The Instant Gratification Syndrome is killing humanity

Pertinent but incomplete analysis:

Let's not forget that all the bad things that make our life good are not because we want to have them as antique culture inherited from generations and generations of practicing their use.

It is because we were pushed from behind to want, often against our will.

Just like when they were under Communism or Capitalism, the peasants were taken from the villages in sackcloth and relocated in to the factories in the city to produce for them rich peoples business, because they had control of society and business, and made to live in conditions not at all consistent with their countryside lifestyle, forced to adapt to become something else (much taller, and much sooner), and in order to attract them they had to offer them "advantages" either economic or comfort, gadgets that arouse the envy of the neighbors and parents but... they bring zero extra comfort in reality.

Someone and something had to produce those gadgets, so they invented an economy of "fashion" that is floating and permanently changing in everything.

It's fashionable, so I want it (Well, but do you need it for something?) It doesn't matter, it's fashionable, I deplete my savings, abandon my human dignity, I kiss the ass of whoever I want, I stand in queues for three days and nights, and then I boast into the press that I have it.

I don't need it for anything, but I can brag big time.

Because this mental illness stuck only to those who had a lot of money, most of the population had not fallen ill from "I want to have it even though I don't need it" and therefore they gave access to money at any level, cheap, urgent credit and without any guarantees required.

This gave birth to an enormous wave of mental illnesses on the new version; "instant gratification".

So it doesn't matter anymore that I want to, even though I don't need to, and I'll be saving money for five years so that I can brag when I can have one.

Now I am going to brag in three days, the time needed to make myself a slave for life to whoever gives me the credit, then I not only work as a slave on the plantation to pay the debts (which keep accumulating as more and more fashionable things appear out of nowhere) , but I can't blame anything against whom is directing the planet, leading to my psychological and physical damage, because I owe them, so the "keep your mouth shut or you don't have another credit" to maintain the social status of "I don't actualy need this but... I have it" kicks in provoking self censoring behaviours.

Stop the planet because I want to get off here.

So if you ever thought FreeCAD is a poors man choice...

I was Autocad full steam till about 2008 when a friend of mine introduced me to Inventor, that wrecked my Autocad addiction and made me Inventor dependent, I did extrmelly complex projects in Inventor versions 2009 to 2012 and bumped in a lot of the Inventor limitations and bugs because of that.

Fusion 360 is a mini Inventor, bare bone, just like Revit is a mini Autocad, in my view.

I was aiming around the year 2014 to go Catia when somebody pointed me towards FreeCad, a free (like in freedom from oppresion, but also like in not for pay to use, however the accent is in free like in freedom) open source CAD parmetric modeler intended to do anything Catia would do.

I found it scarce and lagging years behind not only Catia but even Inventor wise, however it was usefull, so I started digging in. With time not only constant newer versions came up, but the community started creating plugins that brought it on par with Inventor 2009 version, including the bugs like Topological naming problem just to name the most obvious one (that happened around 2018 for me).

Now is 2024, FreeCad still has bugs, although they sorted out the Topological naming problem and are preparing themselves to release it in Beta testing in the next release, but heck man, it beats Inventor in some aspects, I mean the 2024 Inventor, you ca run it in Inventor like GUI, or in Solid (something) like GUI or in Catia GUI (FreeCAD has several different navigation modes available, that can be set in the preferences settings dialog or changed by right-clicking in the 3D view. For full details about the modes, see the Mouse navigation page), you have various analisys plug-ins, CFD, Stres, Weldings, you have pre made parts stocks when it comes to bearings, nuts, bolts, you have assembling plugins and much more.

Now FreeCad is on par with any paid big league CAD software at the pact you take the time to dig into it (most of you give up too early,waaaaay to early), you can work complex projects like boats, airplanes, blocks of flats, cars, I mean not just the outlines, but the whole assembly bolt by bolt, welding by welding, cable by cable, etc.

