Recently I gathered up four learnings acquired from others. It’s time to add another very recent learning.
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Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these four facts on my own, and I’m grateful to the people who revealed them.
1. Manweller’s Rule. Elections only count when they don’t count. Any election that reaches the wrong result will be prevented or overturned. This expands to cover protests and other movements. A protest NEVER changes the mind of the ruler. Some protests are orchestrated BY the ruler to provide “justification” for an unpopular move the ruler wants to take. Elections are prevented by defunding or tinfoiling incorrect candidates. Occasionally the candidate is too popular to tinfoil, so the election has to be overturned, as DNC did to Bernie in 2016.
2. Sucker Filter. Spam that seems utterly crazy is meant to filter out the people who think it’s crazy. The swindler only wants to cultivate suckers who think the idea is possible or worth trying.
3. Sort of parallel to the Sucker Filter. When political operatives urge you to “Tell Senator Smith that his new law is bad”, they aren’t talking to you. They’re talking to Senator Smith’s operatives and staffers, trying to persuade them that a movement against the law exists.
4. Naomi Wolf’s revolutionary translation of the previously nonsensical “image of God” in Genesis.
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5. The C-tactile nervous system.
Yasuko has produced a huge number of tutorials using acupressure and similar methods to improve mood and health.
This one turned out to be surprisingly effective, proved by my own experience:
Is C-Tactile proper science? Yes. Exactly.
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The human equivalent to the C-LTMRs are called C-tactile afferents. The C-tactile afferents, which exist exclusively in hairy skin, respond optimally to a slow, light stroking (1–10 cm/s) delivered at skin temperature. Stroking the skin at faster and slower velocities decreases the firing frequency. The characteristics of C-tactile optimal stroking correspond to a human-to-human caress, and the firing frequency is correlated with subjective ratings of perceived pleasantness. Taken together, the main role of these nerve fibers appears to be the moderation of the affective experience of touch.
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Other mammals use tongues instead of fingers, with the same calming effect. Note especially the moderation of the affective experience. When mammals don’t get the C-tactile experience, every touch is sharply perceived as a possible threat.
High-contact societies like Brazil and Africa are calmer and happier and less addictive because everyone is casually smoothing out everyone else’s threat response. Low-touch societies like US and Northern Europe are hypersensitive to everything, which is the way our rulers want us.
Constant contact creates both physical and mental immunity. Africans resist viruses better than northerners, and Africans resist crazy theories better than northerners.
This part of the nervous system is NOT represented in conventional learning. I’ve made courseware for a neurology text, and I’ve animated the OTHER skin sense organs. This hair-follicle system was not discussed in the text or illustrations.
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