going to preface this with, don’t worry about my immediate health or anything. i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that, i am 100% sober…and…that’s honestly the scariest part for me.
there is a message that finally got through to me, woke me up (wait, motherfucker…is that where “woke” comes from???), something I’v been aware of for a long time now i think, but it got suppressed down for…10 goddamn years… for whatever reason, until now.
now that I’m aware of it, I see it damn near everywhere, almost every majorly acclaimed movie, song, book, poem, fucking everything…
and it’s not like this is some short-term problem either, it’s not going away when trump dies, it’s not even going away if trump dies and the establishment regains control (i have my doubts they can pull this off).
it’s the same goddamn cycle over and over (with slight variations), boom followed by completely deliberate bust, one privacy-overreach followed by another, the same playbook used over and over. and occasionally either end is some random organic act-of-god, which just works to obfuscate the intentional acts.
it’s so large and all encompassing you can’t even be sure which parts are apart of it and which are just…people still asleep just going about their lives.
and now, because this world seems to be ran by a bunch of fucking psychopaths, I’m even more paranoid sober than when I was having a actual mental breakdown
because how the fuck do I trust anyone now?
how do i seperate those that know from those that don’t?
psychopathic assholes from regular assholes?
friend from foe?
hell, how the hell do Ieven confirm that this is real, I know that everyone in my own immediate family is stuck in these little arithmetic bubbles too so i can’t bring it up with them, if i tried they would probably be worried I’m going crazy.
and because of past-me’s mistakes over the years I have no irl friends whatsoever to talk with either, so i guess all I have left is to send this out onto the internet and hope for the best?
It’s sometimes easier to focus on solutions that would rebalance this imbalance of power.
IMO, wealth redistribution is the single most important policy for limiting the influence of the rich. A UBI funded by perpetually redistributing all excess wealth over a certain point would prevent anyone from gaining enough money to break the systems we depend on.
From the political power angle, removing representatives at any level and replacing them with direct democracy or direct influence from the people removes the opportunity for our representatives to be corrupt.
UBI funded by wealth redistribution and direct democracy, these are the tools that will allow humanity to break the wheel.
it’s the same goddamn cycle over and over
This is the key. The people you can trust are the people who are going against that cycle.
Bringing up the Bible on Lemmy is generally a no-no, but I love Ecclesiastes. It’s a book about meaninglessness. Everything is the same as it has always been and there is nothing of true value; everything is meaningless. It’s the same goddamn cycle. While when it was written is debatable, it’s comforting and horrible to know someone thousands of years ago saw things the same way I do. Comforting, because I’m not alone in how I feel. Horrible in that people still feel this way after thousands of years.
The writer’s conclusion is to fear God and keep his commandments. The commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving your neighbor as yourself means being kind and empathetic. Kindness and empathy solve nearly everything.
So, even though it may achieve nothing, be kind and empathetic. Cling to people who are kind and empathetic. Be an oasis amid the hate.
My suffering is the same as my ancestors.
The suffering is a part of the cycle. It’s just our turn.
It is comforting once you realize. Doesn’t help truly, but it does bring comfort. Being kind to others also brings comfort.
Come on everyone, lets trauma bond
Welcome to the Internet. Hopefully, I read as a good person. I am not a bot.
I lived as a young adult through Bush II. 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Halliburton, Blackwater, and loads of corruption. It was tough to trust anything then. The goal was pure profit.
Apparently, Dubya was the warm-up presidency for this shit.
First, let me share a clip from Margin Call, 2011.
As long as the prevailing mode has been capital, there has been speculation. As long as there has been speculation, there have been lying liars who exploit the system.
The last few pump and dump bubbles he mentioned (1987, 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2008) are all market crashes I can remember. The market is a casino. Crashes since '08 include 2010 (Flash Crash), 2015 (sell-off), 2018 (cryptocrash), 2020 (Covid), 2022 (Ukraine War), and 2025 (tariffs).
These were once “once in a lifetime” events.
