Friday, March 30, 2018
When Feeling Fabulous Seems More Important Than Your Fixed Position...,
By CNu at March 30, 2018 0 comments
Labels: addiction , as above-so below , celebrity , dopamine , hegemony , identity politics , not a good look , po thang... , status-seeking , Toxic Culture?
Negroes in Drag...,
By CNu at March 30, 2018 0 comments
Labels: addiction , as above-so below , celebrity , dopamine , hegemony , identity politics , not a good look , po thang... , status-seeking , Toxic Culture?
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Pompous Posturing Democrats Serve No One But Themselves...,
"Another example of giving the game away in few words came two nights ago when the liberal-elitist 'Inside Elections' political analyst Stuart Rothenburg spoke on the PBS NewsHour. 'The Democrats as a party' Rothenburg told NewsHour host and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Judy Woodruff, 'are divided between the Bernie Sanders wing and Hillary Clinton wing, the pragmatists and ideologues.'
For Rothenburg, the Clinton wing members are the 'pragmatists,' the realistic adults who want to 'get things done' (one of the great neoliberal president Obama’s favorite phrases and claims). The Sanders folks are 'ideologues,' a pejorative term meaning people who are mainly about ideology and who are carried away by their own flighty and doctrinal world view.
This was a slap (an ideological one I might add) at the more progressive and social-democratic faction of the Democratic Party – a blow masquerading as 'objective' and detached political analysis."
Paul Street, Giving the Game Away
If you watch this relatively short video much of what has been puzzling you about the failure of our political system will be made clearer.
Franklin Roosevelt could work tirelessly for the common person because he was already comfortable in his own skin with regard to his social status. And more importantly, as a result of his long term paralysis he knew how little social status really meant. As suffering sometimes does, it introduces compassion and empathy, even among the upper crust.
But the New Deal principles were shunned for the credentialed aspirations of those class-climbing, middle class kids who would be rich and acknowledged as members of an elite crowd with the right kinds of bona fides. There are probably few better recent examples than the Clintons. Their attitudes towards the average American are paternalistic at best, and highly cynical and patronizing at worst.
They attempted to disguise their credentialed, professional class preferences with 'identity politics.' But if you look at the culmination of actual policy initiatives, versus platform platitudes, the Democrats, similarly to the GOP, serve no one but themselves. Winning...
They rely on the 'lesser of two evils' to scrape out the occasional win, when the excesses of the other party drive people to embrace 'hope and change,' and to be largely betrayed once again.
By CNu at November 16, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , corporatism , deceiver , professional and managerial frauds , shameless , status-seeking
Dollah, Dollah, Bill Y'all...,
By CNu at November 16, 2017 0 comments
Labels: not a good look , status-seeking
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Culture of Compliance: Every Single One of These Peasants Deserves to be a Slave...,
By CNu at October 12, 2017 0 comments
Labels: addiction , celebrity , Degenerate , peasants , Pimphand Strong , play-at-your-level , status-seeking , stay-in-your-lane
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Trans-Turing Trains Silly Monkey Brains
By CNu at October 11, 2017 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , cognitive error , cognitive infiltration , ethology , killer-ape , propaganda , status-seeking , tricknology , unintended consequences , wikileaks wednesday
Sunday, August 13, 2017
What Are These White Men Fighting For?
By CNu at August 13, 2017 0 comments
Labels: .45 , American Original , Ass Clownery , fixyt , identity politics , po thang... , status-seeking , you used to be the man
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Jay Richard Kennedy and The Dictatorship of Celebrity
By CNu at July 20, 2017 0 comments
Labels: cognitive infiltration , deceiver , FAIL , Living Memory , necropolitics , Race and Ethnicity , status-seeking
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
What Is To Be Done About Predators? Don't Heroes Kill Monsters?
By CNu at July 19, 2017 0 comments
Labels: agency , Dystopian Now , peasants , People Centric Leadership , Pimphand Strong , psychopathocracy , status-seeking
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
satirical sounding screed is entirely shameless, unselfconscious, and sincere....,
By CNu at November 01, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Cathedral , Granny Goodness , shameless , status-seeking , truth
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Only Broke-Assed Losers With Nothing of Their Own Cry Over Cultural Appropriation
The fact Shriver was given such a prominent platform from which to spew such vitriol shows that we as a society still value this type of rhetoric enough to deem it worthy of a keynote address. The opening of a city’s writers festival could have been graced by any of the brilliant writers and thinkers who challenge us to be more. To be uncomfortable. To progress. [emphasis added]
By CNu at September 15, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Cathedral , FAIL , reality casualties , status-seeking
Thursday, August 11, 2016
having peeped the power game on think tanks - we shift our gaze to schools with students...,
By CNu at August 11, 2016 0 comments
Labels: edumackation , egregores , Peak Capitalism , Pimphand Strong , status-seeking , What IT DO Shawty...
Saturday, July 30, 2016
elite media shuns and disdains the poor, white, and pissed...,
By CNu at July 30, 2016 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , global system of 1% supremacy , presstitution , status-seeking , What IT DO Shawty...
Friday, June 24, 2016
elite parasites pretend that peasant racism/xenophobia trump their own greed and forced austerity
By CNu at June 24, 2016 0 comments
Labels: agenda , Ass Clownery , elite , global system of 1% supremacy , parasitic , status-seeking
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
peasants allow lying, cheating, murderous oxygen-thieves to rule U.S.
