You are currently browsing the category archive for the 'Uncategorized' category.
Recently we have noticed how difficult it is to find both ethical and intelligent people to be around. We have identified professions that are either unethical or unintelligent to help other people stay away from people who work in these:
- HR – Both unethical and unintelligent
- Lawyers – Unethical
- Accountants – Unethical – and so linear in their thought processes that they resemble robots.
- Real Estate Agents – Both unethical and unintelligent
- Any type of sales person – Both unethical an unintelligent
- Finance Workers – Unethical
- Recruiters – Both unethical and unintellgent
Alltime Best Rhetorician
No one does more with less then Bill O’Reilly. We say this after analyzing rhetoricans from the past, such as William F Buckley, as well as other modern day rhetoricians. Bill rarely has more than a surface understanding of any topic he is discussing. He uses the following techniques to defeat people with far greater subject matter knowledge.
- The comment “Going too deep, and we don’t have time” – Whenever a guest begins to delve into the detail that would undermine the sweeping generalizations used by O’Reilly, Bill uses this technique to prevent the audience from learning the actual facts.
- Interruption – If he does not like where the answer is going, he simply interrupts the interviewer, and will occasionally bring up the concept of reciprocity, that he needs his chance to speak, when he deprives his guest the same opportunity
- Assumption Agreement – Can push back on any guest once they have made their point by setting up a simple question that the guest feel compelled to answer in the affirmative. His most famous being “Do you want America to win the war in Iraq.” If the interviewer say no, is patriotism is questioned, if he answers yes, Bill then says that the guest will then agree with whatever position Bill is arguing for. (Letterman actually had the proper response to this which was “It depends upon what the definition of winning is.”
- Uses the “you are in fantasy-land” or “you must know nothing about x or y” in order to back his guest into a corner. He did this very effectively against Ron Paul in a debate about Iran.
Bill O’Reilly is a master at what he does. He is so confident that actually defeated and demeaned Dr. Richard Dawkins, who was the father of evolutionary biology and is a superstar professor from Oxford. His book The Selfish Gene is one of the most influential and best books in popular biology and has been for over 25 years. Its doubtful that Bill O’Reilly could ever read a single one of Richard Dawkins scientific papers and understand it. We don’t mean in a few months, we mean that with all the free tutoring, Bill O’Reilly could never understand what Richard Dawkins knows. However, Bill treated him like he was some student from a technical college, and utterly disrepected him. What makes this even more amazing is that Bill O’Reilly was debating religon with Dawkins, and actually was able to put Dawkins and by extension most of the scientific community on the hook for not having answered every single one of the questions related to the origins of man, the universe and essentially everything.
How to Debate Bill O’Reilly
The only way we can see to stay with or defeat Bill O’Reilly (and he wins almost all of his debates) is to interrupt him and to come out aggresive and stay aggresive. Many guests seem to become intimiadated by him which may have something to do with his height or facial characteristics. Almost anyone pitted against Bill will have more subject matter expertise as he is both poorly educated and not well versed in his the topics of discussion. Bill is debating in areas far beyond his areas of expertise and its important not to forget that he was at one time an anchor for the lightweight gossip show Inside Edition. Fox News has no education or intellectual requirements for their editorial shows (Glen Beck has a high school degree — and it shows) and this matches Fox’s general demographic of people who study and read very little and are too distracted to perform any deeper thinking. However, O’Reilly’s rhetoric is so effective, that his lack of knowledge rarely matters. The best strategy is to both interrupt Bill as well as point out Bill’s lack of knowlege in the area.
The following is an excerpt from the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. We found a very good section which we thought would be interesting for others to read.
“I also realized that my college professors had not understood the true nature of macroeconomics: that in many cases helping an economy grow only makes those few people who sit at the top of the pyramid even richer, while it does nothing for those at the bottom except to push them even lower. Indeed promoting capitalism often results in a system that resembles medieval feudal societies. If any of my professors knew this, they had not admitted it – probably because big corporations, and the men who run them fund colleges. Exposing the truth woudl undoubtedly cost those professors their jobs – just as such revelations could cost me mine”
This to us really gets to the heart of how much truth is taught and accepted in society. Much of our education system is designed to manipulate people into doing things that improve the condition of the people above them, and have little to do with what is true.
During the McCain and Obama Presidential contest, ACORN was first accused by Republicans of voter fraud and then the FBI was said to be investigating the organization and raided its offices.
What is ACORN?
In order to understand this case its important to understand what ACORN is and what they do. They have a host of low and moderate income issues they support. However, with regards to elections, they perform voter registration for groups that are typically disenfranchised from the political system. That is they pay people to register other people who ordinarily would not be part of the electoral system.
