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NEFX - "True and Culturally Effaced Aspects of Thoughtpower" Thoughtpower’s diversity, complexity, and contiguousness transcend the shackles of attempted state-sanctioned criteria. For such criteria to even be valid on principle, it would have to be devised by the one of greatest mind, and how this could even be verifiable is questionable. Even the mere fact that one could by training better meet the criteria calls its fundamental pretenses into question, given that it rests on notions of fixed states and fundamental being. This also does not account for the changes in such criteria across time, place, and condition, to the point even of disqualifying founders of territories to whom such hard determinist charlatans generally pay blind fealty to. That fact alone further shows that as state-sanctioned criteria for thoughtpower and according consequences for poorly meeting it gain traction, thought itself will be myopically tailored towards meeting its ever-changing and inconsistent approval (even if only out of pressure); especially given that the original purpose of such criteria is measuring for potential ability of the subject to generate some sort of resources or productivity for a territory of the Blightgeist, and this in turn becomes what thoughtpower supposedly “is”. In addition to the waste this lays to thoughtpower as such, it is self-defeating as collective territorial thought grows less capable of being able to engage with reality in any way except as instructed or allowed. Heavily verbal criteria in particular are subject to the customs and biases of territorial systems and based on said system’s long-cultivated set of beings, who are conditioned to the criteria assigned to them. The criteria measure an implied attitude inculcated in the target subjects up to the point of trial, such as obedience, quietude, stillness, prizing (be it enforced) of the trial and its outcome and according cultural (though arguably not inherent) significance, etc. One must also account for the issue of physical thought damage in some wrongly affected territories, a vicious cycle wherein external conditions affect internal abilities that in turn are less capable of transforming or transcending those same conditions, let alone any other conditions to which they may strive to adapt (and often the apparatus creating the criteria to which they are held are also responsible for such conditions). Moreover, this motivates many who are able and willing to leave the territory affected by this issue because of it, leaving the territory to those who blamelessly are not. Therefore, all the aforementioned criteria are is self-serving and self-reinforcing. In the first place, thoughtpower or at least the capacity thereof is gathered information, and the tentacles of tyranny often obliterate opportunity for this and use the outcome as justification for extant prejudice and pathetically cruel treatment. In essence, the Blightgeist knowingly sets the terms for a game that is circumstantially rigged, and sows further division among beings both within themselves and with each other by creating systems of envy and ego-based suffering that prize the prestige of a contrived outward result rather than the truth procedure (right or not) that lead to it. In the first place, the luxury of finding requisite training for state-sanctioned thoughtpower criteria on any advanced level tends to come after the struggle for basic survival (if indeed the being in question must face such a struggle), which certain cycles of adversity prohibit; and indeed, the set of general circumstances for an area may help cultivate a particular kind of thoughtpower that imperial tentacles fail to sense, to the detriment of all. Circumstances depend heavily on public investments, certainly of the sort that is measured in widely recognized and indeed imposed classical systems of history, and this includes money from industry and private groups. This is an implicit indictment of the contemporary system that concentrates resources in small, consolidated places, but we can see a possibly willful historical amnesia in the Blightgeist attributing to some sets of beings qualities they once denied to those same beings, or vice versa, based on the outward results of the times, failing to note external circumstances’ role in yielding such results. Sometimes this even leads to a kind of faux-impartial fetishism that can deny its own bias by at different points elevating different sets of beings above the thinker’s own while still seeking to subjugate yet other sets for want of soul health. That which has driven beings forward is not necessarily the best or only inventions or information, but merely that which has become available — often due to the influence if not very imposition of the parent culture whose forces have so ravaged other parts of the world. As such, state-sanctioned thoughtpower criteria are often thinly-veiled tests for territorial assimilation, such as requiring participants to recognize the “significance” of an image whose character is very specifically culturally grounded. As the tentacles of empire grow, so will the excuse to eliminate or subjugate others based on these flawed criteria. But to remember, to reason, and to agilely verbalize each require their own inner network system that said criteria cannot hope to account for; and fundamental human ingredients don’t map onto traditional measurements of outward physical attributes, rendering the very human classification system that many such criteria are based on (if not indeed inspired by) hollow. But recognize this and rise further.