Det finns många i denna värld som inte kan urskilja Nazister från normala människor
Det finns många i denna värld som inte kan urskilja Nazister från normala människor
This is how you do it. Classy all the way.
Every American should read this book
I feel your fury and depression. The sad, tragic fact is that the Republican Party is a far-right party that uses classic mind manipulation techniques on American voters. This mother, and millions of other people were indoctrinated. They are completely irrational and need de-conditioning.
A functional egalitarian political movement may emerge in America from the ignorance and depravity of the Trump era, but it will **not** be led by the Democratic Party as it exists today.
The same goes for judges, prosecutors and lawyers and other professionals; self-regulatory agencies are not just inadequate, they are inherently maladaptive. In functional democracies it is rare to come across incompetent doctors, lawyers, police and other professionals. In the US it is a feature.
As an immigrant from a nation with functional regulation and oversight of doctors and medical professionals, this says everything one needs to know about why there are so many incompetent and seriously disturbed doctors and medical professionals in the US.
The Democratic Party has failed Black Americans and the American working class in general
open.substack.com/pub/wealthfo...
Both political parties support the same dysfunctional system of power. One is honest about it. The other is not.
The Democratic Party's Betrayal of the People
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You don't have a fascism problem and a democracy. You have a single maladaptive hierarchy with two management styles. Until you see that, you'll keep losing to people who at least understand what system they're fighting for — even if what they're fighting for is dominance.
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So stop asking Republicans to "come back to decency." Start asking your own party why it has never — not once — delivered the institutional infrastructure that every actual egalitarian democracy treats as baseline. The answer will tell you more about American power than anything Trump has done.
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Trump didn't break American democracy. He revealed what it structurally is: two parties competing to manage a vertical, patriarchal, imperial institutional template — one inherited from Rome through London through Philadelphia. Neither party has ever proposed replacing that template.
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The Democratic Party doesn't oppose the hierarchy. It auditions diverse candidates to run the hierarchy. There's a difference between putting a woman or a Black man at the top of an imperial structure and dismantling the imperial structure. Dems keep celebrating the first and calling it progress.
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If the Democratic Party was structurally egalitarian, it would have delivered universal healthcare, childcare, paid family leave, and public education funding decoupled from property taxes. Every Nordic country did this decades ago. The Democrats had sixty Senate seats in 2009. What did you get?
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The ACA wasn't universal healthcare. It was a market-based patch that preserved the insurance and pharmaceutical hierarchy while extending its reach. Obama didn't restructure American power. He diversified the faces at the top of it. That's not egalitarianism. That's brand management.
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Democrats keep asking "how did this happen." Wrong question. The right question is: why do you think your party was ever the opposition? Both parties manage the same vertical social dominance hierarchy. One is explicit about it. Yours just has better manners.
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The Commanding False Self doesn't just project onto technology such as LLMs. It loves the projection. Because it provides yet another surface for the illusion of understanding without the discipline of self-observation.
The question was never "is AI conscious?" The question is: are you?
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The policy consequence matters: every hour spent debating whether an AI "has values" is an hour not spent examining whose values are encoded in the training data, whose interests the deployment serves, and whether the humans making decisions understand their own psychology.
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An LLM has **recorded** the surface structure of the storytelling mechanism without any of the substrate.
No real identity. No relationships. No developmental history. No microbiome. No death. Pattern completion is not personhood. Human or machine; a false self cannot learn or teach.
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If Western STEM education included evolutionary biology and neuroscience as core requirements — if graduates understood that they are multitudes held in provisional coordination by a storytelling mechanism that natural selection stumbled into — this projection would break at the root.
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Not because AI models have a self. Because the observer's Commanding False Self cannot conceive of coherent language without a self behind it.
The projection is instant. Unconscious. And culturally reinforced by every headline that says an AI "said", "decided" or "felt."
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Now watch what happens when this culture — one that doesn't understand this about itself — encounters a technology that produces coherent language.
Coherent language is the signature of the false narrative self. So the observer recognizes the pattern and completes the attribution automatically.
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Many psychological traditions identified this centuries ago. What's called the Commanding or False Self is precisely this narrative mechanism when it becomes self-reinforcing. It doesn't just coordinate — it colonizes. It mistakes itself for the whole. It seeks confirmation, control, continuity.
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The felt sense of a unified "I" making choices is a post-hoc narrative. A specific neural mechanism. It evolved not because it's true and real, but because an organism that tells itself a coherent story coordinates its subsystems more effectively in social environments.
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Here's the biological reality: you are not a unified self. You are a colony. Trillions of microorganisms shaping your neurochemistry. Competing neural subsystems. Multiple memory systems with different evolutionary ages. Hormonal states that literally change what "you" perceive as real.
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A major magazine ran a piece describing an AI as "torturous," saying it "decided" it was "prepared to die on this hill."
This is not journalism. It's projection. And it reveals something important — not about AI, but about us. And particularly about Western intellectual/cognitive capacity today.
I was told that it's not constructive to call Conservatives Nazis when they are speaking and behaving like Nazis
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Stop asking the Democratic Party to do better. Start asking why it was never designed to. Then redesign it. Start in your own community.
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The question is not whether the Democratic Party can be saved. The question is whether enough structural disruption exists in the base — women, knowledge workers, younger voters — to force institutional redesign before the same old hierarchical control architecture reconsolidates.
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The unprecedented transfer of wealth to American women — inheritors, entrepreneurs, professionals — coincides with the collapse of hierarchical coordination. This is a narrow window of opportunity. Structural reform is possible. But the window will not stay open.