The fundamental concept, or rather the primary problem that I am trying to solve for with my writing and theorizing in my essays on Populism is the infamous Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Fantastic blog man, and I have decided to become a paid sub (hit me harder daddy!) due to your e-begging!
Right when I get a job.
Another redpill I've red back in the golden days of basket weaving forums is:
"You're being occupied by a foreign government, this explains why your governments consistently attack the nation, through methods such as non-white immigrant imports, and propaganda."
This is paraphrased, but applies here.
Under these circumstances, we must adopt non-foreign-sponsored guerrilla efforts to undermine the system.
Understanding that memes travel far and wide despite being censored and suppressed means we must support and amplify the writers who understand and critique the regime. (for example: people understand now that the US CIA was in control of the southern american continent and used the drug trade for financing, despite them doing this secretly at the time because dissident writers spread such memes)
Your memes have wormed their way into the mainstream a couple of times, and I will be sure to bankroll your operations, when I do get back on the corporate plantation.
2. Nothing good will happen until we all reject purposely decisive partisan politics and realize we are all prisoners and need as many people as possible to change the current situation.
The Kanye thing is both funny and sad.It's funny on an obvious level -the immediate kvetching and calls for his blood and all that- but sad because the most high profile guy to call em out in years is a bipolar negro with a god complex and apparently THAT is what what was needed to bring it into public conversation.Christ.
If Murdoch Murdoch were still making videos they'd have a field day.
I've tried the monroe tapes and didn't get great results.Personally I recommend the silva method,being able to enter an alpha state at will is better than having to use equipment or music.I use it to meditate on the train to and from work.
I tried silva. Can you explain how you made it work for you? And alpha is a good start, but you have to go deeper. With Alpha, I just use peripheral vision or body awareness to enter the state.
Alright this is gonna be a bit of an effort post so bare with me.
I work full time and sleep 4-6 hours a night and have noisy neighbors,so in the 3 or so hours of waking consciousness where i have time to sit down and do things that are not obligations or chores of some sort I REALLY don't want to fuck around with headphones or pull up specific vids just to sit there and wait for the state to come over me while an interruption of some sort might happen. I'm telling you this so you know where I'm coming from.
My preferences for certain techniques comes from pragmatism.I need the most return on least investment.With the silva method you need to know which time of day your brain responds to it best.The way I found out was by doing it 3 times a day,once in the morning and evening and then at some relaxed point in the day when i had a few minutes.I found that it's easiest for me to do it in bed before sleep.Keep in mind that this won't necessarily be your fave time to meditate,it's simply when your brain is most responsive.I find it most difficult in the morning.I also find it works best when tired.
The actual technique I assume you're familiar with.At first you count down from a hundred until a relaxed mild hypnotic state comes over you.There's not a lot to sense at first so just try to keep that relaxed state as long as you can.The book says to do it for ten days on each phase,but i spent between 10-14/15 on some of them.The actual sensation that i have is kind of like probing my own brain with my attention.You'll need to probe until you find a spot that intensifies a very particular feeling that can only be described as ''nice clarity''.You probably already know what i mean.From then on the point of every session is to capture and intensify that specific feeling until you can hold it for 15 minutes or so.Then you start visualizing while maintaining that state.That's where I'm at now,over a few weeks my ability to accurately visualize has improved significantly to a point where I can imagine an apple feel it's weight,taste the flavor etc.But it all comes down to finding a spot in your upper brain with your attention where you feel a very relaxed focus.I have had some success with deep alpha where I could block out pain,though accelerated healing is still out of reach.But alpha is the cornerstone of any and all abilities.You shouldn't dismiss it just because it's not theta or delta. For example my friend and I had successful telepathy experiments while barely in alpha at all.
Now for some unsolicited recommendations.
The Genie Within your Subconscious Mind - a book devoted entirely to help you enter alpha then theta and finally to get you to talk directly to your subconscious.It works but progress was too slow and time consuming for me.If you have more free time you very well might get more use out of it.
Natural Method of Physical Training by Edwin Checkley - a system for working out without having to do regular isometrics or barbel exercise.I personally have made gains by using this system.It's hard to learn at first mainly because we're used to carrying our bodies improperly.You'll make even better gains if you combine it with regular lifting.The language is antiquated so can be a little hard to get,depending on how many of these types of books you read.There's also a book called Warrior's Way that explains this system in a simpler to understand manner in it's appendix.
