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The SEC is now tracking your stock trades by your Social Security Number, and it shares the data with 3,000 outside agencies.
“A consolidated audit trail that accurately tracks orders throughout their lifecycle and identifies the broker-dealers handling them will provide us with an unprecedented ability to effectively oversee the markets we regulate,” said SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro.
Besides all of the reasons posted on this site and all over the interwebs on why the West is declining so quickly, one major reason has been consistently left out—culture shock.
Culture shock is real. It takes many decades for a culture/ civilization to overcome it. The entire world outside of Western civilization has been experiencing culture shock vis-a-vis the West for over two hundred years.
During decades of culture shock, the people affected by it will overestimate the shocking culture while underestimating themselves, the culture being shocked.
This happened in Japan. In the nineteenth century there were calls to abandon the Japanese language and replace it with English. In China, culture shock vis-a-vis the West is still ongoing. Name your country, society, or civilization they all have experienced the malaise and defeatism of comparing themselves to the West while trying, as most have, to adopt Western ways or at least catch up to the West.
Western medicine, which has produced massive population growth throughout the world, plus Western farming techniques, technology, economics, etc. have greatly contributed to the enrichment of the non-Western world while also causing most of it to have or have had an inferiority complex engendered by culture shock.
Over the last 30-50 years, Western peoples have been watching the rest of the world catch up while also immigrating in huge numbers into the West. The culture shock that has resulted from this is a very real and deep-seated psychological condition.
Beyond the shock caused by different cultures impinging upon it, Western peoples have also been assaulted by infiltrators inside the West who are using Western culture shock to even more deeply control the West. Mind-control techniques that degrade Western self-esteem through quotas, propaganda, censorship, lies, and government policies are especially effective because Westerners are in an ongoing state of culture shock.
Japan is an example of a civilization that has outgrown its culture shock vis-a-vis the West. But notice that Japan succeeded in this by recognizing what was happening early on, and facing it directly while encouraging many positive transformations in Japanese society. Notice also that to this day Japan is not allowing itself to be overrun by immigrants who cannot and will not adapt to their culture but rather undermine it, as is happening throughout the West.
Culture shock is normal. Historically, it has happened many times. It is not a permanent state unless a society gives into it too much and allows itself to be subjugated or overrun. Or if a society, such as ours, has been thoroughly infiltrated by bad actors who use every weakness they can find to destroy it.
To recap: culture shock is normal; the West is in the midst of it; it will pass if we can maintain our civilization. Our main hurdles are 1) understanding what is happening, 2) understanding that bad actors have infiltrated the West and are furthering Western culture shock with a passion, and 3) understanding that mass immigration is the most powerful physical weapon being used against the West today.
This video beautifully describes how US censorship has evolved and is evolving to circumvent First Amendment rights to free speech. An aesthetic criticism which should not detract from the information presented is Mike could have presented this better than just putting a camera in front of his face. That said, don’t skip this one. This is the new look of totalitarianism, censorship, mind-control. I keep hoping that at some point a majority of thoughtful Americans will see what is obviously going on. I still have hope but the power of hierarchical language, concepts, and real-world interpersonal relationships is super-strong, even stronger than I had suspected just a few years ago. ABN
I am reasonably sure that no language in the world allows the kind of query that FIML practice is based on.
The reason for this probably lies in the origins of human language and culture, a developmental period during which languages were much simpler and were used mainly to indicate real things in the world or give commands.
At later stages of development, language became a tool of whatever hierarchy prevailed in the moment. To this day, Confucianism is still a rule book for hierarchies.
That said, languages are always potentially very supple, so there is no need for humans today to be restricted by archaic forms of speech and thought.
And that said, it is important to understand that your psychology has been deeply conditioned by the archaic and hierarchical cores of your language.
I bring this up because this side of human psychology makes it difficult for people to do FIML practice correctly.
To the speaker, the basic FIML query will instinctively feel like nagging, being petty, being whiny. To the hearer, this basic query will instinctively feel like a challenge, an insult, an affront.
These basic instincts must not be allowed to block FIML inquiries. Personally, I believe FIML has not been discovered before because no one ever went beyond these basic instinctive reactions.
So, expect to feel affronted and expect to feel like a petty nag, at least for a while. With practice, these feelings will go away. At the same time, the importance of the information gained through FIML queries will become increasingly obvious.
Once the hierarchical cultural and linguistic instincts that have developed in us, and upon which our psychologies depend, have been overcome, a new use of language will become possible.
This new language is capable of sufficient micro subtlety to allow us to objectively observe how our minds and psychologies actually function in real-time real-life situations.
No theory of psychology and no amount of introspection will take you to the actual data of how you function. Only FIML practice can do that. FIML will open your mind to levels of metacognition and analysis never experienced before.
A recent study has found that persecutory delusions can be reduced by simulating fear-inducing situations in virtual reality.
