Trump and a Post-Truth World:

Ken Wilber is boring and pointless, a western attempt at Asian philosophy that is way too metaphysical to be very practical. You cannot attack what you cannot comprehend, your own soul among other things, and attempting to describe the human soul in metaphysical terms is counterproductive. Controlling the distribution of information will get you nowhere, if you cannot encourage people to become better as individuals and members of society. Wilber's philosophy provides neither the tools to do so, nor the soul required. Talk is all he's got.

 

People are organizing like fucking chickens, our own neurons organize like fucking chickens, and it doesn't require a damned genius to know the emperor has no clothes. Overcoming the inertia of the flock's reactionary lifestyle requires mathematics that are about to be revealed in excruciating detail, that's my work, is helping to interpret them and encourage their development. People are obvious not merely chickens, and studying them as such is anathema in academia, which has no sense of humor, but AI is about to lay all the issues to rest mathematically and provide the foundations for the next scientific revolution. Wilber is an old school western romantic academic, which is precisely his problem. Romance is simply not always practical.

Chicken flock behavior is that of the mindless mob, but fucking around with 300 million people's lives on the assumption they are a mindless mob, really requires extreme precision. The trick is to help them wake themselves up, and make sure somebody is actually listening, before attempting to talk to them. Thankfully, because they behave like mindless chickens, it can be done without their knowledge and awareness. To them, anyone who contradicts their world views is just an idiot or insane.

 

Can't you summarize his point? I hate reading pdfs.

 

I didn't bother, I know his work and how he thinks, better than the man does himself. He could not be more predictable, like a fucking chicken. I am a linguist, and can skim dozens of pages of text like his, never reading a word, and point out where they make assumptions and logical errors, just by the shapes of the paragraphs. Knowing the language of nature herself has certain advantages. Call me crazy if you want, but I had to close two email accounts and put Linux on my computer, because my work can be used for anything, including putting a cruise missile right through your front door. Most academics would call me insane, but I've had one mathematician whose work is classified, just flat out ask me to write nonsense for him.

The simple truth is our universe is magical, composed of the collective unconscious, and the Pentagon and others have known it since roughly the Vietnam war, and heavily censored the internet and text books for anything related to the subject. They did not invest over a trillion dollars in AI research last year, just to make self-driving cars, which are already safer. I tell them to be careful what you ask for, because they are about to encounter mother nature, and she has no pity for fucking chickens whatsoever, except that they can become aware.

 

Okay...

 

Thanks for sharing, Meagain. I'll definitely give it a read soon when I have a chance

 

In over a century of efforts, nobody has ever documented the existence of common sense anywhere in the world, least of all, in the hallowed halls of academia. Apparently, I'm in good company.

 

The writer must have traveled through rural Ohio at some point...

 

These days, that describes congress.

 

So babyboomer propaganda basically

 

It's easy to accept lies when the only thing Americans care about is the economy. So long as everyone's got more money in their pocket, it seems increasingly so, we aren't really disturbed by the government's actions.

I think civil rights began much earlier than the so-called Greens, though. America is kind of founded upon doing things for the right reasons, noble reasons. If it hadn't been that way in the first place, we'd have never progressed to where we are now. America is, essentially, an ideal with no upper limit. The experiment won't stop until there is justice for everyone. But right now we barely even do the right thing anymore. There have been too many instances of doing the wrong thing that has corrupted the ideal.

 

I like it, MeAgain. I do have a few concerns here: If one does not believe in God and CREATION it would follow that men are not created equally. And there is an argument that men evolved in a none equal way, depending on their life's circumstances. I am not making an argument for social Darwinism; however, I fell it should be the moral duty of government and men who are "better off" to help the less fortunate, sort of like modern day chivalry. We need modern day replicas of Don Quixote in the Green environmentalist and civil rights model for things to work. The Republicans have their own replicas as you can imagine.

 

It wouldn't necessarily follow. Nature can create, too. I feel nature essentially created everyone equally. There aren't any major differences. It's not like we're all trying to give a leg up to a group of people who insists on eating their own feces.

 

I just don't think we were created, so I don't think we evolved equally. Rabbits and foxes are not equal. Apples and oranges are not equal. We can say that we are equal under the law; but, is that the same as creation? Trump was born to a million dollar fortune. Was he created equal to you? Can he spell equal to you? I think the boomers who MeAgain is speaking about need to push aside vanity in life and ponder the moral imperatives, aside from just environmental issues. They need to ponder the human condition, because of the lack of equality.