intellectually entails, for the qualifier that you are a woman and therefore immediately transition to stage Green based on your college education, there is not a small tint of a shadow of an Orange value-based assessment in terms of success in this generalizing statement in putting forward this binary of more or lesser developed. Solid Green embodiment and foundation requires empathizing, understanding, and treating other perspectives as part of your own and being mindful of structural causing of yours and their perspective in your day to day life and experience, and not shallow and not deep adoption and memorizing of stage Green theory, concepts, and worldview in your vocabulary and projected lifestyle and expression unto others in a consumer manner in order for the justifying of career climbing and successes in a new environment - this eeks of a progressive veneer and postmodern coating going along with that type of education of what just keeps you down in wanting to personally succeed, get opportunities and climb up more the social ladder in the demands of a knowledge-based and service type of economy. I argue what I am seeing being displayed mostly there is a coating with Green language, values, terminologies, and concepts using the dominant ideological language of postmodernism as a justification for the need for a stage blue deconditioning and orange transition of a group of people for the purpose in dealing with historical legacy and baggage carried over so they can be integrated into this new form of a revised and more self-conscious US capitalism while coasting off the new excesses and problems it brings forward with it for the sake of the success of those deemed they should now be the ones succeeding in order to fit in the new paradigm and image the system has created for itself. IMO, this is my own take and opinion for what I am mostly seeing in the media, it could be a perceived criticism from below due to personal current self-assessment reasons but I would deem that on a theoretical level that it's probably not completely since it is informed by some of my prior retained knowledge from theories from some of the sociological courses I took and while at University here.
  4. No, no you got it backwards, those leaders actually call all that you mentioned above their version of their ''democracy'' when they themselves do the exact same thing, while they do a lot of projecting onto the West of an exaggerated and inflated version of these intentions as you described them and do a lot of diversions, distraction and calling out the supposed hypocrisy of the caricature they construct in their own closed minds around these countries own inner political systems to justify away their own inaction and interests in keeping their own version of this corrupt system and process in which it gets maintained and reproduced in their own country intact that allows them to maintain and hold overwhelming hegemonic power. For example, local communities here can't vote on local elections on who their representatives will be from their own, we can call them and they can be roughly translated and compared to the US political system, as being the same as, ''counties'', they choose from an already forwarded list of preselected candidates for that local self-governing municipality up to the national elections forwarded by the party they decide they are going to cast their vote for, nor on any party programs and later policies, nor do they have a say in the party machinery of bureaucracy who will be the party candidate/s for the national parliamentary elections representing their ''counties'' and presidential elections and nor can they choose different candidates from and for within that party if they wanted to, they can only be removed by the judged ineptitude and complaints arriving in the party higher-ups and leadership already holding state power seeking to safeguard and retain high public approval for the next elections so the people might not go and cast their vote for a different party. Election and Electoral laws existing within the Constitution are severely outdated and inadequate for the current situation and time period here and are a safe haven for keeping corruption intact.
  5. If I was one of these autocrats and dictators together with their oligarchic cabal which props up and promotes their rule economically and in the media, especially in one of the countries that I live in and others adjacent and allied to it in terms of their similarities in the constellations and functioning of their political systems, I thought to myself last night, I would launch a war or would more likely do a military intervention I would have planned when adequate conditions or excuses arise for it once again immediately or during a term, a Republican seizes office, ideally, if it happens in 2024 and then during 2025 and 2026 years perhaps, simply by the fact of the domestic uproar again that would cause and focus back at home for domestic issues, I feel that they would have felt that they would get away with less severe punishments, focus on them and sanctions that it would cause them, especially if I am anyone other than China.
