Always interesting to see how the truth of globocapital fashy power (even setting aside the questions around motivation, coordinated stratgery vs happenstance of greed, and the emergent behavior of a small population of people detached from the corrective guardrails of nature like never before) results in questions of portfolio allocatio…
Always interesting to see how the truth of globocapital fashy power (even setting aside the questions around motivation, coordinated stratgery vs happenstance of greed, and the emergent behavior of a small population of people detached from the corrective guardrails of nature like never before) results in questions of portfolio allocation.
The Western mind seems ill equipped to extricate from the spiritual trappings of modernity. It's likely always been this way. But since I have only been around a little while I won't claim to know.
What I have gathered, with increasing clarity through "Covid", is that most of my fellow citizens seem more interested in preserving the very System that enslaves us on its way to taking everything from us, than even contemplating a way of life beyond its most lazy and automated tentacles.
If we might only re-populate the System with a better sort of man, we could turn things around...
When I press my friends every month or so about what they are going to do with all their shiny new post-covid tyranny epiphany nuggets, it always amounts to them negotiating with Evil for a seat at the table. Yes, they agree, it is just awful how fewer seats there are than last time around.
Recent travels have convinced me that this transcends both dirt county and cloud city, albeit in different ways. The cultural homogenization is complete.
Time and again, my smart and successful friends haul their lode back to the merchants they claim to despise. They flog their discontent in public over the freefall rate of that exchange, which conveniently becomes the moral self-license of their soldiering in this Good war. And so, they remain in the cul-de-sac tending the grill. Though with a scowl quick to sprout. You know, because tyranny!
The war on reality that drives much of the leftist death cult, to which many of these right-thinkers pride themselves on recognizing, fails to illuminate any parallels to their own fantastical field trips from reality. The logical conclusions of observable reality can only be taken so far. The only thing worse than living with the boot of the System on one's neck is the prospect of life without transacting with evil at all.
And so it goes that the ones I know with the greatest capital, are the least interested in converting that capital into things accretive to building a future divorced from the System that granted them that capital in exchange for their fealty.
Close. The problem with [the pursuit of] "wealth" isn't that it fails when times get bad, but rather that it leads to failing the spiritual tests that are abundant in the good times. The failure of wealth when times are broken is already baked in because the spiritual war is already over for those people. But indeed, your points on people, community, resources, skills, and the continuance of the culture of those people are what make for durable assets across time - as well as the mindset that an "economy" is downstream of those people, to serve their needs and values. It's hard to put it in agnostic terms that resonate, but yeah, of this world is not "who we are", yet in this world is where we are now. To speak of Evil, but to ignore the war for your soul is only halfway to the reckoning.
Always interesting to see how the truth of globocapital fashy power (even setting aside the questions around motivation, coordinated stratgery vs happenstance of greed, and the emergent behavior of a small population of people detached from the corrective guardrails of nature like never before) results in questions of portfolio allocation.
The Western mind seems ill equipped to extricate from the spiritual trappings of modernity. It's likely always been this way. But since I have only been around a little while I won't claim to know.
What I have gathered, with increasing clarity through "Covid", is that most of my fellow citizens seem more interested in preserving the very System that enslaves us on its way to taking everything from us, than even contemplating a way of life beyond its most lazy and automated tentacles.
If we might only re-populate the System with a better sort of man, we could turn things around...
When I press my friends every month or so about what they are going to do with all their shiny new post-covid tyranny epiphany nuggets, it always amounts to them negotiating with Evil for a seat at the table. Yes, they agree, it is just awful how fewer seats there are than last time around.
Recent travels have convinced me that this transcends both dirt county and cloud city, albeit in different ways. The cultural homogenization is complete.
Time and again, my smart and successful friends haul their lode back to the merchants they claim to despise. They flog their discontent in public over the freefall rate of that exchange, which conveniently becomes the moral self-license of their soldiering in this Good war. And so, they remain in the cul-de-sac tending the grill. Though with a scowl quick to sprout. You know, because tyranny!
The war on reality that drives much of the leftist death cult, to which many of these right-thinkers pride themselves on recognizing, fails to illuminate any parallels to their own fantastical field trips from reality. The logical conclusions of observable reality can only be taken so far. The only thing worse than living with the boot of the System on one's neck is the prospect of life without transacting with evil at all.
And so it goes that the ones I know with the greatest capital, are the least interested in converting that capital into things accretive to building a future divorced from the System that granted them that capital in exchange for their fealty.
Are you saying what I am, but with a lot more style and allegory?
Close. The problem with [the pursuit of] "wealth" isn't that it fails when times get bad, but rather that it leads to failing the spiritual tests that are abundant in the good times. The failure of wealth when times are broken is already baked in because the spiritual war is already over for those people. But indeed, your points on people, community, resources, skills, and the continuance of the culture of those people are what make for durable assets across time - as well as the mindset that an "economy" is downstream of those people, to serve their needs and values. It's hard to put it in agnostic terms that resonate, but yeah, of this world is not "who we are", yet in this world is where we are now. To speak of Evil, but to ignore the war for your soul is only halfway to the reckoning.
“To speak of Evil, but to ignore the war for your soul is only halfway to the reckoning.” Can I get an amen!?!