The purpose of a system is what it does. But what does this deceptively simply aphorism mean? And how can we use it to explain the Iran war and every other important systemic event in the world? Good questions. Let’s answer them!
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JAMES CORBETT: Have you ever heard the phrase, “the purpose of a system is what it does?” Do you know the origin of this phrase? Do you know its meaning? And do you know how it can be used to explain current events?
If so, great! Have a great day. I have nothing to teach you.
If not, you’re in luck. I’m going to tell you about this phrase, where it comes from, what it means, and how to use it. And by the end of today’s episode, you’re going to understand how the purpose of a system is what it does can be used to explain current events, including the Iran war.
Are you ready? Let’s dig in.
CORBETT REPORT THEME
STAFFORD BEER: The important thing to realize about systems is how they are controlled. And we must get rid of any notion straight away that control is something imposed on the system from outside. It has to be built into it.
Now you saw me operate this governor just now and noticed how the engine slowed down. Let’s see how the mechanism works.
Suppose the engine is racing. Then the governor flies open like that. You see it lifting here, transmitting the message along here, lifting that cam up here and then shutting off a valve there. That is built into the system It’s called feedback. And feedback is ubiquitous in control systems.
SOURCE: Feedback / Stafford Beer
CORBETT: Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to another edition of The Corbett Report. I’m James Corbett of CorbettReport.com, coming to you, as always, from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in April of 2026 with Episode 499 of The Corbett Report podcast, “The Purpose of a System is What It Does.”
So, who was that man in that intriguing little clip that we just saw? Well, that was Stafford Beer, and I imagine there is probably some subsection of the audience who is already familiar with Stafford Beer and his work. But, if not, I will simply intrigue you with the idea that Stafford Beer is certainly someone who would be deserving of his own podcast deep dive—and not because I think his life, life’s work or thought is worthy of veneration, but because it is worthy of dissection.
Namely, because Stafford Beer was a Malthusian limits to growth doomer, he was a technocrat, he was a socialist. More to the point, he was a cybernetician. And his work provides a very interesting insight into the development of the technocratic idea, which, hopefully, my audience is familiar with, and which started in the 1920s/1930s. But the development of that idea in the late 20th century and the form that it took to develop, well, cybernetics, which is probably something that is of relevance to all of us and that we should all know more about.
So, as I say, I will leave my teaser introduction of Stafford Beer there with the promise that I think we will look further into him in the future. And just as one cookie crumb along the trail to get you interested in that, I will provide you—in the spirit of the Solutions Watch on “Magic Words”—the magic words that will unlock at least one intriguing part of the Stafford Beer story. That is “Project Cybersyn.” Cyber S-Y-N. Project Cybersyn. Just start by looking that up and seeing what you find on that cookie crumb trail.
But today, we’re not going to talk about Stafford Beer’s life work. We’re going to talk about one specific aphorism with which he is associated. And that aphorism, from what I understand, came from a number of works that he had written over the years and number of lectures that he has given over the years. But we’ll take this from Diagnosing the System for Organizations, a book that you can get up on archive.org. It is there and available and was published by John Wiley and Sons, copyright 1985.
And if you—well, I mean, read this book to your heart content if you so desire, but let’s cut to the chase and get down to page 99, on which the aphorism appears. So, once we actually get to page 99…
Broc: Jeopardy theme music, please!
*JEOPARDY THEME MUSIC PLAYS
And here we are. Exactly!
So, on page 99 of this book, Stafford Beer writes:
“A GOOD OBSERVER will impute the purpose of the system from its actions and thus from the resultant state.”
So, what is a system? What does it do? Well, let’s look at what it does and then what results from that. And that is what the system actually is about. So:
“Hence, the key aphorism: The purpose of a system is what it does.”
And then that is followed up by this incredibly important point:
“There is, after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it consistently fails to do.”
That seems so astoundingly obvious that it shouldn’t need to be said, and yet it does. Why is that? It’s because people are naturally inclined—or, at any rate, have certainly been taught—to listen to rhetoric and explanation and excuses about, “Oh, this system has been designed to…” But, “Oh, it kind of failed here. Oh, it didn’t quite live up to that here, and this is what you get.” And unfortunately, that is the way that so many systems tend to work, which is why, as he goes on to observe, this produces a lot of cognitive dissonance. When somebody is telling you the system is actually for this, and yet it produces that, what is going on here?
This might be very abstract for those who are used to dealing with cybernetics and systems research and management of businesses and humans and everything else, you might be already familiar with this language and what it means, but let’s put it in something tangible.
“I have invented this doohickey, this complex doohickey system that, when you press upon the lever so for, say, 10 minutes a day you will, um…balance your neural chakra and unfung your shue. And that will allow you to earn more money, have more power and influence, achieve your dreams and cure your toenail fungus. But only if you press it like this for 10 minutes a day every day.”
“Sure. Sold! How much?”
“$10,000 and you can have this amazing doohickey that I’ve invented!”
Fast forward 10 years later and what has this doohickey and pressing on it actually produced? Well, nothing. It has changed absolutely nothing in my daily life. I haven’t been able to regrow my hair or any of the other things that the snake oil salesman who sold me that doohickey promised. So, what was the actual purpose of this doohickey? What did it actually do? Well, it separated me from my money. And that was the actual purpose of the doohickey all along.
The purpose of the system is what it does. And that is an incredibly simple, yet incredibly powerful observation that we can use to help explain what is actually happening in reality and strip it from all of the rhetoric and political platitudes and pieties that surround systems that are presented to us.
Once again, I think this is probably best demonstrated through concrete examples. So let’s turn from the doohickey example to a very real example with which we are all familiar. Of course, one of the things that the government claims to do for us is to provide us with an education system. In fact, so thoroughly has this been indoctrinated into the population, that we need the education system provided by the state, that it has become almost literally unthinkable for the average person to imagine a world before the government was providing such an “education system” to its citizens. How could education function if it was not being provided to us in this wonderful education system?
And of course, surrounding the education system, we have all of the wonderful rhetoric about how this is going to “develop more responsible citizens” and “equip young adults for the world of tomorrow,” etc., and all of the other things that we are told about the education system. But the purpose of a system is what it does. So what is the actual resultant state of the education system as it exists?
JAMES EVAN PILATO: “A Noticeable Decline” —Teachers Sharing The Everyday Things Students Can’t Do For Themselves Anymore; “They Can’t Read, Write, Or Spell. And Don’t Care.”
This is coming from BuzzFeed, who apparently posted up an article, “25 teachers sharing the basic things students apparently can’t do themselves anymore.” And once that story hit, even more people started to pile on in response to that.
“I teach 3K, these are 3 and 4-year-olds, and most of our kids cannot put on a jacket at all. They won’t even try…they start throwing tantrums before even attempting, saying they can’t do it, it’s too hard.”
“The majority of students struggle to read a clock unless it’s digital.”
