I used to think it wasn’t fair to call the Republican party the stupid party. But now I am not so sure. (That’s not to say the Democratic party doesn’t contain a heap of foolishness and backwards thinking as well). Technology just enables everyone to opt for media that tell them what they want to hear / reinforce their belief systems so they can create their own personalized comfortable cognitive bubble.
As a foreigner looking in, I fear for America; the numbness generated by desperation to export to the rest of the world their idea that, you are better than others. Sorry others are moving on even in their huts.
I'm sorry you feel that way, rik indehood. Please don't confuse President Trump's values with the people in America, though. The majority of American people are generous, kind , inclusive of others , and very upset with Trump's disrespect of other people.
California Girl and rik indehood: tRumpelstiltskin won Electoral College, a vestige of America's Slavery heritage that should be abolished as a corruption of democracy. Popular Vote (actual people) voted 3 million more for Hillary than for him. People who didn't vote are almost as many as both Hillary and tRump voters combined. tRumpelstiltskin DOES NOT have a majority of Americans, but does have a majority of American psychopaths/Nazis.
Dumbty Trumpty sat on a wall - Dumbty Trumpty had a great fall And all the fool's horses and all the fool's men couldn't put Trumpty back in office again........
THANK YOU GENERAL HAYDEN; appreciating your efforts to educate us upon enlightening the time defiance from psychology of intelligence analytical .rp.__
Thank you for your service General Hayden. You talk about a fear of Trump " normalization". What I'm seeing are cycles of information exhaustion, which the people seem to be recognizing and handling better for themselves as time goes on , with Trump withdrawal and short periods of rest. Then they're back examining news for the "Trump Show", Congress and Putin , worrying about what they're doing behind the scenes, and being impatient for Mueller's conclusions and November's votes. I believe anger for the '16 election and this administration remains strong.
This is a great talk. However, as he discusses it here, his analogy of a cake makes absolutely no sense vis-a-vis how these 3 things relate to each other. Perhaps he simply didn't have enough time to explain why he chose a cake as an analogy, and perhaps he elaborates the point in the book. It's also significantly more than I'd expect that he did take a half-sentence to acknowledge the rampant unconstitutional oversteps of IC/surveillance programs in the US. Notable also is how many of these talks have a purely conservative basis (by definition - Gen. Hayden spends his entire time defending the virtue of past institutions/methods from a current change), and yet, the common theme among all these talks is that among all these various conservative aspects, there is no support from Republicans at large. Truly a sign of the political fault lines destabilizing in USA. Even someone like David Cay Johnston's talk is essentially "conservative" in its defense of the withering norms of days past in political journalism.
Cakes are layered, and each layer is like a lie. The more lies the more layers you have to get through to get to the truth. Apparently Hayden thinks everyone like three layered shit cake.
Trump and Karl Rove must suffer from the same "alternative facts" disease: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” ~ Karl Rove
The vast NSA surveillance of all citizens (assault on the 4th amendment) was outlined in the 1971 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: “The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”
How do you get two radical right judges, Thomas and Kavanaugh, on the bench without looking at or discussing their record? Seems to be a playbook favorite to be used again and again and again. They think Americans love to talk about sex scandals, apparently. Plus, it's a great way to eat up air time. Discussing the issues now in peril will come after the fact. In fact, that's already begun! But the real question is, what's the point of creating an authoritarian police state in the US when it's obvious that the idea of "exceptionalism" is waning? In his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Sachs addresses the fact that "We don't look after each other at all," in America today. We don't because a radical right group, led by libertarian Koch money, wants it that way. Sachs discusses the quality of life and the environmentally-friendly infrastructure in Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen. "They're not falling apart, they're kinda gorgeous". Every worker enjoys 5 or 6 weeks summer paid vacation as a matter of every workers' right. They are living very, very comfortably and productively. In other words, they are living in the 21st century. So why the agenda to hold America back in 19th century feudalism? This is obviously not a prototype to expand worldwide anymore as it actually was with the whole neoliberal globalism project, to reduce the rest of the world to serfdom. Will this small Koch-fueled nationless group not rest until all the Americans, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Libyans, Venezuelans, Russians, Chinese, etc. are dead? And for what? Because…exceptionalism? Meritocracy? Monotheism? "The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal - God is the omnipotent father - hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family home. ~ Gore Vidal
"In the First Amendment to the Constitution the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is - yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase "In God We Trust" onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment." gorevidalpages.com/1992/04/gore-vidal-monotheism-and-its-discontents.html The End of American Exceptionalism: ua-cam.com/video/kZU0IXO7AQw/v-deo.html&feature=share
Exactly. It's not that Trump is being clever. It just that all his horrible personality traits force him to act in a way that makes it seem that way, to protect his huge but fragile ego.
I believe metacognition is thinking about the processes you use to think about things. I think what he's describing is self awareness. It's a little subtle but it bugs me.
I felt like he was making some good points ... until he began talking about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!! So you're telling me that fucking Facebook and Twitter memes have destroyed America?? I wonder if he actually hears himself??
