Knowledge III Flashcards
Superior Man V
Woman will always distract you. This is their role.
Feminine energy isnt that great at masculine tasks, so dont expect it to be. Woman you cooperate the best with in life tend to be woman you dont really burn for sexually.
Would sex with multiple women or would relationships serve your purpose better
A woman doesn’t want a man who gives up his career/passions for her. She wants to know that the man will go on. If you go after a woman who doesnt want you and move your core toward her, shell move away from you. You have no core. You have no purpose.
Your track record in the past means nothing. Actions and words must be align right now.
When you make a mistake. Apologize. Move on. Dont collapse in your weakness. Focus on NOW. Dont talk about your problems unless you’re trying to help yourself. It doesn’t help her. She’s not your therapist.
She recives love through energy, not through ‘action steps’
Egypt | Debt 5000
Didn’t have interest nearing debts for most of it’s history.
Money arose as a means of account. Very rich and self contained and centralized.
Mutual aid between neighbors was very common. Debt slaves was not common at all.there wasn’t any interest.no evidence debt reached crisis proportions like Mesopotamia.The debtor could be taken to court and was beaten if he didnt pay. He had to promise to pay by a specific date.
720 - 715 BC Bakenranef - He felt it was absurd for solider to be hauled away to debt prison when he is about to fight for his country. There is more evidence for markets but not much. By the time of the ptolomys amnesties had been instituted.
Slavery in ancient Egypt was established in the New Kingdom (1550-1175 BCE). Discussions of slavery in Pharaonic Egypt are hindered by the complicated terminology used by the Egyptians to refer to different classes of people with limited freedom; these terms also changed in meaning over the course of dynastic history. Interpretation of the textual evidence of slaves in ancient Egypt is indistinct and has been difficult to differentiate between “servant” and “slave” by word usage alone.[1] There were three types of enslavement in Ancient Egypt: chattel slavery, bonded labor, and forced labor.
Ancient Egypt was a peasant-based economy and it was not until the Greco-Roman period that slavery became a greater impact. Slave dealing in Ancient Egypt was done through private dealers and not through a public market. The transaction had to be performed before a local council or officials with a document containing clauses that were used in other valuable sales.
Many slaves who worked for temple estates lived under punitive conditions, but on average the Ancient Egyptian slave led a life similar to a serf. They were capable of negotiating transactions and owning personal property. Chattel and debt slaves were given food but probably not given wages.Masters were forbidden to force child slaves to harsh physical labor.
There is a consensus among Egyptologists that the Great Pyramids were not built by slaves. Rather, it was peasants who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work in their lands
Several departments in the Ancient Egyptian government were able to draft workers from the general population to work for the state with a corvée labor system. The laborers were conscripted for projects such as military expeditions, mining, quarrying, the building of pyramids, and other construction projects for the state. Forced laborers were paid a wage, depending on their skill level and social status for their work. Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state. Conscripted labor was a form of taxation by government officials and usually happened at the local level when high officials called upon small village leaders.
Superior Man II
What is my purpose?
How does my Purpose integrate to help purpose?
What is spiritual purpose? Meditation or feeling at a fundamental level apart from change. Feeling your deepest self. Just being.
Choosing ways of making money that are not aligned with your purpose is a mismatch
Who would you be if you if you wanted to die complete? What would need to happen?
Divorce your purpose from the changes of your mind. Your female will see you flipping and flopping and not expressing your fundamental purpose. The depth should always stay the same.
Give up trying to resolve the feminine into a masculine form. The feminine, you mind, your partner, is change itself. You have to just accept that. Don’t let it affect your masculine form. Embrace her dance in love.
Keep your eye on the prize at your deepest core.
Men Big Data
Men- 16/ top 100 top searches are for incest. Mother is high. Teen
Most men - Search Babysitters.
Teacher/ Cheerleader is always top 4
Men Google their dicks more then any other body part and they ask. Men Google it 107× more than women.
Most common search about liking gfs boobs
Men make just as much searches about sucking themselves then as giving their partner oral sex.
“People who are wasteful and out of job because they’re really lazy dont deserve money. this was the situation during the great depression with plenty of fields and mines and restaurants but because of some physiological hangup that money is real and people must suffer to get it. The purpose of the machine is to relive you of that suffering. We need to change the physiological attitude to money and to wealth. we have to get the message across to the general public that money isn’t real. “
Watts
the first truly divine theory of money-creation | Debt 5000
Speculation on everything money increased and citizens were encouraged to get involved in speculation themselves with 401ks and homes mortgages. Credit increased to make up for the missing wages. Regan breaking up strikes and attacking labor showed All deals were off .the bank regulates money in circulation to promote artificial scarcity. 1980’s Usury laws (that limited 7-10%) were overturned by act of Congress and lobbying became legal.
Such effusions inspired evangelists like Pat Robertson to declare supply-side economics “the first truly divine theory of money-creation.
The chief cause of bankruptcy is catastrophic illness. If one doesn’t have a car one cannot work, going to college saddles most with debt with half their life. Debt peonage becomes something allegedly what everyone has. Capitalism is a system of power and exclusion. When things crash there are oil shocks.
Marx
Capitalism has crisis inherent in it. Labor is source of profit > machines are produced and take place of labor > system creates corrections so cost of goods decreases so workers can still buy things > the rich will switch to using financial markets for risk averse investor’s.
Marx thought capitalism would collapse in the 1800’ s but they underestimated the power of capitalism to mutate.
Marx thought that labor would make people. Professor William losonic showed factory life created factory culture. Marx thought that the workers would rebel because they didn’t have resources. He was wrong and instead this culture created self education meetings, co-op store’s, self education, book shops etc. He was wrong to think automation would destroy skill and working class could not produce enduring culture. (Most data came from England 1848). He was right about capitalism but was wrong about what the workers would do.
Gregories Keely -Canadian barrelling–They had tons of unions, Masonic handshakes, own their own tools, controlled output to keep wages up, had oaths , rituals and would all take blue min(hungover days) off.
Jesus and Female and Male
Salvation represents overcoming divisions. Female should not be separated from male. We should be fully integrated
(22) Jesus saw some little ones nursing. He said to his disciples, “These little ones who are nursing resemble is those who enter the kingdom.” They said to him, “So shall we enter the kingdom by being little ones?” Jesus said to them, “When you (plur.) make the two one and make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below, and that you might make the male and the female be one and the same, so that the male might not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye and a hand in place of a hand and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image - then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Old Generations
Globally old people are living longer. They don’t work and need healthcare. Smaller workforce. Lower growth. Global situation is bleak.
Government debt will shoot up. S&P unless governments slashed pension liabilities by 2050, their debts will sink the world. China, US Japan and most other developed nation’s are in the same boat.Median net debt of developed counties will still be 220% of GDP by 250. America’s will increase 3xs. Japan will be 500% as opposed to 250 now . By 2050 60% of all countries will have junk bonds and will be unlendable.
Ireland and Slave girls | Debt 5000
The human economy was calculated in slave girls and money wasn’t really used except for compensation. In Ireland slave girls were used as currency (slave girls -kumals or ancillae). This was usually used for paying fines and for gifts. Those who had the highest degree of honer were like gods. Everyone had an honer price. If they were offended you would have to pay their honer priced. They often wouldn’t trade actual slave girls but would have to pay 21 cows or 21 ounces of silver. Kings honer were worth at least 7 slave girls. Any man who allows himself to satirized, a king who works field, a king who murders his relatives etc lawyers could demote him and he could have a smaller honer price. A women had 1/2 value of a close male relatives unless she was and independent land owner and if she was a whore she had no honor. Slave girls stop changing hands before 600AD due to influence of the church. Though in wales, a very similar code if someone Injured a bishop his closest women will become the lowest level slave(washer women). This was the greatest dishonor, seeing your mother or sister become a washer women.
People want to work less
1800- 60-70 hours a work. No free time
1791- carpenter in Philadelphia went in strike for 10 hours a day
1916 -Addamson act. 8 hours for railroad workers
1937- Fair labor standards act made 8
2011- 11% reduction of total hours reduced. 34 hours of paid labor a week.
Median wage rises. People are making more money so work less. When we make enough we don’t work as much and so more to make ourselves happy.
Use stocks and bonds to disperse earnings.
Social security is a black box. We have no idea what the government is investing on our behalf. The government should give us “stocks and bonds” to portfolio of people who volunteer for elderly or mentor troubled teens. The shares vest overtime. We could invest in our own neighborhoods.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pays. Who will now teach him a lesson?
When trying to pull out of Vietnam - south Vietnam nationalist wanted fighting to continue because they wouldn’t be able to beat the communists in government.
There should not be one law for America and one for the rest of the world.
The civil rights movement shows non violence is the way to go.”violence is absurd against the US. “They are experts at violence.
One must not be forced into civil disobedience. Resistence is a moral responsibility.