“Kids know they will pass no matter how unqualified, ill-equipped, and unprepared they are. They come to school with the attitude of ‘I won’t do the work and you can’t make me.’ Sorry to say, we can’t. That’s why I quit teaching. Call me a coward. I blame it on No Child Left Behind.”
(It’s always those Republicans!)
“I have been shocked by the number of second and third graders who can’t tie their shoes. I also have fourth graders who can’t write their first and last names. Granted, I spend most of my time with the kids who are failing more than one class, but it’s really scary to think that a kid can get to fourth grade without anyone raising an alarm about their inability to write their full name.”
“I have been teaching high school English for only seven years now, and the post-COVID/lockdown educational landscape is ROUGH. Students are using AI to think for them, write for them, and summarize any readings for them that are more than a paragraph. We’ve put technology in every classroom, but kids don’t understand how to use it.”
SOURCE: Interview 2008 – Ehrlich Contributes to the Depopulation Agenda (NWNW #623)
CORBETT: Now, that—as i hope my listeners are aware—was a clip from New World Next Week Episode 623: “Ehrlich Contributes to the Depopulation Agenda,” in which James Evan Pilato there in New Mexico is reporting on the “failure” of the American education system to actually educate children.
But is it a failure? Think, for example, about the rationalization that—as Pilato, I think, rightly pointed out there—is given in this case: “Oh, yes, the education system is, of course, meant to elevate and educate and enlighten and inspire children, but it’s failing because…” Because why? “Because of insufficient funding or insufficient resources or those resources have been misallocated or applied in the wrong way. No, what we need is better people with good intentions to come along and reform the system in the right way in order to produce the real desired results. Because as we all know, of course, the education system is about educating children!”
But let’s use POSIWID. “The purpose of a system is what it does” (sometimes referred to by its acronym: POSIWID). Well, in this case, let’s strip it of the rhetoric. Let’s strip it of the rationalization. Let’s overcome our cognitive dissonance. And let’s look plainly at what the system does. It is dumbing down children. Therefore, the purpose of the education system, at least the American education system, as it exists today, is to dumb down children.
Now, this will not come as a surprise to those who have, for example, read Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, or John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, or for those who have seen How Big Oil Conquered the World and learned the history of the Rockefeller-funded modern American education system.
But that is the power and the genius of this POSIWID insight. It doesn’t matter what the intentions of anyone in this system are. We can, and I have, pointed to the intentions of these people to deliberately dumb down children in this mis-education system. But there are those suffering from cognitive dissonance who will not be able to understand or accept that the purpose of the system is not what the designers say it is.
So, let’s simply take that criterion. The purpose of a system is what it does. It is dumbing down children. Therefore, the purpose of the education system is to dumb down children.
It’s a very effective and powerful way of cutting through the BS and arriving at the reality underneath. I think this is kind of fun. So let’s do it again.
Let’s take a look at a different example. In this case, any system will do. Let’s take a look at the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee. What is the purpose of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee? What is the purpose of that system?
Well, let’s look specifically at the Peace Prize. We are told that the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an award that is to be given to the person or persons responsible for having done “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” And the implication is that the reason for awarding such a prize is to promote such peaceful activities and endeavours and promote peace in the world.
But: POSIWID.
So, let’s ask: what is the real purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize?
[phone ringing]
MARIA CARINA MACHADO: Hello?
KRISTIAN BERG HARPVIKEN: Hello.
MACHADO: Yes? Hello?
HARPVIKEN: Yes. Am I talking to María Corina Machado?
MACHADO: Yes, this is María Corina.
HARPVIKEN: Yes, María Corina. My name is Kristian Berg Harpviken. I am the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, and I’m calling to inform you that in a few minutes it shall be announced here at the Nobel Institute that you will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025.
MACHADO: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. [exhales deeply]
SOURCE: Watch the call when María Corina Machado wins Peace Nobel
CARISSA LAWSON: The United States just attacked Venezuela’s capital, hitting military facilities in the country. President Trump ordered this operation. There were multiple explosions in Caracas starting at around 2:00 A.M. local time. You can see the video here coming in. It shows low-flying aircraft in the city. This is the first US military attack within the country.
SOURCE: U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela, sources say | Special Report
CORBETT: POSIWID. The purpose of a system is what it does. Ergo, the purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize is to give political cover to warmongers.
Now, once again, this will not be news to people who are familiar with the history of this subject—people who, for example, remember my work on this subject. Like Episode 484 of the Corbett Report podcast on The Nobel War Prize Strikes Again, in which I documented, for example, how last year’s Nobel Peace Prize and the awarding of that to María Corina Machado was part of a campaign to consolidate public support amongst the peace-loving EU neoliberal jet set for a campaign of demonization of the Maduro government that directly led to the military intervention.
Or how it was used back in 2009, for example, when it was awarded to Barack Obama to give political cover to him for his campaign to not only continue the Bush-era War of Terror, but to greatly expand that campaign, expand the bombing campaign into nine different countries, expand the drone warfare that became an essential part of the War of Terror, normalizing the concept of the presidential kill list, stripping Americans of their civil rights and protections, surging in Afghanistan, fomenting the rise of ISIS, etc., etc.
And other historical examples, like, for example, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger for a war that he did not end and that was still ongoing when the prize was awarded, etc.
But, again, as I say, this will not be news to people who have been paying attention to the subject. But even if you have not been paying attention to the subject, you do not have to think about the rhetoric that surrounds the Nobel Peace Prize and what it is designed to do or what its original creator or its current prize committee members say it is designed to do. No, we look at what it does and we reason from there.
Alright. Again, this is an incredibly valuable heuristic, and I think you understand now the power of POSIWID. So, let’s continue applying it.
But now, let’s start to get into the pressing political matters of our day, things that pertain to systems that have been created in recent times in order to facilitate certain events that are ongoing. And let’s ask a very interesting question: What is the purpose of MAGA?
HARRY ENTEN: Just take a look here. MAGA GOP View of Trump. Approve: 100%. 100%! If you are a member of MAGA in the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump. 0% say that they disapprove. You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to know you can’t go higher than 100%. He is the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
Now, there are some Republicans who disapprove of Donald John Trump, but they are not members of the Make America Great Again movement. The bottom line is this: if you are a member of MAGA, you approve of Donald Trump.
SOURCE: 35 minutes of Enten running numbers on Trump, Iran & more
DONALD TRUMP: A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime—a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.
SOURCE: Watch: Trump’s full statement on U.S. strikes against Iran
CORBETT: There are some people who are just waking up to reality, who are starting to ponder whether or not MAGA is failing. “MAGA has not been successful,” these people think, “because I believed MAGA was this thing, but it has become this other thing.”
However, they have fallen into a trap. They believe that the purpose of a system is what it is called. Or, at best, the purpose of a system is what its progenitor has said that that purpose is. Ergo, MAGA is “Make America Great Again”—whatever one makes of that unwieldy phrase. “Yes, I believe in making America great again, and I interpret that in my own way,” exactly as people in 2008 interpreted hope and change and have believed in it and wished it were so and are starting to wonder how that failed.
