"what this means is that in order to have a healthy human society, there has to be people who know how to program the minds of others, and use it to most importantly defend against those who do it to exploit and degrade others"
This paragraph is key in understanding the reality. Well done sir! One day I'll come back to this idea. Bookmarked for now!
yeah, the subject of training and conditioning is big in my mind at the moment
i am house training a cat that spent maybe 7 months wild with a few stolen meals here and there and someone obviously feeding him but no medicine or safe warm place... he knows it's a better deal but he's a little less plastic than a little one, the upside is he's also a lot less fighty
but it is definitely a form of parasitism that is the root of the problem and there isn't enough people actively working to break it
the whole reason i'm on nostr is because i could see that everything since facebook has worked to unravel natural human socialization to some nefarious end
You made me think of a ballad involving 3 shepherds and one talking sheep. It's big in the Balkans. TL;DR two of the shepherds decide to kill the third one in a dramatic fashion.
i love fables, can you give me a breadcrumb to find this text to read?
Yeah, for sure. This is an English translation of the original.
a similar kind of concept exists in many of the south american cultures too, people who believe in some kind of Valhalla are more courageous in battle, so it has a tendency to stick because of same reasons as fortune favours the brave (the errors from audacity can be mended with more audacity).
well, idk, this poem doesn't actually tell the story of what actually happens either so idk, but it definitely has the vibe of a gothic sorta thing
There's believing in immortality and there's the knowing of it. Thracians were highly versed in such concepts, not to mention their ancestors. Homer tells about it best. The search for Zalmoxis (with slightly different spellings depending on local influences) pays out handsomely. There's a nice story about him and Pythagoras himself. Beyond the myth there's a wonderful lesson of transcendence by bravery in battle, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Monotheism ftw. 🐸
yeah, the thracians were extremely good horse archers too, which was the most important type of brigade in pre-gunpowder armies, fast moving and lethal, the tradition from which they relate still lives on in mongolia and afghanistan too
i think the modern war happens almost entirely within software and media though, the physical stuff is becoming less and less important, since winning hearts and minds has an extra benefit of less property destruction, so the net cost of it can be higher due to the lesser loss
but at the same time, instead we get Breitbart and Ian Murdoch and John Mcaffee and similar cases... the really effective liberators of information technology have been assassinated and gulaged left right and center... assange, snowden, and our Ross
they are the new heroes of world war 3
not the world war three that einstein, with his pea brain could conceive (he was an ok physicist but he didn't discover relativity, there, i said it. Meleva > Albert.
