This post provides a concrete example of what FIML practice does and why it is needed. Stress voice is an involuntary intrusion of instinct into speech. In some contexts, this is a very good thing. In many other contexts, it can be a very bad thing because it alerts us to dangers that do not exist while generating the illusion that they do. ABN
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Humans are semiotic animals that respond to human signals as primary percepta.
Some obvious examples are sex in advertising, pictures of hamburgers, people enjoying a natural view from a balcony in a hotel brochure. Each of these relies on an “instinct”—sex, hunger, an animal’s response to nature—while at the same time signaling a complex human contribution to the basic signal.
Another type of human signal that arouses instinct is tone of voice. A good example of this is the “stress” or “alarm” voice that is used by most if not all mammals and birds.
The basic instinctive stress or alarm voice is a shriek. If words are used, the shrieking tone will be accompanied by rapidly spoken words—“stop! stop! stop!” or “Watch out! it’s falling” or “get down! get down!” etc.
In basic situations involving real danger, the alarm voice is very important. We definitely want to have both the voice and the sudden energized response it draws from us.
In many situations, though, the stress voice can cause problems when it arises due to simple miscommunication. For example, I say or do something different from what you asked or implied and it causes you—virtually involuntarily—to use an alarmed tone that involves a bit of a shriek and rapid words.
For example, you asked me to cut some mushrooms for a broth we are making. What you meant is you want the mushrooms to go into the clear broth after it has been made but I toss them into the pot with the chicken bones and vegetable scraps that will be strained and thrown away.
When you first see what I have done, you experience slight confusion, even cognitive dissonance, and say in an alarmed voice, “What are you doing with the mushrooms?”
In turn, I respond directly to your stress voice and to the now evident miscommunication with my own confusion and stress voice, “I thought you wanted them in the broth!”
If we are friends, this minor contretemps will probably be easily overcome and we may even laugh about it. If we have had many unresolved contretemps of this type, however, one or both of us may escalate the problem by being accusatory or even abusive.
Even though the mushroom contretemps is very simple and insignificant, it can still be dangerous even between good friends because this type of contretemps can quickly get blown out of proportion due to the primal, instinctive quality of the stress voice.
Similar problem situations might be miscommunicated directions while driving or working, messed up meeting times, or getting the wrong thing from the store.
These problems are generally easy to resolve, though they may still generate discord or stress both because a confusing miscommunication happened and also because the stress or alarm voice just is that way; it causes stress or alarm in and of itself.
If you can see and deal with concrete situations such as the ones described above, imagine how similar situations may arise in less concrete forms and how they can be even more dangerous and lead to even more serious problems.
Miscommunicated emotional, sexual, psychological, or intellectual signals can also give rise to primal stress or alarm tones and, in turn, generate further stress and alarm. Contretemps like these can be much harder to pinpoint, analyze, and understand than simpler ones involving concrete communication about mushrooms or directions.
In FIML practice, if partners can mutually understand a few concrete contretemps and how and why they generate stress and confusion and use these forms as basic paradigms for more complex contretemps, they will go a long way toward removing stress and confusion that is entirely blameless, unconscious, unmotivated, and unintended by either of them.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and five other plaintiffs today accused the American Academy of Pediatrics of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule. CHD filed the RICO suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
In a lawsuit filed today in federal court, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and five other plaintiffs accused the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule.
The suit alleges that the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by making “false and fraudulent” claims about the safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) childhood immunization schedule — while receiving funding from vaccine manufacturers and providing financial incentives to pediatricians who achieve high vaccination rates.
“For too long, the AAP has been held up on a pedestal, as if it were a font of science and integrity,” said CHD CEO Mary Holland. “Sadly, that’s not the case.”
Instead, Holland said, the AAP “is a front operation in a racketeering scheme involving Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Media, ready at every turn to put profits above children’s health. It’s time to face facts and see what the AAP is really about,” Holland said.
President Donald Trump announced a dramatic breakthrough in his bid to acquire Greenland after striking a deal with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Trump said he will scrap tariffs scheduled for February 1st following what he described as ‘very productive’ talks on a framework agreement covering the entire Arctic region.
The president said ‘additional discussions’ are ongoing regarding Greenland and that Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff are ‘responsible for the negotiations.’
Trump told reporters in Davos on Wednesday that the deal will be ‘put out pretty soon.’
‘It gets us everything we needed to get,’ he insisted, adding: ‘It’s a deal that everybody’s very happy with.’
This has been one of my greatest geopolitical hopes — that Trump is ‘by deception doing war’ with Israeli Jewish Supremacy.
Gonna hang with this interpretation as long as I can because it feels so right, makes sense and is one of several such signals.
If Ritter is right, this is an example of real-world realism and why we don’t abandon Trump because he did not ban the covid vax, expose the Epstein blackmail op, or pay enough attention to Kirk’s assassination.
If Ritter is wrong about this, the basics are still the same:In the real world we have to take what we can get and work with it. ABN
All virtues must be wise or they are not virtues. What is wise or not can be discussed but never denied. Logos is wise. God is wise. Tathagata is wise. ABN
A regime is not upheld by abstractions, but by men—by their capacities, their instincts, and their loyalties. Every political order is biopolitical. It rests on who is born, who holds power, and who is cast out.
