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I find it interesting that people are always talking to the "normies" and saying we need to simplify things for the "normies" and we need to make things so they appeal to the "normies". What a egotistical and self righteous view!!!

By "normie" they mean that you're less intelligent than they are, and they need to dumb things down for you. It mean's they're more enlightened than you, and need to treat you like a child and 'simplify' things, as if you're a simpleton that needs to be spoon fed your bite sizes pieces of slop. Fuck that!

You know why I don't appeal to the "normie"? I don't believe in them. I believe there are people that are willing to learn and those that aren't. I want to empower people, not enable them. I don't want them reliant on me, I don't want to cut up their food and feed it to them, I want to teach them to hunt and skin and sow and reap and prepare their own food. I want to teach them that they are powerful people that don't need to rely on others to spoon feed them simplistic bullshit that keeps them enslaved to the cult of convenience. I don't build for the "normie" because you're better than that, and you deserve better than to be treated like an imbecile that needs their hand held every step of the way.

You don't need a podcast host, you don't need a video host, you don't need a music host. They've got you tricked into believing you're a dumbass that needs to pay them to do something as simple as dragging some files into a folder. And make no mistake, when you host your stuff on another platform, it doesn't matter what the hype is today, they don't give a fuck about you and will remove your content if it affects their bottom line. Any of this talk about freedom but you need to use their service is marketing and appealing to your desire to finally find a safe place for your content without the risk of it being removed.

What we do isn't hard, it's just new to you, and what one man can do, another man can do. Don't jump into the easy solutions for hosting your digital content, you're better than that, and you have a real opportunity to actually take control of your art and control the means of distribution, and you don't need to rely on another platform anymore. You are the platform, if you want to be. If this appeals to you, reach out. There's a whole crew of dedicated freedom fighters ready to cheer you on, help you build, and support your work, because we know that once you taste true freedom, you'll never go back.

In my view a normie is not less intelligent. But they prefer convenience and status symbols over independence and they like to follow the flow / group think, they're survival instinct is based around being part of the media matrix normality. They don't lack intelligence - all to the contrary, I believe they lack integrity and resolve.

Regarding "simplifying things for normies", there are many motivations for this, and definitely dishonest ones, but for some simplifying things for normies is a just a daring door opener, you give the normies the chance to leave the matrix, but they have to leave willingly and most won't.

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I agree. The INTP in me had to resist the urge to use tons of parenthesis to really clarify my thoughts and cover all of the nuances, but I agree for the average person, security and convenience are two very strong motivators. I suspect it's an instinct from ages past in which the approval of the tribe was more necessary to survival. What I want for them is to show them that sovereignty is actually more secure for their survival in today's world.

And I also understand simplifying. I make a bunch of websites, and I'm always asking myself how can I make this tool easier to use, more intuitive so they have a better tool for freedom. I find a lot of people talking about the 'normie' are shilling a product, and the reason they want to reach the 'normie' isn't because they want to help them out of the cage of convenience, it's because they want to be the one to charge them for the privilege of being in that cage. They don't hate the cage, they just hate that don't own the cage. The see the 'normie' as cattle to be milked and bled for their own gain. The freedom they seem to care about is their own financial freedom, and reaching the 'normie' is the propaganda they're using so they can bleed the 'normie'

In my deep thoughts I've considered the whole link to URL magic. I imagine a statement that draws you in and then deeper you go to discovery. Eventually the end is in sight and there is no reward for the reward bound.

It's like education designed with candy for short time preference verses the exploration for long time preference.

Learning to operate for the sake of operation is the real key. I don't highlight books because the whole book is the work. I learned to learn by not highlighting and just looking at the words until they made sense. Sometimes staying on / in the same paragraph for days.

If you can help do so. If you can not help then you learn more until you are the master. Ironically the real master never says he's a master because he credits the Master. Are we smart because we are clever or are smart because we are free to access the whole by the grace of God?

I'm guessing the latter. Left to my own devices I'm quite stupid especially when I get in the way.

If someone uses Nostr, he/she is not a normie anymore.

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