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There is a trap that we are constantly being pushed to fall into.
That trap that eats up our time unnecessarily and that, if we get caught, inevitably leads us to depression.
I call it the "false target" and it is probably the most miserable trap of the modern world.
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It has been known since ancient times, but democracy has sublimated it to such an extent that today it has become commonplace to fall into it.
Let me explain the matter to you in theoretical terms, after which we will move on to the practical part.
Take the world in which you live, your immediate proximity and the extended one.
You have several types of people there: some poor, some rich. Some do better, some do worse.
Independent of their material status, some are happier, others are mizerable.
Or some are downright crazy.
Look carefully at what I call the "immediate world".
That is the real world, where you spend 99% of your time.
You only leave it as a passenger (vacation, short-term trips, etc.).
But even when you leave it, you still stay in it because you are connected.
Only radical decisions - like I move to another town or country - make you leave it and enter another immediate reality, with largely the same characteristics.
Practically your entire life takes place in that reality, in your corner of the world.
There you have everything: achievement, defeat, temptation, success, etc.
You can clearly see that the same forces, the same laws, the same influences act on your corner of the world.
However, for some it is better, for others it is worse.
And so the question arises: why is it worse for me than for the other?
Then comes the frustration: that one is stupider than me, more unpolished, more rudimentary, and yet he is doing better.
Well?
I don't think there's a person who hasn't been bothered by this question. In fact, it's downright frustrating for the vast majority of people.
That's it, let's sit down and analyze it at leisure.
Who's to blame?
Limiting your horizon to the level of your world, you can clearly find the answer.
In this case, there's no need to wait until the end of the day.
And it's terribly hard for us to admit that, in the end, the blame for what concerns us belongs entirely to us. Otherwise, how is it that some people are happier than you, practically in the same conditions?
And right here, at this neuralgic point, comes the deception.
The mechanism is a banal one.
Your psyche is the one that plays tricks on you.
It seeks to protect you by trying to find an external culprit.
In this way, you can enjoy yourselves with your loved ones.
In this case, you don't go to the neighbours to hold them accountable for the fact that you ran out of money.
You would be embarrassing, you would be laughed at.
And your unconscious knows this.
Reason for which it seeks an inaccessible enemy, one who cannot fight back.
And here is where the so-called democratic society sets the biggest trap in history: the official culprit, in the form of the politician, the president, the prime minister, etc.
Who is to blame for you running out of money?
This is the most important thing that happens in Parliament.
And just like that, you spend your time cursing that person instead of trying to solve your problem.
Which problem is related to your immediate circle, to the way you secure your resources, to your world and not at all to the world that you falsely look at, expecting it to solve your problems.
Let's be clear.
I do not want to absolve politicians of any guilt. They are more guilty than you can immagine, of just about everything.
At the same time, you can enjoy it, is their fault for anyhting that happens bad to you.
And yes bad things come down the pipeline.
Well, not from them, but from the system as a whole.
There is no problem taking care of the problem.
In this certainty that a lousy animal like your prime minster or prezident is 100% to blame for the generalized increase in prices, certainly that a nut case like your King or Prezident has nowhere to take us but into the abyss, narrows the story you need to think about, at fault is another dude.
As long as there are happy people in the vicinity, it means that those people have managed to find the antidote to the "evil radiation" coming from above and which acts the same on all beings equally.
So the question you need to think about is how come others have found a solution, while you haven't.
Our society is perverse precisely because it helps you easily find an intangible enemy to blame.
Although this solves your momentary frustration, it doesn't heal your pain.
Moreover, by masking it, it makes it grow in intensity and become chronic.
Until when? Well, until you go crazy.
You become paralyzed, you have the impression that every step is forbidden to you by the "great enemy".
The worst thing is, individuals who are downright insignificant in your reality end up blocking you oin your footstep, and they don't even know it.
How comes?
Because your mind plays tricks on you: in order to protect yourself, it encourages you to find the fault elsewhere, as far away from you as possible, as inaccessible as possible, so that you are content with the thought that "there is nothing I can do anyway".
Gradually, such distortions become bigger and bigger.
And, in parallel, your life is destroyed.
You have vain hopes that the next person who comes will solve your problem.
But it doesn't happen because such a thing is impossible.
And you curse them for "betraying you".
You do this forgetting that the problems you have are related to your immediate reality, not to an abstract politician who is put there anyway to play a role, to channel people's despair and frustrations.
The perverse side of current society lays right here, in the way it offers you such "refugees" on a platter.
And it does it because the system's functioning is fueled by the degree of frustration in society.
