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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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?English
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    11 days ago

    I think there are a few different dimensions of this, all combining to blur the view:

    1. the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, was kinda steady-state, compared with what we’ve been experiencing…

    the probably beginning around Newton cascade of Industrial Revolutions ( in different industries! ) is still accelerating.

    Coal+steel+steam was 1 of them.

    Telegraph meant information could travel FAST long-distances, then wireless took it farther…

    computers began automating things, then began enabling calculations which hadn’t even been possible…

    aviation ensmallening the world ( if embiggen is a word, then so is that! : )

    but what happens when there are sooo many transformations, CRT’s with their lead-glass to reduce people’s X-Ray exposure, now into flat-panels…

    genetic-testing all over the place…

    lighting no longer being incandescent…

    EV’s all over the place…

    it isn’t that change isn’t happening, it is that the equilibriums aren’t happening!

    It’s ALL punctuation, continuously-rolling, now!

    So, accelerating change, is part of what’s going on…

    TWO. the view: we’re IN the maelstrom, & therefore can’t see the forest for the trees!

    I recently went into a city, to ( fail ) to get ID, & … everybody was on these weird scooter-ebikes?

    When the hell did THAT happen?

    I’ve only been out from cities for … 15y?

    Obviously, it happened sometime in the intervening 1.5-decades, but … that’s fairly distinct!

    So now there’s 2 overlaid public-transport systems: bus-routes covering the arteries of the city, & those rentable-everywhere scooter-ebike thingies, for all the point-to-point travel…

    Brilliant!

    I wish it’d been in-place decades ago.

    THREE. consider that part of what makes distinct decades distinct, is identity … & consider that in the current world, dividing-and-conquering everybody by identity, through software-enforcement ( Facebook, etc ) is making much of our world invisible, physically: it’s ONLY in those platforms.

    So, it isn’t even in your, or my, view, to be seeing what the world really is, anymore!

    Concealment ( for divide-and-conquer purposes ) is growing more ideology-polarization.

    Don’t worry: it’ll be as clear as Russia-vs-Ukraina, in a short while, globally…

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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments?English
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    11 days ago

    Sometimes the victory needed is victorious-internal-integrity, & winning-the-social-majority isn’t as important to one.

    “seize every defeat from the clutches of victory” … IF one is only measuring social-victory, then fine…

    But if what I’m doing is … systematically demolishing the ideological-prejudice-enforced displacement-of-my-validity, within me, then integrity can mean MUCH more than ideological/political-approval.

    Sometimes you have to save your own life, even letting the collective die, in THIS battle, for sake of becoming indestructible in future-battles, throughout the rest of the war.

    The war is more important than the mere-battles!

    This is what I think Stephen R. Covey didn’t understand in his interdependency principle.

    I think too-much of our world is codependent, not interdependent, & that it takes REAL independence -of-validity before one can get into actual interdependent-collaboration-synergy.

    There’s a metaphor given by Kelsang Gyatso, in 1 of his books, which gets it right:

    There are 3 ways of helping people, & these phrasings are mine, not his:

    • the self-conqueror, who can coerce an entire kingdom into working right, in spite of entrenched corruption/rot/whatever
    • the shepherd, who can lead many, but who is only slightly above them, so the shepherd can be indirectly or directly defeated by their lack of self-conquering: they are less-helpless, but they aren’t anywhere near the self-conqueror level.
    • the ferry-pilot, who helps a couple of people at a time, & then goes back to find a few more to help.

    In my experience, only the self-conqueror is robust: all the lesser kinds of help are helpless when opponent-force gets great-enough, or acts through great-enough leverage/torque.

    Therefore, I want, and am aiming-for, TOTAL breaking of all the PTSD, all the damage embedded in me by ideology’s & prejudice’s ( including medical-profession’s ) gaslighting & abuse, all the harm embedded in me by medical-culture’s narcissism in parenting & “parenting”, ALL of it.

    I want THIS LIFE unbroken.

    & if people say I should enslave/snuff my potential to short-term/consensus/social-momentary-victory, then fine: hate, contempt, & reject my presumed alternative, as nearly-all already do.

    But all I have to do is win, & then the rules changed, permanently, completely, & then this-life is in the next-level-up, & cannot be crushed by the masses wielded by the ideologies/prejudices/etc.

    Getting permabanned by many instances, by many communities, because I value integrity more than I value political-belonging, is normal.

    But every time I ratchet this-life’s objectivity+integrity a bit harder in the right-direction, that puts a little more good-change in me.

    & sooner or later that tipping-point’s going to get crossed, & the brokenness hobbling my unconscious-mind is itself going to fail/break.

    Then the game is changed.

    That potential is to me real.

    To all others, it is mere-delusion/lies: it never was real, & it never can be real.

    So, the world bets its way, & I bet my way.

    Universe will decide which is, in its eyes, true.

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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?English
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    11 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

    Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.

    Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.

    ( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.

    John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,

    hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed…

    so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.

    They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.

    They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.

    That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.

    Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??

    Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.

    Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )

  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoWorld News@beehaw.org•The Last Nuclear Arms Treaty Expires TodayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    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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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoOut of the loop@lemmy.world•Can someone smarter than me tell me if this affects me or not?English
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    13 days ago

    For THAT much gold to have got on the market, somebody big is financing something, liquidating a bunch of their reserves?

    Russia’s got African gold as part of its income ( the Africa Corps, formerly Wagner, being their means of harvesting African gold, both directly & indirectly, apparently )… this could simply be them converting from gold to some other kind of asset, in financing their war…

    XOR it’s all ditched futures?

    The people who pointed-out that it’s all just a 2-week setback, though … consider that the other-way-'round:

    that in 2-weeks, gold has CLIMBED that much…

    THAT is … terrifying.

    World’s bracing for economic-armageddon/collapse/Depression2.

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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What happens if our mathematical system is proven to be inconsistent?English
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    13 days ago

    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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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today | Los Angeles Review of BooksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    “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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  • Paragone@piefed.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments?English
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    14 days ago

    Some of us sometimes, & others all-the-time, remove the auto-upvote, so that our posts/comments get dealt-with neutrally:

    Bandwagon-jumpers tend to downvote comments/posts which have balance-is-downvote on them.

    Others do the same for upvotes.

    I often find I’m voting against the herd, simplly because what I’m upvoting is an actual-point, & is impacting our world, even though what-it-is that is being pointed-out isn’t “politically acceptable” to say.

    Generally I upvote MUCH more than I downvote, but as Nick Yee discovered, in his Gamer Motivations research, some people are very social, but they’re very ANTI-social: they like destroying what others are valuing.

    So, it comes down to the individual-person’s motivations, AND it comes down to their frame-of-reference, both: they are independent dimensions to consider.

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