Over the last decade or so educational conferences seem to have devolved from collaborative learning events to marketing events. Typical conferences of the past, I did over 100 of them, would pay speaker’s fees and pay their travel expenses because they wanted to choose speakers according to their conference’s learning values – according to what […]
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. This is a continuation of “The Vast Predatory Use of Behavioral Manipulation Devices“. This is how it ends: People are exposed to a very high volume of ads daily (8,000-12,000 estimated) The vast majority of these ads aim to manipulate thoughts and behaviors to serve advertiser interests
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. Estimate the number of advertisements of any kind the average adult of the US population during the decade of the 1950s encountered in a day. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to make a precise estimate of the number of advertisements the average American adult encountered
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“My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth is a Pathless Land
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Our political leadership hasn’t yet learned the importance of stewarding our collective intelligence because it’s too busy manipulating the voting behavior of our collective ignorance.
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Since the days of the Monkeys, I have always been able to hear the ‘tech’ in people’s voices. It pollutes the “couldn’t be otherwise” movement (like the note progressions of Mozart) and decreases the voice’s resonance with me. Today the peak of that kind of tech is called “auto-tune”. This video uses my all-time favorite
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We emerge from and are always tethered to natural (Gaia, Mother Nature, God, the Great Spirit) learning. But we also learn to be more. We learn to learn artificially. Nature can only learn artificially through us. Become one with god or nature or communing with the great spirits of earth may deeply ground our beings
No other creature is aware of the Earth like humans are. No other creature has diseased the Earth like humans have. No other creature cares about the Earth like humans do. Apes, and all other life-forms, live in tiny bubbles within our universe. All life forms live in a bubble defined by their dimensional extent.
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As you’ve heard me wax on about, one of the greatest cons in American history was getting the general public to think slavery was about race – about outright owning people. We may have outlawed outright ownership, but the underlying business ethic of American capitalism – that people are assets to be manipulated into profitable
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