Meritocracy doesn’t. It is based on rationality. Note: civilization requires rationality. However, not all people in society are rational. This requires free will followed by the pursuit of understanding (no decision-making). However, people function in the decision-making mode. This is irrationality when they otherwise possess free...
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No. “Collective truth” is a type of shared (group) truth, but it is not a byproduct of the pursuit of absolute truth, which is rationality. Furthermore, a single hypothesis that meets the necessary condition but differs from the group hypothesis renders the group hypothesis no more...
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Collectivists are emotionally immature. In emotional immaturity, the person does not have a free mind. They are trivially programmable by others. They cannot problem-solve, and they contribute emotional chaos to society and relationships. Civilization is simply not possible with emotionally immature people. Free will is the...
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The individual’s mind must make connections between the frontal lobe and cortex (the SELF) to create SELF-awareness. This is what suffering accomplishes. It drives the development of these connections. The SELF is the cortex. The individual needs the locus of electrical activity to shift (albeit momentarily,...
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Your mind is a prisoner of the collective. ...
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Poor but SELF-reliant (i.e., cognitively free)? Yes. Without doubt. My mind is my own. “Rich” and tribal (collectivist in effect) like Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi et. al.? NEVER. They are success-seeking actors, and never know cognitive freedom. https://youtu.be/C4eEisPMF3s?si=stHjETQKW1msYqNV ...
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Yes. But Marxism is not. Marxists are emotionally immature, lacking free will and rationality. Therefore, freedom and capitalism leave them behind. So, they seek revolution: an end to freedom and capitalism. This leaves society at collectivism (tribalism), the only, but suicidal, option. The cause is emotional immaturity: unable...
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Yes. The apparent "authoritarianism" of fascism is a direct consequence of the true authoritarianism of collectivism (communism). Communism offers free stuff. Capitalism requires self--reliance. Free is a compelling but suicidal promise. Oppose the latter, and the former disappears. ...
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The news exploits your cognitive habits by provoking emotions (pandemics, climate change, loss of democracy, Hitler, …). Practice resistance. GOOGLE - In Frank Herbert's Dune, the "box test" is a lethal examination administered by the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood to determine if a subject is truly human...
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The SELF is very real. It is cognitive habit. This is the cortex. The frontal lobe is your personal (SELF) programmer. In the movie Groundhog Day, the SELF is depicted by the initial Bill Murray. He was deeply narcissistic (SELF-absorbed). The SELF nearly always is. He...
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