Gregg,

It seems, as a psychologist (Social Scientist) there is a challenge here
with “knowledge” or actually “knowing,” rather than imagining or “opinion”
formed from other experiences and the environment in which one is formed
(the “City” or in our case the Culture created by Television), per
Aristotle.

Knowledge would require direct experience with someone/something, AND an
understanding of the CAUSES.

Your blog entry reflects expected “behavior” based upon our prior Paradigm,
as reflected in how the “media” must portray the President.

Do you know the President, and have you reflected upon on the Causes of why
he is depicted as he is by the media? Might this reflect something
foundational? New environment and thus a new culture war?

To “predict” requires understanding the Causes (Formal, Material, Telos and
Kinetic), and “images” based upon experience. The first two, Formal and
Material, tend to go together: souls are form and substance.

The President has long said he has riden a wave and that his views of the
world have been publicly expressed and rather unchanged for 40 years, and
then, boom, he gets elected.

Social Sciences have no answers beyond the superficial. Which is to say,
they don’t understand what Souls are and how they are formed which the
leads to habits, predispositions, sensibilities, attitudes and behaviors.

My reading is that your blog does not address what is happening to the
humans, who have elected across the West persons who Television tried to
teach us were the bad guys.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:15 Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Mark:
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> Are you referring to the American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater rule
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Goldwater-5Frule&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=3Y7PvTCoq7DlKjfCn9I6fmhBwy-TX-IQ6FFuaHq4OBM&s=xgAgEThXH9hTDLKtZkD1xFECxjkKrJH_FOV9IfqkfAA&e=>? If so, then that is a
> swing and a miss.
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> Keep in mind I am a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. And surely as a
> psychologist I am allowed to comment on people’s behavior. The only iffy
> area is whether a psychologist can claiming action should be taken as a
> function of their status as a licensed health professional. Given that
> framing of the issue, we can see that the blog does nothing of the sort. It
> simply characterizes what everyone can see in the language of a personality
> psychologist.
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> Understanding the behavior of individual persons is, after all, my job.
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> Best,
>
> Gregg
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> Gregg:
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> As you know, the APA has a rule against "analyzing" anyone without
> actually taking them on as a "client."  I know it's tempting to imagine
> that you know enough about a person based on how they are portrayed on
> television but I suspect that is not how you think clinical psychology
> should actually work in real life . . <g>
>
>
>
> More importantly, since this is a world leader you're talking about -- who
> has been the target of relentless 24/7 attacks -- I can tell you that
> "Trump" and "Algorithms" have *nothing* to do with what is going on in the
> world today (which, alas, it is my job to understand.)
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> "Racism" is a *meme* that is being deployed by the TELEVISION paradigm
> because it is desperately trying to hold-on, even though obviously it has
> become totally obsolete now that we are DIGITAL. None of the memes make any
> sense anymore.  Nike's "Just Do It!" has now turned into a boycott against
> them.
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> As we wrote more than a year ago, we are living with the "end of memes."
> As it turns out, yesterday the EU actually passed a law against them (or
> what most in the Internet think they are).
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__medium.com_rally-2Dpoint-2Dperspectives_the-2Dend-2Dof-2Dmemes-2Dor-2Dmcluhan-2D101-2D2095ae3cad02&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=rG9ldyCLY_blxNmVNHkATP3u_ZUsQRv_uFOxF8AU5NM&s=yeRR2HMCB-3DGCJbBeJqJ9PR8pL738sMyV2a7pSq5IA&e
> =
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> TELEVISION tried to convince us that there is a "Family of Man," as the
> ideology behind its "globalist" ambitions.  None of that makes any sense
> any more.  Hopefully my posts about China have been helpful to illustrate
> this "new" reality.
>
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> Brexit.  Italy.  Hungary.  And now Sweden &c.  Trump is only the "symptom"
> of something much larger.  This is a world-wide phenomenon and has little
> to do with Trump or anyone else's "personality" (or presumed "stage of
> development.")
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>
> Welcome to the future (which isn't at all like most people thought it
> would be) . . . !!
>
>
>
> Mark
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