Step 1: start a new economy based on a different kind of money
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I'll 3D print you some cute sewing buttons in exchange for a week's supply of oats.
the most unempathic people i have met love to go on about how important empathy is
same for critical thinking.
they are basically words with no meaning other than whatever is most convenient for the speaker at the moment to use to shame others for not sharing their opinion or feelings on the matter.
emotional intelligence is another one of these BS terms people spout that also has no meaning other than 'agrees with me'.
emotional intelligence is another one of these BS terms people spout that also has no meaning other than 'agrees with me'.
Proudly broadcasting your ignorance there, aren't you? Your kids probably don't talk to you much, do they?
Emotional intelligence to me, means that someone understands their feelings, why they have them and where they come from. They know how to 'treat' themselves.
Some people are better than others at this. Some might get really frustrated but not understand why, while others can perfectly describe why they are frustrated, what they need to resolve it and then act on it. This to me is a very real thing.
EDIT: Oh and it also goes the other way. Someone who is emotionally intelligent might also be good at infering others emotions. Doesn't just apply to one self. I suppose this is called empathy.
Emotional intelligence to me,
thanks for proving my point. it's a totally subjective thing. the term was popularized in business literature as a way to evaluate management candidates. then it was popularized by pop psychologists. it's bullshit through and through. as is almost all of business/pop psychology.
what it is useful for, is a way to manipulate people by making up a bullshit metric by which you can judge them and they can judge each other. hence you have dummies who think 'i do therapy and read self-help books therefore i am very vemotionally intelligent'
before that phrase it was EQ emotional quotient, trying to ape IQ as a way of being a legitimate measure. IQ is also largely bullshit for morons to convince themselves they are geniuses because they scored well on an arbitrary test.
the more homework you do on this stuff the more you realize it's all manipulative BS made up by corporate bozos who want to use it rank their employees against each other by some arbitrary metric because ranking them by their actual work productivity is too hard and scary for management. or sorting school children.
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Who knows, maybe that part of the 90s will come back too…
WHO MAKES THE MONEY??!!?!
Yeah. It would probably be like, think critically. Do you actually see the earths curvature? Does it make sense that humans decend from an ancient primate?? Just think for your self.
And then people "think" and forget to calculate in that they could just be ignorant on the subject matter.
As someone that makes things and stuff that needs to account for curvature. I would advise to educate your self on the topic. Grasp the basic consepts before thinking too much. That comes later.
Or the simulation of both
Yes, the exact opposite of MAGA.
Maybe some sort of Rene seance, conjuring the spirit of dead Rene Descartes by reading and discussing his writings with neighbors and friends to instigate a sense of philosophical curiosity about the world & works of more contemporary philosophers and even writing some novel or unique new perspective themselves.
most people who read philosophy books do not understand them. they just like to quote them to sound smart and important.
Tough luck. TV spelled the end of intellectual elections. Look up how Dwight Eisenhower got one over his democrat opponent in 1952. He used commercial jingles and hired Mad Men era advertising writers, his opponent bought 30 minute time slots to explain his positions in a rational calm manner. Guess who won?
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