“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” ― Euripides, The Bacchae What do you call someone too smart to know they’re stupid? Well I’ve got a few candid names with guttural sticky sounds, but I’ll let you imagine them for yourself. I’m sure you know someone fitting that description or at minimum had a passing experience, but in the past few years they’ve seemingly multiplied. Google, Wikipedia and cereal box degrees have given rise to a culture of overly informed imbeciles who somehow know less than nothing about everything.
It’s an interesting take on our current conundrum.
My view may be even more fatalistic (if possible) about the long term prospects for a return to life the way we knew it on this planet.
I am sold on the world view that there is a real God and a real Satan actively working to achieve their intended purposes. God will succeed, and draw many people to himself in the process. Satan will fail ultimately, but, sadly, he will also draw many to himself. I believe that God is gradually loosening Satan‘s chains to bring things to a head. Jesus’ return to judge the world is just around the corner.
The quote at the start by Euripides, “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish", brings to mind this part of "The Fool's Pilgrimage" by Stephan Hoeller about the tarot deck, where the wise is called the fool:
"The Fool or zero card is in many ways the most significant and most powerful of the cards of the Major Arcana, because it symbolizes the pristine spiritual source and ultimate destiny of all manifest powers and beings. It stands for the Alpha and Omega of manifestation, the No-Thing out of which all things proceed and into which they resolve at the end of the aeons. Being the symbol of this primal causeless cause, and thus utterly abstract and unsubstantial in nature, this card would spell foolishness to the worldly. From the vantage point of the spirit, all earthly gain is of no account; the road to earthly attainment leads nowhere, means nothing, and ends in nothing. The wisdom of the world is foolishness in the sight of the gods, and, conversely, the Divine Wisdom appears as foolishness in the sight of men, who, having become forgetful of their own divine heritage, have become mere men, instead of sons of the gods. It is quite easy to comprehend why to the uninitiated the Fool, or original spiritual potency, would appear as the embodiment of uselessness, silliness, and stupidity. All appearance is deception, and only at the center of the great circular dance of creation, where the Fool stands in still, motionless serenity, do we find that which no longer deceives by appearances, because it no longer appears, but is. Charles Williams, in his delightful occult novel The Greater Trumps, most insightfully describes the figures of the Tarot deck as performing an everlasting circular dance of great intricacy, within which the Fool occupies the motionless position of the pivot around which the entire dance revolves."
Counterpoint on the current attachment theories ~ Some of us with very secure attachment styles were skeptical of the whole COVID Pandemonium right from the very beginning. While theoretical generalizations about attachment style may sound plausible, I believe there are many factors that contribute to our capacity for critical thinking, with attachment style being only one of many:
The "one-upmanship" applied to this living theatre of destructo-porn is appalling. Somewhat akin to attempting to crowd a "G-O-D" character into a room on false pretenses, and then sell tickets to the ensuing torture session. None for me - I will maintain my desire for tyrants of a more passive and patient nature ;) or none at all...cheers!
Indeed - this is "long form" abuse, but it's in a hurry. Seemingly designed to yield "consent" to an ever evolving "Gawd" of the moment. I looked away (Job) so as to not turn into a pillar of salt ;)
I’ve been calling them the dreaded 120 IQers. They memorize well. They conform. Ergo they get good grades, which becomes their ego sustenance. They want to do what they’re told, really well. But they’re dumb as a wooden post. And they have no idea they are dumb. They are smart enough you can talk to them and using logic they see they’re wrong. Then they attack with insults.
tut-moses, ackenataen was driven with his great househol from egypt because they believe him mentally ill. Believing only in one god,(archetype?) i suspect decreases, the diversity of a persons inner dialogue, maybe to zero. so what kind of religion you choose , matters. does it encourage truth above all? truth is the foundation of morality. if you want truth, you must include courage. - to face that truth. religions of blind faith, order following sycophants are death.
There appeared an article recommended by Naked Emperor substack, titled: "Reading Aloud Boosts Memory, but not Understanding"
Memory is not too bad of a consolation prize! It may lead to such behavior as, I don't know, "pattern recognition" or . . . worse.
Witness Tucker Carlson's initial perplexity upon hearing Putin's half-hour thumbnail sketch of Russian history -- Carlson admitted that he had thought it some sort of filibuster. Putin asked him if the exchange were a talk show or a serious interview. And Carlson is a student of history, no midwit.
You've turned up a serious truffle in this "midwit" thing.
If I'm understanding you right, religion makes u part of the midwits? I beg to differ, my deeply held relationship with Jesus makes me truly counter-cultural in this lost sewer of morality.
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs. He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
"It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government", he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that
were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The arithmetic demonstrates that they do not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
It’s an interesting take on our current conundrum.
My view may be even more fatalistic (if possible) about the long term prospects for a return to life the way we knew it on this planet.