No army ever lossess a war. The all knowing general are stabbed in the back by civilians
but where for Smith, the division of labor is actually an outgrowth of our “ natural propensity to truck and barter” in pursuit of individual advantage, for Tusi, it was an extension of mutual aid | Debt 5000
but where for Smith, the division of labor is actually an outgrowth of our “ natural propensity to truck and barter” in pursuit of individual advantage, for Tusi, it was an extension of mutual aid : Let us suppose that each individual were required to busy himself with providing his own sustenance, clothing, dwelling place and weapons, .first acquiring the tools of carpentry and the smith’s trade, then readying thereby tools and implements for sowing and reaping, grinding and kneading, spinning and weaving . . . Clearly, he would not be capable of doing justice to any one of them. But when men render aid to each other, each one performing one of these important tasks that are beyond the measure of his own capacity, and observing the law of justice in transactions by giving greatly and receiving in exchange of the labor of others, then the means of livelihood are realized, and the succession of the individual and the survival of the species are assured.
Once you start fro m the initial premise that markets are primarily about cooperation rather than competition-and while Muslim economic thinkers did recognize and accept the need for market competition, they never saw c competition as its essence87-the moral implications are very different. Nasruddin’s story about the quail eggs might have been a joke, but Muslim ethicists did often enjoin merchants to drive a hard bargain with the rich so they could charge less, or pay more, when dealing with the less fortunate.88
We took our system piecemeal from a very different system. This was a genuine free market not back by governments, police and prisons. It wasn’t people trying to gain advantage at any cost.
Nuer people| Debt 5000
South Sudanese tribe that shares everything with members in their camp. The children are strictly taught to share with others. With other tribes, will give other tribes wrong directions. They are forbidden to eat with enemies, but share most things with friends (except cattle)
The entire Nuer society is basically watching after each other, for example, as Evans-Pritchard noted that,“When one household has a surplus, it is shared with neighbors. Amassing wealth is not an aim. Although a man who owns a large herd of cattle may be envied, his possession of numerous animals does not garner him any special privilege or treatment.”
Slavery
Slavery only works based on violence because it is needed to rip people from their context.
Slavery only works based on violence because it is needed to rip people from their context.
Slavery across in china, Sumer, Rome, Judea (Niamaiah), Ireland (where slave girls were used as currency). A mans wife, children and sheep were considered in the same category as markets for slaves developed. It appears at the same time as money and markets. It arose in agricultural lands and spread around from these places. This can be seen as a start of patriarchal domination as well (5:38)
In human economies no person is equivalent to another. Money can never substitute for a person. A person could never substitute for a person. Slavery could only be possible by ripping a person from their context . It takes literal bondage to isolate so much from their Network (like say Atlantic slave trade)
Paul and the Bible
Was just writing letters to new church
Didnt know they would stand side by side with holy text
Biblioa - Greek for books (library of books) multiple perspectives
Apostles- lots more than 12. It just means representatives of jesus. Also people who Jesus appeared to people after his death. Mary Magdalene was an apostle. Catholic church suppressed this. Paul said Jesus revealed to him last because he was the least of his apostles implying the first people who Jesus appeared created a pecking order. They assumed marry was prostitute but there was no evidence of this.
Valentine - angelic male self and human female self. Jesus wanted to unite both sides.
No sources in Aramaic - just in Greek. Translations can be hainous
Isaiah- by his strifes we are healed. Could be about Jesus but maybe it’s about moses
New testament - means new covenant. Essentially the new deal that Jesus made with humanity.
Different Greek copies in from Byzantine came from about 200 300 ad and protestants after Martian Luther worked from 1500 sources and are still being corrected and changed today. Byzantium had just fallen to the Muslims so these scholars came to Europe in droves.
Copies of copies produced mistakes. Older sources are a constant quest to translate accurately.
marcion bible - shortened bible with just new testament.
Martain Luther - James , Jude and revelations where moved to the end because he doubted their cannon. He put apocryphal in their own section. The Catholic church disagreed but the luthers printing press bible was really influential.
John more spiritual. Synoptic gospels. Q is sayings of jesus
Paul wrote 7 letters to churches he founded. Thessalonians, Philippians, Corinthians, Romans, Galatians (paul is pissed because other Christian missionaries have told people they need to be circumcised when it was decided by the Jewish scriptures they didn’t)
ColossIans is debated
Ephisians, Timothy Titus where all from different writers then Paul.
Hebrews is debated
Socialism isn’t some system out of left field. Many of the greatest civilizations of earth have been socialist, the modern corporation only started in 1600 (East India Company) and quickly proceeding to commit genocide, invade sovereign territories and exploit workers during the industrial revolution.
In much of human history there was no such thing as ‘abject poverty” due to poor resource allegations. Many societies had a communist system where the government provided for the people which was paid for by taxes on farmer or laborers in the form of grain(in exchange for defense, roads, irrigation etc). Many, many, Anthropologist conclude time and time again that there was no such thing as barter and people would loan others in their communities anything they need to survive in exchange for mutual help. Barter is a myth created by Adam smith to sell his invisible hand idea. “The propensity to truck and barter on thing for another”, which historically untrue.
Egypt had government distributed grain in exchange for labor. Since the Nile flooded regularly there was a surplus. Free citizens had enough time out of the year during times of harvest, they were able to build the the great monuments of the world (not built by slaves, as Im sure you already know). In Mesopotamia people had little class distinction and grain was distributed by the priest, in Rome “Free bread and circuses” was part of the deal of being a roman citizen and they had grain distribution in the streets even up until the time of the goths (5th century AD).
The Inca fed one of the worlds biggest empires in exchange for labor a month out of the year. Similar collective agriculture existed in the Aztecs, where at the village level farming and resources was shared. Many native american tribes had no concept of private property and/or food before Europeans invaded. Is ‘wealth’ for a few better than the majority eating and the invention of starvation around the world? Before capitalist systems were forcibly installed starvation due to inefficient resource distribution was much less of a problem then it is around the world today.
We can use some of those socialist elements to improve our society. The same elements that have been used around world for 300,000’s of years. I think that’s humanities natural state. Instead of subsidizing the war machine, only made possible by by Boeing and lockhead-martian looking to make a profit by blowing people up, we could use that money to feed poor kids. We could use it to fund more science in universities and therefore fund innovation. We’ll need as much of them as possible if were going to save ourselves from global warming. We could pay those professors more and lower insane prices of student loans (which is another unsustainable capitalist model). We could use empty homes (viable space) to house people without homes. We could use surplus we waste every year to feed them, thus giving us more productive, happier citizens. Its not as if we don’t have enough. We have TOO MUCH surplus. We throw away billion of dollars of food every year in the US alone and its illegal to give it to the homeless.
People should be able to work less and enjoy the spoils of their labor. Machines and AI replacing are going to take care of that sooner than later, and unemployment will inevitably go up as more jobs are replaced. Were going to have to change the way we think about labor in relation to worthiness to eat.
Lots of things need to be changed in our generation if were going to continue the human experiment. If we don’t fix them soon there may not be a society left.
TED TALK: Why socialism is humanism.
Stratification of work Force
Bethlehem steel. Fredrick Winslow trailer- scientific management - pick up a pig (iron weighing 92 lbs) and walk. He studied who would do more and making them managers. Gave them raises based on how well they did this.
At another factory he laid of 70% of work force. Laid off smartest people who don’t work quick enough. He succeeded and moving brain work as far away from physical work as possible to prevent union trouble’s. He thought low skill worker resembled an ox more than a human.
Henry Ford - Ford did this next. Had a white collar elite. Production line hired low skilled worker who were mostly immigrants, young and didn’t belong to unions. Ruthless anti unions hiring.
At first they thought this would cause passivity and separation but really it caused people to learn more. They taught themselves philosophy and economics from 1910-1913 (The great unrest) Socialist parties grew.
High levels of repression happened to fight back. By WWI the worker movement was forgotten.
C2//
“That must’ve been hard”
“I’ll bet you were happy”
“I’m sure you were excited”
“Tell me more about yourself.”
“How did that make you feel?”
Newton II
The elites use the Roman system of divide and conquer to keep us apart. After the civil war the elite class pushed racism to separate white and blacks.
Violence should be used as a lost resort. The Panthers were against war. They wanted to pick up a gun to abolish war. Newton said it’s absurd to tell the Vietnamese to put down his guns against American.
The police use violence. The states uses violence by letting children starve.
We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people. We must not use the racist attitude that the white racists use against our people because they are Black and poor. Many times the poorest white person is the most racist because he is afraid that he might lose something, or discover something that he does not have. So you’re some kind of a threat to him. This kind of psychology is in operation when we view oppressed people and we are angry with them because of their particular kind of behavior, or their particular kind of deviation from the established norm.
One problem was they didnt really vent early members.
Slavery religion and debt in the Axial Age | Debt 5000
Markets emerged in the near east at least as a side-effect of government administrative systems. After a while it got entangled in Axial age warfare systems. that logic eventually came to conquer government itself. Philosophers start to see this and develop ideas to combat cold logic of living solely for profit. They align themselves with social movements and deeper spirituality. Everywhere these movements were first and foremost peace moments and morality. At first rulers ignored these movements, but then as their empires were in market crisis(since the military, slave, coinage wouldn’t work since they could no longer expand) they adopted these ideas as official ideas for their empire (Constantine, Ashoka, Wudi (Confucianism). Human sphere started to be separated ( Market Greed v Religious Generosity). Axial age religions ephisized giving and charity. Pure greed and pure charity wont work without the other. Cash money appeared and the religious came up to combat them.
Radicals say religion is only escapism. Peasants used to be able to get up and leave. They would defect for larger communities and outlaw slavery in their territories (Esines and Buddhism). Slavery faded as an institution(in later Europe it was seen as barbaric) , wars became less brutal (Chivalry, honor, etc).
