Luke Ford

I'm returning to Australia for the first time since 2014. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282

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My trip so far: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142279

I’m flew into Sydney Thursday afternoon. My… just asked what is my aussie tax id # so he can employ me in manual labor. I told about him about the riches that come from my emotional revelations on Youtube. Burn! I’m not flying to Australia for two months to work. I’m flying to Australia for two months to journal about my feelings while eating mangos and watching cricket. I don’t think I’ve fully unpacked my deepest yearnings yet. Stay tuned! OTOH, if John Updike could write about azaleas, maybe this seminal blogger could broaden his perspective from himself to other forms of life.

It's my first time in Australia since June of 2014 and my first time in Sydney since June 1985.

Not bad with an Australian passport 30 years out of date! Aussie customs held back for half an hour to verify my citizenship and I got told if I wanted to come again without a visa, I needed to get an up to date Aussie passport.

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Walking out into traffic is a little bit too much faith in your fellow man.

https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282 I'm ready to move to Sydney. I can't believe the quality of life here. I’m making a list of pros and cons for leaving Los Angeles and staying down under.

It’s my first time in Australia since June of 2014 and my first time in Sydney since June 1985.

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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CK8CJVS/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/books/review/the-man-who-ran-washington-james-baker-peter-baker-susan-glasser.html

http://stutzmanpa.com/

The Anger Merchants, https://fakenous.net/?p=2620

The Fallacy of Rationalism, https://fakenous.net/?p=2632

Step Eleven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC9zv1KvE0

Here is an important paper from Princeton in 2016: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142188

Meaning-making is a fundamental characteristic of thinking minds. Expose a person to a set of completely unrelated events and observe the complex ways in which human minds create connections, tell stories, and go beyond what is given to imbue chaos with order. We are concerned here with understanding the conditions under which one’s tendency to search for meaning backfires and leads to conspiratorial thinking and superstitious beliefs.

Decades of investigation into the processes involved in meaningmaking revealed that it is an automatically triggered (Kahneman, 2013), evolutionary adaptive (Foster & Kokko, 2009; Sherman, 2002), and developmentally dynamical (Tronick & Beeghly, 2011) feature of the cognitive system. It influences information processing fromperception (Heider & Simmel, 1944), to more complex mnemonic (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter, 2002) and decisional (Nickerson, 1998) processes. For themost part, this ability to make sense of a complexworld has positive consequences. It has been shown to result inmental and physical health benefits (Ownsworth & Nash, 2015), increased well-being (Cacioppo, Hawkley, Rickett, & Masi, 2005; Shek, 1992), emotion regulation (Ochsner, Silvers, & Buhle, 2012) and adjustment to trauma (Park, 2010). But the ability to search for meaning sometimes backfires. In an effort after meaning individuals falsely remember events that they haven’t actually experienced (Clancy, 2005; Schacter, 2001), they preferentially process belief consistent information (Snyder & Swann, 1978) and engage in motivated reasoning as a way to maintain internal consistency (Kunda, 1990).

One important way in which meaning search could backfire is when meaning is assigned to meaningless events. Recent research hints at the fact that the tendency to endorse conspiracy theories could be seen as an exaggeration of the processes involved in meaning search. Whitson and Galinsky (2008), for example, find that when people are made to feel uncertain or when they lack control over a situation they are more likely to endorse superstitious beliefs and conspiracy theories. Complementarily, affirming control has been found to result in reduced beliefs in conspiracy theories (Prooijen & Acker, 2015).We reasoned that: (1) one particular instance in which people are made to feel uncertain and might be motivated to reestablish control by engaging in search for meaning are situations involving social exclusion, and (2) this search for meaning might, in turn, make people particularly prone to endorse superstitious beliefs and conspiratorial thinking. Both premises are supported by previous research. Stillman et al. (2009), for instance, found that social exclusion is associated with feelings of meaninglessness.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1051475843/dopesick-hulu-true-story-opioid-addiction

Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670

Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence and Maturity by John Money, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130433

https://www.takimag.com/article/from-dreamland-to-nightmareland/

Steve Sailer writes: With the CDC estimating last month that drug overdose deaths rose over 30 percent in the first twelve months of the pandemic to nearly 100,000, Sam Quinones’ outstanding new sequel to his award-winning 2015 book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic is definitely timely.

Quinones’ The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth brings us up to date on the disastrous drug developments of the past half-dozen years.

