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Oct 22Liked by Nicholas Kircher

Excellent writing Nicholas! 👏 Reminds me of the movie "A clockwork orange" and how the director manipulates us to empathize with the protagonist's Pavlovian treatment by the "bad" psychiatrists and to celebrate his ultimate liberation to murder and maim again. We do fear losing our freedom of choice due to any exterior force or authority.

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Thank you kindly sir 🙏it's been a long time since I saw clockwork orange last I must watch it again!

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This was such an incredible read and it's clear that you have put great effort, time and research into this. I hope this post blows up. Because it deserves it.

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Thank you SO much!!! That really made my day!

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This was a really interesting read. I didn't know much of anything about this guy. Small related side story, I grew up down the street from the state mental hospital in Cherokee, Iowa (well former state mental hospital, Reagan ended that). My old neighbor was a retired Polish psychiatrist who worked there. She actually fled the Nazi's as a child. I've only recently found out that not only did they perform many lobotomies there, a certain type of lobotomy was developed there conducted by this psychopath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II

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Yeeeeesh, that's nuts. I never went far down into investigating the lobotomists, because it was clear that there was something very wrong there. What I did find were people who equated Jose Delgado with lobotomy, despite all evidence being to the exact contrary. Part 2 is gonna be a doozey. It might even extend to a Part 3 (unheard of for me lol).

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Ok that gave me the heeebie jeebies. Coming off of the Nazis I can see the movement but also, no. I remember this song lyric: I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

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It's a crazy story all around. Just wait for part 2, the whole thing is nuts. Thank you for reading sir!

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What materialist psychological researchers don't understand about the human condition: Idiosyncratic Egocentricity is the default state of the human mind, and as a baseline condition it cannot be replaced or removed without turning an individual human's consciousness into the puppet of someone else's Egocentricity.

Egocentricity cannot be permanently hacked out of existence, not even by a Level 5 psychedelic experience. Egocentricity can only be put in check, by cultivating the discipline of self-awareness. Including the admission of the limits and biases that are inextricable from material embodiment. No one should expect that once their Egocentricity is put in check, that it will stay there. Egocentricity needs to be monitored, assiduously. Not like an occasional phone-in. The goal isn't to get rid of the Ego; it's there for a reason. But the Ego is a guardian that turns into a jailer if left unchecked. And there's no electrostim or chemical substitute for taking personal responsibility to steer ones own course.

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