Part 0 of “Do Ask, Do Tell”: Connecting the Dots” or “Keeping then Honest”
1. What I’ve done with my writings: “Connect the dots”.
2. What I want? Recognition for being “special” > “different”?
3. Demand critical thinking instead of meek following and pretended leadership
4. Use “inductive reasoning” based on own personal experiences:
5. Develop, “How should ‘specials’ behave?”
6. Station in life : assigned, mathematically implied, karma, meritocracy
7. I was good at content production, indifferent at providing for others , plays out differently today than during coming of age (sidebar)
8.
Individuals must
start out by fitting into home groups and then may migrate
9.
“The People” (or “A
People”) matters
10.
Groups may be vertical or horizontal
11. Authoritarians want to manage station In life to maintain stability, because+ world is unequal and perilous
12. Persons are expected to develop intradependence within the group(s)
13.
Call for sacrifice
and bullet-taking otherwise others
make sacrifices in your stead
14.
For
individual, sacrifice is what it is, and cannot be presumed to be
honorable
15.
Groups gain
advantages from conflict or competition with other groups, and
individuals inherit the benefits or losses (or privilege).
: karma
16.
Don’t pimp
victimhood; getting back up starts with you (“blaming the victim”)
17. Mandatory
personal altruism does tend to reduce total inequality and promote stability
18. “Jesus first, others second, me last” is a Sunday school slogan, but we were less generous
outside family in the past than today.
19. Selfishness is necessary for
innovation and gradual rise in common standard of living
20. Sacrifice is necessary for change, and sacrifice bears on station
in life
21.
Two levels of
personal morality: contribution, and harmlessness
22.
Need to belong,
easier if parent ;
brotherhood
23.
Social capital is compulsory;
24.
Rightsizing (or
deservedness) of people promotes stability
25.
But Rightsizing can
also be associated with bigotry (or moral “dark energy”). (or Bullying)
26.
Contribution
requires risk-sharing and vulnerability
sharing (opposing cowardice)
27.
Resistance or protest is sometimes necessary
28.
Vortex or moral
low-pressure: Virtue can
invite sadism
29.
“Natural social capital”
(even “Natural family”) hides the moral
vortex
30.
Balancing these
factors leads to personal integrity and
proxy for equality
31.
“Groups” (especially
families) may have distributed consciousness and provide vicarious immortality.