Rich Mind

Was put on a leave of absence in March, boss said he’d call if work picked back up but I haven’t heard from him. Had to cancel my first trip out of the country in years…was going to Japan in Spring. Did a lot of disc golfing which is a bunch of fun. Lots of listening to audiobooks. Bought a tent from a friend and immediately drunkenly broke my foot so I was unable to capitalize on that purchase that summer. I managed to catch some reading and lake days near the end of summer once it was a bit healed up. Socializing more and getting out was one of my goals that year but it ended up not really being a good time for that. Too much video games playing. Started trying to learn a bit about machine learning but lost steam not far in. Occasionally I added to a story I’ve started to write. I barely played the keyboard I bought at the beginning of the pandemic, though I did build a pretty awesome shelf for it.

Wanna set more short and long term goals in 2021

May or may-not expand on this more later. Just a basic idea I’ve been thinking about this morning. I have personal opinions on how these should be weighted by importance, but I’m not dumb enough to believe I understand the world well enough to know best.

 

*model from nature I’m trying to emulate is a functioning, living creature.

 

In this representation a governmental body and taxation are critical components which determine health of the system and allocate funds where necessary. I don’t like the current distribution of funds. I’m also thinking long-term rather than short-term – indefinite or forever terms rather than human years

 

Where to spend taxes collected:

• Infrastructure development and maintenance
  • Water and Food
  • Shelter
  • Emergency Services
  • Power distribution
  • Health Facilities
  • Transportation
    • emphasis on public transportation
  • Communication
  • “Raw” Land maintenance
• Education   ***higher resource allocation = higher future production capabilities
  • Human Heritage (takes place of HISTORY as HISTORY has been used to brainwash/manipulate for profit)
    • subset of animal – not understanding this leads to unmanageable labels
      • objective: survive! leftover time goes to reproduction efforts
        • desire for wealth is a human expression of squirrels hiding nuts or large predators staking out territory, hoarding resources for personal/progeny’s survival
      • survival before tools: migration, persistence hunting, gathering
      • advanced pattern recognition led to advanced tools (clothing, fishing, fire, cell phones, manipulation of minds and environments)
  • Community Service
    • contribution (if you use a toilet you need to be willing to clean one occasionally)
    • lessen future vandalism (those who help maintain community resources are less likely to harm them)
  • Derived Sciences
    • math
    • biology
    • chemistry
    • physics
  • Physical Fitness (big movement)
    • healthy populations consume less resources than unhealthy populations (preventative measures)
    • lengthens duration of productive years
  • Innovation (fine movement)
    • arts: music, crafting, creation
    • mechanics: comfort with tools, building, creation
    • computer science: components, usage, programming
• Amenities
  • large- and small-scale community events
  • life-enriching products/service
  • PSAs not biased by profit

 

Other general ideas

1. Make local communities as self-reliant as possible, providing all services and amenities required per Federal guidelines. If government-funded communities cannot be sustained at adequate levels affordably, peoples should be relocated.
2. Shift all businesses to non-profits (make “for-profit” business ventures less-desirable)
3. Industries need to understand all chemicals being consumed and produced and charge enough upon sale to cover costs to reverse buildups. (overhaul recycling programs)
4. Local taxes should reflect the strain or reliance on infrastructure or outside support. (harsh environments require more resources to maintain)

Once most of the people on the planet begin treating this life as the only one they’ll have the world will really begin to shine. If people didn’t behave as if they’ll live forever after they die they’d be much more interested in making this life better.

Profit stifles innovation. Profit demands established companies stifle their competition. Profit demands owners minimize costs while charging more. Profit wants all labor to be slave labor.

People fail to realize profit is concentrating the means of production in smaller and smaller groups. Money, raw materials, and time are the means for innovation, and the wealthy have an unequal portion reserved for their own uses or sitting idly in a bank. As the means to produce become more expensive and money itself becomes less widespread, those able to contribute and innovate in meaningful ways also shrinks.

I have been losing my patience with the brainwashed, selfish, ignorant people that blindly believe what their government has taught them. Your government is made up of the wealthy in your country. They ensure they will not lose their wealth. The most detrimental aspect of humans is their ability to learn things that aren’t true, and the intentional disinformation being perpetuated by the wealthiest people on the planet to make the lower-class blind to their abuse.

Until we remove the ability to be wealthy people will always use others for profit. We need to decide that we want a classless society (where have I heard that before?) and make changes to ensure that a classless society is possible.

You might not want to change the system for two reasons: 1) You don’t want to give up the lifestyle and level of comfort you are currently living at, and 2) You hope to continue using the system to become more wealthy yourself.

STOP trying to selfishly take advantage of the system to BE the wealthy person. Decide that there should be NO wealthy people.

P. S. FUCK LUXURY ITEMS/AMENITIES. PRODUCING LUXURY ITEMS IS THE MOST WASTEFUL USE OF HUMAN PRODUCTION AND RAW MATERIALS

Animals with unrestricted growth wipe themselves out by overpopulation and eventual resource exhaustion and ecosystem destruction. Humans are so adaptable that almost every part of the planet has become our habitat. As a result, the entire planet is at risk of being exhausted of resources. I believe that terraforming, altering a planet to support human life, and resource management would be well-understood by any “intelligent” species that has managed to survive without destroying itself.

For a species to survive long-term it needs to live in balance with the ecosystem in which it resides. Humans have a very short life-span, 50-100 years with a wide-variance due to individual lifestyles and environments. Because we are short-lived and animals concerned with self-preservation if the community isn’t threatened, we, as a species, haven’t developed a great understanding of how to maintain the environment on a planet-wide scale. Creating habitable environments and managing resource consumption needs to be understood by every member of the species so that, as a species, we can make intelligent and effective decisions. Move people out of harsh areas and potentially CHANGE those areas into places that can easily sustain life.

