The call to explore the history - as an attempt to decode the alleged repeatable cycles of potentially “dangerous” trends in thinking or behavior - is in fact a strong distraction. And it has no real use for you or me.
First, it assumes that invasive behaviors are/may be repeated and successful. Not this is a childish assumption. In any conflict, from negotiations of wages to modern marketing to psychology to international military actions, surprise is the only reliable factor of success. If you want to win, you must not do what was done before.
Every politician has this rule in their handbooks: lie, do whatever you want, evade, escape, lie again, but always do it in an inventive way so that nobody could correlate your actions against anything known before.
In organized crime, “history” is irrelevant. They don’t care about it. They invent new ways of doing their business adapted to the circumstances at hand. Law enforcement people try do the same, but are limited by their “by the book” rules. The military has no such limitations and does free-style fighting at will, at least until they are photographed or caught red-handed (see false flag operations). No history there.
Adapt, survive, overcome. This is also the master approach in all modern large scale business. Only the small man is taught and persuaded to learn history - because it is a valuable way of stealing their time and redirecting their efforts into waste land.
“History” in science is a laughing stock. People who do not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday talk freely about millions of years, ancient times and “discoveries” of archeology, paleo-whatever or astro-whatever. Come on, clean up your own house before spinning stories which you press on to convert into money, academic titles, royalties, fame and fake “creativity”.
Life does not know any history. You won’t be able to catch up with it when your mind is buried into stories about stories which no longer exist.
Hello Dan, good to see you again. I could come and visit you, but as far as I remember, you deleted your writings, and there is nowhere to come to.
Let's just pretend; to make a concrete example. You said with negotiated wages, surprise is the only reliable factor of success. So pretending I am the union official negotiating wages; What am I going to do "to surprise" this employer? Please just run a few possible scenarios by me, so I get the idea.
Doing something new, not based on any past actions or history (out of the blue), means with actions, thoughts, and with writing. So please again, Write-something-new, without any history to it, in your further comment. Please surprise me. Please give an example, it shouldn't be too hard.
___________
In my view, there are no cycles of dangerous behavior. But there is a static mind-set, that keeps repeating failed (or successful), attempts to dominate other people or groups. The mind-set doesn't cycle or alter, but it just takes a time to regenerate the next attempt. (Nowadays it takes only a week). If they are all similarly dangerous, that is the proof of the static thinking-origin.
You write: "If you want to win, you must NOT do what was done before." Your whole premise of, "IF YOU WANT TO WIN", is the ancient history of duality in itself, you are caught in the oldest paradigm possible to imagine, and perhaps don't even realize it? I am guessing your are coming from a Zero-Sum mentality. That is pure history my friend.
In my life I do something new (for me) every day, at least 300/year. But every one of them takes a key insight or trigger from the outside (from history). Even moving my desk to the other side of the room, or hanging my laundry in a different order, takes a trigger event.
The military is totally driven by history. NATO used to think just to carpet bomb and waltz in to take over. Now watching Ukraine they are sure NATO will sustain millions of KIA with that old plan. More western deaths than in all the conflicts of the 20th century put together, and all within a year or two. All western countries will re-instate the military draft, to have enough bodies for future KIA. And all to fulfill the billionaire plan of total domination. Just think, 600, or a couple thousand of billionaires will kill off many millions, dislocate a billion, and maybe annihilate most of humanity. Let's hope they go to the same destination.
So now please tell, what will NATO do "to surprise" their adversaries? If they go "belly-up" will that be a surprise? (I think it is a surety, I won't be surprised.)
Have you ever made anything or developed an engineering idea? Maybe you have. So have I. It was always an iterative process for me. I learned by the mistakes, or the low-function of the previous prototype, (history), and I made a better mousetrap, until the technology level that I could afford was reached.
The departure point spoils the game. When you pretend, you think you are in control, so no surpirse will be possible. Even if it happens, the mind will either miss it or dismiss it - because it doesn’t fit the attitude.
