phenoumena, and religious metaphysical inference

Technical answer very boring. All observable conscious experience can be categorised as a property of the brain and observed in the first person view as sensory data types. 

What you make of the data is up to you. The visceral feeling of discomfort with unanswered questions is itself this type of data. Which leads to the question, is the question the problem. Or the answer which isn't there.

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How to start understanding Malaysian politics

Google and Meta AI are reasonably good at the historical stuff and interpretation of current affairs.

As with all politics, I would go back as far as possible and list

1. the traumas that matter, 

2. the execution that followed

3. the legislation that stabilised 

4. the interpretation and enforcement that followed 

In that order.

So Malaysian trauma starts with Constantinople falling to the Ottomans, locking up the silkroad, and forcing EU to seafare ... same as US trauma

Why have I met so many stupid people? A POV at 43.

Why have I met so many stupid people? A POV at 43.

Review of institutional relations :

From 1983 to 2001, I dealt mostly with my parents. The data was not so good, but it is what it is, one does not get to choose about this. I was happy to exit this environment. ASAP. We are generally congenial and have no ill-will towards each other, though I would think they have had more attachment to me, while I have deprioritised it aggressively since 2000.

From 2001 to 2005, I dealt mostly with my college. It only took me until 2003 to figure out that academia as a sector was poorly structured, and that my teachers here were mostly cogs in a sector they had no interest in drastically reforming. I was paid well, and made the most of my time here.

From 2005 to 2010, I dealt mostly with my employers. It took me a few months to eyeball the status quo and eject from government think tanks, then a year and a bit more to do the same for consulting and banking by 2007. Then until 2010 I worked with small business owners, before intermittently dabbling in running my own businesses from 2011 to 2020.

Perhaps it was just my luck of trying to find a place among ordinary people : the result was, I spent much of all this time with people who are naturally stupid, and comfortable in their stupor. A poorly paid serf, does not have much opportunity to offer their own servants.

So if I want to meet smarter people, I may have to switch strategies to avoid ordinary life. I will think about this some more over the years to come.

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Discussion :

Who do I consider stupid, she asked me. I thought it was clear enough in my previous comments. For the avoidance of doubt :

- people who trust counterparties without contingency plans

- people who want to publish for personal gain, instead of avoiding publication which does not serve public interest

- people who want to repeat known business models, instead of aiming to destroy them

- people who want to do their favourite things repeatedly instead of learning new things

- people who prefer to stability of a population over development of the survivors

Talking points of course. This is very abstract.