According to Wikipedia:
“Where ACORN has discovered that its workers submitted potentially false voter registration forms, it has followed legal requirements to submit the forms to voter registrars, flagged as requiring additional attention. San Diego County, California officials stated that ACORN-submitted registrations had a rejection rate of 17 percent for all errors in 2008, whether innocent or intentional, compared to less than five percent for voter drives by other organizations.[19]” – Wikipedia
This is what the controversy was about. That a higher percentage of their registrations were rejected, that is they were not valid. Some of these rejections were due to fictitious names. For instance, Mickey Mouse was registered to vote in some county. First its important to understand that this is not voter fraud, this is registration fraud. However, registration fraud is a very bad way to try and influence an election. The registration is cross checked with other pieces of personal data and is rather easily eliminated from the voter role. Secondly, registering people that do not exist might be good for a person being paid to collect registrations, but it does not do anything to affect the election, because that fictitious person never appears to vote, even if the registration cross check does not work properly. So, if ACORN were fraudulently attempting to influence the election, registering people that do not exist is a strange way to do it.
The FBI Comes In
Now we come to the FBI’s involvement. As you should be able to tell from the paragraph above, there was no voter fraud charged against ACORN, only registration fraud, which ACORN would never have benefited from, and which was mostly likely done by people who worked for ACORN that were attempting to get their “numbers” up. These faulty registrations were already eliminated by a computerized matching system. So the question arises, why did the FBI decide to peruse this case? There are elections boards that could investigate (although there would be little reason to bother). So why the interest from the FBI, which does not specialize in voter fraud investigations? The answer most likely lies in political patronage. Having the FBI investigate ACORN might have helped McCain in his bid for the presidency. Bush, who holds the reigns of the Department of Justice, which holds the reigns of the FBI wants McCain to win to obvious reasons. (and less obvious, as an Obama presidency is more likely to uncover the massive amount of illegal activtiy which took place under Bush).
The FBI’s Great Concern for Voting Integrity
What is most interesting is that there were documented irregularities in the 2000 Presidential election in Florida and in the 2004 election in Ohio, yet the FBI did not see fit to investigate. Tens of thousands of voters were removed from the roles by ChoicePoint (http://www.choicepoint.com/), voting machines gave Gore negative votes, the list goes on and on, yet the FBI never did any investigating. As the movie Hacking Democracy (http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/) shows, DieBold (http://www.diebold.com/default.htm) is continuing to make and sell a voting machine that can be hacked in 10 seconds, which has a program on memory cards and which uses a database with no logging system (MS Access) as the system of record for the voting database. Yet, the FBI does not investigate. Perhaps on the Diebold voting machine issue, the head of DieBold’s promise to deliver Florida for Bush in 2004 may have had something to do with the FBI’s lack of interest. These are “real” instances of voter fraud and voter suppression, not some easily correctable and non-issue like the ACORN affair. This brings up the question of how the FBI chooses its cases. As the Elliot Spitzer investigation and the ACORN investigation point towards, the FBI is about investigating things that give the current administration a leg up on the competition. Illegality is an almost incidental concern at the FBI, political patronage and scratching the back of concentrated power their first priority. Hollywood might want to consider this when the make their next FBI movie that shows the Bureau doing things that help protect the general public.
Why So Many Clones?
When interacting with people its hard to come away with the popular conception….that people are actually coming up with original ideas or thinking for themselves. We are several decades into the implementation of the concept of a broad based educational system where large numbers of people receive bachelor degrees. However, independent thinking is not showing its face very readily. Large swaths of the population seem more interested in buying things than leaning anything and the amount of money one has is considered much more important than what one knows. Furthermore the situation at least in the US is getting worse.
Ant Societies
This brings up the topic of ant societies. In ant societies, as with human societies there is a high degree of coordination and specialization. Unlike apes, ants and termites are able to implement great construction projects (considering their size). This requires a total subordination of the self. For instance there are ants of the Honey Pot species that store their food in ants. They distend their abdomens and hang from the ant chamber walls. Obviously a strong degree of conformity is required from these ants.
You don’t want this ant taking an independent path
Interdependent Societies
Human societies are highly interdependent and require conformity and the following of directions. In ant communities the communication mechanism is airborne hormones or pheromones. While hormones are used for sexual courtship (i.e. perfume), while humans rely on verbal and written communication to direct and coordinate activities. The concept of a meme was developed by Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore and is essentially an “idea.” These ideas are used to regiment people’s minds “as an army regiments their bodies.” This is so the group can drive towards specific goals.
Who’s goals are being driven towards is an important consideration?
We think it is the goals of those with financial resources in the human societies and their goals are to maximize economic output and maximize their take of that economic output.
Benefits of High Conformity Societies
There are certainly benefits to high conformity and unquestioning societies.
- The Japanese, well known for their high levels of social regimentation, were able to push precision manufacturing to an entirely new level.
- The Mormons provided highly organized assistance to Katrina flood victims. This would not have happened if every Mormon doing the work questioned the objectives of the effort.
However, the advantages of high conformity societies only pay off if the goals are reasonable and sustainable ones. The inability to stop government supported income redistribution to the top 1% and the inability to place sufficient pressure on corporations which pollute the environment, or which lead to the US having 6000 intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles are examples of how conformity can fail.
Why Question?
Therefore, its unnecessary to question why people are clones, why they have so many unexamined assumptions and why they can’t “think” outside of their vocational area. They have not been trained or asked to think and any unusual or non-conformist thoughts are negatively reinforced. It is not surprising that so few can fight programming which starts at a very young age and moves all the way through university. In education simply becomes a way of providing vocational training and indoctrinization, the old idea of an educated populace will not get us to a situtation where the population has independence in thought.
