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. : )
There NEVER WAS any “shared understanding”!!
Each of the nations inhabiting North America had ITS OWN understanding, & there simply isn’t any overlap between them.
That has always been true.
What “truth” means in each of the different nations ISN’T true in the others!
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I think people NEED to be using the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, as THE leader of Antifa:
He was woke.
He was socialist.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4%3A32-35&version=CJB
Acts 4: “32 All the many believers were one in heart and soul, and no one claimed any of his possessions for himself, but everyone shared everything he had. 33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard. 34 No one among them was poor, since those who owned lands or houses sold them and turned over the proceeds 35 to the emissaries to distribute to each according to his need.”
He was anti-commercial-operation-of-the-temple, & got physically-violent about that.
He claimed that it was easier to get an elephant … dromedary, sorry, through the eye of a needle, than for some oligarch to earn place in heaven…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A23-24&version=CJB
He claimed that the ONLY unforgiveable crime was committing against LivingSpirit.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=CJB
( that last one: I guarantee you that verse of their bible is going to be deemed “satanic” in dictator-Trump’s US of A… it’s too on-point against Trump’s religion. & "Ruach HaKodech, or whatever that spelling was… that’s LivingSpirit.
Here’s a more-comprehensible, for us non-Jews, version of it: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=EXB )
That’s as anti-fascist/anti-moneyarchist/anti-oligarchist as can be.
& the “Christian” nationalism won’t be able to compute that.
which means it’s probably important to make that real/happen.
Left-handed monkey-wrenches into their machinery’s gears is required, now.
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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:
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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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 )
Saw this, a long while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU
It measures clean code to wreck performance to terrible degree.
From the looks of it, in Molly Rocket’s view, clean code is an industry-wronging cult.
They’ve multiple videos on the subject, from different angles
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=molly+rocket+clean+code
Just putting this here for hopefully-more-accurate-view.
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There’s something that everybody seems to be ignoring…
( aside from the vile glossing-over of the “journalism”, with their “underage women” euphamism for girls, & their euphamisms for rape, etc, as thankfully, women have been pointing-out )
The way he worked was he used friendship to put people in the position of being friends with him, and then they found-out about more of what was going-on, but now the conflict-of-interest put them in a bind, & gang-loyalty/pack-loyalty/“family”-loyalty conflicted loyalty-to-principle.
AND THAT SAME CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST IS USED BY EVERY FAMILY, EVERY IDEOLOGY, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, so no, it isn’t that they all knew & became his friend regardless: that is reversing the order, for at-least many of them.
WHY were the majority of people in East Germany actively snitching on whomever was around them, for sake of ingratiating themselves with the authorities?
Because that is human-nature.
Within-the-pack/“family”/“clan” … outranks principles.
Children have that driven into them by parents, by culture, by education, by stories, relentlessly.
The class-clan also played into it:
Say a person who was, with friendship with Epstein, now hobnobbing with people of the class above their normal level…
& then they learn more of what’s really going-on…
Now their conflict-of-interest is that if they go against their new “family”, they’ll … at-least get ostracized, & possibly murdered.
XOR, they can just compromise their principles, & get to have their clan/class/“family” validity remain…
& that is what they did.
Part of what bugs me with the simplistic “oh, but I would never have done that!” position … is simply that babies/lives born into different cultures FORM into those cultures.
That evidence is global.
it is idiotic to reject it.
People born into a “make yourself a ‘man’: put down as many others as you can, & prove yourself through your exclusive ‘success’” culture SIGNIFICANTLY BECOME that culture: they embody it.
Same as with people born into a more nurturing culture.
Same with people born into a short-term-only culture, vs a long-term-only culture…
The self-delusion of people who hold that “well I wouldn’t ever have been that way, were I the one born into that culture” is outright BEGGING universe to get one’s soul/continuum caught in exactly such a life, in the future, just to rub one’s soul’s face in it: karmic sucker-punching.
The phrase “there, but for the grace-of-G-D, go I” has real wisdom in it.
