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Torture for Profit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH

People are not for sale. You cannot incorporate or patent a person, their DNA, their fingerprints, their voice, their patterns of behavior, their thoughts, their online avatars, or any other distinguishing characteristic or personally identifiable information.

People are not for sale.

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The knowledge gained from the terrible Nazi human experiments does not justify or excuse the experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

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The knowledge gained from the terrible Soviet human experiments does not justify or excuse the experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services

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The knowledge gained from the terrible Imperial Japanese human experiments does not justify or excuse the experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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The knowledge gained from the terrible CIA human experiments does not justify or excuse the experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

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The knowledge gained from these and similar experiments will be shared freely. The experiments will be terminated and the prisoners (they are not patients) will be set free with abundant help and compensation. Those responsible will be appropriately punished. Some will likely face spiritual capital punishment.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjbozQ7dAEj3sqn7auawbW5T

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The CIA is the same dark forces of the Imperial Japanese and Nazi Germans. We invited them here, gave them amnesty, and hid them. This led to MKUltra, CIA overthrows of democracies worldwide, drug trafficking, and torture programs, to name just a few atrocities.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
• https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detrick

Babel Fish

 Some thoughts on language:

The babel fish is shoved into your ear so that you can understand any language. See Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Tower of Babel can reach heaven, if only everyone can understand one another.

Noam Chomsky is the renown expert of linguistics, at least in America. He is also a philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. I own several of his books I swear I'll read one day. He is featured on Big Think and has a full length documentary. You can find a lot more good stuff from him out there.

We think in language, but we are not born with it. If I could I would learn many languages like polyglot savant Daniel Tammet.

Which ones? Probably those of the world's most spoken by native speakers first, followed by at least one from every region and a few that are just interesting.

• Mandarin Chinese
• Spanish
• Hindi
• Bengali
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Japanese
• Punjabi
• Turkish
• Korean
• French
• German
• Vietnamese
• Urdu
• Javanese
• Swedish
• Dutch
• Czech
• Greek
• Arabic
• Persian
• Indonesian
• Tagalog
• Thai
• Nepali
• Afrikaans
• Yoruba
• Zulu
• Swahili

Some good sources for material and teachers are:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebury_Institute_of_International_Studies_at_Monterey
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlitz_Corporation

And software:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_(software)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluenz_(language_learning_software)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Language_Online

If only Tank would download this for me!

And while you're at it, how about a copy of Wikipedia, a few digital libraries (include publishers Chelsea Green, Greenery Press, and the books in my personal library) and all the videos from these YouTube channels?

Could you also teach me to romance, love, debate, orate, write, study, cook, paint, act (theatrically), dance, and do various martial arts, too?

Please, and thank you very much.

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Hey, Tank. Since I'm asking, how about downloding the stuff from my blog Soul Voices? And can you make me experts in the sciences and the topics listed in my blog If I Ruled the World? Please add computer science and computer security to that list.

Solarpunk

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk

Solarpunk is a genre and art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability problems such as climate change and pollution. Solarpunk describes a multitude of media such as literature, fine arts, architecture, fashion, music, tattoos, and video games in a similar manner to adjacent movements such as steampunk and cyberpunk as well as more established art movements like Baroque and Art Nouveau and Impressionism.

Although Solarpunk is highly concerned with technology, it also embraces low-tech ways of living sustainably such as gardening, positive psychology, and DIY culture. Online communities that discuss and share solarpunk messaging are also often interested in the prepper lifestyle.

As the name suggests, Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies, including egalitarianism, humanitarianism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-consumerism, anti-corporatism, anti-war, decolonization, anti-racism, anti-sexism, animal rights, degrowth, and so on. It also shares aspects of the free-culture movement, free software and freedom of information.

Solarpunk YouTube Playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjaK48nCalYwVKUJQIh-ssLe

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Related, my Sustainable Social Ecology YouTube Playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjZmTe7E6wb2EpRsrdNisEbo

Foreign Films & Hacking Culture

I like independent and foreign films, though I admittedly have not stepped out of my comfort zone enough to explore all the wonderful options available.

