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  • 19: COVID-19 Realities, Postmodernism and Ad Hominem Attacks
    • Chris: Apologies for the crappy sound on my mic at the start, I had my inputs switched to the wrong mike.
    • Why are US COVID-19 cases soaring in the US while the rest of the world is dropping - is this being way over-recorded for political purposes?
    • The guidance was warped. Plus there are tons of false-positives?
    • Flu seemed to disappear with COVID-19 showed up, does this mean that flu is shown up as COVID-19 - can we believe the numbers?
    • What is the independent variable?
    • There are no risk factors - COVID-19 is small enough to get through any mask, other than N95?
    • Where are the risk factors - no one is giving them to us - they are just telling us what to do with no mention of risk factors
    • You have to parse out the risk factors individually - this is rudimentary math.
    • What is the effectiveness rate - we are not being told.
    • They are playing rhetorical things with the data.
    • No one has explained anything this clearly - you might be an upcoming video to explain all this.
    • Eric Metaxas - a fellow Greek who a radio show out of New York - just like me - the same age as me, but born in Astoria, NY.
    • We need more Artistole out here.
    • Gad Saad - real troublemaker - what so wrong with going on Joe Rogan AND writing intelligent papers at the same time
    • Stephen Hicks - situational truth - situational morality - postmodernism - use argument but not the math behind it - Its All Relative - but what is it relative to? They do not believe in objectivity. Marxists couldn't get the workers to revolt so they resurrected sophistry - the ability to re-write history to completely revise the character of an individual.
    • Why are all postmodernists on the Left?
    • The postmodernists have no principles - they just do what gives them an advantage.
    • They have no core ethics - no rules other than my rules.
    • Why is racism about identity instead of behavior? You aren't racist just because you are white, black, asian, etc. It's about your behavior, not what you are born with.
    • They attack the person - not their position.
    • What about Trump and the nicknames he gives people - this is branding.
    • How do you defeat an ad hominem attack? Don't walk away.
    • Focus on the similarities, not the differences. You need to get them off of the dilemma.
    • Cut the Gordian knot.
    • Don't argue hypotheticals - don't answer them.
    • Need someone to bridge the worlds between the flavors of humanity.
    • Use ad hominem attacks to just shut people down.
    • How to fight against what's happening out there? How do we stop the USA from turning out YASS (Yet Another Socialist State)? I don't want to leave and go to my own bubble? Doesn't spread the message.
    • Polls are BS
    • If it happened once, it will happen again.
      • 1 hr
    • 18: All About The Outrage Industry (The News Media) and Outrage Archeology (Digging Up Ones Past To Cancel Them)

      We talk about the Outrage Industry and why we are the way we are.

      • The Outrage Industry (The News Media)
      • Outrage Archeology (Digging Up One's Past To Cancel Them)
      • The media  is less trustworthy than politicians and lawyers
      • Has the news media always been focused on riling people up over the truth?
      • Why are we so interested in presenting misery? That's what Oprah used to be like until they switched to a more positive tone.
      • Both the news media and social media are engaged in a bid to outrage us as much as possible. The more outrage, the more clicks and the more money they make.
      • They are driving people into a frenzy, and some people have committed suicide; others need therapy, and some have been forced to insanity.
      • We never see the reality - we always see what will outrage us the most.
      • Does this trigger our stress hormones? Maybe the news is also contributing to our obesity?
      • Do the people on the right know what their limits are?
      • Are we in the middle of a civil war?
      • What do the protestors want? There seems to be no plan other than tearing the whole system down.
      • They want the ability to be able to surveil Americans.
      • The Patriot Act was a surveillance tool for Americans.
      • Are these crises being created to trigger social change?
      • The Overton Window is being expanded.
      • Facts are not just being manipulated; they are now being discarded.
      • Is it because the news media simply can't keep up with citizen journalism. They don't bother to fact-check anything anymore because they are not in the "news" business anymore, they are in the Outrage business.
      • How do we fight back against this and other than to just disconnect ourselves from it because it's so toxic?
      • If you are Outraged - they win.
      • Outrage Archeology: finding something in someone's past, which was OK at the time, but not OK now. The problem is, you go back far enough, then everyone has done something wrong. No one is immune to this - the longer you have been around, the more likely that something can be found. For example, blackface.
      • John Wayne is also being canceled. You can't judge the past with the lens of today. History is there to be learned from, not eliminated.
      • Nothing is ever deleted.
      • You are not the same person that you were, where you did those things. If people can be canceled because of something that they did in another time is applied to the standards of today, then everyone is cancelable.
      • Why do people talk about denying science as they deny science (namely biology and physics)
      • Humans are gender-fluid as we all contain both male and female hormones, even though we have specific "hardware."
      • To de-stress, you need to step away from the news and go into the natural world.
      • Without peer-pressure and school teachers enabling, many students who were "transitioning" are now moving back. Lockdown is helping them to understand who they are.
      • Maybe we need to send people to "learn how to live on your own" camp?
      • Why do people think that capitalism is bad? It's always the same argument (real socialism has never been tried)
      • Why did John Kerry go to Antarctica on Election Eve 2016?
        • 57 min
      • 17: Human Adoption and the Reddit Purge