I am sold on the world view that there is a real God and a real Satan actively working to achieve their intended purposes. God will succeed, and draw many people to himself in the process. Satan will fail ultimately, but, sadly, he will also draw many to himself. I believe that God is gradually loosening Satan‘s chains to bring things to a head. Jesus’ return to judge the world is just around the corner.
The way is the sword.
Or the slaves death.
The choice is the sword or the shovel to dig your own grave. M
Outstanding as always.
Nice post, Theodore. I like the midwit meme transposed against the bell curve, such as this one on COVID lockdowns: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cb0ad2-933a-47a6-a96e-592324d9632a_1212x884.png
The quote at the start by Euripides, “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish", brings to mind this part of "The Fool's Pilgrimage" by Stephan Hoeller about the tarot deck, where the wise is called the fool:
"The Fool or zero card is in many ways the most significant and most powerful of the cards of the Major Arcana, because it symbolizes the pristine spiritual source and ultimate destiny of all manifest powers and beings. It stands for the Alpha and Omega of manifestation, the No-Thing out of which all things proceed and into which they resolve at the end of the aeons. Being the symbol of this primal causeless cause, and thus utterly abstract and unsubstantial in nature, this card would spell foolishness to the worldly. From the vantage point of the spirit, all earthly gain is of no account; the road to earthly attainment leads nowhere, means nothing, and ends in nothing. The wisdom of the world is foolishness in the sight of the gods, and, conversely, the Divine Wisdom appears as foolishness in the sight of men, who, having become forgetful of their own divine heritage, have become mere men, instead of sons of the gods. It is quite easy to comprehend why to the uninitiated the Fool, or original spiritual potency, would appear as the embodiment of uselessness, silliness, and stupidity. All appearance is deception, and only at the center of the great circular dance of creation, where the Fool stands in still, motionless serenity, do we find that which no longer deceives by appearances, because it no longer appears, but is. Charles Williams, in his delightful occult novel The Greater Trumps, most insightfully describes the figures of the Tarot deck as performing an everlasting circular dance of great intricacy, within which the Fool occupies the motionless position of the pivot around which the entire dance revolves."
Counterpoint on the current attachment theories ~ Some of us with very secure attachment styles were skeptical of the whole COVID Pandemonium right from the very beginning. While theoretical generalizations about attachment style may sound plausible, I believe there are many factors that contribute to our capacity for critical thinking, with attachment style being only one of many:
> https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/b82c13390282
The "one-upmanship" applied to this living theatre of destructo-porn is appalling. Somewhat akin to attempting to crowd a "G-O-D" character into a room on false pretenses, and then sell tickets to the ensuing torture session. None for me - I will maintain my desire for tyrants of a more passive and patient nature ;) or none at all...cheers!
Indeed - this is "long form" abuse, but it's in a hurry. Seemingly designed to yield "consent" to an ever evolving "Gawd" of the moment. I looked away (Job) so as to not turn into a pillar of salt ;)
I’ve been calling them the dreaded 120 IQers. They memorize well. They conform. Ergo they get good grades, which becomes their ego sustenance. They want to do what they’re told, really well. But they’re dumb as a wooden post. And they have no idea they are dumb. They are smart enough you can talk to them and using logic they see they’re wrong. Then they attack with insults.
🤔
tut-moses, ackenataen was driven with his great househol from egypt because they believe him mentally ill. Believing only in one god,(archetype?) i suspect decreases, the diversity of a persons inner dialogue, maybe to zero. so what kind of religion you choose , matters. does it encourage truth above all? truth is the foundation of morality. if you want truth, you must include courage. - to face that truth. religions of blind faith, order following sycophants are death.
There appeared an article recommended by Naked Emperor substack, titled: "Reading Aloud Boosts Memory, but not Understanding"
Memory is not too bad of a consolation prize! It may lead to such behavior as, I don't know, "pattern recognition" or . . . worse.
Witness Tucker Carlson's initial perplexity upon hearing Putin's half-hour thumbnail sketch of Russian history -- Carlson admitted that he had thought it some sort of filibuster. Putin asked him if the exchange were a talk show or a serious interview. And Carlson is a student of history, no midwit.
You've turned up a serious truffle in this "midwit" thing.
If I'm understanding you right, religion makes u part of the midwits? I beg to differ, my deeply held relationship with Jesus makes me truly counter-cultural in this lost sewer of morality.
We are so fucked
Sorry to be so blunt
It is obvious to everyone....
Representative democracy has failed.
We need something new.
Ross Perot called it The Electronic Townhall.
Citizenship
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs. He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
"It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government", he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that
were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The arithmetic demonstrates that they do not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
“the midwit feigns intelligence”
Two points I got here:
1. Intelligence is in the mind of the beholder.
2. One who feigns is aware of their deception. It would be impossible for a midwit to “feign.”
🤣 A Roman Slave Market looks like “Hmmm . . . how do I incorporate my figure-drawing assignment into a painting?” 🤣