> So pretending… What am I going to do "to surprise"…
No need to play any game. Being realistic and sticking to the facts of daily life is the only way out of any stalemate.
The only scenario possible: You are “earning” $700 per month. Your living costs are always beyond the $1600 mark. You can go on like this only by “borrowing” (stealing) money from your husband’s/wife’s salaries and/or enslaving yourself to money lenders. The disparity is obvious. Once the masters of your stolen money leave you, you will be done in no time.
The only way out is to make your own wages realistic. You ask your employer to do so. Your employer is not stupid, they know you are right. They can try to delay the decision, and you can try to pretend that you trust them. The point is who will be the first to become real. You - when you insist on meeting the reality challenge. Your employer - when they appreciate you. Simply there is no option to reject your request. Unless your work is not worth that money, but that’s a different game.
Being realistic is the solution to all persistent problems.
> Doing something new… means with actions, thoughts, and with writing
Doing means inner commitment. Unlike pretending.
There are pre-thoughts and after-thoughts. The former are the obsession of all humanity. You don’t need them. After-thoughts arise after the experience. If for cognitive reasons, they are great and they will quickly disappear. However, most people tend to create personal religions from their after-thoughts, thus entangling themselves in the past which is already gone and dead.
> Write-something-new, without any history to it, in your further comment. Please surprise me.
I guess you like our conversations because I always write something new, without history. If you are not surprised by now, I am surprised.
> The military is totally driven by history.
No, no. History is only the cover story for the public to justify the perpetration of fear and the unlimited squeezing of money from your pocket. Continuous free cash taken “in exchange” for doing nothing useful for the society is their driving force. Sprayed with “classified” (for your money, without your consent), it is the best recipe for everlasting riches to some and continuous struggles to everybody else.
If it were otherwise (peace, harmony, etc.), they will meet once and agree on destroying their weapons and laboratories and disbanding their forces. All of them, at the same time. The can do this. They always do this when they “end” a conflict. No reason not to do this wholesale for the eternal benefit of the humanity.
Here we go back to the “become real” game. The brass are not real because there is not a single regular _normal_ citizen in the world who is interested in fighting strangers at the expense of destroying their own family mentally, psychologically and emotionally. Only the commanders want to fight - by the hands and bodies of other people, never going to war themselves in the first line. They are always safe, and are always winning (see their bank accounts). Every single soldier loses, even if they “win” a conflict or a “war”. In effect, whole nations and communities lose, always lose, even if their country is the “winner”. In the 21st century, with our current understanding and consciousness, having a violent conflict authorised by the state is a sign that somebody is not real.
Hello Dan, (I've been out of town, but now I'm back.)
I tend to agree with you that pretense is a shaky ground, but I define it differently. You wrote these things:
>decode the {alleged} repeatable cycles of history, (How can you say "alleged" when you're hit in the face with daily repeatable cycles, using a baseball bat?) To whom would that not be obvious?
Here are my definitions of pretense below:
> Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in negotiations of wages. (That's a pretense.)
>Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in modern marketing psychology. (That's a pretense.)
>Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in military actions. (That's a pretense.)
>"If you want to win". That is a tremendous and all-excluding PRETENDING that dooms all further investigations to the same circuitous historical route. That is Western History in spades. (I won't comment on any other societies.)
>Politicians are hired to spread a narrative, (to distort what is true {to lie}), no news there, but it is HISTORY.
>Criminal history: I remember back 30 or more years ago an ex-marine stole some money, had a gun and a parachute, and forced a commercial pilot to fly over the Oregon mountains where he parachuted out. They searched the forests but never found him? That is the first recorded history of the crime of hijacking an airplane. (that I remember). After that history, lots of people (and crime rings) got the idea to hijack. (Even movies give people ideas to commit heretofore never executed crimes. Movies are history too, the planting of ideas.)
>You seem to be saying that you have to remember everything, even your breakfast foods, before you can do any useful work? You have to forget so many extraneous things to do useful work, it is called focus.