But MAGA did not fail. In fact, it has been remarkably successful in doing what MAGA does. The purpose of a system is what it does. So what is the purpose of MAGA? It is to generate support for the war on Iran.
Now, that is not the only purpose of this system because MAGA has done many things. Generating support amongst a portion of the public who even a few months ago would have been vociferously opposed to the idea of foreign intervention and meddling in the Middle East is not something to sneeze at. So that is one of the purposes of MAGA. There are others.
For example, another purpose of MAGA is demonstrably to cover up the Epstein files.
Another purpose of MAGA is to expand American government involvement in the AI industry through things like Project Stargate.
Another purpose of MAGA is to deploy more Pentagon PsyOps warriors on Twitter in order to sway public opinion.
Another purpose of MAGA is to extend warrantless surveillance through the extension of the FISA Act.
Another purpose of MAGA is to increase the military budget to record levels and in so doing to increase the fortunes of Thiel-connected military industrial contractors like Palantir and Anduril.
Etc., etc.
There are a number of things that we could point to as purposes of the system that is MAGA, but it would be an incorrect assessment, given all of the foregoing, to say that MAGA is failing. No, MAGA is doing precisely what MAGA does. It is what it does, and it is generating support for these various things.
So, now that we have this very valuable heuristic, let’s apply it to the pressing political question of the moment. The system that we are all seeing unfolding before our very eyes is the Iran war. Whatever that is, and however it eventuated, and whatever people are saying it is about, how about if we apply this heuristic? The purpose of a system is what it does: POSIWID. So, what is the purpose of the Iran war?
RAF SANCHEZ: It’s being called the world’s most dangerous toll booth. The only tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz are being forced into a new route controlled by Iran, with some charged millions of dollars to transit.
TOMER RANAAN: It’s being dubbed “the Tehran tollbooth.”
SANCHEZ: That’s according to data from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, a maritime firm, shared with NBC news. Before the war, around 110 ships passed the strait each day. Now it’s ten ships or fewer.
SOURCE: Iran forces some tankers to pay millions to leave Strait of Hormuz
CORBETT: Now, I don’t need to tell you, but I’ll tell you anyway, that, of course, the events that are unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz are still unfolding and nothing has been decided yet. And undoubtedly, there will be twists and turns along the way.
But if we were to take a look at the situation right now and ask, “Well, what is the system doing, the system of the Iran war?” It is producing a toll or a blockade or a disruption of the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. That is what it is doing right now. So we have gone from a state where there was a free flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to a state in which there is a trickle of traffic that is either being blockaded and/or tolled in various ways.
And so we can use POSIWID. The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of the Iran war is to create a toll of some sort or disruption of some sort on the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, once you have determined the actual purpose of a system, there are second order questions that you can then start to take a look at. You could ask the “why” question: “Well, then why? Why would anyone design a system to impose blockades or tolls or otherwise disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz?” one might ask. It doesn’t necessarily, of course, logically follow that because a system is doing that thing, that it was designed to do that thing. In fact, part of the beauty of POSIWID is that we can completely and totally take the intentions out of our analysis of a system because the intentions do not matter. The question is: what does it do?
But in this case, I think that there is intentionality behind this situation. I think that the Iran war has been designed to create this disruption of traffic. And if you want to know why I think that and who stands to benefit from this disruption of traffic, I would exhort you to take a look at some of my recent work on this subject. For example, Episode 495 of the Corbett Report podcast on This is the REAL Endgame in Iran. And also a recent conversation that I had with Ryan Christian on The Last American Vagabond, where we talked about the Great (Iran) Reset and go into more of the question of why such a disruption would be in the interests of certain power players at the geopolitical table and those who are interested in starting a New World Order predicated on a new monetary paradigm and the disruption and/or the extension of the petrodollar, etc. Those are some very valuable questions to be asking and to be looking into right now. And I suggest that those two links, which will be in the transcript for today’s episode, will start to send you along that path.
But, like every good professor, this is the point at which I turn the lesson over to the students and invite your participation in this exercise.
I would like to think I have adequately demonstrated the utility of POSIWID as a heuristic for actually cutting through the BS, cutting through the propaganda, cutting through the rhetoric that surrounds every system. “Oh, well, it’s designed to do this and it should act this way and we intend for it to be like this” does not matter. No, the purpose of a system is what it does. So, now we can evaluate what does the system do in order to understand the purpose of that system. The purpose of the system is predicated on the resultant state of that system. Again, a deceptively simple insight, but one that has power, genuine power, in being able to cut through all of the BS and get to reality underneath.
So, I can, off the top of my head, think of dozens of ways in which this POSIWID heuristic can be applied to various questions that might arise when we look at the world around us and start to contemplate the systems around us.
You might ask, for example: what is the purpose of the war on drugs? Well, clearly the purpose of the war on drugs is to make more people addicted to drugs and to increase the prison incarceration rates and to ensure more people are in the prison system. That is what the system does. That is what it is for.
Alright. What is the purpose of AI and the chatbot takeover? Clearly, again, demonstrably, the purpose of this is to make people stupider, more intellectually lazy, and more dependent on their digital devices. That is happening. That is what it does. That is what it is for.
What is the purpose of processed foods? It is demonstrably not to enrich our lives, not to make us feel better or to make us healthier. No, it is precisely the opposite. The purpose of the processed food industry is to make people fatter, sicker, and lazier.
So, again, it is a great way of really seeing through all of the illusion and getting to the base reality of a thing. And I will invite the participation of all of those in The Corbett Report audience, what are some other ideas that occur to you of how you could apply POSIWID to understand what something is really for, not what people say it is for. I think it’s an interesting and valuable intellectual exercise that I think will sharpen people’s critical faculties, generally speaking. It is good to frame things in this way to gain a more penetrating insight into what things really are.
But I’ll leave you today on this particular note, this question: what is the purpose of the Corbett Report? Or, alternatively, what is the purpose of any particular piece of media that you’re consuming? But let’s ask that in the context of the Corbett Report.
What does the Corbett Report do? Does it inform you? Does it enrich your life in any way? Does it actually produce a better understanding of the world that you can use to better navigate yourself in that world or to understand various events? Does it teach you? Does it enlighten you? Does it inform you about things that you did not know about? If the answer is no, then the purpose of a system is what it does. “I don’t want any part of that!” I would say that at that time, when you come to that conclusion, you should get rid of The Corbett Report or any other piece of media that is similarly not enlightening you, not empowering you, not motivating you, not inspiring you, not informing you, not improving your life in any measurable way.
However, if the answer is yes, if the corporate report does teach you new things, if it does enlighten you in any way, if it does inform you, if it does empower you, motivate you, inspire you, then I would say it is a very good thing—POSIWID!—because that is my intention for The Corbett Report. And it would be very gratifying to hear that that is what it is doing, because that is the purpose of a system, ultimately.
