- Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
- Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
- Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.
The rest is commentary.
Society holds together through spectacle and habit rather than accountability
It is necessary to choose the difficult truth over the easy satisfying one.
The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication.
on smart people who are stuck
the $25+ billion Iran War & Profits
The Chance for Peace
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” Address “The Chance for Peace” Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 by Dwight D. Eishenhower
seems poignant
Nothing you do matters
A Ding Dong from a factory is not the same thing as a gâteau au chocolat et crème chantilly from a baker which is not the same thing as cramming chunks of chocolate and scoops of whipped cream directly into your mouth while standing in front of the fridge at 2:00am.
I didn’t leave a dent in the universe so much as splatted against it. The world no longer has a need for what I somewhat sardonically call my art.
on sunk costs
Sunk costs: just because you’ve already sunk your time/effort into a situation doesn’t mean that you should continue putting in more & more time/effort (let it go!).
You know how dogs appear to be so happy? You also know that when dog is called to eat it runs away immediately from the hole it’s been digging for last three hours?
Perception, pattern-seeking, and the role of neurodivergence in a failing civilisation
deep pattern analysis plus moral intensity, produces a profound relationship to collapse awareness: You cannot pretend the system is stable when the evidence says otherwise, and you cannot keep playing along with narratives that dissolve under scrutiny.
Many people who feel ‘out of step’ eventually realise the conflict wasn’t with the evidence in front of them, but with a culture built to avoid seeing it.
autistic cognition often favours pattern-based reasoning, recursive logic, and multi-variable tracking, whereas neurotypical cognition more often defaults to socially mediated, linear, expectation-driven reasoning.
When a person’s identity is not anchored in dominant social narratives, the erosion of those narratives does not produce the same level of disorientation.
the perceptual traits often associated with neurodivergence, pattern recognition over social reassurance, systemic perception over short-term reward, and truth orientation over comfort orientation, become increasingly relevant in a world where biophysical reality is asserting itself.
Those who have been told they are “too much,” “too intense,” or “too literal,” often turn out to have been responding to conditions that others were able to avoid seeing.
https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/why-some-people-see-collapse-earlier
Alcohol may shift the brain from connected into a fragmented state
The analysis revealed distinct shifts in the brain’s topology following alcohol consumption. When participants drank alcohol, their brains moved toward a more “grid-like” state. The network became less random and more clustered.
This investigation provides a nuanced view of acute intoxication. It moves beyond the idea that alcohol simply “dampens” brain activity. Instead, it reveals that alcohol forces the brain into a segregated state. Information gets trapped in local cul-de-sacs rather than traveling the superhighways of the mind.