Besides being totally crazy, this vid shows the power of semiotics. It’s a glaring example of what semiology is all about. The girl, the uniform, his gait, the flag, the voices. ABN
Good post on Conspiracy subreddit, showing some subreddits are worth viewing. Check the link above for a wide variety of insights into Dead Internet Theory, which says much or most of what we view and respond to on the interwebs is coming from bots. AI images, voices and videos only enhance the theory. ABN
What he describes is a subcultural psycholinguistic and psycho-semiotic cage.
It has its own signs and symbols and like most subcultures stands in opposition to their caricature of the larger culture in which they live.
Mind-control works largely through manipulating these and many other subcultures and then manipulating our responses to them.
I hope all FIML practitioners can see this and also see outside of these semiotic cages, something very difficult for all humans to do no matter how smart you may be.
Psycholinguistics and semiotics have an enormous psychological and emotional component, which has a very strong hold on all of us.
Many people who grasp this only understand how to use it to manipulate other people. There are hundreds of books and videos on how to do this.
You can do stuff like that and it sort of works, but it’s horrible morality and goes against Buddhist practice because it is a form of deception, of lying. It’s a cheap exploitation of a universal human weakness.
The big problem here is that while individuals in pairs and small group can free themselves from their psycholinguistic cages, large numbers of people cannot.
I do not know how to fix that. Maybe AI or some other new tech will help.
For now, we are stuck with a variety of metacognitive cages that hold large groups of people together.
These are our religions, ideologies, races, ethnies, and subcultures, like the one described above.
There is no power or authority on earth that can control metacognitive group identity, which is why conflict and war is inevitable.
Humans are too simple-minded to see a way out in large numbers, so large crazy groups will continue to rule the world.
The crazier they are, the stronger their hold on their members because it is very hard to get out of a crazy cage in which you have invested everything or were born into.
Look around you. Is there any culture that is not insane? ABN
Social constructs like City Council rules & decorum only exist cause WE the people allow it. Charlie Kirk wanted to bridge the divide with dialogue & debate. Many on the Left said “No”.
Last night a LOT of Mainers displayed to Augusta civil disobedience and what happens when ‘the people’ stop adhering to social constructs and what the world could look like if this path continues. I’ve never seen the Left/Dem board members so scared. You can read it on their faces – they know something has changed. Sleeping bears are awakening.
When discussion & debate erodes, only who has the most power remains.
Lithuanian authorities on Wednesday deported a Cameroonian man who had lived in the country for nearly four years and started a family, despite protests from rights groups urging officials to halt the expulsion.
The State Border Guard Service confirmed to BNS that the man was escorted by three officers on a flight to Cameroon via Istanbul. His removal was financed with European Union funds.
“This year, there have been about 50 such cases to countries including Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast, India, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. This is not the first such case of sending to Cameroon,” service spokesman Giedrius Mišutis said.
The NGO Sienos Grupė (Border Group) staged a protest outside the Migration Department in Vilnius, holding signs reading “Stop cowboy deportation”, “Human rights have no borders” and “Push dictators not refugees”. The group said the man lived in Lithuania with his Eritrean partner, who has refugee status, and their son, who was also granted refugee protection.
There is nothing stopping his family from going with him. Lithuania is a tiny country with a very small population. Loose immigration laws will destroy it beyond repair in two generations, if not less. ABN
I was a public school teacher in the hood for 11 years, and I know this type of kid.
The type that would smack the kid sitting in front of him, tell the teacher “IDGAF” when corrected, and ruin an entire year’s worth of learning for the entire class.
His special education teachers would describe him as “actually very smart with a lot of potential,” despite him failing every class and scoring a 9 on the ACT.
There would be countless meetings with him and his mom and the social workers, psychologists , and principal would speak in soft voices and nod and smile when the kid told them he wants to be a “doctor.”
They’d design all sorts of ridiculous accommodations that give him ample room to behave however he wanted and terrorize his teachers and peers with minimal consequences.
Teachers would spend the entire class trying to reign in his behavior, and when they called security to remove him, they’d have to evacuate the entire class first.
He’d rarely receive any consequences. The principal would reprimand the teachers for “not building a relationship with him” and accuse them of “singling him out because he was black.” As a result, they’d give up and his behavior would escalate.
If he was really bad, he’d get a time out in a special room where he’d sit on his phone and tell the supervisor to “shut the fuck up” if they said anything. Maybe he’d have to partake in a “peace circle” if he became violent.
He’d eventually get “socially promoted” to his senior year and there would be a massive effort to get his credits recovered, mostly by pressuring teachers to give him alternative assignments and 50% for the work he didn’t do.
He’d walk down the graduation stage and everyone would cheer, and he’d probably do something embarrassing like give the finger to the audience.
As a young adult, he’d walk the city behaving exactly as he did in school because he’d been socialized to learn there are zero consequences for his behavior. Depending on the city, he’d probably get similar treatment from the cops and public afraid of creating a public scene that would lead to riots in their city.
One day, he’d snap, and do something like this.
And only then, would everyone act surprised, as if this wasn’t largely in part due to how our public schools negatively socialize and enable the behavior of animals that should be locked up or institutionalized as teenagers.
President Donald Trump’s administration told 40 states, including Maine, to eliminate parts of lessons that focus on LGBTQ+ issues from federally funded sexual education materials or they will lose funding.
The move is the latest in a line of efforts since Trump returned to the White House in January to recognize people as only male or female and to eliminate what he calls “gender ideology.”
“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas,” Acting Assistant Health and Human Service Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a statement.
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