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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2015, 4:15 pm
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=6090.msg92823#msg92823
date=1449437888]
Top Ten List of Big Lies perpetuated by America's Corporate
Masters and their Mass Media.
1. America is the land of opportunity where anyone who works
hard and makes good decisions can get ahead and have a better
life.
False. In the energy-rich years after WWII Americans got used to
a life where anybody who was willing to punch a clock and show
up for work could make a middle class income. Now all the jobs
that pay well require brains, technical expertise, and more
hours for less pay. People who grew up here are so lazy, most of
those jobs are being claimed by immigrants and their children,
who are still hungry and willing.
2. America is involved in geopolitics to promote democracy
everywhere and help developing nations improve their standard of
living.
False. America has a long tradition of corporate imperialism,
based on same the extractive models of earlier systems, like the
Dutch East India Company and the British Raj. We have a long
history of meddling in the sovereign affairs of other countries
to set up weak vassal states that are controlled by dictators
like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein.
3. Bigger is better. Big Business, Big Agriculture, Big Cities,
Big Cars and Big Box Stores make our lives better, by making
goods and services more affordable and of higher quality than
why they would be otherwise.
False. The trade-off is for quantity over quality, in food, and
for uniformity and homogenization in goods and services. Now we
have cheap food that poisons us, and every town in the country
has an identical mall selling the identical items of every other
mall in the nation. It didn't used to be that way. Meanwhile,
the loss of local business has killed our small towns and
communities.
4. The key to success in life is to get a college education.
False. Colleges and universities have morphed from academically
centered institutions run by teachers and run for students, into
profit making businesses dominated by a parasitic layer of
mid-level executive management that drains off the money, making
college cost more each and every year and delivering less and
less, in terms of classical education,technical training, and
critical thinking skills.
5. Characters on television shows are an accurate representation
of real life.
False. TV teaches our kids to think the world is full of Dr.
Huxtables, but the reality is more like the world is full of
Bill Cosbys. War is not like MASH. Life in the Great Depression
wasn't like The Waltons. Since I don't watch TV anymore, forgive
me if all my examples are a bit dated. I've never seen the
Kardashians.
6. You can be happier if you just manage to buy a new car every
three years and use the right deodorant.
False. Now car loans are for six years, and your deodorant
probably causes swelling in your axillary lymph nodes.
7. America's experiments in social engineering can solve issues
of race and gender inequality and create a tolerant diverse
society.
False. After fifty years of court ordered social justice, we
have a bigger racial divide than ever, and every possible class
of people who can claim minority status is clamoring for more
consideration from the rest of us. Those who point out that the
current strategy isn't working are labeled racist, sexist
bastards who need to be sent to re-indoctrination camps.
8. Free market capitalism is the American business model.
False. Crony capitalism, corporate control of government, and
laws made by the rich and for the rich are what we have. All our
markets are rigged.
9. Globalization and so-called Free Trade has made life better
for Americans.
False. The only jobs left in this country are at Burger King,
Starbucks, and Home Depot. The days of union pay scale and
employer paid health benefits are a distant memory. The
corporates have gotten so greedy they have forgotten what Henry
Ford knew...that the best customers are your own decently paid
employees.
10. Patriotism can be measured by how many yellow ribbon
stickers you have on your car and how much you support the
troops and thank our military veterans for their "sacrifice".
False. This egregious behavior is promoted by the Deep State,
who want us to be good sheep who wrap ourselves in the flag and
send our children off to get maimed in the interest of Big Oil
and the perpetuation of foreign child labor. If we don't
"Support the Troops"[sup]tm[/sup] we must not be loyal
Americans. Bullshit.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: January 14, 2016, 6:44 pm
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[quote author=agelbert link=topic=6331.msg95242#msg95242
date=1452738333]
[quote author=Eddie link=topic=6331.msg95223#msg95223
date=1452719980]
It has always been my contention that the reason northern
European countries have been willing to be so heavily taxed is
because they perceive that they get what they're paying
for...that the government has, for most of the last half
century, lived up to its promises, and a workable, fair social
contract has existed.
I have also believed that this has come about, or has been
possible largely because the population of those countries is
ethnically homogeneous, or has been until fairly recent years.
