Retrospective
A look back, as we've hit over a hundred articles on this blog, at some of its accomplishments.
Here's Hoping
In a general sense, here's hoping that we've dispelled a lot of stupid notions we're fed.
Barbara Honegger made an unconfirmed claim that CIA Director William J. Casey said they want everything the American public believes to be a lie. Though the claim is disputed, the agency did acknowledge during 1977 congressional investigations that it had previously planted false accounts and molded foreign opinion, so there's evidence of it being true in practice, even if it was not baldly stated at a 1981 cabinet meeting.
Yet this seems to escape attention and we hear continued bleating about, "Conspiracy theory! Conspiracy theory!" over a multitude of things that are proven fact given time.
We've demolished the use of "Conspiracy Theory" here, particularly in the article, Argument and Debate.
Management
The entire concept of managers and management needs an overhaul, an interesting finding discussed in the Management series of articles.Psychos hire other psychos, and sycophants. A doomed strategy, because it's unsustainable, and their machinations always destabilize the company. So management becomes a swarm of dummies and psychos that sink whatever enterprise they're in, perhaps nowhere more evident than the failing car manufacturers.
We should mention that the "Peter Principle" was merely a marketing exercise, and it doesn't really make much sense.
1) They don't promote people to the level of their incompetence, as a general rule, because they mostly don't promote people, but fix them at a certain level, pigeonholing them as it were, a necessary consequence of the pyramidal management structure.
2) If someone is competent enough to be promoted, there's no particular reason why he can't learn the new job, even if it takes a while. As if learning/training stops at some point.
Finding mostly psychos, the maniacal ladder climbers, sycophants and dummies at the top has predictable consequences. (A later article will dig a bit deeper into General Morons' "GM nod" being the default. See also the article, The Automotive Industry.)
lol. Nice to know not much has changed. I went to dozens of design reviews at Design Staff and the infamous “GM Nod” was almost always in full effect out on the DS patio. Basically everyone stands around and nods their heads in approval because they knew if they said something negative they’d instantly be viewed as “not a team player.” End of career advancement. That was particularly true if the program was some senior exec’s pet project.
...so the smart ones know not to rock the boat and anger the psychos or their sycophants. Or give fodder to the back-stabbers, snitches, etc.
Just the fact there are "pet projects" betrays the fractures. There shouldn't be "pet projects," but all should be necessary projects that either boost the bottom line, or give essential insight, skills/knowledge and information to the company.
3) Laurence J. Peters' "principle" assumes that a management role is somehow "harder." It may be, but not necessarily. Obviously the best way to get good managers is for them to travel up the ranks so they know what the hell they're doing. In fact, a big problem is that upper management may come in from a much-different field.
Like Sculley managed Pepsi and got the helm at Apple! (Sculley actually had some good corporate structure reforms leading to massive revenue growth. But still, he was not the right long-term leader because his strategy relied entirely on charging exorbitant premium prices. He got away with it for a while until the competitor, Microsoft, released cheaper, though lesser, alternatives that were "good enough.")
It was a while ago, but you may remember how the "Peter Principle" was pushed, indicating it was another "op," a for-profit operation to garner money from the suckers buying the books.
Phony Scientists
We looked at one "scientist" (The New Science 7) who spent his career on... absolutely nothing! It's called string theory, a theory that cannot be connected to experiment, so it has no anchor in physical reality. And still the misguided buffoon speaks lovingly of his field! Logically, he should have looked at the opposite: Research what we do have experimental evidence for.
What kind of a douche do you have to be to accomplish nothing your entire career and expect praise, to be considered an "expert," and to encourage more of the same wastefulness?
A Big Flaw
A widespread flaw in reasoning, is not calling out idiots like that who are advanced versions of beggars. Bums and beggars, slurping at the trough of grants and handouts (i.e.: taxpayer money).
Special Kind of Tard
Thinking you can go into a scientific field in order to be a star is tardation, and a case of not understanding what discovery and advancement is. If you have ideas to follow up on, that are original, that's when you go into some field of research, not "for glory," or ego gratification.
Regarding the Evolution Farce
Any scientist still believing in Evolution, after Science Musings has got to be a tard or brainwashed. That article is a gauge for faulty reasoning. The heart-stopper for the idiotic Evolution idea, is its reliance on "randomness" which is not an explanation for anything.
It depends upon the intellectual honesty of everyone, to reject Evolution. But we can't depend on that, since so many people operate purely on emotion and self-interest.