The morbidity of society as a whole is a guarantee that the artisans of the system preserve their power.
It is the small element that is not written anywhere.
As long as you relate to the "instruments of blasphemy" that society cheerfully provides you with, you have no other direction than one of failure and of transforming yourself into a tool of the system.
However, if you have the strength to confront your weaknesses, to understand what keeps you in chains and to overcome the comfort given by identifying the "external enemy" responsible for your failures, only from that moment do you begin to live.
- the "penniless open source creators", to give to you;
- the "users" that cannot creat anything we do, but can create other things with what we created, hopefully:
programs,
machines,
concepts,
art,
and systems;
that in the proprietary world cost millions that you never ever in your life time will have and neither will we have.
And we do that for pennies or for free most of times.
That is how you can now have a 3D printer for less than 1% of the same machine was sold by Stratasys and their proprietary type of businesses untill a decade ago.
Or Free CAD or Blender or VLC, that outmatch many corporate paid programs and allow you, the technically analphabet user to create and use and enjoy things, concepts and creations that would of being locked up in a tall ivory tower out of your reach for ever if it was for the corporate lords and the way they think of you; simple monkies toying around in the mud.
We know the Chinese are making a steal using our work without direct compensation to us by stealing our work and mass producing it for dirty cheap making a nice living out of it for themselves, but we do have indirect compensation;
... we live to see our design and development mass produced by them for cheap for you; despite Stratsys and the likes (or yaykes) of them.
We also beneficiate in return of cheap components of other people's "creations in open source" that enables us to make more innovations and inventions that otherwise we could of never being able to buy at corporate prices, hence our ideas would of died inside us before even being born, kind off like the Leonardo Da Vinci's helicopter that he never lived to see in flight, but for different corporate reasons.
no need for supports for overhanging is the easiest to immagine, especially inside cavities where cleansing them is if not impossible at least really difficult,
- to the simple fact that ... layer adhesion matters, unless if you can also wrap up the vertical print like you do in XY axis, cruss crossing the layers any way you see fit to stiffen the part printed.
A) Technically let say you just print the inner wall vertically in vase mode (layer adhesion sucks in vase mode)
B) Than you come back on the tilted part and draw another layer all around bottom to top aligned all around at 90 degrees from the vase mode,
C) Than you come back again top to bottom at 45 degrees respect to the verticall aligned wall,
D) Than you go bottom to top at 90 degrees from you last wall, and 45 reversed degrees from the frist two walls
E) All this with a hot tepertature, high push into the previous wall, wide layer and max pressure flow possible generating maybe lots of stringing hence a sturdy part looking fairly ugly
F) And you finish it up with a last two walls oriented any way you think you need it aestetically; made of very fine lines, low temperature ranges, narrow line to make it look in the end almost as injection molded from the future best macines ever.
And voila; Neary isotropic print best quality looking possible with minimum material and nearly zero supports otside (sometimes it is just impossible to give up supports) but cerrtainly zero supports to cleanse in the inner cavities.
Add to this a separated micro robotic arm placing while print in progress metalic inserts, magnets and what not in absolutelly unreacheble at "finished print" cavities, and no injection moulding machine can outmatch you in your design.
This is he future and me and my small team of open source volunteerrs work on it for a few decades now nailing it down as time passes while the rest of the market cannot see yet the dust raised by our speed in their not yet forseabile future that is our recent past.
We seem to be so far ahead behind the horizont that that the dust raised by our speeding through time and tech is long seettled and looks ancient by the time the rest of you stirr it up again with your passing, and you call it cutting edge frontiere...
C'mon guys, catch up with us please, we need your help here in the future.
The reason why empires fell, including the USSR, British, Roman, Turkish, and now US in in free falling too, is that they needed brains to become empires, so they invested heavily in the schooling at academic level of dumbasses and slaves.
But the dumbasses, the mujik, the slave, once educated, passes the schooling on to the second generation, who no longer feels the obligation to kiss the hand of the master because they took him out of the pig shed and put him in charge of the pig shed, they owe that to moms and dads, not to their owner, so they start in life benefiting from quality family education, and the clear awareness that they don't have to kiss anyone's hand for that.
Their babies are already somewhere further away, they hate the masters who raised their grandparents from the pig sheds; and they want to take their place, they want a society where wealth and power are no longer in the hands of 1% but they will redistribute it to 20%, that is, to themselves (the ones in the pig sheds are to stay there, because they are stupid), but there's a problem, to get down the 1% elites you need that 80% of the pig shed army, and you stand no chance if you don't educate them a little, not too much, but a little.
