North Stoke Life

Introducing Obedience Theory Let me put forward an idea that might be new to you. We'll call it 'obedience theory'. At its core, the theory explains how obedience serves as the main way people climb socially and economically. You can dig into the articles on this site for a proper deep dive. In any society built on hierarchy - and they all are - obedience underpins every decision we make. Other factors play a role in our social drives, but they're far less important. They're just theatrical offshoots of obedience. Choosing Your Tribe As a citizen, I will pick obedience to the authority that spins the tale I most want to hear. That's my tribe. I give it my obedience as the key thing to advance socially and economically. Of course, I do other stuff to get ahead. But obedience tops the list by miles. Public displays of obedience to my tribe - what I call 'signalling' - trump everything else in social and economic terms. This even beats out abstract princip...

Friends & family is a far cheaper and more effective way to run a nation.  This is where the money laundering scam also know as welfare is replaced by an ancient scheme where friends & family look after those they insist must be supported. The point is, that nothing is free. If everyone else pays for those they have no connection with it will end up in systemic fraud. This is not an opinion. It is observed. And for people who I honestly believe need help, I will help and pay for them to get it, to the best of my ability. Won't I? When a light is shone on me, to suddenly say that 'I' cannot afford it is a telling signal. With welfare, I already pay anyway when everyone else pays for it. Am I not 'everyone else'? Or how is it that theres more more money available when I'm not paying for it directly?  When my friends & family duties and obligations are thrown onto the state the costs are always double, triple or more, due to the inevitable scam it alway...

There are millions of corrupt people upholding this corrupt 'state'. Not a few billionaires or corrupt politicians. Probably 75% of the population have snouts buried deep in the corruption.  The Real Scale of the Problem Look, it's not just a handful of billionaires or crooked politicians running a corrupt system. Millions of everyday people prop it up. I'd estimate 75% of the population has their snout buried deep in the trough. That's the uncomfortable truth we're dodging.  Elon Musk keeps saying jobs might become optional in the future. Here's the thing: we're already mostly there.  The Private Sector Waste Machine In big corporations—the largest employers—tons of roles do nothing useful. Think endless admin busywork or layers of mid-level managers who mostly slow everything down and hurt the very companies paying them.  Then you've got the classic barrier-to-entry scams: lawyers, solicitors, regulators, licensing bodies, NGOs, charities, you name...

Is society The Problem? That is to say, do we still need to run a tribal hierarchy to rise to the great new heights which Mr. Musk is nobly striving for?  @grok define society and all its parts Allow me to make myself abundantly clear: these post are asking for people to think, not necessarily to act. So do not take them as a judgement but an positive opportunity to visualise the future for our descendants. Do we still need leaders like the apes do to govern the tribe? With rewards for those who signal obedience to authority. And punishment for those who do not. Apes need leaders and a hierarchy because without them any slight hiccup puts the tribe in serious jeopardy. The tribe could be wiped out by even a temporary shortage of food and shelter. I don't mean to say that society needs to be abolished. But if it's holding us back, why not? By abolition I mean to rid ourselves of the hierarchy. Do we need leadership any more? If so, pray tell me why exactly. For example, the econ...

You Cannot Secure an Election. They are just a theatre of authority, to which all people choose obedience before virtue. And what if 'the people', in general are corrupt? Will voter ID not then GUARANTEE a corrupt government? Have we reached that stage already, in spite of all recent elections having been stolen? By a corrupt people, I mean that in general, most people are at best obedient to authority and probably  worse. No matter what abstract principles we claim to follow morally and by the law.  Meaning these abstract principles are long ago overwhelmed by our insistence on prioritising our obedience to authority above all else. We obey because it works - not because it is good or bad. Because it works. It's well understood by all voters that obedience to authority will help you get on socially and economically more than anything else you can do.  So projecting onto evil wealth and power is just another mode of obedience signalling. We only elect wealth and power bec...