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"content": "<a href=\"https://culturephilos.substack.com/p/02-the-first-question\" target=\"_blank\">https://culturephilos.substack.com/p/02-the-first-question</a><br /><br />One Simple Rule to Save the World.<br /><br />There's a basic logic to doing good in the world, and defeating evil that we must take seriously to make positive change!<br /><br />Read about it and join me in the good fight!",
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"content": "It is time to take back science and use it to fix the world instead of as a propaganda arm for institutional players!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://culturephilos.substack.com/p/01-introducing-culturephilos\" target=\"_blank\">https://culturephilos.substack.com/p/01-introducing-culturephilos</a><br /><br />Give me a read, and join me in the fight to end the little darkage in modern science. <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=science\" title=\"#science\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#science</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=economics\" title=\"#economics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#economics</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=propaganda\" title=\"#propaganda\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#propaganda</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=freedom\" title=\"#freedom\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#freedom</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=littledarkage\" title=\"#littledarkage\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#littledarkage</a>",
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"content": "We need to be Rational about this disease in both directions. We need good, simple and reliable baselines, and we need to both react emotionally, and not overreact emotionally. Emotionless is death, as we are emotional creatures. Fake control of ones emotions is achieved through lies to oneself. True control of emotions is not control but freedom. where the full range of emotion is felt while in alignment with truth!<br /><br />Everyman's Guide to \"How to Think About COVID-19\"<br /><br />Data Analysis is hard, especially given the vast systemic bias in our testing response. This is my compressed analytical toolkit, built from mostly simple arithmetic, so its is easily accessible. And a general picture of what we are aiming for and why.<br /><br /><br />UPDATE: Antibody/serological testing data & proposed adjusted death rate figures.<br /><br />Since this is a major point of discussion across the web, and poorly understood, I will add my viewpoint. The serological (antibody) tests have numerous problems at this time, I don't take them at face value, and they aren't saying what people seem to think they are saying. I don't trust the estimates they give of 10 to 50x infected, but if that is accurate, it is a terrifying truth, not a cause for relaxation. That range would imply and R0 of >10, which is terrifying, even with a death rate adjusted down by an order of magnitude. To give a rough benchmark, antibody tests taken at face value imply an unstoppable global pandemic of something close to or worse than measles or Malaria. <br />We don't know the long-term effects of the disease. With re-emergence, this disease could be something like a herpes virus but fatal. Imagine a cancor sore that has a high chance of killing you every time it breaks out. Or HIV spread by a cough.<br />Don't buy the propaganda that this disease is \"just another flu\" Americans don't dig mass Graves in New York city over \"just another flu virus.\"<br /><br />***<br /><br />By my take, the most reliable datasets we have available to us to analyze are the Diamond Princess & South Korea. Based on my preferred source of <a href=\"https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/</a> We get a CDR of 1.8% to 2% known from these examples respectively, and a hard minimum of 0.35% CDR from the total population of Diamond Princess, assuming they were all exposed.<br /><br />In my opinion percentage is not a good framework to understand these statistics, as our brains do not process it well. A better analytic model is to use fractions for the impact.<br /><br />We can translate percentage easily; 1 in 55 to 1 in 50 expected range, with a hard minimum of 1 in 285 dead if exposed to the disease.<br /><br />On Diamond Princess there were 3,711 passengers, 712 known to be infected with COVID-19, 13 deaths so far, with 7 people still in critical or serious condition. (I expect additional deaths.) Now, since the initial exposure aboard the ship from February 1st. 76 days to this writing, April 17th, have passed. <br /><br />This CDR (Crude Death Rate) calculation has large error bars, as all the data is poor. But by itself it is simple math: [infected/dead] from a dataset. CDR isn't a hard number, but a variable which can change based on human interventions, overall its a good place to ground ones understanding of the disease, but not of a specific outbreak scenario as it doesn't provide universal extrapolation. Another number to be deeply concerned with is hospitalizations. The hospitalization rate is best conceptualized as “People who would likely die if they don't receive treatment.” An extreme risk if hospitals become overburdened, don't have enough resources and must begin triage.<br /><br />Frustratingly, this number as a total is not as well tracked, but the peak hospitalizations number for the Diamond Princess was 35. So we know roughly how many needed treatment. Using the Diamond Princess Dataset we get; 4.9% of known sick (1 in 20). 0.9% of total population (1 in 106) needed hospitalization & could likely die without it.<br /><br />Please understand that there are large error bars here, my data-analysis is framed from being as conservative as possible without being irrationally low, i.e. assuming risk. The ship was quarantined early, reducing the likelihood of exposure, but also a cruise-ship is something of a unique environment. However, it is less age and otherwise confounded than the memes around cruise-ships and disease would imply. As it can be considered an Optimistic & Definitive Cohort overall, I consider the Diamond Princess dataset the best available for extrapolation to population wide impacts.<br /><br />Using this dataset, we can very simply extrapolate to populations, to give a rough idea of the risks we are facing. Framing the pandemic with different paradigms, we can develop a more fully realized understanding of why this disease is so concerning.<br /><br />Note: We should be considered when assessing calculations results, as any extrapolation is fraught with potential problems, which is why there are far more complicated pandemic math models than what I am presenting.<br /><br /> A Range of Paradigms:<br /><br />Good Case: If we assume everyone aboard the Diamond Princess was fully exposed, the most optimistic assumption possible, and extrapolate that to the US it means 1,000,000 people will die from this disease, if it spreads and isn't pushed into active spread extinction. From that frame, this is a minimum possible assessment of the outcome. This assumption produces 22,500,00 dead globally. This assumption however does not account for hospital overburdening, but the CDR in consideration is low enough that overburdening isn't and order of magnitude consideration. The right way to think about this analytical frame is that it is fully irrational to believe that the disease can be less bad than this analysis.<br /><br />Bad Case: Using our data it is not hard to do an conservative bad case scenario, where the disease as we know it from CDR does its worst grounded in the data, we do nothing. But it is not a true worst case analysis where catastrophic systemic collapse is triggered, which is beyond the scope of our consideration.<br /><br />Everyone gets the disease over the course of a relatively short (months-year) time-span, hospitals are overburdened, and the data from DP is roughly representative. 4.9% Death Rate after hospital overburdening. 1 in 20 Americans Die. In total 16 million Americans die. 382 million dead globally. Someone you know very personally die, you will possibly attend multiple COVID-19 related funerals.<br /><br />Expected: We can do an Expected Case Analysis based on the Diamond Princess Infected CDR of 1.8%. We manage the catastrophic health aspects of the disease, and can ensure some form of effective treatment for all people who are infected, but the disease still saturates the population eventually. We assume the Dataset from Diamond Princess is roughly representative. 1 in 55 Americans dead. 6 million dead in the US. 140 million dead globally. This is close to the <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=FlattenTheCurve\" title=\"#FlattenTheCurve\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#FlattenTheCurve</a> scenario over a full timespan.