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[Yimpa]

Mathematics is an ass hare.

[Yimpa]

21 hours ago, Nemra said:

well, I appreciate that you consider whether over-explaining might clarify or not.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

Last post on Freedom is great. Still flavoring the perspective on my mind now. Conects a lot with a book called "The Dawn of Everything " by David Graeber and David Wengrow. 

The book is basically about the question of Origin of Human Inequality and if the question was at all revelant in the long past. Some Historians claimed that one day in the pre-historic times, man lived in equality and idilic communities of small gather-hunters, equal and free. 

But second to the authors both Rousseal and Hobbes simplified to much the narrative, so no noble savage and no brutal Killer Ape, is more complex than that and is what the book deals with showing the Europeancentric biased view of what they thought was the way Natives in the New World organized their political lifes,morals and survival. 

Recomend for who study Antropology 

Edited Saturday at 09:24 PM by Rafael Thundercat

[mmKay]

I would argue then the megalomaniacs described in the last post must have a degree of sociopathy or psychopathy or something along the lines.

They must not have the capacity of empathy or seeing the world from other people's POV.

Sometimes I consciously take advantage of other people in very small insignificant ways or tell small lies here and there and then these things stay on my consciousness for months and when I see the person in real life the stuff is consistently on my mind and I feel the urge to get if off my chest.

So genuineness, transparency, honesty and authenticity are not even values of mine, they are personality traits baked into my psyche.

 

These people must not have that and actually have the opposite hardware. I wouldn't say they have "made a choice" even.

It almost couldn't be another way. Natural selection is testing out different survival strategies and it seems that not having that empathy is hyper effective if you're lucky enough to break through in society. It's not guaranteed to work. You may end in jail or beat up.

So genetics play a big role imo but that's no real surprise. 

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Coined a new term with chatgpt since there is no one term that defines the fenomenon in that blog post :

Machiavellian Pragmatheism

The strategic mode of operation where truth, morality, self-identity  are fluid tools, shaped and discarded solely for the accumulation and consolidation of power and wealth. It combines Machiavellian cunning, extreme pragmatism, and the ability to believe or abandon any idea or person at will, based purely on strategic advantage. A Machiavellian Pragmatheist not only manipulates others but also self-deceives, controls narratives, and rewrites reality itself when necessary. Power is the end goal, reality is a game, people are pieces, and winning is the only principle.

Edited Sunday at 12:21 PM by mmKay

[Rafael Thundercat]

1 hour ago, mmKay said:

Machiavellian Pragmatheism

The strategic mode of operation where truth, morality, self-identity  are fluid tools, shaped and discarded solely for the accumulation and consolidation of power and wealth. It combines Machiavellian cunning, extreme pragmatism, and the ability to believe or abandon any idea or person at will, based purely on strategic advantage. A Machiavellian Pragmatheist not only manipulates others but also self-deceives, controls narratives, and rewrites reality itself when necessary. Power is the end goal, reality is a game, people are pieces, and winning is the only principle.

Wow, great summary. Sounds like the human evolution of a Crocodile 🐊 

[Adrian colby]

I came across this video around a week ago before I read the last blog( watched videos) post and found it interesting. 
 

What I reckon is his hypothesis on how we ended up in a patriarchy. Not neccessarily how we got to the misunderstanding and discrimination of some humans by other humans but the history of sexual biology and why we have diverse variation. 
 

my take from it is that we’ve evolved past the ability to physically adapt because of tools and higher level/ conceptual language so we now evolve socially, culturally, personality with a wide range of genetic mutations creating a pool of possible solutions/or adaptations to situations in a societal landscape. The backlash is coming from a prior culture with less personality, less open mindedness and I say that because of neurological research into gender or sexual orientation variation that shows, not a specific structure relating to sex ( even though it is there in some cases)  but rather structures related to open mindedness where the wider range of identity that has appeared over the last 20 years has been as a loosening of attachment to conceptual frameworks and acceptance of differentiation throughout the species ( which has always been there but hidden under adherence to stereotypes).

freedom would be attained by the fight for rights in other words creating a framework within which people can live and thrive. It is freedom by the very limitations imposed to prevent people from intruding on other people’s personal boundaries. For lived and expressed freedom to exist there must be limitations, boundaries for it to operate in. Complete freedom would be the freedom to do whatever including the prevention of life to thrive. If humanity was completely free, it would destroy itself. 
 

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

@Adrian colby some other rumblimbs on Freedom

https://www.threads.net/@thebeardedbombshell/post/DF5tNKBv-5o?xmt=AQGzcT77mIqp9SOfFIK7r-avUuj3EbQvQ3A-RxT5neVutg

This is more on America situation

[Adrian colby]

54 minutes ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

@Adrian colby some other rumblimbs on Freedom

https://www.threads.net/@thebeardedbombshell/post/DF5tNKBv-5o?xmt=AQGzcT77mIqp9SOfFIK7r-avUuj3EbQvQ3A-RxT5neVutg

This is more on America situation

Thanks for that. I’ll have a read. 
👍🙏

[ArcticGong]

A keen observation in the latest lecture by Snyder is that libertarians tend to pivot toward fascism or the far-right route. I’d like to add that many of those types have entitlement issues and feel that they are entitled to their parents’ standard of living-plus more- sometimes with less work. Quite an uncharitable take on my part.

 

Related to this point is that we live in an era where authoritarian countries like China are growing rapidly, and some believe that free countries could copy that formula to revive some old glory.

 

All in all, a very illuminating speech by a lecturer I had never heard of before today.

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, I'm really curious what makes you buy those masks.

Is it about the art, craft, history, or something else?

[LifeEnjoyer]

Those masks are wildly cool. Work at a museum that has some masks just like those but way less cool.

1 hour ago, Nemra said:

@Leo Gura, I'm really curious what makes you buy those masks.

Is it about the art, craft, history, or something else?

They remind me of how we're always putting on a mask around other people