Random archive one

This is for random stuff I move from my main file that is too boring to keep. You have to hunt for it though.

The quality control is basically nil.


I’d skip it.

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Wednesday 29 October 2025

Chinese Nobility and the Quest for Immortality 

Also known as, the tragedy of Chinese civilisation

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Edit: I am lost for words. Lost for words.

What a tragic nation. A tragic people and a tragic nation. Deserving of so much pity.

They sought salvation through the consumption of elixirs made from lead and mercury and deadly mushrooms, and killed themselves again and again.

They did it to achieve metaphysical goals, and also to engage in spiritual/religious experiences, I.e. visions and hallucinations. And for drug related euphoria. But they did it to make their corpse in-corruptible. That is, to achieve salvation beyond death. Like the pharaoh of Egypt, they wanted to preserve their bones forever. But they started mummifying themselves before death.

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This is well worth reading. I read every word. I just don’t understand how anything this awful exists. If you have a Christian background, you might really benefit from this. They did awful things to themselves. For “salvation”.

People like this are worthy of pity. But I’ll explain more later. It’s worse than you can imagine!!!


See the section: hypothetical explanations, and read all the way to the end of it. And then start from the start of the pages even if you think you know it. It is mind bendingly insane. It blows my mind.

A lot of people know it, but every day new people are born. And there are 17 year olds who have no idea!

“Despite common knowledge that immortality potions could be deadly, fangshi and Daoist alchemists continued the elixir-making practice for two millennia.”

"It is almost ludicrous to assume that a Taoist (commoner or emperor) could have died from accidental elixir poisoning"

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People like this are worthy of pity. They did awful things out of fear, dogma, and because of superstition.

But you must also understand that a society this damaged will produce people with deep and all pervasive inferiority complexes, who then sublimate that into feelings of resentment towards the outside world. They are hurt so badly emotionally by the idea that maybe their culture is so screwed up that they want to show themselves as “good enough”, or worse “I am as good as you” (the attitude from Screwtape gives a toast, cs Lewis). And they may do horrible things, just to feel like they’re good enough.

They may take their own feelings of perceived inferiority, and turn them outwards to prevent their feeling bad about themselves. It happens. It’s awful.

The Wikipedia post is important. Even if you think you know it already. I grew up religious though. I was a true believer in the birth, death and resurrection of Christ, and in supernatural creation. And of literal eternal life in heaven (and/or the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth after the end times; in the redemption of all man kind). So my perspective may be different to yours.

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Random post on Buddhist ideas:


Firstly, I have a positive impression of Buddhists. But I don’t like the religion itself. And I dislike the methods of psychological training, and their theories of mind.

I don’t like Zen Buddhism, and the practise of zazen (sitting meditation). And I have a strong dislike of things like mindfulness meditation. I also dislike things like the idea that one is supposed to “stop craving”. And I hate the way they want you to let the thoughts in your mind fall away. And act as though “your thoughts aren’t you”. They extinguish the self. It’s horrible. It’s a wicked, evil religion. It also makes you more callous and passive when it comes to the suffering of others. You are less likely to react with righteous anger against the suffering of the poor, dispossessed and oppressed peoples of the earth. And less likely to do something about it. See human sex trafficking in Thailand, one of the most Buddhist nations on earth. They are Buddhists who meditate often. Yet sell their daughters into sex slavery? Or used to. Even as Christian missionaries and activists tried to fight to stop them. Buddhists often hate women. It is an unironically woman-hating religion.

I have a positive impression of Buddhists though. And I don’t hate them. I think that they are misguided and unwise. I also think that they cause problems. But I don’t hate them. And a lot of them are pure land Buddhists, not zen Buddhists, so it’s okay I guess. I have done mind-fullness before. It’s okay, just a taste. I learned a lot from meditation. A huge amount. But I think it’s unhealthy, and gives people foolish and bad points of view if overdone.

It extinguishes the self. So that you don’t react with righteous anger against injustice, poverty, oppression, mistreatment of the powerless. It means that you can live alongside the miserable and oppressed without giving a hoot. It is one of the worst religions out there. Alongside old fashioned Hinduism.

Instead of feeling anger and compassion. You just say, whatever. I’ll stop caring, extinguish the self. Reach nirvana and non-self. And then you don’t care, and there’s no “you” left to care anyways. It’s awful. And the end state is Thailand, the end result. One big brothel where fathers sell their devalued daughters into slavery (sound familiar?), not really, just their capital Bangkok. Note: it isn’t like that anymore. Things have changed a bit. There’s a lot less trafficking. The Thai people are cool though. They have a great national sport, and amazing food. Or take a look at China, where they lose 30 million of their own people in self inflicted wounds loosely related to their ideology/beliefs (the Great Leap Forward). And then just say, yeah nah, whatever, it’s no biggie.

Buddhism wants you to stop thinking and stop being bothered by the suffering around you. And also to stop wanting nice things for yourself. It preserves the status quo, and keeps the peace (at best). Maybe it made sense before the Malthusian trap was solvable. But doesn’t make sense now.

Ps: I grew up hearing stories of missionaries and Christian activists pleading with father in Thailand to not sell their children into traffickers hands. They would tell the father (who was poor) that they could help him make sense meet. But when the missionaries returned, the daughter was gone, and the father had bought and installed a new satellite TV in his relatively modest house.

Thereveda Buddhism, Pure land, Zen. I think Thailand is mostly thereveda. Pure land is popular in Japan, has 22 million adherents, to Zen Buddhism’s 5 million. I learned about it on the great courses lecture series about Japan.

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Perhaps the theory of mind found within Buddhism just isn’t very good. And maybe the “science” associated with mindful meditation doesn’t really hold water. Pass muster or whatever. I don’t know. It just feels that way.

And maybe it encourages passivity in the face of suffering and injustice. And in some cases indifference to the plight of women and children. Just a gut feeling. Hinduism is similar too. You just accept the misery, both of not having what you want in life, and also in letting others suffer, and find a way to tolerate it, instead of fixing it. Also: India history = brothels. Hinduism isn’t a nice religion either.

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These people take the theory of mind of Buddhism and the philosophy and epistemology of Buddhism, and turn it into a science. And then they turn it into an engineering project. And combine it with tons of tech. And use it on people’s minds. And then retrospectively say that it is beneficial to adopt Buddhism and religions of the east. And that Buddhism is good. Aldous Huxley wrote about it in the perennial philosophy. From what I can tell, other academics love Eastern mysticism too. See the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, here’s one. Some academics annd thinkers are really into Buddhism. The love the theory of mind associated with Buddhism, they love the psychological techniques associated with Buddhism. But I don’t think it’s good science, or good engineering and fwiw, the Chinese don’t have a history of excellence in the field of science. Nor are they known for their excellence in matters of the intellect.

The Chinese don’t have a history of excellence in the field of science. Nor are they known for their excellence in matters of the intellect.

And given of the mistakes they made in the past in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology and social engineering (see footbinding), why should anyone have any respect for things like zazen? They are genuinely bad at metaphysics, philology, epistemology and social engineering. Why should their techniques of psychological training be any better? Or their theories and practices of mind? Given that they kill the body with drugs and heavy metals in the past, why should we see their style of mental training as any more sensible? Or their theories associated with this training.

So far as I can tell, their theories of mind are little more than recycled Buddhist dogma for the modern day and age. And some of those are just reworked into stuff for the satellites, or whatever.

Academics like eastern stuff, but they don’t love it even half as much as … the tech dweebs and the utopian planners and the mean girls clique. The Silicon Valley types are crazy. They wannabe neo from the matrix or whatever. 

And just be warned, sometimes there are orientals from the far east (China/Japan/Korea/Vietnam) who would rather die than be wrong. See seppukku, kamikaze, refusal to surrender in Japan, refusal to surrender in Vietnam. Alchemical elixir poisoning for 2000 years. Sorry about the word orientals, but there aren’t words more suitable.

They are in love with death (orientals from the far east), and want to be right. They kill their bodies with alchemical elixirs, their minds with zazen, and their societies with Marxist-Leninism, and their women’s souls with illiteracy, isolation and foot binding. (Note: you have to understand their clothing and pottery traditions to understand more about them. In ancient China, they are obsessed with table ware and clothing. Obsessed!! And obsessed with status!!!! As well as public health, disease, sanitation. For example, repeated exposure to cholera and typhoid [names change for these over the years, but that’s just epistemology and/or philology] weaken the constitution badly, and they often had issues with well water and waste management). See this for more information.

Zazen was brought to Japan from China. It came from China. It’s not a good method of training the mind. It damages (and eventually kills) the “self”. Aka, ego. The I part of you gets killed. The part of you that judges one thing as being better than another (see also the abolition of man, by CS Lewis). Anyway, it came from the far east.

Just as an aside, the Chinese have very bad methods of training people in things like martial arts. They don’t make their stuff effective!? Why should we expect their ideas for training the mind to be any good?

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New segment


If society is bad, and you can’t have what you want in life, and you can’t improve the lot of other people’s lives. And you can’t live up to the hopes for what you might have become. And bad people keep hurting and opreasing others. And foolish people keep on making mistakes that blow society up, killing many other people.

Then take the part of your mind that is actually you, and kill it. Train yourself to let it fall away. Until you learn to have “no mind”. Let the self go entirely. And then none of these things will bother you.

Bad philosophy, bad epistemology, bad theory of mind, foolish value judgements. And bad psychology. Bad ecology of mind, and bad education.

It’s eastern superstition and dogma. And I don’t think all that highly of it. It creates bad results (see  history) and the East doesn’t have a good track record in matters of the intellect (especially China) of in good decision making (multiple places). Why should we adopt their theories of mind, philosophies and dogmas? At all?

And a lot of these technologies have ideas that use some psychology similar to eastern beliefs.

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The women were illiterate, isolated and crippled (lame?). They were poorly educated. This might be one of the reasons that the Chinese raised such low quality children. That is, their human capital was so poor. Also, that might be why china was unable to deal with their intractable problems in hygiene, sanitation, clean water, disease control, and medicine. If your women aren’t educated, mistakes happen. They are a perfect example of why you must educate the women of your society (by that I mean literacy, numeracy, and at least elementary school. Stuff like that. Education is a strange field though… everything has changed with things like ubiquity of printing).

Also, mothers teach reading. And without literate mums, how can you have literate children? Most whites learn to read at home, or used to. It isn’t hard! (That might be wrong). Much of what you read about education is lies though. If you don’t want to be PC, then maybe educate women but keep them out of certain professions and educational institutes. FWIW, the drug fae are setting us up for another episode of bullshit like Europe in the mid 20th century. Mass deaths all around, maybe.

Some aspects of these two situations might be related to public health, sanitation, the flooding of the rivers, access to food, the cheapness of life, and inescapable nature of the Malthusian trap in a non expansionist (compare with Rome) society. And poor constitution due to frequent bouts of typhoid and other diseases. Diseases like that weaken you again and again. You lose weight, but don’t re strengthen for ages.

Without understanding disease, sanitation and public health, you don’t understand asia. 

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Some of the nomadic societies of the steppe, as well as city states along the silk road were probably better(?) or happier societies. Also, some of the nomads had cities that they visited only sometimes. For trade, or like the equivalent of a jamboree. They possibly had healthier societies. “

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The Han very often had lives that were borderline mandatory sedentary lives. They sat all day! And didn’t exercise! It was undignified! What rot!

The Chinese are way too worried about having hurt feelings, or looking dumb.

They also have adopted the “I’m as good as you” attitude discussed in C.S. Lewis the screw tape letters, Screwtape proposes a toast. Or something like it.

That attitude is usually comes from perceived feelings of inferiority.


C.S. Lewis was a bad man, but he wrote some good books.

The Screwtape letters, including Screwtape proposes a toast. Especially Screwtape proposes a toast. Maybe just Screwtape proposes a toast.

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C.S. Lewis

Other stuff written by CS Lewis.

The Dark Tower, and other short stories (shoddy lands, ministering angels)
The Abolition of Man (deliberately obscurantist, but you can learn a lot if you pay attention, including iirc something to do with space and sociopathy )

Dark Tower, and other stories:
- you might have to molly-wangle this page a bit before you can get it to work

Abolition of Man:

Screwtape proposes a toast:


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There’s also a retelling of Helen of Troy, in the Dark Tower and other stories. It was weird. I’ve forgotten it though. I think the actual fight (siege of Troy) was about grain trade routes.

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Sarcastic take on Buddhism:


The world sucks, get used to it. Don't try to improve it, instead just practise radical acceptance of the suffering. Instead of entering into the suffering of others, and trying to do good works? And then teach people to accept that life and the world are bad!!




You suck, and are mediocre, other people are better than you. You want to be better, but don't try. And you can't enjoy the pleasures you want in life. And you cannot attain the status in life that you want. You can't have nice things.

Meditate, so you stope caring that you basically suck and are mediocre, have low social status, are a bore. Etc.

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American Millionaire Solo Faraday Shield Project


If you're an American millionaire, and you want a bit peace and quiet, you could buy a medium sized apartment building. It might be 5 floors high, and fairly long and wide. Kind of squat, not slender. And not a small apartment building! For scale, maybe select an apartment building as wide as a Khrushchevka and twice as long. Then move into two apartments on the ground floor.

And then fill every room in the apartment (apart from where you are staying), floor to ceiling, with plywood boxes full of steel pipe.

Boxes: simple plywood 50x50x50 plywood. Pipe is 50 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, 1-2mm thickness. You have peace and quiet at home. But you still go out like normal, socialise. Whatever. That's it. Probably works.

It catches on.

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If you haven’t read this yet, you need to:


Even if you think you know it. It is a masterfully written piece of work.

One of the reasons that people don’t learn, is because they assume they know everything already.

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Semi literate ramble, unedited.


Are they Mickey Mouse on ideology, theology, and intellect?

Note:




Seminaries might actually provide better training than cadre schools, and organisations like sbc might do better ideology. And there are tons of these organisations about. Or used to be.

These organisations exist, and they do ideology/theology, and education, and spread their beliefs, and manage local cadres (churches). The CCP doesn't have any greater intellectual heft than them. You might think southern baptists are a bit Mickey Mouse, and ignorant. And pig headed. But they’re slightly more “staid” and competent in the areas of the intellect.

But the CCP are pretty Mickey Mouse in my opinion.

Anthropological hat: to get a PhD in Marxist theory and ideological and political education, Tsinghua University, is like going to Southern Baptist University to do a masters in divinity. Except the quality of education is low, lol. And yeah, I do know that they get a lot of education through their cadre and part school system, but whatever.

Ps: Xi’s dad was in law making. Like policy of laws and law making, as well as doing PR/advertising for the 5 year plan of 1953. But he was possibly being run by a clique in the army/intelligence?

Marxist ideology is theology. Or inhabits the same space. It creates a fabric or reality, and creates a system of belief. Taken on faith. And is so pervasive you can’t even see it. Not from the inside anyway. Marxist ideology (plus whichever sciences are allowed, such as psychology and the theories of propaganda, and engineering as it pertains to the human consciousness).


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If you want to learn about China


There is a lot you can learn from people like Peter Bol and William Kirby. Seriously. See if you can find the old lecture series they had (or equivalent). They do sooooooo much that is both useful and quick to digest. I think it got memory holed.

Find William Kirby’s edX, he is absolutely the guy for an anglophone/anglosphere (aka, the English speaking ‘west’) to learn about China from. Assuming a decent base level of education. And Peter Bol as well. See also, the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures. They’re really cool.

They’re very “system oriented”, but really great. They’re both at Harvard Business School: right in the belly of the beast. Sinologists at Harvard business school who write about China, but also about the harmonisation of business school educations and university education across different nations. And also about like records of family trees and genetic lines in China (like my granddad did books on the births deaths marriages records in the UK). But they do it for business guys, like Harvard business school alumni. And business guys and Harvard alumni have pretty high standards for quality. They need something reliable and useful.

I very highly and very strongly recommend their materials for any serious learners in the English speaking western world who want to understand China’s history better. Some courses are free, others are not (they used to have a 28 lecture series available! But it’s gone).

Just check out Kirby and Bol’s background. That’s where you get education in China if you’re NZ, Australia, Canada, UK, USA. 


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Just for fun… it doesn’t matter, and not compulsory

Bezoar Reading List


Focus on biographies and histories. Biographies and histories are a very good way to understand science, engineering and industry. As well as technology. Some generic popular science/engineering books are good too. This is mostly for people who already did the five lecture series I keep harping on about (you can skip reading a book about hanfu and the essay about foot binding though, just see the encyclopedia Britannica on each, it’s fine). What is a bezoar? Google Harry Potter bezoar.

It is just enough to stop your mind from going splat. It’s like a stop gap measure against ignorance. Like a bandaid.

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Do ten books in total:

10 books in total:


Four books about Scientists, Inventors, Engineers: biographies or other histories

People like:


Michael Faraday
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Ernest Rutherford
Gregor Mendel
James Watt
Humphrey Davy
Charles Goodyear
Thomas Telford
Sir Isaac Newton
Louis Pasteur
Haber and Bosch
Watson and Crick
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
Alexander Graham Bell
Tim Berners-Lee
Johannes Gutenberg
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Niels Bohr
Robert Boyle

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Three books about Industrialists, Entrepreneurs, Founders: both biographies and histories, both old timey and modern

Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Bill Gates
Warren Buffet
Larry Page and Sergei Brin
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Josiah Wedgwood


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Three books in general “Popular Science” and “Popular Engineering” or history of engineering/science/industry

Anything good, here are some examples:

Structures or why things don’t fall down by JE Gordon 
New science of strong materials by Gordon
Invention by Design by Petroski
Any other Petroski
Ancient Greek Engineering by John Grey Landels
The Clock of the Long Now
History of Wedgwood pottery!!
History of Mercedes-Benz and the invention of the automobile
The Invention of the Automobile - (Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler) - St. John
Edmund Cartwright (and the invention of the powerloom)
Read all about: Thomas Savery's steam pump in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen's more successful atmospheric engine in 1712. And James Watt's significantly improved version of the engine.
History of Sheffield Knives
Read a book all about: Benjamin Huntsman's crucible steel process, bessemer process and other aspects of the steel making process. Just book in metallurgy.
The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin
Books that are “just a bit of whatever” are perfect. I used to just grab literally anything off of library shelves. It’s the best way to do it.

Total of 10 books.

They’ll unscramble your mind a bit, and get you kickstarted down the path of lifelong learning, and a love of reading. Particularly a love of non-fiction.



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Life long learning:


Three categories:

One:
That which has gone before (including but not limited to history). (Also, replication of arts and crafts, eg do a few sewing, pottery, weaving and furniture making projects. Geography. Replication of technology and inventions, I  don’t know, make an archimedes screw or something? Recreation of some scientific experiments. Learning electronics. Learning about the history of science, computers, and the history of the Industrial Revolution).


Abstract thought (including math, statistics, geometry, algebra, calculus, the use of computer code, Boolean logic, chess, computer science, basic music and theory).

Language (including reading, writing, excellence in speaking. Your own language, as well as two other languages [over a lifetime], preferably one of which is similar to your own. E.g. English to German and Japanese. Or Japanese to English and Russian. The most important is to improve your own spoken English [or whatever your mother tongue is], and your written English and your reading comprehension, retention and speed).

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Apropos of nothing:

Fun books that I enjoyed:


Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Dark Tower (unfinished, short story) - C.S Lewis
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (all 5)

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
The Napoleon of Notting Hill Chesterton - G.K. Chesterton

What can you learn from these books?

New England academics are dicks. 
Women are exploited and viewed with contempt as hyper techno slave skanks, but LARP as space samurai.
People who make it through the university system are heavily programmed.
Land use under “capitalism”. Capitalism isn’t the right word. Maybe “The society of intergenerational and internationally transferable wealth invented and controlled in a fractionated manner.”
The world is insane, and so are corporations.

Capitalism, consumerism, malls and shopping lol. Amirite. They spread and reproduce. Like a rash, or a disease. 
The Napoleon of Notting Hill: In mathematics, a matrix (plural matrices) is a rectangular array of numbers or other mathematical objects with elements or entries arranged in rows and columns, usually satisfying certain properties of addition and multiplication. See also: statistics, cohorts, averages, random selection by lottery

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Mao: the untold story by Jung Chang, it has an angle, and is a bit limited as far as books go. But don’t worry about that. It indirectly tells you about enough stuff related to business, economics, administration, psychology, science and industry. And it’s a massive page turner. It’s a masters class in ignorance, pig headedness and how to get everything in the Industrial Revolution wrong. But there’s still more to the story…? But you learn enough.

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Two more:

Nation by Terry Pratchett is good, but it’s a little on the nose. Actually it is very “on the nose”, but it’s still a good read.

Dodger by Terry Pratchett is good too. A bit twee. Very twee. So “on the nose” I feel like I’m getting punched in the face, but still good.

Science, and sanitation.

