Saturday 31 October 2015
Thursday 29 October 2015
GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge | Consortiumnews
GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge | Consortiumnews
Why the Ignorance?
Journalist Michael Tomasky has attempted to answer the question as to what Ben Carson’s popularity tells us about the American people after making a detour into asking a question about the man himself: why is an accomplished neurosurgeon such a nincompoop in another field? “Because usually, if a man (or woman) is a good and knowledgeable and sure-footed doctor, or lawyer or department chair or any other position that could have been attained only through repeated displays of excellence and probity, then that person will also be a pretty solid human being across the board.”
Well, not necessarily. English unfortunately doesn’t have a precise word for the German “Fachidiot,” a narrowly specialized person accomplished in his own field but a blithering idiot outside it. In any case, a surgeon is basically a skilled auto mechanic who is not bothered by the sight of blood and palpitating organs (and an owner of a high-dollar ride like a Porsche knows that a specialized mechanic commands labor rates roughly comparable to a doctor).
Vlog CCCXLII - YouTube
Vlog CCCXLII - YouTube:
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Have you ever noticed that narcissists, for instance Sam Vaknin, don't really have a clear idea of what a healthy human being should look like, apart from in terms of conforming to social norms? They actually view the opposite of narcissism as "conforming", which is actually a negative structure of behavior. In a way, then, they are still aggrandizing their own non-conformity and thinking in black and white about this issue. (If you don't see what I mean, have a look at some of Sam's political videos, and how he scolds the European leftists for their failure to conform to dominant power structures and the current (non-progressive) interpretation of economics.
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Have you ever noticed that narcissists, for instance Sam Vaknin, don't really have a clear idea of what a healthy human being should look like, apart from in terms of conforming to social norms? They actually view the opposite of narcissism as "conforming", which is actually a negative structure of behavior. In a way, then, they are still aggrandizing their own non-conformity and thinking in black and white about this issue. (If you don't see what I mean, have a look at some of Sam's political videos, and how he scolds the European leftists for their failure to conform to dominant power structures and the current (non-progressive) interpretation of economics.
Vlog CCCXLII - YouTube
Vlog CCCXLII - YouTube: "An underperformer is a covert narcissist? I have often underperformed because I feel like I am burning up when I am addressing certain issues. At least this has been the case in the past. I've felt like my head was on fire. Basically I was trying to undo the spell of fascism that had been cast over me. I had a blood debt....I had to submit to autocratic authority...I was trying to undo all of these spells. But every time I tried to, my head caught fire and I could hardly think. "Thou Shalt Not..." Rhodesia had cast its undeniable spell --- but it had also been a source of great and natural organic delight, and a genuine source of innocence, in another aspect."
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Wednesday 28 October 2015
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Monday 26 October 2015
Some cognitive distortions form the very fabric of our social realities
When pushing out beyond the limits of the individual self, what can one expect to find? Perhaps not "objective reality" as such. Rather something just as artificial as the individual self, but different in some ways.
The only requirement here is to avoid an a appeal to nature -- since this would be an appeal to the universalizability of what are actually culturally conditioned sensibilities.
Sunday 25 October 2015
Saturday 24 October 2015
Your and my wonderful, new contemporary deity, "My Biology" - YouTube
autodidactia 40 seconds ago
You and few others do speak out, but collectively there's a kind of blindness and denialism buttressed by the need to maintain comfortable illusions such as the idea that all we need to do is appeal to everyone's better nature and all will be fine.Well some people don't have a better nature and they hide that inconvenient fact very skillfully.
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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago
+autodidactia Yes, there are silly notions like "just stand up for yourself" -- but then others use mechanisms that are beneath the surface of the consciousness of everyone, because they are infantile. People will not see that others get rid of their fear of guilt (their shame) by mechanisms of splitting and by projective identification (scapegoating). They like to imagine that the scapegoat is doing it to themselves. And the more down the road you go with this, the more you look like you, the scapegoat, have a fascination with self-punishment. After all, the mass of the populace can't be wrong....can they? This is why I avoid much of Western culture. i can't afford its costs anymore.
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You and few others do speak out, but collectively there's a kind of blindness and denialism buttressed by the need to maintain comfortable illusions such as the idea that all we need to do is appeal to everyone's better nature and all will be fine.Well some people don't have a better nature and they hide that inconvenient fact very skillfully.
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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago
+autodidactia Yes, there are silly notions like "just stand up for yourself" -- but then others use mechanisms that are beneath the surface of the consciousness of everyone, because they are infantile. People will not see that others get rid of their fear of guilt (their shame) by mechanisms of splitting and by projective identification (scapegoating). They like to imagine that the scapegoat is doing it to themselves. And the more down the road you go with this, the more you look like you, the scapegoat, have a fascination with self-punishment. After all, the mass of the populace can't be wrong....can they? This is why I avoid much of Western culture. i can't afford its costs anymore.
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Your and my wonderful, new contemporary deity, "My Biology" - YouTube
autodidactia 9 hours ago
No biologist or evolutionary psychologist of any competence would attribute human behavior to genetic determinism . People who claim otherwise, don't understand biology and don't understand themselves and can't claim any legitimacy in their explanation.Lots of hacks out there.
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autodidactia 1 hour ago
You should see what they turn into as adult men, in a culture of perpetual adolescence. It's getting scary.
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autodidactia 44 seconds ago
America has always been a culture of extremes. Now the pendulum has swung too far the other way, from authoritarian parenting to permissive parenting. As a consequence the parent child relationship has been reversed to disastrous effect. The child is now the tyrant of the household , holding everyone hostage to his whims. He grows up thinking the world will do his bidding and he can be the little savage forever. He doesn't really ripen into an adult but rather spoils and turns rotten. I think we're being drowned in a a wave of increasing personality disorders, hence all the contradictory, hypocritical and irrational thinking.
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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago
+autodidactia Yes, I agree with everything you say. It's so weird. I had the opposite upbringing. I can't even understand the origins of a lot of the contemporary discourse, for this reason.
The worship of the child is fear of the grown adult, and it seems to me that this is part of a Western cultural syndrome which fears that adults commit crimes and are guilty of having a negative impact in history. Western culture is defined by its feelings of colonial guilt, and keeping people as children is supposed to stop "it" happening again. This remedy may "work" up to a point, but it does create a lot of personality disorders and the internalization of sickness (Western culture is sick).
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Thursday 22 October 2015
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Monday 19 October 2015
Scientists have found that memories may be passed down through generations in our DNA | Soul Surfing World News
Scientists have found that memories may be passed down through generations in our DNA | Soul Surfing World News
I suspect we will not understand the rise in neuropsychiatric disorders or obesity, diabetes and metabolic disruptions generally without taking a multigenerational approach.”
Professor Wolf Reik, head of epigenetics at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, said, however, further work was needed before such results could be applied to humans.
He said: “These types of results are encouraging as they suggest that transgenerational inheritance exists and is mediated by epigenetics, but more careful mechanistic study of animal models is needed before extrapolating such findings to humans.”
May our DNA Carrying also spiritual and cosmic memories passed down in genes from our ancestors? [my comment: spirits are not part of material phenomena]
Research link- http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n1/full/nn.3594.html
Sunday 18 October 2015
Marechera's radical method (with reference to object relations)
Shamanic doubling as it draws from knowledge about the mother-child dyad.
The dyad is inevitably re-imposed in adulthood in terms of the dominant power stucture which overwhelms. the smallness of the individual. The disproportionate power dyamics (big versus small) lends pressure to adapt at the expense of individuation. A way out may be through shamanic doubling. This radical method of individuation is suggested in the video to be an experimental platform.
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