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Cake day: October 17th, 2022

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  • Climate change is a changing process. China and Africa can do alot to build forests for carbon capture and maybe create a timber industry that can be carbon negative. Hopefully we can do something like that in South America. A lithium economy is emerging and maybe just the ecological contraints will just make capitalism stop making sense. Capitalists will make decisions based on faulty assumptions. Being delusional is not a good way to keep power for long. The contradictions between assumptions and reality lead to bad decisions.











  • You sound like a Gnostic that believes that they are having a personal battle with the Demiurge. There are the rules of “spirit” also known as common sense that confine what nature can be. However the rules of matter often discover that the world is stranger than our cultural ancestors presumed and we should update our understanding accordingly. A more accurate understanding helps one understand why something exists. Knowing why something exists can tell you how to make something not exist. This applies to living things, people, societal concepts and all other things. To give up on the concept of understanding is to relinquish one’s power to those that want to keep power. It is the common sense of the spirit that fights understanding that truly limits ones power and freedom more than the limits of matter.








  • There are 3 kinds of people. People that don’t want 100% free speech without consequence, the other kind of person lies about wanting 100% free speech. The third sensible kind wants speech regulated to some degree but not too much.

    In both bourgeoisie and socialist democracies it is good to give people a means to vent their frustrations and hopefully reform or respond to the concerns of the people. Opposing the masses of people with concerns that are legitimately hurting the people is an act of hubris that is not good for the stability of the government. I think it is reasonable to regulate/call out misinformation or campaigns wholly based on misinformation. Ideally, media companies must vet out to not report misinformation because it undermines the ability of the people to assess real threats to their democracy.

    To the extent of the country is in fact a democracy representing the people, it is of great priority that the people not be lead astray with false information easily. For this reason, Bourgeoisie democracies often tell falsehoods. Bourgeoisie institutions in general spin narratives to divert the problems capitalism causes onto false scapegoats to keep the Bourgeoisie corporations in power. Socialist institutions that represent the will of the people and accountable to those people have no incentive to spin false narratives in the media. Problems can exist, then they are addressed eventually.