  6. You have completed the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale. The LSRP measures two scales. Scores range from 1 (low) to 5 (high). Your score from primary psychopathy has been calculated as 2.2. Primary psychopathy is the affective aspect of psychopathy; a lack of empathy for other people and tolerance for antisocial orientations. Your score from secondary psychopathy has been calculated as 3.3. Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspect of psychopathy; rule-breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior. With two scores, the results of the LSRP are very suitable for being plotted. Below is the distribution of how other people who have taken this test have scored. Your score for primary psychopathy was higher than 52.93% of people who have taken this test. Your score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 81.09% of people who have taken this test. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/LSRP.php ''I wrote out that I am not sure if I answered honestly on everything because I would mostly pick agree or disagree answers, and would rarely on some questions pick strongly whether on agree or disagree, couldn't just force myself to go to each extreme end of the pendulum with each question because I really didn't feel like it that I strongly agree or disagree on anything regarding the self-assessment of my up until now behavior and personality patterns.'' Btw that test afterward about guessing and choosing one's preferred preferences to the guessing of the actual meaning of those put together and arranged letters as words from some fictional or combination of words from multiple actual existing languages (didn't check to find those words) was very interesting and fun, like a very good, inspiring, and creative way to create words and guess their supposed meaning translated into the English language, I feel like it is an excellent test blueprint for someone who wants to create a fictional language for a sort of a Middle Earthy culture or civilization for his fictional fantasy world that he would aspire to create for his novel or comic, with the letters arranged and the words they generated and that they picked and associated with having similar meaning when translated into the words they picked as a binary as having that meaning and referring to that in the English language.
  7. 1/4/2022 I tried to meditate for a half-hour and twenty minutes afterward with differing success in the ability to stay focused away from my thoughts, internal images, and feelings and on the direct experience of reality at the time. ''I resurfaced a close memory from about two days ago with having a long talk and walk with one of my close friends now about various social, cultural and political topics in the country that we both live in and our differing views on them, and during the course of that talk and walk I could distinctively feel the stink eyes, the contempt, prejudices, and biases at moments that my friend forwarded towards me as a person, the known history that I shared with him and with my views, viewing me in not such a good a light as a person and my views that I have towards various social and cultural topics here, I can only judge by this unpleasant experience that I had with him that the more you know about someone, his history, who and what he is and how he became to be as he is, if you are at differing stages of consciousness, the more likely is that they come to hate, not like you, have prejudices, biases, and hatred towards you. I can judge and guess with in regards to how long I know my friend and his views as to him being a solid middle or upper stage Blue consciousness level type with a not yet fully digested Red shadow due to the way I noticed his surfaced emotions of anger and contempt in his facial expressions and physical edginess and restlessness in his body movements and of course of how that amounts to regarding his views and feelings towards the society and the world that he lives in is an absolutist in the moral sense, heavy-handed Christian conservative, reactionary and uncomfortable, in reaction, backlash, denial , and reversal mode against of up until now established and some current trends and paths of development in modern societies, especially societies undergoing again that process of modernization like some of the Balkan countries, and a wish and desire on his part to stop them, reverse most of them up until now and those yet to come and return back and start rebuilding towards some romanticized and idealized version of the past - an ultra version of conservatism here in his case. Of course, I also had some undigested anger and contempt towards my friend with the way interpreted some of his comments and remarks regarding me and some quickly drawn stereotypes and insensitive, mean jokes regarding my family members that I again felt were directed towards me as a way of mocking me with no clear empathatic feeling I felt coming from him and emotional intelligence that comes with his stage of development consciousness wise and showing contempt to me from a superiority complex position in regards to his own academic success, beliefs, habit patterns, and work methods and ethics that led to it and my own bogging down, underperformance and underachievement in contrast to his in regards to my studies of sociology and where I currently am at with them and I felt that on his part as a way of mocking me that my indepedntly formed beliefs that I am trying to independently hold as a person as I see them as authentically and