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Seems obvious but worth the reminder that your thoughts, language, and behaviors are deeply interconnected and by becoming aware of the sequence language ➡️ thought ➡️ action you can modify unhelpful habits and strengthen useful ones.

1920’s = the roaring 20’s 2020’s = the boring 20’s

Why do we have so many hysterical people in society today? If you look at old news footage even 20-30 years ago most of the time people are relatively chill. If you go 100 years back people are reallyyyy chill, just like “then I was in the war and I killed 100 men, then I was shot through the left eye, then I came home and married my high school sweetheart but she died due to diphtheria. Then I got in a car crash and lost both my legs, but overall I can’t complain” It’s actually pretty rare to see someone overwhelmed to the point of hysterical shrieking, yet on the internet it’s extremely common place. I don’t think this is because life is harder now. If anything, it’s objectively easier, safer, and more comfortable than at almost any other point in history. What has changed is how emotion is rewarded. Today, emotional dysregulation gets attention, validation, amplification, and sometimes even status. Calm, restraint, and proportional reactions don’t go viral. Hysteria does. Outrage does. Collapse does. We’ve also externalized resilience. Instead of learning how to regulate discomfort internally, people are taught that every emotional spike deserves immediate external response agreement, soothing, outrage on their behalf. So you end up with a culture where being overwhelmed isn’t a temporary state to move through, it’s an identity to perform. And once hysteria becomes a social currency, you start seeing a lot more of it.

Imagine two armies fighting for control of an area. There’s an impenetrable fortress in the middle and where you can wait out the war. It will keep you completely safe, but you don’t know how long you will have to wait inside. This is hodling.

Poly market is not only more credible than the New York Times. It’s about 1000x more credible. Bitcoin is not only better money than fiat it’s about 1000x better. Nostr is not only more decentralized than x, it’s about 1000x more decentralized.

People think pride is a sin, but it depends. Pride from exalting the self, feeling superiority over others, claiming glory for oneself is absolutely sinful. But loving what god has entrusted to you? Valuing your role and responsibility is virtuous. I love when I meet people who tell me their kids are the best kids on earth. Same when I meet someone who is proud of their country, their marriage, their job. Etc… Loving things according to their proper place, loving god supremely, feeling gratitude for your roles and responsibilities is rightly ordered. It’s good to have pride in that sense.

I’m not often proud of myself or self satisfied in anyway, but one thing I am proud of is my fundamental American-ness. When people are like you’re an arrogant American I’m like “yes. Yes I am.” It actually makes me happy when they say that lol I am American to my core. I was raised on American principles by my father and grandfather who were both good Americans themselves. I’m not confused about what America is. I’m not confused about what an American is or what it means to be one. I have no real desire to learn much about my Irish or German roots. I have no desire to travel outside of America. I mean I have and I will if necessary but like why? You know? I love America. I’m a part of America. I want the best for America. I believe America is worth fighting for. My daughter asked me what it means to be an American and I told her it means you can do whatever the fuck you feel like as long as you’re not harming another person. That’s America. Freedom. Something no one can ever take away from you. No matter what some dweeb in Washington tells you. America is unruly. It’s restless. It’s chaotic. It’s beautiful. Like shockingly breathtakingly beautiful. Reverence for personal liberty. Suspicion of the government. Fear of regulation. Fear of other people’s good intentions. Comfort with disorder over control. America motherfucker. Loud brash chaotic hypocritical argumentative unruly contradictory half finished… I’m proud to be an American.