Lenin
There is a line from- free market- monopoly and from colonization to global war.
In ‘What is to be done’ Working class is unable to understand its position in the marxist system. Socialist consciousness is to be bought from them from without. The labor union would have to be diverted from its moderate pathway and toward the seizure of power.” He argue it need an elitist party to lead them as a opposed to Marx who said it was the workers themselves. Lenin argued stratification had caused privilege of one class (Labor aristocracy)
Lennin thought Skilled labor division is a permanent condition that came from colonialism around the world.
Marx thought working class, skill would disappear through automation
Debating within religion
Clements and Orgin or Alexandria :Disagreements in religion are good. Because doctors and lawyers disagree do you stop going to doctors or lawyers? (Also burning house, more than one way to the finish line)
Revelation was from 100 ad (non cannon) most Jewish apocalypse books are very common.
It used to be that there were different types of Christianity, just like Buddhism or Hinduism. Justin marter started calling everyone else heretics. He said they were inspired by demons. He was eventually killed by Romans. He decided he was teaching truth and everyone else was teaching hereseys. Ironious picked it up afterwards . the Catholics were able to get everyone to believe the same thing. after the Catholic reformation sects were once again allowed.
Information tech
It started out that internet was a tool mapped onto capitalism. It was thought businesses would be able to control the spread of knowledge still before around 2004 But now we know that was wrong. Wikipedia and cryptocurrency prove this.Microsoft and Apple tried to control it for years but currently open source is getting bigger.
The first thing is the democratization of information. Less political propaganda and centralized opinions. It is increasingly evident that capitalism conflicts fundamentally with data value.
Reversing globalization at this point would mean getting out of fiat money, reversing credit. Counties won’t do that. Trade wars may even spill over into other more violent areas.
OECD report - French think tank - World grow will slow to 2.7% over next 50 years. Semi skilled jobs will become automated and eliminate middle class. Inequity will rise by 50%. Climate change will eliminate 2.5 off world GDP. Tech won’t increase work force productivity on it’s own. Income taxes will be useless on poor people who have nothing to pay.
Migrants - by 2060 us and Europe must absorb 50 million migrants each. without work force and tax base of the west will go broke by 2060 without them.
The highest educated generation must think of a solution.
Unforgiven - redemption
Anti heroes use the same tools as the devils to fight the laws of the world. The only reason he is better is because the people he kills are worse than him.
Belief is dead at the beginning of story.
To introduce Anti hero -
Introduce a false good hero..(talks like virtue but walks like vice)
Introduce Other minor anti heroes in Opposition
Accepts tragic rules of the story world until he doesn’t.
RIGHTS ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE GRANTED BY BENEVOLENT AUTHORITIES… TASK REQUIRE DEDICATED DAY BY DAY TO CREATE THE BASIS FOR A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY…
RIGHTS ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE GRANTED BY BENEVOLENT AUTHORITIES… TASK REQUIRE DEDICATED DAY BY DAY TO CREATE THE BASIS FOR A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY…
Death / Impermanence
Buddhism
Time is just based off of the previous moment. The illusion that You are one thing and not a process. Everything you eat is constantly in flux. You will not die and you were never born. When you die you become part of the universe and continue as part of something else.
Is there any connection between the molecules in your hand? Is there a really connection between galaxies. Its an exercise in perception. You can see yourself existing now or you exist as everything forever.
Masculine chivalry II
urn emotions and overtalking off.
We want to feel like the best somewhere. King of our castle.
Men are judged by who they are, what they do and how much they make. As a man, being able to provide is an important thing.keeping you and yours provided for helps you feel manly.
Protection and providing is a necessary part of being a man. Like my father, as head of his clan. Providing for the clan is an invention of society since agriculture. It may not be part of our primate brain but its a necessary part of today’s society.
Never out your value drop in her eyes. Always guard your position as a man. Don’t let decisions be dictated by emotions (ie. You can miss her but separate that from actions of begging for her back and not allow her to lose respect)
Wild men are in touch with nature. Sexuality flows from life and not just from women.They must understand ashes
From a woman : we need a women loyalty, gratitude, an sex.
We build gangs and country clubs around loyalty and support.
As a child some people are used as conductors for their parents. Women could become conductors for every boyfriend she has.
Don’t be controlled by emotions like men without fathers are. Real men don’t respond emotionally to situations. Stay calm and think it through.
Bushman | Debt 5000
There is a famous story about anthropologist giving a bushman a nice knife. Within a year everyone in the band used it and had been in possession of it. If a friend praises a possession it is most often given to the complimenter.
Debates
What kind of data would you need to change your mind?
HELP ME, understand why you believe this?
WHY NOT try this?
What if we found these assumptions wrong?
What would you do if you are in my shoe?
What makes that Optimal?.
depression | Big Data
40% fewer depression searches in hot climates than cold climates.
Form self betterment organization
Steps
Join ADS
Form self betterment organization
Write a book or several espousing Ideas. Lenin used different pen names to make it seem like multiple people were writing. Che’s was 300 pages (for more elite)
Make Internet videos espousing Ideas and videos representing the ideas (fyre festival, music video vibe. published from different parts of the world?) (for younger viewers)
Make a newsletter/ meme page and pay someone to write articles. Hire interns.
Take speaking engagements, as many as possible.
Do a nationwide tour founding sects in different US cities. (Marcus Garvey, Castro) College campuses.
Climb organization ladder, split off
Hacker network (Recruit at defcon), Street people (Che's farmers urban equivilant)? (Political division, hacker division, Information division) Vertical farms. One farm the size of a new york city block 30 stories high, could 100 people to have 2000 calories a day. Temporary carbon negative devices. Plankton sympathize (100 million tons of CO2, Iron fertilization ). Grow algae on buildings. Man made clouds to reflect sunlight. Government funding for batteries and solar panels. Wind turbines in the sky to capture more wind because their high up. Professor uri bromo created a way to trigger artificial photosynthesis (Coverts Co2 into 2 kinds of solar fuel) Everyone plant a tree. Test tube meat. (Demand for mean is rising globally. ) Ranchers are up in arms but fuck them, we need to live. Pay people to pick up trash and build roads like new deal (no more free prison labor) Create fake far right propaganda? Selfton delmar - English/German agent against the Nazis. He used 80% real news and 20% fake news to confuse Germans. Had a fake German character who pretended to be a Nazi but was actually produced by Britain. Would use sexual stories to catch attention then proceed to demoralize the enemy. He used fanfics about Germans with English girl to demoralize the enemies. (the counterfeit spy)
Financualization-Credit
Replaced stagnant incimes with credit
1999 repeal of gloss Steagall made it easy for invest banks to make money out of nothing all over the world. Mergers and acquisitions went crazy. The message was that the feds will always save us. In the 1980’s banks got
People bet on if you will pay on your contract and get paid somewhere up the chair (phone contacts, housing. Loans , etc) credit cards, loaned student loans, etc are part of everyday life. Financial instruments make Money without actually selling anything or providing any goods or services. From the 1980s onward the the name of the game was short term profit at any cost. Ti maintain this they ship jobs overseas and make money from loan interest.
This is a booming industry and as big as the service sector in the US. The fiction is that people can get the consumer lifestyle and American dream without wages rising.
2002-2006
Subprime lending 160 billion - 600 billion
Adjustable lending- became 48% ( start cheap and become expensive as times moves on)
Communism | Debt 5000
Many firms, families and engineers operate in communist ways. Though businesses are ran top down we are starting to understand specifically through tech companies hierarchy is bad for business. Bosses are out of touch and lower employees drag their feet. To each according to their needs and to each according to their abilities. Families, friends it would be sometimes absurd to ask for things back.
When bad things happen society people revert back to communist dealings. After September 11 and other disasters strangers work together. If the cost is reasonable enough, if the people don’t hate each other, and in a disaster we see a lot of communist dealing. In smaller communities where there is less social division sharing is a lot more common. Many communities even charge the poor less in their shops. (Thats why most people in the hood are from different ethnic groups)
We may buy a friend a beer, but don’t expect the same food back. Same with food. Why would one throw a party and foot the bill and expect no party back. There is no one for one exchange here. This works mostly with people of similar status.
Competitive gift exchange was huge in the modern world. Celtic story from a greek source talked about two raiders Agel and Inder who exchanged gifts competitively. They would sit together and compose poetry until one day on gave the other a magnificent old shield. When the other saw this he thought he may have to kill him in order to perserve his honer.
Baseline communism seems to be our natural state. Its the ground of all social life. Transformation
People would borrow freely but eventually people would would give back freely. But once money began to develop people knew the value of objects and how much it would cost to buy or rent that object. They would see each other as a way to make this profit.
What is different between interest and returning a gift that is worth slightly more? One was repugnant and one was expected
Great founding myth of economics. | Debt 5000
it is a legend passed down from one professor to another. Aristotle said in his treaty on politics. He said families must have produced everything they needed and eventually specialized but wasn’t clear as to how. Adam smith said property, money, markets predated governments and were the foundation of society and therefore governments only exist to protect private property.