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Last bit…

C.S. Lewis knows where the bodies are buried…

The Dark Tower (unfinished), the Shoddy Lands, Ministering Angels, The Abolition of Man (deliberately badly written), The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape proposes a toast. Academic education creates remote control marionettes; weaponised vanity as a tool against the feminine mind; sexual exploitation for social purposes, to achieve particular aims; damage to the language function and “value judgement” part of the mind; and the creation of a  resentment based culture of “equality”. Or the weaponisation of resentment in general.

On behalf of, or coming from the academe.

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Academe


Speaking of the “academe”, maybe check out one or two of the edwin o. reischauer lectures for colour and vibe. They’re hosted by the Harvard university’s fairbank centre for east Asian studies on YouTube.


Stuff like:

The White Lama Ippolito: an Italian Jesuit in Tibet by Donald S. Lopez (noted scholar of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. His late de facto husband, Dale Basil Martin (July 26, 1954 – November 17, 2023) was an American New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity and former fundamentalist, grew up fundamentalist that is).

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How New is the New Era? by Rama Mitter.

Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford.

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Playlist here for the other lectures:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMj8AtCCORF5Es0o7CJLAaSGwPtQMu3X&si=pSQvv2yUIR59V62g

Established in 1986, the annual Reischauer Lectures are sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

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Examples


Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography - P W Barker
The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood by Tristram Hunt
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford - Richard Reeves
The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin
Read about the Great Leap Forward, and china’s history after reading this stuff above^ especially things like metallurgy, Wedgwood, the power loom, steam engine beneath the etc




I'll do a slightly better “examples list” soon. It's just inspiration tbh, and general knowledge.

Don't forget, that formal education through university and polytech are useful too!

This is just useful education, it kicks start education and reading habits.

That was the bezoar protocol!

If you then want to kickstart your lifelong learning processes, you might want to include the five university lecture series as well. Listed elsewhere. They will help you in the path towards some genuine understanding in life.

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Lectures:

Five in total, as an addition to the “bezoar reading list”

Start first with the THREE lecture series I have recommended many times elsewhere (The Industrial Revolution, Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World, History of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600). Then study the great courses lecture series on Japan, titled "Understanding Japan: a cultural history" by Mark J Ravina. Then study some of Harvard Business School Professor William Kirby's materials, available on edX (he is the former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies).

Try this Chinese history course by William Kirby. I think it’s behind a paywall, but maybe you can find a free version. Back when I did his history course, it was free.

Five courses in total.

It is a genuine and excellent education. Particularly for business school graduates. But also for other graduates, including arts graduates.

See the openYale page for more lectures, if you want them.

[Ps: engineers, scientists and medical professionals probably need to learn about the history and methods of accounting. But what do I know. The answers you seek in the past aren’t to be found in belief, philosophy or culture, they are to be found in the language of accounting and trade.]

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What if we had a society full of people who valued life long learning? Where people engaged in the habits and practises of life-long learning. And as part of that, loved and cherished books. And enjoyed reading, particularly reading non-fiction (such as popular science, biographies of scientists, as well as histories of scientists, engineers, inventors, founders, entrepreneurs and industrialists).

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Chinese Women


If you have broken feet all your life, then you cannot develop a normal walking gait, and so you do not have access to the simplest and best type of fitness available: walking! And so you become sedentary. And you are sedentary and weak all your life. The gait (often) builds the posture.

And these weak, ineffectual women then gave birth to small children, because their bodies were too feeble to have strong healthy children. And the gene pool selected for small, weak children with small skulls, because Chinese women struggle with healthy childbirth.

“Ruin the feet, ruin the organism.”

“The health of the mother is the health of the child.”

Also, these women are largely illiterate and many use cinnabar lipstick.

And everyone has gastro because they shit where they eat (well water is drawn a water table polluted by human waste, or water taken from rivers). Which damages weight and ability to thrive.

The quality of human organism in China wasn't very high.

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But broken feet were a big part of it.

If you ruin the feet, ruin the gait, weaken the organism, reduce the physical quality of the organism, and you give birth to weaker children. And you do it for 50 generations (1000 years).

Ummm. The Chinese had very poor constitutions for generations! Partly because their mothers all broke their daughter’s feet! And they were all sedentary too! Ahhhhhh. I can’t even express to you how horrible this is!!!!

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Counterpoint: in the Western world (Western Europe and Ireland and England, and USA), we were all pissed, like all the time, sometimes including mothers, so whatever. Sort of, but not really. The history of public health is AWESOME. It is fun.

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Note: China is maybe the most misogynist nation ever. Untold human misery. Much of it female, aka “internalised misogyny”. If a woman’s feet are broken, it makes it easier for her future mother-in-law to control her. And so her own female relatives will insist that her feet be broken (usually her mother). A lot of it is “woman on woman violence” (sorry for clumsy wording). But the women do it to themselves, it’s their idea. It’s not a male fetish, even though the Chinese are pretty weird.

Note 2: Psychological Projection: "Sigmund Freud pioneered the concept of psychological projection as an unconscious defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or motives to another person."

Chinese Marxist-Leninists literally feel that the alternatives are: hatred and oppression of women, or communism. They are projecting their own failures as a people into us, as regards women.

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Without the ability to walk tall and strong, breathing freely and easily, the health of the human is ruined. And the health of the mother is the health of the child.

See: also "group selection" model for evolution. Evolution isn't "survival of the fittest", it is survival of the "fit enough". Or sometimes it is about coping with, and thriving in a niche. Read all about the history of different strains and varieties and theories of evolution. The Han Chinese had a habit of promoting the genes of people who could cope with a "poor public health environment", weak mothers, and an extraordinarily sedentary lifestyle, while still thriving in the Confucian scholarship exams system (see kirby + Bol lectures, harvard). They had implicit eugenics.

See also Mendel, but understand his actual genetics, science and history.

You actually have to do the education to understand it.

Maybe a 1000 years of evolution changed something in the Chinese constitution.

They were a very sedentary people.

Education action points

(You are an individual, and free to choose to learn or not, and this is for people who are already “education/learning” enthusiasts.)

Study the materials of Kirby and Bol on edX about Chinese history.

Learn the life story of Mendel
Learnt the life story of Watson and Crick

Learn about genetics, a little bit at school
And learn a little bit about agricultural science

Learn about different theories of evolution.

Learn about the history of disease, and the history of science, and the history of public health, and the history of public sanitation, bathing etc. and the history of physical health and fitness

Learn about it for yourself.



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Framing


Ahahahahhahahahhahha. I just got it. They do things according to their “reality space” they frame it their way. Totally frame it their way. So everything according to their “reality space”. But after they frame it their way, they just lose 30 million people, but then they frame it their way to make it make sense. Ahahahahahha. You can frame it your way!!!! But you still lose people!!! Ahahhhahahaha. Biggest man made tragedy of all time.

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Why weren’t the Manchus (formerly known as the Jurchen) able to abolish foot binding despite being able to force their hairstyle on the Chinese populace?


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The Manchus attempted to ban foot binding, enacting edicts in 1636, 1638, and 1664, but these attempts were largely unsuccessful. Han Chinese continued the practice due to it being a mark of beauty and a prerequisite for marriage, and the Kangxi Emperor ultimately abandoned the ban in 1668. There were efforts to ban it, or prevent it all the way through to the 20th century.

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More footwear:


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Update to other page:

If you’re under thirty-five, maybe try any of the following for just ten weeks at any point in your life, and you’ll understand a little better how important the health, vigour and liveliness of the feet are: boxing, Muay Thai, rock and roll, salsa, European folk/peasant dancing, morris, verbunk, jazz/tap. Jump rope can be good too, as can bamboo dances such as tinikling and magunatip. It is just a small thing to do.

It isn’t something you have to do, it’s not compulsory, but it can be an important part of one’s ongoing, lifelong education. It is by choice only. People are free to choose.

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The five lecture series I mentioned in my other page, as well as a book on hanfu, and an essay on foot binding are much more important.

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Unrelated:

Cinnabar
Roman Lead Poisoning

Lipstick: Ancient Chinese lipstick recipes included cinnabar for its bright red color

Also used in TCM, pottery and lacquered furniture

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Origin of the phrase: mad as a hatter

https://youtu.be/msvOUUgv6m8?si=FX81kjyb2sHR5jR2


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B-side link/comment:

Feet. Spring. Shoes.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zPqhHYmFQj4?si=FAJThRY2APTdnvGE


More b side comments:

Morris: Note, it is supposed to be a bit silly!

https://youtu.be/iIseFLASo5k

https://youtu.be/gar-h8VRs28?si=gumORp02XoiOu_Vh

https://youtu.be/ctYuGYwTqZg?si=oHYtExGLL1xbrMPN

Bavarian boot and knee slap dance

https://youtu.be/12JZa5V474E?si=OtWCM5QijarWlKeh

https://youtu.be/zxRACYQAkgA?si=GwEUxjpU5yD469BM

Verbunkos, Hungarian

https://youtu.be/NHI_7CySZK4?si=1rqfzqE0Xtbr8WGF

Gay Gordon (a little too Celtic, but whatever)

https://youtu.be/g-uSDOjw5v8?si=j0WSir99QbMMVx9Y

A German folk dance (the silly, funny male folk dances matter more, but still worthy of consideration):

https://youtu.be/-3yJfkgjG1Y?si=_1Xiqr3A6l_Hg-ed

More shoes and sandals: - just added 

https://youtube.com/shorts/FVZFOyB4AUg?si=TQ6NVVquW5zky1H6


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Edit, added:

Edit, added later: how did the drugs gangs in the Phillipines (or Latin America) get powerful? Ummm. It was the USA’s war on drugs.

If you adopt the USA style war on drugs, you create a market for illicit substances. And gangs fill this market, they meet this market need. They essentially have a market monopoly on drugs.

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End the war on drugs

If you end the war on drugs, you cut off massively profitable product lines that fund drugs gangs. Sorry, clumsy use of English.

Defund the gangs - end the war on drugs!

It cuts off revenue to gangs. And gets the police out of people’s lives.

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Prohibition and unintended consequences

Iron law of prohibition, people used to sip heroin, then after it was illegal, they had to inject it. People used to drink beer, but then after prohibition it was all bootleg bathtub gin (and people like Al Capone). People used to take amphetamines orally, but then once illegal, they vaporise it. Sometimes there are unintended consequences of actions taken. And you need to think about those carefully.

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Edit, added later: how did the drugs gangs in the Phillipines (or Latin America) get powerful? Ummm. It was the USA’s war on drugs. If you adopt the USA style war on drugs, you create a market for illicit substances. And gangs fill this market. You inadvertently (or intentionally) fund the criminal element within your society. Please see my books list under the subtitle criminology for more information, if you’re interested.

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Xi got pissy with me?


Umm. The whole point of the USA’s war on drugs is the repression of the people. It gives the state more intrusion into people’s lives, and provides revenues for gangs. It ruined Latin America, sort of. The whole USA cocaine black market thing hurt latin America badly, encouraged the criminal element. And there was some CIA money stuff. And the system hurt black inner city neighbourhoods in the USA by using drugs, crack cocaine etc. Or something other effect.

I thought it was common knowledge? 

/ humour. It is common knowledge that the war on drugs causes crime and repression, in the same way that it is common knowledge that gay sex is responsible for the spread of aids*, or that Marxist-Leninism automatically causes mass deaths.
/ humour 

AIDs: I understand statistics and am fairly good at maths, and have seen the statistics for aids transmission from women to men, and men to women, and men to men. At the end of the day, you just can't spread aids properly around the world without gay sex.

I have also studied gay culture, and the apocalyptic attitudes towards sex once AIDs hit. And read about San Francisco bath house culture. As well as other aspects of gay sub culture.

Also, I have read the history, and looked at, and read about, the actual historical events as they actually happened. It actually was gay men. It genuinely was. It just was. It plain and clearly was.

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I thought everyone knew!!!!!
I thought everyone knew!!!!!

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Drugs and alcohol are still bad though.

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Brynn, Siobhan, Matthew


“Don’t think”

They wanted me to be so wrapped up with them (the women) that I couldn’t even think.

But I want stuff like “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury.

I love walking. I love thinking.

I love having time just to think, while walking.

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I grew up reading Gentle Ben, Swallows and Amazons, Danny the Champion of the World, White Fang, the Willard Price Adventure series, and Asterix and Obelix.

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Alexander the Great: his men don't want him going oriental. I googled it, but Google won't let me see any direct results about it? But it's worth reading a book about Alexander the Great's life. As part of this, you might learn about the hazards and norms associated with an "oriental" court. I.e. polygamy. A harem often weakens a warrior. Umm. His teacher was none other than Aristotle himself by the way.

It is fascinating. I can't recommend a book for you, but your local library will have a few. A necessary part of education, to read about his conquests. Most educated people have read his life story, by the time they’re 30z I think? Assuming they read at all.

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Some meditations on stupidity vs evil

Funny clip from kung pow:

Marxism is the wimp lo of ideology. The “system” trained them wrong, as a joke.

See also: the history of utopian planned societies, and this people who support those plans

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Five year plans, Xi family, and Mao’s leap forward


Five year plans failed in the USSR and soviet bloc, but they did them in China. And guess who stepped in to do the propaganda for it... It was Xi Zhongxun! But Mao was so disappointed with the results, that he pushed the great leap forward!!!1 (or so I heard, check the chairman of the propaganda department, and in cabinet).



Five year plans are garbage! They didn’t work in the USSR! Stop repeating failed policies! Ahhhhhhhh.

||emoji: Former business school student tears own face off in sorrow and frustration||

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B grade comment

C- grade comment

Western physical culture

If you’re farting your guts out because you’re up to your eyeballs in low quality lactose heavy protein powder, and you’re going for touch up surgeries on your shoulders, rotator cuffs and knees because you tore your xyz, and you’re slamming back caffeine supplements, ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetamol and whatever just to keep going, then maybe there is a problem with your particular flavour of fitness culture. Maybe having your hand ligaments torn to pieces in BJJ, tempting fate with neck cranks and heel hooks, and blocking punches with your head adds up. Maybe getting burned out by over training because you listened to the high intensity advice, work until failure coming from Jack LaLanne and Arthur Jones, and need, nay require inhuman amounts of coffee just to get started. Then your fitness culture sucks. And maybe if you need hip replacements and knee replacements at 50 because you ran too much, or you have stress fractures in your feet from running, then your fitness culture has issues. Or if you think that you can just straight copy anything from old school body building magazines without steroids. How many dudes are so ramped up from their workouts, and their stimulants that they can’t sleep at night, even though they’re exhausted.

It’s fun though, it’s fine. Do whatever is fun, 

Glhf.

Ahahahhaha caveat emptor lol. It’s the Wild West out there imo (how many dudes lifting hard and ineptly in their 20s are needing surgeries in their 40s). How many dudes have a bad back because of just some random lifts way back in the day (hi Bruce Lee). I personally skipped deadlifts, I thought they were a scam (or a mistake, for me, and for the masses). Gtg.


Note:

Arthur Jones, godfather of high intensity training

Jack LaLanne, father of American fitness


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Ummm. Table tennis, tennis, cycling and walking are all really fun as far as I am concerned.


Repost:

The American Health and Fitness Racket

Quackery?

The father of America fitness;


Other diet faddist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting

Another founder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jones_(inventor)

He created all of your gym equipment, and the bow flex. He pushed “high intensity”, then walked it back later.

https://www.cbass.com/nautilus.htm

Yoga:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/03/facing-my-fear-yoga-injury-meditation-inner-peace

Yoga isn’t always that safe or gentle.


Glhf;


Reading the articles is really, really beneficial.

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PS: other links

http://medxonline.net/products/medx-medical-equipment/cervical-extension/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedX_Corporation

Scientism and medical insurance. Scientific proof? Maybe? Get funding, then lucrative? Read between the lines. Ahahahaha multimillion dollar privately owned company. Sorry, laughing in accounting/finance.

https://physicalculturestudy.com/2015/07/21/the-ideal-workout-by-arthur-jones/amp/

https://youtube.com/shorts/FBN9H3gJ1fg?si=Gay5DkiEL3PLV3n-

https://youtube.com/shorts/Laf6WF06opk?si=bTGN2EzSjR2i9IP5

120 million company.

It’s like using a $500000 sledge hammer to crack a walnut. But the sledgehammer is covered by medical insurance.

I refuse to explain further. It’s actually epic. Seriously. I admire the hustle.

Ahahahha omg. It is amazing. I’m sorry.

Umm, Maybe they had injuries from high school and college sports, and so need the fancy perfect glide of American designed and engineered medx equipment just to maintain health. It’s glorious. It’s so over blown.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wC57Z21Jm1o?si=N5byn0dJhwfBgomm

^ case in point, it’s a beautiful piece of equipment. But the movement you are looking for is the “basic push up with knees on the floor with proper breathing”. But it’s totally cool. Over reductionism is uber cool. It’s the over engineered “hyper scientific” society mixed with bourgeois money (sort of, but not really) to create stuff that meets a need and a market that either doesn’t exist, or shouldn’t need to. I hate the word bourgeois btw.

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Blue sky thinking


I’m not allowed to say this, but what if you launch 50 tonnes of space junk or other garbage into low earth orbit. To stick to, or otherwise damage the solar panels? Ruin the whole orbital environment?

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The system will fail (probably)


Their “sociology” will experience “ecological collapse”. And go squidge.
How?

It’ll be psychology, or physics. Or both.

Possibly biology (mind-body issues) or intellect (dumbing people down). Lead poisoning equivalent (lead poisoning* was a major factor in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire).

Or plain group think.

*see also mercury and lead poisoning in China.

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Some history:


I begged and pleaded again and again to be able to give up the right to be able to fight for the women’s or the money. Just to be able to be left alone.

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General education, for life long learners

[Note: I added in the phrase “for life long learners”]

China, Disease and Development


The Chinese died young. Even the wealthy. It has a lot to do with disease, bad water, and "food poisoning" i.e. fecal diseases spread through the food. And also bad "physical culture" (i.e. bad culture surrounding fitness and exercise practises). This affects education, culture and human capital.

Just learn history.

If you wish to develop genuine wisdom and understanding in the area of disease, sanitation, and the effect that it has on human and social development, then here some lectures you might listen to.

Start first with the THREE lecture series I have recommended many times elsewhere (The Industrial Revolution, Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World, History of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600). Then study the great courses lecture series on Japan, titled "Understanding Japan: a cultural history" by Mark J Ravina. Then study some of Harvard Business School Professor William Kirby's materials, available on edX (he is the former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies).

Link to his edX page.

That should give you enough of a foundation for further inquiry in the area of China, disease and development, in ancient history.

It is just the foundation.

Five courses.

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Links:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbank_Center_for_Chinese_Studies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Kirby

https://www.edx.org/bio/william-c-kirby

https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234

https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/great-scientific-ideas-that-changed-the-world

https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/understanding-japan-a-cultural-history

https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/the-industrial-revolution

https://www.edx.org/learn/chinese-history/harvard-university-chinas-political-and-intellectual-foundations-from-sage-kings-to-confucius

Note: I listened to one of Peter K. Bol and William C. Kirby lecture series from Harvard (China: Traditions and Transformations, 37 lectures), but it has since been memory holed (see my education and reading page for more information). Perhaps readers might try this course: China’s Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius.

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Physical Culture


See also: sports and folk dancing. In the West we fight on our toes "balls of our feet", in the East they train flatfooted. Also, our folk dancing involves creating spring and "life" in our ankles. You learn good lower limb coordination from certain types of folk dance, it's not all about strength.You may learn something from this. But you must learn personally to fight and dance on your toes. As well as watching videos of folk dancing and boxing (thai boxing works too). It is a form of experiential learning (even just a bit, like 10 weeks of each by age thirty).

Learn about physical culture in general. Just practice a dance and a martial art that involves being "light on your feet". Hypothetically, you could do four things: learn to jump rope, do ten weeks boxing (even just a boxing or thai boxing fitness class), practise any kind of dancing for 10 weeks where you are “light on your feet” (including things like rock ‘n’ roll, or salsa), and then you could try out 2-3 fun western folk/peasant (including English, Hungarian, German, American; for example, I did “social dancing” in school) dances you see online (some types of dance are easier for men than women). Figure it out for yourself! As my mother used to say, "you're big enough and ugly enough to handle this on your own".

[Edit: it’s a sampling, like a biscuits sampler? To be tried by the age of thirty? It’s just some basic life experience. And it isn’t strict! you don’t have to do all four perfectly! I got my experience mostly through martial arts. And my mum taught me to dance a little bit too (not well). Best case scenario, is about 12 weeks boxing (or Thai boxing), and a couple months Western folk/peasant dancing.

Edit 2: in a pinch, you could just do one or two things, and get a fair bit of experience in them? It’s not about perfection, it’s just about collective wisdom and understanding.

People have been whinging at me… so I must update:

Edit 3: If you’re under thirty-five, maybe try any of the following for just ten weeks at any point in your life, and you’ll understand a little better how important the health, vigour and liveliness of the feet are: boxing, Muay Thai, rock and roll, salsa, European folk/peasant dancing, morris, verbunk, jazz/tap. Jump rope can be good too, as can bamboo dances such as tinikling and magunatip. It is just a small thing to do.