<br /><br />Best Case: The <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=CrushTheCurve\" title=\"#CrushTheCurve\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#CrushTheCurve</a> Best Case Scenario. Reaching an Extinction Timeline. Exponential Decrease in deaths, due to stopping the spread before saturation. We can't easily calculate the total timeline death rate for this approach, the variables are too human choices dependent. However we can see the benefit of this approach immediately and consider its long term implications as well.<br /><br />To make a best case example explicit: South Korea has effectively stopped the virus, if their data is to be believed. They've had 217 dead, there will be some number more as those who are infected go through hospital and recovery. This is a tiny number compared to their population as a whole. South Korea is a living example of a best case scenario as events unfold. By contrast their Good case is 153,000 dead, their Bad case would be 2,500,00 dead, Expected 765,000.<br /><br />This is the kind of radical difference every single, person, institution and government should all have been fighting for since the beginning.<br /><br />As we stretch this into long term thinking, the dynamics get far more complicated. I can't elegantly factor all of it. However, important considerations are that as time goes on our ability to respond to the disease improves. We know more about it, and can scale our response capacity to better handle it. The CDR framings will all gradually reduce as we develop the capacity to better treat the disease on every level of analysis.<br /><br />A huge boon is that if we can reach extinction timelines locally, life can return to near normal, locally, within weeks. With certain provisions, this near return to normalcy can be maintained, at a local level, regardless of the extinction timeline propagating globally. If any secondary outbreak restarts, we already have the collective consciousness to react to it efficiently with minimal social impact. The Lockdowns are only essential & necessary because we are so unprepared. South Korea, didn't need full lockdowns, because they were well prepared due to previous infectious outbreaks in SE Asia.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Risk Management Path Forward:There is too much to consider to get a complete and detailed picture into a single post. This is to set out the general picture so there is a clear understanding to being from, each layer needs to be considered for specifics and context.<br /><br />Government and Business:<br /><br />We've talked extensively about Testing and About Contact tracing, Scaling PPE and Medical Resources. These are all fundamentally essential to a governmental and broad scale response. We need to know who is sick and who is exposed, so those people can be cared for and avoid spreading the disease further. Then have protection for those treating them, the society at large, and have the ability to treat people beyond the paltry capacity we have in place for peak loads.<br /><br />A competent government response is very subject to particulars of a region; namely, population density & demographics, compliance, socio-economics, climate, response capacity and leadership competence. There is no universal response paradigm that is also optimal everywhere. 5 Week Lockdowns are our core message, as this is the simplest implementation, and the most impactful, but it by itself isn't the solution. This 5 Weeks of Lockdown is time bought to react and extinct the virus in community spread, so life can return to near normal, and resources can be focused to locales where the disease is not extinct.<br /><br />Impact at a Personal Level:<br /><br />Wearing mask, any filter medium, up to and including a mere bandana, if washed regularly, reduces spread [you can fold in a [salted] shop towel to increase filtering effectiveness]. Any barrier reduces spread both from you, if you are infected, and to you, if someone who is near you is infected. Both directly, in your viral load exposure & transmission numbers in any viral particle encounter, and in the R0 doubling rate, reducing your general probability of exposure.<br /><br />An N95 mask is roughly 89% effective against the virus, significantly reducing viral load, whereas the average DIY Mask is in the 50-70% range. Also there is evidence a salt based treatment to a filter medium can reach 100% effectiveness, as salt has anti-viral properties on a filter medium. tinyurl(dot)com/saltmask<br /><br />Super Spreaders Events: If eliminated, radically reduce the total spread. A few people spread the disease to huge numbers of others, most people take actions that reduce their spread effect, like wearing a mask and staying home if they feel unwell. If door-knobs are sanitized regularly, and other surface vectors are sanitized as well, an region that has achieved extinction can maintain it's low spread rate without an extensive burden.<br /><br />We know the disease doesn't survive long on cardboard, 24hr. But we also know it can survive a long time on plastic 3+ days (up to 9 days depending on plastic type iirc). So with manageable quarantines local areas can still have trade with areas with a higher infection rate. Soap and Bleach spray are two powerful tools of disinfection. Also Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide.<br /><br />Beyond hand-washing a powerful protectant is to make your household a secure space, which we call safe-circle, as background stress itself is a risk factor for infection & lowered immune system. This means upon returning home yo do such as; disinfectant spray your shoes and bottom of shoes, launder clothes, shower with soap, shampoo & body wash, & wear PPE when out. Quarantining all packages that enter the home for 24 hours, along with using disinfectant spray on plastic packaging. Along with appropriate additional precautions.<br /><br />General Health, Self Protection and Prophylactics: Reducing the likelihood a low viral load exposure becomes an infection, also taking precautionary steps that can help in reducing the severity of an infection. We know confidently that Vitamin C & Citrus is beneficial if sick with COVID-19. Zinc has a known history of helping fight viral infection. Vitamin D is known to be beneficial during respiratory stress, as is fresh air, so going outdoors, and supplements are both hugely beneficial, also green nature itself has a strong anti-stress load experiential effect.<br /><br />Reports of various forms of Chloroquine being helpful in treatment means that highly available Tonic Water just might have a beneficial disease fighting and also protective effect, it is known to do this for Malaria.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Key Takeaways:<br /><br />It is far easier to manage disease risk in a local area after the disease is extinct in the population, regardless of details. Once we “Extinct” life gets back to near normal, but we can also respond much more effectively to a subsequent outbreak, as we share a collective consciousness about the disease and its danger.<br /><br />There is a lot that you & those you know and can contact personally can do to reduce the disease & its impact, personally and at scale. <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Masks4All\" title=\"#Masks4All\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Masks4All</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=CrushTheCurve\" title=\"#CrushTheCurve\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#CrushTheCurve</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=5WeekLockdown\" title=\"#5WeekLockdown\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#5WeekLockdown</a><br /><br />Note: I am a team lead at endcoronavirus.org run through NECSI.edu, founded by Yaneer Bar-Yam in collaboration with Nassim Taleb<br />",
