What is Greenwood? Plan, Mission & goals /w Scott Mannion
the english value hierarchy the us and when i say english i mean u.s canadian australian this value hierarchy which makes up our way of life or the english way emerging an implicit process we've never understood the psychotechnology that cultivated the value hierarchy in the first place it's all been implicit to us it operates behind the scenes for over a century this high rocket has been under siege crucial traditions that were imitated father to sun past generation to generation fundamental psycho technologies we took for granted were given up or abandoned acts of ignorance in the face of prolonged attack because it has been under siege what that means is this cuts our people off from what makes them a people the narrative order the telos the why and the value hierarchy the way and the psycho technology the how the practices englishman you ask need i've been convinced they're a multicultural amalgam that they're not a people at all that they have no traditional value hierarchy that's distinct to them became so second nature we didn't need to articulate it like the germans or continentals did it it was in our bones as buttra and russell said this situation has contributed to has perpetuated the nihilism that we're currently experiencing this lack of meaning but the thing is it's everywhere around you you just can't see it it's never been defined it's not like bible study it's never been explicated and utilized pedagogically it's operated behind the scenes it functions behind the scenes it has all these implicit functions that were crucial to our culture yet we've abandoned them because we didn't really realize what it was or what it was for yet those psycho technologies those practices those rituals those traditions all of those things for all intents and purposes that might as well be new inventions that are ready to be explicated and utilized by people the problem we're facing is conceptual but it's also about cultivation and curation so first i'll talk about the conceptual problem what constitutes a value hierarchy is a way the english way of life we know it exists we don't know what constitutes that way we know the word we know the phrase english way of life we don't understand in a meaningful way what that way is what that procedure and direction is we don't know how to adapt and participate in that way how do we do it how do we get back into it if we've left some of these practices behind that's that's the essence of what we're trying to get at we may have implicitly known the direction the procedure and the direction but we don't know how to walk back into that direction if we've been walked out of it even if we have the echoes of the value high rock he's still nested in our uncultures the english value hierarchy the terms we use to define them are equivocal and they're invalid equivocal meaning the term means different things to different people the construct doesn't actually map the actual doesn't actually map the phenomena the behavioral pattern that makes up english way their definitions are woolly and oblique but they map something that doesn't constitute englishness and the portion of the english way we do still enact is implicit it's like the water is to the fish in the river it's always been in the water yet it uses the water to swim but he doesn't see it because he's always inside of the water where inside the english way unlike other cultures where our culture has is like a tree no one invented it no one wrote the constitution no one explicated it it's like the meaning of the word constitution constitution used to mean and the english sent is what makes you up just how it the feeling of what feels right that's what common law is all that stuff that's what those things are it's the felt sense of what's right in the value hierarchy intuited the second conceptual problem is we have the source materials that nest or house the english value hierarchy that house the psychotechnologies the practices we have all those things the trouble is all the interpretations we have of those things that pervade the media that come from a materialist ontology from the academy using reductivist tools and you need to use non-reductive scientific tools if you want to understand or better understand these phenomena and map them an english tradition and tradition in general culture in general is a non-reductive phenomena it emerges englishness and the value hierarchy emerges it is inappropriate to use those tools to uncover interpretation it makes it useless the traditions themselves were constructed and emerged mostly emerged from a symbolic medieval or dark age ontology meaning say the green knight and king arthur medieval people didn't read it to figure out its literal meaning or to look behind history to find a history in the third person scientifically they read it to try to figure out its use them how they could use it in their lives the people that authored the source materials spoke a different language to us and if you don't have their ontology you can't decode it and extract the psycho technology meaning procedures and procedural knowledge you can actually use from traditional source materials like king arthur in the green knight like robin oral tradition like the ritual of longbow practice when i say psycho technology what do i mean picture a tribe on a river they can't swim they have to cross the river to hunt and survive someone invents and engineers a boat that is a technology that technology is in the mind it's made of mind material the procedure of operation and the procedure of actually creating the thing but it's also made of wood material the thing you operate in the river a psycho technology is the same it's just as real it's made of my material just like the boat but its domain of operation is in the mind not the river and examples of that are meditation the alphabet but also you can have things outside of it like the rosary for instance that is a procedure yet it uses the beads but it's not operated in it it's still operating on the mind itself even though it has a physical aid outside of it now an implicit psychodelology we don't know it it's in the unconscious it operated behind the scenes say you're in another village basically surrounded by forests in that village kids die in the forest even though they're told it's dangerous they die nothing can be done about it over time over the decades eventually a story emerges in the tavern called red riding hood about a wolf who dresses like a grandmother to try feast on a young girl and the story spreads around people enjoy it has a motive it's significant to them for some reason they perhaps don't understand kids start dying less in the forest the kids survive because they imitated implicitly the procedural knowledge in the narrative of red riding hood it had taught them procedural knowledge unbeknownst to them that gave them a survival advantage unbeknownst to them their problem has been solved by this psycho technology this narrative