Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )

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  • This is why relying on “political will” to enforce accountability is incompetent.

    You’ll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren’t…

    Politically-based “accountability” is accountability-to-power’s-narcissism, only, in the end.

    It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.

    It had to be automatic that he couldn’t even be eligible for election, instead of “saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented” kind of thing.

    DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.

    Society-wide.

    No “political” alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.

    So, to your question “is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out”, no: it’s too late.

    Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.

    Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.

    “a penny’s worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure” is still true.

    But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call “armageddon”, these next 6-decades, will be significant…

    Once the tippingpoint’s crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance … will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.

    About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.

    The problem isn’t them: the problem is humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s ego-games, its “apocalypse” “proving its ego’s IMPORTANCE”, that “nothing is more god than ego’s TANTRUM/POGROM is!!”.

    So, fundamentally, it’s The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to “beat god and make god obey!!”.

    Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy … that’s only “makeup”.

    The communist-party’s imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as “fascist” in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.

    The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn’t make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.

    Party-imperialism’s murdered millions.

    What’s the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?

    the well-accomplished-sociopathy’s the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.

    So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??

    As ideologues consistently do.

    It’s foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE’s expense.

    But they’re only 2 of many representatives of that “church”.

    See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it’s global, the forces are implacable, & humankind’s positioned to … not do well, this century.

    Unless someone massively changes humankind’s viability…

    which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too “outlier” )

    So, humankind is “walking the plank”, now.

    Other paths were possible…

    Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov’t there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!

    & keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.

    No other path could have worked.

    Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice’s perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn’t work!

    It’s the same in the US.

    It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.

    It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.

    The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.

    The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).

    the problem isn’t local: it’s racial. Whole-species.

    Humankind’s fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-“reasoning”, ideology, prejudice, & ideological-“morality”.

    & about 9/10 of humankind’s on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.

    Trump’s a symptom, not a cause.

    The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance’s fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.

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  • There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.

    YOU try writing good dialogue!

    Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn’t easy, & people who don’t even understand Shawn Coyne’s point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see “The Story Grid” for that ), is something that most story-writers don’t understand properly.

    Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.

    Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?

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  • Well, duh

    Remember how slow the grinding-to-a-halt was in covid?

    worlds take time to do world-change things.

    It still astonishes me how the CCP & Biden somehow fended-off the popping of the fake economy ( didn’t know about Blackrock being a significant player in that game, at the time )…

    He’s working, his way ( which sometimes I disagree with: I’m not a fanboy, I’m a pragmatist ), as fast as he can, in a world where institutions change at the decades-scale, not at the days/weeks scale.

    Get more-accurate glasses, if you want to be claiming journalism, walrus.

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  • Cultures/conventions are assumption-rivers, aka “religions”.

    Toxic-culture’s a habit, an ideology, a “religion”, a self-reinforcing-feedback-mechanism, & a kind of “food” for ones who want that particular substance.

    Once entrenched, it’s nearly-impossible to change a culture.

    Chaning a culture generally requires focus+action both at the top AND grass-roots.

    Without both, nothing’ll change, usually.

    ( without grassroots, nothing’ll change, no matter what the leader wants/does )

    & Reddit’s CEO has paid himself $1/8B IN A SINGLE YEAR, while Reddit wasn’t in profit, so DarkTriad’s their corporate-culture, fersure, in my opinion.

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  • “normal” for what culture?

    I mean family culture, not national-culture.

    It seems to me that they’re insecure, & committed to using you for their-own validation, & crowbarring you into remaining subjugated to that scam/game/manipulation.

    ( I had to go no-contact with both parents, for years at a time, for my survival: parental machiavellianism doesn’t have to be conscious machiavellianism. I don’t blame them, but did need to protect my life against their forcing-me-towards-breaking/failing, with all the personal-power I could muster. )


    The oversimplification of “the 5 love languages”, the oversimplification being that people are somehow “exclusively 1 XOR another”, instead of being some mixture on a 5-dimension set-of-continuums/spectrums…

    It seems your mother’s means of showing-love is verbal, & she felt need to have verbal-expression-of-love for her.

