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Change Whatever You Like
We live in a world in which a small number of people make
decisions that affect everyone
around them, and there seems to be little or no recourse when these
decisions fail to do
what is proper, right, or fair. The failures can be
innocent, accidental, or corrupt but regardless,
their consequences have significant long term impact.
This problem is magnified when the unaccountable decision
makers are at the top of a hierarchical system of governance which is
accepted as the unquestioned norm and people acquiesce to their roles
as decision makers. The problem is much of our system
does not work right and schools and colleges are not teaching people
how to take full control of their own lives and not hand over control
to anyone else without a proper system of checks and balances. For
anyone to let the world to be come so imbalanced
that a tiny
percentage of the people control the majority of the wealth
in the world tells you how
broken doing so can become.
This concentration of wealth and power enables a minority to manipulate
the law
and protection of individual rights. As one example, there should be no
question in
anyone's mind at this time that manipulating the law to
serve a partisan purpose is what is occurring in the battle over the
selection of judges to the Supreme Court. The law should have as its
aim the
production of justice, failing that it has little authority other than
as a tool of repression.
Even so, the founders ensured the public had the final say on the law.
The fact that you do not know that and when studying it you see there
are repeated and continual attempts to deny you that power tells you
all you need to know about a minority trying to rig the system.
Preparing
students to get a job and be compliant in a
broken system is not taking care of them, it is making them victims and
preventing them from fixing things in the future. Ideas on how to do
that are below. I will back it up with links and facts explaining
in far greater detail as soon as I can.
Most of the systems we live by have been manipulated to benefit and
protect a limited number of people in society rather than everyone, a
charge which is really easy to show. To be fair, if anyone can give
themselves a permanent pension and protection against changing what
works for their benefit, why not do so? It’s easy to blame the public
for having too many children and for personal failures accounting for
their lot in life, and I suppose a case could be made for the argument.
The solution is not to write everyone off, live in gated communities
and only associate with others like you, which the wealthy and
privileged can do. Rather we need to try to solve the problems, create
infrastructure for people to help themselves, and identify the things
that are manipulated and broken to reinforce the status quo and protect
a limited number of people.
America is one of the greatest experiments in self-government ever
created. But, as an open system it is easy to game, and when it is
gamed, if the people who are supposed to police it, the citizens, are
too busy trusting people and living by faith, things get screwed up
pretty fast.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., a past president of IBM made the
point clearly “People don't do what
you expect but what you inspect.”
We all went through a helpless stage in our lives where others had to
look after us continually. Eventually however, we are supposed to be
capable of looking after ourselves, which means we have to take
responsibility for doing so. That does not mean handing off
responsibility for our futures for someone else to make decisions for
us and hope they do the right thing.
Some of us are brought up with the idea that there is a great Superhero
in the heavens that is so perfect merely trying to describe them is
impossible. However I would like to point out that the Perfect One sure
as hell does not know how to hire people. If the Catholic Church is
evidence of the hires, then the Perfect One must have gone on an
extended holiday while the elves
of evil are diddling their parishioners' kids, each other, covering
it up, and
robbing the collection plates.
Make note of the fact these scumbags attacked your children and hid it
from you while you were living by faith. Look at how the upper ranks of
the Catholic Church live, and compare them to the biblical
representation of the disciples or Mother Theresa and what you see is
an extremely profitable business providing its top executives with
privileged amenities, protection from criticism, and their own private
jail if they are exposed, and the substitution
of repentance with attacks on whistleblowers. It was the Attorney
General who outed these guys after victims came forward. Not a
chance any God has anything to do with this bunch. I think
they are supposed to go into
solitude and think on their sins or something. If that works, El
Chapo should get a room at the Hilton with room service, but he can't
use
the pool or eat in the restaurant.