When they introduced "Punctuated Equilibrium" as another diversion, that alone upended Evolution. If so-called scientists can't see that anything that relies on the kludge of "random processes" can't be and never was "science," there's a problem.
A nice postulate from The New Science, relating to Evolution, is that no order arises from chaos and if it seems like it, look for the underlying order.
Old postulates:
- random changes can cause anything: life from inert matter, speciation, adaptation
- there is no structure or order behind these random changes, hidden or otherwise (in fact, there's an implicit assumption that we see everything, and there are no metaphysical or hidden aspects to the universe)
- we can just ad hoc our way through any nonsense, by piling on more complication, epicycles, diversions and obfuscation.
New postulates and guidelines:
- look for the ordered process behind any seemingly-random process
- the universe has a structure and logic to it
- things we can't see or understand still can exist, like the metaphysical
- however, there are guidelines for how we deal with abstractions, and we don't rely on them to patch holes in bad theories
- all theories constantly are subject to review, revision and invalidation/removal.
Science, Stats and The New Science
Real science, of course, is suppressed.
With our findings in The New Science series, we found out that texts need to be rewritten, all of modern science needs an overhaul.
One of the tricks played on us is the hobbling of science and scientific research.
Another is to create and foster endless nonsense "science."
The New Science
The New Science series make science more accessible to everyone, and provide guides for scientists to improve their science-ing. Will they? Not bloody likely, with their massive egos! Except of course, for a few sneakers who will take what they can and be sure to clam up about it.
One of the biggest findings we unearthed in The New Science is that so-called scientists are untrained in basic logic, like the necessity for simplification in new theories. Like the fact that paradox does not exist, nor do infinities, nor does order from chaos, under any circumstances, and if something appears that way, you haven't found the underlying order.
In their defense, a lot if this isn't covered in their education. Of course, these facts simply couldn't be taught, in order to make the compliant, unquestioning toadies they want in the scientific community.
Also, we reviewed how we need an insistence on consistency and lack of contradictions or false dichotomies, across the board, in science. (Particularly important, and not followed in most modern science.)
We saw how the absolute necessity to formally discard failed theories, is not followed (nor has it ever been applied properly to mainstream science).
It's not harsh to insist that they must know and apply these strategies and rules before they can call themselves "scientists."
We took a dive into the concept of "random," in the article, Statistics, and the article, Science Musings. Which were big lead-ins to the New Science articles, particularly The New Science 2, where we discussed how not every "random" thing that seems possible actually occurs.
Theories
The Dumb-Dumb Brain
Another big one: accept and promote no "theories," in their present form, simply research. As Grandmaster Tushi would say, the dumb-dumb brain isn't smart enough to come up with theories. Our abilities are limited, yet we pursue greater and greater complexity, instead of trying to reduce it. As a researcher, your main strategy is to find data, then look, using inductive and deductive logic, for rules that explain the observations.
How to develop and progress in science then? You try to explain something in the environment that you've discovered through research, not "look for something" that confirms your nonsense, agenda-driven ideas.
You never "look for a verification." You experiment, and it may be guided based on some concept, but you never look to prove, but disprove, your manufactured concept. Then you come up with some possibilities to explain your experimental findings (perhaps, multiple possibilities). If no one can disprove the possibility you settle on, for the time being, there may be grounds to consider it a natural fact or law.
And, one of the greatest rules: It's only a theory if it invalidates another older theory, and, relates back to the real world.
So, anyone doing a "paper," a scientific article, should satisfy all those requirements, explicitly, in the body of the paper, or you have solid grounds to consider the entire paper as invalid.
Ouch. That'll hit 'em where the sun don't shine.
But the core idea is this: We aren't as smart as we think, and have to work with the dumb-dumb brain, not against it. So we don't want to be piling complication on complication.
Big Achievement
The big achievement of The New Science is we can now short-circuit this angle they play. When something is exposed as a farce, their counter is to, ad hoc, on the fly, simply add more obfuscation and nonsense.
With our new approach, bad theories would be discarded. (But they mostly wouldn't have gotten so far as to be considered theories in the first place.)
Endless circular arguments, hand-waving and reliance on obfuscation and abstraction is ultimately meaningless, because now we can go back to fundamentals, cutting through all layers of deception.
A very big deal is learning how to avoid this flypaper-trap game they play where you are fooled into thinking you can't assess things for yourself. This being led down the primrose path nonsense has to end. Modern science employs deception, and you can identify it, call it out, and negate it forever.
