Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )

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  • Nature says: IF you want the current regime ( in any ecology! ) displaced,

    THEN displace it!

    Don’t like Facebook’s monopoly? Displace it.

    Don’t like political-parties’ railroading our world into ideological cuckery?

    Displace it!

    Etc.

    For effectiveness, it’d require leaders, which the anarchists prohibit from their world, so they’re not going to help displace the organized-idiocy.

    Communist & fascist imperialism will do EVERYTHING IT CAN to break any threat to their eventual-totalitarian-world-dominion.

    Concentration-of-wealth-archy/oligarchy won’t tolerate any such thing, either.

    & worst is the rude fact that as people’s contexts change, THEY change, so it has to be lead by people who’ve earned self-conquering, who aren’t malleable in principles or integrity, no matter how much force they are plied with, or how relentlessly they are plied with that force.

    The people who felt class-elevated to be hobnobbing with Epstein kept their mouths shut when they shouldn’t have, simply because they’d be knocked lower down the social-status-hierarchy if they broke-ranks, & that social-pressure was sufficient to protect the entire Epstein-Class for decades.

    That mechanism is in all of us.

    It can be broken, through years of relentless pushing oneself into facing-karma, & breaking one’s unconscious-mind’s ignorance-dominion on one’s life.


    Just identifying some of the key forces/factors that have to be dealt-with, in order for global-grass-roots-revolution to work, among the populations who are educated well/correctly enough to value critical-thinking.

    In all the regions where education did what Leninism & Fox do, prevent that ( remember how the Republicans eradicated critical-thinking from all their territory after Trump won his 2nd term? ) … thos regions are no-longer recoverable, in WW3’s next 6-decades.

    One has to accept that only a fraction of humankind will fight-off ideology-displacing-reason, & that saving the rest, thanks to education, isn’t possible.

    Basic principle that Sunzi/Sun Tzu/Master Sun identified, 2.5 millenia ago: IF one is outnumbered, either defend, if one is strong, or evade, if one is weak.

    Critical-reasoning is, globally, weak.

    We either deal-with-that XOR we hand victory to the ideologues.

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  • That principle is important.

    In any system where goods ( of some kind ) are not owned by the people using them, then you have to make those goods near-impossible-to-break, which is part of where communist Brutalism aesthetic comes from.

    There was a book by a shelled-moluscs scientist who was born blind: he sees through his fingertips.

    He’s the one who pointed that principle out, having lived in communism for part of his life, & once the principle’s understood, it can’t be unseen.

    Know somebody who cares for their tools like jewelry?

    They’d all be destroyed, pronto, in communism.

    That’s the price that gets paid when nobody owns what they’re using.

    And THAT principle, means that it then becomes possible to design means-sharing-systems that can work.

    The e-scooter rental systems that many cities now have, is 1 example: idiotproof, indestructible, & they enable significant improvement in the city.

    But consider contractors who need to be able to get anywhere, with their tools…

    public transport may break their work.

    Rurally, not having a vehicle’s … often suicide.

    & if the city’s designed like US cities, towns, & villages, where they engineer it to break any other form of transport, then you cannot get to the supermarket without a car, from many locations.

    It takes much more whole-systems orientation, to get it right, than what the US has been doing…

    < shruggeth >

    just some perspectives, is all…

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees

    pointed-out, in 1 of his books, that WHEN

    • a) nuclear-weapons are proliferating
    • b) there is no control on whom it is, their nature, who has them, or who inherits them, or who takes-possession of them, &
    • c) enmities abound, globally,

    THEN … sooner-or-later they’re GOING to get used.

    It’s irrational to believe otherwise.

    This has been inevitable all along.


    There is 1 pending upside, though: IF nukes are all engineered to be presuming GPS/GLONASS/etc, AND KesslerSyndrome has been enforced before “the button” gets pressed, THEN they should refuse-to-launch, due to their dependencies, the nav-sats, not being the help they should be.

    So, our surviving the nuclear dimension of WW3, might actually come down to some country smashing another country’s nav-sats, & the shrapnel from that taking ALL of them to smithereens, thereby taking the missiles’ nav-brain out with it.

    Typical ideological-nationalistic idiocy.

    “it was the mistakes they made, all stacked atop each-other, which saved their species” is exactly what the galactic-news might report, later this decade.

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  • Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” was on this, & mind.

    Either self-consistency XOR completeness.

    You can’t have both.

    IF self-consistent, THEN incomplete.

    IF complete ( completely-matching-universe ) THEN self-inconsistent.

    .: self-consistent theory ONLY can describe a limited subset of universe.

    Period.

    ( Hofstadter later identified, in his revised version of the book, in its preface, that his work was also on the nature of mind.

    He claimed that nobody got it.

    He obviously had no Buddhist friends.

    When his illustrative-vignettes with the Tortoise & the Hare showed that you can present evidence to a formal-system ( represented by the Tortoise ), & it’ll say “oh, yes, of course that’s valid”, the next thing it’ll do, is demonstrate that it ignores all such evidence.

    That is characteristic of ideologies, prejudices, “religions”, & formal-systems.

    It’s the same “we only accept what is self-consistent with our belief, NOT what contradicts it” as formal-systems embody.

    As a grotesque remapping, imagine being tasked with proving that mothering is meaningful, but you’re only permitted to use arithmetic, for proving it?