I contrast that with the way we in the US have not done so well
with universal health care, old age pensions, and disability
benefits. A lot of that is a real or perceived unfairness that
some people pay more than their share and others, who may not
pay anything receive more from the social welfare system.
I predicted that this would happen in Sweden and Norway and
Finland if they allowed immigration to create a permanent
underclass with a different language and different values from
the mainstream.
Guess what? I was right. I can't help but feel the slightest bit
of schadenfreude, since those Nordic countries have always been
so adamant about their lack of racial discrimination and their
PC stance on diversity.
Welcome to our world, y'all.
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No you weren't right. The TRUE welfare queen caused expenses
that are undermining the economies of the Western world are NOT
the social costs you have been propagandized to believe (along
with the cleverly disguised racist notion that only ethnically
homogenous populations can "support" a social safety net).
If you ever bother to compute the visible and INVISIBLE (but
easily quantifiable) SUBSIDIES to VARIOUS industries (NOT just
the fossil fuel industry, though they are one of the BIGGEST
recipients of WELFARE from the BIGGEST welfare queen system -
the USA corporate giveaways - in the world ), you would then
start to see that the social safety net cost numbers are PEANUTS
compared with the corporate welfare.
People like you REFUSE to see how ALL government research on
almost EVERY invention out there, and the R & D needed to make
them technologically and financially SUCCESSFUL, have been
HANDED OFF to connected elite corporations for a song, ALWAYS
bypassing we-the-people, who paid for all of this, when the time
to sell the product to us arrives.
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Frankly, your ideological blinders are fascinating in their
sturdiness and amazing ability to discount and discard real
expenses that we-the-people are charged for.
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Good luck with your "real world". Now I understand why MKing
frequently tries to ingratiate himself with you. Scratch the
surface, and under your apparently Guru inspired sympathy for
the downtrodden of the world, you agree with MKing's "real
world" Predators 'R' US world view.
AND, you are always looking for material to "fix the facts" in
support of your ideology.
I'm going to be prick here, Eddie. I think, though I may be
wrong ;D, that I have finally figured out how you tick. You, at
some point in your education, were convinced of the efficacy of
game theory in human relations.
Game Theory, as you know, is what the Defense Department AND
Wall Street uses to justify excluding absolutely any altruistic
behavior in competitive strategies. It was created by an
autistic mathematical genius IDIOT who worshipped Spencer and
did not understand Darwin.
The problem with game theory in the REAL real world is that it
fails to model it properly. By totally excluding altruistic
behavior (except as a ploy to sucker the opponent into a
position of weakness
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/>it is doomed to, not just fail miserably, but to degrade the
[i]sine qua non conditions the species engaging in it requires
for perpetuation.[/i]
YOU DO NOT understand that, Eddie. YOU are sold on Game Theory,
as are most Capitalists, Libertarians, Wall Streeters and, of
course, the Military Industrial complex.
You ALL are WRONG. But you talk a good game (theory). ;)
Every time you fine fellows try to finger social safety nets as
"welfare queenery" or "someone else's money" (Thatcher greed is
good idiocy) OR "bad for the economy", while WILLFULLY ignoring
the MASSIVE corporate welfare queenery, you just want
brainwashed average Americans to act against their best
interests, AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT (see below).
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Darwin would not be amused with Game Theory.
Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism and neurobiology
mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat.
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The FACT is that we, as a species, WILL NOT SUCCEED
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if we CONTINUE to exclude
altruism (involving ALL LIFE, not just our family!) from our
modus vivendi.
Have a nice day.
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=6331.msg95244#msg95244
date=1452740028]
Yeah, AG. You have me all figured out. Not.
I actually agree with almost everything you said. I understand
that we could have a much better safety net here if we didn't
**** away all the money on wars and corporate welfare. But,
strictly speaking, that doesn't bear here.
I am skeptical about social engineering. I have watched it fail
for my whole lifetime here, Now it is failing in Europe. Fact.
I have no interest in game theory. I'm not into competition. I'm
not a racist or an elitist. I'm a realist. You, on the other
hand, are a dreamer. Nothing wrong with that, other than it
seems to be related to your penchant for making personal attacks
on me, occasionally.
Because I say that widely disparate cultures have difficulty
living together in harmony, no matter what "programs" the
statist central planners try to force us to participate in,
pisses you off. I can live with that. Don't get so steamed up.
