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Picture unrelated (sort of, hopefully my good girl can come work with me in the truck sometimes!)

I just thought of a new series, , so I’m jumping right in with you!

These are original insights inspired by a plethora of postulations and research.

Do you know that you’re programmable? It’s true! Whatever cognitive distortion ails you, if you know how to reprogram yourself, you can work to release it.

Today, I want to draw your attention to this decoding:

1. Extraversion = gather instinct
2. Introversion = organize instinct

Understanding the things that are driving your brain make it possible for you to steer.

Until next time; be well.

Image description: Unless a social space is designed to be deliberately hostile to the ethos of popularity, concentration of power, and dominance, then it serves as a hunting grounds for predators.

This meta-analysis is only vaguely related to the subject I want to discuss today, but does a good job of illustrating the basic situation.

Thesis: those who extract resources from others without their consent stand to benefit the most from those people believing that they exist within a meritocracy.

Another way of saying this is: if you’re the one winning a rigged game, you have the least incentive to make that game equitable.

In fact, your greater incentive would be to convince others the game is equitable.

It’s easier to convince people of this concept if they don’t have the opportunity to travel or experience other opportunities/cultures.

From the link:

“Earnings have stagnated, except for those at the top end of the income scale, thus the distribution of income has become more unequal. While stagnant income among low-income individuals is worrisome, an additional concern is that increased inequality may limit intergenerational mobility, which is defined as the degree to which conditions at birth and childhood determine outcomes later in life. In other words, it measures the passing of socioeconomic standings from one generation to the next.”

“We find evidence to suggest that recent increases in the top 1 percent income share does have negative associations with intergenerational mobility, even controlling for a series of other factors. This finding is an important contribution of our study to contemporary debates about negative effects of income inequality because the increase of the top 1 percent income share has been the primary driver of rising inequality in recent decades, mostly in the United States (Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez 2011; Hout 2012; Jones 2015; Keister 2014; Volscho and Kelly 2012).”

The depth of the deception between average people and the wealthy is usually genuinely incomprehensible.

You have undoubtedly been programmed by your family of origin as to how to talk about money and status. Programming does not have to be conscious, but for the wealthy, it is.

When we have this data, why is the idea of a wealth or income cap controversial?

Because working class people are programmed in their jobs to compete as if they have a chance to make it to the top.

They aren’t hearing “we should control these people who are destroying the planet,” they hear, “I think YOU, PERSONALLY should be forbidden from becoming even moderately rich.”

The reality is that the rich have SO much that they have stolen from their workforces, they can afford to bury the whistleblowers and opposition.

Not because of merit. Because they made the game and the rules.

A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility - Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Shih-Keng Yen, Sharron Xuanren Wang-Goodman, 2019 We provide an overview of associations between income inequality and intergenerational mobility in the United States, Canada, and eight European countries. We a...

Learning to distinguish between healthy fear and triggers is crucial.

Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that living an embodied life means never putting yourself out there, never making a call that you’re not sure of, or never being uncomfortable.

If you're always comfortable by choice, I can GUARANTEE you are not living as an embodied human being.

Notice I didn’t say “ever comfortable.” We should be sometimes. But even in our comfort, we should be able to tell those we are close with where our growth edges are and how those things are changing our self-concept.

Growth is not linear, and it is deeply uncomfortable.

Domesticity is the greatest engineering project of all time.

There’s a reason most Americans don’t think of it that way. Feminized labor is degraded culturally. The work of organizing and raising the family are seen as women’s work.

People seen as women by society are expected to not only work every waking moment, but do so without reward. The less “she” appears to want the reward, the higher quality “she” is.

This “feminized labor” in 2023 is the same labor that disenfranchised African Americans were forced to performed for “white” families 100 years ago in 1923. And 100 years before that in 1823. And 100 years before that in 1723. And 100 years before that in 1623. And 100 years before that in 1523.

It is horrifying to think of the generations—over a thousand—who have suffered under this regime. At the same time, we are poised to break it for good.

Laborers are engineers. No amount of desired education of laborers is wasted. Funneling resources OUT of laborers into “head engineers” such as a CEO, CFO, COO, etc., is a mistake. It always has been.

All “profits” are to be evenly distributed between the laborers who participated in the enterprise.

Before we can achieve economic, racial, and gender justice, we have to defeat fascism disguised as populism.

Most average poor people know this regardless of what their actual personal political persuasion is: the rich are who are destroying society. Ignorance + resources - consequence = harmful behavior.