For the Younger Generation
A particular achievement here is for the younger people. If you're a young person, this blog is your opportunity to clear your head from all the lies you've been fed, and one main avenue for that is the tools to recognize when you're being lied to.
So many people bought the lies, and passed them on to you. But that's the law of the jungle, a struggle for survival, and if you want to elevate yourself, you have to do your own research and not trust others half-baked notions.
Absorbing the elements of logic, as presented in numerous articles, makes argument and debate moot. If we are all working towards ultimate truth, there's no profit in us fighting among ourselves over what that truth is, only the necessity for resolution.
Of course, logic helps us resolve contradictions. And it helps that we now know many tricks, like the fact that there is no such thing as "paradox," only apparent paradox, so finding one is helpful, a clue to errors in our logic and reasoning, and a starting point to clean up our investigation.
When did it all change? People were supposed to mature, acquire wisdom, as they age, but all we see are people getting dumber as they age, and in general, endlessly falling for blatant, recycled tricks and traps without a care in the world. No critical or clearer thinking via contemplation and recognition/reassessment of past follies.
Computing
In The Future of Computing, Stop Killer Robots Now! and other articles, we got a fair bit of predictive stuff right: robot dogs/horses, car companies going down for committing prematurely to the electric craze, A.I. hype with no substance, the push to ban cash and hype crypto, the push for auto-driving.
To qualify about A.I., it is improving at a rapid pace, within the bounds of its abilities. It seems to be able to now produce really good code to help with computer programming. It can carry on decent conversations, and so on.
That doesn't mean it can suddenly achieve consciousness or produce truly original ideas or inventions, of course, so put that idea to rest. But note the perfidy of government, business and the various institutions in trying to sell this advancement as something sinister.
As we've made very clear, all the value of the resources in a nation need to be husbanded and shared. So too, should the value added by technological advancement be considered a resource to share among the population. But instead, the profits will be hoarded by the greedy swine that take over and monopolize any advancement. In fact, they crow about how it will be used to bring about our deeper enslavement.
Politics
The entity Trump proved as bad as predicted, fulfilling the requirement that each succeeding president be worse than the previous, though of course it appears that they are all totally compromised and controlled/manipulated.
Personal Growth
A topic we covered in Your Mind's Hidden Language, Alpha Beta, Self-Deception, In a Sensible World, Driving, Thoughtcrime. Self-improvement is always important, and there are some good tips there.
Scams and Fraud
Lots of deceptions were unearthed in articles like The Mass Mind series, but several articles excel in teaching how to spot deception and fight it, like The Manipulators and The New Logic series.
We delved into spotting scams in Ruses, Cons, News Media.
Big Topics
Topics like those covered in the articles, Statistics, Logical Fallacies, Argument & Debate could easily fuel or supplement a college course.
Everyone needs to read through Logical Fallacies. That foundational article is very long, but covers the areas where almost everyone is getting played. It is vitally important stuff, and is grounding for later articles, like The New Logic.
We highlighted a principle of logic: the "rule of moot," where, as a matter of course, we don't pay attention to the unprovable, the random, or any other of the fallacious arguments.
Another vital point discussed was the question, "Why not me, or you, for president?" Like the weather, everyone talks about politics, but no one does anything about it. Even presidents, prime ministers and representatives selected at random would be better than what we have now. Our discussion in the Government series of articles gives a good grounding of ideas for implementing reform in politics.
Revamping our teaching and understanding of logic, science, and politics made for some weighty, but essential, material.
Entertainment
There are several articles devoted to Entertainment, including On the TV..., At the Movies..., James Bond, where we give evaluations/assessments to movies and TV shows.
Law
Law was tackled in articles like Airplane! and Rollback (and that information should inform college courses). A good grounding in some legal ideas, and we get so little information or in-depth discussion about law, such articles should be welcomed.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is thoroughly explained in the article of the same name, and if you don't understand the explanation, you shouldn't be buying any bitcoin, and if you do, you won't be buying any bitcoin.
They're still not getting it with this Bitcoin scam, and now countries are doing things like making "Bitcoin strategic reserves." Those are organized crime rackets, and they're going to run this scam to the ground but first see it bear lucrative fruit for them.
We contrasted this push for Bitcoin/crypto with their crying of crocodile tears over, "Oh, we don't have the electrical capacity to provide growing households or for the threat posed by electric cars sucking up all the juice," while at the same time making a frenzied, massive push for crypto and these "data centers" that consume vast power. As though you can just build something, anything, and it needs no maintenance and never needs expansion.