…patients who fully tested out their fears in virtual reality by lowering their defences showed very substantial reductions in their paranoid delusions. After the virtual reality therapy session, over 50% of these patients no longer had severe paranoia at the end of the testing day. (Oxford study finds virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia)
The crux of what happened is patients faced and “fully tested out their fears.”
The virtual reality environment allowed them to “lower their defenses” enough to see that their initial fears were wrong. That they were mistakes.
Few people suffer full-blown persecutory delusions on the scale of the patients in this experiment, but I would maintain that all people everywhere suffer from “mistaken interpretations” that manifest as neuroses or delusions.
The virtual reality in the Oxford study allows for patients to face their “mistakes” (their exaggerated fears) and this is what reduces their paranoia.
The technique works because patients receive immediate feedback in real-time.
As they perceive in real-time that their delusions are not justified, they are reduced dramatically.
In FIML practice, a similar result is achieved through the FIML query and response with a caring partner.
All people are riddled with “mistaken interpretations” that wrongly define their sense of who they are and what is going on around them.
A basic tenet of FIML is that immediate truthful feedback reduces and eventually extirpates these mistakes.
FIML allows people to “lower their defenses” by focusing on micro-units of communication as they arise in real-time.
The study is here: Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction.
I believe the findings of this study lend support to the theory of FIML practice:
FIML practice eliminates neuroses because it shows individuals, through real data, that their (neurotic) interpretation(s) of their partner are mistaken.
UPDATE: The mistaken interpretations extirpated from individuals psychologies during FIML practice could be compared to mutations in individual human genomes. All individual humans carry several hundred unique mutations which occurred during gestation or that came from their parents gametes. These mutations are costly as they reduce our mental and physical efficiency, sometimes very considerably. If we could remove or correct them, we would all function better. Psychologically, as we develop and learn language and behavior we all incorporate many hundreds of errors unique to ourselves. FIML practice is designed to find these errors in thought, language, communication, and psychology and remove them. In many ways, these psycho-communicative errors are even more serious than genetic mutations. ABN
Researchers have developed an “inverse vaccine” that reverses the damage caused when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s healthy organs and tissues in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. It could pave the way to a treatment for these diseases that doesn’t require suppressing the entire immune system.
Normally, a vaccine teaches the body’s immune system to recognize a viral or bacterial invader as an enemy that needs to be destroyed. Now, researchers from the University of Chicago have created an “inverse vaccine” that does the opposite.
The novel vaccine removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule, which, when fighting pathogens, would be undesirable but, in the context of autoimmune diseases, may prove to be a cure.
It’s the job of the immune system’s T cells to recognize specific foreign antigens on the surfaces of unwanted cells and launch an attack against them. However, T cells can sometimes get it wrong. In the case of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis, the T cells become self-reactive, mistakenly considering healthy organs and tissues to be foreign organisms.
The researchers were aware of the importance of the liver in mediating local and systemic tolerance to self-antigens and foreign antigens. They exploited the organ’s natural mechanism of marking molecules from broken down cells with a ‘do not attack’ flag to prevent autoimmune reactions to cells that die by natural processes. By coupling an antigen with a molecule resembling a fragment of an aged cell, the liver recognized it as a friend rather than an enemy.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed homemade carbon dioxide on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, raising the possibility that the frigid waterworld could host life.
Europa, which is a little bit smaller than Earth’s moon, is covered with a crust of water ice enveloping a saltwater ocean. The presence of liquid water makes Europa an intriguing object of exploration for scientists interested in extraterrestrial life. But until now, no one had shown that the ocean contained the proper molecules, particularly carbon, which is a fundamental building block of life on Earth.
The new detection by JWST is intriguing because the carbon dioxide does not seem to have been carried by a meteorite or asteroid, and it appears in a geologically young region of the moon called Tara Regio, suggesting the gas may have formed within the moon itself.
“Previous observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for ocean-derived salt in Tara Regio,” Cornell University planetary scientist Samantha Trumbo said in a statement. “Now we’re seeing that carbon dioxide is heavily concentrated there as well. We think this implies that the carbon probably has its ultimate origin in the internal ocean.”
Misinformation and disinformation retain the basic characteristics of speech. Unless they fall into one of very few exceptions, they are protected from censorship under the First Amendment.
Consistent with those very limited exceptions, any effort by the government to prevent the dissemination of ideas or opinions, even if they are based on untruths, is unconstitutional.
A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld an injunction that prohibits the government from pressuring social media platforms to de-escalate or remove speech that the government identifies as misinformation or disinformation.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, that injunction was put on pause by the Supreme Court until Sept. 22, to give the Court more time to consider the issue.
The injunction resulted from a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and others accusing the federal government of strong-arming social media companies in order to amplify government-approved points of view and muffle or silence opposing views.
Free speech makes civilizations thrive. It is the rational as well as constitutional only option. Anyone who wants to limit free speech is a POS. Covid proved this point and also proved that the worst enemies of free speech were and still are governments, Big Media and other vested interests. ABN
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