if you reject the story you’ve been told, not just about central banking, not just about covid, not just about modern medicine, but really reject the entire thing, you start to realize anything is possible.
If you wonder why we haven’t seemed to progress in 50 years, why we don’t have 2001 Space Odyssey-level tech, why we don’t have flying cars, it might be because even though you’re questioned many particular false narratives, we still fundamentally haven’t questioned everything.
And having not questioned everything, we are stuck in only the possibilities we’ve been offered.
I can shitpost longer than you can stay scrolling.
At the airport stupid early again. Think it’s more relaxing to be at the shitty terminal than waiting at home not knowing how much traffic there will be or how long the line is at security. At the gate, you just have to walk onto the plane.
I think the results were so-so. Woke too many people up. Overplayed their hand.
Problem was Trump was president. Had it been Hillary, they could have succeeded a lot more, but he delayed the plan, they got impatient, had to fix 2020, do the J6 psyop, jumped the gun.
They fucked up IMO.
View quoted note →Went to a furniture design showroom yesterday. Very high end, way out of my range. Like 300K for a table.
Some of it was nice, some not. But it occurred to me some of the designs would just not have occurred to me as a possibility.
The left has zero ground to stand on re free speech or “cancel culture”. It’s basically just a discussion among everyone else where you draw the line between what’s government infringement and what’s legitimate private action taken for profit motive. Anyone on the left should just hope they are more 100x principled and just than they were.
One thing I like about Trump is he is a player character, he has his views and his vision. He might be wrong, he might be gauche, but he is a person. And he is trying to do things as he sees fit. Like he’s been talking about unfair trade practices and tariffs for decades. Whether that will help or hurt, I don’t know. But it’s his vision.
This is actually an exception for politicians. Mostly they are NPCs, playing a role at the behest of someone else, part of a bureaucracy that is angling for “the greater good” as defined by itself, i.e., usually what perpetuates its own power.
If you want a country that favors the individual, you are better off with a leader who is one, however flawed, than a leader who is not, however polished.
The constitution, the Bible, works of stoicism, Austrian economics, they are all just maps, provisional (and often useful), but not the territory.
Once you familiarize yourself with the actual terrain, you might glance at the map as needed to re-orient yourself, but mostly it’s folded and put away.
One thing you discover when you have no job and can more or less do whatever you want is what you most want is to do what life requires, and that entails making peace with situations you used to avoid when you had someone else (or customers) dictating what to do.
The irony is you are *more* bound by things than before, but because that bond is voluntary rather than coerced your goal is to appreciate its terms rather than to get it over with so you can do something else more pleasant.
