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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  • 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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  • Diversity exists in all kinds of dimensions, even values.

    That is what the human-category of life is for: exploring interactions between different kinds of human-category-meanings, including values.

    ( souls not interested in catching-in human-category-lives can catch in other kinds of lives, obviously, & most do )


    Humankind couldn’t outgrow the overly-simplistic 1950’s-America pseudoreality until they EXPERIENCED it.

    The same is true of ALL human-category meanings.

    Some have to experience being a monster, & then reap the karma of what they had “sown”, to use the terms of the root-guru of the Christians, before that-soul/continuum can viscerally understand valuing-others.

    Once the consequences have happened on them enoughthen they’ll understand.

    Without actually-experiencing it, though, how could visceral-learning be?

    All the people who hold that “you don’t need to face what’s in your unconscious: just maintain acceptable-appearances, & be the appearances, & then everything’ll be fine” want inauthentic meaning, inauthentic-realization-of-a-soul’s-meaning.

    IF a soul/continuum has being-a-horrible-monster in its nature, & it wants to explore that, THEN all it has to do is catch-in a world where monsters are currently happening, & then explore that meaning.

    There are countless worlds, in the endless-stream-of-universes…

    some are currently hellworlds, some currently paradises, some in between.

    The majority of the souls who’ve caught in this-world’s human-category-lives want ideological-reacting instead of upright correct-reasoning.

    So?

    IF that’s what humankind wants … THEN it’s humankind’s right to persue enforcing ideological-reacting, until humankind’s extinguished from this world.

    Then humankind’s “entitlement” will have no “home”, & universe won’t care.

    Then those-souls … will have to try again, on some other world.

    Endlessly, forever, until they grow-up.

    Endless-stream-of-universes is perfectly efficient & effective, & has NOTHING to do with “religion”.

    It’s just a mechanism in-which souls explore meanings.

    Souls currently caught-in the lives of monsters, on worlds that are having those, included.

    Why would it be “a problem” for others to have other values?

    Ideological-homogeneity may be your idea of heaven, but MOST of the world doesn’t want to be homogeneous with you or me.

    If that’s your idea of “a problem”, then too bad.

    Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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  • Sorry I didn’t realize this earlier:

    You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work

    ( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )

    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Paul Fussell"?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

    You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).

    Coarsely, there are 4 classes:

    • Upper ( measures status by someone’s POWER )
    • Middle ( measures status by someone’s INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTION-BESTOWED-DEGREE )
    • Working ( measures status by someone’s MONEY )
    • Under ( homeless-people, etc: people like me, who’s racked-up 7+y outright-homeless )

    More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:

    • Upper { Monarchs, hereditary-Oligarchs, minor “nobility”, etc }
    • Financial ( have the wealth to be exempt from most of the regulations & many of the laws )
    • Upper-Middle ( doctors/professors/lawyers/diplomats/engineers/etc )
    • Middle ( lower-to-mid beaurocrats )
    • Upper-Working ( self-employed, or owns their own business )
    • Middle-Working ( foremen? )
    • Lower-Working
    • Under

    Upper-class do not have a “job position”: they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.

    The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.

    You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”… ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )

    Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.


    Oh, this’ll help, too:

    Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.

    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

    Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

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