It isn’t something you have to do, it’s not compulsory, but it can be an important part of one’s ongoing, lifelong education. It is by choice only. People are free to choose.]

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Then read one book about the history of "hanfu" (maybe try: Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide - Hardcover
Garrett, Valery M, or Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day by Valery Garrett). And one essay (or book) about foot binding, preferably from an old fashioned missionary organisation. The Chinese footwear and clothing retarded (or impeded) their development in what I call “physical culture”.

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One of the most important things you must understand is that the Manchu and other horse/warrior peoples did not want to become sedentary, and lose their vigour, strength and health. They didn't want to lose their health to disease* and sedentary lifestyles.

They did not want to adopt the Chinese clothing, or the stately grandeur way of life.

But to understand this, you must learn the history of China for yourself. The only person who can do it is you. "You're big enough and ugly enough to sort it out for yourself".



*[See also, issues associated with diseases such as smallpox, bubonic/pneumonic plague and water borne diseases such as typhoid. And also general waterborne/feces related gastrointestinal diseases currently labelled cholera, or used to be labelled cholera - don't worry about the labels right now. They had a lot of gastrointestinal issues. You learn all about these things in the various lecture series. Labels and definitions for diseases can be fluid, and change over time].

Bottom line just below..

Note: you need the first five lecture series mentioned above, and then you need to try out European folk/peasant dancing and/or boxing (either western boxing or Thai boxing are okay). And then one book about hanfu, and one essay about foot binding.

Edit: Instead of European folk dance or boxing, you can try the following: If you’re under thirty-five, maybe try any of the following for just ten weeks at any point in your life, and you’ll understand a little better how important the health, vigour and liveliness of the feet are: boxing, Muay Thai, rock and roll, salsa, European folk/peasant dancing, morris, verbunk, jazz/tap. Jump rope can be good too, as can bamboo dances such as tinikling and magunatip. It is just a small thing to do.

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Random dump for discussion, from quora:


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Have a quick look at Chinese lifespan!!! How does it affect "institutional memory" and human capital in the institutions of governance?

Just focus on lifespan:


https://www.quora.com/Why-did-so-many-Chinese-emperors-die-so-young

“I agree with this question, after looking at many historical records of known Chinese Emperors, most of their life expectancy was ~30 years old… So far, only 1 Chinese Emperor successfully lived up to his old age (aka. above 70 years old) & that is Qianglong Emperor of Qing Dynasty.

Qianglong Emperor was born in 1711 & died in 1799. His ruling was fairly long too (from 1735–1796). Though, according to historical records, Qianglong Emperor decided to “retire” his ruling in 1796 & passed the throne over to his son Jiaqing Emperor, making Qianglong the first Chinese Emperor to successfully pass the throne to the next generation WITHOUT DYING.

Anyways, there are many reasons to why so many Chinese Emperors die so young. But here are my Top 3 Reasons:

Murder/assassination
The Medical Field of the old days (especially before the 20th Century) was NOT so great. Therefore, life expectancy was low due to no modern day medicines to treatment things like the simple flu or the other basic diseases that can be treatable with modern medicines.
Most Chinese Emperors have a bad habit lifestyle of overindulgence. Especially they’re known for having a lot of Concubines. Unlike Western Monarchs where the Western Monarch goes with 1 King & 1 Queen, for the Eastern Monarchs like China, there can be only 1 Emperor with massive amount of wives (aka. a pimp with so many hoes), meaning overindulgence of sex. There happens to be bad stereotype about Chinese Emperors, that most Chinese Emperors are labelled as creepy ass sex perverts who runs the country.”

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Btw, people are too shy to talk about it. But the Chinese died over and over again because they would get diseases that cause them to shit their pants and die. Lol. So go poo your pants and die (lol jk). Also, they became weakened through repeated exposures to fecal based illnesses that eventually wore them down. Ie, every time you get sick, it weakens you. And three bad fevers, and many repeated gastrointestinal issues might leave you so weak by 30 that you just plain die of a cold, because you went swimming, and caught a chill. Study my courses recommended! The science one includes a bit of medical history as well! Glhf.

Have a quick look at Chinese lifespan!!! How does it affect "institutional memory" and human capital in the institutions of governance? If... all of your leaders and advisors keep on pooing themselves to death. Ahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!11@. Kekekekke lame. Btw, I spent way too much time online when I was young. For example, counter strike. It's not even a good game! It's plenty of fun at first, but after the first 500 hours, it just loses its magic.. Ditto for dota. Numbers might be inaccurate.

A lot of it is about public health dude.
A lot of it is about public health dude.
A lot of it is about public health dude.

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Apropos of nothing, David uses and inserts irrelevant nonsense into things for the purpose of obscurantism. I.e. nonsense-ist practical philosophy/psychology. Don't take it too seriously. See Disney’s animated classic “Alice in Wonderland”, or Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, or Danny the Champion of the World, or Monty Python, or P.G Wodehouse. Like I'll put pictures of medieval towns in something for aesthetics, just to confuse people. Or a silly poem. Or, I’ll talk about silly obscure things like folk dancing. Or I’ll talk at length about video games, sometimes just to keep you guys talking and stall for time. The smart ones see what I mean.


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Chinese Clothing


Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide - Hardcover
Garrett, Valery M.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780195864267/Chinese-Clothing-Illustrated-Guide-Garrett-0195864263/plp

Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day
Garrett, Valery M.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Chinese-Dress-Qing-Dynasty-Present/dp/0804852561

Look at the first of these two, I think. Or both. But only for personal interest!!!!!!

FWIW, my mother was a sewing wonk. And she worked in the textile and fabric industry for an extended period of time.

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I am a fanatical reader. A book addict. And I love non-fiction and libraries. These are the sort of books I would pull off of the shelves at a library, all throughout my life.

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Dulles and the “peaceful evolution theory”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_Evolution_theory

Cultural changes, including consumerism.

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Export led economic development*, a mass manufacturing economy with a cheap labour force and poor environmental legislation, later giving way to high tech automated mass manufacturing, American outsourcing, good deals on currency to make Chinese exports competitive, access to foreign markets on good terms.

The embrace of “hyper consumerism” as a people.
The embrace of “corporations” as the model for business and administration (vertically integrated pseudo-conglomerates iirc, including in agriculture, don’t quote me on that though).

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*a lot of the economic growth and development was in construction and real estate as well

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Mao Zedong: a masterclass of how to get every aspect of industrial and agricultural development wrong

See also, Mao Zedong and his reign of stupidity. To get an example of how to get everything wrong in development and industrialisation. And read Mao: the unknown story, by Jung Chang.

Dude, he tried to do the Industrial Revolution in fast forward, and screwed literally everything up.

For colour:




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Egypt.


It came out of Egypt.

Egyptian priesthood ==> They have philosophers, magicians and priests. They create philosophy, ideas and psychological techniques that are then used in the Greek and Roman classical world. I think that is where the ideas of philosophy, and statecraft, and the ideas for shaping experimental polis, and later Rome, came from. They did the intellectual work. And also created a lot of the social and psychological things I call fae-craft (kind like wicca stuff, or proto-Wicca). I reckon that Egypt got it from Babylon, or somewhere in Mesopotamia.

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Next, Sumerian cuneiform is cool, and Phoenician alphabet are cool. And both came about due to trade and/or accounting. Those are worth looking at.

Ps: I think Hitler was a descendent of the fae bullocks. Like Egyptian philosophy, fae proto-Wicca etc. I don’t like him.

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CCP 


They are the Mao Zedong warlordist rump party, propped up by the international trade environment (bankers, currency etc, but also giving kindhearted or ideologically motivated trade deals - see Dulles), international utopian social planning ideologues (aka fabian “top down” socialists) and the dulles “peaceful evolution” model of the CIA (placate by harmonisation of culture and the embrace of consumerism and hyper-consumerist culture).

Chiang Kai-shek threw the war on purpose to let the CCP win btw (on orders from idk who).

And their GDP figures are naff (map is not the territory), but anchor in your mind the illusion that they are more prosperous that they actually are.

Did the 30 million peasants (approx) killed by your party win? Who won?

FWIW, one phone call to an international missionary organisation (e.g. moody bible institute) in the states giving missionaries entry into the PRC if they bring food, and the famine ends. Many churches would have shown up. No need for starvation and death.

Stubborn. Stiff necked. Pig headed. And dangerous. Most of all, dangerous to their own people. Over-proud and “under-wise”.

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The world map as it should be.


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Foot Binding


Female Confucian Foot Mutilation (FCFM) is a very cruel practise. I am of the opinion that it is worse than the vast majority of forms of Islamic female genital mutilation (FGM). We are bipeds, and obligate walkers. If your feet are broken like this, and it hurts to walk, it affects every part of your life. And every part of your body/posture. Also, it forces you to walk on your heels, and ruins your walking gait. Or take small mincing steps, even if you have minimal pain in your feet.You become less graceful, and less strong. You can’t even walk with a sturdy upright gait to stay healthy!

It was done by women, for women, to women. And it was done according to female beauty standards.





Define:

Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Han Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size.

It actually requires that you break the feet. They do things which strain and rupture the ligaments that connect the bones. The extreme pressure from binding can also cause permanent damage to the tendons that control foot and toe movement. And anyone who knows anything knows that damage to ligaments and tendons can be worse, much worse, than damage to bones.

Why should we listen to definitions about things like pain torment, torture and suffering for a society whose women used to break their own daughters feet? And who starved their own peasants to death en masse? And then murdered and ate people in the guangxi massacres (150000 killed).

Culture: foot binding for 1000 years. They actually broke their women’s feet for 1000 years. And their women did it to one another. And face facts, it was almost certainly about female beauty standards more than men’s beauty standards.


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Clothes maketh the man (or woman)


Were the Han Chinese people defined by their clothing style? Hanfu? Or by their Confucian ideals?

What are the Han?

How do you define, or describe what exactly they are?

What is China? 

Do the clothes truly make the man?

Is the idea of Han-ness and Chinese-ness almost inextricably tied up with Hanfu, the Chinese style of dress? Which includes lotus shoes and foot binding?

From Wikipedia: “The term "Han" not only refers to a specific ethnic collective, but also points to a shared ancestry, history, and cultural identity. The term "Huaxia" was used by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius's contemporaries during the Warring States period to elucidate the shared ethnicity of all Chinese”

The “identity” of being Han/Chinese was tied in with their style and manner of dress. Their style of clothing was a huge part of who and what they were. Including things like hair and clothes. To a certain extend, the “gene pool” of what became known as the Han may actually have occurred downstream of choices like one’s manner of dress . It really is an interesting topic to learn about.

I’ll try to explain more later. Brain hurts.

My words: The Chinese had this distinction of Hua - Yi. There were the sedentary civilised ones, and the more mobile barbaric people, outside. Han/chinese are the “civilised ones” and they wear civilised clothes (codified in the past). The barbarians don’t. The Chinese/han/hua are the ones that push hanfu. Sort of. You actually have to learn the history.

A lot of Chinese history/culture is all about barbarians vs civilised. Or, “sedentary grandeur” vs. vigorous, mobile horse warriors. These horse lords (like the Jurchen, or various Turkic horse peoples from the steppe) conquer a region and then try not to become weak and sedentary like their conquered people. They try not to succumb to the culture of the people they conquered. It’s fascinating. They try to keep their culture, keep riding, and stay fit. And sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they end up taking on the clothing styles of the locals.


Or are they defined by juxtaposition with the neighbouring barbarians (barbarians also known as Yi, including Mongolia and Manchu territory). The Jurchen and Mongol people shared some customs and styles of dress with one another?  Perhaps it is helpful to study a little Chinese history as I have.

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The Jurchen (aka Manchu, aka the Qing dynasty barbarian riders/raisers who conquered China) tried to ban foot binding. The Qing tried to ban it by edict in 1636. But the Han refused to obey the edict, and so foot binding remained.

The Han wouldn’t listen. They were stiff necked, stubborn, pig headed people, and still are.

Christian missionaries also tried to prevent it. But China kills missionaries.

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I learned about Chinese history and culture from William C. Kirby and Peter Kees Bol of Harvard University. The course I studied from has been memory holed. Here is a link to a number of their more recent courses on edx: 


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As an aside:

To a certain extent, FGM is done by women, to women. They do it to maintain purity, and reduce the likelihood of inappropriate sexual behaviour (i.e. they don’t want their daughters to become promiscuous; aka become a tramp)(or teen pregnancy, or to become un-marriageable, or to get diseases). But it’s done by women all the same. And it isn’t “misogyny”.

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The Manchu dynasty (aka Jurchen dynasty) tried to ban female Confucian foot mutilation (FCFM) by edict back in 1634. But the Han Chinese refused to listen, and kept breaking their women’s feet. They are a stubborn people.

The Chinese aka Han were heavily defined by things like their clothing and customs, aka hanfu.

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Sky Castles

Ever since Thomas More, utopian planners have dreamed of a society where everything is done according to the plan, and the planning is done by the right sort of people.

The system has wanted manned objects in outer space ever since Jonathan Swift (dickhead) wrote about Laputa in Gulliver’s travels. Like ghibli castle in the sky.

C.S. Lewis spoke of deranged psychopaths and their quest for getting to space.

Just take a look at the history of utopian planning, and the history of social planning out of places like Oxbridge and you’ll see a few things. A lot of people wanted a “planned political economy”. Or a “planned and managed society”. 

See also MIT (hi computers and the internet), Harvard, Princeton (hi Einstein) etc. Cambridge (hi Rutherford), Harvard (hi ppl like Kirby). Oxford (hi Huxley, hi Lewis, hi Johnnie Swift).

Action step for education: just read 2-3 works of utopian fiction. And maybe take a look a a few works of C.S. Lewis (dark tower, shoddy lands, ministering angels, maybe the space trilogy,  lastly, the abolition of man [abolition is obscurantist btw]). Read Huxley if you haven’t read him. Read brave new world, and then brave new world revisited (non-fiction semi obscurantist weirdness). See also the screwtape letters, especially “Screwtape proposes a toast”. See also G.K. Chesterton’s work The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Target audience, educated people who love reading. Best ones are the first three CS Lewis, and the napoleon of Notting Hill.


https://youtu.be/-ntIL36bgEk?si=vx6PumwC4CPIyV3x

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20058


The audiobooks for CS Lewis are good. CS Lewis is totally aligned with Oxbridge social planners. Who are part of the tradition of utopian social planners. But actually reading a few of the works is what changes, and updates, your perspective.

Target audience, educated people who love reading. Not everyone needs to read this stuff! It’s somewhat niche!! And you can learn about a lot of it elsewhere!

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Discussion, a dramatic reframing

Not a whore


A politically motivated sex operative working in service of the system of international corporations, finance and banking.

A fighter in service of the equivalent of new East India trading company's presidency army, using sex, lust and pain as their weapons. The New East India Trading company is a corporate syndicate that controls the state, and has persuaded it to grant it a techno-monopoly (by means of patent and copyright law).

It is only the minority of women who are into it, most of them hate it. In particular, over-educated upper middle class white feminists seem to like it.


Very common with the British navy, to serve the interest of protecting trade routes. And overseas corporate interests. Read more than just the Wikipedia entry!


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Here are some of my random ideas on fitness:

https://howcommunicatetwo.blogspot.com/2025/06/test-post.html

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Hi David, we are your friends from high school! Remember that time we made you sick from the age of 18 to 36, including making you drop out at age 20, and crippling you from age 26 to 32. But you had a moment when you pictured dodgy things in your mind, while being forced to masturbate, under threat of being so badly maimed that you can’t seek justice or custody. So we hate you, and have smeared you as being nasty.

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I didn’t want to join


Some time ago, I said again and again I didn’t want to join you guys!

I said again and again that I didn’t want to be a part of the fae set of people! And you lied and said that I couldn’t not join! That I had no choice! But I didn’t want to join.

This should help you guys to understand my motivations and behaviour.

But then they forced me to play their game anyway.

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23 October


I’ll archive this later.

People are weird


I once had a flatmate who wouldn’t eat vegetables, beans or drink water.

He drank nothing but coke or energy drink. He lived off of pies, coke and other junk food. He would request a bag of lollies in the weekly shop. Like a big one.

When served roast chicken with carrots, broccoli and roast potatoes, he wouldn’t eat potatoes or broccoli.

When served chilli con carne, he would pick the beans out. 

He refused to drink water. He didn’t exercise.

I tried to persuade him to consume vegetables, he would retch.

I tried to give him water, like ice cold mineral water, with or without a squeeze of lemon. To wean him off of coke. He said the tap water was gross. No luck. Nothing but coke and mother energy drink!! Literally. Literally.

I nagged him to go for walks, to exercise. Invited. But he wouldn’t go!!

You just can’t persuade some people to even try to improve their lot in life!

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I also had a flatmate who dropped out of school, and ended up working at the supermarket. She wanted to do tertiary, but needed to finish high school equivalent. I tried to encourage and/or tutor her but it is hard!!

I try to help people, that’s the level I’m talking about sometimes. She didn’t even know how to tidy her room…. She had mould growing on her furniture and walls…

He had the option of eating stuff in category: “not garbage”, and walking an hour a day. She had the option of simply getting an education part time by correspondence. They were free to choose. Idk. People are weird.

They were friends! You just can’t talk to them. I was chronically ill, and couldn’t do anything to improve my health. Or get a degree. They were just slack!

I cared about them!! I’m not a jerk, not a horrible person!!

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22 oct


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Scruffy diagram, for inspiration only, will do a better job tomorrow.


Very messy, and the scale is all wrong. I might do a better job tomorrow.

I’m in pain, and the physical issues I have are impairing my mental and cognitive abilities. It’s really difficult.

You do ten of these across (twenty containers wide, 160 feet wide, 49 metres wide), and maybe five rows of it (140 feet in total, including clearance of 10 feet between rows - that is 43 metres length).

And a few out-rigger containers; maybe about 20 metres out from the edges. It should be okay. Maybe a “mini monolith” of twelve containers.

PS: the outriggers might dramatically increase the range of these settlements.

PPS: you remove the doors because you want better ventilation at night (aka a window), a porch and eaves (for rain, and ease of getting up by ladder). And a nice door that locks from the inside. And to not be locked in by the containers doors from the outside.

PPPs: optimisation of spread and density of material might come later in the game.



Maybe add a church hall, aka general meeting hall. Meeting hall doubles as a place to socialise after the church meetings, and throughout the week, ie tea/coffee table and chairs. I prefer the version with the two accommodation containers on top of one another, and the containers beside them being “standardised faraday containers”.

Notes: this structure is expandable. Just shift the outrigger containers out of the way on the west side, and add another block of 5 rows. Leave a bit of a gap though, enough to get cars through.

Note 2: cost of construction will drop over time, as the technology and science is understood better (assuming it works at all).

One square = 4 ft, one mm = 2ft. Each container is 8 by 20.

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A sensible use case, to popularise the technology

A church planting model…

Just a good idea:


Once the trail blazers have made one hundred settlements, and the early adopters are moving into the market.

Use case: small town USA, a church of 200 members, builds a small settlement consisting of 100 faraday houses that is 10 rows by 10. And a small church hall. Some of them move in. Just 30-40.

They are hidden (shielded) now. 

They form a new church, it is a church plant. They start inviting all and sundry to join them. They start an Acts 2 church. Sharing resources, teaching daily, they eat together, 

Devotion to teaching and fellowship, Generosity and sharing, Community, eating together. They contribute resources. They invited many new members to join. They grow rapidly. New members live on site. They have a church hall for themselves, and for others to use. They invite the poor (non druggies), the weary, the widow the orphan, refugees (of the new electronic oppression), the dispossessed, enslaved women, forced to perform the same function as sex workers etc. (many church led supported and rescued prostitutes and other sex workers, and people sold into sex slavery!!!) People of all nations, tongues, background supported. They support the poor and needy directly. It is like an Acts 2 church.

Anyone who wants a conversation, or a place to meet, or a space for private discussion, can find it there. They also have a radio broadcast facility.

They expand the number of cabins on the fly.

The settlement expands to be 500 members large.

They then create more church plants in the area. They are linked together with copper phone lines for stable internet and phone line connections.

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This helps to popularise my technology.

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Edit: random idea, just an idea, it might appeal to some.

And it creates a reservoir of civilised, moral behaviour. Kinda like a seed bank for basic decency, or morality, or civilised behaviour? Or to simply preserve the culture and knowledge base of society?


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WIP: Zhongxun

Metaphorically, 

His position at one point was similar to a cabinet minister in nz govt.
Had equivalent of portfolios at certain points for education, information flow, knowledge base, ideological promulgation, publicity and propaganda, censorship and media, including censorship of educational material.

Sort of.

I care about education and the knowledge base. And people’s easy and reliable access to good information - and easy access to the people that already have the right knowledge inside their skills (aka human capital)!! I also care about institutional knowledge.

The CCP, including Xi’s dad, did horrible things to their education system and knowledge base, and access* to information.

And tragedy followed.