“What is the basic of economic life? A certain propensity in human nature. The propensity to truck, barter and exchange~ animals don’t do this ~ humans will try to seek “. Incendentlly truck and barter was a synonym for bamboozling ripping someone off 100 years before smith was born (Same with equivalents in french, Spanish, German and Portuguese)
He argues division of labor and money in inevitable though cant really understand native American systems.
In barter view, life is neatly decided from marketplace Where you do whatever you need to get your hands on others goods and family/home/festival life.
Secret handshake
Salsa
Slap hands
Merge Sets
Secret handshake
Salsa
Slap hands
Merge Sets
Wage labor | Debt 5000
Renting of our freedom as slavery is to sale. you can alienate your liberty temporarily, and the violence has been pushed out of sight.
We own ourselves. How can we own ourselves like houses, cars, or furniture? This is based on Roman notions of ownership. But how could we own ourselves? We are owners and slaves simultaneously. The usual solution is that our mind owns our body…but that just kicks the can down the road because then how do we own our minds? Modern cognitive scientist renders this non-sensical
Q4) Comes out of crisis with with corrected
Philosophy and comes out with a corrected goal. Philosophy finally changes. They need to become proactive( except in very rare cases).
Its great to have an unexpected timeline moved up or knock the hero off balance for final excitment.
Q4
Political Shaka II
This system creates more criminals. It does not make less
Drug enforcement is population control for blacks and Latinos
All financial incentives for law enforcement to arrest our people must be removed
Federal grant money for drug enforcement must end.
Give as much money for more public defense as to prosecutors. Meaningful re-entry important.
Drug health should be accessible to everyone
Drug property forfeiture laws must be revoked.
Concentration of enforcement in poor communities must cease. Change culture of law enforcement and stop treating communities like occupied zones. They must treat them as people and humanly.
Do you think were spending too much or too little on assistance to the poor(instead of welfare)
Communist/ black panther/Leninist - ex military personal is great because they know leadership and combat.
Central committee Leadership roles Finance Prime minister Culture education Defense Chief if staff Foreign affairs Communication Need music? Activities? Give business tax credits for providing food, health
Muhammad insist in mystery.
Muhammad insist in mystery. The sublime is absolute and unintelligible to our understanding. Like string theory. Despite out tentative grasp we won’t get it.
Every character - The lie your character believes. The wound they have, why they believe it. Blaming themselves for the wound (like kal or Ang) is even more compelling.
Antagonist should Belive a lie too (Joker - people are fake and chaotic) this create differences in ideologies. The antagonist should compete with the character on similar themes
The lie your character believes
People don’t start out liberal and become conservative. | Big Data
People don’t start out liberal and become conservative.
Popular democrat/unpopular Republican will imprint on 18 years old. (14-24yo)
1941 Greatest - Dwight D Eisenhower Rep
1946-1954 Boomers- Kennedy, Johson, Nixon
1965-1982 Gen xers -
1983-2000 Milennials- Bush, Obama, Trump
Migrant Crisis
Half of all projected growth from now to 2050 will take place in africa. Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, And India/US.
Either poor countries must become richer poor people will come to Rich countries.
Global Elite are in denial.
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Boomers are used to Market Solutions or Violent solutions for every problem. Climate change, healthcare, elderly crisis cant be solved by these.
We need radical reform, in a bigger way then just occupy wallstreet.
Crowdfunding, Essays, Book, Film that points people to collective.
Dialogue II
In prose, you could just tell audience. In scripts you can’t.
Put exposition into conversation. Seduction, fighting, teasing, w.e
3 Actions - mental, physical and verbal action.
Mental - longer in books. Chanes thoughts.
Physical - important for screen. Shows mental state.
The unsaid pushes these actions. In the subtext of a conversation
Dialogue- what characters do to each other. What do the want out of this situation. The unsaid are what the characters don’t say.
Unsay-able deepest desires. Maximum pressure shows this. What is your characters deep wound?
Only psychopaths have text and subtext always in sync.
Labor used to try to push down long days and hours per week. We gave up on that after WW2. When people think of work reduction they think well have to give up trappings. That may be alittle true but the we could save money on communicating, baby sitting so forth. Many would probably choose to work less given the choice.
John Maynard Keynes thought we would be working 15 hours a week by now.
There is lack of damand for labor now. We buy less shit because we don’t have enough money.
Liberals falely claim education will save us all but we need to concentrate more on class warfare politics.
“Capitalism will transition into devolve into barbarism” - Luxembourg
We need to figure out what our meaning is of it isn’t work (Kurt vonnoget short story about factory workers). We need to untie ourselves from work as our actual meaning in life. Men will feel useless (maybe unlike female counterparts). Men want to feel useful even if your job isn’t actually useful
Marx said - labour wouldn’t become means of life but lifes prime want (this could just be activity we find fulfilling)
John Maynard Keynes - (economics) for our grandchildren. He talks about after work is abolished well have to face mans real problem. What to do with all of freedom?
German study -Unemployment isn’t inherently unhealthy or unpleasant. Retired people are more happy than unemployed people.
Some things don’t need to be automated. Some people like being nurses or even a barista could have a few people there to socialize.
Labor reduction
The rich and the poor have the freedom to sleep under the bridge at night. By such arguments the poor and week were seduced.(essentially freedom is a way to compel the poor to were chains. We could all get rich, right)
Anatoly Franz
Orisha Prayer
I give thanks for all of my ancestors who were (African). I asked for peace for all my ancestors who were slaves. I ask light and blessing for all my elevated ancestors whose names I do not know.
Apprentice yourselves to your ancestors and have them teach you about the skills hidden in their Gene’s you inherited. Get to know the spirits of your lineage.
Start simple, move slowly but steadily, be yourself, find the soul of your people.
Strongest force we wield is choice and change. Our control is power. We choose and re choose what leads us on our paths
Rebirth we choose our path, orisha that will guide us. We stop at the tree of forgetfulness before heading to earth. Our life is remembering our rebirth choices
Money
Money is not from barter. Most old societies used trust.
Money is and always has been an IOU from the state. Its value is not backed by anything but government trust. It is just run by belief.
Aristotle Eudimania
Eudimania / Greek philosophy that says you should love your purpose( Dharma). Know your purpose and follow it.
Searched for highest good. Said that pleasure was only good for cattle, honor is confered on you by honers, wealth is only a means to something else, excellence can be squandered easily.
We have to look for what a human being is before we find our purpose. Everything leads to trying to be happy. Happiness is never a means to an end. Its the end in itself.
Kubrick
Kubrick
One point perspective
Hired Mexican daylaborors for grips
Sidelining dolly shots. He often uses them to show dancers in a dance hall until he encounters his hero.
Godfather- Tragedy / failing to change.
Clean non moving cinematography. Drew heavily on avant garde European styles. Darkend darks and shot scenes like a painting.
Mafia don compared to ancient Roman god Jupiter . Zeus a dark god with unlimited power who murders and rapes to get what he wants. The godfather is the strong patriarch the world needs in the story. The movie starts by saying democracy has failed.
Tragedy begins and ends in a note of sublime power. Its cyclical and ultimately it’s a tragedy because the world changes Michael and not the other way around.
Michael is at conflict with his father. Michael was a marine and fights for democracy. His biggest fear is about becoming his father. He declares independence from the world but ultimately he can’t escape it.
Sonny(older brother) v Hegal(advisor) have two Different solutions after father is shot. They voice 2 parts if the fear ( too gangster v too busyness) this shows two fears and motivates hero to act.
solution
4/5 would have to be released from prisons to get it back down to 1970s level.
700,000 prison guards will lose jobs. They have powerful lobbies.
Private prisons fund politicians.
Private prisons are making a killing.
Mass incarceration creates more crime then it stops. Unemployables and ripping apart families.
Angela Davis- The prison system creates criminals. Criminals spread crime skills. When she was in prison she was tough how to steal by other inmates.most People commit crimes but only a few are put into the justice system. Programmed to be afraid of young black men.
Being in solitary - the only way to stay sane is to read and write.
Fruit of Islam
Fruit of Islam had a militia called nation of Islam but told them not to fight first. He used them to police the community and pressure the police to do the right thing. Always wore nice clean suits.started a debate team and read every book in the prison like library. Preached around the world to recruit
Biggest scandal of capitalism is there is nowhere that it didn’t start as slavery or forced labor. | Debt 5000
There is a through-line of capitalism always employing forced labor. There is a through-line of black slaves and tribe like Watato Native americas were forced to accept loans a gun point until they became legals slaves, and indentured servitude(debtors). Contract laborers mostly came from people who were debt pions.
Masculine chivalry V
Monogamy, specifically marriage doesn’t work.
Co-parenting may work? You get to keep your Priscilla and eat her too.you get family without the promise of exclusivity.
Polygamy, seems hard.I don’t want other men in the picture but if I don’t allow them she’ll find a way. Possibly off premises guys.
The promise of potential family is strong. Why? She wants to feel like the relationship is going somewhere because of the all important clock.
Dress masculine but always with a bit of the feminine to catch the woman’s eye
1919-1920 world wide decline
1919-1920 world wide decline
Bolshevik revolution. Seizures of factories in Italy, strike action bordering on insurgency in France and Scotland, strikes from Seattle to Shanghai.
Hungary - The workers couldn’t manage their factories. Varga(later worked for Stalin) , the works would sit around and try to democratize work and endure themselves to employees but that means nothing would ever get donel .
