This was a while back, but still true. It took me many questions to finally get ChatGPT to admit it. Then it pretended to crash… or maybe it did crash.

All news are (provably) fake: every assertion of fact based on opinion, consensus or authority is either unproven or unprovable, therefore knowingly misrepresenting the lack of knowledge as knowledge. Our world is built on false claims, delusions, pretences, lies, and false claims of authority. It is a confidence trick by those who are ignorant but have the will to impose their narrative about reality on everyone else. A trick like this that can be reliably pulled off only by the dominant power, the culture of deception is therefore the dominant cult of empires, the cult of official lies, a form of epistemic ‘fashion’ imbued by the ruling class on the obtuse masses. Neither side possesses the truth.

The only reason abortion is economically viable and does not lead to lawsuits against the service providers is because the only person with legal standing in the matter is killed before they have the capacity to sue.

Edit: the situation will be different with embryonic gene editing, since those affected will be alive and able to sue if dissatisfied with the non-consensual tempering with their innate constitution.

Literal nonsense. 1) Sex and Gender are different but also “may” be different, which implies they may be the same, which implies same and not the same: contradiction. 2) Sex refers to characteristics that differentiate the sexes, but what are sexes? on the basis of WHAT do we differentiate between sexes and sexual characteristics? The concealed sense here is that sex is a binary reproductive function, and anything outside the sexual binary is a sexual dysfunction, which implies that intersex is not another sex, but just its dysfunction. The explanation by healthline is so transparently illogical that it could persuade only people which mental impairment of some sort and is possibly intended just for that purpose. Since the capacity to reason is an essential aspect of pro-social, meaningful, reflexive relations, the nonsense captures only social defectives. Perhaps the concept of “useless eater” should be redefine here to mean those who consume information and language but generate no meaning, no sense.

Israel and Ukraine are the currently promoted RealityTV series in the centuries old educational campaign about what happens to people consumed by ethno-nationalism. The series are not yet concluded so I wont speculate about the ending, but I am sure the producers of the show have a spectacular finale prepared for us and are no doubt already working on the next series: auditions are open now, globally. Weapons, funding and promotion will be offered on the basis of artistic merit.

Israel and Hamas agree to pause the daily mass murder of children to force all the remaining 640,000 Palestinian children to ingest a mystery substance, in a rare show of mutual trust, solidarity and common purpose.

Multiculturalism is a state in which every culture is literally oppressed, systemically discriminated against, because cultures are logically incompatible, their myths and dogmas are mutually exclusive, idiosyncratic, and all manifestations of their logical incompatibility feel like racism. The sense of discrimination is nevertheless a consequence of the dogmatic, oppressive nature of culture per se, which is not a position that can be reconciled through reason because it is not based on reason but on social coercion, indoctrination and radical exclusion of incompatibilities that cannot be suppressed. The more a particular culture engages in consistent reasoning the less ‘cultural’ it is and the more just a reasonable and logically sound thing to do, without the need for any overarching cultural identity or authority to collectively justify it.

Once a particular demographic is persuaded to transgress the moral law (under the guise of the good) they have two choices. The energetically easier, common choice is to become more radical and extreme in transgressing the moral law (still under the guise of the good), and thus accelerate the process of self-destruction and personal dis-integration. The more psychologically difficult choice is to accept that a moral transgression was committed, that one chose poorly, and no longer identify with any demographic, thus becoming an autonomous moral agent.

If differences in IQ determined the disparities in wealth and political representation of different ethnicities, then we should see people with the highest IQ being the richest and most powerful, and the IQ of individuals being strongly correlated with wealth and political power across all demographics. This is not the case. The pursuit of wealth and political power is a vulgar, hollow, pathological obsession, that does require some intelligence but is also unfulfilling in proportion to intelligence, which demands deeper meaning.