They couldn’t even make proper steel! The pig iron thing! And the sparrow ecology thing! And the Mendel Lysenko thing! And poor use of ag science! And no real understanding of economic incentives or how to use them! (Economics is little more than applied psychology, with statistics in many cases). And no real understanding of proper accounting/management systems.

And millions upon millions died!

Tragedy!

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*access to information isn’t the same thing as it merely existing. It also means that you need to have it readily available and easy to find and use.

^(he also selected personnel and set internal policy within the central “propaganda” department, when he was there for 18 months. Also, that department should be called the central information department of the CCP. It’s a committee, but it has a staff. A select and important one. This department selects curriculum for party cadres). That department has ban lists for stuff too. And they’re in charge of stuff like deselecting particular textbooks and subjects for cadres education [economics or sociology], or banning textbooks that teach western science. Umm.

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If you’re that way inclined, you might take a look at the history of cadre education and materials in China, and what party members have to study. I’m a little hazy. But I think they get given reading materials. Check it out for yourself. I don’t know what cadre education was like in the 50s, but I do know that central propaganda department (central information department of the CCP as I call it) sets curriculum and textbooks back then.

Btw, the Chinese are highly obscurantist.

[[Ps: I’m mildly obscurantist (just to shield my mind and whatever, and distract), while still being fundamentally honest. I just act a little silly to keep myself sane, and confuse people.]]

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Brainstorming session.

The CCP is to the Chinese as the Derg is to the Ethiopians. Same proportional deaths (or at least similar ball park). Look at the numbers.

Action point: Actually go and look at them. Write them down. On paper. With pencil and paper. And look at the proportions. Of deaths from starvation. And deaths from violence. And who caused what deaths when.

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People as things first
Bad ideology second
Bad technical understanding
Willingness to place long term ideological goals ahead of keeping people alive and well, or otherwise being competent
Arrogance/pride and an unwillingness to ask for advice
Genuine ineptitude, and incompetence, and lack of intellectual heft

And a total lack of humility? Can’t take criticism?

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Sometimes they miseducate their own people (on purpose) to maintain control. Control via ideology. And then because the people are miseducated, they end up doing things wrong, and tons of people die!!

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“The gestalt honour-respect-dignity-feel” is more important than the well being of people in general?

Is that the cultural problem? I can’t figure it out.

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I have firmly believed since I was 20 years old that Mao Zedong and the CCP were worse than Hitler and the Nazi Party. And also felt that Stalin and the USSR were just as bad as, if not worse than, Hitler and the Nazi party, although this belief was held a little less firmly.

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Mao believed that the hallmark of an industrial society was the mass production of steel. And so he decided that China would be the number one producer of steel worldwide. And so in a top down manner, he tried to force China to be the number one producer of steel.

He failed. And so did China.

Instead they just melted down perfectly good steel in many cases, in backyard furnaces, and turned it into pig iron (not the right product, and not worth having produced. Yes, it can be used as a precursor to proper steel production, but it isn’t really what you want.. it was full of impurities and the wrong carbon level). It was just one example of massive ineptitude in Mao’s China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace

Pig iron.

Zzz.

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Besides, massive steel production isn’t the thing to chase. It’s like chasing GDP growth..? He was borderline cargo culting economic growth, because he thought you can just ape the technology without the underlying economic understanding.

Umm. I studied economics and accounting. And I read history. These people are actually a bit… umm. You actually have to read it to believe it. And you need to understand the economics too.

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If you want to know more. Then please read Mao: the unknown story.

And the three lecture series I keep referring to.

The Industrial Revolution - Patrick N. Allitt, 36 lectures, Oxford

Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World - Steven L. Goldman, 36 lectures

Epidemics in Western Society since 1600, Yale, History 234, Frank Snowden

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You might also take a look at these, to learn about the history of Europe and England. Ummm. Learning about history and development of England can help one to understand the East and their development?


The Early Middle Ages, Yale, History 210, Paul Freedman

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From 25th

What does it mean to be evil?


Is it evil to cause mass deaths through the deliberate embrace of wilful knowing stupidity, just because the primary prophet of your religion (Marx, and marxism) want you to, according to the rules of his high priest, Mao?

You might have a heart that is good, and has benevolent desires and intentions. And a mind that is desirous of a better future, with the end goal of a utopian planned and managed society.

But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And "it is by their fruits you shall judge them."

Are criminal levels of deliberate, wilfully ignorant, incompetence better or worse than intentional malevolence?


Question: if you’re incompetent, should you try to do anything big? Or should you just let the civilised world tell you what to do? Is trying to do something big, when you’re inept the same thing as evil? 30 millions deaths in China, about 15 million in Russia. The utopian planners are bad at everything. Why should we listen. To a word they say? People like Grant Robertson are the same type of people who create the pre conditions for mass graves. And Xi’s father actually did create the conditions for mass deaths.

Maybe reducing people to the level of objects, or numbers on a spreadsheet, is part of the problem.

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^From 25th

Reading for tonight:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_plague_pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchurian_plague

https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234


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B side:

Prophet Marx the huckster just like Prophet Joseph Smith the mountebank con artist, or Mohammad the something,something with young peoples.. (maybe a mis writing of the records…)

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C grade comment: revisiting not a hive mind guy…

If people have many of these settlements, mentioned elsewhere, then they can….

They can break milieu control…
They can do radio
They can create memes and propaganda
They can write songs
They can do “citizens media buying groups”
Aka, crowd funded media organisations
They can print magazines and pamphlets, and people can pick them up onsite
They can push referendums and ballot initiatives.

They can become counter-information warfare departments.

They can provide ideology and theology, as well as psychological training materials.

They can do a lot of the stuff explained in “not a hivemind guy”. Please note, some of that stuff is a place holder. And it took a few months to work out the details. And to let the ideas thoroughly develop. I’m just saying that some of the ideas in “not a hivemind guy” just needed time to develop lol. And some ideas are indirect.

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And then abolish patent law!!! And abolish copy right law!!!

It is just spitballing ideas.


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Disclaimer, this is difficult to discuss in a manner that is clear and straightforward. And some elements of my memory of this period of time are patchy.

History, clarification:

I tried not to be a part of their set


I told them maybe a thousand times, in a variety of ways that I didn't want to be a part of their set. But they would let me not be a part of their set.

And then they forced me to be a part of their process. And harmed me greatly.

This was quite a while ago.

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I also tried to get an amnesty from them (but I wasn't allowed to have one). I thought I shouldn't need one, because I wasn't at war with them. But they wouldn't let me have one! They insisted that I was at war with them!!

This was as far back as Dannevirke. Further. Much further back than that.

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Thought experiment:


If the technology of satellite controllism falters, then it is highly likely that stocks in certain high tech companies might tumble.

Like the tulip mania bubble bursting, or the dot com bubble bursting, or the stock market crash of 1987.

View it as a business model "management and control of workers by surveillance satellites".

If a new invention gives people back privacy, then maybe the industry of satellite control falters, and we have a market crash. Like the dot com bubble.

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Maybe in the end, it becomes as bad as the great depression.

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Silly Scenario 2:


USA has a "quiet" civil war, and there is a global great depression, and USA reneges on their debts. What happens to China? Does their economy go splat?

What happens in Latin America, if the system in USA falters, and satellite controllism becomes non-viable. I.e. you can vote it out… or bargain to have its effects reduced inside your country?


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Marxism

Marxism was invented as a joke by Marx. To stymie, subvert, or otherwise undermine class conscious, class based activism in the western world.

Some people never got the joke.

It was a deliberate “bork” against the activism of the working class. A way to “disrupt” them. A spanner the works, so to speak.

~posted without full explanation~

~posted without justification, argument, or defense~

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Example:

Mormonism was a joke invented by a huckster con artist. But people live(d) by it for a long time.

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Methodism was a religion invented by Oxford. To hoodwink people.

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Marxism is a belief system invented and promoted by a huckster mountebank to hoodwink people.

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[Note: to bork, an mis-configuration… “cause (something, especially a computer application or piece of hardware) to stop working properly.” That is one meaning and definition of bork.

The other definition applies also, “to vilify or defame to block someone or something”, but only after the Russian revolution. Because people conflate socialism, Bolshevism, working class activism and labour unionism/organising. Oh, and fabianism (ugh).

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Other definition of the work bork:

obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them.

"‘We're going to bork him’, said an opponent"

Note 2: working class activism, labour organising, socialism, labour unions, Chartism, (non Marxist) class consciousness, utopian social planning, upper class socialism, democratic reformism, Christian charity and Christian reformism all existed in England (and other places) before Marx. He was a means of stymieing good activism and change. A spanner in the works. A deliberate joke.

Source:

I read about the working class and labour history of a few places. Including New Zealand.

Note 3: Marxism created conflict between Christian reformers and workers (the men of the working class), Christians and atheists, reformers and revolutionaries. They created conflict between those who wanted to use violence, and those who wanted peace, and between people who aimed for democracy at the nation state level and those who wanted international revolution. It was a really bad ideology, and once it got going it became a really bad “belief system” that had its own “fabric of belief” and “fabric of reality”. And it functioned in the same space as religion. It set various interest groups against one another, and it had the desired effect. Sow division, create discord, and stymie positive change, obfuscate the issues.]

Ps: I have deliberately used the word bork, even though it is technical computer jargon/slang. I made this decision, even though people don’t like it. I chose to do it, even though people whinge. I’m not apologising. I think that it is a fun word, and a useful word. It improves communication, at least for some (the right type) people it does. It is possibly the best word for the situation. / digression.

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I read about the working class and labour history of a few places. Including New Zealand.

Education action point: read up on the chartist movement, reform acts, and working men's activism in the UK (and anglo-diaspora, e.g. Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand). Learn about the history of the labour movement in places like Australia and New Zealand. Learn about anti war activism in the lead up to world war 1 and 2. Learn about Christian social reform as well. And then add in general history, including history that isn't focused on war. Examples: history of disease, history of science, history of engineering and technology, history of the USA, history of NZ, the history of the industrial revolution.

And then you will develop "perspective", as well as a little genuine understanding.

(I have focussed on the English/anglo perspective, because that is where I am from. Duh. And besides, a lot of the trade policy (hi ny city) and social engineering (hi Oxbridge and east coast universities) that plagues our world comes from the anglophone, Anglo-diaspora world. Obviously!!?)

(And if you don’t like it, then this material might not be for you. You might not be my target audience).

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Women, sex work, and slavery

Women in our society have to “function” as sex workers. But they aren’t allowed to complain openly, let alone organise publicly against it.

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Slaves in the ancient world (Rome) could be expected to be sexually available to their owner, iirc.

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The FLDS (Mormons) was invented as a scheme (and social experiment) to help mediocre, aging white dudes to gain access to sex with large quantities of young white women. They were polygamists, by the way.

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I am interested in the history of religion, and belief.


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Why did the Roman Empire fail? One reason is that the aristocracy and the wealthy gave them selves lead poisoning, and long term brain damage.

Maybe long term “wifi” use causes brain damage (mind damage, slight distinction there).

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Are the fae causing themselves to engage in extreme group think? And dishonesty, internally. They are observed by others, which means that they have to lie to themselves. Can they even think something through silently, without other people making a fuss.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_19_grenade_launcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M320_Grenade_Launcher_Module

This is what they lust after in the USA.

'Murica

Umm. My impression of America sometimes is like "team America world police"

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What is America to me:

America, “fuck yeah”
Chuck Norris movies, Taylor Swift and bad cheesy pop music. McDonald’s, Walmart, fry’s electronics (bigger than the mall back home), 99 cent hotdogs at Costco, obesity scooters at Walmart. Bread that tastes and smells wrong, and bad runny eggs for breakfast at a road side motel. Blooming onions at restaurants off the side of the highway, at the cheese cake factory. I haven’t been there in 20 years though. Road side attractions like the centre of the world Santa Cruz. Hearst castle, grape Santa before it was available here. And Alcatraz in San Francisco.

Of at least that is one angle. And homeless! We don’t have them in NZ. At all! You had them, and I was like wtf??!

But, the tv and internet impression is that you all like guns and stuff. But not all of you. Or used to.


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Matthew used to do weird things like putting flies into the freezer, and then revive them by sprinkling salt in them. And then pull the wings and legs off of them using a pin.


Dad taught him how to do it. He was particularly proud of the salt and freezer thing.

Idk how odd this seems to other ppl??


I was 9 years old, Matthew was about 7 or 8.

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Women, sex work, and slavery

Women in our society have to “function” as sex workers. But they aren’t allowed to complain openly, let alone organise publicly against it.

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Slaves in the ancient world (Rome) could be expected to be sexually available to their owner, iirc.

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The FLDS was invented as a scheme (and social experiment) to help mediocre, aging white dudes to gain access to sex with large quantities of young white women. They were polygamists, by the way.

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I am interested in the history of religion, and belief.


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Is a subway sandwich artist really an artist? Or are they just a generic minimum wage-slave worker in a fast food restaurant?

What are women in our society?

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21st October


FYI, there is something below about not being aggressive towards the system back two years ago, and being desirous of peace and reconciliation. But being unable to bring it about.

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This is my favourite short story, but not for the reasons you might think

The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury


https://youtu.be/63uSon_eOPE?si=jgc0_bw9HGOkzF1M
https://www.riversidelocalschools.com/downloads/pedestrian%20short%20story.pdf

I hate the medium of television.
I love walking.

Hypothetically speaking, can you just walk around, unobtrusively, without being harassed? Metaphorically?

Can someone just be left alone?

To think?
To walk? Just for air?

Time alone with one’s own thoughts?

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Or maybe I just like walking.

I dunno. You be the judge of that.

There is humour in some of that I say, sort of.

(I used to walk every day for an hour, one of my favourite parts of the day, even though unwell)


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Random comment. I reckon that Albert Einstein was a little bit obscurantist.


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B side techie comment

Monte Carlo and rerouting mathematics, heuristics and algorithms. At the moment, they have to reroute around areas of high interference. Well, that takes u a lot of computer power. And moores law only gets you so far.


I will see if I can do something with these ideas. I’m too tired to even think!

At a certain point, I think the computer systems give up, and just say that is too hard.


If you can achieve critical mass, let’s say 10 by 10 (ten rows of ten, and a monolith (a pile lol), and a few outriggers. Then perhaps you have an area of effect extending 40m every direction outside of the edges of the settlement! Of total invisibility. And then you can extend it another 20m, just by adding one more outrigger, and then another and another. And it becomes very very easy to extend the range.


There may be economies of scales. I don’t t really understand the maths fully. But I have some feelings about it. Source: I used to enjoy reading books about mathematics and physics. And it is radio lol.

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Age, Wisdom and Dotage


With age comes wisdom, but so does dotage.

Dotage is defined as "a state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline" Oxford Language.

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Genius and intellect:


Men reach their peak of genius related plasticity in their late teens and early twenties. But that is just science. Peak entrepreneurship and innovation is often 20s/30s. For the biggest success stories. Because you need energy.

Just because you don't have literal dementia, doesn't mean you aren't in your dotage.

We have a society full of men who don't realise they peaked at 40, and stagnated for a decade, and have been in steady decline since 60. Both mentally and physically.

But they want to act as though they've still got it. When they don't.

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Update: Read some "wisdom" literature.. and look at some of the wisdom of the ancient world.

Read proverbs, Ecclesiastes etc
Read some stuff from Buddhist literature
Muslim literature

Historically, the idea that wisdom comes with age came about in societies where the age of 40 might be considered a good age for having developed wisdom and understanding. It doesn't mean that you keep getting wiser beyond that. In fact, if you aren't "wise" by the age of 40, you're never going to be.

Age = 40+

Action Point: for education sake, read some wisdom literature.

_What they mean is that past 40 you might have some understanding!!!_

Not that you keep on improving with age!!!!

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Another definition:


According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "dotage" is defined as the mental decline and infirmity of old age, sometimes marked by foolishness or infatuation. It refers to a period of life when a person is old and not always able to think clearly. 

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Instruction and education in “oligarch sex culture” aka, fae sex culture

How did they tell me to change my point of view? Through many indirect means.


They said I was an angel, and needed mud.

Mud. Mud.

I needed sin, debauchery and lust. Which from a person who was formerly a Christian, this means something different to someone from an atheist background. And all of the people running the game, they knew it.

It meant, that we want you to be a bad person when it comes to sex. We want you to use, exploit, mistreat, degrade, debauch, or whatever the women.


They said I was a unicorn who lacked lust altogether.

The “doctors orders” via instagram were that I “needed anal sex five times per day”, just to survive.


The purpose of the section is to give you a bit of context. If you listened to my “fantasy dream sequences”, you will see that I over used the word fuck for example. This helps to explain why.


Ps: this is a work in progress. I’ll chuck it in the grab bag once it is done.


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Politics:

Oh, and fyi: after I got to Wellington, I shifted to a point of view where I didn’t want to fight against the fae.

I found out that you guys were an oligarchy distributed throughout the population, and so for the sake of maintaining stability and avoiding chaos, I changed my attitude. (Note: chaos in a system with a distributed oligarchy could be catastrophic!! Lead to mass death! So I didn’t want it. And I thought that using my mind, I could find ways to “innovate in a disruptive manner”. If I wanted to).

I didn’t harbour aggression towards the fae-oligarchy in my heart, but wanted reconciliation and a ceasefire and parley. Or something.


I repeat, my heart wasn’t filled with aggression towards the system.

My heart wasn’t filled with aggression towards the system.

My heart wasn’t filled with aggression towards the system.


As at early(ish) 2023, once I was in Karori, after the arrest and a few weeks. My heart wasn’t filled with aggression towards the system. Rather, I had within myself the desire for reconciliation and ceasefire and an end to conflict. 

But we couldn’t make it happen.

These idiots showed you images though, that make it seem as though I am full of anger and aggression towards the system. Zzz.

FWIW (change of topic), I sometimes daydream and stuff. Inside my own head.

Finally, I like to sample ideas, thoughts and scenarios in my head. These tend to get filmed. And broadcast. And quote mined. Very often, a hypothetical scenario played through my mind is presented as though it represents my actual or underlying point of view.


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Reading for the day


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Musk, Bezos, Gates, Branson etc. the USA corporate entity, kinda like the east India trading company? Some parallels… granted a government monopoly to do as they please? Ummmm. Not a perfect 1:1 relationship, but I still think that reading the article is a good idea.

Read the history, just quickly, but don’t stretch the comparison too far.

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There are four pages most worth looking at the moment: background stories, grab bag, archives and this one.

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Education and books I have read page is worth a quick skim, as is my “about me” page (things I like). Books I have read and education is really messy, it is just a dump of lots of stuff. But it gets the message across.

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“Basic fit” is boring, and just a hobby. It’s not worth paying attention to. Not really. Not any time soon. They just encourage me to talk about it a lot.

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Silly idea:


If you are a union organiser or organiser in a democratic socialist party, or any other left wing activist, or union activist… (social democracy is democratic socialism).

You are being watched by American technological corporations all day long. The USA corporate machine.

You might want a place where you can meet without being observed by these things (satellites). And where other organisers can meet too. Without socialism being infested with too many Marxists-Leninists.

And you want to be able to coordinate your actions with other left wing activists without observed and monitored.

Well, why not create a network of “hidden” locations where you can meet. The easiest way to do this is by creating a refugee settlement programme that goes viral. They might grow and spread like weeds.

This uses PC speak:
Then, anyone whose subjective emotional experience is “self reported” as being “oppressed” can become a refugee. In your settlement. And contribute to rent/expenses.

And then you (left wing activists) can meet in private to create something better, because these “refugee camps” provide privacy if you want meetings. There are hundreds of them in the communities you live in. They are ubiquitous.

Therefore just say you want to create a network of private locations that allow you to meet and organise, without corporate surveillance. And that to create local economies of scale, you might need to leverage the concept of refugees seeking shelter. Personally, I might just do it out of compassion. But others might need a different guiding light: that of indirectly creating a space where organisers can meet, talk and coordinate, and have internet connections to one another.

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As for socialism internationally, vs locally, see economic concepts such as:

Coordination problem and regulatory capture theory.

If you do international socialism you end up with corporations doing regulatory capture. National democratic socialism, you can manage it better (just so long as you get rid of patent law and copyright law, on shore a bit of of production etc).

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19th October


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This segment is extra super sloppy!!!

Tentative draft, but I need to revise it.
I was actually okay in my final year of high school re: working out. Iirc it was 60kg squat, bench was 40kg (best rep), I’d do 3-4 sets 7-8 pull ups. Lots of sit ups. I assume 5 sets 12. Then bicep curls, I guess? 

I could do 50 pushups in one set? But I didn’t believe in doing too many push ups in one set. I would do 5 sets of 20 though. And I’d stop at that. I had a belief that after you can do 5 sets of 20, there isn’t much point doing more. And you might as well just do bench instead?

Don’t believe in deadlifts, because I’m not an athlete or serious lifter.

My squats were kinda weak relative to other stuff?

I jumped rope too. I also walked and cycled a bit, but just in a chill sort of way. Mostly just to get to places.