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"content": "We need to be Rational about this disease in both directions. We need good, simple and reliable baselines, and we need to both react emotionally, and not overreact emotionally. Emotionless is death, as we are emotional creatures. Fake control of ones emotions is achieved through lies to oneself. True control of emotions is not control but freedom. where the full range of emotion is felt while in alignment with truth!\n\nEveryman's Guide to \"How to Think About COVID-19\"\n\nData Analysis is hard, especially given the vast systemic bias in our testing response. This is my compressed analytical toolkit, built from mostly simple arithmetic, so its is easily accessible. And a general picture of what we are aiming for and why.\n\n\nUPDATE: Antibody/serological testing data & proposed adjusted death rate figures.\n\nSince this is a major point of discussion across the web, and poorly understood, I will add my viewpoint. The serological (antibody) tests have numerous problems at this time, I don't take them at face value, and they aren't saying what people seem to think they are saying. I don't trust the estimates they give of 10 to 50x infected, but if that is accurate, it is a terrifying truth, not a cause for relaxation. That range would imply and R0 of >10, which is terrifying, even with a death rate adjusted down by an order of magnitude. To give a rough benchmark, antibody tests taken at face value imply an unstoppable global pandemic of something close to or worse than measles or Malaria. \nWe don't know the long-term effects of the disease. With re-emergence, this disease could be something like a herpes virus but fatal. Imagine a cancor sore that has a high chance of killing you every time it breaks out. Or HIV spread by a cough.\nDon't buy the propaganda that this disease is \"just another flu\" Americans don't dig mass Graves in New York city over \"just another flu virus.\"\n\n***\n\nBy my take, the most reliable datasets we have available to us to analyze are the Diamond Princess & South Korea. Based on my preferred source of https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ We get a CDR of 1.8% to 2% known from these examples respectively, and a hard minimum of 0.35% CDR from the total population of Diamond Princess, assuming they were all exposed.\n\nIn my opinion percentage is not a good framework to understand these statistics, as our brains do not process it well. A better analytic model is to use fractions for the impact.\n\nWe can translate percentage easily; 1 in 55 to 1 in 50 expected range, with a hard minimum of 1 in 285 dead if exposed to the disease.\n\nOn Diamond Princess there were 3,711 passengers, 712 known to be infected with COVID-19, 13 deaths so far, with 7 people still in critical or serious condition. (I expect additional deaths.) Now, since the initial exposure aboard the ship from February 1st. 76 days to this writing, April 17th, have passed. \n\nThis CDR (Crude Death Rate) calculation has large error bars, as all the data is poor. But by itself it is simple math: [infected/dead] from a dataset. CDR isn't a hard number, but a variable which can change based on human interventions, overall its a good place to ground ones understanding of the disease, but not of a specific outbreak scenario as it doesn't provide universal extrapolation. Another number to be deeply concerned with is hospitalizations. The hospitalization rate is best conceptualized as “People who would likely die if they don't receive treatment.” An extreme risk if hospitals become overburdened, don't have enough resources and must begin triage.\n\nFrustratingly, this number as a total is not as well tracked, but the peak hospitalizations number for the Diamond Princess was 35. So we know roughly how many needed treatment. Using the Diamond Princess Dataset we get; 4.9% of known sick (1 in 20). 0.9% of total population (1 in 106) needed hospitalization & could likely die without it.\n\nPlease understand that there are large error bars here, my data-analysis is framed from being as conservative as possible without being irrationally low, i.e. assuming risk. The ship was quarantined early, reducing the likelihood of exposure, but also a cruise-ship is something of a unique environment. However, it is less age and otherwise confounded than the memes around cruise-ships and disease would imply. As it can be considered an Optimistic & Definitive Cohort overall, I consider the Diamond Princess dataset the best available for extrapolation to population wide impacts.\n\nUsing this dataset, we can very simply extrapolate to populations, to give a rough idea of the risks we are facing. Framing the pandemic with different paradigms, we can develop a more fully realized understanding of why this disease is so concerning.\n\nNote: We should be considered when assessing calculations results, as any extrapolation is fraught with potential problems, which is why there are far more complicated pandemic math models than what I am presenting.\n\n A Range of Paradigms:\n\nGood Case: If we assume everyone aboard the Diamond Princess was fully exposed, the most optimistic assumption possible, and extrapolate that to the US it means 1,000,000 people will die from this disease, if it spreads and isn't pushed into active spread extinction. From that frame, this is a minimum possible assessment of the outcome. This assumption produces 22,500,00 dead globally. This assumption however does not account for hospital overburdening, but the CDR in consideration is low enough that overburdening isn't and order of magnitude consideration. The right way to think about this analytical frame is that it is fully irrational to believe that the disease can be less bad than this analysis.\n\nBad Case: Using our data it is not hard to do an conservative bad case scenario, where the disease as we know it from CDR does its worst grounded in the data, we do nothing. But it is not a true worst case analysis where catastrophic systemic collapse is triggered, which is beyond the scope of our consideration.\n\nEveryone gets the disease over the course of a relatively short (months-year) time-span, hospitals are overburdened, and the data from DP is roughly representative. 4.9% Death Rate after hospital overburdening. 1 in 20 Americans Die. In total 16 million Americans die. 382 million dead globally. Someone you know very personally die, you will possibly attend multiple COVID-19 related funerals.\n\nExpected: We can do an Expected Case Analysis based on the Diamond Princess Infected CDR of 1.8%. We manage the catastrophic health aspects of the disease, and can ensure some form of effective treatment for all people who are infected, but the disease still saturates the population eventually. We assume the Dataset from Diamond Princess is roughly representative. 1 in 55 Americans dead. 6 million dead in the US. 140 million dead globally. This is close to the #FlattenTheCurve scenario over a full timespan.\n\nBest Case: The #CrushTheCurve Best Case Scenario. Reaching an Extinction Timeline. Exponential Decrease in deaths, due to stopping the spread before saturation. We can't easily calculate the total timeline death rate for this approach, the variables are too human choices dependent. However we can see the benefit of this approach immediately and consider its long term implications as well.\n\nTo make a best case example explicit: South Korea has effectively stopped the virus, if their data is to be believed. They've had 217 dead, there will be some number more as those who are infected go through hospital and recovery. This is a tiny number compared to their population as a whole. South Korea is a living example of a best case scenario as events unfold. By contrast their Good case is 153,000 dead, their Bad case would be 2,500,00 dead, Expected 765,000.\n\nThis is the kind of radical difference every single, person, institution and government should all have been fighting for since the beginning.\n\nAs we stretch this into long term thinking, the dynamics get far more complicated. I can't elegantly factor all of it. However, important considerations are that as time goes on our ability to respond to the disease improves. We know more about it, and can scale our response capacity to better handle it. The CDR framings will all gradually reduce as we develop the capacity to better treat the disease on every level of analysis.\n\nA huge boon is that if we can reach extinction timelines locally, life can return to near normal, locally, within weeks. With certain provisions, this near return to normalcy can be maintained, at a local level, regardless of the extinction timeline propagating globally. If any secondary outbreak restarts, we already have the collective consciousness to react to it efficiently with minimal social impact. The Lockdowns are only essential & necessary because we are so unprepared. South Korea, didn't need full lockdowns, because they were well prepared due to previous infectious outbreaks in SE Asia.\n\n***\n\nRisk Management Path Forward:There is too much to consider to get a complete and detailed picture into a single post. This is to set out the general picture so there is a clear understanding to being from, each layer needs to be considered for specifics and context.\n\nGovernment and Business:\n\nWe've talked extensively about Testing and About Contact tracing, Scaling PPE and Medical Resources. These are all fundamentally essential to a governmental and broad scale response. We need to know who is sick and who is exposed, so those people can be cared for and avoid spreading the disease further. Then have protection for those treating them, the society at large, and have the ability to treat people beyond the paltry capacity we have in place for peak loads.