The Glade 4.0

I am bored at work, and putting off tasks, so I want to talk about political views.

Right wing politics are about individuality. Freedom of individuality. It is about people acting independently instead of following herd mentality.

Our culture has become increasingly left-wing, and politics naturally follow suit. Politics will always follow culture. The course can never change. Extremists can attempt to stem the flow, but it is like throwing stones into the Mississippi River. It can never stem the flow. Our society will become increasingly left wing until the end of humanity.

Left wing politics are the inevitable result, always. The leftist tide happens regardless of evil men sitting in arm chairs scheming.

In a left wing political system, people are increasing "reactors". They view television, read media, and follow cultural propaganda on a massive scale. They don't think for themselves. They wait for other people to express viewpoints - usually echoes of other viewpoints - and reflect these themselves. It is about herd mentality. People within a riot are very likely to riot. People in an elevator always face the door. The only person who doesn't is mentally insane or extremely emotionally experienced/inexperienced. He must be like Aragorn to not face the door, or a crazy homeless man, or a 2 year old.

In such a system, a very small percentage of the population remains as "actors". These are the heads of government, the political extremists who actually do things (not just talk on a soap box), the controllers of the media, the editors of newspapers, fashion designers, movie producers, fund managers, you name it. These are the guys who sit in the arm chairs and leach off the herd mentality of the 99% of population that is reactors. The reactors willingly give up everything they own because it is the cultural norm. The cultural norm is mostly set by the reactors themselves, fascinatingly enough. The actors are those who figured out how to leach off of it. They inconspicuously (or conspicuously, rarely), go against the tide of society and leach off the system for personal gain. The smartest actors love left wing politics because it sustains the society that they leach from. The stupid actors blow themselves up or go to jail. Criminals are often actors, although sometimes they were following a cultural norm of crime.

As time progresses, there will be less actors and more reactors. At the dawn of history, every tribe possessed several actors and many reactors. Nowadays, we are a global tribe and it is almost entirely reactors. I am wondering if there will eventually be a time when there are no actors. That is the end of humanity - the singularity of left wing politics that will inevitably happen unless the Earth is destroyed.

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"The map is not the territory."

Don't feed the troll...

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The Dude abides.

I don't appreciate you trying to ruin my thread.

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"The map is not the territory."

Also... the actors all believe they are God and righteous (or believe they are nothing and righteous... paradoxically it means the same thing...) ... regardless of whether they tell people they are God or if it is only a subconscious belief. It's obvious. It's counter-cultural to call yourself God even when it's a conscious belief. Reactors don't believe that their person is God (consciously or subconsciously).

Telling people they should believe each individual is his own God is like letting wolves out of an enclosure...

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"The map is not the territory."

While it may be what you believe of the issue, other peoples experiences will tell them different.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Sort of has to deal with this issue, but is more existential...

Stages of intelligence:

1) I think.

This is like an ant. An ant doesn't even know it is alive. It just functions like a machine... like a computer.

2) I think, therefore I am.

This is a person or maybe a chimpanzee or whale. It understands that it is alive and knows it is an individual. It follows both self-defined values and values of other people, and doesn't attempt to differentiate between the two.

3) I think, therefore I am God.

Now things get tricky... This is a super intelligent person (or another super intelligence). An intelligent being must care about its own brain more than anything else. A faulty state machine leads to its own destruction. A super intelligent person at least attempts to define all its own values and act in its own best interests. It's totally fine if these values mesh with society's. A super intelligent person understands that it must fit in with people who are only at stage 2, and other people at stage 3. A person at stage 3 consciously knows that he should attempt to be "field-independent", as in he knows he should try to make his own values and direct his own actions. A stage 3 person knows that he has free will while also knowing that he has no free will, because he is a state machine like everyone else. A stage 3 person understands existential paradoxes, and they make sense to him, and he uses them to great benefit against other lesser intelligences.

The more intelligent you are, the more you understand paradoxes, and the more you understand how 1=0...

I'm not sure what stage 4 is... maybe it's a complete understanding of how 1=0...

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"The map is not the territory."