Where they come from, the clan, the tribe, the gang is the primary social unit, not the individual. This psychology is so deeply ingrained, you cannot change it in a generation or two. And it’s not just psychology. It is backed up by ideology, religious fervor, economics, survival and probably genes. ABN
Tag: cultural norms
Tribalism begets tribalism
This is entirely normal human behavior, predicted by me and many others to be the inevitable response to treasonous massive immigration, illegal or not, fostered and promoted by treasonous government officials. In a world dominated by tribes, individuals are safer when they are members of a tribe. The West has generally attempted to become a non-tribal or post-tribal civilization based on individual rights and fairly administered laws. This attempt has failed not from the bottom up but from the top down. Government officials have grossly abused their powers and overstepped the bounds of human tribal tolerance. The more of this happens and the sooner it happens, the better — because the longer you wait the worse the problem will become. There is no stamping out tribalism without stamping out the British people. These statements apply to the entire West, given small differences due to regional conditions. It is not only not wrong to re-tribe, it is stupid not to. Westerners right now are paying for their own annihilation. ABN
Effects of not using IQ tests for hiring
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.
My rabbi blocked me
So far this year, the United States has given:
– $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine.
– $11,300,000,000 to Israel.
– $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia.
– $1,600,000,000 to Jordan.
– $1,400,000,000 to Egypt.
– $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan.
– $1,100,000,000 to Somalia.
– $1,000,000,000 to Yemen.
– $987,000,000 to Congo.
– $896,000,000 to Syria.
– $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S. And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA.
We all know this, but it is still shocking when you see the numbers lined up. Let’s not forget Lahaina; victims of that disaster got $700, if memory serves. The conspiracy theory about Lahaina is it was destroyed by lasers lighting the fires on roofs that were not blue or owned by celebrities. The theory on Hurricane Helene is the storm was deliberately directed across the area to cause massive destruction so the land can now be purchased/commandeered for lithium mining. Apparently Helene’s path of destruction went directly over the richest lithium mines in the world.
USA has spent $200 billion in what looks to me like nothing other than deliberate destruction of Ukraine, which now is largely owned by non-Ukrainian investment funds. The land was cheap and Ukrainians cannot afford it. Zelensky, who is Jewish, changed the law to allow foreign entities to buy up Ukraine. At the same time, Zelensky has signed contracts with those same foreign entities to borrow money from them to rebuild Ukraine’s destroyed infrastructure. One-half of Ukraine’s population has fled due to the war and 700,000 of its young, strong men have been killed in the war. Nothing morally good has been accomplished. The failure of Europe to form an enduring amicable alliance with Russia is the greatest foreign policy failure in world history. WW1, WW2, and now WW3 have all been fought largely to prevent that alliance. No Westerner in their right mind (and not bribed or blackmailed) would not want an enduring amicable alliance with Russia.
When we see foreign military age men entering USA in droves, and being paid to do so, we fear they are soldiers who will feel no sympathy for US citizens if conflict breaks out. This is a valid fear as, historically, foreign troops are frequently used to slaughter populations they have no sympathy for. Understand also that foreign military operatives can also infiltrate at the top. Do the top people in USA act like they sympathize with citizens of USA? Who is giving Congress its marching orders? Who is getting all the money Congress sends abroad but does not use to help US citizens? ABN
The primal basis of good manners
A useful guide to understanding what FIML is
The Ethical Skeptic (TES) has written a very good essay: The Distinction Between Comprehension and Understanding. I want to use a schema presented in his essay to describe what FIML is, how to see it and understand it. Comprehending it requires doing it and reaping its benefits.
TES provides this illustration of the layers of thought and psychology that culminate in comprehension:
I might not use a hammer to represent comprehension but since we have a hammer, it would represent FIML’s ability to smash through the dogma of psychology, our ordinary understanding of psycholinguistics, the simplicity with which we view real-time speech, and our ignorance that there exists anything profound in being able to analyze real-time, real-world speech as it is happening.
FIML is a method, a technique. It has no content save what you bring to it. FIML works with and reveals the profound subjectivity of the individual. Since basic FIML cannot be done alone but only with a partner, it also reveals the profound subjectivity of your partner. In doing this, it smashes the dogmas of psychology and virtually all public/common notions about what the human mind even is.
The difficulties of FIML are fundamentally two: 1) seeing it at all and 2) doing it. FIML is not something people normally ever do. I have been writing, reading, and thinking about FIML for many years and have never seen any reference to anything like it anywhere in the history of the world. If you know of one, please tell me. I will be delighted.
FIML is probably hard to see because all languages everywhere contain a very strong proscription against questioning anyone in the moment in order to begin a sober analysis. People just don’t do that. Getting that close and personal about something someone has just said (or did) is instinctively perceived as disrespect, argumentativeness, stupidity, rocking-the-boat, etc. FIML 100% is not that, but since no one has cultivated the habit or acquired the training to do it, no one can even see it let alone do it.
Most of us can see moments of speech and change our minds quickly if we are ordered, instructed, or want to curry favor. I guess that is a starting point, but none of that is FIML. FIML begins with a subjectively felt (or comprehended) need to find out if you have interpreted something correctly. Very ordinary, right? Yes, it is in “slow-time,” but not in real-time.
When done in real-time, the emphasis is on the one asking the question because this one has noticed an interpretation arising in their mind that may be wrong. The interpretation could be completely new or more likely habitual. By frequently noticing these interpretations and then asking your FIML partner about them (using FIML rules) and listening to their reply, you will gradually begin to see a true picture of your actual profound and marvelous subjective mind as it moves through and responds to its living existence.
FIML is no more difficult to learn than playing a musical instrument, riding a motorcycle, or cooking. Once both you and your partner understand what FIML basically is and why it is so necessary, you will progress quickly and gain many insights into your behaviors and thinking processes. At some point, you will achieve a kind of mutual comprehension of each other that is very clear and beautiful and cannot be gained in any other way.
Seems many/most influencers have similar backgrounds or similarly compromised positions. ‘The best way to control the opposition is to lead it’ — Vladimir Lenin. ABN
Diversity is expensive
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‘The definition of an Englishman has never changed and it never will change’
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