Survival Levitation - exactly what it sounds like.This book teaches you to levitate.According to the author it's to help people in case of an office fire in a high rise,but if you read it carefully it obviously teaches you not to leave tracks and to have a permanent high ground if you get my drift.It's cheap and short and while I didn't practice long enough to actually levitate (i plan to start training again soon) I did get to a point during the vectoring exercise where I felt a strong pull upwards while lying down with weights on me so I'm convinced it works.Takes around 6 months to a year to get consistent results would be my guess,though the author states it takes less.
Miracle Mastery - this book takes you from A-Z of acquiring a variety of psychic abilities,including astral projection,levitation,materialization,invisibility and teleportation.The technique progression is what you'd expect,but he doesn't leave anything out.There's a couple of things I disagree with him on,but from reading about this stuff for over a decade the info on the actual techniques is solid.Though keep in mind there's always more than one way to learn something.
There's more books I could recommend,but I only listed ones I have positive personal experience with and know for sure they work.I also plan to make a proper post once I become more proficient,as I firmly believe that we on the right should live by the things we talk about instead of pontificating.
Keep a Goku-get-em attitude and send me some memes via astral-net when you're successful.
For the prisoner dilemma, if taking the East Slavic, but even more so Russian Starover Orthodox (Starover - more Orthodox than regular Orthodox, literally means "Old Faith") approach - there is no dilemma dependent on the calculation how your partner in crime, or more likely partner in misfortune, is going to behave. You either have an internal moral compass and don't rat on your partner or you don't. But please note, same moral compass can nudge such individual to tell the authorities all as it was regardless of personal interests or the interests of his/her partner. This is not to say that among Russians there aren't calculating SoBs - there are plenty, but there is also a higher percentage of the people with mentality as I described above than in a typical Western society. The good news from the last 3 years of COVID madness is the fact that there are plenty of people with unbreakable moral compass in Western societies as well. I'd say at least 10%.
Oh yeah, American resisted the vax heroically. Russians resisted in their own way, quietly. The end result is that there are less vaxed Russians and Americans than say Brits and Austrians.
Excellent essay says it all and more. It's only through strength and a determined unflinching will that we will triumph and rebuild our folk and civilization.
The jailers can be defeated. Just one meme spread like wild fire can rekindle those intuitive enough to understand it.
The jailers are not in our league. They have $$$ it's true but it's paper and fiat, we have our knowledge and our blood, our DNA.
Plus last counted they suffer from at least 35 inherited degenerative mostly neurological disorders that are often fatal. As a dear friend of my a great lady wrote to me, "Biologically it's them that are f*cked and headed for extinction. Some of their genetic disorders are hauntingly similar to what cv injections are causing non js. If they are going down, they are trying to have many of us go down with them. I don't think they will be able to keep up with their biological doom. As much as 90 % are carriers to their diseases. Not all of them get screened. Self evident. This family is Ashkenazim. They are carriers of the so-called renamed Tay-Sacks genetic disease. Sometimes they retain the HEX gene but albeit is defective. These are js that live a bit longer than those that are missing the HEX gene for proper metabolism. The human misery they bring onto themselves is staggering. Prof. Oliver mentioned he had a lawyer friend who was Sephardim and he mentioned to Oliver that he did his part by not having any children." She sent me this. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/ste-justine-hospital-unveils-lab-for-disorder-that-acts-like-child-alzheimers
We need to stay united, safe, healthy and strong. It will be an uphill battle. Nonetheless we can and will triumph. Keep writing Rolo. Subscribe to my page and I'll do you the same courtesy.
People will be vicious and act maliciously towards anyone trying to self-improve, even in the absence of incentives from wardens. Everyone thinks he's the best ever, it's a psychological necessity. Obviously incentives from wardens make things in this world far worse and slimier.
Rather optimistic and Dunning Krueger to hope anything out of CodeAcademy, see https://teachyourselfcs.com/ I'd stick to get that few further subscriptions but again what do I know, you could be a natural.
I can see why you tweaked the prisoners dilemma, but it was not realistic. The authorities will invariably be able to stack the deck in their favour, even if its only a little. So if neither prisoner confesses they may get off on that charge, but the authorities will be able to cook up minor charges that can stick just to punish them and ensure that the incentives are always stacked in their favour.
On a totally different tack, the US midterm results - earthshaking but no one seems to be commenting. Why, because the Dems have been able to institutionalize rigging (i.e. without a pandemic) and make it routine. But no one (well, except Kari Lake) is saying or doing anything - almost nothing in the conservative alternative media. Most interesting is that this time the Republican party was in it too, either actively (as in Georgia) or passively. The deal between the two parties was to crush the populists and it worked almost completely (only except JD Vance, who may not even be a real populist). And of course part of the deal was Dems get Senate, and no incumbent loses (though they gave Lauren Bobert a very hard time) which is what happened.
