Agreed. I’ve found I’m very jealous of the time I can devote to flow state, but also that I’m too vulnerable to stresses that inhibit it. So as my grandmother advised me, keep life simple enough so that you can enjoy that state as much as possible. She even said ‘make sure you…
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-20 18:12:09 UTC
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THE SUM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
As one reaches the age of retirement one comes to the conclusion that you and your generation are no longer in control so to speak, and that the market serves the consumptive, and the consumptive are younger.
Instead your mission is to protect your investments across the spectrum of demonstrated interests (capital-in-toto), and the preservation of those investments for you, for your children and grandchildren, and for your people and theirs, and so on.
Those investments in capital-in-toto of course, include those investments including the costs you bore to maintain your group’s evolutionary strategy, it’s assets, including the assets of it’s it’s myths, histories, institutions, traditions, values, morals and norms.
Human behavior is always reducible to acquisition, retention, and consumption, and our variation in responsibility for the private and common, by our variation in temporal to intertemporal responsibility.
With those of us with greater intertemporal responsibility always constraining those with intertemporal and even temporal responsibility.
Because the difference between us is almost always reducible to ability, willingness. and want of a scope of responsibility from the now to the past to the future.
Really. That’s the sum of human behavior.
Cheers
-CD
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-20 14:59:58 UTC
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Folks that recover tend to understand both good and evil better than those that never did. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-20 05:05:04 UTC
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YOU CAN’T RUSH THINK TIME
(the creative process)
When I don’t feel too much pressure I love my work. You just can’t rush ‘think time’. It’s a creative process and while you can facilitate it rather easily, especially if you maintain an environment that lacks distractions and stresses, you can’t force it. The best you can do is fill the shelves of your mind by studying the material and then go do something else relatively mindless, and better if it’s relaxing or enjoying ( I like doing housework.. lol ), and when it’s ready it will come to you.
Now I do have a methodical method of thinking through problems but most of the time it’s largely a matter of disambiguating everything into first causes to the point where I understand what the underlying problem really is.
Even then, the answer sort of.. appears .. in the shower or driving or shopping or even doing the dishes for goodness sake.
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-19 23:03:58 UTC
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When I don’t feel too much pressure I love my work. You just can’t rush ‘think time’. It’s a creative process and while you can facilitate it rather easily, especially if you maintain an environment that lacks distractions and stresses, you can’t force it. The best you can do is fill the shelves of your mind by studying the material and then go do something else relatively mindless, and better if it’s relaxing or enjoying ( I like doing housework.. lol ), and when it’s ready it will come to you.
Now I do have a methodical method of thinking through problems but most of the time it’s largely a matter of disambiguating everything into first causes to the point where I understand what the underlying problem really is.
Even then, the answer sort of.. appears .. in the shower or driving or shopping or doing the dishes for goodness sake.
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-19 23:03:58 UTC
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Yes, well I’m a little more conscious than all but a few, if any, just how much we are all bots running on evolutionary software that is extremely simple. So I would argue and I would be correct, that anything psychological or metaphsyical is just another excuse to justify what already exists regardless of one’s feelings, intuitions, opinions or arguments.
Instead, it’s more that people have been lied to. So perhaps the metaphysical is a useful defense against such lies. Of course, In my work, I struggled to make such lies impossible without being subject to prosecution by those with the ‘correct’ instinct and intuition – and as far as I know I have done it.
I realize I don’t need feels. I realize that there is a spectrum of brain organizations from the empathic to the systemic and from the feels to the reals, and a condition of each person from vulnerable to confident. And that together this generates demand for mysticism, theology, philosophy, evidence, science, or formal laws.
I don’t begrudge the little people their feels so to speak if they do not mandate their necessity, expect my and mine’s conformity, and instead leave those of us in the systemic and reals and formal laws to do the hard work of conscious beings that discover opportunities and inventions that turn the universe into a choice to manipulate by the rest of mankind according to their will.
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Source date (UTC): 2024-01-19 18:52:44 UTC
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Intelligent people lie less because they are able to negotiate creatively given their superior abilities. Second they are less desperate to hold to their priors. Third they are usually safter socially economically, and in self image and status and so more insulated with more opportunities to further insulate them from risks. Fourth, your reputation is too valuable to smart people because your existence is more tied to your value in intellect and honesty than a person lacking intellect and honesty who must discover other means of competitive survival.
Furthermore, lying is a lot of work that requires a lot of memory and it’s just not worth it.
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Source date (UTC): 2024-01-19 14:31:25 UTC
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I don’t understand … I’m not making a case for biology but for behavior. And as for biology most of the upper classes are rotations up and down out of the middle that tends to be the genetic reserve less burdened by genetic load.
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-19 01:17:30 UTC
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The Current Challenge of Women In A Movement
Whenever women comment intelligently on something I write I try to provide positive reinforcement, because we need good women in any movement.
Unfortunately, I’ve grown timid in doing so, because of the two extremes. It’s rare that a woman interprets us as peers sharing the journey, but too often assumes I’m demonstrating male-female interest instead of just decent human behavior regardless of sex.
A couple of weeks ago I complimented a woman for her fierceness and wit via a message. And she responded with not engaging in PM’s with men out of respect for her husband. Well, half of me appreciated her position, but the other half was saddened that we have come to this state of things.
It didn’t used to be the case. We were all confident in our relationships or lack of them, and we could be friendly and prosocial without the presumption of ‘more’ by either party.
So I interpret this change as a decline in maturity, and a rise in insecurity, and a dramatic rise in intersexual responsibility – and It makes me sad.
I love women and I find women’s point of view when from at least a responsible conservative frame, to be both pleasant and informative. I try to keep my female friends precisely because they provide insights I lack because of the differences in our temperaments biases and minds.
So again, it makes me sad that we have grown so apart.
We might need some ‘registry’ that of those who promise not to pursue members of the opposite sex so that we may once again simply engage in prosocial discourse for the benefit of ourselves, and all.
Cheers
CD
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-18 17:48:11 UTC
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RT @curtdoolittle: @FeminaStudiosa Packs and herds both follow leaders but for different reasons. 😉
The heard easily, the pack not so muc…
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-18 17:33:25 UTC
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