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Located Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺 First on Nostr Wednesday, August 28, 2024 I don’t respond to personal messages. My website is:

A little more info re my earlier post below ...

Want to make some extra money?

Set up a debt collection agency in Australia. Soon to be a big industry.

🤣😂🥴😆 See 3 images below. 🧡✨

Translation: "Once again, there is excitement about a salary increase for EU cirals. All 66,000 employees of the EU institutions will receive more salary from April. It is already the 7th. Increase in just 3 years."

Disgusting to watch. 🫣🥴🥺

Hope you're all making time to listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/live/UVvbnrhJYJI

I watched and am rewatching this 3 part report. You might need to view twice also. It's quite mind blowing. 🤯 The full 4 hours are worth it. For me it has changed completely how I now listen to everything else. 🧡✨

Watched all three of these videos today. Thought I'd drop all 3 in one post for simplicity.

Brings a whole new perspective to a whole bunch of things happening.

In the end, my conclusion was that all we have is Bitcoin and everything else is futile, other than compassion, empathy and love. Enjoy and appreciate the good in your life. Do not let "them" divide us. We are each other's strength.

Jeff Booth is right. Hone in on Bitcoin, measure everything from that world.

If you can make time to see these videos also, what's your take?

I need to watch all 3 once more and check if it aligns with what we see going on in the world today. 🧡✨

https://youtu.be/4EVlCS_tN4w

https://youtu.be/pMaeM5Of_W0

https://youtu.be/YqFEGr2tJ9g

Replying to Avatar GODGIFT.

“Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles. One is just water and one is water laced with heroin or cocaine. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks. That is our theory of addiction.

Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.” So he built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park. Lovely food. Lots of sex. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water and one with drugged water. But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use it.

None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is that it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.

Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives without being on something, drink, drugs, sex, shopping... We’ve created a hyper consumerist, hyper individualist, isolated world that is, for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people. You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff. In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume. Drug addiction is a subset of that."

Credit: Johann Hari

Wow! 😮