one of the most liberating realizations a human can have:
almost all of your thoughts are completely useless, wrong, and meaningless.
they are just biological feedback from a dysregulated nervous system, old childhood defense mechanisms, and genetic conditioning.
The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer.
Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.
We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.
It will never reach you.
The world ended in 1918, WWII was its death knell, and we live in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a much greater civilization than we can even fathom.
We still hear the echoes of the knell and have no language to describe it. We call it late stage capitalism, Weimar conditions, whatever it is — it’s the bell that tolled the end of our world and we feel the grief of our ancestors as they lost the Great War, and their pain is still in our blood and we have no way to excise it.