it survives because it has survival advantage for the person to the story survives by abandoning it the problems itself re-emerge the dragon's re-emerge to breathe fire at us and kill us these implicit psycho technologies and of course there are some impressive psycho technologies and we know we've abandoned most of them what problems have emerged that they solved because you don't know what they were just like those villages a psychic technology can be a ritual a story a piece of literature can have external age but the operating procedure is in the mind the problem is in the psyche that it's a solution for it's doing something to the psyche even if it has a physical product outside of it for instance say the longbow that can have implicit effects that we don't know did something to us that cultivated our value hierarchy that was a practice that was across all of england all of the realm all of english culture everyone did it as we know from tribal cultures it's something that makes us uniquely human to be able to project the neanderthals couldn't throw stuff and the arrow is a higher order level of that to be able to do it even more so with the longbow because you don't even like you aim but you become part of the thing that you see with a longbow people step into it and release it so now we understand that i can move on i don't sound like a madman like what's he talking about psycho technology what's he talking about he's what is this starcraft psychos like no now you know what it is it's a very real thing meditation's a real thing prayer is a real thing symbols are real things oh that's just the subjective guys that's not real that's just in the mind no it's real the other half of the problem is curatorial and cultivation firstly nobody is armed with no content makers in this space are armed with the appropriate criterion to curate source materials laden with the english value hierarchy they don't have a curation procedure to do that a valid one english content makers because they don't have the criteria and the value criteria and they end up promoting ways and creeds that don't actually constitute englishness thinking they do and that degenerates the conditions that allowed us to flourish in the first place these creeds and ideologies are divergent from what actually constitutes englishness which isn't isn't an ideology it's a way it's an emergent way of life it's not constructed just in the conscious propositional minds the other problem is there aren't any english content makers or content makers in this space that have the appropriate symbolic and non-reductive analytical tools not just curatorial analytical tools to go in and explicate from source materials psycho technology that would work to be able to read them to get a proper interpretation to actually use them they don't have the analytical tools to unpack and get at it to explicate it in the appropriate way where it's useful where it's symbolic of what it actually is an actual in act in the world also to once they explicate it to make content that is then value laden with the value hierarchy to cultivate the value hierarchy by creating original content that's imbued with it no one in this space this english traditional space has the symbolic ontology that's required to speak the symbolic language to unpack the symbolic understanding and as a consequence the audience what's perpetuated in them is by looking at their interpretations by listening to these historians or whatever what's perpetuated is uh that ontology a materialist ontologies and a consequence of that is the audience is inhibited from understanding tradition and actually being able to use the psychotechnology in the works to use the tradition to enact it to participate in it not just receive it and go oh now i know it has a proposition to participate in it they are inhibited from experiencing meaning the morale because of that before we go any further i should also define what a symbol is because it's very strange to people a symbol is a psycho technology that expresses that's enacted to understand reveal an unknown higher order concept principle or phenomena that phenomena is understood through the enacting the use of the symbol saying it mediates between the unknown concept to explicate it to you it's a thing you enact now we need to get away from the casual understanding of this world or how it's casually used say for instance the tradition of handing over a piece of tough at the sale of the state people refer to that as symbolic that's not symbolic that's that's semiotic that's a sign it doesn't have a intrinsic thing to do with the unknown estate it's it just represents the estate it's not an intricate part of it doesn't reveal anything about it it just represents it it's also useful to think about the railway worker the badge they wear the winged wheel if i was to refer to that as symbolic this badge i would be saying that this badge has an in it expresses something intricate about the railway system as a whole and the truth is of course it's just it's a representation that that marks out the railway employee it's a symbol of nothing the symbol is something that can reveal something to you that you can utilize so a way of thinking of the symbol is to think about the scale of justice you understand the scale of justice by understanding and using it you use the psycho technology in your mind you picture it and you enact it you're balancing you might turn your head left to right when you're enacting the symbol interacts with your cerebrum which controls balance so this these other processes in you are being co-opted are being utilized by this thing and you enact it to understand the higher order concept of justice what is justice what do you do with a scale balancing it's balancing what's fair right and look i'm moving my hands while i'm talking about this say you're a judge whatever the more you enact that symbol the more just you become the more you have internalized the process of balancing and weighing it's such a complex phenomena that that doesn't stop being useful you don't just use it once and understand that you think about it again until you fully internalize it you internalize the symbol like in a conversation with a friend you might beway the pros and cons for them well bob said this but then sally did that and look you turn your head left and right another way of understanding this is a you think about the symbol like a x-ray lens you use the symbol of the scale you look through the symbol like you would look through a lens look through it beyond and by means of the lens to reveal the higher order concept of justice to reveal things about this complicated phenomena that is would otherwise be unknown to you just like when you use an x-ray lens machine to reveal to you what you would otherwise not see the bones inside a body once there's a more efficient means once you have the pro the propositional explication of something it becomes a dead symbol and just becomes a sign of the thing it's no longer pregnant