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Aug 24Liked by Mathew Crawford

No wonder so many seeking truth end up trapped in webs of lies.

Thank you for putting this together.

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Aug 24Liked by Mathew Crawford

Good article, Trusting others applies to life and intraday trading.

It’s a lifelong struggle to throw off all the mind control being thrown at us. If you don’t know who or what to trust, talk with a STEM educated person, or talk with someone with fluency in multiple languages, and years of living abroad, about how to improve your own critical thinking.

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Sadly, even the STEM education field seems aimed at breaking down the minds of those pursuing rigorous thinking. The education war component of all this is very real.

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You need an old school disagreeable engineering/hacker type.

Modern "girls-can-code" front end devs don't normally have these powers.

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Aug 24Liked by Mathew Crawford

I have always said about myself (until going through solid trauma based therapy) that I should have joined the military or a cult. So in reading about the male female differences, I chuckled. It's true in my experience. I have since put away my self help books, I no longer need or join personal growth groups. I thank God I never went to Esalen (could have many times) and I am a solid individual who now thinks she is a conspiracy therorist! And thank God I am!!! I read part of this to my husband and he said about himself, he needs to join a cult. My response, never, you only trust yourself, you won't be accepted in! It all works out in the end finding another person to conspiracy with🤣. Love Crawford's work!!!!

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Aug 26Liked by Mathew Crawford

The narrative is getting quite cohesive! Don't forget about parasocial dunbar hacking, keep linking to it - to me its one of those golden puzzle pieces.

Decentralization and Disagreeableness seem to be pieces of a solution, I'm imagining something like github+blueprints for civilization.

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Agreed on parasocial Dunbar hacking. In fact, I am planning on soon writing a "Your Heroes Weaken You" post where I reference it and go into examples of how such wolves lead sheep to the slaughter.

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Aug 26Liked by Mathew Crawford

There are some really intetesting narrative tropes around hero, but I thought the hero’s journey was to lead us each to be the hero? Not get sucked into MOB GANGS

Tvtropes has some amazing stuff

https://peakd.com/hive-174122/@ecoinstant/the-hero-always-suffers

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fantastic piece of research man. Looking forward to the next segment

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Noli me tangere

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