And no one is saying anything - even the populists are keeping quiet. Why? The implications are enormous. One, Trump will have no chance in 2024, both parties will be rigging it against him. And two, populism has no future in the Republican party.
My hypothesis is it's because the populists have not yet accepted that their only possible future will to get out of the Republican party and create a new party. And one can see why - it would be a very hard and very long road.
Not quite correct on prisoner's dilemma: "if they both keep their mouth shuts, they both walk free" - in the classic formulation when both refuse to rat on each other, they both get minimal sentences. The "walk free" outcome is only available to one of them, the one who rats on the other while that other one remains silent. The worst outcome is when both rat on each other. So the cooperation in play also involves complex trust calculations or betrayal calculations - "that other guy is a sap! - he won't betray me - so I win by betraying him"
I don't think it changes anything here - you are correct: "cooperation among the prisoners is the optimal strategy" - it is optimal but it is NOT cost-free (that's your mistake) - so I might rephrase that human relations, ideally conceived, maximize co-operation but (evil) society attempts to disrupt co-operations by offering incentives to betrayal. I think that is entirely to your point: an eden of human co-operation distorted and sabotaged by powerful and evil coalitions pursuing secret agendas and imposing harms on those inclined to co-operate. So, having cleared that up - I will actually read it closely in full.
yeah i tweaked it. i remember having to take tests with various tweaks to the parameters. I chose the one that more heavily favors cooperation for obvious reasons to drive home my point.
point taken - and you are surely correct the game has been endlessly studied and tweaked.
I like the original version where co-operation is not *quite* as optimal as some possible betrayal calculation outcomes. I f we kill a deer - we then we share the meat - I don't get it all - ... unless that is, I kill you! ... ah! - but then I am on my own when the next deer comes up - a short-sighted betrayal calculation - and so it goes.
well all nash does is point out that there are scenarios where greed leads to suboptimal outcomes. i think cooperation means we can go for the mammoth not just the deer and that with cooperation, you get something even greater that the sum of the parts.
Maybe it wasn't worth getting bogged down in the nuances of the dilemma game (i.e. me doing that) - your key point is that the jail warders do create incentives for betrayal and thus attempt to disrupt co-operation and trust. In the classic version, the prisoner who betrays but is not betrayed gets a sentence of zero years - the prisoner who refuses to betray gets a five year sentence.
"ideologoyim" - Brought a smile to my face. Though I suspect using our victimizers names for us strengthens their prison. We need to be the heroes in Our Own Story.
Kudos on the Dune clip! Oddly enough, I really liked the newest Dune iteration. Hollywood usually sucks and this didn't. The scene with the Sardukar on Secunda is so visceral.
Excellent column, Rolo. It largely is a Prison Planet. Anyone with a cell phone is easily tracked and monitored. People will sell you out or cancel one in heartbeat if it means their life is easier or they'll get ahead or just having the "right" opinion. The US and Europe were once high trust societies and this allowed easy group cohesion but people were harder to control. Now tribalism, a low trust society, is the ruling mindset. People will act against their own self-interest just to fit in.
On a side note, what are your thoughts on the recent shakeup at the Russian Foreign Ministry?
"I can postpone having to sign up for CodeAcademy and a fulfilling career automizing other prisoners’ jobs away forever."
It's funny you say this, Rolo. How do you feel about the whole 'coding' thing? It's all the rage these days. The internet's chock full of people in the singing its praises, tons of YouTubers talking about how much money can be made as a software developer/ programmer/ coder / IT person. But knowing the big tech companies have been advancing the globalist agenda and with the big pay incentives for this kind of work, what could the end result possibly be? Building the walls of a prison in a future technocratic state? I'm a little suspicious about it all to be quite honest. There's the connection to to AI and then Joe Biden advising people to "learn to code". Why?🤨 Whatever the gov't says to do, it's a good rule of thumb to do the opposite in my book.
Well a lot of people got fired in recent months. So, it seems that there was a lot of money sloshing around and not enough actual stuff being done thats profitable.
Fantastic blog man, and I have decided to become a paid sub (hit me harder daddy!) due to your e-begging!
Right when I get a job.
Another redpill I've red back in the golden days of basket weaving forums is:
"You're being occupied by a foreign government, this explains why your governments consistently attack the nation, through methods such as non-white immigrant imports, and propaganda."