\n\nA competent government response is very subject to particulars of a region; namely, population density & demographics, compliance, socio-economics, climate, response capacity and leadership competence. There is no universal response paradigm that is also optimal everywhere. 5 Week Lockdowns are our core message, as this is the simplest implementation, and the most impactful, but it by itself isn't the solution. This 5 Weeks of Lockdown is time bought to react and extinct the virus in community spread, so life can return to near normal, and resources can be focused to locales where the disease is not extinct.\n\nImpact at a Personal Level:\n\nWearing mask, any filter medium, up to and including a mere bandana, if washed regularly, reduces spread [you can fold in a [salted] shop towel to increase filtering effectiveness]. Any barrier reduces spread both from you, if you are infected, and to you, if someone who is near you is infected. Both directly, in your viral load exposure & transmission numbers in any viral particle encounter, and in the R0 doubling rate, reducing your general probability of exposure.\n\nAn N95 mask is roughly 89% effective against the virus, significantly reducing viral load, whereas the average DIY Mask is in the 50-70% range. Also there is evidence a salt based treatment to a filter medium can reach 100% effectiveness, as salt has anti-viral properties on a filter medium. tinyurl(dot)com/saltmask\n\nSuper Spreaders Events: If eliminated, radically reduce the total spread. A few people spread the disease to huge numbers of others, most people take actions that reduce their spread effect, like wearing a mask and staying home if they feel unwell. If door-knobs are sanitized regularly, and other surface vectors are sanitized as well, an region that has achieved extinction can maintain it's low spread rate without an extensive burden.\n\nWe know the disease doesn't survive long on cardboard, 24hr. But we also know it can survive a long time on plastic 3+ days (up to 9 days depending on plastic type iirc). So with manageable quarantines local areas can still have trade with areas with a higher infection rate. Soap and Bleach spray are two powerful tools of disinfection. Also Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide.\n\nBeyond hand-washing a powerful protectant is to make your household a secure space, which we call safe-circle, as background stress itself is a risk factor for infection & lowered immune system. This means upon returning home yo do such as; disinfectant spray your shoes and bottom of shoes, launder clothes, shower with soap, shampoo & body wash, & wear PPE when out. Quarantining all packages that enter the home for 24 hours, along with using disinfectant spray on plastic packaging. Along with appropriate additional precautions.\n\nGeneral Health, Self Protection and Prophylactics: Reducing the likelihood a low viral load exposure becomes an infection, also taking precautionary steps that can help in reducing the severity of an infection. We know confidently that Vitamin C & Citrus is beneficial if sick with COVID-19. Zinc has a known history of helping fight viral infection. Vitamin D is known to be beneficial during respiratory stress, as is fresh air, so going outdoors, and supplements are both hugely beneficial, also green nature itself has a strong anti-stress load experiential effect.\n\nReports of various forms of Chloroquine being helpful in treatment means that highly available Tonic Water just might have a beneficial disease fighting and also protective effect, it is known to do this for Malaria.\n\n***\n\nKey Takeaways:\n\nIt is far easier to manage disease risk in a local area after the disease is extinct in the population, regardless of details. 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"content": "Resolving Christianity in a world that has move beyond its foundations.<br /><br />We need to move past Christianity as the fundamental perspective of the west, as it is no longer the source of wisdom it once might have been. But, it seems, from the apparent failure of New Athiesm to gain a solid foothold, that we cannot descard the traditions of our ancestors wholesale. So how do we best move from the past into the future?<br /><br />I've come to a tentative realization. Much thinking that apples in this context tries to strip the Christian tradition from the past. I think the true and proper approach is to recognize these traditions as instead having drifted off into the ancestoral field. Not bound to us in the modern day, as they were so directly and powerfully in our ancestors lives. But not without value and input to us today. We still live in a world built out of their fundamental structures, structures that no longer fit seemlessly in the future that we must move into.<br /><br />In this manner of thinking, all the Christian wisdom arraigned by our ancestors is contained in their spirit, as it resides in the past. Wisdom accessable to us in the modern day, if we need to comune and reconnect with it. But it us not forced upon us, imposed on us by the past, as the modern concept of being Christian feels to many many people.<br /><br />By having this as our orientation, the ancestoral spirit that resides in the past is in part a Christian spirit, but also, in equal measure a Pagan spirit. One than, if construed properly, can bring forth both modes of wisdom in our times of need, if we only wish to reach out to it. A far healthier and quite different conception of how proper being should be formulated.<br /><br />",
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"content": "Resolving Christianity in a world that has move beyond its foundations.\n\nWe need to move past Christianity as the fundamental perspective of the west, as it is no longer the source of wisdom it once might have been. But, it seems, from the apparent failure of New Athiesm to gain a solid foothold, that we cannot descard the traditions of our ancestors wholesale. So how do we best move from the past into the future?\n\nI've come to a tentative realization. Much thinking that apples in this context tries to strip the Christian tradition from the past. I think the true and proper approach is to recognize these traditions as instead having drifted off into the ancestoral field. Not bound to us in the modern day, as they were so directly and powerfully in our ancestors lives. But not without value and input to us today. We still live in a world built out of their fundamental structures, structures that no longer fit seemlessly in the future that we must move into.\n\nIn this manner of thinking, all the Christian wisdom arraigned by our ancestors is contained in their spirit, as it resides in the past. Wisdom accessable to us in the modern day, if we need to comune and reconnect with it. But it us not forced upon us, imposed on us by the past, as the modern concept of being Christian feels to many many people.\n\nBy having this as our orientation, the ancestoral spirit that resides in the past is in part a Christian spirit, but also, in equal measure a Pagan spirit. One than, if construed properly, can bring forth both modes of wisdom in our times of need, if we only wish to reach out to it. A far healthier and quite different conception of how proper being should be formulated.\n\n",
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"content": "Body Series: Self Image<br /><br />The proper self image comes from deep within, deeper than the skin, deeper than the muscles, deeper even than the bones, it should be felt as the spirit that resides deeper than all these superficial things. All things are put upon this inner self, all things come from the outside, this way the self is its own, not tied into knots with all the things of the world. This is non-attachment. <br /><br />This is most easily experienced in the face and with emotions. In meditation as the face becomes at peace, feel the self recede from the skin, then even from the muscles as tension and pain relaxes and is released. All these things come from the world, and can be returned to the world as the outside recedes and the self is centered. This world is like a wave on the beach, and the self the shape of the sand, the body the grains themselves. Wet it is hard and in tension, invaded by the world, dry it is fluffy and ever shifting and moving, changing and adapting. Be like the beach, dry, wet and then dry again. <br />Give the tension that the world gives to the body back, and return to the deep self, letting go of the flesh of the body, and returning to true home of the self, the inner spirit. Then feel the world again, this time Through the body, but not with the body. The body will react on its own to the world. Taking on tension from it, then releasing that tension again. This is felt, in the muscles which are beyond the spirit. They are empty and relaxed, then they encounter the world and harden to protect the inner things, then relax again when the world is past. Let the muscles relax and recede, like the world, becoming outside the self. The muscles come from beyond the self as well, and should be felt as what the self acts Through, but not what the self acts as or from.