(thank you)
I haven’t published anything that I can recall on the male equivalent of magical thinking. That’s because I think it’s pretty obvious, in that it’s ‘overambitious’ thinking: “I’m gonna go to study kung fu in tibet and become a grand master” and the many versions of…
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 22:03:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627428694221377538
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627427849333243904
WHAT POLITICAL WING IS ‘SMARTER’?
(the nonsense continues)
I’ve spent three decades on this question, and nothing has changed.
1) The IQ presumption in all research I know of is due to using the proxy of degrees. This gives a bias to the ‘nonsense degrees’ favored by women and librals. And it discounts the disutility of paying for nonsense degrees to males and conservatives. In other words, teachers, social workers, psychology, sociology, ‘studies’, language and history etc, are the lowest paid, least capable students that still obtain college degrees.
2) Historically “Liberals are smarter than conservatives, and republicans are smarter than democrats, and libertarians are the smartest of all.” The reason is group size and group distribution. Just as women are more narrowly distributed than men, liberals are mor narrowly distributed that conservatives.
3) The difference between left and right is cognitively female, empathizing, verbal, in time, consuming vs cognitively male, systematizing, operational, over-time, and capitalizing. We are in an era where verbal facility is more rewarded than at any previous time in history. (for a while yet). We are approaching the era where verbal facility will be as automated as design and production has been automated.
So the difference between the factions is determined largely by the first-past-the-post election model, and who has captured what factions of the middle, working, laboring, and out-of-sight classes.
I would venture that the failure of the west to resist the new pseudoscientific religions of the postwar era is due to the replacement of the managerial class of government by the rise of credentialism in the academy (theoretical) and the decline of meritocracy in military and industrial achievement (empirical).
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 21:31:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627420732417359872
Causes and Evidence of Female “Magical Thinking”
THE SCIENCE:
1) Conflating what they wish for with what is and what is possible.
2) The general tendency of women to confuse what is Desirable/Undesirable with what is True/False. Or, more directly, stating their wants are truths of the world, rather than just wants of their own.
3) The universal tendency (demonstrated in this video) of women to engage in NAXALT/AXALT: Not all X are like that, All X are like that, or more precisely, to ignore a distribution to justify an outlier, or to use an outlier in order to falsify a distribution.
These –XALTs are both forms of denial. In other words (get ready) the woman’s cognition evolves to justify her feelings and NOT adapt to existential reality.
Why? They are exporting satisfaction of their emotional demands onto others: MEN. (Yes really).
This is the science, and it’s exasperating. Why? We no longer use older sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and aunts to cause women to self-regulate their magical thinking.
And their magical thinking evolved in order to generate demand from men to satisfy them …. in exchange for affection and sex. Sorry. 🙁
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 21:22:57 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627418484740161536
OPPRESSION THEORIES VS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
(And the causes and consequences)
Oppression narratives are the cognitively female and liberal version of the cognitively male and conservative conspiracy narratives.
This sex difference in cognitive biases originates in sex differences in status-seeking. Females seek status by evasion of responsibility and hyperconsumption, while males seek status by the accumulation of responsibility and capitalization.
So, the difference as in all things left vs right, is that we take male antisocial nonsense seriously because males are dangerous, and we ignore female antisocial nonsense because women aren’t dangerous.
At least, women weren’t dangerous until given the franchise. Now the opposite is true, and the present age is caused by the noise as the signal of women’s influence in politics travels through the civilizations’ institutional, traditional, normative, habitual, and cognitive capital structures.
This particular problem (which I can’t fully determine whether is cultural or biological) has allowed the industrialization of the female method of antisocial behavior using oppression narratives to take root in a population whose education, consumption, and voting is dominated by white females. (white females are the only group that defects from their ethnicity.
We endured marxism as we brought the lower classes into the franchise – a search for control.
Now we’re enduring feminism as we bring females into the franchise – a search for control
And unfortunately we’ve not falsified the female search for control as we have the lower class search for control.
