It’s hard to understand or understate just how deep the trauma of living in modernity carries. To be born generations after The Death of God and the closure of any forms of life outside or beyond the mechanization of economics, is to acknowledge the very real, deep, and painful truth that we have been betrayed by our parents and left worse off then they were. It is the deepest and most painful betrayal as we were suppose to be give a life for ourselves and a future of our own, which they sacrificed for their own greed and avarice which had doomed most people to a life just beyond poverty. It is sickening to know that things are worse for our generation than it was for our parents and that they not only betrayed us economically, but politically and spiritually as well. It is a lot to take in when you really look at it, and it is painful to see how we were betrayed.
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To cheer up, you might wanna check out this guy named Erik Cason on the Hold Hang podcast, he talks about how Bitcoin can transform your whole way of being. It's super inspiring.
Joking aside, I've thought a lot over the last few years about community. I grew up in a tight-knit church and I see how much that benefitted me and my family. Now very few people in the US are going to church and there is nothing to replace that sense of community, let alone some of the other aspects of church such as seeking wisdom together.
Yea 💯! It feels like the Titanomachy between the gods and the titans.
Gen x, millennials, and Gen z vs the boomers bb! Not counting the boomers on our side of course. The gods did have some titans on their side lol. 🤙🏽🫡
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I share all these thoughts. It’s a remarkable set of phenomena that produced the world we have inherited. Your writings in particular, however, give me hope that there are solutions to our problems.
I have found some grace for the boomers, who as young people in the 60s and 70s noticed many of the problems with modernity, but lacked many of the tools we now have to communicate with one another and opt out successfully.
Imagine recognizing that parenting was broken and seeking out advice at the local library only to be handed Freud and Ferber, whose basic premises were “everyone wants to fuck his mom” and “you should let babies cry until they stop crying”.
Yes, must do better. And importantly, we possess the tools to do so.
But I do pity the boomers, many of whom knew there was a better way, and even sought it, only to come up with nonsense, before finally capitulating to the machine.
Beautiful writing. But sounds like you need some good #pussy..🫂🥹😈
Lmao, yeah that is always helpful.
We have freedom tech i.e. hope... our parents didnt
Hang in there brotha. Allow the grieving to be felt and then pass in its own time. This is all part of our genetic purging/healing from scarcity that has been evolutionarily hard wired into us for at least 10k years.
Try and hold no anger or blame. That just slows the process.
See the correlation of what you speak of (so beautifully) on a civilisational level to that of your OWN personal journey in this life. Wounds you still likely carry from childhood. That’s what life is constantly trying to show us. Where and how to heal. 👁️💗🧬🦋
In the realest possible way, we are ALL in this together.
Love you brother 🙏🏻
Thankfully, we have the writings of de Tocqueville to help us better understand what was and where we came from politically, economically, and spiritually. He warned of the creeping soft despotism which has turned into a dystopian tyrannical nightmare. Out of the darkness, like divine providence, the Bitcoin white paper appears.
Things aren't being done to you, their being done for you.
Your parents weren't immune from pain, suffering & confusion. They're also somewhat trapped in their own patterns & programming.
Your post reminds me of the 5th Essene mirror.
To be clear I'm not trying to play down our childhood traumas. They are some of the deepest & most painful that we carry.
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Indeed. But in their defence:
1) They were deceived by a lie (and still are), as we all are to some extent. It was only a minority of boomers that made this mess. It is, after all a class system. Middle and lower classes (mostly the middle) are heavily indoctrinated to perform the will of the mega wealthy, virtually from birth.
2) We have the Internet they did not. This allows dissenting voices and access to information that simply wasn't available back in the days of TV/magazines (Hence the current totalitarian attempts to censor all wrong think on the net). We have the potential to be better informed.
3) If our lives were swapped with our parents - would we do anything differently than them? I think probably not. After Nazi Germany, researchers tried to find out why most went along with it. Checkout the famous Milgrim's shock experiments and Zimbado's prison experiment. Majority of people just do what they're told to do. Think what they're told to think.
4) One good thing about the 'death of God' is that it got rid of a lot of bad religion and religiousity (but admittedly, replaced with some equally bad, if not worse, religion. Like Consumerism, and now the great spectre on the horizon; Corporate Transhumanism. Blah!). Not saying all religion or theism is bad. You know what I mean.
Anyway, we have:
Internet (for a little while longer at least)
Bitcoin
Nostr
Freedom tech
Medical care and advancement (yes, I know, I bit of a mixed bag. And when I say we, I mean everyone everywhere, in the entire world, including outer space, except America) *
* (yes, I know many in the developing world, and the poor generally, don't. It was just a joke)
I can agree with most of this. It also imparts the real responsibility we have to distribute, decimate, and decentralize all of this technology with the greatest of care. I really think this is our one shot to get this right.