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Your eyes cannot take on the blinding light, so you scurry back into the cave

[Arṭārèza @ArtaConworlder]

Timon and Pumbaa are TLK's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Their function in the story is to turn Simba (Hamlet) into an effeminate wastrel and lead him into spiritual death (or in the case of the source material, physical death).

Simba doesn't self-actualize until he realizes that his purpose is to embody the Father/Warrior-King archetype, and he abandons the duo's philosophy of comfort and degeneration, embracing struggle and hardship for the sake of others.

"Hakuna Matata" isn't the key to happiness, but the chains by which Simba is enslaved to perpetual childhood. It's a blindfold that prevents Simba from confronting and processing the death of his father, which prevents him from ever becoming a ma-... lion.

Holding up Timon and Pumbaa as positive role-models is about the most egregious sin against media literacy you can commit.

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@minordissent Even more evidence:

https://t.co/C4Vharh9dn

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@minordissent To illustrate his compulsive lying behavior:

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is an excellent insight into "based" culture on the right.

Matt Walsh likes the ancients and he also likes Christianity.

It doesn't reflect a consistent set of principles. Rather, it's mood affiliation. The "based" rightist likes things that seem old, masculine, white, Western, and traditional. They are opposed to things that seem modern, liberal, and effeminate.

Thus, you can be pro-Homeric values and also pro-Christianity. The fact that these things are contradictory doesn't matter. This shows up in policy too, where you'll find the same guys talking about how abortion is bad because all life is sacred and then turn around and demand immigrants be shot at the border.

This worldview lacks a coherent center in a moral or ethical sense. It defines itself in opposition to the libs and in favor of what is "trad", and therefore wants to support things that offend liberal sensibilities no matter from which direction.

[Bachman @ElonBachman]

Took me a few years to go through the entire HBD canon, mostly I'm left in awe at the epistemics of the anti-hereditarians: "Yes, the world looks exactly like it would if we were wrong. No, we have no thoughts on this."

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

Video está misguided em alguns níveis, pra começar muita gente se confunde sobre o Dunning Kruger effect... Ele pode ser explicado como mero artefato estatístico quase que determinístico, mesmo em um cenário onde os participantes que se auto-avaliam não têm nenhum viés prévio. Exemplo: Imagine que depois de um teste todo mundo chuta a própria nota com erro aleatório de ±10. Ninguém é modesto, ninguém é arrogante, mas existe um erro entre auto-avaliação e a performance em si. O grupo que tirou 97 não pode chutar 107 — a escala acaba em 100. O "erro pra cima" bate no teto e morre; erro pra baixo passa livre. A média do grupo necessariamente cai abaixo de 97. O mesmo acontece na direção inversa pra quem tem notas muito baixas. Pronto: "os bons se subestimam" e "os fracos se superestimam". Sem nenhuma psicologia pseudocientífica

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@multiplanet1 @grok please verify story accuracy

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@captgouda24 Good luck!

[CognitiveMetrics @CognitiveMetric]

On why hard work may be overrated and the role of talent underrated, especially by successful people:

“When a person is striving to achieve something, whatever special capacity he may have takes care of itself. The capacity requires no thought on the part of the striving individual. His attention is absorbed, instead, by the effort he is putting forth.
When, therefore, a successful person is asked the secret of his success, he naturally finds little in his memory of the period preceding his success, except the effort."

Furthermore: “Individuals awaken each morning with the same IQ, but often with widely different fluctuations in motivation toward school or work.
Consequently, we experience considerable intra-individual variation in motivation, but no intra-individual variation in IQ, so that it appears to many of us that motivation far outweighs intellectual ability in human affairs.”

From Jensen’s Bias in Mental Testing (p. 23).

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

As far as I can tell, the most notable political science results of the 21st century is democracy cannot work well with low fertility rates.

All converge on prioritizing retirees over workers and immigrants over citizens escalating social transfers beyond sustainability.

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@beaverd Sounds like fringe speculation to me

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@notCloutbay This is hilarious 😂

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

this is a skill issue, it’s really not that hard, you really just have to listen to women and cultivate empathy. the way women feel about men is closer to the way you feel about whether you’d go into battle with a man than the way you feel about women

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@jeremykauffman I mean, there should be other reasons as well, if hereditarianism was the only explanation you wouldn't have such large discrepancies between North and South Korea or Pre vs Post Xiaoping's China

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@wikdhr78 @cremieuxrecueil Link doesn't work for me either

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I will never get over the fact that Trump's proposal for what to do about the Twin Towers was to rebuild them but twice as big

[YungPut1n @YungPutin1]

Powerful

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

"I did not conquer half the world by listening to men who had conquered nothing"

— Alexander the Great

[Q Ω @Adamantvs]

@Sitcomnationlst @0x49fa98 @fakePentriket ltn is probably "low-tier-normie", i.e. "below average sexual market value"