5:32 "It's god-given only in one sense: in that god wants us to have that kind of life." Why does he invoke god in this lecture? Is he a religious man?
How do you get two radical right judges, Thomas and Kavanaugh, on the bench without looking at or discussing their record? Seems to be a playbook favorite to be used again and again and again. They think Americans love to talk about sex scandals, apparently. Plus, it's a great way to eat up air time. Discussing the issues now in peril will come after the fact. In fact, that's already begun! But the real question is, what's the point of creating an authoritarian police state in the US when it's obvious that the idea of "exceptionalism" is waning? In his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Sachs addresses the fact that "We don't look after each other at all," in America today. We don't because a radical right group, led by libertarian Koch money, wants it that way. Sachs discusses the quality of life and the environmentally-friendly infrastructure in Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen. "They're not falling apart, they're kinda gorgeous". Every worker enjoys 5 or 6 weeks summer paid vacation as a matter of every workers' right. They are living very, very comfortably and productively. In other words, they are living in the 21st century. So why the agenda to hold America back in 19th century feudalism? This is obviously not a prototype to expand worldwide anymore as it actually was with the whole neoliberal globalism project, to reduce the rest of the world to serfdom. Will this small Koch-fueled nationless group not rest until all the Americans, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Libyans, Venezuelans, Russians, Chinese, etc. are dead? And for what? Because…exceptionalism? Meritocracy? Monotheism? "The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal - God is the omnipotent father - hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family home. ~ Gore Vidal
"In the First Amendment to the Constitution the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is - yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase "In God We Trust" onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment." gorevidalpages.com/1992/04/gore-vidal-monotheism-and-its-discontents.html
Unfortunately the people who need this book the most will be the last to read it.
Aristotelezz make a reality show version 😉
I used to think it wasn’t fair to call the Republican party the stupid party. But now I am not so sure. (That’s not to say the Democratic party doesn’t contain a heap of foolishness and backwards thinking as well). Technology just enables everyone to opt for media that tell them what they want to hear / reinforce their belief systems so they can create their own personalized comfortable cognitive bubble.
As a foreigner looking in, I fear for America; the numbness generated by desperation to export to the rest of the world their idea that, you are better than others. Sorry others are moving on even in their huts.
I'm sorry you feel that way, rik indehood. Please don't confuse President Trump's values with the people in America, though. The majority of American people are generous, kind , inclusive of others , and very upset with Trump's disrespect of other people.
Jody Huston : If that would have been true, Trump would not win election.
California Girl and rik indehood: tRumpelstiltskin won Electoral College, a vestige of America's Slavery heritage that should be abolished as a corruption of democracy. Popular Vote (actual people) voted 3 million more for Hillary than for him. People who didn't vote are almost as many as both Hillary and tRump voters combined. tRumpelstiltskin DOES NOT have a majority of Americans, but does have a majority of American psychopaths/Nazis.
Dumbty Trumpty sat on a wall - Dumbty Trumpty had a great fall
And all the fool's horses and all the fool's men
couldn't put Trumpty back in office again........
THANK YOU GENERAL HAYDEN; appreciating your efforts to educate us upon enlightening the time defiance from psychology of intelligence analytical .rp.__
Thank you for your service General Hayden. You talk about a fear of Trump " normalization". What I'm seeing are cycles of information exhaustion, which the people seem to be recognizing and handling better for themselves as time goes on , with Trump withdrawal and short periods of rest. Then they're back examining news for the "Trump Show", Congress and Putin , worrying about what they're doing behind the scenes, and being impatient for Mueller's conclusions and November's votes. I believe anger for the '16 election and this administration remains strong.
Another US apologist for military adventurism in support of its empire
Don the con man is Nixon 2.0. It would be sweet if we can put him in a state prison, if not in a federal prison.
Dudes like him get a cushy cell too. Equality or fukit.
Nixon was compared a man of honor. At least he knew when to resign...
Is he a comedian? ...calling Hannity's show "news". LOL. That's like calling Beavis & Butthead "scholarly".
This is a great talk. However, as he discusses it here, his analogy of a cake makes absolutely no sense vis-a-vis how these 3 things relate to each other. Perhaps he simply didn't have enough time to explain why he chose a cake as an analogy, and perhaps he elaborates the point in the book.
It's also significantly more than I'd expect that he did take a half-sentence to acknowledge the rampant unconstitutional oversteps of IC/surveillance programs in the US.
Notable also is how many of these talks have a purely conservative basis (by definition - Gen. Hayden spends his entire time defending the virtue of past institutions/methods from a current change), and yet, the common theme among all these talks is that among all these various conservative aspects, there is no support from Republicans at large. Truly a sign of the political fault lines destabilizing in USA. Even someone like David Cay Johnston's talk is essentially "conservative" in its defense of the withering norms of days past in political journalism.
Cakes are layered, and each layer is like a lie. The more lies the more layers you have to get through to get to the truth. Apparently Hayden thinks everyone like three layered shit cake.