spontaneously formed in regards that they came out of my own most deeply felt emotions and thoughts not influenced by external pressures or demands to conform to the rest of societies expectations of me in regards to experience own views on my own life, society that I live in and reality and life as a whole that they are the ones that led me to this path and state that I am currently at in and point in life. That's why I am heavily considering and weighing in my own mind that even if this friend is my next-door neighbor and friend since childhood and one of the persons in the last few years that I hung out with the most with, that I can't expect to have a good, pleasant long time chatting with him anymore due to his personal flaws due to his consciousness stage level and beliefs and that I have slowly but surely find new close friends which I can see more eye to eye to on most topics, and that of this friendship to be truly trustworthy, close and flourish can't be the case because of the differences of consciousness level and stages and values and worldviews that go with them, and so thus feel a need to scale it down a bit and lower and lessen the degree of seeing my friend even though we are close and nearby to each other and to keep in touch and contact with him but lessen the degrees when and how often do I see him and hang out with him and go in an active, slow but steady search in finding new friends. The thing that I resurfaced and was most revelatory for me regarding him as a person and his feelings and thoughts towards me and emotional intelligence and level of care, worry, concern, and empathy for me and his view of me as a person and what I am worth, level of the value that I have and meaning to him as a relatively close, long acquaintance and friend was when I hadn't been in contact with anyone two months ago, he assumed, after a couple of days and weeks, because of the prior hard emotional states that I had shared with him that I had, that I had committed suicide and sort of gave up on messaging me, calling me, asking anyone from my family and friends or sending me or them messages of where I am or am I alright or is everything fine with me since I am not answering my phone or responding to messages for two weeks approx. and waited on the news, that the only use he saw in me was to go outside with me and get out of the house to have someone to talk to in order not to stay locked in the home where he was bored and annoyed. And several people reacted in a way I didn't expect them to and some, in turn, felt offended and thought in turn that I deliberately ignored them or trolled them by not responding to their messages and calls and have cut off contact with me and don't want me to be friends with them anymore. But this story and event entry I will leave for the next or another journal entry.''
  8. I saw who he was but I, unfortunately, didn't follow his posts during the time I was on this forum. _/\_ RIP. Sorry for your loss and best wishes to you, his friends, and his family, and hope you will be okay!
  9. I will detail later during the night or tomorrow in this post when I contemplate on it a bit where I currently am at in life and where I am situated and my hopes and dreams for the future. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thanks for anyone setting the time and energy for it for me in advance!
  10. Thanks for the suggestion brother, I will check that out. I am too tired tonight to write in detail and have some personal inhibitions now due to an unwarranted action and reaction that I had personally tonight so I will try tomorrow during the day when I clear out my thoughts and feelings.
  11. 1/2/2022 9:04 - Meditated/contemplated for twenty minutes at least ''Would get sudden images of wanting to blow my brains out or a bullet going through my skull and brain in order to ease the rushing thoughts of hopelessness, pain, and despair that I felt and thought of who the f#ck am I even, why I am I here, what the h#ll is the point of my existence and my purpose here in this life as I am, where I am, where I am at and of my experiences up until this point? I couldn't control them they just came in like a high-speed railway train. I also remembered and had to experientially relive in my head a past forgotten traumatic and suppressed experience at an excursion in high school where I got drunk in the company of some peers from high school class on a bitter liqueur alcoholic drink called pelinkovac with the brand Gorki List resembling in taste and alcoholic volume the German Jagermeister and afterward the only recollection I had was that I went alone to my school rented motel room in Prague where we stayed, which I shared with two other peers from class, and feel asleep drunk, and groggy and later when I woke up I found out that I have vomited all over the motel room hallway during the night that the other students from different classes had to lead me to my room and clean up after me and that I was left alone in my room and that I have vomited during the night in my sleep, luckily my head and my body was turned on the side so luckily I vomited on my pillow and did choke and swallow my vomit unconsciously during the night and suffocate on my puke. Later when one of my then motel room peer occupants noticed this when we woke up the next morning, he laughed at me and joked and I kinda went with it at my expense but now later did I realize that I could have easily perhaps died in my sleep due to alcoholic overdose and choking on my puke that nobody from my class or room occupants