Trump is America’s payback for the deceptions and distractions we use and enjoy. Each of us takes, as individuals in an individualistic society, some degree of pride in pulling con jobs on others. Sometimes we do so for fun, sometimes reflecting a sense of therapeutic realignment (as we get a grasp on who we are as individuals in a social collective). For a less honest few, such times are filled with nefarious intentions where we use our greed to take from those who we believe are getting more than they deserve.
The same combination of choices happens for the cultures we live in. It has parts that are designed to be a bit of a confidence job all in all. When this happens to excess or when we allow parts of the whole to be wrongly in favor of the less honest ways and means ... then we begin the process of making a larger society that rests way to easily on the CONfidence of such deceptions.
The same combination of choices happens for the cultures we live in. It has parts that are designed to be a bit of a confidence job all in all. When this happens to excess or when we allow parts of the whole to be wrongly in favor of the less honest ways and means ... then we begin the process of making a larger society that rests way to easily on the CONfidence of such deceptions.
Most of the time, the social media platforms we are building to reflect our cultural parameters ignores these considerations. For some of us, this means responding to representations of such by pokes and jabs of snarkitry. Which is too bad, in that such playfulness is not better understood and recognized. It can be an artform and ought to be seen as that, particularly when it points out where the confidential deceptions are afoot. That we haven't figured out how to teach this means that we are doing a disservice to those who are learning to play the connectivity games. A lot of players miss out on the fun and others mistake the lack of attention as approval that there are no boundaries ... that the criminal and destructive deviance behind many cultural CON jobs are acceptable, even credible parts of the fun. This is wrong and needs to be corrected.
Examples of what I mean by this willful equalizing of all misdirection as being acceptable abound. It will take a book to explain all that I mean. But I think the error of these ways can best be noted in how they are reflected by giving too much credence to conservative (or "conservatarian") ideas. Great amounts of the passionate and often poignant and targeted commentary on contemporary issues happens because of the desire of some to try to express old and often staid beliefs about core social, political, economic, and other perspectives. But, sadly, these viewpoints have not panned out as being worth all that elements of our culture want to dream about. Science and technology show in their own ways, over and over again actually, that so-called "balanced" (or bi-partisan in political terms) conceptions of core cultural preferences are no longer applicable. They continue to exist and are propagated because they offer a form of undeserved comfort -- and are thus the protection to hides the much deeper level of deceptions behind their usage.
Failing to accept that we have the manner and means to find and use effective solutions is the heart of the biggest remaining part of America's self-imposed cultural CONfidence job. And there is no way around the fact that conservative and libertarian efforts are pushing this misdirection forward.
Examples of what I mean by this willful equalizing of all misdirection as being acceptable abound. It will take a book to explain all that I mean. But I think the error of these ways can best be noted in how they are reflected by giving too much credence to conservative (or "conservatarian") ideas. Great amounts of the passionate and often poignant and targeted commentary on contemporary issues happens because of the desire of some to try to express old and often staid beliefs about core social, political, economic, and other perspectives. But, sadly, these viewpoints have not panned out as being worth all that elements of our culture want to dream about. Science and technology show in their own ways, over and over again actually, that so-called "balanced" (or bi-partisan in political terms) conceptions of core cultural preferences are no longer applicable. They continue to exist and are propagated because they offer a form of undeserved comfort -- and are thus the protection to hides the much deeper level of deceptions behind their usage.
Failing to accept that we have the manner and means to find and use effective solutions is the heart of the biggest remaining part of America's self-imposed cultural CONfidence job. And there is no way around the fact that conservative and libertarian efforts are pushing this misdirection forward.
Backwards looking philosophies and expectations -- often grounded in religious moralism -- have not panned out. They offer no good, honest way forward in dealing with the circumstances of need and the ideals of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. In actually, they mask the forces of misdirection and thus make us believe that the institutions we should count on are themselves coming up short -- a deeper manifestation once again of America's great self-imposed CON job.
We have to begin accepting two realities: that people and cultures play games. It is part of the process of maneuvering for some degree of self-advantage. But too much of this puts us in the place where we accept wrong and deceptive realities as if they were true. The Trumps and other conservative icons glorify this exact greedy excess and are the men behind the masks, the bad masks that do a great deal of damage to the confidence we as a society deserve.
We have to begin accepting two realities: that people and cultures play games. It is part of the process of maneuvering for some degree of self-advantage. But too much of this puts us in the place where we accept wrong and deceptive realities as if they were true. The Trumps and other conservative icons glorify this exact greedy excess and are the men behind the masks, the bad masks that do a great deal of damage to the confidence we as a society deserve.
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Thanks for sharing. The idea is for me to motivate you (and others) to do something with good ideas. Some are mine, some belong to others; all belong to the world of change.