Ummm. Then after I finished my final year of high school, I went for a trip to Europe, and my health got blown up. And I never recovered, and never got back into the gym??




Ps: I am not 100% sure that the numbers are correct, but they are close. 

I hate talking about exercise, because it makes you seem try hard? Or it is awkward? And I wasn’t mega exercise guy, there were always people better at it, and I wasn’t that experienced then.

// i will delete this segment in a couple of hours, it is rubbish

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I was a massive internet addict when I was young.

I am also a massive book addict who loves/loved binge reading.

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Even after marriage, I was still going to my parents for advice and guidance.

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Torso Integrity Compromised


2016-2022:

After the thing “torso integrity compromised” happened, they kept my body/torso locked down long term. They used my own muscles to do it. And they disabled the use of my legs and arms long term. I couldn’t use my legs properly, and I couldn’t use my arms very well at all. My arms were clamped to my sides for years. I was unable to lift my legs properly off of the ground for years.

Because they kept my torso locked down long term, the torso integrity compromised thing was never allowed to recover. And my spine was wrong (“sunk in”) for years.

Link to “torso integrity compromised”:

https://howcommunicatetwo.blogspot.com/2025/05/integrity-torso-compromised-update_01008434796.html

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There is some further explanation that could provide, but to avoid misunderstanding, I will leave it off.

Maybe… I improved my “management techniques” after a couple of years, but it was still absolute hell.

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That is enough for now. But I will come back to it.

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The syndicate

Let us try different descriptions:

Was it a profit oriented operation in the fertility industry.

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Are they trying to shape reality to fit the models that they created? Or reality to shape their dogma?

Is it because they tried to be too clever by half?

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I’m not planning to hurt Xi via the system. That is not my intention.

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The underlying game is that they try to prove that I don’t want the women??

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Cash or credit?


Am I fighting for a billion dollars in cash? Or is it credit at the “company store”? Do I have to use it through the system? Or can I have it deposited to my ANZ bank account?

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// I just updated this section as at 8:18pm, I think I have finished it now.

Enjoyable reading


This is just to give you background information on me.

I enjoy reading about sociology and anthropology.

I enjoy reading about things like the Christian Church, and the origins of the Bible. I liked learning about versions of the Bible and how they came to be.

I like learning about cultural anthropology, and the translation of works (like the Bible). Into languages of unreached tribes (see the Dayuma project).

I like learning about the history of cults and new religious movements.

I like learning about things like cities that belong to nomadic peoples, who occupy them some part of the year, but not all.

I like learning about the conflicts that occurs between pastoralists and farmers. It is fascinating.

I am fascinated by religion, sociology and anthropology. I think that religion is more interesting than philosophy. I always enjoy learning about how different civilisations function, cope, and survive.

I like reading stuff about the history of methods of physical culture. Such as yoga, Pilates, martial arts, weight lifting etc. not an expert, but it is fun. I also enjoyed reading a little bit about the history of medicine.

I learned a little bit about the history of martial arts, including but not limited to the history of Chinese martial arts. including the “internal arts”. Not an expert though.

I like reading stuff about how environment shapes consciousness. For example, shepherds who are out in the wilderness have their consciousness shaped differently to a Pharoe or a sultan or an ancient Mesopotamian ruler. Or a literate person with access to books has a different consciousness to a person in a pre literate society with a strong oral tradition. [Like Jewish religion was an oral tradition transmitted by memory, before it was written down iirc.] [or Beowulf, and other English poems].

I love reading about people like the Samia, the Auca. Or random bush tribes in Africa. Or Melanesian cargo cults. Or the Maori. 

I enjoyed reading about cult mind control techniques and cult control methods. I read about it from a number of points of view. Multiple books. History of cults… and Deprogramming. I also read about brainwashing.

I have listened to two full audiobooks on cult deprogramming and the history of cults.

I also listened to atheist podcasts that talked about Deprogramming from cults, and also religions such as jehovas witnesses and mormons.

And read a tiny bit about Chinese “thought reform technique”. 

I read and listened to a whole bunch of stuff about Mormonism, flds, ex Mormon, polygamy cults, Mormon cult movements etc. a lot of it from a “leaving religion” point of view. Especially exit interviews. But a lot of it from encyclopedias and history books as well. And some history podcasts?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints

I read a little bit of feminist stuff (not much tbh) way back in the day. Stuff about female beauty standards. Stuff about the feminist issues of FGM and foot binding, ie fgm and foot binding from the feminist perspective. Housework being work. Paid vs unpaid labour. Trafficking, gender norms, domestic violence. Alcohol. Alcohol is a huge one. A huge huge huge huge huge huge one. And the relationship between Christianity and Feminism (in modern times vs ancient times - eg, christianity was a better deal for women in Ancient Rome, but seen by feminists as misogynistic and patriarchal towards women in modern NZ).

I did a quick study of the history of the police and how they developed in UK and New Zealand. As well as reading about methods of policing (Amanda studied it).

I also read a tiny bit of secular humanist stuff once upon a time.

I learned about Christian meditation, and read a little bit about the Christian mystics.

I read about the poor law and the workhouse system in England. And the difference between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor in England. I also read about how famine relief efforts and camps in India were sometimes tied to work.

I spent time contemplating about what consciousness is. And what is morality. What are ethics.

And read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy a few times. And also Pratchett’s Discworld, and the science of discworld books, and nation.

After all, as Camus and others have suggested, there is a lot of truth in fiction.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
- Albert Camus

Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen King

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
- Neil Gaiman

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And then there is poetry??

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato

So I tried poetry… and some of it is okay.

I liked the Isle of Innisfree, Emily Dickinson, and some misc. You sometimes find a poem that speaks to you?

But in the end you learn a thing or two. I love reading, I don’t like being unwell. But I tried to use some of the time I had while unwell to at least study a bit, or do a bit of reading. I kinda place a fair bit of value on basic education, or lifelong learning.

So that was “enjoyable reading” and misc.

[I have left a lot of this section messy on purpose]

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From age 18 onwards (after the trip to Europe), I had ongoing health issues. But my father denied that I was sick. He acted like "it was all in my head".

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18th october

Edit: ahahahahhahahaha. Lies lies lies.

I learned about a lot of this from atheist podcasts, and the Wikipedia pages are so horrible it isn’t even funny. Obfuscate reality.

Today’s reading:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YFZ_Ranch

And the flds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints

And short creek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_Community

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See also, book mystics and messiah. By Philip Jenkins. I read it a while ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystics_and_Messiahs

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Which moments were some of the best in my life?


Beach holiday with the Walkers, playing in the surf in Tauranga.

Holidays at ocean beach near Hawke’s Bay with my family. Building sand castles, playing in the surf, digging trenches to redirect rivers, playing risk.

Time spent with the Japanese exchange students when they visited Napier. A farm visit and morning tea (pikelets with cream and jam. Walking through the hills and forest to get to “Rush Munro’s Ice cream” (a locally made Icecream place).

Listening to music with my Dad in the car

Doing misc art projects with my mother when I was a child.

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Playing Halo 1 with Max, Matthew, Aaron etc when we were 16ish.

Dictionary game with my mother, a lot of jokes and laughter. Getting stacks of books out of the library with her. Reading all day.

Movie World in Surfers paradise when I was very little? Iirc.

Spending time with the jacks (Ben and Tim) in Taupo, when I was very young. Disassembling fireworks, making weapons out of wood and nails. Lighting tiny fires. Playing pea shooter wars (tin foil). Playing warpath (shareware). Later, when older, playing counter strike for the first time.

Playing hl1 games with David and Paul Walker. Turnabout. Destroying a tree of grapefruit with the walkers, exploding oranges with fertiliser “bombs”.

Playing morrowind!!!!!!!!!!

Making cat fortresses and habitats. Kittens. Playing with kittens.

Playing Tiberium sun with Dad and Matthew. Playing Gran Turismo rented from the video shop, where we weren’t allowed to turn off the machine.

Christian camp. Also, parachute music festival.

Reading Pratchett’s while laying in the middle of the floor. Laughing obnoxiously loudly at the puns (the Pratchett’s are one of the big ones)

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Edit: Umm. Disambiguate not getting along with brother: Matthew and I as a child: we used to play tons of lego and stuff as a kid. Have giant wars between our lego men. Turn our whole bedroom into a lego battlefield, have intricate story lines etc of who died when and where. Not explaining well. But we would hang out and play a lot of lego, and also video games. We actually got along fine. Seriously, normal conflict aside, we got along fine.

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ESL Students


I grew up around a bunch of ESL students. And so I was used to them.

Some were doing TOEFL or IELTS. Some were in High School, some were in language school.

They were just like normal people to me? Maybe a different type of normal, but still normal.

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What does “want” mean?

// I probably need to rewrite this??

Back in the context of Khandallah:

“I want you to want me”

I couldn’t force myself to feel a sense of emotional delight at the thought of having sex while being unable to shower or go on top. I.e. I could not feel a 

And bear in mind, I didn’t know the cause of my body issues. i.e., you used my own muscles to lock my body down long term.

Also, I can’t _lie_ by saying “I want you” when it isn’t technically true. Because I cannot lie. Or rather, I don’t lie*.


*mega disclaimer on dishonesty, I actually can technically lie. But I really strongly prefer not to. I have a lot of internal rules. And in general, I just don’t lie. I really don’t. I had a weird religious thing, and old habit stick around sometimes. I really pretty much don’t lie. Even Amanda knew: David doesn’t lie. He just doesn’t. That is why he talks in circles.

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I got sick at age 18, and stayed sick. I have been treading water ever since. [I started getting hurt by remote control electronic weapons, and categorised it as a health problem, because I didn’t know the cause.]

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They want me to stop thinking about politics (and/or entrepreneurial ideas). But they use operant conditioning (see bf skinner). But I think that just isn’t the right tool for the job!?

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Science



When I was about twentyish: What I really wanted to do (career wise) was to be a scientist. I had a lot of second thoughts about commerce at university. And kind of wanted to switch. But by then I was in poor health, and switching isn’t easy.

Also, when I was about twentyish, I read some JE Gordon and Feynman from the library and fell in love with the idea of studying materials science.

But in my twenties, I wasn’t healthy enough to go back to university to do science, so I didn’t. I tried to keep doing commerce. Until I couldn’t do that either. A bird in the hand etc.

I wanted to do science, and invent things using science. But I wasn’t able to. Because health.

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General education



I have read books about study techniques.

I have read books about study systems for organising your personal study at university.

I have read books about this thing called "wide reading".

And books on appropriate reading methods for approaching a new subject.

I have read books and materials on "skill acquisition".

And books on speed reading also. Also books on mental mathematics.

I have read books on the topic of "genius", what it is, and how it develops. I have also read books on the topic of intelligence, what it is, and how it develops.


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Literacy and the love of books


I did my sixth form English class speech on adult literacy. And on the differences between being basically literate and functionally literate.

There are a lot of people in the world who are basically literate, but not functionally literate.

And also there are people who are functionally literate, but don't have comfort in reading and/or aren't comfortable with the use of books and libraries. I don't want to talk much more about all of this.

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Some miscellany

Here is some misc about my family using the em tech on me earlier in life. It might me useful for one or two people.

I reckon my family tested some of this stuff out in my as far back as 1996/1997, when I was only 8-9 years old. I can’t prove it, but I think they gave me weird dreams. Sex dreams involving a bike, anal sex, and a girl at school. Also, weird incest dreams. A dream about a video game where I landed in the water and died instantly. A platformer where I “hit the water” and die instantly. And another dream where I tried clicking “file exit” to quit a dream, to escape it. Weird vivid dreams. I have no evidence though. I think they were using telco towers. I wish I could prove it though. I think they refer to my family’s plans to blow my life up.

This was roughly the time that my family decided to "eat" me. And also roughly the time my father left the apostolic church. And switched to taupo baptist. Please see the story about my father and the prayer group trying to "vomit the spirit of smoking into a bucket".

You probably need to be familiar with a lot of my story to see the connections.

There were the damaged intestines thing that I’ll explain later.

There were mentions of a "Constipated old octopus lady" and/or "constipated old orange lady" made again and again at school. I think they had a reference in them to me.

Am tired, but will modify later.


I have provided little of value so far. But it might help you guys to understand the milieu I was raised in.

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Noah’s Starship

[Some more misc about my families ideas about plans in politics] it might be useful, maybe not


When I was 10 years old, my father had a creative project called “Noah’s Starship”. He wrote a story, and a soundtrack for it.

He wanted to make a movie, kinda like Jesus Christ superstar. With a soundtrack.

In this story, God decides to destroy the earth because it is running out of fuel (ie fossil fuels, eg peak oil etc). So Noah builds a starship, and floats above the earth just as the earth erupts into war, and bursts into flames.

The main refrain of one of the songs is “we are running out of fuel, we are running … out of fuel” (syncopated rhythm). My father wrote a lot of songs for it. He taught me the piano for the “we are running out of fuel song”. It starts slow, then gets quicker. Most of the music was piano + lyrics/singing.

When he landed, they found that new fuel had magically regenerated! And they could start over.


Note: He loved writing music (piano + vocals). Dad would often play the piano and sing for the family. Mum hated it, but I like listening to him play/sing. He taught me a lot of his songs.I loved a lot of his songs. He had clever chord structures. Music was a massively important part of my childhood, and of my relationship with my father.

Ps: don’t take it literally. I think it might be _metaphorically_ burning the earth with fire and war, eg burning the economics, social structures, and governments of the earth to the ground. As well as the collective’ consciousness to the ground, before starting over. If you know the story of Noah, God promised never to flood the earth with water again. But he said that next time he comes to flood the earth, it will be with fire. It made sense in hindsight.


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Mass line ideology


Xi readopted the mass line ideology of Mao.

Deng said that Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong.
Xi said that Mao was 80% right, 20% wrong.

This is basically the same as giving tacit approval to Mao.

In spite of 20-40 million deaths due to Great Leap Forward, Great Famine, Cultural Revolution (the great leap forward lead to the famine). [The cultural revolution was created in response to the famine, to deflect blame and attention.]

Those are just some of the reasons I feel some concerns as to the basic integrity and decency of Xi.

Update: I may have been wrong about the 80/20 reassessment of Mao’s Legacy. I looked it up, but it wasn’t online? Perhaps I misread something.

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American Capitalism


I am fascinated by people like Ray Kroc, Richard and Maurice McDonald. And I sort of have a begrudging respect for what they do, even though it is kind of awful? I have a love/hate relationship with American style capitalism.

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Complete nonsense example of what you could say


The heart and soul cannot thrive under conditions of total and complete scrutiny and observation. Instead the heart and soul thrive under conditions of privacy. We need privacy, lest our souls wither and perish. It is like a seed sown on the surface of the soil, beneath the harsh sun. It will dry out, crack and perish. Instead it must be covered up with soil and watered to flourish.

Bring back privacy.

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Examples


Some examples, just for the sake of argument.

Two petitions initiated referendums, non binding in NZ.

In principle, we want to ban intellectual property, including copyright and patents.

In principle, we want to ban electromagnetic surveillance of the mind, heart, body and soul by the Government of NZ.

The second one is by means of nationalisation of the company one nz, the nationalisation of infratils cellphone tower network. And the modification of the bill of rights.

Example:

Right not to be subjected to electromagnetic surveillance

Every person has the right not to be subjected to electromagnetic surveillance of the mind, heart, body and soul by the Government of NZ (or SOE’s) without that person’s consent. This only applies to radio wave surveillance between spectrums XYZ.

For reasons of national security (ie subversion of our democracy). The Government shall not lease spectrum to any entities (corporate or otherwise) that intend to use it for electromagnetic surveillance of the mind, heart, body and soul. This only applies to radio wave surveillance between spectrums XYZ.


Intellectual property:

Straight repeal of patent and copyright laws.

Also, put some of the ideas related to patents and copyright directly into the bill of rights.

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Example: become more self reliant on trade and economics by ending intellectual property, and then ban electromagnetic surveillance.



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Ayn rand vs Christianity

// this segment was just a clarification while talking about opinions and ideologies back in first year uni, I’ll delete it later

Just to clear this up…

Ummm. In 2007, I was a Christian. Rather than a randroid. I did enjoy reading ayn rand though.

Ummm. My family were refugees from the USSR lol, and my other side lived through the blitz. And also I grew up reading stories about the holocaust, but also hearing stories about Christian’s and missionaries being persecuted in communist countries. Soooo, some skepticism about the ideas of communism, nazism, fascism and other types of totalitarianism was present.

Umm. My primary belief was Christianity. But my biggest problem was my health. I was really sick.

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I also studied economics in 2006 and 2007, so I understood that command economies and five year plans are dumb. And that markets are way more effective. (One example is China under Deng, they used market based reforms to improve their situation).

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A description of reverse social emgineering


Analysis of civilisation AS A WHOLE, using sociology and economics and history. You analyse it, pull it to pieces to understand how it works, then put it back together. This is called “reverse engineering”. You use sociology to do it. Therefore it is “sociological reverse engineering”, or the other name, it is “reverse social engineering”. Perhaps better label might be sociological civilisational reverse engineering (using a multi disciplinary approach including sociology, economics, statistics, and history, especially history, to pull civilisation apart for analysis).

And then you spitball various ideas for how to modify it. What are the tweaks? Which wires do you cross, which components can be removed, or added. How do you add features, or remove functions. How do you disable the alarms. How do you modify, repair, upgrade, update or cannibalise or otherwise change it? It was primarily analysis though.

PS: some might call it a “meta analysis” of civilisation

// I put this segment here just to clear my name a bit

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In the interest of keeping the peace, I will not list potential interventions here

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It was inspired by the book “the clock of the long now”, among other works.

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A lot of the architecture and urban planning, and building science and stuff in the western world exists in response to disease. Or crime. Both of which I have studied. Why wouldn’t urban planning, or architecture not respond to surveillance also? Why not redesign accomodation and neighbourhood design around the ideas of privacy?


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Ippon seoi nage and tomoe nage. Lol, of course I could do these. And break fall after being on the receiving end of them.

Someone asked??




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What if this stuff is like thalidomide to the consciousness.

Or thalidomide to the “mind-body-posture” my term.

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Context is a bit off. Characters are an anthropomorphic personification and his adopted grand daughter

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Sapiens


Today’s reading, linked from a page about Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity

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Learn and develop language...

Develop text and writing.

Where you have both vowels and consonants (hi Phoenicia). 

And then abstract thinking is down stream of this?

I think abstract thinking is part of this.

I think that abstract thought is very useful and important.

Abstract thinking
Abstract thinking
Abstract thinking

But down stream of language, alphabets etc. I’m still reading though.

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A brief digression on language:


to demonstrate that so-called "anatomically modern" humans from 100,000 BP continued to evolve their SVT (supralaryngeal vocal tract), which already possessed a horizontal portion (SVTh) capable of producing many phonemes which were mostly consonants.


the shift from pictographic or ideographic symbols into a fully abstract logographic writing system (such as hieroglyphics), or from a logographic system into an abjad or alphabet, led to dramatic changes in human civilization.

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Maybe alphabets are important, instead of characters like Kanji or Chinese characters.

And maybe consonant heavy languages are helpful, instead of tonal languages? I am not an expert in this field. Japanese is easier to use and learn than Chinese (I’m sorry, but it’s true).

Hangul: Created in 1443 under King Sejong the Great to increase literacy. Might be easier and better than Chinese to learn.

Maybe people benefit from learning 2-3 languages, and a programming language, and the “language” of mathematics, and then music.

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Plateau construction style


See: “the plateau” construction style. It is kind of like the new Motte and Bailey. It is in the archives pages. It is uber messy though. And never been tried.

It is kind of like a walled medieval town on top of a hill. Analogy.

A platform. A faraday radar jamming platform. I can’t think of a good name.

But scientifically (statistically) it might be more like an oil rig, floating on the surface of the ocean. A metal island floating on the land, instead of a metal island floating on the water (and yes, many oil rigs float, or are just hardly supported. The “model” of how they work is that they are a floating raft of steel anyway).

Link

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Rutherford


For his MA degree at Canterbury College in 1893, Ernest Rutherford's research focused on the magnetization of iron by high-frequency discharges, which he demonstrated was caused by radio waves. He later developed a magnetic detector for electromagnetic waves (radio waves) that could detect them over a distance, a significant development for early radio technology. 
Initial research: Rutherford's master's research involved using high-frequency electrical discharges to magnetize a steel needle surrounded by a coil. 

He was pushing waves through the stone (brick walls) in the basement of the arts centre.

I visited his lab the other day, in the cloak room of the arts centre. Canterbury University.

Link, I have made a quick post about Sir Ernest Rutherford in my grab bag, as well as math and science. He’s a Nobel prize winning scientist, and our best scientist. And possibly one of the most important scientists of all time. He did vitally important work, on a practical level, to discover something about the structure of the atom. He is somewhat of a hero of mine. I used to want to be Rutherford. He is a really big deal in experimental physics.

Biography of Rutherford here.

