Recently in chat groups formed for various other reasons, the discussion turns political, and this prompts some to leave, and some to say, lets just have our discussions without politics.
Why?
Politics, at least recently has become divisive and polarizing, splitting friends and families, setting up epic battles between the "left" and the "right". A lot of people have checked out, they don't want the conflict, and know that endless battles on the internet are not a value add to their lives.
OK, fair enough, but maybe there is a cost to leaving that space, and not engaging. Or at least not reading it and understanding the many different sides.
One reason I pay attention comes from what Andrew Breitbart famously said, that "Politics is downstream of culture". How is this true? Can you predict where politics is headed based on what Hollywood is doing? I would have scoffed at that earlier, thinking these are two different worlds, but as we see more and more performative politicians, both left and right, and we also see more and more political themes woven through films that are popular, perhaps you can tell the direction of society base on what's making money in Hollywood.
As Hollywood leans heavily left, you can only guess why such themes as catastrophic climate change, everyone has to be anti-racist, and third wave feminism as an example of some that seem to be a majority view in society. Also we see a lot of pro war messages too, like Top Gun, Battleship, Midway, and 1917.
Back in 2011, Breitbart had a very good article explaining why this concept is relevant to us Nomads, as it highlight what direction your culture is going.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2011/08/22/politics-really-is-downstream-from-culture/
Want some third wave feminism topped up by huge war machine spending? Seems that is our current direction. As the article says, knowing what the "moral of the story" is and figuring out if you are aligned with the messaging can also help when you discuss this with friends and family.
Like the Barbie movie... how many saw this and said it was just a funny take on Barbie? Well, laced in there was a third wave feminist message that women can only be happy when men are put down, and likewise, men are only happy with women are put down. It sets up the message that women are not equal to men, they are far better. Do you agree with that? Or do you think that is not the message of this movie?
My conclusion is that we cannot avoid the political discussions, and while I am not always engaging with them, I am taking the temperature, checking for clues and adapting my plan to suit.
PS. note in the article from 2011, it mentions that the left are kinda anti-government.... boy, did that turn around!
Trying out something new, a video message.
Also to back this up is a good article from Glen Greenwald about how our capacity to reason diminishes during the highly charged climate surrounding a war and war propaganda from BOTH sides.
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Michael Saylor shared something recently that may have gone unnoticed by most.... he said it in an interview with Tom Bilyeu recently.... here is the clip:
https://x.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1869507247526793481
MICHAEL SAYLOR: The first nation to print their own currency to buy Bitcoin wins.
Paul from invest answers then also put together the fact that MSTR is applying to issue more stock to buy more BTC.... is that the same thing? Basically, people will be using fiat to buy stock that will be used to purchase BTC. But the BTC supply is limited.... so get your MSTR (or your BTC) soon! (NOT financial advice....)
But this is not what Satoshi's original 2008 whitepaper (https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper) had in mind when it developed Bitcoin, it was suppose to be a peer to peer cashless transaction system, right?
Roger Ver thinks so, and wrote a book about it called Hijacking Bitcoin. This video is a summary of that book ...
Why Doug Casey and Anton Wahlman are wrong about the upcoming election.
Let start by reading and listening to what they have to say:
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/america-is-now-a-socialist-country
After reading the blog post on Hersey and Liberty, and as we see in the video from Doug Casey on why they think America is doomed to vote in "Commie-La", I think they have missed the bigger picture on the American electorate and what is driving the upcoming election.
Going through history, the three things that are the biggest motivations for the motivation to "Throw the bums out" are;
1. It's the Economy, stupid
2. How safe am I now?
3. Foreign Wars
Maybe the 2nd and 3rd reasons are intertwined, but this is the main three. And Commie-La, as much as she may try to run against the current administration, people know, she is part of the machine in power. With all three of these big picture items against her, the chances she pulls this off are extremely low.
Doug and Anton are reacting to a ...
I liked this article on Substack, and of particular interest is the video from Richard Nixon. Oh if we could only go back and know then what we know now.
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/putin-to-tucker-nato-provoked-the