Which, once more, calls into question the lowering general intelligence. How do any of these ruses and scams get past their first utterance, if there were any intelligence at all in the general population? If there is any, it isn't exhibited, and where it is, it is subsumed to this compliance state where most people ask, "How do I behave in a way which will ensure approval of the mass mind?"
Frauds: Dinosaurs, Our "Official" History, and More
Sooooo much fraudulence. Sooooo easy to debunk, too. We've tackled a lot of fraudulent nonsense here. Like the dinosaur myth.
As with using the terms, "What are the odds?" "Evolution," and "Climate Change," you can also stop ever mentioning, "dinosaurs," or risk looking the fool. Same with the even worse dopey saying, "fossil fuels."
Recall this juicy and pathetic rationalization to explain why they haven't found any (not just "not every") complete dinosaur fossils.
The idea that we have found every dinosaur fossil is unrealistic when you consider the difficult process of fossilization.
It's "unrealistic" to find fossils, so that proves there are fossils, and Evolution???
Remember, when hunting for dinosaurs, you don’t need to find bones at the same time, in the same location, and they don’t even need to be connected together. You can find a claw in the desert of Arizona in 1997 and find a shard of what is declared to be a part of an arm bone on the shore of a beach in Africa in 2020 and claim they are the same species. That is literally how dinosaurs are assembled. Then when they rig these random pieces together, they obviously don’t match anything in existence, so it’s labeled an extinct species.- Agent131711's Substack
In our quest to eliminate other bad theory, we can tackle Relativity. 100 years later General Relativity is still "incomplete." It doesn't matter anymore, then, since it hasn't helped us progress, but made us regress, trying to find "evidence" of black holes, or where it fits into another boondoggle, "Quantum Theory." Even if it were true, it has to be discarded for its creation of so many dead ends. But it can't be true, can it, when it introduced more paradoxes and problems than it solved? (Another rule of thumb.) So, again, even if true, it still has to be discarded because it is so confusing to the dumb-dumb brain, that it needs to be formulated in a different way to be palatable.
That's huge. A theory has to be generally understandable, as well, to be a theory. Bet Carl Sagan and Hawking didn't tell you that one.
Government
Commies
As mentioned in Government 2:
No need to agonize over the amorphous differences between communism and socialism when both are part of the same scam, socialism too being organized crime on a grand scale, rationalized as for the “good of all.”
But how the hell does something like this happen?
California Mayor Indicted, Will Plead Guilty To Being CCP Agent- ZeroHedge headline
...and that is just the tip of the iceberg, according to the report, of commie infiltration. Huh?
A supposed republic, guaranteed a republican form of government, electing commies into office. Even voting in a Chinese is an aberration, because, just the facts, you'll never see the Chinese willingly put a "round eyes" or "white boy" into high office in China.
By the principle of reciprocity, Americans, ostensibly a white population, according to their founding documents, certainly shouldn't be accepting politicians outside of their race, either.
Restructuring Government
Also mentioned in Government 2:
Resources are limitless – in the sense that there is enough to go around, enough to provide for everyone’s needs. Resources only become limited when a greedy few start hogging them all. So, instead of benefiting from the natural resources that belong to the people, those are given away to powerful interests. Instead of the logical approach of setting up government as a profit center, it is structured as an organized crime racket to rob people of their rightful property, and redistribute wealth (that which is not leeched off by the politicians and their cronies) to the non-productive.
Publishers
In King Kon, we found that publishers are not to be trusted and Stephen King seems to be the guy who copies your homework, but first corrects the mistakes before turning it in.
Chess
We suggested this as a good idea in Chess Cheats, and Magnus did effectively start his own chess organization and did fight FIDE. It turns out that the chess organization FIDE seems to be basically made up of gangsters. (This is a big story that probably deserves its own article, but you can merely type it into a search engine which will provide the details.)
Carlsen co-founded a massive, heavily funded alternative tournament circuit called the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, voluntarily abdicated his Classical World Chess Championship (FIDE) title, broke all political diplomacy by publicly demanding the FIDE president’s resignation, and openly threatened total FIDE event boycotts.
The latest situation has resulted in a stand-off:
The Current Armistice
Despite the heavy friction, FIDE realized they could not afford a permanent schism with the world's most famous player. The two entities eventually struck a tense compromise. FIDE officially stepped in to co-sanction the event, and Carlsen won the inaugural 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Weissenhaus, Germany. However, the underlying power struggle between FIDE’s traditional governance and Carlsen's private business initiatives remains incredibly volatile.
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