<br /><br />If the self sees the muscles as part of the self, all the tension in the muscles becomes part of the self. That tension, which arrives from the world, becomes part of the self, and is trapped within the self, unable to be released. This traps pain within the body and leads to suffering, attachment leads to suffering. Go deeper than your body and let go, feel the world through your body, but do not become attached to it all. This will show you the path to peace and comfort in all things. <br /><br />I really mean that what you sense as you should feel in your experience as existing deeper than the body, that the body is outside of you. I mean hat the self should not be between the body and the world, but that the body should be between the world and the self. To put the self between the world and the body is to lie. This is to wear a mask. The self masquerades as itself by using the body, instead of presenting itself, Through the body, to the world. <br /><br />Try this, feel it out, see if you can feel through your body, from deep inside, instead of with your body, trapped, never free of the pain, tension and constant thereness and interference of the world that should be outside the self. But has we taken within and internalized and forgotten as separate, become stuck within the self. If what you sense seem right, rest there and discover more of it within yourself, let that sense of deepness and Throughness spread throughout the whole body, and then the whole self, releasing tension and that which has been trapped within the self as the sensation grows. This may take time, it may be slow, it may even be scary. Trust in your self.<br /> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=yoga\" title=\"#yoga\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#yoga</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=buddhism\" title=\"#buddhism\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#buddhism</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=health\" title=\"#health\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#health</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=relaxation\" title=\"#relaxation\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#relaxation</a>",
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"content": "Body Series: Self Image\n\nThe proper self image comes from deep within, deeper than the skin, deeper than the muscles, deeper even than the bones, it should be felt as the spirit that resides deeper than all these superficial things. All things are put upon this inner self, all things come from the outside, this way the self is its own, not tied into knots with all the things of the world. This is non-attachment. \n\nThis is most easily experienced in the face and with emotions. In meditation as the face becomes at peace, feel the self recede from the skin, then even from the muscles as tension and pain relaxes and is released. All these things come from the world, and can be returned to the world as the outside recedes and the self is centered. This world is like a wave on the beach, and the self the shape of the sand, the body the grains themselves. Wet it is hard and in tension, invaded by the world, dry it is fluffy and ever shifting and moving, changing and adapting. Be like the beach, dry, wet and then dry again. \nGive the tension that the world gives to the body back, and return to the deep self, letting go of the flesh of the body, and returning to true home of the self, the inner spirit. Then feel the world again, this time Through the body, but not with the body. The body will react on its own to the world. Taking on tension from it, then releasing that tension again. This is felt, in the muscles which are beyond the spirit. They are empty and relaxed, then they encounter the world and harden to protect the inner things, then relax again when the world is past. Let the muscles relax and recede, like the world, becoming outside the self. The muscles come from beyond the self as well, and should be felt as what the self acts Through, but not what the self acts as or from.\n\nIf the self sees the muscles as part of the self, all the tension in the muscles becomes part of the self. That tension, which arrives from the world, becomes part of the self, and is trapped within the self, unable to be released. This traps pain within the body and leads to suffering, attachment leads to suffering. Go deeper than your body and let go, feel the world through your body, but do not become attached to it all. This will show you the path to peace and comfort in all things. \n\nI really mean that what you sense as you should feel in your experience as existing deeper than the body, that the body is outside of you. I mean hat the self should not be between the body and the world, but that the body should be between the world and the self. To put the self between the world and the body is to lie. This is to wear a mask. The self masquerades as itself by using the body, instead of presenting itself, Through the body, to the world. \n\nTry this, feel it out, see if you can feel through your body, from deep inside, instead of with your body, trapped, never free of the pain, tension and constant thereness and interference of the world that should be outside the self. But has we taken within and internalized and forgotten as separate, become stuck within the self. If what you sense seem right, rest there and discover more of it within yourself, let that sense of deepness and Throughness spread throughout the whole body, and then the whole self, releasing tension and that which has been trapped within the self as the sensation grows. This may take time, it may be slow, it may even be scary. Trust in your self.\n #philosophy #yoga #buddhism #health #relaxation",
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"content": "Resolving Cultural Apropriation Beyond: \"Don't do this thing because I say only I'm allowed to do it.\" <br /><br />First, let's have a relatable example. Disney Starwars, especially Last Jedi, felt like an appropriation of sacred nerd cultural Canon by corporate money grubbers and cultural vultures. Take this feeling to 11 and you'll have a sense of what's going on and the nuance involved.<br /><br />A caring tribute to the original would have been appreciated, the soulless takeover was by contrast dispicable.<br /><br />There's likely a space for healthy cultural interchange, but there is also definitely a disrespectful and neigh mocking appropriation to which protest is the honest, acceptable, respectable and expected response.<br /><br />When interacting with aspects of others cultures care about it as much as they do, put effort into getting it right and interacting and adopting it in a way that is clearly an homage instead of being interpreted a mockery.<br /><br />A slapdash treatment will fail to capture the value of the original anyways, creating an inferior outcome regardless of feelings. All cultures have thought through long and hard for possibly centuries and care deeply about getting what they are doing right, \"westernizing\" it haphazardly is not a good idea from a conceptual standpoint. Traditions form as they do for deep and complex reasons, don't interact with even \"primative\" things as if they are frivolous, there are few things that last long enough to become traditions which are frivolous.<br /><br />Hopefully this helps create more reasonable conversations were resolution can be achieved. This is not a decree as to what is right, but an assessment of how to find a resolution that's better for all parties involved, a stepping stone to productive understanding across political and cultural lines.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=sjw\" title=\"#sjw\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#sjw</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=socialjustice\" title=\"#socialjustice\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#socialjustice</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=culturalappropriation\" title=\"#culturalappropriation\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#culturalappropriation</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=politics\" title=\"#politics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#politics</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=culturewars\" title=\"#culturewars\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#culturewars</a>",
