This is a reference to Brendan Myers’ course “Clear and Present Thinking”, which I have referred to in other places (e.g., here, here, and here).
PS - see also:
In my opinion, based on my lived experience and the BPM Guidance I have received, the reason our “three dimensional” physical reality exists (see Purpose (for physical existence)) is so we can come into contact with people who are different (but still BPM) and learn to get along with them and even work with them.
From Stuart Holroyd’s brilliant book "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth":
''If they treat all as they would desire to be treated, if they walk in dignity and neither attempt to remove from another nor permit to be removed from themselves their dignity, and if they have love for their fellow men and for all that they come in touch with, this in turn sends love to us.’
and
‘A unified infinite intelligence supported by pure love and which grows with pure love.’
That means we are supposed to be:
· Anti-racist, NOT racist or white hierarchical racists;
· Anti-sexist and anti-misogyny, NOT sexist;
· Inclusive, NOT ableist or homophobic/biphobic/transphobic/queer-phobic or neurotypist or classist or any of the other versions of anti-love, anti-wisdom, anti-spirituality separatism / rejection / attempted hierarchism / treating as lesser / etc that are forms of bigotry.
This also includes combinations of those, generally referred to as privilege / intersectionality – see :
· “Wheel of Privilege and Power” https://just1voice.com/advocacy/wheel-of-privilege/ The diagram has a specific URL, which is https://aurisecreative.work/aurisecreative.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tessa-watkins-intersectionality-wheel-of-privilege.png
o This is based on the earlier version by Sylvia Duckworth at https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Wheel-of-Power-Privilege-and-Marginalization-by-Sylvia-Duckworth-Used-by-permission_fig1_364109273 which in turn
- is adapted from the Canadian Council for Refugee’s “power wheel” at https://ccrweb.ca/en/anti-oppression
In addition to being anti-existence/anti-evolution, these bigotries are WRONG because they are based on :
a) wrong perception of reality (e.g., thinking a few people are representative of a class, failure to comprehend the effects of discrimination, etc);
a) incorrect perception (confirmation bias, F.E.A.R., etc);
b) suffering from FBU;
c) taught hate and/or fear;
d) personal flaws (e.g., personal insecurity about own sexuality / gender identity);
e) arbitrary ideas about inclusion / exclusion or access to particular groups (which applies to all forms of sexism, racism, and transphobia - and classism);
f) etc.
Bigots have the same sort of inability to think that right wing extremists have also been shown to have - the same sort of mental ineptness that conspiracy fantasists have (which is why I now use the term conspiracy fantasy, not conspiracy "theory" - they haven't done enough thinking to justify the word theory).
People in a number of powerful positions / organisations who have ANY form of bigotry are unfit to be in that position. On the other hand, anyone who (and any organisation that) is genuinely making an attempt to deal with, or at least manage, what is these days termed “unconscious bias”, deserves at least the benefit of the doubt. Other bigots don't, and should be ignored on everything.
In overcoming any form of bigotry, there is usually a fairly typical pattern, which goes something like this:
· the form of discrimination is invented and popularised, with false equivalences, faked “facts” aka lies, mis- and disinformation, and subversion of politico-economic-social structures - and that may have happened several, or even many, generations beforehand;
· victims of the discrimination and activists start countering the lies, demonstrating that real occurs, and working towards additional political structures to counter the hate that was created - in other words, anti-discrimination laws;
· over several decades, the anti-discrimination laws are used to fight the most egregious cases of abuse where there is also a victim who is able and willing to go through the ordeal of being a public spectacle;
· more significantly, an increasingly larger proportion of younger people are taught counters to the hate their parents are trying to inculcate in them, together with other parents choosing decency, and some (often grudging and/or unmeant) public education, and that form of discrimination becomes less acceptable;
· a final stage where society moves from tolerance or acceptance to welcoming, embracing and appreciating - this is when we have things like the anti-racism concept.
See also FBU, LBI, Newtonian worldview, FoC, and :
· https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/09/post-no-2011-bigots-and-their-legacy-of.html
· https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/03/post-no-2399-what-causes-bigotry.html
· https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-statement-of-obvious-psychopathy-and.html
· Here are a few links, from https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-coming-global-waves-of-hates-and.html :
o “Why bigotry is a public health problem”, from “The Conversation”;
o “What is bigotry? How fear becomes hatred -and bigotry”, from Psychology Today;
o “We all have a role in tackling bigotry”, an editorial from The Age;
o “What leaders must do to battle bigotry”, from “Greater Good Magazine”, published by The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley;
o “Bigotry is not a matter of opinion”, published on Medium; and
o “The word ‘bigot’ is back. Here’s why it’s so powerful”.
· https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/on-resistance.html (to change)
· https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-origins-of-patriarchy-from-bbc.html
· https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-evil-known-as-white-supremacism.html
· https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/10/ageism.html, which includes the following:
o “Harmful masculinities among younger men in three countries: Psychometric study of the Man Box Scale” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743520302097 “Sexism and Racism Linked to Personality” https://www.livescience.com/16961-sexism-racism-linked-personality.html “Intersectional Racism: Bigotry Based on Identities” https://www.shortform.com/blog/intersectional-racism/ “The intersectionality of hate helps make sense of the ideology of D_ Tr_ mp and the far right” https://theconversation.com/the-intersectionality-of-hate-helps-make-sense-of-the-ideology-of-d_-tr__mp-and-the-far-right-230268 “Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse “Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse”
· the problem of “negativity bias”;
· “Fight bigotry whenever and wherever it appears, UN chief declares” https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152786
· “Post No. 2,011 - Bigots and their legacy of trauma”;
· “Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]” - this post has dozens of other links;
· “Post No. 2,555 - On bigotry”;
· “A rebuttal of the so-called “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria” conspiracy fantasy” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-rebuttal-of-so-called-rapid-onset.html
· “Society preaches kindness – unless you’re fat. Why is fatphobia still on the rise?” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/12/prejudices-fatphobia-society-size-bodies and “Drugs like Ozempic won’t ‘cure’ obesity but they might make us more fat-phobic” https://theconversation.com/drugs-like-ozempic-wont-cure-obesity-but-they-might-make-us-more-fat-phobic-219309
· “I Don’t Feel Safe Around Cis Women” https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/i-dont-feel-safe-around-cis-women “No identity promises safety”
· “A Massive Study of 16,000 Participants in 23 Countries Finds People Are More Prejudiced Against Trans Women Than Trans Men” https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/a-massive-study-of-16000-participants “Are we ready to take transmisogyny seriously yet??” A powerful, excellent analysis of a transphobic investigation - which nevertheless has some redeeming value
· ““Neuroism”: It’s Alive and Well” https://comingtosenses.blogspot.com/2015/06/neuroism-its-alive-and-well.html
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