        Show Notes:

        • Technology Adoption and Change management
        • Despite the time constraints, it's more useful to have more folks on the call than less
        • Do we expect too much from people? Do we want them to be more "automatic" than they are? 
        • Everyone is detail-oriented, but they are different details
        • Technology should just work - but you need to be a technologist to get any modern product to work
        • Its been over 20 years, and we still have no tool to create high-end web designs. We just have WordPress and Squarespace
        • Just because software can be delivered for free it doesn't mean that it should be free - developers and artists are starving
        • No one needs to know about the behind-the-scenes work
        • The Reddit Purge: 2000 communities eliminated - living under the 230 shield - when it comes down the lawsuits will be flying
        • How to hold legal protections for users under a global corporation - touch as there is no global law - The UN statement is not legally binding
        • What is Hate Speech? The Washington Redskins are named after the peanut, right?
        • Communities are creating their own bubbles, but that doesn't help for persuasion - why stay in the self-referential bubble
        • How free speech is being destroyed - Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter can easily cut off the communities that they don't like
        • 21st Century tribes are the communities we hang out with online - but it tough for communities to connect with other communities
        • There is no home for free speech on the front pages of the internet - you need to know where to go nowadays
        • TikTok is proven to send private user data somewhere offsite - I wonder where? Apple is one of the only few companies which is starting to focus on user privacy
        • Next Week: The Outrage Industry
          • 1 hr 2 min
        • 16: Political Paradigm Change - Feels Over Reals - Irony and Sarcasm
          • Are we witnessing a political paradigm change - are things getting better or worse?
          • Feels over Realz
          • Questioning Authority is out of style?
          • Fistfights over masks
          • The Olders vs the Youngers
          • Building facades start with families
          • Honorifics
          • Competing cultures - not American culture
          • Is China sowing discontent to eventually take the US down?
          • The downside of situational ethics
          • Being consistent in your dealing with people - treat everyone the same
          • Flame Wars would burn your eyeballs
            • 56 min
          • 15: Talking CHAZ (or is it CHOP?)

            Show Notes

            • We talk about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP)
            • Let us talk CHAZ
            • Flip charts are racist
            • Overdemocracy is sometimes worse than too little democracy.
            • The meaning of private property in the CHAZ
            • Have human beings always had a concept of ownership? Are we back to envy again?
            • Imagine no possessions?
            • We want to see the results of this experiment because you cannot have that kind of independent state unless you have supplies flowing in and out of it.
            • Living in CHAZ hits you with too much dopamine oxytocin and serotonin.
            • But once it’s gone, it’s gone; I mean they’re not making new food, are they?
            • A communist society cannot survive without a capitalist society supporting it.
            • No man is an island
            • Put them on a homestead where they can fend for themselves then.
            • We are not homesteaders anymore, right.
            • CHAZ or CHOP? No one wants to name it after the lazy dude in Wedding Crashers.
            • Greed or Envy?
            • The CHAZ folks need a patron who can pay for them not to work
            • Can you live on rice and beans?
            • Communes cannot last – they have been proven to survive between 2 (secular) and 20 years (religious), and every one of them failed
              • 58 min
            • 14: Envy, Part 2: 1000truths, Logos Ethos and Pathos
              • More talk on envy – is it the root of all evil? Greed vs Envy, What is Truth and more deep thoughts
              • Google helps China over the US
              • What is Truth
              • Quantum Entanglement
              • 1000truths – the single source of truth?
              • Can we agree on the truth? For example, is the speed of light really 186282 miles, 698 yards, 2 feet, and 5 inches per second.
              • Experts can be totally wrong
              • Can we really defund the police? There still needs to be a police-like force
              • Does the truth require consensus?
              • How do we create an “envy” game which will allow people to satisfy their envy without hurting others?
              • Envy is not just human – it affects monkeys as well. Is envy everywhere in the animal world?
              • Why would a monkey be envious? If one monkey gets a peanut, which they are already familiar with, would they object to another monkey getting a grape or a chili pepper? Is the monkey envious of the other monkey getting something different (not necessarily better)
              • Is cultural appropriation OK if you are apologizing to a slighted minority group?
              • Can we use fake information to solve the envy problem?
              • Can we agree that envy is the root of all evil and that there are ways to deal with envy through an envy game?
                • 1 hr 3 min
              • 13: Envy, Part 1: BLM, Looters and Antifa