Start By Taking Full Control of You
- WE LEARN TO ACT BEFORE WE LEARN TO THINK, out of
necessity. We are born completely helpless and over the next 7 to
10 years we need constant care and attention. Our lives are fully
controlled for our own protection. Over time we grow somewhat
less dependent, but for the most part what we do and how we act is
controlled by our parent(s) or caregivers. That influence could extend
up until we leave home. (1)
- Our food, clothes, shelter, where we live, who our neighbors
and friends are, the schools we go to, our sisters and brothers, are
all in place without our choice or involvement. Those decisions
are made by someone else. All
of them directly influence our
actions. We interact with our surroundings, and our behavior
is
formed by doing so.
- Over time the things we do repeatedly become
habits.
- Our habits are who we are.
- Our friends and family know us by our habitual behavior, and
as long
as we behave the way we always have, things run smoothly. Same
for us when living with their behavior.
- Our habits are reinforced by everything around us, our
friends, family, schools, our socializing.
- Our established habits are controlled by an internal shock
mechanism. Think of swallowing some electrical device that shocks
our stomachs and tightens our chest when things go wrong.
- Our habits become so strongly established, our thinking
adjusts to support what we do habitually. We effectively learn to think
because of the way we have been trained, brought up, socialized or
conditioned to act.
- Later, when we might qualify to go to college, external
factors impact if we go and where we go.
- And
when we get there, we have a choice of courses to take,
but we had nothing to do with designing the course or who teaches
them. Someone else decided what is being taught and what it takes
to graduate. We can pick the course but we have no idea if the
course or the people teaching it know what they are talking
about. Given the fact that supposedly 200 people control most of
the wealth in the world I would guess somebody is full of it.
- Then, like little kids, we go begging for a job. Or,
if we are really confident, we “apply” and make sure our resume looks
good. Again, we do not create our own job, invent our own
industry or profession, someone else does, we just join the parade.
- At this point it should be fairly obvious that we are kind
of running on behavior or habit tracks someone else laid down and we
get to follow them.
Rapidly Changing Behavior, Our Actions, Without Thinking
- We can go from being a nice person to a killer, murderer,
torturer, or believer in any BS we are told in just a matter of
months. The army has been rapidly changing millions of people for
many years. Anyone who tells you that is not the case is
simply lying or trying to mislead you. Why would they want to do
that? Think about it very carefully.
- And if you are told that this is completely untrue, then did
you start the phony Iraq war and torture and murder millions of
innocent people? Did you start the Vietnam War that killed
millions of innocent people? Or, did someone program your behavior and
you simply followed orders?
- The army does not ask your permission to change you.
They just do it.
- They don’t ask you where you would like to live, do you want
blue walls, what color of khakis do you want, do you want your boots
made in Italy, would you like to have some nice thick gold chains
around your neck, how do you like your hair cut, what time you would
like to get up, do you have any preference in television shows, do you
like steak or pasta, and how do you feel about getting in better
shape. Get it. No vote, no opinion, no thinking, no
decisions, just do it. They replace key elements of your behavior with
new behavior.
- So change does not have to be about permission, in fact it
becomes somewhat harder when your mind is involved.
Understanding What Keeps Us Doing the Same Old Things So We Can
Fix It
- When our habits are
built up, the shock mechanism is fully embedded in our gut. And the
shock mechanism is designed to keep us doing the same old thing.
If we move too fast or too slow it gives us a kick in the gut
shock. Slow and steady does it.
- This process has developed in our bodies and minds over tens
of thousands of years. It does not ask our permission. If
you did not have that mechanism you would be in trouble. To
prove it, if you can drive a car, drink one gallon of water fast, eat a
package of Exlax, get in your car and drive 150 miles on an interstate
with no rest stops and listen to an audio book while you are
driving. The test is what you remember of the contents of the
audio book when trying to drive and not crap your pants or wet
yourself.
- Better to let all of the internal processes run on full
automatic.
- The problem is when everything is on full automatic, you
lose a lot of control.
