It takes practice to appreciate metaphor

#mycosphere

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Put it that way, I think I largely agree with you. Although a ban might have different results in, say, Switzerland than in Latin America (🇨🇭 may have relatively high suicide rates, dunno. Also not saying the Swiss should get rid of guns)

Despite ban, guns per person may still be higher in Honduras, don't know. Also the people of Switzerland have vastly different history and temperament.

Arriving on #Amsterdam Airport the number of escalators out of order is remarkable. #Calvinist ethos or #climate change?

A lot of energy wasted on skirmishes between #conservative and #progressive among the future ruling elite assembled here on #Nostr

Can we at least agree on #nonduality as guiding principle?

Nice that you point out the overlap of Smith and Marx. Stark opposition of ideologies usually fades when you actually read the founding texts. Which I haven't in this case, admittedly. So maybe you can help me here. Were Marx and Engels (themselves members of the elite if I am not mistaken) serious about the dictatorship of the proletariat? It seems so obvious that a ruling elite will emerge no matter what (as of course indeed happened disastrously in Communism). Perhaps the real protagonist here is the spectre of Progress, which of course used regimes of both socialist and capitalist persuasion to come into its own, wiping out traditional ways of life as it came.

Stay safe out there dude. No point getting in harm's way.

Sad. As a European in the US even I am appalled by the consumerism and wastefulness. A middle way would be preferable imho. Anyway, the decline of the dollar will take care of that in due time.

Cowboy Henk vibes

Will come back and take a closer look at this witty piece

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I guess Denmark will have to declare war. Alternatively, US could join some kind of European union.

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

Wicker Man (1973)

If #hivemind is a creature of centralized social media (insect colonies are centralized), what should the collective intelligence of decentralization be called? #asknostr

Not sure who needs to hear this but R. Gordon Wasson's 1950s discovery of an active sacred mushroom cult in Mexico and the ensuing collaboration with Albert Hofmann (who had just serendipitously synthesized LSD from ergot fungus) was Providence in action. It may take another century or so for this to be fully digested and benefit Western culture #shroomstr #religion (excerpt from

The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries)

The Castle in the Sky made of #Ethereum

Great movie

🤣 Intuition trumps logic when learning language. Why Children are so good at it.

Gm