I get along with MKing to some degree because I understand who
he is, what his roots are, and what his values are. I've known a
lot of guys like him. I'm not exactly that type, though.
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[quote author=RE link=topic=6331.msg95246#msg95246
date=1452741454]
I'm gong to walk a tightrope here and offend both of you.
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Far as AG's arguments, he always looks at the very worst that a
Diner offers up, and then attacks that without recognizing the
good parts of that Diner. We are all mixed bags with some good
aspects and some bad ones, with some Diners having more good
than bad, others more bad than good.
Far as Eddie's arguments, although he has great sympathy for the
downtrodden of the world, he does hold similar feelings to
Moriarty that if you just have enough gumption and intelligence
you can bootstrap yourself up, and socialism/communism is
anaethema to him. He certainly doesn't like anything socialist
in the world of medicine or dentistry, that is for sure!
Eddie is similar to Moriarty in his class and income, the type
of vacations he takes, cars he buys and so forth. Much in
common there. They differ in that Eddie has a conscience and
understands the problems the majority of the population has,
Moriarty willfully ignores it and further belittles those who
suffer these problems.
It is unfortunate IMHO that AG will go on the ATTACK on so
little provocation on some Diners, I don't think either Eddie or
Roamer deserve some of the opprobrium that AG has heaped out on
them here. It is unfortunate also that Eddie buys the portion
of Moriarty's arguments that he does, and doesn't hammer down on
him harder than he does periodically, but this is a function of
class and belief and not too surprising overall.
I write analysis like this so that I am certain to be hated by
everybody.
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RE
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=6331.msg95257#msg95257
date=1452768261]
It seems to me that a factor often overlooked in discussions of
"overextended welfare systems" is the matter of priorities. That
is apparently why God made lobbyists: to instruct Congress on
what their priorities should be, and to whom to direct the
boodle extracted from us "tax donkeys and debt serfs." AG makes
it quite clear with his graphs about subsidies. Doesn't seem
that we need a great deal of further instruction on how the
agencies charged with regulating industry have been captured by
those industries via lobbying and the subsequent revolving door.
The most successful lobbying has been done by
military-industrial complex, who've elevated the notion of
military spending to a sanctified level of received wisdom, in
service to that elusive chimera, "national security."
Underwriting the success of the European social welfare state
has been the fact that, in the 60 years after the end of World
War II, defense costs for Europe have been born by the American
taxpayer. And for the Pacific rim as well, especially Japan.
And our client states get churlish when we ask them to open
their wallets and take on more of the burden. Given the fact
that American "military" priorities have been given over to
execute political aims concocted in the fever-dreams of neocons,
I would expect more rather than fewer conflicts with our vassals
in the future along these lines. Israel, of course, is a special
case. But then the Zionist apartheid state is always a special
case. Lobbyists see to that.
But lets talk about priorities.
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[quote]In peace time, the US government used to spend very
little on defense, about one percent of GDP. But that changed
after World War II when the United States found itself in a
global contest against Communism. Ever since, defense spending
has never been less than 3.6 percent of GDP. In wartime, of
course, the United States spends as much as it can command. In
World War II defense spending exceeded 41 percent of GDP in
1945.
At the start of the 20th century, defense spending averaged
about one percent of GDP. Then it spiked to 22 percent at the
end of World War I. Defense spending in the 1920s ran at about 1
to 2 percent of GDP and in the 1930s, 2 to 3 percent of GDP.
In World War II defense spending peaked at 41 percent of GDP,
and then declined to about 10 percent during the height of the
Cold War.
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Currently, the FSoA spends more on military expenditures than
the next 13 countries combined. Such are the costs of empire,
and maintaining 1000-plus overseas bases, black sites, etc.
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[And none of this counts the so-called "black budget," the
off-the-books rathole that finances the Deep State.]
[quote]Defense spending declined in the 1990s after the end of
the Cold War and increased in the 2000s during the War on
Terror.[/quote]
Of course it did.
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Here's a broad overview:
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site:
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Here's another way to look at priorities. The U.S. Treasury
divides all federal spending into three groups: mandatory
spending, discretionary spending and interest on debt. Mandatory
and discretionary spending account for more than ninety percent
of all federal spending, and pay for all of the government
services and programs on which we rely. Debt payment is
self-evident. A snapshot:
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Here's how military spending dominates all discretionary
spending:
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By far, the biggest category of discretionary spending is
spending on the Pentagon and related military programs.