There are drawbacks too, it has some limitations that can be worked around with a bit of a headache, and obviously as you drag in more plugins and make it more powerfull, you need computing power, yes it drains a lot of math power, processor, memories, video board and tranfer BUS highway capacity, it is no longer a go cart, we now have a 400 meter long cruise boat that needs 200 people to steer it around and drinks fuel by the ton per minute.

And it grows up and many bugs are sorted, and new ones popup, is a never ending game.

So yes the learning curve is step and painfull unless you come from Inventor, Catia, Solid something world, than is a breeze, and yes, your super duper gaming laptop is by no menas good enoug to run it if you plan to design yoursefl a helicopter from tip to toe and spit out the BOM to start purchasing parts to asemble and fly it, it will actually crash your computer often, thermal runout form over stress, unless if it is water cooled, than it will freeze your screen for hours until it gets the computing done, sometimes I leave mine at night frozen, wake up in the morning still frozen, go to work, come back home, still frozen, and sometimes in the evening I have access again, the CFD is done, or the linear pattern of 400 columns and 300 rows, etc.

I need a better machine, the software needs more computing power, rendering and memory power than any machine under 3000 USD can provide.

So if you ever thought FreeCAD is a poors man choice for basic needs witout any real industrial capacities, well... think again, because you labeled FreeCAD so in your mind, but in reality is the paid counterparts like Fusion 360 or Revit that actually fall into that category not to mention the pleiade of Android and Iphone apps at hand; that are extremelly usefull but also extremelly simplistic and limitative (what? you expected to run a Catia like program on a phone? Get real will ya...)

New economic trend globally is bound to change the world as we know it.

Apparently good resources are coming our way more and more, lots of former paid for developpers, engineers, medics, researchers, etc., are turning open source now,indipendently or in ad hoc teams.

Maybe due to the age and time availability; for being in pension, and I can see an avalance of excellent resources poured in 3D CAD design platforms, Maps and Charts for flight, navigation or road use for trucks, cars, bicicles and hiking, or for video and audio processing, and many other fields including 3D printing, CNC milling or boat and airplanes construction for instance.

Ever since 2020 layoffs a lot of people learned they don't actually need those corporate jobs, and simply have fun developing open source versions of whatever they used to deveop for a salary.

Now that is a beautifull turn in the economy for the human society, for the desperation of the corporate world that was parasiting us for centuries now.

I admit that from all I can see coming my way open source, I am personally interested in less than 1% generally, and I actually use less than 10% of that 1% due to time limitations, I cannot live and work 50 hours a day to cover them all.

But I do welcome the new trend, working for fun and for the curiousity to see where that project might take you to, no comercial corporate purpose in mind, eventual some personal income to stay afloat, mainly derived from donations or consulting work.

And the scientific and technological progress resulted out of this is astonishing, no corporations in a milion years using the pattenting protection model could of produced this much progress as the Open Source Movement produced in a few decades only.

How to (NOT) get scammed via a phone call that looks (MAYBE) legit.

01833361993 UK number,

got called today from this number, they knew whom they were calling, name, company, etc,

they asked questions that were requiering a "YES" answer probably to coroborate it with other voice answered questions to try to nick my banking access details,

I answered their about 6 YES targeting questions with synonimes like "absolute" or "that's right" and similar,

after my first non complian answers they simply hang up in the midle of the conversation as they were not going anywhere with trying to get my access words for my banking accounts.

Beware of answering calls from unknown people, never answer with "yes" to the call or any question, or give them your name, or your pet's name, mother's maiden name or other similar details that you have set as your banking access passwords, always use synonimes to any question targeting a key word until you determine if the caller is genuine, which 99% of the cases it is not.

Democracy and creativity are not for the poor of the people... only for the first class rich.

