🦾 Will you choose correctly?
Facebook changes its name and how to be optimistic in a crazy world
Fellow human,
Here’s the thing…
The world is a crazy place.
But it’s also sane and awesome and abundant.
It’s actually more of the latter than the former, yet as humans, we focus on the former because that is what kept our ancestors safe.
We focus on the bad because the bad is always more of a threat than the good.
But we don’t have to.
We have choice.
In fact, everything is choice.
Everything is your choice.
You can choose to be happy, sad, rich, poor, afraid, optimistic, or whatever else you want.
Now that’s probably not news to you.
What you may not consider often enough is how everything you feel is your choice.
You choose everything.
Your irrational mind doesn’t like that fact.
It’s not inconvenient or expedient. It prefers a scapegoat, it prefers blaming someone or something else.
So you pretend it’s someone else’s fault you don’t feel the way you want, and/or you convince yourself there’s something you need to be happy.
Peace of mind comes when you remove the feeling of lack.
When you stop desiring, you come to the now.
Now is peace.
Now is also the only place you can ever choose and appreciate happiness.
The next time you're suffering, remind yourself that you are choosing to suffer. Hopefully, that awareness will help you snap out of it.
🧘
What to expect below:
Facebook building the Metaverse?
Black Tuesday (I wonder what we will call the next crash?)
Inflation is real. Those that prepare will benefit as it grows.
📰 News 🚨
Facebook goes Meta: Zuckerberg announces new corporate name
The name is a nod to the idea of the "metaverse," a term for a potential future internet that emphasizes virtual spaces. Zuckerberg said the metaverse will be the internet's "next frontier."
While I think FB is a cease pool and IG is probably a net negative for humanity, I’m always open to change.
And maybe FB and Zuckerberg will become more privacy-focused and otherwise do things better. Maybe they will do it on purpose or they will be forced to as more decentralized options come to the market that gives users other choices.
Who knows.
There’s plenty to cringe over with this, sure, but sometimes we need to give others the leeway to learn, grow, adapt, and change.
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I also want to incorporate simple designs like this in our upcoming Sovereign I project.
How to be right all the time
First, only make absolute statements you know are from first principles.
The rest of the time, use questions, shrug your shoulders, and say “I don’t know.”
Examples:
Doctors save lives, but also kill. Medical error is the third leading cause of death in The United States.
Government is based on coercion and violence. It also does some things, kinda-but-not-really well.
Math.
Physics.
Science is based on falsification. If you can’t prove something wrong, you can’t prove it right. Thus most of the “established” “science” that “most scientists agree with” is not scientific fact. If it’s not a scientific fact, it’s a theory. Then ask yourself if it’s to make big life decisions based on theory?
Hyperinflation is real… We just haven’t tasted it in America yet. We will.
Make sure you get your Bitcoin.
䷼ Truth Seeker 🧘
Plz don’t.
That is all.
The Problem With Regulation
There is nothing positive to say about regulation. Regulation is coercion. It prevents subjective values from being satisfied, "protecting" only those who do not wish to be protected and penalizing only the law-abiding. Regulation destroys initiative and stifles innovation. Regulation stagnates markets. Regulation can and does kill people when the regulators deny victims the right to take a chance with so-called risky medication.
Regulation is motivated by fear, envy, and colossal ignorance. There is nothing that can protect innocent people more than a thorough education and a vigorous pursuit of fraud; yet regulation of advertising and experimentation destroys information transfer and regulation of quality merely certifies incompetent "professionals" and protects them from fraud charges.
“If all the regulation passed in any country you wish to name were completely obeyed, let alone enforced, we would all be dead. “
-The Agorist Primer (Excellent book)
🤑 Corruption and money:
Sick
💬 A Quote To Ponder:
“Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.”
― Karl R. Popper
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.”
― Karl Popper
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I’m Colin. I’m Pro-Humanity. I believe in Free Humans, Free Markets, and limited (if any) government. I’m also a CEO, Entrepreneur, Father, Podcaster, and Thinker. My story and philosophy. Send feedback or get in touch via this link.
My goal is to help you opt out of the system. To escape the Matrix that profits from your confusion and oppression. When you opt-out and start living and thinking for yourself, everything changes for the better. Everything.
Past Newsletters you may have missed
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🦾 Taxing the rich = what you might not expect
🦾 States that give you free money to move
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