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A ramble:

On Education in Childhood


Quote about greasy sewing machines:

“When I was about 8 years old, my mother brought home a bunch of sewing machines that they couldn't repair, and told me that I could just tear them to pieces. For educational purpose, or fun. Either way, it was educational and kind of fun. It sure was better for me than just watching TV. In context, it isn't the right thing to post.”

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But it is great pedagogy. They let me pull things to pieces, and make a mess. And I didn't have to put things back together again. I would sometimes requisition broken objects to be allowed to tear them apart? I didn't understand how the computer chips worked, but I figured out much of the rest of it. You learn a bit.

I did tape recorders, musical Instruments, clock radios? I forget exactly. Tearing stuff to pieces is great. I actually lacked the physical/manual strength for some of the bolts.

Matthew and I played out the back of the music and craft shops all day, and sometimes at the computer shop (we owned three shops). And whenever a shop was moved or whatever, or a stock take, we got included. You get taught sales, inventory management, you end up being forced to do the accounts sometimes (as a child!! Ahhh, the horrors!?).

My parents used to take me to the library to get a stack of book three feet high, just to shut me up and keep me occupied, out the back of the shop. That way they could avoid paying for baby sitters, sometimes. Although, I really liked my baby sitters sometimes. But whatever. Reading. I did a ton of it. A lot of childhood was cool.

Ummmm. And you just get immersed in it all. You're always with your dad doing deliveries, or transferring stock between Taupo and Napier in the van (cheaper than paying the freight company).

But the tearing machines apart is a good few weeks worth of entertainment for a young child. And it sure beats watching TV.

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They also taught me piano, sewing, knitting, crochet, tuning guitars, how to set up the shop floor properly, vectors (at age 7-8), reading (as a toddler/infant), math: young, argument and debate, pre 5 years old. They were huge fans of argument and debate, and my father believed that argument and debate trains and sharpens the mind. The goal of the debates were to prove that the other person was wrong and or stupid. Or to change their mind. But that was just childhood. He also had me read books on sales.

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The point is that the education you get in school isn't the be-all-and-end-all. Instead, you learn al much outside of it.

My view of school and the education system by age 18 was that it was a sorting mechanism, and a behaviour modification mechanism. It filtered the idiots into idiot jobs, and filtered the smart ones into higher education, and therefore the "intelligent jobs".

Also, I believed that the main function of school was behaviour modification. It just teaches you to line up before class, and put up your hand to ask questions.

I thought that all the real learning happens at home, from your parents, or from books! Because there was precious little education  at school, compared with what you get from books. Or can do at home. I felt that my schooling interfered with my education. And that it stultified other peoples minds, and killed their love of reading and learning. I also believed that “you shouldn’t let your schooling interfere with your education”. But until wanted good marks lol, I was competitive.

I was a bit wrong. And a bit right.

You do in fact learn a fair bit at schools.

But sometimes you can be half right and half wrong at the same time.

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Danny the Champion of the World, one of my favourite books in childhood. Teaches you a bit about toys and education. Just in a few throwaway lines.

https://www.sicklinghallprimary.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/media/files/2020-10/danny_the_champion_of_the_world_-_roald_dahl.pdf

Read the few opening paragraphs, the first page. It is Roald dhals best book imo. I must have read that book as dozen times in childhood. Along with “Gentle Ben”

It is a great book to give to kids, along with the Swiss family robinson.

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B side


Update:


The word “fuck”. They told me that I had to use the word “fuck” when I told people what I wanted. I assumed it was a part of their culture. They were teaching me their culture. So I listened. I had to use it instead of “sleep with”, have sex with, or make love to, or sleep with. They also taught me that their culture is that you have to “want them”, so I tried over the top things to move the needle “like the sequence re: Brynn, “I want you, I need you”. The culture education thing. But they couldn’t even educate me on their culture in good faith.


I asked, what is your culture? And they said, “you have to “want” them” and you have to say “I want to ‘fuck’ you”. I would normally have not used the word fuck? It feels a little too aggressive.


They said I was supposed to use the word “fuck”, not say “sleep with”. And that it was their culture. This may have made me seem rude or uncouth  in the selected clips broadcast. It also set the tone for the whole game.


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If I had one girl friend that was amazing, who I loved, then I’d rather have books to read, video games to enjoy (with my friends), and cats, and nice tea, before even considering a second one?


And I’d value peace (mental and emotional, ataraxia, or from another tradition, the peace that surpasses all understanding) over having a second girlfriend too.


One girlfriend who is a good person, who I loved, is an important thing to have. And the lack of a woman in my life, for affection, company, sex etc is a problem. And one is a massively beneficial thing. But to have 5 instead of one, isn’t a huge draw card. And I might not care that much. Besides, to have more than one woman is to invite drama! Emotional drama, the drama associated with the creation of children, and disease related drama (hi, I have given you a bacterial disease, can you get it tested?) or else, have to use condoms. Bleh.


And too much sex and desire leaves me feeling fatigued and drained anyway? I think it might weaken you?And 

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17th October 

Shelter


These things give people shelter. You can seek refuge and shelter, and offer it to others. And they’ll get cheaper and cheaper, and better and better over time.


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These settlements shelter you from totalitarianism. Can then use encrypted amateur radio to communicate with other settlements privately (or encrypted messages sent by snail mail). Rebuild a sense of community, and sanity. Rebuild your psyche.


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I’m just getting hurt for arbitrary and asinine reasons by an impersonal computer system.

Beep boop beep,

You are a computer. Beep boop beep.

Not only that, but you are a badly designed video game where all interactions are mediated by AI.

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You are a robot to me.

Like Johnny 5, or car assembly robot #37 in Stuttgart.

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B side comment tbh:

Very broad brush strokes here.

The American corporate hegemony has totally disrupted the normal natural order of the world, and if/when it fails, the world will chaotic. And basics like controlling disease will become hard, if not impossible. And it may become very difficult to maintain our high tech, scientific civilisation. Maybe.

When this daft system created by the USA corporate world falls apart, and chaos reigns supreme, one of the heart breaking, negative effects is that diseases like polio will possibly go unvaccinated. Diseases like TB might not be treated, diseases like HIV might not be appropriately medicated, diseases like malaria might not be well managed, diseases like cholera might run rampant. Things like sanitation might not work very well. Organisations like the WHO and CDC might either be defunct, and organisations like the UN might be less relevant.

Things like HPV may go unchecked, and without regular cervical smears people might end up having cancer. At the moment if you catch it early, you can treat it by having your cervix amputated, or having your whole uterus removed, but if you can't get access to cervical smears, you might end up needing and/or having chemotherapy. And are much more likely to just die.

We might see severe issues in terms of resurgence of disease. That is why I feel that it is irresponsible for these nutters to be pushing what they’re pushing.

Other issues include child sex trafficking. And child trafficking in general, that would experience massive resurgence also.

Please see the three lecture series that I keep referencing. They’re in my education and books that I have read page. The disease one from Yale, the Industrial Revolution one I have read, and the history of science one.

Else; they’re irresponsible, because public health would fall apart if the system goes splat

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Also, HPV can’t be stopped by condoms, it has over 150 strains, and is endemic in the western world, China, and many other places.

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Definition:

Endemic: (of a disease) regularly occurring within an area or community.



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This is a b side comment


CCP deaths in the 30 million range



Criminal ineptitude on a gargantuan scale, resulting in mass deaths.


Some of them were just plain bad people (bad souls) too.


And they had a bad ideology.


And the deliberately damaged their knowledge base! So as to force their own people to do without proper understanding or wisdom. Or access to practical scientific and technical information and also without practical access to the understanding and wisdom in western management techniques. Accounting, economics, sociology, scientific management).


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Damaging the knowledge base and intellectual capabilities of the Chinese


Xi Zhongxun was a major part of it. He was the equivalent of a "deputy prime minister" or perhaps a cabinet minister in the CCP. He was fairly high upz


He also was head of "central propaganda for 18 months".


XI Jinping has it on his conscience. it is a part of his family's shame, but the only way to make up for it is to assume that he has won, will win, and that it was worth it.


The only way to make the horrors of the great famine, the great leap forward, and the cultural revolution worth it, is to push ahead with the globalist project.


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The losses and deaths 


They (top ccp and Xi) don't fully understand the concept of a sunk cost. If I were to psychoanalyse it, I would have to say that their minds can't comprehend it. But it is a sunk cost to be honest.


That is why they plough ahead.


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22oct

Is “feminism” just upper middle class white women twaddle? Or mostly? Does it prevent a lot of women from organising intelligently? Is it just a way for the system to organise them against the possibility of their overall societies from organising intelligently?

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16th October

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I don’t think this segment is smart enough, so I moved it…

Bill gates claims it works.

There might be an “infinite” number of waves being fired at the earth, then reflected back. Just get in the way? The energy from the “waves” resolves into the thin pieces of metal somewhere along the way.

There are infinite “bounce backs”. Of waves. Sort of.

Or, an electromagnetic field (and or relationship) is set up, but the steel pipes get in the way? Sometimes the model you use doesn’t have to fully explain reality… just so long as your model can create a situation whereby you make good decisions, and or create good product. Ummm. I am being specific. If my model for reality is good enough for creating a viable product (an architectural design, then that might be enough). Besides, it uses radio waves and/or electromagnetic waves and/or electromagnetic fields (or is it electric fields?), or is it some of these sort of field. Idk. Words just are weird. Visualisation, and intuition can do a lot. Visualisation. And an understanding of what knowledge is, how it is created, and how it works, and how to use it can be good too. I spent a lot of time in my life thinking about science, knowledge and how it works. And thinking about the epistemology of sciencez

As to how well my practical innovation works, I don’t know. Not yet anyway.

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing, and the model is not the same as the thing being modelled.

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Ps: I already stated earlier that…

“The physics is wrong, by the way.
But it might be wrong in all the right ways.”

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Another way to look at it… is that a wave is just something that goes from here to there,

But another way of looking at it is to see it as a relation ship between here and there in space time… but if you can get it to resolve??? Or break down?

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I just see it as a wave though.



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Bridge builder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Constructor_Portal

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14 October

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These are just hypotheticals:


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Voting and enfranchisement



To vote, you need to be aged 25-67 and a high school graduate (or have passed NCEA level three, or equivalent, at least once by age 25).


To be an electable person in local government, central government, community boards, DHB you need the same thing.


To be on the board of directors for a government entity (ministry, or soe) or board of directors for a listed nz company. Or a partner in a large law firm or large accounting firm. You need the same thing.


To work in the “civil service” of New Zealand (other than merely call centre or front facing roles), you need to meet the same requirements.


You lose the right to vote at age 67. You also lose the right to stand for election to central or local government. Or dbh board, or community board. And you are forced to retire from the civil service.


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De professionalise teaching



De-professionalise teaching as well lol. No degree required, just a one year diploma. If you lack proficiency in a particular subject, you can study it on your own time and get certifications. Sort of like in technology, similar to Cisco certs.


Also need to be 25 or older to start teaching.


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Degree inflation



End degree inflation in the civil service as well.


They should just have to prove: reading, writing and mathematics skills, as well as basic computer skills to get the job (ICDL). As well as graduating high school or equivalent.


Make it illegal to determine pay bands based on having a degree. And say that you can be management without a degree. Degrees in public service is just classism.


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But make ongoing education an important part of civil service culture. By paying for study and giving civil servants time off to study.


Individual departments and ministries might require a 6 month certificate in administrative skills, or a basic read/write/arithmetics test, and basic computer skills test to join.


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Three poorly out together rambles incoming:


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Totally silly and unfinished ideas incoming:



End the war on drugs, a spitballed idea


1. Drug prohibition has un intended consequences, such as the iron law of prohibition

2. Prohibition creates opportunities for skirting the law and making money (see Al Capone and gangs making money selling alcohol)

3. Gangs repress the people once they have money, and are bad for law and order



Sooooo… Find ways to legalise and regulate drugs as much as possible so that you can resolve these issues as much as possible. And economics and psychology approach:


Legalise alcohol fully (done)

Legalise cigarettes (done)

Make cigarettes cheaper (4 stress management)

Create highly regulated pot cafe facilities, where people who have a “pot license” from the DIA/MSD/MOH can smoke weed legally.

Create highly regulated dance venues that sell MDMA to people with licenses, but only on Fridays and Saturdays between 5pm and 1am.

Create highly regulated venues in the country side that give people with licenses (hippies and obnoxious tech bros) the opportunity to do lsd, magic nushrooms, psilocybin, psychedelics in a safe environment. (btw, some people think that at john was on shrooms on Patmos, when he wrote revelations. As a lover of history and a former Christian, I give you full permission to skip revelations. And you only need to read any one of the four gospels. Matthew or mark are okay. Matthew is best.)

And that is enough for now.

Then so “demand side” policing for meth (described elsewhere). 

And heavily police public intoxication from ALL drugs.


Btw, you have to employed full time to have a license to do any of the drugs lol


Effects: revenue streams for gangs are reduced

The police have less influence and less intrusion over people’s lives

Drugs do less harm to society


Umm.

I still don’t like drugs

I am anti drugs

I just think prohibition is worse and more dangerous than drugs. Reason: people do them anyway????

I am just anti “war on drugs”. Because all it does is increase harm, and give the state more power, and police more power, and drugs gangs more funding and power. Why not disempower these enemies of the people by introducing better drugs policy.


Maybe also legalise cocaine in special, hyper regulated venues (government officers sell the cocaine inside the privately owned venue). Public private partnership. You go to fancy music club on Friday or Saturday night, it is privately owned and has a private membership list. It is NOT a “public” house. It is a PRIVATE and exclusive club. They let you in.


Inside the club, there is a government agent (from MBIE), You show your license to buy drugs to him. And he sells you cocaine. You do it in front of him. That’s it. The club plays music. It’s pretty chill. Rules of these clubs, no alcohol intoxication allowed. Tossed after 2-3 drinks. Elitist, sorry.


All of these policies de escalate the war on drugs, which was an evil way to impose the USA imperialist cooperate hegemony in the world (destroy black neighbourhoods and ruin Latin America).



I actually dislike drugs....

I just think that prohibition does more harm than good. I an anti drug, very strongly.


But I am more strongly opposed to the war on drugs, at least in abstraction.


TLDR; and the war on drugs, it just makes things worse.

Drugs are still extremely bad though. Don’t do any of them lol. Even alcohol and cigarettes are bad.


Umm. One drink is okay sometimes.


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Random Spitballed idea



Marx and Engels were an elitist psyops campaign to disrupt working class movements and culture in the Anglosphere so that they could stymie and prevent the working classes from influencing their own societies.


Marxist creates splits and drama in good left wing movements, and usually has to be purged to get things done: see the history of Democratic Socialism in Sweden, or the history of left wing politics in New Zealand.


Marx and Engels were dishonest and disingenuous.


// this is not pure unassailable truth, but it points in the right direction


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Psychology 



BF skinner isn’t very good science, or at least it is being misapplied.


And given the way that the communists couldn’t quite manage to cope with Mendel or Marshall or Menger or Keynes back in 1959-1975, why should we listen to them when it comes to brain science?


Communists are bad at science, and bad at life. lol. I’m too bored and exhausted to do this section right, so it is just the silly version on psychology.


Historically, they are bad at genetics in China, and bad at chemistry and agricultural science. So why should we think they are any good at the science of psychology?


They want to turn us into vegetables, or treat us like farm animals, but they can’t even master the arts and sciences of raising animals or growing crops without fucking it up and killing 30 million peasants, popularising cannibalism. Or more recently, creating a slow moving Chinese environmental catastrophe that threatens Chinese food security.


And these are the people re engineering our psychological, intellectual, and academic landscape?


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Bible Stuff



If an atheist in the west, or an atheist in the east, or a chick who went to university:


Ummm. Read the New Testament. Skip some stuff though. Read Matthew, skip the books of Mark, Luke, and John (it is just the same story 4 times over). And then skip Jude and Revelations. Read everything in between.


Then read Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon.


Perhaps stop there.


(Maybe) Then read the first five books of the Bible. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.


And then stop.


It is too long otherwise lol.


Purpose: ummmmm. Understanding the culture of the Christianised anglosphere (i.e. the English diaspora, sort of). The roots of it. Sort of. And then listen to some audio bible teachings from the past, from preachers talking about the Bible. A lot of Bible teaching is spoken word. 2-3 sermons for a respected Bible teacher of the past.


It is good for historical understanding.


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Are you one of the "thinking people" of the world? Probably top 15% of intellect, or those who fight tooth and nail to develop their minds even though they are "pretty average", and value thought, ideas, discussion and the written word?


_This is just a crash course to save you time._

_a way to catch up fast_


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For those who value understanding, learning or education for its own sake.


Then do something else.




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Imagine if we had a society with life long education:


History

Geography

Art

Music

Languages

Mathematics - yes lifelong!


The history of art

The history of music: both classical and other

The history of science

The history of engineering and technology

The history of languages

The history of religion

Creative writing

The history (biographies) of scientists and creators

History of the built environment

History of criminal justice

History of built and designed objects

Statistics - yes, life long

History of psychology, yes history

History of sociology

History of the development of economics

Economic history, proper

History of famine

History of harm to people physically, fgm and foot binding

History of medicine

History of medical mishaps

Anthropology, and history of the development of societies.

Philology

History of food, through cooking classes

History of agriculture

Lessons in the art of gardening, and growing food, animals



Practical: Ceramics and other pottery, woollen goods, Basket weaving, leather working, woollen textiles, woven cloth, and all sorts of arts and crafts


Practical: replication of important technological innovations


Practical: a variety of reenacted farming and agricultural practises.


Practical: all sorts of physical coordination activities. Sports, dance, fighting (aka martial arts). Mild fitness.


But also people just loved reading.


TV doesn’t exist.


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Things like clothing, footwear, and physical culture are incredibly important parts of what make civilisation work. They are very under-rated.



Note: (including fitness, exercise, sports, mind-body practises, gym and other forms of training)


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Theory, what do women want?

Nice house (or two) and car
Financial security
Control over their own assets

Good health
Good employment prospects

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Control over their own lives and bodies 

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Other:

Young:
To have fun! And to look pretty. And for people to look at them and think “you’re amazing” or desirable or something. And also a feeling of “power” or effectiveness?? For ego sake?

Older:
Alcohol, cats, video games, dvds (movies at home), chocolate, and a guy (longterm) that doesn't make you want to tear your own face off. And for your kids to be okay.

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Spitballing


I don’t know, but maybe….

Many men have a different idea of what they want????

Men are less homogenous than women! They want all sorts of things.

What do men want? Peace, ataraxia, a feeling of equanimity..


(And games, sports, hobbies and other activities)

(but also love the people they have in their life, and want to make them happy)

And they also want a sense of internal and external coherence. [To feel like their lives have an internal through line. But also to feel like they live in a sane society.]

I really don’t know??

I think ataraxia is a big one.

Ps: I think some are achievement or success driven, some are driven by sex and status, some want the feeling of effectiveness in doing stuff, some want power. Some are driven by curiosity about the natural world. Many are addicted to one thing or another, like knowledge itself. Some have a specific project. Guys are pretty variable? A lot of driving forces. I’m an eccentric tbh.

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Additional note:

Sometimes totalitarians put predators in charge of people who ought to be treated with compassion (or otherwise treated humanely).

For a while, after the revolution, sex workers were treated humanely, but later sent to the “special institutions of forced labour re-education” managed by the NKVD (Russian interior ministry and secret police, under the leadership of men like Beria).

See also, the history of prostitution in the USSR.

You actually have to read it to believe it.


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[PS: and then look at tech, capitalism and corporations. Dot com bubble bursting, tulip bubble, Gutenberg Press, and laugh, and read who moved my cheese. Or just learn about hackers/crackers and technology. One flaw in technology, one zero day flaw. One exploit. Or learn about the history of ubiquitous consumer technology such as printing, the PC, the internet, or the AK47. Or the invention of the telegraph, or the steam engine (and steam ships, both cargo and war ships, and coal mining pumps, steam flour mills). (The importance of the invention of the Watt steam engine, creation of the steam ship, and ubiquity of access to coal, via steam engine improvements to coal mining, cannot be over emphasised in the study of economic history, or history in general). And look at history of metallurgy and the steel industry, start in Germany and then look to the UK and then USA and Carnegie, and the cheapness of steel, and the effect of ubiquitous cheap steel. Read about Henry Ford and fordism. Read about Edison and Tesla and electrification. learn about lighting and how important it is. From candles to whale oil lamps (hi whaling industry) to gas lamps to electricity. And then you will have installed 40% of brain.exe lol, excluding expansion packs. This is on top of what you studied in high school. Brain.exe is just the base install. Umm. You still need the expansion packs ahahaha].


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Note: The AI sucks, the chat bot sucks, the image and/or emotion readings suck, the lack of ability to determine who I’m talking to sucks, the information asymmetry sucks. The tech is just plain bad. Lack of central administrator sucks. The communication sucks, and I think it causes severe brain issues in both fae [Wicca/warlock aligned, intellectual and ideological descendants of Babylonian magicians - via Egypt (aka Babylonian psychological technique]) and normal people.


