The Over Think

Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that if you want to torture someone, really destroy them psychologically, make them dig a hole only to have them fill it back in again. Over and over, day after day. Dig a hole, fill it in. Dig a hole, fill it in. An endless menial task with no point. One which it is impossible to impart meaning to, or find joy in. Thus is modern life. An exchange of the limitless potential of the individual for... what? Nothing is a fair replacement, nothing quite so valuable as what a person could be were they not given blinders from birth and pointed the wrong direction. The trade is so lopsided that all must blunt their emotions as they grow in order to follow through. So pitiful is the return on the most valuable resource that millions must die in poverty for a few to have too much. Of course, it's not a trade as much as a robbery. In a better world love would unite us all. We would be lifted up by a society that embraces all as its children. We are 12 long parsecs...

The means to feed and house everyone exist. Yet there are homeless, and there are so so many hungry... For me, it's the clear dividing line. Anyone who questions whether all people should have access to healthy food and safe shelter has no place in society. Who cares if food is a right, ensuring everyone is fed is what is right. To suggest otherwise is an unacceptable affront to the inherent value of all human beings. To suggest otherwise creates a divide within society, leaving every decent caring person unable to engage fully with the world, not to mention leaving fellow human beings to struggle for no reason but greed and ignorance. We are alienated from a healthy society by the inhumanity of our fellow man. It is difficult for me to even consider them human any longer. Though I know they still have the same inherent value, they have the capacity for goodness, and it is primarily the sickness of the world they grew up in that makes them how they are. They grew up alienated in an...

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” ~Che Guevara If the institutions that comprised society as a whole were geared towards the development and wellbeing of the individual, towards enabling the full expression of each individual, and instilling in each individual member of society the awareness of their self as infinitely valuable... then society as a whole, the collective, will naturally express the beauty that humanity is capable of. The individuals comprising such a society would never need to be outwardly compelled to be 'a contributing member of society' because their inherent value and natural self expression will inevitably contribute far more than they could under current circumstances, simply as a byproduct of being. Conversely, a society (such as we have) not geared towards the nourishment of each and every individual,...

The resources exist to ensure everyone has access to healthy food. The reason everyone does not have access to healthy food, is because the people who control the resources wake up every day and intentionally ensure they don't. Any other excuse is just deflection from that point. Any other excuse is a bullshit deflection from that point. There are people in this world who could wake up tomorrow and decide everyone should eat, and it would happen. And afterwards, they would still have more wealth and resources than they could possibly ever use. It is not by accident that they haven't used their resources to ensure everyone eats. It's not something they intend to get around to but keeps slipping their mind. They would rather children starve than to give up any portion of what they have. And the proof is they could easily give a portion of what they have and no children would starve, yet they don't. It is their choice, their preference. Interesting fact, if a child is hung...

Imagine the greatest minds in mathematics working with the best teachers to create a program that explains math from a high school level up, with the assistance of experts in the psychology of learning. So at every step there is are videos and essays and multiple styles of practical learning that addresses the subject matter in every way a student might take in and understand information the best.  Now imagine that since it is an entirely online, automated system, there is no time frame imposed on the student. When a test is taken and passed, they move on to the next lesson. If they fail, they are shown exactly what they got wrong and given resources to help them better understand. But they can fail as many times as they need. If they are about to take a test and they don't feel ready, or life intervenes, there's no penalty, they just take it later. And how much later is up to them. All of the learning is done at the students pace. Occasional tests to ensure they have mastered ...

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...

     Most of the guys I've known personally who have called themselves feminists, also had this contradictory belief women should sleep with them based solely on that fact. Also, most of the guys I haven't known personally that call themselves feminists come across the same. It really seems the guys who make a point of calling themselves 'nice guys' instead of emotionally maturing end up as alt-right or double down and become pseudo-feminists. Of course there's exceptions, like the cast of Star Trek TNG, but in general day to day life it's pretty rare in my experience to find a male feminist who is actually actively feminist.      It's also never sat right with me that women can't even have a single word for themselves. Even female anatomical terms have been co-opted for use as derogatory terms. Historically, so much of the language around women is basically, "like the male version but a little off". -ess, -ette, the occasional -ine or -trix. E...