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a tool i always use is influence

There has to be good faith, and love

i just found "[4:20 PM] fallot: the most ripe targets for conversion are the liberals who respect you and who you respect" intriguing.

it cannot be simply a pragmatic approach

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because if someone has no respect for you, it's easy for them to retreat behind their defenses

your mind, especially if you are smart

is very capable of leading you astray

the smarter people form very complete and multifaceted justifications

for insanity

can relate, from being paranoid

this is why I was never down with "cull <120"

because it's the less intelligent people who are more in touch with "common sense"

for whom tradition is not simply an abstraction

but something that perfuses their life

something they value as more than an idea

the smarter people can more fully realize that truth, but they are less equipped from the starting point

i would say that there are things better suited for <120 iqs

their instinct is to go against tradition

NOT making decisions that affect the well-being of an entire population

I don't entirely disagree, but

all about merit to me

no, this is a bit dangerous I think, the way you are going down

we already live in a cognitive meritocracy

most of history was religious, military and aristocratic elites

only now, in modernity, do we have an "ideas men" elite

since the enlightenment or renaissance one could say, gradually leading to the current state

your average shitlib journo

is smarter than most people

smart people have the most danger from becoming ideologically unmoored

normies can just persist

if they dont receive the wrong signals from top down

they will keep things going

the answers of tradition (small t) and common sense may not be immediately rational, nor efficient

but the weight of history is behind them, they work

and they will keep working, even with problems

@fallot I very much agree with you.

Smart people are much more at risk of going completely off the rails.

I think normies would turn on a dime, if you change the top down signals

oftentimes they do