Recently I gathered up five learnings acquired from others. It’s time to add one more, which isn’t especially recent but was missed in the previous listing.
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Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these 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.
5. The C-tactile nervous system.
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6. When advocates tell you to Do Your Own Research, they really mean BUY MY STUFF. The available “research” on all modern media is uniformly and universally biased in favor of stock traders and bitcoin traders and every sort of seller. 90% of what you see will be advertising and salesmanship for stocks or coins or supplements or therapies. Some of it will push the same brand that wants you to DYOR, some will push other brands. You have to look long and hard, preferably in much older sources, to find anyone telling you to SKIP THE WHOLE PILE OF SHIT. Nobody ever says “Don’t buy any stocks” or “Don’t buy any type of crypto coins” or “Don’t buy any supplements”. Nobody ever says “Just put your money in a bank” or “Just eat less and walk more.” There’s no percentage in truth.
This applies double to politics. Your Own Research will always lead to advocates for R or D, but nobody ever advises you to IGNORE THE WHOLE PILE OF SHIT.
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