And that's how the nation wakes up, nobody wants to be in the pig shed anymore, everyone wants up to the buttons, even if only the tractor buttons, at least they have buttons there too, and hopefully they give 1% of the earth a smack of their heads against the same earth.
And out of those, 20% coagulate 1% the more corrupt and corruptible, get their hands on the reins and look straight at how they got from shoeless in the pig shed to elites in power in three or four generations, and they get really scared, well if we could they will be able to do the same, them the today's dumbasses and slaves, as soon as possible.
Scary.
The solution; the degradation of education, the export of brains so that there is no shadow of organization, rebellion, uprising, to take their place in stealing up there.
We are at this stage now globally, more or less.
In 3-4 generations we will be again the stage from which the the planet rose from the mud in the 50s and 60s, that is, the ones from the top buttons will be surrounded only by fools and villains, they will be caught by the truth that without educated subordinates they will be swallown by the neighbors, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine (if there will be more something called Ukraine), Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, etc., that they can not even defend their own trousers on their butts from them, and will start a massive schooling to form the base of experts whom to support them in power, and the wheel turns again ...
Revolution ...
In 10 generations from today we will be back in the 70's and 80's with too many smart people who see the truth and are organized to bring down that 1%, and in 100 years we will be again as we are now, only bullshit and education degraded and dumbed down .
Revolution ...
Things keep happening that you considered impossible to happen.
Who would have thought that we would end up arrested in our own homes during the Pandemic?
Who would have thought that it would be possible to exercise the tyranny of vaccination over us?
Who would have thought that the right to opinion would be so brutally prohibited as it is now in Western societies?
For an opinion written on a social network, in England and in European countries you go to prison.
If I were to list the aberrations in today's society, I would probably easily fill at least one edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
Imagine that in an European country some elections were absolutely arbitrarily canceled.
And, absolutely surprisingly, there are some who take the moron in chief of the system seriously when he says that he will publish the report on the cancellation of the elections?
Well, he's a natural idiot, the others are morons "by design".
The problem we need to understand is that all these "undoable" matters are happening in a society built on the conceptions of freedom radicals, such as Rousseau.
In the Western world, where "freedoms and rights" are considered sacred, their violation has become routine, a banality.
Something that worsens from one day to the next. What are we to understand?
In fact, it is a logical matter, known and theorized since ancient times.
In China it was called the "Mandate of Heaven" or the dynastic cycle, part of the official philosophy of the state.
Somewhat later, more precisely in the 14th century, the Arab thinker Ibn Khaldun introduces the notion of Asabiyyah, which would now be translated as social solidarity; social cohesion.
A state resists exactly as long as this Asabiyyah resists.
Peripheral groups - made up of simple people, tribes, revolutionaries - have enormous solidarity because they have gone through hardships together.
Thus they manage to conquer the cities and define the new state.
However, once installed in power, in a maximum of 3-4 generations (approximately 120 years), the luxurious urban life and money destroy their solidarity.
The children of the leaders no longer know what effort means, they become selfish, the state weakens, and another group with a fresher and stronger Asabiyyah sweeps them off the stage of history.
The theory of the state/civilizational cycle has not remained a notion lost in history, but has been distilled in the modern era through people like Arnold Toynbee or Peter Turchin.
As an idea, a complete cycle has four phases:
Phase 1: Definition or Genesis (Initial Solidarity)
A new system appears, usually on the ruins of an old one or following chaos (war, revolution, invasion).
A new elite, disciplined and united around a strong idea (religion, ideology, national identity), lays the foundations of the state.
The characteristics of this period are as clear as can be: simple and strict laws, efficient institutions, and minimal corruption.
There is tremendous social cohesion – people are willing to make sacrifices for the collective.
Phase 2: Growth and Expansion (Golden Age)
The state consolidates its institutions, military, and economy.
It begins to accumulate wealth, build infrastructure, and expand its geographical or cultural influence.
Now the main characteristic is the emergence of complex bureaucracies that efficiently manage resources.
The population grows, the standard of living rises, and the arts and sciences flourish.
It is the peak moment.
Phase 3: Stagnation and Elite Overproduction (Bureaucratization)
Wealth brings comfort, and comfort brings stagnation.
The social cohesion from the beginning begins to crack.
What historian Peter Turchin calls “the overproduction of elites” appears: too many rich and influential people fighting for the same positions of power, while the base of society (the common people) begins to impoverish due to taxes or inflation.
The main characteristic of this phase is individualism replacing the spirit of sacrifice.
