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im_not_a_rapper 3 months ago
"RETHINKING UNIVERSITIES" "As the economy became more modernised with an increase in mass literacy, more and more people especially now are participating in universities and graduating which is something that labour economists take into consideration. One famous labour economic model proposed by Michael Spence was about education being a form of market signalling to employers about the productivity of an individual but since the employer now has more information about the productivity of graduates as job market is over-saturated with graduates, their beliefs have changed and the expectations of graduates have changed." "Now employers are less likely to invest in graduates as they realise the gap to the perceived levels of productivity and the actual levels of productivity is very different but it doesn't mean that university is entirely useless but now it is seen as a minimum requirement to be perceived to be at a certain level of productivity meanwhile those who are unable to afford to do it are still under the perception of the employer to have the same level of productivity as someone with less qualifications as both he and the other individual. Now as apprentices and tradesman are now seen as more productive with their work expierence, will employers change their belief if there is an over saturation of people who have work experience? Whilst this subject to another discussion, it is important to highlight this as it demonstrates the undeniable correlation between education levels and the labour markets and from the perspective of Michael Spence, education levels can be perceived by others as a form of market signalling." "Whilst some are idealistic about of the idea that universities is a gathering of intellectuals, universities still are perceived as buildings of 'high status' as graduates are unable to find a job. But it didn't seem that these graduates ever knew that universities are really research centers when they explored the university as if it was another state school or high school. Contrary to the views of others, many youngsters are ruthlessly pragmatic as they see the university as a means to an end in obtaining a job with high salary. Thus we have explored the correlation between status and education levels." "The masses do seem to complain about PhD candidates not showing practical research that has some utility in it and in their attempt in showing this, they focus on researchers in humanities subjects. It does seem this crowd of people are quite inconsistent towards the subjects of stem when there are numerous topics within those subjects that do not have practical utility and it is notable that this rage is not directed at mathematicians who are known for engaging in a lot of abstract calculations. It could be argued that some of the research conducted is practically useless but if we look at what may interest us for example a fasnciating observation of how animal express their emotions. Now if we look at the job market, what kind of employer cares about this? An accountant? A lawyer? A mechanic? But what about researchers. If you explore or list down some of the interesting things you've thought about or looked at, ask yourself, does knowing these things help you find a job? One does need to understand there is a huge sunk costs to research but if someone is serious about building research centers, sunk costs is something to endure. Whilst it is the case you might get some 'useless' research but practically speaking, this is part of the buraeucracy of the research process. It something that is likely to happen." "The question arises is, what do you do? A suggestion is to introduce big changes. What is meant by big, in this case is that it so big that the employers feels that they're entering the unknown but not to the extent that they don't understand the system but to the extent of which they struggle to guess the exact productivity of a worker. What these big changes mean is that it avoids resembling the current university system otherwise the employers are probably going to think that these changes are mainly to do with adminstration stuff or some different curtains. So these changes involve some big structural changes. The aim of this is to bring back the effectiveness of the market signalling aspect of university education." "In terms of the 'status' aspect involved in universities, the islamist need to take into consideration of what they want the 'elite' to look like? Does the islamist want the elite to be handsome pious polymaths who are fluent classical arabic? Does the islamist want some physical appearance tests? Does the islamist want tests about classical Arabic? Does the islamist want examinations which tests someone's knowledge of Islam? Does the islamist want to use these exams as a prerequisite for entry into this system? What about the research process? What aspect of that needs to change?" "An obvious trade off in reducing the number of students in universities is that the number of students who are willing to do research probably decreases. So what is a method which offsets this tradeoff? The changes to offset this tradeoff involve changing the lower stages of the educational system i.e. elementary and high school such that there is two systems where one is a pipeline towards research centers and the other is a pipeline to jobs such as accountants, tradesman etc. This research system could be implemented via suggesting to the parents of the child that this person has a particular talent which could be utilised in specialist schools which train the kid into working on his/her special talent. Meanwhile the other system could be a certification system with the basic literacy test attached to it. This cerificiation system could include pipelines to 'high status' jobs such as consultancy and other jobs without entering university. Now some might say, there are jobs that do require a level of university education and the certification system could adjust to this with specific high status jobs that require university education being attached to specific ladders within the certification system. For example an IT technician who doesn't necessarily need university education who has a certificate could use his ceritfication to unlock the next door to higher status job that actually requires university education." "Whilst there are some other suggestions to look at in terms of changing the university system, it's important to remember the following things about is big changes, taking into consideration about university being perceived as 'high status' and changes to the lower stages of the educational system."
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im_not_a_rapper 3 months ago
"Probably an understated reason of why people yearn for bitcoin as an application of blockchain technology is that it is an escape from the bureaucracy of the bank."