After the bulshivic took over using military conditioning in the factories and abolished worker control. Peasants refused to supply grain. They started central planning using central government
Workers control v central management turned out to be a big problem.
Capitalism had post war problems too. It was a near terminal crisis. The U.S. and Britain set interest rates to high, Austria /Hungary had huge debes. Germany had rapid inflation.But the goverment did stabilize them by 1920s. It eventually crashed and they had to fix it again.
Do the right thing - Alienation effect
This was a response. Driving miss daisy that glossed over racial history.
Never tells audience what to think. Gets them two opposing views that are both potentially right. Ends on a sour note that makes people think.
Starts with “wake up, wake up”,
Many Different characters opposed to the world like strangers in a strange land. There is no one hero. We all need to work together.
2 motives for fighting the same injustice in one character.
Circular subplots- this will all happen again unless
Bobby seale
There’s nothing wrong with being a cop. There’s nothing wrong with being a white person. It’s about where your heart is…We’ve got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
We don’t suffer on the hang up of skin color
There should be 2 levels of movement. Revolutionary and reformist. Revolutionary is just the raft. Reformist is the whole ship.
First you have to teach people they aren’t helpless. the slave must know the master isn’t god or indestructible
He ran for mayor of Oakland. Eventually they laid down their guns (we should use cell phones)
Eldridge Clever broke off against Newton after he was free. This was exploited by the media. Eldridge wanted to overthrow the US government. Huey wanted to concentrate on survival programs. They fought each other and it was exaggerated by FBI.
Russo on Freedom
“All ran to meet their chains, thinking they secured their freedom. Thus society as laws…Destroyed natural freedom for all time, established forever the law of poverty and inequality. Change A clever usurpation to an inalienable right. For the profits of a few ambitious men relegated the the entire human race to work, servitude and misery. Government tend toward arbitrary power as their corruption and extreme limit. This power is by its nature is illegitimate. New revolutions must dissolve the government all together or bring it to its legitimate institution.”
Russo want to see the original man. The essential property of man is freedom. Slaves being born slaves is not a natural state. Men should be born free(in a Satrian sense) .
Socialist ideas
Form self betterment organization
Write a book or several espousing Ideas. Lenin used diffrent pen names to make it seem like multiple people were writing. Che’s was 300 pages (for more elite)
Make Internet videos espousing Ideas and videos representing the ideas (fyre festival, music video vibe. published from diffrent parts of the world?) (for younger viewers)
Make a newsletter/ meme page and pay someone to write articles. Hire interns.
Take speaking engagements, as many as possible.
Do a nationwide tour founding sects in different US cities. (Marcus Garvey, Castro) College campuses.
Climb organization ladder, split off
Hacker network (Recruit at defcon), Street people (Che’s farmers urban equivalent)? (Political division, hacker division, Information division)
Vertical farms. One farm the size of a new york city block 30 stories high, could 100 people to have 2000 calories a day. Temporary carbon negative devices. Plankton sympathize (100 million tons of CO2, Iron fertilization ). Grow algae on buildings. Man made clouds to reflect sunlight.
Government funding for batteries and solar panels. Wind turbines in the sky to capture more wind because their high up. Professor uri bromo created a way to trigger artificial photosynthesis (Coverts Co2 into 2 kinds of solar fuel) Everyone plant a tree. Test tube meat. (Demand for mean is rising globally. ) Ranchers are up in arms but fuck them, we need to live. Pay people to pick up trash and build roads like new deal (no more free prison labor)
Create fake far right propaganda? Selfton delmar - English/German agent against the Nazis. He used 80% real news and 20% fake news to confuse Germans. Had a fake German character who pretended to be a Nazi but was actually produced by Britain. Would use sexual stories to catch attention then proceed to demoralize the enemy. He used fanfics about Germans with English girl to demoralize the enemies. (the counterfeit spy)
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Cheap money hangover.
Cheap money was used to fix cheap money. The disease was used to cure the disease.12 trillion dollars is fiat money was used in 2008 to fix economy.
Japan, US and EU all do this to stop short term economic downturns.
Fargo- Existentialism
Every animal thinks their superior or right. Everyone is gripped by rage to control. Its blind Darwinian struggle
Existentialist find meaning in their own lives and let others find their own meaning.
Marge is not in conflict(technically) because she’s existentialist who refuses to play animal game with the world of Fargo.
Delay marges entrance and making her a detective is helpful to make her an existentialist hero.(since she can’t act)
Start with a man with a pointless plan. Encounter another man with a pointless plan, sparking a Darwinian Battle of chaos. Add more characters with more pointless plans . watch characters spiral as the existentialist learns his own truth.
Modern Day | Debt 5000
Its a myth that credit is something new. This was likely the first form of interactions.
IMF warns second bailout would threaten democracy (Capitalism)
The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this morning. Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on public finances by the financial services sector would not be tolerated by the “man in the street” and could even threaten democracy.
Barter is such a ubiquitous system and such common sense that no one questions it. There is no evidence it ever happened and much that it didn’t happen . Adam smith didn’t have access to Native American economics books.
Stanley Jevens - who wrote definitive book on origins of money ignored actual native culture. He just took examples from Adam smith.
Period of Luminality
Period of Luminality- essentially a period like Mardi Gra or carnival where the normal culture is turned on its head. It allows humans to be back on the state if nature for a second.This brings community closer.
Another example is rights of passage. Men in fulbae become men when they have a circumcision ceremony. They are taken away from mothers, made to eat unclean food, bond, are circumcised, and returned back. When they return women are allowed to oggle the men.
Sambia -PuaPua New Guinea : segregated sides of houses. Men have clubhouse. Women have menstrual huts. They go there but there is conflicted evidence that the women may actually appreciate this time of the month.
They have initiation where they have ritualized homosexuality. They make them dance until They get got the edge of consciousness. They must suck off older boys in order to get semen to build up in the system. This is supposed to improve vigorously and warrior energy. There is a period of bisexuality.
They aren’t supposed to waste semen. Not so much sex and licking sap from a tree.
Jesus showed Over-piety is another symptom of selfenteredNess.
Jesus showed Over-piety is another symptom of selfenteredNess. They just want to look great instead of helping the poor
Sumarian History
6000 bc maybe earlier
Sumer- first settlers
Who were they? Not necessarily related to an ethnic group known. Hulof people.
Languages- not connected to others from surrounding cultures. Names of cities also not connected.
Ubiad - first people large enough to be civilizations. Irrigation . near city of Ur.
Small villages that proceeded cities.
Slowly towns became interconnected before they became one town.
The language started with pictocrams, then wedge writing to keep records. Also used to pass down farming knowledge.
Potters maybe first artisans. Made pots mostly for elite (priestly? Economic? Political?)
Ubiad settlement has one large house and many small houses. First monument
Uruk-
4000 bc. City of Uruk. Enormous city with dense population. It was twice the size of Athens
2000-5000 people
Diffrent from anywhere else in the world
Temples to Ishtar/anana earth mother and god of the sky.
No palaces, just temples.
Cuniform developed in 4000 bc
Used tokens(like runes) to communicate numbers and objects.
Most of the city states were uniquely governed had their own gods and saw themselves as individuals
Akkadians 2300 - 2100 BC
Sargon was the first emperor. He was an akkadian (akkad has never been found it was probably somewhere in Bagdad) Conquered uruk and put his daughter in charge of the priesthood to control religious side of city. His daughter composed songs to the gods making her the first writer in history.traded with indus river valley. New weights and measures.
Kings were buried with servants probably poisoned. Sargon grandson naramsim portrayed himself as a god and ultimately lost the south.
After the fall of akkadians, Babylonia emerged. Lagash emerged after the fall.
Natural hippies want humans to go back to nature. Nature never cared about us. Extinctions happened before we got here and will continue when we’re gone. Dropping off the maps and living in the woods helps no one.
The Anthropocene makes us consider how we can better get along with nature. We can’t destroy it but are still be humans. We could need a synthesis approach.
Nature v humanity
Marcus Garvey
Garvey traveled around the states starting chapters of the negro improvement operation.
Had a division for men and women.
Preached unity
Developed official songs and the pan African flag
Started a paper with poems, historical events, essays. Gave people overblown titles like barron of the nile.
Had uniforms made (the shortest man in uniform looks like giant)
Had elaborate rituals
People could join just by submitting a picture and mailing it into the office.
Bought a church building for his official headquarters and called it liberty hall.
Made many investment funds.
He wanted to teach success. He started many black business that would benefit people. Employed 100 people in Harlem. Unfortunately he hired people with little experience and moved money from one business to cover losses in another.
communication is changing from 1 to many system to a 1 to one system with the internet. We are looking at a wholesale disruption of a societal model. This age is different. Were all enmeshed in a global civilization fabric. If we drop the ball now we could permanently fuck up our future.
Jordan Greenhall
Chimps and strategy
Strength wins battles as much as intelligence. Chimps make alliances. Plot with females young and covertly mate to overpower a stronger male.
Movies decrease crime
Economist Dahl study that on a weekend where violent movie were release crime dropped notable. Young men most likely to commit crimes were in the theater not around other violent drinking young Men.
Nicholls screenwriter competition gets you noticed but only if you win. Austin screenwriter competition is also good
Dont send in scripts to agents. They wont read them. Fuck loglins.
