indulging in the misery of the horrible state of the world is still a vice.

speaking truth to power is mostly futile, nobody is listening.

it gets even worse the more you learn about how deeply entrenched and intertwined the forces of evil are in maintaining their power. when i say "this is a cabal, layers upon layers of cults and a pyramid of power" most people just stop listening. but that's what's going on, and because of normalcy bias, people just aren't willing to even lift back one layer to see what is behind it, let alone deal with a dozen layers deep, and idk how many layers there is but it's hard for me to not be constantly reminded of it all the time just looking at the shallowest depths of it that you see even here in bitcoin and nostr communities. that's why i don't have much of an audience. i'm not a performer. i'm an engineer, and there is lots of opportunities to be cynical as an engineer when you deal with the utter lack of technical understanding of the people who organise things. "why is there a problem here?" *bites tongue and goes back to the coal face*