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Attacked By Hordes Of Internet Shriek Weevils….
A Useless Line Of Complaint….
We have all inherited a technological arms race beyond our control and out of our scope.
For many who have a hard time even comprehending or utilizing the old tech as it was, any mention or advent of new tech can be extremely daunting, if not downright scary.
Technology is not inherently evil. Technology is a tool. A pen is just a pen. Whether you choose to use a pen to write a love letter or a death threat is up to you. It’s still just a pen.
From here, this moves into personality type… will I let my perceived but likely false estimation of my inability to meet the challenge cultivate an internal fear that I cannot surpass and that I will then externalize by demonizing the technology itself, or will I lean into the challenge and make the best of the tools I have at my disposal because I know that others may not have anyone’s best interests at heart and so the onus is on me to understand the tech fully and to the best of my ability so that I may protect myself and others from bad actors or utilize the tech in beneficial ways in order to transmute and counterbalance what is happening in the world?
If I know that this technology is the future and there is no stopping it, do I lean into learning all about it or do I disengage with the world entirely and allow it to pass me by?
Do I resign myself to a fate akin to those who were devastated from lack of work in the manufacturing ghost towns of a bygone era, or do I expand my knowledge and skill sets in ways that will ensure that my family will always be provided for and my loved ones will always be protected no matter what challenges we face, environmental or technological?
If I am the sort of person who prides him/herself on stepping up to a challenge but this particular challenge makes me wary, am I aware that I am externalizing and demonizing something out of fear?
Am I victimizing myself by demonizing technology?
Am I aware that that type of energy runs counter to presenting myself as someone who is resilient and can overcome any challenge?
Am I being honest about my fears and my blind spots here?
Am I willing to learn about the things that make me afraid so that I can conquer my fears and press on?
Am I aware that understanding something doesn’t mean I have to decide that it’s right for me but that having an understanding of it will serve to quell any fears that I have that are connected to traversing the unknown?
Those who find ways to hunt down and address their own blind spots will always be better off than those who amplify their own shadows by avoiding them. That’s true across the board.
The most successful people in the world lean into their fears and keep learning. It’s really all about the mindset, about the attitude. That sets the tone for everything else in terms of the way your life will play out.
If one consistently paints oneself as the underdog, the oppressed, someone who cannot overcome or is incessantly involved in the act of endless overcoming, when does one ever become the person who has already overcome? When does one allow oneself to win finally without retaining the energy of the downtrodden because it has become enmeshed with the core identity?
Tommy and Gina already know better. They embrace their blind spots and conquer their fears. They’re halfway there. Everyone should be more like Tommy and Gina.
Good Luck Trying To Get Diddy Out Now….
Idolatry of Insanity
An operant conditioning chamber to keep us busy… inside of an expectation engine… from which we keep escaping by building other paradigms into which we put our consciousness and then just about forget that the layer on top of which the layer our consciousness is embroiled in, the layer we escaped from previously, even exists… on repeat fractally and holographically, infinitely to the macro and infinitely to the micro, outside of time.
Pooh Bear: “Mmm… recursion…..”
Teen Girl Squad: “SO GOOD!!” (That’s terrifying.)
It’s like we’re headed into that bottom layer in Inception where time creeps by like molasses.
Falling asleep in here would be ill-advised because we’ll never get back out - we’ll forget who we are and where we came from and we’ll never remember this is only a dream inside a dream inside a dream.
Waking up fully is a macro state, not a micro state.
But how many iterations of movement toward the macro do we have to go through before we can get there? And where is there? And is it really infinitely many?
We’re either forever waking up, or forever drifting further into slumber.
In Which The Memelords Continue A-Memelording
The Mike Tyson Fight: A Tale of Two Big Mikes
I didn’t watch the fight.
Full disclosure: I have no desire to watch grown men beat each other bloody, so I passed.
But oddly enough, it was mentioned briefly in a group chat I was hosting, and someone posted a video in that chat of Tyson being interviewed by a very young girl, seemingly a child.
She had asked him a question about legacy - his own legacy in particular - and he was incensed by the very use of the word.
He basically told the girl that we all turn to dust, so what’s the point in cultivating or leaving a legacy behind - we’re all going to die, you can’t take it with you, and past a certain point, no one will remember you anyway.
To me, these sounded more like the words of someone dying, leaving behind a legacy of regret, than someone about to walk into a multi-million dollar boxing match.
The girl stopped for a moment, spooked by what he’d said.
She said that she’d never heard anyone say anything like that to her before and that she would need to think about it.
She seemed shaken by it.
And I can see why.
Usually the older generations will attempt to stay positive to motivate the younger generations to give their dreams their all.
Even people who feel like their own dreams never came to fruition will still try to say encouraging words to those who are younger and just starting out, to motivate them and lift their spirits while maybe even getting into some of the wisdom that life experience has taught them the hard way.
He didn’t even bother to pretend for her sake.
He just laid out his cynicism, bare bones and raw: What’s the point? We all turn to dust.
It’s beyond obivous his heart isn’t in it.
If he wasn’t concerned about the preservation of his legacy - to the point where he tore the very concept of legacy to shreds on camera in front of this poor girl who was only looking to get some kind of inspirational sound byte from him - he literally had nothing to gain or lose but that massive payout.
So, to be fair, I’m not at all surprised he lost.
Mostly, I just feel sorry for him that he feels that way - and while he was certainly being authentic and real, I feel sorry for the girl, that she had to hear that seemingly odd sentiment from an old great, someone she would have expected to behave as more of an inspirational hero than a godless shell with zero morale.