(Real) "Life" does not know any history. Only man's mental model of life has a history to it. You probably can count the people that don't live by a mental model, on your fingers and toes. They do what they did in the past, it's their history. Most doing I have ever seen is no-thought robotic repetition. Yesterday is the benchmark.
Anything (any kind of life) based on a mental model is a GAME.
>Being realistic and sticking to the facts of daily life, is a GAME because it is based on a mental model (a virtual reality), which is based on our cultural norms. Somewhere else they do it differently.
I just used this mark (>) to separate ideas. That is your convention and I got it from my history with you.
>"I always write something new!" OK, you destroyed your archive, so I can't comment. The only way you can do something new is by "not knowing".
OH, I already know that! (None of the 4 pretendings you wrote above are NEW.)
Employers will take the third option. They will hire a migrant worker.
Of course the military is a continuous black hole, for 1% of value given, 99% of cash siphoning. (Maybe it is 1,000 to one). The "history" in Ukraine has educated the military to know that a million soldiers must be killed as KIA. The military draft will start in very few years to fill these body-bags.
>"The brass are not real because there is not a single regular _normal_ citizen in the world who is interested in fighting strangers at the expense of destroying their own homeland, and family, mentally, psychologically and emotionally." {ONLY BILLIONAIRES FOMENT ENDLESS CONFLICT.}
PS. We need to sleep every day. About 1/3 of our lifetime. In the sleep, we cannot affect the world around and we cannot be affected by it. Which means that whatever we do in our waking hours (about another 1/3 of our lifetime) is subject to changes completely beyond our control while we sleep.
Yet, we seem to overlook this fascinating mechanism and we push on and on.
The necessary mechanism to dismantle all our daily doings while we are out - every single day. To reset all our mental aerobatics and cleanse our souls. Yet, we don’t listen to life. We don’t change - even though Life gives us this opportunity every single night.
Even better, we have dreams. We spend 1/3 of our life preparing ourselves to experience dreams and participate (sometimes very vividly) in them - yet, we neglect this as if it was completely irrelevant.
Until those articulate experts and scientists understand what all this is about, all their “science” and “knowledge” is irrelevant. Despite millions of pages written to reinforce their marketing efforts…
> You seem to be saying that you have to remember everything, even your breakfast foods, before you can do any useful work?
What I am saying is that to accurately assess the world around one has to know one’s own limits and limitations first. To be humble, in other words.
Our true life span is about 20 years only, from the time we emerge from the mind-forming system (to finally be able to make our own calls, about 30 yoa) to the time when we become aware that we are no longer relevant to this world around (about 50 yoa) - because we are not able or capable of catching up with the developments around.
No wonder that fame/cash pursuers are trying hard to carve out niches for their own goldmines within this time. No wonder that most of these efforts are fake, false, under false pretences, or creating false worlds. Creating theories, hypotheses, fantasies. Making up stacks of words aimed at becoming “experts” or “leaders” where no-one is really able or capable of understanding even the most superficial complexities of this life.
The downside is that the rest of us all believe these “experts” and share the contagion with false knowledge and spread it down the line to our kids and further on.
The point is that all this effort, all this pseudo-knowledge is unnecessary and waste of precious, unrecoverable, non-recyclable life energy. We seek false systems, we expand and make them bigger and bigger and more complex, only to “explore” them and spin more fake theories and become entangled and occupied. All in an effort to escape the unavoidable moment when we will face the unknown transition out from this life. At that moment, those who are more honest to themselves, will understand how they waste their one-off lifetime on building false structures - missing the most precious gift of life in air, mysteries of existence, the amazing power of plants, the unique interplay of personal relationshis, the universal wisdom of animals which is unattainable for us…
So, what I am saying is that we are making a lot of effort in the fake search for light, all the time carefully standing with our backs to the sun. Building personalities and facades when we should surrender to this existence and let it guide us.
