Look, we evolved as pack animals and those intuitions you feel but cannot introspectively analyze are intuitions that find comfort in a leader of the pack, membership in the pack, and running with the pack. We have atomized property and atomized individuals yet we are always pack(male) and herd (female) animals. There are very few of us that have had occasion to develop the mental discipline to create agency, and therefor understand these impulses as artifacts to be felt, understood, but not acted upon, just as violence, theft, or envy are to be felt, understood, but not acted upon. It’s not that I don’t understand the desire for a pack(herd) leader, membership in the pack(herd) and the feeling of running with the pack (herd). I do. It’s that like the impulse to commit other forms of crime exists in many if not all of us to some degree or another, but most of us learn not to act on those impulses. If you lack agency to do so that’s understandable, but then you lack the agency to make fully rational choices, and as lacking fully rational choices you are not fully human. And as such unfit for decisions demanding of rationality and agency. And that decision is the judgement of truth or falsehood.
Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science
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There are very few of us
Look, we evolved as pack animals and those intuitions you feel but cannot introspectively analyze are intuitions that find comfort in a leader of the pack, membership in the pack, and running with the pack. We have atomized property and atomized individuals yet we are always pack(male) and herd (female) animals. There are very few of us that have had occasion to develop the mental discipline to create agency, and therefor understand these impulses as artifacts to be felt, understood, but not acted upon, just as violence, theft, or envy are to be felt, understood, but not acted upon. It’s not that I don’t understand the desire for a pack(herd) leader, membership in the pack(herd) and the feeling of running with the pack (herd). I do. It’s that like the impulse to commit other forms of crime exists in many if not all of us to some degree or another, but most of us learn not to act on those impulses. If you lack agency to do so that’s understandable, but then you lack the agency to make fully rational choices, and as lacking fully rational choices you are not fully human. And as such unfit for decisions demanding of rationality and agency. And that decision is the judgement of truth or falsehood.
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THE URBAN AREA AS GENERATOR OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (AND THEREFORE LEFTISM) A particula
THE URBAN AREA AS GENERATOR OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (AND THEREFORE LEFTISM)
A particularly stable and replicable finding has been the association between living in an urban environment and the development of schizophrenia, even after factors such as drug use, ethnic group and size of social group have been controlled for.[153] A recent study of 4.4 million men and women in Sweden found a 68%–77% increased risk of diagnosed psychosis for people living in the most urbanized environments, a significant proportion of which is likely to be described as schizophrenia.[154]
The effect does not appear to be due to a higher incidence of obstetric complications in urban environments.[155] The risk increases with the number of years and degree of urban living in childhood and adolescence, suggesting that constant, cumulative, or repeated exposures during upbringing occurring more frequently in urbanized areas are responsible for the association.[156]
Various possible explanations for the effect have been judged unlikely based on the nature of the findings, including infectious causes or a generic stress effect. It is thought to interact with genetic dispositions and, since there appears to be nonrandom variation even across different neighborhoods, and an independent association with social isolation, it has been proposed that the degree of “social capital” (e.g. degree of mutual trust, bonding and safety in neighborhoods) can exert a developmental impact on children growing up in these environments.[157]
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-12 22:46:00 UTC
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evolutionary explanation is the “imprinted brain theory” which argues that psych
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinted_brain_theoryAnother evolutionary explanation is the “imprinted brain theory” which argues that psychosis and autism are contrasting disorders on a number of different variables. This is argued to be caused by an unbalanced genomic imprinting favoring paternal genes in the case of autism and maternal genes in the case of psychosis.[41]
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-12 22:46:00 UTC
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evolutionary explanation is the “imprinted brain theory” which argues that psych
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinted_brain_theoryAnother evolutionary explanation is the “imprinted brain theory” which argues that psychosis and autism are contrasting disorders on a number of different variables. This is argued to be caused by an unbalanced genomic imprinting favoring paternal genes in the case of autism and maternal genes in the case of psychosis.[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinted_brain_theory
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-12 22:46:00 UTC
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The purpose of stoicism(mindfulness) is to allow you distance from your impulses
The purpose of stoicism(mindfulness) is to allow you distance from your impulses so that you may train them rather than be goverened by the chaos of them.