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And a roll-up:
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Since the great majority of federal spending is "mandatory
spending," the privatizers and other thieves of the commonweal
have set their sights on Social Security, Medicare and the like,
and are licking their chops to get their hands on that big wad
of expenditure. IMO, the charts reveal that we can actually
afford to do any damn thing we want if we can summon the will to
reorder our priorities. A prospect about which I am not
optimistic.
Now I'm going to wrap this up before RE pastes a "Captain
Obvious" sticker on me.
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Interesting thread.
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Nobody wants to talk about Game Theory's OBVIOUS failings. I
wonder why. ;)
Excellent points by Surly AND RE.
Howevah, I am just a bit tired of RE always wanting to
categorize my rants as "attacks", while deliberately ignoring
the passive aggressive style used by Eddie in defending the
indefensible. Eddie is GOING ON THE ATTACK every single time he
throws out a quote from Thatcher or makes a context free post
like he did at the start of this thread.
Normally, I just play dead because I do not possess Surly's
wordsmith skills or his patience for putting data together or a
rebuttal presentation. But, I'm only human. Selective blindness,
for the purpose of defending a 'greed is good' ideology
disguised as fiscally responsible practicality, pis ses me off,
PERIOD.
When someone want to crow about "BEING RIGHT", it is customary
for an educated gentleman or lady to clearly present all sides
of the issue. I did not see that here so I stepped in with,
granted
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/>about as much finesse as YOU, RE, use when you disagree with
something or somebody.
RE, I understand your message. I will endeavor to play dead more
often when I read fecal coliform filled, greed is good
propaganda. Whether you wish to admit it or not, any attack on
the, already too threadbare, social safety nets in the countries
of the world in general, and the USA in particular, is a frontal
attack on common decency and a defense of empathy deficit
disordered, predatory elitism/capitalism/fascism, fu ck you
buddy-ISM.
Simon and Garfunkel once said something about Christianity in
one of their songs. Although that was not their intent, that
phrase PEFECTLY fits in regard to a 'greed is good' ideology
disguised as fiscally responsible practicality.
[move]
Laugh about it, Shout about it, When you've got to choose, Every
way you look at it you lose.[/move]
They were wrong to mock Christ and Christianity. Heaven DOES
hold a place for those who pray.
Howevah, they were right to mock the hypocritical "Christians"
who are anything but Christian in thought, word and deed.
The common ground between 'greed is good' ideology disguised as
fiscally responsible practicality and fake Christianity is
HYPOCRISY used to manipulate, fool, dominate and disingenuously
profit from your fellow man.
IOW, it is a VICIOUS AND HARMFUL REJECTON OF THE FOLLOWING!!!!
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Have a nice day.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: January 16, 2016, 6:21 pm
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[center]Can you give me a list of common psychological biases?
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Milan de Reede
Alexander van Hattem, Human, Doctor, Mental Health Professional
Oh man, so many of those. If you are really interested in the
subject I can recommend you some good books.
First of all there's the 6 "biases" that Cialdini identified in
his book.
•Reciprocity: We are bound to return favors, even if the favor
was unsollicited. Someone hands you a rose, you feel obliged to
give them something back, even if you do not want the rose at
all.
•Consistency: People always want to look consistent. Simply put,
offer people $50 if they will try to use less electricity, then
after a few days take away the original incentive, and people
will still try to be consistent with their new self-image of
"energy saver".
•Social proof: The simplest one, really. Enter an elevator where
everyone has their backs turned to the door and you're likely to
turn your back to the door as well. When given incomplete
information people tend to just go with the group.
•Liking: We are more likely to be influenced by people that we
like. This makes sense, however this means we are more likely to
agree with or buy from people that share superficial
similarities with us, regardless of their relevance to the
situation. Your grandmother's name is also Jessica?! Great, I
should buy your car!
•Authority: We are likely to agree to do something simply
because an authority (doctor, professor) asks us to do it. This
can be easily exploited by people pretending to be an authority
(think actors playing a doctor in a series advertising for a new
drug) or by even just looking like an authority (white
lab-coat). For an interesting experiment on authority, google
Milgram experiments.
