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With all the talk about "AI changing everything" (and boring drama about bitcoin price, *yawn*), it's good to read up on some fundamentals. I stumbled upon this great post about the deeper role of social media, which got me thinking about Nostr:
I'll just pick out this quote:
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We are living through a second renaissance.
This era will be looked back on as a golden age of innovation, creation, and development.
No human in all of history has had the kind of advantage you have in this moment.
It’s never been easier or more accessible.
Don’t waste it.
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The whole post is definitely worth reading, and helped me be more mindful of my use of social media. I'm also trying to make the jump from (semi-)mindless consumption to using this more as a tool of creation.
Keep in mind the importance of Slow & Steady, Proof of Work and Low Time Preference!
Justin C Scott - The official website of Justin C Scott
How to Get Your Content in Front of Millions - Justin C Scott
Learn to leverage social media (the great attractor) for greater success, fulfilment, and freedom.
I know. It sounds crazy. A suicide cult huh? Isn't that a bit much?
I think it explains a lot though...
This "cult" isn't something that anyone asked for. It's not a traditional cult with a leader who "designed it".
Rather, it is an emergent phenomenon - just an inevitable end result of multiple different extremely harmful ideas.
These ideas are so disconnected from reality, that when you apply them in practice, the end result is slow death and destruction.
It is exactly what happened with the Soviet Union.
Before Gorbachev died, he said that the EU resembles Soviet Union more and more every day.
You need to have some kind of a connection with base reality - common sense!
When this alignment with reality gets out of whack, the more you act, the farther away you drift from anything you actually wish for.
It's the definition of crazy.
That's exactly what's going on in Europe.
A slow, unintended cultural and societal suicide that nobody really wants to happen, but which will keep happening until people understand how & why things went wrong.
If they don't get this, things will keep going downhill, no matter what the politicians try to do.
When I say "nobody wants this to happen", I mean that nobody wants the end result of what this all will lead to (the slow death).
The problem is that European people have such a deep belief in the basic tenets of the suicide cult that they WANT to act in ways that keeps that slow suicide going.
What are these suicidal ideas exactly? There are many, but I'll list the main ones.
-Because CO2 is bad, all energy use is bad
-All cultures and people are the same
-When you import foreign cultures, they will automatically assimilate
-The state is the source of all welfare
There is also a fifth problem, one that isn't an idea, but rather a lack of understanding: the money is deeply broken.
I'm not just talking about the Euro, but rather the fiat financial system in general.
When something can't go on forever, it will stop - sooner or later. The fiat financial system is so unsustainable and has gone on for so long, that we are in the "later" phase.
This is a global problem, but one that Europe is very ill-equipped to meet.
How has Europe gone this far downhill? Again, for many different reasons, but mainly because of the "democratic short-circuit".
For democracy to function well even in theory, it would need to rely on a well-educated populace and a state-independent media.
We have neither: the legacy media is effectively a state propaganda machine.
The population is forced through government schools where they are taught that the state is the source of all welfare, and that entrepreneurship is something complicated, foreign and scary.
Of course that's rarely, if ever, said out loud directly.
Instead, those beliefs are implicit in the education plan and the structure of the whole system.
It's just what you take for granted after you go through that machine - and basically everyone does.
All of the above harmful ideas are so deeply ingrained in the population of Europe that any kind of change is far from obvious.
While the rest of the world is moving forward to a better future, Europe is loudly demanding to go down with slow ideological and cultural suicide.
Not everyone in Europe thinks that way, but too many do.
I'm optimistic that there are solutions, but I'm quite pessimistic about the short / medium-term outlook.
How can we solve this? I have some ideas coming in a later post. What are your thoughts on this?
