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Terms like the Dunning-Kruger Effect are often used to explain the phenomena presented when we observe people who's level of confidence does not appear to match their level of skill. While we may often use it to observe this demeanor in others, the real value comes from introspection. 

So we take the Model often represented in an X-Y Graph, and apply it to the skillset of CQB as an example of how we might consider how we think about our own skill development. 

If the X axis measures skill, and the Y axis measures confidence, a pattern emerges regarding the relationship between the two.

Section 1: The ascent of fundamentals. 

Section 2: The plateau of Dogma

Section 3: The Descent of Renaissance 

Section 4: The Ascent of Mature Skill

Section 1: Begins with building a naive and unskilled individual’s basic abilities in regards to the skill. Each valid method of instruction develops the student in the execution of basic maneuvers, principles, and rules. Foundations take time to build, repeated practice is necessary to cement lessons learned. 

Rules are established and solid. The student is typically incapable of separating Method from Principle. 

The student is approaching the end of the first phase when they are able to perform the fundamentals with repeatability. They are able to identify when principles and and rules are broken. 

Section 2: The ability to perform the fundamentals in sequence continues to improve. More complicated maneuvers begin to smoothen out, the ability to communicate the fundamentals, whether as a teacher or as colleague partly defines this phase from the previous one. 

The individual identifies when they and others break established rules, as well as they begin to consider different schools of the subject. A chief example of this being martial arts in the early days of the internet before MMA had changed the field.

The individual gains more confidence in their skillset as the see the successes of clean execution after practice. Their view of the subject becomes dogmatic: as they are yet incapable of distinguishing between a rule broken and a skillset from a different school used in conjunction with their own. 

This phase typically ends after a precipitating event or series of events that break the paradigm of their dogma. Although confidence begins to drop, their skill continues to improve. 

Section 3: As the subject begins to descend from their dogma, they began to consider exemptions to their established rules and principles. A renewed interest in fundamentals changes from improving performance and articulating the skillset, to separating between a heuristic and a principle.

Heuristics define a school, and rely on principles. Principles apply to all schools. What was once a rule becomes a heuristic, that, in this case, can be broken.

Articulation is steadily exchanged for comprehension: the ability to choose from multiple maneuvers and skillsets to solve a problem. The phase prioritizes the development of these skillsets as well as ancillary ones, and be able to discern when and how to use each of them. Dogma of rulesets is finally exchanged for mastery of skillsets and their application. 

Phase 4: The subject continues to refine, polish, and execute maneuvers appropriate to the scenario. They refine micro-components of each movements, and tackle complex problems with some sense of order. The key feature is the ability to understand a rule/heuristic and when to break it, so that the objective can be accomplished. 

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Once again we are entering a week of Social and Political discourse, loaded with the events of the weekend. One part, a following up on the subject of gaslighting, another part deeper dive into why it's important to have a firm foundation for what we believe in, this episode of the REDACTED Culture Cast focuses on the proper response to the kinds of accusations that will be leveled at Gun Culture in the following days and weeks. 

We've already addressed how Gun Culture is gaslit into considering our own conscience in the wake of tragedies and acts of violence against innocents. While we may feel the utility of having a good argument in response is to convince our accusers, perhaps it is more important that we are sure of what we believe, in order to discard false accusations. 

The intent of these kinds of accusations is to make you feel guilty, regardless of any correlation to reality. 

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It is not enough that we hold on to our liberty with fingers stressed tight through dedication, while doubt troubles our minds to the values and virtues of our cause. It is not enough that we merely hold onto the means of our liberty, while casting aspersions on the reasons why we hold these truths to be self evident.

In is book " Brave New War," John Robb argues that, in some sense, decentralization is inevitable when it comes to the nation-state. Fragile, slow, and bureaucratic centralized authorities are too slow to face threats informed by open source warfare and decentralized movements. 

