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“Too many pigs in the same trough, of taxpayer / donation money, simply leads to way too much corruption, too many false narratives’, and all of them would shoot their mother to get it!” – John Cox, Cascade Mountains

Quite a quote, don’t you think?  Speaks volumes of the evidence we do have, daily now.  For donations and government taxpayer grant money, the same Grifters of yester-year (and a few newer Grifters that see the possibility to do the same things), beg and plead for forgiveness today.  Why, you might ask?  Because evidence shows us, they have done nothing for the past 20 years, many say for the past 30 years, which I agree with also.  Nothing! Yet, Advocates except their False Narratives’ as a truth!

Today, America’s Wild Horses are in the same negative situation as yester-year.  Many of us see today’s advocacy and situations surrounding the Wild Horses, as the worst it has ever been previously.  By far the worst!  Yes, far worse than ever before, and the only thing, in reality that has developed?  Well, the Grifters have honed their bullshit to extravagant methodology.  Many can tear-up and cry on the spot, then ask for forgiveness – then do the same things, again and again, again in the years to follow; that is, until there are no more Wild Horses left to Exploit!  Take the money and run, is and remains their mantra.

They move on to another scam, another way to make their living – while the rest, the majority of those who did not listen, and decided to “Shoot the Messenger”, go without the things we love; which here, we speak of the Wild Horses.

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” – George Carlin

“The Dunning-Kruger Effect” is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.”

“Low performers are unable to recognize the skill and competence levels of other people, which is part of the reason why they consistently view themselves as better, more capable, and more knowledgeable than others.” 

For more info, follow this link.  You will obtain a better understanding of what the current development, as well as those Grifters who are taking advantage of you, precisely, and still today.  I think you will perceive, and see much of this situation, we term the Dunning-Kruger Effect; which, I have covered in detail over the years.  https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740

Here are the answers, some of them anyway, within a psychological context, to many questions; in particular, of what I write constantly, and explain it in many different ways and methods, to get the point across — but people want to shoot the messenger, and those I speak of, frankly, do not want you to read my articles.  We need to fix Wild Horse Advocacy, and rid our ranks of the 90% fake, fraud, and those who, in reality, have no experience, lie about either their education or experience, as well as lie within their False Narratives’, on exactly how to resolve the problems Wild Horses’ confront today, constantly… 

Within the study of The Dunning-Kruger effect, we can discover many ways to battle against Grifters, against those who promote themselves by lie after lie, and against those who would take Donation Money and/or Grant Money, and keep 90%+ for themselves, and to hell with the horses!  This leads us to understand the reasons “why” people assimilate information in their own bias, or favor.  There also exist reasons why there is so much, what we term “confusion” in Wild Horse Advocacy – and obtain their information, ironically accept it as a reality, even though it is erroneous, and as I describe constantly, people giving information about the Wild Horses that is extremely faulty, as they do not know what it is they do not know . . . This is primarily from lack of experience, education, and knowledge . . .

“Low performers (in the testing phase of this research — Horse Advocacy in general) are unable to recognize the skill and competence levels of other people, which is part of the reason why they consistently view themselves as better, more capable, and more knowledgeable than others.”  So off we go into the world of deficient information, and into the world of never finding a resolution, because resolutions are never the outcome when based upon lies, and/or False Narratives. — John Cox, Cascade Mountains

References:

McIntosh RD, Fowler EA, Lyu T, Della Sala S. Wise up: Clarifying the role of metacognition in the Dunning-Kruger effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2019;148(11):1882-1897.

Kruger J, Dunning D. Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1999;77(6):1121-1134.

Ehrlinger J, Dunning D. How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) estimates of performance. PsycEXTRA Dataset.

Atir S. Thinking About Self and Others in the Context of Knowledge and Expertise. Cornell University.

Pennycook G, Ross RM, Koehler DJ, Fugelsang JA. Dunning–Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2017;24(6):1774-1784.

Dunning D. Chapter five – The Dunning–Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One’s Own Ignorance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 2011;44():247-296.

Hernandez I, Preston JL. Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 2013;49(1):178-182

Additional Reading

• Dunning, D. We are all confident idiots. Pacific Standard.
• Dunning, D. Chapter five: The Dunning-Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one’s own ignorance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 2011;44;247-296. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385522-0.00005-6.
• Ehrliner, J, Johnson, K, Banner, M, Dunning, D, & Kruger, J. Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent. Organ Behav Hum Decis Process. 2008;105(1):98-121

The facts show us, quite clearly, we have many other options on how to manage Wild Horses than what the Bureau of Lands Management and the USDA Forestry give to the Public.  Toxic Chemicals is costly, and in reality, if there is “no truth”, there can be no resolution to the problems. We then, arrogantly, send the Wild Horses to Extinction and abusively, and we have little to nothing left of our Ecology, natural food chain supplements, nor clean water shed for water consumption. Yes, the Wild Horses are an important “chain-link” within our Natural Environmental Landscape.

So rather than outright kill-off wildlife and the much required diversity in wildlife for healthy habitats (yes, GONCON, i.e. a Registered Pesticide, is also being used on other wildlife as well), we can Relocate Wild Horses. 

Relocation of Wildlife is much more beneficial, and less costly, than Birth Controls. The spread of Pesticides over our natural environments simply adds more problems to the on-going train wreck, currently within management on our Public Lands right now.  Pollution is already a problem! It is ironic that a government agency that states they are beneficial to our natural environments, and within their management paradigms (i.e. actually none of them based upon good science at all) contribute to the pollution, or polluters of the worst type, on our Public Lands; which, in reality, destroy our natural environments. 

Evidence?  Go out and look for yourself.  A few minutes obtained from “Eyeball Observation” often can be worth volumes’ of research and study, when one is aware of what they are observing.  Or, take water samples, and take, for example scat-samples from the wildlife in the habitat, as well as grass and other terrestrial habitat samples, and have them examined.  Many labs, on the West Coast for example, can run DNA and even mDNA in some.

We no longer need the obtrusive, and corrupted mind sets of government, nor the BLM or USDA Forestry, and certainly, we do not need an East-Coast Management mind-set, to control our habitats within the Western part of the United States.  Their bias mind-sets are directed toward making larger budgets as well as falsifying their information for larger budgets – the same conduct also from many of the commercialized non-profits of today, that ironically remain Under-Regulated by government – And why not, as they also take part in government Fraud, for their own benefit, or, increase in monetary rewards for doing so. In reality, this is a very disgusting human attribute, greed often seems to overwhelm our entire Environmental Complex in Nature.

This is only one-note of many more options.  These types of “options” are beneficial to both Human’s and Wildlife” as well as less costly to the taxpayers.  There seems to be no apparent positive thought-process in government / commercial non-profits of today, in America, when monetary profit is concerned.

We need to be clear, in our perspectives, after all, for the reason we have government management. They are managing our American Lands, via Taxpayer Money, which is much cheaper than what commercial For-Profit industry can do (so the saying goes — and yet . . .) – the same can be said about non-profits of today – all are cost-prohibitive, and corrupt.  We see them now, as very expensive elements within our Public Lands Management over all, and very expensive to do so. They all have outdone their necessity, once they stepped across that line of Ethical Balance as well as Moral Responsibility to us, as Taxpayers.

We need truth, not continuous lies, that supports our Wildlife and Terrestrial Environments Positively, rather than wasteful, and in reality, pollute our overall Environment.  We can Do Better because we Know Better.  ***  John Cox, Cascade Mountains