So if The Corbett Report does in any way entertain, inform, enlighten, inspire, motivate, empower you, then I would humbly ask if you could support this work. It wouldn’t exist without people out there supporting this work. So if you are not a Corbett Report member, I would ask if you could become one. I would very much appreciate that support. And if you can’t afford to become one for $3 a month or more, then I would simply ask if you could spread this information to others. I think that would be a very, very productive way to use this information, and I hope that it is valuable to you.
Now, having said all of that, I would like to thank you all for participating in today’s exploration and hopefully—hopefully—learning something new or a different way of looking at the world. And as always, I’m very much interested in and hoping for your feedback at corbettreport.com/posiwid, where you will be able to not only access the full, complete, hyperlinked transcript of today’s podcast, but also converse with others in The Corbett Report audience and share your insights into how the POSIWID heuristic can give you insight into various questions and the question of the purpose of various systems.
But I think we will leave today’s exploration there. Thank you for investing your mind time in today’s episode. I’m James Corbett of corbettreport.com, looking forward to talking to you again in the very near future.
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Another way of putting it: Some Things in Politics Don’t Make Sense Except in Light of Depopulation
https://posthumousstyle.substack.com/p/somethings-in-politics-dont-make
Also here: https://off-guardian.org/2026/04/18/somethings-in-politics-dont-make-sense-except-in-the-light-of-depopulation/
Victoria,
Thanks for that article!
In March 2026 at a CorbettReport #SolutionsWatch, Victoria N. Alexander was mentioned by a co-host of a literary podcast .
She has been in the ‘good fight’ for over a decade.
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https://corbettreport.com/resistance-fiction-solutionswatch/#comment-185754
Thank you, EXCELLENT!! (As usual)…
Thanks James. You always simplify and clarify otherwise confusing issues. I never heard of POSIWID the expression, it I do use the method to get to the basic cause of everything by asking why is it being done, for what purpose, how does it impact me and my life and what can I do about it. What it does for me is come to some conclusion if possible, store it in the recesses of my mind and make a connection when I hear someone like you expound on it. If the info seems right on, then discuss it with like minded family members. It is enlightening.
Thanks again for all of your research.
James, many thanks for this excellent podcast. I have been practicing POSIWID for a few decades now. My close friend was a student of Stafford Beer in the 1960s and told me about this in the mid-1990s. Since that time I have been working on a way to make systems visible so not only can they be seen, but also so that content associated with the systems can be placed in context. The resulting software, SMAP, is getting ready for public release very soon, but anyone can get a free beta copy by going to https://www.maporium.com and signing up to try the free beta software.
SMAP integrates AI to render the initial systems so that people aren’t faced with ‘Blank Canvas Syndrome’ but system authors have all the control to refine the systems and verify the data, refining the systems with their own knowledge as appropriate. These smaps can be shared, exported or published to any website where others can explore and comment in context on any element in the system without the need of any software.
As an example, I will be smapping Project Cybersyn and then publishing it for you and your audience to explore. I hope you reach out to me so that I can provide you with a deeper dive into this new way to utilize SMAP to help move people out of their individual linear mindsets and into a shared visual context that provides freed up brain power to collectively apply whole systems thinking.
Posiwid- ultimately true, but there is a reason people keep getting fooled that is important to recognize. The designers of the system continually gaslight people by switching back and forth, changing things slightly, focusing on one thing while the rest plays out unnoticed, and many other techniques of distraction and diversion. These people paid by those in power can facilitate crime by wrapping up something in court for so long that justice delayed is justice denied. They create new emergencies that make what just happened seem irrelevant. They change the face of the system and pretend the personality of the leader is the reason things happen. They promise waiting on switching leaders is the best way to overcome the obstacle, since any direct action is either too costly or illegal. They confuse people about what is actually happening by reporting polar opposite perspectives but furthermore totally conflicting claims that are mutually exclusive. So at the end of the day the purpose of a system is unclear and it almost appears as if what failed was discarded and now we are trying something new, when in fact the base of the structure has merely been shuffled, the midpoints have all been changed, the top most can see has been changed and the umbrella over it all stays the same while remaining obscure. The solution to this is for a syndicate of individuals to be on the ground everywhere and feeding truth into a network that is connected to everyone without man-in-the-middle disruption, but of course that is so easy to disrupt that it becomes impossible. What we are left with is small groups or individuals disconnected from everyone else, each with their own silo and no real power to influence beyond their tiny sphere. So what remains is the best method for facilitating truth becomes an individual or small group broadcasting mass media and hoping their silo is broad enough to have relevance to everyone else. James Corbett is the best of the best in this regard and he has done an excellent job in every way to spread actual truth, with a very broad perspective. Unfortunately there is a sophisticated campaign to disrupt involving many angles created by many mirrors facing many directions, so that the signal is dispersed so much that it is effectively reduced to nothing after some distance, just as the structure of a morpho butterfly’s wings causes the light released to be blue without pigment being the cause. The light goes into a tunnel, and bounces around so many times that when it comes back out it is of lower intensity. We cannot stop the scourge of imposters and bots and distractions, and our composure sometimes falters, but there is a way to change the world for the better, if individuals can be empowered to tip the scales toward liberty. The solution is cheap energy for all mankind- food, electricity, information, warmth, and love, available for all humanity. If not that, we’ll have conflict and have to choose sides. It is sad yet inevitable.
I have a clear memory of Flip Wilson saying “We may have arrived on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now”. Thinking that this was a positive sentiment I searched, but failed to find, a video clip of this statement. I did however find a reference of someone else having the same memory. Some years later I discovered that Flip was probably quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
Fast forward to recent times an essentially similar statement “in this together” was used to promote a mass poisoning!
” The sound of a word, the idea behind the word, and the object the idea signifies are often taken as being one thing and may be mistaken for one another.”
https://markgresham.substack.com/p/retaining-a-child-likeness-versus
Flip Wilson ‘Ugly Baby’ routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_9XOEOSWBY
What is the purpose of the Corbett report?
that depends on which part you ask….. To me it’s like an weather forecast in what is going to happen and a retrospective on things that did happen
To others it’s a forum for activism or an online simulation of activism
To others it’s entertainment, (Mr Corbett is very interesting) or para-socializing.
The audience and Mr Corbett make up a system and the feed back between them shapes both over years and years…. I would assume that this leads to a stable system where everything has been set and the Overton window has lace curtains and grows cobwebs.
Maybe they like to have us in info and ideology silos like here , or young turks or myth20c, or the Pete quinones or j burden shows….as long as we are looking at the show rather then actually doing anything IRL. Maybe they like it that we are spend time thinking about what they do rather then what we do.
They just need to OUTWAIT you, not out wit you.
@Duck
Another key question is: what is the purpose of the insights sharing of The Corbett Report’s membership audience? But above all, is it fulfilling such purpose? Judging by James’ reactions with us sometimes, I do have my doubts!
