I have been thinking about the following the last several years and have drawn some dark horse conclusions. I’m boiling it down here and leaving it a riddle. It’s another way to see something we may rarely question.
“Political compass” or “left/right spectrum” is a mind trap. Radical isn’t included within the trap. Why isn’t it? Not for “a reason” but for the dangers of “reason” itself.
The political spectrum tool stamped in our brains, with its minor variants, is a brain trap to prevent political reasoning while deceptively posing as a tool of political reasoning. It functions in reality in the following ways.
1. Substitution of complex social thought with simplistic explanations.
2. Internal self denying the holism of our humanity by it assigning limited dimension personality to political beliefs.
3. Separation of popular social forces into false diametric opposition of each other.
4. Divorcing political agency from culture, pulling culture apart by its political parts.
5. Hiding the beneficiaries of this brain trap, making them invisible and innocuous.
6. Simultaneously as making these beneficiaries invisible, the brain trap gives to them everything it takes away from the rest of us, making themselves central to the self definition of all others.
The next thought in puzzling this is yours to take. Step back & examine for yourself the “left/ right spectrum tool” as a potential deceptive brain trap. Note what you observe. What other things do you see that I did not describe? What of my observations did you similarly note?
Now that you’ve given it thought, what is the invisible within it, that counterintuitively has the only clear definition, that informs all others which I allude to in my sixth point?
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
HEYING: "Could functional systems be better with more money? Usually that is the case.
When you have non-functional systems that demonstrably don't do anything good with the money they've got, you don't keep, not even asking, but DEMANDING more money for those systems.
That's not how you fix a system."
WEINSTEIN: "Especially when the key element is the tax base and you're sabotaging it de facto."
HEYING: "Yeah."
WEINSTEIN: "You're sabotaging the thing that makes wealth and then you're looking for sources of wealth that you can tax. Gee, I wonder what happened."
HEYING: "I hear a Coeur d'Alene is lovely this time of year..."
Heather Heying exposes Washington's tax system: higher costs, failing services, and pressure on small businesses in Episode 319 of The Evolutionary Lens.
Evolutionary biologists Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying discuss the potential consequences of on demand sunlight on Episode 319 of The Evolutionary Lens (available wherever you subscribe to podcasts).
@DarkhorsePod your spotlight on the malformation of our teeth and the hypothesis surrounding it is interesting. I wonder, then, what your thoughts are on vision? I have a three year old who is in glasses, but her older sister's vision is just fine.
