IMO,

After studying some of the USAID stuff, I personally think Wokeness was rolled out as a subversion weapon against the unified populist uprising occurring around 2010 in response to the 2008 financial crash and bailouts. Occupy Wall St started as a significant threat, unifying both left and right leaning populists against a common enemy. So the Intel agencies rolled out their#1mass movement subversion weapon, creating and stoking ideological splits in a movement which lead to infighting and ineffectiveness.

## Our Moral Obsession

Humans are moral obsessives. Anywhere you go, you’ll find people speaking in moral terms: “He didn’t treat me right,” “She’s arrogant,” “That’s a man you can respect,” and so on. All of these are moral judgments. Even confirmed criminals will routinely say things like, “That ain’t right,” which is, again, a purely moral judgment.

On top of that, moral judgments vary fairly little between individuals. There are exceptions, of course, but nearly all of us will agree on the majority of moral judgments, staying close to the model of the golden rule.

Academic ethics are incomprehensible and “lifeboat” scenarios are distractions: They fail to illuminate much, while clouding what is useful. And so most of us listen to them for a moment, are confused for a moment more, then go back to “He wouldn’t like it if I did that to him.”

This obsession of ours holds firm across almost the whole of human of life. Examine any workplace and you’ll find a long stream of moral judgments. Examine any home and you’ll find a long string of moral judgments.

So, What’s The Problem?

Given that nearly everyone is a moral obsessive, and given that we all refer, more or less, to the golden rule as a point of reference, how come there’s still so much immorality in the world?

The answer is that there really isn’t.

First of all, people focus hard on the things that are wrong, but massively ignore the things that go right. When driving, for example, they flatly ignore hundreds of reasonable drivers and expend their venom on the one bad driver. The fact is that 90-some percent of everyday life is morally acceptable.

Secondly, people often tie morality to dogma: They describe deviations from their political or religious doctrines as immoral, even when they’re not substantial violations of the golden rule. Political and religious dogmas shouldn’t be confused with morality.

So, while there are always moral failings, they aren’t nearly as many as advertised.

The real problem with human morality is simply that it’s focused every which way. Moral concerns, to put it simply, are scattered and wasted.

The internal energies of a mainstream couple, for example, are almost fully directed away from any effective use. They devote their moral strength to whatever terror (real or imagined) is in the news that day, to a sports team, to hating a political party, and so on.

We Can Easily Turn This Around

We’ve been expending oceans of moral energy, to very little positive effect, but it doesn’t have to stay that way: We could, if we wanted, focus our energies to create improvements in the world.

Yeah, really, we could. And at some point people will. I think that should be us, and it requires just one thing of us:

We must focus on what we want, instead of what we fear.

It really is that simple, although “simple” and “easy” don’t always travel together. In particular, progress requires us to give up on gathering all the bad news in the world. The dark obsession leaves us with a large cloud of darkness filling our field of view, which negates most of our forward progress.

Some generation is going to walk away from this mania of negativity, and it may as well be ours.

Last Words

There can be endless quibbles and distractions from this point. Changing our focus would threaten everything from emotional crutches to nation-state power, and so the people benefiting from our fear and hate will fight against any change of focus. But I won’t waste our time on those things today. Rather, I’ll say this:

If we focus on the things we want, instead of those we fear, it will be only a short time before we start getting them.

By changing our moral focus from dark to light – focusing our imaginations on what we love, instead of what we hate – we will renovate ourselves (beginning immediately) and the world shortly thereafter.

And again: Some generation is going to see how reasonable this is, and how retrograde the old way was. It may as well be ours.

**

Paul Rosenberg

freemansperspective.com

What are your favorite guns for someone who is not a big gun enthusiast but is passionate about self defense?

Like, you aren't optimizing for a zombie apocalypse but you want your wife to be able to pick up the gun and defend the house from intruders if need be, and the gun's maintenance levels have been maybe questionable but it's reliable enough to still probably work reliably and she can wield it.

Favorable conditions might never come, and

you should proceed nonetheless!

GM!

NASA’s DEI page, as of now.

Great sign.

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

My first large format drawing is finally finished!