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"content": "Resolving Cultural Apropriation Beyond: \"Don't do this thing because I say only I'm allowed to do it.\" \n\nFirst, let's have a relatable example. Disney Starwars, especially Last Jedi, felt like an appropriation of sacred nerd cultural Canon by corporate money grubbers and cultural vultures. Take this feeling to 11 and you'll have a sense of what's going on and the nuance involved.\n\nA caring tribute to the original would have been appreciated, the soulless takeover was by contrast dispicable.\n\nThere's likely a space for healthy cultural interchange, but there is also definitely a disrespectful and neigh mocking appropriation to which protest is the honest, acceptable, respectable and expected response.\n\nWhen interacting with aspects of others cultures care about it as much as they do, put effort into getting it right and interacting and adopting it in a way that is clearly an homage instead of being interpreted a mockery.\n\nA slapdash treatment will fail to capture the value of the original anyways, creating an inferior outcome regardless of feelings. All cultures have thought through long and hard for possibly centuries and care deeply about getting what they are doing right, \"westernizing\" it haphazardly is not a good idea from a conceptual standpoint. Traditions form as they do for deep and complex reasons, don't interact with even \"primative\" things as if they are frivolous, there are few things that last long enough to become traditions which are frivolous.\n\nHopefully this helps create more reasonable conversations were resolution can be achieved. This is not a decree as to what is right, but an assessment of how to find a resolution that's better for all parties involved, a stepping stone to productive understanding across political and cultural lines.\n\n#sjw #socialjustice #culturalappropriation #politics #culturewars",
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"content": "Culture around a Campfire<br />A quick thought I had, pondering how our ancestors kept an oral story tradition alive around a campfire.<br />The children need to learn the stories, and how to tell them, by repetition, they also need to be corrected while maintaining a positive relationship with the knowledge, to end with enjoyment in the proper telling.<br />How can this all be achieved reliably?<br />The whole tribe is gathered around the campfire, ready for a story. The children go first, giving it their best recital, practicing the major story beats and developing a deep relationship with the emotional peaks and troughs of the legend, embodying it repeatedly while still learning the full articulation and detail. Instead of correction or judgement, from the tribe, like a letter grade on a test, they join the collective group to watch the master storyteller tell the story the next night around the campfire, his gravitas and ability an aspiration, a wide eyed dream of future protentional.<br />While the master works his craft, the response of the crowd, or simple pointers and reminders from a loving parent highlights, through the master's performance, where the child can learn in what they mistook, and what the child did well. <br />Imagine sitting in your grandmother's lap at age 8 the night after your school play, to watch a performance by put on by the teachers of your school, those who taught you the play and how to use the vital knowledge contained within, those you aspire to emulate. They are not only acting well, and have perfected each line and action, but they also were there to watch your performance, and have tailored this new one to emphasize what you may have fumbled, yet contrasting this with emulation of what you did well, incorporating your best moments into their performance of the material. Your grandmother coos in your ear, reminding you that next time you'll know to get it right, and that this time she adored your best efforts, despite it's flaws. She cheers and jostles you at the moments when they emulated what you did, noticing and enforcing recognition of what might be a subtle variation of a the expression of a piece of dialogue, only clear to someone who has seen the play dozens of time over many years by many children and adults.<br />There is a deep sense of shared knowing, shared emotion, shared experience, shared lives. Everyone is connected, the elders watching and guiding, the adults living it out and the children acting it out and learning. This is the way of learning that is our human birthright, this experience is the proper form of education. Our failure at bringing this structure into the current era is a source of tremendous tragedy in my eyes. It is the wholesome natural order, and is more easily achieved, as that natural order, than other structures that require constant effort to maintain. All that is needed is to create the fertile ground, an environment where this process can take place. Live together, and demonstrate the highest art form of what is taught instead of just making a banal judgement and correction, and the natural order of things will emerge. Encouragement and understanding of how this natural order is structured will only speedily encourage the maximal achievement of it, but is not itself required, if the fertile environment is maintained intact.<br />This is the fundamental principal of an Intuitive Society. Create the fertile soil where the ideal form of the best social culture can flourish. Permaculture for Culture.<br /><br /> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=nature\" title=\"#nature\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#nature</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Permaculture\" title=\"#Permaculture\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Permaculture</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Society\" title=\"#Society\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Society</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Pagent\" title=\"#Pagent\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Pagent</a>",
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"content": "Culture around a Campfire\nA quick thought I had, pondering how our ancestors kept an oral story tradition alive around a campfire.\nThe children need to learn the stories, and how to tell them, by repetition, they also need to be corrected while maintaining a positive relationship with the knowledge, to end with enjoyment in the proper telling.\nHow can this all be achieved reliably?\nThe whole tribe is gathered around the campfire, ready for a story. The children go first, giving it their best recital, practicing the major story beats and developing a deep relationship with the emotional peaks and troughs of the legend, embodying it repeatedly while still learning the full articulation and detail. Instead of correction or judgement, from the tribe, like a letter grade on a test, they join the collective group to watch the master storyteller tell the story the next night around the campfire, his gravitas and ability an aspiration, a wide eyed dream of future protentional.\nWhile the master works his craft, the response of the crowd, or simple pointers and reminders from a loving parent highlights, through the master's performance, where the child can learn in what they mistook, and what the child did well. \nImagine sitting in your grandmother's lap at age 8 the night after your school play, to watch a performance by put on by the teachers of your school, those who taught you the play and how to use the vital knowledge contained within, those you aspire to emulate. They are not only acting well, and have perfected each line and action, but they also were there to watch your performance, and have tailored this new one to emphasize what you may have fumbled, yet contrasting this with emulation of what you did well, incorporating your best moments into their performance of the material. Your grandmother coos in your ear, reminding you that next time you'll know to get it right, and that this time she adored your best efforts, despite it's flaws. She cheers and jostles you at the moments when they emulated what you did, noticing and enforcing recognition of what might be a subtle variation of a the expression of a piece of dialogue, only clear to someone who has seen the play dozens of time over many years by many children and adults.\nThere is a deep sense of shared knowing, shared emotion, shared experience, shared lives. Everyone is connected, the elders watching and guiding, the adults living it out and the children acting it out and learning. This is the way of learning that is our human birthright, this experience is the proper form of education. Our failure at bringing this structure into the current era is a source of tremendous tragedy in my eyes. It is the wholesome natural order, and is more easily achieved, as that natural order, than other structures that require constant effort to maintain. All that is needed is to create the fertile ground, an environment where this process can take place. Live together, and demonstrate the highest art form of what is taught instead of just making a banal judgement and correction, and the natural order of things will emerge. Encouragement and understanding of how this natural order is structured will only speedily encourage the maximal achievement of it, but is not itself required, if the fertile environment is maintained intact.\nThis is the fundamental principal of an Intuitive Society. Create the fertile soil where the ideal form of the best social culture can flourish. Permaculture for Culture.\n\n #philosophy #nature #Permaculture #Society #Pagent",