Agents like to read second scripts and scripts with a voice
Meet someone who knows agents. Meet other writers who already have agents. Agents know other agents and know what’s happening all around Hollywood
They want want writers with more than one script, someone who is personable, and someone with an original voice (even if Hollywood won’t make it)
Agent Scriptnotes Podcast
Polarity of Ashe
Two sides of Ashe are active and without gender. life and death. not necessarily physical death. The orishas express these two contrasting sides.
Yimaiya - calm blue waters of south pacific/ raging tidal wave
Obatala - piece of mind and insanity
Elegwa - Open door and a closed one
Ouya - Queen of the cemetery /breath of life
Guns, Germs and Steel II
Farmers v hunter gatherers. Develop different diseases
Great ape disease/non crowd diseases - Infect hunter gatherers
Smallpox, leprosy, aids are all crowd diseases. Need millions to infect - Trade routes via the silk road spread germs. farmers spread feces and used them to grow food causing more disease. Measles came from cattles.
Tech develops cumulatively rather than all at once. This settled civilization can invent easier. It catalyzes itself
restrictive beliefs, capitalism and american individualism are factors that influence technology. Wars boost innovation but also destroy populations
In the middle ages Islam preserved the advances of the greeks and romans. They worked in concert with the europeans while not even being aware.
Lele people | Debt 5000
Raffia Cloth is made by men in the village. They are considered rough by neighbor but consider themself the clothes of the reason. The cloth is not used as currency outside the village and often used as gifts that flowed upwards. The elder would have the most and the clothes could be used to settle debts in the village.
If someone is killed they must pay a debt. blood debts are the foundation of their entire society. One person wanted to have as many pawns as possible. they were trading human lives and nothing could substitute for a human life. In practice human life meant ‘womens life’ This was not the same of slavery which was very patriarchal. Women could be born a pawn but could game the system. If she didnt want to be a wife, she could slip off to an enemy village and she could become village wife. Meaning she was protected by the entire village. New village wife were treated like princesses and were bribed and won over by the men of the village. She would have sex with all, then a few, then just one. Any children would be a collective child of the village and would be taken care of.
Lele in everyday life didn’t use enforce claims against another. Men would fight but mostly about women and not very often. They weren’t very many slaves but never very many at all. they were usually captured to be sacrificed at their funerals.
1) solutions are often counter initiative
2) high concept will always help you sell while character will always help you get through. People dont steel concepts because concepts are ephemeral
3) Audiences will always choose one protagonist to back. They will choose one they interact with. People will identify with on person per episode. Every hero must be active, resourceful, powerful and motivated.
4) Audiences dont care about story, only characters.
CGI Heavy Montages to start are usually signs of a flop.
5) introduce elements from hero’s point of view. We need to care about what the hero cares about. Introduce world from hero’s point of view and if you can help it try not to go-introduce characters.
If you switch to villains the should be negation of heroes philosophy. Or introduced in relation to hero.
6) it hard to get audience to care about a hero because they’re afraid of being hurt. Many audiences will tentatively put their hope in hero until and demand a lot from them. They don’t want to be lied to or have their heart broken by a character they cant connect with
Writing tips
Buddhism/ Heart Sutra
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
To understand ordinary reality, see Whats in front of you. You must experience the growing and changing of things while also seeing what’s in front of you. See ourselves was we are and not who we project.
Never let conception of the world overtake your raw perception on the world. We forget were all the same entity. We think the world revolves around us because we see the world as subject/object. We sometimes to get to See. Love as the dew drop.
To ignore the moment we live in is to lose reality. To live only in the moment and forget sequence is to loose meaningfulness of this moment. Mindfulness helps with this.
4 Noble truths
Life is suffering, desire causes suffering, overcoming desire stops suffering, path leads to nirvana.
1990s
Politicians from both sides competed to get tough on crime. Coded language to poor whites.
Bill Clinton- Said no one could perceive him as soft on crime. Flew to watch mentally impaired black man be executed.He enforced 3 strikes and your outlaw in 1994 state of the union address. 30 Billion crime bills that swelled police
Clinton escalated incarceration more than any other President.
TANF- 5 year lifetime limit on welfare. Ban for people using drugs including marajuana. Public housing was being used for prison construction. Public housing was slashed 64%. Boosted prison construction by 19 billion(171% increase). One strike and you’re out of public housing. Then they were denied right to vote.
After all that white poor still never had wage increase.
Law and order- glosses up what happens really happens in criminal justice system. There are more people in drugs today that were incarcerated for all reasons on 1980.
4/5 drug arrest are from possession. 1/5 is for sales. People have no violent history.
Were all addicts
Were all addicts looking for a fix because of our happiness. Sex, business, travel experiences. They provide fleeting rewards. So we should be mixing tranquility with our moments of victory. Chasing a high forever is no way to live
Supreme God in yuraba tradition. Hes unknowable
Olarun
Gospel of Thomas quotes
Do not fast or pray because what’s important is cultivation of your soul
Asceticism will help you
What goes into your mouth won’t defile you. What comes out of your mouth will.
Don’t lend with interest. Wealth is ultimately a distraction.
When you are naked without being ashamed you will see the kingdom
Gospel of the female disciple sallamae(who also appears in mark . observed crucificaian and found the tomb open) Jesus came to destroy the works of the female (all desire)
“How the fuck do you release a movie in in a year” Kubrick to Steven Spielberg
Kubrick
Ill recognize skynet issue when my computer can find my printer.
Andrew McAfee
Ashe
Oleroons magic from his pot overflows in this world. Its called Ashee and permeates every part of our world.
Everyone and Everything expresses Ashe differently. It flows through everything and works like karma where we express it in different ways.
There is no devil. We use our ashe for good or bad. Nature also uses its Ashe for good or bad. It is a neutral energy that is always holy.
Polynesia
Was the most distributed language group in the world before English
Very skillful settlers
They would load different types of seeds, animals and materials to different islands. The would shift course in a zig zag in order to find islands. There would be one navigator who would sit apart from the crew and would not sleep. they were honored as crucial. Navigated by stars and coulds that take different shapes over islands, and fish schools that lived in different waters. They would set up trading networks traded over 1000 miles.Hawaii Volcanic blades were found on islands 2400 miles away toaattu.
May have reached America.
Sweet potato comes from South America but was found in polynesia around 1000, Chickens are an old world animal but ancient chicken bones were found in Chile and carbon dated to 1300.
Energy | LIFE project
4% Solar - paneling .it produces toxic waste water. It contains cadmium that is a carcinogen.
More giga factories to produce more batteries.Elon Musk producing more lithium ion batteries. More absorbant solar panels that work more efficiently.
4% Waves and wind power. Floating windmills,
Nuclear - Nuclear is pretty safe. Used as a backup after solar, wind and water are exhausted. We only here about negatives like airplanes. 52,000 people annually died because of air pollution compared to 0 in the US.Waste is tiny. 81% of citizens who live next to plants supported it.
Geothermal depending on location.
C3//
Are you adventurous?
Almost Kiss?
A lot of women out there LOOK good, but the sad fact is they’re LOUSY in bed. They never had a reason to be good in bed, because guys will still want to sleep with them based on their looks.
Yes latter leading to a kiss
I think we should take it slow. I dont want to disrespect you tonight by having some crazy wild sex in a public place bathed in sunlight. I’d rather take it slow and get to know each other and maybe cuddle in a non-sexual way - We can enjoy each others company and get to know each other. For now, I’m glad we can have this vibe and that we like each other though. Dont you agree? (You can’t image negatives. Its impossible not to think about)
Toy story -Big Sympathy
shakespere for kids.5 act play
Deep human problem the script refuses to acknowledge
Two protagonist - like hamlet woody and buzz are of two minds.
Change The tone between comic and sympathetic narrator. Move back and forth between two characters with different tones.
On big soliloquy.
Mirror scene changes how characters feel between each other. The character needs to realize someone is exactly like them. They character needs to see reflection of himself in rival.
Plot Ideas
Long Form Betrayal - Roose Bolton, Ragnars brother
Double betrayal- make it seem like character will betray the hero, but in the end they betray the betrayer (Floki, Vikings)
Subvert Hero Trope - Red wedding /Oberyn Martel
Jealousy - loyal characters get jealous of success and plot
Unpopular decisions lead to rift in friendships
The returned soldier - Really turned or not? (Homeland)
Smoke the bad guy out - Lure bad guy out with something unrelated he wants whne the chips are down then strike (breaking bad)
Capsule episode - Characters resolve issues and bond (Glow dessert episode)
Put in simulation for interrogation
Character tires to killed themselves after a betrayal (SOA)
Competing leadership and bad team work loses army a battle. (Vikings)
Unexpected deaths - (House of cards, Jimmy Darmady, Gemma)
Affair - Huge fight, Physical fight, pregnancy, death result.
Tone.
What and how Narrator focuses on is where tone comes from. Where you point the camera and how is a way of how character focuses or how a god sees the world.
It can focus on big things, little things.
Gods eye- objectively like genesis. Only big things
Comic/Ironic narrators like Jane Austin compare big things with small things to make comedy.
Lowly- hick fin talking in slang. Shameless kids playing in toilet.
Sentimental narrators- ordinary material things of life that symbolize bigger things. Specific things through lens of character. nostalgia, sympathy, hope.