This is an interesting topic. Apparently complicated. In reality very simple. And which generally shows the extremely superficial approach of contemporary intellectuals. For example, Th. Dr knew the answer back in 1900:
Work is done for money. Art and philosophy do not bring money, but poverty (unless you are already from the rich class, than they bring shit loads of money, mainly from being in politics). Why would you want to condemn poor people to more poverty, wile being smart and knowing how to get out of it in two three generations?!

You do realise they will get out of it eventually?, Now as a superiour cast, upperclass, ruler over poor, why would you want that?

A romanian's lady father was a philosophy teacher and she was so fascinated by his discussions that they had at supper in the 11th grade so she decided to study philosophy. That was in 1990. After a year, she instead decided that the whole Economy Studies was better. After 13 years, she had no choice but to emigrate to Canada, because of poverty. With Economy Studies accomplished and a job in the field, mind you.

According to a study by the UK's Office for National Statistics, the number of working-class actors, musicians, writers and artists has halved over the past 50 years, falling by 50%.

This suggests that, contrary to discourses on the democratization of creative professions, the arts are becoming an increasingly less inclusive and increasingly privileged domain of human activity.

What this means? What effects do they have on the human society?

Frankly it's a catastrophe. I don't think I need to explain this, the why and the how...

A kind of Middle Ages - where these domains are the prerogative of the "new aristocracy" - "new aristocracy" is given not by "blood" and skills but by wealth alone.

I don't even want to imagine what is happening in the political, judicial and economic area. We return to where we started: medieval castes are being restored:
Top level those that can afford to have politicians on their payroll,
Second level those that work direct for them,
Third level, politicians at the top,
Fourth level the rest of the polticians, coroporate top level, art and culture top level, spies and counterinformation operatives.
Fifth level, controllers, tax people, police, army, inspectors, etc
Sixt level, teachers, doctors, small time business owners with up to hundreds of employees, other artists, writers, philosophers, low lever living on merelly scraps, but not doing raw work.
Seventh level, engineers, specialist workers (welders, drivers, taxy drivers, machines operators, CAD designers, nurses, etc), higly skilled personell in industries, services and agriculture, mainly slef employed at least as a side hustle while also working for the Sixth level as employees
Eighth level, non specialist workers, industry, constructions, cleaning, city maintanace, agriculture, living on meager crumbs, mostly drunk after working hours and watching footbal and other sports, betting systematically in a hope to get some lucky money and as a result becoming poorer and poorer with every bet they take, hating school and teachin their children to hate education and educated classes.
Ninth level; low calss low level deliquents, homless people, people living on benefits for generations, illegal substances cookers and smuglers,drug dealers, people for whom passing at the seventh level would be an insult and they know it well, dreaming to pass straight at the fourth level or better simply by hitting the jackspott, without considering that once they stolen the big pot of gold and are at said level they will lose everything very fast to the top level thieves in politics and bank whom actually are highly educated and know how to steal from uneducated poor, even if became rich by some miracle overnight.
Tenth level, higly educated poor people that opted out of the cast system and live on the fringes, fishing out of the Seventh, Eight and Ninth level every now and than some brilliant mind and teaching them how to climb on cadavers to the top 3 levels by the pension age, just to get some revenge on the system, people that care not about money economy, they have their own based on reciprocating services, they are happy with little in life as long as they can study hard and build dreams that make happen thorugh others that they educate illegaly at higher levels that they could afford to be legally educated. People with strong back bones that do not bend to the system ever... they change the system by infiltrating it with higly self educated young men that seek revenge and help them get that revenge by altering the rotten system away from it's rotten course. In other words, madmen and wemen.

You have to have a very high level of insanity to do some kind of studies today - philosophy & arts without having a suitable ATM card provided by the family.