with meaning because it's not used anymore it just represents what you already have elsewhere in your or what you think you already have elsewhere in your psyche what is explicated in a more thorough way elsewhere in the psyche of the judge he has the explicated massive understanding of what justice is so the symbol just becomes a sign for that you can kill a symbol too right and for instance let's look at the the cross people say oh the cross is a symbol for divine love although you've just made the cross a sign because divine love the concept you've got of a divine love the the words explicated words are the better means of explaining divine love the cross as church fathers would say transcends just divine love it expresses all sorts of higher order phenomena has all sorts of meanings a symbolic attitude can actually kill a symbol and make it a sign instead even if you just think it isn't or think it doesn't work it becomes a sign for something you think is better explicated either elsewhere in your psyche or externally even when it's not so that's what we've done with the materialist ontology we've killed all the symbols in large parts yet there's this whole spectrum of symbols that better map these higher order phenomena like the cross itself so the problem is twofold conceptual and cultivation and curation the conceptual solution is what i call greenwood lab green wood metal greenwood lab's overarching mission is to explicate the english value hierarchy to model its structural functional organization to validate it nomologically the first goal is to create a new lexicon to express and define the english value hierarchy creating new terminology but also a system of symbols to express it to be utilized to help people understand what it is so it's like a new language theory description to make explicit what's particular to what's distinct about the english value hierarchy so the second goal is to reconstruct the value hierarchies process of emergence its causes and consequences what are the things that enable it what are the things that cultivate it and what are the conditions that it brings about the third goal is to explicate to make explicit the psycho technologies the practices rituals from the english tradition itself the narrative order the mythos and confirm experimentally with researchers what the utility beneficial effects are for the individual then once confirmed to organize those practices into a system of practices that integrates with the value hierarchy to promote flourishing within and of english culture of the englishman and the individual so the fourth goal is to formalize and further develop the curation and analysis tools that we already have so researchers and content makers can utilize them to curate source materials to extract psycho technology from curated source materials so they can make content value laden with english value hierarchy so as we talked about the problem earlier being that people don't have the tools to do it but also a pedagogy to teach that knowledge to the general audience itself so they can see and understand it and do it in cultures so not just a high-flying academic set of research tools but both the final goal is to establish a fellowship in this research project of researchers and content makers from the audience bottom up to participate in the project itself to found their own branches of the project to light a fire under this thing to test different practices to be the researchers that verify the phenomenological effects of this stuff not just me i don't have time i can't do this myself it's just i'm one part of this which is and that doesn't mean you have to be some academic that would be fine but it just volunteers a voluntary fellowship of people that are willing to dedicate themselves and and also to towards the goal of this project it's a prior to doing any of this people talk about oh let's protect and defend our way of life yeah that comes next but the faster you need the tools first you need to concretize what it is what it is really though what it is really not a bullshit ideology but what as it emerges not your idea of what it should be but what is out of the mythos because mythos isn't written by one person the mythos and tradition it's of everyone and it's not about their ego and their personal desires it's literally the people as a whole it's like the word king in a way english word king means son of the kin and our culture our mythos is the son of the kin and that's what we're trying to explicate the son of the kin as in the spirit of the kin the value hierarchy to make that concrete explicit and ready to use for the general audience ready to use for the people and have that pedagogy and all of that in our hands so we have weapons and armor we have the way we have the procedures we have the direction we need only cultivate it and enact it then it's inevitable it is literally inevitable that this is to be done ultimately this conceptual solution is a tool it's a research tool it's a pedagogic tool it's a thing to use but on its own it's only a propositional description of the phenomena it's not the phenomena itself it can only be understood by enacting what we uncover like you have the theory you read it you don't possess it culture is to be enacted that's why the other part of the project is cultivation by necessity it has to have a cultivation part of people actually using it content being made and people participating in it otherwise it is only ever just a theory only ever just a proposition explicating this stuff in the value hierarchy is only ever going to be a description of things which can't be possessed just as propositions as cognitive science helps us to understand you don't possess certain types of knowledge by having a propositional theoretical description of it so why or how does greenwood lab solve the conceptual problem or why is this necessary to actually do this think about our way of life or the english way of life as a invisible castle that castle is generates everything the conditions of our flourishing if it dies we're dead there's an enemy marching across a field burning everything in its path they're going to achieve their objective either way they just have to burn everything we on the other hand need to stand on the walls of this invisible castle that represents our way to enact it and act the way to defend it the trouble is we only know the rough vicinity of these walls and different factions of our army disagree on what is and isn't a wall so that's the situation we find ourselves in we don't know what constitutes this way of life we don't know where the walls are they're invisible we know it exists we know the rough vicinity of it we don't know what the wall's made of we don't know the procedures to enact that value hierarchy that way to grow it that reinforce it don't know how to build castle walls so what happens is we end up defending the status quo the ground we're all standing on instead of the actual castle walls and we have no vision because we don't