In a Sensible World...
A sensible world would be much different.
We wouldn’t be so gullible as to fall for tricks, scams and swindles so much, of course.
We wouldn’t have to adapt to, and embrace, insanity.
Thwarting Continuous A.I. Hype
People would make an effort to stay informed about things like “A.I.”
They're pushing it as part of a plan, and part of the plan is an excuse to take away people’s jobs. As we've proven previously, there is no limit to the jobs (whether there is “A.I.” or not). This is one of those things that has trouble ascending to the conscious of people, so we'll repeat: there is no limit to the jobs. As long as there’s one person is in want of one thing, there's a job to do. And the more we have, the more jobs to be done. For example, the roads and bridges and other infrastructure need repair/maintenance and expansion. Why do those jobs not get done?
They cut credit and make small employers life a living hell. Large corporations are doing “mass layoffs.” They try to hide their machinations, partially shrouding them with aid of the new Boogieman/scapegoat, “A.I.” It's a source of real humor to anyone who has explored the technical aspects of this ruse, because we already know that the “A.I.” they tout – like ChatGPT – is just a hollow promise, ChatGPT being a disguised plagiarist. Now to be clear, this doesn't mean it doesn't have its uses, but it doesn't do many of the things they try to pretend it does.
On the automation side, we've also exposed the fact that there are still no general purpose robot mass-produced for public use, which exposes all their lies about automation. It's just not that advanced yet. And robot automation for factories comes at a fantastic cost and has to be repaired, programmed, maintained and updated continuously, not to mention the technical development that is ongoing. That doesn't just stop at the drop of a hat. It creates the need for an army of techs, programmers and engineers.
Nutrition
In a sane world, we wouldn’t sell candy mislabeled as children’s breakfast cereals. Frankenberry, Count Chocula, Cookie Crunch and Honeycomb are confections, not nutrition. Why aren’t these bastiches working to produce the most nutritious cereals possible (that still taste good)? There’s certainly a market, like, theoretically, the mothers who are so concerned with the health of their children.
We are now finding out that “foods” like that might well be called “poisons.”
There is a political resistance, of course, to improving this madness. It is policy that people are poisoned to keep them stupid, weak and without will. Mustn't forget that sugar is cheap (never mind that high-fructose corn syrup crap), and people’s taste sense has been damaged by excessive sugar in the diet. Over-consumption of sugar, artificial (and “natural”) flavorings and sweeteners and unnatural oils, like canola, (animal fats are the best fats, but they cost money), and MSG, just to name a few baddies, has unbalanced our interpretation of what “good food” is.
Competition – the race to the bottom – and lies from government and media about what makes up a good diet, make it more difficult to actually offer and sell a good and nutritious product.
In a sensible world, we wouldn’t believe the idiocy of dentists calling for mass water fluoridation, “to reduce dental caries,” because, of course, in their grand concern for us all, dentists want to put themselves out of a job.
A new shocker, is information about phony “vitamins” – they're synthesized from toxic chemical compounds, not natural things like fruits and vegetables. It's devastating. So all that “enriched flour” and things of that nature are simply poisoning us.
Lawyers
Lawyers would not be tolerated, in a sane world, and most especially, not judges who are lawyers. The lawyer function would be carried out by entities that we now call “private detectives” or “investigators,” because that's all you need, investigation of the facts for presentation in any dispute.
Insurance as well, would not be allowed in its present form, as a for-profit business.
Bitcoin
Financial site headline: “Is Bitcoin Going to the Moon?”
That article presents a wall of charts, graphs and techno-babble. We've discussed this ruse before: Simply complicate matters and confuse the public, if you want to “sell” something. Beyond a certain level of complexity, many become helpless to defend themselves. Then you tap into the ego of the rube. The sucker is confronted by a wall of charts, graphs and techno-babble, sucks out of that the idea that he can make a bunch of cash for nothing, suddenly thinks he's a financial wizard, and becomes willing to buy into the Bitcoin scam, and defend it doggedly.
In a sensible world, everyone would yuk it up about this foul scam. Anybody with any training and ability in logical, critical thinking, which should be most everyone, would see through it.
At the time of this writing, Bitcon price is on one of its upswings. That means those who control and manipulate it – but not the “bag-holders,” the simps who buy in using their own, actual, money – are doing one of their periodic harvests of those simps' cash.
We Wouldn’t Be “Never Satisfied”
It has always seemed that people don’t get mad when they should, but also, aren’t grateful when they should be.
In a sensible world, people would think more deeply, about the things that they should appreciate.
For example, you’ll hear landlords griping about bad tenants they’ve had in their rentals – and lots of tenants can be pretty bad, admittedly – but never do you hear anyone going on about how good their tenants were, and some must be.
The real world really doesn’t make us happy – or unhappy – it really is all inside.
Is it wrong to say that people would be much more content and productive if they just realized how many things were falsehoods or deceptions, and acted accordingly? Of course, most people, it is said, want to live in a state of ignorance, because “ignorance is bliss.”
People, it is also said, don’t want to know the truth, because it upsets them, weighs on them, and makes them feel uncomfortable.
A couple of points. First, if they “don’t want the truth,” they already must know the truth, to some degree, to know to shrink from it when it shows up, so the falsehood or “pretty lie” is weighing on them anyway.
Second, most people adopt the head-in-the-sand mindset, yet there is an epidemic of the use of psychotropic drugs, and psychiatrists (“shrinks”) are all over the place, despite that they never actually cure anyone. And all you need to do to be a big name and rake in the bucks is to become a “self-help” guru. If ignorance is such bliss... why this situation?
Advice
Trying to “convince” someone of something or giving advice is often a lost cause.
They say you can’t help some people. They state their problem and then you give them some advice and they don’t take it. Often, though, this is because they don’t state the whole problem.
We see this with some women now griping how, when they tell a man their problems, they don’t want him giving any solutions. Or, he's “mansplaining,” which is unwarranted because they already know everything.
At the same time, we run into countless women, day after day, blurting their unsolicited advice. Never mind the endless stream of Dear Abbys, Dr. Ruths and Judge Judys we put up with.
A man is supposed to say, “Oh, you will handle the situation well, as you always seem to do! You are very adept at social situations and clever solutions to these problems!” Just write it on the wall and point to it as required, to save yourself some effort.
There is also the issue, though, of someone truly wanting advice, but can't be satisfied, in an example of “not stating the whole problem.”
Maybe there's a problem, that for them is just too embarrassing to admit to, so they try a roundabout way to broach the subject which leaves the important details unrevealed. Maybe the problem is completely unsolvable — for that person — because the person’s internal restrictions are too insurmountable.
Internal restrictions are those things that inhibit your ability to solve problems, because you just can't face the solution as being a solution, since it is too hard to contemplate emotionally.
At work, perhaps someone doesn't want to confront problems, not wanting to “make waves,” instead resolving to hang on to collect a full pension. There’s a stress generator for you.
Any situation like that, where you go against your instincts, for some perceived gain, will cause stress.
Fortunately, there is some potential relief: Sit back and recite your problems to yourself. Write them down, and possible solutions, no matter how “wild,” or “out there.” You’ll likely find inspiration at some point, as you go through them and examine them for possibility.
Fake Science and Fake Medical Profession
We certainly would not tolerate nonsense like this, let alone worship it.
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine - Marcia Angell
The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness - Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet
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