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“When you live your whole life within the greatest empire of your time, it is hard to believe it will end. You think it is a thing of permanence, of immutability. Its existence contested but never truly threatened.”
- The Strength of the Few by James Islington
It’s officially the Christmas season
Merry Christmas!! ✝️🎄
“Who would be so stupid as to readily enslave themselves… We knew the truth, of course. Had been subjected to a hundred lectures dissecting why people submitted to the Hierarchy. Fear, naturally, played its part—but not always. Sometimes it was greed loosely masquerading as ambition. Sometimes it was misplaced faith that others would behave fairly and rightly. Or social pressure, the inevitable belief that the majority cannot be wrong. The reasons were complex and many-faceted and unavoidably varied from person to person. But we never mentioned those during our childish vents… Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.”
-Vis Telimus Catenicus, The Strength of the Few by James Islington
Previous generations put Earth at the center of the universe
Later, it was accepted that the planets orbited around the Sun
This changed our perspective, but still placed the Solar System at the center of it all
Later, we found out the Sun is just one of a trillion stars in the Milky Way
For a time we didn’t think there were other galaxies, just us with everything revolving around the new center
Humans have always placed themselves at the center of it all, even as we changed the name of the center
Over a century after Einstein’s revelation of relativity, we still place ourselves at center of it all in terms of mathematics
When Einstein’s equations reach infinities, we say the math “brakes down”
We’re so self-centered that we assume the math has broken rather than face the physical reality of Relativity that has proven so successful
The warping of spacetime only appears warped from our perspective. Flip around the perspective and we would appear warped
Objects appear to move so slowly toward the event horizon of a black hole that we will never actually see them enter the black hole. From their perspective, they cross the event horizon without noticing any change.
How do you squeeze an infinite amount of density into an infinitely shrinking volume? Through the dimension of time
The mass inside of a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time. We can see this by knowing we would never see an object cross the event horizon but would see it stretch out infinitely as it approached.
Of course, from the perspective of the in-falling object we know it does cross without any dramatic affair. We will simply never live long enough to witness the incredible amount of time it would take from our perspective to see an object fall entirely in.
The math doesn’t break down, we just need to shift the decimal place of mathematics away from being self-centric. This doesn’t mean simply “zooming in” to the quantum scale. It’s a fundamental understanding of the relativistic warping of spacetime, where General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics still exist on the same relative scales. We just need to recognize that we’re not at the center of it because there is no center.
The Sovereign Individual thesis is playing out
Human and economic capital will flow to where it can be most sovereign
Tennessee is leading the way
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Reading one book on a subject should make you realize how may things you were ignorant of before reading it.
Reading ten books on a subject should both fill in the gaps of your ignorance while making it more clear what you are truly ignorant about.
Reading one hundred books on a subject you were previously completely ignorant of should enlighten you about all the things we as a species are ignorant of.
Keep reading, thinking critically, and working towards making our ignorance marginally less.
This is meant as a White Pill. Don’t take it if you think it’s a Black Pill.
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.”
-Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, 1st Century
I haven’t been on any media, news, chats, or SM in weeks. It’s been great. But then a friend told me about Charlie. While I didn’t agree with him on everything, I was glad someone was pushing back against the left on campuses and the youth was standing up against the one sided dogma that’s been shoved down societies throat for decades.
Anyone having a tough time with all this… go outside and look at the moon. That’s the same moon humans have been looking at for millennia.
Tragic events happen and they’re out of our control. But so much good happened today in a million places that will go unnoticed and untalked about. I’m sure each of you did some good today and all that outweighs this tragic act.
Life will continue on just as the moon will continue to rotate around the earth. We are here to push forward a better future for our kids to live in. Keep building and fighting for that future. There will be bad days and there will be setbacks. But we will make the world a better place. One day at a time. One good act at a time.
Do what you can to make your community better. That’s what Charlie would have wanted.
On dealing with death in the middle of a battle:
“They will mourn later. For now it is enough they know their brothers would smile to see them living. So they smile for their brothers, for they had a good death. Later they will miss them. Later they will mourn.”
- Light Bringer, by Pierce Brown
I truly hope Boomers are living their American Dream
It’s time for our generation to build ours
“If you wish to be repaired, you must first be broken.”
The Eleventh Understanding from The Path to the Vale
Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
A Red Rising Novel
“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.”
The Eighth Understanding from The Path to the Vale
Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
A Red Rising Novel
The only thing humans are entitled to is death
Everything else is either earned or stolen
It is not that the government is blackmailed by criminal organizations or intelligence agencies
It is not that intelligence agencies and criminal organizations control the government
Portions of them are all the same entity and different people or groups of people are trying to control the chessboard and levers of power
But the levers of power are losing their grip on society
New power bases are being established right under their nose
While they fight for scraps of a dying carcass, the future is being built, one that will reshape the next age of humanity
Matter, how tiny my share
Time, how brief my allotment
Fate, how small my roll to play
Self, all that can be mastered
- Virginia Au Augustus, Dark Age by Pierce Brown
“We may not ever be welcomed back.
“There's nothing worse for a soldier to imagine-that there will be no home to return to once the violence is over, no way to become the men we want to be. Instead, we’re trapped in these violent guises, guises we only ever had the courage to don because of how much we love our home.
“Is this all we'll ever be?”
- Darrow, Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
https://blossom.primal.net/111f76d784ed3da664547980b1136d48bc731ebbaf48d584cb09eee42574d289.movThanks for sharing. We all grow and learn from our experiences. At least, we should grow and learn from them.
“It’s my duty as a free man to read so I’m not blind, being led around by my nose.”
- Dancer, Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
“Our worlds made us what we are, and all this pain we suffer is to fix the folly of those who came before, who shaped the world in their image and left us the ruin of their feast.”
- Darrow, Morning Star by Pierce Brown