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im_not_a_rapper 3 months ago
"ETHNICITY AND GENDER" "In the current era of post-liberal era where liberal institutions are being undermined by the same people who once proposed liberalism, nationalists have been awakened particularly by a person who wanted people with H1B visas. This is similar to what happened in yugoslavia when the collapse of the soviet union happened, the communists inclined towards what the Arabs call: asabiyah." "Very few talk about the residue that was left by liberals as the westerner turns away from citing the intellect as part of their aim of liberation. Feminism. Despite the downfall of the supposed sjws in the 2010s and the collapse of tumblr, modern women still incline towards feminism as modern women do not only see feminism in philosophical terms, they see it as a word interchangeable with the word femininity itself i.e. they see it as ideology of female identarianism. In the eyes of these women, they prioritise sisterhood over the man when they hate and fear the man." "Feminists still persists in their nonsense to this day as the incel says, 'Women are bourgeoisie of the sexual market who have seized access to the mode of sexual reproduction.'" "The question arises of whether the human being resonates more with its gender identity or its ethnic identity. Especially when we see white nationalists trying to appeal to women (white nationalists tend to be males) and them using the language of feminists. To understand this question, let's remember the common slogans of nationalists. 'They are taking our jobs' is a cry of a man who fears of being rendered unemployed as his corporate boss prefers the cheap labour of a male foreigner. From the perspective of the white nationalist, immigration undermines his ability to provide for his family. This slogan doesn't appeal to women as much as men as women are not expected to financially provide for her family. Nowadays that slogan does somewhat resonate with women as they participate in the job market in competition with these male foreigners yet they do not have these intense feelings about the slogan as they don't see it as an attack on their gender identity." "There is another slogan that nationalists repeatedly use as they indulge in trying to appeal to women. 'The foreigners are raping the girls.' Such a phrase used by these nationalists already assumes that the foreigner is male which worries the radical feminist as they despise the male being and what the nationalist additionally mentions is the word 'raping' which the incels describes as the following: 'An act of rebellion against bourgeoisie female class which seizes the access to the mode of sexual reproduction from women.'" "Not only feminists but generally speaking women fear being raped by a man as they feel defiled and the raped modern woman gives a long passage of their expression of their feeling of being violated without mentioning the word, 'honour' which is a word that the radical feminists associate with the patriarchy. Whilst modern women struggle to understand 'honour' they still see rape as an attack of their femininity or a form of humiliation of specifically the woman. In other words, they see it as an attack on their gender identity and this intensifies the feeling of hostility towards the male foreigner." "As you can see that whilst asabiyah tendencies do occur amongst humans, one does need to remember that these asabiyah tendencies tend to conform to the feelings of perceived threats to a man's masculinity or a female's femininity."
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im_not_a_rapper 3 months ago
"It is mentioned in the book 'On War' written by 'Carl Von Clausewitz' the following: 'Even the most civilized of peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other. Consequently, it would be an obvious fallacy to imagine war between civilized peoples as resulting merely from a rational act on the part of their governments and to conceive of war as gradually ridding itself of passion...'" https://blossom.primal.net/2d08f480201e4807e875d5eecdc6997eb43361dbb75b78016e9f3abcdea4898d.jpg.
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im_not_a_rapper 3 months ago
"WOMEN AND BOOKS" "One of the consequences of the widespread literacy of the masses is that lay women were able to read. Such consequences cannot be ignored as further insights were obtained regarding the differences between how men and women read. But now it seems, are there any men reading fictional books today?" "Whilst the data does suggest men prefer reading non-fictional books or books about philosophy which does involve a philosopher saying something like, 'Such propagation of the nonsensical impossibilities uttered by the interlocutor whereby his lack of cognitive abilities is unable to concieve of a world without nation-states.' These type of men find a lot of unease in reading a fictional novel whilst women do not. This brings further to the question of why women are overwhelmingly reading books these days whilst men aren't so much." "It might be hard for young people to understand these days but books used to be read...for pleasure and not merely for revision or for some literature examination. People used to read for pleasure. Whilst people do tend to focus on the information aspect of books in terms of gathering new information via books, pleasurable aspect of reading books is not much discussed." "This discussion about the pleasurable aspect of reading books is very related to the current phenomena of majority of book readers today being women. Passages of books consists of words that flow like the ocean which connect sentence to sentence like a bridge across the river and such words are used to aid the reader in conceiving of situations in accordance with what the author has written where you are left interpreting the big pool in a hotel containing numerous people of different backgrounds...who have different interpretations. But such interpretations are kept within the pool not outside of it as the author does not want you to engage in eisegesis (which the post-modernists insist on doing) but rather he wants you to engage in exegesis of the book. These type of books don't only focus on flows and dull descriptions but also human emotions." "A visual picture of someone crying is not the same as novella describing a droplet of tear as 'Eyelids started clattering, clattering, clattering. Desperate. Desperate to prevent the dam from breaking apart but one tear. Only one tear had escaped from the eyelids which dripped down onto the eyelashes as it now dries away.' It becomes harder to understand why men are not very into contemporary fictional books when various philosophers including today are men and many thinkers of this era such as mathematicians, historians and economists are men as these novels do involve a lot of thinking about things." "It becomes harder to understand why men don't read contemporary literature a lot especially if you know what mathematicians