The End of Thinking - A Chat with James Tunney

[@Aaron-yy3tr]

Heck yeah don’t stop interviewing Tunney

[@KassJuanebe]

Thank you for bringing up the idea of how having our choices forced into slots crystalizes our thinking. I have heard James talking about this before but only now understand the concept. The polarization of politics feeds into this. As someone says the media turns everything into ritualized call and response, killing thought and dialogue and exploration of ideas. Thank you both.

[@ThinkingThomasNotions]

Thank you for listening!

[@EastoftheDanube]

Good discussion, thanks. The journalist and activist Chris Hedges says that what’s happening to the Palestinians today is coming for us all when we are forced to rise up against the machine. The Israelis are using AI for their indiscriminate aerial bombing campaign against unarmed and defenceless civilians. I was quite surprised to hear him say this but it chimes with what James T is saying.

[@wrongspell6619]

touché

[@irishluck9717]

Great interview with James Tunney 👏 hes a wealth of true knowledge and facts love it. ❤️

[@AfterBurner369]

Thank you both for a very informative discussion. Much appreciated. 😊 🙏

[@KassJuanebe]

Thomas at 39 minutes really nails the nature of human thought. Being able to perceive the real. Beautiful. A Bohrsian Great Truth.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Thomas interviews JT from a car. He looks and sounds drunk but thankfully JT is in his usual thoughtful - and courteous - form. 😔

[@Barklord]

You mentioned One-dimensional Man just as I was going to type The Technologicsl Society, by Jacques Ellul. Basically, creative thought is set within intrumental parameters. Glass Bead Game is also worth returning to. Cool stuff, thanks.

[@Barklord]

I have to disagree with the notion that there's significant racism toward 'whites' as bad. I refuse to start believing that I'm being victimised for being white. I don't see it or feel it. I've lived in Ireland now for several years and I notice that the anti-immigration sentiment is *not aimed at me* because I'm a white American. Instead, the focus is toward other ethnicities. Mutual respect is the goal, not anti-white.

[@soerenkristoffersen5363]

YEs sir! Glædelig jul - and thanks!

[@KassJuanebe]

51 minutes My question is:What do the lives of the "people " at the top of this soon emerging techno hierarchy LOOK LIKE? What's it all FOR?

[@interestedpart2650]

Excellent

[@wesleyedwardsart]

ive been trying to find this guys contact to interview him but it looks like his contact page is broken, does he have SM?

[@legitorecords5701]

X means "the end"

[@Barklord]

@45:00 there's discussion about Irish emigration being forced on them due to capitalist-induced famine, etc, which is now being used to justify immigration to Ireland from other places. I sympathize with the problems that raises, however, the focus should be placed on the economic forces causing that rather than blaming specific ethnicities or even specific politicians. Politicians can't currently change the capitalist paradigm. They're operating within that game framework. Again, I am a 'white' immigrant from the U.S. and people don't blame me in the same way they're getting angry about other immigrants. The entire focus gets shifted away from removing the cause, to blaming the refugees or victims.

[@Barklord]

@49:15 Is Tunny really suggesting that 'the Left' is supportive of NATO? I don't think so.

[@vishwamheckert4208]

I'm also a white immigrant from the US and didn't hear any blaming of migrants in this talk but on the creation of forced migration by those who are a playing a big game with people's lives. He wasn't even talking about politicians in particular, but on those who are so caught up in their desire for money and control that they manipulate politicians and others into creating wars and discouraging dissent. And, it seems to me, that any of us can contribute to moving out of the capitalist paradigm. By letting go of the desire to win, to control, to own and possess, by discovering that within us which is loving and giving and innocent, by opening our hearts to all life, then we are stepping into a wholly different way of being.

[@Barklord]

@vishwamheckert4208 Hello. Here's what I see happening recently: My employer (small business with 10 employees) uses the profits that her employees generate to invest in private rental property. She hires mostly immigrants, so she's benefiting from the immigration. When the pandemic happened, inflation increased for all her production costs (especially electricity), so she raised her prices too. Our wages stayed the same, obviously, so our cost of living increased whlie her costs were shifted to the customers. When the Russian-Ukrainian war happened, she took in Ukrainian refugees for renters because the government pays €800 per unit. Of course, this creates scarcity prices for apartments, especially for university students. She makes a show of support for Palestinians but has no political intention to change the economic system because she knows she's benefiting from it. This middle-class is the first to become reactionary whenever the working class make waves toward socialism. Withdrawing from the capitalist game is impossible, and it seems that it's a form of depoliticization that allows business as usual to continue. We can and should be kind to one another. None of us caused these problems. Yet, is that a solution?

[@vishwamheckert4208]

@@Barklord just because she's not letting go of the desire to profit and control doesn't mean we can't.

[@Barklord]

@vishwamheckert4208 I'm not sure that letting the drunk person keep the keys to the car is a solution.

[@LadyLuck8_4]

How does the human depopulation agenda factor in though with the shepherding of humans into transhumanism? What’s the end goal for humans James?

[@BraniG-psyc03]

❤Hi Tom, how are you?:)🤝☀️🧸❤️

[@missh1774]

If God wanted us to succeed, He would probably suggest for an individual to sever all ties with all parties, even the virtuous endeavour to commit to revitalising a just and good world for thriving communities and societies. Not just sever the ties, but to make the error of his/her way of thinking, the thing to not have any validity or worth in the world of progress. Why would God suggest such an erroneous thing? He says it is to know how He works. And so ... here I have made the profane and blasphemous claim of a heretical diabolical statement. I suspect that's not near enough 🙄 but at least its there.