understand the narrative tradition the narrative order right the point why we even build castles what what why build castles what's their purpose the talos which is part of the way it's direction and the procedure and we don't understand the traditional languages the symbolic language that the traditions written in and the interpretations are wrong like i mentioned meaning we don't understand the old castle wall plans greenwood lab as a whole its purpose is to make visible the castle walls to make it visible and ready to use the procedures everything concrete so we can see it grab it utilize it to speak its language a summary of the research methods we intend to use because we're going to use the nomological net and by normalogically i mean multi-method multi-trade construct validation which is using evidence from divergent fields methods those sciences use and the fields themselves being divergent buttresses is your case meaning like this coke can i hold it my sense of touch my sight my the coldness the heat the temperature reveal okay i have a this can exists right all the sensors together form a normal logical net to prove it so that's part of our method of the case to verify it or we're going to exact tools from non-reductive sciences we're going to use these theories use these non-reductive sciences as theory metaphors to frame what we're trying to do and use those methods to as best we can as as is possible to verify the models we're making right to make it robust as possible you want to map what's really exist we're not trying to create something form we're going to use empirical evidence as far as that's possible get quantitative data to back up qualitative arguments so this map is as accurate as possible so it actually is as far as possible the value hierarchy itself first i have to unpack what the value hierarchy is what a value hierarchy is and what a value is that enables me to explain what effects are going on like how the show and the different things i'm doing and we're doing are interacting with the value hierarchy to impel the effects that they're impelling the different effects that that i'm go that i list in the summary so following that i'll demonstrate the market opportunity why the market's hungry for this crop what the situation is that has presented us with this opportunity like the parallel economy going through all those manner of things then i'll outline the greenwood content membership platform its objectives its mission statement of the wider the whole company the whole project and its core goals then i will describe why it's so competitive so first i'm going to talk about the greenwood show i've got a link that you can look at and the sort of glowing audience feedback it's a rough outline of it you're not going to understand what exactly is going on until we unpack the value hierarchy which i'll do next in preparation first what we do is i use our curation procedure to locate the appropriate source materials that are nested with our value hierarchy that are value laden so the second step of preparation what i do is i use our analysis procedure to extract out the essence of the value behaviors that i've broken down the procedural layer of what's going on in the narrative because as we know a narrative is a procedure and its outcome i'll break all that down into its individual steps to extract out the essence of what what the function of that procedure is what it does in a holistic sense outside of the individual actions present that and so i can use it as a tool to compare it to modern english behaviors so what that does is it places the audience in literally like telelogically in the story rather than being an outside widget the world watcher looking in because the value hierarchy is nested in our unconscious our behaviors reflect what you see in that once you get to the essence of it so i make i compare and contrast those two things together so people can understand their place in this wider epoch spanning tradition so then what i'll do is i'll present a nomological argument and present scientific evidence empirical evidence to satisfy the modern empirical mind once that skeptical mind is abated and it's satisfied let's say they approach it and see it for its true value is true utility gets rid of the pre judgment of that scientism materialism of tradition to just simply see it as its utility value because there's no desire here to do anything to convince people of traditional ideology it's not even ideology it's just this is your tradition that emerged here's how you use it here's its utility simply but to get there you have to walk them back from the scientism so then the sixth step what i'll do is i'll i'll promote and push active participation by by comparing this practice of psychotechnology with other psychotechnologies and practices people are more used to in modern life where we know the effects of them so they see okay this has been used this is similar to this practice it's actively done right now i can do that right so in the contrast with that modern practice that modern thing this traditional practice and also listing out the uses or demonstrating the historical evidence of its use and utility back when it was formulated and then lastly presenting a symbolic ontology walking back from materialist ontology by comparing the symbols that we we extract out from the traditional work with a general european and dark age medieval and dark age ontologies christian ontology and dark age ontology decodes how the people who made or spoke the oral tradition all wrote the tradition how they saw the world to understand the different symbols and their connection with those two things so people can start seeing the wider patterns and how it all interconnects but that's just a rough outline of it you're not going to understand what exactly is going on until we unpack the value hierarchy which i'll do next so values are categories of the unconscious which emote what should be done what should be chosen what should be rejected that's manifested in feeling in an impulsion or a motive data to value something is a statement about certain contents of the psyche the unconscious being energetic or strong towards the thing in question in an objectionable or a sympathetic or recommendable manner so good or bad so the values that concern us are that which makes us distinct as a people that's that which is at the top of the hierarchy you can't choose these values that are basically absorbed in the childhood development stage from father to some piaget demonstrated by psja the definition of a culture in the anthropological meaning of the word is a people's hierarchy of ways their procedural hierarchy a person is constituted of a behavioral hierarchy an individual is that's all we know of what a person is that hierarchy that's what a character is in drama in all those things it's always actions a pattern of action in the world a people then is best defined as a personality a hierarchy of ways a behavioral hierarchy just like a person but it's