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22 天前The Galloping Gourmet!
( reading this page is hilarious, btw… : )
Another vote for Kids in the Hall, the sharpest humour I recall from all of TV-era…
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Wayne & Schuster.
They were fun!
He invented MOVEABLE TYPE … the printing-press was an Asian invention
( block-prints, I believe? )
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Does getting this stuff seen by more eyes help?
We can’t change the past, but we can damn-well upgrade our fidelity to objectivity since it’s our very survival on the line, can’t we?
The pseudojournalism working only to normalize the insanity, & to push the population into learned-helplessness … are NOT our allies.
Globally.
We need to get better at seeing-what-actually-is, real-time!
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1 of my Soul’s/Continuum’s previous-incarnations was as a bee/hornet/wasp life, & I got to experience a taste of that sentience, decades ago…
I’d say no, for the simple reason that their sentience-on-brain is so incredibly efficient, & there’s no … material-basis … wasted on that specific kind-of-mind…
There is hesitancy, but ?fear? … it doesn’t fit the Soul-memory right…
( the bee/hornet/wasp family is cladistically/genetically flying-ants, with mutations, so this is actual-relatives )
When you see opposing kinds of ants, each with their fighters lined-up, opposite each-other…
that’s about as close as you could get to “fear”, right?
In that role, there’s applying-threat/force & there’s hesitancy, balancing between, but … I’m not finding, in my Soul-memory of that category-of-life, fear.
Notice, also, that when an ant comes back with an injury, other ants will prune their limbs to limit risk-of-infection, if required… ( recent news, that ), so they’re kinda really pragmatic about things like amputations, you know?
Here’s a simple method for usually getting someone of the bee/hornet/wasp family out from your home, if they get in…
I’m presuming a house, not an apartment-building with sealed-outer-envelope/wall…
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make certain you haven’t got what they register as FOOD or something smelling openly, as scent overrides thinking, throughout much of the animal-kingdom, so no perfume, no open garbage-can with whatever they eat ( wasps eat meat ) overriding their will…
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block & darken the paths you don’t want them going
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brighten & open the paths you do want them going ( porch light on, to lighten that path, e.g. )
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if you have to wave your arms gently, wide, to catch their attention, to get them to intentionally-look-there, do so, then simply have one’s arms at one’s side, & hold still ( you don’t need to move slowly for them: they live MUCH quicker than humans do: I saw a man falling, & it was taking ages, in that previous-incarnation )…
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keep your eyes slitted, as they’ll try flying into your eyes, because the dark-pupil looks to them like a home-sized opening… ( a beekeeper told me this single point, all the rest is of my Soul-memory/experience )
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they should “swim” ( it feels like swimming, to them: sentience feels wet, in their crustaceans-living-in-the-air lives ) into the open-luminance, leaving your home, happily…
I’ve tried this, & it only works with that family: it doesn’t work with blackflies, it doesn’t work with mosquitos, it doesn’t work with beetles, etc…
So, it matches my Soul-memory experience’s prediction of their sentiences’ behavior.
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1·23 天前I think you’re ignoring the stage of the world, right now: The Great Filter’s where we’re at, now.
Imagine a giant “cell”, a world with too-many humans to be able to support them all, because humans got adult technology, multiplying humankind’s effect 10,000-fold, but … humans are still part-toddler & part-pubescent tween…
Except now, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current ( AMOC ) is shutting-down, Greenland’s melting into the North Atlantic ( which will wreck the North Atlantic’s ports, later this century ), the actual CO2 & methane levels in this world’s atmosphere nail the planet’s equilibrium-temperature to between +8C & +9C, most of { California, Texas, Sahara, Saudi-Arabia, India, Outback of Australia } become uninhabitABLE by about +4C, & the political-tantrum, the ideological-tantrum the “religious”-tantrum, etc, all are stacking-up on top of the panic-migrations that are going to be forced shortly…
& then ask the Russia question…
What’s actually happening, is that humankind is going-through
- mitosis, with ideologues/prejudice-supremacists/“religion”-supremacists warring to force-extinguish considered-reasoning, & the considered-reasoning people accustomed to coddling, whereas not it’s do-or-die survival for humankind
- The Great Filter, aka species-puberty, where some subset of humankind grows-up XOR all of humankind is “naturally selected against” this century, leaving our world extinguished of our kind
- ideological-nationalism is fighting to force-extinguish all other modes, so it can then get to “rule” the world, while the world dies…
etc…
Pick a view, in other words…
I don’t believe that country-nationalism CAN survive The Great Filter: I believe that it has to be Blue Marble Earth “nation” or it’s going to be factional-supremacists exterminating humankind for their own “authority” and “supremacy” and “importance” until humankind’s completely nonviable, & functionally finished…
The Kahneman1-mind, imprint->reaction mind, lower-forebrain, ideology/prejudice/“religion” which “doesn’t need to consider: it INHERENTLY just knows” …
is fighting to force-extinguish Kahneman2-mind, considered-reasoning mind, upper-forebrain, studying-and-accepting-evidence mode, because Universe is sooo much more complexer than we default to ignorantly assume…
( Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” is part of the root of this understanding: it’s literally a species-wide fighting-off of growing-up, to “return to the animals-&-tribes-times”, that the “biblical” people want to enforce, but it’s ALL ideologies wanting to enforce, the non-thinking REACTING nature of it )
Now ask:
IS Russia, in the crunch-time of this world, going to suddenly replace ideology with critical-thinking-education & considered-reasoning??