•Scarcity: This is what's in play everytime you see "Only 2 of
this shirt left!". In our minds something scarce has more value.
If there is one jar with 2 cookies left and one with 20 cookies
left, the one with 2 cookies will not only be more tempting but
we'll say the cookie tasted better (simplified).
Those are, I believe, the biggest ones. There's however a whole
sling of other biases we have.
•Even by mentioning something as odd as dwarves or by mentioning
how lucky you are, biases come into play. For example, think of
a number now. Was it 7? Mentioning dwarves (seven dwarves) and
lucky (lucky number) made you more likely to pick 7, which I see
as a bias. This is called priming. Priming someone by having
them mention their gender before a maths test makes women
perform worse than men, even if these women do not believe in
the stereotype. Priming someone by having them unscramble words
related to elderly people makes them want slower afterwards.
Priming someone by showing them the Apple logo for a few seconds
makes them more creative afterwards. There really are countless
examples here, google priming.
•Anchoring bias. Do you think that when he died Abraham Lincoln
was older or younger than 120 years? 120 years is a ridiculous
number, but after reading this and answering the question you
are likely to give a higher answer than you would if I had asked
whether he was older or younger than 17 years when he died.
•Availability heuristic. If people just saw a news item on
murders, they believe the murder rate is higher even though this
is only 1 data point.
•Perceptual contrast. Seeing a "regular" woman after seeing a
picture of a model will make that "regular" woman less
attractive. This can also be used with prices.
•Gam bler's fallacy. When you're playing roulette and the ball
keeps landing on red, you're bound to think the odds that it
must now land on black are bigger. They aren't, they are the
same everytime. People are terrible at statistics.
•Loss aversion. When given the chance to win $1000 or lose
$1000, we should see this as a neutral possibility. People
however are very averse to (potential) losses, meaning the loss
looms larger than the gain. Some studies have shown losses loom
twice as large as gains, meaning even a 50/50 bet to win $1500
or lose $1000 wouldn't be taken.
That's just a quick selection. If you really are interested in
the subject, there are a lot of interesting books on this
subject. Influence by Cialdini would be a good start.
Thanks for the A2A.
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Agelbert NOTE: AS you can see, normal humans are inherently
caring and cooperative. These are good traits that, rather than
being labeled as "biases", should be celebrated as evidence of
our inherently social, not individualistic, nature.
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HOWEVER, Game theorists, who eschew altruistic behavior or
reciprocal kindness, except as a ploy to lower the guard of a
competitor
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study all
the above in order to manipulate, make suckers of, and profit
from, humans outside their circle of Welfare Queen "Apex
Predators 'R' US".
Game Theory is and always was, a cheap rationalization for
conscience free "might is right" STUPIDITY.
"Might is right" is the cornerstone of Capitalism.
[quote]
The 'greed is good' worshipping advocates of this evil ISM have
a complete vocabulary of terms and phrases coined for the
express purpose of demonizing egalitarian social systems that
protect, care for and preserve the people and the environment on
behalf of present and future generations. [/quote]
In fact, all those disingenuous terms and phrases (wasteful
bureaucracies, unsound social engineering, irresponsible
spending of other people's money, coerced and undemocratic
taxation, etc.) apply 100% to the capitalist corruption of the
tax system and the government in this country (and others).
Some hair splitters will claim that's PREDATORY Capitalism, not
good old patriotic American Capitalism. "Predatory" (is a
redundant adjective because [i]there really isn't any other kind
of Capitalism, regardless of what you have heard from
Capitalists ;)).
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[move]THE PATH that this empathy deficit disordered, 'greed is
good', 'might is right' ISM is pushing human civilization along
will, if not stopped, lead to the following future. See
Below.[/move]
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Whether they admit it or not, people are brainwashed to believe
that a "successful predator" is one that NEVER engages in
altruistic behavior.
This is wrong and it is stupid. But that's what people are
brainwashed with in our "educational" system and in our business
community.
Consequently, if a person is not directly being threatened, they
are made to believe that the "normal" behavior of an "apex
predator" (like us) is to NOT help the downtrodden, but to seek
to PROFIT from their misery..
Game Theory is what the Defense Department AND Wall Street use
to justify excluding absolutely any altruistic behavior in
competitive strategies. It was created by an autistic
mathematical genius IDIOT who worshipped Spencer and did not
understand Darwin.