overall in a culture it is a person think about the king think about that's a national personification a personification of england's culture for instance right is a locus of those behavioral patterns of the greatest heroes of of a culture amalgamated together into form one personification that's the best way to define a people everything all culture ultimately breaks down to the procedural hierarchy in episodic form in procedural form and in semantic form stored in semantic memory procedural memory and episodic memory or in the representations of the procedural hierarchy in tradition literature is a episodic knowledge and with nested within it is procedural knowledge of the characters in it the narrative is a procedural is a procedure and its outcome it's the character's action and the outcome of that action so it has the procedural knowledge nested in it so with that in mind what values really refer to is that personality pattern that procedural hierarchy the ways that we most object to and most commend and not logically in the mind that that the hierarchy most objects and commands like the value structure in the psyche is one thing but it's what triggers it is a procedural pattern so in essence that's what it is the behavioral pattern is the value it's the valued thing that you can locate and that is stored in the narrative order we can get at that to understand what they are the value hierarchy then amounts to the patterns of action of our greatest heroes or the greatest heroes of our culture value patterns that prove crucial to the survival of a culture and to its flourishing morality is an emotive impulse there was a moses in every culture and if you can't establish the historical existence of such a man then there are the laws the moral laws right and what are those laws those laws are another emotive impulse they are merely a propositional rendering of the value hierarchy that value hierarchy begins as procedural knowledge as adaptation raw adaptation on the ground of an individual that's transmitted by imitation father to son then it comes to be expressed explicated made more explicit into episodic representation in the narrative that narrative over the passage of time comes to be explicated into a moral code comes to be represented in the story of moses that is explicated into the moral code by philosophers or theologians for instance for the already established tradition it comes from the value hierarchy first but when a new hierarchy when a new value emerges it begins with the heroic adaptation on the ground a narrative like the moses story is a procedure and its outcome it stores the implicit procedural knowledge of historically determined adaptation to the unknown of a hero it is in turn a psycho technology that can be used to unpack that procedural knowledge of morality it comes to be represented in episodic memory in semantic and procedural memory so it's not just in the narrative it's actually in us as well the narrative order then the mythox of england let's see the traditional source materials then contain the structure of historically determined procedural knowledge the value the things we value the value hierarchy a more explicit form in a mode we can understand in something we can access and unpack myth hero narratives like the robin hood ballads the oral tradition let's say have no single author they have to transmit through hundreds of humans to get to us they are subject to selective forces evolutionarily so over time it distills the utility of the procedural knowledge that's nested in that particular hero's tradition from the oral tradition if they work for the human who imitates them on the ground they're given a survival advantage and that branch of the story survives if it doesn't work when it's imitated if it fails to manifest the story outcome on the ground then that branch of the story dies or he if he's able to adapts to the situation and returns to the tavern to tell the tale and adapts it based on that distilling the narrative and making it a more generalizable truth so it's like a feedback loop it works like a bayesian feedback loop and updates the whole amalgam of the myth hero over time as you see in most oral tradition the bible included is that over time the truth becomes more potent distilled down into more generalizable form that works in every situation the stories are acted out in the empirical world often implicitly right the changes the slight adjustments over time are updated and distilled the narrative's general utility as they're retold in the pub and so what that means is the older a tradition is the less individual artists have to do with something loops this has gone through the more we can have confidence in the strength and generalizability of that truth especially the old tradition so when you look at the oldest traditions they're full they're gold mines our magnitude that we don't realize they are untapped oil especially if the tradition's implicit you're not doing it thinking that oh i'm going to imitate robin hood when i go into the forest in real time your brain is just operating based on your general remembrance of the story and then you make those adjustments to the behaviors branch that you tell in the story when you go back to the tavern you're not thinking what happened to me on the ground you just tell the tale based on how you feel out what feels legitimate your understanding of how honest it is to how people behave so you make that slight adjustment implicitly though we may have forgotten these narratives we may have never understood their crucial function in society but the echo of their value hierarchy still nested in our unconscious we'll still respond to them when it's like a secret only fire can tell that echo is in essence why our content is so compelling that's in essence what our content takes advantage of so now we understand the value hierarchy let's explore five different effects five different reasons why the content impels such a response in the audience that we see demonstrated in the comments all these effects aren't achieved in every program but this i've hypothesized in general the list of them over all of them these are the the effects that the analysis and presentation aim to achieve the first effect of the content manifests in the audience is what i call the integration effect so the audience describe when they after they watch our content the sense of being told something they already knew that they felt on a different level of understanding followed by a feeling of meaning and morale now cognitive science can help us here they describe four levels of understanding or knowing which is propositional knowledge which is we understand is everything we read all that sort of stuff respective knowledge participatory knowledge and procedural knowledge stored in semantic episodic and in uh procedural memory so people have a sense of their cultural identity on the participatory and procedural level of their knowledge or understanding they sense it so this sense that the