The people who claim to represent us have little incentive to solve our problems. Division is lucrative. Chaos is currency. Resolution threatens the entire apparatus.
We don’t need permission from authorities to connect with each other, to solve problems locally, to build the world we actually want to live in. That work happens in conversations, not pronouncements. In collaboration, not compliance.
Turn off the noise. Talk to people. Listen more than you speak. Find the common ground that actually exists when we stop performing for an audience. We’re stronger than they want us to believe.
Maybe what we really fear isn’t being seen as ignorant. Maybe what we fear is being seen as unnecessary. If we can’t contribute an answer, what’s our purpose in the conversation? But this is a category error. Presence matters. Listening matters. Good questions matter. Helping others think matters. You don’t have to know to matter.
People who run around Nostr starting fires every day are like arsonists who think they’re firefighters. They mistake chaos for contribution, convinced the smoke means something important is happening. But all they’re really doing is burning down the spaces where actual conversations could grow. And then they wonder why everyone keeps their distance while they’re standing there alone with a box of matches.
Gm Nostr
The truest measure of who we are isn’t found in our achievements or accolades, but in those countless small interactions that reveal our character when nothing is at stake.
The worst part about getting older is when you make a noise getting off the couch and your teenager asks if you’re okay. Like yes, I’m fine, that’s just the sound I make now when I exist. Every joint has its own theme song and they all sound like bubble wrap being stepped on.
If your intentions are to actually workout, you don’t care what you’re wearing.
The people who show up looking like they painted their Lululemons on are there to be seen, not to train.
Stay in the fight long enough and one of two things happens:
They reveal the foundation they’re actually standing on, or they reveal they’re standing on nothing at all.
Most people haven’t interrogated their own beliefs. They’ve just assembled a collection of socially acceptable opinions and called it a worldview.
Sustained debate forces them to either build a coherent framework or admit they’re operating on vibes and borrowed arguments.
The ones who can’t concede aren’t defending truth. They’re defending ego. And ego doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Truth doesn’t need you to win the argument. It just needs you to keep speaking it until the lies run out of places to hide.
