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In less than 1/10 of the time it takes for light to travel from one edge of our galaxy to the other edge, humans have gone from planting seeds in the earth to studying the ancient past with Science.

As a species, we have almost not been aware about anything of importance. Most of it is unexplored.

In the long term future, most people will look back at this period in time and think that we were the most lucky ones, that discovered these connections for the first time.

We have just started thinking about stuff.

We live very early, compared to the expected lifetime of the universe.

This is how we end up with people posting videos online about aliens and pyramids. It's all clickbait, based on biases that emerges from our projection, through our language tools, onto the language tools that ancient people had.

It is hard to appreciate how lucky we are, with this access.

Most of people in the past were busy surviving and had not surplus energy to spend, or they did not have access, to appreciate and learn from other people's knowledge.

Since we have the language tools today to connect these dots, we fall under illusion that people in the past had more knowledge.

Everything we have of culture today, comes from the intellectuals in the past.

Most of what they produced was lost. Over 96% was lost.

So, we get 4% of 1%, or 0.4% of what knowledge they had.

This 0.4% is extremely impressive, but it was almost not appreciated by anyone through history.

In addition, due to the high mortality rates of child birth, diseases they could not cure and due to high literacy, the things you read now about their culture, was inaccessible to 99% of all people.

You're receiving culture from the 1% who could read and write in the past.

Who? The intellectuals.

This is how people in the ancient world preserve their excitement of being, into their old age.

That's the system they developed, their operating system, with the limited language tools they had in their time.

Technologically, these people made far less progress than we do today.

These puzzles, or mysteries, that get developed by philosophers, are milestones of the journey through life.

On that journey, you are given opportunities. To help a person in need. To do something good.

These are the opportunities for rebirth. To see the world once against through new eyes.

When your brain operates on this level, you see the beauty.

This is what's going on in ancient religion. The people of old age, who survived the hardship and challenges through the 7 stages of life, see the goddess, who is our existence. Her beauty, despite the death that is coming near.

In this lesson of Logic:

`a => !b -> b => !a`

There is a silent contemplation. There is so much going on, but all these things are not needed to be said for those who can see Reason. It's a meditative silence.

It purifies you. It makes you complete.

It's not about YOU.

Every generation is a rebirth of past generations, which goes through the cycles of rebirth and death, to get reborn through a younger generation.

Those who believe everything is about them, have not grown up yet.

We don't rule the Earth for ourselves.

The natural development of a normal human life, is to re-experience the excitement of youth through children to learn about all the knowledge you have for the first time.

You are not going to live forever.

Maintaining portals, is a sacrifice, because you don't benefit directly from it.

The search for excitement is part of how the human brain explore the environment. As the brain learns how the environment works, the excitement wears off and it becomes boring.

Intellectuals maintain the portals, the access of knowledge, even after the excitement wears off.

There is a good reason.

It is in this sense that intellectuals seek control.

People who don't take anything seriously, believe they are free to do as they want and that people who want to live a normal life are losers. They think they know what a normal life means, despite never experienced it themselves.

Many people think about the word "control" in a negative sense, which implies oppression.

However, everything that actually produces surplus energy in society, is through some system. For example, democracy is a system to produce surplus energy. The arts come from democracy and vice versa.

Intellectuals don't pay attention to people that are not taking anything seriously. Intellectuals pay attention to other intellectuals. This is cross discipline.

The goal is to access and maintain portals to a higher level of existence, from which mirror world, our own world is controlled.

This use of nihilistic abusive post-modernism, is part of right-wing propaganda, which accuses advocates for social progress, of the exact same thing they do themselves. It's projection.

There isn't anything what these people do, that is worth remembering. It's all trash.

In modern propaganda, satire is used to undermine the ability of people to believe they can figure out the truth.

Modern propaganda deliberately uses the lower levels of knowledge in ancient philosophy. There is only deception. No lesson as reward for education. Nihilistic abusive post-modernism.

The modern educational system trains people to pay attention, instead of educating themselves and not giving up, when there are layers of deception between what is said and what is the truth.

Ancient philosophy trains your mind to not pay attention to the wrong things, to ignore the noise.

The lesson wasn't the point of ancient philosophical education.

The lesson is the reward, for being educated. To see through the layers of lies and don't stop at the lower levels of knowledge.

Today, people are given lessons directly. Instant rewards for paying attention.

When people tell a lie but want to enforce public peer pressure that the lie they tell ought to be received as truth, this is mental and emotional abuse.

Ancient philosophy is an education, to build up a cognitive immune system, against mental and emotional abuse.

As a reward, you get a lesson.

In modern times, people are accustomed to thinking that when people tell them something, they are trying to convey truth.

However, in ancient philosophy, the starting point is to assume that somebody are trying to trick you.

If you never make this assumption, then you'll not figure out the lesson.

Ancient philosophy is not like modern philosophy, where people are explained things. Philosophers did not actually walk around and debated stuff, the way they do in their stories.

It was the job of a philosopher to create puzzles, that their students would take apart and analyze. It's educational.

Inside the layer of satire, there is a lesson in Logic.

The lesson in Logic teaches you how to think.

Satire inside the mystery, guards the Logos against those who believe it is all jokes. Those who take nothing seriously, perishes as a people.

The elevation of satire in ancient philosophy, is first clothed into a layer of mystery. You think there is something deep and profound going on.

Inside that layers, there is a layer of satire. This is to deconstruct your attempt to over-analyze what is going on.

However, there is another layer:

ὅτι Πλάτων θεασάμενος αὐτὸν λάχανα πλύνοντα, προσελθὼν ἡσυχῆ εἴποι αὐτῷ: “εἰ Διονύσιον ἐθεράπευες, οὐκ ἂν λάχανα ἔπλυνες:” τὸν δ᾽ ἀποκρίνασθαι ὁμοίως ἡσυχῆ, “καὶ σὺ εἰ λάχανα ἔπλυνες, οὐκ ἂν Διονύσιον ἐθεράπευες.”

`a => !b -> b => !a`

A lesson in Logic, disguised in the form of satire.

A nice result from tonight: one of the Republican candidates resigned his seat on the Dalton City Council to run for GA114. Although they're technically nonpartisan elections, the woman who won the election to replace him tonight was the Democrat.

NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37).

With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%.

Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.

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