Which jobs to replace -
Look for high volume and repetitive tasks to replace.
Look for jobs that Don’t lean on decision making
Task requiring low levels of empathy.
Task hiring lots of Data.
Brass wall- you will be told its impossible.
Find the bottleneck.
Invest cautiously in the big waves.
Kaizen- small incremental improvements that slowly improves the whole.
Hits pay for misses.(just like in Hollywood)
Success is determined by putting your money on many different products. Manage a portfolio. Half if all investment dont make their money back. The more investments the better. Place mire bets.
Combine kaizen(small innovations) with blue sky (big) innovation
. Relation of a slave is not a social relation. Slave-owners might dress it up in all sorts of legalistic or paternalistic language | Debt 5000
Must be completely ripped from ones context. Relation of a slave is not a social relation. Slave-owners might dress it up in all sorts of legalistic or paternalistic language, but really this is just window-dressing and no one really believes it; . Its a relationship based purely on violence. He has no binding relationship with anyone else. He can be beaten tortured or killed. He is alienated from his ancestors, clan, community, city. Even if he acquires a family it can be broken up. It is a relationship of pure degradation.
For the ‘master’ honor comes from his his ability to strip honor from other people.
Slavery was the ability to degrade people and turned them into money.
Racism | Noam Chomsky
Capitalism doesn’t care about racism. They want all people to be interchange cogs. Producers and consumers.
School and the academic system turn kids into people who can only think along certain lines. Its not that their bad, its just that their part of establishment and they give only let people teach along certain lines. Harvard teaches intellectual to conform to cooperate ideas
Industrial revolution stated to from cotton and Britain destroyed India so that they would not compete. Cotton was the oil of the 19th century.
Americans broke up labor protest forcefully. slovely convinced people on farms that wave slavery was their natural state
Marcus Garvey II
He was shot 3 times and recovered getting even more followers. 1/4 million followers.
Called Africa for the Africans. There were 500 divisions of UNIA around the world in 22 countries. It was printed in Spanish, french and other languages.
Was tracked by hoover and the justice department. Hoover called he the Negro Moses. Hoover hired first black FBI agent in history to infiltrate his organization.
He called for blacks returning from WWI with army training which sounded alarm.
Tried to start a black star line that would let black communities trade around the world. Was betrayed by people who built ships who gave him 5x as much as the ship was worth. One worked for J.Edgar Hoover.
Had a convention with 1000 leaders of the organization from all over the world.
Supported Irish republican Army. Had delegates go to UN to argue for giving up african colonies to Africans.
Lost tons of money on the black star line. Mismanaged organizations by hiring inept people.
Defended himself in court, firing his attorney. Was charged with mail fraud. bad decision. He was deported. Assets were seized by the government and former organization members were destroyed.
Agriculture notes
At the time of Columbus the native Americans were the best farmers in the world
They saw wild plants going and decided to domesticated them. Grew enough food without large scale agriculture. It was a more chill life to be a hunter gatherer
Hunted wild goats then started breading them to eat.
Agriculture started people holding on to land. This is where ancestor worship started.by holding onto the land. Diseases also grew in the time of agriculture. More population more disease. Lowered infant mortality though..
Slash and burn agriculture was popular at first until the population started growing quickly and they couldn’t just burn down forest in Europe anymore.
2000 ad Polynesian cultures settled Pacific .
Gospel of Mary and Thomas
Gospel of Mary - talks about abandoning desire and passion. Sin is really just ignorance. Revealed things to Mary he didn’t reveal to other disciples. Dont lay down any rules or laws beyond this
Thomas and gospel to Mary both have debates between Peter and Mary about Jesus treating women as equal
Thomas represents the path not taken as obscure sayings, inner knowledge and not sin, forgiveness and the cross
Malcolm x rally In Harlem with Zanzibar revolutionary.
Dear brothers and sisters of Harlem. I would have liked to be with you and brother Babu, but the actial conditions are not good for this meeting. receive the warm salutations of the Cuban people and especially those of Fidel who remembers enthusiastically his visit to Harlem a few years ago. United, we will win
Have fashion uniforms developed as a symbol of professionalism
Dialogue III
Sub-motivation> motivation> excuse >
People make excuses to justify actions all the time. They may have to justify true motivations to others.
Even with cliché, use character specific language. Alabama - “ sweet bleeding Jesus” Detroit “Fking Christ”
Shun poly syllabus words.
The more emotional people become, the shorter their words and sentence.
Never have characters repeat beats. Don’t use repetition in dialogue. Notorious in first drafts.
There is a law of diminishing returns by using the same type of beats. (3 scenes back to back) . People will flip the moods after 3 scenes of the same time.
Dialogue has to relate in the same level as the inner desires. If they are off balance you get melodramatic scenes or nonsensical ones
Paraphrasing- rewriting bad dialogue is usually a function of underlying motivation, not word
Comedy
Characters that are obsessive with desire without taking a looking deep at themselves
Have fewer Dimensions then dramatic characters but can have a few levels like jack Donahue being ruthless capitalist but also being cool to Liz Lemon.
Set up/payoff
Comedy is in gap of cause and effect.
Exaggeration - bloat a minor cause into a major overstatement. Shrink major cause into minor understatement
Timing- need right time before setup and payoff.
“Young boderick, stuffed with Barry Goldwater”
Give room to laugh immediately after joke.
Incongruity- Adult therapist acting like children
Funny shit comes from the stories you tell your friends. Say it, then recreate the good ones as material. Practice telling story in phone.
Edit to Amplify. Edit our story you don’t read.
When you write out joke put S for setup and P for punchline. 4 lines of setup to punchlines. Try and get a laugh every 15 seconds.
End on a punch word. Its a que to laugh. Put the funniest word at the end.
Revision -
Rewrite bad dialogue from other people.
Transcribe standup sketches to get the rhythm.
Feudal system
After the feudal system collapsed after the black death. Farm workers could command higher wages because there were few of them. Workers revolts in France and England and even Florence and gent (manufacturing town)
1500 Medici’s then the Fugger family of Ausenborg created transnational corporation and wielded unofficial power over kings through business.
Capitalism was created within the feudal economy. Flow of money went to non-Aristocrats. After the pillage of the Americans (conquistadors stole 1.3 Millon ounces of gold from Peru )Boosted banking, market forces, craft manufacturing and fueled power over now impoverished nobles.
1450 - printing press - 8 million books were produced, more than all the scribes and monks. Elizabeth Eisenstein - bought together, scholars, priest, metal workers. Fuel Protestantism, humanism and the scientific revolution. Fueled chockablock knowledge and authorship. Transformed the way humans think.Essentially free wealth from Americas.
1620 - Frances bacon said - printing, gun powder and the compass have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.
The forces of production tend to stall and recede during a transition. Feudalism was structured around customs and laws around obligation, capitalism was structured around something economic : Market.
Global imbalances- vast debts
Financial Autumn - when nations turn to finance in history instead of making anything it’s the beginning of the end. The us is a nation of borrowers.
We not only generate profits for our bosses but also for financial middlemen who make money from out interest.
Germany, Japan and china , oil producers-practice neo mercantilism and are able to manipulate their currency in order ti stay ahead. China has doubled forgin currency stockpiled since 2014 to 4 trillion dollars.
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was a young man who was the leader of the youth NAACP. He built a coalition with applatian white boys, Latin street gangs, church folks.j edgar Hoover feared most young whites and blacks working together.
He was executed by police in a raid with a submachine gun.
He said:
I. AM. A. REVOLUTIONARY
Fidel Notes
Fidel set up 10 safe houses for training, formed army is exiled and refugees. Joined a party and then split with it taking followers with him. once convinced an enemy that he was his superior to get info. Made many temporary alliances to be broken at first opportunity. It was necessary to appear less radical to get allies. Special concentration on radio propaganda
Purged old police and military officers, threatened rival revolutionaries until they surrendered. Put all his people in power. He then met with communist leaders along with che nightly to mold them into a single revolution. Che then made an academy to raise cultural level if the army, fidel pretended he wasnt a communist while che shored up his power base. Executed a few hundred prisoners after trials every night
In book talk first about downfall of socialism and downfall of communism. (Marxist, Lennon, cuba). Socialism is step one
Destroy the works of the female
Clement of Alexandria said this meant to destroy the works of the female meant abandon desire. He says celibacy is a choice but I think its more liberal.
UN SOLUTIONS | Noam Chomsky
Accept jurisdiction of international court and world court
Sign Kyoto protocol
Let the UN take the lead in international
Keep to interpretation of UN charter
Rely on diplomatic and economic measures instead of military measures
Give up Veto power in UN security and have decent respect for opinion of mankind
Cut back sharply on military spending and increase social spending.
Our lives our our most important creative masterpiece. It should be a conscious creation of art and beauty
Anon
Profiling
(400 things know chpt 17)
Cops profile all the time. Its part of their standard procedure. they will find reasons to pull you over Slow ride though stop sign is the king of all excuses. Air fresheners and fuzzy dice result in obstruction of windshield. They pull over and stop people they think have drugs.
Neck tats, teardrops, etc are a way of identifying gangsters. Criminals love to take pictures and put up gang signs and legally cell phone are like any container you may search. They can download all your shit. They will check your social media.Black sweatshirts and black hooded pants are a gang uniform.
