DEFINITIONS: EMPATHY > SYMPATHY > UNDERSTANDING
I use understanding for reason, sympathy for motives and intentions, and empathy for feelings.
|COMMUNICATION| Empathy(Feel/Value/reaction) > Sympathy (Intuition/Incentives/cause) > Understand (Reason/Words/Argument-Negotiation)
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-22 10:40:00 UTC
WOTAN GIVES US A HARD HEART
“‘Wotan placed a hard heart in my breast,’ is what an old Scandinavian saga says: the poet who said this caught correctly what springs straight from the soul of a proud Viking. Such a type of man is proud of the very fact that he has not been made for compassion: which is why the hero of the saga adds in warning, ‘If a man does not have a hard heart when young, it will never harden’. The noble and the brave who think like this are the furthest from that morality that sees the badge of morality precisely in compassion or in doing things for others or in désintéressement; one’s faith in one’s self, one’s pride in one’s self, a basic animosity and irony towards ‘selflessness’ belongs just as definitely to noble morality as a mild contempt and wariness towards compassionate feelings and the ‘warm heart’”— Nietzsche, from the Genealogy of Morals.
<thanks to Freyr Björnsson>
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-22 10:34:00 UTC
–“Good people” (who are otherwise seen to be law-abiding, decent, etc.) have been too romanticized. “Good people,” because they have no moral underpinnings, are good only because of the ecology. The ecology is set by the “fight” between good-fighters and evil. Political correctness and comforts of wealth has castrated or reduced the number good-fighters in the West, the reason the culture has shifted in favor of the evil.”– Jayant Bhandari
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-22 07:52:00 UTC
—“I find the left’s view our relative lack of obsession with empathy/feelings for dysfunctional groups as the primary decisive factor in forming an opinion, as psychopathy.”— John Mark
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-21 22:43:35 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1054141175333052419
—“I find the left’s view our relative lack of obsession with empathy/feelings for dysfunctional groups as the primary decisive factor in forming an opinion, as psychopathy.”— John Mark
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-21 18:43:00 UTC
THE RATIONALITY OF MAN
(important concept)
–“If man was logical, and could be moved to action by empirical evidence, then libertarianism would have caught on much more than it did.”— Jesse Schultz
Um. Well. You know, man is terribly logical given his perpetual dependence on fragmentary information in a kaleidic universe, and his need to produce the greatest returns in the shortest time, with the least effort, at the greatest certainty at the lowest risk, while under the burden (limits) of physical, emotional, and intellectual economy (costs). Man is forever rational (logical in the sense you mean it. Hence why we can sympathize (reasoning), and empathize (feeling) with one another.) and choose to cooperate with one another (predictability and trust) – or not. (You might want to read this paragraph a few times.)
Via positiva some of us produce opportunities to exploit, and via negativa, some of us limit those opportunities that can be exploited to those that are reciprocal (not harmful to the incentive to cooperate rather than prey upon one another.) I work in the current era at post-human scale: via negativa. It is for others to produce MANY different via-positivas within the LIMITS of this via-negativa. Ergo, a market not monopoly of narratives (mythos), and at least one for each class.
Meritocracy is only DESIRABLE to those who can survive DIRECTLY by their merits. Meritocracy is VALUABLE to everyone who survives because meritocracy INDIRECTLY preserves the incentive to cooperate. Because cooperation is simply so much more productive than any other action we can take (at least over time.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-21 12:52:00 UTC
October 20th, 2018 10:58 AM UNDERSTANDING MINDFULNESS, CLASS, COSTS
October 20th, 2018 11:49 AM MORE ON THE FRAUD OF TOLERANCE AND THE PAYMENT OF FORBEARANCE
—“The centre holds onto tolerance because tolerance is passive. Those lacking agency can participate in tolerance while ignoring limits, because they don’t have the agency to enforce limits, and by ignoring limits they can stay in denial of their lack of agency. Forbearance includes tolerance AND limits (until the cost one was willing carried has been exceeded), AND active participation – its a choice which one can boycott/defect based on the cost carried.” —- @[655376421:2048:Bill Joslin]
“FORBEARANCE”
—-“I use Tolerance to mean allowing costs to be assessed against non-consenting parties as ambiguity makes it unclear what additional party is specifically responsible for costs. It is a passive state. No agency. …. I use Forbearance to mean I intentionally take responsibility for the cost to allow someone else not to (ex. my children, my disabled kin, my employee that has not matured fully yet). It is an active state. Allows agency.”— @[1013719133:2048:Luke Weinhagen]
CD: This is great line of original thinking. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it’s an example of how we are all increasing precision and measurement. (thanks to Brandon Hayes for looping me in)
October 20th, 2018 11:49 AM MORE ON THE FRAUD OF TOLERANCE AND THE PAYMENT OF FORBEARANCE
—“The centre holds onto tolerance because tolerance is passive. Those lacking agency can participate in tolerance while ignoring limits, because they don’t have the agency to enforce limits, and by ignoring limits they can stay in denial of their lack of agency. Forbearance includes tolerance AND limits (until the cost one was willing carried has been exceeded), AND active participation – its a choice which one can boycott/defect based on the cost carried.” —- @[655376421:2048:Bill Joslin]
“FORBEARANCE”
—-“I use Tolerance to mean allowing costs to be assessed against non-consenting parties as ambiguity makes it unclear what additional party is specifically responsible for costs. It is a passive state. No agency. …. I use Forbearance to mean I intentionally take responsibility for the cost to allow someone else not to (ex. my children, my disabled kin, my employee that has not matured fully yet). It is an active state. Allows agency.”— @[1013719133:2048:Luke Weinhagen]
CD: This is great line of original thinking. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it’s an example of how we are all increasing precision and measurement. (thanks to Brandon Hayes for looping me in)
October 20th, 2018 2:08 PM
—“There is a distinction between endocrinological & neurological conservatives, driven mostly by disgust, which tend to be within a SD left of the mean, and market driven (agency) conservatives who recognize cost on longer time-horizons & are able to organize a body law which facilitates the cooperation & trust, necessary for the functioning of enterprise. The former group are right for the âwrongâ reasons & the latter group are right as a matter of agency & incentive.”—Ferdinand Pizarro
Well Done!!!!