When you feel anger, you will want to say whatever it is you think will inflict the maximum amount of psychological damage upon the person you are angry with.
This is a serious problem...particularly if you are good at reading individual's psychologies and manipulating language.
If you are a person of average intelligence and average cunning, you are not particularly good at reading individual's psychologies and manipulating language,
the probability you can inflict unspeakable psychological pain upon people with your words alone, is zero.
If you are extremely intelligent and cunning, you are very good at reading individual's psychologies and manipulating language,
you can definitely inflict unspeakable psychological pain upon people with your words alone, with zero time to prepare in advance.
Overton Window = the limited range of ideas one can express without being at risk of being ostracized, or fired from their jobs, or imprisoned or executed
Every time and place (society) has an 'Overton Window'; free speech has never existed and it never will.
In every society, there are ideas, opinions, and even *facts* outside the current Overton Window.
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It is always the case that there are important things that are true, that are outside the current Overton Window.
In the words of Illimitable Man, "Reality Is Not Politically Correct."
"Osama bin Laden is far less reprehensible...than Trump." -Sam Harris
People have intentionally, and unintentionally, misrepresented what this quote means.
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Harris was making the point that Bin Laden was an ideologue who delusionally believed he was making the world a better place, while Trump is motivated purely by *selfish desire for power*; nothing more...
Trump never believed he was making the world a better place; it's purely selfish personal interest.
-Getting Rich (High Net Worth/Income)
-Attaining High Status In The Macro Dominance Hierarchy
-Seizing Power
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The recipe is *not* optimistic; it mostly boils down to being born into the correct circumstances.
1: Be Born In A 1st World Country (Hopefully In The 20th/21st Century)
2: Be Born Into A Wealthy Family
3: Be Born With The Genetics To Have A High IQ
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Donald Trump displayed every warning sign of being a narcissistic man who is ludicrously egotistical, and who has poor impulse control; precisely the sort of human who cannot be trusted to make good decisions about complicated problems that come with high stress levels.
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The fact that many otherwise intelligent people looked at Trump and said
"This is the sort of man we can trust to make good decisions, about incredibly complicated problems, that come with very high stress levels"
is horrifying.
There are many intelligent investment bankers in America who supported Donald Trump.
This was shocking.
If I walked into a job interview, to get hired as an associate to serve under these investment bankers, and I appeared to be half as impulsive as Trump...they would reject me
Machiavellians are individuals capable of doing what Psychologists wish they could do; read people's personalities accurately, read social situations accurately, read body language and vocal tonality accurately, regulate thei rown body language and vocal tonality, charm people...
A piece of wisdom being valuable, is not contingent on people understanding it, or being receptive to it.
Society imprisoned Galileo (1633) for saying that
The Earth Revolves Around The Sun
Society fired and career blacklisted James Damore (Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, 2017), because he said that Men And Women Are Different
The only group of people that has consistently been outraged by the CM Writings is...Leftwing Westerners who had their minds captured by Blank Slate Theory Egalitarianism (Cultural Marxism).
Conflict always comes with COST (it will cost your time/energy, your most precious resource).
Conflict always comes with RISK (it can cause people to dislike you making it more difficult to get their cooperation in the future, it can cause damage to your reputation, it can motivate others to harm you, in the extreme it can motivate others to kill you).
In every society, power is pareto distributed; a minority of people wield all the political power, have almost all the wealth, and have high status. Most people are powerless, poor and low status.
Revolution does not change this fact.
What revolution does do, is change who the 'Elites; are.
Before revolution, there are Elites, after revolution, there are Elites, but those 2 groups of Elites are not the same people.
Wisdom lays in knowing what you do know, and what you do not know.
The fool thinks he knows everything.
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When you encounter a topic you know little or nothing about, it is almost always the case that the best option is to defer judgment to someone else who knows more about the topic.
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Using myself as an example, there are some topics where I have deep expertise, some where I have superficial understanding, and some where I am completely ignorant.
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