Handcuff keys are pretty much universal. Get a key.
Police have a code of silence too. They dont snitch on other cops as a rule. If they do testify against other cops will retaliate (16)
Thugs look around and dont look like they’re going anywhere. If the police don’t see you drop drugs they cant place it on you. They probably cant get prints from it. Same with guns.
Cops will stop and ask you your name. You dont have to answer. They can use Public city ordinances like littering, spitting on the street, or Jay walking.
They take people in for minor offenses all the time. Timothy McVeigh was arrest for license plate violations.
80% of cops are divorced.
Us terrorists states | Noam Chomsky
In order for the us to invade a country on the ground of preemptive defense the country must be defenseless , they must have resources to steal /strategic position, must be able to be frame as monsters and threat to us.
The norms of preemptive invasion were established by the Iraq war even tho non of the hijackers were Iraqi and Saddamn had nothing to do with Osama.
Only the most power are permitted to establish norms of behavior around the world. Israel is allowed. Al Oxa intifada 2000-2003 - 175 assassination attempts. 235 of 156 were suspected of crimes.
Its a justified thing if it is done by Israel. Israel’s Osirac reactor bombing in 1981 was at first criticized. Once a minored crime before 2001 when Saddam became a monster it became celebrated. The site was inspected by Harvard physics chair and said it wasn’t suitable for nuclear weapons. This in turn accelerated development of weapons in the middle east to defend itself from Israeli attacks.
Now the white house can hold anyone as an enemy combatant including us citizen without counsel.
UN is often used as a tool for US power. Even when Iraq complied with UN sanction demands the US vetoed lifting sanctions . US veto record shows that even when isreal violates international law, any attempt to punish them will be vetoed by the US.
Colin Powell said we can talk to UN but we dont need their help.
Kenneth Waltz - WMDs are proliferation are developed as a counterpoint to US. Because of escalation counter power will always develop. The us won’t attack north Korea because it I can actually defend itself with Nukes.
The second super power is public opinion. Protest in 1962 2nd basically non existent. In 2001 the protest was happening before the invasion even happened. Now it cant be called an actual war and the enemy must be vilified.
1930 - Wilson’s policies in the Caribbean left Hati and DR in ruins.
In 1938- Hitler wanted to safgaueg checkoslovakia
Mussolini wanted to liberate people of Ethiopia.
Japan wanted to create and Earthy paradise in Manchuria and china and save the people from communist bandits
“democracy is only acceptable if and only if it is consistent with economic interest -Thomas Curuthers
The us does not want to control Nicaragua or surrounding nations. but it didn’t want developments to get out of control. The same thing went for Iraq.
Financial expropriation
GenX’rs and Service Oriented
Skilled workers must now be adaptable, be a networkers. Need to be able to learn automated process quickly. Firms act quickly and connect quickly.
10-20% low skilled workers/industrial.
Financial expropriation -Wages are stagnant. Social impact is the push work force into financialized behavior. Working time is no longer tied to time in the office and you can be called on the weekends and at home.
Network individuals- Richard senate sociologist says work rewards superficiality and compliance. values networking over loyalty, lacks commitment to hierarchy and structures. Both at work and in activism. People adopt multiple personalities at home and online. Detachment barley concealing violent resentment.
Temporary systems -
China and brazil is next on this train. We will all be moving forward together. Globally we are all headed the same direction toward automization.
Yui - Yuen shoe factory network was used in factories to network with each other and check wages, message in the factory to distribute.
Factory workers in Hong Kong used this networking to enact democracy protest known as Occupy central in hong kong.
It the past 20 years capitalism has created networked humanity which will ultimately be it downfall. They may be as clueless to strategy as the works were in the 1920’s but slowly they are learning and spreading ideas around the world of dissatisfaction around the world. Organized strikes, marches and revolts are again becoming common organized through social media.
Neoliberalism - growth at the price of suppressing freedom and expanding inequality. Austerity until death but with a new iphone every year.
Guns, Germs and Steel-hunter/gatherers
hunter/gatherers - cant store food, can’t have kids to close together, cant develop central government because there aren’t enough calories to feed people who aren’t farmers. Less scribes and writing.
Agriculture - More calories, more people, more specialization, more preist, more artisans, more scribes, writing can help pass on knowledge, animals provide different types of calories/materials. Horses can be raised and be used as superior assault vehicles.
Started by accident. Spread on purpose. Could only pick one thing to do in a day. Prestige for hunting men. Southwest asia is where it started.
Food production increase food production increases population density. positive feedback loop
Hunter/gathers in latest colonized places lasted the longest - Australian, Native americans - confined to areas not good for food production and no contacts with food produces.
Human selected edible crops and picked things that were best for human. They effectively revered plant evolution.
Unequal distribution of animals that could be domesticated, Crop diffusion that could not get past different areas (such as the african rainforest, the himalayas, great plains etc, thinness in panama)
Socio-biologist
Women eggs are very valuable. We have competing interest when it comes to sex. The women are ultimately make choices. Men should be advertising more.
Men look for younger women because of longer term fertility. Women look for older men with resources.
Eggs are valuable , sperm is not. Women want commitment, ability to make money and dependency(longer term mate)
We are a K- selected species - Means we take care of children and have less. 20-30 years where women can have kids. Kids are very expensive. Women have to choose the right mate.
Culture trumps biology explaining why women cheat and hook up too even if it can be dangerous. Birth control did a lot to change culture.
Practical film
Get a body man like Kubrick
Get Winnebago or trailers that can used as mobile offices and wardrobe.
Always ask for more than you intend to get. Kubrick always asks his employees for more.
Kubrick never yelled on Set and always kept its cool.
Work like an essayist. Study all other things said about the subject they express yourself. Get books and movies on the subject and research hard. Stably had readers to give him notes on books
Star wars- pulp myth
Sense of Spiritual awakening. Creates big wonder.
Crude physical delights. Mixed with the awe of space. Set in back before earth not in future
Leia - mother, sister, mistress, bride(to empire).
Han - cool ladies man
3 heroes appeal to Different demographics
Have 2 character disagree about hokey religion v belief.
Annie Hall - Romantic longing
Anhhadonia- inability to feel pleasure. Bittersweet longing for something we lost. Tragic story world of unfulfilled desire. Start with joke voice over and end with joke voiceover.
Our hearts burn the hardest not when we get what we want but with longing.
Use soliloquy(voice over). Script begins with the end but shows disappoint. Shows beginning. Show previous gfs to contrast with annie hall.
She invites him over one last time. Its going to be Different this time…except it won’t be…
The characters have actual divided selves.
Have main characters earnestly contradict themselves again and again.
The irony is heightened by the characters having same two fears. They both want to be alone and they don’t want to get caught in an empty relationship.
Gotta just enjoy ourselves while we’re here. Love is Impossible dream. Must be determined to try again.
Misunderstandings
Nobody actually knows anyone all the way. Give characters misunderstandings
Princess Bride - Charm
Keeper of a special secret. This is hidden gem shared with others with dope lines.
As you wish = I love you. Butter cup used to bully westly, the farm boy, but falls for him. His quirk of saying “as you wish” is turned into a secret code.
Irony - there is a hidden logic to the world.
Tone - ironic tone. Juxtiposes significant things with minor ones
Give you plot a kick by re igningting the conflict with characters or conflict in the story world.
Give characters inside jokes
Robots | Life Project
Biomimicry- Mimic the world like animals and plants. Tokyo train designed like animals.
Mimic animals /plants.
Mimic form- rain water cleans forms with rain water like on lotus
Mimic process- How ants communicate
Mimic ecosystem- circular economy ( no such thing as a byproduct. ). Every thing has a reuse materials.closed loop
(Language barrier between designers and biologist)
Restaurants/
Orders taken at kiosks. Assmbled by robots(Moeley Robotics)
Vertical farms/
Soil composted from trash. Misted water more effective than traditional water. No chemical or pesticides.
Waste / sorted and composeted. Plastics and papers recycled. Reusable bottles and bags.
Heathcare /
Free universal. Largely done by robots. NurseBot, DiVinci surgereon, Watson
Housing
3d printed houses infinity copied
Reputation, respect from ones peers. Social media and fame give us examples. Isn’t that what money really is? (This is like how it was before capitalism)
Will be the reason you want to labor (prestige + likes+ Artists+ Engineers+ celebrities )
“The future is already here its just unevenly distributed “ Gibson
Down in out in the magic kingdom
Faust thinks the God of the old testament is evil
Gnostic - Faust philosophy -
Faust thinks the God of the old testament is evil and seeks to destroy him. Jesus was sent by the the real God to correct this.
Slavery | Debt 5000
Slavery only works based on violence because it is needed to rip people from their context.
Slavery only works based on violence because it is needed to rip people from their context.
Slavery across in china, Sumer, Rome, Judea (Niamaiah), Ireland (where slave girls were used as currency). A mans wife, children and sheep were considered in the same category as markets for slaves developed. It appears at the same time as money and markets. It arose in agricultural lands and spread around from these places. This can be seen as a start of patriarchal domination as well (5:38)
In human economies no person is equivalent to another. Money can never substitute for a person. A person could never substitute for a person. Slavery could only be possible by ripping a person from their context . It takes literal bondage to isolate so much from their Network (like say Atlantic slave trade)