The call to explore the history - as an attempt to decode the alleged repeatable cycles of potentially “dangerous” trends in thinking or behavior - is in fact a strong distraction. And it has no real use for you or me.
First, it assumes that invasive behaviors are/may be repeated and successful. Not this is a childish assumption. In any conflict, from negotiations of wages to modern marketing to psychology to international military actions, surprise is the only reliable factor of success. If you want to win, you must not do what was done before.
Every politician has this rule in their handbooks: lie, do whatever you want, evade, escape, lie again, but always do it in an inventive way so that nobody could correlate your actions against anything known before.
In organized crime, “history” is irrelevant. They don’t care about it. They invent new ways of doing their business adapted to the circumstances at hand. Law enforcement people try do the same, but are limited by their “by the book” rules. The military has no such limitations and does free-style fighting at will, at least until they are photographed or caught red-handed (see false flag operations). No history there.
Adapt, survive, overcome. This is also the master approach in all modern large scale business. Only the small man is taught and persuaded to learn history - because it is a valuable way of stealing their time and redirecting their efforts into waste land.
“History” in science is a laughing stock. People who do not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday talk freely about millions of years, ancient times and “discoveries” of archeology, paleo-whatever or astro-whatever. Come on, clean up your own house before spinning stories which you press on to convert into money, academic titles, royalties, fame and fake “creativity”.
Life does not know any history. You won’t be able to catch up with it when your mind is buried into stories about stories which no longer exist.
Hello Dan, good to see you again. I could come and visit you, but as far as I remember, you deleted your writings, and there is nowhere to come to.
Let's just pretend; to make a concrete example. You said with negotiated wages, surprise is the only reliable factor of success. So pretending I am the union official negotiating wages; What am I going to do "to surprise" this employer? Please just run a few possible scenarios by me, so I get the idea.
Doing something new, not based on any past actions or history (out of the blue), means with actions, thoughts, and with writing. So please again, Write-something-new, without any history to it, in your further comment. Please surprise me. Please give an example, it shouldn't be too hard.
___________
In my view, there are no cycles of dangerous behavior. But there is a static mind-set, that keeps repeating failed (or successful), attempts to dominate other people or groups. The mind-set doesn't cycle or alter, but it just takes a time to regenerate the next attempt. (Nowadays it takes only a week). If they are all similarly dangerous, that is the proof of the static thinking-origin.
You write: "If you want to win, you must NOT do what was done before." Your whole premise of, "IF YOU WANT TO WIN", is the ancient history of duality in itself, you are caught in the oldest paradigm possible to imagine, and perhaps don't even realize it? I am guessing your are coming from a Zero-Sum mentality. That is pure history my friend.
In my life I do something new (for me) every day, at least 300/year. But every one of them takes a key insight or trigger from the outside (from history). Even moving my desk to the other side of the room, or hanging my laundry in a different order, takes a trigger event.
The military is totally driven by history. NATO used to think just to carpet bomb and waltz in to take over. Now watching Ukraine they are sure NATO will sustain millions of KIA with that old plan. More western deaths than in all the conflicts of the 20th century put together, and all within a year or two. All western countries will re-instate the military draft, to have enough bodies for future KIA. And all to fulfill the billionaire plan of total domination. Just think, 600, or a couple thousand of billionaires will kill off many millions, dislocate a billion, and maybe annihilate most of humanity. Let's hope they go to the same destination.
So now please tell, what will NATO do "to surprise" their adversaries? If they go "belly-up" will that be a surprise? (I think it is a surety, I won't be surprised.)
Have you ever made anything or developed an engineering idea? Maybe you have. So have I. It was always an iterative process for me. I learned by the mistakes, or the low-function of the previous prototype, (history), and I made a better mousetrap, until the technology level that I could afford was reached.
I look forward to your reply.
.
> Let's just pretend
The departure point spoils the game. When you pretend, you think you are in control, so no surpirse will be possible. Even if it happens, the mind will either miss it or dismiss it - because it doesn’t fit the attitude.
