Andreas 👑 Antonopolous has a video about this. He covers your question beginning around 9:50.
The sense of self is just that, a sensation.
It is not permanent.
It comes and goes.
It changes.
It is, in fact, an illusory experience. An illusion.
As disorienting as it may be for some people to hear or accept, free will does not exist. There is no one there to make a choice, in the first place.
#meditation makes this clear.
Just rewatched the trailer for Moonlight (2016) and remembered how good it was.
Powerful film. 
Tell me you don’t understand #bitcoin by telling me you don’t understand bitcoin.
No, I mean tell me, explicitly, that you don’t think that deeply:
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/03/04/bitcoin-rallies-above-67000.html
As we approach ATH’s, it occurs to me that they’ll never acknowledge the:
~ thousands of hours of study (reading books, blogs and research papers, listening to podcasts) on everything from the history of money/credit/debt, international finance, privacy, human rights, energy markets, cryptography, and philosophy
~ conviction, patience, and intestinal fortitude developed while surviving multiple bear cycles and the endless FUD from haters, bankers, and shitcoin promoters
~ years of running nodes and miners, experimenting with various hardware wallets, and learning how to operate (clumsily) on the command line.
They’ll say we “got lucky.”
Anyway, many thanks to nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub13lkyycj8s3da6fhndtj0wd6s3s2ahmq86s7wrruvzd4tnc66cgfqn4lpsy nostr:npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx nostr:npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m nostr:npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdp
and many others not on Nostr who’ve guided me over the last decade, especially Andreas 👑 Antonopoulos.
🙏🙏🙏
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It’s pretty clear that the people arguing with Calle on this point are just demonstrating they don’t have a clue what “cypherpunk manners” are.
I’d take two sides on that. On the one hand, the more remote, the more effort required, the more likely to attract a certain type of discerning traveler. I’ve certainly found places in French Polynesia and Thailand that fit the bill. On the other hand, Trolltunga (Norway) is remote AF and insta-crowds ruined it, regardless.
Not enough, to be honest.
I’ve been surprised to see full-on selfie photoshoots at hotels at that level. Get up to $2k-$3k and it’s rarer, but money doesn’t buy class.
They exist. But they are small.
How much are you willing to spend?
…But can you propose an alternative to fund the necessary functions of government at the state and national level?
*ducks*
(as everyone from progressives to libertarians to anarchists looks at me sideways)
The original quote from David Lynch is actually WAY more confusing:
Nice. In the queue.
Still enjoying Lyn’s book (and Aurelius, and Vonnegut at the moment), but am definitely in a phase where I want to re-examine my habits.
However, I think what I’m describing is more than just a “habit,” which I would define as a natural action that’s performed without thinking and which may or may not be useful, but which satisfies some urge.
Checking one’s mobile device is very UNnatural and while it similarly may or may not be useful, the only thing it satisfies is the tension it, itself, created.
So, when I reach for this thing and realize I don’t actually have a reason for doing so, there’s some real sense that something has gone awry. “Why did I pick up this tool if I don’t have a current use for it?!” It would be like picking up a wrench and realizing I don’t have any bolts to tighten. That’s the feeling I’m trying to describe and which I don’t yet think has a word.