Second, everything in the world is designed to generate more:
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self-serving, self-centered, selfish
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short-term-focused
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extroverted, charismatic, vain
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action-oriented
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thoughtless
psychopaths and sociopaths. This ethos runs things because of profit motives, monopolies on the exercise of violence, and the development of contemporary morés rooted in exploitation, expropriation, and (deemed) externalities of colonialism. Identifying some humans as “the other” makes much more inhumanity possible.
So, I’m here to tell you, it’s real alright. What you’re feeling is real. What you’re feeling against is real. We are immersed in it. Algorithms are doing their best to lock it in.
Finally, what to do and who to trust.
Establish your own moral center. Decide what matters to you. Find those who are telling the most truth, especially when tested. Demogogues fall apart under examination. Lies fall apart when questioned. The unchallenged authority is no authority at all. Get the receipts; find primary sources as often as possible. Seek those who share at great personal cost.
For me, it started with Star Trek. Then, hip-hop. Then, journalists I could trust. Even films that challenge prevailing narratives. I read a lot of books from many perspectives.
20 years later, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Henry A. Giroux, Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, and Noam Chomsky have never wavered. Films like The Insider, Erin Brockovich, and The Corporation light a fire in me. I’m rewatched David Simon and Barry Levinson’s Homicide: Life on the Street and, hilariously, Murphy Brown.
Challenge the prevailing narratives. You’re not alone.
Noam Chomsky is an Epstein collaborator.
when you look at the S&P hundred year chart, none of those events materially changes the slope.
Don’t sell on a downturn and you’ll be fine
ph yeah, I’m not worried about $ anymore…I think that’s part of why this all came together for me tbh.
been messing with that actively for last year/year and half, very conservatively, and someone finally took pity on me I guess, and let me on the open-secret about the various speculation markets we monkeys seem so fascinated in.
I proceeded to make more in the last 2 months than I could working my day job for entire year (not counting OT), not worrying about bills/rent frees up a lot of thought-time I guess…and this wasnt some “first ones free” luck shit either, 100% certain of the outcome (well 99%, with hedge for if line turned against me)
I’m insanely curious, what was the open secret that your benefactor taught you that led to such success?
idfk, just a book that (in my eyes, considering it’s age and how well it still applies to today) showed beyond any shadow of a doubt the whole thing really is bullshit.
moreso than any movie/drama saying the same thing which I’d probably seen a dozen times over the years, a dusty century old book laying it all out there removed any doubt whatsoever for me. especially when cross-examined to peculiar differences I noticed comparing US financial markets to others around the world (which generally favor stability), and who ultimately benefits most from those peculiarities.
which ultimately means that it isnt gambling/speculation…if you utilize proper risk management and know (all of) the rules to whatever imaginary line your betting on, whose moving what, what they want, and how you best make $ off their $
until, eventually, your port is large enough that your the one actually moving things. at which point certain strategies just don’t scale up as well as others (recall seeing a Buffet interview saying as much to some reporter).
Just…idk…the flippant way these motherfuckers fuck with the economy, all to just make their lines go up. and how deeply entwined that is/has been with the US government, going back a good…100-125 years atleast. like how government farming subsidies have been used to rig various agricultural futures markets…with the food just being destroyed anyway after uncle sam pays for it, all to “keep prices stable” while americans are starving.
extrapolate this out to all the other shit we’ve turned into speculation, like the homeless crisis and housing speculation. various drug/healthcare problems and our fucked up healthcare/pharma industry, all sorts of appalling health/safety regulations, nonexistent labor protections etc. etc.
and behind every single one of those issues…ultimately just some greedy motherfucker trying to make their lines up go
shit is fucked
i’m not completely batshit crazy, I dont really believe (yet) that there is some uninterrupted conspiracy chain going all the way back to fucking moses or something, just that we’ve seemingly built our economy around one generation of psychopaths breeding another to replace themselves, in some fucked up game of fake-oneupmanship.
and all thats before you take into consideration Trump and Co. (and more stressful to me, the fundamentalists behind them, which got Nixon, Reagan, both Bush’s elected…they’ve been very successful in establishing the christofacist paradise they want so badly, these last couple decades. there is a direct line of connection between the people behind the Moral/Silent Majority shit and P2025)
So whats the book?
