“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.”
— St. Augustine of Hippo, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum 
Who are you, really? 
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It 
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It 
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“In the West we have thought of God not only as a monarch but as the maker of the world. And as a result of that, we look upon the world as an artifact, a sort of machine, created by a great engineer. There’s a different conception in India where the world is not seen as an artifact but as a drama, and therefore God is not the maker and architect of the universe but the actor of it, and therefore is playing all the parts at once.”
— Alan Watts, Cosmic Drama 
History is not a Marvel movie.
It’s more like a Kurosawa or Tarantino film that can be viewed from multiple opposing perspectives simultaneously.
“Since 2015 or however long it’s been, there’s just this tension.”
— Martyr Made on Tucker
“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
— Alan Watts, The Book 
“Only moral criteria can help the West against communism’s well-planned world strategy. There are no other criteria.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard University Commencement Address 
People think preferring communism to capitalism is like preferring chocolate to vanilla. In reality, it’s more like preferring arsenic to vanilla.
The citadel lies within. #Bitcoin 
“If you argue that you have no freedom, you imply that you are compelled to argue in this way, and that thus your opinion is not a free and rational decision but a compulsive mechanism of no more significance than a nervous tic. All rational thought and action assume a relative freedom of will.”
— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit 
One phenomenon I’ve noticed is that many people, perhaps most, outsource their opinions to a single media personality they admire, whether it's Rachel Maddow, Bari Weiss, Sam Harris, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Joe Rogan, or countless others.
This energy-saving mechanism—mimicking the opinions of someone you generally agree with—is efficient but also a form of idolatry.
Better to form one’s own opinions from multiple sources and reserve judgment on issues you haven't explored than to blindly adopt another's views. In short, don't turn your favorite media figure into your personal lord and savior. 
#Bitcoin is savings. 
You can live on the internet,
But you can’t live in the internet. 
What’s remarkable about the double slit experiment is how it reveals that modern man assumes he is a separate observer of the universe.
He is therefore shocked when he sees evidence that he is the universe. 
“When we say that man is made in the image of God, we mean that he is free.”
— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit 
