1 take per like challenge. Like this post for my opinions
1. Mother Nature has worked as a branding tool to make nature seem nurturing, pure and beautiful
But in reality nature is incredibly harsh. Most of the time pretty gross/disgusting and will fucking ruin your shit every time.
Environmentalism is mommy issues from delusion
2. Science will never understand consciousness well enough to replicate it within a piece of physical hardware.
But there may be other methods.
3. Greed both drives progress and inhibits it. Cyclical push-pull between generations of thinkers (not biological generations). As the new paradigm rises, the old will use existing hegemony to suppress it to the fullest extent possible, until a tipping point is reached.
4. Advice on how to change is scarce because so few actually do it. Moreover, those that do need to understand it. Then, they have to figure out how to package that insight. Almost impossible.
5. If thoughts are viewed as a type of communication - communicating with self, physically altering brainstate - then communication is the fundamental impetus of consciousness. I communicate, therefore I am.
6. Early marriage cements the bond by granting women a wider portion of men’s peak attractiveness (30-40), in a dosage that hits after the marriage is formed. After that time period, inertia takes over.
7. To blame yourself for past ignorance is the same as blaming Roman armies for not having machine guns. Knowledge is technology that you can apply to reality for desired results. You can only attempt to optimize its progression.
8. Trust the group asking questions. Suspect the group providing answers.
9. Consuming “news” offers no unique benefit. Any valuable information can be learned through more productive means - news is only a shortcut that puts you at the mercy of someone else’s (probably stupid) mental digestion.
News watchers are like baby birds.
10. You’ll know a change is sustainable when you dip your toes back into what you used to do and feel repulsed. Wallow in that repulsion and it will propel you towards better behaviors with new intensity.
11. Baby Yoda is an effective psyop to increase the birthrate. Disney’s best interest is for people to have lots of kids, as that is their main long term cash cow.
As always the market will force a correction once this is figured out.
12. Taking pictures is ridiculous. No one cares, not even you. How often do you or anyone you know look at the family photos they took at christmas in 2017? Only worth photographing experiences that you will want to remember, or show to someone else (even then, questionable)
13. The charm of Star Trek (TNG) is that it’s boring. The Phaser is one of the most dull scifi weapons ever created. That’s why the show is so goddamn refreshing to watch in the modern media landscapes of splosions and plot twists. Thirsty for a return to this.
14. I love listening to music outside of public settings, but dislike concerts. I love playing sports, but dislike watching them.
In both latter scenarios, there is no direct connection.
15. Mainstream sports has accomplished an impressive task - erasing substructure of borders from basic tribalism. Players are mercenaries without clear roots to any particular tribe, yet the illusion of tribe remains intact from fans’ perspective. More globalism.
16. Sociological studies are unreliable not only due to dishonest answers, but also due to vast cohorts of populations having no idea what their drives, insights, emotions, behaviors, or thoughts are about. Most don’t even realize that they are thinking when they do it.
17. The greatest benefit of a working understanding of Physics (for a layman) is perspective. We’re right at the midpoint between LARGE and small. Both ends of that spectrum contain insights that are broadly functional, provided you can synthesize them into a healthy worldview
18. The veil of brand social media is lifted when you’ve seen the armies of legal, geopolitical, privacy and PR lawyers that must review every letter of every word with a fine toothed comb. Meticulously engineered.
19. You are better protected by widespread incompetence, laziness and greed than by any law, document or treaty
20. There is almost nothing which provides you zero value. However value is not always immediately recognizable.
21. A deterministic universe is scary to people who cannot fathom the scope of possible variables in every causality chain. They are so incalculable we might as well assume randomness and free will
22. Mormonism is an accelerated and more durable form of Judaism
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The word “Trump supporters” no longer has meaning in the mainstream.
We’re now America Supporters, and Trump is one of our presidents and our talented billionaires.
The rest of the world will take a while to come to terms with this.
What you will see, is that the organs of the state will be slow on this. You’re going to witness a period of Trump Withdrawal Syndrome - a media and populace that has spent 4 years on the speedcrack of a Trump high will not have a target and their fire will suffocate.
Many of those who stand in opposition to MAGA ideas and principles only do so because they are jacked up by this singular orange man as a figure. They watch the character show of politics - a play orchestrated by the media. Without that, they will experience moments of openness.
“Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources ... but it’s nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colours only when they are ruined”
“ but so long as the discovery would enable them to guard against it, it is never found wanting. Let not this be the case with you, who are weak and hang on a single turn of the scale; “
“ nor be like the vulgar, who, abandoning such security as human means may still afford, when visible hopes fail them in extremity, turn to invisible, to prophecies and oracles “
There once was a poor man who walked around without shoes.
His feet were covered in calluses.
One day, a rich man felt sorry for the poor man and bought him a pair of nikes.
The poor man was extremely grateful and wore the shoes constantly. He was overjoyed! Such a simple gesture by the rich man had improved his lot greatly.
After a year or so, the shoes fell apart. The poor man had to go back to walking around barefoot.
He did so, but now his calluses were gone and his feet got all cut up and soon the cuts became infected and the man got sick and eventually, after they cut off his legs, he died.
OkCupid has had a major brand initiative for 2020, they are actively trying to court woke social justice millennials/leftists as their primary customer base. The implications of this are pretty funny to think about (thread)
Woke Capitalism is extremely stupid for a few reasons.
Primarily, big companies are dinosaurs and leviathans. They sense the cultural impact, but they simply are not agile enough to keep up in the culture war landscape
The "Social Justice" or Wokeness movement is utterly phrenetic. Their preferences and definitions seem to change on a weekly basis. New history months seem to spring up all the time. Totally suboptimal for rigid corporate marketing initiatives that take a ton of time to implement