Hearts and Minds
What people think: matters.
Billions of dollars are spent every year trying to manipulate public opinion. This could be for the greater good, nefarious purposes, generating a profit, or even sparking a revolution. People will go to war over a tax on tea and elect politicians based on paid advertisements. Humanity is a very weird place when put under a microscope on a statistical level.
Take the obesity rate in America for example.
It is quite high. Why is it so high? It shouldn't be so high. Lazy Americans should get their fat asses to the gym, amirite? Well it's not that simple, now is it? Trying to apply personal accountability to an entire population is a losing strategy that will leave people confused about why their model doesn't work. How many mid-wits out there are running around blaming fat people for being fat and just assuming that the problem should resolve itself by way of magical thinking? Spoiler alert: it's a lot, and it's embarrassing. People love to comment on the problem without offering any real solutions. Solutions are difficult, and complaining is easy.
Some people can deal with it.
Some people can live out their hamster-ball life and do just fine. They can get on a treadmill and walk in circles for an hour without getting depressed. They can lift heavy weight up and down over and over while still receiving dopamine hits to the brain and get a sense of accomplishment from what they have done.
And some people: CAN'T
This is what many do not understand. Everyone is different; diversity is everywhere. What works for one group of people isn't going to work for everyone. Someone who works 50 hour weeks and hates their job isn't going to have the energy to do extra stuff on top of it. Sitting at a desk full time isn't going to do anyone's posture or energy levels a favor.
I'm always seeing people post pictures of the beach in the 70's and pose the question: 'Where are the fat people?' What kind of a question is that? Where's the Internet, low grade food, and entire generations of people who can live vicariously in a digital age? Where are all the trash jobs with no pensions or ability to be promoted? Why are there so many stay-at-home moms?
This idea that the past is better than the present is not a productive one. We can not move backwards. What worked for 1970 does not work for 2020. It does not matter if the dollar lost 99% of it's value over the last century because who was storing their value in fiat for the last hundred years? Time and time again we see data get manipulated and exaggerated to paint some picture of a problem that doesn't exist in the way it is presented, nor can it be fixed using the implications therein.
So how can these problems be fixed?
Society and culture have been in a state of severe growing pains for decades. Technology have been terraforming our environment at a rate so fast that it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep up. Capitalism cuts all the corners in the name of profits. The only models that can scale are the ones that not only generate value, but capture it.
And so the answer to a lot of these problems is a complete paradigm shift of how humanity interacts with itself. New scalable models are appearing where the transfer of value from one person to another doesn't inevitably lead to a single agent being in charge. Used to be if you wanted to get something important done one person would have to take a big risk, and would hire people to help them take that big risk and get the thing done. Employees hired in this way are not taking any risk: they are paid by the hour. No risk no reward; they don't get any ownership of the final product. Crypto is changing the game.
At the same time 3D-printing & artificial intelligence is beginning to make a massive appearance. How long before non-human agents start to partake in the new digital economy being forged without the helping hand of an actual person? This is something that's been talked about for over a decade and seemed far away, and is now right around the corner. With the ability to permissionlessly move money around, purely digital agents with no KYC to speak of will be able to convey value directly via the Internet. Surely this will lead to some amazing and potentially terrifying outcomes, but hopefully mostly good will come from it, as pathways that were always closed begin to open up.
Too many people believe the lies.
The entire model for society is shifting toward a data-driven mindset. Trust is profitable, and then the lies derived from that trust are even more profitable. People trust their bank even after they've been fined billions of dollars. People trust their government even after being provably lied to over and over again.
Why does this keep happening?
Because society completely breaks down without trust. No one can do everything, and you have to trust someone, so why not trust who everyone else is trusting? It's really the ultimate in brand recognition and selling out. Many would rather blindly trust what they are told rather than admit they were fooled. The two-party system makes it easy to simply blame all failures on the other side. This is psychology 101, and the science of trust and half-truth has been perfected for decades. There is no end to the depth of this rabbit-hole.
Sounds bleak!
Yeah, it can be depressing, but also shifts in public perception can turn on a dime. One day everything seems to be going fine and then the next a government has been overrun because the price of gas doubled. It's usually not rooted in any kind of logical rhyme or reason. These things are emotional.
We really have to wonder what the future holds considering what a volatile state we find ourselves in. By all accounts it seems like the banks are preparing for disaster. If we thought FTX insolvency wasn't pretty, just wait until actual banks just shrug and tell the common public they don't have their money. This has been happening in developing nations for a while, which is to be expected, but it seems all but certain that the trend will spread to Europe and potentially even the States. FDIC insurance will only go so far. Bail-ins and legally stolen customer funds are the real backstop. Most people do not believe this can happen to them... until it does and they lose all trust.
The interesting thing about all of this is how people handle it. It wasn't so long ago that when citizens lost all faith within the banking sector that they would stuff their mattress full of cash or find other sub-par ways to store their value. Now that we have crypto and community being built from the ground up, it seems like this time around should be completely different than previous iterations.
It's going to get quite awkward when average people have complete distrust for all the institutions around them, while at the same time being offered an invite to communities that control their own currency with a much better track-record than said institutions. It's never been easy to opt out of the mainstream system and try something new, and the ability to onboard will only get more streamlined as time goes on.
Conclusion
Always be on the lookout when it comes to shifts in the narrative and how public perception is changing. Take now for example: we are seeing very little change in what people believe. Instead, most of us sit in an echo-chamber that reinforces what we already 'know'. It takes massive events and catalysts to occur to change hearts and minds on a global scale, but it does happen. Given the current economic and political climate we can be sure that these shifts in narrative are guaranteed to occur at some point. It's not a matter of 'if' so much as 'when'. The lies of the establishment can only carry them so far.
