If an employer isn’t legally permitted to use the most reliable measure of mental ability that exists (IQ tests) when hiring employees for cognitively-demanding positions, it will be limited to less reliable proxy indicators of intelligence like the quality of colleges attended and GPA. This encourages credentialism and boosts the value of a college degree, thereby increasing the demand for undergraduate and graduate-level education, which gives colleges an opportunity to raise tuition costs faster than the overall inflation rate. The extra dollars brought in with increased tuition get increasingly pushed into peripheral administrative activities (like DEI) unrelated to the essential function of a university, and into boutique and heavily-ideological areas of studies.
I have only spot-checked this interview but it seems to be well-worth watching because Lobaczewski’s insights are based on his experiences in communist Poland. First-hand experience with actual communist regimes is essential for understanding communist states of the past and also the usurpation of the Western world now ongoing. The techniques of this usurpation and infiltration of Western institutions is textbook communist power aggrandizement through lying, cheating, infiltrating, and treason. Ask anyone who has lived in a communist country or escaped from one — they will all say much the same: you do not want that to happen here or again. I myself am speaking from personal experience. ABN
According to a March 2021 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans and 23 percent of Republicans believe that,
“The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”
I know that polls must not be trusted, but I can easily believe that tens of millions of people agree with that statement. It’s not just an American phenomenon; it is widespread in France too, as I have painfully observed in recent months (more later).
Part of those believers might also agree with the statement that, “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by Jews,” but, if asked to choose, they would probably say that the Satan-worshipping pedophiles are above the Jews in the occult hierarchy of Illuminatis. Attempts at syncretism sometimes emerge, as when Candace Owens voiced her belief that:
“what we have right now is a pedophile ring that has assumed a ton of power in the world by pretending that any person who notices is antisemitic. My theory is that these people are not Jewish; they publicly present themselves as Jewish, but in reality, they worship and follow an entirely different faith, and it’s satanic. … These are demonic, monstrous people who are using Judaism to hide their actions.”
My theory is the opposite: Jewish supremacists are using Satanism “to hide their actions.” The transgenerational sect of Satan-worshippers operating in total impunity at the highest level of Hollywood, Wall Street, and Washington—raping, torturing, sacrificing and drinking the blood of children in black masses—is a fantasy to deflect attention from the cult that really controls Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington.
…If there was no Satanism, or at least some appearance of Satanism, the rumor that Satanists rule over us would not gain traction. If Satanism did not exist, Israel would have to invent it. Which is what they do (by Israel, I mean here worldwide organized Jewry, WOJ). Israel has a double motive for fostering religious and cultural Satanism, both as a virus to stress and weaken Christian society, and as a smokescreen to conceal its own enterprise of world corruption and domination. What I mean is somewhat the opposite of what is meant by the illustration below: not Satan making Israel, but Israel making Satan. B’nai B’rith is sewing satanism into the Western social fabric.
Yes, there are certainly real brain-dead Satanists. And yes, there are pervert pedophiles and child-murderers, with every possible background. There are even pedophile networks with high-profile politicians among their clients. And—who knows—there might even be Satan-worshipping pedophiles, although I’ve never seen any credible evidence for it.
But blaming the Satan-worshipping pedophiles for what is wrong in the West is just like blaming the “one-percent psychopaths” for the 2008 economic crisis, as did the 2011 film I am Fishead. Of course, individual psychopaths are a problem, and psychopathy is well worth studying. Robert Hare’s book Without Conscience actually inspired me to conceptualize Israel as “the psychopath among nations”. Collective psychopathy is different from individual psychopathy, though, and I think it is a grave misunderstanding to call Netanyahu or any other Israeli leader psychopaths. They are not. What they have is a collective psychopathy, resulting from the worship of their psychopathic god, and possibly from the trauma ritually inflicted on every eight-days-old male for a hundred generations (details here).
Let’s pretend the racial-demographic census figures are all wrong, the data on how quickly bodies can be processed via cremation is all wrong, let’s pretend the ground penetrating radar is all wrong, the Soviet admission to doctoring camps + faking pictures is all wrong, that pictures of wooden doors with one or two inch gaps beneath are all fake – let’s even pretend the internal German documents repeatedly mentioning ‘deportation to the east’ is actually top secret coded language for ‘exterminate an entire race’ – shouldn’t the Jewish people be forever thankful to Europeans for being rescued, in 1944/1945?
I sense virtually nothing but aggressive animosity, malevolence, and an open/proactive desire to destroy Western peoples and homelands – even while we’ve collectively paid (and continue to pay) countless billions to Jewish organizations.. and haven’t yet received a single dime in compensation for the bolshevik/communist revolutions and massacres, targeting specific races and demographics..
to the foremost Judeophiles in our midst (Murray, Peterson, Hanson, Pool, etc), please make this make sense?
