OmniNaut

More and more car manufacturers are trying to get vendor lock-in, when it comes to repairs. They want to control the parts, with ridiculous mark-ups, they want to control the labour. They will basically try to copy Apple when it comes to vendor lock-in when it comes to maintenance and repair. Their excuse is about safety and controlling the quality of the repair, but it's the same excuse for giving up privacy for preventing child rape. That's why the Right-to-Repair movement is so important now. The EU is fighting back with repairability and sustainability laws. People like Louis Rossman fighting against tech companies, like Apple, HP and many more. People like Mat Armstrong, Mark McCann, RichRebuilds trying to fight companies like Bugatti, BMW, Audi, Lucid, Fisker, Tesla. Ofcourse they do it for entertainment and viewers, but they are exposing the schemes that are going on now in the Car industry. These channels are getting so much attention that car brands are trying to save their brand image, by denying their strategy or in some cases changing their policies.

@coca No not really the only reason. The Mini, and that said the Fiat 500, is the go to Retro car. The conformist don't think just follow. You can choose a conformist option and not be conformist, you choose it because you want it from an emotional or rational level. But to be honest those people are rare, especially when it comes to non utilitarian options. For a while I was really interested in interior & design. Mostly the retro, 50's to 70's Scandinavian but also Charles & Ray Eames, I became interested into their stories the people behind iconic design, what kind of person and thinking led to design this. The thing now is the Eames lounge chair is now the conformist way of being the "design savvy" person, few people know about the design process and people behind it. I love the classic flow of lines in old design, also materials like wood, where more naturally integrated into design back then. My whole interior basically is an eclectic mix of 50's to 80's (mostly European design), hell my HiFi setup is a 70's Yamaha amplifier.

Being observant and doing self inquiry, observing yourself, questioning how you obtained the perspective. Basically doing a root cause analysis on yourself. Will you ever be done, hard to say. I think not, but being self aware of your own biases influenced by your culture, family upbringing, financial situation, personality type, traumas (current or past) will help to see your own biases. The philosophical question will be if you undo all your biases will you still be you? Your biases makes you unique, without biases there is no self. At least not in the world of Maya. It will be an ongoing process while you navigate through this world. The more you expose yourself to new experiences the more opportunities you have to learn about your own biases. Sometimes it works by observing the outside world and recognising the same within yourself, sometimes its observing yourself and recognising the same in the outside world. Similarities become patterns then you will start to see patterns within patterns. The Patterns will be crossing domains, and levels. Now your on your way to Systems Thinking. At least that's how it started with me.

Good luck my brother, it's not over yet. God's speed.

@Olaf Tate is not a systems thinker. He's just a shouter and blames it on "the man", or however it's called today. To add to my original post, a person must study their own deception and self/survivor biases before they can do a good analysis of the system around them. Tier 1 is incapable of doing this. If you want to even have an incling to making a positive change to the world, you got to get out there in to the real world. You can't do proper analysis by sitting and absorbing (tainted) perspectives of others. You must gather data first hand. And before you can use the data you gathered you need to purge yourself from your own biases and self deception because even first hand experiences are tainted by your own ego filtering.

Mini, new or old, are too conformist. Figaro, quirky car for a quirky guy. Maybe an old Saab as an alternative. But to be honest I burned through my car karma already. Had the racing/sporty cars before. Now carless.

I'm done with cars, but if I have had the need to buy one, without looking too much at practical use. Nissan Figaro. Get out with all your Ferraris and Aston Martins, this is where it's at.

