An alternative measure of intelligence

This was posted by someone on SG and I suspect was taken from Professor Cipolla’s thesis on Human stupidity.

It’s an interesting graph because it measures the ethical component to a degree that IQ tests simply don’t.

I think on this basis it’s much easier to determine where you fall if you are at least honest with yourself.

As a general rule, my actions almost never result in negative effects for others, though I am not opposed to causing negative effects to those who deserve it, go looking for them, or try to cause me or mine some.

Any negative effects caused to myself are generally a consciously chosen risk-benefit calculation where I am quite resilient to high-risk endeavours, and in any case, mostly that works out in my favour.

A lot of people I know, however, while thinking quite highly of themselves, do not in fact create better conditions for their friends, families or strangers, and often, in their blissful idiocy, don’t even realise that their selfishness, which is usually the main cause of things, doesn’t do them any favours either.

A LOT of people are in fact quite stupid by this metric, and often quite profoundly so, which also means they are incapable of realising it, their fantasy life being superimposed on the reality of their existence.

Especially in the context of the blog posts on how to beat clown world (use the search me function on the right and type in clown world).

This was posted as a comment under my Professor Cipolla post. I mean… he’s of course, forever relegated to spam for invincible stupidity, but one has to admit, he lowered to dumb to rarely plumbed depths.

If you have not, please read my previous post on Clown World Fatigue, it’s surprisingly uplifting.

Assuming you have read it, this part II is more of a roadmap to inform you of the various things you are likely to encounter on your journey. Remember: you’re the heroic underdog, as in all good drama/thrillers/rom-coms/dystopian films.

Here are some things that you will almost certainly encounter and solutions or suggestions you may wish to adopt and find useful.

1. Almost all news and almost all conversations become mind-numbingly irrelevant.

Once you truly internalise the concept of ignoring clown world and concentrate your efforts on (in brief) creating a small community of religious zealots, starting with your family and preparing for the coming economic meltdown, your concerns and daily efforts will have almost nothing in common with the surrounding NPCs. This is normal. In D&D parlance, you are a player-character (PC). A brave adventurer willing to on things like zombies, werewolves, vampires, armies of orcs and goblins, and even dragons. The non-player characters are mostly background foliage. About as relevant as the vegetation. In Paranoia RPG terms, you are the brave but very oppressed red level (lowest level) troubleshooter that has begun to question the computer and its high-programmers. You are carefully planning your escape from Alpha Complex and living out there in the wild, free from the insanities of this underground dystopia. In any case, a certain sense of isolation will be felt. Which may breed boredom or despondency.

The solutions to this are to immerse yourself deeper into your projects. If you still need to purchase that little plot of land in the mountains, or that boat to float away from the madness, or that cabin in the deep forest, then focus on that. Work harder, save, do what you mist to get it and preferably get it debt free. Emigrate if you need to. Focus on the big stuff first. If you have that more or less down, read. Stock up on paper books that are worthwhile and study them. Learn skills. Practice welding, or metal working, woodworking, or learning how to shoot, or hunt, or track, or live in the open, or build a small windmill or water powered turbine, or solar panel. Learn practical things and/or do them. Build a greenhouse. Learn about plant-based medicines.

All of the above takes care of the boredom side of things, but not necessarily the isolation sensation. In that respect start from the core and move outwards, but with human relationships, the order is not rigid, nor should be. Widen your circle of friends and acquaintances. Learn the skill of navigating different social structures. As a scout, this is natural for me, but it’s a skill you can learn. Learn to be personable in person with just about anyone. Don’t alienate the vaxxed with dogmatic ideology. Many if them are essentially decent human beings, despite their poor choices in that regard. And even if they are not, use them as practice to infiltrate whatever networks you may need. Your core should be your significant other and your immediate family (the one you create, not necessarily the one you were born in). By widening your circle of face to face contacts you increase the possibility of finding like-minded people. If you join a sedevacantist church you are practically guaranteed of making new friends that are counter to Clown World. If you do not yet have a significant other, expanding your circle of acquaintances is the most likely way of finding one. Even if you are young, single and surrounded by idiots in a big city, you can maximise the situation. Big cities have more people, so more chances to meet people. Learn how to do that and drop hints about your views to see how they react. Be flexible in your approach. Take up this RPG game as an excuse to introduce friends to some realities we may be facing by making it a fun time doing so under the comedic aspects, much like the Paranoia RPG did originally.

Hopefully the above has given you some ideas, but the main concept you need to learn to overcome any sense of isolation, depression, hopelessness and so on are two:

Mental toughness, which requires both a hardness of will and intent, and, paradoxically, a flexibility of mind and approach.

