Nilsi

The perfect example of toxic stage orange is American hegemonism. There’s nothing quite like exporting “enlightenment values” with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball.

Radical Islamists aren’t exactly known for avoiding perverted interpretations of the Quran, are they? I’m just wondering why someone who’s anti-Islamist and anti-Saudi would target German civilians during a Christian festivity. That said, I’m not taking a stance here - I don’t have any intel beyond what’s being discussed on both sides. In any case, it’s clear this was a deeply disturbed individual who had radicalized himself to an extreme degree.

Many are accusing him of being a Saudi double agent and a jihadist engaging in taqiyya (disguise/deception in the service of Islam). https://x.com/MaralSalmassi/status/1870413236996092217

Oh, totally, those pathetic nurses and cops are such sheep for working night shifts - clearly, they should stick it to society by refusing to conform to such oppressive norms.

Wtf? Seriously, nothing is more disgusting than bourgeois biohackers. Nobody’s stoked about night shifts, obviously. But for a hell of a lot of people, it’s not a choice .- it’s survival. They’re doing what they have to to keep themselves and their families afloat.

So, what, "life" and "heaven" are mutually exclusive now? If that's the case, why not cut to the chase and launch the nukes already? Why waste time slogging through this compromised state of existence when we could all just skip ahead to the "blissful ground of being"?

Affirming your own meaning is no task for the faint of heart.

You mean these folks?

I’m not condemning her actions, just as I wouldn’t condemn most terrorists. To me, this is a profound encounter with the Real. It’s fascinating to watch society struggle to contain it, as if by denying its existence they can ward off its destabilizing force. There’s no legal basis to shut this down. Whereas the standard response is to pretend there’s no trouble in paradise, while moralizing and condemning those who break through the media’s carefully curated boundaries. The so-called “civilized world” strains to maintain strict divisions, always drawn in opposition to what it perceives as destabilizing. Hegel is likely rolling in his grave. The dialectical reasoning that once underpinned Western thought seems to be fracturing in the face of something so seemingly banal - and yet so fundamentally disruptive. No longer, old man.

I've read it, along with most of Ken Wilber's oeuvre, and the conclusion is clear: these are serious creeps using the same imperialist language that's dominated U.S. foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. If Wilber weren’t such a jargonite, we could play a fun drinking game: “Who said it - Wilber or U.S. foreign policy?” At the end of the day, it’s just classic colonizer talk.

Spiral Dynamics is such a disgusting piece of ideological weaponry. It’s the same rhetoric that’s been used for centuries to justify colonialism and political intervention: "They’re underdeveloped savages, and we, the morally superior enlightened ones, must bring them democracy and freedom." The U.S. has looted resources, propped up dictators, and crushed autonomy in Latin America, and now Spiral Dynamics strolls in with its color-coded charts, slapping a pseudo-psychological gloss on the same tired, colonialist narrative. Just take Bill Clinton - the original Ken Wilber and Spiral Dynamics fanboy-in-chief. All that supposed “Spiral Wizardry” didn’t stop him from bombing Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, leaving trails of destruction while selling it as “helping the less developed.” And, of course, any critique of this nonsense gets dismissed as “green relativism” by smug elites who think they alone can see what’s high and low on the sacred ladder of human evolution. Naturally, they’re the ones “more evolved,” while anyone who dares to question them is stuck in the “flatland” of pluralism. It’s the same colonialist sneer we’ve always known, just dressed up in rainbow colors and self-congratulation.

What exactly do you mean? There are platforms that provide access to decision-makers' contact details. However, they assume you already know who you want to reach out to, and their accuracy can be inconsistent. That said, they can be useful when you’re stuck dealing with gatekeepers or aimlessly dialing random extensions. RocketReach is one such platform, and I use it occasionally