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
Betting on chaos, destruction, reconstruction costs, insurance payouts/denials, and instability for a growing segment of the population made many people rich in the 15th to 21st centuries.
When you are both the cause and the beneficiary of this exercise, that is Disaster Capitalism — an extension of the Shock Doctrine.
The doctrine itself can capitalize on accidents, natural disasters, political instabilities, and economic downturns.
Disaster capitalism foments “accidents” (see: Beirut explosion), natural disasters (see: climate change denialism), political instabilities (see: School of the Americas), and economic downturns (see: the Big Short).
For real, not a very open secret is it
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
Am also interested in the book, dm me if you don’t want to write it publicly
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
What is that ‘open secret’?
basically just that shits fucked, and it aint no accident/coincidence.
others on here have expanded on it, some clearer than I was expecting given what I posted so i guess it really is true, more or less.
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Hey I’ll play hundreds of hours of overwatch and minecraft with you if you want. Then at least you’ll know I’m real.
Spend some time figuring out what your core principles are. Once you have identified those, use them as your “guiding light” when you encounter news or points of view, and constantly refer back to those principles to keep yourself centered.
Live your life because people are functionally stupid and love to repeat historic mistakes again and again. Find a hobby.
Helps.
You don’t. Don’t trust this reply either, it’s biased and there’s a whole political agenda behind it. Goodnight.
Here’s a take you are unlikely to encounter among establishment people:
Normally, people think only in the “other humans” category, when they think of “trust”.
That is like the 2D error that some people make, when fighting in 3D ( submarines, space-ships, etc: it is an actual trope )
Instead of thinking in 2D, think in 3D:
or 4D…
The difference between a disintegrating-corpse & a growing-organism isn’t the neutrons, the protons, or the electrons in it: they’re identical between the 2 bodies.
So, something is distorting the behavior of the electromagnetic-force, to make the chemical evolutions be consistently different, between the 2 bodies … & that difference can be called Spirit.
( xor you can call it the mixture of entanglement & probability-wave, if you like: the label is irrelevant, its reality must be acknowledged, by empiricists: the difference is measurable between the 2 bodies, & that measurable, consistent-difference MUST have a cause )
So, now add-in “down” & “up” dimensions…
Do you trust your pet megalodon ( or whatever kind of pet you have )?
Probably, right?
They aren’t viewing you as prey from the dimensions-of-human-evil, are they?
narcissism / machiavellianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / nihilism / sadism / systemic-dishonesty / displacement-of-objectivity / displacement-of-considered-reasoning
are all dimensions of human-evil. There may well be more, but those ones I’m now certain-of.
The psychology-profession only allows 3 ( The Dark Triad ), for the most part.
So, your pet is trustworthy because they’re your friend, & they’re simple, right?
There is an interesting truth in the book “Willpower” by Beaumeister…
Beaumeister identifies that the evidence demonstrates that people who are being crushed ( by addiction ) have to surrender-to-higher-power to wipe-out their enemy-of-their-life.
But Beaumeister doesn’t accept the evidence is true, because he does not accept that as true.
IOW, it’s ideological, for him.
Scientism rejects that, so those in Scientism reject that.
Scientism isn’t Science, however: as Feynman stated “if the experiment contradicts the theory, that proves the theory is wrong”.
Surrendering-to-higher-power WORKS, proveably.
So, is there anything which prevents greater-than-human spirit ( wisdom, intelligence, magnitude, spirituality ) from existing?
I don’t see anything that could do it…
ONCE one accepts that spirits are, THEN accepting that spirits can be diverse … makes sense, right?
So, why not rely-on universal LivingSpirit, itself?
I’m NOT talking about some religious entity.