“Demi, I saw your post. I watched the fight. Tyson came out strong but not his prior fury. Just my opinion here… After he took the first 2 rounds he seemed to go into a defensive mode. I think he didn’t want to hit the mat. He did lose his footing a couple times .. he was close to falling. It certainly appeared to me that he definitely did not want get not knocked out, and just go the distance. Whether that motivation was legacy or money we may never know. I think it was legacy because getting knocked down or worse knocked out would be a stain. It appeared to me that he was protecting from that potential outcome. I believe his statement to that reporter was to dismiss that potential outcome in advance whether for himself or to the public, or both. Just my take on it…” -
If I had heard that and I had had money on him, I'd have placed a counter bet IMMEDIATELY. lol
“I think this is a very fair take. We know from interviews (like his discussion of Alexander and Ghengis Khan on Rogan) that Mike has always been very conscious of legacy, and is very well educated on great leaders throughout history and their legacies. So his comments could be a hedge: ‘If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.’ However, I will posit it really could just be Mike being honest about his current reflections on life and legacy. Obviously in many ways Mike has been a horrible person, a tormented person, and because of that, his career path, his squeaky voice and vicious temper, he often gets dismissed as a meathead or moron, but I don't believe that to be true. He either lacks or doesn’t care to utilize the social filters that normies like the interviewer require to function. He is too real, too raw for ‘polite’ society, but I think in his case that is more a testament to his intellect and introspection than it is to some deficiency of those faculties. Not saying anyone intimated the latter haha, just spitballing here :D I actually find him really fascinating. Most people hide their horror, their monster, their shadow, or they collapse under the weight of its exposure. Mike is the rare man who has suffered hellish abuse and also perpetrated it, who has been drowned in shadow--his own and those who harmed him--had it all laid bare before a sneering world, and yet somehow found a way to come out the other side and unflinchingly recount the tale. Of what he was, is, and may yet be. He is a very complicated, fascinating, and rare person, especially in this age.” -
“I agree, Apollo. His interviews where he said he wanted to kill the opponents indicate how he doesn’t ‘fit in’ with society. Iron Mike was a vicious killer.” -
“Correct. It wasn't a sport for him. It was survival. Vengeance. Hope. Pure primal domination. Most other fighters were Buck in Call of the Wild chasing a rabbit for the first time. Mike was a wolf. He grew up largely on the streets hiding in the walls of abandoned buildings to avoid gangs, stealing from women, walking past dead prostitutes... That terrified, rage-filled child never healed, at least not back then, and was only betrayed by the "friends" and promoters whom he dared trust to help him. Put all of that in one an extraordinary physique trained by Cus, one of the best to ever do it, and you've got a wholly unique phenomenon in the ring and out.” -
“Goddam that’s genius! So mad I didn’t think of that lol.” -
“It's a masterpiece!” -
“I saw that last night and went to go find it.. opportunity knocks! 😂” -
Why Go To Space?
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“WTAF Trump?!”
X and the Mainstream News….
Thank you so much, ThothStudio (JCofMars)! I’m honored! And I agree - we’ve got quite the group of badasses around here!! That’s for sure!! I love these guys!! 🥰⚡️💥🔥
And for anyone who is on here who isn’t trolling or shitposting “for the lulz”… the block/mute functions are your friends!! Use them!!
Algos work like the Universe does: The more you engage with something, the more you are going to see it, because the algo/Universe is giving you exactly what you are paying attention to the most.
So I highly recommend curating your own experience - in life and on platforms - especially if you find certain people to be beyond irritating and experience no joy or benefit from engaging with that particular energy. There is no reason to lean into your own irritation when it is only going to beget additional irritation.
Block, mute, ignore, disengage, detach - do what you have to do as much as you are able.
You get to choose!! 🙏🏻💜💫
Thank you, Apollo's Lyre!
This is another one of those data points that makes me feel like we are inside of a simulation.
If our thoughts, emotions, intention, and focus are willing our experiences to us, it feels like it’s the way the universal algorithm works - and we have simply taken the expectation engine we live inside and modeled a micro version of it to become a familiar analogy as “operating system” for the way we relate online.
Eventually, when consciousness can climb inside of this micro world and it seems real, that will be another layer of disconnect that we have added to our experience, further distancing ourselves from base reality.
What if “waking up” really means to “wake up” out of infinitely many simulations that we have created and crawled inside of in order to either avoid base reality or experience something different?
“That’s not honey… you’re eating simception, Pooh.”
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Somewhere there is a man named Cliff who would like Rob Reiner to drive off.
The problems with universal basic income are many and deserve to be ignored so the gooferment can do all the things and collapse. UBI only hastens the collapse. But people don't seem to want to look at monetary inflation and its many difficulties for the poor and middle class and its many opportunities for the rich and prosperous. Richard Cantillon goes centuries with a limited audience, but his effect prevails.
I like the idea that the world would be a better place if people were more like a fictional tunnel chicken and a fictional donkey depicted in prompt-derived artwork. This fulfils for a me a sense that in the future it will be possible to make great and beautiful works of art so fast that the Getty heiress won't be able to hire enough goofs to throw soup and paint and oil on all of them. Perhaps she will go bankrupt before she and her demon worshipping friends have destroyed everything in the name of a false sanctimony over a climate that was always changing anyway. More people still die every year from freezing cold than from too much heat, and the temperature trend is downward. But the grift is stronger with the "carbon capture" horse manure.
There is something about a Digital Algonquin that I don't understand. What is it?
On the other hand, this all seems more like a Digital Chautauqua. But perhaps that is a different kettle of fish? Ka chow!