                Show Notes

                • We discuss Black Lives Matter, Looters, Riots, Antifa, and if the root of it all is ENVY.
                • Everyone agreed, across the board, that the George Floyd incident was horrible, but then they violated their argument.
                • Was the goal to take down the oppressors? But then the oppressed become the oppressors or the oppressors.
                • Elites were helping until they became targets.
                • Three things are being conflated: Police Brutality protesters, Looters, and Antifa.
                • Is Antifa organized? Probably not at the ground level.
                • The mystery of the "palettes of bricks" just showing up 20x
                • Antifa is anarchists - We disagree on the definition.
                • The Shadows vs. the Vorlons (obscure Babylon 5 reference - creative destruction vs. status quo - Vorlons rebuild after the devastation)
                • People cannot organize without purpose.
                • Are cities done? Is the upside of living in a city over? Is it not worthwhile to live in a city anymore? We need to look at the number of people leaving cities.
                • Isn't everything driven by envy? Maybe not the BLM folks, but the other 2, for sure
                • Revolution is hard work.
                • The difference between Anarchists and Libertarians.
                • Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Man
                • Envy is one of the most potent emotions - is that the root of Buddhism - Buddhism says that the world is full of suffering (Duḥkha), and the reason people are suffering is due to envy. Eliminate envy, and you eliminate suffering.
                • Living within yourself - leads to enlightenment.
                • Determinism to Free will? Or is it Locus of Control - is it within or without?
                • You have to be accountable for what you believe is right.
                • You can experience anger via sporting events - but how can you socialize envy? How to bleed off the excess envy? Is there some other way, without giving them what they want?
                • Learning Calculus, Blender, or Japanese? Do we need to climb that mountain?
                  • 1 hr 4 min
                • 12: Weather, Risk, Models, Behavior VS Talk, Chaos Theory & The Thousand Talents Program

                  After a brief sojourn into weather and climate change, we talk about risk assessment, modeling, human actions, and behaviors, then segue into the CCPs tendrils via the Thousand Talents Program.

                  • The Weather: Blisteringly Hot San Francisco Summers are the coldest winters. Air conditioning makes life livable. The human race is no match for Mother Nature.
                  • Framing Questions: every study and survey is wrong
                  • Humans suck at risk sensing, but some very complicated models work—probabilistic Risk Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations, based on quantum computing.
                  • Engineers take the reins to do whatever they need to do.
                  • Don't listen to what they say; watch what they do.
                  • There is chaos in the system.
                  • 1000 Talents Program: CCP Chinese Communist Party put in place to highlight exceptional individuals right in China. And also outside China directly, but I sense that they're using it as some kind of cover to get their tendrils into everything and everyone.
                  • The 500 Year plan - Foundation Series and Hari Seldon
                  • How do viruses get weaker?
                  • Who put out the virus? In collaboration with somebody else, however, we see how they could see the benefit.
                  • Next Episode: Envy
                    • 1 hr 7 min
                  • 11: Karens, Marxists & Safety
                    • Karen's are taking over everywhere (Karen's can be any gender)
                    • Lockdowns are a  license for any imperious people to just take over
                    • Marxists know how to abuse power, not to use power
                    • A bunch of little Mao's, Stalin's and Pol Pot's out there
                    • There is no such thing as waiting for things to be safe. Safe is Never. Life is not safe. We must conform to the collective.
                    • Cognitive Diversity. Diversity of Thought vs Diversity of Race
                    • Science is downstream from culture
                    • Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος. Information/Data/Labels
                    • Are the lockdowns a push for UBI, as well as mail-in voting, so that folks will just stay on the couch, smoke pot and play video games?
                    • Where does self-actualization end? Is there another pyramid beyond Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? Or do you slide down to others?
                    • Ultra-rich celebs tapping their much poorer fans for money
                    • Who was the hero of Forrest Gump? Are you taking or giving?
                    • Do the givers get the benefit?
                    • Gordon Gekko and Jordan Peterson agree: work on yourself first before you work on others
                    • Why is Marxism so awesome for some people? Its the appeal to envy. It destroys the rich as opposed to helping the poor.
                    • Socrates and the City - with Peter Theil
                    • Keeping up with the Joneses - Envy & Status
                    • Why we need a Space Force
                    • Is Buddhism the answer to envy? If you eliminate envy, will you become enlightened? Letting go of the materialistic.
                      • 56 min

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