350 hours of work

31 pencil leads

12 pencils

1 drawing paper

"The Rise of #Bitcoin" was just a thought, an idea in my head over 4 months ago.

Even more fulfilling to now be able to witness this idea with my own eyes and to creatively combine my drawing style and love to detail with some of the most formative events in the 16 years since Bitcoin came into existence.

This will not be the last project on this scale!

If you are interested in a print of this drawing, available in different sizes and qualities, you can find them at bitcoinapexart.com/shop.

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the updates on this drawing. Your feedback was truly something else.

MEN WILL BUILD OUT AN ENTIRE NEW SOCIAL NETWORK INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY.

“The whole pretense of most of society is that these two fishes are involved in a battle, there's the up fish and the down fish, the good fish and the bad fish, and there's out for a killing, and the white fish is one of these days going to slay the black fish. But when you see into it clearly, you realize that the white fish and the black fish go together. They're twins. They're really not fighting each other, they're dancing with each other.”

— Alan Watts, Seeing Through the Game

GM Frens.

Beautiful day to go touch the grass and remember that we are winning.

Nothing will stop bitcoin or nostr, and these are gifts to humanity that we support and create together, and will use to turn the tide towards a kind of freedom that cannot be taken away.

Enjoy the beauty of it all Frens.

if I see deviled eggs on a menu I’m ordering. time of day does not matter.

“A fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”

– Alan Watts, Why Not Now?

THE PREDATORY NATURE OF A SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE.

COMPLY OR BE PUNISHED.

NOSTR REPRESENTS A BETTER PATH.

THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE A SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE IRRELEVANT IS TO OPT OUT.

YES. THIS WILL HURT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. BY DESIGN.

People often assume that whoever their god is, that it is standing with them specifically. In the US, they often separate this view along party lines.

Conservatives to some extent imagine Jesus standing with them on the border with a rifle protecting Christendom against anarchy. Even if many of those immigrants are ::checks notes:: also Christians. If a "woke" bishop calls for compassion on immigrants and is not a fan of the twice-divorced President who can't name his favorite bible chapter and forgot to put his hand on the bible when being sworn in, she's somehow the baddie rather than him, even among Christians.

Progressives to some extent imagine Jesus walking around in Gaza or Haiti or Sudan attending to the least advantaged among us. He shuns the empire and tends to them. And yet, while Jesus called for pacifism and was a rhetorical saint among chill speakers, many of them find a way to mentally turn extremists into heroes. Anything the underdog society does against the dominant society is justified. Even if it's violent toward civilians. In our media rebels are cool, but in reality they often like to kill the gays or the civilians, so it gets awkward pretty fast rather than being like the cool Star Wars rebels vs the Empire.

I find myself in a weird camp that almost nobody is onboard with.

I'm like, "Yes, we actually need to secure our borders. We need to be more scrutinizing for our society's sake. We need slower, higher-end immigration. And we actually need to enforce the rule of law for theft on the streets."

But also,

"No, I don't think Jesus of Nazareth as depicted in text would be onboard with this border view. He'd view us like Rome. Let's not re-imagine him as onboard with this. We're rooting for ourselves; he'd root for the underdogs."

I'm too woke for the conservatives and too based for the progressives.

The US was involved with multiple coups in Latin America. We ran the reserve currency and tried to bend them to our will with their dollar-denominated debt 40 years ago by spiking the value of that debt. Some of them went into retarded socialism and rekt themselves throughout that time period too; it's not all our fault. But it's some of our fault.

And then we militarily entered the Middle East. We made deals with them, funded them against the Soviets, and then turned against them. We've invaded them at like a 100:1 ratio vs them invading us with one major incidence (9/11). And as much as I am a fan of Jews as a people (as someone who grew up in Northeastern USA where Jews are relatively dense, I'd happily have them settle all around here), Israel is a state is colonial; our western powers displaced Gazans to make it and have been fighting that reality ever since.

We're Rome. And like Rome, we think we are justified. And along those lines, we're probably partially right, and probably partially wrong.

When you take a view, imagine every possible view opposing it.

And as the US dominates as neo-Rome, I think we will realize how distant we are from Jesus the hippie.

You should care about your privacy.