Yes there were … we just didn’t call them billionaires … we called them Kings, Queens, Supreme Rulers, Emperors, God Kings

The world looks exactly the same now as it did 2,000 years ago politically because the idea of supreme and infinite wealth never went away. We’ve always had men who believed they could rule or own the entire world … and we still do.

I always say and think about all this from the perspective of billionaires … all they ever care about is money and the free flow of money everywhere. As long as money is moving and people believe in it, praise it and worship it, everything else can be tolerated and controlled.

The internet and free flowing communication allows for money to flow a lot … without it money would quickly become segmented into tight regions and countries and everything becomes closed … which makes it harder for money to flow, which makes it harder for a billionaire to make more money.

Same with World War or even nuclear war … I don’t think it will ever happen on purpose because once that first bomb goes off, billionaires will cease to be billionaires as the world financial system collapses. The billionaires won’t care how many millions die, they’ll be more upset that their imaginary digitally managed wealth will either decrease a lot or even completely. They know that in a post apocalyptic world, no one will care if you claim to be a billionaire if banks no longer exist. You might say that billionaires will have gold stashes around to fund their own personal army … but that won’t work either because their army will just kill them to take the wealth.

All of it is possible because of human greed … all of it is under threat because of human greed … and all of it is held in balance because of human greed.

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!

Repetition … and repetition in multiple formats

Repeat what you want to remember
Repeat inside your thoughts
Repeat it out loud (either to no one or to someone nearby)
Repeat it with action … point, touch, move or just handle the thing or object related to what you want to remember
Repeat it by writing … write it down and note it

Then do the same things again and again … eventually over time, these things will get ingrained in your thoughts and actions.

Some processes take time to remember (like playing an instrument) but others take less time (like where are my damned keys!)

I guess this is the model that governments are using these days to try to figure out how to save democracy

Figure out first how to destroy it … then you can know how to save it

But I think they’re going a little overboard in the first half of that process

You need to threaten people with guns and machine guns

The crazy part is at this point in American history, you’d have a high chance of getting away with it all.

Funny part is … it has absolutely no indication of how religious or moral any of these regions are

always nice to include an anatomically correct butthole for the cat

Someone … or a new artist should just release a new version of the song with new lyrics every year

But to your question … I’m Indigenous Canadian, so from the day I was born, I’ve always been overwhelmed by the world because most of it, especially living in northern Ontario was a government that either actively or passively just wanted us to either disappear, assimilate, go away or just die.

I’ve always seen the world as falling apart. I remind my friends when we debate this stuff that the human species has been around for about two million years, a species that looks like us was around about 100,000 years ago and the most modern ancestor that could think, act and be like us is about 50,000 years ago. We’ve only just started our technological evolution about 200 years ago. So when you think about it, we are more designed as prehistoric cavemen and cavewomen who are easily scared of shadows in the dark or what happens after we die. We have only just taken our first step out of the cave we all used to inhabit. It’s going to take us a few more thousand years to get to the point where our brains can process and live with the modern world we created … that is if we last that long. In the meantime, we’ll just fumble along trying to become temporary Masters of the Universe on our tiny speck of floating dust in the galaxy.

To put things into perspective … listen to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

Or watch the cartoonist Steve Cutts A Brief Disagreement

The thing that is pissing me off these days is not so much that the world is falling apart … it always has been for me … its that we are accelerating the amount of danger we are putting all of humanity … and for what? a little bit of profit and for a small group of people to say they can rule the world?

Nope … that’s pubic hair … those people are standing on a different section of the body than what you were thinking.

The biggest thing is control and censorship.

On the corporate side if your posts and content are seen as too extreme in one way or another, depending on what government or group … you can be censored and have you posted either deleted, dismissed or hidden. In extreme cases, your account can also be shut down.

Xitter is already a propaganda hell hole that only pushes right wing content because they pushed out any criticism.

FB actively pushes its own content based on the highest bidder which often just means pushing right wing and conservative content in a regular basis.

Bluesky as open as it’s supposed to be has already had problems in Turkey where the government there asked bluesky to restrict access to many accounts.

The Fediverse will have these same problems and people and governments will try to censor people but due to the open non centralized nature of the system, it will be much harder for any one group or government to censor anyone. The only way they could shut it down would be to completely outlaw any platform that uses the protocol everywhere.

AI is very useful and powerful as a propaganda device and a system to generate and disseminate disinformation, misinformation and non-information very quickly and very efficiently.

It was thought that the internet would do the same but that system only goes at the speed of humans and the whole system is regulated by humans … so as propaganda tool, it has worked better but not as well as predicted. Humans saw the the potential for abuse and fought back against it.

AI is like propaganda on cocaine … and there is very little to stop it other than our awareness of it … but the majority of everyone in the world don’t care to understand what they are watching is real or not. What that means is that AI is set to reshape how everyone thinks and how we all see the world.

Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.

It’s not hard to copy Trump’s signature … you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.

If they can grift … we can all grift harder

Oh my god, she’s raised a leg and put her foot on a chair! In front of a camera!

My good man this image MUST be labeled as ‘NSFTV’

Not Safe For The Victorians

As an Indigenous Canadian, I’ve always been aware of where I stand in society … and no matter what anyone says or likes to believe … I’m not that high up on the totem pole (no pun intended)

That’s what pisses me off … and all for what? So that we, the majority of people everywhere can enjoy a little of security and a livelihood where we don’t have to worry about losing our home and ability to eat and clothe ourselves? And what are they protecting? Their obscene amounts of wealth that no individual person could enjoy in a lifetime!

That story of 20 year old Gustavo Gatica in 2019 is what got me a few years ago.

Every time I see a protest anywhere in the world and I see police and security dressed up for war against teenagers and young people with nothing but a scarf and no eye protection just gets me so anxious and upset.

Young people … everyone … should be allowed to protest what is not good for them and to fight for democratic rights. I support any young person fighting for what is right and equitable for everyone and I wish with all my heart that they stay safe and secure while doing so.

That’s the amazing thing about it … if we are working for them, then they’ll grudgingly do things to protect us and provide for our safety

… if we outright disagree with them and protest, then they’ll actively put us all in danger, to wound, blind, maim or even kill us until we conform.

Yeah … I’m going to be driving junk trucks and cars for the rest of the my life.

I’m not going to trust driving my car at 120 kph down the highway knowing that some douche bag idiot has a kill switch or access to my steering wheel that may turn it on either intentionally, maliciously or accidentally

It’s a freaky thought … if you own a Tesla … Muskrat has access to your steering wheel and accelerator and brakes at all times … at any given moment if their system ever goes haywire, you may end up flying through that mountain guard rail, heading into one coming traffic or plowing into a crowd of people

As always … I can trust future technology and all the things that we could possibly develop and create … I will never trust the people who own and control all these things.