By CNu at April 12, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , food-powered , make-work , monkey see - monkey do , status-seeking
Friday, April 08, 2016
100 CEO's have more saved up for retirement than 41% of U.S. families combined...,
By CNu at April 08, 2016 0 comments
Labels: corporatism , doesn't end well , Peak Capitalism , psychopathocracy , status-seeking
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
money is sleep, broken machinery, and the death of our civilization and species....,
00:53 So we ran a study on the U.C. Berkeley campus to look at exactly that question. We brought in more than 100 pairs of strangers into the lab, and with the flip of a coin randomly assigned one of the two to be a rich player in a rigged game. They got two times as much money. When they passed Go, they collected twice the salary, and they got to roll both dice instead of one, so they got to move around the board a lot more. (Laughter) And over the course of 15 minutes, we watched through hidden cameras what happened. And what I want to do today, for the first time, is show you a little bit of what we saw. You're going to have to pardon the sound quality, in some cases, because again, these were hidden cameras. So we've provided subtitles. Rich Player: How many 500s did you have? Poor Player: Just one.
01:41 Rich Player: Are you serious. Poor Player: Yeah.
01:42 Rich Player: I have three. (Laughs) I don't know why they gave me so much.
01:46 Paul Piff: Okay, so it was quickly apparent to players that something was up. One person clearly has a lot more money than the other person, and yet, as the game unfolded, we saw very notable differences and dramatic differences begin to emerge between the two players. The rich player started to move around the board louder, literally smacking the board with their piece as he went around. We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs, displays of power and celebration among the rich players.
02:22 We had a bowl of pretzels positioned off to the side. It's on the bottom right corner there. That allowed us to watch participants' consummatory behavior. So we're just tracking how many pretzels participants eat.
02:34 Rich Player: Are those pretzels a trick?
02:36 Poor Player: I don't know.
02:38 PP: Okay, so no surprises, people are onto us. They wonder what that bowl of pretzels is doing there in the first place. One even asks, like you just saw, is that bowl of pretzels there as a trick? And yet, despite that, the power of the situation seems to inevitably dominate, and those rich players start to eat more pretzels.
03:02 Rich Player: I love pretzels.
03:05 (Laughter)
03:08 PP: And as the game went on, one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person, less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor, poor players, and more and more demonstrative of their material success, more likely to showcase how well they're doing. Rich Player: I have money for everything. Poor Player: How much is that? Rich Player: You owe me 24 dollars. You're going to lose all your money soon. I'll buy it. I have so much money. I have so much money, it takes me forever. Rich Player 2: I'm going to buy out this whole board. Rich Player 3: You're going to run out of money soon. I'm pretty much untouchable at this point.
03:57 PP: Okay, and here's what I think was really, really interesting, is that at the end of the 15 minutes, we asked the players to talk about their experience during the game. And when the rich players talked about why they had inevitably won in this rigged game of Monopoly -- (Laughter) — they talked about what they'd done to buy those different properties and earn their success in the game, and they became far less attuned to all those different features of the situation, including that flip of a coin that had randomly gotten them into that privileged position in the first place. And that's a really, really incredible insight into how the mind makes sense of advantage.
04:50 Now this game of Monopoly can be used as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't. They have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources. And what my colleagues and I for the last seven years have been doing is studying the effects of these kinds of hierarchies. What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases. In surveys, we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral. Now what I want to do today is talk about some of the implications of this ideology self-interest, talk about why we should care about those implications, and end with what might be done.
By CNu at February 23, 2016 0 comments
Labels: FAIL , Great Filters , shameless , status-seeking
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
artificially limiting the content of consciousness...,
“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
“This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”
By CNu at January 13, 2016 0 comments
Labels: professional and managerial frauds , status-seeking , What IT DO Shawty...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
there will be absolutely no consequences for the little piece of chit floating at the top of the chiraq punchbowl...,
By CNu at December 02, 2015 0 comments
Labels: psychopathocracy , shameless , status-seeking , What Now?
Thursday, November 19, 2015
"net energy decline cues" = impossibility of status gain - impel low-ranking members to seek status elsewhere...,
A study out of the Brookings Institution used Twitter to shine some light on this, comparing the countries where tweets from ISIS supporters originate. The study dealt with a sample size of 20,000 and found that Saudi Arabia is the top location claimed by Twitter users supporting ISIS in 2015. Syria follows, Iraq rounds off the top three and the U.S. takes fourth place.
The number of fighters joining from Saudi Arabia is between 2,000-2,500, the largest total number, according to the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. Per capita, that represents 107 fighters per million people. On a per capita basis, Jordan tops the list, with an estimated 315 fighters per million people.
Belgium has the highest number of fighters per capita of any Western nation. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian-born senior Islamic State operative, is suspected to be the key mastermind behind the Paris attacks. He was killed in a raid Wednesday, according to published reports.
France is the biggest source of fighters in Europe, contributing 1,200, or 18 per capita. Government figures have put the number of fighters closer to 1,600.
The U.S. is very low on this list — only about 100 fighters have come from the U.S.
An estimated 1,700 fighters have come from Russia, most of whom are thought to be from Chechnya and Dagestan, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service.
By CNu at November 19, 2015 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , quorum sensing? , status-seeking
Trash Israeli Professional Boxer Spitting On And Beating On Kids At UCLA...,
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