Despite the intuition that strongly held beliefs are particularly difficult to change, the data on error correction indicate that general information errors that people commit with a high degree of belief are especially easy to correct. (Emphasis added.)
According to the study, this happens due to:
…enhanced attention and encoding that results from a metacognitive mismatch between the person’s confidence in their responses and the true answer.
This is exactly what happens when a FIML query shows the questioner that his/her assumptions about what their partner’s thoughts or intentions were wrong.
Initially, FIML partners may experience some embarrassment or disbelief at being wrong. But since FIML queries are generally based on negative impressions, after some practice being shown to be wrong will typically produce feelings of relief and even delight.
A FIML query will generally arise out of a state of “enhanced attention” and usually further increase it by being spoken about. Incidentally, this is probably the most difficult aspect of FIML practice—controlling the emotions that accompany enhanced attention, especially when that attention concerns our own emotional reactions.
With continued practice of FIML, however, even strongly held erroneous interpersonal beliefs will be fairly easily corrected whenever they are discovered during a FIML discussion. Correcting core false beliefs (mistaken interpretations) has a wide-ranging, beneficial effect on all aspects of a person’s life.
Since the hypercorrection effect discussed in the linked study only occurs during moments of enhanced attention, the FIML technique of focusing quickly on good data agreed upon by both partners can be seen as a way of inducing states of enhanced attention that will lead to deep changes in both partners. This technique (using good data) also turns the discussion from one about feelings to one about “information,” which the study finds makes errors “especially easy to correct.”
Furthermore, since FIML practice tends to deal with very small incidents, the enhanced attention FIML induces works like a laser that quickly and painlessly excises erroneous thoughts and feelings while they are still small and have not been allowed to grow into full-blown emotional reactions.
…Concern shifts, then, from care of the person, or care of the other, to care for the relational process. From what forms of relationship do we flourish? Here again is a pragmatic question for conversations now in progress.
The problem of the criterion is a fundamental issue in epistemology, which is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. It is a problem that arises when trying to determine the extent of knowledge and formulate the criteria for epistemic values, such as truth, justification, and evidence.
The problem can be phrased as a pair of questions: “What do we know?” and “What is the extent of our knowledge?” However, these questions seem to be circular, as it appears that we cannot answer the first question without already having an answer to the second, and vice versa.
This problem has been discussed by philosophers for centuries, with ancient roots dating back to the works of Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus.
The problem of the criterion is closely related to the issue of justification, as it is difficult to determine what criteria should be used to justify our beliefs and knowledge claims. This problem has been addressed in various ways, including the development of different epistemological theories and the exploration of the nature of truth and evidence.
In essence, the problem of the criterion highlights the difficulty of determining the starting point of knowledge and the criteria for evaluating knowledge claims. It is a problem that has puzzled philosophers for centuries and continues to be a topic of ongoing debate and inquiry.
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Pyrrho’s tripartite statement is completely unprecedented and unparalleled in Greek thought. Yet it is not merely similar to Buddhism, it corresponds closely to a famous statement of the Buddha preserved in canonical texts. The statement is known as the Trilakṣaṇa, the ‘Three Characteristics’ of all dharmas ‘ethical distinctions, factors, constituents, etc.’ Greek pragmata ‘(ethical) things’ corresponds closely to Indic dharma ∼ dhamma ‘(ethical) things’ and seems to be Pyrrho’s equivalent of it. The Buddha says, “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.”
~Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
The quote from Beckwith just above highlights how Beckwith has very convincingly connected Pyrrho’s skepticism with early Buddhism. The Trilaksana or Three Characteristics are the foundation of the Four Dharma Seals, belonging to the very earliest (attested) teachings of the Buddha. They are the heart of virtually all Buddhist philosophy and practice. They also define the Problem of the Criterion in Buddhist terms. The Fourth Seal is nirvana or freedom from the anxiety and suffering of not fully understanding the the first Three Dharma Seals.
I am also making this point because the Problem of the Criterion, or the Four Dharma Seals, are very real and impact our daily lives at every level all the time. And this is not just an abstract philosophical problem. It affects all of our relationships and everything we say and hear. In this vein I want to say that FIML (without my specifically knowing it at the time) is designed to address the Problem of the Criterion as it arises between two people in a close relationship.
I have said more than a few times over the years that it is hard for me to understand why ancient philosophers, including the Buddha, did not discover FIML or teach it. I believe it is possible Buddhist monks in the Buddha’s day were given instructions that amounted to some form of FIML, but there exists no evidence of this.
Whatever the case, FIML is designed to deal with interpersonal conundrums that arise out of the Problem of the Criterion, our inability to solidly nail what we know to the wall. FIML cannot completely fix the problem. It does not solve the Problem of the Criterion but it does make everything much clearer and better by at least an order of magnitude and probably more. By fully recognizing this inherent problem within all communication FIML partners can cooperatively work to solve it for the most part between themselves. ABN
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