in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
"Identity" seems to have become a real problem in the West and especially in America. There was a point in time when I was an adolescent that I wanted to 'identify' as a black person because my suburban surroundings were so devoid of social interaction. 'Identifying' gives the person a reason to assert themselves powerfully into the otherwise doldrumous public realm of the suburbs. In other words, it gives people a reason to interact with the world around them and it stirs social connection--however dysfunctional it is--in an otherwise socially empty environment.
For the past 70 years the American human habitat has been taken over by corporate consolidation. Every facet of human interaction and localized commerce in towns have been put under corporate standardization and control by people who don't actually live in those areas. It is my understanding that corporate standardization of human interaction and commerce goes against human nature and lowers social capital in communities.
Because people are so desperate for social interaction (And control over their local commerce) in this kind of environment, they 'identify' with a cause--any cause--that they might not have otherwise. The suburbs are causing an identity crisis in the American people.
There is currently a rising hysteria against transgender because of this and behaviors of people--desperate for social interaction--have been damaging to the transgender community. This is a big reason why we need to re-examine our habitat and the impact it has on social interaction and commerce. Transgender has been around, likely, for all of humanity and is not necessarily a bad thing. Additionally, it is important for children and people to become normalized and be around other people who are different than them because that is how functional communities are formed.
Sometime around 2018 the definition of 'gender' was changed as a result of confusion over how to deal with these issues. It defines it as "the male sex or the female sex, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones, or one of a range of other identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female." They have taken what was previously a scientific term and turned it into a social one, and yet, the word 'gender' still continues to be used in the context of science. "Identity" is social--not physical. Transgender is diagnosed as "Gender Dysphoria" by the psychological establishment, meaning it is a condition that is born in the brain and does not relate to any sex glands that exist on the body. The evidence is overwhelming that human social behavior is rooted in the brain through neurons and that 'identity' and social cognition are created in the brain through cause-effect relationship with the environment over time. To this day, there has not been a scientifically established 3rd gender and yet we have words like "Pansexuality"--a word accepted in universities and academia that indicates that there are more than 2 genders.
This type of social determinism is confusing science in a time when science has been overwhelmingly taken over by corporations which are about money and not truth. Furthermore, there is a lingering taboo against naturalism that stems from old cultures of Gnosticism where we still refuse to accept our own natures. This culture has been passed down and created a mode of scientific study that is overly socially deterministic and overly metaphysical. As uncomfortable as it may be, we need to allow ourselves to address the things that we are ignoring in our culture. This is where it starts.
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An article I wrote called "The Massive Well-Hidden Bias of Gnosticism in Science" explores how today's education system was deteriorated by overly metaphysical thinking in science which stems from Gnosticism.
archive.org/details/the-massive-well-hidden-bias-o…
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People ask why mental health isn't taken seriously.
Why take the field of psychology seriously when psychologists actually refuse to study the thing that’s making our thoughts—the brain? There is a refusal to bring materialism to the field by bringing the theoretical aspects of psychology (our observations of what we experience and psychological diagnoses) together with neuroscience. There is a disconnect between the two fields mainly because of social determinism in physical science and a compartmentalization between materialism and what we experience. It’s a cultural refusal to accept that there is a beginning and end to our natures that stems from Gnosticism.
Because of this, psychology carries on without any material objectivity of what is actually going on in the brain (activity of the neurons). Until we bring materialism back to psychology, it will remain a pseudoscience that people can’t really take seriously and people will continue to suffer in silence.
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The elephant in Youtube's server room.