#Stoicism for Breakfast

Posted: December 24, 2023 in Stimulus Space Response
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Studying philosophy, specifically Stoicism has been a life saver for me.

I have found stoicism and a meditation practice go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Which is appropriate, since the most famous work of the most famous stoic in the history of the world is called ā€œMeditationsā€ by Marcus Aurelius.

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday has been one of the best things Iā€™ve ever incorporated into my life. The book, the podcast, and the YouTube videos. I strongly recommend any and all to any person who reads my words.

Listening to the Daily Stoic Podcast first thing in the morning was a staple of my routine for years when it was just a couple of minutes long. In recent years, especially the last two, watching a Daily Stoic video on YouTube with my morning coffee has been how I start my days.

It puts my head in the right placeā€¦along with the coffee of course.

The concept of we donā€™t control what happens to us, we control how we respond has been not just a game changer, but a life saver. That concept completely changed my paradigm of my life at a time when my life desperately needed that change.

Stoicism is no magic pill of course. No such thing exists.

Philosophy has been a tremendous aide. A wonderful tool in the tool belt of helping myself and developing as a person. A way to help keep my ego in check.

First world, capitalist controlled, consumer countries all have out of control, exploited egos by cultural design. We suffer for it because we can never have enough externally. Stoicism teaches that we already have enough, internally.

Economic Reality NaivetƩ

Posted: December 23, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Excess and Algorithms
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NaivetƩ of economic realities is something that seems unfortunately baked into human nature. In America where poor people or people who are just one step above being poor vote against their own better interests for generations.

The ā€œTook Our Jobsā€ folks who are always ready, willing, and able to point their finger and raise their ire at anyone other than the billionaire capitalist class that is responsible.

ā€¦ā€œcash rules everything around meā€ā€¦ is a universally agreed upon law of American life and other first world countries. So what does that mean when for the affluent when applied to income inequality, outsourcing, inflation, and tax cuts?

The people with the least, have the most influence on the lives of others?

Bernays wonā€¦in a landslide.

Ready to Do

Posted: December 21, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Stimulus Space Response
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You have the want to change.

You have to want help.

You have to decide yourā€™e ready.

You in this case, means me, means us.

I like the spirituality concept that we are all one, or come from one energy source.

Energy, atoms, etc.

Ten years of work to become an over night sensation.

There is a lot of internal work to do before I was ready for external.

So much baggage to let go of. So much to strip away.

Expectation, validation, opinion, anxiety, depression, laziness.

There is a lot of internal work to do.

Philosophy, mediation, exercise, journaling, yoga, psychology, communicationā€¦

Then Iā€™m walking from one room to the next and I want to do the thing.

No thought, no worry, no excuse, no waiting, I just wanted to do the thing.

Then I did it and wanted to do it again the next day and the next day.

Years and years of nothing, no thing. No action. No doing.

There was a lot of internal work that was done.

There is a lot of internal work to do.

But I am grateful for the process.

I am grateful for the journey.

Some say thatā€™s what life isā€¦

Private Space Programs > Healthcare

Posted: December 21, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Excess and Algorithms
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Private space programs is the new private skyscraper is the new private island.

I donā€™t know which is worse, the greed or poor people that defend the greed.

Images like this one (pictured above) are why I call my economics blog Excess and Algorithms. Something that encapsulates modern capitalist economics.

Private space travel before universal health care or universal basic income. Very unfortunate, to say the least.

First Drafts, Second Steps

Posted: December 20, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Stimulus Space Response
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Seeing this image helped something click in my brain.

Call it writerā€™s block, perfectionism, procrastination, or just being human.

I didnā€™t want to write, or do much that required effort. Why?

Well what if I fail. What if I donā€™t get anything out of it.

External. Ego.

The work is the win. Itā€™s about doing what I love doing. Time well spent.

Who cares if it isnā€™t perfect, great, good?

Itā€™s time well spent, because I like doing it. Itā€™s part of the process.

Everything starts out bad. Every person who was great started out bad.

No exceptions, ever.

We all have to learn.

We have to learn how to live and survive, let alone thrive or specialize.

So itā€™ll be bad at first and down the road, if I stick with it, hopefully it will be better.

It still might only be me who ever reads these. But thatā€™s fine too.

Thereā€™s genuine value in going through the motions.

The value is building beneficial habits.

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