> So pretending… What am I going to do "to surprise"…
No need to play any game. Being realistic and sticking to the facts of daily life is the only way out of any stalemate.
The only scenario possible: You are “earning” $700 per month. Your living costs are always beyond the $1600 mark. You can go on like this only by “borrowing” (stealing) money from your husband’s/wife’s salaries and/or enslaving yourself to money lenders. The disparity is obvious. Once the masters of your stolen money leave you, you will be done in no time.
The only way out is to make your own wages realistic. You ask your employer to do so. Your employer is not stupid, they know you are right. They can try to delay the decision, and you can try to pretend that you trust them. The point is who will be the first to become real. You - when you insist on meeting the reality challenge. Your employer - when they appreciate you. Simply there is no option to reject your request. Unless your work is not worth that money, but that’s a different game.
Being realistic is the solution to all persistent problems.
> Doing something new… means with actions, thoughts, and with writing
Doing means inner commitment. Unlike pretending.
There are pre-thoughts and after-thoughts. The former are the obsession of all humanity. You don’t need them. After-thoughts arise after the experience. If for cognitive reasons, they are great and they will quickly disappear. However, most people tend to create personal religions from their after-thoughts, thus entangling themselves in the past which is already gone and dead.
> Write-something-new, without any history to it, in your further comment. Please surprise me.
I guess you like our conversations because I always write something new, without history. If you are not surprised by now, I am surprised.
> The military is totally driven by history.
No, no. History is only the cover story for the public to justify the perpetration of fear and the unlimited squeezing of money from your pocket. Continuous free cash taken “in exchange” for doing nothing useful for the society is their driving force. Sprayed with “classified” (for your money, without your consent), it is the best recipe for everlasting riches to some and continuous struggles to everybody else.
If it were otherwise (peace, harmony, etc.), they will meet once and agree on destroying their weapons and laboratories and disbanding their forces. All of them, at the same time. The can do this. They always do this when they “end” a conflict. No reason not to do this wholesale for the eternal benefit of the humanity.
Here we go back to the “become real” game. The brass are not real because there is not a single regular _normal_ citizen in the world who is interested in fighting strangers at the expense of destroying their own family mentally, psychologically and emotionally. Only the commanders want to fight - by the hands and bodies of other people, never going to war themselves in the first line. They are always safe, and are always winning (see their bank accounts). Every single soldier loses, even if they “win” a conflict or a “war”. In effect, whole nations and communities lose, always lose, even if their country is the “winner”. In the 21st century, with our current understanding and consciousness, having a violent conflict authorised by the state is a sign that somebody is not real.
Hello Dan, (I've been out of town, but now I'm back.)
I tend to agree with you that pretense is a shaky ground, but I define it differently. You wrote these things:
>decode the {alleged} repeatable cycles of history, (How can you say "alleged" when you're hit in the face with daily repeatable cycles, using a baseball bat?) To whom would that not be obvious?
Here are my definitions of pretense below:
> Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in negotiations of wages. (That's a pretense.)
>Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in modern marketing psychology. (That's a pretense.)
>Surprise is the only reliable factor of success in military actions. (That's a pretense.)
>"If you want to win". That is a tremendous and all-excluding PRETENDING that dooms all further investigations to the same circuitous historical route. That is Western History in spades. (I won't comment on any other societies.)
>Politicians are hired to spread a narrative, (to distort what is true {to lie}), no news there, but it is HISTORY.
>Criminal history: I remember back 30 or more years ago an ex-marine stole some money, had a gun and a parachute, and forced a commercial pilot to fly over the Oregon mountains where he parachuted out. They searched the forests but never found him? That is the first recorded history of the crime of hijacking an airplane. (that I remember). After that history, lots of people (and crime rings) got the idea to hijack. (Even movies give people ideas to commit heretofore never executed crimes. Movies are history too, the planting of ideas.)
>You seem to be saying that you have to remember everything, even your breakfast foods, before you can do any useful work? You have to forget so many extraneous things to do useful work, it is called focus.