The same universal patterns exist in every part of the universe, and the closer to that pattern we structure ourselves, the more likely we are to remain existing in that pattern. Structure our society like a living creature; each individual cell has all the cellular components. Communities should rely on local environments for self-sustenance as much as possible; If too much of your needs for survival are supplied by other areas, the deterioration of those supply lines means that community will suffer and eventually die or be abandoned. Every community should have a self-produced source of food and water, energy production, all the necessary components for a population to survive.

Cells are in constant communication with surrounding cells and, if they lose this ability to communicate and respond to the cells around them, they might become cancer cells (lookup intercellular communication). Communities need to be constantly communicating with nearby communities to have a clear understanding of the current state of resources so that disastrous lack of resources can be avoided.

A population must continuously maintain it’s habitat otherwise it will destroy the habitat.

VERY SIMILAR TO EXPERIENCE-BASED DEFINITIONS

The brain, as far as helping a creature survive goes, simply recognizes patterns. Experience teaches us how to interpret these patterns; the patterns our brain learns end up becoming our perception of reality. The more we experience a pattern, the easier it is for our mind to comprehend. This is reflected by every creature’s development.

Homo Sapiens have an incredible capacity for pattern recognition. This is the SOLE reason humans have become what we are. All of our technology grows from this: languages, science, the structure of society….pattern recognition makes it possible. Our capacity for pattern recognition allows us to learn to a degree no other animal we’ve studied has been able to match.

Our brains do NOT understand how things as they exist; if they did, we would all understand the world identically. The fact that different people CAN believe different things makes this an irrefutable FACT.  Our brains try to understand the best way they can based upon the previous established patterns it recognizes.

Language allows us to pass on personal knowledge, or individually learned patterns, to others. Overall, humanity does a decent job sorting out reality from fiction. There are very general understandings that make sense: breathing is important for our survival, water is important for our survival, eating is important for our survival. However, if you look closer than that, individual beliefs plague our understanding. People argue about how to breathe, what water is best, the best diet to adopt; most of this discourse is produced by individuals with poor or outright incorrect understandings of the subject matter.

People learn patterns; they often defend what they learned, even without proper evidence to justify their beliefs. Instead, they become indoctrinated to a system of belief that becomes incredibly hard to break. Once you recognize a pattern, it’s very hard to stop or change it without a conscious realization that the initial pattern might be false. An incredible amount of shared human knowledge has no basis in fact. They are simple traditions we inherit, accept, and pass on without thinking because those around us do the same.

There are many worldwide accepted concepts that I have understood to be untrue or greatly misunderstood by almost the entire population. Too many concepts that are sustained by us have not come under proper scrutiny. We have made it a long time without analyzing our collective understanding, but this can’t last forever. Eventually, society will become unsustainable due to the abundance of false patterns that are adopted. Our collective concepts MUST be analyzed under a lens of reality. Too much of humanity’s energy and the planet’s resources are wasted due to our collective poor understanding of the universe and ourselves. An incredible amount of oppression and suffering is caused by our illogical structuring of society. If we don’t update and amend our societal beliefs to reflect the reality of our environment and biology, we will (slowly) destroy ourselves.

Air – Minutes without before death

Water – Days without before death

Food – weeks without before death

Species Support – infancy: hours or days before death. Maturity: no way to pass genetics.

Reproduction – species goes extinct without

The only goal for “living” creatures is to survive to maturity and reproduce. There is no reason for it; this is another universal development that is self-sustaining. Life develops and changes according to the environment around it, and many creatures are unable to adapt well enough to survive in today’s rapidly-changing environments. There are certain needs every species has in order to continue surviving; the ones mentioned above are the only true needs for individual homo sapiens.

Creatures have internal biological mechanisms which ensure it will seek what it needs to survive. Caloric and hydration needs are paramount as breathable air is usually abundant. We developed a taste for things high in calories because, in a natural environment, these are far less abundant. These reasons resulted in energy, which the body gets by converting calories (proteins, fats, carbohydrates), to be the most urgent and limiting factor in our survival, causing us to enjoy high-calorie foods more. Billions of years of evolution went into our bodies having intense desires for certain chemicals which provide particular types of nourishment.

Vegetation has been a huge part of a normal homo sapiens diet. They do not have many calories, so a tiny percentage of our caloric intake has been from vegetables; we instead received most of our fiber and micro-nutrients from these sources. By volume, vegetation has been the main part of a homo sapiens’ diet for hundreds of thousands of years. This type of diet contains abundant fiber and vitamins and minerals. Because they have always been an abundant part of our diet we have not developed natural mechanisms that make us actively desire this type of nourishment. Our bodies don’t want these foods as much as caloric-heavy products because our day-to-day energy needs are more important to meet than daily vitamin/mineral intake. Before we got very good at producing, distributing, and consuming the food we want we were forced to work hard and only eat the food that was available from our immediate environment.

Social interaction is necessary, depending on the species. Physically small/weak species, which tend to be lower on the food chain, generally group up to increase protection and individual chances of survival. A homo sapiens on its own is a truly pathetic creature. It would quickly be dispatched by physically adapted animals without the knowledge and support it gains from others.

Survival has always been easier when you are in a “better” social standing than others. Fitting in and being alike gains you access to much more opportunity than being an outcast and there are biological mechanisms that push us to conform to the communities with which we interact most. Unfortunately, the majority of our species consumes the media produced by production companies. These production companies thrive in the current structure humans live in, the media they produce can only serve to propagate the concepts that keep them powerful.