The problem with game theory in the REAL real world is that it
fails to model it properly. By totally excluding altruistic
behavior (except as a ploy to sucker the opponent into a
position of weakness), it is doomed to, not just fail miserably,
but to degrade the [i]sine qua non conditions the species
engaging in it requires for perpetuation.[/i]
The brainwashed DO NOT understand that. They therefore DO NOT
lift a finger to help the minorities in this, or any other,
country. THEY, (particularly the "conservatives") are sold on
Game Theory, as are most Capitalists, Libertarians, Wall
Streeters and, of course, the Military Industrial complex.
THEY ALL are WRONG. But they talk a good game (theory).
Every time those fine fellows claim they "aren't racist", even
as they try to finger social safety nets as "welfare queenery"
or "someone else's money" (see: Thatcher 'greed is good' idiocy)
OR "bad for the economy", while WILLFULLY ignoring the MASSIVE
corporate welfare queenery, they just want brainwashed average
Americans to act against their best interests, AND BE HAPPY
ABOUT IT (see below).
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Game Theory is the cornerstone of racism AND our degraded
democracy and biosphere.
Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
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A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism and neurobiology
mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat.[/I]
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The FACT is that we, as a species, WILL NOT SUCCEED if we
CONTINUE to exclude altruism (involving ALL LIFE, not just our
family!) from our [i]modus vivendi.[img
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We ARE our brother's keeper. Our species will not survive if we
don't learn AND LIVE that, not as religious principle, but as a
basic tenet of Biosphere Math Successful Species Perpetuation.
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Have a nice day.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: January 25, 2016, 6:51 pm
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Uh,oh, indeed.
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Uh, oh is right.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: February 5, 2016, 9:46 pm
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[center]VIDEO: Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive?
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Posted on Feb 4, 2016
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: February 18, 2016, 3:07 pm
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[center]VIDEO: Constitution Alert [/center]
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Rovian trick, claim the opponent's strengths, and accuse him of
your own weaknesses. :evil4:[/move]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: March 3, 2016, 2:00 pm
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[center]Don’t Cry About Super Tuesday—Bernie Sanders Is Winning
the Future
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Posted on Mar 2, 2016
MONEY QUOTES:
[quote]“Judging from Super Tuesday’s results, Sen. Bernie
Sanders has a long row to hoe if he is going to overtake Hillary
Clinton and become the Democratic nominee,” Bleifuss began. “By
and large, the margins of her victories were larger than the
margins of his. And as In These Times Deputy Publisher
Christopher Hass reported last week, it is in the size of these
margins that the Democratic standard bearer will be determined.
“But the race for the Democratic nomination is not only a
contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. It is also
the venue for competing ideas about how social change is made,
in which two visions for the future have been offered.”
Look at how the debate over healthcare has played out. Sanders
is an unabashed supporter of getting insurance corporations out
of the healthcare business and establishing a single-payer,
Medicare-for-all system. Clinton has campaigned to defend the
Obamacare status quo, and tinker about the edges. Ditto with
banking. Sanders promises he will break up banks that are too
big to fail. Clinton wants to—well, she says she will hold Wall
Street accountable and reduce risks, but we don’t exactly know
what her agenda is, since she has refused to release the texts
of speeches she gave to the bankers who have funded her. As for
making college affordable, Sanders wants to provide free tuition
for students who attend state institutions. Clinton wants to
make community colleges free and reduce costs at public
universities. The list goes on, but you get the picture. The
choice is between radical change and incremental reform.
And that’s reform that 26 million Americans who still lack
reliable access to health care six years after the passage of
President Obama’s landmark health insurance law would be
justified in seeing as no reform at all.
“Again and again,” Bleifuss continued, we get the same “measured
caution” from Clinton. “Dreams are for the future. ... Enjoy the
feast. Half a loaf is better than none.”
True to the interests of his constituents, Sanders “is having no
truck with such a meager meal.” As the senator put it in a
speech in Fort Collins, Colo., on Sunday:
I believe that if you start your campaign and run on a platform
calling for a full loaf, at worst you’re gonna get a half loaf.
If you start your campaign talking about a need for a half loaf,
you’re going to get crumbs. And the American people today do not
want, do not need crumbs. They need the whole loaf.
