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“Yang Zhu's choice was 'everyone for himself.' Though he might benefit the entire world by plucking out a single hair, he would not do it.”—Mencius, Jin Xin I, 26 [Chan]
#individualism #liberalism

楊子取為我,拔一毛而利天下,不為也。
楊子取為我,
Yang • zi • gains • for sake of • self,

拔一毛而利天下,不為也。
pull • one • hair • and then • benefit • heaven • under, • not • do.

The directness of classical is better—the entire philosophy explained in three characters: 取為我 (“gains for me!”).
Yang Zhu said:

人人不损一毫,人人不利天下,天下治也
Everyone • not • lose • one • hair, • everyone • not • benefit • heaven • under, • heaven • under • order • is.

Thanks to @Mariusj001 for posting the original classical of what Yang Zhu is recorded saying.
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The more I’ve learned about #neuroscience and #trauma,

the more I’ve realized that the lies we’re told by society about #individualism, rationalism and human agency/choice have DEEPLY confused us about

why we suffer and how we heal.

A quick 🧵
.We desperately want to believe that we make our own choices based on our own logic.

But #neuroscience is teaching us that our decision-making is SIGNIFICANTLY determined by our affective/emotional state and the ways we’ve been socialized over time.

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.Our affective/emotional states are deeply impacted by how relationally safe we feel within our social context up to and in a given moment.

In other words, the extent to which we feel physically safe and socially accepted affects what we CHOOSE and what we DO.

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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 06/11/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/06/11/dai…
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body

vice.com/en/article/y3d…

#ComputerUse #consequences
Mitigation of Airborne Contaminant Spread through Simple Interventions in an Occupied Single-Family Home

mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/1…

#reduction #AerosolTransmission #RespiredViruses #SingleFamilyHomes #methods
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/10/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/dai…
Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium (Dialogues of the Applied Complexity Network)

jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/24/2/reviews/3…

#ComplexityEconomics #SantaFeInstitute #proceedings #book
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Had a brain wave / brain fart today - Don't know which?!

Recently re-read x2 #books that seem pretty consequential to modern day news cycles 📚

- #JohnPerkins #ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman

- #BillBrowder #RedNotice

Both began their careers for #Boston based consulting co's
#Boston #USA is part of that #IvyLeague playground 🧐

#MIT & #Harvard are in close proximity - Like #Oxford & #Cambridge in the UK (those prestigious institutions also synonymous with producing spy's & leaders)!

Perkins worked for #ChasTMain
Browder for #BostonConsultingGroup
If you look at geo-political history from 1980's - today... These two fella's have really played their part!!

Both books are great by the way... well worth a read!

- #JohnPerkins = #SouthAmerica & #CentralAmerica
- #BillBrowder = #US #Russia #UK #EU ... possibly the world!? 🌐
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Far-right parties are currently gaining momentum & exerting parliamentary influence in diverse countries such as the UK, Hungary, the USA, Austria, Sweden, Germany, & Denmark.

Far-right terrorism has increased dramatically.

We ignore this at our peril.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Far-right recruitment discourse offers an affective script of feeling angry, insulted, & ashamed, as well as courageous, proud, & hopeful.

Research shows how affective–discursive practices are employed to create gateways to radicalization and ideologically motivated violence.
Within fascism, the myth of #palingenesis, that is “national rebirth from the ashes,” is continual and key to the motivation of political action & violence: 'heroism' is the “psychological recompense for fascist political activism.”
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You want your world back? Go get it. They're not just going to hand it back over when they're done with it (as if there'd be anything left). Consider securing it better next time. But it will take the right ideas, the right principles, not mere political power. That's their game.
"The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of *reason*: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement."
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SFI President David Krakauer introduces our annual board of trustees symposium on New #Complexity #Economics - follow this thread for live coverage of talks by @EricBeinhocker @AKStanger @ole_b_peters @JacksonmMatt @cmoncap & W. Brian Arthur today...
"I think we have to be aware that we're not just discussing financial systems. We are discussing the future of the stability of the planet."

- David Krakauer
on #Complexity #Economics
"What is the #economy? I would argue that it doesn't exist in the physical world. It is a product of our #imagination. It is made out of #ideas. It does have an effect on the physical world. But the imagined order that we have is not succeeding."

- @EricBeinhocker
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It matters not which border crossed,
From desert dry or tempest tossed,
To waves of grain and freedom’s sigh,
From womb’s dark hold to first-light’s cry—
You’re here, you’re here, at last.
It matters not what age you came,
Eight months or eighty years the same,
What color skin your parents’ face,
What faith from which they fled to grace—
You’re here, you’re here, at last.
Now eye to eye, measuring minds,
The hopeful search for justice finds
No honest man can blindly curse
One more like he in chorus and verse
Than different—yes, in essence we
Are species same, from nose to knee—
As equals born with equal right
To live and work and dream the night
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Ah, the #EuropeanParliamentElection knocks at the door! Let’s see who is #campaigning for what…In #Italy, a #rightwingcoalition calls for a #guaranteedincome, #largerpensions, and resistance to the heavy-handed #austerityprograms enforced by the #EuropeanUnion.
In #France, some #rightwinggroups champion #fight against #climatechange, decry #exploitation of #foreignworkers, growing #economicinequality. What about the #centerright and #centerleft parties? #Polls show they will lose their #majority, and the Euroskeptics bag 30+% of seats.
However, #Euroskeptic, like #populist, is a term that obscures more than it reveals. #Spain’s leftist #Podemos isn’t likely to break bread with #Italy’s rightist #NorthernLeague-#M5S, but both are considered #Euroskeptic. Some are really #wolves but wear #sheepskins.
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