Terell Kirby

The bald officer is world class at giving this offender a clear run down of the law (before putting her in cuffs):

Low perspective: Rachid Hammami's egregious straw man against Isalm. Completely ignores historical context, and is full of bias. This is classic ego projection, a refusal to take seriously how one's worldview might be self deceived. Feature: Gross over-generalizations, Hypocrisy, double standards, cherry picking historical facts for confirmation bias, straw manning (x1000).

Lmaoo

High perspective: Jordan Peterson on friendship. I miss this version of him-before he got caught up in the intellectual dark web: Feature: growth-oriented, facilitates development, practical, uses real life examples, clear & concise.

Example of how US democratic institutions are impacted by low perspectives corrupted by post truth politics: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/24/nx-s1-5250264/unemployment-rate-cpi-inflation-census-bureau-labor-statistics Features: disregards facts, does not value expertise/expert analysis or data, post truth in sense making, lack of systems thinking, magical thinking in place of objective facts and raw data.

Low perspective: This guy assumes he can deconstruct Capitalism in a two minute video without falling into self deception, partiality and bias. Feature: lacks nuance/evolutionary thinking, doesn't consider historical context, black and white thinking, uses straw-man arguments with no awareness of broader context.

I’d increases in one variable decreases the others, vice versa

@Leo Gura I'm glad you created this thread-not much participation (i think due to actually having to take the time contemplate this stuff)- but it's opened up so much- thanks !

High perspective: Bishop Mariann Budde addresses Trump during sermon. Noticing the level of calm, cool and collected energy she has when expressing her worldview in a non dogmatic, non confrontational way. Feature: Centeredness, emotionally mature, non reactive, thoughtful, empathetic, expansive circle of concern, compassion.

Seems like a blanket statement-what examples do you have? Leo's teachings have taught me how to make nuance distinctions between survival and Truth-which has done wonders in making me more intelligent. Survival is done on a spectrum, some of it is more ego based than others. The point is not to demonize survival, but also to not bullshit ourselves into thinking survival has anything to do with Truth & Goodness. All of this assumes you value things like Truth, Goodness & Intelligence .. but it's totally okay not to.

Low perspective: pickup coach expresses value system- under the premise that only losers date a women who are not at least 10 years younger. Feature: materialistic, hyper masculine, takes its value system as objective (what’s true for it is true for everybody-under all circumstances).

Low perspective: classic Trump accusing Dems of burning LA to the ground for political reasons. Feature: Gaslighting, disregard for facts/science, conspiratorial thinking, conflating subjective interpretation for objective facts/reality.

Can you recall when this shift happened? Like where were you in your own personal development where cutting through fantasy became central? Was it gradual or instant? Life events, relationships, etc? I think knowing this helps us navigate our own relationship with truth as it deepens.

Takes certain level of mental fortitude and wisdom to sift through a swamp of all kinds of toxic stuff on the internet to find the gold.

One career criminal pardoning another, not that surprising.