Average people can’t stop what’s going on behind closed doors at these very secretive meetings. Only the people who are a part of it, or are close enough to witness it, can put a stop to it.

Those who are brave enough to blow the whistle will be met with a flood of support and corroborating anecdotes regarding the abusers who have enjoyed preying on their communities.

We all have either suffered because of them or narrowly escaped them. They have different names depending on the community, but we all know they are there, getting away with abuses.

Domesticity is the greatest engineering project of all time. It’s time to engineer out the predators.

If you believe evangelism is a good thing, you are a Christian supremacist.

It is your imperative as a Christian to fix your heart.

Serve people without any expectation.

He said we would know you by your works.

There is an abundance of need in simply caring for people who lack the skills and resources to care for themselves.

This is a huge underserved market. Companies that are not proactively addressing this are capitalizing from it.

What does a society look like that holds care for all as a moral imperative?

Good evening, fellows.

This post is inspired by Simone Seol. You can find her post linked in the comments.

The ugly truth about enterprise is that most people are engaging with it out of compulsion/addiction (because they’re deeply uncomfortable with stillness).

Let’s back up a little bit to contextualize.

When I say “engaging [in enterprise],” I’m referring to the professional. I’m not referring to the customer/consumer/patient/etc.

A passing familiarity with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is required to appreciate the difference between the compulsion to survive and conscious choice.

Everyone is compelled to participate in the economy insomuch as our survival requires it.

All other participation in the exchange of goods, services, currency, etc. is voluntary. Our natural inclination is to distribute excess to those who need it (rather than waste).

So why do we see wealth hoarding? Why does the American economy revolve around the concept of amassing wealth?

Because humans are born ignorant and must operate on beliefs until they have witnessed the subject of their imaginations.

We are taught to believe that we are safer when we have more wealth. Although this is not inherently true, we believe it (as a society). Some are, without a doubt, reading this and thinking that sounds absurd. This is how deeply we are indoctrinated.

The systems we are at the mercy of—such as the government—have made this falsehood true by engineering a society that cruelly and unusually punishes those without excess wealth.

Who benefits most from the majority believing that lacking funds is a moral failing?

I think the answer is clear, but my life experience has taught me that the things I think are clear are not always clear to others.

The wealthiest are who benefit the most. They benefit to a degree that we literally cannot even fathom because of its sheer volume.

I propose that any serious American politician immediately adopts the cause of income and wealth freezes and caps. There’s no reason to be especially stringent because the worst offenders are so terribly far above the petit bourgeoisie. An individual’s annual income has no reason to go above $10 million. An individual has no reason to amass more than $100 million in wealth.

For those who have never made more than $100k annually, what would you do with $10k?

We’ll tackle the enabling and complicity of the nonprofit sector another time.

Thank you for taking time to read. Be excellent to yourself and each other.

Here is a repost from my personal page that means a lot to me:

I have seen multiple posts from Christian women my age & younger in the last 2 days that were so “self-deprecating for Jesus as a performance” that I had a whole-body trigger response. Guttural sickness washing over me as I scroll through a comment section full of “Amen!”s because women are praised for professing that they have no will or use other than for consumption.

Christian women, what makes you think Jesus would want or ask you to forsake your own desires and gifts in a world of malicious leaders?

He modeled the behavior he believed to be righteous during an oppressive empire & he was executed for it. But you sincerely believe the book those same oppressors wrote 600 years after murdering him… is somehow an honest tribute to the spirit of his rebellion?

Have you ever heard the word Apocrypha?

You cannot bring glory to the savior you profess to worship if you fail to critically analyze his story. If you consider the Bible an authority rather than an ahistorical mythical anthology, then you are primed to be weaponized against your most vulnerable neighbors. You don’t have to be witting. The concept of spiritual authority is not valid & if you haven’t fortified yourself against such falsehoods, you are in danger yourself; and you pose a danger to society.

I did not react to or comment on the posts I saw. I did not remove either woman from my friend list. That bu****it is harmful for me to see, but I also see them as victims of their own ignorance. It’s tempting to live a formulaic life as prescribed by the wh*te supr*macist church: submit, serve, smile no matter what in exchange for a place at the table.

But are you willing to serve an institution that systemically exterminates human beings? Because that’s what the modern church is protecting.

If you are in denial about this and you fail to distinguish yourself as a warrior for the least of these, then you have forsaken your god in favor of your ego. Christians can and should take a stand against their own & hold them to account. That includes disabusing yourself of theology that serves oppressors.