i made a decision 5 years ago to never shop at walmart unless it was an emergency. although, i cannot imagine what an emergency like that would look like, and as it turns out, that emergency has never materialized.

its my belief that once you understand the principles of a circular economy, and what a place like walmart does to it, you cant continue to support it.

in fact, i believe that people who do understand this, yet continue to shop there, are at best short signted and lack self discipline. and at worst, are short sighted, narcisitic, assholes.

but then that is easy to say isnt it. i just bought something from Amazon today.

we are convienience addicts. to the point that we act like crack addicts in withdrawl if we have any sort of sustained inconvienience. and what concerns me the most about this, aside from the weakness, is that we are sitting ducks for those who would control us.

we barely even put up a fight. we are too busy arguing over the button placement on the new iPhone. really stop and think about how embarasing that is. and dont think for a second i am pointing at you and excluding myself.

what this comes down to is this one thing i am learning... if you dont take action on your convictions, your apathy becomes stronger, and your will becomes weaker. your will is a muscle, and responds to both growth, and apathy in the same way as a muscle.

if you understand what i am saying, you know i dont need to say any more.

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nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh and I were talking about the modern conveniences we enjoy and the negative effects they have in the way of corporate cronyism this morning.

There's an episode of the Huberman Labs podcast where Huberman tells Goggins that there is a part of the brain that literally grows or shrinks in response to doing things we dot want to put effort into versus when we procrastinate or refuse to do what we know we should do. So it's not a muscle, it's a part of the brain but you have the right idea.

Help me understand this more. We shop at Walmart because it is one of very few stores in our area with various items.

I also would stop shopping there in a heartbeat.

I also hear and don’t understand the push for local. I have guess that part of it is tribalism. It’s definitely less efficient. I think another part is that local is more resilient. I can respect that but I don’t feel compelled to spend more money to try to boost local production of goods that are more efficiently produced elsewhere.

Of course AI changes that for me sorta

Agreed, I live very close to a Walmart and I can't remember the last time I went to it. Maybe 4 years?