The difference between buddhism and stoicism is action. Stoicism/dominance vs Buddhism/Submission.
Which people will argue with me, but the evidence is the evidence.
People need mindfulness to limit calculability (difficulty in in formation processing).
We can construct it by bad means (islamic submission), ok means (buddhist meditation), adequate means (homogenous kin groups and rituals), or exceptional means (stoic self authoring and incremental successes in competition in the real world).
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-12 19:42:00 UTC
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The Purpose of Stoicism(mindfulness)
The purpose of stoicism(mindfulness) is to allow you distance from your impulses so that you may train them rather than be goverened by the chaos of them. The difference between buddhism and stoicism is action. Stoicism/dominance vs Buddhism/Submission. Which people will argue with me, but the evidence is the evidence. People need mindfulness to limit calculability (difficulty in in formation processing). We can construct it by bad means (islamic submission), ok means (buddhist meditation), adequate means (homogenous kin groups and rituals), or exceptional means (stoic self authoring and incremental successes in competition in the real world).
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The Purpose of Stoicism(mindfulness)
The purpose of stoicism(mindfulness) is to allow you distance from your impulses so that you may train them rather than be goverened by the chaos of them. The difference between buddhism and stoicism is action. Stoicism/dominance vs Buddhism/Submission. Which people will argue with me, but the evidence is the evidence. People need mindfulness to limit calculability (difficulty in in formation processing). We can construct it by bad means (islamic submission), ok means (buddhist meditation), adequate means (homogenous kin groups and rituals), or exceptional means (stoic self authoring and incremental successes in competition in the real world).
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The Urban Area as Generator of Schizophrenia (and Therefore Leftism)
A particularly stable and replicable finding has been the association between living in an urban environment and the development of schizophrenia, even after factors such as drug use, ethnic group and size of social group have been controlled for.[153] A recent study of 4.4 million men and women in Sweden found a 68%–77% increased risk of diagnosed psychosis for people living in the most urbanized environments, a significant proportion of which is likely to be described as schizophrenia.[154] The effect does not appear to be due to a higher incidence of obstetric complications in urban environments.[155] The risk increases with the number of years and degree of urban living in childhood and adolescence, suggesting that constant, cumulative, or repeated exposures during upbringing occurring more frequently in urbanized areas are responsible for the association.[156] Various possible explanations for the effect have been judged unlikely based on the nature of the findings, including infectious causes or a generic stress effect. It is thought to interact with genetic dispositions and, since there appears to be nonrandom variation even across different neighborhoods, and an independent association with social isolation, it has been proposed that the degree of “social capital” (e.g. degree of mutual trust, bonding and safety in neighborhoods) can exert a developmental impact on children growing up in these environments.[157]
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The Urban Area as Generator of Schizophrenia (and Therefore Leftism)
A particularly stable and replicable finding has been the association between living in an urban environment and the development of schizophrenia, even after factors such as drug use, ethnic group and size of social group have been controlled for.[153] A recent study of 4.4 million men and women in Sweden found a 68%–77% increased risk of diagnosed psychosis for people living in the most urbanized environments, a significant proportion of which is likely to be described as schizophrenia.[154] The effect does not appear to be due to a higher incidence of obstetric complications in urban environments.[155] The risk increases with the number of years and degree of urban living in childhood and adolescence, suggesting that constant, cumulative, or repeated exposures during upbringing occurring more frequently in urbanized areas are responsible for the association.[156] Various possible explanations for the effect have been judged unlikely based on the nature of the findings, including infectious causes or a generic stress effect. It is thought to interact with genetic dispositions and, since there appears to be nonrandom variation even across different neighborhoods, and an independent association with social isolation, it has been proposed that the degree of “social capital” (e.g. degree of mutual trust, bonding and safety in neighborhoods) can exert a developmental impact on children growing up in these environments.[157]