The MAGA Cult #2: What "Make America Great Again" Really Means

The MAGA Cult #2: What "Make America Great Again" Really Mean
Niles Heckman

“Make America Great Again.” It’s the anti-social contract and thus Anti-American stale fart rehash from the 1980's rallying cry that launched cringe worthy red hats and even more awkward family dinners. But if you’ve ever tried asking a diehard MAGA cult lemming the two most obvious follow-up questions “When exactly was America great?” and “When did it stop being great?” One will notice a curious thing: suddenly, the room gets real quiet… Or loud. But definitely not historically accurate. Because here’s the thing: the timeline is mysterious, contradictory, and shaped more by vibes than facts. The answer is never 100% clear, but it always smells faintly of lead paint, coal dust, and garment sweatshops for the ladies or meatpacking plants with zero health codes for the fellas.

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The Real Underlying Purpose of Artificial Intelligence

The Real Underlying Purpose of Artificial Intelligence
Niles Heckman

There’s a quote floating around that feels like it was whispered to a Wall Street executive by a sentient crypto shit coin: “The underlying purpose of Artificial Intelligence is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.”

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To The Younger Self: External Validation In Our 20s 40s and 60s

To The Younger Self: External Validation In Our 20s 40s and 60s
Niles Heckman

"When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, and when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place" Ouch. It's a triple-layered onion of disillusionment and is simultaneously frustrating and mostly accurate. Its sobering nature also encapsulates a profound and often humorous truth about human perception and self-awareness. It charts a journey through the anxieties of youth, the burgeoning confidence of middle age, and ultimately, a liberating realization about the relative insignificance of external validation. While presented as a simple progression through decades, it speaks to deeper psychological shifts and the evolving understanding of our place in the grand scheme of things.

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The Ringwraiths of Capital: Democrats Are Half Nazgûl and Republicans Are Full Nazgûl

The Ringwraiths of Capital: Democrats Are Half Nazgûl and Republicans Are Full Nazgûl
Niles Heckman

In struggling working class middle Earth, we have a Republican lite right of center DNC party that, even though they are more pro-democratic and speak in we hear your pain language regarding the injustices of that working class, generally doesn't want to rock the boat regarding oligarchy and truly do what's require to fix structural problems. Not to mention constantly undermine its progressive wing and be more conservative than Europe's left leaning parties. Then we have a far right wing as humanly possible wanna be fascist batshit crazy theocratic idiocracy red cult of weirdos whose goal is to destroy the American middle class through austerity and thus our democratically elected constitutional republic who will not stop until very few psychopathic oligarchic robber barons can return the country to an iron age / gilded age period where women had virtually no rights and both you and your young children have to slave work in coal mines. So you either get slightly regressive or stagnate at best, or hardcore backwards regression when in reality we need a progressive revolution beyond the likes of which we have never seen. Which we last did in the social contract that America introduced in the 1930's after the great depression, which gave new fuel to the working class.

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Multiple Layers to the Christ Onion

Multiple Layers to the Christ Onion
Niles Heckman

There's a great saying that goes "If it's real, it can take the pressure." If something is challenged, and people go absolutely mental over it being challenged, then you know its foundation is shaky and the whole thing could potentially be false or fictional. The teachings attributed to Jesus Christ are not simply one-dimensional. They move across multiple layers, from simple, accessible moral lessons to profound mystical insights. Traditionally, scholars and spiritual seekers recognize a progression from exoteric (outer) teachings intended for the general population, to esoteric (inner) teachings meant for those ready for deeper gnosis. So each one of these layers gets more sophisticated, and thus is understood and appreciated by fewer and fewer people.

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News Media Problems #11 - Grifters

News Media Problems #11: Grifters
Niles Heckman

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Two Ears, One Mouth and Using Them Proportionately

Two Ears, One Mouth and Using Them Proportionately
Niles Heckman

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Make America Worse: An Intro to the MAGA Cult

An Intro to the MAGA Cult
Niles Heckman

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Think For Yourself, Question Authority

Think For Yourself, Question Authority
Niles Heckman

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Glittering Generalities: Persuasion Through Vagueness

Glittering Generalities: Persuasion Through Vagueness
Niles Heckman

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Enshittification and the Path Away From It

Enshittification and the Path Away From It
Niles Heckman

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SLEP is the Opposite of WOKE

SLEP is the Opposite of WOKE
Niles Heckman

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Calling Out Empire #2: Morality within Liberal and Conservative Religion

Calling Out Empire #2: Morality within Liberal and Conservative Religion
Niles Heckman

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Benefits of Not Liking Or Subscribing

Benefits of Not Liking Or Subscribing
Niles Heckman

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Echo Chambers and The Illusory Truth Effect

Echo Chambers and The Illusory Truth Effect
Niles Heckman

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What is a Kakistocracy?

What is a Kakistocracy?
Niles Heckman

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Standard of Living Compared to Quality of Life

Standard of Living Compared to Quality of Life
Niles Heckman

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The Outdated Use of the Term "First World"

The Outdated Use of the Term "First World"
Niles Heckman

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Truths on Repeat

Truths on Repeat
Niles Heckman

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