nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe says that we can't fix a system from within a system. I tend to agree with this, although I've spent most of my life acting like it wasn't true.

I think more and more, I just want to ignore all the noise. Maybe go back to first principles, whatever those are. I liked reading nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y 's book on Praxeology, as it discusses logical truth, things that must be true, because if they were not true, they could not exist. (not my best explanation, granted).

What this is mostly boiling down to is all the stuff that goes by my observation in my world every day that I simply don't give a fuck about, and how I can expand on those things to realize how much I should probably be ignoring. Let's take Threads and RFK. I know I don't care about them. Well, expand that, how about Meta and US Government. Nope, and maybe for entertainment purposes, or if they actually do something that improves or detracts from my daily life. Go out another step - Corporations. Geopolitics. Again, pretty much the same levels of not giving fucks. Maybe another step out - World Economics, and Power/Control Dynamics. Kind of the same thing, or getting closer to it. Maybe I find this stuff interesting, but do I really give a fuck about it?

Not unless it improves or detracts from my daily life.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said something earlier today - the only improvement is zaps (again, paraphrasing poorly, because it is very hard to fact check).

And he's right. This has improved or detracted from my daily life. I hadn't been an active social network user in years. my social graph is a fucking joke. Nobody knows why I have no friends (in meat space, or really online), but it's not because I'm not likeable. I get along just fine with people. It's because I think I'm, at heart, an isolationist. I don't trust, and I haven't even bothered verifying. I'm a voyeur that likes thinking I am looking at a big picture, when I don't have any grasp on the small picture, and haven't really even solved for that.

But zaps. taking what could be generational wealth, the things I am able to pass on to my children when I am gone, and freely giving them away to people who I've never met, will never do much for me beyond giving me something to look at, smile at, or think about for a few seconds or more. They could be bots. They could be governments or corporations. But I am giving my children's wealth to them just the same. I am spending time again, literally, as I believe sats are what we measure our time in. Before, social media was a time sink. Zaps are causing me to rethink that. I think there is something here - an appreciation of time.

Maybe I don't give a fuck in the long run. Maybe the big picture isn't big enough. But the small picture is telling me that perhaps zapping some sats is the most important thing I can do for my daily life, a way to reconnect, or begin to connect, and come out of my isolationist shell, and actually give a fuck. At least for now. For the mere seconds I spend reading or looking at something that brings me value in the form of entertainment, smiles, whatever - and showing appreciation a few sats at a time.

This is the only new thing. It is what may save us from becoming pod people. It may allow us to conquer space and time. But today, it brings us a smile, one meme or non-sequitur at a time.

#zapathon

(a little early, but this is when I had time to write; may boost later)