I’m NOT talking about some ethnically or politically motivated force-of-nature.
I’m talking about a simple, all-pervading spirit which helps ones who surrender-to, & rely-on, it, its simple way.
Now here’s the thing:
Imagine a competition between narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopaths, vs universal-healing-Livingspirit…
Who would win?
Remember the war adage: “Whomever controls the SKY, commands the WAR.”?
All the problems I had trusting LivingSpirit, through the decades, seem to have been caused by the Abrahamic-religions’ imprinting of me with their assumptions & prejudices ( Mom was Catholic, & she got custody, thankfully )
Once I let go of the cultural-prejudices ( like G-D somehow being an insecure male bully, who was intolerant of my-validity ), then it became easier, & the more I rely on LivingSpirit, the easier everything gets…
That’s a simple experiment: it takes little effort, but some spirituality, & the patience to entrust a many-months or few-years process to show its true-nature…
What is the difference in intent between human-evil & LivingSpirit?
human-evil wants power-over-others, concentration-of-all-wealth-&-privilege, others-being-only-puppets, exclusive-validity, etc…
LivingSpirit wants the living ( all of 'em ) to experience healing, tranquility, spiritual-grace, vitality, happiness, delight, learning, understanding, etc…
What is the difference in method between human-evil & LivingSpirit?
human-evil works opportunistically to undermine, to sabotage, to butcher, to shatter, to murder, LivingValidity, LivingWorth, LivingPotential, LivingOpportunity, LivingJustice, LivingTruth, etc…
( the variants VitalPotential might make more sense to you: I’m using Living- because it fits best for my mind … but you alter this so it fits your perceptions, see? : )
LivingSpirit simply offers, universally, & ones who learn how LivingSpirit works, & earn working-with LivingSpirit, gain more & more healing & release-from-crushing-suffering.
What about “conspiracy”? If they’re competing-against-each-other, or are opponents, they must conspire against each-other, right?
Well, not quite…
human-evil does conspire, but much of that is simply unconscious-conspiracy/convention! Prejudice is a perfect example of that.
The convention of prejudice does the conspiring, so therefore legalism can “judge” that prejudice didn’t conspire…
LivingSpirit? well, it seems all-pervading, so it feels what all lives truly-need, & simply flows in ways that work toward healing/uprighting all lives…
I experienced the sentience-state Bodhichitta, once, some years ago…
that let me experience something more similar-to LivingSpirit’s sentience, for a second or 2…
LivingSpirit would walk right into a demon’s face, being total-compassion for the deranged-life that was making harm in all possible ways, … out of concern for that-life…
( & the demon would be powerless to harm the Bodhichitta-one because of how total/pure that kind-of-mind is: that demon would HATE being subject to such seeing-through-everything compassion )
It’s really hard to map that kind of sentience onto human-experience, because it’s sooo total, & pure.
Anyways, all of this is simply to say that I’ve given-up trusting ( being close to/with ) anybody, human or animal, because of the prejudice I’ve been, AND been-subjected-to, & that’s fine with me.
I’ve got relationship with LivingSpirit, to the degree that I can muster, & I trust LivingSpirit.
& that is wonderfully healing.
& seeing how creatures of all kinds & sizes, including insects, are just trying to live their lives & make their lives better according to their feelings, same as humans, … one ends-up having compassion for lives more-universally, which itself is healing…
Letting-go of the involvement-torque, the political-motivation, is healing…
Letting-go of humankind, embracing pure-spirit-itself, can be sooo freeing & healing.
Wishing you your healing, & just identifying that yes, continuums/souls do evolve, even when it looks from human timescale like that never happens, they do.
All the Abrahamic-religion stuff about “forever” … doesn’t match the evidence: ALL of G-D’s children ( souls ) “return home”.
Without exception.
Some are more “wayward” than others, but none get discarded, as the Abrahamic-religions proclaimed nearly-all did.