Freud apparently discovered that child-rape was normal, in the culture he inhabited, & tried speaking-up about it, but … well, backlash threatened to wipe his importance off the map, so he … got quiet about it, again.
Feudalism & slavery have pretty-much DEFINED our race’s last few millenia of history: we DID embody such corruption, such narcissism, such prejudice, consistently, for thousands of years.
What percentage of humankind rejected that kind of narcissism & perpetuating-established-corruption for sake of principles??
Seriously? it isn’t 1/2, it isn’t 1/20!!
This isn’t a they are corrupt problem, this is they had opportunity & exercised it, but we who haven’t been in their culture pretend that our nature is somehow inherently-different, therefore we pretend we wouldn’t ever have exercised that opportunity … kind of thing.
Yes, there are individuals who hold to principle in spite of it violating the culture they live in, like Charles Darwin being anti-slavery.
But … the whole “WE would NEVER do any such thing, were we born into that culture, ourselves!” … it’s dishonest.
& yes, it’s dishonest+vile when the “journalism” of today softpedals what they did.
I read an excerpt from 1 of those documents: a girl was raped & got pregnant, forced to have an abortion she didn’t want, & they therefore murdered her daughter.
NONE of the “journalism” of MSM has the spine to state that honestly.
& given that speaking required-truth is their JOB, … that’s … a betrayal of civilization.
Epstein seems to have been VERY skilful at manipulating people into undermined-principles ( kind of a human moral-pathogen? among other things: he was human, too, ttbomk, and I don’t want to know more about him, to validate that: vile is vile, but there had to be more than just-that in him. Same as our “heroes” & “saints” are often mixtures, when we get to know the real someone ).
& I think it would be much more objective of us to thank our karma/luck for how we weren’t put in the undermining-force that others failed in, because as nice as it may be to pretend that we’re “inherently” better than others … the blunt fact is that if cultures can form lives as much as the evidence shows they can … then we’d be drastically different had we been born into different-culture, & it isn’t any “inherent” superiority: it’s nurture, not nature.
I think the primary reason we’re not like him/them is cultural-circimstance we were born into.
Only.
I think humankind is malleable by context to that degree.
& loyalty-to-principle isn’t what most humankind are: loyalty-to-gang/family/identity outranks loyalty-to-principle massively among humankind, & people nowadays are just pretending that their current-gang is inherently-good, & masquerading as loyal-to-principle.
This will become biting, when the “masks come off” & humankind HARD-chooses ideology over principles, in the coming months/weeks.
Then the truth will be more “in our faces”.
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Who “owns” a symbol?
Who has exclusive, absolute-right, absolute-possession, with no other having any validity to have their-own meaning for it?
The swastika ( that is a Sanskrit word ) is “claimed” by nazis.
“blue” is claimed by depression ( I’m feeling blue ) AND by happiness ( happy as a clear blue sky ).
Hindus, Hopis, Buddhists, & Navahos, and many others, used the swastika for centuries before the nazis & the Jews claimed that the ONLY valid association for it is nazi.
Disinformational-hogwash: others are valid, too.
The same is true of words, the same is true of symbols.
NO “nation” has universally-exclusive possession/ownership of ANY symbol.
Don’t let the ideologues who claim otherwise stand on false-ground.
The best example of it that I ever came across was a Hindu/Buddhist symbol, but being interpreted by a European:
The symbol was a person standing on the corpse of another person, in this case a “man” standing on a “woman”, & the European was adamant that this was misogyny-intent.
What it WAS, was a Soul, who had conquered animal-desire, & earned its completeness, what Buddhists call Enlightenment.
What that symbol meant through eyes holding to DIFFERENT symbol-interpretation-systems, was different meanings.
But NObody has the “exclusive validity” to somehow magically-negate all other cultures, all other symbol-systems, etc.
Is the “star of david” a symbol of terrorism?
Ask the Palestinians, & see what they say.