With Clinton measurably closer to the nomination, “it looks like
we’re sitting down to a pretty lean victors banquet,” Bleifuss
continued. But if Sanders does lose the nomination, he asks, “In
the long-term, who is the real winner? Who has put ideas on the
table that herald a future that transcends the status quo? As he
has done before, on Super Tuesday, in state after state, Sanders
won a majority of Democratic voters under the age of 30. Clinton
may yet win the nomination, but the future of the party belongs
to Sanders.”
The young people who make up a significant portion of Sanders’
movement “are not clueless dreamers. The harsh realities of
employment precarity, debt, low wages, inequality, climate
change, etc., have forced young Americans to reassess their
circumstances in a cold, harsh light.”
If life in America is basically peachy keen, then the small-bore
reforms proposed by Clinton and the neoliberal technocrats who
helm the Democratic Party make a lot of sense.
If, on the other hand, the status quo is intolerable—as it is
for millions of Americans—then what Sanders calls “political
revolution” becomes a moral imperative.
Clinton and Sanders offered America’s millennials two futures.
They made their choice.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: March 16, 2016, 8:09 pm
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[center][font=georgia]HUGE Victory: Senate Rejects the DARK Act
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Wenonah Hauter | March 16, 2016 1:03 pm |
Today, the Senate did the right thing and did not advance a bill
from Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) that can best be described as the
Denying Americans the Right to Know
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labeling of genetically engineered (GMO) foods and stopped
pending state laws that require labeling to go into effect.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: April 13, 2016, 8:49 pm
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[move] Krugman Maliciously Attacks Senator Bernie Sanders
>:([/move]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: April 30, 2016, 3:04 pm
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date=1462022600]
[quote author=roamer link=topic=7064.msg102584#msg102584
date=1461994834]
I'll level with you I'm not really that sad about my engineering
career not working out, I frankly hated the corporate
environment. Just wish I had a little security and a place to
call home. I'm all but selling my soul out to the frackers to
get a shot at buying some land and a cabin but its not exactly
panning out that great either. Not only has the pay gone to S H
I T it's just goddammn boring and monotonous. MKing thinks way
too highly of the drilling world. Maybe it was different in his
day but punching holes in the bakken is la cookie cutter
process. Im going brain dead mwding there is not an iota of
technical challenge left to the job, I'm getting paid for sleep
deprivation and the ability to be a trained yes sir monkey. The
next rung up as directional driller isn't too much better either
from a technical perspective. Maybe my cabin will have to just
be a cheap cube van and a tent lol..
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99% of all jobs are boring and monotonous. The nature of a
"job" is that you do the same thing, day in and day out.
Neurosurgery is boring. Spinal fusions, every day, that is the
meat of the practice. Milking cows is boring. Driving a truck
is boring.
Artists have slightly less boring jobs, but even art is
monotonous. If you're a painter, every day you paint. What you
are painting may be different one day to the next, but you're
still dipping a brush in paint, over and over.
Why do people do these boring and monotonous jobs? To make
MONEY of course. B&M jobs are somewhat more tolerable the more
money you make, although not always. Beyond the problem of B&M,
unless you are the CEO you always have some "boss" you have to
please, and who also more often than not is an ass hole.
All of this serves to make the world of work quite unpleasant,
and even though I did work I mostly enjoyed, I just about
always had ass hole bosses. So I definitely do not miss the
world of work, and sure am glad I got my opportunity to retire
on Mailbox Money! :icon_sunny:
However, you are quite a few years away from this unless you
become disabled, which of course is not much fun itself, but on
balance it is better than working! lol.
So, let's assume you can get your college loans paid off and you
put together enough money to buy a cabin, or some land you can
build one on. You didn't particularly like milking cows over
the last winter, you didn't like working as an engineer, you
don't like poking holes in the ground for the fracking
industry...so what are you going to do for money once you do buy
said cabin? ???
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/> If you go on the cheap with a Stealth Van, what are you going
to do for money to buy gas, assuming as you do that gas will be
available and cheap for some time to come?
RE
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Roamer,
Selling out your soul is a bad plan.
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The routine selling of one's soul for the MYTH of "personal
freedom of choice" is what made Amerika a BANANA Republic run by
those corporations you abhor.
Ka figured this out. I'm sure you can figure it out too.
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