That is what destroyed the Abrahamic-religions for me: I discovered that some deep-trance memories were from my soul’s other kinds of lives, & that my soul didn’t care about individual-deaths… that took years to adapt-to…
& every time my fundamental-assumptions got smashed by evidence, I had to adapt/evolve again…
& now … I just roll-with-it, evolving.
Universe’s rules are universal, not ethnic/political/local/machiavellianist.
It does its thing, & souls … get caught in lives … & eventually get the hang of their-own kind’s growing-up.
Trust higher-evolution, though: trust your own Soul’s higher-truth, & that can be freeing/liberating.
There’s no rule that says “only other-humans” can be whom/what you trust, is there?
Trust the universal origin-of-all-healing, whatever your label/name for it is, & it’ll lift your “wings” into your sky, more, in concordance with your skill & your meaning-it.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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I would recommend considering that you are currently going through a mental breakdown, just one that is different from others you have experienced.
I also suggest focusing on making friends, rather than getting caught up in global conspiracies. Maybe they’re happening, maybe not, who knows? But either way, what are you, personally going to do about it? Post on Lemmy? Odds are, you can’t do anything about it, so you might as well just make friends and be happy. And if you are gonna do something about it - overthrow the evil shadow regime or whatever - then you will need friends to do it. So go make friends!
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I consider trust a network, where you are the root CA (certificate authority) or like a tree where you are the trunk, with a locus of control. You have to figure out where your ground truth comes from and re-establish if it if you can’t locate it, whether it’s your upbringing, your life experiences, your family, the books you’ve read or the shows you’ve watched, where you’ve been or the friends you have/had.
Everybody sees the world at least a little bit differently, so you have to kinda figure out where they get their beliefs from and try to connect on the common points while also respectfully figuring out where and why there are differences.
So as just a random internet person I can only recommend two things:
- Ignore most stuff coming from influencers and people that change their principles willy-nilly to suit themselves or chase every fad, there’s very little for you to gain from that.
- If you get stressed or panicked thinking about the chaos of the whole world, slow down, step back, remember the locus of control, think about the things you want to change, can change and can’t change and take the first step of action from amongst the things you have direct control over, and worry less about trying to do anything more than your best to make the situation better.
Strongly agree.
And honestly… as much as possible build your network IRL. Neighbors, co-workers (yes, don’t let capitalism convince you you must drop your humanity), etc.
Truth is, you probably won’t have perfect alignment with them… but they’re real. They and you are flawed, but real.
Online communities have thier place… but they’re not at all a replacement. It’s so easy to gravitate to people who think exactly like you online, but it dulls your ability to operate IRL.
I think therefore I am. We can only known that we exist in some form, we can’t know if others are even real, but its still a good idea to trest them as if they are real, because otherwise you’ll run into problems with the reality you know, whether its real or false.
In general, my guide to the truth (lowest is most trustworthy, higher is less trustworthy):
- Internal Logics formed by your consciousness
- Your senses, what you see and witness, what you hear, your first-hand account
2a. If you wrote a journal, and if you can authenticate your handwriting or writing style, then you could use that to clarify any fuzzy memories
2b. Same with photos/videos, but be skeptical of potential modifications. We know image alteration tech already exists. - IRL First-hand account from people you know
3a. People you trust
3b. Stangers
3c. People you are skeptical of (if they have a history of lying or exaggerating, you can rank them even lower on their trustworthiness) - Stories from someone that know someone that you know (e.g: “friend of your friend”)
- Mainstream News Media, Mainstream Internet Sources, Official Reports.
- The Internet in general.
Oh buddy, I’ve been there, and now I’m a nihilist. Good luck.
Trust is developed through genuine conversations and actions, it is never something you can be totally sure of but on the otherhand when conversation and action is based on mutually shared values, solidarity and empathy you don’t need perfect trust.
The struggle to improve all our lives as best we can isn’t some clandestine bankrobbery that requires secrecy and ultimate commitment.
I actually help train for combating disinformation and the such, I could forward you a few docs if you’re interested in the read.
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