I think it makes the people who use the technology retarded, on both ends.


It’s just bad tech.


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Example


This is an example of how i used to think, back in the day...


If we can’t be allowed to think, then we can’t maintain our scientific and organised civilisation. And then we can’t maintain good engineering and technology. And then we can’t maintain good sanitation, medicine, food and public health, and agricultural stability. And then disease and crop failure and shortages of basic goods occur. The economy gets worse. And then we can’t afford to do important things like defend against disease, and pay for long term management of health problems like STIs, cancers, heart disease. Or injuries caused by foolish types of fitness, exercise fads, or asinine over-competitive athletics (I look scornfully on this sector of society, fitness culture is a scam and competitive sports culture is deranged).

Disease is the big one. The medical sector is expensive!! 

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Notting Hill


He is kind of like a leader in the book Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K Chesterton. A book about the “statistical society”. It is one of the most important books of the 20th century.

Any old randomly selected leader who is from a cohort one and a half standard deviations above normal in intellect (kinda like G.W Bush) and capacity is okay as leader, just so long as he is trained up a bit, finishes a bit of tertiary education, undergoes ideological training (PhD), and gets experience. It also helps if he has a family history of experience in politics, and is therefore a known quantity.

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Intellectually unexceptional.

Education, not very good.

He went to polytech, not university.

Then did an OE.

His PhD in Marxism is like a doctorate in biblical theology from liberty University.

Character: As rumour has it, characterised by resentment and bitterness. Despised his brother for getting fat. Resented people who got wealthy through corruption, and hated the “fast living” culture in China. Resented the west for the opium wars (own goals, in currency and policy). Resents the west for the “century of humiliation.”

He is a resentment based human. I think. In character. And also “sunk cost fallacy“ based: only if we win can the losses during his father tenure as a big wig be worth it

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Control, systems 


The world lives by systems...

It is like a worker/labour dispute... If you don't do what you are told the system...


they chop off your hands in the congo

they chop off your clitoris in MENA

they chop off your brain in the consumerist/capitalism world order

The "system" of whatever society you are a part of always wants to retain control..




Ps: they break your feet to reduce perambulatory mobility in Confucian China, so the wife who is property of her husbands family can’t have ease or freedom of movement (read an account of it by Christian missionaries if you can, or radical “second wave” feminists otherwise) (they break the soft tissue so hard and so badly that it is worse than broken bones).



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One excerpt:

Women organise it



Despite the evident suffering, it is women who organize all forms of FGM. Anthropologist Rose Oldfield Hayes wrote in 1975 that educated Sudanese men who did not want their daughters to be infibulated (preferring clitoridectomy) would find the girls had been sewn up after the grandmothers arranged a visit to relatives. Gerry Mackie has compared the practice to footbinding. Like FGM, footbinding was carried out on young girls, nearly universal where practised, tied to ideas about honour, chastity, and appropriate marriage, and "supported and transmitted" by women.

The section in this article discussing tolerance vs human rights, comparing western feminists' opinions to African Feminists, under the section "Criticism of Opposition" is good too.

It is an incredibly useful and worthwhile article to read. I highly recommend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation

Please be compassionate and understanding. It is a complex issue. [some of the places and people who practice it think that the “west” and the east are hurling themselves off of a cliff and degrading their women. And it is (older) women who push it.]


Umm. I am opposed to it, for those of you who weren’t sure.

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Deliberate damage to the knowledge base costs lives


The CCP, including people like Xi Zhongxun desecrated the knowledge base of China. They looted, raped and pillaged it. They salted the earth of their knowledge base like Rome salted the earth of the Carthaginians. They destroyed the academic, intellectual, educational, and cognitive landscape of their society.

Because of this...

They were bad on science (metal production, genetics, ecology, chemical engineering), social sciences (sociology), and proper management techniques (economics, accounting, scientific management). And epistemology lol.

And then huge numbers of people died in the Great Leap Forward. Thirty million.

There is some bombast and over simplification here. But the underlying point/s remain solid.

They did it via things like the thought reform movement of 1951. And other movements of the time. It is mostly available on wikipedia, but you do need some subject matter knowledge and understanding.

I can only show you the way. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. And I have explained a lot of it already elsewhere. Or given you the things you need to be able to understand it (like history of science, Industrial Revolution, history of medicine and disease and biographies of scientists and inventors).

Education, it is good stuff.

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Observation


The "society of the satellite" will probably fail.

The "sociology" of the "society of the satellite" just doesn't really work. The sociology, psychology... idk.

At some point, it will fail. I don't know where or how. But I think it will.

I read history?? Including the history of technology and science. And the effects that these things have on society. Just take a look at the history of the printing press, and what happened down stream of that.

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The reason I want “evil girlfriends” is because it is the only way I can do it. And not be upset, or feel like I’m hurting or controlling or exploiting someone.

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It is like apple, IBM, sales force and Ron Hubbard and FLDS created a product, and then management forced the people to use it…??

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(One comment from 25 October)



Most obvious question



If I say, “I just do whatever”, and take my blog down how can I get any certainty that these guys won’t just harass me until the end of time?

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Something from the 20th October, a b side

Another b side comment

Chinese publicity department (aka Chinese propaganda department):


It should be renamed the Chinese Communist Party’s Information Department.

To understand it, look at the functions.

And then look at the dates of Xi Zhongxun tenure.

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They are the:

Information creation and information promulgation department of the CCP.

They shape the Chinese mind. They are the “department for the shaping of the Chinese mind.”

They create the information landscape of China. And they manipulate and control knowledge base of China. They limit it too, the knowledge base.

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See also the “thought reform movement of 1951” later folded into the four olds campaign, which was folded into the Information Department of the CCP.

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They are the shapers of the mind… see the dark tower by C.S Lewis, as well as “Brave New World” revisited by Huxley.

Not perfect stories/books, but actually very, very good. And so short that they’re worth it. Both of them are such insiders to the global planners.

See also:
https://globalvoices.org/2017/11/12/a-look-inside-chinas-propaganda-bureaucracy/

This link gives you a quick update on it.

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Image of Xi Zhongxun’s tenure:




Image showing the various organisations inside the “Information Department of the CCP” (aka the publicity/propaganda department of the CCP):

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The manipulators and shapers (Mollywanglers) of the mind.

ps: this was just a quick update on some parts of the CCP, and Xi Zhonxun’s part in it.

Xi’s father showed up for 18 months as head of it, and he would have changed around staff and internal policy. And pushed new ideas into it, and had a whole lot of influence on one of the most centrally important parts of the party, and then about 4 years later, the Chinese screw up their economy with the Great Leap Forward, tens of millions of people starve, and then the red guards and cultural revolution happen.

By the way, the Great Leap Forward involved: ecological ineptitude (killing sparrows in the four pests campaign), metallurgical ineptitude (they made a boatload of low quality, uneconomic recycled pig iron by melting down perfectly good steel in their local communities just to make quotes!), and agricultural ineptitude (just plain bad science and poor use of modern farming techniques). They also had ineptitude in the area of good, basic management and administration (including economics, accounting and “scientific management”, see Taylorism and the field of management. Yes, the rejection of good and reasonable theory and practise in the areas of admin/management is a form of total and near unforgivable ineptitude and incompetence. The fields of economics, accounting, management accounting exist, and to fail to use them properly, and then lose 30 million people is a form of criminal incompetence the world has never seen before, and hopefully will never see again. And just because your ideology doesn’t “believe” in economics, doesn’t mean it isn’t any good. There are religions that don’t “believe” in blood transfusions, there are religions that don’t believe in contraception, there are countries that don’t believe in letting women drive cars, and religions that preach young earth creationism. Ther are parents that don’t believe in feeding their children anything other than vegan foods, much to their children’s detriment. I see the Chinese rejection of basic theory in things like economics, to be the equivalent of the above mentioned. And it infuriates me as much as stories about parents losing children and loved ones due to not feeding their baby anything but vegan foods, not getting blood transfusions or other medical treatments (Jehovahs witnesses and Christian Science) and then dying. Or people who believe in nothing but faith healing. Or teach their children nothing but abstinence education in schools, then get surprised that their kids get pregnant.


Just because you don’t “believe” in economics or sociology, doesn’t mean it isn’t good for you. The CCP didn’t believe in economics, just like southern Baptists believed in abstinence only sex education, Christian scientists believed in the efficacy of prayer for curing healthy problems, and Jehovah’s witnesses don’t believe in blood transfusions, or like vegans sometimes believed in giving their infants nothing but plant based foods (resulting in death).

Btw, famine economics were a solved problem. Sort of (I studied them years ago). Inability to ask for advice, and then putting ideology before the needs of the people. “It doesn’t matter if the people die, just so long as the ideology wins long term”


The central propaganda department (along with stuff in China down stream of them, and other parts of the CCP and state) limited people’s access to good education and good information in the above mentioned fields. It’s a little complicated, but they really did damage the knowledge base of China, limiting people’s access to good education and good information (see also Mendel vs lysenkoism).

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Anyway, I have to get some sleep. Just a rant.


Mao, the unknown story is a good book. Wikipedia is an okay source.

But I’ve just done a ton of reading in things like economics, accounting, business, education, “ideas”like, the shaping of ideas, social engineering. Eventually you just see the shape of things. It’s just tragic. Their Chinese deserve better.


If people read 1-2 books in their life about this, and the tragic history of China, I think it is a good thing. But also a good thing not to get bogged down for too long.


Ps: Zhongxun wasn’t the only person pushing this garbage, but he was major player. He wasn’t alone.


PPS: propaganda dept (information dept) is a part of the party, not a part of the.. civil service? I forget how it works. It is part of the party, not the government or state? Even though the CCP is the Government (big G, government). It is as though the ideology and information department of the whole country of nz were ran by the publicity department, parliamentary research department and propaganda department of the nz national party itself. Just one party. 

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Just as an aside:

By the way, my Uncle Andy cut his teeth as a parliamentary researcher for the NZ national party. He used to be one of my father’s closest friends. These sorts of people are dangerous.

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Total nonsense incoming 

Not a good idea, skip it.

Maybe use to spark new ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect

I only just read about the faraday effect. And also lines of force.

Circle of over head wires and trolley buses, with weakly electro-magnetised material inside. Lots of it. Like a bundle of slender steel or aluminium pipes 10 metres long, and the bundle is two metres in diameter. Wrapped in copper wires. Power drawn from above. And they just drive around in circles. And somehow that disrupts the polarity of the base em spectrum stuff, that everything falls apart. And maybe the area of effect is large. Like a 200 metres radius circle.

Because maybe these things need large, finely tuned collections of electromagnetic fields. These fields might have a bunch of electric/magnetic fields on top of one another, with a super crazy interrelationships, and error corrections etc. But maybe disrupting the polarity does it.

I have no idea. This is just my way of having fun.

Umm. Try rerouting around that lol. Idk 🤷 

(Maybe have some containers as in the centre of the circle, and see what happens.)


What if you turn the magnets into fixed magnets over time? That might work. And you move them in circles so that the satellites can’t re-polarise, or tune the rotation of the rays (lines of force, tubes of force) properly. If it works, you might have a massively cheaper way to disrupt the fields, and a cheap way to shield this stuff. Idk. This is inspiration. This idea is a 1.5/10 so far. It is too complex. The idea of simple faraday containers is much better.


Maybe the trolley busses extend the range of the zone of safety by an additional 50 metres. And then you could do it again. Concentric circles. Or just put a train upon tracks, in a circle. That might be much easier. Or trains on concentric circles. This might be a long term cost saving idea.

[Ps: having these settlements helps to shelter you, but might also (in large numbers) increase bargaining power with the fae. And increase the possibility of peace long term. You might be able to squeeze them for further concessions, such as better access to water, power, resources.]


Get the base idea going first lol.


https://wiki.lspace.org/Garden_of_Five_Surprises



23 October:

A few thoughts


Here are a few random thoughts, it’s not an ideology or a full curriculum. It’s just a little bit of education. Some basics and fundamentals.

No one is obliged to do this. Treat it as inspiration. It is just for people who are curious people. A way to get started.

A few fundamentals, for the sake of genuine understanding. It’s just education. The purpose is that it will help you to form some genuine understanding. And education changes you, as an individual. It gives you perspective. Also, it takes time!  

Reading and lectures:


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Lectures:


Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World - Steven L. Goldman, 36 lectures

Epidemics in Western Society since 1600, Yale, History 234, Frank Snowden (do it because it is hard, not because it is easy).

The Industrial Revolution - Patrick N. Allitt, 36 lectures, Oxford

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Optional, perhaps do later:

Understanding Japan - Mark J. Ravina, 24 lectures

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts, Yale, History 251, Keith E. Wrightson


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Books:


9 books about scientists and inventors, preferably biographies or histories, that teach you about the life stories of scientists, with the science built in.

Read Rutherford: the frontier genius, or a different biography book about Rutherford.

Read two books (biography or history) about Faraday.
Then read biographies or stories about the likes of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Michael Faraday, Mendel, Pasteur, Haber and Bosch, Watson and Crick, Newton, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Humphrey Davy, Ignaz Semmelweis, Thomas Telford, James Watts, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Tim Berners-Lee, Johannes Gutenberg

…or any biographies of any scientists, inventors or major pioneering engineers.

Until you’ve read nine of them.

If you’ve already done this at some point in your life then don’t worry about it. These books are the most important part of this.

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3 other books of “popular science”, engineering, math and technology (excluding biographies and histories).

For example, try stuff like the following. It can be your own preferences though.

The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin
Structures or why things don’t fall down, or a different book by J.E. Gordon
Invention by design by Henry Petroski
Almost Anything by Henry Petroski is fine.
Engineering in the Ancient World, J.G. Landels' 

Or anything that feels right to you!

You can skip this step if you already enjoy reading books on popular science, technology and engineering.

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A few (2-3) on history/general:

Mao the unknown story, by Jung Chang
Any one book about the Boer war
Any one book about the Paraguay and the triple alliance, just so long as they blame corporations, traders, bankers or the English. Perhaps the “Open Veins of Latin America”, I’m not sure of what the right book is… that one might not be the right “type” of left wing? But I might try reading it anyway.

And then also the Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto, or perhaps The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber.

You need the book on Mao: the unknown story; and either one on the Boer War (moral: autonomy and independence must be obliterated with extreme prejudice) or one about Paraguay (moral: self sufficiency must be destroyed at all costs). If you are “conventionally educated”, then books like “The Mystery of Capital” or “The Protestant Work Ethic” will leave you feeling uncomfortable and confused, which might be extremely beneficial for many readers! You only need one of these two.

And then leave it at that.

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Longer term:


Then just read an hour a day.

Make at least 50 percent non fiction. Maybe up to 90% non fiction is okay.

Make sure you finished high school (or equivalent, similar or better).

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If you want to extend yourself further…

Become a life long learner. First read 2-3 books about the improvement of the mind (and/or books about how to rapidly learn things, or books about study skills, or how people learn, or whatever works) and the mn just keep on learning.

Anything at all. Anything.

That’s it!


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Everything else below is just fluff, equivocation, digressions and rambling.

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Apropos of nothing:

I went to business school, so a bit of math, calculus, statistics, algebra is just assumed.

I also enjoyed my studies in accounting and economics. As well as wide reading in those fields. And a long term interest in the history of commerce, trade, production, and accounting itself. And in the history of the social science known as “economics”. And how these things intersect with other elements of history (for example, did you know that writing itself is inextricably tied up with accounting; see cuneiform in sumeria. Or that the Phoenician alphabet was created in relation to making trade and commerce easier).

I also inhaled maybe 50-100 business books (including history of stuff like economics and accounting) along the way around the age of 18-23. These books help.

Action: some knowledge of the fundamentals of algebra, calculus and statistics might not go amiss. High school level or otherwise (first year university). This is not a major challenge for most!

Business books are also a treasure trove of information. Seriously. A lot of the world is build on trade, commerce etc. And people like the English were massively into trade and commerce. So understanding this aspect of human life is not an unwise move. A business book or two. Like a book from Peter Drucker, or Benjamin Graham. Some Taleb (I know it’s pop stuff, but it’s fine). Or a biography of Jack Welch (he’s not a beloved figure, but perhaps it makes sense to read his autobiography for that reason alone), Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Larry Page + Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs. Anything. I strongly recommend reading a few business books to people who haven’t read at least a few in their lives. If you’ve managed to get this far down the list. I’d you’ve already read a few business books in your life, you can skip this.

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I also really love podcasts, and audio format content. Including design podcasts, freakonomics, hardcore history, tech podcasts. Find stuff you enjoy. Just for pleasure. There is a show called “Triangulation” from the TwiT show. This show can teach you a lot about commerce and technology. It’s great. It’s interviews of founders and excellent thinkers in the field of technology and entrepreneurship. Some leadership podcasts (and church planting podcasts) from church people are okay, but the best podcasts got memory holed.. I listened to a lot of ministry stuff back in the day. A LOT.

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The stuff mentioned just above would help a person to develop a little bit of genuine understanding. It helps, but it’s just a start.

It is just for the purpose of developing genuine understanding.

It isn’t a complete and exhaustive education.

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Formal education:

To remove any doubt about what I think, a solid pass in high school plus one year at poly tech can be really good. Seriously, particularly one year’s study in IT, for the right person. Idk. I don’t look down on high school graduates with a year tertiary. That’s actually solid. University is amazing, it really is, but it isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.

A solid pass in high school is something to be proud of. Having one year’s tertiary is something to be proud of too.

A four year degree in a subject that you are interested in, or useful, or can get you a good job, is extremely useful. Just as a degree (or diploma) in something that is suitable for you from a polytechnic is very useful. Or an apprenticeship. (Online courses aren’t amazing. Being there in person is much, much better. Online courses in small doses [like MOOCs, or distance learning] are okay, but the experience is mediocre). Source: I studied my management 101 paper by distance, and the experience was sub optimal.

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(Forgive the arrogance, but if you were dumb, then this cures a small amount of daft-ness. It’s just education?! I can’t find a sensible way to say it. Umm. Language is clumsy. It cures some elements of the “dumb dumb brain stupid disease” from which most people suffer. Or inoculates you against certain types of stupidity. See Douglas Adams Wonko the Sane for more information. It’s just for fun.)

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More fun reading:


When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (the math makes sense in our heads, it’s all logical! All of the statistical discrepancies even out when added together! The math works! The models are good! Then you crash the economy, and get bailed out)

Merchants of Debt by George Anders (the world is irrational, and horrifically and absurdly so)

Tulip mania, any book. Absolutely amazing part of history. Dutch capitalism. You have to understand it.

Any book on the dot com bubble bursting, total necessity.

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Canteens, economics books to the cadres:


“I myself have not read the textbooks, and I have no right to discuss them until I have. We must squeeze out some time; the whole Party should run a study campaign.”

July 23 1959… they had to try to rush out economics textbooks? This was after it was too late…? After significant mistakes have already been made. You need the people to be knowledgeable well before that point.

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Planning the agricultural and steel production leap:


Ended up melting down perfectly good implements in backyard furnaces, creating low value pig iron, not steel.


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Dulles, from the CIA:


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The American Health and Fitness Racket

Quackery?

The father of America fitness;


Other diet faddist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting

Another founder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jones_(inventor)

He created all of your gym equipment, and the bow flex. He pushed “high intensity”, then walked it back later

https://www.cbass.com/nautilus.htm

Yoga:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/03/facing-my-fear-yoga-injury-meditation-inner-peace

Yoga isn’t always that safe or gentle.


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Hiding this one here: it is late October though:


Just for fun…

Bezoar Reading List


Focus on biographies and histories. Biographies and histories are a very good way to understand science, engineering and industry. As well as technology. Some generic popular science/engineering books are good too. This is mostly for people who already did the five lecture series I keep harping on about (you can skip reading a book about hanfu and the essay about foot binding though, just see the encyclopedia Britannica on each, it’s fine).

It is just enough to stop your mind from going splat. It’s like a stop gap measure against ignorance. Like a bandaid.

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Do ten books in total:

10 books in total:


Four books about Scientists, Inventors, Engineers: biographies or other histories

People like:


Michael Faraday
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Ernest Rutherford
Gregor Mendel
James Watt
Humphrey Davy
Charles Goodyear
Thomas Telford
Sir Isaac Newton
Louis Pasteur
Haber and Bosch
Watson and Crick
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
Alexander Graham Bell
Tim Berners-Lee
Johannes Gutenberg

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Three books about Industrialists, Entrepreneurs, Founders: both biographies and histories, both old timey and modern

Carnegie
Rockefeller
Bill Gates
Warren Buffet
Larry Page and Sergei Brin
Edison
Henry Ford
Josiah Wedgwood


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Three books in general “Popular Science” and “Popular Engineering” or history of engineering/science/industry

Anything good, here are some examples:

Structures or why things don’t fall down by JE Gordon 
New science of strong materials by Gordon
Invention by Design by Petroski
Any other Petroski
Ancient Greek Engineering by John Grey Landels
The Clock of the Long Now
History of Wedgwood pottery!!
History of Mercedes-Benz and the invention of the automobile
The Invention of the Automobile - (Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler) - St. John
Edmund Cartwright (and the invention of the powerloom)
Read all about: Thomas Savery's steam pump in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen's more successful atmospheric engine in 1712. And James Watt's significantly improved version of the engine.
History of Sheffield Knives
Read a book all about: Benjamin Huntsman's crucible steel process, bessemer process and other aspects of the steel making process. Just book in metallurgy.
The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin

Total of 10 books.

