luka

Well-known member
i dont know anything about it either. i dont think trying to get employed by the inteligence agencies is a very good way of avoiding situations which would warrant whistleblowing though. maybe try getting a job at a shoe shop?
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Aside from CIA, maybe ARPA or some ARPA auxiliary. Maybe DIA. Maybe ODNI. Maybe even just some private think tank to eventually operate in an advisory capacity. As of now I take the side of liberal democracy, ideally unto a multipolar world order but I doubt how feasible that is for the foreseeable future.

100 years too late then. Mussolini and later then Hitler were the death of liberal democracy in the concrete.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I'm talking mitigation, not total avoidance. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I think the general duties of bodies and officers in the intelligence community necessitate secrecy to some degree, but that doesn't mean that all secrecy persists in bad faith.

Also I think we are bound to what secrets we inherit, in which cases the decisions to enter into bad-faith secrecy were not ours to make but are ours to deal with.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
100 years too late then. Mussolini and later then Hitler were the death of liberal democracy in the concrete.
What do you mean by concrete? I mean what exists now in the U.S. to whatever degree of corruption it involves. Work with what we have. I am still a utopian and a pragmatist about what reality is to be moved toward, however ostensibly futile.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
What do you mean by concrete? I mean what exists now in the U.S. to whatever degree of corruption it involves. Work with what we have. I am still a utopian and a pragmatist about what reality is to be moved toward, however ostensibly futile.

If you want to be a utopian you'll never understand. history does not proceed by the power of utopia alone, myth is a weapon of combat, not an ideal. You must confront the actual, no matter how depressed it may make one.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
If you want to be a utopian you'll never understand. history does not proceed by the power of utopia alone, myth is a weapon of combat, not an ideal. You must confront the actual, no matter how depressed it may make one.
I agree, and yet I can hardly claim to have confronted even a relatively significant chunk of the actual. Still somewhat early in stess-testing this method, averse to biting off too much too quickly and being unable to recover.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I say utopian with no absolute attachment to the concepts entailed thereby. Just seems like a term that I would be called by the more experienced among us, with the implications of naivete it carries.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I do believe in the situational power of ideas though, even ideas that have not fully enough confronted actuality.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
I agree, and yet I can hardly claim to have confronted even a relatively significant chunk of the actual. Still somewhat early in stess-testing this method, averse to biting off too much too quickly and being unable to recover.

Well if you are serious about all of this then I would advise 10 years of study for 10 hours a day for 10 months like al-ghazali who held his tongue. If it is a hobby or a pursuit then, being a magpie is good. But that depends on your own disposition.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
That is a rate I cannot currently muster, nor do I have the specialized focus I suspect you would advise. A bit of a mess, then, but one I am borderline vocational about sorting out and operationalizing.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
That is a rate I cannot currently muster, nor do I have the specialized focus I suspect you would advise. A bit of a mess, then, but one I am borderline vocational about sorting out and operationalizing.

You can. install a screen reader and you can read and listen to music at the same time.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
That seems in line with things I have tried, albeit not nearly to such sustained levels. Trance focus, time flying by.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Your "scattershot" critique of my approach still applies, as far as I would say, and yet I would still insist on it unto some upcoming threshold. The autodidact thread shows this. Whether on my part that is merely cowardly stubbornness, or foresight, I cannot say with certainty.
 
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