Phase 4: Decadence and Collapse (Terminal Phase)
The state becomes financially insolvent, and corruption becomes systemic.
Citizens’ trust in institutions drops to zero, losing legitimacy.
The system becomes extremely fragile to external (economic crises, invasions) or internal (civil war) shocks.
The characteristic of the period is violent collapse, fragmentation.
The system can no longer be reformed from within because its “pieces” refuse to lose their privileges.
Does this sound familiar?
Take a look at the local and international situation to understand as simply and precisely as possible the phase we are in.
The entire West is made up of financially bankrupt states, and corruption is so great that it has become legal.
There is maximum social polarization everywhere, in which the real barons, the 1%, own over 99% of the nation's wealth.
Reform?
No way!
Look at Trump: he came out of the election campaign with a program bringer of hope and ended it by subsidizing the military-industrial complex so that it wouldn't be eaten alive by them.
To make the story even more interesting, I will tell you that there is even a pattern to the current phase.
The way in which state institutions collapse is one that has been repeated constantly over time.
There are three phases here too:
Phase 1: Collapse of the immune system
First, the institutions of control and integrity fail.
Candidate number 1 is the Judiciary where, through appointments or infiltrations (see the case of judges and prosecutors on the secret services' cover lists), preferential application of the law is achieved.
The same category includes economic regulatory institutions.
However, the component that is most brutally hit is the independent press.
This is either bought or censored.
Everything is happening against the backdrop of a very banal scheme: the gross increase in incompetence.
Phase 2: Bankruptcy or collapse of public service institutions and infrastructure
The consequences of the first phase begin to spread throughout society.
Generalized corruption and incompetence increase the prices of various services in relation to the state and thus the institutions that provide services to the population enter into operational collapse.
Education and Health enter into blockages, the quality leaves much to be desired.
Critical infrastructure deteriorates as a result of lack of maintenance.
And, although the "state offer" is increasingly poor in quality, taxes and duties increase, etc.
Phase 3: The besieged fortress
When public services have collapsed and the population is revolted, the state completely loses its legitimacy.
The only way the system can survive is through brute force.
Therefore, the institutions of force are the last to be financed and the most fiercely defended by the elites.
The Fiscal Apparatus becomes extremely aggressive, trying to squeeze the last resources from the population and businesses to keep the state afloat.
The Intelligence Services and the Political Police/Gendarmerie change their role from protecting national security to protecting the elites from their own people.
They receive large budgets, riot control equipment and legal immunity.
In this context, the army becomes the last line of defense of the system.
It sounds familiar;
If what I am saying seems new, imagine that it has happened so many times that it has become theorized.
And, what is surprising is that, despite the fact that everything is documented, the same errors are made every time.
You often wonder why?
OK, as a simple person it is excusable.
You have no way of taking this matter into account.
It is information that interests you tangentially, so if you have no idea, it is not serious.
But as a planner of society, as a service of the system, not having any idea what waters you are bathing in seems inexcusable.
But the story is different.
Even if you know, there's nothing you can do!
Fatality?
I wouldn't say so.
The reason is much simpler: you undoubtedly end up in the area where reform is impossible.
That's the situation we find ourselves in.
Look around the world: Trump, Macron, Starmer, Merz, Ursula or Nicușor Dan.
All parrots.
And ours surpasses them because, beyond stupidity, it also has a degree of dilema that is downright unsustainable and, at the same time, particularly comical for the masses.
When you see how much stupidity is crammed into levels 1 and 2 of the West, you wonder how it works. Can you imagine a notorious fool like Kaja Kallas making EU foreign policy?
How does the world still work?
The answer is simple: due to inertia.
And it doesn't work, but rolls by inertia mimicking a former state of things that have being destroyed by the powers to be already long time ago; either until it explodes or it drowns into the pit of self dismanteling.
B) Stupidity cannot be cured with medicine, it is not a disease, it is a personal choice.
C) Stupidity is lethal, for stupid people themselves.
D) Stupidity does not hurt, if it would hurt, they would go to the doctor and stop dying like stupid people.
E) If the salary depends on being stupid, it does not matter how clear the subject is; you will never understand anything, let the money come in.
F) If God the Great and Kind didn't look after the stupid, in 5 years we would have 1% of the population left on Earth.
G) Stupidity is not hereditary, there are documented cases in history when from families of stupid people with stupid children, one comes out to move mountains, change science and redraw borders with genius.
H) If God the Great and Kind doesn't let stupid people live, where will we get any smart people from in this world?
I) The opposite is also true, from families of smart people, two generations later there are stupid people, but with high positions and doctorates.
