CriticalThinking

Critical Thinking produced the 7th and final iteration of its analysis of political economy on 18th October 2019.
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When the Map Became the Territory
Quantum Physics, Institutional Mystification, and the Reality Beneath the Equations
Who benefits from a physics that renders reality fundamentally unknowable, and from the fears — nuclear, quantum, AI — that flow from it?

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Standing In Our Power
For those who feel the transition is still somewhere ahead, it may be closer than it appears:
https://t.co/3YokBi0KSR

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The Man Who Fixed Things
A girl arrives at a farm with her mother. She helps fix chicken coops, harvest mushrooms, scrub a decking, feed sheep. She meets a man who fixes things — and asks the questions children ask, without knowing their weight.
https://t.co/zQBTTr5tUc

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The Proof Was Always There

The platforms we use every day have accidentally proved the case for a different kind of economy. The network already exists, connection and contribution are natural human impulses requiring only a surface to express themselves.
https://t.co/JcHJDcOjRs

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Relation Precedes State

If time is not a linear sequence but a relational field, quantum uncertainty dissolves once you recognise that relation precedes state. Thus, one of the standing objections to direct value handling disappears.
https://t.co/qGjMGPSuhf

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Stablecoin holders supply the float. BlackRock captures the yield. The GENIUS Act cements the arrangement in law. How digital money is reproducing the oldest trick in finance — faster, more automated, and more opaque.
The Stable Circus and Beyond: https://t.co/MEjk5xaA5U

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I've been using AI in my writing for over a year. The unexpected result: not alienation from the natural world, but a deeper rootedness in it. Washing dishes for strangers, moving through laziness as methodology, and ending somewhere I didn't plan to go. https://t.co/ygVRVudt0M

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An Economy Without Money — published in The Light
The money system is failing — most of us can feel it. While the old order strains & lurches, something else is already growing alongside it. The platforms we use every day have accidentally proved the case.
https://t.co/pGC5y8e9Cy

[Alex Gopoian @HumblyAlex]

There's definitely a correlation between IQ and rational/emotional intelligence development (what the Foundation for @FCriticalThink covers nearly in total in their CT Development Stage Theory stages, what I would call a capacity and potential for efficiency vs quality and consistency). However, at a certain point, the higher the IQ, the less "normal" the person becomes, and much of that correlation can easily go out the window due to trauma, especially in childhood.

US Mensa's special interest group (SIG), "Firehouse," is full of people who join because they feel like total outcasts, wanted to find similar minds, but still end up very dependent on cognitive self-defense mechanisms which results in massive amounts of pseudo-intellectualism as their main way of self-validating via intellect-signalling... and making them effectively "dumber" and more prone to mental illness inspired violence.

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The stability "stablecoins" offer is borrowed — from the same banks, regulators, and political arrangements that make the existing system fragile. A digital wrapper around a failing system is still a failing system.
What comes after money?
https://t.co/PQxhLbBGwd

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We are born clean. We are born innocent. Then we are claimed by the order of symbols and put to walk the forest.
Alex Nikolov explores the gifts and costs of living through symbols — and how we learn to walk among them rather than be walked by them.
https://t.co/UfdubxgqSo

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The Architecture Is Sound, But the Foundation Is Missing
Plutocracy is a symptom. The mechanism beneath it is monetary. Every serious attempt at political reform within the existing monetary architecture confirms the same thing The foundation does not move
https://t.co/W5Zveqq3e6

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Guilty Sources, Innocent Truths
The demand for irrefutable proof before engaging with a source isn't rigour. It's conditioning — and it travels with us into dissent as reliably as it does into compliance.
https://t.co/XdbrUtgjpT

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Her father knew which sources to trust. He'd taught her to ask good questions. He just hadn't expected her to ask them back. A new short story: The Stream.
https://t.co/gQlryVmbwA

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The madness is not random. It has a shape.
And the shape is that of an era fighting to survive beyond its time.
New article: The Pattern Behind the Madness on cosmic transition, collective adolescence, and why forgiveness is the most radical act available.
https://t.co/pK5natPLQu

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Who Benefits From Your Hatred?
The grievances are real. The suffering is real. The dead are real.
What is manufactured is the conclusion that more killing will resolve any of it.
Find the only position that can't be turned into fuel for the machine.
https://t.co/cKVdgtUhcB

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The Pattern Was Always There.

What the published papers said when it wasn't safe to say it. What has since become visible. And why independent thinkers are now arriving at the same structural conclusions from completely different directions.
https://t.co/OVcmtu3uUe

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The Year of Getting It - A Story

This is a story about a year in which something shifts. Not dramatically. Just irrevocably.

It is also, quietly, a story about what comes next — for all of us.

https://t.co/5j2ZtS1QE9

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The Survivor follows a young woman trained from childhood to steward inherited wealth
Whose value? Decided by whom. At what cost to what else. A story about inheritance, seeing, the difference between preserving a structure & understanding what it is for.
https://t.co/KzNZuGHNKU

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The Season Changed
The Season Changed is a short story told through the eyes of a child watching her neighbourhood quietly transform during a time of mounting uncertainty.
Read it at: https://t.co/NWkDv6bxNW