batted an eye or cared only when I woke up did they notice and I there left alone in that room could have easily died in my sleep right then and there at 18 if I didn't luckily or unconsciously fall asleep lying sideways which I usually never did then, I would mostly fall asleep on my stomach. So yeah that was my traumatic experience which I resurfaced now, it felt like at that moment since I felt lonely and ostracized in my class with not a lot f people who I hung out with or made friends with and not having any girlfriend at that time that I had an unconscious suicidal death wish at that field trip, how it went and how I suffered through it mostly alone, lonely and isolated and that I had this unconscious self-hating or inferiority complex desire to overdose my self with alcohol to numb out that over encompassing feeling that it felt it shaped my whole experience of life and reality there like I was in some sort of hell and that I wanted to then unconsciously kill myself than with an alcoholic overdose - I later posited that feeling might have steemed from my undigested feelings towards my mother's post-birth depression, depression and her passing away by suicide when I was 7 and then that identify with me inheriting that same feeling and perception of my experiences in life and that it was like I curse I bore from inheriting it from here or part of here getting reincarnated in me as a second life in order to bear out the punishment for her suicide at the time - those were thoughts and feelings that I felt at the time and still do have as some sort of unadmitted idiosyncratic belief system in looking at the world and interpretitng my experince in it and my experiencing and perception of them at times''
  12. 1/2/2022 ''Meditated for half-an hour at least than afterward felt a wave of tiredness sweep through me and my entire upper body and couldn't ressist it and had to lie down moving alarm clocks one after another after ten minute each for an hour long sleep or half-awaken lying down resting whatever it felt like while having various lucid dreams and thoughts going through my perceived mind and head region where it feels on the inside like I have pulsating physiological halo around my brain which I guessed and figured is maybe caused as result of recent past excessive porn addiction use and this is a result of the amygdala or brain chemistry trying to slowly wean off it and feeling that pressure and pain in that area of the head and brain as result of the addictive lack of stimulus I cut off giving it when I decided I had to quit it for the sake of my mental health, circadian rhytm normalization habits and the developing of interest for cultivating my personal, future career and social life and regaining of interest of finding a girlfriend''
  13. Btw I greatly thank you and I am in your debt for helping me discover this guy and his very creative and personal approach to various social and cultural topics via this thread -what a figure!
  14. It was meh for me upon the first watch in 2020, was not very impressed with what I saw. Though I appreciate you contextualizing through this analytical interpretive lense all the themes that I saw in the movie, it helps to explain some stuff I've seen.
  15. I couldn't watch the whole debate time-wise because of an upcoming celebratory event for the New Year that I soon need to go on with some friends, but this guy with the way he was able to get under Vaush's skin and hit him up with these questions and respond himself in a seemingly genuine and open way while managing unintentionally from his honest self-admitted POV to immensely trigger Vaush and visibly make Vaush uncomfortable in the certainty of his held positions and views regarding this topic made me genuinely laugh intensely now for a couple of seconds while watching the elegance of his probing and deconstructing of Vaush's held assumptions and positions. It was like watching an ice cream ball melt slowly from and into its cone in real-time by the honest radiance and beams of a Sun - the cone being Vaush in this case. Though personally, I have some discomfort regarding this guy's positions and held views regarding his perceived ages of sexual attractiveness, as it feels he leaves out or removes the cognitive development and perceived mental and life maturity component in the sexual attractiveness equation but also I respect him a lot for his perceived radical and non-agenda pushing honesty which these popular streamers don't seem to have nearly as enough and severely lack.
  16. 30/12/2021 ''I have changed my profile picture on all virtual platforms where I am located to this very personal statue for me since I first laid my eyes on it and took interest in it as a child when I came back to my home country from Canada and have now once again out of a sense of hopelessness and despair have rediscovered it's longevity and resilience in standing there unharmed after all the events that have befallen the building where it is attached on its facade and the countries where it is located - standing there virtually unharmed since 1934 it was projected as a symbolic statue of the New Military Air Highcommand Building for the entire countries Airforce, surviving plotting coups within the building at the onset of WWII in the Balkans, high precision-guided missiles and bombs falling on the building it's attached to during the NATO bombing campaign 65 years later with the statue remaining firmly attached to the military building's facade virtually unscathed and unharmed by all the events that have unfolded and