This is paraphrased, but applies here.
Under these circumstances, we must adopt non-foreign-sponsored guerrilla efforts to undermine the system.
Understanding that memes travel far and wide despite being censored and suppressed means we must support and amplify the writers who understand and critique the regime. (for example: people understand now that the US CIA was in control of the southern american continent and used the drug trade for financing, despite them doing this secretly at the time because dissident writers spread such memes)
Your memes have wormed their way into the mainstream a couple of times, and I will be sure to bankroll your operations, when I do get back on the corporate plantation.
This is why I'm anti-voting:
1. The same shit happens regardless
2. Nothing good will happen until we all reject purposely decisive partisan politics and realize we are all prisoners and need as many people as possible to change the current situation.
The Kanye thing is both funny and sad.It's funny on an obvious level -the immediate kvetching and calls for his blood and all that- but sad because the most high profile guy to call em out in years is a bipolar negro with a god complex and apparently THAT is what what was needed to bring it into public conversation.Christ.
If Murdoch Murdoch were still making videos they'd have a field day.
BTW which meditative techniques are you using?
I use the monroe tapes. HRV breathing.
But mostly just OBE work.
Astral-projection or lucid dreaming or phasing, whatever its called.
What do you gain from this? What is the objective?
spiritual growth
I've tried the monroe tapes and didn't get great results.Personally I recommend the silva method,being able to enter an alpha state at will is better than having to use equipment or music.I use it to meditate on the train to and from work.
I tried silva. Can you explain how you made it work for you? And alpha is a good start, but you have to go deeper. With Alpha, I just use peripheral vision or body awareness to enter the state.
Alright this is gonna be a bit of an effort post so bare with me.
I work full time and sleep 4-6 hours a night and have noisy neighbors,so in the 3 or so hours of waking consciousness where i have time to sit down and do things that are not obligations or chores of some sort I REALLY don't want to fuck around with headphones or pull up specific vids just to sit there and wait for the state to come over me while an interruption of some sort might happen. I'm telling you this so you know where I'm coming from.
My preferences for certain techniques comes from pragmatism.I need the most return on least investment.With the silva method you need to know which time of day your brain responds to it best.The way I found out was by doing it 3 times a day,once in the morning and evening and then at some relaxed point in the day when i had a few minutes.I found that it's easiest for me to do it in bed before sleep.Keep in mind that this won't necessarily be your fave time to meditate,it's simply when your brain is most responsive.I find it most difficult in the morning.I also find it works best when tired.
The actual technique I assume you're familiar with.At first you count down from a hundred until a relaxed mild hypnotic state comes over you.There's not a lot to sense at first so just try to keep that relaxed state as long as you can.The book says to do it for ten days on each phase,but i spent between 10-14/15 on some of them.The actual sensation that i have is kind of like probing my own brain with my attention.You'll need to probe until you find a spot that intensifies a very particular feeling that can only be described as ''nice clarity''.You probably already know what i mean.From then on the point of every session is to capture and intensify that specific feeling until you can hold it for 15 minutes or so.Then you start visualizing while maintaining that state.That's where I'm at now,over a few weeks my ability to accurately visualize has improved significantly to a point where I can imagine an apple feel it's weight,taste the flavor etc.But it all comes down to finding a spot in your upper brain with your attention where you feel a very relaxed focus.I have had some success with deep alpha where I could block out pain,though accelerated healing is still out of reach.But alpha is the cornerstone of any and all abilities.You shouldn't dismiss it just because it's not theta or delta. For example my friend and I had successful telepathy experiments while barely in alpha at all.
Now for some unsolicited recommendations.
The Genie Within your Subconscious Mind - a book devoted entirely to help you enter alpha then theta and finally to get you to talk directly to your subconscious.It works but progress was too slow and time consuming for me.If you have more free time you very well might get more use out of it.
Natural Method of Physical Training by Edwin Checkley - a system for working out without having to do regular isometrics or barbel exercise.I personally have made gains by using this system.It's hard to learn at first mainly because we're used to carrying our bodies improperly.You'll make even better gains if you combine it with regular lifting.The language is antiquated so can be a little hard to get,depending on how many of these types of books you read.There's also a book called Warrior's Way that explains this system in a simpler to understand manner in it's appendix.