audience described the sense is a motive data like we talked about before emotive delta from the unconscious value hierarchy just like recognizing a face in the crowd is the sense of recognizing a face in the crowd is intellectual delta from cognition now our content what it's doing is it's integrating the emotive with the intellectual integrating the episodic and procedural levels of their knowledge understanding with their propositional understanding it's integrating their emotive unconscious structure with their conscious intellectual structure their ideas of their identity with their actual identity what they share implicitly with people yet they can't articulate into words this integration of the conscious and the unconscious generates that moral response to reiterate we are articulating for the audience what they always felt their commonalities are their felt sense of their commonalities and articulating that for them in the intellect so the next effect the content manifests is what i call the participation effect the teleological effect is that what we do when we unpack these narratives and render them in such a way that the essence like the essence of the value hierarchy in the source materials uh comparing with the same behavioral patterns in the modern englishman is we essentially were putting a round box in a round hole it actively places the audience as a participant in the story as some as something that you're part of not a outside watcher or a receiver but it's like no i am of this this is my story too as a consequence of that being placed in the story and being contrasted with historical figures from the mythos and locating them within themselves and demonstrated that they are of this same thing as a consequence of that they're given a greater sense of their place and their point a teleology a why they're in the story and that is energizing that's impelling the next effect i would describe is the active effect the procedural effect is that while legacy media seeks to turn the audience and keep the audience as a passive receiver of tradition we promote or we push active use and flourishing modernity's centralization of folk narrative and storytelling seeks dependence it's turned us into bit players and other people's story which is alien to our natural condition we see robin hood as a character to be projected out of us the truth of it is he was a character to be enacted and imitated storytelling and drama were done by everyone on the local level it's only recently that we've been sort of propagandized to believe or propagandize into this passivity heroes like robin hood they emerged from the tradition they evolved in a participatory fashion people imitated and used these characters they every may day people played them everyone knew them they told the stories themselves they were active in it they spoke it in their mouths the words are supposed to be spoken that's their use and utility so it's completely alien to us this situation we invite that and try to offer it in a way that people for them to use themselves as symbols as psycho technologies we enable the audience to use tradition as it was intended as it evolved like for the re the function that it evolved for to know their people's story by participating in that story by telling it this is buttressed by cognitive science as well as you have to tell them move the mouth have to involve the body because you can't have procedural knowledge until you imitate it and know how to do it and it's linked up with actually doing actually doing robinhood actually speaking and telling the story yourself you know it by telling the story just like richard feyman said about physics he's like you don't really know until you teach can teach something you don't really know it another effect that content manifests is the what i call the utility renovation effect we think we understand tradition all we really understand is a shitty straw man that is obscuring the actual function and use of that tradition this is the materialist literally solution which is which pervades and was perpetuated by the academy the institutions what we do when we unpack the thing and explain it in scientific terms the utility of tradition again as we remove this sort of skeptic mind we satisfy it by explaining it in scientific terms and presenting evidence that shows its actual utility and essentially by doing that it's like walking back at that materialist ontology it's a reevaluation of the of the true value of the tradition right so all the pre-established pre-suasion of the materialist ontology that people have of these traditions perhaps that they thought they already knew that straw man is pulled away and that makes it novel that renovation is what happens when you make the old new again you're removing a incorrect interpretation and what's revealed to you is something that's useful all that stuff is now novel all that stuff you get for free and basically what that means is we get the developmental costs for free as well like where you have to make new content you're using old things and showing them in their true light it impels you towards the content it's why people enjoy it because it's ah it's a revelation of the truth and that leads me to the final effect which i would call the ontological revelation effect right and so what we're doing here is like little by little episode by episode as we explain more of the symbolic ontology what's being revealed to the audience is the interconnections between all the different symbolic patterns in the content in the culture because we're using fundamentally the fundamental language of it which pervades all of it of english culture and the fundamental values so as we do that it's like a good twist in a movie like what is that impelling force you get when that is revealed it's a slow burn twist essentially over the course of the whole group of content and what that does is impel the audience towards it because it's revealing things to you about things you thought you already knew all your life right things you walked past the king all the different things of culture that you have become known to you but you never actually understood this is what happened is because they become just dead signs but the true meaning and utility and use of them and when we represent this ontology it's bringing you into a world view that it's like putting on x-ray glasses right from the they live movie you're seeing things oh okay this is what it is this is the use of it utility and symbolically because all this stuff formed in a different ontology so across all the episodes that's what happens a slow burn revelation that makes the content more compelling when you get a new idea when you understand something that's a positive morale boost same with the lower levels of knowing that cognitive science reveals to us perspectival knowledge you have to have the change of perspective to gain the effects of that the benefits and the uh and the phenomenological effects the the morale boost and the emotion that