Dalesco
The point is to put ideas out and challenge them – the Internet used to be a place where you could have an opinion changing argument quite easily (I surely changed my mind on a lot of issues) and I imagine we even provide our host with the odd snippet of info he over looked sometimes
As to his feelings about us, I think Mr Corbett is an idealist….. The problem with idealism is that when you come into contact with reality you find that people are much less wonderful then you would like them to be.
I imagine that he gets quite irritated at our stupidity but OTOH I also believe that he is smart enough not to care over much what we think anyway. I certainly gave up caring about other peoples stupidity a long time ago and it caused me to drink a good deal less 😉
Well the school example is not really working, James Pilato points out stuff kids can no longer do coz they use tech or AI to do it for them, not because school has dumbed them down. Also the schools over a hundred years ago (so closer than now to the moment the system was invented) produced adults that had way better general knowledge/math skills/rhetoric skills than nowadays. So in this case Posiwid is not dumbing down children. You could make the argument that the purpose is making them more obedient, i’d be giving you that one. Anyway, i don’t believe Posiwid can be universally applied, that would mean that nothing designed can ever fail. Also what is a “system”? Is there a central designer to every ” system” who had a certain purpose in mind? I don’t think so. Some stuff just gets invented without any purpose, or, with a purpose that will not/partially be reached, or, with some unplanned side effects, or with multiple purposes etc, etc… James, you know this, otherwise you would believe in the Grand Conspirator pulling all the strings.
The schools exist for many reasons because while the purpose of a system is what is does There are MANY systems at play within the big system with different goals and incentives
To teachers a school exists to pay them a salary….they will teach flat earth and creationism or gay space communism depending on what they get paid to teach
Apple and Microsoft think schools exist to get kids hooked on their UI and products and keep them as life time customers
Parents think school is free daycare
Perverts think school exists so they can get access to your kids morals at a young age
Technocrats think the same way, Rushdoony wrote an excellent book on the Messianic nature of the American public school system
And they are ALL right ….. There is no one reason schools exist, even education is probably on the list of reasons, just very low down the list. But the system changes and morphs as time goes on
Just as a reference: «The Rockefeller family would eventually give over $180 million to fund the General Education Board.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Education_Board
Frederick Taylor Gates, prominent member of this board, wrote in “The country school of to-morrow”:
«In our dream, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. […] We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…»
https://archive.org/details/countryschoolof00gate/page/6/mode/2up
Are all systems inherently bad? What about the justice system? Is that preferable to cycles of revenge whereby innocent people are likely to get hurt?
Of course, justice systems can become corrupted and abused.
But in general it’s a good idea, yes? Or is it enough to simply accuse someone of something and then inflict harm upon them either through removal of liberty or by good old fashioned lynching? Dispense with fair trials, logic, reason, non-prejudicial processes, etc.?
A system is just a mechanism, a series of operations, that can be subjectively good or bad depending on intention in the design, who benefits and who doesn’t.
Thank you. So in principle a justice system could be good? Or another question could be: is justice even worth it? Or we could start at the beginning and ask: what is justice?
There’s different kinds of justice systems, though.
There’s civil, there’s criminal (if there’s more than that, let me know)
If we’re talking about civil justice, like breech of contract, there should be a clause in the contract that both parties agree to arbitration, maybe?
(I have more to say, to be continued…)
I’m a little fuzzy on how criminal justice would work in an anarchist/voluntarist society.
Corbett made a video a while ago about common law, saying something along the lines that people resolved crime without state involvement, in the olden times.
If we consider the (occupied) American West, back in the day, people settled things with guns and a whole lot of violence.
The Native American tribes, did too. Murder and retribution happened all the time. Tribal elders had to meet and make agreements and compromises for a truce.
I asked Larkin Rose, to his face about how anarchists would handle criminal justice in an anarchist society. He never really answered the question, directly. He skirted around it and turned it back on me.
So my assumption on that one, is that criminal justice would resort to violence. Probably. Like lynch mobs, and witch hunts, if people lost their civility.
The State is also violent, just in less obvious ways.
Thank you for engaging in reasoned discussion. Hand on heart, it’s much appreciated.
Between us we’ve raised quite a few points, and the discussion could become unwieldy; so I’ll focus on the question of criminal justice in an anarchistic (stateless) society.
By anarchistic we mean a society without government.
Presumably in such a society we’d still be able to have plumbing and sewage systems developed and maintained by competent professionals in that field? And that would go for electrical systems, mechanical systems (e.g. vehicles), and so on. Wouldn’t you agree?
Then would it not be possible to have a justice system maintained by competent professionals in that field?
As you mentioned, it could be based on English Common Law which embodies case law (establishing precedents, etc.), and could eschew statute law altogether. Or could incorporate some already established statutes / constitutions, ones that meet the standards.
Judicial independence is a well-established principle in some cultures.
We could make it work in a non-governmental society.
What are your thoughts?
I think my concern about criminal justice in an anarchist society managed by “competent professionals” might put stress on that system, if there aren’t enough of them to go around.
(Please excuse my lack of sophistication in my writing, I’m kind of a rube.)
If a group of people agree on basic things (I’m not religious, but kind of like the 10 commandments) some kind of template of order…. Brb to be continued
But wouldn’t that be a risk factor in any type of society?
In an anarchist society would we also face a shortage of competent plumbers, builders, electricians?
If not, then why assume the same for competent judiciary professionals?
I think if the expectation is that these competent professionals would have to continue working in their profession, then also have to take on the responsibility of assessing and judging real crimes (crimes that may include violent crime scene photos, violent records, etc. just gory evidence of violence) it might be a problem. Having to include that responsibility may affect their competence and mental health. Even if they agree to review a case / incident.
I still believe that a lot of criminal justice would be handled by vigilantes in an anarchist system.
Being a competent professional can be all consuming, without a lot of time for other things. I think it would be difficult, but not impossible.
There is the consideration that systems can be presented initially as being for the purpose of a specified goal/purpose yet be corrupted over time depending on who is in control of the system and who is not paying attention or is deceived to believe the stated purpose is the true purpose (or hasn’t changed).
With the justice system a group of people might believe they could address grievances in an orderly way by presenting their case before an unbiased judge/group of peers so personal revenge is not their only recourse. However, if one looks at the current “justice system” it is hard to see how the offended party is getting justice or retribution since it is The State who receives any fines for infractions (some being laws broken which have no specific offended party) and the community is saddled with the costs of prisoners, courthouses, salaries for judges, court officers, jury duty stipends, (or potentially loss of time/money while you serve as a juror), public defenders and their staff, etc. And since prison isn’t really a successful institution for reform, you have recividism and the lowering of property values in the vicinity of prisons to consider too.
So, while the idea of a justice system is appealing to those who want peaceful, orderly ways to deal with conflict, it has become yet another area for gaining power, influence and wealth for those who desire those things above righteousness and goodness and fairness in a peaceable society.