- Now here is the important part. Any change in your life you
try to
make is regulated by the automatically triggered shock mechanism. The
process is called homeostasis and is triggered by stress. The
triggering event is called a stressor. It is a physical and mental
process
(physiological process) that operates below your level of normal
awareness that maintains the status quo. It keeps the habits you
have going. Great if your habits are good, bad if the habits need
to change a lot.
- Just so you do not mislead yourself and think stress means
bad
things, look at these two tables, the first is the Holmes-Raye
Life Stress Inventory. A significant number of items are
really positive, the issue is simply one of the change of state,
behavior,
equilibrium, habit or whatever you want to call it. Changing
anything is the problem. The second table is from the Federal
Occupational Health Table which lists Common Signs & Signals of
a Stress Reaction. It list 75 types of response triggered by
stress in 4 categories. You might sweat, your heart could beat
faster, you get tired, your mother whines, your spouse cries, you fall
asleep. Who would have thought trying to change your habits could
cause some of the reactions cited in the Federal Occupational Health
link? Its actually funny in a way, especially when you think of the
good things happening and the anti-change shocker kicks in.
- Anybody that has served in the military will know
homeostasis kicks in at training until your habits change. The
military training and discipline are the mechanisms to counter this
behavior to change it.
- It does not take long, and you are kept too busy doing what
you are told to do to think much about it. Part of the process is
building up
camaraderie with the other people in the group experiencing homeostasis
like you
do and encouraging each other to keep going. That is a key to
remember this when you are no longer serving
and working with others to make change happen in civilian life.
Work with others, a buddy system.
- Another thing to remember is the fact that the military does
not let you get confused about why you are there. Imagine joining
the military and being told George Bush is war mongering a**hole who
wants to start a phony war in Iraq so he and his buddy Cheney can
arrange for their friends in the oil business and Halliburton to steal
the Iraqis’ oil and the country’s money. All of which is true and
documented. But then the army’s position is you are supposed to
shut
the heck up and obey orders because you get a wage, three squares, free
dental, a weight loss program, the chance to shoot some Arabs enemy flavors of the month and if
you get killed you will get a nice burial and a flag, and if not, you
could get
seats at a football game and people cheering for you. If you knew
all of that up front I doubt they could sell it. That is, unless you
need
the job badly and could care less as long as you get paid.
- Moving
on, one of the tools to control homeostasis is a
clear
idea of what you are doing, and recognizing it when it starts shocking
your butt off. Think about having your teeth drilled until you
get used to it and it no longer bugs you. Eventually the old
habit is replaced with a new one, but this time it’s of your choosing.
Get a buddy for change. Think spotter, coach or workout
partner, or even a larger group. Recognize one important thing
and think about it. Your comfort zone, your habitual environment
is not just you but also the people around you. Think of some
dramatic way their being a different person would make you not want to
be around them and you will understand the leveling effect of the group
habit. Military change works partly because the behavioral influence of
your surrounding circle of friends and family is gone. When you
keep going back into those old comfort circles it is like taking up a
habit you want to get rid of. When you see someone you have not
seen for a long time, do you see the new person they are now, or the
old person in your memory? Which do you think would be easier to
be comfortable with?
- The last thing is, once you know how to take control of all
of it without the homeostatic shocks, what are you going to do with
your
new found skill?
- You have to figure that out. I would like to suggest
anything you want, just treat others like you want to be treated and
start fixing the world while you are at it. It’s yours to do so,
and the few thousand idiots who have had the game to themselves for a
long time really
have no power at all if you really get serious about taking things
back. Remember, money is one weapon of choice, yours and
anybody who understands the game like you do. That and voting.
About your potential future. Little kids about 2 to 5 are a like
picture window to the universe, until we screw them up. The have
no color, race, religion or bias and just do things. They
are what they imagine themselves to be and have no need to be
consistent.
If a child wants to be a space person, a great chef, at the moment they
think they are, they are. If you want to be a critic, you can say
oh, they are a lousy chef, they don’t know how to measure, blah,
blah. But everything you say is simply about missing training,
the first step is being that person now. It takes a while to learn how
to learn, but trial and error is part of the process. Find something
that inspires and motivates you and pursue it.