(Real) "Life" does not know any history. Only man's mental model of life has a history to it. You probably can count the people that don't live by a mental model, on your fingers and toes. They do what they did in the past, it's their history. Most doing I have ever seen is no-thought robotic repetition. Yesterday is the benchmark.
Anything (any kind of life) based on a mental model is a GAME.
>Being realistic and sticking to the facts of daily life, is a GAME because it is based on a mental model (a virtual reality), which is based on our cultural norms. Somewhere else they do it differently.
I just used this mark (>) to separate ideas. That is your convention and I got it from my history with you.
>"I always write something new!" OK, you destroyed your archive, so I can't comment. The only way you can do something new is by "not knowing".
OH, I already know that! (None of the 4 pretendings you wrote above are NEW.)
Employers will take the third option. They will hire a migrant worker.
Of course the military is a continuous black hole, for 1% of value given, 99% of cash siphoning. (Maybe it is 1,000 to one). The "history" in Ukraine has educated the military to know that a million soldiers must be killed as KIA. The military draft will start in very few years to fill these body-bags.
>"The brass are not real because there is not a single regular _normal_ citizen in the world who is interested in fighting strangers at the expense of destroying their own homeland, and family, mentally, psychologically and emotionally." {ONLY BILLIONAIRES FOMENT ENDLESS CONFLICT.}
Cheers
.
PS. We need to sleep every day. About 1/3 of our lifetime. In the sleep, we cannot affect the world around and we cannot be affected by it. Which means that whatever we do in our waking hours (about another 1/3 of our lifetime) is subject to changes completely beyond our control while we sleep.
Yet, we seem to overlook this fascinating mechanism and we push on and on.
The necessary mechanism to dismantle all our daily doings while we are out - every single day. To reset all our mental aerobatics and cleanse our souls. Yet, we don’t listen to life. We don’t change - even though Life gives us this opportunity every single night.
Even better, we have dreams. We spend 1/3 of our life preparing ourselves to experience dreams and participate (sometimes very vividly) in them - yet, we neglect this as if it was completely irrelevant.
Until those articulate experts and scientists understand what all this is about, all their “science” and “knowledge” is irrelevant. Despite millions of pages written to reinforce their marketing efforts…
> You seem to be saying that you have to remember everything, even your breakfast foods, before you can do any useful work?
What I am saying is that to accurately assess the world around one has to know one’s own limits and limitations first. To be humble, in other words.
Our true life span is about 20 years only, from the time we emerge from the mind-forming system (to finally be able to make our own calls, about 30 yoa) to the time when we become aware that we are no longer relevant to this world around (about 50 yoa) - because we are not able or capable of catching up with the developments around.
No wonder that fame/cash pursuers are trying hard to carve out niches for their own goldmines within this time. No wonder that most of these efforts are fake, false, under false pretences, or creating false worlds. Creating theories, hypotheses, fantasies. Making up stacks of words aimed at becoming “experts” or “leaders” where no-one is really able or capable of understanding even the most superficial complexities of this life.
The downside is that the rest of us all believe these “experts” and share the contagion with false knowledge and spread it down the line to our kids and further on.
The point is that all this effort, all this pseudo-knowledge is unnecessary and waste of precious, unrecoverable, non-recyclable life energy. We seek false systems, we expand and make them bigger and bigger and more complex, only to “explore” them and spin more fake theories and become entangled and occupied. All in an effort to escape the unavoidable moment when we will face the unknown transition out from this life. At that moment, those who are more honest to themselves, will understand how they waste their one-off lifetime on building false structures - missing the most precious gift of life in air, mysteries of existence, the amazing power of plants, the unique interplay of personal relationshis, the universal wisdom of animals which is unattainable for us…
So, what I am saying is that we are making a lot of effort in the fake search for light, all the time carefully standing with our backs to the sun. Building personalities and facades when we should surrender to this existence and let it guide us.