No?
THEN Russia is warring for the obliteration of considered-reasoning.
Do the same question for EVERY nation in this world, & add-up the results.
You will find that the white-blue-white Russians are committed to considered-reasoning, but the white-blue-red Russians are not…
Same with all countries: there are some who want their animal-reaction obliterating all competitors from the face of this Universe, there are others who understand that the Copernican revolution ( no, neither Sun nor G-D revolves around “the world of Man”. ) never went far-enough, & that we have to accept that in the Great Scheme of Things™, we are … sentient dust!
& if we accept that we are much more likely to be developmentally-backward citizens of this Universe, objectively, & that is too-much of an ego-hit for the animal-reaction ideologues…
Ask about the Confederates!
Ask about the CCP!
Ask about the Rupert Murdoch populist-dictatorship people! ( the elegant & brilliant remapping of Leninism from left to right, from proletariat-dictatorship to populist-dictatorship. Both Leninism & Murdochism are evil, in my eyes, but the efficiency with-which they eradicate uprightness from civilizations: they’re like efficient cancer!
I want considered-reasoning, & Issue-Diagrams, & responsibility-archy, & accountability, they want authority-without-accountability-or-responsibility, so they’re on the opposite side, but … you simply have to admire efficiency when it’s that much greater than one’s own side’s work, even while working to counter it…
maybe people who aren’t systems-creatures won’t understand that, but systems-people … effectiveness can itself be beautiful )
So, what I see is that focusing in Russia is actually like moving tables on the sinking of the Titanic: solving the wrong problem.
The Global Fascist Alliance, with Putin, Trump+Musk, Millei, Farage, Le Pen, Orban, etc… they’ve got real strength in this world, & they’re going to GUT civil-rights from our planet, permanently, if they can.
The left is … making-believing that it isn’t a survival-situation, that “the next election we can just take it back” … but anybody who sees just how stunningly fast the shredding-of-the-US-civil-society is progressing…
https://www.project2025.observer/
See on there that they’re assuming there’s going to be an election to replace Trump?
Idiocy: there isn’t.
That’s the kind of making-believing I’m talking about: comforting making-believing while being herded into the abbatoir.
Russia & the US are solid allies, & NATO is their enemy, now.
Period.
This was predicted by some, for the last few years.
The quicker that the rest-of-NATO realizes this, the greater the percentage of their people will survive.
Within 3y, the US will be waging total war on Canada, because only through possessing both Canada & Greenland can the US corner Europe between Russia & the entirely-continental US of A.
Annihilating the hated-by-both-Putin-and-Trump woke EU means that they then get to be the only “kings” left in the West.
Trump’s annexing of Greenland isn’t for ice-rights, or mineral-rights, it is for military force-projection against Europe.
The EU’s trojanned, with Orban, so they’re hamstrung.
England gutted itself with Brexit.
The multi-dimensional-assault is elegant…
for the soft-force, butcher Europe through politics, but … the physical-butchering of the EU is obliged, apparently, in Putin & Trump’s hearts…
Arm to the teeth, & fight to the death.
That is the only real way left.
1st Ukraine, then … Canada & Europe, ie TrueNATO.
IF we remain standing when the US’s war-against-itself implodes it, THEN we’ll be standing to be having the CCP throwing all their Asian Empire ( the US should be able to be rampaging our Western world until … sometime in 2031 or so? & with the West all “occupied” by that, China can simply smash all “independence” from Asia, without our being able to do ANYthing about it. ) against us, when the US fails…
So, it’ll simply be like those idiotic “opponents” in computer-games, who wait at the side, until you’ve dealt-with the current one, then the next one piles-on…
IF CCP waits until the Russia+US alliance collapses, THEN … it gets to wallop an already-exhausted TrueNATO, right?
Even better, it gets to finance Russia’s rampaging of Europe, while pretending it isn’t “involved”, the whole time that Russia+US are warring against TrueNATO, & then once that bit’s done, it can overtly own Russia, its now-economic-vassal-state…
Sorry this isn’t lining-up with “what to do about Russia” as it was intended.
but surviving this century requires we get guts, drive, & upright instinct, pronto.
We need to become more like Ukraine has been, but not the naive-fool that Zelenskiy is being, in assuming that the US is somehow his, & not Putin’s, ally, now.
( I pray he gets his head out of the sand, immediately )
This is a literal deathmatch, a war-of-attrition between enemy-intents who … most of them … simply don’t care if nobody survives on this world, so long as nobody of the others survives.
Wrong-framing means a greater percentage of humankind are extinguished, this-century, is all.
It saves zero lives, it offers less effective “comfort” than alcohol: Hopium COST the Dems in the US their country.
We need to not let it drug us, too.