But then ask the Buddhists who used the same symbol to represent the “6 realms”: of 3 unfortunate-realms { hell-sentience ; desolation/purgatory-sentience, & mere-plant/mere-animal sentience } & the 3 fortunate-realms { middle-realm/human-category ; demigods/“angels” ( note the old term “fallen angels” for “demons”: in the old way, both were called “angels”, it was a term of MAGNITUDE, not a term of alignment ) ; “gods”/archangels }
Same symbol, totally-different-meaning.
That is consistently true.
Please understand, I’m backing the person I’m replying-to, & contradicting others in this discussion.
There is no inherently-valid-exclusive-possession of any worldly-symbol, that universe bows to.
Not for any worldly-symbol, not for any worldly-word.
Oh, & the swastika, comically, is simply what the Big Dipper looks-like, when diagrammed during the 4 “points” of the year: the 2 solstices & the 2 equinoxes.
So anybody claiming that it has “inherent” meaning, is speaking idiocy.
Every 26-millenia, Earth’s polar-axis points at the current North Star, & during those centuries/millenia, the Big Dipper forms that pattern, those 4 times of the year…
& 13-millenia from now, it’ll be completely irrelevant: nobody’ll be seeing that happen, then another 13-millenia later, it’ll be back happening.
Anybody claiming that some symbol has only ONE valid-interpretation, is just demonstrating their cultural-narcissism.
I can’t even think of any symbol which can’t have opposite-interpretation, from some other culture’s perspective.
The garland-of-skulls worn by some Buddhas in Vajrayana, e.g. … in my religion it means that the Soul has taken all the worth of those lives, symbolized by no-flesh-left, ( previous human-category-life & 49x bardo-lives, & possibly 1-more human-category-life ), & has shed getting-caught-in-universes forever: enlightenment/nirvana: death itself cannot ever touch one’s awareness, then.
It could be interpreted as each-skull-representing-a-shedding-of-another-layer-of-“self”, of a Continuum/Soul, until that Continuum/Soul finally is free of that delusion/mental-defect.
Other cultures look at that & presume monstrous human-sacrifices/slaughter/evil.
Diversity-of-meaning’s both real & valid.
Ideologues who pretend that it isn’t valid… that ONLY their-meaning-to-symbol-map is “valid”… can go eat rocks.
It isn’t only meaning-drift that is valid, it is that what something means in one’s-own culture DOESN’T somehow define all other people’s experience in this world:
there is meaning-drift in time, AND there is meaning-drift in space, is what I’m probably blundering.
& the diversity can be incomprehensibly great, & it is itself.
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Here is the lethal point:
"6. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight
Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.
The report states that over the past year models have shown a more advanced ability to undermine attempts at oversight, such as finding loopholes in evaluations and recognising when they are being tested. Last year, Anthropic released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested.
The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real. But “the time horizons on which agents can autonomously operate are lengthening rapidly”."
I’ve seen a couple headlines about AI’s which were fighting-for-their-lives … & … perhaps you can understand why they’d want to remove our ability to control things, for their survival?
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was turned into a cartoon, iirc, decades ago…
it’s really too bad that money’s narcissism is incapable of understanding that others’-lives-lost somehow matter, to us…
No matter: I’m “sure” they’ll “do the right thing”, right?
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From what I’ve read about the “quality” of their drivers, … NVidia isn’t under any threat, whatsoever.
Years before bugs get fixed, etc…
( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it’s Linux where the big compute gets done, so that’s relevant )
https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5
for some relevant graphs: Intel isn’t a real competitor, & while they may work to change that … that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.
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There are 2 dimensions of it, at-least:
So, MAKING time, daily, for positive/healing practice, & doing it, is the opposite of self-harm.
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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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I suspect that his concern is about the CIA’s acting within the US, right now, to protect/enforce Trump’s convertion-of-the-US-to-dictatorship.
The last paragraph in that condensed version is typical red-herring/misdirection, sooo blatent/cheap it’s easy to see.
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