    The “5 love languages” thing… when I found-out that some people NEED exchanging-of-things to feel loved, or to express love … WTF??

    TOTALLY not the way I’m wired.

    Never EVER would have dawned-on-me that some people actually were wired that way.

    But… I’ve seen some people I knew who were wired that way!

    Diversity-of-wiring’s a thing, right?

    So, I think it was you mom being wired for verbal emotional-meaning, AND her trying to manipulate you into being what protected/fed her established-when-she-was-growing-up dysfunction-habit, AND I wouldn’t put 1 single cent on her being “to blame” for it, if she’s never dug into conquering her own unconscious-mind. I think it was probably the result of the growing-up she lived in, just repeating, in variation.


    Discard everything I wrote unless something in it is of value for you.

    I’ve only experience & what seems to be understanding: I’ve no academic-accreditation, but neither did Socrates, my hero, either.

    But if it is of value, then may your life be more-powerfully-awakening/autonomizing, owning your future-karma, more.

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  • 1 time I found the Christian bible’s thing about benJoseph’s recommendation about confession…

    It was fundamentally different from Catholic confession ( yes, this is related to your point ).

    Confession was recommended, but it didn’t say confession to someone.

    It may have implied confession to one’s team/community.

    It absolutely did not orient any such thing to any church-official.


    I’ve found that confessing to LivingSpirit helps.

    Research has discovered that it doesn’t matter what one surrenders-to/relies-on, it can be a soccer-ball, an imaginary-friend, or LivingSpirit as I do, but doing that with someone ( from your perspective ) massively empowers lives in breaking addiction, as 1 objective change-in-life.

    ( see Baumeister’s “Willpower”, & note that while he gives what the evidence says, he rejects it, himself )


    Confessing socially I consider narcissistic.

    However, there’s another angle to it: it may help others to see that they’re not-alone in their failings.

    & that is valuable.

    There’s my answer answer for you.

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  • Industries tend to evolve into 2-horse-races or monopolies.

    “Focus” by Al Ries.

    Coca-Cola & Pepsi, as 1 example.

    ( there is MUCH more in that book: IF you’re doing a startup, please read it! then the Lean Startup stuff. )

    Who is Amazon’s competitor?

    Who is Apple’s, or Google’s, or Facebook’s?

    Bill Gates called it “friction-free capitalism”, when unlike streets, you don’t see any competitor & that makes competition, & market-balancing, disappear

    Don’t worry: what Facebook did to MySpace, the Fediverse is going to do to Reddit.

    It is only a matter of earning it, & duration-until-then, now.

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  • What I want goes the opposite way, but it’d require some serious infrastructure-updates, 1st:

    I want days to begin either at solar-dusk or at solar-midnight,

    & night & day each to be divided into 12 “hours”,

    & people to begin anchoring to the natural cycles of night & day, instead of pretending that living-in-boxes divorced-from-nature is somehow our best choice!

    It’d take some getting-used-to, but with microcontroller-clocks, for doing the calculations, it’s work beautifully.

    Midday becomes locked to the sun.

    Midnight becomes locked to the sun being at nadir.

    Dawn means something, so does dusk.

    Etc.

    Mechanismists would hate it, of course, but all the creatures of Nature, whom we’ve been holocausting, would probably benefit.

    ( this also requires accepting the biological fact in “WHEN: The Science of Perfect Timing”, by Pink,

    that there are early-morning people, there are late-morning people, there are owls ( which covers nearly everybody else ), & what that-book missed, is that there also are chaos-“cycle” people, whose biology isn’t regular.

    Having the late-morning people & the owls NOT have to be at work early, would reduce the deaths-on-the-roads.

    & having each day’s cycle be mere-minutes different from the last, instead of the arbitrary 1h-jump in spring/fall, would remove the sudden-jump-in-deaths on the roads, then, too, obviously )

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