Soon not even madness will help us - it is the road to the certain death of these study matters.
But I believe that there will always be madmen - and they will save something if it can be saved.
If one starts applying so much insight on how to fit in their own cast from the age of 17 - we kill their life: we makethem robots. We shoukd make them go through all the stages - they won't starve if they are good at what they aim to do. And anyway they doen't really starve anymore if supported byt the tenth cast. And we don't really get away from work anyway, just pick smartly the income source... It seems to me that we should have higher aspirations than a simple "not to die of hunger", however is a metaphor, and the idea was to do what they like and not depend on money. That was the basic idea. I find myself in this kind of kid, exactly that was my dilemma - and choice - 35 years ago. I made my bloody choices than, Theology and Economy, plus Engineering, I changed my choices as I had the diplomas in hand and worked a year or two in the Economic field, Politics, and Theology, now I am on the fringes and boy it feels good to do shit my way not depending ond the money of whom wants to give me orders to benefit them while hurting everybody else.

People need to understand the truth, even if the cast system dictates that they sould not be able to because born in a lower cast than the third one, that is the only way we can destroy the new feudal cast system, the neofeudalism pretending to be anything else, (like Socialism, Communism, Corporatism, Capitalism, Fascism, Democracy, etc,) none of them are what they sell them out to be, and the truth you see it in the education system and what cast can study up to what level...

William Deresiewicz has a great book on this. The Death of the Artist. Find it.

I was afraid of three things in life, an organic fear of what could destroy me physically or mentally: Raw work, joining the army, police or similar systems, and being employed by a corporation.

I ran away from the army, from raw work as well, from corporations as if I escaped after working inside a few years to see how they are internally organised, is pure madness and hell in there.
Let's see if I can last until the end and raise some others to be like me.

This is what is needed. We live in feudalism, only instead of the senior there is the corporation in the hands of a few milking everybody else.
And Corporate wars are knocking at the doors now more and more and more.

We are becoming more and more practical. I've always had the impression that people in the Middle Ages were extremely practical, they really didn't waste time on anything useless. It is possible that the days of dialectics are over. Fixation and repetition await us as casts, let's put a dent into that any way we can to actually save humanity from human society.

Generation NEXT... is nil.

Is best if the people do their own research and tries to understand on their own, rather than have the homework done by somebody else and only being fed with the correct results without having a clue what are the basis of said correct results.

For that would be knowledge without basis, thus easily to be manipulated and fooled latter on. What I want is the people to have the best knowledge and the basis that led to it, so nobody can manipulate them and fool them.


If you would of studied the string theory implications at quantum space level, instead of just copy paste the generic enunciation, there is a very interesting concept that explains many not previously understood phenomena like the duality of light in the same time wave and matter, and many others, (thou they still cannot explain such a simple thing as gravity, we only know how it works on us, but have no idea yet what it is and how it works in the universe) and one of the most interesting implications is that ... nothing exists until there is somebody to perceive it, if there is nobody to perceive you, you actually do not exist.

An extrapolation of that into the Normandy memorial post is that since the new generation don't give a shit on history, thus do not know who is their president in charge for instance or what country they live in, not to mention things that happen 70 years ago or on a different continent, therefore Normandy never exited (for them, and they are a large majority) just like you do not exist for those that do not perceive you and it does not bother them at all this fact.

And the consequences of this is that history will repeat itself, for as long as Normandy never existed nor other events, and "Charley Chaplin and his evil Nazi were defeated by UN" (I recommend you to see "Idiocracy" since we already live in one, it is the only movie I know of that was intended to be a comedy and ended up being a documentary) sooner than you expect we shall be back to square one thanks to the US military complex waging war everywhere, the Chinese military complex that want their share of blood, the Russians, the Brits, and the Indians that want revenge on the Brits and Paki, the Arab countries that want revenge as well on the Brits, Russians, Israel and US, and let's not forget Africa and their colonial past that now is bringing us the Black Lives Matter and the Black panthers to start with.

Yes it's getting messy and it's going to be ugly, as ugly as you don't dare imagine, just because Normandy never existed for too many of the people living today on this planet, including those in power.