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===The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)===
===The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC)===


00:18:14 The most important ideas are likely to be the ideas that are most disruptive. What if the entire food pyramid for example was wildly off what if fats we're not the great danger. We thought they were and those waving fields of wheat that are fabled an American song. In fact, give rise to carbs which are very dangerous to us all as if everything were inverted. Let's say we're in a world where instead of banishing volatility during the so-called great moderation before 2008. We were actually building the Tinder for the world's largest financial forest fire. What if in fact we had all sorts of things exactly backwards and completely wrong. What if diversity wasn't always a sign of our strength, but sometimes a sign of our weakness what if for example immigration far from being an issue of xenophobes versus Anna files was actually an instrument of redistribution having very little to do with xenophobia or
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00:19:14 I feel you to be done with these sorts of ideas can't be entertained inside of the Gated Institutional Narrative. And that's where the gating function comes in. What was originally a function intended to ensure quality control of the narrative became an instrument for something else. And this is where I want to introduce the most important concept that I think we will be dealing with on a going-forward basis in 2020 on this program the DISC. What is the DISC? The DISC stands for the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.
The most important ideas are likely to be the ideas that are most disruptive. What if the entire food pyramid for example was wildly off what if fats we're not the great danger. We thought they were and those waving fields of wheat that are fabled an American song. In fact, give rise to carbs which are very dangerous to us all as if everything were inverted. Let's say we're in a world where instead of banishing volatility during the so-called great moderation before 2008. We were actually building the Tinder for the world's largest financial forest fire. What if in fact we had all sorts of things exactly backwards and completely wrong. What if diversity wasn't always a sign of our strength, but sometimes a sign of our weakness what if for example immigration far from being an issue of xenophobes versus Anna files was actually an instrument of redistribution having very little to do with xenophobia or


00:19:49 Without taking it apart. The center of it is ideas suppression not all ideas are good. And so idea suppression is very frequently understood as an important concept when we're talking about something like bigotry or were talking about something like violent ideology. Of course, you want to suppress certain 90th, but these are not the ideas that are principally important inside of the disk. The disk is actually a complex. It is a large collection of different structures and it's not controlled in any one place many of these have emerged separately. But what makes a an aspect of the disc what shows you a particular component? Is it a protect institutions?
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00:20:36 From individuals who are making valid and reasonable points. So if you imagine that the institutions have become incredibly fragile because they're in fact built for growth and that I plan for their growth if it obligates them to tell untruths and to hide certain characteristics because they are not in fact able to grow at the rates in which they are supposed to
I feel you to be done with these sorts of ideas can't be entertained inside of the Gated Institutional Narrative. And that's where the gating function comes in. What was originally a function intended to ensure quality control of the narrative became an instrument for something else. And this is where I want to introduce the most important concept that I think we will be dealing with on a going-forward basis in 2020 on this program the DISC. What is the DISC? The DISC stands for the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex.


00:21:03 you need some complex for making sure that that information doesn't reach the bottom entrance to a pyramid structure.
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Without taking it apart, the center of it is idea suppression. Not all ideas are good. And so idea suppression is very frequently understood as an important concept when we're talking about something like bigotry or were talking about something like violent ideology. Of course, you want to suppress certain 90th, but these are not the ideas that are principally important inside of the disk. The disk is actually a complex. It is a large collection of different structures and it's not controlled in any one place many of these have emerged separately. But what makes a an aspect of the disc what shows you a particular component? Is it a protect institutions?
 
00:20:36
 
From individuals who are making valid and reasonable points. So if you imagine that the institutions have become incredibly fragile because they're in fact built for growth and that I plan for their growth if it obligates them to tell untruths and to hide certain characteristics because they are not in fact able to grow at the rates in which they are supposed to
 
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you need some complex for making sure that that information doesn't reach the bottom entrance to a pyramid structure.


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