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It's likely going to get quite bumpy, and the way forward and through it is self-sufficiency, self-reliancy, self-responsibility, self-determination, and self-ownership. We must learn to do, make, build, repair, grow things for ourselves, creating our own parallel systems that make the slave system obsolete. From my perspective Hive is a part of that, which, makes me grateful that I'm here! Great post @edicted! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
I like your article and I think that democracy should prevail in all regimes and social classes of this current society and although what you say above seems somewhat ridiculous, we know that the manipulation of public opinion is a real problem that affects us all in all parts and in all branches of each society, so he supported the information you have given related to that topic
Perception is something that we can change, but the environment narrative is still quite strong, take for example the one saying to go to a good school, and get a job. Is not that simple anymore. Work hard and you will be rich, not true either. Get some dumb luck and become millionaire/billionaire, quite true in the past few year. There are many myths and many wrong ideas. Where should we start?
He only had to wait for 5 days and the $100K in CASH would be given to him, if he didn’t get it on the day, then he has a real complaint.
PS. Idea for your next post (patience or lack of it)
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Thanks mate
I do wonder if we'll get to a point where insurance companies have to narrow their payout situations so much as to be useless, or fold because insurance just isn't profitable anymore (more weather events, more sickness, more bank runs, more defaults, etc) - and then the effects that'll have on literally every other aspect of the current civilization.
I imagine communities will get very good at looking after each other again as institutions continually fail.
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Fuuny thing is, I had a compilation album given to me by my mother as a gift. It had all of the pictures from my childhood. My kids were looking at it to see all about my childhood. There first question was "Daddy, where are all of the fat people?!"
I have no solution for all of societies current problems, but I figure they will swing back the other way based on circumstances and become different "problems" from todays.
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We're not speaking about the same thing while talking about money across the globe. That is the first problem that has to be addressed.
I like to see it this was, is a tradable entity defined by:
It's not money that is the problem, but some of the rules beyond institutionalized money systems are rather "hard to believe" to be enforced via FIAT.
In terms of Obesity, I think that the world as we know it has changed. The companies selling these drinks and food do not really care about the people they are selling them to. If smoke-related lung cancer has killed fewer people in modern times what's stopping fast-food companies from putting a warning on their food other than the power they have not to do so?
I think most people are acting out of ignorance under the premise that it is bliss.
There is also the case that there are people who lie openly about heart disease and obesity on social media...they need to be censored.
Fat influencers and the like need to go.
I know individual responsibility is not the best way to go about it...but we need to make it easier for people.
The society transitioned from fat shaming to “body positivity”, part of the total package.
It is also more profitable all around, especially for the medical industry selling snake oil to deal with the symptoms and not cures.
Food industry, media, are all in it. Same rich owners behind the curtain.
I agree. I just wish people could open their eyes.
Been waiting for a long time. It’s long overdue.
Never. We so poorly understand what consciousness is that's the best word we have for it, and AI is nothing but some algorithms, utterly incapable of volition and independent action. It can paint pretty pictures with pixels, but not with a brush, and someone has to tell it what to paint. It can't tie shoes, digest food, or cut hair - unless specifically made for that purpose with highly specialized hardware that doesn't do anything else, and tasked by a person to do so. People have a ~4B year head start on AI, and it is not yet capable of the complex decisions make by single celled creatures that live in our guts. Consciousness doesn't come from the brain. Single celled gut fauna don't have brains, because they're single cells, and don't have even one neuron (or they'd be a neuron instead of a single celled creature) but they have consciousness, learn, and make decisions, and even participate in human consciousness. In fact we have about as many neurons in our guts, to communicate with our gut fauna, as we do in our brains.
Neural networks will never gain consciousness because consciousness does not arise in our neurons or our brains, as conscious decisions made by single celled creatures without neurons proves. AI research is so far from reaching that goal that it hasn't yet even acknowledged that human consciousness is a multi species undertaking, we have no idea what causes it, where it comes from, or even what it actually is. Algorithms can be used to calculate numbers much better than meatsacks can, and people can use AI to disrupt finance and economic structures designed for meatsacks, but that doesn't mean AI can do that by itself.
That won't happen in my lifetime, if ever. We'd have to figure out what it is we're even trying to do first, and we have no idea at all. AI is just calculators and programming, having nothing to do with consciousness.
That I absolutely agree with. Let's hope we surprise the oligarchs and decide we're done being parasitized by them, and are going to profitably make our own goods and services they can't leech off. At least some of us are going to do that, and if everyone that doesn't ends up GMO slaves we're going to be the only people that matter.
We can see numerous examples in history, and even prehistory, of paradigm shifts that completely changed human society. Decentralization of the means of production of modern goods and services is such a paradigm shift, enabling bespoke local production to eliminate parasitic losses. Banksters don't have any mechanisms to tap our individual production. They can't tax it. They can't inflate it. They can't profit from it. Their only income is parasitizing our collective production in centralized industry, and decentralization increases productivity by eliminating parasitic losses, which leaves the parasites without income.
They can't put aluminum rails and stepper motors back in the genie's lamp. They can't eliminate the technology, even if they bomb us back into the Stone Age. The laws of physics determine what technology is possible, and clever monkeys tinker. We'll just get here again, as we have. Physics mandates that decentralization outcompetes centralization, and parasitic oligarchs will be eliminated eventually.
Once we get into space, we will be absolutely free to tap the unlimited resources in the infinite universe. Good times are coming. We just have a rough patch to get through first.
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I agree that we've reached a point where it's just about "when"... it's a matter of time, public perception is already changing and so many new things are creeping into people's heads.