Damusā new āwho to followā feature is as offensive as YouTube or Netflix or Amazonās watch recommendations. Algorithms that guide thought inhibit personal exploration, and consolidate opinions into a unified groupthink. This is the proof of stake modelā¦those who have the most (dollars or followers) encourage governing algorithms to boost their product selectively over the products of others.
In Frederick Douglassā Narrative, he describes being struck by the poverty of the northern people that he met upon his arrival in Newport. His conclusion was that without slavery as he had known in the south, there can be no wealth.
In the modern world where half of the wealth is owned by 0.1% of the population, where 3 billion live in poverty, where a single country siphons away the resources from most of the third world countries, and where the predominant economic model keeps the masses in a perpetual state of wage dependence and debt peonage, the injustices of slavery persist.
I think about this every time TSA is feeling me up at the airport.
āThe credit system, which has its focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is one enormous centralization and gives this class of parasites a fabulous power not only to decimate the industrial capitalists periodically but also to interfere in actual production in the most dangerous manner - and this crew know nothing of production and have nothing at all to do wish it.ā
Citation: Avoid the ad-hominem fallacy to which you would likely fall victim. You donāt know the man because you havenāt evaluated his words. You only know what you have been told about him.
Sometimes I like to throw out a quotation without a citationā¦ an excellent thought with which most people interested in delivering humanity from enslavement by the financial industry will agree.
But when attached to the source, some of the best ideas are overlooked because so many of us submit to ad hominem fallaciesā¦ and assume we know what an author should sayā¦while ignoring what he did say.
When I studied Animal Farm in school, the teacherās presentation was simply ācommunism badāā¦and by extension, āAmericaās alternative good.ā
Now I reread Animal Farm, read Orwellās other works, learn about Orwellās beliefs, and read the unpublished introduction to AF, and itās clear that we all accepted an interpretation that was far from Orwellās intention.
Debt for young people condemns them to a lifetime of wage slavery. Slavery exists, but the financial industry has renamed it, and has shifted its burden onto a larger cross section of the population
Have you ever read Orwellās intro to Animal Farm that wasnāt published with the book?
In a hospital
20 year old male
Bitcoin āBā in black
Left wrist. 3ā tall.
Like an ADD child, I forgot what I was explaining to him and immediately asked about his Bitcoining.
I had a client with a Bitcoin tattoo this morning. The conversation quickly went from the business at handā¦to the business of saving mankind.
No idea is leftist or rightist. Ideas are true or untrue, logical or illogical. People are the only things that align themselves with cognitive camps wherein they allow or disallow those ideas based on their association rather than their validity.
I disagree with the vaccine comment tooā¦ but I donāt lose site of an incredible message because of an unrelated opinion that I disagree with. If I shared my views on meat, people would probably unfollow me and assume that everything else I say is tainted. Ideas donāt work like that. Compartmentalization and association of ideas is a logical fallacy. Ideas need to be evaluated on their individual merits.
Iāll share excellent lectures and conversations at some point today.
Itās not just that ācrime increases.ā Crime is a symptom of mystery and need. Create a miserable and fearful population, and people have to look to antisocial behavior to fulfill their needs or find validation.
Againā¦this helps the banking class. There is a great market to be found by having the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
Itās a win-win for the banking class.
1. Drive interest rates unnaturally low at the expense of savers.
2. Cheap money leads to asset price inflation. The wealthy own most of the assets.
3. Wages follow much slower than asset and commodity growth
4. Life becomes more expensive for people who mainly purchase food, energy, and shelter
5. Higher cost of living and comparatively lower wages lead to a stressed, more controllable workforce. The fearful worker is a dream for the industrialist who employs him
Good hash day
Bad hash day
Like playing the lottery. Without the irrationality
My fiat job a delight. I do twenty minutes of work, then sit back with my coffee and a Noam Chomsky lecture, to delight in a wealth of understanding about power and oppression.
Few people have done more to elucidate the inequities of modern society than the Professor. If heās new to you, consume three lectures or read one book, and see if your world view isnāt vastly altered for the better.
I canāt wait, Professor
If your government and their media ask you to:
Hate China.
Ask why.
Hate Russia.
Ask why.
Hate Immigrants.
Ask why.
Hate Communism.
Ask why.
Hate Gaddafi.
Ask why.
Hate Iran.
Ask why.
Hate Bitcoin.
Ask why.
The reason is always that these things fail to serve the financial interests of those that pull the strings.