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I wish more people knew the following:

People are smart and perceptive.

They can see through you.

You’re basically getting away with nothing.

So drop the bullshit and just be honest.

RedTailHawk 6mo ago 💬 2

You're projecting your competence onto others. I would strongly advise against that. What they believe is what they perceive. Most people are full of shit and operate from the ego.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

-K, Men in Black

"But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big ol' party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo. I'm pretty fuckin' cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy and they saw it by doing something the suckers never thought to do:

they looked."

-Jared Vennett, The Big Short

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HODL 6mo ago 💬 1

The truth can be crowd sourced these days. There’s always someone who sees you clearly.

RedTailHawk 6mo ago

The operative word there is "can", not "will".

The person who can see you clearly may not have you in their line of sight.

As for truth being crowd source-able, I would point out that truth does not proceed upon consensus. Science itself is testimony to moments in time in which one person was right and everyone else was way fuckin wrong.

Cormac 6mo ago

Agreed 👏

And thats why there is no “Reality” we can have as a common base structure of life for us to all agree upon and reference. Because PERCEPTION IS REALITY, and there are a lot of different factors that go into each individual person’s perception.

All that is also part of the reason I, and most of us here probably, align with a more Mises and Austrian view of thinking when it comes to economics and “what is value” and “what is valuable”.