Hierarchy is the principle by which men are arranged according to their natural differences. Order is the cohesion and stability that arise when those differences are rightly understood and affirmed. Both emerge from the unequal distribution of traits among men: differences in character, in foresight, and in the will to lead or the willingness to follow.
Institutions do not endure through ideals alone. They endure through the strength, discipline, and continuity of a people—through the cooperation of the living and the faithful transmission of order across generations. Each man fulfills the station assigned to him. As the Roman poet Horace observed, “Content with his own place, he does not strive to rise above his rank.” This is the foundation of every stable order.
When these biological foundations are subverted—when the weak and unfit are gathered into a collective and their infirmity is transmuted into political force—politics does not vanish. It degenerates. It no longer serves truth, justice, or excellence, but becomes a mechanism of control. The regime still demands obedience, but not from men of worth. It secures it through dependence, and sustains it by elevating the weak over the strong, the base over the noble.
This is the logic of Bioleninism.
Coined by the writer “Spandrell,” Bioleninism describes a strategy of rule that emerges in times of civilizational decline. Unable to sustain themselves through the loyalty of the competent and independent, regimes in decay assemble a new ruling coalition from the biologically—and therefore, often socially—unfit. These are not men who ascend through merit, but men whose status, and in many cases their very existence, depends entirely on the system. Their loyalty is secured through dependency. Their resentment is weaponized against those more capable.
This is not a new phenomenon. Lenin perfected it in revolutionary Russia. He recruited from the embittered margins—what Dr. Edward Dutton calls the “spiteful mutants”: ethnic outsiders, failed intellectuals, radical ideologues, and social deviants. These were not men with a stake in the old order, nor any place in a just or natural hierarchy. But for a regime built upon destruction, they were the perfect instruments. Their failure bound them in loyalty. Their hatred made them merciless.
Bioleninism adapts this same logic to the postmodern West. It extends beyond socioeconomic class to encompass the full spectrum of biological dysfunction. Its favored instruments are the neurotic, the perverse, the embittered, and the malformed. The more broken the individual, the more easily he is controlled. The less capable he is of surviving on merit, the more tightly he clings to the regime that elevates him. In this perverse selection process, the ugliness of ineptitude and failure becomes power. Dependence is transfigured into virtue.
This is not a regime designed to elevate the noble or reward the capable. It exists to entrench itself through the destruction of those who might transcend it. What it cannot corrupt, it casts out. What it cannot cast out, it slanders or crushes. Its war on merit is not accidental but essential, for excellence threatens its command. Competence defies control. Beauty reveals the sublime indifference of nature, where nothing is owed and everything must be earned. Normalcy resists authoritarian domination, for it thrives on proportion and restraint. And so inversion becomes the law. The strong are treated as a threat, the virtuous as a danger, the noble as criminal. In their place rise the bitter, the weak, and the grotesque—men who could never have built a civilization, but who will burn one down to preserve their power.
The result is a system that no longer aspires to greatness, but to obedience. Its rulers do not seek honor, but control. They govern not through excellence, but through fear, distortion, and manufactured dependency. Their stability rests on the loyalty of those who would hold no place in any just or well-ordered world.
Bioleninism is not a temporary error, but the death knell of a collapsing system. It does not merely manage decline, as the familiar idiom suggests, but voraciously feeds upon it. And unless it is utterly annihilated—without hesitation and without mercy—all that is noble will be shattered and all that is beautiful will lie in ruin.
Victory does not demand cruelty, but it does demand resolve, the kind that does not turn away from necessity. It calls for fidelity to nature, the courage to name things as they are, and the unbending will to build again. Like all parasitic systems, Bioleninism is brittle. Its strength lies not in might, but in submission. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned, “Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” If enough men refuse to live by lies, the mask cracks, the spell breaks, and the whole decrepit order begins to fall.
US Senator Susan Collins and her Treasurer Elizabeth T. McCandless caught Smurfing $4,428,495.00 into her campaign committee. This is criminal money laundering.
One of their victims is Antony Taquey of North Carolina. We are supposed to believe Taquey made 38,967 contributions totaling $608,342.
Of these, 253 went to Susan Collins, totaling $5,395. But hold on, the truth is Taquey did not make these contributions. He is 72 years old and is having his identity stolen by Collings and her Treasurer McCandless. That’s also elderly financial abuse.
Look at the chart of Taquey, on June 24, 2021 we are supposed to believe he made 468 contributions totaling $17,197. Each contribution is time/date stamped and assigned its own unique transaction code by the FEC.
American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had several drugs in his system when he unexpectedly died, according to a recently released toxicology report.
Naroditsky was just 29 years old when he was found dead on his couch at his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, by friend and fellow grandmaster Oleksandr Bortnyk, who went to check on him on October 19.
At the time, police confirmed to the Daily Mail that Naroditsky may have committed suicide or accidentally overdosed, as they did not find signs of foul play or criminal activity.
According to a toxicology report by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that was obtained by NBC News, Naroditsky had methamphetamine, amphetamine, 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine in his system when he died.
The first two chemicals are synthetic stimulants, while the latter two are the primary active chemical compounds found in Kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia with opioid-like effects.