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"content": "Retooling Plato's Republic<br />It's hard to escape the development of a aristocracy, but there needs to be a strong relationship between the people and their leaders.<br />Leadership by right has a powerful impact on the quality of leadership, as it becomes a way of life instead of a popularity contest. But centralizing leadership into an exclusive grouping of people creates detachment and a caste system through time. <br />A solution a dual system. A house of Lords, of a kind, where all the members become leaders of a group of people at age 18. This is picked at random from the population at birth, like a lottery for new social security numbers.<br />A second group would be those elected to leadership by the vote of the people. Those who are randomly selected are notified of their privileges in the parliament at age 10 and have the opportunity to decline further involvement at age 12 and again at age 18. They represent the people they are born to, and their experiences growing up within the group becomes a built in and conscious example of that population exemplified in an individual given responsibility. They carry both the experience of being a generic member of that group, and as a rightful leader of that group, during different phases of childhood. This will give a good mixture of personalities and life experiences within this group, while also having a direct connection to the population at large, living at least part of their lives as normal members of society. This should do the best possible work to reduce the likelihood of an exclusive class which controls the social system, while simultaneously creating a rightful class of leaders who worry little for the varying pulse of pop-culture and can develop a longer view of the proper perspective. Unconstrained by controlling interests of power players.<br />Those elected represent the will of the people, instead of the consciousness of the people. This symbolically separates the two parts of self, awareness and action. This also gives the main portion of the populace an opportunity to select leaders from among themselves and to counteract the concentration and separation of the leadership class through a method of gradually concentrating power and manipulating the populace for their own benefit, as a group of people.<br />This should create a balanced and stable social system with an aristocratic class that is part of the people instead of the product of power itself.<br /><br />The goal of what Plato was attempting to do with Plato's republic, but at the level of personal experience instead of lineage. A modern vision for the same concept.<br />",
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"content": "Retooling Plato's Republic\nIt's hard to escape the development of a aristocracy, but there needs to be a strong relationship between the people and their leaders.\nLeadership by right has a powerful impact on the quality of leadership, as it becomes a way of life instead of a popularity contest. But centralizing leadership into an exclusive grouping of people creates detachment and a caste system through time. \nA solution a dual system. A house of Lords, of a kind, where all the members become leaders of a group of people at age 18. This is picked at random from the population at birth, like a lottery for new social security numbers.\nA second group would be those elected to leadership by the vote of the people. Those who are randomly selected are notified of their privileges in the parliament at age 10 and have the opportunity to decline further involvement at age 12 and again at age 18. They represent the people they are born to, and their experiences growing up within the group becomes a built in and conscious example of that population exemplified in an individual given responsibility. They carry both the experience of being a generic member of that group, and as a rightful leader of that group, during different phases of childhood. This will give a good mixture of personalities and life experiences within this group, while also having a direct connection to the population at large, living at least part of their lives as normal members of society. This should do the best possible work to reduce the likelihood of an exclusive class which controls the social system, while simultaneously creating a rightful class of leaders who worry little for the varying pulse of pop-culture and can develop a longer view of the proper perspective. Unconstrained by controlling interests of power players.\nThose elected represent the will of the people, instead of the consciousness of the people. This symbolically separates the two parts of self, awareness and action. This also gives the main portion of the populace an opportunity to select leaders from among themselves and to counteract the concentration and separation of the leadership class through a method of gradually concentrating power and manipulating the populace for their own benefit, as a group of people.\nThis should create a balanced and stable social system with an aristocratic class that is part of the people instead of the product of power itself.\n\nThe goal of what Plato was attempting to do with Plato's republic, but at the level of personal experience instead of lineage. A modern vision for the same concept.\n",
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"content": "Now Is Not the Time of Conservatives<br />To be a true conservative is to protect that which is good, stay the course and work hard to create more of what is good in the world. <br /><a href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201085800.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201085800.htm</a><br />This article is one of many, insect populations are crashing. To people who feel like spiders are icky, this might somehow, in a fit of utter madness, sound like a good thing. However insects are the bedrock of stability within an ecosystem. Without the complex web of insects contributing to the nearly infinite processes of nature, there will be a global collapse of all good things. Plant life relies of insects to both decay and grow, create space in the soil for their roots and fertilize their flowers. Birds eat insects, what forests are left will be hauntingly silent without birdsong. All aspects of the world we know will collapse without a radical paradigm shift in how we approach civilization and human existence on Mother Earth.<br />All food relies on the web of life to grow so we may eat it. There will be no lifeboat as we all starve and tear each other apart for a last meal. A paradigm shift must take place or an ecological disaster of apocalyptic proportions will come to claim us, wrot by our own hand.<br />When the world has fallen to corruption and moral decay, it is the role of the conservative to burn away the infection, turn to a new and wholesome orientation, after learning from the mistakes of the past, and rebuilt a new a better form for the world.<br />Now is the time to burn the old and corrupt and begin the process of rebuilding the new. The way Western Civilization has unfolded into our present time has been both miraculous and troubling. Phones and the Internet represent the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in one's pocket, yet this same device is home to a Free Market Competition over who an create the most powerful Addiction Application. No one uses the wealth of knowledge at their fingertips because games and social media are more powerfully addiacting and controling of human behavior than many illicit drugs avaible on the street. How would you feel about the world if inorder for children to go to school each day, they had to inject heroin until addicted, then have to choose between the needle and a pencil in class?<br />A sick tribute to a manical king, as the kingpin of the addiction dynasty also rules over the digital library, a sick joke on all those involved? This is not far from situation we face with our highest, most elegant and powerful achievement of technological wonder in this great age of innovation into magnificent realms ones thought the exclusive perview of magic. Eccept there is no manical kingpin playing a sick joke on us all, we have done this to our selves with the forces of the Free Market within the Tech sector. Competition between social media apps, games, websites and streaming media has enforced addiction as the only path to success within the tech industry. The commody that pays the bills is eyeballs on screens, advertisement revenue and the attention dollar. Addiction keeps more eyes returning to the screen for longer periods of time, there is no incentive to make users happier, more successful or better people, living life in a healthy way, only for those many eyes to stay on screen as long as possible.