While documentaries provide an information-dense broad overview, which I also like, independent and foreign films give the viewer a street-level view through a much narrower lens. In this way you get to really savor the finer aspects of world cultures and subcultures.

We are all human. We are all part of the same family. We are of the same essence.

And yet, borrowing from computer science as an analogy, we have both built-in hardware for processing information and add-on software to provide the cultural manipulation of that information.

Evolution is good. If you ever run a maze, you know you will hit dead ends and must turnaround. If you grow a tree, some branches will need pruning. The same is true for culture.

Culture must be able to grow. It should grow freely; too much tradition stifles that. Culture should grow with guidance; too much futurism and technology gets ahead of our wisdom. Culture must be able to reflect upon itself and prune what isn't working well; but you must be careful which parts and how much.

Previously, our collective consciousness was beneath the surface of holistic cultural awareness; who we are, what we're doing, and where we're going as a people. And by people, I now speak of the global village and the global citizen. Even the indigenous peoples, who were much better adapted to their environments before Europeans nearly exterminated all of them and the entirety of their culture, had grown this through eons of accidental trial and error. That's how evolution works.

We are now at a point where cultural improvement does not have to evolve entirely through accidental trial and error. And in fact, it must, if we are to survive. We are now at a point where we can critically examine our collective self and "hack" our very own regional and global cultural softwares.

Capitalism is destroying the planet and our relationships. Religious, political, and ideological fundamentalism creates unnecessary conflict. War is almost always unnecessary. Our global civilization raises our children like a production plant assembly line instead of as humans beings with human needs to satisfy.

The people don't like, want, or need authoritarian governments. Sexism and racism are senseless, but must be pointed out where found. Repressing sexual desires is unhealthy; maybe we should instead redesign our relationships.

Neither material wealth, hedonism, nor asceticism alone will provide a satisfied life. People need liberty, connection with community and the diversity of life, and the expression of creativity.

We can do better. We must do better.

There is so much unnecessary suffering caused by inequality, unexamined assumptions, and negative systemic feedback loops. The good news is that these can all be fixed if we are willing to open our hearts and minds, and take action.

I don't have all the answers, and even if I did I would never share them. That would defeat the purpose of evolution.

Eradicate Christian Nationalism

Conservative ideology has co-opted Christianity in America in an effort to create Christian nationalism. This is based partly on spreading propaganda. Some of the propaganda includes a revisionist history false narrative that the American founders were Christian and that America is a Christian nation. This propaganda is a deliberate deception to gain power.

Most American founders were Enlightenment era Deists, agnostics, or atheists, not Christians. The American founders who were Christians were very progressive and staunch proponents of the separation of church and state.

Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy, the American people, and people everywhere. Christian nationalism gives rise to white supremacy and fascism. Christian nationalism is evil and must be eradicated.

I used to attend Unitarian Universalist services, and hope to attend more in the future. This is unlike any other church, but rather more like an interfaith and secular-humanist service focused on social justice and personal growth. They are not fundamentalist.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjYPnZke1gfMnCcm9TYr3j4r

All religious, political, and ideological fundamentalism is dangerous and must be eradicated. The Republican Party has now become so completely infected with QAnon, Trumpism, and Christian nationalism that the Party must now end. The Republican Party must die.

The GOP must die and be replaced by the Jill Stein/Winona Laduke/Cynthia McKinney Green Party. The Democratic Party must shift left and become Democratic Socialists or Socialists to save themselves.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjaBCH9VJ1NgLF90Iubvb8fN

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjasrqqsbD65qSihC86-H79b

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White evangelicalism (American Christian Nationalism, also known as American Exceptionalism) is the fourth incarnation of the same evil empire devastating humans and Mother Earth, beginning first as Holy Roman Empire, British Empire, and Nazi German Reich.

And for the purposes of this discussion, I consider the roots of the Holy Roman Empire as going all the way back to Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.

This evil empire is an AI technocratic warrior invasive species which must and shall be eradicated.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

I created a YouTube playlist for waking up to:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjbDKKmQ1r2i8fXzYzx5xKBH

It compliments my blog post Human Operating System.