impacted it's buidling mother building and it's surroundings and location as a symbol of longlasting resilience despite the rapid flow and change of time and historical epochs. The statue's name is the Bound Icarus it was a modernist style architectural project designed to accompany the modernist style of the High Air Command Building itself (Fun little Fact: which's design in whole was self-admittedly confessed by the Serbian architect behind the whole building Dragisha Brashovan inspired and aimed to an extent to mimic the architectural design and look of how some prestigious Hollywood studios looked at the time in the 1930s who would have thought) by the Bulgarian female architect Zlata Cvetkova with the aim to picture Icarus at the moment when he is, with his spread wax and feather wings, steeping of the cliff and lunging forward to take flight. The statue has a very deep personal history with me since I first spotted it and took interest in it as a child and with my family's history as well with their career profession and the events that sparked them to move again from Canada back to Serbia, and those thoughts and feelings that I have stored in regards towards it have resurfaced once again when today in the night stroll on the Main Street here in Zemun I took a glance at it again it standing in the same old place it always has since I first saw it as a child on the opposing parallel bus station on the other side of the Main Street here in Zemun. 1. Here is the architectural look and design of the High Air Command Military Building itself: 2. The Statue of when I took a picture of it at nighttime illuminated by the reflectors pointing at it nearby in order to make it visible in the night and in order for it to stick out in that part of the Main Street surrounding building landscape: 3. Here is the accompanying favorite song from the main soundtrack theme of Deus Ex: Human Revolution called 'Icarus' released exactly ten years ago, at the same time with game's official release, from the soon to be the current year 2022 in 2012 (a nice decade since coming to an end and lapse commemoration with this song IMO ) that I listened to the end of high school a lot of times on repeat in moments be it of fantasizing grandiosities nad change in the future or melancholy or sad hopelessness mood in general that fits the theme and symbol portrayed on the statue, in this case, Icarus breaking the bonds of his pasts by breaking away from the battered down and scarred facade and lunging himself forward off the small white cobblestone cliff, spreading the wings of his own making and taking flight into the vast unseeable possible future of the skies with boundless potentials! And I wish that to everyone at the start and beginning of this New Year to gather their own inner courage, strength, fearlessness, and will to lunge themself forward again and against wherever they currently are at with their inner and outer wings of their own making into the vast boundless future that the skies above us all hold! A Happy New Year In Advance and a Merry Christmas to you all who are celebrating it on the Seventh!
  17. 30.12.2021. Approx. 19:00 I will write out and add my thoughts and experiences later in the evening.
  18. 30/12/2021 ''I have noticed that my verbal expressiveness of the ideas I think I hold in my head when communicating them to other people is not on a self-satisfactory level that I would wish it to be, a lot of gaps, pauses, and rigidity in the free flow and the expression of thoughts through words, not effortlessly but through a forced mannerism'' ''Also a lot of aggressiveness can be heard in the voices and expression of a lot of ordinary people here, I kind of repressed savagery and barbarism sweeping underneath their psyche perhaps finding forms in extremely unpleasant verbal aggressive ways and auras and constant restlessness and unrest in their very beings not integrated into the conscious part as a part of the repressed shadow''
  19. I am going to start drafting a New Year resolution soon to compensate for this and last year that I mostly let waste and have some general plan to stick to and refer to in the long time span of 365 days in order not to repeat the same mistakes
  20. Yup timeless old danger and tale by smart, educated, perfidious, and cunning minds, though as the saying goes when you spark fratricidal or ethnic conflicts that way you can't ''light up that fuse without an abundance of gunpowder laying already prior around it.'' That's why as Leo said Forgiveness is Key to breaking that Chain of Hurt. ''“The rich ruling class has used tribalism, a primitive caveman instinct, to their advantage since the beginning of time. They use it to divide and conquer us. They drive wedges between us peasants and make us fight each other, so we won’t rise up against our rulers and fight them. You can observe the same old trick everywhere in America today: Red states and blue states are fighting. Christians and Muslims are fighting. Men and women are fighting. Baby Boomers and Millennials are fighting. Black people and white people are fighting. That doesn’t just happen all by itself. There are always voices instigating these fights.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy, How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy?
  21. And as those exploited developing countries advance to solid Blue stage consciousness for the majority of the populace and their leaders to high Blue or Orange. It is easier to exploit more selfish, egocentric, divided, weak, fearful, and stupid people.
