Even the richest & most successful are bound by
- social norms
- personal/business obligations
- their perceptions of themselves (remember this one...)
But some are closer to speaking - or SIGNALING - truth than others.
Qualities of The Emancipated:
✅Successful
✅Self-made
✅Wealthy (don't have to work)
✅Perpetual learners
✅Public (seek media/social media attention)
✅Clear motivations
People with this profile are *best positioned* to speak truth & model essential patterns.
The Emancipated are dripping w/insights on:
- how to succeed/lead
- how the world really works
- what's next (via their investments)
- healthy mindset/habits
Some are stated, some signaled. Actions are as vital as words. So is filtering what they say via their motives & biases.
Whatever your background or aspiration, you can vastly improve the likelihood & magnitude of success by learning from The Emancipated.
One thing you immediately notice about The Emancipated is their mindset. They see the world as bursting with possibilities. Every problem is an opportunity to find a solution.
Not so for The Enslaved...
The Enslaved
I use this loaded term for a reason. While many in the US have health, financial or family struggles, many more are prisoners of the mind. Slaves to defeatist narratives, dystopianism & catastrophe porn. Thoughts of revolution stir in places accountability once lived
So many of us are wardens of our own potential, paralyzed by
fear of failure or success
negativity
bad childhoods
losers friends
worrying about things we can't control or what others have/don't have
procrastination
laziness
failure to set goals or visualize our greater selves
Manifestation
The reason we must tend to what look like other people's personal problems is we conjure the dystopias we fear. If enough people believe someone is their enemy, they eventually will be.
Broken ideas break people who break societies.
Emancipate the enslaved.
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1. Paris accord was toothless & symbolic. Yes, we should absolutely be at the table, but hard commitments will only come from clean innovation w/real ROI
2. College debt forgiveness is regressive pandering to elites, where the 70% who don't go to college subsidize the 30% who CHOSE to go & will soon out-earn them. It;s obscene & doesn't solve the real problem.
3. Yes, drug prices must be lowered but NOT by removing all incentive to work on important diseases by invalidating patents! (I evaluare negotiation, importation, patent reform & others in The McFuture universal healthcare podcast IdeaFaktory.com/health5)
Online voting could be done w/bank SSO. You'd sign into a secure, private voting site using your bank's credentials, where you're already verified. Like Google or Facebook login on 3rd party sites. This can also be an opportunity to give accounts & benefit xfers to poor/unbanked.
This is not unprecedented. Companies like Intuit (TurboTax) and Yodlee access your bank, broker and ADP (paycheck) accounts to pull in W-2s and financial account data.
If done on mobile, additional sensors/camera can be used to aid in the verification/authentication process.
Proposal: New Framework for Section 230 Protections
As social networks increasingly make editorial decisions, are they still "platforms" that should be protected from illegal acts by their users?
My 2 main criteria:
—banning people beyond legal requirements
—post selection
1/4
If banning people and choosing posts (whether human or algorithmic selection), they are publishers and should have comparable legal exposure.
Same even if they don't ban people beyond legal mandates.
If they do neither, section 230 should protect them.
2/4
Trickiest one is no post selection (other than user-controlled), but accounts are banned.
If there's clear banning criteria ("hate" likely too mushy & has no legal standing) AND clear path to redemption, plus some sort of follower portability, a version of 230 should apply.
3/4
Whether you diverge from your employer's interests by organizing a protest or compromise the profits of a platform you're on, you're done. You are a dependent, bound to their interests, not truth.
Even wealth isn't a perfect buffer. Truth can quickly alienate you & your family from social circles. There's too much at stake. These become your boundaries for truth.
Anonymity can liberate, but it's nearly impossible to gain moral authority or build reputation behind a veil.
I cut the ignorant, misinformed & stupid a lot of slack. Maybe life dealt them a bad hand or they're being used as pawns. It's only when they self-identify as smart, refuse to seek facts, are stubborn, incurious & LOUD that they become annoying - or ruinous.
2/
The way to handle the stupid is educate, avoid, or give them something to do that they can handle without wrecking everything.
But it's the LIARS that are far scarier and they're multiplying, especially here.
3/