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The downside of a goal oriented world

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All around us, day in and day out we are suffused with messaging to be our best selves. As Henry Rollins sang “Do it, don’t think about it, do it!” (which Nike immediately stole and turned into their own “Just Do It” ad campaign). Self help books instruct us in a miriad of ways about how to visualize our goals and how to achieve them, despite the odds. After being dragged to church the preacher has us pray as a way to reach our goals, no matter what. I remember thinking at this time that I guess that I should leave my wife and kids to reach my goals, unachievable otherwise. This “Achieve your goals, no matter what” mantra that life gives us causes tension and is probably the root cause for many broken homes. Many of you have endured from me over the years an expression of this tension. My massive mental bag of goals, such as having hours a day to play my piano, ride every skatepark in the world, yada yada, have given me nothing but grief. I have great kids and a hard ass May as...
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Temporally Symmetrical Consciousness

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Follow the money

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There is a growing push from my party, the liberal left, to label Elon Musk as the bad guy. He’s now filthy rich, as he deserves to be. I’m not saying that anyone should be allowed to even have more than a billion dollars without being extremely taxed. My point is that oil companies, other car companies, and all the other space industries that have been enjoying fat payouts from the government all have a stake in bringing Elons enterprises down. Oil companies as well as the oil empires in the Middle East can be very underhanded in their fight against destruction of their life blood. Just as Russia screwed up our elections with their Facebook meddling, these tyrants know how to win a media war. When my friends start sharing posts that are severly negative against Elon Musk, other than his stupid twitter posts, belittling the person who has single handedly brought the world electric cars and cheap space flight, there is most likely a sinister person behind the flood of bad press. Do ...
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