that provides so all these effects aren't achieved in every program but this i've hypothesized in general the list of them and it should become clear now why this content is more competitive because other people aren't doing it and catering for it directly over all of them these are the effects that the analysis and presentation aim to achieve let's talk about the market opportunity and the wider opportunities this project presents english tradition english narrative tradition in particular has never been explicated as a pedagogy as a teaching tool like bible study has it's always functioned behind the scenes its narratives were never intended to instruct they were spread for reasons other than that those spread for pleasure for instance what that means is because they function behind the scenes because they are implicit that it's essentially untapped oil and the narrative tradition and the wider mythos english tradition is pregnant with usable functional psychotechnology and practices that we can explicate and turn into a pedagogy for all intents and purposes it's pregnant with new inventions just begging to be explicated and utilized what's more that untapped oil is inaccessible to competitors so it has at least an initial defensibility because that oil is considered by them or it's enforced by institutions as a taboo just considered to be useless because they see it from a materialist literalist ontology so just looks useless to them just looks like literature some of you might think or say or some people might think or say that none of that matters that none of that doesn't matter that there's an opportunity there that the institutions have the high ground that no one's going to care and no one's going to be able to notice because they're pointed in one direction my response to that would be that high ground is a grift it's a potemkin's village and here's why the communications technology centralized the distribution of meat and creation essentially of media in a handful of companies also the centralization of institutions and the academy standardized the interpretation of english tradition with that materialist literalist interpretation the ontology through a system of incentives and rewards this centralization made them ideal targets for marxist occupation neo-marxist occupation which we know has happened already the long march and the institutions that's over but with technology putting broadcast equipment in everyone's home has led to the emergence of a dissident media which has spent the last 10 years red pilling the audience revealing the propaganda and lies of those centralized media legacy media and the institutions and the consequences of that is that trust in those institutions especially now is at an all-time low the validation of those things even the oscars the baftas award systems these enforcement structures and incentives the value of those things because they've diminished their trust the occupying forces has diminished and destroyed the trust of the legacy media and the institutions the value of their validation of people and theories is non-existent for a large portion of the audience so the stage essentially is set for that's why it's a potemkin's village the stage is set for the transposition the entrenched interpretation of this english tradition to be subverted completely and supplanted by its true understanding the framework that enforces the narrative or enforces the this false understanding of english tradition to be bypassed and subverted people don't value the doctorate from whatever university they value what works all the all the established biography of the person they're following all the company they're following the individuals so for the first time we we can now go directly to the audience without seeking the validation of captured institutions and captured elites we aren't burdened by gatekeepers we aren't burdened by middlemen anymore we don't have to buy into the system of it we just have to be right we have to be correct we have to give utility to people like now more than ever the audience is seeking utility and truth authenticity over flashy production value and statuettes and doctorates before your name that's what they want that's what they're looking for a true relationship it's clear they want a relationship with content makers directly and they the legacy media still push this idea of them as fans to be worshipped they seem to create that system of of a pantheon to be worshipped that's just not the reality of the situation they're friends of theirs in essence and that's what we promote is participation and active relationship because that's what the project essentially is it's trying to help people it's not trying to create passive dependent observers living their lives through someone else watching a tv screen no this situation too both lowers our marketing costs and raises theirs lowers their potency the potency of their content and raises ours lois their trust and authenticity and raises ours if it continues as a lot of people i'm sure have noticed a parallel economy is emerging and the time is ripe for a project like this to join that economy and the situation is too there's an emerging market segment that i'll call english value-laden content that a market segment was created by propagandizing that content and no longer providing for the audience needs so much so that what they gained in flashy effects and high production value they're no longer enough to compensate for the demoralizing effects of them attacking and inverting our value hierarchy in their narrative content and what illustrates that as large sections of the audience the audience would rather watch a lone youtuber tell a story that's actually imbued with their values than watch a star wars trilogy flashy effects that vilifies and inverts their values and destroys the characters they love so a market that's thought stagnant actually proves right for disruption because of this they're creating the opportunity but by what they've done and you can see it maps perfectly on to the occupation of these companies the different things like the 2016 uh marvel comics slump for the destruction of their sales 2016 netflix subscriber loss you've also got the i think it's 2018 um star wars rise slump and and the the figurines they try to merge two departments to hide the loss of profits but it's there when you look in the doctor and also when you look at the sales data and the survey data of the netflix of netflix is that the audience prefers to watch decades old unpropagandized content than what's coming out now so what that all amounts to is that going woke indeed does mean going broke well as long as as long as the value hierarchy is still within the audience it does the longer this goes on the greater our competitive advantage and the demand for this type of content will be and especially because it's so hard to actually recognize and be particular about it hollywood used to do it just by scattergum they didn't do it by being able to recognize it