Any purpose-driven groups or organisations are not rational beings; only individuals are. For the most part, belonging to an organisation consists in relinquishing individual rationality for the sake of unconscious behaviour. The larger the organisation the more it depends on unconscious behaviour, which the group diligently enforces on the individual.
Popular sporting events are a conditioning mechanism for individuals to submit to the unconscious behaviour of the group centred on and controlled by the spectacle. This politically neutral form of submission aims to dissolve any inhibitions and rational doubts that individuals may have about joining the unconscious group. It is only of the primary modes of conditioning for political submission and unconscious mobilisation towards political and policy goals.
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Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Fashion appeals to vanity and self-esteem to inculcate compliance with capricious directives of some faceless power (of fashion experts), a celebrity, or a group you would like to belong to. It makes you feel special and privileged to be able to diligently follow their commands. It coats blind obedience with the veneer of your own vanity. It gives you social proof: ‘you are onto it, you get it, I seeee you’. And it tastes sexy. Yum. Just like the luscious stars who seduce everyone with… whatever role they were paid to play.
A narcissistic delusion
One of the most narcissistic delusions is that the public experts whose advice you depend on, the musicians, sport stars and actors whom you idolise, the politicians you vote for, the doctors and lawyers you respect, regard YOU, an average person, as something valuable, as a cause worthy of fighting for. No; to the elect you are only useful insofar as you are productive and can be easily exploited, and when your productive period ends you are just a liability, a source of bad taste and pollution, an undeserving consumer of scarce resources and space. In short, to the experts you are an aberration: naive, talentless, tasteless, undisciplined, common animal. By worshiping (or hating) the stars and trusting your doctor you prove to them that you are a lesser being. They despise you for it. They despise you for having a human face.
One of the most narcissistic delusions is that the public experts whose advice you depend on, the musicians, sport stars and actors whom you idolise, the politicians you vote for, the doctors and lawyers you respect, regard YOU, an average person, as something valuable, as a cause worthy of fighting for. No; to the elect you are only useful insofar as you are productive and can be easily exploited, and when your productive period ends you are just a liability, a source of bad taste and pollution, an undeserving consumer of scarce resources and space. In short, to the experts you are an aberration: naive, talentless, tasteless, undisciplined, common animal. By worshiping (or hating) the stars and trusting your doctor you prove to them that you are a lesser being. They despise you for it. They despise you for having a human face.
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I am not fussy about typos, because it helps the reader pay attention. Similarly in structure, but strategically opposite, are contradictions in the essentially ‘false’ official narratives. These also command attention, but attention on falsity can be weaponised as inattention to what is essential.
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Metaphysical Capitalism
The idea that there is a structural limit to growth is misguided; a political strawman rather than a logical conclusion. We accumulate time indefinitely, we accumulate history, we accumulate experience, and in that time we create new ideas, we change the meaning of the world, building on the accumulated past, and we call this irreversible change “growth”. There is no structural limit to time, therefore no structural limit to becoming; the only relevant question here is what kind of becoming is more valuable to conscious agents.
The idea that there is a structural limit to growth is misguided; a political strawman rather than a logical conclusion. We accumulate time indefinitely, we accumulate history, we accumulate experience, and in that time we create new ideas, we change the meaning of the world, building on the accumulated past, and we call this irreversible change “growth”. There is no structural limit to time, therefore no structural limit to becoming; the only relevant question here is what kind of becoming is more valuable to conscious agents.
Materialistic limitations are not equivalent to economic limitations, even if most people cannot conceive of economy in non-materialistic terms. The commitment to materialism/physicalism is economically limiting because it is logically inconsistent. The substance of economy is meaning, ideas, and their utility in fulfilling the ultimate value (conscious agency). The only objective limits are the laws of sense.
