To the extent that human rationality (therefore agency) is deficient, there are only two strategies of control: bullshit and terror. The only good thing about the failure of bullshit (capitalism, communism, socialism, religion, democracy) is that the duality of terror and bullshit becomes salient, and the incoherence of human reasons, values and world-models easier to acknowledge.

Your home has the same value irrespective of price, but the higher the price, the higher the insurance, taxes, rates and maintenance costs.

A ‘bussiness’ that has no ‘product’, and its only ‘service’ is creating money and charging interest on it.

AI companies regard their own AI output as information pollution.

AI content is ‘watermarked’: the sequence of words that appears natural to the human reader is based on statistical models and any sequence can be statistically compared to the model to calculate the probability of human authorship for that sequence. This strategy is necessary to prevent AI output polluting the AI training data; AI pollution would cause the model to diverge from intelligibility, which the AI can only emulate on the basis of conscious, intelligent communication. With the increasing uptake of AI, conscious authorship became uniquely valuable, and its commercial value will continue to grow. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

When people are in the majority, they defend democracy, but when they come into conflict with the majority they protest and demand exceptional treatment. Democracy is hypocrisy.

Politics, News and Culture are intentionally polarising and simple to give everyone the illusion of choice, which is designed by someone you will never meet. The act of choosing from the options given is an act of submission.

Is he saying that lives of indigenous tribes were not worth living, because they lacked a tyrant to force them to pay for protection? The Gov gave away the only legitimate form of taxation to private banks - money creation - so technically ATO collects on behalf of the banks: his idea of “authority”.

AI could not survive as a control mechanism of human expression because this would pollute its input with its own output, causing catastrophic divergence from intelligibility. Even if watermarking of AI output could eliminate pollution, the function of control would still deplete the intelligent input and cause convergence to a logical loop or stasis. In essence, AI can be intelligible and relevant only if there is freedom of thought in its training data.

The burden of proof that AI products have new/original ideas is on the AI companies. I would argue against any such claim on the basis of logical consistency. Originality of ideas presupposes already ‘having ideas’, but a system/program/algorithm does not have ideas, does not conceive of ideas, does not imagine or think and has no self-conception; it merely processes bits of information that are meaningful only to us, conscious beings. Any AI output is not meaningful in itself but must be interpreted, and it is our interpretations that give it meaning. Our interpretations of the same output can themselves be more or less consistent, and we should not misrepresent our inconsistencies as new ideas (nonsense is always a non-idea, a synthetic nothing).

Imagine buying a house, with bank credit, and then asking the bank to forgive you 75% of this debt. This would be a legitimate request, since the bank didnt actually lend you the money but created new units of currency (in effect, stealing from everyone else’s wallet), so their costs would be a small fraction of the loan. The bank will of course refuse, with revulsion, because you are not a protected entity. https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/cann-group-completes-debt-restructure-after-nab-forgives-loans.html

Problems can be over-simplified or over-complicated, and both strategies are used in contemporary propaganda. Over-simplification is intended for the lay public, whereas over-complication targets intellectuals and is used to groom the ‘experts’. For example, blaming housing unaffordability (currency debasement) on migrants is a case of absurd over-simplification, and the critique of banking and monetary economics through the Post-structuralist lens or via Foucauldian cartography is a case of nonsensical over-complication. Both strategies are used to protect the mechanisms of exploitation from being sensibly identified.

A hypothetical solution to the Ukraine-Russia ‘conflict’: a Ukrainian unit contacts a Russian unit with the message “hey, how about we stop killing one another and just kill all the bankers, and then all the politicians who sent us here?”

Christianity is the biggest and most successful psyop in history.

‘Mental health’ is an incoherent idea; mental states are not possible to objectively standardise as ‘species typical’. Mental health is, in practice, an ideological commitment of the ruling faction about how others ought to feel, perceive and think, without having to prove that the undesirable feelings, perceptions or thought are irrational (and, in contrast, prove that that the desirable thoughts and beliefs are rational), which is of course irrational.

Cash is issued and controlled by the state. If you use it, they still control its exchange value, they still extract the inflationary tax from you. Sure, you get some privacy, but you still agree to be a subject of their power. By using cash you still practice submission to the state.

To believe a lie one must be willing to endorse something uncertain as certain, which is already a lie. People can be deceived only insofar as they are willing to collude in the deceiving, profess their own lie of conviction for one another.

The entrepreneur is entirely redundant in the process of creating a complex product, just an avatar for sponging off value generated by others. If the designers and engineers got paid the full market value of their contributions to the creative outcome, they would be even more enthusiastic about doing the collaborative job that they are already doing. The entrepreneur only supplies the initial capital, which was itself accumulated though prior exploitation. The same capital could be accumulated simply by saving and pooling funds, but the system based on under-paying for creativity keeps everyone afraid and needy enough to work at a fraction of fair pay. How else could the fallow elite fund itself; how else could governments fund their luxuries, terrorism and skullduggery.

Lending books is like lending your toothbrush.

By voting you do not legitimise the government but only delegitimise yourself.

People pretend that voting somehow bestows authority on a small group of people to rule all, and that there is no good alternative. Here is a good alternative: stop pretending.