Perhaps the flaw in the system is that there is a way to manipulate it to benefit The State. Although I guess that is every government system or public/private venture The State creates or endorses.
Bird
Justice can only be delivered thru violence or the threat of violence….. The idea that “the state” invented violence is BS, if anything it regulated and limited violence to certain acceptable forms…..most people prefer the relative safety of having a hole cops and scum judges enforcing rules rather then having to go all Hatfield and McCoy on each other when they have problems.
Like you said people used to just kill malefactors or drive them out of society (which was a death sentence in its own right most of the time) and while things were never perfect at any time most people STILL prefer living today even with feral foreigners and corrupt politicians….the real issue is that people have become too weak and hackable because propaganda tech and incentives are scientificly derived these days
Let me take a stab at this question in an off the cuff manner (these are my first thoughts quickly scrawled).
To me, justice primarily means stopping a crime before it happens. Fear of future or immediate punishment works well, but fear the objective of crime cannot be achieved is an even better deterrent. There is no need for a justice system to achieve the primary definition of justice, but only a well armed vigilant populace.
Secondarily, justice means stopping a criminal from repeating their behavior. It is ideal that this be achieved in a way that is not worse than the crime itself. So by this logic, to stop a murderer from killing again it is ethical then to kill them. To stop a rapist from raping again, a crime so damaging it can be equated to murder, it is ethical to murder them, logically. For crimes less than these something other than death should be the punishment, and individuals are not well equipped to sort out these matters, so some say a justice system is needed. However, justice is only important for those who were wronged, and only they should decide what cost they should impose on the criminal. Taking that decision away from them is unethical, imo, so a justice system is inherently unethical. If they impose a cost more severe than the crime itself, perhaps that is ethical actually. Let’s not get stuck on utilitarian viewpoints so much that we refuse to consider the victim of crime and the weight they place on how crime affected their lives.
Another consideration is the most foundational. Who can grant authority over criminals and victims? Only the criminals and victims themselves. Criminals of course will never do this, and victims should be allowed to choose to voluntarily do this. So, private courts without authority to enforce their jurisdiction over everyone could be ethical, if they defer to the desires of victims and weigh the truth effectively and not set arbitrary limits on punishments which render the task ineffective at reducing recidivism.
After these considerations, from my personal voluntarist lens, a justice system would be ethical in some narrow scope, but not in any broader context.
aphorism
An aphorism is a concise, memorable statement that expresses a general truth, moral principle, or clever observation about life. Originating from the Greek aphorismos—meaning “to define” or “terse formualtion”—it aims to deliver wisdom succinctly.
Key Characteristics and Purpose
~~~~ Conciseness: Aphorisms are short, pithy, and often pack a profound point into a single sentence.
~~~~ Universal Truth: They usually reflect a commonly accepted principle or insight, acting as “a little work of art”.
~~~~ Memorable: Often wittily crafted, they are designed to be easily remembered and repeated.
~~~~ Purpose: They serve to teach, provide moral guidance, or make a sharp, concise commentary on human nature.
Shame there isn’t an aphorism to define aphorism.
Homie
PINE, or to opine
Human nature. To gather in the evening and talk things over , commune. Usually from May to mid September. One or two mothers would make a picher of tea , everyone brought a 12 oz. tumbler full of ice and and an aluminum lawn chair. Four out of seven days a week 10 or more residents from the block came out from 7pm to 9pm to cool off, catch up. A lot of aphorisms and very few acronyms.
POSIWID, never came into consciousness back then.. I’m glade someone has brought it to our attention. The game has changed and new equipment and terms and definitions need to be in today’s toolbox. There must be some quality of character, empathy maybe, that this writer has for community. Like the one I experienced for the first 12 years of my life. The threats we face today now require POSIWID. It’s a odd occurrence for a writer to come across this in a daily reporting of what is current news. It would be undeniable brilliant if it uniformly and singularly came into being in Mr. Corbetts head.
Why I’m I questioning this? A word , CORPORATE
[ “if the corporate report does teach you new things, if it does enlighten you in any way, if it does inform you, if it does empower you, motivate you, inspire you, then I would say it is a very good thing—POSIWID!—because that is my intention for The Corbett Report “] words matter.
Some acronyms are not so easily pronounced and fall under a classification referred to as initialism. Some examples are: NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People); LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer); NRA (National Rifle Association).
When my nostalgia feeling, Saudade (Portuguese): A melancholic, profound longing for something or someone that is absent, which can apply to an imagined past, is triggered I react to the stimulus . I got to think POSIWID.
CORPORATE can give the whole plea from the author . Is it a typo James? Did you mean to type Corbett instead ? Cause I’m thinking “Brazil” here.
PINE
IF ITS BEING MEASURED , ITS BEING DEVELOPED For Control.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12561087/
Diverging Paths to the Self: The Distinct Psychological Roles of Nostalgia and Declinism in Personal Growth
“We hypothesized so far that nostalgia would be positively, whereas declinism would be negatively associated with personal growth. These relations, though, might be contingent on the scale used to measure nostalgia.”
Specifically MOTIVATIONS
Homie, going a little deeper…
canonical
/kəˈnänək(ə)l/
“Canonical” describes something that follows a general rule, standard procedure, or is considered authoritative, accepted, and “official”. It often refers to the standard, accepted way of doing things, the authorized version of a text, or a required “canon” within media franchises.
Merriam-Webster
The premise is the positive or negative effects of word power too affect and direct human psychology.
Applying POSIWID here to the corporate idea which seems antithetical to the Corbett idea. Two quite different things.
{Canonical correlation analysis further indicated conceptual overlap between PINE items and declinism. In experimental Study 2 (N = 360, Chinese sample), we manipulated nostalgia and declinism with the Event Reflection Task to test their causal effects. Compared to a control condition, nostalgia increased personal growth, but declinism reduced it.}
Canonical and aphorism are very similar in meaning and sentiment. The study referenced here manipulated nostalgia of 360 Chinese to test their causal effects. Nostalgia increased personal growth, but DECLINISM reduced it. At the center of this is Motivation.
Will this observation increase motivation or decrease motivation?
Is it a battle cry for action motivation against a foe or a hypnotizing order to cease any motivational urges. To do nothing in the face of a threat?
Word wizardry?
[ “So, again, it is a great way of really seeing through all of the illusion and getting to the base reality of a thing. And I will invite the participation of all of those in The Corbett Report audience, what are some other ideas that occur to you of how you could apply POSIWID to understand what something is really for, not what people say it is for. I think it’s an interesting and valuable intellectual exercise that I think will sharpen people’s critical faculties, generally speaking. It is good to frame things in this way to gain a more penetrating insight into what things really are.
But I’ll leave you today on this particular note, this question: what is the purpose of the Corbett Report? Or, alternatively, what is the purpose of any particular piece of media that you’re consuming? But let’s ask that in the context of the Corbett Report.
