Tag: cultural norms

Extensive purging of CCP officials in China — Jennifer Zeng reports

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No report from China or on China can be believed without doubt, but this one sounds credible. This is an example of raw Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK) Game Theory occurring within China. Xi Jinping has no way to be sure his enemies have all been neutralized; nor does he even have a clear sense of who his enemies are. So psychologically he is forced to take out as many suspects and potential enemies as he can. Intellectually, KOBK rules demand he do something like this, based on how he understands his situation. The kill in KOBK means only to render impotent and not necessarily kill. In cases like this, however, you can be sure many are being killed under KOBK reasoning. KOBK Game Theory rules the world of top players and thousands of wannabes.

Another example of KOBK Game Theory: By obliterating Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump ‘killed’ Iran’s ultimate military prowess. Simultaneously, it seems, Trump also ‘killed’ Netanyahu’s never-ending reason for USA to go to war for Israel. Moreover, by forming the Gaza Board of Peace, and thus preventing Netanyahu and Jewish Supremists from controlling Gaza’s future, Trump has ‘killed’ them as well. This is speculation, but to me it seems likely that Trump has made these deft, even elegant, political moves, which should go a long way toward ensuring a better future for the region, USA and the world. Time will tell. ABN

Jensen Huang randomly meets an outdoor live stream

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This is reportedly from a few years ago in Taiwan before Jensen became super-rich and famous. Nothing very special about it except it shows a dimension of Taiwan culture and Jensen’s personality. They eventually sing a song in English. It’s a good ‘slice of life’ video. ABN

Jensen Huang speaks Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese, though his Mandarin is described as “rusty” and learned later in life. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up speaking Taiwanese Hokkien with his parents, who were native speakers. He began learning Mandarin in the 1980s while working at AMD to communicate with Chinese photomask workers. He has since spoken Mandarin in public, including a notable speech at the 2025 China International Supply Chain Expo, where he said, “I am very happy to be here in China,” in Mandarin. He also frequently uses Taiwanese Hokkien when in Taiwan and has been seen speaking it in public events and interviews. 

Covert speech proscriptions and the psychological harm they cause

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Speech proscriptions can be overt with legal ramifications.

Or they can be sort of covert, couched in ideas like good manners, respect, make no waves, maintain friendly relations, follow group norms, etc.

I believe the covert ones happen most basically because almost all people are terrible at speaking their own subjective truths. And this leads to being terrible at hearing others’ subjective truths, even if they are well-expressed which is rare.

This problem arises from the pervasive, inherent ambiguity of language in general but especially spoken language.

Speech flies by and we are required to extract coherent meaning from bits of it. We make stories out of it and judge people, including ourselves, based on bad evidence.

Ambiguity in speech also requires us to maintain the same personas and most of the same beliefs for decades. We travel in herds of ideological banality due to it.

Staying the same, conforming to the group, is a way of displaying a profoundly diminished species of unambiguous meaning, even though we may sense that deep down the whole thing is a bad game.

I used to be bothered by this, but stopped after I figured out FIML and practiced it with my partner for a few years.

After maybe five years, our speech started to become so much clearer it didn’t even feel like the same medium anymore. After ten years, it got so good it seems we may have transcended psychology as it is normally conceived.

This happened because psychology as normally conceived is massively based on speech ambiguity and the ways people react to it. Fact is, you probably should feel a bit crazy in most interpersonal situations because speech proscriptions mixed with compounding ambiguities cannot possibly allow the psychological freedom needed to be cognitively healthy.

Like children, the thinking is absurd

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This level of incompetence mixed with deliberate corruption is rife throughout USA. Most of it appears to be in Dem states which have drifted into woke emotionalism and concomitant corruption. The buck should have stopped at the governor’s office. At the national level, corruption is much the same, though much worse and more entrenched. All large organizations are susceptible to corruption and weak employees who dare not do the right thing. Many organizations can live a long time while burdened with parasites, but in the end, entire civilizations fall for these reasons. ABN

Black on White liberals

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Falsified history, envy, inferiority complex, and White historical success all contribute to many non-Whites hating White people. Add to that actual sh*tty White behavior and many decades of anti-White mind-control coming from many angles, and the talk above rings very true to me. Whites have contributed enormous time and wealth to the intended well-being of others with good results in some areas but with the overall result that far too many non-Whites believe they deserve even better treatment and nothing is going to overcome their antagonism. ABN

Basic pedagogy explained

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This is true and one of the main reasons students of any age do much better when in classes with classmates who are all at roughly the same level and are being taught by teachers who understand this.

This principle need have nothing to do with race.

It is basic pedagogy, and can be extrapolated to many other situations — employment, clubs, social circles, immigration, neighborhoods, and yes, also race and cultural background.

This is the main reason DEI is always guaranteed to fail.

The leftist craze to ‘end Whiteness’ is based on degrading Whites by forcing them to learn and work among people who are not at their level, culturally, morally or intellectually.

Civilizations progress only when the most talented people rise to the top, not the most pathological and self-aggrandizing ones. ABN