I wish I had the time to read all of the interesting books that you present.
I enjoy Hayden's work quite a bit, great talk.
Trump and Karl Rove must suffer from the same "alternative facts" disease:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” ~ Karl Rove
The vast NSA surveillance of all citizens (assault on the 4th amendment) was outlined in the 1971 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages:
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”
How do you get two radical right judges, Thomas and Kavanaugh, on the bench without looking at or discussing their record? Seems to be a playbook favorite to be used again and again and again. They think Americans love to talk about sex scandals, apparently. Plus, it's a great way to eat up air time. Discussing the issues now in peril will come after the fact. In fact, that's already begun!
But the real question is, what's the point of creating an authoritarian police state in the US when it's obvious that the idea of "exceptionalism" is waning?
In his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Sachs addresses the fact that "We don't look after each other at all," in America today. We don't because a radical right group, led by libertarian Koch money, wants it that way.
Sachs discusses the quality of life and the environmentally-friendly infrastructure in Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen. "They're not falling apart, they're kinda gorgeous". Every worker enjoys 5 or 6 weeks summer paid vacation as a matter of every workers' right. They are living very, very comfortably and productively.
In other words, they are living in the 21st century. So why the agenda to hold America back in 19th century feudalism? This is obviously not a prototype to expand worldwide anymore as it actually was with the whole neoliberal globalism project, to reduce the rest of the world to serfdom.
Will this small Koch-fueled nationless group not rest until all the Americans, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Libyans, Venezuelans, Russians, Chinese, etc. are dead? And for what? Because…exceptionalism? Meritocracy? Monotheism?
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal - God is the omnipotent father - hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family home. ~ Gore Vidal
"In the First Amendment to the Constitution the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is - yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase "In God We Trust" onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment."
gorevidalpages.com/1992/04/gore-vidal-monotheism-and-its-discontents.html
The End of American Exceptionalism: ua-cam.com/video/kZU0IXO7AQw/v-deo.html&feature=share
He doesn't know that he's describing narcissism. He thinks it's some strategy.
Exactly. It's not that Trump is being clever. It just that all his horrible personality traits force him to act in a way that makes it seem that way, to protect his huge but fragile ego.
What if quality of intelligence on Russian intervention is the same as quality of intelligence on WMD?
I believe metacognition is thinking about the processes you use to think about things. I think what he's describing is self awareness. It's a little subtle but it bugs me.
Lots of CIA in Sarajevo, huh?
people who lack meta-cognition, or, as my brother used to say "know thine own psychosis"
@3:45 is when it starts
Everything Hayden says about the "Obama-wiretapping", ca. 10-12min, can be used when talking about the Syria "gas attacks".
The gas attacks we have film and DR. testimony about ?
The acronym CIA is hilarious.
I felt like he was making some good points ... until he began talking about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!! So you're telling me that fucking Facebook and Twitter memes have destroyed America?? I wonder if he actually hears himself??
18:44 take the knee
21:44 sport will be the downfall of the American empire [ish...i took some liberties >>]
at 14:00 minutes in he speaks of the crux of the "problem".
In the beginning Hayden mentions god and he's an INTELLIGENCE agent? And then he proceeds to tell us that intelligence agents deal with FACTS!
5:32 "It's god-given only in one sense: in that god wants us to have that kind of life." Why does he invoke god in this lecture? Is he a religious man?
How do you get two radical right judges, Thomas and Kavanaugh, on the bench without looking at or discussing their record? Seems to be a playbook favorite to be used again and again and again. They think Americans love to talk about sex scandals, apparently. Plus, it's a great way to eat up air time. Discussing the issues now in peril will come after the fact. In fact, that's already begun!
But the real question is, what's the point of creating an authoritarian police state in the US when it's obvious that the idea of "exceptionalism" is waning?
In his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Sachs addresses the fact that "We don't look after each other at all," in America today. We don't because a radical right group, led by libertarian Koch money, wants it that way.
Sachs discusses the quality of life and the environmentally-friendly infrastructure in Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen. "They're not falling apart, they're kinda gorgeous". Every worker enjoys 5 or 6 weeks summer paid vacation as a matter of every workers' right. They are living very, very comfortably and productively.
In other words, they are living in the 21st century. So why the agenda to hold America back in 19th century feudalism? This is obviously not a prototype to expand worldwide anymore as it actually was with the whole neoliberal globalism project, to reduce the rest of the world to serfdom.
Will this small Koch-fueled nationless group not rest until all the Americans, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Libyans, Venezuelans, Russians, Chinese, etc. are dead? And for what? Because…exceptionalism? Meritocracy? Monotheism?
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal - God is the omnipotent father - hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family home. ~ Gore Vidal
"In the First Amendment to the Constitution the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is - yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase "In God We Trust" onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment."
gorevidalpages.com/1992/04/gore-vidal-monotheism-and-its-discontents.html
The End of American Exceptionalism: ua-cam.com/video/kZU0IXO7AQw/v-deo.html&feature=share