Since the book was published, we've seen this play out in real time, with the "summer of love" and following changes in the socio-political landscape. But from our perspective, instead of learning, the powers centralized in letter-agencies have chosen, instead, to pursue more invasive forms of control in conjunction with increasing use of social pressure to achieve compliance. 

But if Robb's assessment proves correct, they are losing, and the evidence is in the people. 

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Part 2 with Vlad Saye picks up where we left off on the topic of Software Defined Radio. This time we dive deeper into various pieces of equipment and their capabilities, as well as different use cases. 

When it comes to decentralization, guns, and technology, we are beset with the question of not only what are the capabilities, but how they could be socially implemented, all built on the foundation of why this might be a goal worth pursuing, knowing fully well that every decision in one direction will come at the opportunity cost of others. 

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In Part 1 of our conversation with Vlad Saye of Terminal Armament, the converstation begins with how he entered into American Gun Culture with a desire to bring something valuable to the table. 

A tone begins in this first part, about how the tech milieu may have one set of means to securing their privacy and freedom, but are otherwise incapable of defending it, with Gun Culture often exhibiting the inverse: the physical means, but not the technological ones. Privacy or Freedom if you chose one or the other, but thankfully we are not forced to chose between the two. 

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The term Gaslighting has risen to prominence in the past few years, and before it completely fades into the mist of recently overused terms, we're going to address the use of it as a tactic to hijack the conscience of the accused. 

One mission of REDACTED is to contribute to the cultural and intellectual foundation that informs our Right to Bear Arms. Politics, as it stands, exhausts the concerned, quickly burning out any optimism for morals to succeed in the face of various forms of corruption. 

In this example, Gun Owners are typically gaslit with accusations that their choice to take up responsibility for their community is equivalent to justify holding them morally responsible for the actions of complete strangers. 

Gun Culture has an abundance of the physical materials to defend themselves, so we chose to add to their intellectual concerns. 

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The REDACTED Culture Cast is dedicated to two principles: Honest Philosophy, and the Rights to Self Defense and Privacy.

Never before has it been easier to build a personal library, and in the same vein, the determining factor over what should or should not be admitted into your personal library hinges more on the ability to evaluate information, instead of simply one's access to it. 

But with that change, how do we consider the action of building out a library? How do we go about choosing what topics, authors, or styles to focus on?

In this episode we cover a some of the factors to consider when building your personal library, including cataloging, note taking, and categorizing your shelves. 

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Instead of merely documenting the rise of Insurgency across the world, in this episode we draw out both how and why insurgency came to become so prevalent in the world. 

Two trajectories can be drawn from the end of the 19th Century, as the presence of unified and integrated belief systems declined, and war began industrializing. One intersection arrives in the form of insurgency, where war on a National scale is held back by the threat of mutually assured destruction, meanwhile, populations continue to feel less and less connected to their country, and a sense of meaning. 


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We left off just halfway through the conversation on Women in Gun Culture, and resume by addressing what might be the other extreme of the spectrum. While we addressed the intent and premises that we approached this talk in the first half, the second addresses what it looks like to "have a seat at the table."

But wait, there's more. 
Having a monopoly on violence, in its base form, is antithetical to our human rights. Not only antithetical in the sense that, if it were the case, it would be wrong, but another layer deeper when we say that a human right is one that cannot be deleted, only infringed. 

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Before we get into even talking about Women in Gun Culture, we have to lay down the premises that frame the conversation. The word "representation" is so abused that it must be either cured or discarded.

Paige aka Paigeosity has found a place within Gun Culture, and brings the problems with multiculturalism to the conversation. Defining terms, we start by breaking down presumptive arguments that attempt to inject truth statements in the form of an assumption, without directly signaling the intent. In some cases, the argument is the distraction, and in part one, we start by unravelling what one looks like.

So when it comes to the conversation about Women in Gun Culture, what do we do? From Gun Bunnies to Annie Oakleys, it turns out that the conflict isn't coming from within, but without.

Stick around for Part 2.

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