The second aspect may be even more important: an ability and intent to appreciate beauty. Without beauty, life become pretty dreary. This of course means learning to completely reject the CIA sponsored, obvious, ugliness of anything even remotely “post modern” (a name so stupid it literally is a piss take on those who buy into it), the rejection of abstract “art” (same shit, different name) brutalism, and anything LGBT related, since their concern is to sexually pervert, and as for “beauty” you only have to look at the revolting features of any tranny to see how “interested” in the concept they are.

2. Spend more time in nature.

In order to really understand reality better, nothing helps as much as having to adapt yourself to the natural rhythms of life. If you begin to live the life of a farmer, you begin to understand how you must adapt to the weather, seasons, realities of the land and animals you farm and so on. And falling in line with that rhythm, as well as letting it determine your day, week, months and years, begins to make you re-tune your body and more importantly, your psyche to a natural rebalancing. Whether you live as a hunter gatherer or a farmer, your anxieties will be almost nil compared to the neuroticism of the modern world. I grew up mostly in wild Africa, so for me this shift is easy to fall back into, but even if you did not, give it time and you will learn that while the physical hardships may be more pronounced, the mental ones are much lessened. If you have enough income to provide the basic necessities (whatever you decide those are), the rest becomes trivial from a mental stress perspective. This may not be true for women, but for any man that has not become dependant on starbucks, pedicures and netflix, it is a freeing and encouraging realisation that the modern world is largely a road to hell; and getting off that rat-run, is a rush of truth and freedom that is intoxicating.

Even if you don’t become a mountain man, go on hikes. Go camping. Go on nature walks. Go fishing. Go hunting. Learn to track. Learn to navigate by stars and compass or your watch and the sun.

3. Learn new skills.

I mentioned this as a general concept in point 1 above, but pick at least one physical skill that you want to become proficient at and invest the time and cost required. In most cases the cost is low unless you want to be a surgeon or something. By physical skill I mean something like say metalworking or learning how to repair your own car (most need computers, bit you can still get an old one without all the fancy crap and teach yourself how to get it in top shape).

Ideally, pick something that you can trade for. A decent mechanic, welder, woodworker or brick-layer is hardly ever out of work.

In the last two years, I learnt a bunch of things. Not always successfully (the gasifier still eludes me but I have narrowed down the issue considerably) but at least enough to be able to make some decent attempts at things if I need to, or, at least, know how to start to better any specific skill.

This also gives you a chance to meet and learn from people that are better than you at that thing, and often, friendships form, or like minded people are discovered.

4. Realise you are a pioneer.

People like us are forging a brand new path that has never existed before. We are turning our back on:

• Convenience over long-term viability.
• On comfort over sustainability.
• On ease of use over self-reliance
• Short term pleasure over long term gain

No society in human history has done this from scratch. At best some tried to hold back the tide of “progress” from the Tibetan monks to the Japanese Samurai. What eventually did them in was advances in technology and weaponry that overcame them.

You might think the Amish are an exception, but they are not. They have zero ability to defend their way if life. When the baleful eye of Sauron turns on them, they will be crushed in days.

Our way is different. We are not rejecting modern technology where it can serve us. We have no objection using drones, tractors, and night goggles. And if an when we are to defend our homes and friends and way of life, we must be prepared and able to do so by all available means. After all, defending yourself and your loved ones from predation, violence, unjust laws, or corrupt and fraudulent “justice” systems, is every person’s right. If they suddenly pass a law that people with red hair have to be executed, are you just going to lie down and die?

So don’t be like the Amish. We are NOT trying to turn back time. We are simply taking back our God-given right to choose our own destiny, our own self-determination, our own tribes and nations and systems of justice that are in accordance with our cultures, customs, and religion, fair and just to all within those parameters.

So act as such. Create communities as such. And remember. Pioneers have tough lives. Such is the Way.

So the Chinese probe is apparently taking hi res images of the Moon (see below).

Of course, one might be skeptical of this being real, however, given the current tensions between China and the USA, it would not seem strange that China would not expose the Moon landings as fake if they in fact were.

Russia has certainly heavily hinted, through a retired but originally highly placed Russian Space Programme official that the Moon landings were faked, but has not officially said so out loud.

If, however, you subscribe to my hypothesis as posted long ago in this video, and as presented in the updated version of the Face on Mars, then it makes perfect sense for a number of reasons.

Firstly, while the methodology they say they used, and almost all the footage, is indeed fake, they did actually go. The left over bits identified in the images below in such instance are real, and as such, hard to dismiss.

Secondly, in order to prove the fakery to a degree that makes it real and true to most people, one would have to explain how they actually did it. And in that case, the antigravity technology can of worms gets opened, and that, os a much bigger no-no than exposing the USA as the biggest hoaxers since… well that other giant lie or twenty we have all been fed as gospel truth.

Thirdly, maintaining the status quo with respect to this is a little bit like blackmail. As in “we know what you did, but we’ll play along until you stay in your lane.”

That, anyway, is my take.