“Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world” – Astrid Alauda It’s estimated the average American, starting at the young ripe age of two years old, watches more than 34 hours of television per week, plus an additional 3 hours of recorded media. sourceCorporate media is mostly funded by corporations. 75% of the commercial airtime is paid […]
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A new term has been invented by the disillusioned political hopefuls to say something is false: post-truth. We needed a new, cooler, hipster way to say “that’s not true”. Post-truth apparently means “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Not only is it an official “new word”, but […]
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WARNING: This is fake news! Do not pay attention to this fake news! That’s how the establishment is trying to control what people will consider valid to think about. It has probably occurred to others, but it just did for me. I don’t watch the news or TV and don’t catch up on current events much. Calling something “fakenews” is […]
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The only thing evil needs to do in order to get good to help the evil, is for the evil to appear “good”, to pretend it is “good”, to veil itself in the illusion of being “good”. If someone can create the image of “good” or “order” by doing something evil, people will accept the evil as “good” or “ordered”. […]
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The Blockchain Basics Bitcoin uses the blockchain technology to propagate transaction data, as a public ledger, through a network of distributed nodes. If you are familiar with bittorrent and decentralized distribution of chunks of data, the blockchain is similar. Notice both bittorrent and bitcoin have bit at the beginning. They both operate in a similar manner as well. The blockchain […]
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Simply by speaking we influence others, and can even manipulate them. Tell others what they want to hear, true or false, and you will be able to influence them more. Tell them things they don’t want to hear, true or false, and they will likely reject your influence and maybe you. This can be used by people to get you […]
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We can use words to represent and define reality. Reality comes first, then words to describe it. i.e. we live a way of life where we have a government, and we describe it with words. We can also use words to create into reality. In this sense, words comes first, then reality is determined and acted upon based on the […]
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To survive, we need to engage in economic survivability of some kind. Nothing is free, we have to provide for ourselves. But does that mean we need to have coercive systems in place that force us to engage in economic exchanges? Can’t we choose to be free from this, to live without this system, for example off the grid? We […]
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The word economics is related to management. But management of what? Is it only concerning the management of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services? Or is there more to the word economics? Etymology Here are some etymological origins of the word economy: from Greek oikonomikos, oikonomia “household management” from oikos “house, abode, dwelling” + nomos “manage, custom, law, […]
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Minimum wages are being hyped up now in society. Many people think this is all a win for everyone, especially those at the bottom of the ladder. But is it really all sunshine and rainbows? The Reality and Problems Extra Costs The employer needs to pay more for each employee. Companies don’t just keep all the profits as profits. There […]
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