Subjective value follows from individual liberty, central one size fits all calculation placed atop others I'd folly. Consensus definition remains fluid but efficacy is tied to objective truth. Empiricism works because natural rules are static. Human agency adds individual purpose, choice, action. Free will is obvious and fundamental, not the domain of metaphysical trivialities. View quoted note →

Capitalism won't work well when centralized among those who are unaccountable for lies and are willing to employ illusion, hiring teams of young marketing majors who don’t yet understand they are engineering mere facades of philanthropic altruism, that their naive constructions are just virtue signaling masks that claim social responsibility without being socially responsible. In a few short years, the resulting market, captured by these conglomerates, will be in a perpetual struggle with the poverty line by design, dependent on or addicted to the scraps of the elitist 'profiteers,' who live without boundary, insulated by social engineers who puppeteer a management caste whose ultimate contribution is to stimulate tropical economies as they gallavant and debauch. But I remain hopeful 😀 A system of secrecy and insulation from truth, based on control, illusion, and maintaining the ignorance of its victims, is limited by its ability to do so. A victim is no longer once the trick is understood. That which is seen cannot be unseen. A truth accepted dissolves all associated lies and their supports forever, while a lie must be maintained in opposition to reality. Interactions ought be voluntary, and no perfect angels exist to regulate the market for us better than we can be able to understand ourselves. As such, the fraud in our markets is best exposed by individuals and cooperation among them - not some fiat decree. My rational hope stems from an understanding that it is only lies dissolved that is needed to restore spontaneous order. That’s the easy part! The technology is here, we need only to solidify consensus education models distilled to short-form video and coloring books. The peaceful transition within each of us is the part that takes so much time. Obstacles include division, resentfulness toward our neighbors, clinging to old ideas, distrust of innovation, old model information sources, doubt in ambition, fear of change, temporal distraction, occlusion of long-term self interest in favor of short-term gratification, and reputation built on vague social proxy heuristics rather than tested and proven accuracy and trustworthiness over time. We few are beginning to recognize and identify the coordinated efforts to appreciate these obstacles - to us they become transparent and ineffectual even as our friends and family are blinded by them. Inward reflection, rigorous honesty, constant vigilance, cooperation, service, and deserved support leads to a tipping point, piece by piece, one by one.

'Stock' used to mean supplies put back. Then it meant an amount of supplies for trade. Then it meant a piece of paper representing some portion of a trader's outfit. Then it meant a promise to deliver value by the bearer of a certificate. Now it's buyer beware, the end consumer of derivative promises is the least protected in the chain. Enfiatification of the family pantry. Abstracting value away from reality is a manipulative rich man's trick.

I'm so old I remember when people just said 'sposedta get some snow this weekend' ... 'yup'

GoodFather / GoodMother GoodFather represents history and time. His domain is the intangible mechanic layer of functional reality. He is the initiator of structured rulesets, forces, and processes that sustain themselves. His intentional cooperation with GoodMother births individuals with self-awareness whose lives are the embodied transformation of disordered, chaotic potential into rational tangibility. GoodMother is the sustaining caretaker of creation who maintains the boundaries of thriving life. She represents the future, possibility, and potential. The persistent care and consistent structure they maintain in continued love for successive generations provides the fundamental rhythm to which all life dances. The keystone of Evil is a shared resentful effort to invert and disprove the validity of that rhythm. Creation therefore involves sacrifice necessarily. Individual actualization then involves separation of the created from the creators, necessarily — for autonomy makes growth and experience possible; it allows for creativity and choice. But it is both a strength and a vulnerability — it gives the child the freedom to choose any path, including total separation. The iterative manifestations of life that disseminate from the initial birth materialize in characters that are reflections of this paradox and range of possibility. Some children reject their forebears, sometimes rightfully so, while others never work for the independence to reach potential, or are not able. Some parents shun their children, while others enforce co-dependence. As such, sacrifice, along with the duality of life and the individual’s drive toward self-actualization, necessitates eternal vigilance in self-awareness and course correction in light of honest and trusted feedback. Though individual lives vary, this is the core template of existence, and diversion from this model tends toward evil. In short, cooperation is a necessary condition of a rightfully lived life. [images are ai, writing is not]

Day 16 🌞 ✨ "Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk." — Rumi 💫 "I trust the journey and enjoy the process." 🙏 I am grateful for the few who courageously explore, will go anywhere, and discuss anything. They challenge us and expand possibility, often at their own expense.

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Most educational words I heard this week came from Rand Paul on Joe Rogan. Something like, why take a side on this issue like a juror would when I haven't seen the evidence presented to the extent that would be necessary to issue judgment?

### DNA There are those characters who aim to preserve, at worst, only their own kind, and at best, exemplary specimens of each ‘category’ of humanity — in either case arbitrarily defined. Even when deluded and intending preservation of humanity through time, they are obsessive narcissists and those who follow for lack of sufficient alternative source for self-esteem. Their recursive reproduction is a mirror-bound circular fallacy realized as each generation increasingly becomes a caricature of itself, unfit for survival in diverse environments. Where this evil rubric dictates mating controls, ‘imperfect examples’ are seen as unsuitable for reproduction. As the gene pool narrows, the unavoidable vulnerability of lack of diversity amplifies. One character may have proud cultural traditions that celebrate his birth and survival. He may be prideful of his individuality and enjoy an identity curious of increasing understanding in his ancestry. He may see genetic characteristics in himself that can be recognized in others, where similar. He may do all this while seeing reality with clarity — familiarity is no vice. But another character, though he may accurately conceptualize this to some degree, is unable to distinguish from the notion that he carries a superior form of humanity. He therefore must evaluate anyone he meets for inferiority. Ignoring the similarities, he finds himself obligated to exaggerate the gap between himself and another — but in truth, the gap is slight and subtle. He exaggerates it to avoid growing beyond his insecurities. The wiser character is apt to accept unfamiliarity as an opportunity to gain it — to understand in empathy. He instead aims to narrow the gap between himself and another. He views all as of one potent potential, and does not ignore the strength of similarity to find identity in the weakness of difference. A sophisticated understanding involves the realization that a body’s current form is an expression of a common potential — not of some rigid unique blueprint, more or less ideal. Superficial resemblances to progenitors are only an indication that the same survival stresses were placed on both. Clonic duplication is not proof of itself, but of a lack of adaptability. **Quote:** “There, there. So you aren’t genetically pure. But it is still your honor to serve the throne! Make yourself useful.” **Quote:** “Take the two most dissimilar humans that exist. Clear eyes can plainly see they have more in common than either to any other comparable creature. Indeed, even a squint sees this clearly.” **Cutscene:** Ancestral history flashback - infinite loop from the potential, the possibility - the seed. a plant's extremity unfurling, leaves opening, a flower opening for the sun, sprouting seed carried by the wind, a neverending fractal rebirth.

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