Competency, Proxies, and Political Standing: A Conceptual Diagnosis or On the Rhetoric of Democratic Inclusion.

Latest addition to the Anti-Enlightenment project: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18063791

#democracy #philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #voting #rights #ageism #consent #governance #suffrage #rhetoric #law #inclusion #competence #tea #essay

#USA Nowadays
#FunctionalMelancholic

Lack of the 3 C's:

#Community
#Competence
#Character

"So how do we actually survive this transition without completely losing our minds?
I think it has to start with a kind of mental decolonization.
You have to stop measuring your worth by the metrics of a machine that's currently just grinding you into dust. If you can't afford a house, chances are it it's not a character flaw or personal failure. It's a structural one."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lPbCU0exwuo&si=MHwMMP5DP7U32uOH

Metal teaches what modern systems have forgotten: reality has structure, standards cannot be corrupted, and weight must actually be borne.

Use metal as your standard — does it work when reality tests it, or does it just produce documentation about working?

In the forge, honest work meets honest resistance. No committees. No credentials. Just manifestation.

🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2025-12-18-metal-manifesto/

#philosophy #liberty #individualism #reality #competence #sovereignty #craftsmanship #metalworking

Looking at #HammvSmith, the wild #SupremeCourt case in which #Alabama is desperate to give the #DeathPenalty to someone who their own #courts found #IntellectuallyDisabled, despite it violating the #8thAmendment of the #constitution according to many past rulings. Alabama argues that his #IQtest scores range between 72 and 78, above the limit of 70. Defense counters that experts agree that #IQ is a flawed measure, that he has issues that aren't going to show on IQ tests, and that 72 is so low that the margin of error would reach below 70.

Meanwhile, the courts found multiple times that he was not competent for #execution, and let's be really honest here, everyone, even the #prosecutors, think he is #MentallyDisabled. This feels to me like #DoubleJeopardy and nitpicking: the courts already said he didn't meet the standard of #competence, and the #prosecutor is basically asking the supreme #court to have lower courts ignore facts whenever a state wants to kill people.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/court-appears-divided-on-whether-lower-courts-properly-found-death-row-inmate-to-be-intellectually-disabled/

We've been conditioned to police tone over substance, to value the appearance of decorum over actual #competence or #character. We've let the people with power redefine #professionalism to protect themselves while weaponizing it against everyone else.

#WorkplaceCulture #DoubleStandards #Leadership #Accountability

https://open.substack.com/pub/differsense/p/the-quiet-piggy-standard-of-leadership?r=5h4wg0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

PsyPost: Personalization algorithms create an illusion of competence, study finds. “The findings provide evidence that when algorithms tailor information to a user’s behavior, that user may develop a biased understanding of the subject while simultaneously feeling overconfident in their inaccurate knowledge.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/07/psypost-personalization-algorithms-create-an-illusion-of-competence-study-finds/