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Not particularly: often they really are pertinent in both communities, & it is better to speak redundantly than to not-be-heard in 1 domain where one needs to be heard…
That isn’t to say all crossposts are honest, though: spammers exist, & need to be … um … packaged inside cans of processed-pork, until they stop spamming?
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I think the question is backwards, & therefore accidentally missing-the-point…
( same as the survivor-bias question, back in WW2 EDIT: here’s the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9WFpVsRtQg )
It isn’t that we see most pets as cute, rather, it is that if it isn’t cute, it isn’t a pet.
So, we’re looking-at an immensely selective subset of animals, & then framing the question on that misrepresentation…
We tend to see babies, of most mammals, as cute, because of some generic wiring in us that codes for that, it seems … AND …
One time, while living homeless out in the bush, I heard crashing through the leaves going this-way, then pausing, then going that-way…
unzipped my “tent” & looked out… it was a newborn fawn, seeing the world for the 1st time…
its presence-energy was one of the most-beautiful things I’ve ever seen…
Notice that humans tend to prefer looking at youthful humans?
I find that there are several different reasons, but that most people aren’t conscious of them…
Lack of wrinkles & scars, OK, smooth, fit, … vital…
Right-there’s part of it: vital.
Ever seen healthy kittens, & their simple clean vitality?
What civilized-life erodes from us?
Another part of it is that when you’re old, like me, & you spend ages digging into things, & realize stuff like …
… Karl Marx honestly believed that communism meant the un-alienation of the proletariat, because he believed that communism somehow inherently meant “everybody owns everything, together”, but …
… ask the actual-survivors of communism, & it’s always “nobody owns anything, & nobody cares for anything”, which is why the expression of communism is Brutalism, historically
( and anybody who pretends that the ecological brutalism of communism isn’t valid evidence, can go eat rocks )…
well, the young are … mentally blank, aren’t they?
Want a friend you’re not going to get into profound ideological disputes with?
DON’T pick an old human, whose spent their life being battered by life, & thinking on it all.
Instead pick someone who’s still in Kegan3, but permanently ( Robert Kegan’s unconscious-mind-development stages 3, 4, & 5, can be described as
- Kegan3: absorbing experience, wanting to feel liked - this is the mode of cows, who associate with validity, because they aren’t bulling, themselves.
- Kegan4: bulling-boss mode: pushing-out incompatible-meaning, & instinct that if anybody else has any validity, that subtracts from own-validity, ie all is zero-sum-game for validity. This is the mode of bulls, fighting for dominance - it is limbic, not any kind of conscious-decision.
- Kegan5: systems-of-systems mode: what the best “Elders” of the indigenous people had earned, what the “elder generals” of the ancient times had earned, etc.
( Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change” book is on our unconscious-mind’s fighting-off of growing-up, its sabotaging our lives, & how to work around that innate-mechanism, getting it to understand, so growing-up, moving from dysfunction to function, can happen in our lives.
It’s a book I’d require all high-school kids to read at-least part of, so when they need to read it for real, they’ll remember it, & find a library, & dig-in )
: )
But whom do we want as pets?
Pretty-much always we want Kegan3 ( or lower? ) types as pets: NOT people who compete with us for validity, right?
We’re wanting, iow, dependents, we’re wanting substitute children without the wrestling-match of actual-human-children…
Now multiply the only-cute-animals-get-chosen-as-pets * we-want-substitute-children-without-the-difficulties-of-human-children …
& you’re getting a “furbaby”, right?
There’s another angle to add-in…
Feral animals do NOT have the same psychology as pets: pets are developmentally-removed, more “baby-like” in their manner, their behavior, etc…
I’ve come across a few people who pointed this out, & considering it through the years, they’re right ( I spent 1/3-decade rough in the bush: they’re very right ).
So, we only select cute pets, we want them to be pseudo-children, AND we make them only partly grow-up, so they never become adult in the ways of their own kind ( usually with either ruthless killing or with ruthless herd-behaviors involved, as with horses, who’ll force a reject-of-their-herd to do without food, & die, because that’s the way their herds work )…
Again, we’re looking through “rose colored” glasses, & seeing “the question” as being only what our distortion of reality allows…
All I’m trying to do is get people to see feral animals as the correct frame-of-reference for animals, & then see how we’ve babied-down/dumbed-down our pets, & how we do this for our own emotional-comforting, to have someone who “needs” us ( when we’re bothering to be home where they live: when we’re at work, they’re just “furniture” or something?? unfair to them, tbh )…
& this is deforming our ability to understand what the true-questions are…
I agree with some who hold that experience with pets & herd-beasts is required for someone to really, honestly, understand human growing-up…
but I’m adamant that outgrowing “dependents” is required for people to earn more-complete self-conquering, more-complete growing-up.
Codependency is what people default-to, nowadays, whereas independence is the root of interdependence, what Stephen R. Covey called “synergy”.
I don’t think he made it strong/clear enough, just how independent one needs to be ( for us guys, I’ve no idea how it maps to women’s reality ), in order for interdependence to not be codependence…
Anyways, just a bit of perspective that may be useful …
National Film Board stuff, that is one of the deepest treasure-wells we’ve got, in Canada…
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