What does the Corbett Report do? “]
The answer may surprise everyone.
On that note, can someone explain what is the purpose of market economics? Is to make us all prosperous, free us from drudgery, and to make everyone healthier and happier? Which is exactly what it constantly fails to do. In spite of having more labor- and time-saving machinery, more and more people are busier and more stressed than ever. Why do favorite local shops disappear when a chain opens next door? Is it because of “greedy people” or “bad actors”, or because of system incentives embedded in the market game? Why does the system reward unethical behavior to begin with?
Market economics exist because some people have stuff other people want….. The fact that local shops get killed by superstores that then Jack up the price is because THE BUYERS REVEALED PREFERENCE is for lower prices….they stop buying stuff at other stores and the small stores die.
The system exists to swap stuff people have for stuff they want, at the end of the day how prosperous or happy it makes people is irrelevant. Lots of people complaining about prices and supplies assume that having easy access to food is some kind of human right or natural state of affairs.
It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just most people are too short sighted to see the long term effects of what they do….the basically act like cattle in a feed lot and buy Walmart stuff until only Walmart is left and then get screwed over.
You hear the stories about ‘food deserts’ in bad areas like it’s a desire to not sell poor people food when really their just doing what’s best for them and not putting a store where it costs them more then they would earn
Thanks, you perfectly described the essence of market economics – stuff goes where money flows. If you lack purchasing power, access is denied. And once survival is made conditional on money, deprivation stops being an accident and becomes a functional element of social organization.
So, if it’s not improving their lives, why do people still cling to this inhumane, predatory system? It is not encoded in the fabric of the universe that it has to be this way.
Ilija
They stick with it because it DOES improve their lives, the device you are typing on only exists because someone wanted they money they would get by making and selling it. Unless you’re growing your own the food that you ate today only exists because someone wanted the money (or the stuff it would buy them) they got bringing it to you.
What other system do you think creates food for as many people as exist today?
I guess we could go back to a barter economy but that’s pretty much the same as a capital/money economy (no one will give you free stuff because you need it- you still have to have some stuff THEY want to get it)
While not perfect by any means the swapping of money for stuff I need is much better then the alternative- NOT getting these things or being a slave working in a planned economy and getting what some planner thinks I should get.
No one cares about improving anyone else’s life “just because” and it’s a weird idea to think that they should. This weird idea only exists today because we have improved material (but NOT spiritual) life so much that virtually no one knows actual need……the material benefits people get from the modern world mean people put up with the lack of meaning in their lives because they fear what actual freedom would cost.
That’s how they get folks under control- giving the people what they want until no one can imagine living in a world where if you get sick you just die in the gutter without state aid. That lets the utter degeneration of the capital system into parlaying money into total power.
Why do you associate planned economy with state/government? Every company spends a lot of time and energy in planning their activities, actively monitoring progress, and adjusting accordingly. If they don’t, they will go bankrupt in a month. Large companies have, in their headquarters, whole departments dedicated to CENTRAL planning and controlling.
The difference: they’re doing it for personal gain, while I’m calling for people who work for a living being in charge of their living instead of CEOs and shareholders. I don’t know about yours but my device was built by working people: engineers, technicians, designers, logistic specialists… not by moneyed parasites. Same for the food I eat – by farmers, not by farm owners.
Yet here you are, blaming “unconscious” folks for letting the state run their lives while rending your garments to the 1% who are actually running your life. You already ARE “a slave working in a planned economy and getting what some planner thinks you should get.”
Iiija
“…..Don’t know about yours but my device was built by working people: engineers, technicians, designers, logistic specialists…”
Like most people you fail to see that these specialists only make these devices BECAUSE they are organized to do so by the
“….moneyed parasites….”
While a LOT of that class really are parasites who only Rent Seek and don’t serve a useful purpose (esp the finance types) the fact is that as loathsome as the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are they were also very very good at planning and organizing others….do you think Wozniak would have created Apple?
No, while he was much smarter (and less disgusting) then Jobs he lacked the drive, vision and organizing skill to do so. The guy who solders your PC parts would be grubbing in the dirt without someone to organize him.
In a normal world is also point out that the worker or engineer takes a regular salary rather then risking ruin and stress by taking on the massive task of organizing a new company, but the current system leans so much into financial trickery it’s no longer as clear cut a risk for the big guy.
“….Same for the food I eat – by farmers, not by farm owners….”
Who pays for the machinery and seed and fertilizer and then plans out the years crops? NOT some dude picking the fruit….the “worker” sells his labor in return for a paycheck but he lacks both the capital and the know how to run a big farm….. Sure if you wanna have peasant farmers and starvation like Zimbabwe you can give such people the land but don’t expect food to be cheep or plentiful like it is now.
All this is NOT to say that the system is great and wonderful and perfect…. But it DOES provide more food and goods and services then have ever existed before and whatever we WISH of people 99% of them lack the will or intelligence or desire or capital to do more then be peasants or the modern version – wageies.
“…..The difference: they’re doing it for personal gain, while I’m calling for people who work for a living being in charge of their living instead of CEOs and shareholders…..”
But how would that BE RUN???
You would have those with the strongest will take control and the wageies would STILL be doing what someone else tells them. Worse rather than one person being responsible and easy to fire such people would probably be more parasitic then the fkers running companies now …… Sure if you wanna stop financial fkery I’m right there with you but the prices will never run stuff because their not capable and don’t even really want to
Iiija
“…..Don’t know about yours but my device was built by working people: engineers, technicians, designers, logistic specialists…”
Like most people you fail to see that these specialists only make these devices BECAUSE they are organized to do so by the
“….moneyed parasites….”
While a LOT of that class really are parasites who only Rent Seek and don’t serve a useful purpose (esp the finance types) the fact is that as loathsome as the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are they were also very very good at planning and organizing others….do you think Wozniak would have created Apple?
No, while he was much smarter (and less disgusting) then Jobs he lacked the drive, vision and organizing skill to do so. The guy who solders your PC parts would be grubbing in the dirt without someone to organize him.
In a normal world is also point out that the worker or engineer takes a regular salary rather then risking ruin and stress by taking on the massive task of organizing a new company, but the current system leans so much into financial trickery it’s no longer as clear cut a risk for the big guy.
“….Same for the food I eat – by farmers, not by farm owners….”
Who pays for the machinery and seed and fertilizer and then plans out the years crops? NOT some dude picking the fruit….the “worker” sells his labor in return for a paycheck but he lacks both the capital and the know how to run a big farm….. Sure if you wanna have peasant farmers and starvation like Zimbabwe you can give such people the land but don’t expect food to be cheep or plentiful like it is now.
All this is NOT to say that the system is great and wonderful and perfect…. But it DOES provide more food and goods and services then have ever existed before and whatever we WISH of people 99% of them lack the will or intelligence or desire or capital to do more then be peasants or the modern version – wageies.
“…..The difference: they’re doing it for personal gain, while I’m calling for people who work for a living being in charge of their living instead of CEOs and shareholders…..”