    Well, you can’t, then, can you?

    Mothering’s meaning ISN’T knowABLE within arithmetic: it’s in a different-kind of reality!

    But people who insist that ONLY their-schema be allowed to measure “what is valid” … are all doing exactly the same scam that Hofstadter called-out in his absolutely-brilliant book, decades ago.

    Anyways, Susskind has identified that “Time as a Fractal Flow” fits reality well, but he apparently hasn’t clued-in that if Time is fractal, … then isn’t Space also fractal?

    The implications of Space being fractal … kinda nuke much of our whole physics-paradigm: continuum is completely-bogus, then.

    Anyways, it all comes down to inapplicability:

    Each model ISN’T applicable outside its applicability.

    … isn’t Dunning-Kruger, or something, rooted in that?

    People mistaking chess-competence for universal-competence?

    Arithmetic isn’t universally-applicable.

    Even something as specific as probability-calculus, with its “the difference between a tribe of 150 reduced to 149 is “IDENTICAL” with a tribe being reduced from 1 down to 0, because the ONLY difference is subtraction-of-1”…

    that’s categorically wrong:

    Reducing a tribe from 150 down to 149 is an ARITHMETIC difference of 1, but reducing it from 1 to 0, means the tribe’s continuity has been broken: it’s extinct now.

    Using the wrong model makes one incapable of understanding true-meaning.

    Based on what I earned from that book by Hofstadter, I’d say the thing is that we’re prone to applying models waaay outside of their applicability, & therefore we’re being bogus, while believing that we aren’t.

    & THAT is problem.

    Models are limited in their applicability.

    & we are … perhaps wired … to ignore that.

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  • “intellectuals”, with their entitlement & privilege, ought deign to intervene…

    Perhaps some people find the cloying class-based-“superiority” in that to be nauseating.

    The question is a fundamental misframing:

    It is integrity, not “the privileged upper-middle class who identify with their exclusively-more-valid intellect”, as “intellectuals” ought be unpacked to,

    it is integrity which is the needed chisel, right now, & since mainstream “journalism” sold-out, it is Journalism, with a capital-J, which is the required antidote.

    I remember seeing people from the Philipines reporting that Marcos’s election was via district after district reporting 2/3-votes for Marcos … invariantly.

    NO “journalism” picked that up, as a fake election??

    Only the 1st few results showed chaotic variability.

    There is NO Journalism-with-a-capital-J left. It’s ALL “owned” or “pwned”, now.

    The pushing of normalizing gaslighting, altering framing, eradicating actual-opposing-to-corruption, etc, all of it serves corruption, now.

    I remember seeing the photos of The Guardian, showing how they systematically minimized Netanyahu’s “Israel”'s genociding, while speaking openly about Russia’s…

    That isn’t Journalism, that is “journalism”.

    Integrity’s more-fundamental than intellectualism.

    Class-based-“validity” can go eat rocks.


    For all who claim that class-systems are inherently-wrong: parent-child is THE fundamental class-system.

    Class-systems are inescapable.

    Class-based “validity”, however, isn’t.

    Nor is the prejudice+pretence.

    Honestly accepting, honestly valuing, honestly collaborating-with, people of different classes, in our combined-committing, would be … too much to ask, of class-based-“validity” people.

    As one Sun Media writer noted, years ago, the condescension in the middle-class for working-class determination, is drenching.

    That absolutely is true.

    Cracking prejudice, including class-prejudice, takes visceral-experience, not more class-segregation.

    You CAN’T get people who grew-up in “prep” schools, with their prejudices, to accept “their inferiors” as valid.

    Therefore class-segregated education is a strategic-enemy of our viability, & the Scandinavian system whereby EVERYbody goes through the same public-school-system, is right: NO class-segregation permitted.

    It’s always deeper than the pretences “cartoon” the issues to be.

    & the real antidote always costs segregated-privilege’s habit deeply.

    & we automatically balk at that, because our “identity” is wrapped-up in our cultural-habits.

    But … this-century will enforce enough destruction that IF humankind earns transforming into being-viable, THEN that adapting will have to have happened.

    Either that, XOR humankind can do its “tantrum/pogrom” until there’s nobody left, & then … universe will just move-on.

    All our ego’s narcissism, all the “G-D revolves around ME!!” delusion, like all narcissisms, like “intellectuals” narcissism, all of it means nothing, to universe-itself.

    The error is that we mistake different-specialization “classes” for “validity”-classes: THAT is pretence.

    THAT is anti-viable.

    Growing honest about that SOON would be wise, but … would go against habit, & that … won’t happen without a fight.

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  • There’s a “philosopher” who the far-right techbro-oligarchs rely on, whose blog is grey-something-or-other…

    I tried using wget & there’s a bug or something in the site, so it keeps inserting links-to-other-sites into uri’s, so you get bullshit like

    grey-something-or-other.substack.com/e/b/a/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/etc

    The site apparently works for the people who browse it, but wget isn’t succeeding in just cloning the thing.

    I want the items that the usable-site is made-of, not endless-failed-requests following recursive errors, forever…

    Apparently one has to be ultra-competent to be able to configure all the disincludes & things in the command-line-switches, to get any particular site dealt-with by wget.

    Sure, on static-sites it’s magic, but on too many sites with dynamically-constructed portions of themselves, it’s a damn headache, at times…

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