Dreamland explained how the Sackler family promoting OxyContin to doctors as a “non-addictive” synthetic opioid painkiller in the late 1990s set off what I call the White Death that quietly killed so many working-class whites in the first decade of this century.

Then, as the medical profession became less irresponsible about writing pain-pill prescriptions, Mexican drug smugglers stepped in to supply cut-off pill addicts with heroin.

While Dreamland was superbly reported, its prose style was occasionally slightly off. In contrast, The Least of Us is elegantly written. And Quinones has perfected his method of merging big-picture cause-and-effect analyses of the economics and neuroscience of drugs with illustrative human-interest stories of Americans swept up in this national catastrophe.

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

https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/

https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/

https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/

https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar

https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-us-national-strategy-countering-domestic-terrorism

https://www.vox.com/22600500/olympics-conservatives-simone-biles-anti-american

https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-19-while-ranting-against-vaccines-and-declaring

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-paradox-of-trumpist-patriotism/

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00:00 The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0022Q8CVY/

03:00 The Power Of The Situation To Shape Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140115

34:00 The Nostradamus Kid, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=34917

40:00 How Does Psychotherapy Change Our Brains?, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-works-and-why/202011/how-does-psychotherapy-change-our-brains

50:00 Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power. Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone., https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-insurrection-senate/

57:00 Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-08/as-ds-and-fs-soar-schools-ditch-inequitable-grade-systems

1:00:20 Curtis Yarvin talks to Michael Anton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8lNtIN7Us

1:12:00 Unite the Right Trial: Fmr. HBCU Professor and White Supremacist takes stand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6iqOTcvSiY

1:19:00 Unite the Right Trial: Richard Spencer takes the stand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SslMmaa1H60

1:27:00 Charlottesville Defendant Watched Tucker Carlson To Prep For Trial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoEeIllR9z8

1:30:00 How to avoid getting sued, https://sites.hanover.com/articles/architects-engineers-avoiding-lawsuits.html

1:36:20 Kenneth Brown: Liars on the Right #3: Edward Dutton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9lrJ0XAK8

https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/

https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/

https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar

https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-us-national-strategy-countering-domestic-terrorism

https://www.vox.com/22600500/olympics-conservatives-simone-biles-anti-american

https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-19-while-ranting-against-vaccines-and-declaring

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-paradox-of-trumpist-patriotism/

https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-conservative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/

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00:00 Republican do well in yesterday's elections

06:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show, https://twitter.com/elliottblatt

08:00 Elliott's misery after the 2020 presidential election

10:00 Elliott on January 6 riots

14:00 How would Elliott's bro describe him?

15:00 How social exclusion leads to conspiracy thinking, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142188

18:00 Elliott's disciplined methodology for ferreting out truth

20:00 Debbie Friedman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Friedman

27:00 Elliott feels a distance from normies

28:30 Elliott says 4chan is ground zero for truth

1:09:00 All of Elliott's friends have left the Bay Area for economic reasons

1:25:00 Dennis Prager's Covid experience, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfW_Li_Oey8

1:47:00 Is Taiwan defensible? How many Americans should die to protect Taiwan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRZd_Kxvhvo

1:58:15 Interview with Sam Harris on Gurus, Tribalism & the Culture War, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sam-harris

1:59:45 Ex-Nazi turned woke warrior Christian Picciolini, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Picciolini

2:05:00 Interview with Matthew Remski on Conspirituality, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-interview-with-matthew-remski-on-conspirituality

2:07:00 How yoga can wreck your body, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html

2:15:00 Decoding the yoga gurus

2:32:00 Child Sex Trafficking: Galactic Federation & Reincarnation (July 2020) Elizabeth April, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Mrgx1F4B4

2:38:00 U.S. STATE GETS BORED WITH BLUE CENTRIST GOVERNOR, VOTES IN RED CENTRIST GOVERNOR, https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2021/11/us-state-gets-bored-with-blue-centrist.html

2:44:00 James Howard Kunstler on Collapse, Jewish culture

2:46:00 Jews and the right-wing nut jobs

2:48:00 Lawfare

https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/

https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/

https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar

https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-us-national-strategy-countering-domestic-terrorism

https://www.vox.com/22600500/olympics-conservatives-simone-biles-anti-american

https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-19-while-ranting-against-vaccines-and-declaring

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-paradox-of-trumpist-patriotism/

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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

by Andrew Marantz

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-words

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/unite-the-right-witness-violent-plans-testimony

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4

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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

by Andrew Marantz

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