Survival Levitation - exactly what it sounds like.This book teaches you to levitate.According to the author it's to help people in case of an office fire in a high rise,but if you read it carefully it obviously teaches you not to leave tracks and to have a permanent high ground if you get my drift.It's cheap and short and while I didn't practice long enough to actually levitate (i plan to start training again soon) I did get to a point during the vectoring exercise where I felt a strong pull upwards while lying down with weights on me so I'm convinced it works.Takes around 6 months to a year to get consistent results would be my guess,though the author states it takes less.
Miracle Mastery - this book takes you from A-Z of acquiring a variety of psychic abilities,including astral projection,levitation,materialization,invisibility and teleportation.The technique progression is what you'd expect,but he doesn't leave anything out.There's a couple of things I disagree with him on,but from reading about this stuff for over a decade the info on the actual techniques is solid.Though keep in mind there's always more than one way to learn something.
There's more books I could recommend,but I only listed ones I have positive personal experience with and know for sure they work.I also plan to make a proper post once I become more proficient,as I firmly believe that we on the right should live by the things we talk about instead of pontificating.
Keep a Goku-get-em attitude and send me some memes via astral-net when you're successful.
With Silva, you have to look up towards your forehead while you count down in your head right? It's like kriya yoga.
Yes,you do it long enough to generate the state after that your eyes will start dropping naturally.
))) Good sense of humor, Rolo!
For the prisoner dilemma, if taking the East Slavic, but even more so Russian Starover Orthodox (Starover - more Orthodox than regular Orthodox, literally means "Old Faith") approach - there is no dilemma dependent on the calculation how your partner in crime, or more likely partner in misfortune, is going to behave. You either have an internal moral compass and don't rat on your partner or you don't. But please note, same moral compass can nudge such individual to tell the authorities all as it was regardless of personal interests or the interests of his/her partner. This is not to say that among Russians there aren't calculating SoBs - there are plenty, but there is also a higher percentage of the people with mentality as I described above than in a typical Western society. The good news from the last 3 years of COVID madness is the fact that there are plenty of people with unbreakable moral compass in Western societies as well. I'd say at least 10%.
Oh yeah, American resisted the vax heroically. Russians resisted in their own way, quietly. The end result is that there are less vaxed Russians and Americans than say Brits and Austrians.
Excellent essay says it all and more. It's only through strength and a determined unflinching will that we will triumph and rebuild our folk and civilization.
The jailers can be defeated. Just one meme spread like wild fire can rekindle those intuitive enough to understand it.
The jailers are not in our league. They have $$$ it's true but it's paper and fiat, we have our knowledge and our blood, our DNA.
Plus last counted they suffer from at least 35 inherited degenerative mostly neurological disorders that are often fatal. As a dear friend of my a great lady wrote to me, "Biologically it's them that are f*cked and headed for extinction. Some of their genetic disorders are hauntingly similar to what cv injections are causing non js. If they are going down, they are trying to have many of us go down with them. I don't think they will be able to keep up with their biological doom. As much as 90 % are carriers to their diseases. Not all of them get screened. Self evident. This family is Ashkenazim. They are carriers of the so-called renamed Tay-Sacks genetic disease. Sometimes they retain the HEX gene but albeit is defective. These are js that live a bit longer than those that are missing the HEX gene for proper metabolism. The human misery they bring onto themselves is staggering. Prof. Oliver mentioned he had a lawyer friend who was Sephardim and he mentioned to Oliver that he did his part by not having any children." She sent me this. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/ste-justine-hospital-unveils-lab-for-disorder-that-acts-like-child-alzheimers
We need to stay united, safe, healthy and strong. It will be an uphill battle. Nonetheless we can and will triumph. Keep writing Rolo. Subscribe to my page and I'll do you the same courtesy.
People will be vicious and act maliciously towards anyone trying to self-improve, even in the absence of incentives from wardens. Everyone thinks he's the best ever, it's a psychological necessity. Obviously incentives from wardens make things in this world far worse and slimier.
Rather optimistic and Dunning Krueger to hope anything out of CodeAcademy, see https://teachyourselfcs.com/ I'd stick to get that few further subscriptions but again what do I know, you could be a natural.
I can see why you tweaked the prisoners dilemma, but it was not realistic. The authorities will invariably be able to stack the deck in their favour, even if its only a little. So if neither prisoner confesses they may get off on that charge, but the authorities will be able to cook up minor charges that can stick just to punish them and ensure that the incentives are always stacked in their favour.
