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  • Ideological-oversimplifications lead to sloppy laws:

    serial-murderers are “contributing” how??

    incorporated-sociopathy, & its pushers, are “contributing” how?

    highjackers-of-gov’t-for-ideological-supremacism are “contributing” to our country how?

    I agree that supporting the people at the bottom is more important, but in the 7+years I’ve racked-up as a homeless person, there are one hell of alot of people who get a kick from harming others in this world, & I don’t want them subsidized.

    ( I’m including abusive institutions, btw, not just street people )

    The title is oversimplification.

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  • There are 2 opposing emotional-motivations to understand…

    1. the default assumption-river/prejudice/religion/ideology homogenousness is comforting
    2. Science’s competitive-diversity-of-opinion-for-sake-of-FINDING-Truth culture.

    The default, comfort-seeking, results in filter-bubbles.

    The latter can win, but it takes a WEIRD population, who really buys-in to it, to make it work well.

    Any population who does make that work, can out-think & out-innovate the comfort/inertia cultivating cultures.

    Especially in times of chaos, where autopilot reacts on one’s behalf.


    Contributions consistently downvoted, are shown at the bottom of the page, so you may need to intentionally-scroll-down to see the diversity-of-opinion required for robust-knowing.

    ( & some of us, like me, remove our auto-upvote, because I want to see the ACTUAL reaction of others, & not the distorted-by-self-esteem-candy pseudo-view )

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoInventing Reality@lemmy.mlLiberal Zionist voice for Zionism
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    JVP have been biting in their criticism of zionism’s atrocities:

    For over 28 months, the Israeli military has not only murdered Palestinians en masse, but also systematically destroyed and restricted Palestinians’ access to their homes, to clean water, food, medical care, schools, Internet, fuel, and electricity. These are all tactics of genocide: destroying the conditions required for life.

    that is the 1st-paragraph from:

    https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/

    Oversimplification/prejudice/ideology isn’t what makes surviving The Great Filter possible for humankind.

    Perhaps many deem the root-guru of the Christians to be zionist-genocider because he was Essene Jew?

    The world isn’t mere-cartoon.

    Uprightness isn’t, either.

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    Downvote away.


  • IF they are looking for a storyteller, THEN they need to filter for competence in these understandings, which are the bedrock of storytelling:

    • “The Anatomy of Genre”, John Truby, on the 14 genres that the West has locked onto, & how each 1 is specific to developing 1 dimension of human meaning. This is the most important psychology-book in the set.
    • “Presenting to Win”, Jerry Weissman, on getting the STORY of presenting right. Not being competent in this, for that job, would be idiotic. ( invest in his whole trilogy )
    • “The Anatomy of Story”, Truby again, on the 21-ish steps in a true story, & why they are in the places they need to be.
    • “The Story Grid”, Coyne, this is THE editing-book for story.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtostartups@lemmy.mlCalling all founders
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    Founder/startup resources:

    • “Founder’s Dilemmas”
    • “Slicing Pie Handbook”, on equity-allocation
    • “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” for any tech-startup
    • “Lead Right For Your Company’s TYPE”, but flipped upside-right: 2x2 Matrix is TOP=Potential ; BOTTOM=Concrete ; LEFT=People-centric ; RIGHT=Task-centric, & all the which-management-process-go-where is worth its weight in gold
    • “Tribal Leadership” by Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright, on the 5 culture-levels, & their consequences
    • “Business Model Generation”
    • “Super Thinking”, on mental-models
    • Jerry Weissman’s trilogy on presenting
    • Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres”, because if you don’t understand the 14 genres, & their dimensions-of-mind, then you probably aren’t competent to understand how to market your product/service to YOUR customers.
    • “Customer Centricity”, on the RIGHT customers, not the idiotic “everybody is my customer” delusion
    • “The 1-Page Marketing Plan”
    • “Command Attention: Promote your Organization the Marine Corps Way”
    • “Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines”, Mom’s favorite principle “tell them the end-state, & tell them why, *and then get out of their hair & let them do it their own way!” ( not that she could do that, herself, for others… )
    • “The 50 Economic Indicators That Matter”, or something like that, WSJ
    • anything good on Buffet-style value-investing.

    I may edit this later, but those are the crucial ones, just off the top of my head…

    Better success through more-competent understanding, eh?

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  • Bower or Bowers wrote a book debunking the “hypnotism doesn’t exist” pseudoscience, decades ago.

    Basically, if you get 2 populations, & have 1 population go into hypnosis-session intentionally faking it … and you don’t have the other population going into it faking,

    & the hypnotist is competent,

    THEN the measurable difference-in-behavior between the 2 groups is proof that it’s real.

    Hypnosis is as real as multiple-personality-disorder, or as different-personality-while-in-shock-from-trauma.

    It’s just a more unconscious-mind dominant state, is all.

    Dreams are real, too, btw.


    Lack of visual-imagination doesn’t affect hypnotizability.

    I’m aphantasic: it’s wrongly-named.

    It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

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