do in terms of deductive reasoning which does. For example, trying to come up with the solution to the 'collatz conjecture' involves a lot of thinking. Don't be mistaken. The man does enjoy trying to solve this mathematical question especially since he has thought about it for a long time. The question is what is different about this type of pleasure in comparison to the pleasure of reading a fictional book. It could be argued that the types of pleasures that is being discussed are very different where trying to solve a mathematical question involves obtaining the pleasure of trying to solve a problem. It's not the slowness that the man finds pleasurable in solving a mathematical problem, it's the desire for the quick pleasure of solving problem. Sound familiar?" "To understand what really is the difference between how men feel about reading fictional books and women reading books, we look at an instinctual form of pleasure: Sexual pleasure. The man experiences sexual pleasure very differently in comparison to the woman. The man tries to frequently punch the wall repeatedly in his attempt of releasing the water behind the dam. It's not the frequent receptiveness of punching the wall that the man find pleasure in but the desire of wanting to release it. This needs to be understood in terms of understanding how women experience sexual pleasure as women enjoy the tension itself. This is what the woman enjoys. If it's too fast or too sudden, the woman doesn't enjoy it that much. But...if its slow like a snake which seeks to bite its prey...the pleasure that the woman experiences...is immense. Whilst the man rushes, sprints and peddle and peddles and peddles and breaks HIS SWEAATTT!!!!! Do you now see the difference?" "Lets ask the question, why are women are reading more books than men? To put it simply, modern women find reading books more pleasurable than modern men. A more complicated response is that the manner in which a lot of books are formatted especially novels are formatted whereby a lot of the pages consists of words and sentences which indicate the 'building up' of things which is something that the woman sexually enjoys. Whilst the modern man doesn't really enjoy to the extent that the woman does and he prefers the short form videos in a scrolling horizontal format under the 'for you' page as he continues to recieves the quick pleasure of watching these short videos."
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im_not_a_rapper 4 months ago
"In the book 'Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction' written by Mark Fisher and edited by Exmilitary Collective, it says: 'Cyberspace is not, straightforwardly, a copy of the world, a mere tracing of it...It is fully a part of the world...'" image
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im_not_a_rapper 4 months ago
"ROBOTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS" "There are fictional books which mention of a setting which consists of landscrapers, humans and robots where it claims that that these robots have citizenship with 'legal rights'. Whilst many books emphasizes the focus of the philosophical view towards consciousness and emotions, the lesser discussed topics is the government claiming that robots have 'rights'." "As you find the claim that robots having 'rights' as absurd, scientists and figures such as Elon Musk insist that artificial intelligence is 'conscious'. Whilst there is some speculation of what pushes them towards these positions. The question is that what if they wanted to 'justify' their claim that robots have 'rights' according to liberalism?" "This is somewhat different from the legal positivist's approach which an approach associated with hobbesian theory. This involves them accepting whatever declarations uttered by the government of the nation-state. What they prefer is that they want the word 'robot' and the word 'human' to become 'interchangable' where the government of the nation-state declares that the robot has the same rights as the human." "It is not unexpected of some of these roboticians who are similar to post-modernists where they wish to blur the lines between reality and false tales where the post-modernists want to distort language with the usage of pro-nouns whilst some of these roboticians want to convince you that a static object has conscientiousness." "Their desire of blurring the line is their attempt in 'normalising robot rights'. But the question arises is that what does the liberal believe about the human being and what does he believe are rights?" "Contrary to the views of others, the early liberals did not consider themselves as atheistic. John Locke himself opposed atheists where he viewed that they weren't trustworthy in abiding by contracts. The early liberals believed that humans were endowed with rights by God. They believed that the state should protect these rights. They didn't believe that the state endows human with rights which is contrary to the view of westerners today where they believe that the government can create rights. The current westerner's view aligns with the view of the 'legal positivists'." "The liberals themselves valued the human intellect. The so-called 'enlightenment period' was centered around the emphasis of the intellect. They saw the intellect as the main difference between the human and the animal." "In the current post-modern era where the human intellect is mocked by proponents of AI alongside some of the masses emphasizing their subjective experience over objective facts that are ascertained by the human intellect which is a consequence of social media algorithms that was coded by people who believe that data is more valuable than subjective experiences. Some of these people have claimed that artificial intelligence has obtained 'conscientiousness'. They claimed this after the introduction of chatgpt when they were shown an illusion of 'thinking'. This illusion of thinking which some people view as an objective fact according to their subjective experiences is propagated by some of these roboticians where they believe in the blurring of the lines between a human and a robot." "A robotician claiming that a robot can become a human is similar to a feminist claiming that a man can become a woman." "The robotician wants to propagate this illusion of thinking where he wants to classify the robot as a 'human' in accordance with the ideologies of modernity that emphasizes that the intellect is the defining feature of the human that separates the human from animals. It does need to be understood the extent of which liberals differentiate humans from other animals on the basis of the human intellect when liberals classified black people as monkeys when they wanted a liberal understanding of enslaving black people." "Now these roboticians has deluded some of the masses that AI is 'thinking', they now want to insert that AI software into a mechanical android body that 'looks' like a 'human' and 'feels' like a 'human' in their attempt of 'normalising robot rights'."