It's quite simple my dear Watson. It all has to do with identifying the root cause of the problem, and the root cause is almost never limited to one level. Tier 1 only focuses on their level of the problem, leaving out the other levels. Blue: too much focussed on their particular group, helping because being told helping is good Orange: too much focussed on technology, efficiency, financial gain and acting now Green: too much focussed on emotions, equality and acting now. That said, root cause identifying will not be a guarantee for true problem solving, If you are interested in solving problems, look into Root cause analysis and Systems thinking. The thing with analysis is you have to know when you identified enough, it's easy to get lost in over-analysing Also how do you define change? Don't over look all the small positive contributions that local people can make, especially when it comes to small communities. People can make a change but it is very localised. "Every avalanche begins with the movement of a snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake" Thomas Frey The problem is more global problems require a different approach and become exponentially more complex. --- An example I experienced while volunteering at an orphanage in Nepal. Keep in mind this was the situation back in 2014, I don't know how much has changed now. During that time I observed the following about their education system. A normal education system for a country works in investing into the youth, and a some point the youth will contribute back to the country with their knowledge, energy and consuming power. This is the main drive of a stable self-maintained country. Seeding, growing, harvesting. Nepal is a third world country, for decades they have the problem that 1. The quality of the public schooling is terrible 2. Schooling system only went up too a college level, there were some university studies, but mostly something like majors in accountancy, IT, medical/nursing, no real Master stuff. So what was happening that children that had talent or had no money for proper education had no educational network to help cultivate that talent. Nepalese are stuck doing the same kind of work in their country that does not earn enough to support their family. They go work abroad, or in dangerous or exploitive situation (low educated) or if they have some kind of education and saved some money, they would travel to Europe or the US to further their education and earn more money then they would back in Nepal. Asian people send back a lot of money to their family for support. But the talent and knowledge stays outside the country. So a country invests money into education but will not see the benefits back to truly building the country. So I realised the country is stuck because their education system does not allow creating talent that really helps grow the country, this and all the other usual third world country stuff, like corruption and being exploited by neighbouring countries (India, with tariffs). Since the 60's their have been numerous volunteering/NGO and non-profit efforts to help Nepal, but none of them focus on the bigger picture, just small scale stuff. Mind you it's quite difficult as a foreign small-scale organisation to affect sustainable change without the involvement of (local ,national and international) government, and then corruption becomes a factor as well. Not all is doom and gloom though. I have met some people in NGO's and non-profit, who encompass more of Tier 2 thinking, they are rare but they are out there.

When someone hurts you, other people will say "I believe in Karma, they will get it back on themselves". So why was I hurt in the first place? If you believe in Karma, basically you are saying that my current hurt is Karma coming back to me now. It's a big core of new age BS, only there to make you feel good, but falls apart when thinking it through.

I think there needs to be a distinction made between the different levels of view and interaction with China. - National/government level - Media level - Population level A country can have friendly ties with China on a political level, but media or the population can have a completely different opinion. There are different dynamics in play on each level. They influence each other but also have their own system inside of them. Don't think that it's only the West that has a negative attitude towards China. - Philippines: dispute with China about territorial claim in South China Sea, Chinese spies caught in government position. Even a Filipino Mayor who was exposed as Chinese born and having ties with CCP - Taiwan: dispute if it's part of China or a sovereign country - Cambodia: Sihanoukville, is a casino town run by Chinese mafia. This happened after Cambodia opened borders, trading and influence This video basically answers the main question of this topic. Also if you look at it from a nations psychological stand point. It is in human nature to be accusing to others while be totally blind and dismissive to your own wrong doings. You protect yourself interest by accusing others when you are scared to loose power. Gaslighting as it's called, and part of the NPD spectrum. That doesn't mean that every point of discussion is a part of gaslighting, but even if it's a valid point it is blown out of proportion to put the blame. Where have we seen this before, oh yeah unconsciousness politics.

Thanks for checking. It was a major China thing a decade ago. Some good change for once.

@Holly Jean You are posting this in the wrong subforum, there is almost no attention given here to this part of the forum. If you want a higher change of Leo seeing this, use the @ symbol in your post and type "Leo Gura" you then need to select him to add him to your post), this works for other users too. This will generate a notification for Leo. @Leo Gura @Natasha Tori Maru Hopefully this will grab his attention, good luck. If this doesn't work try posting this in the Main development subforum, it's the most visited one on the forum.

@LordFall The reason why I asked, I wanted to know if the criticism came from below or above. You can intellectually explain the difference between sympathy and empathy, but can you feel them? Reading things like this in your post, is for me a distancing and ironically lacking the empathy you're criticising. I don't think you are inherently wrong but what I'm trying to say: Thus you are only looking at one part of the equation. After reading your post multiple times, it's still difficult for me to say whether it's formed from above or below. It could be that you're Green integration is not fully complete yet, or just the masquerading of Orange as Yellow. Also personality types go differently through Green, some types are more sympathetic by nature other are more empathic.

If you are talking about creating wealth and maximising profit and consumption I would say yes. Don't underestimate the ambition it takes to create a society where the most people benefit not only a select few like in the US. A lot of people had to fight (in the Netherlands in the 70's and 80's) for more equal rights. It was not born naturally. Orange ambition vs Green ambition is still ambition.