....and once again I've stumbled across one of your forgotten masterpieces from a few days ago that if posted almost anywhere else would have exponentially more traction.
7 upvotes in 7 days is a crime, and I get it, substack is now social media, which is integral to what is being called out, but this is egregious.
I appreciate the vote of confidence Jason. I’m just content to see all the random places the readership traffic, reposts, and translations come from.
The Substack home page certainly sucks you in now with the infinite scroll and cracked out TikTok-esque video clips. This is the first time I’ve logged in within a week, I’ve been reading books and playing sport.
Please do me the honor or going into the Perimeter control panel and reposting this with you as the sole author. In addition, I am working to get it syndicated a couple of other places.
Also I've got $100 to send you as your brilliance inspired a reader to become a paying subscriber and this money belongs to you. Please send via email whatever payment options are available to you and I will relay these funds immediately.
I'm way past caring what happens to any adult whose blindness is the result of his refusal to see. At this late date that's all it is: willful blindness, because the evidence has been staring everyone in the face for years. But a large contingent of humanity will keep clinging to the moral code that tells them self-immolation is a virtue. Anyone who agrees that he should be reduced to mere existence for the alleged sake of polar bears or a predicted .1ºC average global temperature fluctuation deserves whatever he gets.
The remaining 20% of the population who want to live as human beings will go on without those non-entities. That's always been the case anyway, throughout history: NPCs don't move the world. That's the job of a different majority, the 20%, who far outnumber the kakistocracy. The only certain way to make narcissists disappear is to ignore them, to "go no-contact." It's true on an individual level and it's true on a global scale, with aggregates of narcissists who want to manipulate and rule the world. By definition they're impotent as human beings, and they have power only to the extent that people notice them and cooperate with their delusional version of reality. So here I am, ignoring them. Living contentedly and completely without them. If they obtrude themselves on me it will cost them and their flying monkeys more than they want to pay. That's all I can do, but if even half the 20% does it, too, it will be enough.
I love that article about Xerox and Jobs. He innovated without inventing because he had the vision to instantly grasp the mouse's utility and potential for a wider application.
The BBC article is either where I got the 3% idea or where I saw it reinforced after hearing it somewhere else; that's lost to the sands of time now, but I know it wasn't my original thought. I found it very heartening when I came across the idea, which is one of those things that "feels true" immediately and then stands up to examination. The whole 20% won't take the lead but they'll resist just as they resisted with "covid," and that will be very effective. Whether the 3% is 3% of the total global population or 3% of the 20%, it will be enough to overcome the kakistocracy, which is nowhere near 3% of either. And I hope it's true that non-violent resistance and ignoring the narcissistic kakistocracy into oblivion will be enough.
Thanks. Since 2020 my motto has been, "No one rules if no one obeys." I hadn't heard "resistance is fertile" before but I'm going to start repeating that, too.
My absolute favorite is, "Let a lie come into the world. Let it even triumph. But not through me."
That last quote by Solzhenitsyn is also my favourite, for it is the smallest action each individual can take, and goes against the frustrating polar opposite I hear so often firsthand, which is "Well there's nothing you can do really is there? We just have to go along with it". No, we don't.
Exactly. You hear that a lot: People let themselves be defeated before they even start. You don't have to convince everyone in the world, have 5 million Instagram followers, or even write to your public serpent. When you're confronted with bullshit, just say so. A simple, "I disagree" is enough to prevent your silence from being taken for agreement.
I feel much the same, but I also get the sense that absurdities in society are becoming ever more concentrated, and like their nuclear counterparts, will at some stage go critical and explode into the most unholy mess, as Nietzsche suggested as far back as 1882.
It all seems very imminent when statements by a thug like Putin, that the West is "degenerate" and "hypocritical", seem to make more sense than the vacuous and often nonsensical blatherings of our own elected leaders.
I think we have already gone beyond the event horizon, from where it is impossible to extricate ourselves.
....and once again I've stumbled across one of your forgotten masterpieces from a few days ago that if posted almost anywhere else would have exponentially more traction.
7 upvotes in 7 days is a crime, and I get it, substack is now social media, which is integral to what is being called out, but this is egregious.
I appreciate the vote of confidence Jason. I’m just content to see all the random places the readership traffic, reposts, and translations come from.
