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Jennifer Arnold's avatar

There is a book called " The Tipping Point " and the premise of the book is that the circumstances eventually create a moment in which there is change . Another book

"Into Thin Air " about a climb up Mt Everest , you can easily see the back story behind the

crisis . Some people are good at seeing the big picture , but do not know how to progress in it , others only see the goal , with varying success . Listening to Bobby Fischer the chess genius is fascinating to me - his approach to analysis . Are there conspiracies ? Do people collude to destroy or support ? Are we just floating amoebas ? Destiny anyone ?

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Jennifer, the science behind The Tipping Point comes from the research of Everett Rogers, captured in his book, Diffusion of Innovations. Both of these treatments were about new ideas. I wonder about bad ideas or unworkable ideas sold well. I think this is part of what Devaraj is getting at. I'd have to go back and check, but I suspect that one of the conditions for the acceptance of a new idea or any idea is an awareness of the context that it is being applied to.

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Jennifer Arnold's avatar

the gift of history is to be able to look back without pressure and see what it is that you see - and some people have clairvoyance , they feel the future in their system . Some are very moment to moment - I myself am into the concept of Black Papers , which is the analysis of the context that things are happening in . Such as , most people today are not breast fed for more than six months , when the human race for millenia was breastfed for at least probably first four years of life ( or they died ) - my mom always says " you don't have to explain all the reasons , just pick ONE reason " but that is the way she thinks . At least , maybe that penetrates reality the best , one main point of rationale . Most situations are conundrums , or compilations - I am not really taking a position - except for one thing , which is that people who have stalled development , such as Bill Gates and Autism , or Trump and Narcissism , need to be understood as singular in their thought process and approach to stories , short term they will make headway , long term can do a lot of damage .

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Devaraj Sandberg's avatar

I thought I've been having recently is why don't we just let women take over running the world. I mean, without being critical to men, they've done some great stuff over the last couple of millennia, but maybe it's time to try something else.

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Jennifer Arnold's avatar

well , the only thing I am going to say is that being born a woman does not make a person a woman . Female essence comes from actually having children , nursing , feeding , loving , educating , that is physically training the person to actually become that idea of female . So you can't take a person and also there are men who care , love , give and are more nurture based than many women . Mother's do run "the world " - but the world is their own universe .

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Not only do the conspiracy theorists see a single cause, the only see a single solution. Like buying Gold! Are they incapable of seeing a more complex picture like my culture of simulation- https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/the-culture-of-simulation-series. No. It isn’t directly tied to intelligence. It is a product of poor mental discipline.

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Brad & Butter's avatar

Conspiracy is not needed with "the system" or the incentive structure is designed to act this way. https://graymirror.substack.com/

even worse is that any desire to fight of this "single agent" is designed to fail (TSNT) https://archive.ph/4pBfr https://archive.ph/FJxGD

Conspiracy specifically attracts nutters who both oversimplify and insist on minutia. (not citing here, since "midwit" and "clueless" are another can of worms)

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