I no longer calculate odds. I look for the stories that make sense. The story of an impeachment inquiry makes sense to me. Perhaps, one day, a story of impeachment will too.

Nothing will change so long as the political class insures that the taxed class continues to defend the very institutional systems that enrich the ruling class, that is, until the taxed class understands that the ruling class itself no longer protects their own interest. Evidence of that appears in my experience. Where do you see the ruling class working against its own interest?

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin #politics

Submitting to the wisdom of the crowd is not the same as submitting to the voices from the social institutions of the government, media, academia and big tech. Finding the wisdom of the crowds, that is a different issue. Where do you find the wisdom to which you submit?

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

Many seem to think intelligence and intent are a part of this process of emergence. I am an old man who no longer believes himself capable of understanding the events in my life from the causes that produced them. Instead, I rely on the stories I tell myself about what is happening before me — stories that allow me to move and perhaps even to thrive in the complexity of my environment. Thank God I get a lot of help with those stories. My bet is you do too and you may have stories that I would appreciate. So tell me your stories, and I will tell you mine.

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

Understanding that ‘the word’ is ‘the breath’ of life should instill more fear in words. What will be born of speech? Usually it is not something intended. Will this understanding make us more cautious in our speech?

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

What emerges does so without cause. It is a process of potentialities limited by probabilities. Living itself is a process of limiting probabilities by each individual intent. Collective action comes only after the organizational structures give potential for it, which may be far earlier in the process than we understand. What say you about the processes driving collective action?

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

When the comfort and safety provided by a complex stability is overcome by the fear of and the disrespect of that stability insofar as it no longer can compel compliance to its organizational structures, then what is left are the terror of and the wonder of the new organizational structures emerging. Which structures do you see emerge? Bitcoin is only one.

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

I have always had am irrational fear of starving alone and unsheltered. The reality of this possibility has focused my attention toward those thing I might do to avoid it. BitCoin is only one of those things. Which others do you recommend?

#asknostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Bitcoin

How does one process this: 48% of Republican primary voters said the indictments made them more likely to vote for Trump in 2024. Yet among voters overall, Trump and Biden were tied. Are the indictments moving Democratic voters too? Things will become more interesting with the expected impeachment of Biden. What happens next?

[https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-is-top-choice-for-nearly-60-of-gop-voters-wsj-poll-shows-877252b6]

#new

#politics

A boomer’s recognition of Walter Kirn’s reference to The Fourth Turning’s return to McCarthyism with:

Are you now or have you ever been . . .

. . . believing anything that you have not been authorized to believe?

https://www.racket.news/p/america-this-week-september-1-2023#details

#politics

#news

#plebchain

Since the Primal Web update, I cannot click on button in my Opera Browser that triggers a response. Any suggestion for remedy will be valued. I have also tried the Brave Browser and get the same results. WTF?

#Primal

#asknostr

Since the Primal update, clicking buttons in the browser no longer triggers a response. I can alt-click the hot spots assoicated with the buttons to open their link in a new tab, but I know this is not what is intended. Any suggestion for remedy will be valued.

#asknostr

#Primal

I am using Primal (iOS and Browser) as my Nostr client for the most part. I stopped learning after I found Primal's search on hashtags and I got an expected return.

I would like to know what other clients or methods are recommended to define a sought value with a reasonable expectation of a valuable return. Any recommendations for where I might direct my old, limited learning capabilities?

#primal #clients #asknostr #grownostr #plebchain

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gossip. That is why it is so important to share. It creates a community of understanding that helps us act successfully in the world.

Replacing ‘Gossip’ with ‘Connection’ helps me believe the things that emerge in our world are based on the connections individuals make regardless of whether those indiviuals are sub-atomic or Human Beings.

The value I find in Nostr is sharing beliefs (acting) and being benefited (being acted upon) by the sharing of others.

#asknostr #grownost #plebchain #nostur

I believe what you call a ‘mechanism,’ I call ‘belief’. We all have beliefs, some of them seem to benefit us more than others. The value I find in Nostr is sharing beliefs and being benefited by the sharing of others.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gossip. That is why it is so important to share. It creates a community of understanding that helps us sucessfully act in the world.

Is acting free the same as being free?

Given the revolution will not be televised, perhaps it will be nostravised? Looking for what revolves into the common understanding of the future is why I am here.

The Democratic establishment seems to have determined that the risk to their agenda posed by a ticket other than Biden/Harris is greater than the risk posed by another Trump administration. I agree with that assessment.

#News #GOP #Politics #USA #realnews

I believe the skill in ‘skilled labor’ has more to do with the value of a contribution than the labor itself. When we allow others to establish the hierarchy of skill without measure of contribution, we get something different than from the capitalists - as in when we are taxed to pay for the skill not measured in contribution.