The Substack home page certainly sucks you in now with the infinite scroll and cracked out TikTok-esque video clips. This is the first time I’ve logged in within a week, I’ve been reading books and playing sport.
Please do me the honor or going into the Perimeter control panel and reposting this with you as the sole author. In addition, I am working to get it syndicated a couple of other places.
Done. Thanks Jason.
Please do not thank me, thank you.
Also I've got $100 to send you as your brilliance inspired a reader to become a paying subscriber and this money belongs to you. Please send via email whatever payment options are available to you and I will relay these funds immediately.
Really enjoyed this one and can relate to much of it.
- Miriam
I'm way past caring what happens to any adult whose blindness is the result of his refusal to see. At this late date that's all it is: willful blindness, because the evidence has been staring everyone in the face for years. But a large contingent of humanity will keep clinging to the moral code that tells them self-immolation is a virtue. Anyone who agrees that he should be reduced to mere existence for the alleged sake of polar bears or a predicted .1ºC average global temperature fluctuation deserves whatever he gets.
The remaining 20% of the population who want to live as human beings will go on without those non-entities. That's always been the case anyway, throughout history: NPCs don't move the world. That's the job of a different majority, the 20%, who far outnumber the kakistocracy. The only certain way to make narcissists disappear is to ignore them, to "go no-contact." It's true on an individual level and it's true on a global scale, with aggregates of narcissists who want to manipulate and rule the world. By definition they're impotent as human beings, and they have power only to the extent that people notice them and cooperate with their delusional version of reality. So here I am, ignoring them. Living contentedly and completely without them. If they obtrude themselves on me it will cost them and their flying monkeys more than they want to pay. That's all I can do, but if even half the 20% does it, too, it will be enough.
Yes indeed F132, agree with all you say. But note that not that many awake people are required to change the direction of travel: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
And you mention the 20% - the eternal Pareto rule: 80/20. In my 80 years I have never know it to fail. I trained with Xerox in 1977 and was party to what happened thereafter: https://zurb.com/blog/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno
I love that article about Xerox and Jobs. He innovated without inventing because he had the vision to instantly grasp the mouse's utility and potential for a wider application.
The BBC article is either where I got the 3% idea or where I saw it reinforced after hearing it somewhere else; that's lost to the sands of time now, but I know it wasn't my original thought. I found it very heartening when I came across the idea, which is one of those things that "feels true" immediately and then stands up to examination. The whole 20% won't take the lead but they'll resist just as they resisted with "covid," and that will be very effective. Whether the 3% is 3% of the total global population or 3% of the 20%, it will be enough to overcome the kakistocracy, which is nowhere near 3% of either. And I hope it's true that non-violent resistance and ignoring the narcissistic kakistocracy into oblivion will be enough.
Thanks F132 and yes, I firmly believe in non-violent resistance. My good friend Niall Warry wrote about it years ago: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-special-36e?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thanks. Since 2020 my motto has been, "No one rules if no one obeys." I hadn't heard "resistance is fertile" before but I'm going to start repeating that, too.
My absolute favorite is, "Let a lie come into the world. Let it even triumph. But not through me."
That last quote by Solzhenitsyn is also my favourite, for it is the smallest action each individual can take, and goes against the frustrating polar opposite I hear so often firsthand, which is "Well there's nothing you can do really is there? We just have to go along with it". No, we don't.
Exactly. You hear that a lot: People let themselves be defeated before they even start. You don't have to convince everyone in the world, have 5 million Instagram followers, or even write to your public serpent. When you're confronted with bullshit, just say so. A simple, "I disagree" is enough to prevent your silence from being taken for agreement.
I feel much the same, but I also get the sense that absurdities in society are becoming ever more concentrated, and like their nuclear counterparts, will at some stage go critical and explode into the most unholy mess, as Nietzsche suggested as far back as 1882.
I think you are onto something there. It all explodes or implodes and the trance will be broken, slowly, then all at once.
It all seems very imminent when statements by a thug like Putin, that the West is "degenerate" and "hypocritical", seem to make more sense than the vacuous and often nonsensical blatherings of our own elected leaders.
I think we have already gone beyond the event horizon, from where it is impossible to extricate ourselves.