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im_not_a_rapper 4 months ago
"Modernised 'traditionalism' is 'traditionalism' without the involvement of the family." "Arranged marriages? I think you meant matchmaking." "My husband doesn't provide for me. My boss does." "My husband doesn't beat me. The policeman beats me." "Extended family? I think you meant my LinkedIn network."
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im_not_a_rapper 4 months ago
"In the book 'Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction' written by Mark Fisher and edited by Exmilitary Collective, it says: 'Gothic Materialism takes it for granted that real materialism must involve total immanentization; one of its chief resources, therefore, is the philosopher whose whole work was devoted to developing a rigorously immanent account of agency: Spinoza. For Spinoza, there is agency everywhere but this never belongs to human subjects.'" image
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im_not_a_rapper 4 months ago
"A woman who named herself 'Esther Vilar' who is the author of the book 'The Manipulated Man' she said in her book the following: 'Constant self-abasement in the presence of men has led women to develop a secret language which other women understand but which is incomprehensible to men, since they take it literally.'" image
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im_not_a_rapper 5 months ago
"In the book 'Understanding Media' which was written by someone with the name 'Marshall Mclulan', it says, 'Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms.'" image
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im_not_a_rapper 5 months ago
"In the book 'Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction' written by Mark Fisher and edited by Exmilitary Collective, it says: 'Pornography and Gothic fiction stand behind the media machineries McLuhan describes, as technologies for the targeting and heightening of stimulation. Gothic fiction, like pornography, is sold as a body-stimulating machine...'" image
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im_not_a_rapper 5 months ago
"According to the transhumanist, manipulating the nervous system is like adjusting the voltage of a circuit system."
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im_not_a_rapper 5 months ago
"HAS FIAT CURRENCY BECOME ELECTRONIC?" "Since the introduction of fiat currency which is paper money, governments now have shifted from metallic currencies such as gold or silver towards paper currencies." "The difference between metallic currencies and paper currencies is that metals involve mining whilst with paper currencies it involves printing in other words obtaining one unit of paper currency is much more easier and quicker than obtaining one unit of metallic currency. Meaning the government has the ability to print lots and lots of money if it wanted to. So in other words the government or the central bank is the monopoly within the money market where it is the country that supplies the national currency." "Something changed in 2008. Instead of the manual printing of money being used by central bank, something called quantitative easing was used where banks electronically printed money. Now with the shift towards paypall, bitcoin and debit cards and credit cards, cash and coins are rarely used where the government wants to monitor your transactions more and more closely..."
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im_not_a_rapper 5 months ago
"ARE GOVERNMENTS ADDICTED TO BORROWING?" "One of the aspects of the current global system is mass adoption of nation-states engaging interest-related transactions and in the context fiscal landscape this means borrowing money." "Whilst borrowing money is tempting for governments who want to fix a short-term problem, borrowing money involves interest payments that the government pays to the lenders who are in this case bond investors." "The government issues government bonds which investors invest in where they see this as reliable fixed income. And here is the situation that government find themselves in where as the 'debt' has grown, the fear of 'default' increases. In other words the government is inclined towards engaging in reduction in public spending (lower salaries, less equipment in public sector etc) and this conflicts with the desires of the elements of the public especially of those who work in the public sector which could lead to a rise of protests and riots and dysfunction within these government 'institutions'." "Various governments are entangled by the 'interests' of bankers and other elements of the finance sector the government is inclined to ignore the masses and inclined towards the desires of the finance sector."