What Is Epistemic Trust & What Happens When It’s Broken? | Dr. Daniel Gaztambide 

If one treats politics as a subject among many other subjects of life it allows one to study it as a subject and like everything else it is added to your bookshelf to reference.

Dammit I was following him deeply until the ideology crept in and stole his intellect. Can you share the news network that shared that type of commentary on neighbors? That’s fucking unbelievable. I don’t feel divided. Do you? I decided not to feel that way and magically I don’t feel that way.

Interesting comment. I've come to the conclusion that capitalism is based on an incorrect observation of nature. There are many ideas that are accepted without question which causes blind spots. But the major flaw in thinking to me is the idea of survival of the fittest. Yes, the natural world can be brutal and this idea reflects a partial truth, but nature is also supportive and nurturing. Animals work together, even differing species work towards a common goal. Plants are the same, it's not all competition for resources. In forests, plants can share nutrients with one another through the underground mycelium network. Plants send distress signals when under attack which creates responses from other plants and certain insects. Capitalism at it's core is every man for himself. It's survival of the fittest. It does not work in its current form but try and bring that up with anyone and you will be a communist....perhaps we haven't yet discovered a system that would work better? Capitalism benefits psychopaths who will do whatever it takes to get to the top. It turns people into self centred narcissists. I cannot see people moving away from this system, it has too much momentum and there's too much denial and avoidance of looking at real issues. I think that the system will eat itself. It's basically a pyramid funneling energy upwards while eroding the stability of its base. Modern civilization is powered by fossil fuels and we are acting like there's an infinite supply. What kind of people build a way of life based on a finite resource that took millions of years to form and burn through most of it in a century or so? It's literally insane behaviour. If we were smart we would have used that limited energy wisely and created a sustainable way of life. I think of it a bit like yeast during the fermentation process when making beer. There's a lot of activity when the sugars are present and once those sugars are all consumed, the yeast sinks to the bottom. Oil and coal are our sugars and the result has been hyperactivity for the last couple of hundred years. This is temporary and things will slow down and in many cases come to a screeching halt. The world will seem like a bigger place again and we will have to return to some basic ways of living.

​@@DarkMoonWayfarer Thank you. Yes I've even made the same point and observation in regards to the failure to imitate natural selection in capitalist ideology. For those of us who happen to be well-acquainted with nature, be it directly through our livelihood as farmers and landscapers or professionally as biologists or in related fields, it is just blatantly wrong to conceive of survival of the fittest as competition within a pyramid structure. Human beings invented the pyramids thousands of years ago out of primitive psychology and lack of self-understanding. The fittest in nature coexist in innumerable symbiotic ways simultaneously, flying entirely in the face of this misconceptualised and distorted version of survival of the fittest which even Darwin at his time rebutted and considered nonsensical. It literally went into the pseudoscience bin several hundred years ago. He would writhe in his grave to learn we ended up using HIS NAME in 'Darwinism' to justify capitalism and smear and distort his scientific contributions. The bastardised version of "survival of the fittest" in reality generates offspring with mental illness, undermines the exact virtues that made human beings strong in community, destroys the environment and our own habitat and makes us, the land and the animals sick. It is the inverse of fitness - decrepitness, fragility, feebleness, weakness and disease.

this is valid also

@@DarkMoonWayfarer i know well about the care in other countries which is why France, as the example gives, would have been an opportunity for care without cost rather than what is said in this video…again upon return to US he went straight to US doctor (regardless of cost). There is a “conflation” in the explanation. Uninformed and unprepared on rules of non-home country. No one is denied care at any hospital no matter the country.

@@DarkMoonWayfarer and yet as soon as he went home to USA he went to doctor and no mention of medical bill. Get it? That example has to do with being uninformed, not epistemic trust. One can argue not being informed as being a part of epistemic trust but its a stretch from the actual concept. Another choice would be when in another country with need of emergency care (or even USA), is walk into emergency room with no ID and give a false name, address, etc…you’ll still get care. No fear. Either you fear for your actual life or you fear bills. He chose bills - sounds like he was young at the time and in an alien country and not informed of the country rules - which is first rule of going to foreign country - know the rules. The whole world knows of the rules of healthcare in USA - people still get care (and may or may not be hit with bills - and may or may not actually pay those bills themselves in the long run). His example gives more insight into how he was raised to have the belief he had - not all people make the same decision he did even given same cultural environment. It goes back to the caregiver not the society/country surrounding the individual. Again, sounds like he was uninformed and I stand by what i say in the context of the topic of the video.

@@DarkMoonWayfarer i speak on the example of epistemic trust. The example he gives in the video is “spun” in the direction of placing blame on gov’t for shaping fear/perspective not caregiver…no mention of parental figure caregiver for that example…and thats where the epistemic trust is created. Whatever else you are mentioning is another issue…nearby but has its own distinction. 🎤⬇️

@@DarkMoonWayfarer you’re missing the point of the topic of the video, the context of the borderliner notes channel, and that the information on the channel is to assist people with mental disorders (which includes disorders of perception). His experience in the United States is that he was not hit by a large medical bill ever and always had health coverage, which is why he went straight to the doctor when he came back to the United States. Again, his explanation of the example he gave does not illustrates how epistemic trust led him to make the choice he made.

@@DarkMoonWayfarer exactly

Or Israel. You could always go there. They're very liberal.

Bless you. I wish you healing on your journey. Your response screams the fragility that comes from never having needed to consider any other perspective or experience other than your own.

We don't know when this was. Perhaps it was in an age before google existed, hard as that may be to imagine now. And it may also be possible he didn't have holiday insurance.

The Federal Government spends more on Healthcare than France. So it's not a spending issue. We have to ask where the money is going. And um.. this guy saw a US doctor. How is he not now bankrupt?

What is the satisfaction you gain from attacking things you don't understand? (your symptom is showing)

This was probably filmed during the pandemic

you sound offended. you ok?

@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Yes thanks! Never been vaxed, had covid once, and i'm doing great. P.S. masks never worked.

Yup - filmed during the pandemic - seriously, a mask!

@@BorderlinerNotes Ok, there are things under the "mask of sanity" as Arno Gruen put it. Stretching, so to say.