The Over Think

As someone who loves history, and facts, it has always bothered me when people say that the Nazis were socialists. It's such a poor view of history, and often intentionally misstated in order to slander any socialist or socialist ideas. But the reality is, nope. Nazis were not socialist. Not even close.  After WWI Hitler joined German military intelligence. He was assigned to monitor, and influence if possible, the German Worker's Party. The military was keeping an eye on all the political groups in Germany, especially the new ones sprouting up after the war. Kind of like COINTELPRO, which is so wild because the FBI recruited Nazis after the war to help against communists, and before long the FBI is running a program eerily similar to the one that Hitler was a part of... At the time there were socialists in the German Workers Party. It was really a mixed bag though, so much so that there was opposition to renaming the party the National Socialist German Workers Party, which is ...

     Are you willing to give up reasonable and valid justifications for not loving someone unconditionally? There are so many perfectly good and rational reasons to not. So many. Practically an endless list of things that people do that you would be blameless for not being able to overcome the sheer natural disgust at the inhumanity. To the point I often am overwhelmed by the sense of... how is this reality? All of the infinite potential of humanity to help each other, and lift one another up, yet the energy to do so is focused instead on doing the opposite and worse. So much worse.     But what does it even mean to love unconditionally? Does it mean accepting others wholly and not wanting them to suffer the consequences of their actions? Surely the fuck not. My hope is that everyone, no matter how horrific their actions, eventually learns to see their true Self, and works out the damage they've done. For many people, it will be a long and painful process of rec...

     One of the biggest hurdles I have for breaking bad habits and instilling good ones has always been my own brain. I know my own weaknesses and can talk myself out of anything. I know all the excuses that work best that allow me to continue not making positive changes. Those thought processes themselves have become habitual. So the older I got and the more I try to change, the stronger my mind got at reactively shutting it down.       All the failed experiences didn't help. They reinforced the negative thoughts. Try to quit smoking and fail, maybe I just can't. Try to change my diet over and over only to always fall back to the easy unhealthy meals, the usual routine, what's the point of trying?      The big realization, the game changer for me, was when I understood that maybe radical change wasn't for me. Completely changing my diet overnight was maybe an unrealistic expectation, considering my own brain actively worked against it, ...

     Once upon a time there was a guy named Kevin. Kevin was a con artist, who came up with a very simple way to con a very specific audience. You see, Kevin realized there were people who not only believed in conspiracy theories, but very much wanted to be told about more conspiracy theories. Now, there are of course actual conspiracies. But for these people, the theory was all the proof they needed, facts were not important, and any fact that opposed the conspiracy was part of the conspiracy. Very easy targets for a con man.      And oh did Kevin make money off of these people. He realized he could sell these people anything if he marketed as something 'they' were keeping from you. The government doesn't want you to know about this. Pharmaceutical companies are hiding this from you. Scientists are paid to keep this under wraps. Whatever he was selling, didn't matter. People would send him money for it. Because they were that willing to buy into the conspi...