So Commander, do you have an explanation or a solution? Do we all need to just be resigned to our fate, or is there something we could do about all this? (I think there is.)
So Commander, do you have an explanation or a solution? Do we all need to just be resigned to our fate, or is there something we could do about all this? (I think there is.)
Personally I think the solution lies with seeking out like-minded folks and routing around the entire system when possible. Cooperative collaboration is the most powerful human force in the world -- we need to take advantage of it.
I surround myself with like-minded folks. Unfortunately that means that I don't have many friends LOL.
That's OK. Now that I'm semi-retired I can be more choosey. I don't have to toady to asshole co-workers and bosses. And I've decided that I don't want to waste my energy befriending people who I don't share values with. COVID has left me with fewer friends and it has distanced me from some family members. That's actually a good thing. You learn who you can trust and who you want to spend time with.
Yeah, it's been a lonely road the past 4 years. COVID winnowed out the wheat from the chaff, and there is little in the wheat pile. Ostracized at my university (I'm a professor), my friends too afraid to venture out and live, I've become more introverted than ever. My kids and my sister are all on the same page, so I have that, at least. But a year ago I made a conscious decision to flee Baltimore City for a few acres in WV. It's hard as heck tending the land, building a garden, raising chickens for the first time but I'm learning. Here, I'm surrounded with like-minded folks, including farmers and hunters and those who don't like government's overreach. I'm exhausted but feel blessed. Peace...
I have chosen the route of a loud insurgency that doesn't sound like an insurgency. It sounds so kooky that most of the "big guys" just laugh at it.
It's hard to say how much they really know about the reality of the situation. More than us, perhaps, but how much more? Maybe not that much more. The only real way through this situation is magic. And that translates in this universe to spiritual freedom.
The idea of creating a parallel system that conforms to a higher set of ethical and moral standards is not without merit. But who's going to set up an entire parallel factory to manufacture smart phones? Or cars? Most people I work with think that the only way to do this is to retake the corporate world (which these days includes governments). And you do that one person at a time by, basically, giving them the realization that there is an ethical way forward. So we have our own "cooperative collaboration" to accomplish this. After 26 years working directly on such projects, I currently sit on the fringes, retired and doing my own thing trying to get more intellectuals to question more of their basic assumptions and to go where "no man has gone before."
I think parenting classes (but who will teach them and what will they teach?) are just as needed, if not more, in the suburbs and among the rich and famous. Why single out "inner cities?"
Because I have volunteered in Chicago. Single moms with 2 plus children. No Dad's and not a clue. I live in the suburbs. Our African American kids graduate high-school and often go to college. Rare in the inner city.
So Commander, do you have an explanation or a solution? Do we all need to just be resigned to our fate, or is there something we could do about all this? (I think there is.)
Personally I think the solution lies with seeking out like-minded folks and routing around the entire system when possible. Cooperative collaboration is the most powerful human force in the world -- we need to take advantage of it.
The 2,000 word version is here:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2
I surround myself with like-minded folks. Unfortunately that means that I don't have many friends LOL.
That's OK. Now that I'm semi-retired I can be more choosey. I don't have to toady to asshole co-workers and bosses. And I've decided that I don't want to waste my energy befriending people who I don't share values with. COVID has left me with fewer friends and it has distanced me from some family members. That's actually a good thing. You learn who you can trust and who you want to spend time with.
Exactly. Why would I want to be friends with people who would have happily turned in Anne Frank?
Yeah, it's been a lonely road the past 4 years. COVID winnowed out the wheat from the chaff, and there is little in the wheat pile. Ostracized at my university (I'm a professor), my friends too afraid to venture out and live, I've become more introverted than ever. My kids and my sister are all on the same page, so I have that, at least. But a year ago I made a conscious decision to flee Baltimore City for a few acres in WV. It's hard as heck tending the land, building a garden, raising chickens for the first time but I'm learning. Here, I'm surrounded with like-minded folks, including farmers and hunters and those who don't like government's overreach. I'm exhausted but feel blessed. Peace...
Good on ya.
I have chosen the route of a loud insurgency that doesn't sound like an insurgency. It sounds so kooky that most of the "big guys" just laugh at it.
It's hard to say how much they really know about the reality of the situation. More than us, perhaps, but how much more? Maybe not that much more. The only real way through this situation is magic. And that translates in this universe to spiritual freedom.
The idea of creating a parallel system that conforms to a higher set of ethical and moral standards is not without merit. But who's going to set up an entire parallel factory to manufacture smart phones? Or cars? Most people I work with think that the only way to do this is to retake the corporate world (which these days includes governments). And you do that one person at a time by, basically, giving them the realization that there is an ethical way forward. So we have our own "cooperative collaboration" to accomplish this. After 26 years working directly on such projects, I currently sit on the fringes, retired and doing my own thing trying to get more intellectuals to question more of their basic assumptions and to go where "no man has gone before."
Bernie Sanders suggested Parenting classes in the inner cities. I believe that was a good idea.
I think parenting classes (but who will teach them and what will they teach?) are just as needed, if not more, in the suburbs and among the rich and famous. Why single out "inner cities?"
Because I have volunteered in Chicago. Single moms with 2 plus children. No Dad's and not a clue. I live in the suburbs. Our African American kids graduate high-school and often go to college. Rare in the inner city.
There are many efficient mothers too. But the kids have a peer group, eventually even good moms can't stop the kids from taking the wrong path.