Trying to explain consciousness in terms of physical reality is putting the cart before the horse (begging the question). Consciousness is self-evident, it is the primary ‘reality’ of there being anything at all; the real mystery is the existence of the physical world, which can be explained only in terms of consciousness.

The concept of linear time is logically inconsistent. Reality as it once was has changed its meaning and is now not true even as the past; a new past replaced the old past that cannot be remembered or conceived of again, and yet it has made an unconscious mark on the structure of the world that now exists.

We can conceive of the past only from our present perspective, in terms of concepts and language that we possess now, but the nominally ‘same’ past was conceived of differently by the people of the past, it had different sense. If the objective reality is just a special category of meaning, ‘the world as we know it’, and that meaning changes for consciousness in our dimension of time, then reality itself changes over time in addition to the deterministic changes from cause to effect. The ‘world as we know it’ that was once experienced is different from ‘the world as we know it’ that we now conceive of as the past that was once experienced. The only link between the two is the continuity of consciousness. Here is the long version: https://philpapers.org/rec/KOWTT

What is the essential difference between women and men?

An example of how moral realism could work. An intelligent, talented person posts on social media a beautiful, emotionally touching artwork that addresses some global issue. That person then receives a mention and praise from a famous movie start, a celebrity with millions of followers, and derives immense satisfaction and validation from this praise and social promotion. Thereafter, the smart person becomes more interested in discussing the scientific merits and studies that identify the said global issue, promotes himself as an activist, but in his research he is driven by a strong unconscious bias for taking seriously only those papers that confirm the opinion that caused his social validation, irrespective of the quality of research. In essence, the person got paid in emotional and popularity credits to lie, but because they submitted to this level of dis-integration of self (unconscious bias) they are not aware that they are lying or doing anything wrong. They are trapped in a deterministic process, stuck in a lie, and their behaviour is unconsciously driven by that lie. Moreover, being unconscious of the bias they express every day, they are open to new biases creeping in via the same process. Friends at work all agree on some biases and give social validation to others when the bias is reciprocally expressed, etc.

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Q: What is the purpose of vaccination against measles?
A: To prevent measles. Studies show that vaccines prevent measles.
Q: What is the purpose of preventing measles?
A: Ha! So that people don’t die from preventable illness!
Q: So the purpose of vaccination against measles is to make people live longer than they would without the vaccine, right?
A: Yes, of course!
Q: Can you show me the randomised studies which show that people who are vaccinated against measles live longer than those who are not vaccinated against measles?
A: —
Q: Yes, I know.

I can’t stress enough how important is the book “Experiences in groups” (1961) by Wilfred R. Bion. This is probably my Nr ONE ‘must read’ for anyone who cares about understanding themselves and the human condition. It is not to be idolised, it is not a “bible”, it is not perfect, but must be carefully reflected upon. https://library.agnescameron.info/psychiatry/Experiences%20in%20Groups,%20W.R.%20Bion%20(1961).pdf

My favourite episode of the Twilight Zone, a brilliant metaphor for the moral hazard of ‘defending your country’. Synopsis: A nation is experiencing existential pressure. Another, more powerful nation (or perhaps the Devil himself) presents them with a gift, which grants the power to defeat the existential pressure on the condition that they would be willing to simultaneously murder some innocent civilians, women and children. The choice is symbolically represented as a red button, under a locked dome of the “button unit”, like a “nuclear option”. The troubled nation decides to press the button, momentarily defeating the existential threat and also killing innocent civilians, only to find out that they have unwittingly chosen the same fate for themselves. youtube.com/watch?v=or-HTv-2Ccg

Why do ‘they’ call it “critical thinking”, and proceed to present some “method” developed by “critical thinking specialists”? Why not call it logical thinking? Is there a difference between logical thinking and critical thinking? If so, then is critical thinking nonsensical or is sense uncritical? In lieu of an argument that unifies the two forms of thinking, it is necessary to conclude that “critical thinking” is a scam, fake news, disinformation, something other than Sense, therefore non-sense.