Ah! Good sources as well. The Arbinger book is great but so often missapplied. Rule #1 of that book is to realize that you are in your own box before you can consider the boxes of others. But I'd say that should apply to almost everything!
A fine essay easy to digest. Shows the traps we educated have created to control. Still a large number of people, like me, have discovered a better community. I just don't accept the MSM nonsense trying to control my thinking.
Industrial civilization created such material abundance that mere comfort no longer sufficed to demonstrate status. Status being important to humans, luxury beliefs were invented. This then established a feedback loop that trapped the elite in an entropic self-deceptive cycle that progressively undermined the basis for that civilization in the first place. That's a plot twist no one would have expected a couple centuries ago.
Great examples of what Lobaczewski calls the "egotism of the natural worldview" (prestige opinions), "conversive thinking" (rationalizations). Lorenzo blends the concepts, and expands on them too. "Luxury beliefs" is very helpful to have as an addition to the lexicon.
Thanks Jay. I'll feature any observations you make as I've been doing with Arnold Kling's commentary.
Thanks for this. The elites seem to want to separate consumers into two groups, the ‘clever’ people like themselves, and the rest of us who they see as little more than beasts. Here’s my take In reference to the UK’s stunningly censorious Online Safety Bill. Hope you don’t mind me linking it here. https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/the-online-safety-bill-is-a-cannibal?r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Relevant links like that are absolutely fine - I only get rid of persistent link spam (had to boot one of those yesterday).
Thank you Helen. Very much appreciate it.
Really good insights! When you say self-deception, are you channeling "Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box" by The Arbinger Group?
I'll leave Lorenzo to answer that when he wakes up (he's in Australia, so currently asleep).
No, more such works as ‘The Elephant in the Brain’ by Simler & Hanson but particularly ‘The Folly of Fools’ by Trivers.
Ah! Good sources as well. The Arbinger book is great but so often missapplied. Rule #1 of that book is to realize that you are in your own box before you can consider the boxes of others. But I'd say that should apply to almost everything!
The problem of recursive reasoning is part of the next essay.
A fine essay easy to digest. Shows the traps we educated have created to control. Still a large number of people, like me, have discovered a better community. I just don't accept the MSM nonsense trying to control my thinking.
Industrial civilization created such material abundance that mere comfort no longer sufficed to demonstrate status. Status being important to humans, luxury beliefs were invented. This then established a feedback loop that trapped the elite in an entropic self-deceptive cycle that progressively undermined the basis for that civilization in the first place. That's a plot twist no one would have expected a couple centuries ago.
Absolutely correct imo.
Great examples of what Lobaczewski calls the "egotism of the natural worldview" (prestige opinions), "conversive thinking" (rationalizations). Lorenzo blends the concepts, and expands on them too. "Luxury beliefs" is very helpful to have as an addition to the lexicon.
Rob Henderson's insight, as Lorenzo points out.
Brought to the logical end, Pravda is all that is left within Overton. Eventually their contents become of one.
🗨 Everything in the Pravda, nothing outside the Pravda, nothing against the Pravda.