Better Human - Aug 15
Apple messes up big time, Dubai is a joke, Bitcoin in the news, medical practices we now lol at
Dear Fellow Human,
First, I want to thank you for being here. Your time is scarce and you are sharing some of it with me in our collective effort to learn, grow, adapt, build, and make the world and ourselves better.
That is no small feat. So thank you.
Second, If I say something you don’t like, good.
That’s good for us both.
It’s good for you because it gives you a chance to do one of the following:
Update your perspective - maybe change it completely
Strengthen your perspective (hopefully by investigating/doing more research rather than a slapstick reaction fueled by cognitive dissonance)
If I’m not providing info that challenges you at least sometimes, I’m failing in my attempt to build better humans.
Betterment comes through hard things—Iron sharpens iron.
I love that phrase. It’s from the Bible, though I’m not religious.
When you realize that every obstacle is an opportunity, every hardship is a wellspring of growth and gratitude, and how your most tragic losses end up being necessary fuel for living a fully actualized life, you embrace HARD THINGS.
And the hardest thing most of us do in our modern world is hearing and seeing things we don’t like or fully agree with.
But that’s sooo good and necessary because we know what collective groupthink leads to: communism (millions dead), fascism (millions dead), Us vs Them (tribalism, millions dead), and so on.
Onward!
A Principle of Better Human
First principles thinking
instead of investing time into reasons why something didn’t happen the way you want, focus on the things you know for sure and then reason up from there rather than reasoning down.
What do you know for sure?
What is your goal?
These two questions are always the path forward. Don’t waste time on the past any more than you need to learn and address these two questions.
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
-Nietzsche
Apple made a huge blunder with this absurd privacy violation… which sucks because I love most of their products
Stuff like this that puts the masses at risk under the guise of “fighting crime” is so goddamn stupid I can’t even fathom it.
Why?
Because they just publically said, “Hey criminals, this is what you should do to avoid being caught.”
Announce what you’re doing so those you would catch can easily take precautions. So you then violate the privacy of millions of users for literally nothing.
Then watch how the government figures out a way to abuse this.
*Supposed to say “lifelong”
Bitcoin in the news
Those sneaky politicians slipped in a crypto provision that is absurd on every level.
These things don’t worry me. In fact, they excite me. Because the more Bitcoin is attacked, the stronger it gets. It is truly antifragile.
And every day that Bitcoin does what it’s supposed to do without governments having any say, the closer we get to all of humanity waking up to this fact.
Wait until Russia starts selling their oil for Bitcoin rather than American dollars. Just freaking wait.
Dubai… lol
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Why Do You Believe What You Believe
Read up on medical history and see the absurdity that has been “accepted medical procedures” and “accepted Science”
Any student of history is rightly petrified of being a guena pig for Big Pharma, especially at a time when it’s been politicized and propagandized.
An Anecdote
Pencil: I'm sorry.
Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.
Pencil: I'm sorry, you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself and get smaller and smaller each time.
Eraser: That's true, but I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this, I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong, even though one day I know I'll be gone. I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying I hate seeing you sad.
Our Parents are like the eraser, whereas we children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way they get hurt and become smaller (older and eventually pass on) Take care of your Parents, treat them with kindness and most especially love them.
Source: The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
The Narrative is ALMOST ALWAYS the opposite of the truth
Nutrition: They still say meat is bad. Meat is the literal best human food there is. And they still do this while having not a single interventional study (actual experiment) to ever substantiate any of these outlandish claims demonizing meat (the same can be said for salt, fat, and cholesterol). Just one more reason to not trust the “experts.”
Politics: Early on in America it was, “Should politicians have this power.” It was a fight against more power. Today, the narrative is, “Who should have the power, the left or the right?” It is now a complete farce.
Collectivism: Do it for “us all” is the new collectivist banner, which is nothing more than the current most effective propaganda campaign to convince the masses that the powerful should dictate how they should live so “we all” can solve this “world-ending catastrophe.” (Cept it’s not going to end the world and it’s not even close to being a catastrophe.)
Bloodletting: A common practice into the early 20th century
In the beginning in Asia and the Mideast, patients were bled to release demons and bad energy. Later, in ancient Greece, they were bled to restore the body's balance of fluids, and even later, in medieval and Renaissance Europe, they were bled to reduce inflammation -- by then thought to be at the root of all disease.
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