I don't think I can find anything to disagree with you about in your comment. Not that I was trying to find any source of disagreement.
I especially like what you say about education. I (or Katrina, rather) was going to be writing about this on my Substack in the coming months. In her parallel utopia all these skills are of course on t…
I don't think I can find anything to disagree with you about in your comment. Not that I was trying to find any source of disagreement.
I especially like what you say about education. I (or Katrina, rather) was going to be writing about this on my Substack in the coming months. In her parallel utopia all these skills are of course on the national curriculum - meaning the preservation of proper democracy in which the social decision-makers are all benevolent, because a clued-up people simply wouldn't fall for propaganda and lies, and never vote for bad guys. Bad guys simply can't survive in a world like that. It's kind of obvious, of course. As is the converse, where they deliberately deny people these skills. Also on her national curriculum are subjects like philosophy and psychology.
For me, I'm not entirely sure I got these sorts of skills just from studying philosophy (at university), although it certainly helped. Because I was probably already a fairly logical thinker. Learning chess at an early age also probably helped (every child should learn chess - it's probably why the KGB won the espionage bit of the cold war, lol). Aside from the obvious logical thinking, you have to combine visual processing with a sort of probability tree diagram, a series of if-then statements. And then retrace your steps (whilst holding all those images in your mind). Likewise you are thinking in terms of game theory, about the strategic thinking of the other person.
Also at university I started doing Tarot, which is essentially just pattern recognition combined with intuition combined with an ability to 'read' people. I found I was almost instantaneously excellent at it (to the point of scaring some people about the accuracy of the readings). And I know I learned to read people from a very young age simply out of survival necessity (that's what child abuse will do - so from a perverse point of view I'm almost grateful for that positive - plus an experienced knowledge of the fact that there are real monsters in the world, and those monsters have power and authority; well, 'almost' grateful - but I'd definitely rather know than not know - I could never be a blue pill person).
I would definitely read your book if you ever wrote it. I'll even offer contributions if you like.
I'll do a second reply, to avoid a single long one.
Fortunately I don't have much to add to your excellent comment. I say fortunately because it's late, and I have some blocking of one of their new accounts I haven't encountered before to do. The blue sky maiden one. I suspect we are going to be playing whack-a-mole from now on.
Weeds. And constant gardening...
We should maybe sideswipe them by continuing our conversation in a different place...
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I don't think I can find anything to disagree with you about in your comment. Not that I was trying to find any source of disagreement.
I especially like what you say about education. I (or Katrina, rather) was going to be writing about this on my Substack in the coming months. In her parallel utopia all these skills are of course on the national curriculum - meaning the preservation of proper democracy in which the social decision-makers are all benevolent, because a clued-up people simply wouldn't fall for propaganda and lies, and never vote for bad guys. Bad guys simply can't survive in a world like that. It's kind of obvious, of course. As is the converse, where they deliberately deny people these skills. Also on her national curriculum are subjects like philosophy and psychology.
For me, I'm not entirely sure I got these sorts of skills just from studying philosophy (at university), although it certainly helped. Because I was probably already a fairly logical thinker. Learning chess at an early age also probably helped (every child should learn chess - it's probably why the KGB won the espionage bit of the cold war, lol). Aside from the obvious logical thinking, you have to combine visual processing with a sort of probability tree diagram, a series of if-then statements. And then retrace your steps (whilst holding all those images in your mind). Likewise you are thinking in terms of game theory, about the strategic thinking of the other person.
Also at university I started doing Tarot, which is essentially just pattern recognition combined with intuition combined with an ability to 'read' people. I found I was almost instantaneously excellent at it (to the point of scaring some people about the accuracy of the readings). And I know I learned to read people from a very young age simply out of survival necessity (that's what child abuse will do - so from a perverse point of view I'm almost grateful for that positive - plus an experienced knowledge of the fact that there are real monsters in the world, and those monsters have power and authority; well, 'almost' grateful - but I'd definitely rather know than not know - I could never be a blue pill person).
I would definitely read your book if you ever wrote it. I'll even offer contributions if you like.
I'll do a second reply, to avoid a single long one.
Fortunately I don't have much to add to your excellent comment. I say fortunately because it's late, and I have some blocking of one of their new accounts I haven't encountered before to do. The blue sky maiden one. I suspect we are going to be playing whack-a-mole from now on.
Weeds. And constant gardening...
We should maybe sideswipe them by continuing our conversation in a different place...