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Your suffering isn't random. It has exactly five cogs. ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️

Naval Ravikant said something brilliant about David Deutsch's work:

"Good explanations are hard to vary."

When you look back on a truly good explanation, you think: "How could this have been otherwise? This is the only way this thing could work."

The iPhone is hard to vary. The aeroplane wing is hard to vary. The electric car design is hard to vary.

They're all constrained by reality itself: physics, aerodynamics, human hands. You can't just change them without losing what makes them work.

Here's what I realised after 30 years of debugging human consciousness:

Human suffering has exactly five shapes. Not four. Not six. Five.

The Five Hamster Wheel System isn't something I invented. It's something I discovered, like finding the periodic table of human programming.

Gain/Loss

Able/Unable

Right/Wrong

Support/Let Down

Attention/Ignore

Every pattern of suffering I've ever encountered, from Premier League players to Olympic athletes to struggling parents, fits into one of these five binary wheels.

I tried to find a sixth. I looked for years. It doesn't exist.

I tried to collapse them into four. They won't collapse. Each wheel is distinct, irreducible.

The framework is hard to vary because it's mapping to something real: the actual architecture of how childhood survival programming gets written into your nervous system.

When I show someone their specific wheel, they don't say "interesting theory." They say "Holy shit, you just described my entire life."

That's not because I'm clever. It's because the explanation is constrained by reality. It's hard to vary because it's true.

Naval talks about how good knowledge is fractal. You meet it at the level you're ready to receive it. You might get 20% the first time, 25% the second time.

That's exactly how "Glitch" works.

First read: you recognise your dominant wheel.

Second read: you see how your parents ran the same wheel.

Third read: you catch yourself spinning in real-time and step into admin mode.

The framework doesn't change. Your depth of understanding does.

If you're ready to see the five patterns that are running your life (not theory, but the actual code), grab the book here: link in bio

It's hard to vary because human programming is hard to vary.

Rob

P.S. The reason therapy often fails isn't because therapists aren't trying. It's because they're working without the map. They're treating symptoms without seeing the underlying wheel structure. Once you see the five wheels clearly, everything else makes sense. That's what "hard to vary" explanations do: they make the complex suddenly simple.

#consciousness #psychology #naval #selfawareness #trauma

I guess you're talking about illusions?

For where is the gain without loss?

Where is the inability that is simply not yet had its day?

Where is right and wrong not relative?

Support and let down indulgent?

Attention and ignored not informative?

To be or not to be?

positivity is an arbitrary distinction

designed for the very purpose of avoiding

what existence is trying to tell you

if you would only stop trying to elevate yourself

.

hope is hopeless

it is a conditioned reaction to a conditioned worldview

scarcity’s contrivance is its driver

hope while in possession corrupts the mind's attention

away from the seeing of scarcity’s perception as self-infliction

and its well-intention of self-preservation

and away from that which it yet more deeply shrouds

the disturbing limitlessness of our creative response ability

that which would reveal

that that which is hoped

is always here

.

Isn't it a small part of a much larger fraud of mass addiction? Where to begin? Generally people pick a preferred side of a coin of which they curse the other, and so it goes. It's literally con-fusion, no less because identities are as tangled up in to the hallucination. The bathwater and the baby is the same thing.

"re-spect" - to look again

etymology -> "to pay attention to one's surrounds"

"dis-re-spect"

implied: to not pay attention to one's surrounds

thus, it attacks nothing implicitly

thus, it is none of your business

although you may wish to take note

prior to silently walking away

to determine self-worth

based upon your interpretation of another's conduct

is to open yourself to all manner of confusion

inclusive of self-doubt

in which way you matter is up to your magical whim

as it depends solely upon which aesthetic you wish to re-present

your boundaries - there are those you will want to defend till the death

in summary:

immunity from dis-respect is generally maintained by remaining deadly,

joyfully and lovingly deadly if you can manage it

be clear about the behaviour you deem acceptable

most importantly your own

because it is through your behaviour you communicate your values

and the world has only this as a guide

in determining which theatre most appropriate to your viewing pleasure

Every morning I wake to a perfectly wonderful cosmos beyond judgment. Yes, this world may appear equal parts brutal, though this is its nature, this does not change. Thus to ponder good or bad is to rather distort matters by viewing life through the lens of preferences.

Though I will mention this: less prioritising of stay-at-home-motherhood is symptomatic of the breakdown of heterosexual relationships, as reproduction has always been the purpose of such mate-bonding. If the phenomenon is common throughout society, this situation leads to loneliness and a meaning crisis for many, and ultimately to population decline, does it not?

Is it changing for the good?

Nature has selected for human populations inclusive of females which consistently favour the best seed and resources, thus hypergamous females, yes. Though this is not all. For example, even after mate selection, while in relationship, the female's discontent ensures the males continuing efforts. So you could say selection pressures don't cease at any stage.

Though to apportion blame for this aspect of female nature is to miss the point. In the absence of self-awareness, behaviour remains directed by a set of instinctual drives which have served our survival and thus remain dominant traits.

To become aware of human nature is rather to recognise the inherent challenge for all involved, and thus encourages love and empathy as a foundation of understanding.

What sort of male and female does this changing world select for? In other words, from all of the many lineages of the past which characteristics led to ours succeeding? Is it not a male always on their toes and a female keeping him so? And what type of female constitution is best suited to this role? Is it not one without self-awareness getting in the way of her necessary functioning? As is the case for other aspects of her hypergamous, ovulation-obscuring and mate-suppressing nature, women consistently take one for the team, playing their part in preparing the species for future unknowns, and in the process fulfilling an essential role in turning out the most robust of generations to follow.

Evil is not a thing brother.

It is an interpretation,

and thus a form of psychotic possession.

Cease to think in this way you have been taught

and such possession will be without a vehicle.

There is only love

because there is only one cosmos indivisible.

All else is shadow, reflection, refraction, ...

When this is realised you will cease to fear

because you will understand you never existed,

not as the character you think,

this too, possession by ideation.

What about the idea we live in a jungle, as in never left it? Works for me. No expectations, life as a practice of impeccability. Now that's an adventure, never boring, constant learning.

8. global networkers of like minds

9. spiritualists communicating by treating all as one

How is this a scam? They all owe $20 and are owed $20, so it all cancels out. Larry began with $10 and ends with ten, so all good. Am I mistaken?

Us great apes just can't help ourselves, or can we?

Do it Sedd. Life's too short to be shying away from the development of your tool kit, in this case, the powerful tool of unfiltered self-expression, for the very sake of its contribution to the manifesting of those beautiful dreams of yours.

if you have a busy life, the best cure for tiredness is sleep.

if it is not this, spend time alone in thorough reflection, this may require a prior clean up through meditation. if practiced 100%, this will clear way to your unfiltered heart, revealing true inspiration, and if there is nought to inspire, which I doubt, than this practice will open to deep relaxation

how a place feels changes

do you find?

I'll stick with the cliche

it's the heart