"Now I’m going
to discuss how we would look for a new law. In general, we look for a
new law by the following process. First, we guess it, no, don’t laugh,
that’s the truth. Then we compute the
consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if this law
we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare the
computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or
experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works.
If
it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is
the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your
guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or
what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s
all there is to it." - Richard
Feynman
When You Control You (Updated)
You have to learn and understand what is
going on and how things work so that you can do something about
it. The enemies of the people make that easy. The four five six most powerful weapons you have in
changing the world
around you are:
- Your senses. One of the most powerful weapons you have
is your senses. We live in a so far completely free
society. You will notice the wealthiest people are spending
billions to influence you and the outcome of the election, your laws,
the courts, your ability to manage your affairs. They believe,
and so far it appears to work to a degree, they can change your
behavior with words. Here is the deal. You don't have to
believe them or listen to them, but by playing along, lying to
pollsters, sucking them in deeper and deeper, you can get them to piss
away billions, and then do what you want anyhow. Bullets you can
be afraid of, words you can blow off, no matter how many times they are
repeated. But when you make it look like they have affect, you
can suck in the senders to spend billions, and that's real money they
do not get back.
- Your mind. You can read constantly and fill it with
knowledge. A mind constantly being filled with information, random as
it may appear on first taking the information in, unconsciously reaches
a point of housecleaning in which it reorganizes the information into
something more usable, which has been called an "aha" experience in
psychology.
- Your
behavior. You can control and change it, quickly with
help. Think about how the military does it. If you have
served, go over the process in your mind. Get buddies. And do
something. It should be clear delegating to others does not
work. It is simply being lazy. Nothing is more important to
your future and that of your children than managing the world around
you.
- Your Constitutional RIGHT, PRIVILEGE,
OBLIGATION TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND JUSTICE, AND NO
OTHERS. The Founding Fathers equipped you, and only you with the
ultimate responsibility to oversee the entire US system of government,
including the laws. Here
are the Founders thoughts on it.
You may notice there is a huge battle to decide what stripe the
courts are. The
issue has been going on for a long time, regardless of who is in power.
Simply assume every single person since the Founding Fathers may be
lying
on this issue. You are Constitutionally empowered to manage the
Republic you live in. The Founders risked their lives, faced punishment
for what were acts of treason to the British, installing as many
safeguards as they could to protect their creation against attacks from
politicians, judges, lawyers, corporations, foreign agents and nations,
and ensured you were armed as a failsafe. Today a bunch of hankie
waving, academics and treasonous schemers are trying to reinterpret and
destroy that creation to enslave you and benefit themselves. All in
all, no reason to panic.
It
should be a fundamental
discussion with every person you meet no matter what political
stripe. People who believe they are powerless are actually powerless
because they refuse to try, even
when they are not. Forget what you are told by anyone else and learn
the
Constitution. It is your weapon of choice against usurped power.
- Voting.
Get out and vote. Some people
hate Trump. But regardless of love or hate, there is value in
upheaval. His pussy grab comments set off
widespread discussion of the treatment of women. If only every other
serial philanderer in the world could be so easily outed and publicly
shamed. The Democratic attempts to leverage a too willing FBI to
undermine his Presidency has damaged the intelligence agency, and it
was all of their own doing. Another important issue is the exposure of
the courts as an extension of the party. Both sides are guilty of
the same crime, which is trying to stack the courts with like minded
appointees. Where is equal justice for all in any of
this? You will
know the courts are OK again when appointments to the bench are a ho
hum partisan affair. Until then, the public will simply be
victims. Another important outcome is the role of the press. Some of
the mainstream press has been exposed as a completely partisan
manipulative body. There is no
balance. Another
benefit of Trump was tax reform. Not for the supposed tax benefits, but
for the fact that corporations started appearing out of the woodwork
and investing in jobs in America. They always were capable of doing so
before,
they just waited until they got breaks that made their bottom line
better. To me that is like flushing rats out of the shadows with
cheese. Where were they when the nation needed them before? People
complain about football players refusing to stand for the
anthem. Well what do you call corporations born in America (their birth
certificates are in the corporate registry of each state), that were
raised on American stock exchanges, benefit from its legal system and
intellectual property laws, benefit from the infrastructure of the
internet created in the United States, are backed by a military
that shakes open the doors of foreign
markets, and yet these snakes hide their money offshore, move plants to
third world countries, hire foreign workers legal or not, and refuse to
invest in training American workers first. As long as they behave like
that
why should anyone else? All of these issues are front and center
because of the election of a Trump. It may be uncomfortable, but
upheaval does that. Freedom is not supposed to be easy. Vote any
way you like. The voting booth is a private place. No one will
know how you voted, so say one thing and do another.
