What is wrong with our society today? Kyle Phoenix Answers

What is wrong with our society today?

Kyle Phoenix, Writer and student & Instructor at Columbia University

Consciousness.
I read thru the answers below and realized how much of it was an unfettered expansiveness of consciousness. Social media/internet is our first foray as a mass into telepathy. What we see on here is just, everyone's thoughts. We have no context for such an unveiling. Suddenly good, bad, trivial, desires, selfish, foolish is permanently exposed. Those who post nudes, willingly or not, are examples of the invention of indestructible memories. We've never been able to not forget. Mass opinions are now tied to the ability to hold in your hand an access device to the telepathic sphere. (I live in NYC. From poor to middle class hands are rarely free, eyes up. I often wonder what the more destitute or out of shape or homeless or day laborers are ceaselessly scrolling through.)

Interestingly I've also noted a mass counterpoint from spiritual corners and the elite: Meditation. Self mind control extolled as a virtue, a must.
This is humanity's first step into opening up our inner psychic realm, expanding our mental capacity to include a uni-sphere of information. We're seeing the jumble of emotion we all are in a naked, permanent psychic way. Every thought/image can be saved, replayed. Fear is now of exposure to the uni-sphere.
Now interestingly this mind accessing tech has arrived before we solved television, a constructed medium of psychic inception. Hence the jumble, the massive overwhelm people struggle with. I don't watch TV, I have Hulu and Netflix but recently I've seen TV in passing, it is an unfiltered cacophony. I'm amazed that you allow it at yourself, your children. Two notes on that comment, I have a TV show, educational, informational for the past 8 years and Hulu and Netflix are yes, similar to TV but the provide conscious (ness) control to access or not. I must say yes to Fear the Walling Dead or Strike A Pose (an excellent opportunity to see celebrity's effect on those in it's wake) but I get to control it. I'm 40 minutes into Inside Job because it's heady, thick, dense so I have paused that thought for a few days now, I watched an X-men cartoon episode, Chopped, Bullshit with Penn & Teller and one thing I found was how loud some shows are, remember this just through my laptop speakers and the image re-projected thru a forty inch flat screen. But what I'm doing is consciously not passively giving it entrance to me and then I can further disassemble the content with critical thinking.

Honestly I see a lot of hegemonic control and management thought's pushed in the content itself. Some intentional but interestingly most repetitious not because there's a lack of creativity but because the masses demand oatmeal and don't trust anything else. Hence Law & Order ad infinitum, but still a control system. Count the police shows, the medical dramas, the shows where the unique or creative are hunted by government like agencies. Shirley McClain once said the problem with Hollywood is that it is America's subconscious.
That's what you're feeling.

First TV/info/internet unfettered at your mind. But you maintain the jack in, you're convinced that you must be connected to the very thing which overwhelms the mind. This is the drug.

Second the content is wide, messy and you're not editing based on not it's criteria but a more objective one. This is the syringe.

Trump mainlined is a lot.
Standing back and occasionally seeing a tv bit, reading some things, I see it's not the end of the world, it's just a multitude of high potency inception and overwhelming potency through indestructible crystallized thought form. But we are without cogent psychic defense experience we let icebergs of thoughts and images take root in our minds.

A guy wrote on here that he'd made 3000 answers in 90 days. I was shocked by the commitment and possible reward and no suggestions he disconnect for a while. On the positive psychic hand, he's divesting his knowledge onto the psychic plane; on the negative, he's intensely present, exposed on the psychic plane. Just because he's peeing doesn't mean he's not being peed upon more.

Solutions?

I think by the time I'm an old man the foray into mind studies, psychic research will be hot topics as we now play with quantum mechanics, virtual reality, reality tv, neuroscience/mental illness and over exposure. We must not necessarily disengage to the point of some of my coworkers who are not computer/tech savvy, for they are like mentally handicapped people for their inability to express and access the uni-sphere. And the system uses them as chum----look at service jobs, occupied not by thinkers but in fact more and more non-thinkers, folk who cant manage the organic and cyber/uni-sphere. Look at how many questions on here are about coding, money and human interaction. As mass of people are now learning how to be, succeed and engage the humans IN the uni-sphere.

We must learn our limitations on a psychic level individually, much like we know our drinking alcohol tolerance levels. I notice the now constant need for both attention and insularity. We're going to have to find our personal center and then group psychic center and only allow the centered at the table of mass world, resources, people control. The most experienced in the uni-sphere will be the most disconnected from humanity.

Ironically US Presidents keep being "less" connected to the uni-sphere people...no blackberries, no email, no computer Obama, Bush, Trump. That psyche insulation does something I'm sure.

When we acknowledge this and start to marshal the restrictions and control points of content control we'll take the next leap forward, probably in the 2080s.