On a totally different tack, the US midterm results - earthshaking but no one seems to be commenting. Why, because the Dems have been able to institutionalize rigging (i.e. without a pandemic) and make it routine. But no one (well, except Kari Lake) is saying or doing anything - almost nothing in the conservative alternative media. Most interesting is that this time the Republican party was in it too, either actively (as in Georgia) or passively. The deal between the two parties was to crush the populists and it worked almost completely (only except JD Vance, who may not even be a real populist). And of course part of the deal was Dems get Senate, and no incumbent loses (though they gave Lauren Bobert a very hard time) which is what happened.
And no one is saying anything - even the populists are keeping quiet. Why? The implications are enormous. One, Trump will have no chance in 2024, both parties will be rigging it against him. And two, populism has no future in the Republican party.
My hypothesis is it's because the populists have not yet accepted that their only possible future will to get out of the Republican party and create a new party. And one can see why - it would be a very hard and very long road.
Not quite correct on prisoner's dilemma: "if they both keep their mouth shuts, they both walk free" - in the classic formulation when both refuse to rat on each other, they both get minimal sentences. The "walk free" outcome is only available to one of them, the one who rats on the other while that other one remains silent. The worst outcome is when both rat on each other. So the cooperation in play also involves complex trust calculations or betrayal calculations - "that other guy is a sap! - he won't betray me - so I win by betraying him"
I don't think it changes anything here - you are correct: "cooperation among the prisoners is the optimal strategy" - it is optimal but it is NOT cost-free (that's your mistake) - so I might rephrase that human relations, ideally conceived, maximize co-operation but (evil) society attempts to disrupt co-operations by offering incentives to betrayal. I think that is entirely to your point: an eden of human co-operation distorted and sabotaged by powerful and evil coalitions pursuing secret agendas and imposing harms on those inclined to co-operate. So, having cleared that up - I will actually read it closely in full.
>in the classic formulation
yeah i tweaked it. i remember having to take tests with various tweaks to the parameters. I chose the one that more heavily favors cooperation for obvious reasons to drive home my point.
point taken - and you are surely correct the game has been endlessly studied and tweaked.
I like the original version where co-operation is not *quite* as optimal as some possible betrayal calculation outcomes. I f we kill a deer - we then we share the meat - I don't get it all - ... unless that is, I kill you! ... ah! - but then I am on my own when the next deer comes up - a short-sighted betrayal calculation - and so it goes.
well all nash does is point out that there are scenarios where greed leads to suboptimal outcomes. i think cooperation means we can go for the mammoth not just the deer and that with cooperation, you get something even greater that the sum of the parts.
Maybe it wasn't worth getting bogged down in the nuances of the dilemma game (i.e. me doing that) - your key point is that the jail warders do create incentives for betrayal and thus attempt to disrupt co-operation and trust. In the classic version, the prisoner who betrays but is not betrayed gets a sentence of zero years - the prisoner who refuses to betray gets a five year sentence.
"ideologoyim" - Brought a smile to my face. Though I suspect using our victimizers names for us strengthens their prison. We need to be the heroes in Our Own Story.
Kudos on the Dune clip! Oddly enough, I really liked the newest Dune iteration. Hollywood usually sucks and this didn't. The scene with the Sardukar on Secunda is so visceral.
Excellent column, Rolo. It largely is a Prison Planet. Anyone with a cell phone is easily tracked and monitored. People will sell you out or cancel one in heartbeat if it means their life is easier or they'll get ahead or just having the "right" opinion. The US and Europe were once high trust societies and this allowed easy group cohesion but people were harder to control. Now tribalism, a low trust society, is the ruling mindset. People will act against their own self-interest just to fit in.
On a side note, what are your thoughts on the recent shakeup at the Russian Foreign Ministry?
https://theins.ru/en/politics/257740
I love throat singing too.
"I can postpone having to sign up for CodeAcademy and a fulfilling career automizing other prisoners’ jobs away forever."
It's funny you say this, Rolo. How do you feel about the whole 'coding' thing? It's all the rage these days. The internet's chock full of people in the singing its praises, tons of YouTubers talking about how much money can be made as a software developer/ programmer/ coder / IT person. But knowing the big tech companies have been advancing the globalist agenda and with the big pay incentives for this kind of work, what could the end result possibly be? Building the walls of a prison in a future technocratic state? I'm a little suspicious about it all to be quite honest. There's the connection to to AI and then Joe Biden advising people to "learn to code". Why?🤨 Whatever the gov't says to do, it's a good rule of thumb to do the opposite in my book.
Well a lot of people got fired in recent months. So, it seems that there was a lot of money sloshing around and not enough actual stuff being done thats profitable.