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 19:28:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627389607703715841
Adam, (all)
RE: “The Neuroticism Obsession vs the Oppression Obsession”
1) The majority of studies, (and my own research) suggest that the incentive to pursue conspiracy theories originates in feelings of alienation and being out of control in life – because they are true. As such conspiracy theories are means of self-sedation. And that sedation can evolve into an obsession – or what’s a form of addiction.
2) Feeling out of control, paranoia and self-sedation is consistent across sex differences with conspiracy theories on the right, and male, and oppression theories on the left and female. (Sexes differ in means of expressing antisocial behavior. And the variation in cognitive and emotional dimorphism is evident in the distribution of biases and behaviors in the population.)
3) The diagnosis of Narcissism is being delegitimized in the vernacular. First, it’s natural for people to disagree. Natural for people to place higher confidence in their bias over that of others. But more so because it is a coping mechanism (means of self-sedation) against developmental challenges or trauma.
4) So while the claim of narcissism (largely a male behavior) is common, the evidence is that the female oppression narrative is much more endemic, females have and express higher trait neuroticism, magical thinking, and hysteria, and female mental illness and obsession with oppression narratives are one of the most significant mental health crises of our age.
The question is only why conspiracy theories and oppression narratives are necessary for sedation in a population, and whether the increase is material or one of visibility, and whether it’s caused by alienation isolation and a failure to replace religious indoctrination as the traditional prophylactic with some substitute such as stoicism or Buddhism (and physical fitness for that matter).
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 14:10:25 UTC
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Thinking …. I’m a member of the faction that is frustrated by the 1SD decline in cognitive ability, the dumbing down of public speech, and the dumbing down of education since the first world war. Read ordinary letters by ordinary people pre-war.
So perhaps there is a little of that rebellion in my subconscious.
-Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 07:00:20 UTC
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ANSWER
–“how much can you trust a feeling?”–
1) All emotions are reactions to change in state of ‘something of value to you’ (an asset, a demonstrated interest) whether potential gain, gain, retention, loss, potential loss. And whether the form of our body, action, time, habit, knowledge, relationship, thing, association, organization, commons … anything we have an interest in. (interest in the legal sense, not in the mental sense.)
2) We may correctly or incorrectly interpret the legitimacy of our interest in (right to) what it is that we value whose state is, or may change.
3) We may correctly or incorrectly morally and ethically interpret the legitimacy of ours or others’ interest in (right to) what is changing.
4) In the sense that you ask the question, ‘Can we trust our emotions?’ we can trust that they are caused by something or other that we believe has changed state (most often our status or self-image than anything else, since status and self-image largely determine access to opportunities), we cannot trust whether these emotions are ‘true, useful, ethical, moral’ practical, or selfish, petty, childish, immature, antisocial, criminal, or evil.
5) We are different from chimps (and they are not good, kind, or nice or virtuous creatures by any means) largely because we have developed sufficient agency (self-reflection and impulse suppression) so that we don’t retaliate against anything but that we must retaliate against given our environment.
-Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 06:58:14 UTC
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The problem is, that there is no evidence that marriage (pairing off) is not the competitive and evolutionary, optimum. It appears to be. I can’t find any counter-examples. Any economist, especially any behavioral economist, should have no problem explaining why. What happens when there is a surplus of unmarried (unpaired) men?
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-19 04:58:14 UTC
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Examples of Genetic Load: Antifa. https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1626997544172638209
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-18 18:14:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627008555483119619
https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1626997544172638209
SUPPORTING TESTIMONY:
1) I took advice from my grandfather and started taking power naps at about 40. I’m over 60 and I still use it to restore cognitive ability.
2) When I taught creativity I used the same strategy of filling the shelves of your mind, then sleeping, resting, or even playing. You don’t have to work at auto-association – your brain will do that for you. In other words, “shower and driving” insights can be ‘farmed’ systematically just as easily as physical strength can develop in sports.
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-18 18:08:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627007283963080711
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