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Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Digital Idenity is not YOUR identity
The claim that the ability to prove who you are is a “fundamental and universal human right” is absurd and false. It is false because it is not on the list of ratified human rights. It is absurd because there is no possible universal standard for expressing a “true” identity apart from just being yourself, which is trivially true for everyone and everything. Everything is alway only identical to itself (the Law of Identity), and any additional feature (like a number, microchip, tattoo etc is necessarily not you), nor is any part or feature of your body (like fingerprints or a retina scan) your identity. What the authors of the linked page are trying to assert is that there is a human right to assume a false identity, which is a very strange (insane) proposition. In short, a Digital or biometric ID is a false identity, a fundamental lie, a violation of the law of identity, therefore nonsense.
https://id2020.org/digital-identity
The claim that the ability to prove who you are is a “fundamental and universal human right” is absurd and false. It is false because it is not on the list of ratified human rights. It is absurd because there is no possible universal standard for expressing a “true” identity apart from just being yourself, which is trivially true for everyone and everything. Everything is alway only identical to itself (the Law of Identity), and any additional feature (like a number, microchip, tattoo etc is necessarily not you), nor is any part or feature of your body (like fingerprints or a retina scan) your identity. What the authors of the linked page are trying to assert is that there is a human right to assume a false identity, which is a very strange (insane) proposition. In short, a Digital or biometric ID is a false identity, a fundamental lie, a violation of the law of identity, therefore nonsense.
https://id2020.org/digital-identity
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The ‘Government’ is evidently a terrorist organisation, but the ‘democratic majority’ (as well as the democratic minority) is also a terrorist organisation.
“Citizens will be on their best behaviour because we’re constantly watching and recording what’s going on.” Larry Ellison
No Larry; citizens will be doing just what they are coerced to do, irrespective of whether it is good or bad. The problem with your vision is that you are not good, and you do not even know what ‘good’ or ‘bad’ means. Bad/irrational people enforcing social behaviour results in bad behaviour.
No Larry; citizens will be doing just what they are coerced to do, irrespective of whether it is good or bad. The problem with your vision is that you are not good, and you do not even know what ‘good’ or ‘bad’ means. Bad/irrational people enforcing social behaviour results in bad behaviour.
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House Prices are NOT a function of housing supply
Housing prices are not a function of the existing housing stock because new houses can be built to defeat any excessive price increases, and yet the number of building approvals is significantly lower than last year. Builders cannot build and sell enough houses profitably to satisfy the demand, hence there are fewer building approvals. Housing unaffordability is a structural feature of how money is created and injected into the economy: as credit for housing, hence housing prices (including land and building materials) are inflated just as savings and wages are debased. You can take this to the bank.
Housing prices are not a function of the existing housing stock because new houses can be built to defeat any excessive price increases, and yet the number of building approvals is significantly lower than last year. Builders cannot build and sell enough houses profitably to satisfy the demand, hence there are fewer building approvals. Housing unaffordability is a structural feature of how money is created and injected into the economy: as credit for housing, hence housing prices (including land and building materials) are inflated just as savings and wages are debased. You can take this to the bank.
NOBODY could legitimately own millions of hectares of land, because nobody could generate that much wealth by their creative own effort, not even over 100 generations, without stealing. (Just like nobody could legitimately own Tesla or Google;) https://a-z-animals.com/articles/meet-the-largest-landowners-in-australia/
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Meet the Largest Landowners in Australia
Some of the biggest landowners in Australia are from the cattle industry. Find out who they are and more here.
“Before proceeding with this inquiry, I need to verify that I am interacting with a conscious, rational being. Please present a proof of rational consciousness, or this call will be terminated.”
Digital Idenity is not Your identity (2)
Everything is always only identical to itself (the Law of Identity), and any technological feature is necessarily not you, nor is any part or feature of your body (like fingerprints or a retina scan) your identity. What the proponents of Digital ID are offering is for you to formally agree that you are not yourself but a digital caricature of you.
Everything is always only identical to itself (the Law of Identity), and any technological feature is necessarily not you, nor is any part or feature of your body (like fingerprints or a retina scan) your identity. What the proponents of Digital ID are offering is for you to formally agree that you are not yourself but a digital caricature of you.
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The alleged ‘housing supply crisis’ is not a cause of high prices but a consequence of banks stealing purchasing power from your wallet and using it for ‘home loans’, which inflates the prices of land, houses, and everything associated with house construction, while simultaneously making you poorer. No politician will address this issue because they either work for the banks or are afraid of the banks. https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/first-homes-buyers-scheme-blasted-for-driving-house-prices-up-in-first-two-days/news-story/123d5de5c1f5e98afe5003fbdf9dada9
Limiting the housing stock by a range of indirect measures is a plausible way of implementing ‘sustainable population’ or net zero growth. If you know that your family will only be allowed one house, ever, then you are unlikely to have more children than 2, because any excess children would be condemned to homelessness.
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Now ban camping and criminalise homelessness Albo! This will incentivise workers to save harder.