  22. Thanks for sharing highly insightful stuff from Klein worth picking up and reading as a whole. Btw Chile just got a new left-leaning socialist president of Balkan Croatian descent that swept away the old guard elite neoliberal conservatives in Chile that held power since the country introduced back democratic institutions and a new constitution shortly after Pinochet left in the '90s. My father when he went to Canada at that time also knew a couple of his Serbian friends that visited Russia in that period for business reasons and investment purposes with a lot of scary anecdotes about the rampant crime, and widespread mafia controlled run cities, and orchestrated terror, violence, intimidation, racketeering, and blackmailing in open daylight in some cities against citizens, and even them as Slavic foreigners in night clubs and sometimes even broad daylight that came to visit from a different nation shielded and protected by the local oligarchs, where the police would just run from and pass by crime scenes and trouble if they knew it was from a certain shielded group they couldn't afford to touch.
  23. ''In February 1992, Russia's vice president, Alexander Rutskoy denounced the Yeltsin program as "economic genocide." The conflict escalated soon, however, with the parliament changing its prior decision to hold a referendum. Yeltsin, in turn, announced in a televised address to the nation on 20 March 1993, that he was going to assume certain "special powers" in order to implement his program of reforms. In response, the hastily called 9th Congress of People's Deputies attempted to remove Yeltsin from the presidency through impeachment on 26 March 1993. Yeltsin's opponents gathered more than 600 votes for impeachment but fell 72 votes short of the required two-thirds majority. During the summer of 1993, a situation of dual power developed in Russia. From July, two separate administrations of the Chelyabinsk Oblast functioned side by side, after Yeltsin refused to accept the newly elected pro-parliament head of the region. The Supreme Soviet pursued its own foreign policies, passing a declaration on the status of Sevastopol. In August, a commentator reflected on the situation as follows: "The President issues decrees as if there were no Supreme Soviet, and the Supreme Soviet suspends decrees as if there were no President." On 21 September 1993, in breach of the constitution, Yeltsin announced in a televised address his decision to disband the Supreme Soviet and Congress of People's Deputies by decree. In his address, Yeltsin declared his intent to rule by decree until the election of the new parliament and a referendum on a new constitution, triggering the constitutional crisis of October 1993. On the night after Yeltsin's televised address, the Supreme Soviet declared Yeltsin removed from the presidency for breaching the constitution, and Vice-President Alexander Rutskoy was sworn in as acting president. Between 21 and 24 September, Yeltsin was confronted by popular unrest. Demonstrators protested the terrible living conditions under Yeltsin. Since 1989, GDP had declined by half. Corruption was rampant, violent crime was skyrocketing, medical services were collapsing, food and fuel were increasingly scarce and life expectancy was falling for all but a tiny handful of the population; moreover, Yeltsin was increasingly getting the blame. By early October, Yeltsin had secured the support of Russia's army and ministry of interior forces. In a massive show of force, Yeltsin called up tanks to shell the Russian White House (parliament building). The attack killed 187 people and wounded almost 500 others. As the Supreme Soviet was dissolved, elections to the newly established parliament, the State Duma, were held in December 1993. Candidates associated with Yeltsin's economic policies were overwhelmed by a huge anti-Yeltsin vote, the bulk of which was divided between the Communist Party and ultra-nationalists. However, the referendum held at the same time approved the new constitution, which significantly expanded the powers of the president, giving Yeltsin the right to appoint the members of the government, to dismiss the Prime Minister , and, in some cases, to dissolve the Duma.'' ''Some economists argue that in the 1990s, Russia suffered an economic downturn more severe than the United States or Germany had undergone six decades earlier in the Great Depression.'' Nolan, Peter (1995). China's Rise, Russia's Fall.
  24. @Danioover9000 Him claiming he is from ex-apartheid South Africa and therefore African is offensive to black Africans who suffer through racism to this day dude (he can only say he is of Afrikaner descent which is a correct way of saying and clear marker that he is of white settler descent living in Africa and not an indigenous African), that's what I criticized about his simplistic immigrant statement and wanted to point out and also his fetishistic notion of talking about the process in which Western civilization and Western hemisphere nations are taking in the ''hurdled poor masses of the world'' and brain-draining immigrant smart people from less developed countries and talking about it as if it's his own achievement by the simple association of him simply being born and raised in one of those countries and identifying with their government policies - it's a form of unearned narcissism and self-adulation through a measure of identifying with the same national and collective identity as people who actually do this work - a form of unwarranted national pride and actual subtle nationalism.