How citizens should assess news & information and respond to lies & coercion based on it

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If the government coerces you to take an untested vax, while loudly declaring it is ‘safe & effective’, don’t take the vax and do not believe the agencies or people who tried to coerce you. The covid vax was particularly pernicious because it had to be injected into your bloodstream and did not even fit the normal definition of a vaccine. When the government changes the definitions of vaccines, which they did for covid, or anything else, be very suspicious.

These principles are obvious and easy to understand and are a good basis for mass non-compliance and disbelief in government coercion and lies. All that is required is did they lie about something important or did they coerce us to do something dangerous, in violation of our inalienable rights.

The same can be applied to history. We know they lied about WMD in Iraq and we also know (and knew at the time) that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 — therefore, knowing this, we should suspect their motives for all wars past and present and future. Rather than go into many examples of this, I am going to assume readers know what they are.

As for history, if it is illegal or massively frowned upon to question any historical event, we should be sure to question it. We must not allow politicians to tell us our First Amendment rights are a threat to ‘our’ (meaning their) democracy as John Kerry has done recently and Jacinda Ardern and many others did during the plandemic.

On this basis, it behooves all of us to question the Holocaust. It is ludicrous to make questioning that subject illegal, as it is in most of Europe, or scandalous as it is in USA.

That’s all. Civil non-compliance based on simple rules and examples as given above allow all citizens to lend their voices to most subjects without necessarily agreeing on every aspect. This is the most important kind of power we the people have. Totalitarianism cannot take over our nations or remain in power where it already has taken over if a majority of citizens see the lies and do not agree or comply. This kind of power is made super-duper strong if citizens also know that others know and if all of us know we all know. ABN

Insight into the elite that actually runs USA

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Nothing can stop elite control. We the plebs can, though, influence the elite. We can favor the best of them, learn about the worst of them. Identify them as best we can. I am not describing a hopeless situation but a realistic one. Passion and emotionality over illusions like democracy are a waste of time. See this for more: How citizens should assess news & information and respond to lies & coercion based on it. ABN

There is always an elite. Our best case is get a good elite.

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Musk is part of the only good elite faction that has a chance to take power in the coming ‘elections’. Democracy is a fantasy. Even in its ideal form with honest elections, it cannot work in a world with so many uninformed and stupid people. Maybe after a few generations of digital babies when IQs have soared, something like democracy will work. But not today. Ergo, all we have are choices between elite factions. Musk is in the Trump, RFK, Ramaswamy, Patel, Carlson faction. These guys are much better than the cloak-and-dagger Obummer faction. Musk is a member of the elite because he is rich. How he got there only he knows. Clearly, he at least did not piss off the wrong people and probably was aided by the right people, whoever they are. That said, he does seem to be good at running companies and honestly care about USA core civilizational values, laws, and traditions. He is much better than Gates or Zuckerberg. This is the only way to calculate real-world political choices. ABN

Larry Fink makes sound argument against immigration and for a ‘shrinking population’

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Good news for Japan. Does not pay to import low-IQ and unassimilable workers. ABN

UPDATE: Most readers of this site probably cringe at mention of Larry Fink. I posted this clip because he actually made a good argument against mass immigration. If his faction of the elite can see this, they may moderate their avaricious zeal for destroying Western civilization. I hope everyone can see and absorb what Fink is saying. As we move rapidly into a very new and unprecedented future, our wants and needs will change. A good way to understand the present is to imagine the future and how to get to a good one. ABN

Metacognition and real-time communication

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Metacognition means “awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes,” or “cognition about cognition,” or “being able to think about how you think.”

To me, metacognition is a premier human ability. How can it not be a good thing to be aware of how you are aware and how you think and respond to what is around you?

In more detail:

The term “metacognition” is most often associated with John Flavell, (1979). According to Flavell (1979, 1987), metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences or regulation. Metacognitive knowledge refers to acquired knowledge about cognitive processes, knowledge that can be used to control cognitive processes. Flavell further divides metacognitive knowledge into three categories: knowledge of person variables, task variables and strategy variables.

(the original source for this quote has disappeared but this article on Wikipedia makes the same points and more)

Most people do metacognition and are aware of doing it. We do it when we plan, make decisions, decide how to get from one place to another, how to relate to one person differently from another, and so on.

Where we don’t do metacognition is in real-time communication in real life, where it matters most. This is not because we are not able to do it. It is because very few of us have the right technique, Flavell’s “acquired knowledge” that allows us to do it.

If we have the right technique, we will be able to gain a great deal of knowledge about real-time cognitive process while also learning how to control them.

FIML practice is a metacognitive practice based on, to quote the above source, “acquired knowledge about cognitive processes… that can be used to control cognitive processes.”

In the case of FIML, the “acquired knowledge” is the FIML technique which allows us to gain conscious “control over cognitive processes” of real-time interpersonal communication.

FIML is different from other analytical communication techniques in that FIML provides a method to gain control over very short or small units of communication in real-time. This is important as it is these very short real-time units that are most often ignored or not dealt with in most analyses of human communication.

If you know how to catch small mistakes, they become sources of insight and humor. If you don’t know how to catch them, they often snowball into destructive misunderstandings.

FIML is fairly easy to do if you understand the importance of correcting the minor misinterpretations that inevitably arise between people when they speak and communicate. By using the FIML metacognitive method, partners gain control over the most elusive kinds of interpersonal error which all too often lead to serious interpersonal discord.

FIML can and does do more than catch small mistakes, but first things first. If you cannot correct small errors in real-time communication, you are not doing anything even resembling thorough metacognitive communication.

Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Much, Much Stronger

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New cultivation methods are making psychedelic mushrooms stronger, and fiendishly potent varieties are kicking in faster and lasting longer—even if you eat only a fraction of what you would with another variety. Subsequent testing showed that one batch of Mattucci’s mushrooms contained almost 5 percent psychedelic alkaloids, which was once unheard of within the Psilocybe genus. Typically, mushrooms contain 1 percent of these psychoactive compounds, although species like Psilocybe azurescens are generally stronger, and some varieties within the Panaeolus genus are even more potent.

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