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Marc Smith's avatar

I'd like to highlight how philosophical is this article as opposed to 99% of what we're seeing which are those talking about people or describing events. They're limiting themselves to being 'masters of the obvious'. See, he's more describing how to think instead of merely describing what's going on. He could be saying, "That person is a sociopath" or "this insane behavior is sociopathic' but instead it's, "how to recognize a sociopath.'

He's giving you useful survival information you can put to use in all circumstances. When someone talks about other people they're bringing value to themselves, 'look how much better I am.' When they talk about events, they're saying, 'look how much more smart, aware and virtuous I am, but this article is instead giving you value, something you can put to use. This is the big difference in how to consume content. Can you actually tell when someone is taking value as opposed to giving it?

Learn how to recognize when an article is philosophical and when it's not. It's good to talk about people and events spread awareness, sure, but it's not supposed to stop there. It's always to lead to discussing philosophical ideas. That's the only area which brings actual value and the only place you ought to give your attention to. You don't have ideas? That's fine, you don't need to have ideas, go to where ideas are being discussed. I estimate 99% is non-philosophical so that means you'll have to do a lot of filtering!

'Weak minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and only strong minds discuss ideas.' Socrates

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Sociopath? Or just an erratic personality? Or AI generated?

In the US I believe they used the term 'amnesty'. So it sounds like a coordinated movement. And they changed the strategy.

And I noticed however, the first group of the jabbed who came out in the public after sustaining the injuries were severely ridiculed. (Hence I left my beloved language learning site Duolingo which was featured on the Highwire episode)

For me it appears to highlight the theme of "the victim becomes the perpetuator".

And "the saviour becomes the perpetuator". (Vise versa)

At this level of social injustice, the person has to fully accept what they have done and take the responsibility, otherwise any hope for the redemption will escape.

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