They’ll unscramble your mind a bit, and get you kickstarted down the path of lifelong learning, and a love of reading. Particularly a love of non-fiction.


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Life long learning:


Three categories:

One:
That which has gone before (including but not limited to history). (Also, replication of arts and crafts. Geography. Replication of technology and inventions. Recreation of some scientific experiments. Learning electronics. Learning about the history of science, computers, and the history of the Industrial Revolution).


Abstract thought (including math, statistics, geometry, algebra, calculus, the use of computer code, Boolean logic, chess, computer science, basic music and theory).

Language (including reading, writing, excellence in speaking. Your own language, as well as two other languages [over a lifetime], preferably one of which is similar to your own. E.g. English to German and Japanese. Or Japanese to English and Russian. The most important is to improve your own spoken English [or whatever your mother tongue is], and your written English and your reading comprehension, retention and speed).

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Apropos of nothing:

Fun books that I enjoyed:


Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Dark Tower (unfinished) - C.S Lewis
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Pilgrims Progress - John Bunyan

What can you learn from these books?

New England academics are dicks. 
Women are exploited and viewed with contempt as hyper techno slave skanks, but LARP as space samurai.
People who make it through the university system are heavily programmed.
Land use under “capitalism”. Capitalism isn’t the right word. Maybe “The society of intergenerational and internationally transferable wealth invented and controlled in a fractionated manner.”
The world is insane, and so are corporations.

Malls lol. Amirite.
A classic, and a counterpoint.

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Examples


Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography - P W Barker
The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood by Tristram Hunt
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford - Richard Reeves
The Language of Mathematics - Keith Devlin
Read about the Great Leap Forward, and china’s history after reading this stuff above^ especially things like metallurgy, Wedgwood, the power loom, steam engine beneath the etc




I'll do the proper list soon. It's just inspiration tbh, and general knowledge.

Don't forget, that university and polytech are useful too!


This is just useful education, kicks start education and reading habits.







Just ideas. Just for fun.

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Direct democracy at 66%, by means of petition initiated mail referendum.


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Non-monogamy is illegal. If you sleep with more than two people within a 40 day period. Then you go to jail, for up to one year.

The expectation is that relationships last at least 3-4 months. Preferably longer. The other expectation is that you sign a piece of paper at the start and end of your relationship. A relationship agreement. No witnesses, but two copies. Boilerplate available online. You must make a public declaration that you’re with them within 2 days. Facebook is fine, or the pub, or a coffee shop, or 7-8 friends.

This destroys the life cycle of the fae. It ruins their ecosystem.

Sex is currency in the land of the fae. Kills their currency. They can’t maintain their males without sex.

To be in a relationship without a relationship agreement is a misdemeanour, that can jail you for up to 3 months.

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Also, make a special defamation zone (like China’s special economic zones). Online. Anything in https://www.website.defame.nz is exempt from defamation laws and hate speech. You have to have real names, and faces. And you have to state your town of residence and town of birth. Say anything. No obscenity, or excessive grossness. Encouraging criminal offences is still illegal. You can’t be tried for defamation (aka libel or slander). Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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Some iconoclasm here, killing sacred cows and blasting dogma. Pointing out bad and intrinsically dishonest behaviour that causes harm (deliberate falsehoods, and the detestably dishonest) it’s pretty rigged, but oh well.

From 30th October, I know broke rules of the archive


Pull ups and dogma

The dogma is that pull-ups are a really good movement. They are a compound movement, and provide a strong training stimulus (intensity and difficulty of the movement).

I’m not so sure. I think that they are a good exercise in many cases, but might be the wrong tool for the job for a lot of guys. And that ring rows (progressing to, and including, inverted ring rows and Aussie pull-ups) are a much better movement.

Maybe things like pull ups are a great test of strength and capacity (like if you’re being recruited for the army, or showing off to your friends) but inverted ring rows are better for basic health and well being (within a programme that includes a that a variety of other movements. And within a life-style that includes a number of other exercise habits, sporting habits and physical activities).

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Climbing for Nervous System Wellbeing

If possible, I might include a bit of mild/gentle climbing in the mix as well. We are descended from cute little monkey-squirrel rodents and primates after all (such as purgatorius and teilhardina).

The piece of the equipment known as “wall bars”, aka Swedish ladder, might be useful for some people, and become a little more popular as a piece of home fitness equipment. We had them at school. It could also perhaps synergise well with ring rows, inverted ring rows, and Aussie pull-ups. Particularly if you pick one with additional functionality.

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If I had my way, I might also have a small climbing frame outside or a small cargo net to climb, examples one, two, three. As well as cycling to forests to climb trees sometimes (I live in New Zealand where we have many, many trees, and they are of the type that is suitable for climbing). This is for nervous system stimulus, not “muscle building”. 

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Old stuff here, to be updated:

(Stuff about history of fitness just below..)

[Note: in the routine, Aussie pull ups and inverted ring rows are perfectly acceptable substitutes for one another. Just remember that moderation is king. I can’t prove this, and have never tested it, but I think that pull-ups might be too tougher for a lot of guys. And maybe if you can’t do a move for 5 sets of 12 (after practising it for ages) it is too hard for a moderate fitness routine? Perhaps things like the lat pull down machine and seated cable rows machine are better for “pulling movements”. With very moderate intensity. Strength without strain! For a normal dude who averages 45+ walking daily, and 45 casual, easy moderate sports daily. I know it is quixotic and eccentric, but I think seated cable rows and lat pull downs are better than pull-ups. Note: there used to be a dogma about compound movement being incredibly important. But I’m not sure that dogma always holds true. And I think pull-ups might not be as cool as some people think. I think they’re perhaps over rated for some people. But I have no proof. Umm. If you’re poor, and have no gym membership, then Aussie pull ups or inverted ring rows are an acceptable but inferior substitute for lat pull down and seated cable rowing machine]. I update this, I think a variety of ring rows, inverted ring rows, and Aussie pull ups are totally okay. And are very good, as part of an exercise and fitness regime that includes other movements, and a lifestyle that includes other physical pursuits and activities.


This is all untested though.


But…. Your moderate “fundamentals maintenance routine” shouldn’t strain you too much in basic fit! You should be walking, and enjoying sports. The “fundamental maintenance routine” is a supporting element.


Still a work in progress.

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Pehr invented the wall bars and the Swedish gymnastics curriculum. It was a school curriculum. For kids iirc. And other people. He was a true pioneer. People like the inventors of yoga and Pilates borrowed a lot from him.

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Pehr Henrik Ling


Pehr Henrik Ling (creator of the Swedish gymnastics curriculum, and developer of a lot of “physical culture”) is an interesting dude. But it looks like a lot of his stuff got memory holed. Or is just de-emphasised on Google. Or so of his techniques got turned into hyper competitive rubbish? Idk. He predates yoga-asana, Pilates, nautilus company and Jack LaLanne and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as American fitness industry in general. And Arthur Jones (nautilus, medx, see also: Bowflex parent company), and Greg Glassman, Pavel Tsatsouline, Bikram Choudhury and Paul Bragg and William Banting (noted undertaker, and populariser of low carb diets).

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Jack LaLanne

Jack LaLanne has strong ties to Paul Bragg. It is well worth looking back at some old videos about people like Jack LaLanne. Take a look at episodes of his old TV show, and watch a documentary about his life. Also, he and Arthur Jones pioneered a lot of the tools of the trade, and popularised a lot of the techniques and dogmas of the industry. 

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Overtraining


Jack LaLanne used to claim to do ninety minutes strength training TO FAILURE every day for every major muscle. Followed by thirty minutes cardio. Even as he was aging.

For his strength training: he would work out to failure on his exercise machines (they were resistance training machines of the type you ought see in a modern gym) (nautilus, or similar) seven days per week. For ninety minutes. To failure. He was obviously lying about that. No one has that level of “recovery”.

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Food Faddism, aka orthorexia

For his diet, he ate only two meals a day (late breakfast and early dinner), consumed at least 10 raw vegetables daily and avoided white flour, sugar and “processed” foods.

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From Google, “Jack LaLanne's routine was a two-part daily plan focusing on a two-hour workout and a “clean”, two-meal diet. His workout consisted of 90 minutes of strength training, often followed by 30 minutes of swimming or running.”

If you’re interested in the history of fitness and health, you need to look into the history of this guy.

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Ps: raw vegetables are a scam (except as a flavour and texture element) and so is the demonisation of normal flour (white flour is the best flour, it is good for you). Whole grains are way overrated (sort of).

But I do agree that over-processed (overly refined and then recombined) food products aren’t ideal. And the industries, culture and supply chains that go along with them are legitimately an issue.

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Other fitness “influencers”


Early body building magazines, back in the Arnie era, were full of lies. He was friends with LaLanne by the way.


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Deranged and unhinged rant coming right up:

Food faddists ruin everything!!!! See Paul Bragg: mentor of Jack LaLanne. William Banting and Arthur Jones. These people started the American fitness industry. 

They promote stupid things like the over consumption of raw vegetables and fruit. Check out their pages and histories.

Kinda joking about this next bit:

Apples are a weird fruit. They’re good for alcohol and puddings. And not much else. For example were promoted by Johnny Appleseed for the purpose of making alcohol. Applejack to be specific, iirc. They weren’t for health! They’re okay for preservation and apple sauce, but they’re not that ideal as a fruit. We have a world that pushes raw fruit on people way, way too hard. I don’t think it is good for you. Apple Jack was fairly popular once upon a time. America was a massively alcoholic nation. Massively. It had a lot to do with the grain based economy. And alcohol was a great way to store grain based wealth.

Segue here

By the way, prohibition was a scam in the USA. It was a way to create revenue for criminal gangs and mafias that rapidly cropped up in response to it. These gangs only went away in the 70s, once the corporate world was strong enough to smash anything in its way, and so the fbi stepped up their anti gang stuff. There was a major shift in policing style, to deal with gangs. I can’t remember the retakes, but it is popularly available history. I think they starting handing out lengthy prison sentences to anyone affiliated with organised crime, or maybe they went for the little fish, and had them testify against the higher ups. Anyway, alcohol prohibition was a scam used to empower and finance gangs indirectly, so that the people in the USA couldn’t fend for themselves selves so easily. It was one of the first, and most effective war on drugs. The purpose of the war on alcohol was to empower and enrich gangs. It’s a feature, not a bug. Prohibition encourages the formation of black markets, and the gangs to protect them. Ummm.


[Don’t drink too much, if at all. It is bad for you. But prohibition is even worse for your health.]

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Raw fruit and vegetables


Food faddists ruin everything!!!! See Paul Bragg: mentor of Jack LaLanne (who himself was a close personal friend of Arnold schwarzenegger. Edit: he was just affiliated via a political board. Arnold is actually kinda cool, even though I don’t trust him at all. Btw, body building is 50% legit, but kinda a mistake. It’s complicated. It’s vanity! But it works. Vanity sucks!!!!! It’s horrible for men as well as women. Modesty is better. Just like pride is dumb, and humility is better).


Eating ten raw vegetables a day is what people like LaLanne advocate for. And Paul Bragg advocate for massive juicing and apple cider. Don’t do it. It sucks. They’re con artists.


Apple and carrot juice is good for you. With a tiny bit of sweet bell pepper, sometimes. And that’s it. Perfect. Vitamin C and beta carotene and tons for other compounds, it’s great.


Excessive consumption of raw fruits and vegetables (especially vegetables) is a scam. Just eat normal cooked vegetables! Thoroughly cooked vegetables are better for you! Eat normal fruit. But fruit must be sweet!! If it isn’t sweet, don’t eat it. Peaches, bananas, oranges are great. Some fruits ought simply to be made into jams or puddings.


Drink freshly made apple and carrot juice. It’s great for you. Don’t go off the deep ends.


Green smoothies are a scam. Eating raw leafy green veges sucks. Salads are an American scam, sent to ruin your digestion and make you miserable. Cook your greens before eating them. Salute your spinach in rice bran oil, with garlic and season with soy sauce.


Spirulina and chlorella are silly. 


The demonisation of white flour is bullshit.

Flour is good. Normal un bleached organic white flour is fine. It’s just a way to waste your time and stymie you. Sourdough bread is overrated, as is overly crusty white bread. Beer is good for you. Side effects include happiness and good company. Immoderation on alcohol consumption is very good for you, but only in moderation (ie, only intentionally, and sometimes). Moderate wine consumption. Is lame. Wine tastes bad and people pretend that it doesn’t. Just like baijiu. Whiskey and beer are nicer. White wine is too sour. Cider is too acidic.


Cooked vegetables are good for you. Moderate consumption of sweet fruit is good for you. Carrot and apple juice is very good for you in moderation. Leafy greens ought to be cooked. Proper white bread is healthy, it is a food staple source of life and starch. It is the staff of life. It really is. Truly. The texture of modern bread sucks though. Adding bran or germ back into the bread for texture is okay, but overrated. Black tea with milk is healthy. Possibly, probably more so than wank like matcha (which is tasty though). “Antioxidant culture” is weird.


Look up William Banting (noted undertaker), populariser of low carb diets. Banting (or going low carb) is a way to deliberately destroy lives. It’s a scam. He invented and promoted it. And others have repeated the faddist scam. I don’t like atkins, south beach, paleo, primal, all lame. All suck. The demonisation of white flour intertwined itself with this very well. White flour turned into ordinary bread is fine. It’s good. It’s a safe and nourishing source of sustenance. Don’t use words like nutrition, vitamins or minerals for the moment. It’s bread, it’s good, and it’s food. You want something with good texture. Normal texture. Industrially produced bread: You don’t want what my mother called polystyrene bread, which is made by means of something like the chorleywood fast bake process. Industrial bread has bad texture, the crumb size is too small, among other sins. Texture matters! Nor do you want sour dough bread. Sour dough is ugh. Yuck. And I don’t like overly crusty bread. Just normal bread made from white flour, water, salt and ordinary bakers yeast. (Maybe oil) Like my mother used to make. It is the staff of life. Ummmm. A tiny bit of whole meal flour added to the mix can improve the texture a bit, but I’m not a big believer in whole grains. Moderation is still important. Too much bread can make you fat. But the word for that is gluttony. But undernourishment is a problem too!!! Look at the history of the far east (Aka, the famously bad oriental constitution)! They just didn’t eat enough good food!


The problem with home made bread is that it goes stale too quickly, but oh well. And you have to do it in the bread maker, which is a hassle. And if you want it to have a delicate crust, you have to do it in the oven, perhaps as buns or rolls. I’m not a baker though. My mother made a lot of bread.


Ps: soft foods like pre sliced white bread, or McDonald’s are a godsend for people with bad teeth. But that is neither here nor there.


Too much fibre isn’t healthy.


Note: digression perhaps we might use the word far east, or oriental? Instead of Asian? Because Asian includes people like central Asia? And South Asia? And south east Asia? And austronesian and Melanesian peoples also?


And I don’t want to lump all of these people in with the far east (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam). The Confucian parts of the world tend not to be very sensible? And tonal languages with character based writing eastern sensibilities often cause issues matters of the intellect, as well as in communication. Parts of east Asia aren’t always known to be the most sensible people when it comes to issues of mortality, health, life or wellbeing either.


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Cheese is good for you, along with bread and beer. Cooked vegetables and fruit. Meat is nice too. Lamb is the best, but whatever. Weird health foods like quinoa or LSA mix are probably sub optimal. But idk. Just normal anything tbh. It’s all fine. Eggs, beef, legumes, beans, lentils. Pasta (whole grain pasta is yuck). Pasta, white rice and white bread are good staples, and an excellent source of basic sustenance. Gluttony is still dangerous though. Sugar is okay in small quantities, but it’s kind of addictive. I mean, sugar is actually addictive. Umm. Just don’t let anyone tell you that you have to eat ten kinds of raw vegetables a day, drink green smoothies, eat tons of salads and have incredibly dense whole meal bread just to be healthy.


Drinking calories is a mistake. Not that I listen to that rule.


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By the way, a lot of the old fashioned muscle mags had dishonest advice that made you get sick, burnt out and hurt. And the advice was bad for you even if you were on steroids too. They encouraged overtraining. Reframe it: they encouraged you to over do it, and do it badly. And then people get injured or really badly burned out. Exercise induced burn out is really bad. I think some people “fry” or otherwise “cook” their nervous systems over time, with fitness. Idk. I think the “high intensity” dogma associated with some types of fitness are a scam. I can’t prove it though. But it depends on who you are, and what your goals are. And if you have spare time to recover and rest!!! Or a job. And who are you trying to impress anyway.


End of massive ramble / rant.


See the concept of drujvan, or drəguuaṇt as it exists in the writing of Zoroaster.


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Education action points:

Read the Wikipedia pages for:


Paul Bragg

Jack LaLanne - grandfather of American fitness

William Banting - very important!


Kanō Jigorō (legit)

Pehr Henrik Ling, major guy in the field of fitness, his works are partly memory holed, real old fashioned and historically important, but maybe dodgy? Idk. Hugely influential.


See also:


K. Pattabhi Jois (pervert creep)

B. K. S. Iyengar

Bikram Choudhury (populariser, successful entrepreneur. Teacher to the stars. Incorrigible womaniser)(he is a complex and somewhat dishonest individual, check his story out for yourself)

History of Ashtanga (see history tab: eaten by ants; Indian Wrestlers, British Gymnastics and Swedish Gymnastics)


Good artists copy, great artists steal!


Cut a few lines here


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The yoga scholar Mark Singleton states that Ling's gymnastics shaped the development of modern yoga as exercise in the Western world. Yoga isn’t all that ancient. Even Pilates is older than modern asana practise (the physical postures practises of yoga). Joseph Pilates is worth reading the history of. He was a true shady with women, and slightly shady. But he sometimes had things one could learn from.


[oddballs: The principles of muscle building, and development of strength, are altogether another thing. But I’ll leave it at that. Someone else will have to explode or explain those; here’s a hint though: too much intensity can make you sick or injured, but strength can of course be gained by teaching your body over time that it can in fact do the thing that it used not to be able to. Use it or lose it, and build it slowly by expanding out to ensure of your ability. And body building works, of course, but there are pros and cons. High intensity: look at LaLanne and Arthur Jones]


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Slight tangent here:


Vanity: it sucks, modesty is better.


Story by C.S. Lewis:


https://youtu.be/-ntIL36bgEk?si=s6wwaddleZph7J6g


A culture built upon modesty is a good thing, a culture built upon vanity is a mistake.


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Maybe the trick is just to avoid fitness charlatans, diet con artists, food faddists, and vanity hucksters. You also want to avoid injuring yourself in school/college sports.


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And then to basically stay active in any way that seems appropriate and sustainable. And there’s more than one way to do that.


Ps: some of the best fitness people were educationalists… such as the originator of judo. Kanō Jigorō is pretty interesting If you’re interested in fitness or “physical culture” check them out. Or possibly read something by Gene Tunney. If you’re a real “thinker” then try to find some books by those two.


Historically, lot of good ideas come from wrestlers, fencers, boxers and judoka/fighters. But you have to be careful.


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Or just walk plenty, play casual sports, have fun, do a modest amount of body weight resistance training. And take an educational approach to developing new movement patterns. Build skills and ability.


People are interested in staying vain, these days, not staying fit…


What if people wanted to stay fit, instead of staying vain.


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If you’re older, and have damaged joints and health issues, then gym + swimming might be more your cup of tea. But you just have to figure out what works…



I’m mostly trying to explode some myths, expose some garbage, slay some sacred cows, do a bit of iconoclasm. And give people what they need to know, so they can avoid garbage. Ummmm. Take everything in this segment with grain of salt. I distance myself from it.



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On average, frail women in the past are more likely to die if they give birth to large, robust, healthy babies than healthy robust women are. This counts for both male and female babies.


Women who die in childbirth don’t give birth to more children.


In a population with frail women who often die in childbirth, the ones who give birth to small, sickly children will live to have more children. The ones who give birth to robust , healthy children will tend to die more often (statistically). Therefore, in a population where the women are frail and weak, we can expect the genes for having weak sickly children to become more and more prevalent over time.


In a country where footbinding is used to encourage women to become weak, ineffectual and frail (which is one of the primary effects, and not an accidental effect), we can theorise that the genes for weak sickly children will become more prevalent in the gene pool.


This may have happened in China. It seems that their policies of footbinding had a dysgenic effect.


Ummm. This might explain why they hate the theories of Mendel, but used to love the polices of Lysenko.


The reason why, is that they have bad genes. On average.


Action point: learn about Mendel and his genetics, versus Lysenko and Lamarck.





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