Schools didn't sit us down with archival records. They showed us Hollywood. They gave us dramatization in place of documentation. The effect? Generations now equate Spielberg's imagery with unquestionable truth. The film became a mythic anchor, embedding memory through emotion, not evidence.

The most unsettling part is they took a real man and wrapped him in a Hollywood-style storyline that blurred fact and fantasy, which is why what's taught in schools or remembered through the film is less true history and more myth-making. It's psychological warfare. When Hollywood scripts become the lens through which children learn about the past, you're not teaching history anymore, you're programming identity. People are conditioned to defend a screenplay as though it were sacred fact. Their very sense of morality, victimhood, and identity is tied to cinematic symbols. That's the power of storytelling when controlled by the few and how memory has been manufactured. The story may be fiction, but the programming is real. This is almost identical to Edward Bernays' method of psychosis...tugging on people's emotions rather than presenting facts. It's the same playbook.

Even within the Jewish community, this is absorbed so deeply in their "history" that memorials are built on the back of Hollywood's narrative. Over time, these narratives become the backbone of identity. Not only are they believed, they are passed down, woven into education, ritual, and memory as if they were indisputable fact, a kind of collective neurosis. The world is expected not only to accept the stories but to bend the knee to them, no matter how many cracks appear under scrutiny.

Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure on AI. Well said 👍

Do you feel alone from very early childhood? How do you manage to deal with it?

Like many of us, I found a solution in focusing on building things rather than trying (too hard) to find long-life meaningful social connections. People come and go; you or they outgrow us at some point. Existential loneliness adds on top of normal loneliness: new people often can't understand us after we grow to a certain complexity threshold. Yet building things creates the feeling we're doing something meaningful.

However, the older I become and the more I notice how health failures may affect things I can possibly build, the more meaningless life feels without such deep and meaningful connections. It's kind of a paradox that it was easier to live with the loneliness feeling in the earliest childhood, when the psyche was much more vulnerable.

Psychotherapy and traditional spiritual practices look like a crutch to me in this case: useful but not sustainable enough. It also became another sophisticated way to say "shut up, be happy" to somebody we're not willing to have a deep connection with (it's just "be happy" becomes "have a drink/take a pill/go to a therapist/go to another psychedelic retreat"). While we're still designed to be social, even introverts.

What do you believe is more sustainable in the long run: focusing on building things (and possibly attracting the right people this way, with no direct intention of doing that) vs attempting to find meaningful connections directly (with a risk of wasting your energy on nothing)?

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So I quit tech entirely and made this my life’s work.“

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This was a blast.

Our initial #Bitchill retreat in #Prospera was a sunny success! ☀️

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