But how would that BE RUN???
You would have those with the strongest will take control and the wageies would STILL be doing what someone else tells them. Worse rather than one person being responsible and easy to fire such people would probably be more parasitic then the fkers running companies now …… Sure if you wanna stop financial fkery I’m right there with you but the proles will never run stuff because their not capable and don’t even really want to
tried to download mp4 & just got a 153 bytes file,,, just me or a glitch with the website?
does not download for me either…
Thanks for the tip. The video download should be working now.
yep, working now.
cheers
I think instead of the “purpose” of MAGA it should be the “scam” of MAGA.
Every election is like a scam.
All politics is full with deceit, scams and fraud.
Democracy is like voting between two evils.
Is that it’s “purpose”?
Or the side-effect of psychopaths taking over control.
What about the (purpose) SCAM of science?
Science gives the illusion of people telling the truth.
But it is usually narratives that are political or commercial,
where “science” is made up from some biased “observations”.
Global warming (plant-food is bad),
Be afraid of all diseases (only vaccines and expensive medicine can help you),
Artificial “intelligence’ (more like a smart search engine),
9/11 free fall (must be jet-fuel),
what is a woman? (what is even biology?),
psychiatric medicine work (was based on frauds),
etc.
Additionally many science narratives are just to confuse people,
to give the impression that “science’ is above their understanding.
For example, the speed of light is mixed with time travel.
Or changes in biology are just caused by “random evolution”
The original purpose of science in the west was to give more reasons to give the the church more power.
Technology and engineering can be demonstrated.
And is clearly advancing.
We now have mobile telephones and such.
There is also a lot of (false) skepticism here against moon landings.
But based on the engineering and technology alone it is certainly possible.
Thanks to pictures from other countries, there is even solid evidence that they went to the moon.
But what is the “purpose” of the fake moon landing theory?
It seems to divert skeptical people from the massive scams in politics,
and make them look silly.
Regarding modern democracy, since it’s such an impressively smart tool of social engineering, it has to be stated again: its purpose is to divide a people while giving that very population the illusion of choice. In that respect, this system does perfectly what it is meant to do.
By the same token, one of the main origins of modern democracy is the French Revolution, which never was a revolution but a coup carried out by a rising social class composed of merchants and jurists – the so-called bourgeoisie – against another, growingly decadent social class, the aristocracy. In this case, the system described is a historical narrative, its goal is to give a population the illusion it proclaimed its own sovereignty over the country and masters its own fate (aka “lol”).
I’d like to see people who look for purpose in life should simply apply this notion to themselves and shut the fuck up about some divine intervention bullshit.
Of course, on the flip side. You got people who basically already do this by identifying themselves as nothing more than their trade. Autoreductionism is a sad thing to observe, even when people use it to put themselves on some sort of pedestal.
This was a good one. Very basic, but that is exactly why it is good for forwarding.
This episode reminds me of Thomas Sowell’s critique of Leftists and their utopian rhetoric.
https://youtu.be/uejTE6-nIQI?t=176
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=thomas+sowell+quotes
(Auto-didacticism)
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.”
– Frank Zappa
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“I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
— John D. Rockefeller
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Those who control perception can manipulate which “truth” is accepted in the collective consciousness, known as REPLICATION. The repetition of ideas forms, then maintains social systems. (“Egregore” an occult concept representing a “thought form” or “collective group mind/think)
Ignorance is lack of knowledge not the inability to understand.
From intentional effort of the controllers, millions can’t do cursive writing or communicate above text/ghetto talk and lack basic historical and common sense knowledge.
A key weapon is maintaining attention on differences, not similarities. Keeping people in separation makes them weak. The power of words, sound, and images create perception control.This is done successfully through the addiction to pop culture TV, Movies, MSM, etc. and language influences.
For most under 50 their “beliefs” have been formed from the entertainment industry. Leftist dialog becomes life “truths” to create “sameness” of thought.
Lest we forget the New World Order’s nefarious agenda of control:
In their own words:
“The great strength of The Order is in its concealment. Let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name and another occupation…” “The power of The Order must surely be turned to the advantage of its members. All must be assisted. They must be preferred to all persons otherwise of equal merit.”
For instance:
Academic associations condition and police teachers or scholars who, by the nature of the job, are very susceptible to peer group pressure. Without peer group approval few can receive tenure. So those who teach at our American universities pass through a gauntlet, creating faculty conformity. The recent example is the PC liberal leftists
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This would be a good “Questions for Corbett”?
For conspiracy grins…
“The purpose of an off-shore bank is to aid the CIA.”
– Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) – John Fogerty – Joe Rogan – CIA
John Fogerty Lost CCR’s Life Savings in Offshore Scheme Linked to CIA Run Bank
15 minutes (Joe Rogan Experience)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STAJl5_8Ig
“Bad Moon Rising”
2:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw&list=RDzUQiUFZ5RDw&start_radio=1
For me, this show is a Solutions Watch. That’s how useful this information is to me. The Corbett Report has completed changed my view of government, money, the media and what to spend my time doing. The purpose of a system is what it does perspective gets to the heart of the matter without getting sidetracked.
Oh my god James, this is BRILLIANT! So incredible simple but SOOOO effective! Thanks a million
But isn’t purpose essentially the same as intention? And can’t a system fail with unintended consequences? Or are we saying that generally the purpose of the system is what it does?
I wish I was in a classroom with James so I could put up my hand and ask.
As far as the Corbett Report system is concerned, I get knowledge, clarity, sense, wisdom, empowerment, motivation, inspiration, warmth, humour and a general sense of awe, if I’m honest. I think this system is working just fine.
Great episode. Very sharp and concise method of cutting through some propaganda bullshit. Over the last few weeks, instead of rambling on about how the net zero/sustainability agenda is not what it seems and explaining the background of it, I keep pointing out what the “green agenda” actually does in less than 10 words per portion… impoverish us / degrade our standards of living / in some instances destroy nature / propagandize our youth to hate themselves/humanity. I will definitely drop some POSIWID argumentation regularly now.
For me personally, the Corbett Report is both a way to more clearly see the big moves in geopolitics, get inspiration for personal change and gradually realizing more independence and sovereignty in my own and my family’s life. It is an inspiring way to learn and sometimes laugh. Fantastic work as always James!
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Do you suppose King Solomon had a POSIWID ?
That last verse sounds like sour grapes.
Ecclesiastes 1
King James Version
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Applying the POSIWID. Caitlin Johnson on narrative.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/manipulators-understand-that-narrative
Is this a corporate news release?
James, your system is working for the good of the people. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. I honestly don’t know how you can put out so much information so consistently. I just signed up to support you.
I cant wait to unfung my shei Sir James, great video, you are appreciated and posiwid sure seems like a wonderful way to gain insight into the fundamental nature of a system in general and maybe exceptionally so when overwhelmed with the levels of propoganda and lies in western media.
thank you