it's only now that we have the procedures to be able to identify it to be really particular about it i mean that's all else being equal of course you need storycraft but because of what they've done all those barriers are much lower that you don't need the fidelities that people will just sit and listen to count dankula tell a story on youtube or a storyteller they're happy to do that if content aligns with the value hierarchy all else being equal the more compelling and compelling it is as i say it's it's this that the need is not being provided for therefore it's a new need that needs to be satiated in the audience the overarching mission of the greenwood project as a whole long term ultimately is to establish a content platform a membership content platform that supplants the monopoly that the institutions and the legacy media have over the interpretation of english tradition and literature of their interpretation and definition of english virtues and values mission complete for this looks like if an englishman american wants to understand the fundamental of of the value hierarchy of his culture he doesn't go to the bbc anymore he doesn't go to oxford he comes to us he comes to our platform to understand it the general audience so the core objectives goals intentions of this project are five five different core goals the first is to host and establish a system an ecosystem of psychotechnologies and practices that the english can use to cultivate meaning and amplify their common bonds what that means is the goal is to return to the common people the means by which they can participate actively in their tradition as it was evolved for the second objective is to establish to host and establish a system by which the membership can self-organize to participate in the project directly to make their own content and a system by which stuff is upvoted onto the front page and it's it's put onto the greenwood show and greenwood content talent is promoted from within the audience by the audience itself set up a system where they can participate also contribute to the research and the reason why i say make content is that really matters oh well not everyone can be a content maker sure that's fine but this stuff was participated in by everyone by telling the story by speaking about it so the words come through your mouth that generates phenomenological effects so the intent of the project is is to have that element that self-organization where people are promoting from within and generating a distributed cognition to light a fire under this project itself but also to found new arms of it go off and do their own things with regard to it to inspire that so the third goal is to educate the membership in the symbolic worldview also in our analytical and curation tools so they can utilize them to participate in the tradition primarily but also to make content themselves so it's a pedagogy as we all learn together to better understand the tradition and the idea of that is to empower the audience to empower the the project itself ultimately it is about that the only reason this exists i'm doing i'm doing this and putting all this effort into it is to do my duty the fourth goal is to establish a contributors portal an internet on the membership website a place where we can train and collaborate with talented researchers and writers editors content makers a place where like-minded creators that are already in this space but also people recruited from the audience can train and trade tools trade reserve information reserve knowledge to create network effects around similar projects the fifth goal is to promote in-person clubs essentially greenwood order fellowships where people self-organize to participate directly in the traditional framework to towards self-betterment towards aspiration and flourishing within an english cultural framework within an english traditional framework where they are testing these psycho technologies they're going out into the world and living the tradition amplifying their common bonds reporting back a place where people participate directly essentially as researchers if you like testing out the psycho technology to understand their phenomenological effects but also a place where people can use directly what they're uncovering not just to watch a show so why is this approach uniquely competitive why is it uniquely fitted to solving this problem the english language arrives to us value laden is laden with a value hierarchy the words and works of shakespeare the ballads of robin hood the mythos the king arthur the language it's that is deeply nested in the language this work is tapping into that tapping into it in an english disused interpersonal neural network like unlocking like having a key and unlocking a giant underground tunnel network that they're not able to use or they're not using competitors either take a generalized approach or they use christianity or they use a neoplatonism or a general scatter gun of western ideology or western culture that isn't as uniquely fitted to the tradition and the value hierarchy within the audience they are disincarnate pieces of a wider immersion phenomena that is english culture it's like englishness isn't the sum of its parts but if you use it all together you are you are hitting you are you are it's like i said earlier it's it's it's a round box for a round hole another point is that propaganda woke narratives are in essence lies they aren't fitted for reality on the ground so when they're imitated when you say you watch a woke movie or whatever when you try to imitate that in the real world those narratives those the procedural information in the narrative you imitate that it fails to manifest the outcome it presents in the story so over time that's a negative feedback loop it's draining the life force of the people that use it on the other hand when we present the nested traditional procedural knowledge from out of the english narrative order from from these traditional source materials representing something that is adapted for that adapted with english terms english language all these things it's fitted for those things right it reflects the truth on the ground so when using that a positive feedback loop it's the opposite it's that so you're imitating things and you are actually more competitive because it's reflecting closer of reality on the ground if a narrative's procedural knowledge works when you imitate it you don't waste cognitive resources adapting in real time to a situation that you didn't predict because you used bad information out of propaganda there's a difference between tradition and propaganda it's not an ideology it emerged to an environment people didn't intend it to be used as instruction and so this truth this truth effect means also it's like in a world of lies in a world of propaganda the truth is like a revolution it's like having the transmitter tuned to the particular frequency of the audience but also because it's the
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