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Education: What Is Critical Thinking? by Kyle Phoenix

Recently I've been teaching a class on this and the students of course needed a clean and clear system for how to define critical thinking.  We were able to figure out that being smart was natural, that all conscious beings, whether man or animal have some level of smarts.  But learning, focused learning leads to intelligence.  Which brought us to the question of then what is intelligence and that brought us to critical thinking.  The assumption that critical thinking is the capacity to ask why is not only puerile but harmful because critical thinking is so much more powerful and useful.

Critical Thinking can be broken down into a 4 step process:

1. Identify Assumptions Informing Thoughts & Actions
2. Check Assumptions for Accuracy & Validity
3. View Ideas & Actions from Alternative Perspectives
4. Take Informed Action

Identify Assumptions Informing Thoughts

Why are you thinking what or how you're thinking? Who started that? Where did that come from? We often think from being trained by society, parents, teachers, peers, fools and the guy on the corner. I do an absolutely annoying thing to people constantly---I ask them where or how they got that thought.

So someone says to me: "Everyone knows that men won't pay for dinner when you go out with them without you having to be sexual with them afterwards."

Who told you that?  No, really, who told you that?  Where did you learn that?  That reality doesn't exist for anyone besides-----your society, your parents, your teachers, your peers, your fools and the guy on your corner but is it the truth?  
Ignorance of one's own mind and where the detritus in it is the road to ignorance.

In Personal Power 2  Anthony Robbins teaches about being conscious of what we allow into our minds, questioning each nugget as carefully as we might examine the food we put into our bodies.

Check Assumptions for Accuracy & Validity

"Everyone knows that men won't pay for dinner when you go out with them without you having to be sexual with them afterwards."

First off, who is everyone?  Second, what kind of men?  Third, what about lunches and brunches, does that have quid pro quo attached too?  Fourth, what is your definition of sexual?

A statement or supposition can and sometimes has to be challenged for whether it's real or valid.  But maybe most importantly we should ask the person who says this---where they got that thought?  What experience have they personally had?  From that we might then go Oh, you've been asked to put out a lot for dinner, huh?  But that doesn't hold true for me and ten of my friends.  Maybe even 100 of my Facebook friends.  Maybe, just maybe we know a social strategy that you don't.  So we might have to check and see where you got this idea.  If all your dinner dates happen in your house or his house, then yes,, sex might be hinted at and since your bedroom is only ten feet away, all your dinner dates, that a man has bought dinner, you've ended up being sexual.

I might be able to challenge that on a date, if you have dinner at a restaurant at least 50 blocks from your house, at a reasonable time and somehow slip into the conversation that you'll be going home alone.  Suddenly your "everyone" doesn't hold water.

View Ideas & Actions from Alternative Perspective

Now you get all excited about doing this with me and extend yourself.  This is the most crucial part of Critical Thinking, you have to extend yourself mentally and emotionally.  It's okay.  You won't die.  People often feel like if they step away from their thought/opinion to anew thought, they will "die".  In fact what they're talking about dying is all of the structures that they've built around that thought.  The more abnormal or dysfunctional a thought the more difficult it is to examine and put aside to look at a new way of considering reality because it just might shift ten other things in your thought system,.

"Everyone knows that men won't pay for dinner when you go out with them without you having to be sexual with them afterwards."

A new perspective might be that there are plenty of men and women having dinner without sex afterwards and this might lead to more dinners and dates and it might also lead to a relationship.  Then our new question stem might be are you being sexual so fast to avoid or sabotage the second date?  We might then question the kinds of men who jump to your house with two bags of take out and a condom.  We might then question what boundaries would like?  We might then get into do you know what boundaries are, even with people you like?  We might then question where you got your dating skills and from whom?

What we'd be doing together is exploring alternative perspectives to arrive at new thoughts/answers.

Take Informed Action

Critical Thinking is ultimately mental masturbation is you don't do step four.  Without step four you're in a spiral or a factory (if you're doing it with a group) when there is no action.

"Everyone knows that men won't pay for dinner when you go out with them without you having to be sexual with them afterwards."

Again, with our comment we can then say, ok, I'm going to try out dinners at restaurants, I'm going to only have dates in other boroughs to avoid possible sexualization, I'm going to wear dirty underwear or keep my apartment messy or have a friend to meet after the first date---something, some interrupting new action that will example that we've examined the old thought and behavior and come up with some things to not only do but we're trying them out.  Most people think when they're talking about say politics that they're really doing something but most times they're just jabbering or posting online.  Joining your school board or community board is taking informed action to try and make change to new thoughts.  You might even end up running for office or joining some political group that will actively go out on the high seas and block/catch illegal whale hunters.

Most people avoid true Critical Thinking because it might require doing something.  Real Ideology examined and then Liberation to being and doing new things that have an effect upon your own world will require risk.  Therefore, true critical thinking is exampled in the by-product of risk.  Now you have followed through in a process that has really defined what critical thinking is and you can apply this to anything from waffles to world affairs.  The question is though: how many of your thoughts are flexible enough to be examined, reexamined and perhaps up ended to change?


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