Uber is an
example of the value of upsetting the incumbent status quo. Taxi boards
monopolized cab
licensing across
the world. Their service was expensive, in a lot of cases of poor
quality, and
customers were fed up. Uber offered customers an alternative, which
they took in droves. Customers wanting better service drove the
creation of Uber, not the other way around. People do not switch
services simply because they can, there has to be a benefit in doing
so.
The argument for upsetting the status quo is the
simple fact that cab companies did not Uber themselves, someone else
had to create an alternative to their service. Want a new election
slogan - elect a disruptive bastard,
and one who is single without a family and who does
not own a plane. That way the intelligence agencies can't threaten
his/her family or blow up their plane.
Finally, on this point, remember every tactic of war is learned by the
other side and are fair game for everyone
else in the future. In the same way the Democrats changed the
rules to get in judges they wanted, the Republicans used them to put in
Gorsuch. Also
look at grassroots versus money and endorsements.
Fat wallets, which is what every party relies on, can be rendered
useless against tens of thousands of voters that have had enough. And
every single person in the world can set up their own advertising
channel on the web, run video they shoot with an iPhone and edit it
right on the phone, and post it. Go here,
register a domain, set up a hosted and shared plan, use the cheapest
plan and you are up in a no takedown, free speech country that jails
corrupt bankers and threw out the FBI. We are hosted here, and
although there are cheaper hosts, these guys are secure, reliable and
trustworthy. And we get paid nothing, zero to get you to use them. We
do not believe you can trust any country that aligns with the US spying
policies.
At
the time of writing there were 1.76 Billion websites on the web
(update) 1.96 Billion.
To get noticed in that haystack takes imagination, and special tactics.
We won't disclose those just yet, but know this, a bookmark in a
browser creates an audience. Bookmarks are free. Building a circle of
contacts around you who have a website address is the start of
bookmarking. Share your website address by email to supporters, or
heaven forbid, write it down on a piece of scrap paper. Remember
those days? Or text it. Any way works, and once everyone
has it it will be circulated. YOU DO NOT
HAVE TO ASK PERMISSION FOR ANYTHING YOU SAY, NO ONE CAN SUSPEND YOUR
ACCOUNT AND YOU CAN MAKE YOUR AD AS LONG AS YOU WANT! Better yet, it
will have no spyware.
- Your
money. You do not have to buy anything. We are treated like children
who as soon as the next bauble toy come out we are supposed to have it.
You can limit and use your spending like the weapon
it can be. SAVING
MONEY IS A VIRTUE AND A NECESSITY. Instead of busting your
butt
trying figure out how to get your kids to college if their schools do
not destroy them first, start reining in every single thing you spend
money on, read as much as you can and learn as much as you can, show
your kids how to think smart about what is happening around them. You
might even consider bankrupting some of the clowns that really abuse
the privilege of doing business in America. Some
of the smartest software people in the world taught themselves and
created the foundation of the industry that serves us all.
Reading and teaching yourself is a badge of honor, and not going to
college might even end up being more so. The web is a virtual
library in front of your eyes, delivered to your PC, laptop, pad device
or smartphone. Change the world. You have all the tools at
your disposal to do so.