In my experience with people, I think folks are far too likely to read in planning and malice where simple stupidity is a clearer explanation.
I’ve known a ton of folks in the “elite” and most of them are just as stupid, greedy, and selfish as everyone else.
I think all governments tend to gather more power over time as people who work for the government want to keep their individual job security and pay.… read more “Conspiracy theories”
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/wop-chapter-3.html
This is actually incredibly true. A lot of the increasing polarization we have seen since the 90s is due to external threats to the United States disappearing, and the United States falling into factions within itself. As the generations that remember the unity that kept Americans together to face the cold war threats die off, the new generations have only known us vs them internally not externally.
What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/wop-contents.html
Anyone who knows me and who wants to read it, please contact me and I will buy you a copy.
One more thing that occurred to me – couples grow together significantly over time, meaning that you don’t have to be a perfect match in terms of hobbies and interests and such at the start. Even things like vices or principles can change a bit. That’s why I think it is so important to find someone super reliable and trustworthy and kind over everything else.
Joel Salatin is a truly brilliant man who has written a masterwork full of ideas on how everyone in the world could live an enormously better life. The book is entertaining and fun to read as Joel has a great sense of humor and pacing in his writing.
“No civil job should be so profitable as to be desirable.”
Just as Elon Musk got rid of 90% of the useless dead weight at Twitter, so we Americans need to reduce the size of government by 98%.
Griffin (3 y/o) upon being told there was a cemetery nearby, said he wants to go poke the dead people.
We informed him this would probably be gross.