<br /><br />We, collectively, as in humanity within civilization, have lost the path forward. All life on this planet is suffering, teetering on the brink of a catastrophic collapse. Simultaneously our greatest acievements of technology are producing ever greater suffering and misery for us, creating pathological disfunction and sullen obliviousness within a population that should be dancing in wonder at all the miricles around us. We cannot continue this path any longer, it will destroy is as assuradly as anything I know of in this world in which we live.<br />It is time for change.<br />This change must take place at every level of society, from the greatest social and governmental structures down to the most inner framework of the human psyche. Thankfully this sort of change has an Ideal, an Aesthetic we can discern and align ourselves alongside. Our Home, This Earth. Harmony with Mother Earth.<br />Step outside, stand in the eye of the storm if you must. Absorb the feelings of this world. Take it all in, let it fill you up, connect with the deep sensation that comes with being one with the natural world. Learn from this, all the living that happens around us, it will teach you. See how the squirrel buries a nut in the ground to save it for later, if there is a lean time. Watch as that some nut becomes a new tree, a home for that same squirrels descendants, providing them with both food and shelter. The squirrel plants the tree and the tree grows, becoming that which lets the squirrel live. The Squirrel knows how its living should be done, in harmony with nature. This the proper way of the world. Get in touch with that and you will clearly see the right way forward through this change in paradigm.<br /> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Politics\" title=\"#Politics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Politics</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Conservative\" title=\"#Conservative\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Conservative</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=animals\" title=\"#animals\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#animals</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Nature\" title=\"#Nature\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Nature</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Environmentalism\" title=\"#Environmentalism\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Environmentalism</a>",
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"content": "Now Is Not the Time of Conservatives\nTo be a true conservative is to protect that which is good, stay the course and work hard to create more of what is good in the world. \nhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201085800.htm\nThis article is one of many, insect populations are crashing. To people who feel like spiders are icky, this might somehow, in a fit of utter madness, sound like a good thing. However insects are the bedrock of stability within an ecosystem. Without the complex web of insects contributing to the nearly infinite processes of nature, there will be a global collapse of all good things. Plant life relies of insects to both decay and grow, create space in the soil for their roots and fertilize their flowers. Birds eat insects, what forests are left will be hauntingly silent without birdsong. All aspects of the world we know will collapse without a radical paradigm shift in how we approach civilization and human existence on Mother Earth.\nAll food relies on the web of life to grow so we may eat it. There will be no lifeboat as we all starve and tear each other apart for a last meal. A paradigm shift must take place or an ecological disaster of apocalyptic proportions will come to claim us, wrot by our own hand.\nWhen the world has fallen to corruption and moral decay, it is the role of the conservative to burn away the infection, turn to a new and wholesome orientation, after learning from the mistakes of the past, and rebuilt a new a better form for the world.\nNow is the time to burn the old and corrupt and begin the process of rebuilding the new. The way Western Civilization has unfolded into our present time has been both miraculous and troubling. Phones and the Internet represent the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in one's pocket, yet this same device is home to a Free Market Competition over who an create the most powerful Addiction Application. No one uses the wealth of knowledge at their fingertips because games and social media are more powerfully addiacting and controling of human behavior than many illicit drugs avaible on the street. How would you feel about the world if inorder for children to go to school each day, they had to inject heroin until addicted, then have to choose between the needle and a pencil in class?\nA sick tribute to a manical king, as the kingpin of the addiction dynasty also rules over the digital library, a sick joke on all those involved? This is not far from situation we face with our highest, most elegant and powerful achievement of technological wonder in this great age of innovation into magnificent realms ones thought the exclusive perview of magic. Eccept there is no manical kingpin playing a sick joke on us all, we have done this to our selves with the forces of the Free Market within the Tech sector. Competition between social media apps, games, websites and streaming media has enforced addiction as the only path to success within the tech industry. The commody that pays the bills is eyeballs on screens, advertisement revenue and the attention dollar. Addiction keeps more eyes returning to the screen for longer periods of time, there is no incentive to make users happier, more successful or better people, living life in a healthy way, only for those many eyes to stay on screen as long as possible.\n\nWe, collectively, as in humanity within civilization, have lost the path forward. All life on this planet is suffering, teetering on the brink of a catastrophic collapse. Simultaneously our greatest acievements of technology are producing ever greater suffering and misery for us, creating pathological disfunction and sullen obliviousness within a population that should be dancing in wonder at all the miricles around us. We cannot continue this path any longer, it will destroy is as assuradly as anything I know of in this world in which we live.\nIt is time for change.\nThis change must take place at every level of society, from the greatest social and governmental structures down to the most inner framework of the human psyche. Thankfully this sort of change has an Ideal, an Aesthetic we can discern and align ourselves alongside. Our Home, This Earth. Harmony with Mother Earth.\nStep outside, stand in the eye of the storm if you must. Absorb the feelings of this world. Take it all in, let it fill you up, connect with the deep sensation that comes with being one with the natural world. Learn from this, all the living that happens around us, it will teach you. See how the squirrel buries a nut in the ground to save it for later, if there is a lean time. Watch as that some nut becomes a new tree, a home for that same squirrels descendants, providing them with both food and shelter. The squirrel plants the tree and the tree grows, becoming that which lets the squirrel live. The Squirrel knows how its living should be done, in harmony with nature. This the proper way of the world. Get in touch with that and you will clearly see the right way forward through this change in paradigm.\n #Politics #Conservative #animals #Nature #Environmentalism",
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"content": "House Keeping<br />I've been away from the group working on other aspects of the unfolding process, mostly networking and meeting with people who share a common interest in this kind of project. Namely, answering the question of how we should orient ourselves to best pass through the coming paradigm shift. I'm back now and intend to continue working on elucidating the various aspects of what an Intuitive Society would look like and how it would work.<br />There have been a lot of posts while I was away that don't really contribute to the discussion of transitioning through a paradigm shift civilization, so I will be deleting those post I don't find valuable.",
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